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SPAIN. ~r . 1 LIGHTS AND SHADOWS OF SCO7TiSFI LIFE• • A volume, comprising a rich variety of interesting narrative, has lately been• published under the above title. The author seems to aim at conveying simple moral lesson through the medium oT wits tentatiosis, but by no uterus nupoliolted lauguage. Ills characters, too, are. drawn from that sphere of life in which he is likely to find most readers, who tan scarcely fail in the perua•d of ibis volume to strike some chord which will retaken a kindred feel ing in their own bosoms. The incidents, with same few exceptions, are those of common life, of daily occurrence, and upon them are founded a number af well-written tales, which, besides ionsessing the 'agreeable 'polity of occasionally changing from " grave to gay," from " lively to severe," are still feirther recommended by one which, amongst that class of readers, at least, who have recourse to books only as a villa from the cares and tumult of busi ness, is of no mean consideration—we mean brevity. For the present we have selected the concluding portion of a story which must be classed amongst the shadows of life. It is a subject which has fre quently been in the hinds of writers of talent and ✓elined feelings, but we doubt whether it has ever been clothed in langnage of more pure and touch ingp.ahos than by the author of this unpretending volume. The extract which we subjoin is descriptive of the fatal termination of the sufferings of three lovely at.d virtuous sisters from an hopeless con sumption, whose baleful poison had mit,gled itself with the first springs of life. They had been left orphans, and had run a brief career of meek and patient 'virtue, in the daily performance of acts of charity and kindne•s:— " Caroline was the first to die. Her character, unlike that of both her Mates'', had been distinguished by great spirit and vivacity, and when they were present, had always diffused tomething of its own glad light over the serene cam insure of the one, and the melancholy stillness of the other, wilbont seeming ever to be inconsistent with them; nor did her natural and irrepressible buoyancy altogether forsake her even to the very last. With her the disease assumed ii. most beautiful show. Her light b!ue eyes sparkled with as lant:bang brilliancy—her checks, that had always hitherto Leen pale, glowed with a rose-like lustre; although slickness that she was dying, anti strove to subdue her soul down to her sear fare. yet, in spite of herself, the strangie fire that glowed in the embess of her life, kindled it often into • kind of airy gladness, so that a stranger would bare thnught her one on whom opening existence was just revealing the treasures of its joy, and who was eager to unfolJ her wings and sail on into the calm and sunny future. Her Out, till within a few days of her death, was gay in the exhilaration of disease; sod the very night be fore she died she brindled the harp witt a playful band, and warbled, as long as her strength would petntis, a few bars of a romantic tone. No Otte was with her wheat she died, for she had elecs earlier than her sisters, and was found by them when they came down to the parlour leaning back with a smiling faro on the sofa, with a few lilies in her hand, and never more to have her head lifted up in life. The youngest had gone first, and she was to be followed kry`Etssma, the next in age. Emma, althungh in like her sister who was now dead, 'that they had always been thought by strangers to be twins, had a character altogether different. Her thoughts and feelings were in a deeper channel; nature had endowed her with eximordikary talests, and whatever she attempted, serious acquisition or tight accomplishment, is tint she easily excelled. Few, indeed, is the number of woolen that are eminently distinguished among their sex, nail leave names to be enrolled in the lists of fame. Some siccideutsl circumstances of life or death breve favour. ed those few, sad their sentiments, thoughts, ft - climes, fan tit'', and opinions, retain • permanent existence. But bow many sink into the grave in all their personal beau , y and sli their mental charms, and are heard of no more ! Of them no bright thoughts are recorded, no touching emotions—no imaginatious. All their fine and true perceptions,alt the it instinctive knowledge of the human soul, and all heir piziie *peculation on the enyioery of human life, vanish fur ere, and die with the parting breath. A fair, amiable, and intelligent young maiden lass died, and is buried. That is all ; end her grave lies in its tear:sited rest. Such 311 one was Emma Beatouri. Her mother, her sister+, and a few dear fa ieuds, knew what treasures of thought were in her soul— what gleams of genial., and what light of unpretending wisdom ; but she carried up her pure and high thoughts with her to heaves—nor did any of them survive her on faith. but et few fragments of hymns set by herself to plain tive music, which so voice but her own, so deep aril yet so sweet, so mellow yet so mournful, could I vrr have fitly song. " Louisa, the eldest, was sow left alone, and although her health had always been the most delicate, there seemed from some of the symptoms • slight hope shit she might yet recover. That fatal her tic flush did not stain her cheeks, and her pulse, although very faiut,had out the i.regularity of alarming fever. But there are secrets known but to the dying themselves ; sad all the encouraging kindness of friends was receivrd by her as sweet pronto of offs ction, but never once touched her heart with hope. The disease of which both her raters had died was in the blood of her !attire , : family, and she never rose up from her bed or her couch in the grey osier seat is the sunny garden, without feeling a deatb.like lassitude that could sot lung endure. Indeed she y d fur the peeve, and hen was • weariness that could only find entire relief in the perfect stillness of the narrow house. '• Had Louisa mot felt death in ber bosom. there were ele ct:meteors.s that could not have failed to make bee deiire life, ei , rn after her brother and sisters had been taken away ; fur obe had bees betrothed for • year past to one who would bare made ber happy. He 'elicited an account of the alarming stale of the sisters at Pisa, whither he had gone for the establishment of his own health, and he itistaatly hur tled home to Scotland. Caroline and Emma were in their graves, but be had the mournful satasclion to be with his own Louisa In ber last days. Nitta' did he at first press her to go to Italy, as • faint •tad forlorn hope, bum he soon de. misted from such vain persuasion The thought is sweet to lay our bone' within the bosom of our native soil.' The Ter. due and the flowers I lured wilt brighten around my grave; the same trees whose pleasant murmur cheered my hying ear will Muir their cool shadows over my dust, and the eyes thst met 111111 C in the light of all'retion will shed teals over the sod that covers me, keeping my memory groat within their spirits' He who had been her lover, but was now the friend and brother of her soul, had nothing to say in reply to those na• final sentiments. • After all they are but Grades, Henry; ho: they cling to the heart from which they sprung, and to be buried in the sweet church-yard of Blamyre is now a thought most pl aaaaa t to Iny soul.' In dry summer weather • clear rivulet imperceptibly shrinks away frost its candy bed, till, on some otornieg, we miss the gleam and the murmur altogether, and find the little channel dry. Just in this way was Louisa wasting— mid so was her life pure and beautiful to the last. The day before she died she requested in a voice that could not be denied, that her Brother would take her auto the church. yard, that she might see the g of her mother and sisters all lying together, and the spot whose daisies were soon to be disturbed. She was carrieil thither io the sun. shine, in her sick chair (for the abidance was only a very few hundred yards), and her attendauts having withdrawn, she surveyed the graves with • beaming eouoteuarirt•, in pre. score of her weeping friend. Alethiliks,' said she, ' 1 hear an I.yoso, and children 14.90.4 in the church! No, no, it is os1) the remembered sound of the psalm 1 braid the last -Sabbath I had strength to go there. Oh! sweet was it now ►s the reality itself!' lie who was to have been bee husband was sOully overcome, and hid his face its despair. I go, my Lelosed, to that holy place where there is neither marrying nor gee lug iu marriage; but we shall meet there, purified Ileum every earthly stain. Dry up your tears and weep no more. Kiss—oh! kegs me once before I die!' He stooped duwn, mid she had just elrenglis to pot bur area. round his arch, whoa—with • king sigh—she expired." A very entertaining work has been just published, entitled " Letters from Spain. by Don Letteadio DoUudo." At the present moment bpain divides the public interest with'Greece. In a national point of view it is perhaps more intimately connected with the welfare of this country. To drove who read with pleasure an account of our gymnatic exercises, and the legislative measures adopted to prevent cruelty to the brute creation, the following extract descriptive of the bullaghts in Spain, al though at hackneytd subject, may prove inte resting : " .4 Batll.day (Dia de Toros). as it is emphatically called at Seville, stops all public and private business. On Ilse preceding afternoon the amphitheatre is thrown open to all sorts of people indtscrinwestely. Neils of military music enliven the bustling scene. The seats are occupied by such as wish to see the promenade inn the arena, round which the ladies parade in their carriages, while every man seems to take pleasure in moving on the same spot where the fieree combat is to take place within a few hours. The spirits of the compariy sie, to fade, pitched up by antics's'. bon, to she gay, noisy, and hold temper of the future sport. "Our amphitheatre is one of the largest sod handsomest in Spain. A great part is built of alone ; but, from want of money, the rest is wood. From Sr. to twelve thuussud spectators may be accommodated with seats. These rise, taametred, from •n elevation of about eight feet above the areas, and are finally crowned by a gallery, from whence the wealthy behold the fights, free from the ioroaveniences of the weather. The lowest tier, however, is preferred by young gentlemen, as affording • el view of the wounds inflicted on the ball. Thin tier is protected by a parapet. Another strong fence, six feet high, is erected round the arena, leaving a space of about twenty between its area and the lower seats. Openings, admitting a man side-ways, are made ia this fence, to allow tbs men oo foot an escape when closely pursued by the ball. They, however, most generally leap over it with uncommon agility. Uut buils of a certain breed will not be left behind, and they literally clear the fetice. Falling into the vacant space before the seats, the animal runs shout till one of the gates is opened, Halt/ugh which he is easily drawn back to the am as. " Few among the lower el retire to their bells ou the eve of • Bull-day. From midnight they poise down the streets leading to the amphitheatre in the most riotous and offensive nianner• to be present at the Eucierru—.hitting-in of the hulls—which being performed at the break of dey, is allowed to be seen without paying for seats. These animals are conducted from their 'guise fields to • large plain in the neighbourhood of Seville, from whence eighteen, the numb-r exhibited daily during the f tuts, are led to the amphitheatre on the appoieted day, that loom confinement may nut break down their fierceness. This imeration has somethiuge xtremely wild in Its character. All the amateurs of the town ate seen ' on horseback with their lances, hastening towards Tablada, the spot where the bulls are kept at large. The herdsmen, on (no', collect the victims of the day into a drove ; this they do by means of tame oxen, called Cabe,. fros, taught to be led by • halter, carrying, tied round their nick, a large deep-sounding bell, with a wooden clapper. What the habit of following the bells of the kick's fails to do, the ciackiog of the herdsmen'', slings is sure to perform, when the animals are not driven to insdness. The horse men, besides, stand on all aides of the drove till they get it into a round tent. Thus they proceed to within half a mile of the amphitheatre. At that distance a path is closed up OH both sides, with Mout pules, lied horizontally across up right stakes—a feeble rampart, indeed, against the fury of a herd of wild bulls. Yet the Seedling mob, though fully aware of the dagger, are mad 'enough to take pleasure in exposing themselves. The intolerable noise in my street, and the invitation of a member of the Maestrau:u—o eurpe rale association of Noblemen, whose object is the breeding and breaking of horses, and who hi this town enjoy the ex clusive privilege of giving bull-feasts to the public—induced me, during the last erases., to get up one morning with the dawn, and take my stand at the amphitheatre, where, from their private gallery I commanded a view of the plat* lying between the river Guadalquivir and that building. " At the distant sound of the oxen's bells shoals of people were seen driving wildly over the plain, like clouds b. fore • strong gale. One could mad in their motions • struggle be tween fear on one side, and vanity and habit on the other. Now they approached the palisade, now they ran to • more distant spot. Many climbed up the trees, while the more daring or foolhardy kept their station on what they esteemed a post of honour. As our view ass terminated by a narrow pass between the river sad ibibneient tower called del Oro, or Golden, 16e cavalcade broke upon us with great effect. It approached at full gallop. The leading hemmer'', now con aned within the pelisad. to, and having the whole herd at their heels, were obliged to run for their lives. few, however, ventured on this desperate service, and their greatest force was in the rear. Theberdsmen clinging to the nicks of tl.e oxen, in old, r to keep pace with the horses, appeared, to an unpractised e ye, doomed to inevitable destruction. The cries of the multitude, the sound of numberless bores, made of the hollow stem of a large species of thistle, the shrill and penetrating whistling, which seems most to harass and enrage the belie Together with the confused and rapid mo tion of Ihe scene, could hardly be endured without a degree of dizeitiess. It often happens that the boldest of the mob succeed in decoying • bull (rum the drove ; bet I was, this lime, fortunate eniiegh to see them safely lodged in the Tord—s small must divided into a series of compartments with drop-gates, in the forts of sluices, into which they are successively goaded from a surrounding gallery, and lodg ed singly till the time of letting them loose upon the arena. " The custom of this town requires that • bull be given to the populace immediately after the shutting fn. The irre gular fight that ensues is perfectly disgusitug and shucking. The only time I have witnessed it, the area of the •mpliit Ilea ire was actually crowded erith people, both on horse and foot. Fortunately their nombers distracted the animal : on whatever side he charged, large maws ran before him, on which he would have made • dreadful havoc, but fur the multitude wbicb drew his attention to another spot. Yet one of the crowd, evidently in • state any intoxication, who stood still before the hull, was tossed up to • great height, and fell apparently dead. He would have been gored to pieces before our eyes, had not the herdsmen sad some other good fighters draws away the beast *ilia their cloaks. " finch horrors are frequent at these irregular fights; yet neither the cruelty of the spurt, nor the unite y danger to which even the most etret bull-fighters expose their lives, nor the debauch and profligacy attendant on sorb ex. hibitions, arc suilicitut to rouse the zeal of our fanatics against them. Our popular preacher, Karr succeeded twice within my recollection on shutting op the thestie. I have myself seen • friar with a crucifix in his hand stop at its door, at the bead of an eveuiug rectories', sod, during • con siderable part of the performance, conjure the people, as they valued their souls, not to venture into that abode of sin ; bat I never beard from these holy guardians of morals the least observation against bull-lighting ; and even our high hers in devotion—the Philippians, whom we might call our Methodists, allow all, except clergymen, to attend these bloody scenes, *bile they (buy absolutism to any who do not renounce the play. " lirforequittingaie amphitheatre I was taken by my friend to the gallery front which the bulls were being goaded into their separate stalls. As it stands only two or three fret above their heads, I could not but feel a degree of terror ■t such a close tiew of those fiery savage eyes, those desperate efforts to reach the beholders, accompanied by repealed and ferocious bellowing.. There is an intelligence and noble ness in the lion that makes him look much less terrific in his d. u. I saw the DiVilla, a bunch of rtbbaud■ tied to a barb. ed steel point, stuck into the bulls' nicks. It is intended to distinguish the breeds by dill', rent combinations of colours, which are stated in handbills, sold about the streets like your Court Calendars before the Assizes. Ten is the appointed hour to begin the morning exhibi tion ; and much days are need upon as will two, by a long ehureh-serviee, prevent the arsendaime of the canons sod piebeadmies who choose to be present ; foe the chapter, in a body, receive a regular invitation from the ifuestranza. Such, therefore, as hove armored seats, stay stay at home I:11 the tolling of the great bell announces the (treating of the host—a ceremony which takes place sear the conclusion of the daily morning service. ' 4 The view of the Seville amphilitteatre. when full, is very striking. Most people attend in the Aadalusisn dress, part of which 'have already described. The colour of the men's cloaks, which are of silk, in the One season, varies from purple to scarlet. The short loose jackets of the ma display the most lively hues and the while veils which the females Ily wear at these meetings tell beautifully with the rest of their gay attire. " The elearincof the arena, on which a tailtilude lounges lilt the last moment, is 'last of tbeshew, and has the appro. priale appellation of Desyrejo. This is perfoi used by a re. Omen' of infantry. The soldiers entering at one of the gates in a column, display their ranks, at the sound of martial music, and sweep the people before them as they march snow the ground. This done, the gates are rinsed, the sol diers perform some evolutions, in which the commanding officer is expected to chew his ingenuity, till, having placed his men in a convents-lit position, they disband iu a moment, and hide themselves behind the fence. " The band of Torero* (hull fighters), one half in bins, the other in scarlet eloaka, now advarwe in two lines scrota the arena, to make obeisance to the President. Their number is generally twelve or fonrtern, including the two Mata dotes, each attended by an assistant called Mediaespada (denii.sword). Close in their rear follow the Picadores (pikemea) on horseback, wearing scarlet jackets trimmed wish silver lace. The shape of the horsemen's jackets re sembles those in use among the English poasboss. As a protection to the legs end thighs, they have along leather overalls, seuffed to an enormous size with soft brown piper— s sishreance which is said to offer great resistance to the bull's horns. After making their bow to the President, the horsemen take the it post in a line to the left of the gate which is to let in the bulls, standing in the direction of the barrier at the distance of thirty or forty paces from each other. The fighters on foot, without any weapons or means of defence, except their cloaks, wait, not far from the horses, ready to give assistance to the piker's, n. Every tbiug being then in readiness, a constable, in the ancient Spanish eos- I t rides up to the front of the principal gallery, and reedit.' into his hat the key of the Torii or bull's den, which the Pleat& of flings from the balcony. Scarcely has the con- stable delivered the key under the steward's gallery, when, at the waving of the President's handkerchief, the bogies sound amid a storm of applause, the gates are flung °pee, and the first bull rushes into the amphitheatre. 1 shell de scribe what, on the day I allude to, our connoisseurs deemed •n interesting fight, sod if you interne it repeated, with more or less danger mid carnage, eight times in the morning and ten in the evening, you will have a pretty accurate notion of the whole performance. " The bull paused a moment, and looked wildly upon the scene ; then, taking notice of the first horseman, made a des perate charge against him. The ferocious animal was re ceived at the point of the pike, which, according to the laws of the game, was aimed at the fleshy put of the neck. A dextrous motion of the bridle-hand and right leg mode the horse evade the bull's helm, by turning to the left. Made fiercer by the wound, be instantly attacked the next pike. man, whose horse, less obedient to the rider, was so deeply gored In the chest that he fell dead on the spot. The im. pulse of the bull's thrust threw the rider on the other side of the horse. An awful silence ensued. The spectators rising from their seam beheld in fearful suspense the wild bull goring the feller) horse, while the man, whose only chance of safety depended on lying mutiuoldes, seemed dead to all ap. pestilence. This painful set Ile lasted but a few woad% for the men on foul, by running towards the bull, in various direct!ons, waving their cloaks and uttering load cries, soon made him quit the horse to pursue them. When the danger of the pikemen was paned, sod he ruse on his legs to vault upon another horse, the burst of applause might be beard at the farthest extremity of the town. Donotless, and urged by ge, be now gallupped forth to meet the bull. But, without detailing the shocking sights that followed, I shall only mention abet the ferocious animal attacked the horse men lee es • e times, wwanded fuer horses, and killed two. One of these noble creatures, though weaseled i• two places, continued to fare the bull without shrinking, till grow. log too weak, he fell down with the Yet there horses arc never trained for the fights, but are bought for the amount of thirty or forty shillings, when, worn out with labour, or broken by disease, they are unfit fur any other service. A flourish of the bugles discharged the horsemen till the beginning of the seat combat, and the amusement of the people devolved on the lianderilloros—the same whom we have hitherto seen atteetiee to the nerdy of the horsemen. The Eanderafa, literally little flag, from *bit h they lake their name, is a shaft of two feet is length, pointed with • i barbed steel, and gaily ornamented with many sheets of painted paper, cut into reticulated coverings. Without a cloak, and bolding one of these dart. in each baud, the fighter runs up to the bull, and stopping short when he sees himself attacked, he fixes the two shafts without flinging them, behind the horns of the b.ast at the very moment when it stoops to toss him. The painful sensation makes the bull throw up his head without ieffeting the intended blow, and while he rages in impotent cede avows to shake off the hang lug darts that gall him, the man has fell leisure to escape. It is on these occasiuns, whin the Banderilleros fail to fix the darts, that they require their surprising swiftness of foot. Be ing without the protection of a cloak, they are obliged to take instantly to flight. The bull follows them at full gal. lop; suit 1 have seen the man leap the barrier, so closely punned by the enrage d brute, that it seemed as if be had sprung up by placing the feet un its head. Townsend thought ii was literally so. Sc me of the dares are set with squibs and crackcts. The match, a piece of tinder, made of a dried fungus, is so fill d to the barbed point, that, rising by the pressure which makes it penetrate the skin, it tenches the train of the firewosks. The only object of this refine ment of cruelty iv, to confuse the bull's instinctive powers, •nd, by making bon completely frantic, to diminish the dan ger of the Matador, who in Hever so exposed as when the. beast is collected diode's to meditate the attack. " At the waving oldie President's handkerchief, the bugle. sounded the death signal, sod the Matador came forward. Ycpe 1110, the pride of this town, and cesiainly one of the mum graceful ..nd dextrous fighters that Spain has ever pro duced, having flung uff his cloak, approached the bull with a quick, light, and fearless step. lit his left band he held a square piece offed cloth, spread upon a ' , tuff about Iwo feet in length, and in his right a broad sword nut much longer. His •ftendants followed him at a distance. Facing the bull, within six or eight yards, be preseuted the red flag, keeping his body partially concealed bellied it, and thee swood entirely out of a iew. The bull rushed against the reel cloth, and our hero slipped by his side by &slight circular motion, while the beast paromeel wider the lure which the :11afridor bald in the hist direction till be had evaded the borne. Enraged by this de ception, and unchecked by auy painful sensation, the bull collected all his strength for a desperate charge. Pepe Ills now levelled his sword at the left side of time bull's neck, and, turning upon his right foot as the animal approached him, ran the weapon nearly up to the hilt into its body. The bull staggered, tottered, and dropped gently upon his bent I. gs, but lead yet teemed' life in bins Cie any utau to venture near with safety. The unfortunate ///o has sluice perished (ruin a wound inflected by a bull in • similar state. 'The Matador ob d, for one us two miutiter, the signs of ap proaching death in the fierce animal now douching before him, mud, at his Lidding, au attendant crept behind the hull and struck him dead, by deicing a small poniard at the join ture of the spine and the head. 'I lies ups ration is never per. formed except when the prostrate bull lingers. I once Saw MU, at the desire of the spectators, 6841 this mertiful blow in a manner which nothing but ocular demonstration would have made me believe. Taking the poniard, called Pontiff's, by the blade, he poised it fora few moments, mid jeolem d it with such unerring aim un the hull's neck, 10 he lay on hes bent legs. that be killed the animal with the quickuess of lightning. " Four muks, ornamented with large morriee-bells and ribbons, bainessed a-breast, and drawing a beam furnished with an iron book in the middle, gallopptd to the place where the ball lay. This machine being fastened to a rope pre violist, throws round the dead animal's horns, he was swiftly dragged out of the amphitheatre. " I have now given sou a more minute, and,l trust, more comet description of every thing eminected with the bull fights than has ever been drawn by any traveller Town send's to the best account of these spurts 1 ever met with, yet it is not free from mistakes. So difficult is it to see distiuctly scenes with which we are nut fiatilisrly acquainted." = ~ `. ~' MR 11111 P. ETTING AT TATTERSALL'S, AUGUST 22. DONCASTER ST. LEGER. 7 to 4 apt Strop 118 to 1 agat Euphrosyne 10 to 1 apt Ajax 120 to 1 apt brother to Ao -12 to 1 apt Illamloot tonic) 14 to 1 sgst Mareellas 25 to 1 agsl Theodore or 14 to 1 asst Gsseoigue I any other. NEWMARKET ST. LEGER. 5 to 4 on Muses I 5 to 2 gat Postbsins. YORK AUGUST MEETING. TUMMY, AUGUST 20. Sweepstakes of 20ga. each, fur two-year old colts, Sit. Mb.; fillets, Bst. 21b. Tire year olds' course. (16 Subscribers.) Mr. Hould.worth's b. c. by Filbo da Puts, out of Lam pedusa (W. Scutt) Sir W. Millier's eh. e. by Selim, dam by Trafalgar 2 Mr. Lamblon's b. f. Heresies, by Leopold The following also started, but were not placed: Mr. R. Petlit's eb. f. Piecuslsioe Mr. Howard's ch e. by Henderskt If—Haphazard M►. Ridadale's eh. c. Rhubarb, by Cumus—Otta's- Dyke's dam Ld Milton's ch. f. Comedy, by Cuomo, out of Cowslip Mr. Hammes eh. c. Sir Huger, by Cumus, dam by %Yahoo Mr. Clark's ch. 1. Putly, by Cabban—Cocktlebter 2 to I ou the field—A good rare. Fifty Pounds, given by the City of York, to be added to a Subscription Purse, fur five yr olds, Sat. 711, ; six, fist. 12:b ; and aged, 9.t.—Futir miles. Gascuigne's b. m. Cora, by Wavy, b yrs (J. Jackson) 1 Mr. Lambion's br. h. Cavalier, by Amadis, 5 yrs 01d.... 2 Mr. Lembtoir br. la. &Nudism, by Smolensk() ; 5 yrs sold 3 . . 2 lo i apt Cora. Piny Pompeii, far three yr olds, 7st. 7th. ; four, Set. 811. Maids cults allowed 21b. and fillies, 31b.—Heats, clue mile and Wee-quarters each. Ld Searbrough's br. c. Byrum, by Amp(lis, 4 yrs old (Smith) Mr. Whiting's br. e. brother to Bay Burton, 4 yrs 1 3 3 Mr. Fues gr. c. by Y. Gobanua, 3 yrs old. 2 2 2 Mr. Petre's b. f. Georgians, by IYoful, 3 yrs old 3 4 dr Even oe Byram—After the first heat 2 to 1 or brother in Bay Burton—After the sicuid heat tire betting betwecu Byrom and brother to Bay Burton. Our races are only thinly attended, yet the gentlemen of the light-fingered fraternity hare been exceedingly active, so much so that three or four of them were apprehended ou the first day of the races. A great iiirlax of company is expected at the close of the week, when his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex wi,l be present. ABINGDON RACES. TUESDAY, •uousT 20. The Gold Cup. Three miles. . _ . -- Mr. Mytton's b. h. Minikes., by Salolessku, 6 yrd old .... 1 Mr. Whyte 's b lg. Quibble, 6 yrs old alr. Mills's Sir Huhlebrand, 4 yrs old The Abiugdoo Stakes was won easy by Mr. Fielder's b c. Netherfeet, by Crispin. The Members' Plate was woo by Mr. Thornbill's f. Scarps, by Casino. CANTERBURY RACES. TUENDAY, AUOOST 20. A Sweepstakes of 25gs. each . ; for ibree yr olds, 70.; four, Bst. 41b.; Ave, Ast. 111 b.; six, 90. 21b.; aged, 9.1. 41b. Tao miles. Mr. E. Rice osoned ch. b. Woueermans, aged 1 Sir J. C. Hooywood's b. in. &who , aged.......... '2 Mr. Lushiogion's br. f. by Seymout, 4 yrs old 3 Lord Camden named gr. f. Slerryniaid, 4 yrs old Mr. J. Blies sisasecleb. f. Flora blivor, 3 yrs old The First Year of a Sweepstakes of 20go. each "(foe two years) ; for tbree year old., ssl. 1216, ; fuer, 7st. 7,b. ; five ' Bst. 71b.; six, 9.1.; aged. 9sl. 2lb. Four males. Ld fireckoock Named (*scissor, 4 yrs uld walked over. The First Year of • Sweepstakes of lOgs. each (for two years), for three.year utds, 7st.; four, B.t. 41b.; tire, Bst. 101 b.; six, 9st. 11b.; aged, 94. sib. Two miles. Ld Camden 'lamed br. f by Whalebone, 3 yrs uld Sir J. C Hooywood's b. m. Enclsautress, aged. 2 Mr. Lushingiou's cls. e. by Blocher, 3 yrs old Kentish Hunters' Stakes, ■ Sweepstakes of yes. each, for horses not thorough-bled, and bred in the Coualy, the property ut the Subscriber and Freeholder who sismrd him, and regularly buutrd iu the county of Kent; 12st. each. Two•mele hints. Mr. Clark's ch. g. by Regenl, 5 yrs old Mr. C Weight's b. h. Young Corsican, S yrs old Mr. I'. 51ouni's br. g. by Siriistllty, 6 yrs old Mr. E. Hughes's bl. g. Consul, 6 yin old Mr. J. Fisher's cb. c. Tom Moody, aged BURTON UPON TRENT RACES. TUISDAT, AUGUST 20. The Burton Gold Cup in Specie, all aers. Three miles. Sir T. Nlustyn'a ch. b. Teioero, 6 yrs old, 94. Inlb I Mr. Beardaieurtles Lona, by Milo, 4 yrs old, Bst. Ilb 2 Mr. Mytwee Aoti•Radical, 6 yrs old, 9.1. Slb. 3 Mr.H.C. Meyacll's b. c. The Rauzleman, 3 yrs old, .. 6st. slb Sweepstakes of 10v. e ach, fur three yr olds. Our node. . . Mr. Brarilsworih's hr... Sir William, Set. 2ib. Mr. Benson, br. e. Rattler, 83t. 21b. The Anglesey Plate of SOL for maiden bursts, &c. of all axes. Three mile heats. Mr. Flintora b. R. ila.san, 3 yrs 041, 6.t. 101 b..... 1 1 Mr. Maincy's br. f. Piping Prggy, 3 yrs old, Est. 71b. 4 2 MONIFIETH RACES-(AUGUST MEETING). THURSDAY. The following Prizes were ruo fur over the Build. n Course : A handsome Silver Cup, given by the Hon. William Mule, of Penmen., M.P. to any horse, mare, or gelding, bred hi the county of Foi far, that ue‘er woo the value of 201. in any one Prise. Two-mile heats; and won by Mr. Goodall's eh. m. Geoigiana, 4 yrs old Mr. Crawford's b. in. 5 yra old A good race, won only by half* length. A handsome Hewing Saddle and Bridle. _ . _ Mr. Ross's Forfar, bay A. Lai; Mr. Grant's blue h. Mr. Youna's black h Mr. ‘VtMies ch. in. A Jockey Whip and Spurs, run for by ponies not exceeding fourteen hands high. Firsts twice sound the course. Mr. flutter's bay pony 1 1 Mi. W. Mimic's bay puny A Carl, Saddle, and Breeching, run fur by cart horses with out saddles, in cart hr dies, and rude by real pluoglinieti, with cart 'whips and uo spurs. Three horses started for this prize, and it was won by Mr. Lysll's black horse. INTELLIGENCE EXTRA. NEWMARKET FIRST OCTOBER MEETING, 1822. fifoutmor.-Mr. Buckle's br. c. Farmer, agst Mr Neale's b.f. by Roberts, out of Spitfire, B.t. 71b. each, hat time miles of the B. C. 50gs. h. ft. PRICE OF STOCI ;8 YESTERDAY. Bank Stock 252 India Stock.. 251 2501 3 per Ct. Red... 81111 Ditto Bonds 52 45 4ti pr. 3 per Ct. Cutts twig Ex. Bills, 2.....1,0001. 3i per Cent..... 921 6 7 5 pr. 4 per Cents. 99kf Ditto Small.. 95 7 pr. New 4 per Cents 991 Con*. for Act'. Bank L. 411.21 9010-1 DISCRACT•.FL'L AFFAIR. is a neighbouring country town a regiment was lately quartered, one of the officers of Melt lodged in the house of a respectable shopket per, a Proteatant, and had a hand, lime daughter who attracted the attention of the officer. Her tither spoke to hint on the subject, when he said lie would marry her if lie had the father's consent, which was granted. A few days afterwards he showed the father a letter, said to have come from a rich uncle in Seellainl, a ltsm he staled to be worth 30,0001. and to whom he was heir this letter said his uncle would disown him if he married any one who was not a Roman Csthrilic, to which persuasion the officer said he belorigeil ; .he futile,' made no ohj -ction to the proposition, and all matters weir settled. The officer sent off to this city fur the license, which be rn, purporting to be sighed by Dr . —, Bishop of the Diocese. The Rev. Mr. --, nut aware of any deceit, performed the 11131*- riage ceremony, and the parties lived fir some time happy sit length it was found oust that the officer had attempted elf. ct an exchange into a regiment hut stationed in without telling his nife, and dint he hail declared the gi . not his wife, that she was a RIIIII4II Catholic, mid I.e s testaiol. That no crreini ity of a Burnish Priest cowil the ceremony lasful. The young lady became tialn•:.:le alarmed at hia behaviour, and on expostulating with hint, he decamped. The urrrassry sters have hero taken to tiring him to justice, and thus theaffsir now stands. Al preseut we dr cline giving the names attic patties. It is the opinion of the beet lawyers, that even as the ni urine now stands, it is glide valid in point of law. The officer is in Dublin, where we hear he will be errs—ded under a fiat, granted by one of the Judge.: a ho prettified at the /ale Affeizes fur the County. (Lintcr(,l Paper, August 10.) HORRID SUPERSTITION AND IGNORANCE. [rim ibe Norfulk limed of June 3, 18221 A labouring ni4ll, named Joseph Lewis, Eying near Deep Creek, in Norfolk county, was on Mon day lest apprehended and ,zainisird before a Mtge. straw, being charged with hissing tired at with a ;;nn, and killed a free mulatto matt, of the same D eighinnirho o d, named Jack Bass. 'clic facts stated i n evidence against the accused were in substance as follow : —The wife of Lewis had been for some time complaining of sickness. which bulb she and her husband sagaciously ascribtd to the power of conjuratioti ; in other words, they were firmly under the belief that a spell had been put upon her by some secret enemy —or, to use the teclorcal phrase of the liceotian community in which they resided—that she was " tricked." To place the matter hey raid u doubt, and at the same time dis cover the secret emissary of Satan who had canted the poor woman's malady, the husband posted uhf• to Portsmouth to consult a female oracle who has for a long time gained a comfortable living in that town by practising the abstruce ■rt of fortune. tellino., at the expense of the credulous Boil so. perstitious front all parts of the surroundin; country. This pretended unraveller of myste ries ct-itii toed the suggestion of the uife's be ing " tricked," and gave such a description of the " tricker" as left sin doubt on the husband's mind that his neighbour, Jack Bass, was the toss. The impression which such a discovery was cal. culated to mac upon a mind wrapped to the gloom of ignorauce aiid superstitious may be readily imagined: but it could scarcely have beeo sup posed that it would have led to so fatal a catastrophe. The miserable dupe is next represented to have gone to the dwelling of Bss•, and there to have perpetrated the horrid deed fur which he was arrested. As he is in the halide of justice, it would he improper fur us to say any thing that might have the effect of prejudging his case. shall only add, that lie was committed to plison, w h sle the sorceress remains at large.—( American Alper.) MERTINGA OP CRERITOR AT THE COURT OF CO.II.IIIsSIONERS OF BANKRUPTS, TO MORROW. M. IT. Pher 4, Jun. and T. R. Gregg, Watling.strcet, confectioner, G. Lloyd. Mary• le-bone, brewer G flubertsun,%Vappissir, pluep•ckandler 3 1 J. Thomson, Leman-ats e, 1, nil and cf.dutnniato J. Wouderult, Itnea.drapt r 3 It) J. Ge.u4rr, Cursttor-strr et, pros-maker S. WiilidM., 'ate of Frtichutell-bire et, broker J. Jaw', 11*mA-street, tea (Lake.... V. Wo.tiry, Hampstead-uo.td, Bracer ...... W. Rullert•, o%furd.otrret, homer 2 11 T. Eveleiglt, Illuoutsbuty, linen draper .1. Greif and H. Stun, Chartuttr.street, Fitzroy equarr, Intro drapers A. liarnaschina, Gravesend, bards/art man T. Muore, Paddington, sali-mes chant DIV I D EN DS. C. W. Budd, late of Wuomster. It.altater 11 . . and It BA rher, Clorapsoole, searrtomatteso n L. M. nes, Si. Mao y Axe, inerelott.ot 1-1. Cooke and 1). Prouce, Coleman-sorrel, merchants 12 A. Bruce, J. !Imam, and G. Scot, Loudon. army -1 t B. and J. Trooughton, Wuud•streel, alikonen lt J. IA ppm (I, Deptford. t I.e. seunolic, r J. Brow o i Laudon , army clothier IL CERTIFICATES. W. % . I%ell, of Maidenhead, Berko, surgeon.—J. Gotdile°, of Goulelen%-place, Hackney road, carpenter.-11. Be adbury, of Stout., Sia fiord, dealer.—J Bell, of So ifolk-Inne, Loutlemovine merrhant.—J. Huntington, uow or late of Soon-•hill, Lon don, jendltr.—R C. Montt-noon, of Falmouth, Coronall, Hobbs, of Chitin tier, Sus. ex, farmer.— S. Abbot I, of Cumming place, Peuluov ilk, Middlesex, iner t hant.—H. Golding, late of but uow or late uf Looter Thames street, London, wine•ntett hant.—F. Jill, ut" coweutry, shopkeeper —R. Masters, uf Coventry, in,lor Whitehouse, of Dale cud, Birminglmm, baker.—S. Bi through, of Gildersome, Yoe k, and late of the rely of Philadelphia, cloth.merehant.—W. W.t.on, late of Chelsea, Middiebrx, but now of Me lina-plare, Surrey, bre+ en. —G. !Alt it North Shields, Northeinthe elated, mei - , Wail. BIRTII. On the 18th instant, at I;;;fatler's house, Derby, I h ; of Robert S. Sitwell, Esq of a daughter. MARRIAGE. QUI Thursday last, at Longford, in Detbrhire. lv ' ;.. and Rev. John Vernon, the lion. Henry Verson, •• of Lord Vrrnon, to Miss Eliza Grace Coke, dsugi. •' ward Coke, Esq. DEATHS. On Thur:day, at his seat, Elm Hill, aged 67 years, M rice Studdari, Eaq. eine of the Senior Magistrates of we couuly of I.imerick. On Tuesday last, aged 17, the daughter of Mr. Webb, tie employ of Mr. Wedeln, brewer, Plymouth. Her destil was caused by the following accident: about 14 days sluice a• her younger sister was skiving, she pust.cd agautit ihi deceased, who at the moment was picking her ear with 3 large bonnet needle, which was forced into her head; it woe extracted, but she buttered in the must dreadful agony 4 1' to the period of bee death. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS Dat Morning 44 after b. I Evening 6 after 6. Printed and Published at THE BRITISH PREM and THE GLOBE Mice, No. 127, S.raod, b 7 CHARLES ' CORNWELL, of lba Strand. Sri Jsli Cog CISi Di* uU _ Jel.al !Ow • C. Jeka NJ 4 14. ;-11 ey . J Mr. c R F. 4 few !kw I 44.% .1 J . J U. k., L e ; I , Let 11. s it. !tubs. •eau It* li 31.., kle. R. r f 111 I 1 1 I