Star.
London, England, 1830-05-04 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
TATTEHSALL'S
The day's business closed a little after six o'clock as follows :
OMIT.
3 to 2 apt Mr. Chifney's Priam (Cressida'
7 to 1 Lord Exeter's Augustus
9 to 1 Mr. Petre's Brunswicker
9 to 1 Mr. Ridsdale's Little Red Rover (10 to 1
taken freely)
10 to 1 Sir M. Wood's The Mummer (taken
16 to 1 Sir M. Wood's Cetus (taken)
16 to 1 Lord Exeter's Malsmoud (taken)
SS to 1 Lord Sefton's Captain Arthur (taken)
25 to 1 Lord Cleveland's Wat Tyler (taken)
25 to 1 Mr. Ramsbottom's Zucharelli
25 to 1 Lord Cavendish's Mouse
3000 t 025 -- Mr. Benson's Discord soli (taken)
OAKS.
3 to 1 Lord Sefton's Mouth.
6 to 1 Lord Q,ueensberry's Marls
it to I --- Lord Jersey's Charlotte West
10 to 1 Mr. Benson's Lady Blanche
12 to 1 Lord Anson's Zillah.
17 to 2 Lord Cleveland's Roby
17 to 2 -- Mr. Chifney's Priam
25 to 1 -- Duke of Portland's Emily colt
FOX HUNTING.

The season cloud last week, the Duke of Buccleuch's hounds
having kept the field as long as it was possible; and, in spits of
the protracted snow storms of winter, and the great drought of the
spring months, there has been so much good sport, that the noble.
men and gentlemen of the hunt continue to be delighted with the
country, and with the prospect of the further enjoyment, in it, of
their favourite and exhilirating amusement. Among those who
came from a distance, the following left the Cross Keys Hotel here,
about a fortnight ago :—Captain Patrick Maitland, William Forbes
Esq. Sir John Hope, Bart. Sir Ralph Anstruther, Bart. Captain
Anstruther, Captain Da/ziel, Sir Robert O'Callaghan, Captain
Cheape, R.N. Mr. Campbell of Olensaddle, Lord Elcho, John
Whyte Melville, Esq. Andrew Fletcher, Esq. Sir David Baird,
Bart. Mr. Dick, Archibald Butter, Esq. Colonel M`Lain of Ard-
gout. A correspondent thus describes the last week of the hunt in
the west of Roxburgshire—" The Duke of Buccleuch's fox-hounds
have just closed the most brilliant season ever witnessed in Rox-
burghshire.—During their last week they killed nine foxes out of
ten (all dog foxes too}—after most severe and splendid runs, in
which the hounds maintained the character for training and disci-
pline
for which they are remarkable above any in Scotland. Such
a close of the season was the more gratifying that it was totally
unlooked for. The country appeared so dry, that many of the gen-
tlemen, imagining that no more sport was to be expected, left the
hounds at Kelso. But rain came, and the scent never lay better ;
the company that remained, and the very hounds themselves, seemed
I determined to show how much the seceders had lost. The horses
I could not live with the dogs, and in some cases the riders could not
live with the horses. The Duke attended the hunt a fortnight after
most of the sportsmen had left Kelso, and seemed most desirous to
please every one who joined in the sport."—kelso Mail.
EXECUTION OF MR. COMYN IN ENNIS.
Wednesday this wretched man expiated at the gallows
the offence of which he had been guilty against the laws
of his country. From the moment that he became aware
that there was no hope to be entertained from the govern-
ment, lie devoted himself to religion, and continued un-
ceasingly to exercise himself in its duties. At half-past
two o'clock the wretched man, attended by six Catholic
Clergymen, was brought into the press-room. He was
dressed in a suit of black, and had a silk handkerchief
loosely tied round his neck. After praying for about half
an hour, he arose, and beckoned to the executioner to do
his duty. While his arms were binding, and the other
preparations were making necessary for his execution, he
seemed either regardless or unconscious of what was
doing—his eyes remained fixed in one position, while
his lips were moving as if in prayer. When he was told
that all was ready, he kissed each of the Clergymen on
the cheek, and desired that he might be conducted to the
drop. About three o'clock he was led forth, and being
placed upon the drop, not more than a few seconds inter-
vened till it fell, and life became at once extinct, the un-
fortunate man appearing to die without a struggle. The
body, after hanging the usual time, was placed in a coffin
and removed the same evening to Corofin, where it was
met by the many numerous and respectable relatives of
the deceased. Three of the illegitimate children of Mr.
Comyn were with him in prison. It would be impossible
to describe their agony and distress at the moment of
parting from their miserable parent, who displayed in
the interview with them, the same steadiness of nerve,
and firmness of mind, which marked his demeanour up
to the moment of his death. As a mark of respect for
the family of Mr. Comyn, and as a testimony of commis-
aeration for his fate, the inhabitants of Ennis had their
shops closed the entire of Wednesday.

MELANCHOLY DEATH OF A MOTHER
AND HER TWO CHILDREN,PROM STARVATION.

Three fellow creatures have perished in this neighbour-
hood, the victims of hunger and cold. A poor woman
with her two children, driven by griping poverty to seek
that sustenance which nature wants, by begging for it
among the humane and charitable, in making her way
from one village to another, had to pass through a tract
of unsheltered bog, about six or seven miles to the north-
east of Killarney, in the centre of which they were found
by a countryman on Sunday morning, lifeless corpses,
having, in all probability, been so since the preceding
Friday, which was here a rather severe and bitter day.
They were strangers here, and were not recognised, save
as having been seen during the previous week begging
from house to house in the usual manner, and it is sup •
posed that the poor woman, exhausted from previous suf-
fering and want, had not sufficient strength to make her
way in the tempestuous weather through this black moor,
but sunk down mid-way to rise no more. The poor little
innocents who accompanied her, being out of view of any
house, and unable to act of themselves, sat down with
her, and night overtaking them, they perished together.
The spectacle presented by the clay-cold group, and the
conviction to the beholder of the manner of their death,
was irresistibly affecting. The mother of the little fa-
mily, a rather young woman of mild and interesting fea-
tures, lay extended on her back at fall length, as if asleep;
supported in her right arm, on which it rested, lay the
body of her younger child, a female about four years old,
and with its face downwards; across the parent's knees,
as if embracing them, lay a fine boy, apparently of the
age of eight years. The scene was indescribably moving
and heart-rending. Their habiliments were wretched and
ragged, denoting extreme destitution and poverty of no
recent date ; the scanty and miserable attire of the whole
three being scarcely sufficient to give shelter to a single
limb. What a crying and cruel sin that some parochial
refuge is not afforded in cases of such utter and helpless
deprivation ! An inquest being held, and all the circum-
stances investigated as far as possible, the jury returned a
verdict of " Died of cold and exhaustion."—Tralee
Mercury.
In a parish of Longford, resistance sat present offered
to the collection of Church-cess, in consequence of irre-
gularity in the way in which it was applotted. One or
two magistrates are supporting the authority of the col-
lectors with a zeal of which some idea may be formed
when we mention, that they generally order a 24 hours'
incarceration to ie party making the least show of a re-
fractory spirit, refusing bail when it is offered 1 ! One
man's horse was lately auctioned in the streets of Long-
ford for this cess. It left a surplus, but of this he has
not been yet able to obtain one farthing. The Parson of
the parish in which the Church-taxes are levied after
this fashion, is said to be a non-resident, not only as far
las regards dais pariah, but all parts of his Majesty's do-
minions ! ! --11fornis, Register.