The Sun.
London, England, 1827-09-01 00:00:00

WARWICK RACES.

These races commence on Tuesday next, end present
appearances justify oar anticipating sport of a very su-
perior description. The Course is in excellent order, and,
if the present delightful weather continues, the Grand
Stand will exhibit its usual assemblage of youth, beauty
and fashion. The value of the Guy and Leamington
Stakes, the Gold Cup, and various other Stakes, con-
tested as they will be by some of the first horses of the
day, have created, as might naturally be expected, an un-
usual degree of interest among sporting men ; and all are
here on the tip-toe of expectation of the forthcoming re-
sults. Betting has, in consequetlee been pretty free at
the following odds :--
LEAMINGTON STAKES of 25 save. each, end 100 added.
(98 subs.)
3 to I agst El Dorado sto I agst Double Entendre
to I agst Granby 6 to I agst Sister to Panic
4 to 1 agst Jocko 7to 1 agst Cymon
7 to 1 agst Haji Baba.
CUT STAKES, 50 cove. each. (26 subs.)

3 to I agst Pantaloon 4 to 1 Bodlondeb
5 to 1 aget Tamworth.
ST. LEGER and THP,KE-TR-OLD STAKES.
Sir T. Stanley's c. by Sir Oliver agst the field.
GOLD Cur of 100 cove. and 100 added.
Even betting between Euston and Leviathan.
4 to I agst Dervise and Cervantes.
TWO-TR-OLD STAKES.

Mr. Raxvlinson's Ruby, by Rubens, and Mr. Beardsworth's
Lestelle, by Whalebone, against the field.

CRICKET.

GRAND MATCH SZTWESS THE MARYLELONE
BURY Cr.tiss.—The Return Match between the above
Clubs terminated on Wednesday, at Bury. Great interest
was excited, and it is computed that there were about
2,000 persons on the ground—many of whom were from a
great distance. The play on both sides was so very scien-
tific, that on one occasion 23 minutes elapsed between two
runs, and 39 balls were given without a notch being
scored. The following is the final state of the game :
MARYLEBON E. Bunt.
First Innings 54 First Innings ll5
Second ditto 167 Second ditto lO7

Total 221
With two wick

Total„„.. 222

to go down.

AMATEUR ROWING MATCH.—Yesterday
morning an excellent Amateur Rowing Match took place
for 20!. between the following two pair of oars :—Messrs.
Wittingliatu and-Reynolds, and Messrs. Mitchell, jun. and
Rawlings. The distance rowed was, from the South-
wark-bridge to Battersea-bridge. The parties were at-
tended by a six-oared cutter, and at starting Messrs. Raw-
lings and Mitchell, jun. took the lead, and kept it as far
as Westminster-bridge, when their opponents got a-head,
and continued so the remainder of the distance.

This being the day on which the sporting
Cockneys leave their shops to range the fields about London,
in search of game, the inhabitants, farmers, and others, are
recommended to keep their pigs, geese, chickens, and even
cats, within doors. The sportsmen from the City gene-
rally pop at all the bipeds and quadrupeds they meet.—
Persons in the habit of taking morning rural walks should
be careful to avoid the random shot.

PARTRIDGE SHOOTING.—The pursuits of
the sportsman, which, hitherto, has been on the heath-
covered hills, remote from human habitation, are now
about to be followed in fertile and cultivated plains.—The
season for partridge-shooting will commence to-morrow.
The birds in this neighbourhood are well grown and strong
on the wing, and the coveys are not only numerous, but
individually large. In consequence of the early period at
which the harvest commenced last year, partridges had be-
come wild and difficult of approach on the opening of the
shooting season. An unusual number, therefore, escaped
the sportsman, and, as the winter was mild and favourable,
and the breeding season this year uncommonly propitious,
hence these birds are much more numerous than usual,—
Sheffield Courant.

GROUSE SHOOTING.—During the past week
the mountains of this county have been enlivened by nu-
merous sporting parties, eagerly pursuit); the delightful
amusement of grouse shooting. On Monday (the first day)
many were on the heath at so early an hour as five o'clock.
and from that till the same hour in the evening, the birds
fell in numbers. The weather was particularly favourable,
and the scenery, from those elevated and romantic situa-
tions, beautiful and cheering in the extreme. The birds
are large and strong, though, generally speaking, the
number in each pack is less than has been found on pre-
ceding seasons. Not less than eight different parties spread
devastation amongst the feathered tribe ; there were excel-
lent shots out, some of whom bagged from 12 to 15 brace
on an average each day.— Waterford Chronicle.

HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY.—The &Intl/
for the present season, was
in the Assembly Room, Heaton-
sahtnerldede It b.
ont meetingT
Thursdayhedoo rosf
weekth
were
S opened as usual at two o'clock,
is city
and although the atmosphere during the morning had been
cloudy, threatening rain, the room, capacious as it is, was
immediately crowded with a highly respectable assemblage
of the ladies and gentlemen of the town and neighbour-
hood, and the company continued numerous during the
afternoon. The show of stove, greenhouse, and herba-
ceous plants, at each end of the room was exceedingly at-
tractive, and a small apple-tree in a pot in full bearing,
excited much admiration. The exhibition of carnations
was good, notwithstanding the unfavourable weather, which
has prevailed for the last fortnight, and of fruits the show
was exquisite.—Blackburn Mail.
NOVEL CASE.—John Coombs, whose hasty
marriage we noticed in our last publication, under the
head of " Any port in a Storm," was brought up this day
in custody, he having been arrested by the staff of the South
Devon Militia, as a deserter from that regiment. It ap-
peared that in the year 1821, he was a private in the re-
giment, and was out during the period of training and ex-
the civil authorities, on a charge
ex-
ercise. Subsequently, in the same year,. he was commit-
in Norley-lane, and otefdhatovitohge
ectLunmtyitgtedaole, by the
he thought hit
hav-
ing been tried for the offence, he was convicted, and sen-
tence of death was recorded against him. The sentence
to two years' imprisonment, which he se-
was discharged as he conceived a new /*cm ; and his for-
mer self who was in the militia, and had committed the
regiment,
sergeant, into hid own
At the expiration of the terns, he
burglary, being dead in the eye of the Ilw,
new self at liberty to embrace a new profession.. He ac-
cordingly entered into the naval. service, in which he re-
mained until the Victor wa'.' paid off a short time ago.
took him flora
The very day after his marriage,
.he was met and recog-
cwoarsdicnogmlymuuntedderwent.
nized by one of the inens, who immediately
custody, as a deserter from the regiment. The question
which thereupon arose for the decision of the Magistrates
„, whether the judgment of death passed upon him had
not rendered mill his previous engagements, and amongst
other° his obligation to serve in the militia ? This being a
novel case, the Magistrates have referred to the learned
the
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the the N
Town Clerk, W. H. Tonkin, Esq., for his advice, and in
the mean time the bridegroom has been suffered to return
to the arms of his bride.---PlYmeuth Journal.

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