The Sun.
London, England, 1824-11-30 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

STATE OF THE ODDS..;

IETTING-ROOM, Nov. 29.

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9 to
1 ug►%t Rufus
13 to 1 agst Bolero
17 to 1 agst Sister to Parisot
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20 to 1 agst Diana
25 to 1 agst Nigel
30 to 1 agst Sister to Nectar.
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9 to 1 apt fi ,cery
11 to 1 agst Waltz

13 to 1 agst Attica
16 to 1 agst Pipylina.

DONCASTER

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12 to 1 apt Cleveland
17 to 1 agst Iledgauntlet

ST. LEGER.
30 to 1 Not Muleteer
60 to l apt Scandal
.-)0 to I Agit Rosamund.

lIIINTING INTELLIGENCE.
MEF.7INGS 0)4 HOUNDS IN PRESENT WEEK.
The Puekridge
,Hounds, on 'Wednesday, at Burton Wood;
Saturday, at Watton.
The Earl of Harewood'a Foxhounds, on Wednesday, at
Alwoodlty Gates ; Friday, at Ribston Moors. •
The York and Ainsty Hounds, on Thursday, at Red House;
Saturday, at Ribston Lodges.
The Horworth Fox-hounds, on Friday, at Enter Common.
The Cleveland Fox-hounds, on Friday.. at Saltburn.
The Northumberland Fox-hounds, on 'Wednesday, at Wool-
sington ; Friday, at lielsaY.
Sir T. Sykes 's Fox-hounds, on Wednesday, at Millington.;
Friday, at Agnes Burton. • -
Mr. Farquharson's Hounds, on Thursday, at Kingston Bus-
eel ; Friday, at Bradffird Plantation.

THE ADVANTAGE OF HAVING COUNSF.L.—An
Act was passed in the fourth of his present Majesty, for
punishing with transportation for 11 years the receivers of
stolen goods before the principals have been convicted.
The
first person tried under this Act was a man named Daniel
Griffiths. He was charged with having received a bank note to
the amount of 109/. from a young woman named Stif Poll,
well knowing that. it was stolen. Stiff Poll bad prigged it
from one Thomas Miliinnon, but she was not to be found,
and therefore Griffiths was put to the Bar by himself before the
Recorder. A conviction took place, and he was transported
for fourteen years, no objection having been made to the con-
viction by the Counsel for the prisoner. Stiff Poll having
wished to accompany her friend, no longer thought proper to
conceal herself., She •was soon after apprehended, tried,
found Guilty, and disposed of in a similar manner.—
At the latter end of last year, a man named Pemberton
was tried nnder the same Act for receiving stolen pro.

perty. The principal was not apprehended. Pemberton was
convicted. Mr. BrOdrick, for the prisoner, objected that the
decision under the Act of George the Fourth, for punishing
receivers without convicting the principals, could not be sus-
tained. The point was reserved by Mr. Arabin, who tried
the case, far the consideration of the twelve Judges, who
decided in favour of the objection, and a pardon was imme.
diatoly sent down to Pemberton. Mr. Baron Hullock, in his
address to the Cfrand Jury at You', observed, that the Act was
not available. Griffiths, of course, although certainly guilty of
the offence with which he was charged, has been punished, con-
; trary to law, and is entitled to pardon. We understand that
the necessary instrument is to be transmitted to New South
I Wales, in the vessel which carries the next batch of convicts,
and the Act is to be repealed or amended next Session of Par.
'lament.

The New Medical, Clerical, and General Life
Assurance Society hag appeared under the power-
ful auspices of some of the most distinguished
Members in each of those Profession q. As a per-
manent and useful establishment it already takes

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its place among the most respectable Institutions
of its kind, and •it has the merit of not being
perverted into a mere money speculation of the
day ; still as an investment it will probably be-
come highly beneficial to the Share-holders, as
well as being greatly useful to the Insured,
especially to the Members of the two Profes-
I lions, towards which its benefits are particularly
directed.—(See Advertisement.)
PROVIDENTIAL Escarr..---Tram COUTIAGE,—OR Tues.
day last, about four o'clock in the afternoon, Mr. White,
Supervisor of Ilythe, in company with Mr. Haynes, Officer of
Excise, of New Romney, were surveying the Dungeness Dis-
trict, and proceeding about a quarter of a mile to the westward
of Dungeness Ligh House, on horseback; Mr. White on the
full, and Mr. Haynes under the full, they were conversing to.
gether without apprehension of danger,_ when Mr. ileYnes was
suddenly struck on the side of the bead by a most tremendous
sea, winch in an instant unhorsed him, and left him with the
animal buffeting with boisterous element, but being at the mo.
ment possessed of the presence of mind. Mr. H. immediately
made every effort to gain the shore, which, after the greatest
difficulty, he fortunately succeeded, but on looking round
and seeing, his unfortunate companion struggling with the
waves, he immediately plunged again into the breakers which
were then running mountains liigh, to save his faithful beast,
and succeeded in getting hold of the bridle, when after having
both disappeared tor some seconds, they were thrown by the
swell of a sea with violence on the shore, without sustaining
any other injury than a most severe ducking.
A cat belonging to a family in Green-street,
Calton, took badly with a distemper possibly peculiar to the
species, and on Wednesday last was so very ill, and so much
spent, that it could hardly walk. Sonic sulphur and butter
had . been procured for a dog in the same faroily that had
taken the snifters. It was thought that passe' might be
the better of a dose of it, which was accordingly administered._.
She however died, or seemingly died, soon after, lay stretched
on the floor. An old woman after lamenting the loss of her fa.
vourite, about four o'clock in the evening threw her out on the
top of a dunghill. Next morning the woman, on going to the
dunghill, saw her lying stiff on the same spot, where she had
been battered during the whole night with a cold and heavy
rain. Sympathising for her favourite, and afraid that mischie-
vous boys might mangle her remains in the street,. she
performed her last kind office by completely covering her
ever with a basket full of warm dry ashes, which she had
with her at the time, and considered the interment as com-
plete. To the utter astonishment, however, of the old
woman, and the rest of the family, the cat about two
o'clock entered the door, and came slowly in, almost
blind, and completely covered with mud and ashes. It would
appear that the warm ashes had restored animation, after the
cat had lain on the dunghill for upwards of 20 hours. The
animal is now getting fast round, and has become most yore-
cious_for meat,---(GJuagciry Chronick.)

Miss WILSON is engaged as Prima Donna at
the Pergola, or Grand Theatre et Florence, and is
to appear in a new Opera, written expressly
for the
time occasion.since her Thisa youngarrival
in
Lady sang for the
first Italy, at a party
given by Lord and Lady Burghers,: early in the
present month, at which all the Nobility, Cog-
noscenti, and Professors in Florence were present.
The Noble Lord writes to his friends that the
company were astonished at her extensive volume
of voice, and her exceedingly fine taste.
Ross.—At this place on Thursday the mail
and other coaches were prevented by the depth
of water, from passing Wilton Bridge. Boats
were busily employed all day in erecting
the transit of passengers across the flood. A
party of gentlemen went out in the afternoon
to amuse themselves on the beautiful expance
of water. Their vessel was of slight con.
struction, and its bottom, striking upon some
palling, was perforated to an alarming extent.
The amateurs endeavoured, by means of pocket
handkerchiefs, &C. to stop the leak :—the
boat continued to fill, and the voyagers had
but just time enough to reach a tree, into
which they, • tlittihed; before their " slender
bark" became In6apable of keeping them afloat.
They were safely imported by a passing skiff, to
the transport of themselves and friends.