Star.
London, England, 1826-09-07 00:00:00

NORTHERN MEETING RACE&

The question with regard to the Inverness Race, in 1823, which
was referred by the Stewards of the Northern Meeting to the
Stewards of the Jockey Club, and excited, front its novelty, an
unusual interest in the sporting circles of the south, was decided,
some time ago, in favour of the owner of the pony objected to;
tbr Jockey Club being of opinion, that the usual mode of measure-
ment, adopted in other cases on the turf, fell to be applied in this
Instance. The decision was no doubt immediately 'complied with,
and the amount of the stake paid over. Disputes of this sort, spars-
siones ludicra, cannot be brought before the ordinary courts of law;
but the rule of the Jockey Club to receive no other reference front
parties, who fail in complying with their judgments, is timid to be
very effectual.

The following matches are to take place at the ensuing New-
market Meeting, which commences on the 2d of October :
FIRST Dar (Mosoar).—The Duke of GLafton's Paul Jones, llst.
71b. against Lord Anson 's Heroine, list. for 200, h. ft.
Mr. Molony's bl. f. by Smolensk°, against Mr. B. Wilson's
blahlonia, list. 71b. each, for 100 sore. h. ft.
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Sacrum MT.—The Duke of Rutland's Adeliza, Bst. sib. maim
Lord Anson 's Noureddin, 7u. Ilb. for 200, h. ft.
Mr. Wyndham's f. by Whalebone, against Colonel Einge's
Number Nip, list. 41b. each, for 100 sovs. 75 ft.
The Duke of Grafton's Paraplui against Lord Jersey's Hearles,
Bst. 71b. each, for 200.

THIRD DAY.— Lord Exeter's Tirailleor, Sst. 91b. against the Duke
of Grafton's Saracen, ist. 41b. for 150, h. ft.
Mr. Greville's Eliiabeth against Lord Jersqy's Henries, Sat. 71k.
each, for 100, h. ft.
At the Newmarket Craven Meeting, 11129, the following ktatebes
will be run :

Flare DST.—Gen. Grosvenor's e. by Gustavus, est. 71b. osidast
Mr. Poyutz's C. by Sultan, est. 41b. for 200, h. ft.
FOUR.= Day.—Post Match—Mr. Poyntes r. by Sakai% against
the Duke of Grafton 's e. by Tireslas ; mks, Set. 71b. fillies, est. Mb.
to bring one to the post, R.M. 200, It. ft.
On the First Day of the First Spring Meeting, 11129.—. General
Grosvenor's c. by Phantom, est. 71b. against Mr. Pupates c. by
Sultan, list. 41b. for 100, h. ft.

Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the East
India House, when the following Captains were sworn isKo the
command of their respective ships, viz.—Captain Joain Mucus
bLuirnsuou, of the Bridgewater, and Captain Teems Raw, of
the Lowther Castle, consigned to Bombay and Chloe.

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NORWEGIAN NATIONAL SONG.

7ROM TRAVELS IN NORWAY. SWEDEN, DENMARK' &C. &C.
IIY WILLIAM RAE WILSON, ESQ. F.S.A.

Majestic Norway! sea-girt land!
Birthplace of all I most revere;
Thy mountains, form'd by Freedom's hand,
Smiling at time, their proud crests rear,
Despite of storms that shake the world,
A giant band in fierce array,
With blue mist round their visors curl'd,
And frost upon their helmets grey !
These are the mountains loved of old
11) Auka Thor, of tameless soul,
Who, as o'er clouds his chariot roU'd,
Heard giants own his dread controul:
Giants who wildly had rebell'd
Against th' assembled hosts of heaven,
Y«t, by their love of fame impell'd,
To Thor their willing vows were given !
How did the bold Norwegian move,
With earthquake step to fiery war,
And, as the maiden of his love,
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Meet death red-rushing from afar;
Ay, e'en with Freya's look she bore
Her lover on his heaven-ward road,
And, as to Odie's ball they soar,
Still from his lips the war-song now% I
These are the tales of other days;
But when the Lur's loud notes I hear,
Or when the cataract flings its sprays
Front rock to rock, and stuns the ear,
I fancy that I catch once more,
Forgetful that those times are fled,
The martial music lov'd of yore,
When elicit smok'd, and armies bled!
These times are fled, these lights are set,
But in old Norway's son we trace
Enough to know that he is yet
A scion of the ancient race -
And in her daughter still we race';
The unie blue eyes, and rosy cheeks,
The guileless heart, the steady mind,
The health that length of days bespeaks!
Yes, mountaimfounded Norway! thou
Art dearer than all lands to me;
Thy rocky bulwarks eapp'd with snow,
Thy vallies smiling verdantly;
They are eternal—but if hurl'd
From their broad base by Hzavee's decree.
Atnidit the ruin of a world,
Still, Norway i they mold point to thee !

THE SUMMER EXCURSION.

FROM A CROW ANN'S REPOSITORY OP A RTS,&C.

Summer and autumn are the season when the disciples
of Esculapius recommend their patients to leave their
homes, and take a trip to the sea side, where the goddess
of health loves to dwell; when the gay votaries of fa-
shion quit the crowded streets of London, and hurry to
the watering places, to enjoy the luxury of bathing, and
sip the mineral waters.
To which of these shall I bend my steps? There is
the coast of Kent, where Margate, Ramsgate, Deal, and
Sandwich, invite me to view their beauties, and it-is a
pleasure to wander on that delightful coast, to see the
gay thronged gardens, to walk on the pier and behold
the crowded passengers land from the steam packets.
Daring the height of the season, the packets land about
eight hundred persons daily. There we see the London
guinea-pig, who has quitted some garret, where he lived
penuriously and hoarded up his guinea, that he might
indulge himself with a trip to Margate. How gay he
looks dressed in his Sunday clothes—how pleasure glis-
tens in his eyes to behold the brilliant scene; but soon
must he quit it, for his guinea will support him only
one day, and be must return on Monday morning to
resume his labours, and by diligence make up for the
time he has lost and the money he has squandered.—
My heart aches to see the man who has, by the sweat
of his brow, earned a few shillings. thus wasting them.
No, I mill not go to the coast of Kent, where I might
again view at Dover the cliff which Shakespear has
immortalized, and behold once more those scenes which
were visited by the Romans who invaded England, and
generally landed on the coast of Kent.
Shall I bend my steps to the Isle of Wight, which is
emphatically called the garden of England, and which
an avaricious man might wish for as a flower garden,
although he possessed the whole land of Britain as a
farm ? al the coast of Kent, it is a beauty made by the
hand of man ; at the Isle of Wight, it is the rugged and
sublime hand of Nature that has formed the many grand
views. Amongst others, there is. Shanklin Chine, si-
tuated at the back of the Island, which, for grandeur of
scenery, and awful precipices, surpasses all other parts
of England. There is Carisbrook Castle, famed for
King Charles's confinement there by his rebellious sub-
jects ; there is still the window, out of which the
unfortunate Monarch attempted to escape ; in the Castle
is a very deep well, the water of which is famous all
over the island, and it is the pleasantest water I have
ever drank, it is drawn up by means of a donkey, who
is so tame, that he follows the visitors for biscuits,
ft nit, or any other eatables given to him ; in the room
where the well is situated, you may observe the wall
written over with names, so much se, that every one
who visits it will find some name inscribed on it that
he is acquainted with.
At Carisbrook we see with what amazing strength
our forefathers built ; the present race of builders are
deter mined that their children shall be well employed
propping up the houses they erect, for these will not
surely last above one generation. About two miles
trnm Carisbrook, is the gay and lively borough-town of
Newport, which is generally thronged with Officers,;
who are the life and ornament of the place. About
two miles from Newport are the barracks, which are
worth seeing. At a short distance from them is the
workhouse. in which are the poor of the whole island.
I ler e the Philanthropist may behold a sight which will
snake his heart glad.
There are upwards of eight hundred poor in the
louse, who are all neatly clothed and well fed. The
rules and regulations are shewn by the matron to any
visitor, who is at liberty to make remarks in n :king in
the book of rules and regulations. When Mr. Owen, of
Lanark, visited the poor-house, he remarked that the
management of the poor in the Isle of Wight came
rearest to his plans of any he had seen : it is a pleasant
ght to see eight hundred poor sit down to a good meal,
there are about five hundred children among them,
whose :milling countenpnces and happy looks afford
gratiacar ion to the benetolent mind. I had determined
on visiting these happy 'cents, but taking up a news.
paper I read of the extrelne misery that exittld in the
large manufacturing towns. I ordered my horses to
tut door, and hurried in preference to the scenes of
misery, in hopes of contributing my feeble efforts to
their alleviation.
7h: se who live in affluence have little idea of the
great misery and wretchedness that many of their
fellow-a eatutes endure, they now and then behold the

cottages of their tenants, and ifs's., is in many of them
every comfort and necessary of life ;'they have a garden
to raise their own vegetables, a pig to faften and kill,
which enabletthem to pay their rent ; poultry and eggs
to carry to market and sell, so that they may bring
back food and clothing'; and in many counties you see
the rack of bacon, which is supplied with a well-cured
flitch that they enjoy in the summer season, with their
own green peas and beans. But the manufacturing
poor, who are crowded in large towns, enjoy none of
these comforts.
You may behold a large house, which, perhaps, was
the residence of a Nobleman, but now its. glory is
gone—it is inhabited by the children of misery. When
you entered the lofty rooms, which formerly resounded
with the song of mirth, the hum of the weaver's shuttle
strikes on the ear. There ate around you a sickly wife,
clothed in rags, with an infant at her breast, and several
children who were born in misery and baptized in tears,
whose looks bespeak the want of that food they in vain
expect from their parents.
Too often now you see the father, unable to obtain
employment, seated in an old armed chair, looking on
his famishing family with anguish, and incapable of
affording relief. This picture is not too highly coloured,
for too many instances have lately occurred which prove
that the scenes of misery are far more distressing than
language can express. At Coventry, a poor emaciated
woman, who went into a baker's shop to purchase a
loaf, secreted another about her person; the baker missed
it, and procured a constable, with whom he went to the
poor woman's house, where he di covered a scene of
wretchedness that makes the heart bleed. There was a
large family of children belonging to a sick ribbon-
s% eaver, without employment. On the fire was a pot,
with something boiling in it for their dinner. He en-
quired what was in the pot. The woman, overcome
with shame and confusion, did not answer. The con-
stable removed the lid from the pot; Reader! what
do you think it contained ? Three small puppies which
bad been drowned. The baker gave her the bread,
with some money, and requested her, if in distress, not
to steal, but to come to him and he would give her
bread. Is it not better to visit such scenes of misery,
and pour solace and relief en the distressed, than to
squander money away at watering places? Go thou)
and do likewise! for the poor should be comforted.
" Let not Ambition mock their useful toil,
Their humble joys, and destiny obscure;
Nor grandeur bear, with a disdainful smile,
The short and simple annals of the 'poor."
GULIELMUS,

The experiment of establishing an Italian Opera at
New York seems to have succeeded in a very remarkable
degree. The New York Daily Advertiser, of August 5,
says, " It Barbiere di Siviglia was performed last even-
ing for the fortieth time, to an overflowing and highly
fashionable house. The troupe were in excellent voice,
and the music was received with rapturous applause.—.
This opera has been the favourite throughout the season,
aad is now as popular as ever."
MAIDSTONE. SEPT. s.—Hop picking is now in full
vigour, and the produce is most abundant, and of the
finest quality. Many thousands of hands are employed.
The extraordinary quantity of five hundred weight of
eels was caught in the trap at the Kent,
in the night of Saturday.
A young man, fashionably attired, who calls himself
Brockkbank, junk a half-pay Lieut. in the Royal Navy, has lately
succeeded in duping several tradespeople in the west end of the
, town. On Saturday last he drove up in an elegant equipage to the
shop of Mr. CHANDLES, a goldsmith, in Leicester-squire, and after
telling him to look out a few table-spoons, salt-sellers and various
other minor comforts of the dinner-table, he strolled about the shop,
and surveyed the various gold and silver wonders with which Mr.
Cueens.an's shop abounded. The articles being selected, and the
price settled. Mr. Brocklebank, jun. begged of Mr. C. to allow his
shop-boy to accompany him to the place he was going in his gig,
and that he would discharge his " trifling bill." Mr. C.'s suspicions
were:compktely lulled, if any had arisen,by this apparent fair deal-
ing, and his shop-boy figured In due time in the fashionable dennet
of Mr. Broeklebank, junior. Ile drove to an obscure street in
Drury-lane, where the pseud* Mr. Brocklebank, junior, stopped,
and alighting with the place in his pessesdon, desired the boy, who
was quite overcame with the honour paid to him, to keep the
reins till his return. It is needless to add, that Mr. Brockkbank
!weer returned, and,to his mortificationZMr. Cuaramea found that
the gig had been hired for the occasion.
An inquest was held at Aikbank, near Whitehaven,
on view of the body of John Hussick, of Charles-street,
who was killed onTuesday week by a bull belonging to
Mr. Brayton. The.cleceased was in the employ of Mr. B.
and had been sent to drive the animal out of a field
where he was grazing, and although armed with a
pitchfork he was turned upon by the bull, whose attacks
he resisted for some time, but was at length thrown
down, and whilst in this situation the bull rolled over
him two or three times! A servant man who witnessed
the affair came to Hussick's rescue, but so intent was the
enraged animal upon the destruction of his driver, that
he would not leave him before life was entirely extinct.
Verdict," Accidental Death."—Deudand, 4s.
A melancholy circumstance has occurred in West-
moreland, in the neighbourhood of Patterdale, at the
head of Ulles Water. About a week before, a young
Lady, seemingly about twenty years of age, calling
herself Miss Sands, came to the inn at Patterdale in a
post chaise, alone, and said she would remain for some
time. From the time of her arrival until the following
Friday, no part of her conduct gave the slightest rea-
son to suppose derangement of intellect; she ate her
meals heartily, and employed herself chiefly in reading
or walking, and was mild, obliging, and seemingly
quite a Lady in her habits and deportment. On the
afternoon of Friday week she told the landlady of the
inn that she was going to walk to the top of Helvillyn
(the highest mountain in the neighbourhood), and left
Patterdale seemingly with that intent about five in the
afternoon. Night came, and there were no tidings of
her return. Next morning, a man passing the hill road
to Grassmere, found the body of a young Lady at the
foot of that frightrul precipice, which k almost half the
height of the mountain. Tlw body was shockingly
disfigured, having struck in its descent many projecting
rocks. In the repositories of the deceased was found a
letter from a person signing himself William Haliday,
dated Falmouth, in which is the following passage--
"A few months' retirement, my dearest Mary, and all
will come round and be well; you know ycu can de-
pend npon me."—Coroner's verdict, Found dead.
Lately, as some tradesaten ern pro) ed at Kinchoichat,
were viewing the falls of the Garry at S;rowan, five
miles west from Blair Athole, one of them venturing
incautiously too near the brick of the precipice, slirred
his foot and was thrown over the fall, which is there
about 25 feet in height, into the whirlpool bellw. The
rest of the party hastened to the isintons of the fall,
when to their astonishruerst they found that their friend
bad got out on the opposite side, and standing on an
almost inaccessible rock, heard him exclaim as loud as
he could bawl to a countryman who was near, " Lit
me see the cleverest ehield in a' the pa; 611 u' Strowan
du that."

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION BOUM

Yesterday, Mr. Verbeke, as Solicitor to Mr. Lawford, the Se-
cretary of the Welsh Iron Company, applied to the Lou) hfartis
for a warrant to search the premises of Nlr. Wilks, jun. M. P. for
Sudbury, who, be stated, feloniously detained a book belonging to
that Company.
Mr. Lawford, the Secretary to the Committee, was sworn, when
he-stated, that when the Company was founded there was a book
belonging to the Committee, which was kept for the purpose of en-
teting all transactions relative to the issue and transfer of shares.-.
This book was taken away by Mr. Wilks.
The LORD MAYOR asked whether Mr. Wilks was not Solicitor to
the Company Mr. Lawford replied, that he was Solicitor to the
Company then, but was not now.
The Loan Marna said, Mr. Wilks might, under those circum-
stances, claim a degree of authority with respect to it.
The LORD MAYOR said that he should readily grant a search-
warrant, if he saw that the law would justify him ; but Mr. Ver-
beke himself admitted that he did not consider the property was
originally taken feloniously. His Lord-hip, therefore, on this
ground, and also on the ground that Mr. Wilks was a partner, dis-
missed the application.

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