Star.
London, England, 1814-03-25 00:00:00

SPORTING.

Betting at TATTERSALL'S yesterday, was nearly the I
same as that of Monday last. Lord STAWEL'S cot,
first favourite for the Del by, had got up another point,.
6 to I had been taken about his winning yesterday.
Betting was dull on the other races, and 9 to 1 was
taken about the Governor colt winning the St. Ledger.
Betting between the Defiance and Octavio: for the first
class of Oatlands.

A match has been made for a stake and a subscrip-
tion purse, between Richmond, the black, and Davis,
the navigator. It will be decided after the Freat
battle on the 3d of May, between Painter and Gliver.
Betting at present 5 to 4 on Painter, and the like odds
on Richmond.
NEWRY HUNT CUP.-MARCH 1.5.

According to annual custom, a steeple cbace of
three miles was yesterday run for this cup, round the
Cairne hill of Cairnbane, which was run by W. Read,
of Ballymore, Esq.. The following horses started :

Mr. Stickler, ridden by Mr. Devitt - Ist
.Darby by Captain Lester - 21 -
St. Patrick - by Mr. M'Donnell - 3d
•
- Smuggler - - - dist.
Commodore - - - - dist.
Ragman - - • - - dist.

It vacs an excellent race. The push was between
Stickler and Darby—those horses passed each other
several times, but the race was at last won by Master
Stickler, apparently with a good deal of ease. The
day being fine, and the ground favourable for the spec-
tators, an immense concourse of people assembled.

After the race for the Cup, there were two hack.
races, one for ten, and the other for five pounds,
which were both well contested, the latter particu.
larly, when the horses for the last quarter of a mile'
ran head and neck, to the winning-post, and the race
was won by half a neck.
During the race, a poor man of the name of Kear-
ney, accidentally fell from an eminence. His breast
struck violently against a stone, and he died almost
instantaneously.
A Fox Ctinse.—On Thursday, the Ioth instant,
Lord Portarlington's fox hounds met by appointment
at half past ten o'clock, to draw the Spire Woods near
Portarlington. There appeared in the &Id at least 25
horsemen, well mounted. The huntsmen drew the
large covers without finding, and on returning drew a
small furze cover lying south of the woods. The
hounds directly dragged on reynard, but it was per-
ceived by the hunting, that he had brake on the first
coming into cover, and had got half an hour law of
the pack. The wind blew north-east, with constant
showers of sleet, notwithstanding which they hunted
him.steadily off, running him over the lands of Por-
terstown and Lough, through Lord Portarlington's
demesne at Emo, to the Copsewood ; here he waited,
hut the moment the hounds gained the cover, he broke
with a crashing—huntsmen, hounds, and horn, pro-
claim the flight. He ran by the New Inn, taking a
lead by the Derrys for Bellgrove, to gain which he
nas obliged to run nearly against the wind—being
hard pressed, he changed his direction, running down
the wind by Kappakeel, across the bottom of Comus,
and taking the Killone river, where several of the
sportsmen took the benefit of the cold bath ; he left
the Killone hills to his right, running their bottoms,
then taking over the lands Of Kilmurry, Ballyduff,
Killeon, and Ballythomas, he ran a direct line by Kilroy
and Serjeant's hills, for the covers of Bally kilcavan.—
Some object changed his direction, for away with him
over Nocknabragher hills near Stradhally, Newtown,
Daghmore, and the hills of Park, for the Rock of Do-
namace. At the foot of Park hills, reynard skulked
in Pastrong furze. cover, and broke afresh with a full
entapis, taking over Grange and Dysart hills, was
ran into and killed on his earth near Lamberton, after
a run of at least sixteen Irish miles. The hounds
hunted throughbut at a great space, packing like sea-
gulls—any person waiting to look or come at a leap,
was surely thrown out. At the death five huntsmen
only were in, namely, the Earl of Pottarlington,
Messrs. Adair, Biddulph, Annesly Cary, 'and C.
Doyne, jun. Mr. Dunne, mounted on his famous
horse Kildare, and all the other sportsmen, either from
unlucky casts, or want of bottom in their horses, were
unfortunately left behind.

Tlie Magistrates of Perth lately examined a school,
where a journeyman carpenter, named James M'Cul-
- had, for a considerable time, taught upwards of
60 children gratis, at his leisure hours, and were much
gratified to find a remarkable proof of the assiduity
of the master, in the proficiency of his scholars.

Saturday se'nnight, at a house a few miles from
Aberdeen, three children, two boys and a girl, being
left in a room, for their amusement, one of tfle boys
took up a loaded gun, which he pointed to the other
boy, about five years of age, that he might shew him
how his brother killed hales, when the charge explo-
ded, and carried oft great part of the cheek and brow,
escaping the eye most narrowly.
Saturday a melancholy accident happened in Ar-
broath ; a fine boy, nine months old, was left by his
mother playing in the cradle, while she went to a
pump in the immediate neighbourhood for water ;
a neighbour, going in soon alter, discovered the poor
infant in its play had crawled over the side of the
cradle and fallen into a tub of water, placed close by,
quite dead.
Saturday, as some labourers were at work on the
summit of a green hill, in the farm of Old Earle, near
Wooler, in Northumberland, they struck into a com-
plete urn of baked clay, unglazed, inverted on a flat
stone a little inclined. The urn, from some of the large
fragments, appears to have been 41 inches over at the
end, 121 inches high, and 121 inches across the open
part, including the outshelving ledge, in the form of
our common metal pots. The slope of the ledge, and
six inches down the outside are in a triple moulding,
two figured bands corresponding with the ledge.—
The impression is unmeaning and sunk, appearing to
have been wrought on the urn before baking, by one
circular or horse shoe, and one straight edged instru-
ment. Half a pound of fragments of human skull
and other bones, in a sound dry state, and a thin
piece of flint, were found under the urn. The small
end of the urn Was not a foot below the surface, with
a few stones remaining over it, in the range of the
remaining foundation of what may have been a ditch
and breastwork, inclosing a few roods of even surface,
with no other vestiges of the kind near it.

POLICE.

•
iiow-amEsi.---Yesterday Charlotte Newman, a stout,
powerful young woman, was brought before Mr.
BIRNIE; the sitting Magistrate, charged with robbing
Thomas Shepperd on Wednesday night, in Turnstile,
Holborn, of four ael Bank of England notes, seven
or eight shillings in silver, and a comb, by seizing
him round the waist, and pushing him against a door.
The prosecutor d:d not discover that he had been
robbed till he got to his lodgings, and was undressint
himself to go to bed. Yesterday morning, with the
assistance of a constable, be traced out the prisoner,
and en searching her he found his comb, which he
was enabled positively to swear to. He is an inha-
bitant of Birmingham, and felt so indignant at the
manner of his being robbed, that although he is re-
turning home in a day or two, yet he said he would
return to London with pleasure to prosecute the pri-
soner. She was committed for trial.—A woman of
a respectable appearance was charged with having a
quantity of forged Bank of England notes concealed
in her house, which Tauaton, the officer, discovered,
in consequence of information he had received. She
was committed for further examination.
Herron-GARDEN.--John Mawson, a running dust-
man, was yesterday brought up in the custody of
John Hatt, the officer, charging with stabbing his
' wife, Sarah Mawson, with a clasp knife, on Sunday
evening, at the White Hart public-house, Battle-
' bridge. The unfortunate woman attended the exa-
mination, but on being asked by the Magistrate what
she had to say against the prisoner, she said that he
was a very good husband, a hard-working man, and
that Le never let her want for any thing, but that
when be committed this offence he was very much in
liquor, and did not know what he was doing ; she
therefore earnestly begged her untortnnate husband
might be discharged, as she had no means of support
whilst he was in prison.—The woman appearing ex-
tremely weak, the Magistrate thought it proper not
to discharge the prisoner, until the .Surgron's report
was obtaiiied, and he was remanded for another exa-
mination.

Wednesday, as a fine girl, five years of age, be-
longing to a tradesman in Old-street, was returning
home from school, she was thrown down by a horse
in a sand•c:ut, the wheel of which went over her neck,
and killed her on the spot.
A shocking circumstance was discovered on Mon-
day morning, at Torksey Lock, on the river Witham.
Three fine young men were found dead in a coal ves-
sel : they were on board with their father and mo.
ther, who slept in a different part of the vessel, and
on the father's going to their birth in the morning, he
found them all suffocated by the vapour.
As Mr. Giffard, of Kew, was, on Tuesday, driving
his daughter in a gig to London, on reachi❑g the end
of Sloane-street, his horse took fright, and the wheel
coming in contact with a post opposite the Cannon
Brewhouse, the vehicle was overthrown, and Mr. G.
end his daughter were thrown, with great violence,
against the wheel of a waggon, by which the head
of the former was dreadfully contused, and the latter
had her arm broken.