The Sun.
London, England, 1822-09-25 00:00:00

TROTTING.

The Great Trotting Match between Mr. Arbuthnot's Ches-
nut Mare Fairy, and Capt. B. B. Colston's Bluster, for HO
sovereigns, took place early yesterday morning over a' two
miles piece of ground in Oxley-park, Huntingdonshire. Im-
mense sums were pending at even op this snatch. The start
took place at six &clock to avoid interruption, which should do
most in an hour and a half. The following is a correct state-
ment from the umpire's time r
The Mare did Illin. Sec.
Ist two miles in 8 42
2d - • - 8 39
3d - - 8 22
4th - - - 8 51
sth - - 10 22
6th - - - 10 24
7th - - 10 22
Bth - - 12 50
9th - - 14 30

The Horse did Min Sec.
Ist two miles in 8 44
2d . . 8 40
3d . . - 8 23
4th . - 8 20
sth . - 10 27
6th - 10 26
7th . - 1u 20
Bth - - 14 10
9th - - 14 40

93 2 1 94 10
The mare trotted gently over the last mile ground to win, the
horse being several hundred yards behind at the 18 miles.

- CRICKET.
On Monday se'nnight, a return match, between the Stow.
market and Woodbridge• Clubs, was played at 'Woodbridge,
and decided in favour of the former, in a single innings, with
75 runs to spare.
WOODBRIDGE. STOWMARSET.
Ist Innings - - 193
2d Ditto - 81

118

SINGULAR PRESERVATION.-About three weeks
ago, as Mr. Bateson, of Bentham, was shooting upon Ingle-
borough, on a sudden he missed one of his dogs (a favourite
pointer belonging to Mr. Proctor, of this town), and he left
the moor without finding her, nor did he gain any tidings
of her till nine days after, when Mr. Smithies, of Burton-in-
lionsdale, who was sporting over the same ground, observing
his dog growling over the mouth of one of those caverns which
are so numerous in that neighbourhood, on Idoking down for
the object which caused such conduct, he perceived a dog
at the depth of about twenty feet ; and having heard of the
above circumstance, he procured a rope and ladder, and with
much difficulty brought the pointer safe to the top ; but her
feet were so much lacerated in endeavouring to escape from her
gloomy prison, and being reduced for want of food (having re-
mained there eight nights and nine days), she was obliged to be
carried off the moor; and, although in that state, on hearing,
the call of a moor-cock, she pricked up her ears, and pointed
towards the spot where the bird was.
The DIVING-BELL having finished the founda-
tion of the pier for the watering-place in Plymouth Sound, has
recommenced (under the superintendence of Mr. SIDLEY,
King's Harbour Master) clearing the rocky shoals within the
Breakwater, and notwithstanding the wind has blown very
strong from the E.S.E. during the last three days, so that se-
veral merchant vessels have arrived and anchored in the Sound,
under treble and close-reefed topsails, the bell has been at
work at intervals, and taken up several tons of stones from a
part of the Shovel Rock, laying 180 yards within the Break-
. water, which shoal has only from 14 to 18 feet over it at low
water.—(Plymouth Telegraph.) i
ALARMING OcculutENcE.—=Tuesday (17th n-
stantl, as the Edinburgh Castle steam-boat was on her pass-
age between Kirkaldy and Newhaven, a steerage passenger.
in a state of intoxication, jumped up on one of the seats of
the vessel, threw off' his hat, and crying out, " Here goes a
brave seaman," leaped into the sea. The night was very misty,
and was getting dark, and as only a few of the passengers
knew what had happened, much alarm was excited lest the vessel
had run into danger. Every exertion was made by the sailors on
board, but before a boat' could be let down, two men had gone out
to his rescue from the brig Majestic, which most providentially
was within hearing of the steam-boat; and the man being able to
swim, he was soon picked up, though, had it been a little darker,
his recovery would have been almost impossible. The man, on
being brought upon deck, seemed to be totally indifferent about
his late perilous situation, and even uttered oaths against those
who had delivered him. We understand he was once a
cooper belonging to a vessel engaged in the whale fishery,. and
that on the steam-boat leaving Kirkaldy he had made a similar
rash attempt. A subscription of about £1 was very generously
collected by a gentleman from the passengers, as a reward for
the prompt exertions of the sailors on board the Majestic.—
(Cakdonian Mercury.)