Star.
London, England, 1827-03-01 00:00:00

DUTCH SAM AND GIPSY COOPER.

These fights took place on Tuesday in a field behind the Queen
Charlotte public-house, within a mile of Andover, in the county of
Hants, and out the opposite side of the road to the ground on which
Spring and Neate decided their difference i■ 1883. The tight
tween Curtis and Aaron lasted for fifty minutes, in which time nine
minds were fought. It terminated in favour of the former, each
having been terribly kandkd by his adversary. Curtis, however,
so far recovered ns tuba able to seems! Dutch Sans in the last con-
test, which was savagely disputed for upwards of an hour, and con-
sisted likewise of nine rounds. Cooper had decidedly the worst
throughout, but was obliged at last to yield, not of his own accord,
but owing to the humanity of his backer, who would not suffer him
to proceed.

A Person named Owen Moore once left lii, ti ales-
men somewhat unceremoniously, upon which a wag wrote

Owing Moore has ruu away.
Owing Moore than he could pay.

Mirror.

The late Lord SANDWICH, who was well known both
at Eton and Cambridge by the Cognomen of Jemmy Twitcher,
having the privilege of appointing a chorister at Trinity College,
Cambridge, presented that Society with one not only ignorant of
music, but also destitute of eke three essential necessaries to make
a singer—voice, taste, and ea► ; and fur no other reason was he ap-
pointed, but because he had a vote fur Huntingdon. This gave rise
to the following Epigram :
0, A singing man, and cannot sing !
From whence arose your patron's bounty?
Give us a song—."—" Racine me, Sir,
My voice is in another County."
The following is an old epigram made on Queen
&Hamra and Sir FRANCIS DRAKE:
0 Nature! to old England still
• Continue these mistakes;
Still give us for our Kings such Queens,
And for our due such Drakes.

Louts XIV. after having informed MaJemoiselle,
that he had fixed her marriage with Cumulus 11. King of Spain,
addcd," I would not de more for my own daughter.* The young
Princeu' who thought the Daunt= had been intended for her, re-
plied, "It is true; but your Wainer might have done more for
your niece."—Mirror.
A Gentleman one day remarking to a friend on the
immense practice of a certain solicitor, the other immediately re-
plied, " Why, yes ; I bear he engrosses aU the business M the City."
Lord BATH passed fur one of the wisest mea in Eng-
land.—" When one is in opposition," said he, " it is very easy in-
deed to know what to say ; but when one is Minister, it is difficult
to haw what not to say."
A man named DAVID PLUMB, who had been nearly ,
all his life a shepherd on the Malvern Hills, died a few
days since, at a village in Gloucestershire, at the age of
103 year's. His elder brother, a market ga•dener, hav-
ing also died lately, after attaining the still more ad-
vanced age of 105.
Master Lowman, eldest son of Colonel LOWTHER,
is rapidly recovering from the severe injury lately in-
dicted on him in Rutlandshire by a fierce bull dog.—
tarlisk Pagrioi.

The Island of Staffa abounds with Poland geese,
which are caught by the natives in a most singular way.
INhilethe geese at night are roosting in hundreds to.
gether on the high ledges of the rocks, the fowler
deeps lip to them unperceived and pinches the leg of
the outeittost bird, which immediately commences
2,n mid< upon his neighbour for disturbing him in lii•
sieep. second, as angry as the first, beats about
I,•nt all ditto:on-. 4 general battle immediatel
ensue,, And during the tternendotts noise and uproar,
r 1 a Fer:Ants M 1 urea them with stick: And kill call
loads at a time. They Arc chiefly valuable for their
IsatLers.