Star.
London, England, 1829-01-06 00:00:00

SPORTING IN lELLIGENCE.

• TATTERSALL'S.
The Room yesterday 'hewed a grater .+•emhlage than forams
time past. tu► doubt drawn tagettivr by the till e.ntoubcentent of
thr tenititt.tsmie trf4tte Ilereas!er St. Leger. Tile speeul ores have
not ytt male up their minds as to the qoalities of Ow horses ess
eept kn,.11 before) nut fore in d. public, come.
spent ly no erg it nient 4 nn (hit inapt rain Stakes were entered boo.
The Llerhy hat undergone some changes. and the Oaks tape.
rietierd trifling alteration sar two, as will be area by the following
atate.itent'm

Maar.
. ,
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3to I apt. Moab. rto Mout 17 to I apt Will etlltiVisp
6 to 1 ...pi l'oehu.o.l cut IS to I agit EissgnotlecOk
,6 to 1 apt i'a,•vAs ',at 20 to I ag-t Lusa Wily
16 to 1 apt Pit. cc -171iy• an- •40to 1 apt Augusta
16 to I apt !Occurs, 6.4 H gh odds against any other.
16 to I apt Mutiis 11,iicer
Sr: Lents.—No betting.
• Oa Cc
7to 1 apt Green Mantle 12 to 1 agst Clotilik. - :'4.
7 to I ag.t Varna IS to 1 apt QoatiirOlf •...:. ,
10 to 1 apt Luis filly

STATE OF•TH E COUNTRY.'• '
TROIS THE CLONHEL HUMP. •
Sunday last one f the Rumen Casholic Curate' of
Ca diel stated to t he congregat it?ti in the chapel of Cashel.
that a gang, well stifled, and, intik on plunder, has ex-
tended it.ef to G Nile, Clcriban, &e.
and that many of them ate frosts the paeisb of Cashel.
He observed to the Eongregatir.n thit some of the gang
Ave already i.t..ined With blood, and that though the
ltw had not yet laid its hand on then'. it was very like
that in a short spar-elf
,would 'be within its
iron grasp. - ' • •.. •••-•
Sairinhy tight last a ging of 1:414d 'rolling went
to Ballymakeady, and paid a visit to a dairyman be-
longing to Mr. Keating'ol,Garrablei, and after getting
he nano tunatv man out of his houie. fired athirst, but in
consequence of the darkness of the night, he escaped
uuhuit ; after the shot was fired he succeeded in getting
into s 14rxe bush, where he remained till an opportunity
occurred of escaping to a friend's house at Bellycaron.
bridge; the armed assassins continued till near day
searching for him.

Sunday afternoon the wind blew a heavy gale front
the north. calculated, it is to be hoped, to free the at-
mosphere lions the aniasinata which have been for stator
time Westing in it.
New Yron s Eve, a joutneyman baker, of Abingdon.
of the name of Gibliins, laid a wager Oar he would
drink two quarts of beer in five minute•. He drank the
beet, and immediately laid his head 03 the table and
expired. He had been drinking previously.
L ost week, as Mr. B. Sedgley, a respectable farmer
residing at -Heatlicote, near Warwick, was walking
about his grounds accomnanied by a terrier, the dog
sprung a Water rail (Rant eptatkus) which Mr. S.
marked down at some distance. Upon proceeding to
the spot he was much surprised at perceiving the bird
lying motionless upon its back, its feet up, its head
on one side, and in shout to all appearance dead. Sup-
posing this to be the fact, Mr. S. picked it op, when
the bird instantly aroused itself and made the most
vigorous efforts to escape; so that evidently the assum-
ing this inanimate state must have been used by the
bird as a stratagem to escape pursuit from the dog.
We notice thin occunence as we are not aware of its
having bteo before observed in this species.