The Sun.
London, England, 1842-03-05 00:00:00

SPORTING.

A singular wager has been betted with the Hon. Grantley
Berkeley, against the success of which 150 to 100 have been
laid. Mr. Beikeley engages, en any given day between the
months of November and February, 1842 and 1843, in any
park, the ground of which he may approve, to course and pull
down, and safely hobble and secure, five full-headed bucks, for
the purpose of being put up for stall-feeding; using but one
deer greyhound and one horse for the five courses, fresh horses
alone being at his disposal for the singling out of the buck from
the herd.

Tattersall's Subscription-room is now under the control of
the Jockey Club, and the subscribers are required to sign a
paper, binding themselves to abide by the prevent lawa, and any
that may hereafter be made. Lord George Lientinck refuses to
sign, and therefore is no longer a member of the room.
001711tT--rAsmorraiszn.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Aylesbury had a grand
dinner-party on Wednesday last.
The Dowager-Countess of Listowel gave a ball in Eaton-
square on Thursday evening.

-His Royal Highness, the—l:take of Sussex, is recovering from
his recent indisposition.
The Earl and Countess of Mayo, had a dinner-party en
Thursday, in NorfolL-strtet.

miscisLiduczous.
To-morrow will be the anniversary of the death of Sir John
Hawkwood, the best soldier of his day, and who greatly dis-
tinguished himself in the wars of Edward 111., against the
French. With other knights of fortune he defended Florence,
but was slain in the defence, and buried there in the Church of
St. Repatata, where a statue, on horseback, was erected to
him by public decree.

TIIE POPULAR AUTHOR OF " THE STORIES OF
WATERLOO," &c. &C.—A hearty welcome has always hailed
the appearance of the productions of this spirited and deservedly
successful writer. His buoyant, most picturesque, and pleas-
ing mode of narrating the various incidents of his stories, whe-
ther they tell of mirthful scenes, or relate to the darker pas-
sages of our sometimes weary pilgrimages, are perhaps unri-
valled. Who of his thousands of readers will ever forget
" Waterloo after the Battle," or " Maurice MacCarthy,"
or his fascinating " Wild Sports of the West ?" No
modern writer so completely succeeds in enchaining by the
maf,:ic of his pen the attention of his delighted readers : now
exciting them to convulsive fits of laughter by his rich, oily
humour, and broad rollicking Irish fun, and now again causing
a tear to start, and the heart to become subdued at an o'er true
tale, touched off with deepest pathos—like the glorious and
inspiring melodies of his native laud—the land of the Shamrock !
Well may we, then, anticipate the eagerness with which " Hec-
tor O'Halloran," his new work (which is to appear in monthly
Is. numbers like " Picku iek" and " Harry Lorrequer)," will be
received. As a depictor of Irish life, whether in the halls of the
gentry or the hovels of the peasantry, Mr. Maxwell has no
living equal. The adventures of his new hero, Hector O'Hal-
loran, however, will not, we understand, be confined to Ireland,
but carry him to England, France, and Spain ; and will present
scenes of many-coloursd life in those countries, drawn from
actual observation. We shall hail this new work with hearty
welcome, and have no doubt it will be welcome everywhere.
The first number, we hear, is to be published with the Maga-
zines at the end of the present month, with characteristic illus-
trations by a congenial spirit under the soubriquet of Kitcat.
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at Diglis, in which the driving power is likewise to be steam.—
Worcester Herald.