Star.
London, England, 1822-04-12 00:00:00

PIGEON SHOOTING.

The grand Match, between the 12 members of the Midghans
Club, and 12 picked men from Rants, Wilts, Ozon, Surrey,
Somerset, and Bucks, took place on Wednesday, agreeably to
articles, in the Foley Meadows, Hants ; and the trial was for
15 guineas each, amounting to nearly 5300. The Club had
been beat lately by picked men from three Counties ; and in
another match last week, were successful. The present one was
made to shoot at eleven birds each, from a trap at 21 yards.—
The following was the order of the sport :
VAINTISS. ►ILLED. THE CLUL
Mr. Cranstone - 11 Mr. Nolan
Mr. Johnstone 11 Mr. Sadler

Mr. Parsay
Captain Smith
Mr. Htaines

Mr.
Mr.

%Ir.

Dlr.

Mr.
Mr.

Norris -
Gent -

Fowler -

- 10
- 10
- 10

Mr. Marsh
Mr. Thorn -
Mr. Lomax -

Markham
Needham

Mr. Goodall -
Mr. Welsh -

Mr. Pearson• -

Mr. Flowers

Mr. Simpson

Mr. Maier -
Mr. Fosfer -

Mr. Kemp

KILLED.
11

The Counties won, by killing 104 bird's, to the Club's 99 :

but the latter lost four birds by their Laling out of bounds.
Some of the shooting was indifferent on both sides, but the strong
winds were much against the guns.
BOXING AND BULL-BAITING.

• The fanciers of these pastimes, from the Corinthian sprig of
fashion to the Dustman, mustered strong in a spacious field seven
miles down the Uxbridge road. The day's diversion cut out
was, first the light between Latham, a scientific pugilist, who
had before been celebrated .in the rrize sing, and the Tottenham
Court-road Hopper (his travelling name); and secondly, the nail
between the subscription bull and the buli•rs. Harry liolt se-
' conded Latham, and Paddington Jones picked up the /Inv..
to lon Latham. It was for a purse of £lO..
The battle lasted 26 minutes,in which 17 rounds were fought.
In the first, Latham made the play, and placed several hits
which were not returned. The Hopper made a rush, and was
floored in attempting to close.
42 and 7; were busy rounds, but Latham's skill kept his adver-
sary at a puzzle, and when endeavouring to rally he was met by
a facer, and was undermost in the fall in both rounds.
4. The Hopper made some hits; in a close Latham was down.
5. The Hopper tried to go to work, and be made a heavy
Mary-la-banns stop, which set his head harlequinading, and he
was thrown.
After this the Hopper seemed mu very bad terms with him-
self, and Latham unmuzzled at him in good form, and kept the
lead till he won the fight. The Hopper never gave a turn to the
battle, although the heaviest man. Latham won without sus-
taining any injury.
The bull defeated all his adversaries.
' Another battle took place on the road home, for a purse of
two guineas, given by a Corinthian fond of plenty of sport. The
combatants were Virgil, a travelling tinker, and a butcher out
of work. The tinker wen it, after a slaughtering fight of ten
minutes, by cracking his opponent's jaw.

A NEST or SwtsnLras.—A discovery of a notorious gang of
swindlers has lately been made by the Police, who have succeeded
to a very great extent in their impositions upon various trades-
people at the west end of the town. Information having been
laid at Mary-la-Bonne Police Office, srveral of the parties were
taken into custody, and brought to the °lace yesterday. Some
of the tradespeople imposed upon attended and gave evidence,
after which the prisoners were rewaadei fur further examination
FATAL Acme:T.—Wednesday evening, Mr. Bui.n.s, a re-
spectable hatter, of Brighton, had been with a friend, Mr.
Ksowt.r.s, of Cuwfold, in a gig, to Newhaven, and returning
thence, bad halted for a few minutes, at half past nine o'clock,
at the inn at Rottingdean. In less than two hours after they had
left that place they were found on the beach, not far frem Roe-
dean-gap, dreadfully mutilated, and quite dead, having, from
some cause or other, been precipitated from the cliff road, above
one hundred feet in depth. The gig in which they Ind r, de w..s
reduced to fragments, the wheels excepted, and the lifeless body
of the horse completed the tragic picture. Mr. Barees has left
a widow and eight children, and Mr. Knowles, a widow and
nine children, to lament their premature
CORN EXI MA/4GS, ?LARK-LANIC, APaIL 12.—The arrivals since
Monday have been very trifling, hut we have a large quantity
of all grain at market, the demand being very inadequate to the
per quarter
ripply : picked samples of Wheat support Monday prices, but
there is a want of buyers for the interior qualities,aibsa.tement and that de-
Iscowripetriothnains tolielarml
Beans and Peas no variation from Wednesday's quotations.
that
liarlry
SMITHFIELD MARKET, APRIL IQ.—Current prices this day
Yonniloalillyi,nalandindvual llu esa. lei s
—Beef, os. Od. to nit. toil. pie stone of Sibs.; Mutton, .2s.
to 3s. 6d. Veal. 4s. 01. to ss. 6.1. Pork, Its. Oil. to 34. if
Lamb. ss. to 6s.6d.—Cattle at Market : Beasts, 206; Calver,
Sheep and Lambs, 7,COu ; Pigs, 1.2.0.--1 lay and Straw per haat
Hay, W. Ids. to if. is. Clover, if. is. to it 15s. Straw, If.e
to 11.16*.

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