The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1825-11-10 00:00:00

SPORTING INTJeL f,IG ENCR.

eiIEVELEY, TtESDAY, Nov. 8.
The racing season having terminated, the diversions of shooting,
hunting, and coursing, are now approaching their zenith. and in no
part of they country ate they pursued with greater avidity titan at
Cheveley, the hospitable seat of his Grace the Duke of Rutland,
where the abundance of game, and numerous local advantages, hold
out inducements not to be surpassed by any private domain in the
kingdom.
k or the last two or three weeks his Grace, agreeable to his annual
custom during the Newmarket October Meetings, has had a select
party, composed of his Royal Highness the Duke of York, ttarpnis
Graham, lion. Colonel Anson, Colonel Anson. C. C. Smith, Esq.
which on Sunday I.u't was increased by the arrival of his
Royal Highness Prince Leopold.
Yesterday was appointed for a grand Loftin., and at eleven
o'clock the lloynl and Nettle Party took the tied, shooting first in
the neighbouring coppices to the Park, and then in the terns and
small coppices within the walls. In shooting, great attention was
paid to the wish of the Noble Duke, to confine the sport at much
as possible to cocks; so that when a pheasant got up, if it was a
cock he was immediately brought down, hut if the keepers called
" a him, " not n feather was disturbed. The shooting throughout
was very fine, his Royal Highness Prince Leopold being decidedly
thernost successful, his Royal Highness the Duke of York the
next ; the Hon. Colonel Anson was very little behind, and Mr.
Smith dropped his birds in good style.
At half-past even the party sat clown to a most sumptuous din.
ncr, the table being spread with every delicacy, and ornamented
with the difil.rcnt gold cups won by the Noble Duke's horses. •
The return of the shooting was as follows :—Hares, 130 ; phea-
sants, 113 ; rabbits, GC ; anal partridge*. 7 :—total 318.
In our account of the shooting in Moedav's Paper, we omitted to
mention that the Duke of. Rutland and Colonel Anson detached
themselves horn the party la the links, and bagged 34 brace of par-
tridges.
Though the shooting was very quick, and the spectators nume-
rous, the only accident that took place befel the Duke's baker, a
..nut having passed through his upper lip, and struck his teeth,
but not suil.ciently hard to prevent the man of dough carrying otfitis
quantsm stakit of the good things of the hall.

Sir Francis Burton, the Lieutenant-Governor of Lower
Canada, sailed from Quebec for England on the 6th Oct.
on hoard the Herald yacht.
On the 7th of June, Sir Ralph Palmer took the usual
oaths and his scat, as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
of Judicature, at Madras.

Mr. Boehm, besides being engaged by Mr. Ebers to com-
pose the music for the ballets at the King's Theatre, is also
appointed director of the musical department of that
establishment for the ensuing season.
Madame Mara, the once celebrated vocalist in this coun-
try, and who has for some time resided at Revel, in Russia,
has announced her intendoe, through the medium of the
Ilamburgh papers, of publishing her own memoirs, which
will include the whole of her long public career. One in-
ducement to do this, she says, is to correct the many in-
accurate statements made respecting her.
Mr. P. Moore, in consequence of some remarks made on
the D'r:ctors of Joint-stock Companies, has addressed a
letter to the Editor of a Morning Paper, in which he denies
that lie has jobbed in shares, or sold a single share, and
declares the concerns to which he has given his name are.
in his sincere opinion, equal in probity and solidity to the
Bank of England.

TIIE DORNI ANT PEERAGE or PETERTIOROUGIL-It ap-
pears that Mr. Mordaunt, of the South Hans, will meet
with strong opposition in his claim to this peerage, another
claimant having made his appearance in the person of a
Mr. Mordaunt, a citizen of London, belonging to the
Neellkinakers' Company, who claims by descent from
Lord John Mordaunt, Viscount Avalon, of the county of
Somerset, the father of the third Earl of Peterbcrrouglt.
Of this gentleman's history we know nothing, except his
being clerk to a bookseller in Paternoster-row, London;
but if the report be true that his claim has received the
sanction cf high legal authority, our friend in the South
llama must prepare himself to meet with very " pointed"
opposition.—PlyntoulliChreitick.

A young traveller of Valenciennes was lately a witness
to the following circumstance:—As an old woman war
leading an ass, laden with sacks of dead leaves, down the
Vrrte, at Brussels, one of them fell down, and the
poor old creature was in vain endeavouring to replace it,
when a man dressed in a blue frock coat, who bad perceivtd
her from a bench where he wax sitting, came to her
asaia-
ance. The old woman, quite overpowered, knew not how
to thank him, but in the midst of her confusion he slipptd
a piece of gold into her hand and disappeared. This man
was the King of the Netherlands !--Journal Jet Coninterce.