Star. — London, England, 1826-09-19 00:00:00

OLD BAILEY. Yesterday, Samuel Mappin was charged with stealing a large quantity of knives, the property of John Thome. The prosecutor stated that he had known the prisoner for some years, and had had frequent dealings with him. On the 10th of Jane he came to his shop in Ox ford.street, and looked out the goods in question, and said that his father-in-law had given him 10001. that he had taken a public-house at Hampstead, and the knives were for his opening dinner. The knives were packed up, a bill of parcels made out, and the prisoner took them up, threw down a bill of exchange, for 931. (which proved to be a forgery), and ran off. These facts were sworn to. Verdict—Guilty. Thomas Monk, a coachman, aged SO, was indicted for violating Mary Moore, in the month of :clay last. Mr. BARRY said, that he had carefully read the de positions in support of the charge, and he was clearly of opinion that they were not sufficient to support the charge. The conduct of the prisoner had been ex tremely brutal and improper, which it was only proper that he should state. Under the direction of the Learned Judge, the Jury pronounced the prisoner Not Guilty. Abraham Jonas stood indicted for the violation of Ann, the wife of John Martin. The prosecutric on coming into Court fainted, and was carried out, but in a few moments returned again. The prisoner surrendered in discharge of Ms bail. The prosecutrix stated, that she resided in Brownlow - street, Drury-lane ; her husband was a paper stainer ; they had two children, the one nine, the other six years of age; there are several other l odgers in the house; she had seen the prisoner six weeks before the offence charged took place ; he then asked her if she wanted to purchase any thing ; she was then standing at the door ; she told him she did not; she had a very few words with him. She saw him again on the 19th of July, when he behaved so very ill to her ; it was about half past five o'clock ; he rang the door bell ; a little girl and her two children went to the door. The prisoner asked if their father was at home? she heard them say, no; he then asked if she was at home? and came up to the room door and said, " I am come to shew you some silk shawls." She begged he would go about his busi ness; she did not wish to look at them ; he pulled a green one out of his pocket, which she looked at, and be sat down in an arm-chair behind the door, and then said that "the children must leave the room, for they were French goods, and he would not shew them before every body;" the children went out, and she told them not to go from the landing. He then took her by the arm and asked her if she was troubled with a pain in her head or chest ? She s .id no, and told him she was a married woman,and wished him to go about his business; did not understand what he said,as he did not speak good English. (The prosecutrix here described the indecent liberties which were taken by the prisoner). She was so overpowered that she was obliged to sit ;'she was lost. She called out two .or three times, but nobody came— the prisoner had shut the door. Before the prisoner went away, he said he would bring her a new gown, if she would keep it a secret. She told him never to come near her more. He then went away. She had reason to think that he effected his purpose. She was advised by her landlady not to tell her husband. She told her landlady next morning. The prisoner came again on the Thursday week, and her landlady stopped him on the stairs. He afterwards ran away, and she called out stop thief! and he was secured. The 800. B. Law, in a cross-examination, elicited some particu lars, which justified doubt of the guilt of the prisoner; and the Jury, having consulted together, pronounced a verdict of—Nat John Thomas Robinson, 57, Brook-street, was in dicted for stealing, on the 4th of June, two one-pound notes, the property of Mr. Boston. There was another count, laying the notes in question as the property of Mr. Thomas Charles Robinson. Mr. GURNEY stated the case. He said that this was a prosecution.directed by the Post-office. The facts were simply these: A person of the name of Thomas Charles -Robinsln was the secretary of a benefit society, held at the Cambridge Arms, Upper Brook-str. et. 'A country' member, of the name of Boston, had, in May last, sent a letter, with his usual subscription of 11. which, instead of coming into the hands of the secretary of the society, came into the possession of the prisoner, who unfor tunately was of the same name. In consequence of an application from the secretary, Mr. Boston, in June, sent up a second letter, containing 21. being his arrears in full, and this also, being directed to Mr. T. Robinson, came into the hands of the prisoner, who. took it, and a second time appropriated the money to his own tv.e. The present indictment was founded on the taking of the 21. contained in the second letter. Evidence having bees heard, Yr. Cosmos SERSIADIT summed up, and the Jury immediately returned a verdict et Guilty. William Waters, aged 17, Thomas Gardner, aged 19, George Duj, aged 17, and William Andrews, aged 17, were put to the bar, charged with assaulting Jane Lyons, and stealing from her person a bag, a scarf, and other articles. Jane Lyons resides at Woodford. She was going down Hackney-marsh on the Slat of August, to milk the cows. She had a bag, which contained a scarf, Ss. 3d. a pocket handkerchief, and two purses. She had to pass over Lea-bridge. There was nobody on it. One of the pri soners came up to her (pointing to Andrews and Wa ters). He asked for a halfpenny worth of milk. He threw the bag up, the penny pieces rattled, being loose. There were six of them who came up and pushed her down. They kept her down till they got the bag from her. She struggled a great deal. She was very fright ened. The tuck was torn out of her frock when she got up. She looked to see after them, and saw the four prisoners looking into the bag. She cried out for assist ance, and they all ran up along by the river. They were pursued and taken at Bow. Some of the boys were in the river; but certainly not the prisoners. The evidence was conclusive against two of the prisoners, and tbs Jury pronounced a verdict of Gritty against Waters and Andrews; aid against Duff and Gardner, Ain Guilty. \ Richer[ kondoil was put to the bar under an indictment for forging and uttering a counterfeit bill of exchange, drawn fur 1421. r.ith intent to defraud Lea Wilson and others.—.A'n Guilty. William Corns, aged 17, was found guilty of embezzling money to the amount of W. Is. the property of Wynne Ellis, his employer. The Renotans sentenced the prisoner to transportation for seven years. Richard Jones, aged 19, was indicted for stealing, on the 4th instant, several yards of linen, seven silk hand kerchiefs, a shawl, and a quantity of sarsenet, and some riband, the property of Robert Hadley, k shopkeeper of Cheapside. The prisoner, it appeased, bad lived as shopman with Mr. Hadley. Soon after he left his service (which he did without having excited the slightest suspicion), he was stopped by a person to whom he had offered the articles for sale, and who suspectekthey. w_cmstolen. _ Mr. Hadley proved the articles were his property.— He gave the prisoner an excellent character up to this transaction, aria stated that this was his first offence, and that if he should escape with a slight punishment, his friends, who were very respectable, would. take him back to Carmarthen, and he should never agaiti,be seen lin England. He was found Guilty, but recomm ended to mercy, on account of his previous good character. Three young lads, John Woolfe, aged 15, Keefe, aged 11, and John Poole, aged nine years, were indicted for stealing a few shillings from the till of Thos. Langley, a baker. It appeared that the eldest prisoner was waiting for the other prisoners at some distance; that Keefe watched at the door whilst the youngest boy was sent in to commit the theft. When they were taken into custody, the eldest boy was in the act of dividing some bread and butter amongst his young companionsratal reward of their guilt. They were found Guilty. Poole was ordered to be discharged and given to his friends— llCeefe to be privately whipped and discharged. Judgment on Woolfe was deferred. Jame: Clarke, a very smart little boy, apparently not more than 12 years old, was indicted for stealing a neck lace, the property of Eliza Boucher, a young girl about 14 years old. It appeared from the testimony of the girl, that as she was walking along the street, the pri soner came up to her and snatched the necklace from her; two boys held her while prisoner ran away. As soon as she was releised, she ran after him, and cried "Stop thief!" He stopped, and said he had not got the necklace; but she took hold of him, and kept him fast till an officer arrived. The prisoner was found Gsisji, and sentenced to be privately whipped and discharged. In the course of the day there were several unfortunate women of the town tried for thefts from persons who had passed some time in their company. The disgusting details which were elicited on some of these, we of course omit, and we allude to the cases only for the purpose of noticing the fact, that during the day the galleries and side boxes of the Court were filled with genteel looking females, young and old, who seemed very attentive to the whole of the proceedings, and who newer for an instant appeared to shriek from hearing the most inde cent (though for the errds of justice necessary) disclosures. The females to whom we now allude are by no means of that class of women of the town who sometimes find their way into Court to look after the fate of their for• mer companions in vice, but women who in private life have the name, at least, of being decent and respectable. AYR CIRCUIT, Sarr. 9. After the ordinary preliminary forms, the Court pro-1 ceeded to the trial of Barnaim Telford, Barnabas l MsCorrnick, John 111 , Neil, and Thomas MgAnnally,l all labourers in Ayr, accused of mobbing and rioting on the streets of Ayr, on one of the nights of July last, and of assaulting and knocking down several persons, and of murdering Robert Simon, mason in Ayr, who I died of the wounds he received is the broil, pled not guilty. After the examination of several witnesses for the prosecution, and in defence, the Jury were addressed by Mr. Dundas, the Advocate Depute, on the one hand, and by Mr. Cowan on the other. Lord AL LOWAY summed up; and the Jury unani mously found Telford, McCormick, and M'Annally guilty of mobbing and rioting, and the charges not, proven against M'Neil. M , Neil was dismissed, and the other three prisoners were sentenced to nine months i mprisonment. SEPTEMBER l l.—John Nocher, accused of assaulting Catharine Monaghan,or Campton, wife ofJ. Campton, at Newton Stewart, in August last, on the public read, between Whithorn and Wigton, near Castlewigg, and of attempting to ravish her, was found guilty, and sen tenced t, transportation for seven years. James Reid, at Prestwick Toll, and Samuel Smith and John Smith, colliers in George Street of Content, charged with mobbing in Wallacetown, in July last, and attacking and striking Andrew Wilson, hatter, and Niel Dunlop, saddler, both in Ayr, and Alexander Gowdie, in Cross Street of Wallacetowa—using stones, sticks, and a knife in the attack. The two colliers of the name of Smith failing to appear, were declared out laws; Reid pled guilty, and was sentenced to six months' imprisonment. James Humphray, weaver in Titchfield-street,Kilmar nock, accused of haranguing a mob in August last, near the Relief Church, and inciting them to attack certain houses in quest of meal, and abetting them in their actions; and particularly of attacking John Tem pleton, meal dealer, and seizing him by the collar, and of attacking his house and destroying his windows, pled guilty of the first charge of mobbing. The Public Prosecutor passed from the other charges. The Jury found him guilty accordingly, and they were sen tenced to nine months imprisonment in Ayr gaol. James Begbie, weaver, James- Dunn, tailor, and George Connell and James Maitlaud, shoemakers—all in Kilmarnock, charged in the major proposition with mobbing, assault, and outhrief ; and in the minor, first with mobbing on the streets of Kilmarnock, and forci bly entering the house or shop of John Templeton, meal dealer; secondly, of proceeding to the farm-hawse of Fardalehill, and breaking the windows thereof, and entering the same forcibly and searching the same fer meal ; thirdly, of proceeding to the farm-house of Greenhill, attacking and entering it, and compelling the servants to shew where the meal was deposited, to put a large quantity of it into sacks and carry it on a horse and cart towards Kilmarnock, and of attacking and assaulting the . Justices and Magistrates of Kilmar nock and their assistants, who had gone on the road to quell the tumult, and fourthly, of attacking, especially John Stevenson, surgeon ; Archibald Finnic, hardware merchant ; and Robert Bishop, currier, and striking them with sticks and stones. The Public Prosecutor, however, restricted the charges to that of mobbing and rioting. Begbie pled guilty of the charges as thus limited. Dunn of the se cond and third acts of mobbing, M'Connell of the third act of mobbing, and Maitland of the third act of mob bing and rioting. The Jury found all the prisoners guilty in terms of their own coufession, and they were sentenced to nine months imprisonment. Alexander Mintosh and Francis Hood, weavers, and John Murdoch, shoemaker, residing in Wallacetown, charged with three acts of assault on John Guthrie, wright, Thomas Stewart, saddler, and James Hazle, weaver's agent. M'lntoth and Hoed pled Not Guilty, and Murdoch declinedstiS plead as his designation was erroneous. The Public Prosecutor deserted the diet. The case is to be remitted to the Sheriff. The trials being finished, Lord Ay.owar addressed the Sheriffs. He commended them hightrinr_thefr diligence in the discharge of their duty, and for the attention they paid to the interest and the protection of the community with which they were connected. The Court proceeded to hear a few appeals, after the disposal of which, it adjourned. Accounts Min Trieste. dated the 4th of Septembei . , state, that the Island of Milo has been ceded to the Christian Powers, to serve u a port for their ships. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, Sam IS. Mrs. W. West, of the Theatre Royal, Drurriane, appeared to exhibit articles of the peace against her husband, Mr.Wm.West, comedian, of the Haymarket 'Theatre. The articles detailed a series of injuries re ceived by her from the hands of her husband. About two years ago, upon the birth of their first child, the husband told her that thtir marriage ) which took place, in Scotland, was not binding. He frequently struck hi% wife without any provocation, and made use of the most; terrific threats. Though they both lived under the same roof, they occupied separate apartments; the husband giving as a reason that he was unwell, and in no very delicate terms told her so. He said, she was " a faded flower, and might go to and that he was deter mined to :nary Miss Lawrence, of Drury-lane Theatre, , his own marriage being illegal." The husband fre quently seized his wife by the throat, and ne..rly choked her. The last act of violence wascommitt .d on the 7th of September, when he seized her by the arm, and pinched it to that degree that it caused strong inflam mation, and she was obliged to have leeches immediately put to it. The articles went on to state, that Mrs. West was in fear of her life, her husband having threatened repeatedly to be the death of her. She therefore prayed the protection of the Court. The CHalaYAs inquired as to the circumstances of the defendant? Mr. BARRY, who appeared far Mrs. Nest, stated that her husband was in good circumstances; he was in part nership, as a music seller, and is engaged as a comedian at the Haymarket Theatre. The Ctraintun then bound the husband to keep the peace towards Ids wife, himself in £lOO, and two sureties in £25 each. The cue excited a great deal of sympathy to the Court, and the unfortunate Lady seemed to feel forcibly her unpleasant situation. William Lee was indicted for fraudulently obtaining seine butter, bacon, &c. the property of Joseph Parker. It appeared the prisoner went about representing him self to be arr officer of Hatton-garden police, and ern - - ployed by different persons to collect small debts for them, through the medium of the Court of Requests ; it was by this representation that the prisoner was trust ed. Evidence was called to prove that he was not what he tepresented himself, and that he had imposed upon several other persons 'by the same story. He was found Guilty. The. risoner was charged upon a second indictment, with fraudulently obtaining 3s. from Esther Elliott, in the name of William Lee, an officer of Hatton Garden police. The prisoner, in this case, met the husband of the prosecutrix taking -a womap to the watch-house, whom he suspected had robbed Him of a watch. The prisoner produced a staff, said he was Lee, the vfficer, of Hatton Garden, and had the King's authority to take the woman in charge. He afterwards went to the house of the prosecotrix, and insisted upon searching; having done so, he demanded ss. for his trouble, but took 3s. being all the woman had. Evidence having been ex amined to prove the facts, he was found Guilty.' The Court sentenced him to 13 months imprisonment in the House of Correction, and to be kept to hard labour. Aatois Duff, a marine, was sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment, for an assault of an indelicate nature upon Curtis, an infant eight years of age. The particulars of this brutal assault are too disgusting to be given. Suffice it to say, the fact was clearly established, and the Chairman in passing sentence observed, it was so heinous an offence, that the sentence was scarcely heavy enough. The Rev. Mr. Gould, and Ames retying, a corporal in the Guards, were on Saturday morning tried and acquitted at Hicks's Hall, on an indictment charging them with attempting to commit a misde meanor of a particular kind. The Elbe, in consequeace of the extreme drought, is so shallow at Dresden, that it can be forded in many places without dallier. GLOUCESTER MISICAL FESTIVAL.-The collection for the Charity on Thursday morning amounted to about 2461. On Friday morning the sacred Oratorio of the Messiah was performed at the Cathedral, and attracted a numerous attendance. The doors were opened at nine o'clock. By ten few seats were to be procured : the weather was very auspicious. Two galleries on each side of the choir were reserved for the friends of the Stewards, who consisted principally of Ladies ele. gantly . dressed. The Duke of Beaufort, Earl Bathurst, Lord E. Somerset, Marquis of Worcester, and the Mar quis of Lansdown, were among the distinguished per sons who attended the Meeung. There were about 1500 present. In the evening there was a Miscellaneous Conceit in the Shire Hall, which concluded with s' Goo save the King." Yesterday, Messrs. Millingfield and Marsden, the twn Churchwardens of St. Matthew, Bethnal green, and Bretton, the Ve_try Clerk, waited upon the Secre tary of State at the Home Office. The object of the meeting was to devise some measures to suppress the riots that take place every night in the pari.h, by a gang of thieves, consisting of five or six hundred. The gang rendezvous in a brick-field at the top of Spicer street, Spitalfields, and outposts are stationed to give an alarm should any of the civil power approach, and their cry is •' Warhawk," as a signal for re treat. On the brick-kilns in this field, they cook whatever meat and potatoes they plunder from the various shops in the neighbourhood. On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, being market days, Mon day and Friday at Smithfield, and Wednesday at Barnet, they sally out into the suburbs, and wait in ambush till a drove of beasts passes; they then attack the drovers, and take a beast from the drove, and con. soy it into the marshes till night, when they hunt it through the metropolis. Within the last for tnight, up wards of fifty persons have been robbed and beaten. In consequence, the Right Hon. Secretary gave orders that a teinforcement of forty men should be stationed in different pans of the parish, and that they should be relieved every three hours, and with instructions to pa trol the disturbed parts day and night, whist! is now the case. On Wednesday the gang attacked a Lady and Gentleman that were in a chaise in Bethnal-green•road, and after robbing and beating them, they cut the reins and traces. The Secretary of State, on Saturday last, had an interview with the Magistrates respecting the state of that part of the metropolis, and inquired if the robbers were distressed weavers? An answer was given in the negative—that they wete a set of idle and disorderly fellows. EXTRAORDINARY Slane—DO the 2d instant, as Mr. Scholes, of Grintsthorpe, gamekeeper to Lady WIN LOUGHBY D'EsaasY, was out in the field, his dog made a point at a hate, which he shot at about 20 yards' dis tance, and on going to take it up, he found to his asto nishment that he bad killed a leash of partridges also. At the termination of the Northern Circuit, when the, whole of the Inverness Calendar had been gone through, it was found that there was not a single trial from any Lof the counties of Nairn, Ross, Sutherland, or Caithness. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. DONCASTER, Sitre: It THE ST. LEGER STAKES. The first termite really appears to us to be Undeserving of the prominent station he Midi in the odds. In bur bumble opinion, was he the property of any other Gentleman than Mr. Watt, the public would not take 1,000 to 10 about him. We shall not be the least surprised if be does not even get a place. His baying beat Bedlamite, does not appear to us to speak much in his favour, foe although Bedlamite is a nice looking racing -like horse, be does not go any pace; he has only cantered since he has b een h ere: if t hi s pre • paration will win the Leger, the trouble other trainers take Is use.. less ; putting this out of the question, no Judge can find fault with his appearance. Mulatto (who, with the rest of Bat' Fitewilliam's hones, is trained about four miles from Doocaster, and will not be here till to-morrow) by his public running, is decidedly the best, and if Actaeon was not stump d in his race with Memnon, he'll win, or be very near. The Drape looks Well, goes Well, and it a better fa. vourite than Crusader, Lord Wharncliffe having declared to win with him; but we cannot divest ourselves of the recollection tbatCrusadet beat Goshawk twice, and Goshawk beat the Dragon. If there is any thing in public performance, Crusader will have a good chance, If the Dragon has, and we should not be astonished to see hint very near winning. Tarrare is a long-legged beast, wish shortpasterns, large belly, and appears to be as slow as a man. The General looks well, and goes well—if ever he did do so. Our old friend Forth is once more certain of sinning ; his lot look well, and go tolerably; but we fear it's no go for him this time. Fanny Davies Will be "there, or thereabouts," unless the report be true that she will not start; she is a sweet filly, and very full of action. Patti Pry is wrong named; he is not that cunning looking personage you would expect to see—be should be re-christened "Cock Pheasant." Last, tbnugh not least in the public estim J ti on , comes th e D u k e o f L ee d s ' Lisette filly ; if her temper does not stop her, she will be as near as a toucher. There are many who will not be surprised if the follow ing are the first four :—M utak°, Crusader, Fanny Davies, and Lisette. It is expected that about 28 will start. We subjoin the latest odds on &. Leger. to 1 agst Belzoni (9 to 4 taken ) 9 to 2 apt Bedlamite (5 to 1 ditto) 11 to 2 apt Mulatto (6 to 1 ditto) 13 to 1 apt Timm (14 to 1 ditto) 18 to 1 agst Crusader (20 to 1 ditto) 12 to 1 apt The Dragon (13 to 1 ditto) 90 to 1 apt The General (25 to 1 ditto) 20 to 1 apt Forth's lot 30 to 1 apt Lisette 50 to 1 apt Garcia MIDLAND MEETING—(PONTEPRACT)s•Tstetasna Y. A Plate of 50 soya. added to a subscription of S sovs. each. Mr. Ridsdale's ch. e. Why-tell, 3 yrs old 1 1 Mr. Grosvenor's b. h. Tawpy, 6 yrs old 3 3 Mr. W. Tote's br. h. Bonuses, 6 yrs old The Pontefract Stakes oflo sous. each, 5 goes. ft. Wr. Wyvill's b. m. Mirth, aged, list. Sib. Mr. Mill's br. h. Newborough, aged, 12st. 61h. . Mr. Ridsdale's ch. c. Why-tell, 5 yrs old, Itst. 31bt 5 Mr. Fitzroy's b. f. by Young Cakrel, 5 yrs old, itht. 111 b. 4 Forced Handicap of all the winners (matches excepted) of 10 eon. each. One mile. (Seven subscribers). Lord Normanby's br. h. Newborough, aged, llst. 1111% . 1 Lord Wilton's br. m. Lady Mary, lOst. Sib. . Mr. Ridsdale's b. c. Cock Robin, 4 yrs old, 12st. . • 3 Match for 20 sots.—Mr. Mt:tale's Buffer, aged, beat Mr. Wyvili's BtlL LICHFIELD RACES+Tnnammr. The Gentleman's Subscription Plate of 50 sows. Two miles. Mr. Mytton's hr. e. by Bustard 1 1 The City Subscription rate of SO sou. Mr. Gkave's Miller of Mansfield Sir T. Stanley's Haji . Baba . 1 0 1 0 1 0 The Cocking was decided as ISnows—Potter, 15m. sib. Wirer, Itm. MATCH AT CHESS BETWEEN LONDON AND EDINBURGH. The fourth game of this interesting match is decided; an ex press received yesterday morning at Toni's Coffee...house, announces the resignation of the Ealitiburgh players. The third game of the match is still pending; the first game which wascommenced on the 118tb of At nie ril, 1824, was won by lidinburgh; the second game was drawn. next game won by either party will decide it. THE GREAT TANDEM MATCH. This match, which, notwithstanding the weather, drew together - many sporting amateurs, took place yesterday over a circle of four miles, near Attletos, on the Ipswich Road. Captain Rawlinson undertook, for a wager of 500 Boys. to drive two horses tandem, thirteen miles in one hour, and to lose one minute for every break ' from the trot. The performance Vas considered a great one, and time was backed freely. Allowing a minute for the leader breaking into a gallop in going the eighth mile, the hazardous match was won by sixteen seconds only. The Captain offered to back his wheel horse to do fourteen miles in one hour. MR. WEST'S MATCH. This Gentleman started on Friday morning to go on foot from London to the eightieth mile -stone, close upon Uphaven, on the Weyhill-road, to Bath, and return in forty-seven hours. The match was for 200 sovereigns; one half of the road being hilly, the odds were six atid seven to four on time. He reached &sines in throe hours, where be made a temporary halt, and went on M Blackwatal where he took some refreshment. The pedestrian went to Overton (fifty-three miles). He walked to Weyhill, the next fourteen miles, in three hours, and touched on the nuth mile stone, and after three hours' rest returned back within a mile of Andover, leaving himself sixty-four miles to do in twenty hours. He performed his next twenty miles in four hours, when he fell lame, but continued on to Golden Farmer Hill, where he was put into his own vehicle, unable to proceed. The match was lust by twenty-seven miles, when he had eight hours to perform it in. A tendon sprang from the pedes trian's right kg in going the 120th mile, which kept getting worse. WRESTLING. Yesterday the much talked-of Cornish Wrestling Match, eom ntenced in the Bowling Green of the Eagle Tavern, in the City Road, when, notwithstanding the unfavenrable state of the weather, which in a great measure destroyed t►e afternoon's diversion, some excellent single matches were played, and four were announced as entitled to double play, Thirty sovereigns are to be divided amongst the best players of this ancient game, in the following proportions: To the first best player, 10 sovereigns; to t►e second, six sovereigns; to t►e third, four sovereigns; and to the fourth, one sovereign. Each double player is to receive 10s. The sport was continued till dusk, and will be renewed. PARTRIDGE SHOOTING. A match, on which heavy bets were pending, took place on Friday, between Mr. Swansea. of Herefordshire, and Mr. Beaumont, of a llt Su . Mr. Swansea shot from Bury Sc. Edmunds, on the New. mar et road, towards Great Yeldham, and Mr. Beaumont from W e's Mill, keeping towards Enfield. Mr. Swansea bagged 26 brace, and Mr. Beaumont 24. The match was $0 sovereigns aside. Both found plenty of birds, but they were shy. I I I PEDESTRIAN FEAT. A youthbf the name of William Barclay, from the neighbour. hood of Aberdeen, apparently about 17 or it years of age, costa -1 Imenced a pedestrian task at Bowden, on Tuesday evening tam, at Iseven o'clock. His attempt was to walk 110 miles in 24 successive lhours over the roughly paved streets, at that place. He, however, only aelomplished 109 miles and a half in the stated time, in the performance of which he was dreadfully cut in his feet, and his legs were very muck swollen. The attempt was not for any wager, and he was only attended by a time-keeper. A collection amongst the crowd assembled was the only reward of his voluntary exertions. A respectable surgeon of that place kindly attended to his feet and applied the proper dressings, and prescribed for him as so their futsre treatment. We bear he has been performing in a similar manner at Bridlington, liellay E ate. We recollect a match for a considerable sum about 30 years ago, when a man of the name of Yeoman, walked 100 miles in forty hours, and it was then considered a very .great feu! CONJUIIAL HAPPINEB2.—A Brussels paper contain% in a satirical article on the state of morals in Belgian), the following table. The Editor gravely assures ti) readers, that it is the result of authentic researches, and that they may rely upon its fidelity : Wives who have abandoned their husbands to fellow lovers 3,021 Husbands who have fled to avoid their wives . . 4 . 102 Voluntary separations . %OW Couples Wring at war with embodier under the sense roof 5,142 Couples who hate each ether cacao'', hat who think it ne cessary to keep ups certain regseadna balm the wield ',lig Persons living together with the Esse inarked billissonee to the habits and pumice of sash ether . 4,012 Persons who are reported happy by the I:eiti, but who really are not so . 1,210 Persons who art happy, in comparison with others who are mere wretched Really faithful and happy couples . 1,099 . 5