Star.
London, England, 1822-12-25 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

Monday, Lord !twang's greyhounds, consisting
of twenty-one dogs (his Lordship's own breed), were
brought to the hammer at Tattersall's, and knocked
down at good prices. Rouse, a black bitch, fetched
26 guineas; and Rupert, a blue dog, got by Nathan
out of Raffle, 26 guineas. The whole pack fetched
258 guineas and a half !
Tnaownon Crime? Batt..—A match was made some time
ago, for WO guineas a-side, between Lord KUNIO)! and Captain
Baiter.av, which was agreed upon to be decided before Christ-
mas. Day ; the latter Gentleman undertaking to find a man, who
should throw a erieket-ball the distance of 100 yards forwards,
and in order that no advantage should be derived from the wind,
he should throw the ball back again the same distance. Hyde
Park was the place Axed upon, and yesterday. morning the Noble
Lord and his sporting adversary met, when the latter produced
a tine athletic countryman, to all appearance, who attempted the
undertaking, with the disadvantage of an unfavourable morning,
and failed in k, not spiking beyond IPS yards in his best threw;
eonsetinently the.Cerarli lost his money.

' A lausentable occurence took place at Neusauchy
colliery, , Stirling, on Sunday se'nnight, between
the hours Of three and four in the afternoon. An
old woman, aged 89 years, of the name of Hunter,
had been visiting her daughter at Devon colliery;
her daughter accompanied her home, and, after put-
ting her to bed left her. About fifteen minutes after,
a boy passing was alarmed with groans issuing from
her house, which is situated by Itself, a few yards.
from the public road. The door being locked, the
boy ran and told some of the neighbours; and, on
their entry, a spectacle the most appalling burst on
their view ; the poor woman was lying with her head
on the hearth, and a burnin4 coal close to it, which
had set fire to her clothes. Ihe vital spark had fled,
and her body was literally reduced to a cinder. She
was no less remarkable for her numerous offspring
than for her longevity, She has left five children,
whose united ages amount to 278 years, twenty-
five grand-children, and sixteen great grand-children.
Sunday se'nnight, about three o'clock in the morn-
ing, it Greenock, Alexander Currie, quay watchman,
went from his own box, at the head of the Greenock
dock, to communicate with his neighbour watchman
at the west quay head ; but the morning being dark,
the old man turned too quickly, thinking he had
rounded the corner, fell in and was drowned.

On the morning of Thursday last, it was discovered
that the following prisoners had made their escape
from the New County Jail, Limerick, viz. David
Leahy, sen. John Cussen, Patrick Cuthane, and Da-
niel Reedy, who were capitally convicted at the last
Assizes for the abduction of Miss Goold, but judg-
ment respited for the opinion of the twelve Judges ;
and,Danie,l Doody, who put off his trial for the mur-
liter of Buckley, the Crown witness. An inquiry was
immediately instituted before such Members of the
Committee of Superintendence as were then in town,
when it appeared that these men had been secured,
by the turnkey, in the ward at night-fall on the even-
ing before, and when he returned to open the ward
at day-break, he found the outward door of the build-
ing open, and the tock hanging on the hasp, without
having sustained any injury ; the interior doors lead-
ing to the cells remained locked, but a bar was cut
and forced in three of them, so as to admit of the
passage of a man through, and the doors of the five
cells In which the prisoners had been confined were;
open, and the lacks remaining without the least injury.
Yesterday, at Guildhall, amiss Wormers was charted with
robbing his employers, Messrs. Browning*, distillers, at Smith.
field Bars. On the morning of Sunday se'nnight, Turopenny,
the officer, met the prisoner near his master's, with a basket,
which he examined, and finding a two-gallon keg of brandy and'
about a quart of cinnamon in a bladder therein, charged the pri-
soner with robbing his employer. He begged hard for mercy,
and said it was only a little drop he was taking for his own use.
On searching his lodging, however, there were found about seven
gallons of gin, three pints of rum, two bottles of brandy, one of
port, with pewter measures, funnel, &c. The prisoner said he
bad been robbing his master a year and a half, and that he was
sedoced into it by a coachman and a guard, to whom alone he
had sold the property. The guard was present, and declared that
he and the coachman bad always believed that the prisoner worked
a private still. The prosecutors were very anxious to have the
receivers brought to punishment, hotpot a tittle of evidence cor-
roborative of the prisoner's statement could be obtained. The
prisoner has a wife and three daughters, two of them grown
women. They were all in attendance, overwhelmed with tears,
and the man hinieelf %seemed deeply siected.—Cuounitted.