The Sun.
London, England, 1825-06-25 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

WINCHESTER RACES, THURSDAY, JUNE 23.
(CoNrcuunED).
The Gold Cup. One mile and a half.
Mr. F. Craven's b. c. Longwaist
Mr. Whiteside's Brother to Antonio -
Mr. Fleming's c. by Buffalo
A good race.
Plate of 501. Two-mile heats.
Mr. Ryan's ch. c. by Southsayer
Mr Gauntlett's Prima Donna
Mr. Shard's Razor
Mr. Lautour's Gertrude
Razor the favourite.

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EDINBURGH RACES —TursDAY, JUNE 21.
Match.-L-Sir W. Maxwell's ch. f. Spae Wife, against Sir D.
31oncrieffe'S b. g. Barossa, both two years old, Bst. each. Half
a mile. 200 soy h. ft. Won easy by the former.
Fifty Soy. given by the City of Edinburgh, for horses, &c.
that never won before the day of entry.
Mr. Quarton's b. c. Warkworth -
Lord Leven's b. c. by Prime Minister -
Sir AV. Maxwell's b. c. Faffiedaddy -
31r. Home's b. f. by Don Juan
Mr. Johnston's ch. g. lncog.
Won easy.
WEDN'ESDAY, JUNE 22.
His Majesty's Plate of 100 gs, given to the City of Edin-
burgh, free for any horse, &c.-3-yr-olds,, 6st. ; four, 7st. 41b. ;
five, Bst. 21b; six, Bst. 101 b.; and aged, fist. 121b.—Four-mile
heats.
Lord Kennedy's ch. c. North Briton
Sir A. Don's b. h. Zerbino -
Sir D. Moncrieffe's b. h. Shuffler
Gen. Sharp's ro. P. P. C -
Won easy.
Fifty guineas given by the Right Hon. Wm. Dundas, M.P.
for the City.-3-yr-olds, Gst. filb.; four, 7st. 81b. ; five, fist.
Sib.; six and aged, Bst. 81b.—Three-mile heats.-111ares.and
geldings allowed 21b.
Mr. Carleton's b. h. Theodore
Sir D. 3loncrieffe's gr. c. Benvarloch
Won in a canter.

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WALKING MATCH.
The sporting match for Mr. G. West, a descendant of the
old 'Windsor. pedestrian, to go from Kingsland to Doncaster
and back, 320 miles, in 4 days and 4 hours, was finished early
yesterday morning. The match for 300 sovereigns having been
made, 500 with more heavy betting was added, at 5 to .4 on
time. The pedestrian reached Colliers End, 28 miles, to break.
fast, at the pace of 5 miles an hour, and completed 82 miles
to Wandsford, at 11 o'clock at night: The second day he
reached Doncaster by way of Worksop at midnight, and re-
turned to Worksop, where he refreshed. The next day, the
third, the pedestrian reached Norman Cross, leaving himself
28 'hours to perform the remaining 72 miles in, and he won the
match with half an hour to spare, and not much fatigued.

PIGEON MATCH.
The great match for 300 soy. between seven Gentlemen of
Surrey and Sussex, and seven of Berks and Oxon, took place
on Thursday morning on Oundley Heath, Chobbam, at eleven
birds each, twenty-one yards from the trap. The ground, with
the marquees attached thereto, presented a small village. The
match was decided as follows :
SURREY, &C. Killed.
Mr. Larrance . 10
Captain Yates . 9
Cooper - _ 8
Hartrey -
Holliday -
Captain Smith
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Fremont - - - 10
Major Baxter - 10
Kent - - - 8
Walker - - - 7
Bolt - - 7
Ashton - - - 7
Macklin - -

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;unite in taxing their birds out

The last Russian Mail brings au account o
a truly iturriceneous storm which occured a
Nischney-Nowgorod on the 6th ult. Severe
dwelling-houses were thrown down, doors, win•
doves, &c. were flying about, even the very pave.
ment of the streets was torn up, besides the de.
molition of sentry boxes, &c. Seventy vessels,
large and small, have foundered in the river
Ocka ; and, melancholy to relate, no fewer than
74 men have loSt their lives. The damage done
to the town is estimated at 100,000 rubles. It
would have boon twice that sum but for the al-
most super-human exertions of the Police Officers
and their Assistants.
A letter from Birmingham says—" A sample
011,000 quarters of bonded wheat was offered
conditionally, as to the Bill passing for its libe-
ration, at two shillings per bushel, duty In-
cluded, weighing about 10 lb. per Winchester
bushel only ; the weevils had left merely the
husk!"
A letter dated Hanover, the 10th June, says,
on the 3d inst. the village of Knesebeck was re-
duced to Ashes, and some lives were lost ; nearly
all the cattle perished too. It is a most melan-
choly event, there beiupwards of 100 families
ng
who are plunged into the bitterest poverty.
An alarming fire broke out in the night of the
14th inst. in the premises of M Robert, a coach.
master, in the passage of St. Maur, in the street
of the old Tuileries. It appears that eight
houses have fallen a prey to the devouring ele.
went. M. Robert has lost thirty-six fine horses,
Amongst the sufferers is a saddler, who has lost
the whole of his property.
It is announced in the Hamburgh Papers,
that the General Steam Navigation Company in
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burgh and London ; and that the Hylton
London purponsteeat:lsstanbflissltt
by
Jolliffe, a fine new vessel, of the burthen of 300
commu-
nication,
tons, elegantly fitted up, will make the first voy-
age towards the latter part of the ensuing month
(July.)
Last week, as the son of a gentleman at Broom-
field, was amusing himself with a tin tube, through
which he was blowing a cork, with a needle
projecting from it, more than three quarters of
an inch in length, by an incautious inspiration of
his breath, the cork and needle lodged in his
throat, and he was compelled to swallow them—
the point downwards. Two moderate doses of
castor oil were administered, which, on the third
day relieved the stomach of the lodgmener and
excepting spasms in the back and shoulders, no
consideratile pain was experienced, although .the
passage of the needle throu;:h the intostittet-war
dis.tiactly felt.----(Tmattow Umtrice)