The Sun.
London, England, 1822-09-28 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

LINCOLN RACES, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 25.
His Majesty's Plate of 100,1 s for 4 and 5-yr old Mares. Two-
mile Heats.
Mr. Fielde's b. f. Norma, by Whalebone, 4 yrs - 3 I I
Mr. Petre's b. f. My Lady, 4 yrs - 1 3 2
Mr. llouldsworth's b. £ Amiable, 4 yrs - - 2 2dr
Close running, and won by a head each heat.
The Champion Stakes of 30gs each.
Sir J. Byng's b. f. Madeline - - walked over.
Hunters' Stakes of sgs each. Gentlemen Riders.
Lord Brownlow's b. m. by Cavendish - ! 1
Mr. Platel's b. g. Forester, aged - - 2 2
20 to 1 on Forester, a remarkably gOodrace.
There is a numerous entry for the Plates and Gold Cup on
Thursday and Friday.

FATAL ACCIDENT AT BLACK ROCK.—We have
this week to record the loss of another life in
the vicinity Qif Black Rock. For some time past,
on account of the dangerous state of the Cliff,
all persons have been prohibited from getting
stones from the beach near that place ; but, not-
withstanding, it has been frequently done by
stealth ; and early on Wednesday morning, at
about three o'clock, two men were employed in
drawing up stones with a basket, ,one being
placed at the top of, and the other below, the
Cliff. While thus occupied, an immense piece of
the Cliff, extending no less than sixteen feet from
the edge, separated itself from top to bottom, and
fell down, burying the man beneath. It is sup-
posed that .a small piece first struck him, as he
was heard by his companio►► to cry out. The
other man escaped in, a most providential
manner.—Hearing the ground crack beneath
him, he was immediately alarmed, and call-
ing to the one below to get away, he himself
ran from the edge of the Cliff, and at the mo-
ment of his springing to make a leap, the ground
actually sunk beneath his feet. One moment
more must have precipitated, him in the chasm.
Labourers were set to dig for the body of the
unhappy victim; but up to last night their search
continued to be unsuccessful. lie was upwards
of 60 years of age; his name is unknown, and he
was a stranger to the person with whom he was
working; the name of the latter is Johnston.—
(Brighton Gazette.)

I _
MuitnEn.—(Frost a Madrid paper of thelfith instant.)—
Yesterday, at two in the evening, Don Santiago Iruegas, Al-
calde of the Barrio de la Cruz, was called, by the neighbours,
to a house in the Calle de la Vittoria, in which Don N.,lleros,
a clerk in the Treasury, lives, for the purpose of ascertain-
ing the cause of the cry of " murder" in the voice of a female.
The Alcalde proceeded immediately to the plate pointed out,
and finding that no attentihn was paid to his request to open
the door, he ortlered it to be broken open, and, accompanied
by some friends and the neighbburs, went 'up to the second
floor, whence the cries had proceeded. They no sooner entered
the outer room than they found, bathed in her blood, anti al-
read quite dead, Donna Valentia Gomez, housekeeper to Don
N. }leros. It was observed that she had received a deep
wound in the neck, and others of a slighter description in differ-
ent parts of the body. To this melancholy sight was added,
that of a man lying by the side of the deceased, who was also
wounded in the neck • his wound was apparently slight,
but his face and hands were covered with blood. Them
were in a purse-six hundred reals—one ounce in gold, and
the rest in ,dollars, all covered with blood, and besides a re-
ceipt for the like sum from the deceased. A switch, also stained
with blood, was found on the floor. On the first search no weapon .
whatever was discovered, but afterwards there was found un-
der a mat a small knife, which is supposed to ' have been the
I murderous instrument, as it is much marked with 'blood.—
The wounded man was 'removed to the hospital. Notwith-
standing the numerous questions which have there been put
to him, he has not articulated a single word ;'but his signs
seemed, at first, to indicate that - he wished it to be under-
stood that he and the deceased hail been attacked by two men
who escaped. Afterwards he appeared to signify that the crime
was perpetrated by one man : but neither of these intimations
agreed with the statement of a cobbler who lives at the entrance
to the house. He states that ' the wounded man waited in the
'portal for the return of the unfortunate Donna Valentina,
who had gone out : that when she came home, he went up stairs
with her ; and that soon after the cries were heard which caused
the people in the neighbourhood to collect round the house.
—The cobbler further declares that, except the wounded man
and the deceased, he had seen 'nobody either come out or go
into the house. It may be inferred from the receipt, which
is supposed to have been executed in favour of the wounded
man, that his name is Manuel Castello. These circumstances
have given rise to a thousand conjectures, and the Constitu-
tional Alcalde (Don Ramon Casellas) has set on foot a diligent
investigation respecting this horrid and extraordinary assassi-
nation.