Star.
London, England, 1825-07-16 00:00:00

The Gold Cup, value 100 guineas—added to 10 guineas deb-3
yrs Old, 6st. 61h. 4 yrs. list. 5 yrs. Bet. 10lb. 6 and aged,
The winner of the Cup at Preston in any year, to carry Sib.
extra—mares allowed Sib. Three miles and a distance.
Mr. Wbittaker's br. h. Lottery, 5 yrs. 1

Mr. tfornby's Mustachio, 4 yes.
Mr. Scanley's Urganda, 4 yrs.
Mr. H. Hornby's Buena, 4 yrs.
Mr. Horniek's Canteen, 4 yrs.
Won very easy. Twenty-three paid forfeit. • , •
Seventy Pounds given by the Earl of Darby-3 yrs old, 7st. 41b.
and 4 yrs, Sat. Sib. mares allowed 31b. and maiden horses,ke. alb.
Heats one mile and a quarter.
Lord Sligo's b. g. Bequest, 4 yn
Mr. Clifton's ch. e. by Androssan, 3 yrs

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Sir W. Wynn's Orth;dolt, 4 yrs • • •
PIGEON SHOOTING.
The last day's pigeon ahooting, at the Red Ilnuaty pesterdo•
brought together all the best shots in the Kingdom. thoonvg
consisted in Mr. OsbaWotan backing himself at taking 5 a s,
3 to 1 against killing two 'pigeons at twenty-one far from the
trap, with a double-barrelled gun. He completed Ms seliek in a
most skilful manner; and a jovial entertainment toneloied the
day's sports.
ARCHERY.
The first Derbyshire Bow Meeting took place at Kedleston, on
Thireday es'anight. The day was fine, the archery very rod, and
the company numerous. After ballottiag foe new members, sheet-
ing for prises commenced. The successful candidates were :
Miss'Bent • . Odd Medal I Rev. C. Hnpe Gold Medal
Min F. iltratt. Silver Ditto I fdr.W. O. Holden Silver Ditto
THE FIGHT BETWEEN WARD AND CANNOTI. •
The approaching great light between Ward slid Cartoon, Will-141.e
place at Warwick, on Tuesday. Ward is the favourite at 6to 4
but they are not fighting for the Championship, heftier anotbir has
startled for the title at the winner's stake, and that is Browne.

The East India Company's 44 gore arrived of Wey.
mouth yesterday ; she tett Bengal the 47th of Jinuary,
Madras the 13th of Februaty, the Cape the 29th of
A prihaiviSt. Helena the MI of May. The Farquharson,
nitward bound, was so premed on her voyage from St'.
Helena the Nth of May. • ThiNrigiana and Moffat
rived at St. Helea.t,
.!anada the former

l7th of May. Both
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NAVAL COURT-MARTIAL.

A Naval C-urt Martial was held on hoard his Ma-
jesty's ship Hussar, ly;ng in Port-Royal Harbour, Ja-
rtaica, on Monday, ti,e 2.L1 of May, 1825% nd cootie
reed by adjournments until Saturday, tie 7th, when
the following—Officers, being the Post-Captains and
Senior Commanders on the station, formed the Court:
Captain George Harris, C.D. of the Hussar, President.
Wm." Elliott, C. B. of the Lively.
Hugh Patton; of the 'Rattlesnake.
•-•••••••• George Russell, of the Scylla.
0. V. Vernon, of the Britotnart.
Wm. Paine, Esq. Judie-Advocalle.
Mr. Hugh Babb, acting master on board his Ma-
jesty's ship Scylla, was placed on his trial for miscon-
duct, on the 31st March last, when the ship struck on
a shoal off Savanna-la-Mar, and sustained thereby
considerable damage, which obliged her to put back
into Port-Royal, and be sent to the Dock-yard.
The Court found the prisoner guilty of negligence
on several points of duty, on which account the ship
stiuck ; but in consequence of his encellent character,
he was only sentenced to be severely admonished, and
not to be capable of promo:ion to the rank of con-
firmed Master for one year.
The following seamen and marines of his blajestes
strip Hussar were then tried and found Guilty.
Charles Perry, a seaman—For refusing to obey an order to
wash and scrub clothes on the lath February last, and for 44-
obeyiug an order of a boatswain's mate, together with general in-
subordinate conduct, was sentenced to receive two hundred lashes
round the fleet, to be mulct in one half the pay due to him, and to
be disgracefully dismisses) his Majesty's service.
Michael Buck, a seaman--For refusing to obey the same order to
wash and scrub, and using threatening and disgraceful language to
a man that was scrubbing, as also to the Coxswain of his boat, was
sentenced to receive two hundred Lashes.
Edward Rlppinghatn, a seaman—For refusing to obey the order
to wash and scrub, and skulking when he should have been upon,
deck on duty, was sentenced to receive fifty lashes in his own ship.
The prisoner was acquitted of the charge of disobedience of orders.
John Shipley, a private of Marines—For refusing to obey the
aforesaid order to wash and scrub clothes, -and using threatening
lahguage to one who was doing so, was sentenced to receive three
hundred and Wry lashes round the fleet, to be mulct of all the pay
due to him, to lose all the time he has served in the Marine Corps,
to he disgracefully drutsur.ed out of the same, and twelve months'
solitary confinement in the Marshalsea.
James bleselle, a private of Marines--For refining to obey the
sr to wash and scrub clothes, he being constantly dirty in his
and for refusing to obey an order of his corporal, was sen-
tenced to receive a hundred lashes round the fleet.
Thomas Stanbridge, a private of Marines—For refusing to obey
the order above alluded to—tor refuting when a second time or-
dered, and being constantly dirty, was sentenced to receive a bun-
clad lashes only, in consequence of his receiving a good character in
every other respect.
David Jones, a seaman of the Scylla, was also tried for desertion, ,
and sentenced to receive a hundred lashes round the Sort.

Mr. E. Cavin,gli, Boatswain of the Rattlesnake. was
put ( n his trial for drunkenness!—hut the charge not
being fully eqallislied. he was dismissed with an ad-
monition to be moie circumspect in future.

Ye.;erdly, the Llquest on the body of a new-born
rale it,fant, tliat had beeii scut from Winchester, by
the coach, to a M. I It /wiser, in Vincent-streei,
Vausl:4l, vas resumed at the llegent's Arms, Ileec:tit-
sticc:, Vauxhall. Mr. LYFORD. the Surgeon, of NI in-
clicstcr, to obtain whose evidence the Inquest had been
mainly adjourned, did not, however, make his appear-,
ante, although thete was no doubt he had been duly
summoned. Some of the Jury wondeted that the child
should have been sent to a person who was notoriously
a fortune-teller, and about whose house the carriages
of Ladies, anxious to explore their destiny, were to be
tiaily seen; and the Coroner thought, if Mr. FRICKLA
u ere examined, he. might be able to unveil a little of
the mystery. Afer much consultation, the Inquest,
was again adjourned, for the purpose of obtaining the
wished-for testimony, until Friday next.
A few days ago, Mrs. Brown, of Beeston, bad occa-
ion to have her chimney swept, and employed a lad
and a young man who were travelling through the vil-
lage in that profession; the lad was in the chimney an
unusual time, of which she complained, and when sbe
after wards went up stairs, she found that somebody had
gone down the other funnel, and been over the floor, for
she could trace the foot-marks, and some silver was
taken from her drawer. It was also discovered, that
some person had been down the chimney of the next
house, but found the fire-place fastened up with a
chimney-board, which probably frustrated the design.
Mr. John Craven, a farmer at Guiseley, had, during
the day, been assisting his brother in the husbandry
business, and in the evening retired to sup with him.—
During the time they were at supper, his nephew, a
youth about sixteen years of age, took up a gun, which
had not been used for a long time, and presenting it
•at his uncle s,id, " Uncle, I will shoot you;" when, to
his consternation and horror, the piece went off, and shot

t!s unsusrecting r.tative dead oa the spot. The shot
passed through his cheek and part of the head, and so
iustartareous «as his death, that he expired before he

co:•?d cemrlete the mstinctive movement of raising his
Ward to Hs head.

3t:nday evening, as two of the men in the Preventive
Service were on the honk-out for smugglers, near Ltd-
tenni:, they were SIP priard by a party of men, between
6() and 70, who immed•ately deprived them of their
swords' at.d pitsils, and caniesl tlizm to the edge of the
et:7F, %time they were placed with their heads hanging
over the precipice, with the comfortable assurance that
if they made the letst noise, or gave alarm, they should
immediately be thrown over. During this time a smug-
gling vessel .landed her crop (100 casks), which the
shore gang placed on. their horses, and carried off in
triumph,. After the ezop had been fairly disposed of,
the Preventive men %vete removed from their perilous
situation, and taken by the smugglers (who stoodgnard
over them) into an adjt icing field, where they bound
them hand and foot, in order to prevent them from
giving alarm to their brother officers, and in this state
they were found the following morning.
A sow r%f Ole Chinese breed, the property of Mr.
' Britten, of Walthaettstow, has produced at three farrows
76 pigs—viz. at the fast, 24 pigs. 4 second, 25 pigs;
third, 27 pigs; and neatly the whole were farrowed
alive. This exceeds the famous Alban sm.
• Friday, a man mowing grass in a field near Paisley,
cut off the head of a partridge sitting in her nest,which
contained nine eggs. On the eggs being broken, three
I f them were found to contain two birds each.
POLITICAL ECONOMY.—ShonIy after the commence-
ment cf the last war, a tax was laid on candles. A
Scotch wife ir. Greenock remarked to her chandler,
Paddy Macbeth, that theprice was raised, and asked
why ? " a' UWllll' to the wit," said Paddy. " The
wiz 1." said the astonished matroti; Gtatt;ioU) me!
are they glum to tight by candle light ?"
A .vaduablett coal mine, has been discovered ou the
estate of Mr. CanrianlACTOn. and OM of
the best quality is now mining iii Abuudance.•

SHOREHAM. JULY 15.

..min•M••••

Mr. Sugden, the Chancery barrister, who started
some time ago as a candidate for the Rape of Bramber,
has this week made his appearance amongst the Free-
holders, and has commenced his canvass with, as I am
informed( pretty good success.
Mr. Howard, the nephew of the Duke of Norfolk,
had the advantage of being first in the field, and had
fairly canvassed the Rape ere Mr. Sugden was seen or
heaid of. To skew bow strong the feeling is on' the
Catholic Question, Mr. Howard waited on a respectable
Gentleman to s,.l,cit his vote, when the following dia-
logue ensued :—" Ynu are Mr. Howard ?"—" I am."
" And you voted for the Catholic Bill ?"—" I did."
ci Then I request that you will immediately walk out
of my house, and never set your foot within it again."
This, though partaking somewhat strongly of the g:-
nuine homeliness of John 8011, is a fair specimen of
the prevalent feeling ; and if a strenuous opposition be
made to Mr. Iloward by any man who grounds his
pretensions on his sentiments relative to the Catholic
Question, there can be little doubt what would he the
result. The voters consist in a great measure of honest,
intelligent farmers—men of the old stamp and old
school, and of too much plain sense to be bamboorled
by the fine•wrougbt schemes of Burdett, Plunkett,l
Brougham, and the rest of the lawyers. What ! (say
they) shall we, who, even in thtse piping times, find
enough to do to pay the tithes.--shall we consent to pay
-a set of Popish Priests ? This is an argument which
comes home to every man, and nothing is wanted but
a candidate to give the electors an opportunity of
proving their determination.

Sunday night some desperate and unfeeling incen-
diaries again set fire to the plantations of the Right
Hon. Lord Clifford, on Haldon, in two different places,
at least a mile distant ; after the fames had raged a
considerable time, and nearly eight acres of the plant a-
ions had been consumed, his Lnrdship's keepers and
workmen succeeded in exthiguishing them.
A large snake, that had for some time past fre-
quented a pond on Rook's farm at Keymer, Sussex, and
destroyed a great number of ducks on the pond, was
shot, a few days ago, by one of Mr. Bine's labourers,
whilst struggling with a duck which it had seized.
Wednesday se'nnight,at Saladine Nook,near Hudders-
field, while two boys were amusing themselves with a
loaded gun that had been placed within their reach, it
suddenly went off; and the contents lodging in the head
of the elder boy, lie died on the spot.
ANOTHER Tuau.our.--The men employed by the
Royal Irish Mine Company, at the lead s ks near Kil-
liney, have tut ned out•--snot upon the score of wages,
but of privilege. They say, that they consider them
selves not Worriers but mineralogists ; and that they
should not be required to work the same number of
hours which labouring men du.
Wednesday evening, William Armour, dyer, Paisley,
was convicted before the Justices, of Paving stolen a
quantity of silk yarn from his employers, Messrs. John
Gilchrist and Son, dyers, Lonend, and sentenced to 30
days confinement in Bedewell. The manner in which
the theft was discovered, and the thief de,ected, is ra-
ther curious. For some time past, Messrs. Gilchrist
observed an unaccountable dirnintrion occasionally
take place in their stock of silk. Suspecting that some
of their servants were acting clishons•ttly, they concealed
a loaded musket, on full cock, amidst a quantity of silk,
and attached by a string several beads of silk to the
trigger of the piece. The stratagem succeeded. Oil
Monday afternoon, the discharge of the gun proclaimed
the operations of the thief, and on repairing to the spot,
the unfortunate culprit was found trembling by the
side of the tell-tale musket. Armour is an old soldier,
and a pensioner, and his ear is consequently not un•
used to the discharge of fire-arms, but he declares
that no report of musket or cannon, from friend or
foe, ever made his heart /outs like Mr. Gilchtist's gun.
The Cour Royale at Paris lately decided on the case of
a M. Duclerc, who was sent to Bedlam by his friends,
for evincing an insane passion for an actress of the Fey-
dean. The object of his love was Mademoiselle Mori,
now Madame Pradher. M. Duclerc besieee.,.! her door,
followed her to the theatre, and placed h'-sse't full in
her view during the play. He thus compull,d the ac-
tress to give him an audience, in which si e ant:minced
to him that his passion was misplaced, and that her
heart was engaged. So far from being cured by this
announcement, his passion was only exalted by it.—
Flom silent contemplation of her charms, he proceeded
to avion—from heartfelt sighs to violence. One fine
morni. g, M. Dialers; was conducted from the Fcydeau
to Charenton. Ile of course exclaimed against the in-
justice of this proceeding, and demanded of every man
in love was a tit subject for Bedlam ? From being the
passionate but unsuccessful lover, he now soothed ltim-
self with the idea that he was pap sued by the fair, and
that his pci--..ecutors only prevcated his receipt of those
favours hich she was eager to grant. He imagined be
saw nadaitits Pladhcr nlar tar house where he was
lodged, and inisteck foi her a young madman,who sung
the couplets of the Ciareroa :(cube in which she acted.
A medical man was sent to f xarzi ne him, and was just
about to stn an order for his rs lease, when the lover
turned round, and asked .11e doctor if " he believed in
the power of magicians ?" He, shell begun to sing the
charms of Madenns;selle M i, and his wits immedi-
ately left him. The Court has.contined him.
Dr.Azzinictz, the Dean of Christ Cliusch, was so fond
of smoking that be was scarcely ever without his pipe.
A Student, one morning at breakfast, laid his compa-
nicn a wags: that the Dean was then smoking. Away
they accordingly hastened to the DoctOr's ; a..d, admit-
ted to his study, told the Doctor the occasion of their
visit ; when, addressing himself good humouredly to
him who bad laid that he was smoking, said," You see,
Sir, you have lost your wager, for I am not smokiog,
but filling my pipe,"
'The Irish, like the Tuscans, are extremely picturesque
in their language. Thus they constantly use the %void
dark as synonymous with blind; and a blind beggar will
implore you " to look down .with pity on a poor dark
man." It may be observed too, that the Irish, like the
Scotch, by a very beautiful and !ender euphemison, call
.idiots innocents. A Lady of rank in Ireland asking a man
after a poor orphan, 41 Als I my Lady," said he, " the
poor creature is sad afflicted with innocence."
The late Mr. THICKNESSE being in great want of
money, applied to his son (Lord AuDLEY) for assistance,
but being denied, be imipediately hired a cobbler's stall
in the same street, directly opposite his Lordship's house,
and had a board put up with these words on it 6, Boots
and shoes made and mended by Philip Thicknesse, fa-
ther of Lord Audley." This answered the purpose ; and
he vas supplied with everything he wanted, on condi-
tion Of-leaving the stall.

POLICE II7TtLIGENCr.
MANSION-HOUSE.

Yesterday, the Stock Jobber, who was charged oh the day be-
fore with having improperly diapered of a letter, entitling the bearer
to a certain number of shares in sane of the new Companies, at-
tended at the Mansion-House, accompanied by a number of friends,
for the purpose of answering the charge made against him.
It was proved that the price which he paid to the boy for the let-
ter was PO little under the negociabk price in the market, as to do
away any Idea of his having instigated the boy to commit the theft,
or of his being in any way accessary to It. The prosecutor's
solicitor, on his behalf, then contended that at least it was highly
improper for any one to give money to a mete child, of whom be
could scarcely know anything, for a document which had another
person's name affixed to it.
Mr. Hobler. the chief Clerk, said it was a question for the law
officers, whether the document which had in this instance been ta-
ken was a thing of value? if it were determined in the affirma-
tive, it would then be a question how far a person was responsible
who received such property without inquiry? It might he con-
sidered that be stood in the same situation as a person who bought
a silver candlestick of a stranger without looking at the cypher
upon ir, or asking him from whom he got it.
A second Stock Jobber declared that it was a common thing in
the Stock Market for mere boys to go and dispose of such-property
in the manner the boy had In this instance. The witness had pur-
chased of this very boy documents of the same nature.
A stock.brukrr said the boy bad been his err:nd-boy far nearly
two years. He bad never intrusted him to sell such documents,
nor was it the practice in the Stock Exchange, whatever it was in
the Alley, to buy documents of boys of whom they knew nothing.
The boy, who was present, said the jobber knew him by sight. lie
got 1 St for the letter.
The complainant, when pressed by the defendant to retract the
charge that the latter had been accessary to the theft, refused to
make any altetation in the statement made the day before. He was
still of opinion that the defendant had acted very improperly in re-
ceiving the letter of such a boy.
The Loan Nlaviaa was of opinion, from the price the defendant
gave for the document, that no criminal intention could beiriiputed.
It was at most, in his opinion, highly culpable negligence. The
practice of buying neg..ciable securities from boys, wherever it was
carried on was highly reprehensible; and indeed the practice of
trafficking iu these promises of shares in Companies (fur the docu.
ment was little more than a promise) was part of the abominable
system of gambling introduced by these new Companies, and which
was flow so prevalent. lies Lordship refused to entertain the
charge of felney against the boy, and dismissed the complaint. He
did not consider the letter to be property. At the same time he
expressed his opinion that the public would benefit by the expo-
sure of the practice.
GUILDHALL.

Mr. Hurcombe, jun. of St. Paul's Church-yard, son of Mr.
Hurcombe. the Common Councilman, yesterday charged Charles
Payne, a grocer's porter, with having cruelly ill-treated the errand
boy of Mr. Holdswortb, a buoksaller, in the City.
Mr. Hurcombe said, he was standing at his door early in the
morning, and saw the prisoner, in passing the house with a chest
of tea on his brad, push violently against the lad to get him out of
the road. The boy had not then seen that he was in the way, and
thinking that he bad been pushed aside with more force than was
necessary, turned round and hit the man on the back, and then
ran off. The porter instantly put down his load, and, overtaking
the lad, struck him an angry and violent blow on the head, that
knocked him down senseless. hlr. Hurcombe being an eye witness
to the brutal force with which the blow was given, went out, and
ordered the man to be taken to the Compter ; and also gave direc-
tions to have the sufferer taken to the Hospit..l, where it was soon
ascertained that the skull was dreadfully injured, if not fractured.
Sir Cnaat.as FLowea—The lad, I suppose, is unable to attend,
and if there is not. now here a certificate of the state be is in, I will
remand this man until his condition is better known.
The Alderman was told that there was not such a certificate,
and the prisoner was accordingly remanded.