England.

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England.

Funeral of the late Madame Vestris. —On Thursday the remains of this actress were removed from The Grove, near Fulham, and deposited in a vault by the side of her mother. in the Cemetery at Kensal Green, Harrow-road. Trie funeral was of a private nature, there being only one mourning coach, in which were Mr. Charles Mathews, the physician attendantupou the deceased,and afriend the family.

A York Jury.—A Jolly Lot. —Buckle v Hunt was a case tried before Mr. C. II Elsey, recorder, and a jury of eleven persons, in the York City Court of Record. Whatever the merits of the case were, the jury (who appear to have been a jolly lot, and tolerably good and pleasant ones), were unable to come to a unanimous opinion upon them. The plaintiff, Mr. Robert Buckle, is a tailor in Petergate, and the defendant, Mr. John Hunt, is landlord of the Spotted Dog public-house, St. Saviourgate, in this city. The action was brought to recover £4 16s, the price of a suit of clothts supplied by the plaintiff to the defendant. The plaintiff, it appeared, was sent for to Mr. Hunts house in March last, and he was then instructed to measure the defendant for a suit.of clothes When the measuring was finished, Hunt pointed to one of the party in the bar, Mr. Greaves, of Stockton-lane, farmer, and remarked to the plaintiff that he was the person who would have to pay for the clothes, as he (Hunt) had won them of him in tossing.” The clothes were accordingly made, but on the bill being presented to Mr Greaves, he refused to pay for them, and stated that he knew nothing about the matter. The plaintiff accordingly brought his actioil agaihst the defendant, alleging that he had promised to pay him or see him paid for the clothes. This was denied by the defendant, who said that the order had been given by Mr. Greaves. The plaintiff's testimoney was; corroborated by that of Mr. Greaves and two dr three persons who were at the Spotted Dog on the night in question, were called to substantiate the case set up on the part of the defendant. After the jury retired to consider their verdict, they soon found that there was nd chanc c of their agreeing, and one of them feeling the room they were somewhat cold obtained a light from a lucifer match, and started the“dead fire” in the grate. Thy crier of the cojurt, however, on discovering this entered the room and put the fire out, be virtue of his oath te keep the jury without After this the jury, or some of them, whiled away their time by engaging in the best game they could devise; a boy’s marble, or a piece of copper was heard to roll on the floor, as if aimed at some mark. Later on in the day cravings of hunger increased, and some of the more 'desperate appetites determined to be satianed at 'all hazard’ Thrc were several parties.

by the river side, at the bottom of Common Gall-lane, and one of them having-been comunicated\vith from the window of the lower Council Chamber, he. despatched to some vietualling-hhuse for a supply of sandwiches, pipes, and tobacco, and a bottle of gin. For a time the bailiff in whose charge the jury were left was ignorant of this proceeding, but having been informed of what was going on, he immediately ran to the river side, and found a basket being hauled up to the jury room, with a string of handkerchiefs. The basket contained a bottle of gin, which in the scrimmage thtt ensued was broken and the contents spilt. The bailiff found, however, that a basket containing the sandwiches and pipes of tobacco, had been already safely landed to the jury, and no time had been lost, for, on his return ther he found the place full of tobacco smoke. In consequenco of these poceedings the jury were removed to the Upper Council Chamber, where they were locked up and remained till half-past twelve o’clock, when there was still no chance their agreed (in fact one of them stated he would sit for a month rather than give in), and the atorneys in the cause therefore consented that they should be discharged, thus leaving the case in statu quo, the plaintiff having the option to bring another action if he thinks proper. The jury retired at half-past twelve o’clock at noon, and were consequently locked up for nine hours.