The Sun.
London, England, 1819-08-26 00:00:00

SPORTING IN ELLIGENuE.

. EGHANI RACES.—(Si coso DAY).
"rh'e Magna Chart.a Stakes of 50gs'each.
Dukes of York's sister to Scrapall 1
Mr. Turner's Coral
Coral the favourite.--The firtit was a dead heat, and the se-
coitd was well contested.
The Sweepstakes did ❑ot 1111.

EXTRAORDINARY PHENOMENON.-The following
account of a most extraordinary phenomenon of
nature may be depended on for its authenticity:---
This singular man is probably still alive ; he was
living,.to the writer's knowledge, 6 year ago. In
the vil:age of Ditcheat, 4 miles from Shepeon
Somersetshire, in the year 1765, a woman, of
the name of Kingston, was delivered of a stout boy,
without assns or shoulders. He possesses, without
the usual appendages of arms, all the strength,
power, and dexterity of the ablest and most re-
gular made men, and exercises every function of
life. He feeds, dresses and undresses himself,
combs his own hair,, shaves Isis beard with
the razor in his toes, cleans his shoes, lights
bis fire, writes out his own bills and ac-
counts, and does almost every other domes-
tic business. Being a . farmer by occupation,
he performs the usual business of the field, todders
his cattle, makes his ricks, cuts his hay, catches
his horse, and saddles and bridles him with his feet
and toes. He can lift ten peeks of beans with
his teeth ; with his feet he throws a large sledge
hammer farther than any other man can with his
arms, and he has fought a stout battle, and come
off victorious. These facts are notorious in most
parts of Somersetshire.—(Morning Paper.)

The House of Commons is undergoing some
repairs, which, it is said, will prove beneficial,
by affording a greater vent for the mephitic air.
There is a scaffold at present erected around the
table, which has been placed there for the pur-
pose of regulating the circular aperture which was
visible in the centre of the cieliug.
The place where Guy Fawkes was to have taken
his station under the small tower is the southern
extremity of the Old House of Lords is still in
nearly the same state as at that period—the door-
way and passage are the same ; the interior where
the incendiary was to retire to is now a water-
closet.
We understand that Mr. HARRISON had the mo-
desty to attend the Meeting at Stockport, conven-
ed by the inhabitants, to declare their abhorrence
of the designs of seditious and traitorous indivi-
duals ; but being under a recognisance to answer
an indictment for sedition, was deemed by the
fleeting not to be " one of the layal and patrio-
tic ioliabitmits of Stockport," within the terms of
the Requisition convening the Meeting, and was
turned out of the room with universal hisses.—
(Macclesfield Courier.)
Several investigations have taken place at
Chelmsford, relating to two murders committed
some time since ; one near Ilorusey, on a Mr.
Taylor, a surgeon ; the other in Hertfordshire,
on a carter of the name of Cooper. Tbe result
has been, that two men, of the names of Bell and
Crouch, have been committed by JOHN DISNMY
and W. B. TUFNMLL, Esqrs., Magistrates of Es-
sex, to take their trial for the offence.

BIRTH.
On the 44th inst. at Lieut.-Colonel Sir David Ogilby's
home, in Charles-street, Nlaueliester-square, Lady Ogilby, of
%,1 son.