The Lords of the Treasury having granted the favour of
bonding tobacco to the port of Yarmouth, 5,0001. worth of manufactured tobacco was immediately deposited in the warehouses.—StyAlk Herald. [The'Lords of the Treasury only did their duty.] An aged and extremely wealthy Roman Catholic gentleman, who died last week in Oxfordshire, has left a large fortune to Mr. Brown elostyn, also a Catholic, for the purpose of supporting' an expected Peerage; and has also left 150,0001. to a Catholic priest for religious purposes.—Northompton Herald. The ll'eskrn Times states that an information has been laid by an attorney against the High Sheriff of Devonshire for shooting without a licence.
Messrs. Horsley and Whittaker demanded of the Hull and Selby Railway Company the sum of 3,000/. for six hundred squire yards of land wanted to complete the railway. The Company offered 1361., which was refused. On Wednesday, a Jury awarded 102/. as a compen- sation.—Hull Packet.
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