The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-07-13 00:00:00

JULY /YAKS._

7 to 4 apt Lord Jersey'scolt S. to I apt Mr. Wilson's colt
7 to 4 apt Coquette filly 51 to I apt Lord Exeter's

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rat:vrox GOLD CUP.
7 to 4 apt Figaro I 4 to I apt Negociator
DONCASTER ST. LEGER.
Nothing of any consequence has been done on this Stakes.

COCKING.

FL IMANAGII AGAINST SLIGO.-The Chair Cock Main for
3,000 guineas, and 20 guineas each battle, is now fighting at thei
Cock-pit Royal, Clarendon-street. The following is the state of
fighting for the first three days :
Mains. Byes.
Monday, Sligo - . 2 1
Fermanagh . . 2 2
Tuesday, Sligo - 1 I
Fermanagh - . 2 1
Wednesday, Sligo . . 3 l
Fermanagh - - 2 1
There were 29 battles to decide the Stakes, and 13 Byes, fur 20
guineas each, making seven battles each day.
The result of the second day's sport is, that Sligo leads four
mains, and there are only ten to fight. Fermanagh must therefore
win eight out of the ten to win the stakes.—Dablin Frecmalei
Jowntal.

TliE START TROY DOVER TO LONDOX.—After a fortnight's
training, Mr. G. Webb, the pedestrian, started a short distance
from Dover at six o'clock on Sunday afternoon, to go to Fleet.
market, seventy miles, in fifteen hours, for 200 sovereigns. The
pedestrian readied his destination in ten minutes within the given
time—at nine o'clock. He was accompanied by Messrs. Hardy
and Lee, in a post.chalse, as umpires. The task is 4 milca, 5 fur.
lonits, and 13 poles per hour.
MOWING Mavco.—Saturday a rowing match against time, for
a wager of fifty sovereigns, took place on the Thames. Pre nsely
at five minutes past three o'clock in the morning the parties started'
in a wherry, with a cockswain, from Westminster Bridge, and ar-
rived at Gravesend to breakfast ; they remained there an hour, and
rowing up the River in grand style, passed under 11'estminster
Bridge at twenty minutes to one o'clock, and arrived at Richmond
precisely at three. They then appeared somewhat fatigued ; but
after a rest of an hour and a half they again commenced their labour,
and having wind and tide in their favour, arrived at London Bridge
at twenty minutes before eight o'clock, performing the whole dis-
tanee et 20 miles and a half in IS hours and 40 tetanus, being one
hour and twenty minutes within the given time.

FATAL COMBAT.—A pitched battle for a sovereign, and
to decide a wrangle, took place, yesterday morning, in Copen
hagen fields, between Smith, a driver of one of the Kentish Town
stages, and Will, the Waterman at the Blue Posts, in Holborn.
The battle lasted about two hours ; but the first hour; was occu-
pied in a trial of strength, rather than hitting. At the latter part
of the combat Smith received heavily about the body, and was
ultimately so much beaten as to be unable to walk off the ground.
He was conveyed home in a bad state, and died in two hours after.
The body lies for the inspection oda Coroner's Jury.
DISTRESSING CIRCUMSTANCE.—A domestic bereave-
ment of the most distressing nature happened to a poor family at
liunslet during the races. A woman calling herself Charlotte
Shaw, from the South of England, but who had lived in this neigh.
bourtiood some months, and was employed as a sempstress, pre.
railed upon the mother of a line boy between thtee and four years
old, to let him visit a family in Leeds during the afternoon of
Wednesday the :Lid tilt., and under the pretence that the child had
become a great favourite, the mother was further induced to let it
stop all night. Not returning on Thursday, she came to Leeds
about. noon, in order to make inquiry about hex child, when to her
surprise she found that this vagabond woman, Shaw, had indeed
called with it at the house she mentioned, but that they had only
remained a few memento'. The apprehension that her child was
kidnapped. then for the first time struck the distracted mother ; and
from the time it quitted the dwelling of its parents up to the present
hour no satisfactory tract's of it have been discover The father,
whose' solicitude for the recovery of his child seems to endow him
with more than human energy and perseverance, has travelled from
AM to 'OU milts in pursuit of the little wanderer, but hitherto
without success. The distress of the family is scarcely to be con-
ceived,
and the expense to which they have been subjected is more
I than they can sustain. Fortunately, Mr. Pun Nevins, the master
of the child's father, with his wonted humanity, has taken up the
matter, and is befriending him by every means in his power, and
we trust that perems who can in any way aid in the dimmers, will
second his laudable endeavours. Child-stealing is not a very com-
mon offence, but delinquents guilty of this crtme ought to know,
that they subject themselves to the well-merited sentence of trans-
portation.—Leeds Illereury.
Bute IDE.—On the morning of Friday last, the servant of
a respectable woman named Mitchell, who resided at Launceston,
finding that her mistress did not come down to breakfast at her
usual time, went into her room, and found her in a reclining
posture near the chimney. (In approaching, she found that the un-
fortunate woman was quite dead. having contrived to strangle her-
self by tying her garters round her neck and ta a nail in the
chimney-piece, about three feet and a half from the floor. So de-
termined was the deceased on seif-destrurtion. that she must have
continued to press with nearly the whole force on the garters round
her neck, until she became incapable of rescuing herself, had she
felt any desire to do so, in her last struggles. No mute Has been
assigned for this desperate act ; the deceased was in comfortable
circumstances. An inquest was held on the body, by whom a
verdict of insanity was retained.—Ficemithiee Freelwider.
Mei.t tcnot.v SIIIPWRECIC.—Extract of a Letter, dated
Penarth, Cardiff, July I.—" We sailed from Newport on Thurs-
day morning for Waterford, with the brig Fortitude, Captain
Cuddy, in company. That night it came to blow Navy with thick
weather. 1 taw the Fortitude between eleven and twelve o'clock,
but not afterwerls. By all accounts, dreadful to relate, he got on
Nam Sands the name night, and perished. He had his wife on
board, his two children, and his servant girl. The vessel was seen
on shore on Friday morning. We put back here on Friday morn-
ing. We experienced a severe right of weather.—P.S. Since
wrote the above I hear that Captain Cundy'a two children bar
bena picked up on shore."