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1 . Second Annual firport of the Asylum for the Cure of Scrofula and Glandular Diseases. fivo. pp. 30. We meet with many individuals who are not back ward in their endeavours to cry down this humane and most interesting Institution—some from prejudice— some from sheer ignorance—and not a few from, per haps, interested motives; an 3 we have invariably ob sersed,that those who arc loudest in their clamours are th i-e who have never taken the least trouble to inform tliemselve; of the nature and progress of the Institu tion, or examined any of the numerous cases of cure of that most distressing of all maladies—the scrofula"— which have been effected by Mr. Whitlaw, who has un dertaken to super intend the Institution,under the manage ment and inspection of a most respectable Committee. For ourselves we can say that we have for some years witnessed the progress of cases treated by Mr. Whitlaw. Many of the Noblemen and Gentlemen who patronize this Institution have done the same; and wonderful in deed have been the cures which we have witnessed of patients afflicted with a disease respecting which Dr. Cullen says, " for the cure of Scrofula we have not yet learnt any practice that is certainly, or even generally successful." At the head of the friends of this humane Institution stands the name of his Royal Highness the Duke of York, followed by the names of the Earl of Stamford, Lord Bexley, the Hon. and Rev. Anchitel Grey, the Hon. Basil Cochrane. Sir Claudius S. Hunter, Vice- Admiral Sir Joseph Sidney Yorke, and many others no less respectable. Need we add that these are Gentlemen who would not lend their names to support anything partaking of fraud. Indeed it would be the height of absurdity to believe thin they would put themselves to expenses for the purpose of supporting and propagating a delusion. Let those who have friends or relations afflicted with this dreadful malady peruse this Report, and they will find from the cases therein stated, and that have been treated under the inspection of the Committee, that the case must be bad indeed if it preclude the hope of cure under the medical treatment of Mr. NVlntlaw. ON BLACK CURRANT WINE. By C. G. HARLEY, Ega. " I believe that our common fruits, with the wines made from them, have been little examined; at least I have never met with an analysis of the black currant, or ifs wine. " July 28, 1821.—1 boiled two pecks of black cur rants in twenty-five quarts of spring water (containing no metallic salts), in a copper vessel, until they were reduced to a pulp; upon measuring the liquid expressed from this pulpy fluid, it was found to have increased ten quarts in quantity—of course arising from the fruit used twenty-nine pounds of moist sugar were added, and the whole was put into a cask the second day after, it was made, and allowed to ferment until the 2d of September ensuing, when it was closely stopped down, and remained so till the 14th of October, 1822, when it was bottled off; its colour resembled that of new port wine ; from its sweetness it was evident that part of the sugar had not - been decomposed ; its flavour was considerably astringent: but its great peculiarity con sisted in a very strong chalybeate taste, which was ob served by several persons as well as myself; indeed, in this quality it appeared to surpass the common steel wine of the shops. But wishing to ascertain the precise quantity of iron it contained, I requested my friend Mr. Cufande Davie, of Yarmouth (in whose scientific know ledge and accuracy of experiment I could place the greatest reliance), to analyse a portion of this wine; and the result of his examination is here subjoined : " The analysis of Mr. Harley's black currant wine only embraced the quantity of alcohol and iron— " Alcohol (1. gr. 0125) " Per-oxide of iron Co grains in each pint. "The steel wine of the present Pharmacopeia contains only 16 grains In each pint." —Phil. It may be remembered that a week or two ago we stated that a Lady and two men servants had been held to bail at the Mary-la-bonne Police-office, for cruelty to a female child. We have now the pleasure to add, that through the interference of a benevolent Gentleman in Portman-square, the sum of 300/. has been paid as a compensation to the child, and that the intended pro secution has been abandoned. By the new Insolvent Act, an additional Commis. "signer has been appointed; and three out of the four Commissioners are to make three Circuits every year, to the different Assize and other towns, where prisoners re- i quire to be discharged. It is calculated that each of these Circuits will comprise a distance of 800 miles—so that each Commissioner will have to travel 2,400 miles in the year. A violent storm broke out on the 29th ult. at St. Germain (Meuse), at five o'clock in the evening. The lightning flashed with such violence that a great num- 1 ber of labourers were thrown down, and the flocks dis persed to a distance. The most afflicting accident occasioned by the tempest was the death of a young woman of 20. Five persons labouring along with her in the field were thrown down, and remained for some time motionless. A man who came to himself first found this )oung woman entirely dead, and administered relief to a young man who was long in returning to animation. The deceased's clothes were rent to tatters; her shoes were torn off, and her skin was changed to a violet-,o;onr from the neck to the pit of the stomach ; the blood issued from one eat, she had a wound on her leg, her hair and eye-brows were singed, and her face was scratched. On the spot where the accident hap pened, sixteen holes were made in the earth, and in these holes were found rags of the . apron, of the stays, and skirt of the unfortunate victim.—Frenele Paper. The Success (cutter), Lieut. THOMSON, has arrived at Aberdeen from the Ilebi ides and north-west coast of Scotland. During the present and a former cruize, that active and intelligent Officer has, we understand, surveyed those shores, and explored the neighbouring ocean; and by his zeal and diligence discovered two dangerous unknown rocks, never before laid down in tiny chart. The soundings, with the bearings and cross bearings of these reels, particularly one gear the island of Barra, are, as we learn, laid down with gicat accu racy and minuteness, and transmitted with the proper explanations to the Lords of the Admiralty. These di , coveries, when scientifically published, will, we hope, not only tend in some measure to remove the hidden dangers whiCh have !tithe:Jo attended navigation in that quarter, but may stimulate to greater exertions in forwarding the important object of securing, as far as possible, the safety of those engaged in our naval and commercial pursuits. POLICE LVTELLIGENCL ....w..... GUILDHALL. T. Abrahams, trho was on Monday charged before Mr. Alder man Baowx with stealing a calf, and discharged in consequence of the witnesses not attending In time, but was again apprehended, taken to Mary-la-bonne, and thence remanded to the City, Was yesterday apin brought to this Office, when the witnesses attended properly, the case was gone into, and the prisoner fully committed. Mr. Alderman Baowts observed, I think it is necessary to make a few observations upon this ease, because, from what occurred when this prisoner was before me on Monday, I perceive I have been misunderstood by some persons—l do not mean to say misre presented. I certainly do not hold it proper that a prisoner should be detained in custody unless the Magistrate is satisfied that there is reasonable ground of suspicion against him. No such evidence I was produced before me in this case on Monday; and it would, therefore, have been a gross act of injustice in me to have detained him. It is my duty to give effect to the law, most wise, most just, and most humane it is; but I have no wish to protect a pri soner beyond that protection which the law itself throws around him. Upon the evidence now produced I have committed the prisoner for trial." W. Dodd and R. Turner, in the employ of Mr. Griffiths, wine merchant; in Chancery-lane, were charged with felony. Mr. G. had received an anonymous letter, stating that the prisoners were rtsbbing him, and that they had secreted some wine in a particular part of his cellar, and in the spot pointed out he found seventeen bottles of wine concealed under some rubbish, which Mr. G. said could hot be placed there without the knowledge of the prisoners. On this testimony, Mr. Alderman DROWN remanded them. . 53 ,\\ "c. M A RY- L A-BON NE OFFICEE. EXTENSIVE FRAUDSA great number of persons yesterday at• tended this Office, to prefer charges against two notorious duffer., of the names of Abraham and Allen, by whom they had been defrauded, ramie out of 81 others out of 71. and numerous others out of amounts varying from 21. to 61.—They were both remanded for a week. HATTON-GARDEN. DASHING SWlNDT.ER.—Yesterday, Jam James Walker alias jrnes &c. a young man of 19 years of age, fashionably attired, was brought before the sitting Magistrate, charged on suspicion of having stolen three gold rings, the property of Mr. James M'Cann, of Pancras place, St. Pancras, with whom he lodged. Pe represented himself as a law student, but proved to be a discharged messenger from a Solicitor's office. Read, the chief officer, on searching him found a fia. , ,h note for 100 L—He was remanded till Tuesday next. Paddy O'Brien, Felix O'Neal, Micky 0' Rafferty, Molly Leary, and Judy O'Gaulagher, a select party from Saffron-hill, were introduced to the Magistrates by the watch-house-keeper of Saffron-hill, whom they had favoured with their company on Tuesday night. The ob ject of their visit was to explain to Mr. Jerry O'Gorman their mo tiie for the neighbourly act of breaking eight panes of glass in his bed-room window, between the hours of eleven and twelve o'clock, just as be had laid his head on his pillow. After some eloquent in troductory remarks from Mr. O'Gorman, it appeared that so strong, was the reciprocity of refined friendship between him and Paddy O'Brien, that it led to a mutual exchange of their wives; Paddy was, however, not content with his adventitious acquisition, but went frequently to Jerry's mansion to claim his natural right'. This species of spurious polygamy was strongly resisted by Jerry, and the result was the repeated dilapidation, of his house by the parties preser.t. When the Magistrate called upon the parties in dividually to deliver their sentiments upon this important point, Mrs. Molly Leary stept forward to be sacrificed (like another Iphi genia) for her country's sake—" Base your Honour," said she, " the whole affair was T totally done by myself. Those honest men and women had as much to do with it as yourself. The mock Mr,. O'Gorman goad me that she'd send the daylight through me. Ades, said I to myself, I'll give you plenty of air and light too; and &moistly, your Honour, I just ran my fists through the glass, but I didn't break thenfentirely." In consideration of the patriotic feel ing displayed by Molly, the Magistrate only sentenced her to eight days' confinement. UNION HALL. VA ux stii tr. GA onmis.—/iselekbadl and Stewart, charged with pick ing the pocket of Mr. Dompierre, at Vauxhall, were yesterday brought before the Magistrates for final examination. Knatchbull, being fully identified, was committed to take his trial at the next Assizes fur Surrey. Stewart, for whom Mr. ANDREWS attended, and urged that the evidence did not affect him, was remanded till Wednesday next. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. CUTTING ANI/ 31•1111N0.—Sarah Paine was charged With cutting the rhroat of Patrick Parker, a tailor, with a sharp instrument. The prosecutor lives in Brewer-street, Golden-square, and the pri soner is a female who infests the Park at night. T he offence was stated to have been committed during a conversation between the parties. His neckerchief was cut through, and his neck and chin deeply wounded, and he bad lost a good deal of blood. She posi tively denied having InSicted the wound, and said that she could have no motive for doing 14 ar the proseeutor was an utter stran ger to her. She was remanded. 4n* allko, a servant in the family of Mr. Bower, a jeweller, in Oxford -street, was charged with robbing her master, and dispo sing of the property at the shop of Mr. Boyd, a jeweller in the same street. She had exchanged the property for a brooch.—Committed. THE NEW BREAD ACT.—Among the other provi sions of the Act passed during the last Session, for amending the Act of the .53d George 111. relative to fixing the Assize of Bread, it is provided—u That, by reason of the great decrease which has taken place in the price of the several articles used in the making and baking . of bread since the passing of the Act in ques tion, it. is become expedient that the bakers and makers of bread for sale should receive a less allowance for their charges and profit than is given by that Act.; be it therefore enacted, that from and after the Ist day of July inst. the Mayor, Aldermen,and Magistrates, in cities and towns corporate, and any two or more Justices in towns where there is no Mayor, or in counties generally, or in their respective jurisdictions, shall set an assize of bread, in execution of the provisions of said recited Act. The allowance to the baker to be, when the assize is set from the average price of wheat, 135.10 Y 4 d. per quarter, and when set from the average price of flour, the al lowance to be lls. Bd. per sack, being in each case a decrease of one-half the assize, or one farthing in.a guar tern loaf, of the allowance given to bakers by the Act of the 53d George III." This Act does not extend to the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, but is in all respects to be considered as a public Act. We are informed that the exemptions in a late Actof Parliament from duty en shepherds' dogs will only ex, tend to farmers of estates ender 1001. a year keeping sheep, and to the owners and occupiers of estates under 501. a year keeping sheep, and that such estate or farm must be the sole livelihood of those claiming exemption. RHN•AWAY HUSBANDS.—A long placard, headed as above, was received yesterday at the different Police offices,frorn the township of Sheffield,descriptiveof thirty or forty run-away husbands who have deserted their wives and families: a reward is offered for the appre hension of each of them, by any person ; as, being guilty of an act of vagrancy, they may be apprehended without a warrant. To the list of resemblances already mentioned may be added the following :—The brother of the present Lord Harewood, whose likeness to his present Majesty was such as to give him the name of Prince Lascelles. The present Sir Alan Parke, in his Nisi Prim wig, is the very counterpart of our late revered Sovereign; and Mr.Vil lebois and Mr. Nunez, two masters of separate packs of fox-hounds, used to be continually taken for each other, and the most ludicrous mistakes occurred amongst persons who hunted with their respective establish. ments. Mr. John Lavender, Governor of Worcester Castle, wh o w h en c l er k at the Queen-square Office, and Superintendent of the Police at the Opera-house, was noticed for the similitude of his profile to that of his present Majesty. Rees, the celebrated imitator of Quick and Munden, and Desborough, the well-known singer of llabdiu's songs ; and Mr. Adamson, the auctioneer, and Mr. Blanchat d, the Comedian, of Covent-garden. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE: BETTING-ROOM, TATTERSALL'S, JULY 8. The Betting Room was by no means so well attended as on Mob-' clan yet there were some brisk engagements made, particularly on the July Stakes at Newmarket, which commence on Monday next. As to the Doncaster St. Leger, we cannot hand to our Sporting Readers (taking the general average) a more complete statement of odds than the full account of Monday last. As a fillip to the me mory of Gemlemen interested in Racing, we again say— JULT STA EU 5 to 1 agst Mr. Wilson's colt 10 to 1 agst Catgut T. Loom 20 to 1 agst Sinotrnsto 20 to 1 agst Hrlenw 25 to 1 agst Cadiz 25 to 1 agst Tarandus 30 to-1 agst Equity 30 to 1 agst Caccia Piatti 2 tot agit Equity 5 to 2 apt Lord Jersey's colt 3} to 1 agst Brutendorf 9 to 1 agst Swiss 11 to 1 apt Dimond 13 to 1 apt Canteen 19 to 1 agst Altisitiora 20 to 1 apt Mustachio The Duke of Grafton's Posthuma, S yrs old, Bst. 91b. is matched agaiust Mr. Prendergast's Soothsayer, 5 yrs old, 7st. 8113. ua the third day of the neat Newmarket Houghton Meeting, for 100 so vereigns, h. ft. The Earl of Jersey's f. by Woeful, is matched against the Doyle of Grafton's 1. by 31erlin, Bst. 71b. each, at the First Newmarkez October Meeting, 1826, for 200 sov. IPSWICH RACES—Wins:now r, 1i11.7 7. The Gentleman's Purso of £5O, was won at two heats by R. Wilson, Esq.'s Isabella beating Mr. T. Goodisun's br. c. Sir George. WINCHESTER. RACES —Stearn DAY. The St. Leger StAces of 25gs. each, 15 ft. for three-yr-old colts. ast. 7.b. fillies and geldings, list. lib. The last mile and a half. Mr. Craven's Longwaist .. - 1 Mr. Dundas's ch. c. by Anticipation - - 2 Von in a cahter. The July Stakes of 4 2.5jt5. each, 15 ft. for two-yr old colts, Bst. 81b. aul geldings, Bst. 4th. T.V.C. Half a mile. Mr. Shard's b. c. by Waterloo, walked over. The Hampshire Stakesof 25gs. each, 15 ft. and only five if declared on or before the 14th June, with 25gs. added by the Steward.— Two utiles. Lord Palmerston's b. c. by Williamson's Ditto - 1 Mr. F. Craven's Longwaist - - 2 Mr. Farquharson's Black and all Black 1.. - 3 Sting, Grey Robin, and Dandizette, also started. The City Members' Plate of £5O, for any horse, mare, or gelding that did not win the King's Plate this year, fur four yrs old, 7st. 91b. five, Est. 41b. six, SR: 121 b. and aged, 9st. Mares and geld- ings allowed 31b. Winners once in the present year carrying Mb. twice, 51b. extra. Two mile beats. Mr. Radcliffe's fillisguerader, S yrs old Mr. Fleming's Augustin, 4 yrs old Cul. Latour's Laugtonian, aged D. of Richmond's Dandizette, 4 yrs old Mr. Farguhat son's Black and all Black, 6 yrs 22 1 1 4 1 2 dr 1 4 dr 6 3 dr 3 dr All the beats well contested. The Ladies' Plzte of af.so, for maiden horses, three yrs old, 7st• four, list. Slb. five, 9,t. six, 9:t. 61b. and aged, 9st. 91b. flares and geldings allowed 31b. Two mile heats. Mr. Fellowes's br. f. by Colossus, 3 yrs old Mr. Berkeley's Roulette, 4 yrs old Mr. Smith's b. f. by Blucher, 3 yrs old Three others started. 64 1 1 3 1 2 dr 1 3 4 dr MATCH TO GALLOP ELEVEN MILES IN HALF AN HOUR. This match, undertaken by Captain Ramsey for three hundred sovereigns, excited much interest, and heavy sums of money were pending upon it. The Captain rode full 12 stone, and he was al lowed a second horse if he thought proper. The match was per formed yesterday morning, over two miles of Ascot Heath Course, and betting was 5 and 6 to 4 on time. Thornton, the famous bunter, was the first horse, and he performed six miles in nine se conds within 16 minutes. The second horse was in readiness, and the rider was across him in a twinkling. This horse did the five miles in 14 minutes and two seconds, winning the match by four seconds, as three were occupied in changing horses. CRICKET. A match of Cricket was played in Lord's Ground, between the Mary-la-bonne and Godsluting Clubs, and decided on Tuesday in favour of Godalming. GODA LMING. 11A RT-LA-1014111E. I a Innings - - 154 I Ist Innings - 64 The Godaltning won by 88 runs. The match was given up In this state, the weather being unfavourable. AQUATIC UNDERTAKING. Two young Gentlemen, named Mousy and Edwards, have on. dertaken, for a wager of 50 sovereigns to 100, to row in a wherry from Westminster-bridge to Gravesend and back, and thence to Rkhmond, and return to the place of Burling, in eighteen succes sive bouts—the distance is computed upwards of 100 miles. The day for deciding this great performance is Seed for Saturday neat, to start at three o'clock in the morning. SAILING MATCH. The match between Messrs. Somerton and Gilchrist for 504 joined by Messrs. Grant and Brotherton in a sweepstakes, took place on - Wednesday, from Rotherbithe to the Nore, in fast sailing boats. It was a close match between the three first, till they passed Gravesend some distance. when Mr. Somerton, in the Fanny, shot a-head and won easy. Mr. Gilchrist was second, Mr. Grant third, and Mr. Brotherton did not sail through. It was bad weather for them, and the voyage occupied 14 hours. A young man of the name of Simpson fell out of a boat and was drowned below Woolwich. BOXING. Two 111zaar, matron SHORT Funits.—Those who care but lit tle about whether in a race a horse can do a mile in a minute and five seconds, or whether in a hunters stake, a horse takes double the time, see more frequently better races with the latter—so it is with boxers. Those who were not engaged in speculations at bet ting, would see two much better fights yesterday than those of Spring and Langan, Ward and Sampson, Cannon and Josh Hudson, &c. fitc. Bishop Harris Is known as an out-and-out no-denial man, who uses his waifs* with snore force than skill; and in a bounce able moment, late, when be had bad a strong taste of Seeger and Evans, he offered to give away a stone—that is, to fight any man not above le stone nibs. The Bishop is a regular poller for Lushing ton' and as condition was disputed, a match was made for fifty soya. on Saturday, and to fight yesterday (an off-hand one). The men met early at Hive Common, on the left from Epping, half a mile out of the road to Chelmsford. Seconds—Bury for Harris, and Coulston for the stranger, who now first appeared. He is of the greyhound-looking breed , strong at points, and draws the scale at about twelve stone. In the first round, it was clear the stranger, whose name is Want, was - not in want of cunning, and he turned loose with a heavy-bitting right hand; but that was no go, and it got him into a rally, after a nobber on the olfactory mark. But the rally was a manly one, the Bishop milling away with the left hand at the nob, and getting rat tlers of the chattering order. It was even fighting for seven minutes. Both tired, and Harris thrown a summerset. 2. Was equally a give and take round, the claret flying as if a sur geon bad been operating. Want was at length hit on the nose, be tween the eyes, which floored him. 3. Want had the best of hitting, but ogles threatened darkness early. Harris was thrown a summerset after a severe rally. 4. One of Want's peepers was closed, and the other not of much use; he however floored his adversary by a hit on the ribs, which kept him doubled up after. 5. Harris fought upon the defensive for the next four rounds, with a chance of getting a settler from the manhood of the other. Last.—Epping Forest to the Willow-walk. Want was a blinker, and it was USCietS ' and his seconds said " Enough," after twenty two minutes. The Bishop heard " Enough " gladly, and came off with lots of punishment. A second, and rare merry fight, took place for a purse of two sovereigns, between Carney, lately from Ireland upon hay-making speculation, and Spitler, a stout farmer's man. They pulled, hauled, hit, and threw each other unmercifully forty minutes. Spitler had the best of the first quarter; but Pat, grianing through a crimson, kept acquainting his antagonist that he could never bate him. Car ney turned the fight after 30 minutes, and then won cleverly. LANGAN AND SHIELTOIF•••The former writes as follows :—" In consequence of the severe accident that haf happened to my father, I had determined to go immediately to Dublin, but was prevented from going until I should vindicate my character from the asper islans that some malicious persons have endeavoured to make re. specting me, with the view of inducing the people of Dublin to be lieve that I was paid for losing the battle. I can with pleasure to my feelings say, that there is no man in this country, (either Eng lish or high) but will clear me of any dishonesty. No man fought under more disadvantages than I did. I had to travel nearly 7.00 miles, and never slept, only while travelling post haste, that I might be in time on the day of fighting at Chichester. I aye now to inform Mr. Shelton, that I hate put down fifty pounds in Mr. Spring's hands, and will fight him within six months from this date, as, in my opinion, to meet him maser would be anntenly on my part, in consequence of my father's very severe Illness. " July 7, 1824. «J. LANGAN; [No man who saw the fight between Spring as d Lang .n cam f ee a moment suppose that it was anything but a fair minty comer many rounds before the close, there were repeated cries of take him away, such was his beaten st le. We had no idea that any other opinion prevailed in Ireland.] Peace Inglis and Ned Turner ar- again matched to fight for iv pounds aside; pan of the money is .town; a further stake is to b. ; made on the 19th, at Harry Holt's ; and on the 3d of August, . t Randall's; the whole to be completedat Itelcher's on the 31st August, to tight on the 14th September; withus 21 miles of London. DISCIPLII4F. OP HOUNDS. A correspondent of the Spor Magazine, signing himself " ri m North," quotes the following instance ordiscipline in Fox.hounds, " I have often gone on purpose to see Williamson (kennel hes s man to the East Lothian pack) draft 114 hounds. The discipla:e was c,:mplete. He would call one hound, and when he had tot half-way across tin yard, he would say, No, not you : here, To , , Pleader !' (or any other): the first would stop immediately, retii 2 the latter came forward, and wait till his name was again cal .ea. He will take his hounds into an open spice In the covert, and wait till the Gentlemen arrive ; and when the moment comes, he wi'.l get up, give a whistle and a wave of his band, and ha a minute there will not be a dog to be seen." FIELD SPORTS FOR JULY. Tit the bei;inning of June, though no lack of rain appews to hue been experienced in the midland and southern counties, so great was the drought in the nottliern and north Ave-tent parts, that the grass on the hills and sandy uplands suffered severely. Lowering clouds frequently passed over those districts ; and most likely d-pt.. sited their contents more to the south, till the evening of Sunday, the 13th. when the rain Commenced, and continued with occaliou. Intermissions during the three following days and nights. For de vegetation of those parts of the kingdom just t smed a more salwary circumstance could not possibly have occurred ; Hut, as the ran fell at the precise period when the generalihatch of patwidgee pheasants takes place, it is very probable that some little injury has been sustained in consequence. The rain, however, did no: descend so rapidly as to cause a flood, or even to fill die ditches; and therefore in those places only where the nest happened to be placed in an exposed situation, would the incubation or hatchin: sustain serious tncuavenience, as vegetation way gene-ally, styli. ciently advanced to afford ample slither. Further, by the rain descending at this precise time ;then the ground was greatly in want of it (the grass lands in particular), the general snowing, that would otherwise have taken place immediately, was postponed for at least a fortnight; and although the destruction effected by the rain was great, it could nut be considered equal to that wt kis would have been caused by the premature introduction of the scythe,—consequently, it may be reasonably expected that game of all kinds will be found in plenty. On the loth of June, the writer saw a covey of eleven 'townr partridges in Altcar, in lanicashire. the property of the Earl or Sefton; and these little birds were able to raise themselves on the wing, and continue a flight of a few scare yards. In the sarr • neighbourhood, he observed several pheasants' nests on the same d a y, which were deserted; the birds had evidently hatched; egg shells remaining in the nest, but not a single addle egg. From ex tensive observation, see are induced to suppose that the hat:hiss: birds In general took p'.acs rather sooner this season than usual; young rooks were ready to fly at an early period ; and a titmoust and also a throstle, which have for years formed their nests in the writer's garden, produced their young unusually early. The nen:- low tribe appears less numerous than usual The wAeat crops, and cans in general,never looked more promi4ine. The young angler, for the sake of practict, or such as are satisfied with the small fry, may ra'te for pages** and whip for dace and Meek, and expect plenty of sport during the remaining summer months. _ _ _ If July prosie dry and the waters become low, let those who de. light in 'niggling get their tackle in order, and by using it they will kill some very large and Ane eels; July, generally speak. ing, being the most favourable for this sport.—Autals Sportint. LAWS OF RACING. Noises take their ages front Nlay-day, i. e. a horse faaled any time in the year 182 S, is one year old on the lit of May, 1824. Four inches are a hand; 14 pound a stone; 240 yards a distance. —Catch-weights are, each to appoint a party to ride without weigh ing.—Feather-weight signifies the same. Give-and-take arc weights for inched ; fourteen hands to carry a stated weight, all above to carry extra, or be allowed the proportion of /lb. to an inch.—A Whim-Plate, is a weight for age and a weight for indies. —A Post-Match, is to insert the ages of the horses in the articles. and to run any horse of that age, without declaring till you come to the post to start.—Handicap weights are, weights according to the supposed abilities of the horses.—Plates or shoes are not allowed in the weight—The horse that has his head at the Ending Post hrg wins the beat—Elders must ride their horses back to the Winnin g to weigh; and he that dismounts before, or wants weight, is distanced.--If a rider fall from his horse, and the horse be tiddeu in by a person of sufficient weight, he will take place the same as if it had not happened, provided he went back to the place where the rider fell. Horses not entitled to start without producing a pro per certificate of their age, if required; except where aged horses are included, in which case a junior horse may start without a err. tificate; provided he carry the same weight as an aged horse.—Fot the best of the Plate, when there are three heats run, the horse it second that wins one.—For the best of the heats, the hone is se. coed that beats the other twice out of three times, though be &tit not win a heat.—When the Plate is won at two heats, the prefer ence of the horses is determined by the places they hold in the se cond heat.—When three horses have each von a heat, they only must start for a fourth, and their places will be determined ley it, though before no difference between them. No distance in a four,' hat.—ln running heats, if it cannot be decided which is first, the heat goes for nothing, and they may all start again, except it laa be tween two horses that had each won a beat. I lorses drawn before the Plate is won, are distanced.—A bet made after the heat is over, If the horse betted on does not start again, is no bet.—A confirmed bet cannot be off, without mutual consent. —Hither party may de mand stakes to be made, and on refusal may declare the bet void.— If a party be absent on the day of running, a public declaration of the bet may be made on the Course, and a demand wbethet any person will make stakes for the absent party; if no person consent to do so, the bet may be declared void. !lets agreed to be settled in town, or any particular place, cannot be declared off on the Course. The person who bets the odds, has a right to choose the horse on the field. When be has chosen his bane, the field is what starts against him; but there is no field unless one starts with him. If odds are bet without Mentioning the horse before the race is over. it must be determined as the odds were at the time of makFna Bets made between particular horses are void, if neither of them be the winner, unless specified to the contrary. At Newmarket, if a match be made for any particular day in any meeting, tied the parties afterwards change the day, all bets must stand ; but if at' tered to a different meeting, bets made before the alteration are void. Bets determined, though the horse does not start, when the words a absolutely"—" run or pay"—or " play or pay"—are made use of in betting. For example, I bet that Mr. Udny's eham. Mi randola, absolutely wins the King's Plate, at Chelmsford, in 1824. I lose the bet though she does not wan t and win (bough the goes over the Course alone. All double bets are considered as play or pay. Since Epsom races, 1812, all bets are made in pennds, and not in guineas, as formerly. Hone, running on the wrong side of a post, and nut turning back, are distanced. Horses distanced, if the riders cross or jostle. Horses that forfeit, are the beaten hennas where it runs cr pays. Bete made on hot les winning any number of plates that year, remain in force till the first day of May. Ed ney given to have a bet laid, not returned if not run. All matches, bets, and engagements, are void on the decease of either party be fore determined. An untried stallion or mare, it one whose pro duce had not started in public at the time of closing the engages went. In estimating winnings, it is the practice to consider the clear sum gained only, and consequently to exempt the wi ;rat I stake. A winner of sweepstakes of 20gs. each (three subs.) is. therefore, not disqualified from running for a £5O plate, eerie-zed to be for horses that never won a plate, match, or sweepstake, ai that valise. MARRIED. Wednesday, at Mary-la-bonne Church, George Gouid Aforg:r• Esq. 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