Star.
London, England, 1826-05-30 00:00:00

LEAPING MATCH.

Saturday morning an extraordinary leaping match was decided.
at Tooting, in Surrey. One hundred guineas were betted that
Irish .Gentleman would beat three other Gentlemen, two of wheat
were Englishmen, and one a Scotchman, at leaping on level groune.
The Scotchn:an, in a running leap, cleared IS feet, but could gv
no further; the Englishmen could neither of them exceed 17 ter:
and a half; but Paddy, io bis first spring, leaped 19 feet 7 mein.
In the hop, step, and jump,• the Irishman leaped the eztraordirara
distance of 47 feet, by which he beat his antagonists between a og
9 feet. Upon the return home, poor Paddy met with a taw
laughable calamity. In the heat of victory he proposed to leap ore
a very wide ditdh. The challenge was not accepted, hut the co-.
queror, determined is show what he could do, took a run ; just
he reached the brink of the ditch his foot slipped, and nut be
able to check his speed, into u filthy a ditch as could he found
any poor neighbourhood he tumbled over head and heels.
spectators were actually obliged to lay down to laugh. Paddy w.,
in such a pickle that his mother would not have known him,
some of the bystanders cleaned him up by dragging him threqn
the grass all round the field.
Last week, Samuel Fletcher, a sailcloth weaver, at present in
the employ of Messrs. Mabetly and Co. leaped over the old Bridge
of Dun, into the river, a height of So feet. Within two seconds
after his fall he rose to the surface of the waters and swam ashore,
amid the acclamations of all present.

The Petition presented in the House of Commons en
Friday night from ELIZAIRTH Dorm:, by Mr. lionnousa, did not
relate to a child, as she never had any, but complained that she
had been improperly confined in a Lunatic Asylum, she neither
being eor having been in a state which rendered It necessuy to put
ber under restraint.

FATAL ACCIDINT.-.-.Yesteeday, the Windsor coach,
on its way to London, and passing through Turnham-
green, was suddenly overturned, by the breaking of the
tore-axle, when a Gentleman of the name of Grainger,
sitting on the box with the coachman, on finding the
co .ch going over, made a leap for the foot-pa h, but
slipping, fell, and the coach, with its whole t%e:ght of
passengers and luggage, fell on him, crushing his heat
in a mos; shocking manner; the unfortunate Gentleman
was taken to the Roebuck, where every assistance was
rendered him, but without effect ; he continuedro linger
about two hours in great pain, when he expired. Two
other passengers, a man and woman, servants of Mr.
Booth, distiller, were also much bruised, and received
some severe contusions. The coachman received some
severe bruises ; the other passengers, eleven in number,
escaped without injury. Mr. Grainger, we are in-
formed, resided at Hollyport, near Maidenhead, and
has I.ft a wife and six children to deplore his loss.

THE DENSITY OF THE EARTH.—Notwithstanding
the observations of practical, and the calculations of
theoretical philosophers, and both have been prosecuted
with the greatest zeal and talent, the main density of
our globe is still unknown to any degree of exactness;
and of the law by which this density varies from the
centre to the surface we are absolutely ignorant. The
obsevations made by Dr. Maskelyne, on the attraction
of Mount Schehallion, in Scotland, and the deductions
drawn from them by Dr; Hutton and others, w%s a
considerable step towards the determination of this
curious problem. Another attempt is shortly to be
made to advance a step further by a body of CambridAe
scavans. Their plan is, by penetrating to the bottom
of the deepest mines, to obtain, if possible, some aLidi.
tional facts. It is to be conducted by Mr. Airy, Fellow
of Trinity College; and among his coadjutors, we un-
derstand, are Professors Parish and Sedgwick, and the
Professor of Mineralogy.

NEWGATE Aso LEADENHALL MARKETS, MAY 29.
Beef.. 3s 4d to 41 4d I Veal
Mutton ........3s 4d to 41 24 Pork ......
Lamb 4s 4d to 5s sd.

PRICES or HAY AND STRAW YRSTERDAY.
ST. JAMeS'U• WHITIWHAPIL
Hay 51 Os Od to S 1 Os Od Hay 31 6s to 41 121 Od
Clover 41 6. Od to 31 Ss Od Clover 41 6s to 51 los Od
Straw 1116% Od to 21 2. 01 Straw 11 169 to 41 Es Od

PRICE
VIII POCKETS.
Kent 300 s to 3406 Kent 280% to 320 s
Susses
Essex
Farnham fine 3806 to 4405—Seconds. 500 s to 3605

IF HOPS

NSW tACI.

PRICE OF LEATHER.
Best Dressing Hides l3d to isd
Common Ditto
Crop Hides,3s to 4Qtbs for cutting
Ditto 49 to SOlbs l.ltl to 16;41
_ _ _

Calf Skins, 50 to 40ths ........::..»..... 16d to- 24a
Ditto 50 to 701bs l.. 24d to 274
Ditto 70 to SOlbs ....—..... kid to 234
Small Seals, Greenland)—......... ........ 194 to 214
Tanned Hone Hides 124 to 14d
Spanish Horse Hides... ........ ...... Ilia to 16d

COAL MARKET, Mai ilk
Ships Sold. Price.
34 96s Od to 54s 9d
8 31s 9d to 56s Od

Ships at Market.
76 Newcastle
27 Sunderland

DIED.
Aged 52, the Rev. Joseph Hodgson, of Kirby Hall, near
Boroughbridge, Yorkshire.
Rev. Robert Burnside, aged 67.
Rev. J. 'Earner, M.A. Vicar of Mothram, Longdendale, Cheshire.
At Pentonville Terrace, the Rev. John Latchford, aged 61..
The Rev. John Woolfe, M.A. Scholar of Worcester College,
Oxford, on Dr. Finney's Foundation, Dean of Harlington, dud
late Master of the Grammar School at Dilborne, Staffordshire. Ile
took the Degree of M.A. in 1765.
At Calcutta, on the 13th December last, William Jackson, Esq.
solicitor.

The 20th of December lut, at Anantpoor, la the 26th year of his
age, George Robert Goslin, Esq. Head Ass;atant to the Collector
and Magistrate of the Zillah of &nary, in the Presidency of Madras.

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