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WILL OF JUSTICE LITTLEDALE.--The Will of the late
Justice Littledale, Knight, one of her Majesty's late judges
of-the;Courol Queen's Bench, has: just been .worn to by
thWeatteutOravin the Prerogative Court .of the Lord Arch-
bishop of Canterbury, it Doctors' Commons. .The personal
property has-been sworn under £250,000. There are several

ITi'e',qB',"PeADVlatlied to the testator's grand-children'
6"a e'er-Ks ;abut the bulk of the property goes to his daug,....
who married Mr. Courtney (who is one of the executors),
to whom a dowry of £23,000 was given at marriage.
EI.OrRIIENT.—On Friday last, an antiquated lady, known
by the faMiliar appellation of " Mother Gossip." was most
actively employed in Billingharn, Norton, s-
eirealating4i: report that an elopement' '
taken place in Billingham ; and which su
to be correct. The parties are Mr. Hugh Short, who h,
bebni-esiiding for sometime at Norton, and was formerly t
Durham -University, 'and the lady Miss M.' A. Burrell
daughter of the late Mr. F. Burrell, of Billinghatn, who it
possessed of an independent fortune. Early in the morning
of the day, Captain Short, brother of Mr. Short, en-
gaged a chaise and -pair at the Vane Arms, Stockton, with
which he proceeded on the road to a certain spot where his
brother and his willing captive were anxiously awaiting his
iarrival.' They soon entered the vehicle, and proceeded
'straightway to Durham, whence they went forward in wed-
ding haste to Gretna Green, where the indissoluble knot was
tied. As the young lady has made choice of the man she
loved and esteemed, in preference to several wealthy suitors
it is sincerely hoped by all who know her that the happiness'
:of both will be complete.—Durham Advertiser.
LAEN9,II OF THE PRINCE OF WALES INDIAMAN.
'SattErchtlfPgßijrnmellSe number of well-dressed
persons as-
sembled in 'the yard of Messrs. Green, Wigram, and Green,
the celebrated ship-builders and owners, to witness' the launch
of thiktbve splendid vessel. The Blackwall Pier, the Water-
men'sVier, and the whole river frontage, presented a most
animated appearance from the constant arrival of small craft
and steamers with persons anxious to be present. Everything
being in readiness, at a quarter past two o'clock precisely
the stocks and fastenings were removed, and the vessel glided
majestically into the bosom of Old Father Thames, amid the
firing of cannon and the shouts of the assembled multitude.
She was decorated with a number of handsome Union
Jacks, and could not have had less than 500 persons on
board at the time. The ceremony of christening was per-
formed by Miss Dundas, daughter of Admiral Deans
Dundas. This fine vessel is a frigate, built as a fast sailer,
and will be manned and carry sufficient weight of metal to
defend herself against a ship of war of similar tonnage.
Among the numerous visiters on the occasion were Admiral
Dundas, M.P., General Carpenter, Colonel Wyndham,
Captain Owen, Captain Toiler, several naval officers of rank,
and a considerable number of military officers and marines
from the garrison at Woolwich. Another noble vessel of
the same dimensions and tonnage is finished,'to be called the
Queen, and will be launched from the same yard on orabcut
next Saturday week. After the launch, upwards
sumptuous
msOpOtupoeurs-
sons of fashion and respectability were admitted by cards
into an immense workshop, which had been fitted up as a
refreshment room, where they partook of a
cold colflation. , The ceremony passed off without the slightest
accident. 6 ,)

d Stockton, in

d that morning

,sequently proved

The*CiWriinithron, in the course of a very sensible ar-
ticle on which might naturallye
, have been ,
pate--
dt hotree benefits
sultfronl
onugrssomfgulaTrifappectrs aryspecial com-
mission, states the
respecting the
case of the culprit Byrnes,under sentence now
Mr for the murder of .
- Robert Hall :—" At the last assizes
ftohlelolawbi
for Nenagh he was arraigned on the same charge. The same
witnesses were sworn, the same evidence was produced, and
few who heard the one or who read the other could have re-
quired much time for deliberation; yet eleven of the jury
were for acquittal, while only one would have pronounced
him guilty. That one bad immediately after to quit the
county. His life was not safe in the neighbourhood in which
he lived, and he had to seek an asylum elsewhere. He is now
in —, but why expose him to danger? Even to this
hour, so much does he dread assassination that, if we
are not misinformed, he is preparing to emigrate. 11°w
can justice be expected in a community like tr"4s,
and was not government right in resolving that,
with
foul offences on the calendar, they would transfer the
trials from the district in which those offences had been
perpetrated, and commit the duty of deciding ()n the
evidence to persons less likely to be acted
on
by favour
or by fear ?" To this the Constitution adds
the following
state that it
still more singular circumstances :—" Whe we present,
has been communicated to us by a
personwhodistsict of Tip-
that, of thirteen gentlemen from the northern
commission, there were perary who met at dinner during the comuli
or some imme-
diate two who had not lost a father,
abrother,the reader will n,
diate relative by the hand of the assassin,usually
are, of per,
wonder that juries, composed, as they
sometimes tenacious -
easily accessible by a bullet, are .3
themselves
nouncing a verdict that may door'q
the brother of "
Among the eleven sufferers wamr.
cooper.
murdered in the company f
' ~ wag mart'
tleman, it will be rememberea

s, that

The most commendable idlenesss ist
assumes the mask of industry. Knitt,
netting, oriental tinting,
water-basket-maki.
general, and rug and worsted-work in particu.
labours of ingenious idleness. NI by, we hayt
ladies undertake a canvass with all the earliest
Yet give
time Nero
up, i
unsuccessful candidate,
some have actually spread their canvass for a sa,
Mittee-man at a contested
firsteslo7ntioans,tlielasen.yd
got—wt
no doubt, to preserve a ' jeer,
dehe excellence ins maiden beard-down in a
author has a ,,
orPmY'venislorial-j. of the
fair?
D, and
Nyze tr. neverpTa "TRAGEDIES.—The
passedEv iEtsh.e_nTeeht
cabeasetAywoitihhaiihneel'avirlsiototdim'se dawn, the be deposited
of his soap
and razor.
he deposits the memory of the same in his play damned'
deuce bf the brutality of the public •
ceueace of his five-act drama. if in his day, and the ex-
cue rgy to write a legitimate play,it require considerable
as much to getit acted, amidst it generally requires twice
state of Denmark" and the all the rottenness of " the
All these vigorous 1 " plague of both the houses."
elements,
and rebound on high in s, therefore, will vigorously react
who has a play da c,a,ses of failure ; and " the author
mned
morning in a paroxysm as Hazlett says, "is the next
is always attribute of
conceit." Of course, the failure
the least possible solely to the author, just because he has
ness ; and the eto do with the t. prac teal of the busi-
practical men make ;.t a ruletoday the blame
upon any body but
ceeds, it is only themselves. When a practical man suo-
we then hear because he is a practical man ; when he fails,
of the existence of a vexatious theorist who
went before h
with the wisest blowing bubbles, and whom he followed
late • ntions.—Frazer's Magazine for July.

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