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SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

NIWMARKET FIRS r OCTOBER MUTING, 1814.
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 4.
(Renewal)—One-third of a Subscription of 2.5 p. each ; for 4-yr.
old Colts, 4tst. lolb. ; and Fillies, Bst. 71b. D. I. Bonajfer the
pr.p try of Subscribers.
11.1 r Vtllieres Don Ct,ssack 1
Lord leraey's Cannon-ball - 2
Five to me on Cannon-Isalt.
IVEDNEST)AY, OCTOBER 5.
Fifty Gni:teat, free for a.ly horse, &c. 4-yr-olds to carry 7st, 41b.
S-yr-olds Bvt. 51b. 6-) r-olds, Bst. 111 b. and aged 911. B.C.
Mr. Villiers's Merryfirld, 6 yrs old • 1
Lord Roues gr. e. QUIJIZCT, 4 yrs old - -

Five to four.iin Merrygeld.
Mr. Shakespear's Donkey heat Geo. Gower's f. by Rubens, nut
of Losiova's ditin, Yst. 41b. each. T. Y. C. 200 gs. h. ft.-2 to 1
on Donkey.
One-third of a Subscription of 25gs. eacb, for three-yr-old coke,
air. 9113 and finks, list. 61b. A. F.
Duke of Rutiand's di. c. Osman • . 1
Duke of Graften's br. f. Wire - - 2

Lord Stawell's b. c. Golden Leg.
11 to 8 asst Osman-3 to I agst Wire-4 to 1 apt Golden Leg.
After the dead best even betting.

In the annals of hunting ought to be recorded the
following feat, by a sportsman in the neighbourhood
of Brampton, scarcely ever equalled. The hare, being
dead run, to save its life, plunged into Talkin Tarn,
which is about twenty feet in depth, when all the dogs,
except one, kept back. To encourage the dogs our
Nimrod boldly rode into the 46 watery plain," and his
horse octswimming poor puss, he actually lifted her
out of the water by the ears.
CCIENT-GARDEN THEATRE.—Last night the pleas-
ing Opera of the Lord of the Manor was performed in
an excellent style, before a splendid and crowded
audience. The exquisite airs of the celebrated JACK-
sos' of Exeter were sung by INCLEDON with all his
wonted powers of melody. SINCLAIR was loudly ap-
platithd and encored in the delightful Air of Love
a,-;:c.,0 the Rare:, The new Melo-dreme was afterwards
performed in an improved manner, and went off with
the greatest eekt.
The Oracle, a Brussels paper of the 27th ult. gives
the following dramatic critique Yesterday the
English Playets gave, at the Park Theatre, a repro.
sentation of the tragedy of Hamlet. Mr. and Mrs. C.
KEMUI.E performed the ptincipal parts, which auract-
ed a brilliant and numerous audience. Hitherto we.
had only knnwn in our theatre the Hamlet of M.
Ducts, an ingenioes, though somewhat feeble, imita.
ilon tlie' pie& ;" tin*, hoivever. we have
seen •lie tragedy of the divine SHAKESPEARE, in all
its beauty. and I will dare to add, in all its deformity.
The ghost of Hamlet's Father quits the regions of the
dead four or !'we times to stalk solemnly on the stage :
this .gboet, ihu is a little garrulous, gives his son a
long -Itistory of his assassination. If all spirits are
equally fetid of talking assuredly the other world is
not tfaretrade of silence. Hamlet is successively a fool
and a madman;
.the Court of Denmark assembles,
and a comedy is played before it ; the grave-diggers
then make their appearance, dig a grave, bring up the
sculls, and otter buffoon( ries worthy of a puppet show;
this strange seethe is terminated by an interment.—
These blemishes, h,,wever, belong to the age when
the English Poet wrote ; but by how many beauties,
which Seairsrseas owed only. to his genius, has he
redeemed them ? Scenes of the Most heart-rending
pathos,—poetry the most energetic and expressive;
such are the merits which the English justly admire
in this Poet. Mr. C. KIMBLE, in Hamlet, displayed his
fine tragic talents ; he particularly excelled in the fa-
mous soliloquy, and in the scenes with the Chest and
his Mother. The last scene of the piece, however,
which is eminently tragical, was in some degree dis-
turbed by a singular accident: a large bat made its
way into the Theatre, and by its ill-omened presence,
alarmed the ladier. who filled the boxes; this bird of.
darkness flew about every where, and even carried its
irreverence so far as to settle on the heads of the actors,
who were at that moment expiring on the stage. Thus
this sorry bat gave to the death of the Prince of Den-
mark an air of gaiety a little misplaced."
Arrivals and Departures at Payne's Hotel, Dover.
To France—Countess Camden, Sir Sidney Smith, Lady Smith
and the Miss Runibolds, Genital M'Farlane, the Archdeacon of
.Meath and Lady, Coma de Venricall, Admiral Harvey, Hon.
Mrs. Harrington, Hun. A. Martin, Right Hon. the Earl of Fife,
Mr. Giles and family, His Excellency Chevalier Saldanlia, Portu-
guese Ambassador from the Brazils, Mr. Trotter and family,
Right Hon. Lady W. W. Wyatt, Right Hon. the Earl of Ebstu-
ray and family, Right Hon. tho Earl of Beverley, and Hon. Hugh
Percy, Mr. and Miss Paull, Lady C. Durham, Mr. Hamilton
and family, Mrs. Fitsherbert and Miss Seymour, Hon. Lady
Hawkins, Sir W. Congreve, Mrs. Hewitt, Sir Owen Martin:and
family, Mr. Spurrier and Lady, Hon. Misr Mills, Hon. Miss
Drayton' Sir Thomas Nemo and family.
From France—Sir 7. Wet, Mr. Van Collard, Mr. Defootaine
and family, Lady R. Bentinrk, Mr. Dudley Neve, Lady Mellen-
dell, Mr. Tattersall, Sir W. Adams and Lady, Mr. S. Whitbread,
M.l'. Hoy. G. Beauchamp, Messrs. Powis, Philpott, Hastings,
Hawkins, Collett, Park, the Marchioness of Wellesley and son,
Misses Lemondell, F. Lesnondell, C. Lensondell, Trescott, and
Pallott ; Madame Armand, Madame Bianchi, Madame de Len.
nell, Mears. Nixon, Stephenson, and Brown.
Friday, the 16th ultimo, a desperate riot took place
at Tieragh, in the county of Sligo, between the county
Mayo and Northern tiihermen, at present employed
in the fishery there. The former being joined by an
immense number of the country people, armed with
reaping-hooks and other destructive weapons, a great
number of both parties were shockingly mangled.
Fortunately for the deluded people, Major Htudts,
a magistrate of the county, and Dr. M'NAIR, hap.
pened to be near the scene of outrage, who, upon
learning the event, instantly repaired to the spot, and
did not succeed in putting an end to this shameful
conflict until the Riot Act had been read twice, add
some of the ringleaders apprehended, one of whom
has been transmitted to the gaol of Sligo.

MtII2DBII OF .ELIZABBTII DOBBINS.
CORONER'S INQUEST.

Yesterday an Inquest was—held before GenaGE
Howson, Esq. at the Bull and Last, the bottom of
Highgate Hill, on the body of Elizabeth Dobbins,
who was inhumanly murdered at her house in Mil-
field-lane, on Tuesday afternoon.
The first witness called was James Dot! at, of Mil-
field-lane, Kentish Town, husband to the deceased.
who deposed, that he was a Labourer belonging to the
Hampstead Water Company, and the deceased, his
wife, was a washer-woman. Oa Tuesday, the 4th
inst. the witness left the deceased in his house in pr.
fect health. About half pact three o'clock in the af-
ternoon witness was at work with William Clark.
who complained of being thirsty; the witness told
him to go to his house, and get some water ;
however, returned, saying that the door was fast, anti
lie heard a groaning, and told the witness that he be-
Leved his wife was ill. Witness went home, and
found the door wide open, and on going into_the•
kitchen found the deceased lying upon the floor, in an
expiring state. She. had a violent blow on the right
side of the head, and her brains were scattered about
the floor ; there was a large poker in the kitchen,
which belonged to the witness ; it had blond upon it,
and was crooked ; it appeared to the witness that it
was the instrument by which the deceased was mur-
dered. Witness finding her in that. state, called to
Clark, who also came to the deceased. Witness went
for Mr. Sands, a Surgeon, and his assistant, George
Oakley Hemmings, came, but the deceased expired
before he came.

Charles Bateman deposed that he lived at No. 11,
Caen-place, Kentish Town ; had known the deceased
near ten years. On Tuesday, between two and three
o'clock in the afternoon, witness was going past the
house in Milfield-lane, where the deceased and her
husband lived. Witness saw a man, a stranger, at
the gate leading to the house, he appeared like a
sailor, and is the tame man witness saw in custody,
and who said his name was Thomas Sharp.
•'lrlliam Tyler, of Fitzroy-market, said he knew the
deceased about six or seven weeks ; was employed to
dig out a foundation on the west side of Highgateroad.
About three o'clock, on Tuesday afternoon, witness
went to the house of the deceased to borrow a wheel-
barrow ; witness saw a man standing at the gate with
a large piece of bread and butter in his hand ; wit-
ness took the barrow, and left the man there ; witness
did not see him after until nearly six o'clock the same
evening, when he was at the Vine public house, Ken-
tish Town. Witness was certain that the man who
was eating the bread and butter was the same man ;
witness did not know his name.

Thomas Camlee, of No. 4, Latham's-place, Somers-
Town, deposed that on Tuesday, a little past three
o'clock, he was at work for Mr. Rayner, digging
a foundation at the corner of Milfield-Line, near the
house where deceased lived. Witness saw a man
coming out at the end of the lane into the Highgate-
road, with a bundle under his arm, which appeared
to v:itness to be a bundle of linen tied up in a sheet,
which was banging loosely down, and he seemed &-
sir( us to collect it closer together ; he crossed the
turnpike road and went through a hedge into a field
on the east side of the road, and began to tie up the
bundle. Witness suspected something was wrong.—
Witness communicated his suspicions to Thomas
Bremer and James Seal, who pursued him and took
him into custody, with the bundle. Witness believul
his name was Thomas Sharp.

James Seal, a bricklayer, residing :It N. 1, Alpha-
place, Kentish Town, deposed, that he had known
the deceased ten or twelve years. 11. A wern three and
four o'clock, on Tuesday, he was at work at the foot
of Highgate Hill, on a house building for Mr. Ray-
ner ; he saw a man come down by the hedge, in the
way stated by the preceding witness ; he asked him
what he had ? The man said he h•td bought the
bundles for 9s. of a Gipsey, near Edgewate. The
witness seized him, and the priioner said he would
give up the bundle if he would let him go. Witness
took him into custody, and when at the Magistrate's
house, he examined the bundles.

Mona: Braxer, a labourer, was present when the
man was taken. He heard him say he purchased the
bundle near Edgeware, of Gipsies, and that his name
was Sharp.

Mr:. Elisabeth Jose:, wife of a shoe-maker, at Ken-
tish Town, deposed, that she had known the deceased
for fourteen years ; had washed for her 12 months;
had not seen her siace Sunday last. She was able to
identify the linen Mrs. Dobbins had to wash, having
ironed a great part of it. Here the bundles were pro-
duced. The first contained the following articles
of clean linen :—five shirts, one handkerchief, one
half silk handkerchief, one apron, two pair of stock-
ings, and two pair of socks.
Seal being again called, said, those were the articles
taken from the prisoner Sharp.
Airy. Jones then looked at the dirty linen, consisting
of eight shirts and a pocket handkerchief. The clean
linen she had ironed. Part of the property belonged
to a young lad lately come from sea, then residing in
Swaine's-lane, leading to Highgate. The remaining
part was the property of Mr. Linglam, of Dean-street,
Soho ; Mr. Thames Owen, of Charlotte-street, Rath-
bone-place ; Mr. Blest, Collector, Hampstead-road ;
R. Oliver, keeper of the Bull and Last and the hus-
band of the deceased. There was a bill pinned to one
of the bundles for 4s. 9td. which witness said was the
hand-writing of the deceased.

Mr. Gilman, surgeon and apothecary, of Ughgate,
gave the following evidence :—Having examined the
body of Elizabeth Dobbins, he fotmd that she bad re-
ceived a wound on the scalp of four inches, extending
from under the angle of the orbit of the right side up-
wards over the temple. The frontal bore was frac-
tured through the orbital plate, and upwards in direc-
tion of the wound, to the tempos-al bone. There was
a long wound in the dura mater which exposed the
brain. The brain was not injured. The wound had
the appearance of a clean cut wound, but the bones
were considerably fractured, so as tit shew the appe-x-
-ante of the wounds having been inflicted by a cutting
and bruising instrument, applied with force sufficient
to produce death.
G. 0. Hemming deposed, that he went up to the
house, and discovered the deceaz-id in the situation
described by the preceding witnesses. He sent for Mr.
Gilman, who examined the body.
Mier the abort:: evidence, Mr, HODGSON obrrvedr

that there was no.doubt that the nnfartnnate woman
had been murdered by Sharp, the min in custudy. •
Th Ivy found a verdsct, that the deceased had
Oeen murdered by the prisoner, Thom is Slim-p.-1-1e
..and, committed by the Coroner for Wilful AfsisdeP.
Shari* is said to be a native of Layton, in Essex.--.
The prisoner his been lang known to the different
police officers as a notorious character, and was only
1,1.il Sessions.discharged from the New P:ison, Cler-
Lea3vell, where he • ad been canfined twcles months
•or a riot, in er,dnv..uring to re.cue some of his coM.
pinions from the Hatton Garden offe:crs. When his
rime had expired, and I,e had obtained his dischartre,
he observed to turnkey, that when he cbd any
thing sigAin, he woald Jo it capitally. Reii, sen. 1;1
Hatton Garden, Went to the prison where he is con-
fined, and immediately recognise.' Lint, when he con-
fessed to him, that after he had committed the mu:.
,ier, he Was goir ,1 on his journey toLand..n, nut seeing ,
him, he crossed the lieldst whcre he was taken I,y
Seal, the bricklayer. Ho gave up the jacket he h 4
on when he committed the murder to Reid s—it is
sprinkled over with the b!oud of the deceased.

MURDER IN KISIG-STREET, ST. GEORGE'S IN THE
EAST.—At an Inquest held yesterday before .1.
Ilswtv, Esq. on the body of Barney S!rield:, a w ad:-
man, the facts of the case appeared to be as foPow
Last Thursday night, about eleven o'cl, ck, a dispute
:rose in King•street, letween an Irishman and a
watchman, named Jervis, who immediately sprung hie
rattle. The alarm brought together several watch.
men, and about 60 Irishmen, who shortly after pro-
vided themselves with bludgeons ; the watchmen at-
tempted to take some el the most violent into custo-
dy, which produced a battle. Nolan stated, thAt he
saw one of the Irishmen strike the deceased with
bludgeon, and heard him afterwards mention his
name ; but he could not recollect it, and should nnt
know the man again. John C trl s.tw a person strike
the deceased, while he was lying in the kennel and
crying nut for mercy : he should not knovi the per-
son again. tin Carl was afterwards with the deceased at
the watch-house, and heard him say that the man in
his shirt sleeves was William Harney, and that he was
the man who had butchered him : witness was confi-
dent that the person who struck the deceased was not
William Harney. George Pitman saw several Irish-
men, who have been since taken into custody, near
the deceased during the affray, but did not see any
of them strike him; and he heard the deceased, be-
fore he was removed to the watchhouse, say, that the
man in the shirt sleeves was the person who had
struck him. Two surgeons attended the Inquest, and
gave an account of the situation of the deceased
prior to his death, and expressed their belief, that
the -injuries which he had received on his head;
were the cause of his death. The Coroner said,,
the declarations of the deceased were :IA evi-
dence, unless he considered himself in dying circum-
stances ; and then it would be desirable that they
should be supported by ar.me collateral proof ;—but
there was a want of identityin the case, which it might
be hoped the exertions of the police would remedy,
and the perpetrator be ascertained, r- nd brought to
justice. Verdict—WlN Afurder against rents perm or
person: salt:own.

SLAVS TRAM—A Gentleman from Pus Ear In.
dies, who lately arrived AL Exeter, has. pr,..s:in a a
Lady of that city with a little African negro h v,
about nine or ten years of age, which some time siuiAt
be humanely preserved from being cle.troyed by a
slave-merchant : it appears that among many slaves
which were ()feted for sale by the Captain of a slave-
ship, this black infant was one ; but not being able
to procure a purchaser, he took the child up by the
leg and arm to throw him into the ocean, and when
In the very act, the above Gentleman interposed, and
agreed to give some cc:milt-ration ; the boy is very
tractable, has a good capacity, and a retentive me-
mory.
• Tim Arrs.—The Portrait of the Duke of WEr.'
LINGTON, lately executed by Mr. MINAS!, Historical
Engraver to his Sicilian Majesty and to his Royal
Highness the Duke of Sussex, is beyond all question
the most accurate likeness of that immortal hero that
has been seen. It is engraved from a painting of the
same size, in the possession of the Marquis Wsta.Es-
LET, to whom it is dedicated.
A MERMAID CAUGHT,. AND ALIVE !—(From the
Belfast Chronicle, Oct. l).—Yesterday we received
the following letter through the Carrickfergus P )st-
office. Though we have made some inquiry in town,
we have not had time to ascertain the authenticity of
the letter, nor what degree of truth there is in this
extraordinary account. All we at present know is,
that a very respectable man, of the name of M4CLet.-
LAND, lives, as stated, in tire Island of M tgee ; and
the persons who art mentioned as having seen the
Mermaid, are known in Belfast :
" I beg leave to inform you, for the benefit of the curlooe.
that I am happy that I have it in my power to set the plash(
mind at rest, respecting the existence of this wonderful rensr,
having been so fortunate as to take one yesterday morning, which
is now alive, stud in nay possession. The mode in which I took it
was as follows :—Yesterday morning, about six o'clock, I overt
to set my lines on the Turbot batik, off this place; l had ant
proceeded a quarter of a mile from the shore, when I saw what
I at first thought was a seal, appear above water; but, on coming
war it, to my grant surprise, it looked like a Christian, snaking
motion with Its hands and bead. dimmedlately thought it to he
a Mermaid, laving seen accounts in the Papers of two or three
seen hi Scotland. 1 then told the boys in the heat, it they would
brand catch it, it would make alt their tontines • hut limes
Hill, and the other two boys, were terribly frightened, and said
we should make for the shore, as it Might sink the boat. Find'eg
they were cowardly, I called to a large water-dog I had In Hts
twat, and hunted him at it ; when the dog was swimming to
' I fired at ft a musket loaded with large pellets, which wound.l
'lt in the body and tall, and in a little time the dog caught it by
' the hair and held it, I:lough it open pulled him under the water.
The boys seeing thus, gathered mileage, and we rowed the boat
up to it, and with the assistance to+ a t.erring net, we surrounded
it and the dog, aud brought both into the bor —it had lost a
great deal of blood, and was weak when we brought in t—i.
struggled hard and made a noise like a young child. e had t
tie It with ropes. When we came on shore, I 4r. .w up one se
the boats and filled her with salt water, into ethic's I put the am-
mal, end in which I keep it. Its wounds are better. It eats Cub,
but it likes herrings better than other kind. Its hair is ahoy* a
yard long, nod a dark green; red eyes, a flat nose, ,aud a large
mouth. It has but there hog? n and a thumb on each hand. tad
they are taper to the point. It is five feet four Inches from the
crown of the head to the tip of the tall, and like a woman front
the hauecl4es up; the eltin is neatly white, accept the tail, wbi, t
is the shape and colour of a cod fish. It bat been seen and exa-
mined by Mr. Nash and Mr. A. R. Cuats, two of the oust al-
cersi
ee who ficippeued to be here this morning, Mr. Murphy, or.
tholoiknp ftister, anao:leserfuttr a siren al ot;ieit :14Dw,oetnreighattliswocbtse.neral willo thenedecaraviootwer.
who are welcome to comae and see It.-4 am, sir, your obedient
servant, (Signed) " Wittiest MiCLILLANn.
1,144. r: sou ck, Idita4 bilagse,"2llth Sept. 1514."