The National Register. — London, England, 1822-04-08 00:00:00

TROrIING MATCH ES On Monday last the three greatest attempts perhaps ever recorded of trotting, and on which thonsatorts were pending, took place. The fir 4 match was that of Mr. Within's horse, which heat the slate coloured Ame Oran, barked to trot threr miles in nine minutes for 100 guineas. It was reported that the horse was lame, and sip to Ilse vv. ring before the start,b to I was the hinting on time at the Tom Tavern, and more thou 2 to I wa■ bet before atarliar, as the horse spewed a link lame in going from Hampton to Sunbury Common, where the match took place. Mr. Dyson's nsan,Jack, rode the horse, and when at speed the lauseness was slot apparent, but she horse was more than three minutes doing the first mile, isod there was LI increase of speed dining the match. The horse broke into a gallop near the George Inn, when about 100 yards from honk, and the pressure of horsemen was so great at his heels, that his jockey turned him with ditfi cony, and the match was lost by 40 seconds. Caps. liallord's matches to trot eight miles and a half in half ass hour, and to carry 1 t atone, with a horse bona flek his property, for 100 guineas ; and a second snatch, for a like sons, to trot a horse 17 miles in an I , also Ids property, took glare on Monday, over a two•wile piece of ground, at Nlerston vale, Surrey. The eight miles and a hall match was stone as follows : Miss. Sec. Pint two miles Second ditto 7 3 Third ditto !tonsils ditto 7 8 The half mile 29 57 A minmusre not dreamt of was here pruetised. A jorkey of 10 stone immediately mounted the same horse, and peoreeded rut the second match, to the eAtotikhinent of all present. The horse had esidently been kept in, as the figures under will 'thew t Min. Sec. The mile and a half making ten miles, including ntonnting time, done in 6 In The Sixth Iwo miles ... Seventh ditto Eighth ditto Last mile 3) 13 The match was lost by 13 seeonds. when the Captain harked the horse to do the 17 miles within the hour on Thursday, and to carry lOst.7lbs. The match is for 200 guineas. RENEWAL OF CAPTAIN HALPORD'S MATCH.—This Amick, for the Captain's horse to trot 17 miles, for 200 poineas, was renewed on Thursday, and the failure on Monday gave it all additional interest. The horse, upon that occasion, did rittlii miles and a half, with II stone upon his back, within half an hour, hut, on beim; pushed to do the 17 miles within an hour, the match was Imt by 13 seconds, and it led to the present one, the backers of time thinking too much had been taken out of the horse to complete the 17 miles so soon after. The ground over which the horse trotted was two miles of the Mine as he performed on Monday, on the Bury road. He carried I I stone in the former half hour race, and 10 stone in the hour race, and in this instance lie carried I!) stone and a half, and did each two miles as follows; Min. See. Min. See. Float two miles 6 18 6th two miles.... 7 34 211 ditto 34 ditto 4:li ditto 6id I The 17th mile .. 340 sth ditto I 53 58 38 Betting was even at starting. and fi to 4 on time after the horse broke into a gallop in the 4th mile, and had to turn. He also broke in the Illth mile, but won the race easy at last. Mr. It. Iloulston's match for 50 guinea•, to drive a tandem IS miles in one hour, and to trot the first seven n ic ks, took place on Thursday, over a foor mile RA on the Bromley-road. The horse did the fir,4 four mites in 18 minutes and 22 seconds, and the other three in 14 /ninnies and 8 seconds, leaving 27 minates for the eight sidles gallop. The horse did the eighth in:le in 3 mi nutes to seconds, the next four in 13 minutes 12 seconds, and the retnaining three utiles in to minutes and 50 svconels, winiting, the match by 18 seconds. It was a Ail,. performance, and the pacing of the horse at the gallop was a line treat.—Betting was 5 to 4 on time. G. B. Mainwaring, Esq. bas resigned his office as Chief Magistrate of Marlborough-street, which he had held since the removal of Sir Robert Baker from that office to Bow-street. He has also resigned the treasurership of the county of Middlesex.— Mr. Stafford, the chief clerk of Bow -street, hits announced his intention to become a candidate for the vacant office, and has addressed a circular to the Magistrates soliciting their suffrages Ott 11 ednesclay ;thermion a youna man named Nine. ;tan, a carpenter, employed in the King's-theatre, while eittleatoitritta to secure a trap-door, slipped the hold he hod of the beam; and tell iltiough the stage and imiz t rine floor, a distance of 37 feet, and unfortunately tall ing on his head, fractured his skull in a dread ul man her. lie was instantly taken tip by several of the per formers, and prompt medical assistance was vmdeted Lim, but tvithoat any avail, as he died in about an hour. A Coroner's Inquest was held at the Regent's Arms, Regent -street, Westminster, before hos. thugs, Esq. on the body of ?Jr. Timmas Brown, a most respectable trartsulaii, residing in Frederick's-place, who died see!. drnly out Friday list, From the es idence it appeared, that the deceased returned from Isis business as usual in the afternoon, and seemed well; his spirits were also extremely cltearlul. He had drank one clip of tea, and on 'Auto the second, deceased suddenly exclaimed— "On dear, what is the maned " soil fell backwards in the chair; lie never spoke after —Mr. W. Il Pamter, surgeon, of !twilit y -terrace, Horreterry•road, said, lie anentled the deceased, and be considered he had died of serious apoplexy. Tile Jury returned a verdict—died of apuklexy. Till NATIONAL ItEGISTEE Al= - - - - - -- - CAMBRIDGE COU.VTY MEETING. Thursday, pursuant pursuant to a Requisition to the High Sheriff, a Meeting of the Freeholders and Inhabitants of this county was held. for the purpose of taking into consideration the propriety of again petitioning for a Reform in the Commons House of Parliament, as the most effectual means of relieving the present agricultural distress, and securing the future prosperity of the kingdom. Ti,e High Sheriff having opened tic business a the day, J. D. ;Helmet, Esq. gime forward and addressed the meet. ing. IVith regard to agricultural distress, lie said, it was unne cessary to say a word—the tenantry were reduced to ruin—the yeomanry, the pride of their country, were fast sinking to po certy—and the labourer reduced from comparative at uence to abject beggary I and, lastly, the impoverished landlord was obliged to row to his capital to keep up appearances. He ridi culed the idea that distress was occasioned by over-production, and that the only relief to be looked to was in the acridity of the land. He alluded to the Agricultural Report, just printed, and declared his opinion that a greater mass of delusion hail never before been set forth•—(llear. hear.) It was only by the re duction of taxation proportionate to the low price of corn, that effectual relief could be afforded. It was asked then, how could the public creditor be paid ? He would answer, by a reduction of the Civil List. Places , Pensions. Arc. and lie denied that there was any necessity for a breach of faith with the landholder until these remedies had been tried. A Reform in the House of Com mons he deemed essential, and hoped to see the day when Re form would triumph over Ministerial inherence, sad that the House of Commons would become the guardian of the rights and liberties of the people, instead a a machine to extort money out of the pockets of an impoverished and overburdened people. He concluded by proposing a aeries of resolutions, dee:ming that the main cause of the distress was in an exorbitant taxation ; and that the removal of a large portion of the public burtlicns was the only effectual relief I and that a reformed House of Commons was the only security against that ,ystcro of mis government which had nearly overwhelmed a classes of society in one common ruin. _ ...... -...-.... The Rev. G. A. Racing supported the resolutions. The Duke of BEDIMILD said, he had waited to see whether any gentleman would appear to oppose the resolutions. He had not been in the habit of attending meetings in this county, but he thought it his duty to attend this. and urge a petition for re form. without wkich there was no salvation for the country. His opinion was not founded on slight grounds ; he had sat thirty four years in Parliament. and his experience convinced him of the necessity of it. Agriculture had long suffered, and was now suffering. without any hope of relief, from the House of Com mons. The report of the first Aspicultuial Committee was a complete Arrarhvg; and Although he hail nut seen the hew report he believed it was, like the last. a Arras/ 1 The sole object of the former was to say nothing—to throw uust in the eyes of the sople. The expectations of economy and retrensOment had been disappointed; a reduction of 1w per bushel on malt, and ten per cent. ca the salaries of Ministers, was all the relief afforded. His Grace alluded to the two Postmasters-General, and compared them to the two labourers who were helping each other to do nothing. Their salaries ought to be savi.J. They were both respectable men ; but was this a time when such persons should draw their increased incomes from the sweat and labour of the people, whose diminished cJinforts of life called upon us to abolish these unnecessary salaries ? "By Heaven l' said the noble Duke. quoting Shakspeare in a very emphatic manner, I hail rather coin my heart, and drop my blood tOr drachms, than to wring from the load hands of peasants their vile trash by any indirection."—(Loud cheers.) The meeting was then addressed, at consideittb!e length, by the Rev. F. H. :Moberly, Mr. Pryme, Mr Howell, Xlr. F. K. Eagle. Mr. S. P. Bottles. Mr. John Forillism, Mr. Gunning, and Mr. E. Poiter, and a petition to the House of Commons, founded ou the Resolutions, was unanimously adopted. 141'011T Of THE AcialcuLTIMAL COMMITTEE. —The Report, which has been presented to the House of Commons, in the first place reemnmends that no alteration shall be made in the existing Corn Laws until the price of wheat has reached eighty shillings the quarter; and that so soon as this price shell be attained, then a duty upon im portation to the amount of five shillings the quarter shall be imposed. The Report further recommends, that after wheat reaches 1110 s. the quarter, the exist ing Corn Bill shall cease, and a permanent protect ing duty be substituted in its stead. The ports are to be open fur importation when wheat is 70s. the quarter, and the protecting duty is to be from Its. to 15s. Thus the leading object of the Report is to increase the restriction on the trade in corn. The object indeed is explicitly avowed. The Re port recommends, as a principle which should re gulate our commercial policy, that the duties to be imposed on the importation of foreign produce shall be equal to all the difference between the cost of raising corn in this and in other countries. Early on Thursday se'nuight three barley stacks, the property of Mr. S. Delf, of Toperoft-hall farm, were discovered to be on tire. They were situated in a field about halt' a mile from the house, and are supposed to have been set on fire by some incendiary. They were totally consumed. Madame Catalini's concerts at Sheffield were well attended. We know not that a higher compliment could have been paid to her unrivalled talents, than was simply expressed by a blind musician in the gallery. While singing the beautiful air tit— " Angels ever bright and fliir," when she had uttered the line—" Take, 0 take, me to your care," " Aye," exclaimed the humble son of Apollo, " that they will, fur they'll never let a voice like that go the d-v-l." Mr. Drake, midshipman of the Severn, has been recently presented with a rich gold medal, by the King of the Netherlands, for his humane and suc cessful exertions, in saving from a watery grave, a Dutch sailor, one of the crew of a vessel lately wrecked on the Sussex coast, off Winchelsea. The Committee sitting on the state of the Police has made considerable progress. It is hoped that it will be soon ready to lay before Parliament, and that some means may be devised to protect the public' from the swarms of rogues, thieves, and swindlers with which the Nl;tropolis particularly is infested at present. BOXING. 511 1 " The battle between Peters, the Bath tinman, and Flower', the coachman, from Dunsdan, Oxon, kept 1 the Rosinantes and their masters in full exerrise on Thursday, for want of generalship to avoid inter. ference. The match fur 40 gnineas a side was .to have taken place very snug, between Oakingham and Maidenhead, on Thursday, agreeable to the de sire of the barkers. Capt. Hans fin the coachman, and Mr. Meadows Fuller, for the tinman. Some authority men gave their negative to the sport on the ground fixed upon ; and after a consultation of provincial sages, the men met in a field across Wind. sor Forest, at Apsley, Surrey, ten miles from the said authorities, where an obstinate battle was fought, in an open ring. H. Ford seconded Flowers, and Wheeler officiated for Peters. Both men had fame fur various successful combats, and the tinman was rather the favourite. - - The battle lasted 41 minute', in which ten very gay room% war lough!. In the that the claret dee from the bends of each s and in clming, an na - kaar.l anemia ant mole to weave, but they could not get any beat of it, and tire tintatto war thrown from b••ing the lightest. 2. Ilath felt their inuseks at work, and they turned to with much earntriners. Fluters gut u heavy rattler un the , jaw ni going in, hut the, e was ion denial about him. lie kept steady at his w its It, although Peters she ire,' hest arietie.•. Floe err's red hair nand an end like that ern !pig 111 it par- Won, and a sarcastic grin, a hiM the claret Bowing from his devourers, pre•eutrd it melancholy rpectucle. Ile, how ever, [Lured Peters by a heavy tic up on the loin', which bent hi u,• 9 and 4. There rounds were give and Inks to the very en 1 of nature. Peters continued to hive the be►l of the first of tic routith had his turn to atretigth, nod be arti-lied Ike n workoran. Peter• WAS under in 'nu fotiv. 41.41 both were latigued out of time. The sth and 6th rounds produced but Tittle mischief, a► both were waiting to gel their wind mewled. They how• ever uuntuzz'erl Haunt in the 7th round, and no brave nsen ever st I inure to duty. A chance hat placed Peters', heal uproo his right shoulder, mod a pistol could not have drooped hint mare neatly. It woo Flowers the Mettle, although the tininao ioulbt the other three WWI& under evei y disadvantage. Ili, orcituds yielded victory to Flowers very n•leetuotly. A purse of sontethiug under Si. WAS CIS6 lecied fur the loser. The removal of the dilapidated Gothic work, projecting in front of the eastern entrance of West minster Hall, has thrown open to public inspection three arches, which originally formed three en trances to the Hall. The centre arch is higher than the others. This proves that the Gothic pro jection, so long considered the remains of that ancient building, was nothing more than ornamental work, carried out long after the Hall was built. The structure to be raised in Hyde Park, near Piccadilly, is what is called the Ladies' Monument, in honour of the battle of Waterloo. It consists of an immense colossal figure cast in bronze, 20 feet high, in imitation of the celebrated ►tatue on the Monte Cavallo, at !tome. The pedestal is already fixed, and the whole is intended to be completed in about two months. Flavin. , failed to establish himself as an Inca in Granada, Sir Gregor Maegreg.:r has started a new scheme, and has put forth a flaming procla mation, in which he states that the King of the Mosquitto nation has bestowed upon him and his heirs the territory of Paying, adjoining to the pro vinces of Honduras and Nicaragua, of which ho styles himself " Highness the Cacique," and forms a plan for its settlement and cultivation, " intend ing there to spend the remainder of his days. !! " The President of the Board of Trade, Mr. Ro binson, in bringing fl)rward his•plan in the Hausa of Commons for removing the commercial restric tions to which our West India Colonies hive been subject, closed his speech with the following en lightened sentiments.—" But no man could doubt that the removal of barriers and the breaking of fetters would contribute to the ultimate advance- went of commerce. Indeed the energies of com merce would only develope themselves under an un restrained system. The remark• of the poet as to the influence of climate upon the oul of men was pettedly true when uppiied to the power of free and unrestrained measures upon commercial inter course. They never could do wrong in gradually endeavouring to remove from commerce the fetters by which she. hut been too narrowly restrained. These had been hie earliest and most recent opini- MIS, and he bud always wished to praaute a free and unrestrained system of commerce." In a letter from Brunswick, in the Ai!villeins. Zeitos; , ,it is said—'4 strong and at the satii time. interesting testimony to the confidence of foreigner 4 in the lumesty aml kindness of the G,rmat► charac ter, was lately afibrilcd here. A deaf :ma dumb Englishman came here as a solitary wanderer, with no guide but his dog, without understanding Ow man, and with no other means at existing than hi trade of a printer. He did not meet with the slight est unpleasant occurrence all the way from Ham burgh hither, an 4 he contrived to make himself easily Understood by signs in the printing-oeice of M. Vicweg, to who be sold his invention of spreej lug the iul with rollers iustcul of I ,