The Sun.
London, England, 1826-11-16 00:00:00

SPOR nigG INTELLIGENCE.

MALTON COURSING MEETING.
This celebrated meeting lasted four days, and produced met-
eellent sport. The Cup came off as follows :--Major Bower's
Beningbrough beat Mr. Lowther's Phantom ; Mr. Swann's Jule
heat Mr. Vansittart's Jenny; *Mr. Vansittart's Miller beat Mr.
Swann's Mitsey ; Mr. Swann's Miller beat Lord Macdonzil's
Btutus ; Mr. Best's Mayflower beat Air. Vausittart's Leopold;
Mr. Best's Marigold beat Lord Macdonald's Blossom ; Mr. Betts
Meteor beat Mr. Lowther's Wilton ; Major Bower's Belzoni beat
Mr. Lowther's Elizabeth.
. FOR THE Cur.-2n CLASS.—Mr. Swann's Miller beat May.
flower ; Marigold beat Beningbrough ; Mr. Vansittart's Miller
beat Jane ; Belzoni beat Meteor.
Fon THE Cur--SD CLASS.—Belzoni beat Mr. Vallsittai"
; Mr. Swann's Miller beat Marigold.
CONCLUDING Conass..—Mr. Swann's Miller beat Major
Bower's Belzoni, and won the Cup.—: A Sweepstakes of 5 so'.
each, was won by Mr. Best's Gratitude.---A Sweepstakes of 5
sous. each for puppies, was won by Mr. Swami's Surift--Th'
matches were numerous.

GAME SHOOTING.
A match at game shooting between Mr. Woo!ford of 13;:illont,
and R. Jackson, Esq. took place on Tuesday, for 100 tors., he
former to shoot in Oxfordshire, and the latter in Buckingshire, with a leash of dogs each, x:.) o should bag most bead of
game, and take the day, with a single barrelled gun, coun"°lt°
two ounces and a half of shot. Mr. Jackson commenced opera.
tione in the Burnham Fields, three miles from Maidenhead Bridge,
and bagged as follows :—Fourteen brace of birds, eleven brace of
pheasants, and seven hares—total fifty-seven. Mr.
shot towards High Wycornh and across the Oxford road, hamn
seven till half-past tour o'clock, and missed five times, but did not
fall into good shooting for the first three hour', His bagging I°,
five o'clock was eleven brace ofpartridges, brace and' $
the match
of, pheasants, and ,nine hares—total fifty two, losing
by five. Mr. Woolford missed four shots, and lost by not finding.
Wpolford

n matches for 100 soya. each took Place
TROTTfISG MATCHES.
Ter
Essex road, the first of which *vas jr. Raymond's Spitfire, took
eight miles against Captain Forrester 's Paul Pry. The ~inncr
were to carry eleven stone each, .and even' betting that the winuer
did the ground in half an hour. Spitfire trotted the eight miler
cleverly in 30 minutes, 10 eeconda, and Paul Pry in SI minutest
5 seconds. At the conclusion of alio match Mr. Blandf°llll°
lertook' to trot his Lancashire mace one mile in three Minutd!
and ten seconds, for 50 sovs, over as part of the slow 01,
yesterday on the
The match was altogether a ftilure, as the mare lost by 10 Isl.

AN OUTSIDE PASSENG:ER.--- When
•
goyne wail once at a play, which w,:e merit naterablY en", _IA
a barn in Lancashire, he called one of the performers, arre"pi
id
the name of the 'piece.
" The
SiMe
Coach'
Sk''
11 oblige
Buskin. 4, Well, then," replied the Gone-tab "r" w` ,a, tlet
me by giving me early notice the next time it is perform
I may be an outside passenger."—ivrop4v4l A 1111"; ilk ker
METEORS SEEN IN INDIA.—C:OIOneI ctor,
has given the Asiatic Society
an account of s eingular nittot,
having the appearance of an elongated ball of fire, "kite el
served at Calcutta, a little after sun-set, when on tha ro""`"'ctor
the Court Bowe and the Town Ball. Its colour 'Was 14'e%,,i
the day-light wee still strong, and its larger diaraete APP "n,
greater, and its smaller less, than the semi-diameter of the,
14 direction was from east to weld, its tract nearly horizon eO„4
altitude about thirty degrees. Colonel Blacker regrets net 0i a
Generaltelid,ura;
heard of any other observation of this phenomenon, alto
greater distance, whereby he might have estimated its
height. As, however, it did not apparently nwre
velocity of ordinary meteors, it was probably nt a g",,tologe,
tance, and consequently of great size. So long as t •
Blacker beheld it, which was for five or six seconds, its 0,1001°6:.
was steady, its light equable, and its size and figure rwhil,k
Dent. It latterly, however, left a train of sparks, soon efter;faaf
it disappeared suddenly, without the attendant circunistance_s,o,
report audible in Colonel Blacker's sitnation. Colonel /311.`1,
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mentioned
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ourn jec conjecture
author,m rty
that in.; rno iuedi
using too!:
stars shoo,
mical telescope he has often seen what are called falls visible to the
ing through the field of view, when they we° notooly ernbrar'"
naked eye; and when h is considered that the gleam' is here, it will
one-twenty-five-thousandth part of the celestial 11,1„iv onsw'ffi'9'
is
fie apparent that these phamomos west be °Lin'
order to occur so frequently in so mill a shave.
Evening Courant.