Star.
London, England, 1826-10-24 00:00:00

BUCKS MICHAELMAS SESSIONS, OCT. 19.

The Duke of BUCKINGHAM took the Chair about
twelve o'clock, and was suppotaed by a very fall at-
tendance of the Magistracy of the County.
NUTTING. _

George Bragden, John Farmer, Frederiat Botterill,
Fred. Holland, Thomas Holland, 6eo. Hutchins, Sabwel
Pittam, John Dwakky, Thomas Waith, Samuel Ball,
Geo. Chapman, Edw. Spencer, and Edw. Spencer, jun.
having surrendered to their bail,were arraigned on an in-
dictment charging them with a riot at Akeley Wood on
the 4th of September last : three other counts charged
them with three distinct assaults on the Rev. William
Cotton Risley ; and a fifth count charged them with
assaniting Wm. O.bo•ne, a con table, aad rescuing
Samuel Pittam and Samuel Ball from his custody.
The defendants in this case were the persons who per.
sisted in nutting in woods belonging to the New Col-
lege, Oxford. When the defendants had been ar-
raigned) and before the Jury were charged, the Chair-
man observed, that it was evident that much of the
offence with which they had been charged arose from
misunderstanding and misconception respecting certain
rights. If their trial took place it might increase that
misunderstanding, and it would be for them to consi-
der, therefore, whether it would not be best for them to
plead Guilty, and throw themselves on the mercy of
the Court.

The prisoners, having conferred with their Attorney, pleaded
'Guilty, and
Mr. Buoit, who was Counsel for them, immediately
addressed the Court in mitigation of punishment. He
nbierved, that the defendants had acted on a notion
that they had a right of nutting; they now found that
they had no such right. They were in respectable sta-
tions of life, and Botterill had served in the Yeomanry
of the. County under his Grace. They were now before
the Court to receive the penalty of their offence, and he
trusted that it would be lenient.

The CHAlRMAN—Defendants, you seem in this in-
stance:to have acted under the impression that you had
a tight to go into the woods to gather nuts, like many
of those who go into the fields to glean. The law allows
no such right in either one case or the other—a fact 01
which, as far as regards nutting, you must be convinced
by what has taken place. It is by permission of the
proprietor alone that his woods and fields can be legally
entered for the purpose of nutting or gleaning, and if
he finds his sheaves stolen or his woods injured, he has
the power to withhold the indulgence. If your trial had
gone on your offence would have been visited much
more heavily upon you than it will now bet you have
listened to the suggestions of the Court, and I know that
I speak the sentiments of the Gentleman on my left
hand (Mr. Risley was standing by his Grace), when I
recommend that the Counsel should confer and sta.e to
the Court the conclusion to which they have come.
The result was, that Mr. Dovea, who was engaged
for the prosecution, having spoken to Mr. Bligh, stared
to the Court that they had agreed the defendants should
be liberated on entering into recognizances to keep the
peace. The Court accordingly ordered them to enter
into recognizances of 401. each to keep the peace for
three years towards all his Majesty's subjects, and espe•
cially towards Mr. Risley, Thomas Winrerbourne, and
William Osborne, the woodmen.
Dr. Br Ito ' ibout 60

A. Brinkley, now litsitup of wr , is aL
years of age, was born at Woodbridge, and under the
protection lithe late Rev. Mr. Harrison, was placed in
die Academy of Mr. Tilney, at Harleston, where he
!made a great proficiency in his mathematical studies.
—From this school he was removed to Cahn College,
Cambridge, and upon taking his degree in 1788 he at-
tained the distinguished honour of Senior Wrangler,
which had already been bestowed on the late learned
Professor of Astronomy, S. Vince, also a pupil of Mr.
Tilney. The University of Dublin having need of a
person of first rate talent to fill the chair of Astronomy
there, Mr. Brinkley was selected for that important si
tendon, where be succeeded in gaining that increased
reputation and renown whit)) has led to his recent ap-
oointment to the valuable Bishopric of Cloyne.
Tuesday, as Charles I'hellusson, Esq. of l3rodsworth,
Yorkshire, was on his way from Ingoldisthorpe, to Sir
,Richard Wilson's, his gun went off unexpectedly in the
phaeton, and the contents passed through the fleshy part
of his right arm, between the wrist and the elbow, miss-
ing the bone by a hair's breadth. It is a painful wound,
but it is hoped not dangerous.
Buav, OCTOBER 20.—Monday as Mr. JARDINE, Of
Wixoe, near Clare, with a friend, was coming to Bury,
when near Glemsford the pony in their four-wheel
carriage became vicious, and kicking violently, they
limped out, when Mr. JARDINE injured himself so
severely that he died on Wednesday night. He was
at the Ball on Friday evening ; and, from this untie.
paced event, as the animal was nearly 20 years old, and
consideted pat titularly quiet, is this Gentleman, in the
prime of life, lot to his family and fr ends.
A meeting of operatives was held at Bradford on
Tuesday, at which Petitions to Parliament for the repeal
of the Corn Laws were agreed to.
FlRL—Saturday evening, between seven and eight
o'clock, the inmates of Somerset House Coffee house,
Strand, were put into considerable alarm by the appear.
ince of a body of flame in an apartment on the second
Arm, which threatened to reduce the whole building to
ruins. Fortunately, however, the persons in the house
succeeded in keeping the flames from spreading, by re-
peated applications of water, till the arrival of several
firemen, who ultimately extinguished them, but not
before the furniture, bedding, &c. were either totally
consumed or rendered unfit for use. It would appear
that the fire originated by alighted candle being placed
too near the bed curtains, which ignited, and soon en-
veloped the whole room in flames.
Early on Monday se'nnight, a mare worth 1911. the
property. of Mr. Timothy Ingham of Bradford, was poi-
soned whilst in a stable, at Hall-Ings, in that t rwn, by
some ill-disposed person undiscovered. About 2/1 oz.
of mercury was found in the stomach of the mare after
being opened.
Friday last, while the Star of Leith, Archibald Kirk.
ham, master, was coming down Loch Lochy, a fine
young man 18 years of age, Thomas Walkerley, sup-
posed to be from Darnton, near Shields, was precipitated
from the chains, and was drowned.
Hearses erected in the church were anciently com-
mon, and according to Du Cange, the term signified a
candlestick, furnished with different lights, and erected
at the head of a cenotaph. We are tad, that about the
time of EDWARD 111. began the use of hearses, com-
posed entirely of wax lights, called cadre &kris (keep-
of grief). Hearses ever the grave for a continuance, and
with lights, occur long before and after. As to move-
able hearses, they were of different forms, and not of so
early an origin.. So late as the time of Cumming 11. at
the. burial of a Peer, the body was borne on men's shoal-
ders from the hearse to the grave.