The Duke of Buckingham an...
The Times, 1824-01-23T00:00:00

Thie Duke of Riuekingham and Chanidos is about to dis- pose of his estateS ualled Doldinigton, I.ilstock, &c. in this county. This property consists of several very fine th.rmsT, is of betweell tvo and three thousand a year rental, and stretches along a considerable part of the coast of the Bristol Channelt The whiole wvill be .sold, we believe, in lots. The oper-mine at Stowev, upon which so nuch has been expended, but wvhich has been recently abandoned in hopelessne.ss by the adventurers, hat been let by his Grace to 11 essrs. Cairne and C'o. of Cornwvall, fior a term ot 2? vears,xvith a reservation of one-tenth as dlues or rent.-Ta7ss ou L'oulrtr. A ease occurred duLringia the late session, whicli furnished great a:uusement to the gentlemen of the long lobe. During his Majeseys visit,l a dispute arose betwixt Glengary ana the Celtic Society, vwhich ran o high words and ultianately, tlengary threa. tenled destruction tO thc whole bolv, by means ot two bears, the an- ciei,t supporters of his t'amnilv. It seems that tilengar hlas since dis- covered that his frienid Claumanald has ascumed in his arms the said two bears, which afforde(i ( lengary suchi a btlwvark of drfefnce in his quarrel with the Celtic Society; and he has raisel a formidlable action at law, to have Clauranaldordained todeticethesesupporterS from lii,arnis, and tohaveit found and declared that hehiimself has the exclusive privilege of havin5c his shield upheldl by bears. The cause was debated at great length; when it vas tusinitired for Clanranald- first, that the l,yon Court only hadi jurisdiction in such matters; seond, that Glengary hiad no exclusive right to bears; third, that his bear.s were different from Glengary's bears, because they had two arrows stick in them, whereas Glengary's bears hadl ouly one ; and fourthly f hor;ibile diem), that Glengary had no rigltt to any arms whatever !. So important did the right of associating and uniting these puissant bears to the tfasilY coats of one of the litigants appear to the learned Judge, that he declined giving any opinioni, leaving the ease broken off in the middle, like the celebrated calto oh the " Bear and tie Fiddle." This ease, tlerefore, awaits the solemn decidion of the Inner House.-Edinburgl Litcraey Gtz:ette. ELECTION oF A BIsHoP.-At a General Meeting of the Clergy of the diocess of Kilmactaghi and Uilfenora, held in the new parish cbspel of St. Josephl, Kinvara, on the 13t1 instant, the very Rev. Dr. Edmond Frenchl, Wltarden of Gaiwayt, nas unani- mouslv elected to she vacant See; and the posuslation proceeded to Rome'for the approbation and confirmation of the Holy See.-CUen- uIMglmt JO2llrfl71. HOUSE. OF coisRR cTtoN.-rhe Election of a Chaplain for the above Prison. &c.-Six candidates contested for the election and came to the ballot, but the choice at length fell on thte Rev. Jeohn Otusbv, late miniister ot Tavistock Chapel. in the parish of St. Alartin-in-ibe-Fields, he having gained a majority of upwards of S0 above his competitors. PRtoBEritT.-I t seems, from the follolving statement, that the letter which appeared in T1te Times, sigined withl PrGbert's name, was a fabrication :-" Having published a letter written, or purporting to have been wvritten by Probert to the Editor of Tiue Timzes, threatening proceedings against that paper 'for libel, we have this morning diligently, hot unsuces.sfitlly, sought, at tie address given, for the ostensible author of So barefa~ed a prodiuction. Otur object in making this inquiry, was either that we muight ascertain from Probert himself whether or nt he had been apprehended since his liberatton frontE Hertford gaol, or expose another of those very disgraceful hoaxes which of late have so very frequentlv been pLayed off'upon the public journals. Tlse letter alluded to was aated ' No. 9, Gravel-lane, Southwarl..' There in Gravel-lane four houses bearing the number 9 ; the inhabitants of each deiiy any knowledge of Probert anti regret having been pectereAl with lIom 100 to 200 applicants of aU descriptions yesterday, and tiUs morning. At one house the landlord observed, tist lie kr,ew the brother-in-law of Probert, a resspectable wine-mnerchant, anad suggested the possibility that from this ciretumstance hts house might have been hxed upon by the latter, as that of a person who voulti not object to iLs adop- tion on the present occasion. This, however, we have good reason for tlinking, is higitly improbable, the gentleVIan spoken of not hav ing had for some time the slightest connexion whatever witli his brother-in-law and late partner, Probert, from whotn lie separated for stronK reasons. In this ease, therefore, (as in that where a letter relative to the Rev. *Ir. Goltoni was sent to the papers witsi a flid- tiotis address. some weeks since), we tsink ourselves justified in be- lieving a wost impudenit and disgraceful hoax to have been putt tipon The Times newspaper."-British 7Traeller. I We have heard, andl fiom authority we think eTtitled to every credit, tlhat the body ol' the ttifortunate .Ir. Pierce liVs been fouid5 unider circumstances which leave tio dtoubt as to the cruel anti deplorable manner of Isis dleatii. After a tninuite and laborious search, some marks as if ot' the earth bein recently broken up in a spot in the Park between Bristol and Clitton, induced the oflicers to have it dug ip, anti there tiey found the corpse. It is furtlher stated, that he had beet) inveigled on sonie artftil pretence or ouher in- I to a lonely place, where lie soon fell a victim to a set of wretches, who murdered hitn to secure the property he had about him, anti subsequently fltnng his hat into the Float to-avert suspicion.-CAer- e/nM (nhronicle, JTan. 22. A friahtful murder was lately perpetrated at Amblie, a village in the arrondissement of Caen. Soine amsassins had, duing the course of the evening, entered the dwelling of a widow who was almost seventy years of ase, strangled thte unfortunate woman, and possessed tlseiuselves of the fruits of her industry and ecotiomy. Arter tile perpetration of this horrible crime, the wretches dragged the body to a river opposite to a mill wlhicil was at the tinTe occupied; and in order to make it appear that the wiilov had drowned herself by accident, thev placed near her a pitcher with which she used to draw water. ButProvidence, which never pernits the triurmph of crime, so ordained, that'the traces of strangulations, which w:ere not a ppa- rent at first, because evident some short time after. TWo brothers have been arrested and comrmitted to prison'in conseqtuence of a pre- vious bad chatacter, and some circumstances of suspicion attending the present murder. Among the suspicious evidences against thlem on the present occasion, is one which seems to have baffled humani wisdom in guarding against its testimony. A metal button, without a shank, was found in dli house of the widow. It is supposed that the woman, when struggling wvith her miurderers, tore it off. In searching the dwelling ofthe prisones, a'vestwas found, having buttons iiot only like the one mentioned, in metal, form, and size, but one of the buttons of this very vest was torn off' leaving only the shank. In comparing the button found with this broken part, it appeared to correspond perfectly. There is, tberefore, strongcir- cunnstantial evidence against the accosed.-Qotis1ienne. An elderly female put a period to her existence this week in I lamilton. SlIe had been a servant for a long time, and had been so industrious and careful as to save a hunidred poands. She wvas advisecd thiat the best use she could make of her money wotild be to put it in property. She accordingly lately got a house built, wliielV cost rather more than all the money slie possessed. This circumn- stanice affected lier spirits. She complained of being hungry, and said that she could not eat a stone-wiall. On Saturday mominz she left home and. went to the banks of the Clyde, and had part of her clothies off, when slie was discovered by tvo gentlemrn, who advised her to go lhome. On Tuesday morning she did not appear as usual; the neighbours became alarmed; the door was forced, when she was foisrl hanging by a iapkin to one of the bed-posts next the wall. She had drawn out the bed a little, the more effectually to acrom- plish lierp)lrpose. lIer death hias excited some sen6ation in Ha- milton, as she bore an excellent niorl and religioas character.- Gla.goW.- rronicke.