The Sun.
London, England, 1825-11-15 00:00:00

PIGEON SHOOTING.

The first meeting of the Crack Pigeon Shooting Clubs took
place yesterday on Chobham Common, or.Bagshot Heath, be-
tween 7 Members of the Ashton and 7 of the New flats Club,
for 100 sovereigns aside, the usual distance of 21 yards from the
trap, at 11 birds each.

NEW HATS.
Mr. Frampton
Mr. Flint .
Capt. Smith .
Mr. Jones .
Mr. Fortescue
Mr. Hull ..
Mr. M`Queen

Killed.

ASHTON. Killed.
Mr. Giles . 9
Mr. Ilenniker . 8
Mr. Goodchild . ti
Mr. Hornby . . 7
Mr. Kubergall 7
Mr. Musgrove • 7
Mr. Howell . . It
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TROTTING MATCH.

The Melton Mowbray horse, Forrester, lost his match of two
miles for 500 sovereigns on Saturday, on the fiat approaching
Nottingham. The task was to trot the two miles in three mi-
nutes and four seconds, but the time was out when the horse
was fifty yards from home.

It is with feelings of the deepest regret (says
the Newcastle Chronicle of the 12th inst.,) that we this week
record another melancholy instance of the mutability of human
hopes and prospects in the sudden and awful death of 31r.
Joseph Harrison, viewer of Se; hill colliery, in the neighbour-
hood of this town. On Wednesday last, between 11 and 12
in the forenoon, as Mr. Harrison was viewing the engine ma-
chinery attached to a newly erected saw-mill at the colliery,
which was then put in operation for the first time, the fly wheel
broke, and several fragments of metal were thrown off from it
with great violence, one of which striking Mr. Harrison on the
head, instantly deprived him of existence. Mr. John Ander-
son, the engine-wright, who was standing near him, was also
struck with such violence that his recovery is deemed impossi-
ble. Ile also was wounded in the head, and what is moat re-
msrkahle, they were the only persons out of about sixteen pre-
sent who were injured; indeed one man who was standing be-
tween Mr. Harrison and the engine-wright, with two children
in his care, did not receive the slightest hurt. The piece of
metal which was the immediate cause of this calamity, was
rivetted to the wheel with iron bolts, and these gave way under
the united force of the wheel's velocity and the pressure upon
it. Mr. Anderson is about 41 years of age, and has a wife and
son ; Mr. Harrison was only 31. This melancholy event has
excited deep and general regret in this town and neighbourhood
'rims has this able young man been suddenly deprived of exist-
ence in the very flower of his age, and the well-grounded ex-
pectations of his sorrowing relations for ever crushed.—One
consolation, however, is affbrded them, that, throughout the
whole of his active and useful career, in which he has never
ceased to display uncommon ability, he acquired the love and
respect of all with whom he came in contact, and that his sad
demise will be as long and as deeply lamented as his memory
will be cherished and revered.

The late Wm. LLOYD, Esq. of Ellison Place,
Newc.astle-upon-Tyne,. has benevolently bequeathed to the
charitable institutions in this town, the following legacies, free
of the legacy duty :—To the, Infirmary, 201. ; Dispensary, 201.;
Fever Hospital, 201.; All Saints Suriday Schools, 2014 Lying-
in Ilospital, 101.; Poor Women Lying-in at Home, 101.; and
to the Lecturer of St. John's, in this town, the dividends of
351. in the 3 per cent. consols bank annuities, for ever.