The Sun.
London, England, 1824-04-30 00:00:00

SHOOTING.

The- great pigeon match on Bagshot Heath, on Wednesday,
between seven Gentlemen of Hampshire and seven of Wilt-
011ie, was decided in favour of the former. The match was
a sweepstakes of ten soverei"ns each, amounting to 1401.
Each side killed equal numbers, twenty-five birds each. It
was then in•reefl from the scarcity of birds, that the match should
be decided by three picked men on each side, who killed as
follows :

KILLED.
- 5

KILLED. WILTS.
- 6 Mr. Arden
- 4 Mr. Howard -
- 4 Mr. Wells

- - 4

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COURT OF KING'S BENCII—(Tars DAY.)

THE MORNING CHRONICLE AND THE TIME&
DOWLING V. HICKS.

This was an action brought by the plaintiff,
a gentleman of superior literary talent, and Act-
ing Manager of -the Sunday Ohseri•er and Morn-
ing Chronicle Newspapers, against the defendant,
also a gentleman of great experience and an
Agent to the Times Newspaper, to recover a
compensation in damages for the injury and
inconvenience he plaintiff had been put to,
in consequence of being apprehended by Ruth-
ven, a Bow-street Officer, on a charge of felo-
niously stealing a parcel-from the Glasgow Mail-
coach Office, purporting to he the property of
the Proprietors of Th:Tirnes. The parcel in
question, it appeared, contained the 'speeches of
• Messrs. BROUGHAM and DcNst As at a ginner which
.was given them at Glasgow. .The plaintiff, at the
time he was arrested, was attending his profes;-
sional duties at the Birmingham Musical Meeting,
from which place he was taken about 300 miles=
a bill was preferred against him, which, how-
ever, the Grand Jury ignored, and he (plaintiff)
also was kept in custody for two or three days.
. After the plaintiff's case had closed,
Mr. SCA R LETT, for the defendant, took an ob-
jection that the prosecution was not by his client
Hicks, but by the Times Newspaper. The de-
fendant only acted as agent for that paper.
The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE thought that the
charge was made by Mr. Hicks, on the evidence
of others who did swear to the facts that Mr.
Dowling took the identical parcel, that his LOrd-
ship thought amounted to probable cause.
• The ATTORNEY-GENTRA 1,, for the plainti:7,
observed, the bill being thrown out by the Grand
Jury negatived the probable cause.
Mr. SCA RLETT submitted, not where a cross Lilt
s$ as preferred.

ATTOR.NEY•GENERAL.—We will UOilient
to be called. Plaintiff lionsuited.

MERCANTI LE SHIPPING.

DEAL, APRIL 29.—Wind S.—Arrived tha Gener?l Cock.
burn, from the Isle of France and the Cape of Good Hope ;
Orwell. Bryant, St. Vincent's; Florentia, iVimble' Bengal ;
an and L'Aigle, Stbuck, from the South Sets. Sailed the Na-
vigator, Barton, for Jamaica ; Egginton, Bothwick, for Que-
bec; Prosperite, Baynon, for Havre; Ariel, Buxell, fOr Africa;
Acasta, Griswold, for New York ; and Marv, 'Watson, for the
Cape of Good Hope. Remain the lion. Company's ships
Thames, Orwell, and Mulgrave Casale.
PonTsucv•rn, Aran. 29.—Wind S.—PLY3rorrx.
APRIL 28.—Wind S.S.W.—FaLSiouTH, A TRU 28.—Wind
S.W.—No arrivals or sailings. . •
LivEuPoor., APRIL 28.—Arrived the Mary Frazer, from
'
Mobile; Stranger, Davies, Savannah • Portlaiicf, Drinkwater. -
Charleston ; Cambrian, M‘Pherson, Ceara ; Esther, Fost-
St. Michael's; Dove, —, Cadiz; Matilda, Moore, and Hard.:
ware, Eborall, Lisbon ; and Vigilant, —, from Oporto.