Star.
London, England, 1829-08-06 00:00:00

SAILING MATCH FOR TWENTY POUNDS.

A well-contested sailing match took place from Westminster-
bridge to a boat moored of the Powder Home. in Putney mea-
dows, and back to the roads of Hooey and Archer's boat-house,
Lambeth, between Mr. Bishop, ef Lambeth, and Mr. Hibbert, of.
Blackfriars. The match was for 10f. a side, and both parties being
nautical men, created much interest. The Commodore and the
Colonel sailing boats were engaged for the oceasien—Mr. B. taking
the latter. and his opponent the former ; and the terms of the
match were, that each party should steer and entirely manage his
own boat. At starting, the Colonel took the lead, and snainttined
it for some distance, when the Commodore came up, and challenged,
and after an admirable display of scientific sailing on both sides,
the latter boat won by half a minute.

GOING TO LA w.—The object of going to law in to
mode disputes. This is the direct benefit sought for; but an Inci-
dental advantage sometimes arises, where a ease hu been well con-
tested, namely, that It also settles the disputants, and thus precludes
the possibility of further litigation. 'llls seems to be the moral of
the following lines, in which there is a great deal more of matter-
of-fact than of poetry :
An upper and a lower mill
Fell out about their water ;
To war they went. that is, to law.
Resolved to give no quarter.
A lawyer was by each engaged,
And hotly they contended ;
When feeagrew slack the war they waged
They judged were better ended.
The heavy costs remaining still
Were settled without pother ;
One lawyer took the upper mill.
The lower mill, the other.
About eleven o'clock on Friday night, a gentleman
slightly wounded, arrived at the Swan Inn, Cirencester, who de-
scribed himself as one of the firm of Busby and For, patent wire
work manufacturers, of Birmingham, and stated that about
ten o'clock that evening, an attempt bad been made to rob
him, on the road between Gloucester sad Cirencester.
He had stopped a short time at Birdlip, and baited his horse, and
when about a mile before he came to the Breech Pike, a
kind of presentment of probable danger, caused by the lateness
of the hour, and lonely road, induced him to take a pair of
pistols from his pocket, which he cocked, and laid on the
seat close beside him. He had not done this many minutes,
when arriving near a grove of firs, by the side of the road,
two men, who by their voices he believes to be Irish, rushed forth
from the plantation, and while one seized the horse's head, the
other came up to the side of the gig, and commanded him to stop :
they were both armed with reaping-books. Much alarmed,
the gentleman exclaimed, " D—n it, what do yeti mean?" and at
the same moment seised one of the pistols, which missed fire, on
which the robber aimed a' blow at him with the reap hook,and cut
his hand—he Instantly discharged the other pistol et the fellow,
which appeared to take elect. the matt falling on his fue,and his hat
was caught Sy the blurt. The bbne, rendered furious by the
discharge of the pistol. plunged. regred, sad ran away. The other
ruffian. as the darted forward; made' a blow at his
head, foitunittly •vrittrout -further damage than a Agin cist;--
The fisiloarieg mothing the itideman Made a deposideo beton
3. Crimps,.ssq. one of thetariltfdies. tug stated that at the tintir
ire wailitappadit twin* a blip to t dearly dtiot. '
pressed his belief that the man was killed.