Star.
London, England, 1820-09-14 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

HOUNSLOW RACES —The account of the Hounslow
Races, in yesterday's Paper was incorrect. trcter.
mans was not entered, and consequently did not start
GALLOPPINO.—A sporting match over Can, n.
bury-flat, Surrey, took place on Tuesday, in a r-ice
o 1 eight miles, between the two fastest galloppin
ponies in England, viz. Mr. BROWN'S Lancaster, aid
Mr. JAM E5'S Coracutter. The ponies ea:6(A i;a
stone each, and they went off at the rate of a rail:, la
two minutes. Lancaster having won everything be
started for in Lancashire, he was b icked at 6 to 4,
At the four miles, which was done in Mix minutes
and forty-nine seconds, the ponies were neck and
r neck and pulling ; Lancaster gained ground at the
beginning of the eighth mile, and won the race, wi-7.
out either whip or spur, by about thirty yards, in
teen minutes and fifty-eight seconds. One hundnd
and twenty guineas was refused for the winner :tit:-
the race, as was also 100 guineas for the loser.
PEDESTRIANISM.—BIGNIORE, a youth, under
I years of age, ran sixteen miles in one hour and fic-;--
five minutes, on the Bowling-green at Diss, in
folk : in• the course of his task he had to turn t:Le
corners eight hundred and eighty-two times.
BOXERS.—The money was made good on Tuesday
night for the battle between David Hudson and Me:-
tin, which will take place in the middle of Octobar,
for 100 guineas. This is the only match on the
tapir. The system has become so much of a trad a;
one, that it is no longer a trial of courage a 1.1
hood ; and the Gentlemen who patronized the
have not only left off backing the Boxers, but they
do not attend the exhibitions.

Stimir SHOOTING.—The meeting of the Acrotlr-
mcntarian Society, on Monday last, was vet y
attended, and much science was divlayed by the
best shots, Messrs. 'l'. Dorcut..4, Dom.% PLATrAtE,
BELVILLE, BURMAN, S. DOTCIIIN, FISH, Itivicar„
and Captain FORMAN, when the latter Gendemas
gained, by a smart superiority, the prize, an ele-
gantly worked powder-horn, richly ornamented with
s )lid silver: he hit thirteen shots out of eightden,
three of which were bulls'-eves, at the three several
distances of 200, 250, and 300 yards, half-shoulder
and half-rest; the target only thirty inches in dia-
meter, and the bull's-eye six inches.

Major-General BEATSON, on a farm of 300 acres,
at Knowle, Tunbridge Wells, since the year 18lS,
says he has proved, that by light or shame piouhl•-
ing, on a stiff soil with one horse, without lime cr
dung, and without fallow, he can raise crops of when
and other grain, at the expense of E,5 an acre, equal
or superior to those of his neighbours, in expense, is
lime, and labour of cattle, of 1.16 an acre!

We are authorized to state, that Sit Faaucts Co-
LOMBINE DANIEL, M.D. has accepted the appoiat-
meat of Treasurer to the Medical Board established
by Messrs. COOPER and, Co. of Charlotte House,
Great Char lotte-stt eet, Surrey.—Messrs. COOPER and
Co. have frequently inserted letters from sarious
individuals who have been radically cured, no:
only of Ruptures, but of other dangerous diseases,
too often deemed incurable by Professional Men,
whose practice is confined.. The late Duke of cd-
ford unfortunately lost his lite in a few how., by
a strangulated Hernia ; Mr. Mills, of the Km:-
road, also lost his life in a few hours; Mr. SlPar-
man, of Mile-end, was also afflicted for many years,
and was cured; and many, many others, %%lose
names will never appear without their request—Mi.
Johnson, of the Borough, who had been se en-
teen months under the care of several eminent Stir-
geons, with a most dangerous disease, and ssto,e
fife was given over, as appeared by his Affidavit
before Mr. Alderman Wood, then Lord Mavur, and
whose case has been seen by more than one hundred
Surgeons, was in a few -weeks restored to per:ect health.
—Such are the proceedings at the Medical Board,
Charlotte-House, Great Charlotte. street, Blactfriars-
road ; and Woodstock-House, near Bonct-street, un-
der the itomediate direction of Messrs. COOPER and
Co. who are consulted daily from Eight in the Morn-
ing until Eight in the Evening.—Mechanics have ad-
ci Gratis every evening, from Six to Eight, and
on Sunday Mornings until Twelve o'Clock.

• 13 I RT •
Monday, at Unity-place, Woolwich, the wife of James Thous.
son, Esq. Royal Marines, of a son.
August 24, at Lausavve Lady Georgiana Quin, of a son.
Sept. 2, at Rockville, East Lothian, the Lady of Sir llama
Trowbridge, Bart. of a daughter.
Sunday, at liampstead, Airs. Spottiswoode, of Spottiswoode,
of a daughter.