Star.
London, England, 1828-04-29 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

A detachment of the 67th Regiment of Wintry arrived lit town
yesterday morning from Hertford, and received orders to proceed
by canal boat, in the evening, for Bolton. - ..
The 56th Regiment of Foot has been ordered to. mash {roar
Dublin, (or Londonderry.

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NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. "G'

The Elizabeth, Minos, from Trinidad, Is off
The Douglas, JAPVIIAT, of Aberdeen, bound to 5ta11ie15...9,91
driven on shore off Elsinore on the 21st instant, clueing a viokne
gale at S E Several other vessels toe anchors and *cablei;end aryl
much damaged ; and it eras reported' al Copenhagen, that out tif
150 vessels, suppostd to be upward bound, which were off Fels.
tetbo. about half of them were driven from their anchors: •
Dui., Aram sa.—Wind S. W.—Artived the Helvellyn. ••••.ek,
from Ilamburgh; and Clio Home Irons Sierra Leooe. The
whole of the outward-bound have sailed.
Potersocorrn, Aram So.—Wind & to S.S. W.—Sailed tbe Cap-
tain Cook, Wow's, for Bombay ; Lonach, Mammal, jur lienpi ;
and his Majesty's ships Albatross and Hecia, for the coast of Africa.
FALMOUTH, Aram 27.—Wind S.—The Camden packet, from
the Leewaid Islands. is supposed to have arrived off pbtt.
BRISTOL, APRIL 26.—Arrived the Henry Carter,
Trinidad; and Lucia, Cuaistorraa, from Adra.
By letters received at Lloyd's front New York, dated April 9,
we learn that the Juneal, Buenos Ayrean schooner of war, arrived
on the 29th ultimo at Baltimore, from Buenos Nytes..vilikla place
she left on the llth of March. At that time the blockading scout-
dron consisted of fourteen versels•--eorvettes, brigs, and schooner..
When off Rio Janeiro, die Joaol spoke with the Buenos Ayrean
privateer the Niger, commanded by Captain Cots. The Niger. it
appeared. had recently fallen in with and engaged the %laria Isa-
bella, Brazilian ship of war. The action bad been a severe one,
and the Niger had kid eleven men killed, and twoll her Mere
wounded. It would appear that the vessels ultimately "merited,
neithar of them having to boast a victory, The Juncal, In her
p.i...sge from Buenos Ayres to Baltimore, had captured a Brazilian
transport.with 300 Soldiers on board, front falaranhaut to Rio; and
al.° a British brig. no "ame mentiontd, from l'etnambeco to Rio
Grande. The Juncal would have been a prize of some cotAe.
quence had the Maria habella. succeeded in capturing her, as, in
addition to a cargo of skins worth 100,000 dollars, she bad 500.000
dollars in specie on board, which sum is to he approprbted to the'
building of vssielt of war for the Buenos Ayrean Govatenment. •• I
It is with severe regret we have t 6 state the loss of two Midship-
men and a boat's crew of his MAJESTY'S cutter Sylvka, while
recently surveying a sunken rock at the back of the Idand'of Jersey.
One. of the slidakipmen was 51r. Reemaao Ibtairnsibtra Hike,
, late of his M 'a ship Albion, second sun of B. It Hots, Esq.
of Boldington. The boat was picked up. bottom npwardi, by a
French cotter, near St. Dialect.—Denunpori Telegraph.
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The Duchess of GLovegifia his /*indium
yesterday.
Plitice ESTERHAZY, the AusttiaK:Ambassd.vor. and
Baron PoLow, the Pressitian Minister, bad audiences yesterday et
the KING. '
The Duke of CimsKttLAND dines-with his MAJearir
on Sunday.
THE PRlNcltss AU6USTA—Titt• issued fes•
terday respecting the state of her Royal Highness was not so favour-
able as those issued fur the last two days, via —l4 The Princess
AI:CORSA has nut slept writ last night, l.ut is 'OM worse
'lle Duchess of GLoucasves and the Sorsiii visited the
Ptioicesa. His Nlaarsse and Nleinbcrs of the Royal Family
'sent several times in the course of the day, to Irani the mate ul
their Royal relation.
A 1). Putatiun of the Royal Bviety..headed by Mr.
Davies Omuta? (the President), and Sir EVIMAIIP Home and
Captain Kassa (two of the Vice-Presidents), waited sus the Duke
of Cusessacasto yesterday, at his apartments in the Kings Palace.
St. James's. His Royal Highness was elected a Member of the
Society, and his name was enroned accordingly.
Mr. FROST, the Director of the Medico-Botanical
Society, bad an audience yesterday of the Duke of Cvmaserataits,
when his Royal Highness was pleased to insert his name in the list
of Members of the Modica-Monica Society.
The Doshe.• 6Loucerren dined with the Duke
and Duchess of CLaaestcs yesterday, at their residence itt the
Admiralty.
Prince GEORGE of Cumberland. atteneed by Colonel
THORNTON and the Rev. Mr. Jeer, went over the Tower of Lon-
don yesterday.
The Duke and Duchess of CLARENCE tt ok an air:ng
for some hours yesterday afternoon, in an open barouche, in the
•
ueibbout hood of Hampstead, Highgate, eke.
Dip,t‘hes %sem receised )esierday at the Foreign
Office, truni Viscount GRAIITILLIK,OUT Ambassador at
,Paris.
Viscount STRA tiOrultis and Lot d • HI,VTESSURY
transacted business yesterday with Karl Depart, at the. Office of the
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.
Sr YHTERSSUPGII. AralL 12—The Pt ince Of ORAM:111
has arrived here. Count Lesessooarr, General of [mhntry, died
lately ,at the age of 83 years. Comfit Nessateomt, Minister of
Foreign Affaits, is raised to the dighity of .Vice Chancellor;
The Duke of BEAC/ONT entertained a distinguished
party to dinner yesterday, at his house in Grovienor.square.
The Duke of GRAFTON had a dinner pant. pp :Sun-
day. at his house In Clarges.street. •
The Countess of TANICERVILLE gave a splendid ball
and supper yesterday evening, at her house to Prissventre.squant.
Lord JAMES STCART had a dinner party on Sunday,
at his house,. Whitehall. place. •
Lord BELGRAVE entertained the Duke of Nottrout
antis select party to dialler yesterday, at his house in Grosvenor-
r.quare.
Lady Fairttosonnuou had a grand assembly yesterday
evening. at her house in Privy Gardens.
The Duke of NORFOLK gives -1004 and Earl FITZ*
vnwass2ool. towards promoting bledical Science in Sheffield.

Lord ABICROAVENta sent last week 10gs. each to
the &use: County and Fiver Hospitals.
The cuckoo. the harbinger of wing, was heard yes-
terday a abort distance west of London.
The nightingale is beard nightly in the neighbour.'
hood of Lewes. •

Notwithstanding the generally-received notion that
Ladies' dresses never were so various or so costly as in the present
day, it Is stated. in a manuscript deposited in the British Musentn,
that the wardrobe of Queen lia.istamm, at the time of her demise,
consained more than two thosisandgewns, with all thhigs answerable.
Di,patches were eeteived yetterdiy at the Foreign
and Colonial Departinenta, fronl Lieutenant General Sir FRIABRICIC
Assam, K.C.B. at Corfu ; at the Colonial Mee. froth Lieutenant
General the Feral of Mumma, G.CB. at Canada • and at the
Foreign Mice from Viscount Ozastmu.s, our Ambassador ay Paris.
Mr. Parr —When the ambitious Potentate of Russia
determined to mike war upon the Turks, and bad taken Ozakoff
as a beginning. Idr. Pier thought it necessary to interfere, for the
parpoes of saving the Mussulman empire. la• this he was eons-
plead, successful, without going to war; but whys the mom was
in suspense, the Minister, going one morning mug Ifdoirs Levee,
was encountered on the stairs by a fribbling Peer, Reidy embrol-
r dared, who. thinking it an honour to speak to se distiagoisfsed a
character. said. • Well, Mr.-Pirt, bow is It to 114-. are ere teheree
Paw or 'Karr. me. Midi*: mallide and geoid.tstarely--.
'stagily. lay kook I asap, Lavelast dentilie ieerstspers
misraimpt.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
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COURT OF CiIARCRItIf, ti.
. In RE STAR /OED ICIIOOL.
This was the Petition of the Mayor of Stamford and
others, praying a reference to the Master respecting shill
internal managementof the Stamford Grammar School,
and also as to the estates of.the Charity. In support of
the first prayer it wirs,aUeged, that the present school-
masteri Mr. Adley, bad been negligent of his duty, ant,
devoted only two.hours and a half in each 'day to the
superintendence of the School. • The Petition, which
was very voluminous, contained several other allega-
ti.ns, upon which distinct references to the Master were
prayed.
The Lotto CHANCELLOR, after going through all the
circumstances of the case. which possessed ao features
of peculiar interest, dismissed the Petition with costs.
COURT OF KING'S SENOR, Warrausnaa, Arau.
U.
Sittings in BUM.
HANNISSON W. SCOTT AND ANOTHER.
This was an action of slander tried before Mr. Jostle* Jamie at
the last Assizes fur the county palatine of Chester. A verdict was
found for the defendants.
Mr. WILLIAMS now moved for I new trial on the
ground of misdirection on the part of the. Learned
'Judge. It appeared by the evidence that the plain-
tiff was is the employ of a spirit merchant named
Whiteley, who,had been robbed of a quantity of spit its.
The defendants, Mr. and Mrs. Scott, were friends of
'Mr. Whiteley, and in the course of a visit they paid
it*, at which the rabbet y was talked of, as also the
4secitliar natute of Mr. Whiteley's preinises, Mrs. Scott
isaid, 6, Depend upOn it, Mr. Whiteley, it
.is not the.
;thieves that rob you ; it is your own servants • it is no
other than John Hankisson slim robs you the way fon
tare been robbed." This was on the 3d of October.
'About the 28th of Octoter Mr. Whiteley went to Mr.
ASCOtes, ID see if he could get any information upon the
'u' jest, when Mrs. Scott told him that he might depend
oion it that Hankisson lobbed liim,'and took the brandy
to the Volunteer public-hemse. This was the slander
complained of. The Learned Judge. in summing up,
told the Jury that the ss ords were pi ivileged, and that it
was now incumbent on the plaintiff to prove malice..
Mr. Williams now contended that. the words were
not privileged, and that the innocence of the intention
of the party in uttering the words ought to have been
left to the Itry.
Lord Tewrinntx said that he did not think the rule
for a new trial ought to he granted. One general rule
of law was, that words which denote only the opinion or
suspicions of a pasty were not actionable. It appeared
to him that these words were merely the expression of
Mrs. Scott's opinion upon -what she heard and saw, and
he thought that the que tivn of malice having gone to
the Jury, the verdict ought not tobe disturbed.
The rest of the Court concurred in this opinion. Rule
reftbed.

THE KING 011 THE PROsFCUTION OF THE EAST INDIA
C ,MFANT v. ANSTIS3) 3WITON, DZIPARD, PRII•CJTT.
AND °THEIRS.
This was an indictment for a conspiracy for the sale]
of a cadetship in the East India Company's service, tried
by Lied Tenterden at the last Sittings Is r London. All
the deleniants, excels.. Cal'tain Prescott, a Director of the
Ear India Company, and Mr. Despard, pleadedguilty.
At the trial Captain Prescott was acquitted and Despard
found guilty.
Mr RitOUGH.tit now. moved For a rule to show cause
w.liy.4 new. trial shawls! not I e bad, on the ground of a
mis trial.• The Otis trial was occasioned by the facts be
would now state to the uit, founded upon •several
Affidavits he had iu I.is Mind. Whenahe clerk to the At-
tot ney for thesdefendancattended at the Masters,-6(fice.
to assist ihthe redisc; ion of the Sliek sal Jut y li.t, from 48
to 24, he struck out the name of Philip Pcbrei, a Si aniard,
who was s iteenth on the I.st, and desci tired as living its
Warttford.court. At at trial, the same individual.
still vixteenth on the list, was summoned on. the Jury
by the name of Paul Pebrer, of Warnfoid•courr. Now
this, j ined with the tact of Mr. Pt. her being an un-
qualineJ alien, was, he thought, a sufficient objection to
the vial; and he now, on the part of Mr. Despard.
applied for a new one, It would be well for him to
state that his client was perfectly ignorant at the trial
that it was the same -person whose name, had 'been
struck out of the list that had been summoned on the
Jury. But even if he had been aware of it, the objec
tion could not then have been taken, because the list in
which his name then was, f rmed a part of the record.
Neither was it in his client's power to have challenged
him, because, by the last Jury Act. the 6th of the
pet sent King, cap. 50, sec. 27, it was provided, that
vothing therein mend( ned with respect to challenging
eateni to any Special Jiitor.
\lr. Justice Meter—Do your affidavits state ignorance of the
mistake at the tints of the trial?
Mr. Ilitimenan—That is most positively sworn to, my Lord.
Lord Tromminats—lf it be a mis trial, as concerns your present
client, Mr. Broughim, it is also a snis.trial as regards Captain
Pre.cutt. It is forme what it is for the other.
111 r. Bootintan--But would your Lordships think that is the
case of an acquittal?
Mr. Joule, Barer—But if it be an incompetent Jury foe ems
it atm for the other.
Lord TANTERDIPS—There lies you: dillicuky. Mr. Brovillask
but. I will not refuse to hear you. •
Mr. liriatconam— It is indeed a difficulty; my argument is stopped
at once; for at the trial I was Counsel for Cipialti:Preseollts mid
not fur Sir. Despatd.
Lord Tesermiums—l do not see how the i ¢can ;wed at all
the present objection prevails. 1
•
Mr. Disouostas—This is a point which ad los-occur either to
myielf or my Learned Friend with me. Perbilmi your Lordships
•,wesilri allow as to consider of • •j 6 • ; .t
Lerd Tawstmess—Certainly. ' Considering thi: plasm ,ofdit,
objection, I have great dilliculty in saying that airy thing dui has,
been done can stand.
Mr. Justice Barter—lf the Jury could not pronounce a verdict
of guilty, neither could they one of acquittal.
laud Taarnotruot—You will consider-of it then, Mr. Brougham.
Mr. Baouumatm—l win, I thank your Lordship.

Halifax Papers state, that Sir JAMBS Kum., late
Commander in Chief of New Brunswick, has been ap-
pointed Governor General of all our British Settlements
in North America, which virtually supersedes the coos:
mission of Lord DALHOUSIR as Governor of Canada.

Accounts from Port in Prince to the 12th March
mention further accounts of the recent revolt at Aux
Cayes. On the 4th of that month several individuals
had assembled armed, and made fruitless efforts to
induce the citizens to join them, and after some slight
resistance, in which tour were killed, the remainder'
were thrown into prison, and would be brought to trial.
Joseph Blamire, another sufferer by the fill of the
Brunswick Theatre, died on Monday in the London
Hotpital.
Saturday John Alarralt.Jiskos Wilkinson. and Matehiu.
Harrison, were executed on the New Drop, behind
York Castle, pursuant to their respective sentences, at
the list Assizes; for horse stealing.
Orie.ol- the Most extraordinary instances ever kng;wi,
of the depreciation of propeity occurred in the foreigi
market last week; in the instance of the share% in the
Tialpexahua Mining Company, on which 2701. ha•
been paid, and which were sold that day at ILO.* 20'.
to 251.