Star. — London, England, 1824-08-31 00:00:00

BROADSTAMS, AUGusr 29. . . . '[his &Al g ot,' Tittle . Owei ninwiiearli . filk4(there being only two or three large hOuoei sracint).. Among the nresent company ,„—The Right HonOurgbie Roaaai Pert. the Right Honourable C. Writs, LieUtenant-Getieral Sir U. BuaUss, Lady &maven FRAzlilt, Lady Euxosein Cois, Lady FANS, Dowager Lady Orr, nuomasacsaa, M.P. JOHN 11Poscsi.o, Esq. M.P. Mr.Fastit, I t o. Sir iiiicHisaLo m.Doirirs, major Fa.,:rx,capraio G. Earns, F. 13ucaser, and Family, General Boasam., Mr. PAaaussoli, Dr. Hums, Dr. hue, Dr. CHANSONS, &c. &c. EXECUTIONS IN IRELAND. We yesterday gave an.account of the conviction of s ix men for the murder of Mr. Marum, in the county of Galway. • Their names were Michael Champion, Robert Marshall, Patrick Phelan, Thomas Sales, William Phelan, and William Delany. The scene, onSentence of death being passed on them, beggars description. A great number of women and some men began to:in.! aloud, clapping their hands and tearing their hair at the same time. Champion and. Marshall - turned about and cast an indignant look on the mourners. Some of them exclaimed "Innocenti" . One called for " a long day," and one of them threw his hat indignantly from s him to the ground. The crowd rushed out of Court as the prisoners descended through the dock, and the loud. and terrific symptoms of affliction were doubly mani fested in the street, and till they passed up James's-street (the entrance of which was guarded against the multi-' tilde) to the County Jail. The only indifferent persons were the prisoners. • Thursday last, the day fixed for the execution, on the spot where the murder was committed, they were con veyed from Galway county jail under a strong escort. On leaving the jail, they all protested their innocence, except Patrick Phelan; but they all evinced a juster, sense of their situation than at their trial. Arrived at the fatal spot, each of the culprits, except Patrick Phe lan, who preserved a sullen silence, protested their inno cence as they ascended the scaffold. Immediately after being tied, the Sheriff addressed Patrick Phelan, observing, that he alone neither avowed nor disavowed his innocence. He replied, " I have nothirig to say, but leave it all to GOD ALMIGHTY." Just as they were about to be turned of, Phelan de , sired leave to speak, on which the cap was raised, and he, with a loud voice, and with much energy said, " I acknowledge I had a hand in the killing. of Marum." The Rev. Mr. Gorman, one of the attending Clergy, then asked him " whether any of his unfortunate fellow sufferers had been implicated in the murder ?" to which he replied, " They had nothing to sa> to it." The fatal bolt was now withdrawn, and they were no longer of this world. Upwards of twenty thousand persons were present. Friday, John and Timothy Hannan (brothers), for the murder of David Killigrew, at the fair of Ballyduff, and John Hoolahan, for the murder of Dennis Mahon'', were executed at Gallows-green, Wexford. Hoolahan, ahose arms were not well secured, disengaged them partially, and, in his convulsive efforts, after being turned off, succeeded in catching the rope with both bands, which considerably protracted his sufferings. • Harriet Bryant, who ascended with Mr. Green in his balloon, is only fourteen years Of age : she was offered by four different .Gentlemen £5) if she would resign her place in the ear, Which she refused.. The balloon descended near Lutterworth, and a person of that place, taking it for granted that Mr. Green could stop it like a stage-coach to take up passengers, asked the young Lady if she had 4. zome all the way?" Saturday week, in the Town Hall, Kendal, two young girls, sitters, belonging to Ambleside, whose parents are in America, came before the Magistrates to swear each a child to the same man. These girls, the one about eighteen, the other about twenty, have been re siding at Whitehaven, where they had met with the in dividual in question, himself a youth not out of his ap prenticeship. The females were brought to bed within a day of each other. An affray occurred near Fairfieldmains, Ayrshire, in the parish of Monkton, on Wednesday last, in which, we regret to say, Mr. John Dow, tenant of that place, received a wound which caused his death in the course ef next morning. The quarrel originated between a party of smugglers and lailors: the latter attempting, under the pretence of belonging to the Preventive Ser vice, to rob* the former of some whiskey. The smug glers gave the sailors £1 fora free passage, which was accepted in the first instance, but they afterwards in sisted upon hiving a cask of whiskey also, a claim which the smugglers resisted, and called Mr. Dow from his bed to assist them against the violence of the sailors. He unfortunately arose and went out ; and just as he approached the party, one of the sailors rushed upon lim with a drawn knife and plunged 'it into his belly. Mr. Dow seized the man, threw him to the ground, and took from him the knife; but in place of availing himself of the advantage to revenue the assault, and bring the offender to justice, he returned to his house, and allowed the man to escape; and he has hitherto eluded the utmost . vigilance•of the police. Mr. Dow waS'a respectable man, and of peaceable habits. M. DUPIN says, the number of our harbours, docks, piers, and lighthouses, extends over more than six hun drectleagues of coast. He says our canals extend in length a thousand leagues, and our roads forty-six thou sand leagues, and that even the pipes for conveying gas and water through the streets of London reach to four hundred leagues. In the night of Friday se'nnight, the family of Capt. Ilerriot, at Ashton, near Bishop's Waltham, were alarmed by two men endeavouring to break into the house. Mrs. Herriot, with heroic courage, desired one of her daughters to scream loudly from one room, while she Lersell proceeded to load an old rusty musket in anirlier, %kith which she advanced courageously to a ' window and tired at the men, who immediately escaped. ' In crossing the desert, traders are in the habit of 1 1 giving to their camels, several days before they start, erch day three times the usual quantity of food, which ttley force down their throats. The camels chew this `;lpply for several days after, during the march. Mining is much encouraged in France. A specimen r,i lead ore has been brought to this country, which is 1 a a very fire quality. List week an Officer of the depot at Albany, Isle of Wight, en.l tv.d for a wager to shoot 27 birds out of 30. He hit them all, but '').r Id! withi , ut the bounds (too yards) so that he lost the match 1. (o.lyune bird. 'llle point in dispute between the Exeter and the Sidnsoath ( dulcet Uubs his been decided by the President - of the Mary-la. Lam.e firGund—" That the batter is not out if the ball hit the hand 1,, 1w 'he wrist; if the ball had been caught he would have been out." Sit yper, the noted pedestrian, is now performing the very ardu uus ta.k at fit ty miles a day, which he has engaged to keep up for twelity.nue d tys, Sundays excepted, en a measured piece of ground a quarter of a mile in extent, in a held behind St. Thomas's tin.ich, Exeter. El' It% 11 n.---In the Advertisement of "the British Code of Duel." who, apprared in the Seas of the stith and Seth in* for price z...,; ,:•ad :is. - -- NEW CHURCH OF ST. GEOROE,- RANSGATE. AUGUST fa, 1554. Arrangements having been made for some days past for laying the first stua.e of the • New•Cburch of St. George, intended to be built in this toFk i ad unusual bustle prevailed at an early hour this owning, and the day was ushered in 'with the busy note of preparation. The weather was' remarkably fine, and the . heavens seetned to smile propitiously on the scene. At eleven o'clock the persons who were to form the procession assembled in the Garden, in Albion-place, in front of the residence of his Grace the Archbishop of CANTER.. ; and, at twenty minutes before twelve, moved on in the following order : Flags burns by Tradesmen's Sons. Beadles. Children of the National &boo! four and four. Flag. Band of Music. Mr. Watkins, bearing the Brass Plate with the Inscription. Solicitor to Church Committee with Act. Town Solicitor with Coins. t• . Builder with Cushion bearing Trowel. Gentlemen with Model of the Church. Architect with Plans of the Church. Overseers. Commissioners of Pavement Subscribers to the Church not otherwise included. ° Church Committee—Mr. Foster at the Head. Trustees of the Pier. Deputy of the Town with Subscription Book. Magistrates. School Boyt Guardians of the Poor. • Churchwardens. Oergy of the Neighbourhood. Rev. B. Harvey. Jun. Curate of Ramsgate Chapel. Rev. T. Bourdillon, Curate of 9t. Lawrence. Rev. It. Harvey. Vicar of the Parish. His Grace the Lord Archbishop of Corrzsavat Supported by the Right lion. the Earl of Ltvgarom., Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, And the Hon. and Venerable Huca Peace, the Archdeacon. Flag. The procession passed along Albion-place, Harbour street,and Iligh street, to the ground appropi iated for the building. Railings were placed to separate the spectators from the parties engaged in the procession, and the ground was adorned with innumerable fla gs , green boughs, ornamented arches, Ste. On arriving at the spot, an immense stone was lowered to the part dug for its reception—the latest coins of the present reign were deposited—a brass plate, handsomely engraved, was affixed thereto-.-and a second stone covered the -whole, to be strongly affixed by iron clamps. His Grace the Archbishop spread the mortar with the trowel, and joined the none with mallet in hand. A Prayer was . then offered .up by the Rev. R. HARVILY ; and after a Psalm had been sung by the Charity Children, the Primate concluded the ceremony by a Prayer, for the occasion, and dismissed the whole with his blessing. A temporary building was erected on the ground for the reception of her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kan?, who, together with the Princess Fsonotta, Mrs. MANNERS SUTTON and daughters, the Earl and Coun tess MANVERE, honoured the ground with their presence. The procession left the field about half-past twelve, and returned to Albion-place in the same order as before, and took lure of his Grace at his residence. The National Anthem of Gat stars tagging was given in front of his house.; and the numerous parties engsigetl in the procession, as well as the thousands of spectators assented:A to view the ceremony, gradually separated, a n d withdrew fr. " the busy scene. The greatest order and regularity prevailed; and it. was highly *retaking to see such unanimity of sediment. About; sixteen Clergynien, from the neighbouring parisfsel, joined fir the' procession; and the concourse of strangers was beyond descriptitin.. The streets were hung with flags and bough., and every . window , looking to the line of the march presented lovely faces and an ani-1 mated scene. The New Church is intended to accommodate 4,100 1 persons, of whom 1,200 are to have free sittings; and when the increasing population of this town is taken into consideratio* the edifice about to be erected will not be thought unnecessary. It is supposed that nearly 10,000 persons were drawn together to-day. • NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. The Deveron, WiLsori from London for Van Dieman's Land' put into St. Jago (Cape de Verdi), the Ist of June, and sailed again on the 4th—all well. The Flora, DILLIES, from Liverpool to Stettin, sunk near that port, previous to the 21st Inst. His Majesty's Government have directed two line-of battle ships to be sent to Milford, for the purpose of being employed as bu rettes, in addition to the present establishment. FALMOUTH, A uo. 29. —Wind variable, and light airs.-.-Ssiled the Duke of Marlborough packet, for Lisbon ; Earl St. Vincent, Kauai, for Ostend ; and the Commerce, Mary, Confidence, Mary Ann, and Union, for London. POILTS1101:714, Auo. 30.—Light airs from the Eastward.—No ar rivals or sailing.. Mat., Ans. 30.—Wind E.—Arrived the Retina, WILDOOOST, from Demerara. Came down from the River and sailed, the Eagle, RcIPSII7SON, for listened Ayres; Redman, Brame, for Jamaica ; and Admiral. Cockburn, Coourea, for Van Lieman's Land. Livsaroox, Aug. 29.—Arrived the St. Vincent, Courtrai, from St. Vincent's. The Alexander, —, from Jamaica for this port; b off Holyhead. CUSTOM-HOUSE, AUG. 30. _ _ • Sum Etrauto lowastia--The Lady Amherst, from Calcutta, Familiar, and Neptun, from Gottenburgh ; Fraw Maria, and Liebe, from Tonningen ; Maria, from Rostock ; Dorset, from Rotterdam ; Louisa, from llamburgh ; Frederika, from Christianstadt ; Dolphin, Polidore, Hartnonie. Patriot, Caroline, Apollo, Sophia, and 13el i:from Memel; Bertha and Ann, from rillau ; Ferdinand, n n d a Augusta , Item Stettin; Leipzig, R ob Roy, and Sophia, from St. Peteriburgh. Farman) OnzwaznoThe Sisters, for Naples; Kitty, for Peters burgh ; Margaret, for Rotterdam ; Emma, for Port-au-Prince ; Vittoria, and Dorothy, for Fisineur ; Hercules, for Amsterdam; William, for Jamaica ; and Lady East, for New South Wales. WHALE FISHERY. The following is an 'street at a private letter received on Satur day from Hull, and contains the latest information as to the suc cess of the vessels this season employed in this trade Huts„ Auo. 24.—The Laurel, from Greenland, is now in the Humber, with about 100 tuns of oil, and reports as follows: Fish. Tuns. "wrist 4, Eagle 7 60 • July 4 70 _ - 25, E - verthorpe - - 3i, Kiero - - - 4 46 ...- Manchester - - 1 10, North Briton . - lor clean • 26, Perseverance - - 3 30 Rachael and Ann - 3 35 14, Swan - '"• - - 3 Venerable - - - se or 11h 26, Walker - - 11 $1 23, Abram - - 10 160 August 1, Exmouth - - 3 30 WVIIIIT. July 24, Lively - - 1 15 20, Valiant - ' - 7 45 --- Hercules - - • 9 Jane - - - Cltan Perseverance - - 0 ' iOO . • Few comedies written during the present day have been equally successful with KENNIY . S Sweethearts and Wives. Notwithstanding its constant repetition, each night that it is acted increases the wealth of the proprie- Dar of the Haymarket Theatre and the faineof the author. A fine horse, the property of the Rev. C. O. Osasunn, of Tiverton, valued at 100 guineas, broke his leg on Mon day se'nnight, in galloping round the 'fiveiton Race Course. He was instantly shot. The rider escaped unhurt. A Lady, who had just been three days married, per ' ceiving her husband enter, stole secretly behind •him and gave him a kiss. The husband was angry, and said she offeigled against decency. " pAr c iou Ani," claimed she, " I did not know it was foul .THE ARMY. • Lord COll/111111111 will leave-Dublin on the 7th September, and inspect the Regiments at Naas, Newbridge, Tentplemore, Birr, and is to arrive in Limerick en the 9th September. Monday;three Cominisiariat Waggons, with Lieutenant Fauna, and a detachment of theist anal Veteran Battalion, from Gal way, arrived in Limerick to convey the. old coinage from the dif ferent Revenue departments, to Dublin. The 97th Regiment of Foot, it is understood are positively in tended for C e yl on , an d are ex p ec t e d t o b e remov ed to Portsmouth, ere long, to embark in the next fleet for that country. SURREY SESSIONS. Yesterday, an adjournment of these Sessions was held at the Sessions-house, Newington, before R. HEDGER, Esq. Chairman, and a Bench of Magistrates. John Sk immington, aged 10 years, was indicted for stealing two handkerchiefs and a piece of lace. Mr. Jones, a shopkeeper in Newington, proved, that on the evening of the 25th instaat, the prisoner cut a hole in a pane of one of his shop-windows, and took out the articles in question. The prisoner, being called on for his defence, stoutly denied the fact. He said he was a quack sloctor— (Loud laughter)—and had travelled the country with his father, alio sold medicines for all disorders; and Madame Gaurgore, the sarong Lady, who lifted up an anvil tied by her hair, and threw a chair over her head with her teeth—( Continued laughter), " I," the pri soner -continued, " goes about selling stuff that takes oat grease, and pitch, and tar; and I cures warts and corns, and gets a good deal of money, and had no oc casion to do that. I'd scorn the idea of it." The pri soner was instantly found Guilty. The CHAIRMAN said his talents might be more use fully employed in another country, .and sentenced him to be transported for seven years. Stephen Wood.was indicted for a violent assault upon John Davey. The prosecutor was a jobbing gardener ; the defea- I dant was a carter, who brought a load of dung to a garden in which t he prosecutor was at work. The pro secutor found fault with the quantity of dung, which so enraged the defendant, that he knocked him down, and while down, gave him a kick that broke one of his ribs. The defendant was found Guilty, and fined £5. On the afternoon of Saturday, the 14th inst. a huge block of limestone gave way at Place Fell, Cumberland, and rolled down a height of 500 feet into a field be longing to Mr. Glover, on the East side of Ulswater, where an artist from Carlisle had only the hour before been engaged at his easel, painting a view of Patterdale and the surrounding country. Dvat..—An affair of honour took place on Saturday evening (21st inst.) at Kingmoor, an unfrequented track of common land near Carlisle, between Captain Max well, of the Ist Dragoons, at present quartered in Car lisle, and Captain Johnson, R.N. of Edinburgh. The disagreement which led to the meeting, occurred in the latter city a day or two preceding ; and Captain John son followed Captain Maxwell thither, it is said, by mu-, tuat arrangement. The former was attended to the field by a Gentleman from Edinburgh ; the latter by onkof his brother Officers and a medical friend. The ground having been measured, they fired by signal, and both Missed. Another pair of pistols was then handed to them: Captain Johnson again fired without effect; but Captain Maxwell discharged 'his pistol in the air ; ills& Mrs, of Bourse, gave rise to an explanation ; an ac.A cohienodation followed, and the combatants left the giclund without injury. The origin of the quarrel is not iedirately known—report says a Lady is in the case. The observation lately made by the Lord Chief Jsatice of the King's Bench, upon the custom which of late years has been adopted by Attornies at Law, of giving themselves the title of Solicitor, has placed the absurdity of the practice in such a light, that the misnomer will probably be discontinued in future, by Professional Gentlemen in the different towns of Eng land. In a paragraph in our Paper of the 25th inst. upon this subject, it is observed, that " In all cases, even at the Police offices, there are no persons employed but Solicitors, and that the appellation is improperly applied to Gentlemen engaged in proceedings at Com mon Law." Now, this is certainly the precise point at issue ; and it is to be hoped, that in future those who practise as Attornies in the Courts of Common Law, will no longer receive the appellation of Solicitor, which is intended to designate those who practise in the Court of Chancery ; and as is justly remarked in the paragraph to which we have before referred, there can be no charm in this new title of Solicitor which renders it superior to the old one ; still less, when it is recollected, that of the two Crown Lawyers, the Attorney-General has pie cedence of the Solicitor, and that his office is that to which he looks for promotion in the profession. From all these considerations, it is quite inconceivable from l , whence has arisen the desire of all Attornies to call themselves Solicitors. CRUELTY To Hoases.—Some time ago it was stated in the public papers, as a remarkable instance of cruelty, that one of the Bath stage-coach horses, whose foot had been punctured by a nail upon the road, was thus treated for the accident—the hostler at the next stage extracted the nail, made it red hot, and rammed it again into the depth of the wound. We say rammed it, because, in order to give a correct idea of this horrid operation, we must take into account that the nail, when brought into a state of ignition, is expanded in dimensions, and consequently would require a greater than the original force to make it penetrate to the same depth as before. Now we are induced to believe that this mode of treatment, however barbarous it may ap pear, is approved by, and is by no means uncommon amongst sapient farriers and hostlers, to whose sole judgment horses, the noblest of our animals, who suf fer accidents, are usually entrusted. Their practice is governed by a few obsolete and absurd notions which they entertain respecting the animal economy of the horse ; their materia medial consists of a few crude anl unscientific compositions ; and their apparatus the actual cautery, and other instruments of torture. The barbarous operation we have just alluded to is founded upon an erroneous assumption, that a recent wound, seared by a hot iron, will never fester. No idea can be more absurd, nor more at variance with the practice of good veterinary surgery. Nothing can be a greater proof of the slow diffusion of this •noble art amongst persons who call themselves farriers -and cattle doctors, than such doctrine and such horrid practices: to the proprietors of post and stage-coach horses this sub ject is worthy of mott--60F104S- attention. Let such persons, if nc,t sufficiently alive to the feelings of huma nity towards their sufre'rink• - alicT unoffending animals, who should be the objects of their peculiar care and attention, at least be stimulated b 7 a consideration for, their own interest; and let them, as much as possible, rescue from the. hands of such savage and unskilful practitioners, creatures so indispensably necessary, and contributive to their own profit. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. • • BETTING-ROOM, 'll l ,l l /IRSALVS, AUG. W. The betting today has been very great, indeed greater than pn any day within our recollection. Several of the Gentlemen who favour lindandorf attended on Sunday, and succeeded in throwing Swiss bark is B to V. and bridging the former (*retard to 7 to I, their exertions tending to make Mm first favourite, but ineffec tually. This alteration occasioned a strong muster to day of the backers of Swiss, who, with little difficulty, reinstated Swiss in the opioion of the subscribers, .and rose him tu 9 to 2, at which odds he was backed to an enormous amount. Brutaudorf retro graded to 8 to 1. . 9to 2 apt Swiss (taken) • to 1 apt Brutandort 9 to 1 apt %mond 12 to 1 apt Helenus 12 to 1 agst Streatham 14 to 1 apt 1111441°4A 17 to 1 apt Mustackli 16 to 1 apt Serab ROxcAsrltx ST. LRCM. 18 to 1 apt Jerry 22 to 1 agst T.randus 22 to 1 apt Cadiz 30 to 1 apt F.quity' 40 to 1 apt Bluebeard 50 to I agst Canteen 50 to 1 apt Caccia Matti 'ING. The Devon Stag-hounds will meet on Friday. September 3, at Hawkridge; Tuesday, September 7, at lladdon ; and Friday, Sep tember 10, at Bury tin Th. King's,Stag Hounds hunted on Thursday last, taking their course towards Beaulieu, beating Culveriey and Woadfidley covers. At the latter place they started a stag, which was ?mined about an hour, when most of the pack took after a hind. the huntsman, on discovering the error, and being in *ant of hinds as well as stags, continued the anice for shoat another hour. The poor animal was taken alive near Dinny Lodge, but though she was immediately bled, breathes' her list in less than halt an hour. On Saturday morning last, the same hounds hunted a very fine stag between Lyndhurst and Burly, which after a fine elute, was taken alive near Rhynefield. He was secured with ropes, the caravan not being near to place him try but unfortunately shared the same fate ,as the hind. As many are wanted to stock Windsor Park, the same method as was used thirty years ago must he adopted to drive them into nets; a great many were taken in this manner. BEDFORD RACKS.—Aulause 26.—Secown Dar. The Noblemen and Gendemen's Purse of 50Lwas won in two beats by Mr. Gray's bay h. Vizier, beating the Marquis of Tavistork's bay h. Haji Baba. Col. I.autour's ch. g. May Day Col. Hay's b. g. Tally-ho A Match. A Mafeb. Col. Lautour's May flay - 1 Thomas Polhill, Esq.'s Potempkin - 2 A Sweepstakes of Sp. with 11 subscribers, was won by Mr. Weller 's Speculator, to two beats, beating 11r.Neale's The Scholar. HEREFORD RACES.—Aucuar 26.—Sectuon DAt The Foley Stakes of 10 sovereigns each, with 20 added, heats once round, was won by Mr. Devereues Oliver, beating Mr. Foity's Titmouse. A Gold Cup of 100 p. added to a Sweepstakes of 10 son. four mik heats, was won by Mr. Mytton's Comte (Artois beating Mr. Davies b. tn. Lara. Prtze or SOL given by Earl Somers. Mr. Davis's Vietorine • Mr. Davis's Lai* - 1 1 - g 3 - 3 dr Mr. Devereux's b. f. by Oliver EXETER RACES—Aim:use 26. Purse of 1(X) guineas, given by the Inhabitants of Exeter, free for all horses. Best of three heats and a distance. Mr. Farquharson's Black and all Black 2 3 3 2 Hon. N. Fellowes's Escape - 3 0 1 1 Lord Palmerston's Biondetta 1 0 2 dr Mt. W. Ley's Pasto 4 dr This was a real race. Escape winning only by half a head. Match for 40 guineas, once sound the Course, was won by Mr. King's Anticipation, beating Mr. Gardener's Hospodar. A Ladies Plate of 80 sous. Best of three heats and a distance. Lord Palmeriton's ch. m. Bioudetta - 1 1 Mr. Worth's Prosody 2 dr Mr. Farqaharson's Waterloo filly 3 dr A Plate of E5O, given by the Members of the City of Exeter. Best of three heats and a distance. Mr. King's Anticipation • . Mr. Trelawney's Grasshopper Mr. Worth's Prosody Thil rate was Weil . contested. ARCHERY. Tuesday a party of the Richmond and BarninghamArchers as sembled at Richmond, Yorkshire, for the purpose of contending for the Ancient Silver Arrow, an elegant Silver Ewer, and other prizes. The shooting was superior to any that has been displayed here for many years ; and the arrow, with the Captaincy of the Target, and she ewer, which was adjudged to the most centrical shot, were both won with uncommon skill, by Mr. G. Croft, who, in addition to this singular success, obtained the unparalleled number of fifty-two prizes, and who Was in consequence declared Captain of Numbers. The Lieutenarcy of the Target was obtaired by Mr. C. Croft, who was also Lieutenant of Numbers. The horn spoon was won by Mr. J. C. Ibbetson, of Richmond. The contest took place in one of the most char ming situations of that highly picturesque and bean. tiful neighbourhood.' SHELTON •AND LANG AN. The following explanation has been given respecting this match, by a contemporary :—We can account satisfactorily for the absence of Langan, and convince the amateurs that it was far from the in. tention of the Irish hero that the matt* should he sr. Langsti at present is at Manchester, sparring with Peter Crawley ; and on Tuesday law a letter was received in London, but in consequence of Pierce Egan being out of town, it was not opened till his return on Friday morning. The following Is a part of the content's re specting his match with Shelton : • " Mr. Creswell, the friend of Tem Spring, has 'cot 501. to Tom, to put down on the 26th August for me. He has likewise 501. of my own : and I would be obliged to you to call on Mr. Spring' for me, and tell him ro pet it down, arati-see: that the articles are pro per ; which I would take theytherty of asking you to see done, bast I am afraid your business 4 too great to allow you time., Please to remember me to Thomas Spring, and tell him I won't' disgrace him in my neat sky with Shelton.— Yours, &e. " JOHN LANGAN." . _ _ _ 1 t 2 5 3 dr Spring is in Scotland, with Cribb, which also accounts for hie net being at Belcher 's to make the match. There is no doubt, on Langao's learning the result, but be will empower some person to make the match fur him with Shelton immediately, being well de sired he is anxious to enter the ring with Shelton. Langan has been challenged by a man named Boscow for 100 arts. Boseow is the man who fought a battle en Tues day last, in the neighbourhood of Liverpool; he is a 13 stone man, and about bye feet 11 inches. Rasp AND Bis Not SHARPS.—A Ileteed deposit in this match wall made last night at Tom Cribb's. Reid is the favourite. _ Barney iCaron, 24 a reward fur his bravery, last week received the fair hand of Miss Lee. The happy pair were united in due form at Howard's Coffee-house. Arthur Mathewson also led t• the hymeneal altar Miss Bawer► It will be recollected that both these trumps fought, not only for money, but for love; both ban received their prize. LAMBETH REGATTA. Yesterday the Wherry and other Prizes, given by the Ladies and Gentlemen of Lambeth Parish, as an encouragement to t! • watermea, were rowed for by six pair of oars, in three heats. The distance the men had t• row was from Weatminster-bridge to Nin• Elms, and return down the Surrey shore, round Carey's Bath, and back to Lambeth-stairs. After a most admirable contest, which afforded niuch pleasure to the lovers of rowing and Jiver sports, the wherry was won by George Maynard and Charles Topper. The boat, richly adorned with sags and painting, was taken on shore, and delivered to the winners with shouts of triumph. The top of the Archbishop's Palace, and the ancient steeple belonging to the Church of St. Mary, were occupied with spectators, whilst the palace yard was crowded to excess. It was, in fact, a day of rejoicing among the watermeu and their patrons, who reside on the banks of the river. BATTLE BRIDGE REGATTA. This was also fora Wherry, and other Prizes, the subscriptions of the inhabitants of the parish of St. Olave's, &c. It consisted of four heats, and was so well arranged that eac h *tan was rewarded according to his met*. About half.past six o'clock preparation w made for the last heat, and after a hard contest, it. Alitcham came in winner of the boat. PEDESTRIANISM. Lieutenant Fairman undertook yesterday, on the Kilburn-rood, to run ten miles within an hour, for one hundred sovereigns. The ground waa a measured two miles, and he performed the task in three minuses within the given tirmS • Saturday se'rusight, Robinson, the pedestrian, node:took to walk twesof times mind Stephen's-green, outside the railing, (i. e. go miles,) in the short space of two hours, for a wager of 50 guineas. Re accomplished his task in one hour, fifty-five minutes, and 40 ae. The frequenters of the upper galleries in a London Theatre, are called the Gods; la Paris the upper. reshot is towed ie _1 I== k • ~.. • i _. .1 ;~ F. • I T.ll is ' i•t , i;