The Sun.
London, England, 1827-12-29 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

HUNTING APPOINTMENTS
FOR, THEENSIJING wEEK.
His Majesty's Stag-hounds will meet on Monday, at
New Lodge, Winkfield ; Friday, at the Crooked Billet,
Iver Heath—at half-past 10.
The Hambledon Hounds, on Monday, at Bordran Houst!
—half-past 10.
The Brighton Harriers, on Monday, near Patcham ;
Wednesday, near the Race Course ; Friday, near the
Dyke—quarter before 11.
The Lewes Brookside Harriers, on Monday, at New-
market Hill ; Wednesday, at Ashcombe (the alternate
Wednesday at the Kennel, Ilford) ; Friday, at Telescombe
Tye—half-past 10.
The Cheshire Hounds, on Monday, at Tatton Park ;
Wednesday, at Duthlon Beath ; Thursday, at Duddon
Heath ; Saturday, at Manley Mill—half-past 10.
The Shropshire Hounds, on Monday, at the Fox Al-
brighton ; Wednesday, at Acton Burnell ; Friday, at
Dorrington—half-past 10.
Sir R. Puleston's Hounds, on Monday, at Oteley Park

-11.
Mr. Boycott's Hounds, on Tnestia!, at Island Pool ;
Thursday, at Chillington—half-past 10.
The Cottesm. ore Hounds, on Monday, at Swayfield ;
Tuesday, at Seaton Windmill ; Thursday, at Uffington
Wood—quarter before I I.
Lord Scarbrough's Fox-hounds, on Monday, at Apley
Head ; Wednesday, at Tickhill Spittal ; Friday, at Sand-
beck Park—half-past 10.
Mr. Foljambe's Fox-hounds, on Tuesday, at Hackthorn ;
Thursday, at Saxilby ; Saturday, at Fiskerton-11.
Lord Yarborough's Hounds, on Monday, at Wathe ;
Wednesday, at Melton Low Wood ; Friday, at Elking-
ton Cow Pasture ; Saturday, at Thornton College-11.
The Worcestershire Fox-hounds, on Tuesday, at Brans-
ford Village; Friday, at Little Malvern—half-past 10.
The Warwiekshire Fox-hounds, on Monday, at Wolford
Wood—half-past 10.
Mr. Dansey's Hounds, on Tuesday, at Onibnry ; Friday,
at Kyre-10.
The Gransden Hounds, on Tuesday, at Burton Wood;
Friday, at West Wratting-10.
Earl Fitzwilliam's Hounds, on*Monday, at Sawtry Toll-
bar ; Wednesday, at Waybridge Wood ; Thursday, at Old
Suelsey-10.
The Somerset Subscription Hounds, on Tuesday, at
St. Audries ; Friday, at Sandhill Park-10.
Sir Jacob Astley's Hounds, on Monday, at tho Kennel
—half-past 10.
Mr. King's Hounds, on Tuesday, at the sixth mile'•
stone, Bovey Heathfield ; Friday, at Canonteign Wood-10.
The Earl of Harewood's Fox-hounds, on Monday, at
Harewood Bridge ; Wednesday, at Hook Moor ; Friday,
at Thorp Arch-10.
The Conock harriers, on Monday, at Ell Barrow ;
Friday, at Chittern Meadows-11.
The East Sussex Fox-hounds, on Monday, at Windore-
hill—at 'a quarter before 11.
Sir John Cope's Hounds, on Monday, at Jack's Booth ;
Friday, at De la 13ere—half-past 10.
Lord Kintore's Hounds, on Tuesday, at Bagley Wood;
Thursday, at Witham—half-past 10.
The Craven Hounds, on Monday, at Penwood ; Wed-
nesday, at Chaddleworth Gate ; Friday, at Wilcot Green;
Saturday, at Denford—half-past 10.
The Badsworth Fox-hounds, on Tuesday, at Fryston
Hall ; Thursday, at Doncaster Toll Bar ; Saturday, at
Nostell Park—half-past 10.
Sir George Sitwell's Fox-hound■, on. Tuesday, at Holling
Hill Bar; Friday, at Norton—half-past 10.

ENCI.OACHMENTS OF THE SEA.
MUTATIONS ON THE WIRRAL PENINSULA.

(From the Liverpool Courier.)

That changes of a very extraordinary nature
have taken place, in the lapse of time, on the
neighbouring coasts of Cheshire, as well as upon
our own shore, to the northward of this town,
is very evident to any one who has observed the
relics of what has formerly existed. We should
state, by way of illustrating this proposition,
one simple fact,—that trunks and roots of trees
are to be found buried under the sand below high
water mark, bearing evident proofs, from their,
amazing size, and extended ramifications, of their
having had a living existence at one time on the
spot where the roots are now seen (however re-
mote it is not our present business to inquire),
exhibiting the presence of forests of great mag-
nitude. These remains are found upon the sea-
shore in the neighbourhood of Crosby, and ex-
tended along the sea-board as far as the Dee in
Cheshire. This is a subject of curious specula-
tion, which has not unfrequently engaged our
attention. To those who have had any experi-
ence in the cultivation of trees on the bleak and
steril vicinity at the entrance of the Mersey, it
will appear a puzzling question to solve, how
forests could ever have existed where now there
is a difficulty in rearing even a nursery. To this
question we have never yet obtained a satisfac-
tory solution, nor had the least light thrown upon
a circumstanee at present almost altogether lost
sight of, but which is, in reference to the future,
of no inconsiderable importance. There is no
way of accounting for this singular change which
the revolution of ages must have wrought on the
present margin of the sea, but by supposing the
absence of the water in long " gone-by times,"
and this itself will not help us out of the diffi-
culty, except by supposing that the boundaries
of the deep were very distant, probably miles,
from the highest point to which it now flows :
this we infer from the difficulty of rearing
trees of a moderate size at a distance of a
quarter or half a mile from the borders.
of the sea, in this neighbourhood. We are well
aware that the observations which we have made
will not apply to many parts of the sea coast or
this kingdom, and we make them exclusively in
reference, to our own vicinity, lying as it does so
much exposed to the N.W. gales, which predo-
minate throughout the year. If, then, we have,
in any degree, established the fact, that very im-
portant changes have taken place on the sea-
shore, at the entrance of the Mersey, simply
from observations, without calling in the aid of
tradition, which would favour the supposition
that formerly the shores of Lancashire and
Cheshire were united where now the sea rolls its
current magnificently round the rock point, or
that they were, divided by a very narrow stream.
Giving to traditions no more value than they
now appear entitled to, we have the living testi-
mony of numbers of individuals to prove the ra-
pid advance of the sea on the entire line of coast
from Leasowe Castle to the mouth of the Dee.
Large tracts of grazing land on the margin of
the sea have, by insensible degrees, been occu-
pied by successive encroachments of the water,
and where once the gaieties of the race and rural
sports enlivened the green sward, the water now
beach,
a c
h, bark,
an d sometimes
present
themselves
tered
oft rolls in terrific grandeur, and the lifeless
corpse of the mariner, and the disjointed frag-
ments
onof theh'i sandy
s shattered
to the eye of the spectator in solemn contrast.
There is no fiction in this : it is the ' simple lan-
guage of fact. A great portion of the land
which lies betwixt the boundaries we have men-
tioned is considerably below the level of the tide
at high water, and is only preserved, in many
places, from the irruption of the ocean by a very
insecure boundary of sand, casually thrown up
by the operation of the wind and the waves. It
would, however, be well if that fact were the case
all along the bleak coast ; but how stands the
fact ?' More than a mile of that part of the
shore betwixt Leasowe Castle, and running
westward of Leasowe light-house, this natural
or artificial boundary is now entirely destroyed,
and that gap is exposed to the gradual encroach-
ment of the water, without the slightest check to
its further advances. _

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On Saturday last our attention was drawn to