Star.
London, England, 1826-07-04 00:00:00

YORK, .Iw.x 1.

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Tee Wsarnast.--For a few days previous to Tuesday
last, added to the powerful effects of a summer solstitial
sun, our vicinity witnessed an atmosphere cloudless as
an Italian sky. On Tuesday morning the varying cur-
rent of air, and the slightly forming cloud, bespoke a
welcome change at hand, and in the forenoon the pre,
cursive drops, as they gently distilled upon the ground,
gave welcome earnest of-Ms-coming strower. At noon,
the clouds became formed into larger and more moon-
tainous masses though the sun broke out in his accus-
tomed splendour, and for a time the expected rain
delayed. At length the rain descended with freedom,
gad the earth as eagerly drank it up. The storm still
increased in wildness and in majesty, the billowy cloud
from its dark bosom sent forth the vivid and the forked
fire, whilst the peal rolled and reverberated in solemn
, grandeur, mingled with the dashing of the copious
shower. As the range of this storm embraced the
village of Nun Monkton and its xeighbourhood, the
lightning became peculiarly vivid and overpowering,
and the peals of thunder were loud and incessant. Four
ewes and two lambs were killed by the lightning, at
Mr. Benjamin Cundall's farm ; they had taken shelter
under an oak tree which was set on fire, and continued
burning until it was ccniumed.
Wednesday, at Puppletun, the hail descended with
such terrific force as to break eighteen windows in the
house-of Mr. Fearbf, of that place, and did very exten-
sive damage to the fruit upon the apple trees, and in-
deed to every thing in the garden susceptible of injuries.
At Acomb, also, most curious pieces of ice imagination
can devise, many of them foil four inches in diameter,
flew about in all directions, breaking the cucumber
frames, and entering the dwelling-houses with consider
able projectile force: some of them had an opake nucleus,
others wholly pellucid; some flat, others round, and as
if cut by the lathe in divers irregular ways. Swallows
were struck to the graend.
The rainbow was uncommonly brilliant. At Skellon
much damage was done, and st the house of Drury,
Esq. near that village; much glass was shivered by the
large pieces of ice which fell amidst the torrent of rain.l
The effects of this storm here also experienced at Mal-
don and in its neighbourhood. The rain came down in
torrents, and was accompanied by hail stones of a very
large size, which did great injury to the hot-houses of
the Gentlemen in the neighbourhood. A great many
squares of glass were broken in the gardens of Major
Bower, of Welham, and Mr. Barton, of Malton, is said
to have glass broken to the value of about 201. The
horse. in the mail to York were so frightened as to be
obliged to be led some distance by a person at the head
of the leaders. The damage dor.e was very extensive.
To this destruction of property we have to add the still
ni ire fatal effects of this visitation. A man of the name
of Char les Kilvingion, a wire-drawer, in company with
another ; erson, who was passing along the road about
four milts from Tadcaster, was struck by the lightning,
and in tan'ly expired. The case of this young man is
exceedingly to be lamented: he was going to see his
wile anJ three children, whO reside in Leeds. She is
in the hourly expectation of being confined with a fourth
0110,;:aud is in the greatest poverty and distress; at
once ;emoting to those who are benevolently disposed,
a worthy object of. Christian charity, and a fine oppor-
tunity of relieving the fatherless and the widow. His
companion, we understand, escaped without injury.
At Tockwitb the storm raged with great violence ;
sesieral of the hail stones, after being removed within-
doeitiltbov. z one minute, measured from 41 to 5 inches
in Circumference; numerous panes of glass, arc. were
broken. A young woman working in a fi-Id at Cattle,
near Tockwith, was also snuck dead, and her clothes'
set un fire.

The damage done by the hail stones breaking glass
at rno:t of the places within the range of the storm, is
immense. Upwards of 601. worth has been broken at
the re.idence of I. Spencer, Esq. at Popplston; and the
ijury su.tained at Castle Howard is very,great, glass
in the bowie and the adjOining gardens having been
broken to the amount of 4001. The roads there were
so fl toiled with rain, that in some parts boats might
have been used ; and the branches of trees were scat-
tered around like tke shattered fragments which are
generally seen where the woodman s hatchet has been
unsparingly exercised.
.ABOIDEEN, JUNE 28.—The weatl.er continues dry
and sultry to a degree very unusual in this part of the
country, and most unpropitious to the progress of she
growing crops. The heat for the last few days has been
most opp•es aye, the thermometer in the shade ranging
born 76 to 82. Many well, ponds, and some of the
smaller streams of water, are entirely dried up; and
cattle are suffering no le,s 1.1 mu the drought than from
the scar city of pasture. In the upper parts of the county,
the effects of the heat have been of a most est raordinary
and alarming description. On S .turclay, the furze on
the Hill of I.ochtiagar was observed to be un lire; and
the most plausible conjecture as to its origin ascribes it
to the influence of t!,e sun acting upon and reflected
from sonic of the cairogorums and other gems which
are to be found in that picture ruse spot—the thermo-
meter upon the side of the hill having risen to above
90. But t! e fire, we have since learned, is not confined
to Lochnagar. Several other hills in the neighbour-
hOod have also caught fire ; among which Benaboard,
Beaaven, and the Hill •f Glentmner are mentioned,
and have been burning for some days. Every exettion
is mak ng to prevent the fire reaching the woods.
FALKIRK, JULY I.—The heat has been excessive for
some time. The thermometer has frequently been at
84 in the shade, and at 125 in the open air. The con-
sequences are alarming. The mosses and heath-clad
muirs to the S.W. have been on fire for a week past,
and, are still burning, and no human power seems able
to arrest iti progress. It has been computed that up-
wards of 2000 acres have been burnt, including some'
corn fields and plantations, at the same time destroying I,
all kinds of game upon the moors. Our only hope is,
than an ample supply of rain may stop the ravages.
Friday morning, sonic of the workmen engaged at
Mr. Patiton's, on the Shawpark Estate, near Alloa, dis-
covered a great quintity of smoke, arising from a young
phonation in the immediate neighbourhood, and on
investigating the source from which it proceeded, found
the luggage and young trees were on fire. We under-
stand that the strenuous mit:erns of upwards of a dozen
of Alen were requited the whole day to confine the
ravages of the destroying element, which was not fairly
got under till nearly two acres of die plantation were
destroyed. Nothing has developed its origin.

It Is said, that the Winter Theatres, by direction of
the LORD CHANIBRILAIN, are to be closed three entire
■tonths, and the IJaymalket palormances restricted to
lour insteAd of seven months.

LAW REPORT.
COURT OF CHANCERY, Amy 3.
LADOASTRR R. Aretwaotr.
The Loan CumttaLsost midi this was the case be-
tween too sisters, one of whom bad filed a Bill against
another, accusing her of having withdrawn from an
escritoire a sum of 817 guineas, two half guineas, and
a seven shilling piece. it appeared that these Ladies
had divided all the property of the father between them,
with the eicepti3n of thi, sum of nriney, so surrept•-
tiously taken away. The defence appeared to him to
intimate, that the accusation of the plaintiff might be
[clotted upon her by the other sister, for the defendant
stated, that her sister, the plaintiff, had found means to
deal with the savings of her parent in his life time,
much in the same aay a, she accused her ester of hav-
ing done since his death. The Vice Chancellor had di-
rected an issue to try whether this gold had ever been
in the possession of the father; and, it appeared to him
(the Lord Chancellor) that the decree of his Honour was
right, but if it was so in point of form, the other sister
had, as a matter of justice, an equal right t 3 an inq dry
against her sister. A more unpleasant case altogether
could not be put upon the files of the Court. As the
suit had been instituttd, it must be dealt with accord-
ing to the justice of it. He should himself pen the teims
of the issues he would direct, and he a ould !mod them
down tomorrow

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, JuLv 3.
CASS OS CONSPIRACY..--THR RING V. ROWLAND

AND OTHERS.

This was a prosecution by indictment against the de-
fendants, Hugh Rowland, Howell Richard Rowland,
his son, William Gordon, James Knox, Malay,
and -.—. Twycross, for a conspiracy to defraud Robert
Stra►ford Ashby, and Benjamin Shaw, by issuing se-
veral Bills of Exchange, snaking the prosecutors liable
to pay the amount after a dissolution of partnership
should have taken place.
Hamay and Twycros► being represented as the mere
agents of the other defendants, the Counsel for the pro-
secution consented to a verdict of acquittal for them.
Mr. ►SCARLBTT stared the care. It appeared yon
Ashby and Rowland (Richard) were in partnership
with asperson named Oltvere, an engraver, residing i.l
Lombard-street. Thrt partnership continued from 1820
down to 1824, when Olivere withdrew from the con-
cern, after which John Shaw became a sleeping partner,
has ing put in 1,5001. By a deed duly executed, it ap-
peared that Rowland was to advance the sante sum,
and Ashby 500 i. The bills of exchange which were to
be issued were all to be signed by Rowland and Ashby,
Straw having no part in the transaction further than
that he was to get one-eighth of the profits. On Mr.
Shaw's return to London, afer an absence at Paris, he
was applied to hy.Rowland- for more money. Induced
by this circumstance to suspect that something wrong
was going on, he enquired and found that his 1,5001.
had never been brought into the film as capital, and,
that Rowland had advanced nothirig. Bills were then,
said to be in circulation to the amount of 3001. or 4001
in the name of the firm. Mr. Rowland, jun. said, his'
father (the defendant, Hugh Rowland), who is a paper
maker, would give paper w the anwunt of all those
bills. It was afterwards discovered, hoe ever, that bills
to the amount of 6,0.!0/. had been put into circulation
in the name of Ashby, Rowland, and Co Some of these
bills had been sold for 10s in the. pound. Part of th •
proceeds went to pay the debts of Hugh Rowland, and
some were circulated by the other defendants. with the
intention of defrauding Messrs.. Ashby and Shaw, the
present prosecutors.. The bills, it would appear, had
keen accepted after the dissolution of partnership, and
contrary to / deed executed between the parties. Mr.
Ashby was arrested on one of the bills, and comniiited
to the King's Bench Prison, %here he was visited b y
Hugh Rowland, who urged him to take back his (Row.
land's) .on into partnership. and offered on that solidi-
tion to pledge himself that all the bilk should be paid.
This proposition, however. Ashby rejected. The whole
transaction, in short, was one tissue of gross fraud,
as would be clearly established by evidence.
The two deeJs of partnership were proved, and a
number of witness:s were called to prove the facts of
the Learned Counsel's statement, and the circulation of
the bills, some of them drawn by Knox ; am ,ng whom
were the two defendants who had been just acquitted,
and who now laid open a scene sufficient to make an
impression en the minds of the J.lry ; though a not un-
successful effort was made by Mr. C. Phillips, in their
cros►•examination, to convict them of a very consider-
able implication in the transact on in question.
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Mr. Ban Demi: and Mr. Prawn then severay addressed the
Jury fur the tlefendanu; after which,
Mr. Shedd' Crowder. T. Richards, E,q. (who suc
ceed..d the worthy Sheriff in busine-s), W. Magna'', Esq.
(son of Alderman Maguey) Stuart, Esq. and seve-
ral other Gentlemen of high respectability, were called
to prove the defendant Hugh Rowlanes character to
be without reproach. Evidence wai also caged as vi
character of William Gordon.

The Lotto Cates JUSTICE slimmed up.— However
blameable the conduct of the attendant Hugh 'Lowland
[bight he, inn taking bills for his OWII use from so young
a man as his sun wiLhout apprizing the son's partners ;
yet if the Jury conceived that he had done' so with no
unfair intention, and with the prospect of these bills
being finally paid, they would give him the benefit of
the good character he had • received from so many
highly respectable wi,nesses as had been called, and
bring in a verdict of acquittal. as far as he was con-
cerned. But with respect to the other defendant, GM.-
' don, the case was very different indeed. They must find
a verdict against two persons or more, in order to re•
cord a verdict of uilty at all.
The Jury for a few minutes, after which they renamed
the following verdict—Hugh ]Rowland, Gritty—Howell
Richard Rowland, William Gordon, anti James Knox—Gni/Iy.
This trial lasted from half-past nine in the morning till half-put
nine o'clock at night.

Yesterday the annual Meeting of the Proprietors of
Drury-lane Theatre was held in the Saloon, to receive
the Report of the Sub-C•instnittee. It was announced
that Mr. Bum had beaime the lessee of the Theatre for
fourteen years, at a rent of 11,2501. Mr. Cm CRAFT
sr. ted, in the course of the meeting, that the whole debt
due by Mr. amazon to the Theatre was 5,700/. of
which 3000/. was actual loss during the last season.—
Mr. ELLISTON, who was present, alfdresud the Propri-
etors, and expressed his intention of visiting America,,
for which he had received a most liberal offer. He de-
clared, that he felt no anxiety respecting himself, but he
was desirous that Lis son, who had expended a part of
his private fortune on the Theatre, and above all,•that
his creditors, who were deprived, by his ceasing to be,
lessee, of all prospect of being paid in full, should re-
ceive the consideration of the Proprietors. Mr.G. Lams
has retired from the sub-committees and is succeeded
by the Marquis of HIRTFOIIP.