Star.
London, England, 1822-09-21 00:00:00

SPORTING IN I'ELLIGENCE.

CROSS IN THE SPORTING WORLD.
Swap, the first favourite for the St. Leger Stakes at Doncaster,
as it turned out in less than forty-eight hours after, could have
won that race in a common canter, but for the revival of the
physicing system and other mishap., which the fate of Dawson,
some years since, for a while sounded a warning. Swap beat
Theodore the winner of the St. Leger, on Wednesday, over the
same Sr. Leger Course, and he won the race hollow, without a
struggle. A more honourable Gentleman than Swap's master
Yorkshire cannot produce, and, from an inquiry now on foot,
the speculations of these unprincipled wretches will, we trust,
chew to the world, as in the case of Dawson, that a repetition
of his crimes cannot be practised with impunity. The settling
day at Tattersall's will be held on Monday nest, and there the
great winnet will be seen. The regular jobbers in fraud even
refuse to pay upon the race, and certainly the fair and honourable
adventurer will not part with his money upon so glaring a case.
DONCASTER RACES—Timm:v.l-, Sirr. 19.
Match for 200 gs. h. ft. Last mile.
Mr.-Lane Fox's b. c. Macduff, Bst. 31b. -
Mr. Wrrill's b. f. Marchesa, Bst. - 2

5 to 4 on Marchesa.
The Doncaster Club Stakes of 50gs. each, h. ft. for 5-yr-olds,
lit. 41b. four, Bst. 51b. five, Sat. 12lb. Two miles. (4 Sobs.)
Ld.Fitzwilliam's ch. 1. Ursula, 4 yrs old - -
Mr. Milnes's br. h. Sir John, S yrs old - -
Match for 200 gs. each, h. ft. Bst. 31b. St. Leger Course.
Mr. Lambton's ch. c. Lorenzo - -
Mr. Lane Fox's b. c. Macduff - -
2 to 1 on Lorenzo.-Won with ease.
Sweepstakes of 30gs. each, with 10gs. ft. for 3-yr-olds ; colts, Bst.
31b. fillies, Bst. Last mile and a half.
Mr. Gascoyne's ch. e. by Comm - - 1
Sir J. Byng s b. in. Madelina - - 2
Ld Scarborough's b. c. Regalia - - 3
Match for 100 gs. each, h. ft. -St. Leger Course.
Mr. Petre's br. it. Sir John, Bst. 10Ib. - - I
Mr. Lane Lox's ch. s. North Wester, Bst. 31b. - 2
Won very easy.
Sweepstakes of 20gs. each, with 20gs. added by the Corpora-
tion, for 3-r-old fillies, Bst. 21b. St. Leger Course. (13
Subscribers).
Mr. Gascoyne's c. Violet - - 1
Lord Scarborough's b. Fair Charlotte - - £
Mr. Watt's h. by Tramp - - 3
Lord Milton's b. Mdelina . - 4
Mr. Reed's ch. Miss Wentworth - - 5
Fair Charlotte the favourite ; a near race with all three.
Sweepstakes of 20gs. each, for 2-yr-old colts, Bst. 21b. fillies,
Bst. Two.year-old Course. (2?. Subscribers).
Mr. Houldsworth's b. c. Sherwood • - - I
Mr. Lambton's b. f. Beresina - - 2
Mr. Ridsdile's ch. c. Rhubarb - - 3
Mr. Frankland's ch. c. Crabb - - 4
Ld Fitzwilliam's br. c. Bourdeauz - - 5
Four others started.-The Judge placed but five.-5 to 4on
Sherwood, who won easily, and is now-first favourite for the
next year's St. Leger.
All-Age Stakes of 25gs. each, for 4.yr-olds, 7st. 91b. five, Bst-
-51b. six, and aged, Bst. 101 b. Four-year-old fillies allowed
41b. Four miles. (3 Subscribers).
Mr. Houldsworth's ch. c. Catilide, 4 yrs old - - 1
Ld Milton's b. c. Fitzwalter, 4 yrs old - - 2
Match for 100 gs. h. ft. Last mile.
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Mr. E. Petre's f. My Lady, Bst. 51b.
Sir J. Byng's ch. 1. Civet, Bst. fib.
Match for 100 gs. h. ft. St. Leger Course.
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Mr. E. Petre's br. f. by Pericles, Sst. - - i
Sir J. Byng's b. 1. hladelina, Bst. Mb. - - 2
The 1:100 Plate, for three and 4-yr-olds ; three, 7st. Sib. and
four, Bst. 71h. Maiden colts allowed 21b. maiden liliks, 31b.
Two-mile beats.
Mr. Larnbton's eh. f. Fortuna, 4 yrs old - - 1 1
IA Scarborough's bi. f. Ebony, 3 yrs old, (ret. 20gs.) 4 2
Sir 11. Nelthorpe's b. c. Seawby, 3 yrs old - 2 3
Duke of Leeds's b. c. by Mowbray, 5 yrs old - 3dr
LEICESTER RACES—Sarr. 19.
The Burgess' Plate of .0.50 for all ages. Three-mile heats.
Mr. Field's ch. c. Chew Bacon, 4 yrs old - 1 2 1
Duke of Butlaad's eh. c. by Octavian, 4 yrs did 2 1 2
Each heat was closely contested.
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The Yeomanry Plate of 50gs. given by Colonel Keck and the
Officers of the Leicestershire Yeomanry Cavalry. was won by
Mr. Fowkes's m. Nancy Dawson,• beating five others.
SIIREWSBURY RACES—SETT. 18.
The Gentlemen's Subscription of £56, for three and 4-yr-olds.
Heats, twice round and a distance.
Ld Grosvenor's br. f Tempe
Sir T. Stanley's br. c. Aimwell
Mr. Wright's b. c. by Weaver

2 1 1
1 2 2
.. 3 dr
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Every one of these heats was finely contested. Ainswell the
favourite at starting ; S to 4 agst Tempe ; 6 to 4 apt Weaver.
After the best heat, 2 to I on Aimwell; and after the second, 6
and 7t02 on Tempe. Won by only half a neck.
The Gentlemen's Subscription for a Gold Cup. value 100 p. for
all ages. Twice round and a distance.
Sir T. Stanley's ch. c. The Doge -
Mr. Mytton s b. b. Ralston - - z
3lajor 0. Gore's ch. h. the Du!re - - - 5
Seven others were drawn. This was' a good race, and won
by a length.
Sweepstakes of 20p. each, for colts and fillies then two years old.
One mile. T. Y. C.
Lord Grokvenor's br. f. Fzivette -
Sir J. G. Egertow's ch. c. by Soothsayer
Sir G. Pigott's b. f. Active -
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Mr. Mytton'sch. - e. Enterprise - 4
This was a welLcomested race, and won in high style. Eti-
quette was the favourite against the field at starting.
1 Shrewsbury Stakes of 10p. each, for all ages, with mss. added
by the 'l'own. Once round and a distance.
Mr. Mytton'sbr. h. Banker - - 1
Mr. Fielding's gr. h. Snowdon - - - 9
Four others were drawn. Every yard of this Teat was raced,
and won only by Italia neck. Even bruin at starting.
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The fourth Meeting of the Needwood Foresters was
held on Wednesday last, at the beautiful seat of En.
WARD &MD, Esq. The day was delightfully finer
and a large
part"! assembled. Nothing could exceed
the hospitable and elegant entertainment provided bit
Mr. and Mrs. SNITD, for the accommodation of theinl
company. A number of tents were placed of difs
ferent farts of the grounds, and about 130 of the
Archery. Society and their friends sat down to a most
sumptuous dinner, under a spacious tent, during
which the band of the Derbyshire Militia played a
variety of airs ; the bugle also, which was played in
a very masterly style, occasionally enlivened the com-
pany during the day.
The archery was kept up with considerable spirit
both before aad after dinner; and the following prizes
were awarded to the successful competitors :
Captain Hall, a bow and six arrows.
Hon. Mr. Frederick Curzon, one of flramah's patent pens.
Miss Emily Johnson, a gold watch.
Miss Gisborne, a musical snug-box.
The dresses of the Archers accorded well with the
Ge romantic beauty of the surrounding scenery, and the.
Ladies seemed peculiarly formed on this occasion
To give society
its highest taste."
The evening closed with dancing. The ball-room,
which was very tastefully decorated, and lighted with
variegated lamps, had a most enchanting appearance.
We never witnessed a greater display of rank and
beauty.—The Members of the Society of Needwood
Foresters assembled on this occasion were—
The Dowager Countess of Dartmouth and Lady Mary Legge,
Lady Scarsdale and the Hon. Miss Curren, Lord Bagot, Lord
Vernon, Mr. and Lady Barbara Neudigate, the Hon. Colonel
Cavendishohe Honourable Captain Curzon, Hon. and Rev.
Frederick Curzon' Honourable Alfred Curzon, Hon. Francis
Curzon, Hon. and Rev. John Vernon, Hon. and Rev. Richard
Bagot and Lady Harriet Bagot' Hon. William Anson, the Hon.
and Rev. John Talbot, Mr. G. J. Vernon, Mr. and Mrs. Hall,
Sir Trevor and the Mist Whelers, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ark-
wright, Mr. and Mrs. hleynell, Mr. and Mrs. Littleton, Colonel
and Mrs. Sneyd (of Kiel), Miss Sneyd, Miss Fanny Sneyd, Miss
Charlotte Sneyd, Mrs. and Miss Levett (of Wichnor), Mr.
Lane, Mr. Newton Lane, Mr. Leveson Lane, Mr. Johnstone
and Miss Johnstone, and Miss Emily Johnstone, Miss Eliza
Sitwell, Miss Susan Sitwell, Miss Crompton, Mr. Edward Mun-
day, jun. Mrs. and Miss Gisborne, Mr. H. Lister, Mr. Treva-
nian, the Rev. Richard and Mrs. Leven.
In addition to this numerous and brilliant company
were the following ditinguished visitors :
Earl Talbot, Viscount Ingestrie, Count and Countess Antonio,
Hon. and ltev. T. Coventry, Hon. Miss Vernon, Miss Sneyd and
Miss Harriet Sneyd, Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Anson, Miss Ann
Bagot and Miss Bagot, Nlrs.Wilmot and Mr. Robert Wil-
mot, Mr. Tcale, Mr. William B.igot, Mr. Edward Mundy, Miss
Mundy, and Miss A. Mundy, Captain Chambers, Miss Barwell,
Mrs. Richardson and Miss King, Mr. Richard Wilmot, Mr.
Edward Monkton, Mr. Mrs. and bliss Mundy (Markeaton),
Mr. Wellesley, Mr. and Mrs. Williams, Mr. Pole, Mr. Edward
Coke, Mr. and Mrs. Lister, Colonel and Mrs. Seale, Miss Beres-
ford, Hon. Henry Legge, Miss Coventry, General Dyott, Mr.
George Lawrence, Mr. Winter, Mr. John Arkveright, Rev. H.
and Mrs. Bailie. Sir John Phillimore, Rev. Thomas and Mrs.
Levett, Rev. B. J. Proby and Miss Probys, Mrs. Greseley.
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Miss STitmENs.—lt is stated, from authority, that
it is not true, as has been reported in the Litchfield and other
Papers, chat Miss STEPHENS has changed her condition, and is
married to Mr. BROADWOOD.

ORIGIN OF THE TERM " SPINSTER!„—Among Our
industrious and frugal forefathers, it was a maxim that a young
woman should never be married until she had spun herself a set
of body, bed, and table linen. From this custom all unmarried
women were termed Spinsters—an appellation they still retain in
all law proceedings.
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So rare an accomplishment is the knowledge of,
Music in Ireland, that in the town of Strabane, a piano-forte
cannot be tuned without sending to Ilaphoe for the organist ;
and the music-master of a respectable boardixt-school at Cole-
raine, comes every third week from Belfast, which is better than
50 miles distant

BUNDLING.—We know not whether this custom
be still as general in New England as it was 20 or
30 years ago, or whether it continues equally harmless.
The following .particulars respecting it are taken
from a very curious History of Connecticut, published
in the year 1781 :

" I am no advocate for temptation, yet must say that bundliug
has prevailed 160 years in New England, and I verily believe,
with ten times mere chastity than the sitting on a sofa. I had
daughters, and speak from nearly 40 years experience. Bundling
takes place only in cold seasons of the year. About the year
1756, Boston, &lens, Newport, and New York, resolving to be
more polite than their ancestors, forbade their daughters bunging
on the bed with any young men whatever, and introduced a sofa
to render courtship more palatable and Turkish. Whatever it
'was owing to, whether to the sofa or any uncommon excess of
the jets d'esprit, there went abroad a report that this el:Omar
produced more via/spat consequences than all the bundling among
the boors with their sweethearts, through every village in New
England besides.

" In 1766, a Clergyman from one of the polite towns, went
into the country, and preached against the unchristian custom of
young men and maidens lying together on a bed. He was no
sooner out of the Church, than - attacked by a shoal of good old
women, with " Sir, do you think we and our daughters are
Naughty, because we allow of bundling?" He answered, " You
lead yourselves into temptation by it." They all replied at once,
" Sir, have you been told thus, or has experience taught it you ?"
The Levine began to lift up his eyes, and.to consider of his situa-
tion, and bowing, said, '4 I have been teld so." The Ladies,
una vxe,bawled out, " Your informers, Sir, we conclude, are
those city ladies, who prefer a sofa to a bed; we advise you to
alter your sermnn,-by substituting the word sofa for bundling,
and on your return home preach it to them; for experience has
told us, that city folks send more children into the country
without fathers or mothers to own them, than are born among
us ; therefore you see a sofa is more dangerous than a bed." The
Priest confessed his error, begged pardon, and promised never
more to preach against bundling, or to think amiss of the-custom.
The Ladies generaualy fOrgave him, and he went away."

A peat medical writer has remarkedrthat he !Inver
knew a single instance of el person living beyond
eighty years of age who was not descended from long-
lived ancestors. •

TENACITY or LIFE IN Bsgs.—The following sin, •
gular instance of the great tenacity of life in Bees is
related by Mr: SEDDON; chemist, of Tooley-street :
" 1 had purchased 20 large hives. and a hogshead of I)utcb
honey In the natural scam not separated from the wax, which
had been in my friend's warehouse above a year ; and, -after
emptying my hives as well as I could, I boiled them for a consi-.
demi& time in water, to obtain what honey remained between
the interstices. A considerable number of bees that had been
suited with the honey were floating on the surface of the water,
and these I skinuvied off and placed on the flag-stones outside
my elaboratory, which was at the top of the.honee, and then ex-
posed to a July meridian sun. You may imagine my astonish-
ni..nt when, in half an hour' I saw scores of these same bees that
bad been for months in a state of • suffocation, and then well
boiled, gradually come to life and fly away ! There were so many
of them :hat I closed the door, fearing they might be disposed
to return and punish me for' tbe barbarous usage they'had re-
ceived at my bands."
Foot- Ram—Yesterday erects took place at Somers'Town, be-
tween a young man of the tame of Pat, and. the celebrated run-
ning Mikweus. The distance was 200 yards; and the bet a
garge—the milkman woe beat only by a yard—and be was offered
to be backed for £5O to eon again, making the distance 220
' yards. *)teat aceiPtcd the challenge, and Me race Is to taketilace
cu Ilutradiay asst- . . . . .

ad 00 ;#' A SargES.
At the Glasgow Assites, on Monday last, Janet
tompbell was placed at the bar; charged uith enteo-
jag the house of William Jones, gardener, LdgerAy.
loons, by means of false keys, and stealing 1:85 in
Bank-notes, on the 12th of July. The prisoner was
proved by several witnesses to have been near to the
house at the time of the robbery, and many of the
stolen notes were traced to his possession. The Jury,
by a plurality of voides, found Campbell Guilty.—
Lord Pr/watt said, as there was a majority and
minority iri this case, he thought it proper to state,
I that had he been on the Jury, he would have agried
with the former. His Lordship then addressed the
prisoner, and sentenced hiM, in the usual form, to be
executed on Wednesday, the 23d of October next--
At the conclusion of this address, Campb.•ll said,
" My Lord, as this is the last time that you and I will meet
together on this earth; I have two requests to make, which I
hope your Lordship will grant me. The first is, tkat my nameshaU
not be cried through the public streets in those puny papers, ao
is usually done with persons in my situation ; and that on the day -
'of execution I shall not be brought into the Court Hall amidst
the gaze of, an ignorant rabble, by which my devotions may be
disturbed, and my thoughts discomposed. I will ever be very
glad to receive the instructions of any Protestant Ministers who
may desire to visit me, u I was brought up in that persuasion;
and I hope that your Lordship will indulge me in my wishes,
and that, though we have been enemies bete today, we will
meet together as friends in Heaven."—This was said in a very
Arm and audible voice.

Lord Prrstu.Ly said he would do everything in his power for
him; but it lay nut with him to grant his requests. lie had no
doubt, however, if he would Apply to the Magistrates of Glas-
gow, who, while they acted with firmness, were at the same
time merciful, they would do everything possible in his unhappy
situation.

Campbell then said—' I have your good will, my Lord," and
left the bar, saying, " Death was sweeter than confinement;
cowards die many times, but he should only die once."

Last week, the Odiham stage-coach was overturned
on Hounslow Heath on its way to town, owing to
the coming off of one of the fore wheels, from some
insufficiency in the linch-pin. The roof was nearly
full of passengers, but there were none inside. Pro-

vielentially no lives were lost : one Gentleman was
so seriously hurt as to be confined to his bed in a
public-house on the spot ever since the accident. Se-
veral other passengers suffered more or less by the
same calamity. The accident was purely the effect of
some fault in the linch-pin ; no blame being in any
manner imputable to the coachman, who is one of the
most careful drivers on the road.

A dreadful accident occurred last week, through
the breaking of the fore axletree of one of the Graves-
end coaches, near Dartford. The coachman and pas-
sengers were thrown off, and an elderly man, named
Bryan, had the flesh literally torn from his right
thigh and leg. He was conveyed to the house of a
surgeon, when it was found necessary to amputate the
limb above the knee, and he is doing well. To add
to the affliction of Mr.-Bryan, his wife, who had been
some time ill, has died since the accident, but she had
not the pain of learning that distressing occurrence.
It is singular, that a Gentleman who was in the coach
when' it broke down went to London by another, and
the axletree of that also broke, just as the coach was
entering the inn yard, but fortunately without injury.
A fire at the Golden Cross, Charing-Cross, took
place at nine o'clock last night, occasioned by the
gas, which burnt and damaged a past of the first
floor of the above Inn, but from the prompt and
timely assistance of the firemen, and plenty of water;
it was soon put out.
Bread, of as fine a quality as any sold by the Lon-
don bales, has been selling- for some weeks past, at
a village tin the lower part of Hampshire, at sd. the
quartern loaf; and Veen the writer's informant left,
about a week since, one baker had announced his in-
tention of lowering it to 4.Acf.
Genntram..A ruffian-looking young fellow, an Irishman,
named Thomas Fitzgerald, who has been detained in custody for '
nearly a fortnight, until it should be ascertained whether an un-
fortunate female, upon whom he Was charged with having com-
mitted a most brutal outrage, would survive the effects of his
barbarity, was brought up yesterday before the sitting Magis-
trate, Mr. Alderman Cox.
Eliza Simpson, the female in question, although apparently in
a very enfeebled and dangern's state, was sufficiently recovered
to attend. She stated herself to be a servant at a house of ill-
fame, in George-alley, Fleet-market, and knew the prisoner as
one cf the constant frequenters of that sink of vice and infamy.
A little before twelve o'clock at night, on last Saturday week,
he came to their house in company with ancther man, who was
much intoxicated, and sent for two pots of beer. She told him
that was not a public-house, and if her mistress was at home shie•'
would not suffer it. The porter, however, was brought, and in
her endeavours to prevent them drinking it there, a great part
of it was spilt. The prisoner insisted that -he should give bin
money to replace it. This, however, she refused, and wished
them to go away. He then said he was sent there by her mis-
tress to take care of the house, and insisted upon her giving hint
all the money she had taken during her mistress's absence; and
on her refusing, he knocked her down, and knelt upon her sto-
mach with all his weight, to keep her so, while he forcibly took
the key of the cupboard out of her pocket. He then stamped
upon her with great-wiolence, and stood upon her body while he
unlocked the cupboard, and took led, out of a cup. There was
money to the amount of 13s. ad: in another cup, but it was out
of his reach, and consequently escaped his observation. The
outrage she had suffered occasioned her to vomit a considerable
quantity of blood ; and the Medical Gentleman under whose care
she had been ever since, declared that she would never com-
pletely recover from ae injury she had sustained. She had
called out for assistance at the time, and there were persons who
bad witnessed great part of the prisoner's ill-usage towards her ;
but they could not be prevailed upon to come forward and give
evidence, from the-dread of the vengeance of the number of Irish
inhabiting and frequenting the alley.
The prisoner exhibited the utmost unconcern and indifference
while this story was telling, and did not contradict any part of
the brdtality imputed to him, but seemed to think the whole of
his conduct fully-justified, by his having, as he said, found the
00133plainant's band in his pocket. Ile, however, denied the
robbery. The principal charge on which the prisoner had been
Apprehended at the time, was the violent assault, there being
reason to apprehend that the unfortunate woman's life was in
dangerl but upon hearing the circunutances, the worthy Alder-
man was .of opinion that the due punishment of the prisoner
would be more certainly effected by committing him for the fe-
lony, and he was accordingly sent to Newgate, to take his :ad
for stealing in thedwelling-hoilse.
Maasiox-Houss.—The question of the right of carmen to be
hired in rotation came formally before the LORD Mavonon Thurs.
day. The City Solicitor attended as his LOrtiihip's assessor, and
Mr. Mixes for the cairnjo. The complaint was against one
Asbenden, the owner of two carts, for obstructing the highway
with a view of getting kturn, by placing them before the am-
pl.hiciata carts, although they hail-been engaged to do the week.
—The defendant and his biethren urged that turn-keeping was
sanctioned by custom, the groundwork' of most of the City 14ws •
and that carmen had actually been fined for taking work out oi
turn. One of the carmen said that when he, the other day-, gave
£'2oo fur a license, he was informed that c turn-keeping was
part of the birthright he purchased, and would always secure
bins enough of work to live by. The license he now considered
not worth a farthing. The City Solicitor said, that what %els a
mere regulation amongst. the carmen tbentselves bad been cos-
founded with the regulations a the Court. The first had bees
acquiesced in by the Magistrates, in consideration of the poorer
carmen, but such an uproar and disturbance had resulted that they
had determinea to put en end to it as utratAorised. •The Logo
yAr„, then cum Java tlpe.deicndtuit, but L:ntitted the penalty.