Star.
London, England, 1818-11-03 00:00:00

HUNTING.

John 31aberly, Esq.'s Fox Hounds meet on Thursday, at the
Fox and Goos,-, Shirley, at the Half Moon,
H. JokWh, Esq.'s Fox Hounds meet tu-i
ham; Saturday, at Plates Green.
The Sanderstead Harriers meet every day, at kennel.
The Hatfield Hounds meet Thursday, at liramingham ; Sa.
turday, at Colney Chapel, at half-past ten.
The East Essex Mounds meet Thursday, at Great Northey,
at ten.

v, at Btock,

Mr. Conyer's Hounds meet Thursday, at Big Woods; and
Saturday, at Takely Turnpike.
Lurd Sondes's Hounds meet Thursday, at Mug ; Saturday,
at Buckby Folly, each day at half-past ten.
The Quorn Hounds meet Thursday, at Kettleby ; Friday, at
Bardon Hall ; Saturday, at Bunny ; each day at half-past ten.

Last week, a hare, pursued closely by the hounds,
at Northallerton, jumped through a window, break-
ing a square of glass, and alighted upon a table where
the family sat at dinner. Poor Puss's life was saved
by the master of the house, for he set her at liberty in
his garden, after the hounds had been drawn off.

Tuesday, Walter Philips, a butcher in Glasgow,
who had, for a bet of five guineas, engaged to walk
12 miles in two hours, executed the undertaking, by
his own account, within the time, while the opposite
party maintain that he took a minute more than the
two hours, The walk Was executed on the Renfrew
road, between the first and five mile stones. Philips
is an athletic young man, about five feet nine inches
in height.
Thursday a woodcock, in fine condition, was s!".ot
in the neighbourhood of Canterbui y. Several have
also been killed in the neighbourhood of Penrhyn.
Saturday eighteen woodcocks were shot within a
mile of Redruth.
The game-keeper to the Dean and Chapter of Dur-
ham shot and bagged, one day last week, ten wood-
cocks, a brace of snipes, a brace of partridges, and a
hare.

There was pulled last week, on the farm of La
Mancha, in Peebles-shire, possessed by Mr. James
Thom, a turnip, weighing 19 lbs. and measuring two
feet eleven inches in circumference.

Mr. John Croft, farmer, neat Preston; las: week cut
a cabbage which weighed '2B lbs. avoirdupoise.
There is an apple tree now bearing a second crop
of fruit, in an orchard at Bamber-bridge near Preston.
There are now two apple trees in till blossom. in
a garden at Chapel, near Southampton, iind one lilac
tree, which is in as full flower as if it were Spring.

'there is now in the possession of a gentleman as.
Liverpool a larger pear than has hitherto been men-
tioned, it weighs above twenty ounces, and measures
in circumference twelve and a quarter inches. It it
of the St. Michael's kind, and was grown in the gar-
den of Mr. W. Owen Cockshead. Little Woolton.
An immense bank, covered with cod-fish, has been
discovered oil the west-coast of Shetland. _

The pilchards, usually taken in July, and which,
from their non-appearance this season had created
the greatest alarm of distress in the County of Cot o-
wall; have just made their appearance. The boats
were all laid up, but all is again a livity amongst the
fishermen, who anticipate a successful capture, f:E.,to
the quantity already secured in several dtaft-nets.
A few days ago, as the Lord Exmouth coach was
returning to Plymouth from Exeter, the night being
dark, it was overturned about six miles Horn Totueis,
by the wheels coming in contact with the pararet cf
a narrow bridge. The inside was full, and there
were eleven on the outside, four of whom were
thrown over the p:trapet of the bridge into the river
(a height of neatly 20 feet), the b-ittom of which is
covered with large stones, and the water at the time
only 12 inches deep, by which the Rev. Mr. Mutts
had his skull fractured. Mr. Boocaebos broke I.ls
leg, and received a violent contusion on the heaJ ;
and Mr. BADCOCK, of Ridgeway, broke his s-,t,ulsler
bone, three of lin ribs, and dislocated his hip and one
of his wrists. The coachman was also much hurt,
and unable to proceed. The other passengers escaped
with a few bru.v.es.
Three men were much burnt, last
liery belonging to J. D. B. Dyke:, Esq,
by the explosion of tire-damp. The
pened in an old working, v.here the
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