Star.
London, England, 1827-09-08 00:00:00

A Sweepstakes of 10 sows. each. for three yr old colts, est. elb.
and allies, est. 51b. One mile.
Mr. Beardsworth's Lorain*
Mr. Canning's Maria . .

Hi; Majesty*. Platt I'4 frogs. Four Mite heats.
Mr. D. Radcliffe *hr. b. Mortgige, 5 yrs
Mr. Heywood's hr. g. Edward, 5 yrs
The Town Plate of £5O. Two mile seats.
Mr. Giffard's Pantaloon. L yrs, 7st. Mb.
Mr. Beardsworth's Cheaterneld, 4 yrs, 'BLUR,.
Mr. Barrow's Alecto, aged, ast. 71b.
BEDFORD RACRS.Rart. 6.

. 1 1
2 dt

1 1

5 3

A Sweepstakes of 3 nap. emit. ilt4elafitabitihnia. - likelb, don
tused and a distance.
Mr. Theobahrs br. c. laeninn, 3 yrs, 7st. .
M Mar sof Tavistocls's b. E Abigail. 3 yrs. Tat. .
Sir. 's Baron, 4 yrs, s.t. ilib.
Ms. Edward's bL 1. Sybilia, 3 yrs, 7st. .
Ar good race.
The Corporation and Town Plate of .C5O, and £2O added. Heats,
three miles.
Merquis of Tasistock's Leeway . . . it 1 1
Major Gore's Hesperus . . . 1 2dr
The first heat was admirably contested, and won by half a head;
in the second beat, Leeway led, at a smart pace—Hesperus made a
posh on turning, but failed immediately, and pulled up. - Leeway
walked oSer fur the third heat.

BARNET PONY RACES, Bm. a.

. 1 1
. 4 2
. 2 3
• 3 dr

A Ailvertop. vales Iligrilatzesiss Roe exeeeding 15 hands high.
twigs round.
Miss Helms . ._ , ,•• ~ _ . . •
Cabo, sister to Queen of Demob* .
tight b. ',tiny . ~.. . .
.
A remarkably One rite, and won by about a seek.
A Silver Cup, value 504 a. for poulaa not exceeding 14 bap& bleb.
Heats.
Miss Pippin
Queen of Diamonds
Mad I

. I I
. . 2 dr
3 dr

.3 1 1
.1 3 2

of All Work . 2 dr
Tbetbird ►eat was most admirably contested all round the Course,
Miss Pippin beating the Queen of Diamonds by scarcely a neck.

GRAND ROWING MATCH.

A grand Rowing Match took place yesterday for an elegant
Silver Cup and Cover (beautifully chased, and considered to be a
One specimen of workmanship), by Gentlemen amateurs ; three
pair of oars ; one i eat. The distance was to start from Lawn Cot-
tage through the centre arch of Vauxhall Bridge, return up the
Surrey shore, round a host moored off Rose-bank Cottage, and re-
turn to the centre arch of Battersea Beige. The wager was hotly
contested, and the boats, after a sharp struggle, cams in thus ;
Mr. Williams'
Mr. Sullivan '. . Light Blue . . 1
Mr. Fumette
Mr. Rennie
Mr. Taylor
Mr. Hart

. . . . Scarlet . . . 2

. . . . Orange . . . 3
BOXING.

Thursday an Inquest wastaetiU ketchangton, in Oxfordshire,
by Mr. Cacu, Coroner, on view of the body of William Boswell,
the younger, aged 20 years. It appeared Boswell had been on the
Sandal), preceding to Weston Feast ; that he fought two men
there; that one of them (Charles Porter) was fighting with Bos-
well at ten o'clock at night; that Porter after some time de-
clined fighting any longer and went away ; that Ptirter's daughter
followed ►int and patted him on the back, and with an oath
desired hint to fight again; that he in consequence returned
and again fought with Boswell; that after two or three more rounds
Boswell said he hid got the cholic and could fight no longer ; that
he was then carried home ; that his mother and sister were pre
sent at the fight, and after it was over, his mother, at his re-
quest, brought hint a pint of cold water, which he drank; it also
appeared that he had previously drank some stale beer, and eaten
a quantity of nuts ; that no unfair advantage had been taken
of him in fighting. Mr. Walker, a surgeon and apothecary of Islip,
attended Bo well on the following day, and Boswell died that even,.l
ing. Mr. Walker was decidedly of opinion that Boswell died of in.
fiammation of the bowels. The Jury, who were very respectable,
returned a verdict—Died by the visitation et Geo.—Orjs►d Herahi.

LARG& OTTU.—The lovers of angling, who pursue
their quiet sport upon the river Carron, have, for a long time past,
complained of the almost total disappearance of the fine trouts fur
widish that elastic stream was noted: As it was suspected that
some very formidable pisesior had been at work, a • person be-
longing to Camelot' reconnoitred the banks near that village,
and soon disemervd, from the putrid effluvia and remains of
fish scattered about, where a family of tatters bad fixed their
retreat. A few nights ago, while oa the watch, he observed
,one of the poachers swimming down the water towards ha
bole, from a nocturnal repast at lambert dambead, arid leckity s►ot
the animal through the head, when it proved to be a male, which
measured, from the point of the nose to the end of the tail, no less
than five feet,and was thickly clothed with fat.

•
There are in the town of Hamilton and iti neighs
bourbood above two thousand females employed In tambourin',
finishing, and upnuking lace good. for the market. The average
wages of those employed will amount to from ted. to 154, per day,
and a number of very superior hands will make lad. to StOd.
BA allill-SURGIOtatko—EDWARD IV. in the year 1461.
panting the Charter of Incorporation to barber-surgeons, and the
barber and surgeon continued in the same firm for three centuries.
The barber was originally introduced to surgery by the Priest,
who was the chief practitioner of the dark ages. The barber, after
diming the head of the Priest, was sometimes employed to shave
the bead of ►is patient, and finding these fellows bandy with edge
took, they taught them to make sallies, dress wounds, and bleed.—
/loch was the origin of barber-surgery. In the fourteenth century,
however, the barbers pushed themselves forward so much in the
practice of wrier/. that in France the Legislature interfered; but
the barbers' old friend, the Priest, putting in a word for .them, they
were admitted into a newly-formed surgical establishment, under
the title of Barber-surgeons; and the co-partnership between sur-
gery and shaving has eslated in France and In England, till very
lately ; nay, tillso very near the present times was this foolery mu-
tinned, that." would bean of man e'er think it," says tbe phikeo-
pltical and faces Amanarnr." eve. I myself have doff my cap to
barberssergivas."— PIMA Mass.

-- WELSH SCENEKY.•

iSTRACT ranu THE MAWS, A:MAIM%
" We left Liverpool on Saturday mot frog for Beau-
coatis, where we arrived in the evening by the steam
packet, after a most delightful sail of eight hours; in
gr ing from Liverpool to Beaum iris, two years ago, we
were able to coast it aU the way; but on this occasion,
it being, to speak scien.ifically, crap tide, we were ob-
liged togo out to sea, and for the first time in my lite
I found myself out of of land, and, as Lord Byron
says, it was indeed I ween a f.lll fair siAht ewe had
the sea without a ripple, save that which we left behind,
us, and which could betracked for many a long mile—
and the sky without a cloud. I could hardly have be-
lieved that the awful circle of waters could have bees
so talm and tranquil. Sig o'clock saw us at Beatunaris
and a few bouts afterwards, having however first taken
a most delightful stroll in Lord Bolkeley's woods at
Baron;hill, I. was fast asleep at the sign of the Cow
and. Carling Tongs.
4, A strange feeling is at first excited in a tourist upon
hearing in his own country a language which he cannot
understand ; but here every body speaks Welsh ; and
that, coupled with the universal peculiarity of dress,
quite gave me the feeling of being in a foreign country.
was really very much pleased with the dress of the
people, that is the women (for the men have nqthing pe-
cohar about them), as they universally wear' black
worsted stockings, and nice bright looking men's round
hats, with frills entirely round their face., and-they were
(it being Sunday) perfect patterns, of neatne.s. It is said,
and I believe it to be true, that there is nothing to
Which a nation or people will cling so long as to their
own language; throughout the principalitrever y exer-
tion has been made to introduce the English tongue.;
cl.ildren are taught it at all the schools, the service of
the Church is performed once every Suodry in English,
and there are comparatively speakidg but few b ,oks
printed in Welsh ; and yet amongst themselves they
universally speak the latter, although they are very far
from being ignorant of the former. I raver yet met
with a Welsh man, woman, or child, that could not
speak English. Dr. Johnson (in his preface to his Dic-
tionary I think) has expressed himself with some degree
of anxiety that our language should not be corrupted—
if I recollect right, he says, we have long ()refereed'
our liberties—let us then at least make some struggles
for our language.
I.‘ Nothing can be more magnificent than the view
which may be here enjoyed of the mighty ocean rolling'
through the straits, and the great, the majestic Penman
Mawr, at the distance of five miles across the straits,
bending his hoary head over the waters, and having
more the appearance of an artificial bastion than any
thing else. The day was so fine, that I determined to
go down to Carnarvon in the afternoon by water; it
is is only fifteen miles. I took boat accordingly at
13eaumaiis, and went on shore at Bangor, desiring the
waterman to wait for me at The Bridge, which is about
three miles farther. I there just took a peep int 6 Ban
gor Cathedral, where I heard a Gentleman holding forth'
in a most edifying way, in Welsh ; but I really thought
that my walk of three miles was not wasted, if it had
only given me the sight of the Church-yard at Bangor;
there was a large congregation in the Church, hearing
the service in Welsh; and in the Church-yard, wh;ch
is very picturesque, there were, I do not hesitate to say,
a thousand people, waiting for the English service which
was to succeed, sitting upon the tomb atones, and walk-'
ing to and fro, but in the most orderly manner. I could
have stopped an hour to admire the scene, but recol-
lectina the maxim, that • Time and Tide tarry for no
man,' I hurried on to the stupendous Menai bride;
that, however, needs no description, and 1 say nothing
' of it, save that now being completely finished.it strikes
one positively with awe, whether you sue it from •
distance floating as it were in the air, with flights of
sea gulls careering far beneath it, or whether you view
it when upon it, and see the incredible massiveness of
that which before seemed to be made of wire, or whe-
ther you view it from a boat beneath, and see coaches
and foot passengers lookinglikeo puppets in a shew, 100
feet above your head, .it is alike perfectly astounding.
In all those situations I viewed it, and have come away

more than ever impressed with the positive glory of the
work. I then pursued my course in my boat down the
straits, and arrived at Carnatvon by moonlight. In
every respect I have been favoured; as a more magni-
ficent sight than the approach to Carnarvon cannot
welt be imagined; and to see its towers, and turrets,
and white wails, by moonlight, in the manner I saw
them; most indeed be deemed most fortunate."

In Rush county, Indiana, a Mr. Points took the
daughter of a Mr. Young from her father's house. foe the purpose
of mussing her without his consent. Mr. Young pursued and
overtook them. and shot Points dead on the sp a. There would
be less runaway matches if the parties apprehended they would end
is this way.---4fineriten 'two. '
Da. ROSERIAON, Surgeon-(General to the Naval
Hospital, Barbadoes, related (of one Mr. Weekes) that
this gentleman was a great votary of Bacchus, who,
after rising from his bottle, used to plunge into a trough
of cold water, with his head supported on a wooden
pillow, where he would sleep for several hours, and be
greatly refreshed in consequence. When the family
wished to change his quarters, they used to let the
water off by a plug, and he would awake, hamoth ously
complaining of the loss of his bed-clothes.
RIAIARICABLII PREDICTION, MORE THAN VERMEIL

—On Friday, the 16th day of July, 1824, about one
o'clock, P.m. two Gentlemen (each in pursuit of a pass-
port for France) meeting, obviously by accident, in the
waiting room close to the clerk's office, at the hotel of
the French Embassy in Portland-place, held a short
discourse, in an under, but not inaudible, voice, upon the
subject of English Statesmen; when one of the two col•
loquists addressed to the other, the following sentence—
." If it were matter of wager, and privation of food im-
posing upon me until I betted a sum inconvenient to
me to lose, as to g who should be at the head of the Ad-
ministration some eight years hence ?' I would back
your brother in lam—and I reason thus eight years,
Lord Liverpool and Mr. Canning (other names were
a!so touched on), even supposing the duration of life
and health to both, would wax towards that epoch in
human exi.tence when nature, hand in hand with rea-
son, generally suggests repose to the great actors wht,
have strutted their hour' upon the highest stage. In
your brother in law are centered the constituents t
nisterial supremacy— talents— character comparative
youth, and (what the Englssh like) tank, he being the
anis of a Peer ; of an Ambassador; of a Minister. Him
would Iback against the field of presumable aspirants,
upon a run of the next eight year.." These prophetic
words, uttered in the narrator's hearing, are fully veri•
fled in less than half the assigned period—for. the Gen-
, tleman so addressed was no other than Mr. Henry Ellis,
brother of Lady Sarah—now the Lady Godes ich 1