Star. — London, England, 1825-09-08 00:00:00

riik • . . Wtabsoit, Sart. Y.—Monday his MakuTv did not Visit Virginia'Watet, but took some drives in hii pony Onion ea the Great Park. V est erday.eiternoon at two eclat, his Maianzwith his usual household attendants, and regular retinue of domestics, left the Royal Lodge, and proceeded to c ra nbourne Lodge (which his MAIM? has latterly ri,ited almost daily in the course of his drives), and by Sandpit-gate, to China Island, and from thence along. t he drive on the margin of the lake, to the Royal Mar quee, where his M*iuTv arrived a little after three o'clock, and on his arrival dinner was immediately served o p. After dtrirrrr his MAJZSTY, with hi: attendants, embarked in the Royal Cutter, and enjoyed their usual excursions until seven o'clock, when they returned to, shore, and arrived at the Royal Lodge at half-past seven. This day his MAJIISTIri phaeton, and attendants, are ordered to be in readiness at the usual time, and dinner lire wise at Virginia Water. THE ARMY. y ete rdsy, a warrant, signed by the Row, dated the Bth of Aus t in, was issued from the War Office, establishing a daily, in. steal of a weekly, settlement of the pay o f so ldi ers . It is reported that the 88th Regiment, which is now stationed at Ternplemore,will, very shortly, be ordered to the Mediterranean. One Troop of the t;tla Dragoons has been ordered to march from Manchester to Liverpool. Two Companies of the 72d Foot, arrived at Downpatrick from Belfast, on the 50th of August, and one Company at Carrickfer gus, on the 29th of August. One Company of the 63d Foot quitted Carrickfergus on the 30th of A n on, and will arrive at Castlebar on the 10th instant. l'wo Companies of the 63d Foot, marched from Downpatrick on tht 51st of August for Castlebar, where the Regiment will ar rive on the 19th instant. The Ist Division of the 7th Regiment has arrived at Corfu. Detachments of Invalids belonging to several Regiments, have arrirtd in the Stoworth, Baltic Merchant, and Diadem transports, at Portsmou th, from the Mediterranean, and are ordered to proceed to Chatham. The 24th Regiment of Foot is ordered, on the arrival of the z 2,1 a t Plymouth, to embark for Cork. 'Three Veteran Companies are to be raised forthwith, from the Out.peniioners of a certain description belonging to the Veterau liattalioos,for service in New South Wales. A Detachment of the 69th Foot embarked on Tuesday for Tyne mouth; and a Detachment of the 97th Infantry for Sunderland. New CATHOLIC ASSOCIATION.—.Saturday, there was a Meeting of the Education Committee, pursuant ro advertisement. Shortly after a few members had assembled in the Secretary's (Mr. Dwyza) room, this Gentleman came into the apartment in which the Re pollen were assembled, and informed them that the business of the Committee was concluded, and that it was not likely there would he any meeting of public in terest before November next.—Dmolin Freeman's Aura., The AristarquePai is Paper states, that several agents' of DOWINAND have had interviews with M. Dc Luc, on the subject of a new loan, for the purpose of ,eliciting his influence in the negotiation. The French Minister, according to the Aristarre, invariably com menced by asking whether the parties had authority to recognize the loans et the Cortes, and upon the answer being given in the negative, the interviews have always terminated immediately. A Mr. King, at Richmond, in Surrey, went to church last Sunday, went home well, and while eating his dinner fell down and expired; he has left a Wife and two children. What is most singular, his wife's first Irusbanil, a Mr. Mills, late one of the Bank clerks, choaked himself with a piece of beef at dinnpr, and died abash th:ee years ago. A poor man died last week in Bethlehem Hospital, who had been confined there ever since the year 1791, a period of 54 years; during which time his parish have expended on his maintenance upwards of 7001. being at the rate of 20 guineas a year. Yesterday, a Vestry Meeting took place at the Parish Church of St. James, Clerken well, for the purpose-of con.idering the propriety of granting 1501. to the Com e appointed for ornamenting and beautifying St. John's Church. The 150/. was for repairing and en larging the portico, so as to make it worthy the admiring gaze of the passer by, and creditable to the dignity and munificence of the parish—sO thatseviry part of the Church should form a beautiful and perfect whole. The motion, after along and warm disco:sic% was rejected by a majority of two.. Friday, a singular case of assault came before the Po lice Court, Edinburgh. The complainant was a young woman, and the defendant a stonecutter. Both had air pealed as parties in some case.before the Justice of Peace Court, upon Monday last, when judgment was given against the mason, who, being of a very cacheable temper, sprung upon the girl as she was leaving the bar, and would hive throttled her, to all appearance, but for the interposition of one of the constables, who with difficulty got him pushed out of the Court. The evidence being very distinct, the Magistrate ordained the defendant to pay two pounds of damages, and to find caution to keep the peace under a penalty of twenty. On the sentence being pronounced, the fellow would • again have repeated his violence to the complainer, had he not been dragged away from thp bar, making use of the most horrible imprecations. There is a fellow going about the town, dressed like a painter, imposing upon the unwary, by selling them painted birds, for foreign ones. He entered a public-house. on Monday last, in Thames -street, and • after some simple conversation with the customers in the room, he introduced the topic of his birds, which bi bad in a paper bag, stating that he had been at work in a Gentleman's family at the west end of the town, and the Gentleman being on the point of leaving Eng land for a foreign country, he made him a present of them ;. 44 but," says he, " I'm as bad as himself, for I'm going down to Canterbury to-morrow morning • myself, to work, and they being of no use to me, 1 shall take them down to Whitechapel and sell them for what I can get." Taking one nut of the bag, he do-i scribed it as a Virginia nightingale, which sung four distinct notes or voices ; the colour certainly was most beautiful ; its head and neck was a bright vermilicayi the back between the wings a blue, the lower part of the tail a bright yellow, the wings red and yellow ; the tail itself was a compound mi:cture of the above colours, the belly a clear green—he said it was well worth a sovereign to any Gentleman. However, after a good deal of lying, bidding, and argument, one of the party offered ss. which he at last took; and disposing of the others much in the same way, he quickly decamped. In the course 'of an hour after, a barber, a knowing hand in the bird way, who lives in the neiglibourhood, came in, andtaking a little water, with his white apron he transferred the variegated colours of the nightingale to the white fief of his profession. The deception was visible—i-the swindler bad Bed—and the poor hedge sparrow had his unfortunate head cruelly severed from hit bodt; for being fenced to personate a nightingale. 1.. . -•- 0 CAPE 0 coov noM. • - The folloWing • Proclamation and Notice has been issued by the Govetnor: tiItDONNANCE Of his IC:cello/sty' the Governer in Connell, for making British Silver Moneya legal tender in discharge of all debts der to In dividuals and to Government, at the rate of one shilling sad shmence for each paper rix-dollar. Whereas his Majesty's Government has determined to establish the British currency as the circulating me= 'diem of all the Colonial possessions of the Crown, and has further been pleased to order and direct, that the British silver money shall be a legal tender in this Co lony, in discharge of all debts due to individuals and to the Public, at the rate of one shilling and sixpence for each paper rix-dollar, and so in proportion for any greater or less sum. His Excellency the Governor in Council is pleased to enact and declare, that from and after the date of this Proclamation or Ordonnance, British silver money shall be a legal tender in this Colony, in discharge of all debts due to .individuals and to the Public, at the rate of one shilLng and sixpence for each paper six dollar, and so in proportion for any greater or less sum. His Excellency in Council has, in consequence, issued the necessary instructions, that a table or scale shall be printed forthwith, specifying the relative value of the paper rix-dollar, and of all the lesser proportions thereof, with British money, in order to regulate the payment of the established Government duties, fees, &c. until such time as new schedules of duties, &c. shall be made out. The Governor in Council is further pleased to order and direct, that from and after the 31st day of De cember nest, all heads of Departments in this Colony, and all other civil servants therein, shall render their accounts in British money; and that all contracts en tered into, or putchases effected by the Civil Depatt ments for the public service, after that date, shall also be made in British money. And that no person may plead ignorance hereof, this will be published and affixed in the usual manner. GOD SAVE TIM Kum! Given at the Cape of Good Hope, this 6th day of June, 1845. 13y conunand of his Excellency the Governor, (Signed) R. PLASERT, Secretary to Government. By order of the Council, (Signed) P. G. PRING. Act. Clerk of the Council. PUBLIC NOTICE. Commissariat, Cape of Good Hope, Cape Town, June 8, 1825. Notice is hereby Given to such persons as may be desirous of tendering rix-dollars for bills of exchange, drawn at thirty days' sight, by Assistant Commissary. General Hewetson, upon the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of his Majesty's Treasury, that on Wednesday in each week, commencing on the 15th instant, at 12 o'clock, bills will be granted at this office in exchange for the same, at the fixed rate (ac cording to instructions which have been received from. their Lordships) of a bill of 1004 sterling, for every 1051. in paper rix-dollars, computing each rix-dollar as equivalent to Is. 6d. British sterling money. The tenders to be sent in any time prior to the hour specified, and to express the respective amounts in which the parties may wish their bills to be drawn, observing that no bills will be granted but for sums of even hundreds, from one hundred and upwards. Although the metropolis is comparatively thin, yet the attractions of the Diorama causes it to be extremely wol ttfencled. The situation of this beautiful Exhibition is fa vourable to promenading, on account of its vicinity to the BA-, gent's Park; and the cool appearance of the moonlight view of Holyrood Chapel, is quite refreshing, after being exposed for some. time to the heat of the sun, to say nothing of the magical illusion which the two Paintings, now on view, present. Nlajor•General SCHULGIN is appointed Chief of the Police at Moscow. and NlajorgGeneral Piscarew (outof service) Rector of the University of that city. In the different' parts of France these are 12 vessels bound for Hayti, that will sail between the present day and the 20th instant. According to an account published in the Official Gazette of Norway, the revenue of that kingdom in 1824 exceeded the expenses by the sum of 70,000 rix dollars in silver; and 133,000 rix•dollars in bank paper. In consequence, the Government has deposited the sum of 150,000 rix-dollars in the Bank of Norway. • HARVEST Mot:mi.—This is the last of a series ef ten years in which the moon has proved the most be neficial to farmers, for reaping and' gathering in the fruits of the eat th —viz. from 1816 to '1625, inclusive. The preceding nine years—viz. from 1807 to 1815, in clusive, were in the class of those in which, from na tural causes, the harvest moon has been least beneficial. Such also will be the years from 1826 to 1882. The new circular bisilding erecting for a shot-manu. factory on the south side of Waterloo-bridge, is to be 170 feet high; an elevation, that will give the lead dropped into the water for shot a true spherical form. A soldier, named Denis Sengis, was lately condemned at Lille to two years imprisonment and to pay a fine of 16 francs, with costs of the proceeding, for having publicly shouted the seditious cries of el 'Vive l'Empe reur—Vive Napoleon IL—Vive le Roi de Rome." The BITTERN sloop of war was docked last week, and Sir H. Davy's protectors removed from her bottom. They have also been taken from the bottoms of several other commissioned ships, as the PANDORA, DRUID* NIGHTINGALE, &c. and are to be disused on *all sea going vessels by order. Specimens of the state of the protectors have been sent to the Board.. Doves, Sam s.—The terri* fight, as it was an nounced of Mr. Courtney, the American Phenomenon, from the Heights, at Dover, to the Rope-walk in the Bay, took place this afternoon about five o'clock. An intense interest pervaded the inhabitants and visitors who assembled in numbers to witness the fact. A rope of two and a half inches in circumference, and two hundred and thirty fathoms or four hundred and silty yards in length, was made fast to an anchor on. the Heights and stretched to a capstern of the Rope-walk, not so tight but that a segment was formed by a piop I l being placed near the end. Every necessary prepare lion being made, be was suspended under the rope-by I stays or braces at the shoulders, waist, and one foot, at leach of which pans a sheaved block traversed on the 'rope ; having both hands at liberty, he waved a small , red Rag in each, which being contrasted with his White dress, bad an imposing effect. He was started off the precipice head foremost, amidst the shouts. of thou sands, and the velocity with which he descended is rat most incredible; the friction of the blOckir on the rope caused them to smoke considerably, and in - just nine teen second% from the time of his departure, he reached nearly to the opposite side of the Pent, when an accu mulation of mud on the rope, and the segm• nt thereof, caused him to stop rather abruptly, and he was taken into a boat apparently somewhat exhausted, and brought to shore. A new herd Boy. complete is very interesting; The Meggido de is / , t e t t , with owe child, marries agiin, and through the mactilitatkini of the stepmother his mind is soned against this solitary offspring of his drat anion, and the child is driven from his home and becomes an inmate of the house of Gautier (Mr. &slaw), limier the name of Asir (Miss Kaux), as a shepherd boy. The Marva having been in peril of the tusks of a certain hunted boar, has been rescued in a somewhat extraordinary manner by the Elokierd withbut knowing bias to be his son, whom he supposes dead. After alias absence frum his domains, the iferquis returns in disguise, lamenting his barehriess towards his lost child. He visits the house of Gilpin and again sees the boy who delivered him from the boar, sad hi+ quiring front him his history, Altaic (who knows that the Marquis is his father), relates it to him in a parable, and the parent and child, after an highly wrought scene, are eventually reconciled. The feeling.and fervour with which Miss KELLY (to whose hands the character of Alexis was entrusted) ro., lated this little incident, was distinguished by that in imitable etcellence--that unerring insight into the im pulse of Nature—which breathe like an inspiration through every performance of this great actress. Thd part of the steward (who recognises his master, but dares not acknowledge him) is most humorously played by KEELEY, and called forth irrepressible bursts of laugh- I ter. A village Baillie was also very effective in the hands of CHAPMAN, who creates mirth at the expensel of the pompous verbosity of Magisterial proceedings. Miss GOWARD, as Lucette, the daughter of Gautier, played and sang very cleverly. The music of the piece, compo,ed by Mr. REEVE, is spirited and tasteful. Romanies- fine overture in D was played on the oc casion with great effect. Mr. BARTLEY announced the piece for rtepetition amidst enthusiastic applause ; and it cannot fail having a long and successful run. The new Operatic Drama was followed by the hu mourous farce of A Dui a Day, in which the excellent acting of BARTLEY, as Plush the Tailor, kept the audience in a roar of laughter throughout ; nor was CHAPMAN much leis successful in his mirthful efforts as the representative of the cratty Valet. HAYMARKET. Last night, after the Deaf Lover, in which Mr. FAR ERN displayed his usual powers, an apology was made for Madame Vesrurs, on the ground if illness. That Lady, however, assumed her part of Laura, in Sweet hearts and Wives; and, notwithstanding her indisposi tion, performed it in a manner which procured her re peated and general applause. ELLISTON, by the aid of sea breezes, the baths of Rainsgate. and gentle exercise, in the Isle of Monet, is advancing rapidly towards recovery. He is expected to return to town before the end of month: Drury-lane Theatre will certainly open at the period that has been announced. • Messrs. Michaelson and Benedicks have begun to engage Norwegian sailors at Christiansand to man the ships which they have bought of the Swedish Govern ment. They will be conveyed from Frederickvarn to Carlscrona. • . The veterinary surgeon to the stud at Stockholm having • opened the body of a horse which died of a contagious disorder, caught the infection, which has caused his death. • The Commissioners appointed for the improvement ot the prisons in Sweden, though they have been but a short time employed, hive already taken measures for diViding the, &ironies into classesin the House of Cor n.4Ao at,kiordkoping; and for enlarging the building; and base also prepared a plan for enlarging the House • aCCosrection here. - According to accounts received from the Norwegian Commissioners, . appOinted far the rectification of the frontiers between Norwegian and Russian Lapland, they arrived on: the 9/7th of June at Kola, in Russian Lapland, where they were received in the most obliging manner. The Russian and Norwegian Commissioners then ptoceeded to the frontiers to commence the sur vey, and there is no doubt that the whole business will be next year settled to the entire satisfaction of the two Governments. On Thursday afternoon, a son of .a farmer of the name of Kiftivarr, who lives near Clara. while handling a gun, let off thq contents, and shot his brother and first cousin dead, and wounded his sister. They were all children. The unhappy boy who caused the catas trophe is only eleven years of age. CoßObilit'S ROBBER .SnoT.—AD In quisition, which had been adjourned from Friday last, was yesterday resumed, at the Jolly Gardener public house in Peascod-lane. Windsor, before James MAY, Esq. house, for Berkshire, on the body of Thomas Cooper, a young man about twenty-four years old, .who was shot last week by Mr. W ILLIAM BLOWSPIELD, a market-gardener, whose grounds at the time, in con- 1 laOetian with two others, he was in the act of plunder-I g.—Verdict t " Justifiable Homicide." Another of those fatal accidents arising from in -cautiously leaving guns loaded, occurred at Matlock's Farm, near Colchester, on Tuesday. The son of Mr. HouLoswoitcp, Who manages the farm, incautiously Lett his gun loaded in the kitchen, after teturning from shooting; and his young brother, a boy eight years of age, took it up, and pointiug it at the maid -servant, said he would shoot her. The gun went off upon the half cock, and lodged the contents in the side of a youth of the name of Wilkinson, a husbandman, who was sitting at dinner. It did not kill him on the spot, but not the slightest hopes are entertained of recovery. Mr. THOMAS LYN% of Barrow, near Bury, whilst following the sport of partridge shooting, on Thursday, was suddenly taken ill, and dropping . upon his gun, instantly expired. Sunday morning last the wife of a gardener, in the employment of Mr. Cockfield of Upton, in Essex, sent into a druggist's shop for sixpennyworth of tincture of rhubarb for her children, they labour ing under a com plaint in • the bowels. A boy in the shop filled the phial with opium instead of tincture. As soon as the mother received it she gate a smal . quantity to an infant, but deferred giving some to the remainder' of her childrenohey being asleep. The poor infant died immediately after taking the dose. The mother ii almost distracted at the fatal mistake. Sunday last, a respectable young man, named James Williams, of -King-street, St. George's East, went. out with a party on the Thames,and was unfortunately drowned, near Barking. n Thursday, F. iday, and Saturday nights preceding, he had dreamed of drown. ing .in a variety, of ways, and with all imaginable terri .fic accompaniments; and he told his sister, who tried to dissuade him from joining the Sunday party. He, however, thought it would make him look ridiculous to chew any regard to idle dreams, though they had made a deep impression on his mind; for he pnisched three letters in,his shoes, that he might be ithillgiad, -however long he might remain in the water- HISISOdy has not yet been Mond. . • . „ . . SPOkilibro liitEthiak Kith /BA [dirt •It 4C.F.8;- I .Siti. 7. • „ Thee &eel, Which were once the fairourite..reiet df li kick sans of London, took place this day; and the event of - the& pastilieS the expektadOn that thei still, ere long. become Wag as regiilar meetings: - • The - Rites did not begin ull'hetweeti three anti four ih the at- ternooti, before which time • all the families of distinctiok in the neighbdurboodetere piesetit, and the roml, the surroundint Geldsl . and every irk which could Afford a view off 't4 rtinnhig, wee O.= vend with spectateri, whose ndmber was about 20,000. • The sport was made by half bred horses and blood ponlei, the latter being Of high tepistation, and well known in the sportine • world. The followirig is the statement : A Silver Cup; far all ilea: • Mr. iiyat • eili. m. Maid if the Mill 1 0 1 MI. Charlton's ch. M. Malvin* ' 2 0 . Two others started 7t04 au Maid of the Milli whii In all the heats made the running, add Won very easy,' whitest either Mill; or spur. The second heat waia false start; and in the third, the by who rode Malvina was thrown, in cOnieguencead his loother breaking off: be was tiot.huct. The Ladles' Plate. Mr. Chase's May Fly .. . . ; 1 i Mr. Shepheid's Cr ee pin g Jenny. . : 2 2 May Fly took the lead in both heats, kept it, and wolf easy. A Purse for. Ponies: •• , . Mr. Wilson% bi. or: Surrey Lass • • • 1 1 Mr. Parry's b. f. - . --------- Polly Hopkins . . S 8 Two capital heats: first won by a neck, the second by a liog-th. WARWICK RACES, Tutstatv, Sliminess S. This delightful Course exhibited a glare of splendour rarely wit neued, and the Races, which are not surpassed in Out .stake and first-rate horses by any in England, afforded excellent sport. The Guy Stakes Of 50gs each, h. ft. for Three-years old. Lord Stamford's b. f. Linnet . . . . . Sir T. Stanley's Dr. Faustus • : • . . . 11 Mr. West's Mystery . . : . . 3 Lord Warwick's blephistophilea . . • . 4 The Leamington Stakes of 20 soy. each. h. ft. Re. tee mike. Mr. Craven's Triumph, Sst. 121 b. . . . . 1 Mr. West's Claude Lorraine, Sit. 101 b. . : 2 Mr. blytton's Euphrates, aged • : • . 3 Mr. Gisborne's Susan . . . - . . 4 Mr. Tomes's Sir Gray . . . • . 2 Sweepstakes of 5 soy. each, with 50 added. Two-mile heats. Sir T. Stanley's Genetal Mina, S yrs . . . 1 1 Major Gore's b. f. Spree, 4 yrs . . . 4 2 Mr. Sadler's Warwick, 4 yr, . • . 2 0 Three others started. The St. Leger Stakes of 25 soy. each, 10 ft. Mr Three-years. Sir T. Stanley's Dr. Faustus . . . i Mr. Bartley's b. e. Fleitible . . . Mr. Yates's Madame Poki . . Mr. Rawlinson's Rarity . - . . PONTEFRACT, Tuasoat, Serrassaaa 1. Sweepstakes of .50gs. each, h. ft. for the. Produce of Mares covered in 1821 ; colts, Ilst. alb. fillies, Ilse. alb. allowed, kr- One mile and three-quarters. Lord Milton s b. e. Humphrey Clinker . Mr. Lamliton's b. f. by Leopold ; Mr. Petre's br. e. Lord John . 4 Von easy. 1 2 3 fikt TlMAtitti iniGLigiliirirts Hama. . • operatiiit.piece, in tWojictitenailki was prod:lied it this Theatre Insk.ni,Rbt ; wsL and highly dtserted - sticcest. story; sbich teresting; is as follows : yids 4111 L ThUr (Mr. Coons) beillpyt!vr)d6vrer 1•111.2 • • The Sandbeek Stakes of SOgs. each, h. ft., for the Produce of Mares covered in 1822; colts, Set: 31b. ; belies sst. T. Y.C. Lord Scarborough's b. c. by Calton Mr. L. Fox's b. c. by Magistrate . Mr. Petre's ch. f. by Calton . Mr. Houldsworth's h. f. Elephants . . Won by half a bead. Sweepstakes of 30 sins. each, 10 ft. for three year old colts, Sit. 31b., fiMes, Sat. One mile and three quarters. • 1 I 3 4 Mr. Richardson's br. c. Brownlock Mr. Petre's b. c. Rothelan Lord Kelburne's ch. c. Actaeon Lord Milton's br. c. Dramatist . Lord Scarborough's br. c. Brother to Fair Charlotte Mr. Honldsworth's gr. c. Androgens Won in a canter. . • . • O - • . • The AU-Aged Stakes of 20 guineas eech; with £2O added, At horses, Ste. three-year.olds, 6st. 91b. four, Mat. five, Bat. Mb. six and aged, 9st. Mares allowed 31k. the winner of a Plate; ,Sweepstakes, or Subscription, this year, to carry 31b. rata:— Two miles and seven furlongs. Mr. Larnbton's b. c. Buzzard, 4 yrs old . Lord Sligo's b. c. Canteen, 4 yrs old • Lord Milton's b. c. Whilkerandos, 4 yrs old Lord Scarborough's ch. c. Diadem, 4 Ira 0141 A fair race. Match.—Mr. R. Alilne's cb. c. Actaeon, apt. Mr. Rapastlen's br. h. Hexgrave.—Two miles. 100 gs. b. ft.—Olf by consent. The Corporation Plate of ‘5O. for horses, Etc. of all ages; three' yr olds to carry Mt. Mb. four, lot. 101 b. five, Bat. 61b. six and aged, 9st. Mares and geldings allowed 51b. A winner of. 4850 Plate, Match, or Stakes, in 1825, to carry 31b. extra; of two, 51b. and of three, bib. extra.—Heats, one mile and three quarters. Lord Fitswilliant's br. f. Parthenessa, 4 yrs old . 1 1 Lord Sligo's b. g.' Bequest, 4ln old . . 2 2 The day's sport was good; and the resuk of the race for the three years old produced a great change in the betting for the St. Leger (on the outsiders), as soon as it was known. The expeditious travel lers had the advantage, but it was upon that race only; the remit of the others was unknown. The winner being in several other stakes, the watchfulness of the men of the turf will be called into action during these races, to square their books for the great St. Leger. 4 . . 2 . • 3 • .4 RACE BETWEEN ENGLISH AND COSSACK HORSItS. Sr. Pirraasamteu, Ana. 20.—0 n the 16th, at hie o'clock in the morning, the race between English and Cossack hems, of which notice has long since been given, took place. There were two ex tremely beautiful English stalli ons, belonging to an Rain& society here ' and two Cossack hones belonging to General Wove Denison. The distance ran was 74 vents. The second English horse gained the prize of 25,000 rubles. . A SPORTING OCCURRENCE. On the 24 of September, as M. Mills, Esq was sporting on the Amesbury Manor, be shot two milk-white partridges, very beau tiful birds. The writer of this saw them both dead , they were not touched by any dog, and were sent to Mr.. Edwards of that place to be stuffed, where they may be seen. Mr. Mills bad a very excellent day's sport, his pointers are perfect. SHOOTING GAME. R. B. Featherston, Esq. of Turnershill, Surrey, and Captain Smith, of Mordooldll shot against each other on Tuesday, for 100 sovereigns, which should bag the most heads of game from the hour of seven till ten iu the morning, with a single barrelled gun, and a man each to load, in a strange beat. The parties commenced shooting at Topsham Manor, bordering on Farnham, Surrey, and each killed as follows : C*r First hour Second ditto Third ditto Heads. Ma. FEATEZILITON. Heads. . 16 First hour . . is : 17 Second ditto . 14 . 14 Third ditto . 16 ..47 —45 The Captain killed nine hares, and Mr. Featherston eight. CRICKET. The Match of Cricket between the Bury and Nottingham Oohs, for £lOO aside, is fully agreed on, and will be played at Bonham, near Bury, on Monday next. ' • • The Baron D'EaoLas died lately at La Mancha (re turning from a watering place), of apoplexy. He was but. forty years old. On the second day of Stourbridge Races, last week, an extensive range of boothing erected on the Course, at the height of about tea feet from the ground, when nearly filled, and principally with females, fell down with a terrific crash, and several fractured limbs and other seveie injuries to many were the melancholy con sequences. The poor sufferers were rescued froth amongst the dislocated timber with the greatest promp titude' and medical aid being instantly obtained, it is hoped that all will do well. Wircstc.o.ArT.—ln Exeter the belief in witchcraft prevails—and that too in one of its principal streets, and almost in the very centre of the city—where, at the threshold of the door of a tradesman who is ill, and Ander the supposed influence of witchcraft, has been exhibited for several days a horse-shoe, firmly nailed, to prevent the foul hag from gaining acce,s to the in. arise- of the house. • IP