The Sun.
London, England, 1821-01-06 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS.

Thursday, at one o'clock, the match for 100
guineas to skait a mile in three minutes was de-
tided. Previously to the match being per-
formed the man was the favourite, and was
backed at Odds at TATTERSALL'S and other places.
The person selected to perform the match ap-
pearS to have been a countryman in the neigh-
bourhood of the ferA. He started a few seconds
before the time, and came up in speed to the
scratch at the moment appointed, and performed
the distance 7 seconds under the 3 minutes. At
first it was reported in town that a dispute
had arisen as to the correctness of the time
keepers. The report is however unfounded. The
spot selected for the performance was on the fens,
near to' Isleliam, ,1 miles from. Ely, and 11 miles
from Newmarket. Considerable bets were depend-
ing on the match; and the result has surprised most
persons. Indeed the speed is extraordinary, as
compared with that of the first race horses recorded
in sporting annals. The Beacon course at New-
market is four miles round, and is generally per-
formed in-- seven minutes, fifteen •or twenty se-
conds; but it is recorded that Plying Childers,
for a considerable wager, being put to his ut-
most speed from the moment 'of starting, accom-
plished:it in five minutes and seventeen seconds.

Mr. TREAVS Devonshire. hounds, a. few days
ago, run a hare so hard near Ridgeway, that puss
mounted the low roof of one of the cottages, ran.
along the 'adjacent buildings, and then jumped
into the court-yard of the house of a Lady, and.
made her way into the parlour, followed by the
whole of the pack, when the poor animal. was
taken, again Waled out, and at last escaped.
On 'Tuesday last, as the mail coach from Lon-
don was passing through :Banbury, towards Strat-
ford-on;avon, the coachman was thrown off the
box in going over a small heap on the road, side.
The horses finding themselves at liberty, set off
at full speed till they came to the turnpike gate
at the upper end of Neithrop, where one of the
spirited leaders, in endeavouring to leap, the
gate, was dashed against the gate post and killed.
The harness being broken by the concussion,
the other leader gallopped away. The coach-
man soon after coming up, drove off the mail
with the two horses only. Fortunately, although
some passengers were in the coach, and the morn-
ing very dark, no farther accident occurred.
Sir GEORGE CREWE has liberally disposed his
botinty during the holidays to poor of both his
estates in Staffordshire and Derbyshire, by giving
coals, blankets, and other seasonable necessaries.

Crib, the Champion, is to fight Bill Neat, of
Bristol, for 2001. between Bath and London, on
Wednesday, the 9th of May next.
ROBBERS.—The house. of Mr. DoLny, a Gen-
tleman of respectability in Spencer-street, Dos-
well-street-road, has of late been attempted se-
veral times by some desperate ruffians. Last
week,. Mr. and Mrs. Dolby .being out upon a
visit till two o'clock in the morning, two men
knocked at the door in the early part of the even-
ing. The servant answered them from the area,
which was secured by iron railing, asking what
they wanted. They desired her to come up, as
they had a hamper far her -master ; which she
doubting, told them she would not take any
thing in at night, and,that they.must bring it in
the morning. They went. away and returned
again about 12 o'clock, demanding her to come
up and open the door, muttering somethino-' to
'each other that they ,would•,open the door them-
selves. The girl suspecting their intentiml, with
great promptitude and presence of 'mind, ran up
into the passage, in order to make the street:- •
door more .secure, and, to her great surprise,-
discovered that in the short interval of her leav- •
ing the area they had opened the door to the
extent of the chain. She immediately closed the •
door, bolted it, and on descending to the kitchen
fell exhausted, severely hurting her head. In
this state she laid till one o'cloclk before she was
recovered. We understand the robbers have had
the audacity to attempt to enter the back part of
the premises twice since, but on Mrs. thilby's
springing a rattle they decamped without effect-
ing an entrance. The depredations hi this quar-
ter of the town have of late been so frequent that
the more respectable part of the inhabitants have •
associated to pay additional watchmen, for their
security against these nocturnal plunderers.
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ATROCIOUS MURDER AND IfIGHWAYROWIERY.
A few evenings ago, a most shocking murder, ac-
companied by the equally heinous crime of rob-
bery, was committed on the person of a man
named Timothy Nivel], by a. gang of ruffians, in
Rosemary-lane. The object of this sanguinary
deed was a native of Ireland, and resith:d at
No. 14, Brooke's-court, Vine-yard, Horsely-
down.- On Tuesday morning, about 11 o'clock,
he left his house for the purpose, as we under-
stood, of receiving a sum of money from his
Club, in Rosemary-lane ; he dial not return
again, nor was any thing heard of him till be-
tween nine and ten o'clock at night, when the
people of the house were alarmed by some one
moaning on the stairs; they listened, and heard
a voice, which they knew to be the deceased's,
exclaim'" 0 God, will no one help me.!" The
deceased informed his landlord that he had been.
knocked down, robbed, and left for dead, a short
distance from the Anchor and Hope public-house,
by a gang of men, one of whom threatened to
blow his brains out. He died the following
morning.—After a momentary connitation, the
Jury returned a verdict of " Wilful. Murder
against some person or persons at present
W un-
knon."—The deceased was a single man, and
3c, years old. •

FIRE.---On Thursday night,,a little .before 12
o'clock, a dreadful tire broke out at..the house of
Mr. JoHNcoN, cheesemonger, East, Sipitheld.
o%ving to the severe frpSr, was a. ccinSiclerable
time before water could be procured. As ,seen as it
was obtained, every exertion was ufade by the fire-
men, who did not however succeed in arregiftlg the .
progress of the flames till three hous'•e4 viz.
those of Mr. EmmtsoN, chemist Mr. DLIT, a
dyer ; and Mr. JOHNSON'S, were de,,stroyed, and
considerable damage done to four. or five bowies
backwards. No lives were, lost,