The Sun.
London, England, 1827-12-13 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

DEPTFORD COURSING MEETING.
The Cup was won by Mr. J. H. Vivian's blue b. Violet
The Guineai by Mr. E. Cripps' black b. Emerald •
The Derby Stakes by Mr. Goodlake's hl. and wh. Grammar
The Oaks Stakes by Sir H. Vivian's hl. b. Verity
The Tilshead Stakes (Ist Class) by Mr. Biggs' Belzoni
The Tilshead Stakes (2d Class) by Mr. Cockburn 's Cressida

MATCH AGAINST TIME.
A beautiful watch took place yesterday morning, near
Enfield Wash, between Capt. Jones, a gentleman well known
in the sporting world, and Mr. T. Smart, for 100 gs. a side.
The match was, to trot two miles, gallop two miles, drive
two miles (each having only one hoi se), run two miles,
and walk forwards two miles, the whole of which both
gentlemen undertook to do within one hour, for another
bet of 100 guineas. Owing ,to the unfavourable state of
the weather, and the privacy with which the match bad
been kept, the ground was but thinly attended, but betting
was uncommonly brisk, from the known celebrity of both
gentlemen ; the odds were only 5 to 4 against the under-
taking, and 5 to 4 on the Captain was freely taken by the
friends of Mr. Smart. The match was done thus on a
two-mile piece of ground :

CAPT. JONES. M. S. MR. SMART. M. S.
Trotting ........ . 6 542 Gallop
Trotting
6 3
Galloping
Driving 8 2 Driving 8 40
Running
Walking

Total 5B 47

Total 59 32

The Earl of Derby's Stag Hounds will meet to,morrow,
at the Tangiers, six miles from Croydon.
ACCIDENTS TO RACERS.-Mr. Pettit's Tom Tit and
Colonel Wilson's Corkscrew are both unable to stir from
Beccles. It will ba recollected that they both broke down
at the Beccles Races last September ; and, singular enough,
the. mare, Miss Hammond (also Mr. Pettit's), died almost
immediately on getting there, from injury received. It
almost unprecedented, that three horses out of six should
be entirely spoiled from racing in two days.

'FoG.—In consequence of the intensityoft
fog yesterday morning, Sir Thos. LErnaalptig, in cross-
ing Lincoln's Inn, ran by mistake into the arms of Mr.
BROUGHAM.

HAILEYBURY COLLEGE.— The annual ex•
amination of Students at Haileybury,lthe College under th(
control of the East India Company, preparatory to th(
Christina; vacation, Will take place this day, before tht
President of the Board of Control, the Chairman, and se-
veral of the East India Company.

The &Rowing- notice of this extraordinary:man,
whose early ' history seems almost unknown, or at
least much misrepresented,
appears in a work on
Egypt, published
,on the ;Continent a short time ago
by the Barthi Von Minutoli.Ali. Pacha" Mahomet Ach& was born at Cavalla, a
village in Ancient Macedonia, and is now about .59
years of age. He is well made, and of the middle
size, and has black animated eyes, which are always
in motion. An affection of the lungs, under which
he sometimes evidently labours, is said to have been
caused by the great exertions with which he main-
tained, with only nine hundred men, a victorious
combat against forty' thousand Arabs. He speaks
only Arabic and Turkish, and is wholly unacquainted
with any of the European languages.
" His early education was much neglecked. It
was not till he was Pacha that he learnt to read and
write; he is solely indebted to superior natural ta-
lents for his extraordinary success. His career was
not promising till the year 1800, when lie was
made -Bint Basehi in the army of the Grand Vizier;
on the taking of El Arisch, he was appointed Bulak
Baschi, and was afterwards raised to the rank of
Set Tschisme under Mahomet Khosru Pacha, who
was appointed Pacha of Egypt by the Sublime
Porte.

" In 1804 he besieged Khosru's successor,Khours-
chid Pacha, in the citadel of Cairo, and in the fol-
lowing year succeeded him in his office, after having
with the assistance of his faithful Albanians, expel-
led the Mamelukes from that capital. But his do-
minion was not fully confirmed till 1811, on the lst
of May of which year fae,likr. ttirely annihilated the
surviving Marneltikes, who continued to contrive
new plots, and did not dissemble that they still con-
sidered themselves as the lawful masters of Egypt,
which they had so long unjustly usurped anchoy-
pressed. This actionhas been represented as an in-
stance of sanguinary. perfidy, but the safety of the
province was at stake, and the testimony of credible
and respectable persons entirely acquits Mahomet
Ali from the reproach of cruelty.
" From this period the prosperity of Egypt, and
its security against internal and external enemies,
has been the invariable object of his exertions, and
it is almost inconceivable how much he has under-
taken, and, in most instances, successfully accom-
plished.