The Sun.
London, England, 1833-08-08 00:00:00

MANCHESTER, AUG. 5.

The betting has been heavy at the tullowing prices:
YORK PRODUCE (TnuasnAy).—.s •o 4 on Frankenstein,
YORK 30Gs. STAKES.-5 to 4on Belshazzar and Rock.

ingham.

TUREEg.-2 to 1 agst. Emancipation; 4 to 1 agst.
Physician ; 6 to 1 agst. Ostrich.
GREAT ST. LEGER....-5 to 1 agst. Muley Moloch; 7 to
1 agst Belshazzar (taken freely); 8 to 1 agst. Rockingham ;
13 to 1 agst. Mole (taken) ; 13 to 1 agst Mussulman ;
14 to 1 agst Connoisseur ; 100 to 6 agst. Revenge (taken).

ROVIING MATCH.—The rowing match among the
watertnen of the Middlesex side of London-bridge and the
Old Swan-stairs took place yesterday. After a very
tolerable contest it was decided in favour of Myers and
Mitchell.

DOUBLE SCULL WAGER.—Another rowing match for
a wherry given by the inhabitants of St. John's and St.
Margaret's, Westminster, also took place on Tuesday by
ten pair of sculls, two pair in each boat. It was won by
the Campbells (brothers).

We are happy to state that the doors of Starn.
ford goal are now open, not a single prisoner being con
fined there.—Lincolnshire Chronicle.
A HINT FOR BRIDES.—A few days
since a couple went to Thame Church to be married. The
ceremony went on as usual very well until it came to the
words "with this ring I thee wed," when the bride essay-
ing to take her glove off her maiden hand for the last
time could not effect it. Whether it was agitation or
heat, nervousness or perspiration, the leather clung to
her band like man and wife ought to do, and would not
part company. The bride blushed and pulled, but in
vain. The bridegroom (bold man) laughed outright;
so did the father, so did the mother, so did the bride's
maids, so did all spectators except the clergyman, and he
(the Rev. Mr. LEE) exclaimed, " I do not come here to be
laughed at," and, shutting his book, left the ceremony
half-finished, the bride half-married, and the glove—half-
off. We add for the satisfaction of the sympathisers, that
the bride went to church next day with her hand un •
covered, and the nuptial knot was then tied " as tight as
a glove."—Bucks Herald.
The late Chairman of the Quarter Sessions
for Dublin was so remarkable for his lenity to female
culprits that a woman was seldom convicted when he pre-
sided. On one occasion when this humane Barrister was
not in the chair, a prim-looking woman was put to the
bar of the Commission Court, at which presided an
equally humane though not so gallant a gentleman. She
was indicted for uttering forged bank-notes. According
to usual form of law the Clerk of the Crown inikei the
prisoner if she was ready to take her tri .1? With great
disdain she answered " No, my Lord ; I'll be tried by the
other Judge, or not at all." The simplicity of the woman,
coupled with the well-known character of the late Chair-
man, caused a roar of laughter in the Court. :be Chair-
man was about to explain the impossibility of her being
tried by the popular Judge, and said " He can't try you"
—when the woman stopped him short, and, with an inimi-
table sneer, exclaimed, " Can't try me ! why he tried
me twice before." She was tried, however, and, for the
third time, acquitted.
ME GENTEEL SWINDLER.--Mr.
HO-
WELLS, our r.ctive police-officer, has returned from an
unprofitable pursuit of the gentlemanly Canadisu, PI. 0.
BENNETT, Esq., whose successful performances in this
county, of the character of a new Jeremy Diddler, we
described in our last. Mr. HoweiA.s has visited Gle.gow
he has not, therefore, been to the falls of Niagara to look
for our tourist. Another individual, who travelled south,
in pursuit of the slippery Canadian, has heard of the
tourist, though he was not fortunate enough to catch even
a glimpse of the person of Mr. 11. 0. BENNETT. It ap-
pears that on the 18th ult., Mr. BENNETT was at Bristol,
where it is supposed that he changed his name to WU,.
L'AMSON, and his luggage to a leather portmanteau. We
fear this will be the last account of the accomplished
swindler—accomplished he undoubtedly must he, for he is
"of such enchanting presence and discourse," that he
found no difficulty in abstracting some 600/. from the
coffers of his enchanted friends in this city and county.—
Hereford Times.
THE HAUNTED HOUSE.—A few evenings
ago the maid servant of a worthy gentleman, who resides
not 100 miles from a place called Welford, was much sur-
prised by discovering a white petticoat in the bedchamber
of her unwived master ; and, peering about the room, her
surprise changed to terror as her eyes fell upon a spiritual
form, half shrouded in one of the bed curtains, as if
desirous to hide itself from mortal gaze. The
affrighted maid, crying "Murder" rushed to the stair
head, and rolled to the bottom. All the household was
in an instant around her, and when she had " come round"
herself, she vowed vociferou.ly that she would not live any
longer in " such a house." " Hold your tongue, girl do!"
exclaimed her agitated master, " think of my reputation !"
Meanwhile, scared by the uproar she had kindled, and
t,kitig advantage of the moment when all were occupied
aiti the fallen servant, the ghost (together with the
till-tale petticoat) glided unseen through the front door,
apcl7as heard of no more. The gentleman's " reputa-
tion"
was thus luckily preserved ; for though the lass. now
'bat she is more collected, asserts that the (fallen) angel's
white wings bad a marvellous resemblance to a lady's
no one who is at all acquainted with her m ester's
character will lend an ear to her story.--Leicester
Chronicle.