The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-10-05 00:00:00

TATTERSALL'S BETTING-ROO5l, OCT. 4.

The attendance was flat, and the betting equally so, as the prin.
cipal betting-men have taken their departure tor Newmarket- borne
small bets were made at the following odds :

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GRAND DUICIS 311CluEL ST•LISS.
Even betting on Cedric.
WISIVNARICET ST. LEGER.
5 to 4 agst Rebecca 13 to I agit lA. Exeter's Advent
Match 500 sins. h. ft.
Even betting on both Ensilius and Jock—the latter for choice.

The Earl of Darlington's fox-hounds will meet on Thursday, at
Gatherley Moor.
The Somerset subscription fox-hounds will meet on Wednesday,
at Prier's Park; and Friday, on Cothelstone-hill.
Many of the turf horses are afflicted at this time with a distem-
per. Sir Thos. Stanley's Cestrian colt, which won at the late races
at Lichfield and Shrewsbery, died this week.
The pheasant shooters. on the Ist October. returned from the
field of sport much better satisfied with their lilts of killed and
wounded than on the Ist September, when partridges were the
objects of their pursuit.—Sursiw Advertiser.
Jtat Tiny.—Thin first-rater is ready to meet any man in Eng-
land, in three months, for eltherone, two, or three hundred pounds
aside. Au Oxford correspondent, who had an opportunity of wit-
nessing an exhibition between Langan and Crawley, says a general
opinion prevailed that Langan can now beat any man in the king.
don (Tool Spring excepted.) iihelton has been waiting suave time
for Langan's coming to the scratch; and by the above it will appear
that Jetu %Vard has come to Langan's own terms of 3001. a-side ;
thew can be little doubt but one or both will be accommodated.

I)ItEADTVL ACCIDZNT.-.-Yesterday afternoon, about
half-past two o'clock, as some workmen were employed in
undermining a high wall, which belonged to a very exten-
sive building, formerly used aa a soap-manufactory, Belvi-
dere-road, the materials of which have lately been sold in
lots, for the purpose of making teem
provements
on the Surrey side of Waterloo bridge, it sud-
denly fell with a tremendous crash, burying five of the no-
fortunate individuals under the ruins. Every exertim was
instantly used to mimic the sufferers, end in about twenty
minutes the whole of them were extricated. One Iran
(who. we understand, has left a wife and six children),
was killed; a boy, about 17 years of age, was taken out
with one of his legs 'heedfully fractured ' • and the other
three hare sustained such serious injuries, that little hopes
arc entei tamed of their recovery. The whole of them were
conveyed on shutters to St. Thomas's Hospital. The per-
son who had bought the lot where the accident occurred
was superintending the operations of the workmen, and.rc-
ceired very considerable injuries, but they are not supposed
to he dangerous.
Ervasoanixatty l7isir•rtos.—On Thursday last, a
silk weaver, named Robertson, residing in the neighbour-
hood of llethnal-green, was seized with a fit whilst at
dinner, and dropped from his chair to all appearance dead.
The wife and children, who were naturally terrified by. so
sudden a visitation, ran in every dir.ction for surgical
assistance; in less than ten minutes there were three
medical men in the house, whit examined the invalid, and
found him labouring under a violent paralytic affection.
After trying the ordinary means for restoring suspended
animation, the pcor man at length exclibited sibms of
consciousness, but the /sewer of speech was altogether
destroyed, neither has lie since that been able to articulate
a single word; in many cases, we find that the utterance
may be partially checked, or perhaps thickened, but in this
instance, it appears as if the organ was entirely destroyed.
In other resiiects, he has certainly sutrered little or no ill-
, consequence from the stroke, which is the first he has had.
None of the other fact:hit% have been in the slightest degree
affected.