Star.
London, England, 1826-01-21 00:00:00

DRURY-LANE THEATRE.

Mr. SINCLAIR and Miss STEPHENS were last night to
have sustained the two principal characters in Guy
Mannerists'. Both were reported to be indisposed, and
Mr. HORN and Miss GRAnDaR were announced as their
.übstitutes. On the entrance of this Lady, as Lucy
Bertram, the audience manifested great displeasure, and
she withdrew. A formidable uproar ensued, which
Messrs. PENLET and LISTON, as apologists, attempted,
but in vain, to appease. Mr. ELLISTON, jun. at length
came forward with the certificate of Mr. SINCLAIR'S
indisposition, and announced Miss STEPHENS to be
prevented from appearing that night in consequence of
her father being then in u very dangerous state. He
offered to return the admission money to all who were
dissatisfied. Some of the malcontents upon this left
the 'lheatre. Subsequently another apology was made
soy Mr. ELLISTON, jun. in consequence of the non-
arrival of Mr. Holes, which circumstance made it
necessary for the Management to avail themselves of
the services of a Mr. YARDLEY. This Gentleman ac-
cordingly became the representative of Henry, and
making allowances for the situation in which he stood,
acquitted himself respectably.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, JAN. 20.

Thomas Evans, a Cambrian milkman was opposed
by Elias Sylvester, a pretty young woman to whom he
had plighted his vows as a lover, and in that capacity
borrowed the sum of 121. 10s. from the complainant.
The opposing creditor stated that the insolvent had,
by fraudulent representations, obtained 121. 10s. from
her, at a time when he was under an engagement to
marry her, which promise he had broken, notwith,tand-
ing in consequence of arrangements between them she
had quitted an excellent situation. It: order to prove the
connection which had existed between them, the com-
plainant put in a letter, which was read by the clerk of
the Court and excited a good deal of laughter.
The Lady was about to explain some love affairs
which happened at their last interview, but Mr. HEATH
submitted, that the Court had nothing to do with them.
He could not help observing, that while he regretted
that the young woman should have lost her money,
she had, he conceiired, had a lucky escape in losing the
husband—(Larghter). And it was a consolation that
things were no worse than they appealed to be.—
' Perhaps, on reflection, both parties would consider all
was for the best.

The Crust Commastorma commiserated the corn-.
plainant for the losses she had sustained, but begged to
inform her that there was no power •ested in the Court
to confine the insolvent at her suit.

The opposing creditor then seized her " Essay on Love," and
hastily left the Court, apparently dissatisfied that she had gained
nothing by her motion.—The insolvent was discharged.
llowy Rekrt Peter, a very young man, was remanded for four
calendar months, for fraudulently contracting a debt with his tailor.
Gorge Awoke. Fes was liposed by several creditors' one of
whom (Mr. Spratley) established a case against the Insolvent, of
cuotracting a debt for furniture when he had no means to pay the
same.—Remanded, and ordered to be confined within the walls of
the prison for Sour calendar months.

EA lITHQUiX IL—On the morning of the 19th of Nov.
a severe shock of earthquake was experienced at Port-
au-Prince and its neighbourhood, which lasted four or
five (theist e letters state 40 or 50) sec 'lids. The shock
was preceded by a rumbling sound from the south-east,
and according to the recollection of the old inhabitants,
is the strongest expel ienced since the fatal convulsion
of 1770, which overthrew nearly the whole-of the city.
In tie present instance this terrible phenomenon has
happily lei no external masks of .its course. It is re-
markable that the shock which took place in the year
1770, on the $d of June, the feast of Pentecost, at seven
in the evening, WAS equally felt in the Windward
Islands, at the moment ; and last year, on the same day
of Pentecost, was experienced a shock. That of the
19th of Nivember, is the third in she present year.
According to advices from Madagascar, a most,
furious and exterminating war raged there between the
natives of different parts of the Island, and the town of
Majinga, the principal trading place, had been totally
destroyed by one of the hostile parties, and the inha-
bitants compelled to fly into the interior. Vessels,
therefore, could not get cargoes, and were about leaving
the Island empty. Other advice. add, that the whole
of the Island was in open rebellion against King Ka-
dama, and that the gre.test confusion reigned irons one
end to the other.

S. firm and settled are the people of Buenos-Ayre.
in their resolution to wrest their old compatriots front
the Imperial gripe, and so strengly did M. RIVADAVIA
reckon on support from it, that on leaving England,
.ometinte ago, lie directly intimated that declaration
of war against Brazt would he the first measure of
state policy alter hit retina to South Alarrica.

LOUR c OF cliANeCtlY—Tills DAY.

This being the Jay Announced for the tesumptit►n of
business at Lincoln's Inn Hall, by the Lonu CHAN
cau.on, the Court was crowded by half-past ten
o'clock. The cause paper contains no less than nine-1
teen causes, and filty-three petitions in lunacy, of which
two are in the matter of Lord Portsm nth.
The Lotto CHANCELLOR came to the Inn about ten
o'clock, and was occupied in the private room for some
time.—At ten minutes after eleven o'clock, his Lord-
ship's purse-bearer came into Court, and informed the
C.Junsel and Solicitors, that his Lordship was stilt so
indisposed, as to render it dangerous for him to :I in
the open Court. He wished, however, to see them in
his private room.

Tnither the parties went, and we reg►et t• say his Lord •
ship!seensed to have suffered much from his late attack.
In fact, his limbs appeared very feeble, and from ap-
pearance, his Lnrdshis seemed to suffer great pain.
After the Solicitors and Counsel bad taken their places, his
LOILLSIIIP ordered the curie paper to be called on.
VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, JAN. 20.
DUDLEY AND OTHEIIS V. NORTON.

Ihe Coos t was occupied the greater pas t of the morn •
ing in hearing this injunction m.rtion. The plaintiffs
and defendant are owners of land near Bit mingliam,
close to which is the Stourbtidge Canal. By an Act Of
Parliament of the 16th of Geo. 111. owners of mines,
within a given distance of the canal, ate empowered to
make rail,ways irons their mines to the cans!, over the
la lids of their neighbour4, communicating with the canal,
for the purpose of conveying the produce of their mines
to it : and if any dispu e should arise between the mine
owners, and the owners of the lands necessary to be
cut: Commissioners are appointed for the purpose of
deciding the necessary and expedient course and distance
to be taken in making the road. The lii.e of road in
question was produced by the defendant to the plain-
s ifs ; it was by them objected to.; is war then laid before
the Commissioners, and they approved of it. Accord-
ing to their adjudication, the making of the road was
begun on the '2d of November last, which has since
been proceeded with. On December the 3d, the plain-
tiffs gave notice that they resisted the object of the
defendant, and they should appeal against the aludi-
cation to the Quarter Sessions, a- by the Act of
Parliament they were authorised to do. When the
Sessions came on, the appeal was adjourned for three
months longer, and in the meantime the present bill
was filed, complaining that the Commissioners had no
authority under the Act of Parliament, to adjudicate a
right to the defendant to put
,his road in a circuitous
manner, passing through thJ lands of the plaintiffs,
when it might have beets cut in a direct course from the
mines to the canal, without touching on the plaintiffs'
property at all; 'therefore, it prayed the Cons t w inter-
fere, to controul the act of the Commissioners, and to
grant a perpetual injunction against proceeding with
the making of the road, as it is ndw being cut, or an
injunction, until the authority cf the Commissioners
under the Act of Parliament could be tri d in a Court
of Law.

Mr. HART and Mr. WAKEFIELD contended for the
plaintiffs, that the defendant was bound to take the
most direct way in forming a communication between
his mines and the canal ; and that, as the object of
passing through their land was, to give the defendant
an oppottunity of making a wharf on the banks of the
canal, in addition to his railway, which he could not
have, from the nature of the country, if he took the
direct course, that the Court ought to interfere as prayed.
Mr. SUODEW and Mr. Ticcumow argued on the part
of the defendant, that the Court had no jurisdiction;
that the Act of Parliament had vested the jurisdiction
in the Commissioners; that they had pointed out the
course to be taken, and that if they had acted wrongly
or mistakenly, the remedy of the plaintiffs was, to
apply to the Quarter Sessions.
His HONOUR was of opinion with the defendant's
Counsel, that the plaintiffs ought to have gone on to
trial at the Quarter Sessions: and that, if that Court
should have formed the same opinion that the Com-
missioners did, then the plaintiffs would still have a
right to apply in equity. What the Court would, there-
fore do, was, to stop the further making of the road,
until the appeal could be tried at the next Sessions,
giving leave to any party to apply to this Count after
the opinion of the Appeal Court was obtained.

ROLLS COURT, JAL 20.

His Holism's, the Master of the Rolls. resumed his Sittings last
evening. The cause paper contained no less than eighty-four peti-
tions, upwards of twenty of which ware disposed of.
COURT OF ARCHES, Jam. 20.
This being the first day of Term in the Ecclesiastical Court, the
Civilians and Proctors met according to custom in the anti-chamber,
where prayers were read. The Court was then Tama with the
usual forms.

The only case which came before the Court related to the costs
of an appeal made from we of the inferior Ecclesiastical Courts.
It was a question of no public interest.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, WESTMINSTER, JAW. O.
Sittings appointed to be held in bliddlesez and London, before
the Right Hon. Sir Charles Abbott, Knight, Lard Chief Justice of
the Court of King's Bench, in and after Hilary Term, 11126 :

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LONDON.
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Feb. 1 I Ssturday, .
Feb. 10 I Saturday, •

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ATTER 111111,41.
Tuesday, Feb. 14 Wednesday, • Feb. 15
Sit at ball-past twelve on Jan 2S, 28, and Feb. 1 and 4 ; and at
half-past nine on the other days.
Sittings appointed in Middlesex and London, before the Right
Hon. Sir William Draper Best, Knight, Lord Chief Justice of his
Majesty's Court of Common Pleas, at Westminster, in and after
Hilary Term, 1.46:

111 TERM.

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