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exhibited a mechanical representation of the different stages of die
woollen manufacturers—an exhibition which the King inspecied
with minute attention. There was also in much repute among our
higher circles, a profilist namedßosenberg, who gained considerable
repute by hii " shade painting," (as it was termed) of the gioupe in
which the King, the Queen, the Bishop of Gloucester, and Mrs.
Forty, the venerable well-woman, were admirably sketched ; but
in point of talent, he was but "as a farthing candle to the sun,"
compared to that inimitable and eccentric artist, Rdouart.
In that day, as in the present, we bad mop-fairs—amine—gym

such as I had witnessed here I few weeks since :—and then we
had splendid equipages, phonons, and carriages, which fine, and
glittering, and bedizened, u they were, would now-a.days be looked
upon as little better than gilded waggons of quality :—but here they
were, driven up and down the " one long street," with every other
11 emblem of courtly society—strangely Contrasted with the rustic ap-
pearance of every thing else; and then the humours of the country
lads, and the blushes and downcast smiles of the country lasses—
as the former were tempted by the drum and fife and the flaunting
cockade, and the litter ogled by the dashing serjeant who beaded
a military detachment beating up for recruits :—and then the
squeaking of pigs, and the neighing of horses, and bellowing of
cows,—and the streets fined with booths, displaying crockery ware
and toys, and gilt gingerbread;—and, in the middle of the crowd
—yea, through all the multitudinous din, rode the good, the kind-
hearted, the paternal Monarch ! He had heard that his people,
many if whom had walked from their distant homes, only in the
hope of feasting their eyes with the sight of Mijesty,—ardently
and anxiously longed to see him amongst them, to render that
day a day memorable for ever after to them and to their children
and their children's children : and amongst them he went—in the
middle of the day—he rode from one extremity of the crowd to
the other, and blessings and prayers, such as it gladdened his ge-
nerous heart to hear, were put up to heaven for him, and for his
family, as he passed along; and as he passed, be felt, in the words
of our first modern lyrist, that,

" Safe-built on bosoms true.
The throne is but the centre.
Round which Love a circle drew
That Treason could not enter !
THE MAN OP LEISURE.

beltenham, December 12th, 1829.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

TATTERSA LL'S.

The changes this week are somewhat important. The Cresida
and Mouse colts,:who came up so strongly o n Monday, having got
into still higher favour yesterday, they are both lo great demand.
Brother to Grampus and Zucharelli (Landscape colt) are also get-
tins
.up. Sir M. Wood's two are declining, to 1 apt Mummer,
and 12 to 1 apt Cetus being currently offered. Sammie Sal,
and Wat Tyler are also going backwards. The following were
the closing prices :

DERRY.
S to 1 apt Sir M. Wood's Mummer
10 to 1 Mr. Petre's Brunswicker
12 to 1 Mr. Dilly's Cetus
13 to 1 Mr. W. Chifney's Cressida colt (taken)
16 to 1 Lord Cavendish's Mouse colt (taken)
17 to 1 Lord Exeter's Mahmoud
20 to 1 Mr. Thornhill's Wat Tyler
20 to 1 Lord Sefton's Sal. Colt
90 to 1 Lord Tavistock's Custard
9.5 to 1 -- Mr. Petre's The Major
25 to 1 Lord Sefton's Captain Arthur
25 to 1 Lord Sefton's Mouche
25 to 1 Egremont's Brother to Grampus
25 to 1 Lord Sligo's Brine
25 to 1 Lord Lowther's Zucharelli
30 to 1 Mr. Roberts's Sister to Sailor
40 to 1 Lord Auson's Miniature colt
6 to 1 Lord Sefton's Mouche
8 to 1 Lord Queensberry's Sister to Emma
9 to 1— Mr. Stonehewer's Leeway filly
15 to 1 Lord Jersey's Fillagree filly
15 to 1 Lord Exeter's Shumla.
17 to 1 Mr. Pdaberley's Zelus
The others as before.
U. LEGER.
to 1 Lord Cleveland's Ittby
12 to 1 Mr. Petre's Brunswicker
No others backed.
HUNTING.

The Worcestershire FoilllOnsni;;eet on Tuesdey at Cliffey ;
and Saturday at Cotherldge.

STAG HUNT.

On Saturday last, a One deer was turned out near the ten mile
stone on the London road, which afforded an excellent duce to the
Cheltenham harriers and a numerous field of sportsmen. After a
long and spirited tun over a difficult country, the deer was lost in
flabbaron Fields, but we understand was found on the following
day near Bibury.—Cheiresshala Chronicle.
ANDOVERSFORD COURSING MEETING.

The annual meeting of this celebrated Coursing Club, which
has created so great an Interest in the sporting circles, took
place ou Monday last, on the estate of W. I. Lawrence, Esq. at
Bandywell Park. The weather was remarkably fine„ and a
greater number of people had assembled to participate in the
animated sports of the day than we ever witnessed on a similar
occasion. The running was excellent, and most of the crack
dogs within many miles of Andoursford were entered for the
different heats. The Course for the Cup wu remarkably spirited
and interesting, and was cleverly won by Mr. Butt's Brandy. The
amusements closed with a dinner at Andoversford Inn, Walter
Lawrence Lawrence, Esq. in the Chair, and the hilarity of the
evening was continued until a late hour under the able Presidency
of that Gentleman. The second day also exhibited excellent apart,
and the whole of the pleasures of the meeting terminated in the most
gratifying manner, both to Ike pubilc.spirited patron under whose
auspices the Club was formed, and to those who have promoted it
by enrolling their names as subscribers.

A clock, composed almost wholly of glass, has lately
been presented, among other pieces of curious mechanism, to the
Society of Arts.
LITERARY DISCOVERY.—Among the. letters now
tying at the Post-office, which cannot be delivered because the re-
sidence of the party to whom they are directed is not known, is
one addressed," Samuel Johnson, LL,D. Author of a Dictionary."
And it would appear, from what is written on the board in which
this address is inserted, that some person having filled in a di-
rection with his pencil, the postman has been sent to a house in
the city. in search of the doctor, who has been dead a few days
nsore than 45 years.

A gentleman returning last week in the steam-packet
to Holyhead, was fined Elio for having a plion of whisky in his
trunk ; finding, to his cost. that it would bare been better to have
committed his " spirits" to " the vasty deep."

As Isaac Glenny, Esq. of Glenvale, was lately ex-
ploring an ancient Irish cairn, in the neighbourhood of Newry, he
made a fortunate discovery of 20 pieces of silver coin, in an excel-
lent state of preservation. Among them were one of the reign of
an Alexander of Scotland, and others of Henry 11. and one of the
Edwards of England, coined in Waterford.

_ .
Mr. Watling, of Birmingham, lately introduced,
during a series of Lectures on vision, a microscope, through which
a pair of scissors. so small that 12,480 pair were required to weigh
an ounce (about 26 pair to a grain) was exhibited. This minute
object was seen in the microscope under an angle of 10 feet. and
appeared to the spectators as large and as formidable as the anchor
of a first-rate man-of-war.

We understand that it is decided to construct a bridge
moss the Avon! at Bristol, of stone, in oae semicircular arch,
whose span shall be 300 feet, which is twice chit of the central
arch of the New London Bridge! The banked the river on both
sides are so high as to form natural and secure abstmeats for it ;
and it is !aid that the height of the carriage way from tht surface
of the water will be 200 feet ! The plans will be submitted to Mr.
Telford, 'the eminent engineer, for his opinion of its practicability.
Deeips far a chain bridge had been previously submitted.
Tale SILENT REFORNATIONe.—During the late Ju-
bilee, which terminated In this diocese (Riphin) on Monday e'en.
night. several respectable Protestants availed themselves of the
opportunity to embrace the Catholic faith. We repot that we are
not authorised to publish more than one name, as we do not wish
to be as the saints are, of making unfounded &overdoes.
A Min on, of very respectable Protestant artmealiew who
Is mistress of Lord Palraustoses lamb Ireepseheol, parish 'of
Ahamlisis, read her reeentakion during the last week of the Jubi
Me, la the presence of the Rev. Mr. M`Hugh, P.P. and a large
soogregationoe-Mrp Owner. •