The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1825-11-26 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

Norm. Ram—Wednesday morning a man undertook, for is
trilling sum, to go from the Haymarket to St. Clement's watch.
house, in Portugal-street, in less time than a fast galloway could ba
driven in a light cart. A little before seven o'clock they started ;
the man made his way all but at score, through St. Martin's court,
Covent-garden, and then through Russell and Clare-courts, to
Clare-market, where, for the first time during the race, he tepee;
his opponent up to his mettle. Both being now within " the
lance." away went legs, and in spite of the well applied whip
the flanks of the poor animal, crossed the market, passed throualy
Oilbert's.passage, and arrived first at the watch-house, beating his
opponent by three lengths. The timekeeper rode against a butcher
in the market, and dropped his watch, which fortunately stopped.
The beta on time were not paid.

ATTEMPT TO MURDER.--Mr. MillyoW, Solicitor to the
Honourable Board of Excise, arrived at Stratton on Wed..
nesday se'nnight, anti on the following morning, the Ma.
gistrates, with his able assistance, proceeded to investigatethe circumstances of the poisoned sugar recently sent to
Mrs. Hendy, of Moorwinstow. After a patient and
laborious inquiry of five days, the business was concluded
at eleven o'clock on Tuesday night, when Richard Sargent,
blacksmith, of that parish, was fully committed to Bod-
min gaol by Vowles, Esq. and the Rev. John Day;s,
Magistrates, charged " on suspicion of having wilfully,
maliciously, and unlawfully administered, or caused to be
administered, poison, or other obnoxious or destruetiee
substance, to IVm. Hendy, Francis C. Hendy, and Joseph
Carrell. with intent to murder them." Sargent is one of
a numerous party with whom suits are pending in tixe
Court of Exchequer for smuggling: but, in justice to the
others, it must be observed, that not a tittle was elicited
to implicate them in the diabolical charge. A portion itf
the sugar was analysed by D. King, Esq. of Stratton, and
found to contain nearly 1-13th of arsenic; 360 grains viva
28 grains of arsenic.—Plymoufk Paper.
ATROCIOUS CRIME.—Last week we noticed the cern-
' mission of a violent and cruel assault on a respectable yoterg
woman named Mary Waters, of South Luffenham, Rat-
land, by two ruffians who stopped her on the turnpike-
road upon Barrowden Hay, where they robbed her of tee
money and some articles of wearing apparel, then repeat-
' edly and brutally violated her person, and at length co-
deavoured to deprive her of life by cutting her throat. This
outrage occurred as early as half-put three o'clock in O.s
afternoon of Monday the 14th inst. • anti it was not antil
some considerable time afterwards that the unfortunate vic-
tim was discovered by a labourer returning bomeward.frum
his work', who heard the faint cries of the still surviving
girl, from a ditch into which the ruffians had thrown Err
body, and where they had cut upon her a quantity of sods
and weeds, under the impretsion, no doubt, that slite'veaa
dead. She providentially, however, is still alive, and it'is
hoped will recover to give evidence before an earthlyi tribh-
:tat against the monsters by whom she bas been IQ dread.
fully injured. From her description of the critnirab par.
suit was made, and two men who slept at King'x Cut& on
the night After the outrage were apprehended, and were, on
the evening of Thursday, the 17th inst. inlly committed It r
Oakham Gaol, for trial at the next Assiz'es,. by the Wilts
of Jacob Bazelander, a sailor, and William Brae, clisived
with rape and.roblaerY.—Lincole .21fereerw.