Star.
London, England, 1816-04-25 00:00:00

LAW IN'TELLICINCE.

SERJEANT'S INN, APRIL. 2,4.
GIyRNMY LTERLING.
The plaintiff in this case was an underwriter, and
the defendant owner of a vessel; and the present ac•
tion was brought to recover a sum of money from the
defendant. A verdict was taken for the plaintiff.
subject to the opinion of the Court, under the follow-
ing circumstances:—The. defendant had insured the
freight of his vessel, on a voyage from Jamaica to
this country, and the plaintiff had underwritten the
policy. After the departure of the vessel from Ja-
tnaica, she met with bad weather, and was obliged
to make for the Havannah. The owners, supposing
the voyage lost, abandoned to the underwriters as for
a total loss. The vessel, however, afterwards reached
this country, and the owner received a considerable
sum for freight. The question now was—Whether,
as the owners had abandoned to the underwriters as
for a total loss, and received a sum of money thereon,
the underwriters were not entitled to any such sums
as the vessel might afterwards earn
The Court were unanimously of opinion, that the
underwriters were entitled, after the fair deduction of
such expenses as the owners should have been at.—
A verdict was accordingly entered for the plaintiff.

IRELAND.—Matthew Ryan, who was executed on
tik
onday se'nnight, for conspiring to.. murder Mr.
er, made an ample confession of hi; guilt before
lle•loft the gaol, and publicly at the place of execu-
" '"-He acknowledged his being one of the conspi-
rators in common with the party by whomJ4r. Ba-
ker was murdered, but he did Mt fire. On Mr. B.'s
approach, he said that his heart failed him ; he was
shock with remorse at the thought of killing so good
and so kind a man, and could not draw the trigger :
when Mr. Baker advanced, and as he was passing,
the other men fired and murdered him.
CORK, Aram 16.—Mr. St. Lawrence, the gauger,
who was taken off from Cookstown in a bag, reached
t.
,'s home on Monday, after being thirteen days and
ghts in the bands of the fellows who ran away with
an—they used him in the most cruel manner—he
as twelve times flogged on the naked back and
half starved ; his sustenance being oatmeal, bread,
and water.
Timothy Colsms was yesterday tried in the County
Court, before Mr. Justice DAY, and convicted for the
murder of his infant daughter. The prisoner was a
workman, or servant, of a person of the name of At.
tridge, in the neighbourhood of Skibbereen, at whose
house the child was, and prisoner pretending to re-
move it to the house of his brother-in.law, took her
' from Attridge's house, and on his way he inhumanly
strangled it. It seems this unhappy man was in-
doced to murder his child, in consequence of a female,
for whom he entertained an affection, refusing to
marry him, he having a child so old as eight or nine
years. The prisoner was sentenced to be hanged.
EDINBURGH.—The nest of a gang of thieves
11 has lately been detected in East Lothian, which puts
us very much in mind of the haunts so ably descri-
-1 bed in Guy Hamstring. In the ruined castle of Tan-
i tallan, which is situated on the brink of a high cliff,
there still remains one room capable of affording
shelter from the storm ; it is near the summit of the
building, and is-so situated as to be thought entirely
sceessable. A short time ego, the children of some
work, people in the neighbourhood were playing in a
little bit of potatne ground, just under the ruins,
when one of them happening to cast his eye up, ob.
served a head with a red night cap looking over the
top ; an immediate alarm was the consequence—and,
after much trouble, the castle was stormed, and one
inmate taken prisoner. On examining.the premises,
there were abundant marks of good cheer, and ac-
commodation for several people ; all the rest were
abroad foraging, and hitherto no trace has been dis-
covered of their retreat. It appears that this gang
have remained unobserved for several months, and
had lived chiefly by their nocturnal depredations on
the poultry yards, and farm houses around.

COAL MARKET, APRIL 24.
Ships at Market. Ships Sold. Price.
57L Newcastle 35 395. 6d. to 46s 01.
est Sunderhnd II 945. 9d. to 414 6d.
I Cinders 1 286. od. to 608 od.