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severity the evidence on one side ( as is often the case in this scS-t of action ) was in direct contradiction to that on the other . The learned Judge , in summing up , said , that " the degree of severity was the point at issue , for , concerning the general rightof correction , there was not a doubt . " Then , addressing himself in a very solemn and earnest manner to the Jury , he desired them to bear in mind , that , in determining on this matter they would decide , not merely between the plaintiff and defendant , but between every master ? . nd servant in the land . That it was clearly the right of a parent to punish his child . That on

this point they had higher information than his ; " lie thatspareth the rod ( says Solomon ) hateth his Child . " That every master of a family is , iu some sort , the father of it ; and therefore , how much soever he is bound to be compassionate and humane to those who serve him , yet ( said his Lordship ) I must add , and require your attention to it , that if he have a servant who is habitually obstinate and will not be persuaded ( as appears to have been the case of this boy ) , he not only has a ri ght to correct him , but it is his bounden duty to do so , and severely too . " The verdict -i-asfor the Defendant .

MUNIFICENCE . —A new bridge is building over the SunderlarM river , with dependent roads and other fine improvements . For these pu lie ' works ono gentleman alone has subscribed 2 o , oool . sterling!—It is Mr . BUIUJON' ! Sir JOSHUA REYNOLDS , in the latter clays of his life , sat generally in the Orchestra , finding his ear trumpet rather useless in the more distant parts of the house . A vistior from the Provinces , enquiring the uses ofthe various instruments used in the band , asked with much nahete , " and what is that instrument which the elderly looking gentleman plays from his ear ?

MILITARY EXF . CUTION . —Serjeant Bull , one of the mutineers of the n 3 th regiment , was hanged at Spike Island , near Cork , on Thursday se ' nuight ; one of the parly , sentenced to receive five hundred lashes , was pardoned , on condition of executing the unfortunate Serjeant . —At the moment he had the fatal cord tied round his neck , a tremendous clap of thunder and lightning took place , and at the . same time so violent a gust of wind , that blew the ladder from under

him , and twirled him into eternity . NAVAL EXECUTION . —A mutiny broke out on board the Terrible , Capt . Campbell , one ofthe ships in Admiral Hotham ' s fleet , on the 22 d *) f September : the mutineers were tried by a Cours-Martial , and five of the principal ringleaders were sentenced to be hung ; which sentence was put into execution on board the Terrible the 3 du ! t . GENUINE LIBERALITY . —Mr ,, Whitbread , sen .-lately ordered his steward to sell wheat to the poor at Hartford Market , at 6 s . per bushel , and has promised

to sell all his wheat at the same price , and barley at 35 . per bushel . CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY . —Mr . Seaton's prize was this year adjudged to the Rev . Arthur William Trollope , M . A . of Pem . roke college for his poem on the Fall oj Babylon . The prize annually given to one of the junior Bachelors of Trinity college , Cambridge , for the best Dissertation on the character of William the Third and the Revolution , was last week adjudged to Mr . H . S . J . Bulien . Goon FORTUNE . —A few days ago , on the examination of some old title deeds ,

which were put into the hands of Mr . Pember , attorney , of Bristol , for his perusal , it was discovered , tbat a poor shepherd of the name of Matthews , near Mary - borough , is entitled to an estate in that neighbourhood of upwards of 200 ! . a year . SPORTING . —The celebrated English gelding True Blue , bred by the Right Honourable Thomas Harley , was carried out to Bengal in the spring of 1 . 04 , and is said to be the first English racer that ever appeared in India . He has frequently run against the most established Arabian horsesbut has never yet been

, beaten , Mr . Newman's fox hounds , in Essex , were a few days since so generally bitten by a mad dog , that the whole of this fine pack have been obliged to be des'royed . Mr ., Lloyd , of Peterborough , shot an Eagle last week , whose wings , expanded , measured seven feet .