Star. — London, England, 1827-09-07 00:00:00

THE GAME LAWS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR. Another Session of Parliament has closed, and the jurt expectations of the people and of humanity have been disappointed, by no effectual steps having been taken t amend or alter the Game Laws. While Europe, and England in particular, have made such gigantic strides in intellectual refinement, philosophy, and even for the amelioration of suffering and of crime, the Game Laws still stand in all their feudal, odious, and cruel magnyude in the path of human right and justice.— Complaints are continually being made against the un due power of the " unpaid ' Magistracy ; hut what is it that giv-s this unconstitutional preponderance—this', more than judicial influence—an influence which de feats the wisdom of our ancestors, violates our charters, and makes the boasted trial by Jury a mockery and a bye-word? The Game Laws! Their operation is a libel upon humanity, and a disgrace to a free and be-', nevolent country. It is a notorious fact, that a man has more chances of escape when he slays his fellow-man, than if he incautiously destroys a hare or a pheasant! The Game Laws stand upon a principle of feudal se patation—a combination of the powerful and rich against the helpless and poor. The laws which are in force for the preservation of Game, admit of no excuse they are justly charged as the cause by which the taste and morals of the people are corrupted, their lives sa crificed, their persons imprisoned ; and, by the operation of these (Wiens laws, the property of the inhaHtants of this free country is trampled on by the insolence of barefaced power, without a single pretext for the ge neral good, and for no other purpose than this most laudable one, that certain individuals may indulge themselves in a barbarous and bloody sport, from which every enlightened and amiable mind shrinks in abhor rence and disgust. It has been adopted as part of a considerate and humane system that some certain men shall not sit in judgment upon the lives of their fellow men—butchers for instance ; and these men, who kill an ox or a sheep, from necessity, are considered " too familiar with blood" to sit on a Jury; whilst others, who go forth in wanton sport, and not from necessity to mangle living be'ngs and outrage the rights of their fellow-men, are deemed more eligible, and act as Ma gistrates and Jurors! That the Game Laws cannot be too much reprobated or tio seriously investigated, will be acknowledged by every considerate and humane mind, and we are gratified to see the subject so ably handled in a pamphlet written by Philanthropirs, who has likewise written a most excellent aid popular pam phlet on the public right of fishing by angle or nets; and it is on the principles laid down in this work, that Colonel Maceroiri intends trying the right of the public to fish in navigable rivers. The work on the Game Laws is divided into twelve chapters, In the first chap ter the principles of the Game Laws are considered, and their impolicy and injustice pointed out, by reference to facts and to history. The author observes that these " esclesive rights sapped the foundations of the throne in France, annihilated the aristocracy, and gave the de mocracy an ascendancy at once bloody and fatal." The second and third chapters are on the origin and policy of the Game Laws. Here it is admirably defined by the clearest deductions of reason and common sense, that the Game Laws are a violation of natural, political; and civil liberty—that they are "unnecessary and inex pediesit, and instead of operating for the general advan tage, they are a nursery for crime—that every year they reduce three or four thousand persons to beggary, by filling our prisons and burthening our parishes. In the fourth chapter the Statutes are considered.. By the Saxon law it appears " every man had a right to take to his own use the Game found on his own land." Then came the Conqueror and the feudal system, and de prived the people of their tights and dearest privileges. The Game Laws at the present time retain the princi ples and practices of that period of feudal vassalage. In this and in some of the succeeding chapters, the author most forcibly marks the encroachments of power, and observes that in statutes so extremely penal the language is scarcely intelligible; and yet by the operation of such loose, vague, and indefinite expressioras as " the game," and " any other game," the privation of the liberty of the people of England is enforced. Blackstone is quoted in proof of the charge of intricacy and obscurity in the statutes on the Game Laws. Philanthropus observes in chapter 7, that property cannot exist in wild aniniale.— In case of sealing them in their wild state, whose pro perty would they be laid in the indictment to be? Such an indictment could not be supported. The remaining chapters contain much acute observation, excellent rea soning, and judicious reference; and the author con cludes in the hope that his discussion will procure a result favourable to the general principles efcanstitutional freedom, and to the increasing the happiness of his fellow creatures and brother Englishmen. Sir THOMAre LETHBRIDGE and his Lady have arrived at their house in Whitehall-place, from Switzerland. Ilr. GRADY, who was severely wounded by an Irish clergyman in a duel at Boulogne•our-naer, about a month ago, la Di we are happy to learn, recovering. This Is the second duel occurring at Boulogne in the course of a fortnight, on both of which occasions a Clergyman of the Established Church severally appeared as a combatant; and in the latter rencounter, as we have seen, a Reverend Divine had the best of the battle.—So much for the church militant In the extensive pheasantries of his Grace the Duke of Waimea:ow, at Stratileidaaye; at It. Borrow Dc Beauvais, RA i• at Englefield and Mortimer; and at W. Constitute's, Req. Aldermaston Park, an epidemic rages among the pheasants; from fifteen to twenty of these valuable birds have been picked up dead every morning fur ozone time past. The same disorder is reported to be equally destructive in the great preserves throughout the country. The supply of pheasants will in consequence be shorter this season than ever was known. The keepers attribute the disease to the dry season. Hares are also a short breed; but par tridges generally were never mote plentiful In the Museum at Abbotsford, there is a small Roman paters, or goblet, in sheering which Sir WALTZ% Soo:: tells the fol lowing story :—" I purchased this (says he) at a Nobleman's soup near by, at the enormous sum of twenty-five guineas. I would bar e got it for twenty pence, if an Antiquary, who knew its value, bad hot been there and opposed me. However, I was al most consoled fur the bitter price it cost, by the amusement I de rived from an old woman, whb had evidently come from a dis. tore to purchase some trifling culinary articles, and who had nu taste for the antique. At every successive guinea which we bade In , the posers, this good old lady's mouth grew wider and wider with unsophisticated astonishment, until at last I heard her mutter to herself, in a tone which I shall never forget —' Five-an'-twenty guineas! if the perritch wan votssot Mat, what soil Me kcal pat gang fir r"—Glasjow Free Press. The E iglish Theatre was to have been opened on the 3d ul September; but, by a new arrangement, the gets ierlormance will not take place till tuwards the end of the present week. It will then open with SHE EWAN'S Cou,edy of the Rivals, and the Farce of For 4114 Frolic. The principal characters will be sustainer" by Merv's. LIB7ON, AlwT 5 EGitaTON, POWEIt, and LExtrat ; Miss SSIITHOON, Mrs. Russet., and Miss • ItT111: a Ir.—a/Nets Payer of Tuesd a y' ' rt fer g of )0 oi gb rte 11 , at 111 KO al le 0 ro ) 01 roe iefl ate ;0 ibett g Rib THE ARMY. Detachments belonging to the 4th, 11th, and 13th Regiments of 1 1 4 ht Dragoons, marched this day from Westminster for the Ca valry Depot at Maidstone. Detachments belonging to the 14th. 40th, and 54th Regiments of Foot embarked this morning, on board a steammessel in thel River, f or Gravesend, on route to Chatham. A Detachment of remarkably fine young men of the 23d Regt. (Royal Welsh Fusileers), under command of Lieutenant Potent., baited at Taunton on Monday, and the following limning resumed their march, for embarkation at Plymouth, to join their regiment In Portugal. Wednesday morning, a Board was held at Chelsea, for the pur pose of examining and admitting discharged and wounded 'Others as out-pennoners en that Royal foundation; when upwards of two hundred passed the Board. Tuesday a very elegant entertainment was given at the Cavalry Barracks, Weymouth, to a somber of Fashlonables at present there, by Major and Mrs. Cuss:into; at the 4th Royal Irish Dragoon Guards. We understand that the colours of the Royal Marines are to bear the globe, with an appropriate motto, in consideration of their va rious and meritorious services in the several quarters of the world. —Pfrowithis Journal. LORD FITZROY SOMERSET'S LIST. How Goslings, Serrates& 5.-oflicers who may have business to transact with Lord Frrsaor Sonaaser, en Toads" will ea• press their wish on the previous day, in a Nate addressed to him, to hap their names placed en the List for that purpose, instead of personally attending to do so. They will be pleased to add to the direction of their Nptes--" Foa Tussur's Lam," and the Notes will be cumbered, as received, to the extent of Fifty. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. The following is an extract of • letter received at the North and South American Coffee House, from Captain Ho:Ama•s, of the ship Silas Richuds, it is dated " Off Cork, id September. " I have arrived thus far after heating against an easterly wind since the 18th ult. We left New York on the ath ; the Robert Fulton, from Belfast, was going In. On 13th, lat. 43. 30. 100. 55.10. passed the ship Alexander, Baldwin, for Philadelphia. 19th spoke ship Dependant, from Uverpool, toe Quebec. We have passed within the last week abort thirty sail beating in, five of which ap peared to be West ludiamen. Passengers per Silas Richards:— Mrs. Rastible and Son, the Rev. Mr. Yates and Son, M . Sam phear, Panet, and Green." . Tha idilzatMth, from the Cape of Good Hope to the Mauritius, foundered at sea—crew saved The Coromandel, Doran, from Madras, has arrived off Falmouth. The crew of the Dutch schooner Latona had killed their Cons islander, Mr. James Cook (an American), and Mr. Crozier, the supercargo, and carried the vessel into Sookw, and the Sultan of the island bad refused to give her up on the application of the Go vernor of Manilla.—rsng. Con. Reg. said Ist. Jan. 13. FALMOUTIN Sarr. S.—Wind E.—Arrived oe port. the Merlins Wean, from Jamaica; and the Emerald, Knocun.t.s, from ditto; also the Thames, HAvrtns, from China. POSTIXOO2Id, Sari. KN.ll.—Arrived his Majesty's skip Kangaroo, from Jamaica. Lsmeow., Strr..s.- , -AtTivell the Irlam, CamestLL, from Bar bados ; Margaretha, from Gottenburgh; Johanna Christina, WAL- T'', from Stralsund; and'Bremen ' Ow, from Bremen. Sailed the Peneverance, Baowi, for Calc utta. Sm. 4.—Arrived the Jean, JACK, from Cape Breton ; Harmony, Maas, and Mary, Rircsia, from St. Petersburgh ; Karl of We, Scow, from Riga ; and Harmony, from Dantsig. YAILKOOTII, Sarr. 6.—Arrived the Jane, flown, from St. Peteri. burgh ; Antonio, Haws, from Archangel; and Albion, MAT, from Datatilg. Ptirtiourn, Sem s.—Wind E.N.E.—Arrived off port the Mary Ann, O'Banar, from Bengal. The Royalist tender sailed yester day for Milford. The Eclair, la, Captain S. L. H. Vassats, ar rived on Monday front the South American station, last from Portsmouth, to be surveyed and paid off, and recommissioned. if found in aSt state. Remain—lo Hamoase, the Britannia, Ocean, Windsor Castle, Victor, Eclair, Plumper. Bramble, Bittern ; and Fox, Line, and Atrow revenue cotters ; at the Island, the Nightin gale. Captain %mato: is appointed Barrack Master of the Royal Marine Artillery, vice Smut.; deceased. Mr. Joseph Stevenson Is appointed to be Asdatant-Sergeost of the Vector. Mr. T. Sheers, late Purger to Admiral Blackwood, has boas appointed Parser of the Undaunted. Commanders R. Hoare G. LH. Johnstone, and F. Brace; an promoted to the rank of Captain. Lieutenants H. N. illasttiood, R. L. Baynes, Joseph Marshall, Hon. W. Keith, and John Pommy, are promoted to the rank of Commander. Messrs. H. Rpm, W. Maitland, L Gurley, R. Hammond, J. T. Talbot, C. H. S. Haswell, A. IL C. Capel, W. H. Goddard, J. N. Gledstooe, P. Leeount, G. Hart, and J. Brisbane, are pro moted to the rank of Lieutenant. The following pronuniona have taken place in the /loyal Marine T r otse Captains of Companies—Captain Cements, from half-pay, vice Moore; Lieutenants Morgan, vice fkktain ; and Gordon, vice Wo!rigs. To be unattached Captain..--Lieutenants Dadd, Whylock,Vioe, Hunt, Thompkins, and Halloran. To be First Lieutenants from half to full pay—Campbell, Ho hernias Watkins, Searle, SuDock, Tothill, Barry, Palliser, Smith. Mr. l ihomas Pawley has been appointed a Sub-measurer at Ply. mouth Dock-yard, vice Mr. Kersteks, superannuated. Mr. Tre. neweth, Sub-measurer, has been superannuated. Glati•craist. August Mr—The Glory, Trudele, which arrived to-clay from Newcastle, passed within hail on the 12th instant, of Oporto, a suspicious corvette mounting 14 guns, which had a striped flag flying, like the American (red and white), but without the stars. The Resolution, Cubic, from St. Jag* de Cuba to Trieste put back Isere on the 14th instant from the Mediterranean. She I was boarded near Oran by a small lateen-rigged yeses', armed, which took away same provisions and sugar. _ Tatrou, Juan !2.—The Tripolitan corvette, Massonda, sails this da but it is not known against what flag she will cruise. PAass, Sue. s.—The Leander, Falk, arrived at Cadia on the 12th ult. from London ; was boarded two days before, off Cape St. Vincent, by an Algereine galliot of 12 guns. SUIPWIICE ix THE PENTLAND the 27th ultimo, at six • ma. a brig (supposed to be the Glasgow, of Rothssy) struck upon the Loather Rock, and in ten minutes afrerwards, sank in eight fathoms water. The crew, getdog into their beat, narrowly escaped the rock, and made for the Pentland Sherries Lighthouse ; but the tide proving adverse, they were carried past the Skerries. The light keepers, however, had the satisfaction to see the boat get safely alongside of a vessel about three miles to the offing. &HUM Z 521222 •T TN' cusrom-Housa. Towaans—The Amazon, Linder, from Jamaica; Paquete do Oporto, Da Sa, from Oporto; Pursuit, Bonin, from Hamburgh; Cleopatra, Morris, from St. Petersburgh; Vigilant, Hayhow, from Gottenburgh; Ploen, Punt. from Sondswall; E urydice, Thorn. berg, from Biomburgh ; Vrouw Dieuwke, Boverkamp, from Worum; Union. Galloway, from Harlingen; and Sprightly, Smith, from Amsterdam; dEolus, Fenwiek, from St. Petersburgh; Sala. cia, Addison, from St. Petersburgb; Attwood. Stranack, from Rotterdam; Blagdon, Thompson, from St. Petersburgh ; Tulloch Castle, Pearce, from Jamaica; and the Hero, Taylor, from Belfast. CLaaams Ourwaano—The Courier, Heather. for &Rau ; and Active Hatchings, for Dublin; Shamrock, Osborne, for Elisineur and R ostock ; St. Charles, Cousins, for Quebec and Montreal ; Simeon, Room, for Hamburgh; Active, Shadeach, for Cook; Chilton, Galilee, for Wyburg ; Elisabeth , for Elsineur and St. Petersburgb; and the Abeona, Wood, for St. Petersburgh. Wednesday, a Meeting of the Inhabitants of Graves- end was held in that town, when it was resolved, for the purpose of affording better accommodation to the nu• memos visitors, to remove ecrtain houses and buildings standing across the line of the High -street, and to ins provr the public landing place at the town gag. So matei ill a diminution of water has taken place up the river since the throwing of two arches of o.d London Bridge into one, that at low water a person may now walk across the Thames at Waterloo Bridge, some •.f the arches of which are sca:cely passable in the shal lowest boat. Ye.terd ly a fire broke out in an old dilapidated build. ing used as a workshop by Mr. Nichids, bechtead.maker, in Vine-.treet, Hatton.w.tll, which totally consumed the same and the house adjoining, inhabited by a great number of Irish la`)ourers, who were with difficulty aroused from their perilous situation, but we did not hear of any persona ) accident. SPORTING INTELLTGINKIL lIRTTING.EOOIt, TATTERSALL'S, Sart 0. • • _ _ _ Notwithstanding the absence of many Subscribers at Warwick sod Pontefract, the room was both numerously and respectably attended yesterday afternoon. Betting was languid at first, but towards lye o'clock became extremely animated and Important. Changes of some conselyuence have been effected in the odds, Matilda and Medora having displaced Sancho—the filly following; Gushy at only 11 to 1, andi f lots of friends; Medorces party was also strong. Nonplus was o f th e go all the thy, and it is a query whether be will Italic. The Pontefract Races have considerably diminished the field, several outsiders having disappeared altogether. It has also had the effect Of making Hartpary a better favourite, though he is still in the rears Mr. Luntley's horse is said to be spin all right, and be accordingly advanced from 100 to 50 to 1. At • later hour than usual the odds closed thus—. Si. Lamm. 11 to 4 apt Mameluke 5O to 1 apt Pedlar 9 to 2 apt Granby 30 to 1 agst Antiope 11 to 1 apt Matilda 30 to I apt Translation 14 to 1 apt Medoro 30 to 1 apt Popsy 15 to 1 apt Sancho 55 to 1 apt OUvera - go to 1 apt Lunaria 40 to I apt Moonshine 22 to 1 apt Nonphos 1000 to 20 apt Hartpory (taken) 22 to 1 apt Malek 1004 to 29 apt Lumley 25 to 1 agat Reviewer (taken) 6 to 4 on Mameluke apt Granby (taken). 6 to 4 on Reviewer apt Pedlar (taken). 1000 to 400 on Lunaria apt Moonshine (taken). 1 . 1200 to 1000 on Hartpury agst Lumley (taken). PONTEFRACT RACES, Sszr. 5. The Foal Stakes of 50 soya each, h. ft. Mr. Hooldsworth's Coalition . walked over Two paid.. The Geld Cop, value 100 gs and2o added. Three miles. Mr. Wilsoes br. h. Starch • . • I Lord Scarborough's S. f. Pasta „ . . . 2 Mr. Houldsworth's Fanny Davis . . . 5 The Ledstoo Stakes of 25 sota each, for three yr olds. Lord Sligo's Pelican . . . . . I Mr. W. Fox's b. c. Soldan . i . . 2 The following is the Leger Betting here this evening -sto 1 apt Mameluke-5 to 1 apt Granby..-11 to 1 apt Sancho —l4 to 1 apt Nonplus-20 to 1 apt Matilda-10 to 1 apt Me. dero-20 to 1 apt Lunaria-25 to 1 apt Reviewer-30 to 1 apt any other. WEYMOUTH RACES, Sen. 3. His Maiesty's Plate of 100 saes. Two mile heats. Lord Paimerston's Losboraugh. aged . . 1 I Mr. Racklyffees Laurence, 4 yrs . . . dr Mr. Farquharson 's Presentiment, 6 yrs • . dr The Johaston's Plate of 50 soya. Mk and a distance. Mr. Humphrey's Sober Fanny, aged . . . 1 1 Mr. Hanham's Shamrock . . 5 2 Mr. Harding 's Merryman, 4 yr* . . 4 3 Mr. Whittle's Zirana . . . . , 2dr The Members' Plate of 50 soya. Two mile heats. Mr. Farquharson's Presentiment Mr. Chawner's Giantess Mr. liadclyifee's Laurence . 1 1 . 5 2 . 3 dr WARWICK RACES, Sam S. Sweepstakes of 25 sots. each, for two yr olds. T.Y.C. Mr. Sadler's eh. e. by Ruben. . . Mr. Beardsworth's bib. f. L'Estelle Mr. Rawillisoo's eh. f. Ruby S;ven drawn. Gold Cup of 100 sera. valtie; - andioosovs. in specie. Four mile heats. Mr. Giffard's ch. C. Leviathan, 4 yrs . 1 . . Mr. Helyoake's br. e. Boston, 4 yrs : it . . . . Mr. Greville's b. c. Derv's', 4 yrs . 5 . air G. Piget's b. c. Granby, 4 yn . . 4 /Sixteen drawn. A Malden Plate of .€5O. Two mile heats. Mr. L. Cbatitoo's cb. g. Constantine, 5 yn . Mr. Giffard's b. c. Billy Lackaday, 5 yrs . Mr. Canning 's b. f. Maria, 3 yrs . . 1 1 . 2 2 • 3 dr _ . . One drawn. _ Hunters' Sweepstakes of 10 nes. cacti. remain beats. Mr. Davls's br. g. by Edward, fa yrs .• . . 1 1 Mr. Bentea's g. b. by Young Grimaldi, li yes i . 1 alt Mr. Platers b. as. Velocity, 6 yrs • : . 5 5 Three dimes. • BEDFORD RACES, Sm. S. The Woburn Stakes of 10 errs. each. Thhmen Subscribers. The best of Three Two.mße Heats. Marquis of Tavistoek names c. b. Ups, 4 yrs, Set. Mb. . 1 1 Dale of Bedford names b. k. Hesperus, aped, het. 61b. . 4 I Mr. Gooddisouss b. e. Demon, 3 err 7st. . . 5 3 Lord G. W. Russell names g. m. 5 Try set. nib. I dr . . . • The grey led of in the lira heat, all keeping near logether—when past the turn coming op to the road Ups. came forward, and Hes perus kept close till within the ropes, when the latter was pulled up, and Upas had it all his own way. The mead beat Hesperus led of, and the race was mutated the while May, Ups. besting by less than half a head. The Bedfordshire Stales of IS som. each. Seven Subscribers. Three . _ .. _ _ declared forfeit of 5 sows. each. A Two.mlie heat. -- Marquis of Tavistock's ch. ns. Leeway, 4 yrs, Set. 41b. . 1 Mr. flowerby's b. h. Lionel Lincoln, 5 yrs, /at. 121 b. . Leeway kept the lead all the way and beat by a length. The Duke of Bedford's Purse .f £5O for three yr olds. About one mile and a half. Mr. Mailer's c. e. Moorbuzzard, list. 7lb. 1 Marquis of Tavistock's b. c. Pilot, sat. 71b. e Pilot took the lead for about a quarter of a mile, when Moor. buzzard advanced and kept first, winning a fine race by half a neck. The Ladles' Plate of £5O, with sezil added from the Racing Fund. The best of beau, three mile heats. Marquis of Tavistock's e. m. Leeway. 4 yrs. au. 61b. . Mr. S. B. Edward's b. f. Sybilla, S yrs, 6st. nil. 2 No go—Hesperas and others being drawn, leaving only a hall- bred hUy to run apt Leeway, who walked over the last heat. The Hunters' Stakes of 5 soya. each. Ten Subscribers or no race. Not filled. BLACKFRIARS ROWING MATCH. Yesterday afternoon a purse, given by the Ladles and Gentleness of the Ward of Farringdon Within and its vicinity, was rowed for In t►ree heats by the following young watermen belonging to Blatt- Mars.stairs :—Rohert Ware, Green--John Ware, Blue—Richard Phillips, Yellow—George Osborn, Piok—and John Christey, Crimson. They started from the tipper side of 131ackfriars Bridge, through the third arch of Waterloo Bridge, down the north shore, round the pier of Southwark Bridge, and up again through the centre arch of Biackfriars Bridge. Yellow and Green won the first heat. The second heat was wort by Crimson and Pink, at six o'clock, after an admirable contest between Crimson and Yellow; the latter came in first with Crimson close on his quarter. The , first man received relit, and a few sovereigns were distributed among the rest. BOXING. A boxing match of no ordinary description took place in a field, l near Bayswater, Wednesday night, by moon light. The.stakes were something short of a rump and dozen ; after fifteen rounds of the most determined description, both men were beat to a staroj.,l still; time being called, neither could be bnioght to the scratch,' although every exertion was resorted to by their respective seconds. The parties are Knights of the Whip, and being opposed to each other in their line of business, created a grudge,wklch wise Kinsale* to exertion to obtain victory. FRENCH SPORTING. Peals, San. 3.—The hone races for the Royal POWs took place yesterday at the Champ de Mars. The King and Royal Family honoured the course with their presence. M. de Villele presided in absence of the Minister of the Interior, whose pens. /sailfishe holds during the journey of the latter In the Departments of the North. The races began at two o'clock preellely. Five horses—Vittoria, Juliette, Diomede, Mairiside, and Dagbada, started together, in the first heat, for the purse of 5,000 francs, assigned to horses of the second rank. The distance, which was four liteseetres, was run in five minutes. fifteen seconds, by Vie. torso, a Mare belonging to the Duke de Guicbe, which woo the bear. She was close followed by Juliette, belonging to M. Perrin, which came in two seconds after her. This heat was scarcely over, when three bones— Medea, La Bicbe, and Yoiing Rattler, which were entered for the purse of 6,000 francs, started to run the first beat for that purse, which was speciallyreserved for horses of the I.t rank. Medea got first in, she ran the heat In Smin. 5 sec. and 4.sths. The horses matched for the purse of 5,000 franc/416in started for the second heat, which was also won by Vittoria, although keenly conceited by 'Juliette, which lost only by four-fifths of a second, and to : whose propriety the King gave 4,000 francs, Vittoria re ceiving the purse of s,ooo.—Medea afterwards started for tie second, ulna she ran alone, La 'fiche and Young Rattler being drawn. She came in in five minutes and eleven seconds, one-fifth. The purse of 6,000 francs was given to the Duke de Quiche, her romter. , --Next Sunday, the Races for the Royal Parse of 6,000 inane', and for the Dauphin's Purse of Zi,ooo francs, will be run.-- Ernie* proper. '7; CORONERS' INQUEert Yesterday two to geests we►e held at the Ship and "Billet, Rotherhithe, Upton the bodies of James Youngi and John O'Brien, two Irish labourers, who were killed by the bursting of a soap-boiler on the preinises of a tallow melter. The deceased were employed in the boiling house on Monday last, when they allosred the flue to get o►erheated, and it buret, and the boiling matter rushing o►er them, they ,were so dreadfully scalded, that they only lived a short time. Verditt -14 Accidental Death." An Inquest was held at the Beta Head. New Road, on the body of a man unknown, who was found by a watchman on Tuesday morning, in the most de plorable want, being unable to mo►e of speak, and scarcely any thing to co►er his person. He was carried to the Workhouse, where he died on his arrival. Verdict .. 4 ‘ Died by the Visitation of Goo." An Inquest was held at the Rainbow, Lower-street ; Islington, on the body of a genteelly dressed youth, unknown, found drowned in the New Ri►er, near the Thatched House. There being no marks of ►iolence on the person, and a watch being in his pocket, the Jury retuned a ►erdict of is Found Drowned.'" An Inquest was holden at the Black,mith's Arms, in Backchurch-lane, on the body if Mrs. Watkins, the keeper of a low brothel in the neighbourhood, who re tired to her room in a state of intoxication, and was found in the morning quite dead. A medical man pronounced it as his opinion that death was produced by suffocation, brought on by intoxication.--Verdict accordingly. A WANDERER. Friday week, the 24th ult. a poor man, who had been wandering about Galloway and Dumfriesshire for months, was put into a cart and conveyed to Kirkeud• bright, from a farm-house in the neighbourhood. His legs and thighs were covered with sores, which had began to mortify from want of proper dressing, and his general health was also in a deplorable state. His beard bore ample testimony to the fact that no razor had crossed it for years; his combined and matted locks had remained uncut for an equal length of time; and also gether his appearance was so frightful, that the owners of .he very humble,t lodgings positively refused to hive any thing to do with him, until the Minister of the parish humanely interfered, and got the Magistrates to issue a warrant on the subject. An asylum was then provided for the wanderer; but he did not occupy it long, for although every attention was paid to him, he died in the course of the following day. Ho. was able to speak until within a few minutes of his death ; but he repeatedly refused to reveal hisname, and when pressed on the subject, faintly muttered, " never, never." He admitted, however, that he came from Newcastle, and both his language and tone of voice indicated that he bad seen better days, and was superior to the ordinary class of mendicants. He was apparently between 50 and 40 years of sge, stoutly made, with red hair, fea tures strongly marked, stood about 5 feet 10 inches; and should this paragraph ever meet the eye of his re latives, it will be a satisfaction to them to know that his remains were decently interred at the expense of the Kirk Session of Kirkcudbright.—We have traced the above character through a number of places, in all of which he excited a good deal of interest. His style of language was figto alive and scriptural, and though ob. vlously deranged, he talked rationally on a variety of subjects. He never asked for alms, but thankfully took what was given to him, avoiding strong driuk, aid living exclusively on milk and vegetables. He said he was a Nazarite under a vow, and had received a mission to warn mankind of their trespasses and sins; that he was born to govern the world with a rod of iron; that he had a vial of wrath to pour out on the present gene. ration; and that be would be seen riding at the last day on woof the horses mentioned in the Revelations. One Lady, who was very kind to him, and at whose house he had been kept several nights, was anxious to know his name and the place of his nativity; but his answer was, that his vow enjoined silence on these heads," and added, "but this bed is not like that I was accustomed to lie in." The same individual wished to get his sores dressed, bat he sternly refused, observing " that the hand of Gou should not be intermeddled with..-.Dumfries Courier. THE MARKETS. CORN EXCHANGE, MARLLANE, Sim 7, Our supplies having arrived very sparingly this week, we bad more demand for almost every ankle; and as t►e samples of Wheat and Barley' came rather damp and rough, eft dry samples of Wheat and Barley obtained fdonday's prices. Beans were much uooght after, but as the factors demanded exorbitant prices, no sales have been effected. Oats command Monday's prices, and sales rather brisk. In other articles no alteration. .i SMITHFIELD MARKET, Strr. 7. In Mutton and lamb there is no alteration front Monday; bet Beef looks heavy at 4s. 6d. to ss. per stone for the best Meat. Veal maintains its price, ss. id. to 6s. per stone, being the price of the best Calves ; and Ss. to ss. 4d. that of the larger. Pork bOm at Ss. 6d. per stone far the best dairy-fed Porkers; and 4s. to 4s. 10d. for the large Hogs.—Beasts, 645; Sheep, 11,610 ; Pig►, 130 ; Calves, 254. _ Beef, per stone, Ss. 44. to Ss.. Mutton, Ss. W. to Ss. Vest, Ss. 6d. to 6s. Pork, Ss. 24. to ss. ed. Lamb, 41. to St.—Hay, pee load, XS 10$. to £5 10s. Clover, £4 10$. to .C 6 6s. Straw, .41 les to 12 Ss. Non.courAoron or via Prasous.—The following oftheatic anecdote tends to strengthen the notion that the plains is Rat contagious. A young woman of Amsterdam becoming ia lbsied, during the last great pestilence that raged in that sky, her friends bad her removed to a summer-heue in the garden, whither food was conveyed to her in the most cautious manner. This iiri bed a lover, who now, during the cruel &scrams of Ng mistress Vibes family, contrived to convey himself into the garden, and, regardless of the deadly disorder, to enjoy the closest in with Is beloved. It Is well known that fearf4il calamities often m the inluence of human laws. These lovers despised t h e sacra. ;sent of marriage; and the girl recovering, and exhibiting diet usual sumptome of irregular passion, while her lover remised uninfected, aforded one proof, that In the plague contact Is not elways, at least, followed by infection —Let4sio Weekly amino. Yesterday the workmen be their labours in the Birdcage Walk, St. James's - Park; they commenced their operations at the lower part of the walk, that immediately leading to St. James's-place. and Backing.. ham gate. They were engaged in digging up the gravel, lowering the hill, and removing the rubbish into the moat, beyond which the fencing used,to stand. The work of exhumation at he Burial Ground, at present adjoining St. Martin's Church, and inclosed within very high palings, is now proceeding. The re. mains are unburied and removed in tbe most respectful manner, in hearses, &c. And, preparatory to ti jetted impro►ements around St. Martin's Church one side of the Strand, &c. several of the now empty. Monday nib last an alarming fire brote South-street, Yea sil, which in about two how, half burnt down nine or ten cottages, occupied Wining people, some. of whom lost their all. Vi th pe e C p t r tlni .6, along uses ale e out in us ands I d by la.