Yesterday morning the Ear...
The Times, 1824-12-21T00:00:00

Ycstcrday morning the Earl and Countess of Liverpool left their residence at Cembe-wood for Bath, where the noble Earl is expected to remain about a month. Yesterday morning Sir Charles Stuart receivedl a des- patch by a King's messenger at Wimpole, Cambridgeshire, the seat of Earl Hardwicke. The Halifax papers announce the death of Colonel Des Barre, late Lieutenant-Governor and Commanider-in-Chief of Prince E:dward's Islandc, at the advanced age of 102 years. alis re- mains were interred in St. George's Church, with military honours; the President, Members of the Council, the officers of the army and navy, the rmagIstrates, and principal inhabitants, attending the funeral. The Couier Francais -says, the Prince ele Polignac, to whom the post of Minister for Foreign Afaiirs is offered, makes imany difficulttes in accepting it. during thc late inandations in that city, and all the nelghbonring placea, was s0800O. Alexanider Glynn Campbell, Esq. and Colonel Bailey mnade their entry into Powey on Tuesday last, as candidates for the suffrages of the worthy and independent electors at the next generai election. They were received with all the pomp and Circumstance usual on such very important occasions._. West Briton. Messrs. Bell, Carpue, andt Brooks; are said to be candi- dates for the Profe;sorship of Anatomy to the Iloyal Academy, va- cant bv the resigniation of Sir Anthony Carlisle. A letter from an officer of the squadron in the Tagus states, that the Ocean, of 80 guns, the flag.ship of Vice-Admiral Lerd Beauclere, was visited oA the 16th ultimno by the King of Portugal and his daughters. The weather was verv fine, and the ship dressed in colours, had a verv brilliant effect. The awnings on the dec: of the Ocearr were lined with the Standard of Rn'land and flags of all natiolns-the mast-head decorated with the British, Por- tuguese, and French standards. Three hundred and fifty marines, under arnR, were arranged roun(d the poop, uarter-deck, and fore. castle. At eleven o'clock the British and 'orefgn Ambassadors, with their ladies and suites arrived, and were received by the offi- cera of the ship, dresscd ia full uniforDm. At half-past twelve thle royal bargc, with those of the King's Ministers, &c. caine in sight; thie yards of the British anti Portugecse ships were imtne. diately manned. Thic royal bargc rowing 40 oars, and manned by 120 men, soon came alongEide. On his Rlnjesty reacling the deck, the squadron lired a royal salute, and the band' played "God save thei Rng." The three junior fieutenanlit were stationed at the ladlder, and alunded up the three Princesss, vho, as well as his lMajesty, were highly pleased with their reception. Thic eldest otf thte Princesses, troni ill heallh, has seldomi appeared in public. lThe Royal party, alter inspeding the ship, retired to the after-cabin, where they received thc complinents of the Foreign Amibassadors, and at thrce o'clock sat down to dinner, which had been prepared in tlic fore-cabin, in presence of all the guesta. The Admiral and his Flag.Lieutenant attended on the King; Captain Hardyman rand his First liieutenant on the eldest Princess ; Captain Sir Thomas Staines and his First Lieutenant on the second and the Hon Cap- tam Redney on the yoongest. After tie Royal Faniily had finished tleir repast, the com pany withdtrew to the ward-roaom and guun-room todhinner. At eight o'clock, after expressing Ihis thanks for the kindncss whicil his family and hiniseif had experienced on board, his iMajesty ordered his barge. and left the ship under a salute, as before.-Dcvouport Telegraph. NEw SuitrEy INSTITUTtoN.-At eigllt O'clock last niight a public meeting was held at the Grevchousc, Caniiberwell, for the purpose of establishing a new Surrey Inistitution, for literary and scientific purposes in the neighbourhood of Camberwell, Kenning. ton, sund WValvworth. MIr. Sheriff Key was vrevented. by indis. position, from eaking tue chair. In his absence, Alr. Favell prc. sh4ed, and the establishnment of thc institutiohn was agreed upon, after some appropriate observations fromn Dr. Birkbeck, Alr. Favell, the Rev. illr. Ornre, and some other gentlemen who reside in the neighbourhood. (,OVE'NT-GAMnEN TEnA`rns.-ROwe's tragedy of Tle Fair Pe,nitent was performted at Covent-garden Theatre last nignt, to anticlpate the revival, prebably, of the play fran which thc author tosk it (Alassiu<er's Feftal Dowry) at Drury-lane. In some points the piece at Covent-gaiden was extremely well acted: Ur. rolung played Horatio with admirable steadiness and vigour, and Mr. Charles Kemble wa8 as effective in Lothario us the retinement of modern feeling will pernit. Airs. Slomnan aceLcd Cdlitia, but was not sesuccessful as in either of the tvo first parts in which she appeared. AIrs. Sloman wants force decidedly for characters of this deseription: the scene in the second act, in which she repelled Horatio's charge as to Lothario, was feeble, and ineffective; and the passionatc ref of Cali8te, towards the latter part of the play, is quite distinct froim the tender pathos in which she excels. 11lr. Cooper made a vcry re. spectable Allatnoati, and Alr. Egerton gave weight to Sc4olto. The tragedy " went of," as the phrase ie, well; but the house was not a very crowded one. Died on1 the 13th December, in. the 83d vear of his age, MIr. Francis Blisset, comedian, many vears one of the most popttlar actors of the Bathi Tqheatre. Nearly half a century has elapsed since Mir. Blisset, accompanied by thc late highly esteeiied Air. Dimiond, miade his first appearabee in this city and from that tinle till the termination of his professi(Ial career, ihis talents and respectability senured to him the actor's best rewatrd-the faviour of the public. In 177, hlie male bis debait before a London audience at the lay- market Theatre, and acted there several suLitmers under the manage. neciit of the elder Colnan. After a lapse of 25 years, lie again essayed his fortune in the tiietropolis, and was very isvourably rc. ceived ; but being then more than 80n years of eg, the hustle ot Lon. don ill accorded with his habits, and he returned to his friends and patrons, whose kindness followed him till his retirement frem public life about ten or twelve years since. Old age and infirmity of late made him a reclug hut a small circle ofa ancient friends survive, who regarded him living, and regret bini dead.-BAh .Journal. BURGLARy.-InformatiiI was yesterday given at the police-office, Hatton-gardlen, of a dating buirglary coummitted on Sni tItrday ighit, or carly on Stiunday mnorning, in the house of John Warren Paget, Esq., 23, Joln-street, Bedtord-row. Llovd, one of thie most active otlicers of the establithment, was depute4 to inspect the premises, to ascertain the aissount of the loss, and make what observations mid inquiries were necessary. It appears that the thieves got over the wall of St. Johil's chapel, crosset the next yard, and with a centre-bit cut a hole in the back kitelien.window of Mr. Page's hose, undid the fastenings, and entered. They ransacked the kitchen, parlour,anid drawing-room, broke opcn everv copboard, drawer, &e., and carried oftf several articles of plate, table-linen, wearing apparel, and other things: they also unlocked the vinereel. Iar, but took noth'ng; and from the number of valuable artides they left behtd, it is supposed t}teir prineipal object was the plate. A tvv ew c.many he s be-en fGemed, uader the tditef -FTLha London Northern RaII-road Compatny," for the purpose cjf connectiug by that medulnm the towns of D.erby, Noliqattd ham, Hrull, and Manchester, with each other, with h towns adjacent, anti with the metropolis. Tho capitO re- qttired wiU be 2,500,O001. Some of the fast~ capitalists of1 the city are at the bead of the unidertaking. The- Minister and Churchwariens of the parisht of Ro.. tharhithe called a pitblic etineg yesterday (Dee 20 ; nd laudably commaenced a patrochial subscrption for the relief of the indigene Spanish and Italian officers niow suffering in the meetropalis. TELATE StIR IILLIAM LumON.-..Sfr Williamt Lzmon closed his long and honourable life at Carclew, on Szattm4ey ieee, havinig represnted the couny of ConsvwsU in twelve mox6sive Per.. liaments, during a period ot half a century, end b4tte a the time of his death the Father of the ilease of Commons. Ojir WIlIa=m Lemon was born' October 6, 1748; i,ir;t served in Far1iurment in 1762; was created a Baronet llay, 1774,' cd was returned for tbL- county of Cornt7all, afkzra severe. contest, at ti's general election in the same year - since which time he uninterrui;zy -represenited the counity until 'his death, which tookt plzce, en alreadly stated on Satarday, December 11, 1IOU Thoughs he was, for somei timne, ent rather a declining utate of health, the disoldution of the venerable- Baronet was not apprehended to be near; -he dbined with his ftalily- and rode oat-in the carriage the day befare bedied. Sir Willarnis succeeded in his title and estates by his only eonj, stowv Sir ChsrLea Lemon, who intatpreent at Nice. SirViWiluirga Lemon, anapoblic- man, wvas neither on orator, nor., in the vulgar acceptation of the term, a statesman. But he was far better, and far more than. thase. -for half a century he exhibited, in his patre and an.. tted erxcen a rar combination of pubIl-cand pzivate virtoe, In privts lfife Fic was, in the truest cense of the wiordg, a good man - in public life (and in the estimation e.qually of those x7ho agreed vb iran, = of those who differed from him in opinion), anf excellent cdtizen and patriot. Perhaps thre best, because the jua3tet eulogry, whichs can be pronounced' upon him, is. that the sarcstic deEcriptiosn once given of the late BMr. Pitt, by a politzl anicroneat. when reversed, applies to Sir Williamr Lemon. It was said ;_, mr,t Pitt that he had taken more fromi the liberties, and added more.ttp the burden of hiscuntrv, than anyfortemliscier. It isSir Win. L-emon's undeniable prame., that eve-rv vote- which he gave had for its object to uphold the libertiee, and to. dimninish thae burdlens of his country. He is non' associated tvith those eminenit end excellent c. sons, whose principles hie professed an-d In rhoese footsteps he trod.. He was a WVing, atter tire model of IQor Siners-.a Reformer, UPeaL the vews'and prnceiples of Sir George Savile. Two gentlemen arre talked of as competitors for the honour of succeeding him-..Sir Ri.. chard Vyvyai andl Mr. Pendarves. "With the ftiner gentleman anid his pretensions we profiess ourselves unacquainted : he isangen-. tleman of fortune and birth, and he has the reputation of being re.. spectable in private life. OIf Mr. Pendarveg and his pretensions it is perhaps uninecessary thatwe shossd declare oar opinion. Upon the. present occasion, indeed, he is perhaps leaa.connecced withi os than itL any former instance of his public lint fEle is braught forward as a candidate for the repreentation of the county, upo grouds enti-rel) distinct from the political opinionsawhich hehas erettiori dprofess and which were thse foundation on which thin paper was established.- and by a body of gentlemen, wome of whomn are opposed to, arill others unconnected with, the cause of Parliamenetary 'rem. ut Pariamnt,be oun th sae tmpeatebutfirm friend to a re.- foni inthereprsenatin tht b prfesed on all occ;&sinsa out of it, he s ntile to ed h sallhae, urbee a~rt-.Wed Briton. LOADCites' ustca Ano'r.~E,'rm tE xeter. lV'ew's1-The following, though trifn s haatrsi anecdotee of the good sense and temper of this ug -"Id not recollect when I experienced more pleasure, or saw tose virtues (condeseen.. siou andt gentlenesrs) morre dispLayed, that soume few years s-ince by' the now Laord Chief Justice Abbott, when he presidledl s Judge ins our Nisi Prius Court. Some juvenile ciaceters, who were as much amiused in throwing the bell out dloors as the advocaues were w ithin, dirturbed the pro:eediniga o' the C-ourt t-o mauch by their eballitono of joy, us to render it necessary for its proceeding that they should discontinue the indiscretion they had so %nwarily indulged in. The Judge, alive to this as mnuch as to the interruptions of its proceed- ingsi by children of a larger growth 'addressed n 'aelin.rmnn in the followinng wrords :-' Javelfin-man, go out and eie ieltteby under the window to he kind enoug ormv oa hrpr of the Castle-yard, as thev very muchitrutorpoedns'S. veral years had passeat on until I was again gaiidb eigti gen tlemani placed in the same situato,wihocre torls Lauiras As3sizes, hn tag si a per the same circum. stance was repeatdbahodofhselte urcis h,fre. ting all order andeormwe most utnmercifual p ligt h pains fthe Jugbysot and vocifera-tiens,ams vra- =en0an on cnques n eet I had long bcd there little des- peradoe with indignation, and watehed with an impatienc that was silently rebuked by the forbearance of his Lordship, when, from tels necessity of the case, he stoppedI for a moment the proceedings of the- Court, anld addressed the officer in attendance as follows :- Officer, let zjavelin-man be called, let his namie be taken, ard direct him to, remove those little boys under -the windowr to another part of the yard, but let him not b~ any means strike one of them.'" GIRANI) Footr-RACE FOR 1,000 SOVIetrEtIGNS.-It Will be recollected by oar sporting render, that on the 20h of Oc'tober lust, Jamnes Asetcalfe, th e elebrated runner, andi Captan Parker, were matched to run at Doncaster onc mile, for 1,000 sovereigns, thme Captain receivIng 40 yards, and that Altetcelfe won with the, greatest e-ase, overtaking his opponent befbre they- had ran -30O yards. Not-. withstanding this signal defeat, the Capt-ain, being of' opinien that if the distance was shorter and the allowance proportionate, he should win, propese~d to Iti Ctealfe to Tun a quarter at a miile for 1,600 sve-. reigns, receiving 25 yards. This proposal was accepted, and the, iiatch was s-ettled to takie place yesterlay on) Sunbury..coumme Captain Parker mnade all the good running in his power for uboLet 240 yards, when AMeeRlte got uP to hITI; the Captean theai made a. very spi'sited effort to get the beadi, but without success, his adversary getting it, and keeping it with apparent ease. The Captain's die.. comfiture was no', seen by all p=enet, Mietcalfti keeping -his eye upon hiis adversay, end ms'k-ing striadcforatreri; in so doingbie wzs suire of winning, making a reacls in the general way ot nearly 10 or 12 yards wvith perfect case.ismthb WiWs-raoy OUTRStAGxS.-O-in Titqsday 'tight, thur oue.. offices were burned on the lands of Ballinvoltig, in tie South Liber-. ties of this city, oni the new Kinsale.-road, and not more than three miles from town. Up to thte first of this moucth, the farm on twhich these houses, stood hiad been held by a mnan namned Cornelius Bryan anidhisseon. These enieowed their landlord ala,-ge dbt, (upwards of'2001.) whtich was compounded by his taking from themn aquantity, of corn, vakicabout,001., and allowing them to ceerfy away fromn the lands (when a surrender w,Ls accepted on the Idt inst.) iliree horses, five cows, several hell era, thirtv..one gheep, three large stacks. of oatst, and a quantity of hay. On Sunday last a notice was postedeon one of the doors, threatening " death and damnnation" to any one wzho should take the lands;- and oi Tuiesday night the houses, as w7e be. fort statedt, were set on fire. The buildings consumed wecre a range, consim ing of a barn, a tiilk-house, a stable, andi a potatoe.heuse.. The whole of the offices and even the dwelling-house would have' been'consurned buit for the exertions of some individuals who aeside near the spot. The dwelling.ltouse being partly slated, was se: on fire only in thie thatched partion, which was thec only part injured.-. Cork Advertiser. Died at Dumnfre-s, on the 3I instant, James M'Kay, a pensioner, aged 92. lie wais about forty years in the army, fifteenl of wvhich- he spent in the 72d, and twenty in the 42di Highland re-gi. men(. Jamies was feelingly alive wrhenever his honour was called in questioni. A gentleman in Duamfries, with whomn he ir&i%ouse servant, having a few friends to dinner one day, and know-ing James's weak sidec, conitrived to change the discourse an his entering into the room with a load of plates, and began declaiming, with rantch severity, on thie base and cowardly conduct of the 42d Regiment in havinag turned ta sand fled before an inferior number of Yankees, oacetisupj-osed occsion. James, as wvas expected, stopped rshort on liearing thiis calumnny agrainst his darliingcorps, ancd, leooking his Master full in the face, the fire flashing from his eyes, he imme.. diately, in the geniuine Highlat d a -rent, exclaimed, " Its a lee Sir acsy. Sir, itsa rs'd lcee-an' ve'er a' (lot tans'd leears tegirber." iIc conclded by dashing the plates en time floor, and did what he had niever done before an enemy, fled, fromn the presence of bio muster in hig h wrath, which it required saint time to a-ppease... Edintbarg iu etknver. SNGIiLAs ErFFSC SOr IAGaoNATIOsr.-The following singulatr and distressing circumstance took plaoe last weak in llticli vl hich engrosties the coniversation of the neighbour. hiood :-A mian naamed Jamies Smith, who lhad worked for a great numiber of years intsthe extensive soap-mianufactroy- of Mlessrs. I)avis and Co., in Well.strcct, Wellelose.sqoearc, and r;tiding at No. 21. Lailnbeth.strett, Whilitechapel. died oni Wednesday last., Iaviog Lbehind hinti a wife and four children. The pnat wonmuanr~ in a state of frenzy the whole of Wiednesday, and it was with difficulty the De-.ghbours could prevail oni her to taste any foodl: she went to bed about ten o'c-lock at nighit, but the thoughts of her depurtted husband preventedl her from- sle-eping; but in a short repose she drearnt that a figure piesented itself at her beside, and deaired her not to repinie, and that shie should mee-t her hiusband in 481 hiours. Next morning she reflected miuch on what had occurred to her 'uring the night, and mentioned the circumustance to several of her neighbours, and the purport of her dreani be6amee\'tbgeneral talk. Thie whole of T'hursday the poor woaman seemed as, well as could he expected, but at a late hour on Thurs-lay night she comn. plainedl of slight indi-position, end at the suggestion of a friend she raweLurdto rest. She continued to comnplain during the night, end early natrn~ ornitig she was a corpse. A tdaring attemzpt was iuade on Friclav Di.~;t las!,to smur-. der Robert Manners, the carrier between Pocklington and Hull, aetL J'ocklington and York, by shooting him with a Psistol. f-' an.. pears fromn thedepositions taken before the magistrate, tat iben Manners left Pockliington for Hull in his cart, about seven o'clck in the evening of Thursday last. hVhen tie had got to tbe end ofthe town of Pecklington, Aiehard Holderness. who resides at Bishop Wilton, and who is well known there, came up and got *rto his cart, and soon fell aslecp. Neaxr Bcverley, he got out saying he would walk, and Manners saw no mcre of him that nighbt On the carrier retctrning from Hull to Pocklington the following dav, the prisoner again joined bias on the road, antd got into bis cart, whern tbe carrier was ahsut two miles from Alarket Weighton, and sat doaiw on a sack withiR it, at the right side of the carrier. He had not been iong seated before he took aim at Alanners and shot him. The ball passed through the right chieek and lodgcd under the left jaw, from whence it was extracted. After Holderness had fired the pistol, he immediately said, "ThJe villains have shost you'," and theti got out,aad turned cacthe other aide of the cart,under pretence at looking fis the persons rho hati fired. Thecarriertail nothin1g, but onlooking rountd he could not perceive anyt person near himn but Iloldesness, who s.was re-loading the pistol rtslv for a second attempt. The arrter, on secingc this, drove his cart t full speed down the hill hapiag to reach Alarket Weighton before the villain overtook hina but in this he did not stscc"ed, for flolderness came tp with him at a sbort dietane from hlarket Weighton. and walked with him to that town, Manners having the presence of nmind not ta tnention his stispicions to hiun. On reachilng thc waggon warehouse at Miarket lVeigihton, the carrier immediately mentioned what bad happened, saying, " I have been shot at. and that is the itan who shot ane," at the sanlc tinmc poltinlg to Holderncss, who had followed him to the warehouse. A constable vas imtmediately sent for, and Molderneas, after being properly secured,was taken belore Robert DeanCison, itn., Esq., of Kilnwiek Percy, wtbo, after taking the deposition, oDmmit. teh him to the Castle, to take his trial at the rcxt asszis It ak reared that he had hid the pistol soon after the carrier drove off, as on searclting the place afierwards, the pistol was found in a thorn bush, and near it 1ay a smnil bag, containing six balls. Ilanneis-was it a distressed state when he arrived at Market Weighton, from the loss of blood. The ball was extracted on Saturday, and we aue gla4 to bear he is doing wes.- Doa,est&r Ga;gtte.