The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-11-26 00:00:00

RACES TO

The following dates of reel
appointed, or are so establist
improbable that they will be
March 12, Coventry.
March 19, Warwick.
March 25, Northampton.
March 26, Catterick Bridge.
April 14, Newmarket Craven.
April 22, Bath.
April 28, Newmarket Ist Spring.
May 6, Chester.
May 13, Newmarket 2nd Spring.
May 13, Manchester.
May 20, Gorhambury.
May 27, Epsom.
June 10, Ascot.
June 18, Hampton.
June 23, Newcastle-on-Tyne.
June 25, Bibury Club.
June 26. Stourbridge.

FLEETWOOD COURSING MEETING.—Nov. 20.

FLEETWOOD CUP.
Mr. Richardson's Robin beat Mr. Rodget's Swallow,
and won.
ROSS AL STAKE.

Mr. Rodget's Madeira beat Mr. Noblett's Smoke, and

won.
CONSOLATION STAKE FOR BEATEN DOGS.
Mr. Dickinson's Flirt beat Mr. 'Whitehead's Pleader.
Mr. Fklding's Bus'j beat Mr. Edmondson's Domino.

THE CHASE.
The CHESHIRE HOUNDS meet on

Wednesday, Nov. 27, at Y Mere (at eleven)
Thursday, Nov. 28, at
Saturday. Nov. 30, at .
Each morning at half-past ten o'clock.

A Goon SEASON.—During the late racing season Nat
(properly Elnathan Flatman) had 212 rides, including 65
winners, 5 walks over, and 1 dead heat.
A match for £2OO came off on the Chesterfield race-
course, on Wednesday, between Mr. E. Butcher's blk m,
aged, and Mr. Sheldon's ch h, aged, list ilb each, which
was won by the mare by four lengths.
GREAT WALKING MATCH FOR £2o.—On Tuesday the
match between Bee, of London, and Powell, of Hampton,
came off at Hampton. The distance contested was twelve
miles. At the tenth mile Bee was in a leading position,
which he continued to the end, beating his adversary by
400 yards. The twelve miles were accomplished in one
hour and fifty-seven minutes.

CAPTURE OF BURGESS.—We gave, last week, an
account of the arrest, and subsequent suicide of Elder,
the accomplice of Burgess, the forger, together with the
escape of the latter in a boat. Our accounts by the Great
Western communicate his arrest, examination, and com-
mittal by the authorities at Boston.
THE SCREW PILE LIGHTHOUSE.—This lighthouse in
Belfast Lough, stands about a mile below Gannoyle,
where the water is never less than nine feet, and the floor
of the house is placed upwards of twenty feet above low-
water mark, amply allowing for any rise or swell. The
ground beneath is, to the depth of six feet, loose sand and
gravel, resting on tenacious blue clay ; screw piles of three
and a half feet circumference are here sunk to the depth
of sixteen feet, upon which the superstructure is firmly
secured, to form a basis for the erection of the house ;
this is a novel building, and is intended for a pilot house,
and is fitted for this purpose with fifteen commodious
sleeping berths, with separate apartments for the captain
and his mate. The light can be seen only at six miles
distance, lest it should be mistaken for any of the great
lights along the coast. The platform on which the house
stands is in diameter thirty-three feet, while the house is
but twenty-six feet—thus leaving a commodious prome-
nade three and a half feet wide all round, from which the
pilots can descry vessels arriving. The whole expense of
this important erection, including the lighting apparatus,
was but 41,300.—Mtning Journal.