The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1822-06-11 00:00:00

TURF ANECDOTE.

Calculation of the wheile amount won on the fait during
11,e laYt year, together with an aaaaaa t of the same won at
tne fire principal places of sport le the kingdom. Our
reede•• will perceive that mole thaw half the amount was
won at the following Owe:—
Newmarket 35,799f. Ov. and Sects Cops.
Yolk ...... • &KV 15s. and Owe Cup.
Doncaster.— 5.5421 10s. mid One Cup.
A •rot 4,10131. Si. and Oise Cap.
Erwin 3,5531. ss. and One Cup.

The abate amount woo on the British turf, including the
shore, amounts to 19,3481. 4s. and eighty.nine raps of Alf-
/creel raki,,. The greatest pr.ze was the Grand Duke
Michael Cif., with 3,t00 guineas in it, won by Mieistsehisos,
or:ito Won more then any other horse during the year.

LATE DREADFUL ACCIDENT ON CHESTER

RA CB COURSE.

A writer in the Sporting Magarine, ender the
aignatore of " NIMROD," airier noticing the late
no-luorholy occident on the Chester Coulee, by
which William Deno lost his life, pays—
" A fatality attends Cheater Race Comm.; for ocareely •
• Mectms passes bet some accident takes place. Your
readers most recollect that Lord S•ansford:srider ansttilled

„n the spot rutty three yeses ago : and had it not been that
the poor man who ha■ now lust his life Upon it, elided his
Norse, slut . let him in' (as they say), Harry Arthur would
hewe been dashed to pieces against Ale post et the Castle
Tern Isst year, which ("myself wimemed. As it was, he was
Ff. much injured as not to he able to ride fee Me Thom.,
llilisstyn (his first master) for the rest elf the week. This
horn has beets eased. but is stilt a very bait one ; it is tollie
left bred, very near home, end just *here the strong, st run•
using is mode. Some years ago I witnessed such an arcident
at this turn as will never be witnessed again, by which a
most valuable colt lost his life, and a Captain ofdraeoons
had such an escape fur his, that seldom falls to the lot of any
mail. There is something sympathetic, as well as marvel.
loin. in the circumstance's attending it. A colt called
Nair-beessdfk, by Escape,' the property of Mr. !Ackley,
was *jutting his race cleverly, but in coming around thin Cas-
tleeurie, he bolted—jumped over the curds—and knocked
dowe Captain (now Sir John) !Riller,df the Cornwall feneible
cavalry, then quartered at Chester, who was tidier on the
course in his uniform, aud, strange to say, the peak of his
helmet. whilst on his head, catered the twain of flair•brenrlth,
by Escape, and killed him on the epol—wh.lst the only ht.
jury the Captain received, was spate 'ef black eyes, and I
• eaw him at the bell in the evening. Noir.breadils was a
very promising colt, and the late Duke of Leeds haul offered
111.. Leckie,. 400 guineas for him before starting.
4 Another must exi raordiaary circumstance connected with
accidents on a race course, took -place at Kn:ghtun, in Rad.
norshire. A gentlemen was riding a very hard-pulling horse
for the hunters stakes, when one of his brothars went to
is particular torn ou the course to see how he got around it,
Lein. apprehensive for 'his safety. Just as thehorees were
'seeming up, a drenken fellow rode against hiin, and pushed
' him. horse mid all, into the course, exactly before his too.
they, who tembledhins ovesond all were down together. An.
'other brother who was en the -coarse, and witnessed the ac.
cident, set spurs to his horse to get to their assistance, when
he ran away with him, in the exact direction where his other
two brothers lay, and tumbled over them, making three men
aril three horses ■ll down at the same time ; and the only
bail consequences were, a few bruins, and one of the bursts
dislocating his shoulder.
"Due of the moat distressing accidents I ever witnessed on
a race-course was the year before last, at Cie Denham, as it
was occasioned by, apparently, wilful neglect of one of the
rourse-keeper. As the horses were coming in, a mate of
Mr. R. Joaes's sweetest, snit before she had passed the rope
the fellow putted it up, sod gave her a tremendous fall. The
boy who rode her pitched us his head, and his life was de-
xpaired of for several days, nor will he ever recover it. This
is one of the many instances of the necessity of employing
Fenton.. fa all situations about a rate course, who know
something about racing, as, its that case, they would always
look out for s horse that was shot out, or beaten a lung way
from home; end there are always such mesons to be Num,.
ltreideets of this nature trail materistly to damp the pleasure
of a meeting; and human life should not be put to the risk
when it Call be avoided. No comae that I was ever on is so
wall kept as Manchester. I have ridden over it ■monigst a
udred thousand spectators, and nothing can he better than
the clear way for the race buries and the good humour of the
people. To return, however, to pour Dunn.
William Dunn lived with Lord Grosvenor previous In
his hieing engaged by Mr. Manton, in whose service he suc-
ceeded Merin Junes, the summer before last, as trainer and
rider, at a salary of 20111. per annum. His stables were at
Delamere Forest, iit Cheshire, and Isis training ground abort
In good as that country affords. As Mr. Minton Lad gene-
rally ten or twelve horses in his hand., Dunn would, no
doubt, have soon been enabled to make a provision for his
family; and it is melancholy to think of the sad loss they
hare anotained. le Mr. Slyttoo, however, they will fiud a
good friend and benefactor.
” Dunn will be a great loss to his mister. Ile was a good
judge of his busbies., and seemed to have his employer's
tot lat heart. He had another good quality—he was not
apt to he too fund of his horse.. They were not all :rod
rues. as some of his profession snake them app. ar to be be-
fore they meet with better. Dunn was a rider of the bin
eta... His nerve was very gond in a crowd, and he was
particularly clever at a start. Although Dunn was a flue
horseman, he bad a curious and rather unsightly way of
bottling his rein, which was.—over.handed. He also sat very
back on Isis horse, aid had a long pull at his bridle. Never.
he had, altogether, a vrry jockey-like appearance.
Ills race, however, is run, and I have reason to believe that
hie los. will be much felt by his master. Let, then, the
depth of William Donn be borne in mind by all who have
the management of race coiner', and let it inflate them to
tate all possible care to preserre the lire: of Mose who risk
them for our pleasure aid our profit."

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORT.MOVTII, JUKH 9.
Sailed 1k Potbound, Mattiroo, fur Landis,.
FALMOUTH, AUNT 7.

due Duke of Kcnt picket, fo,'bun; Muria, Mid.
dietor.. fur Couguoutiouple, anti put back agaiu with luso of
it ..►cum.
. .

Atrived •ff the port the Adventure, Wallace, from

Savaoitab.

rcrltlirrn. JUNE $

Arrived ankh, port yesterday the Sir Charles Price, whaler,
a toll ship. sailed from Table Illy 25th March, iu compaiiy
with she Borodino transport; on the 21st silt. in lat. 37. 2'2.
long. 31. 17. fell in wills the brig Unused off St.
John's, New Brunswick. timber laden, dismasted, water-
logged, and • pei feet wreck.
Ames d this day the Fox. Christian, from Amsterdam ;
and Ike Pigmy, from a cruise.
The Providence. from Bengal. was spoken with on the 2d
ios►. sister. miles W.S.W. of the Lizard.'

DTA JUNE 8,

Came down from the River last night and "Iliad, she
Tacker, and Agu.lar. ()alley, for Quebec ; Jack Tar,
Lairiniii. for Jamaica; I.ra, Sanders, for South Seas; Se-
me,,ire. for Naples.
Airtved 0118 and remain in the,, Downs, lka
Hanove►, Adamson. (iota Jamaica.

The following is a correct account of noxious
animals destroyed by RonsitT Cowen, pose.
keet.e► to Wtiratto Lawsow, Esq. within the
lot twelve sneothe :—R otters, 22 toolaserts, 61
stoats. 15 ousels, 17 .4. 20 hawks cud 24 bask,'
eggs, 6i rayon. and $4 ravens' egg., IS owls, 50
""g1"" and 96 magpies' egg*: 4,468 rooks have
hero allot is the rookery at hit Hall, between the
6th and the 31st of May.

A TALE OF MYSTERY,
FOUNDED ON THE ilost RESPECTABLE AUTHORITY,

As uecurrmsemtook place at Low Harrogate, on Tuesday
last, with which there ■re CittlflPett d sit mach of the mar-
• nod so remaikrible a coiumdence of circumstance%
that we think there ■re many whom the detail of it may
ammo), without any Injury to prrional judgment or private
feeling.
Ili Teesilay last, three most respectable genttemsa, resi-
dent at Low-Harrogate as visitor% agreed to take • walk
together about seven o'clock is the evening. They are ',twit
the middle age, and are married slid intelligent men, not likely
to be &Trim d, one of t hem being • Clergyman of the Church
of Eug'snil.—The weather was extremely warm, and they
repair. into • swill wood, on the side of the hill, called
The King's WllOll, sear Si. Magnu■'s Well. They were
women's; Moue enjoying the coolness of the shade,
■ad the huituurable and improving pleasures of metal
iutereourtie. At length they arttvrd neerly at the end
of the wood, out far from the said wi 11. The scenery im-
proved before them, and it was comditersbly heiebleued in
'merest by the coitus of a collage, the former inbabits•ls of
which have passed away with the Well of other times. A train
of useful rellectious was excited by the solemn scene, and as
each surveyed the moult:ming shine, the moss grown wall,
and the ►uxuriant ivy, they easily recognized the place
Where once the garile• moird,
And still white many • rinks' flower grows wild."
—The birds were singing their evening song, sod the mar.
mitring of • small rivulet beyond the turn, m■de the seen.
■till more interesting.
Al this moment; one of the gentlemen suddenly beheld
• female figure, at the distance of about sixty yards from
him, Rail he instantly directed the attention of his two
friends limas& the object. They, however, could nut see
•ny thing of the kind, and the figure seemed to ►int to move
rapidly towards the edge of the wood. Struck with surprise
he hastened after it ; but hie surprise was soon mingled • ills
setunisloostot and awe—the Roue vanished from hie sight,
like a vision, and was seen no more. His friends followed
him; sad they •ll resolved to see if the supposed woman
could have passrd out of the wood, by any tapering i■
the fence. The result of their search gave a negative
to the suppositiort—for the fence near which she va-
nished was out only complete, hut the rivulet, which is Iwo
yards broad, was found to run close by It on the outside of
the wood.

They now rent ned to their lodgings, eosin; en the past,
but still unwilling to draw superstitious conclusiouv, and
equally
was told to the company at the house where they were re-
siding; •std the writer heard the detail from one of the party,
in the presence! of the clergysima, who also was with them.
Su far, tire above may have only the appearance of one of
those stories, into which the Npvtlist finds it requisite to in-
troduce • ruin, a rivulet, the stillness of reeoing, a ghost,
sad • lady. put we have something more to add, without
which, we would not have given place to this tale of *mystery
—this ■ppareut di lusiun of the human visit)... The day
after this shatter oecurteoce, the gentleman who sow that
which his companions could not see, rece.veti the mournful
informaticsn that a lady, n near relative of his, had mid& nly
departed this life the previous terming, about the very hour
when he was walking in tge wood.
Here we leave the subject. The parties are all known to
us, and to mane of our readers ; but to divulge their lawns
would be uneceteroos and useless. The remarkable coiuci-
deuce of circumstances renders the nareallte eoleret•thic ;
sad, the mystery which envelopes it, may call forth the
solemn refieettons of the serious. or the fanciful speculation
of the gayer multilude.—(Eork Herald.)