The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-08-26 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

A Welsh main at howls, thirty-two subscribers, at lOs. each,
was played on Mr. Cowell's green, Kirkdale, on Tuesday last,
and was won by Mr. John Henderson, beating Mr. Lee a love

game.
On Ai'

ednesday last a match at bowls was played on Moses
Dickinson's green, Old Swan, by Mr. Wm. Lupton, of this
town, and Mr. Wilkinson, of Harpurhey, for .e 25 a-side. Mr.
Lupton took the lead, was never approached, and won the game
very easily, scoring thirty-one, and his opi,onent 16.
The stewards of Brighton races have come to the determina-
tion not to allow Robertson, the jockey, to ride there again, in
consequence of the unfair manner in which he rode Lord Wa-
terford's Duc-an-Dhurras for the Grand Stand Plate.

VOLTIGEUR.—We are told that Voltigeur has been specially
kept for the Doncaster Cup, but that the severe gruelling he
received in his double races at York, makes it very improbable
that they will consider it safe to startliim. We do not say this
"on authority." A gentleman who saw him soon after his
match, tells us that the horse then looked a complete wreck,—
sixteen weeks is no very long space for a horse to get into good
form.—Doncaster Gazette.

MANES'S FEAT.-It is impossible not to admire the 'pluck'
with which Monks perseveres in his task, destitute as it is of a
single feature of public. interest. Punctually as the clock
strikes he turns out of the badly-ventilated room in which he
takes his repose and performs the allotted mile. He walks
with tolerable steadiness, his pulse maintains nearly its proper
action, and if no untoword event occurs he may accomplish
his undertaking. So confident does be feel of success that he
offers frur to one that he will walk another thousand miles after
he has completed his present task. This is putting his feat on
the hazard of a die; for two or three days of extreme heat, or a
slight attack of diarrhoea, to which, from protracted fatigue,
be is more than ordinarily liable, would put his life in extreme
peril. But when the feat is accomplished what are the practi-
cal results? As a sight, there is no more interest in seeing
Miinks go round the Barrack Tavern ground than in observing
the locomotion of an ordinary street passenger.—D9sicaster
Cl ronicle.

DEATH OF TOM SPRING.—Thomas Winter, the well-known
boxer, expired on Wednesday morning last, at his residence,
Holborn, London, in the 57th year of his age.

RACING FIXTURES.
Aug. 26 Yarmouth 9
....26 Leicester lO
.. 26 Weymouth lO
..... 27 Morpeth 10
.... 28 Bridgewater, &c.
.... 28 Liverpool Hunt (Hoylake) lO
_. .. 29Tunbridge Wells 10
Sept. liUttoxet,r 11
linover ll
2,Doncaster 16
21Tenbv ' 16
4 Shertiorne 16
01)ton-on-Severn 23
4,Bedford 94

Derby
Glascomb, Radnorshire
Taunton

Egham
Lynn ..
Sterling
Edgware
Eccles .

Scarborough
Warwick
Wilmslow ..
Lincoln ....
Rochester ..
Airdrie ....
Rungay
Radcliffe ..
Lichfield._ .
Cheable

s,hglinton.park
8 Manchester Autumn
8 Newmarket F. 0.
8 Sandbach

23 or 24
25
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TRAFFIC RETURNS.—The traffic returns for the last
week, ending the 17th instant, on the undermentioned
English lines of railway are as follows :-
1851. 1850.
£63.698 .. £52,024
25,129 .. 25,560
18.764 .. 17,187
18.155 .. 13,996
15,630 .. 13,166
26,844 .. 18,508
20,566 .. 17,039
10,113 .. 10,100

London and North Western
Midland..

Lancashire and Yorkshire.
London and South Western.
London and Brighton
Great Western . .
South Eastern
York and North Midland
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln-
shire
Bristol and Exeter .. 5,579
York, Newcastle, and Berwick 16,533
Shrewsbury and Chester
Shrewsbury and Birmingham 750
Eastern Counties and Norfolk
Great Northern . 14,536
Chester and Holyhead
North Staffordshire
Leeds and Thirsk
The total receipts on the above lines being £274,529
against £227,652 in the corresponding week of last year ;
the increase is shown to he £46,877. The number of
miles open was, in 1851, 4,1531, and in 1850, 3,833 ;
showing an increase of 2204. miles. The average return
per mile per week was, in 1851, £67 14s. B*d., and in
1850, £59 7s. 10d., being £8 6s. 10d. per mile per week
in favour of the present year. Among the chief lines
there is a large increase in the London and North-Wes-
tern, Great Western, South-Western, South-Eastern,

6,548
4,781
15,787
1,737

842
14,828
4,691
4,159

LonCloil and Brighton, and Great
races on the Great Western, an,
Western lines, have favourably aff(

Northern lines. The
also on the North-
cted the receipts of the

respective companies, but the exhibition traffic. as may be
correctly called, begins to show symptoms of decline.