Star.
London, England, 1821-10-13 00:00:00

HARRIS V. HASTINGS.

This was an action to recover the sum of £5 ss.
for a quarter's rent, alleged by the plaintiff* to be due
to him from the defendant, for certain premises held
by him. The defendant pleaded a tender of half
that sum, which he said was all that was due to him,
under the circumstances of the case. It appeared
from the evidence, that in 1817 the premises were
occupied by a person of the name of Capel, of whom
the present defendant took them on the sth of May
in that year, and went to the plaintiff to get himself
accepted as a tenant. The plaintiff, as the defendant
alleged, accepted him as a tenant, at a rent of twenty
guineas a year, from the half-quarter day next fol-
lowing, namely, the 12th of May. The defendant
paid the half-quarter's rent, which became due at
Midsummer, and from that time continued to pay
his rent at the regular quarter-days. This continued
up to November last, and on the 11th of November
the defendant gave a notice, that he should quit on
the 12th of May following, at which time be con-
tended his period as tenant, reckoning from the pe-
riod at which he took the premises, would expire.
On the 12th of May last the defendant went to the
plaintiff's house, and tendered the half-quarter's rent,
due from Lady-day last past, and the key, saying he
considered his occupation of the house as at an end.
The plaintiff was not at home, and Mrs. Harris said
she knew nothing of half-quarters, but considered
the defendant's time would not expire till the regular
quarter-day, Midstimmer. She, therefore, refined
to take the sum tendered, and threw the key oat of
the house after the defendant. The plaintiff after-
wards brought his action for the quarter, and now
contended that he accepted the defendant as tenant
from quarter to quarter, as appeared from the regu-
lar quarterly payments made by the defendant, that
he was therefore entitled to a quarter's rent, and that
the sum paid into Court by the defendant was, there.
fore, no answer to the action. The Jury, after hear-
ing the evidence, found a verdict,for the defendant,
considering that his hiring was from the half-quarter,
and that a notice to quit at the half-quarter was,
therefore, a good notice.

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The Tourist steam-packet, at present on the Leith
and London passage, made eighty-six trips between
Aberdeen and Leith in three months, carried 9746
passengers, sailed upwards of 10,000 miles in day.
light, and never exceeded fourteen hours in making
her passage, a distance of 103 miles, on the moss
exposed coast in Great Britain.

The blood horse which won the match on Chatham
Lines, on Monday week, by performing ten miles in
twenty-seven minutes, was backed to go a mile in
two minutes, on the same piece of ground, on Thurs-
day se'nnight, which he lost by three seconds. It is
generally believed that the horse would have gone
the distance within the time, had it not been for the
unfavourable state of the weather.

General Sir GEORGE WALKER lately purchased a
very spirited horse as a charger, which, at three
o'clock, on Wednesday afternoon, agreeably to his
orders, was brought to his house in Harley-street,
when Sir Gaoaue, in order to have a trial, mounted
him, but he was no sooner in the saddle than the ani-
mal set off at full speed up Harley-street. Sir Groirtoz's
endeavours to pull him in were useless : at the extre-
mity of Upper Harley-street, he came with such vio-
lence against the iron pallisade that forms the barrier,
that he was thrown to a considerable distance, by
which his shoulder bone was fractured. He was con-
veyed home in a chair, and surgical assistance im-
mediately procured. The horse was also injured.
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Lord STOWELL and his daughter, Mrs: Wtxnsoa,
are on their way to town from Buchanan House, the
seat of the Duke of MONTROSE, in Stirlingshire,
where they have been on a visit. The Hon.*Mr. Scon,
his Lordship's son, remains indisposed at Edinburgh.
Before Mass on Monday morning, a stranger of
distinction, who, by his Eastern apparel, appeared to
be a Chinese, was presented to the king of FRANCE,
by a Captain in the Royal Navy.
DoEt..—A, meeting took place yesterday morning,
on Finchley Common, between J. J. C--1., Esq.
and a Gentleman of the name of M.—R—N, relative
to a disputed bet at Enfield Races. Mr.
was wounded in the arm in the first fire.
Tuesday last, was committed to the county jail, at
Maidstone, by the Magistrates at Margate, Joh*
Ramsay, alias Buffington, and Thomas Hay Webster,
both of Canterbury, charged on the oaths of Wash-
ington Carr, and others, of being concerned in the
late smuggling affray at Marsh Bay, in Thanet.—
Ramsay WAS committed as a principal; and Webster
as an accessary for assisting and concealing the of-
fenders. Several persons, of whom better conduct
might have been expected, are said to have cone ibuted
to the concealment of some of the smugglers, and that
their names have been forwarded to Government.

APATHY.--A footman of Lord DAcne was hung
in 1763, for the murder of his Lordship's butler. The
culprit was only 19 years of ago. While writing his
confession—“l,murd--" he stopped and asked, u How
do you spell murdered r