Star.
London, England, 1823-04-05 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

The Easier P 1 11/21sisn for on Barham Downs on Tdesday
Wit and won by Mr. CWllamptonss Canopus...
CATTERICK BRIDGE MEETING.
wcusgsost, APRIL 2—CONCLUaItn.
The Produce Stakes, of 25gs. each, h. ft. was won by Mr.
Jacques's c. by Leopold, beating four others-. 4 good race.
A. Sweepstakes of 30gs. each, Seven Subscribers, 108 n forfeit,
was walked over by Sir W. Maiwell's ch. e. by Viscount.
TRIPISDAV, APRIL 3.
Subscription Plate of £5O, for maiden horses, &c. was not run. •
The Old Stakes, of 25gs. each, logs. ft. Was won by Mr. Fer-
guson's eh. c. North Star, beating Mr..Lamhton's Leopold, and
.11r. Risldell's Count u'Artois.—A pretty race, and won easily.
I'he Yearling Stakes, of 20gs. each. p.p. was won by Mr.
'Jacques's b. f. Ringlet, beating three others.
The weather turned out favourable, the company was nume.
rous and respectable, and the different Races hotly contested.

HUNTING. •
Earl Fitzvrilliam's Fox-bounds meet on Monday, at Bedford
Purlieus; ‘Wednesday, at Sawtry Toll-bar.
Lord Varborough's Jlounds meet on Monday. at Irby Dales ;
Wednesday, at Ilundon ; Friday, at Legsby Village ;
BURTON Iluter.—Sir R. Sutton's Hounds meet on Monday, at
Legsby; Tuesday, at Newbold Common; Thursday, at Bran-
ston Wood ; Saturday, at Blankney.

BOXING.
An Inquest was held yesterday afternoon, at the Six Bells, op-
posite Hammersmith (lurch, before Thos. Stirling, Esq. Coro-
ner, on view of the body of William Friberg, who lust his.
in a pugilistic rencontre on Monday last. It appeared tty2t the
deceased was sitting in the Six Bells public-house on lklouday
last, in company with a man named Hedges, when a dispute
arose between them respecting a late fight between the deceased
and Dolly Smith ; they aocordingly proceeded to blows, and in
the affray deceased received a blow under the right ear, of which
he did not recover. it was also proved deceased struck his op-
ponent twice before it was returned, and the Jury therefore re-
turned a verdict of—Justifiable Homicide.

" The Times," in allusion to some false dice re-
cently detected, relates an anecdote of a Nobleman
who had been cheated in a similar way, and•pnt the
dice in his pocket, to have them examined, when the
gang gave his Lordship's valet £soo' to- changes th'e
dice, by which means they escaped detection: it is so
like an event which happened to the late Duke of
NonFouc, that we suspect it to be the suite, dif-
ferently told. His Glace, in one evening, lost the
sum al:70,000 in a gaming-house on the tight side
of St. James's-street: suspecting font' play, he put
the dice in his pocket, and, as was his custom when
up late, took a bed in the house. The black-legs
were all dismayed, till one of the worthies (who is
believed to have been a principal in the poisoning the
horses at Newmarket, for which Dan Dawson was
hanged) offered, for .C5OOO, to go into the Duke's
room with a brace of pistols and a pair of dice, and,
if the Duke was awake, he a-as to shoot him, if
asleep, to change the dice Fortunately fur the
gang, the Duke snored, as the agent stated like a
pig: the dice was changed. His Grace had them
broken in the morning, when, finding them good,
he paid the money, and left off gambling."—Lile-
rary Chronicle.
GUMMI AI. u—Yesterday J. Mimes, aged IR, a sprig of fashion,
was charged with robbing his father, who, though only a porter,
at a straw-hat manufacturer's, had given him a good education,
and had placed him in an excellent situation, where, however,
he behaved so ill that he was soon turned away. About a
. month ago he stole 31. 6s. from a desk, whieh had:been put by to
pay the rent, and was forgiven, upon his promise of future good
conduct ; but on the following morning he stole a waistcoat, and
-pledged it for 4s. His principal infatuation was frequenting the
Theatres, in the box lobby of one of other of which he was to
be found whenever he could procure the means. His lather's
rent supplied him fur three night,' admission to the boxes, with
supper and wine afterwards fur himself and another box lobby
lounger—a ladies' shoemaker. .4. he, however, seemed sensible
of his present degraded situation, the Magistrate, in the hope
that reflection would work a proper change in his mind, cons-
mitted him for one month's solitary confinement to Briciewell.
Weisser-Stangt.—it appears that a resurrection man, named
Vaughan, had lung carried on a traffic, through another person,
with the grave-digger of Hotywelt Mount Burial.ground, and
had paid Z.os. fur every body; but the season of the year creating
a greater demand, on Wednesday night last the grave-digger rose
the price to 40s. observing that another dealer had given the
price. Vaughan considered it an imposition, and they quarreilvd
on the subject. Vaughan having withdrawn to a public-house
in the ntighbout hood; with one qi his fraternity, was followed
by the grave-digger, who, in spite, denounced them to the per-
sons present as body snatchers. Vaughan immediately retorted
on the grave-digger, and avowed that he had received upwards
of £7O within the last three months, in the course of whit*
time he (Vaughan) had been supplied with 43 bodies. Tlie-aen-
sation produced by this information may easily he conceived.
Husbands wives, &c. rushed to the ground; the graves were
opened, and many coffins found empty; an attack was next corn-
menced upon the house under which a gateway leads to the bu-
rial-ground, and where the persons live who have the care of
the ground, and presently not a pane of glass remained in any
of the windows of the pretnises; and probably the rage of the
multitude would not have, stopped here, had the police officers
not interfered. On Thursday the grave-digger was brought to
this Office, and remanded ; when it was with difficulty he was pre-
served from the vengeance of outraged .feeling. Yesterday the
work of opening graves wasl still going on, when a large coo-
course of people kept crowding to the gate, which was guarded
by the patrol and parish officers ;• anti on the ground were.prt -
sented grouper of relatives looking with dreadful anxiety to the
opening of each grave. NVaggett, the grave-digger, was yester-
day again brought up, when Vaughan and another resurrection
man stated, that the man who was the immediate agent with the
prisoner had told them be received an impression, In wax, of
the key to the ground, from the grave-digger. He was remanded
for the production of this witness.