The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-09-03 00:00:00

MATCH FROM HYDE. PARK TO REARING.

Captain Fairborn started at twelve o'clock on Sunday nigl.t
to go on (not to the thi.ty-eight mile stone near Reed.ne, Berks.
and return (seventy-six miles) in nineteen hours. The match
was made a month ego at the Tun, for 200 sovereigns, and
heavy bets were pending at about bto4 on time. The pedes•
trian reached Longford (sixteen miles) at three o'clock, sod
refreshed with a glass of wine. He r. 'Shed Maidenhead
(twenty-six miles) at eve o'clock, and hal.tid half an hour and.
ate a fowl. Ile went out of his road at Hare-hatch. and laid
down at a friend's house at Wargrave for en hour. lie renchml
half the distance at haltpast eight o'clock, and returned bar:
to Wargrave, sevoa miles, at ten o'clock, where he breakfast-
ed, and started to do the thirty-three miles back to London 'it
a quarter before eleven. allowing himself eight hours noJ
quarter to perform it in. He reached Langford, eighteen mite.,
at ten minutes before three o'clock, and when at Hounslow he
had nearly three hours left. lie arrived at the Park Gate ii
ten minutes within his time, and won the match cleverly. Ta-,
pedestrian's friend, a Mr. Nash, accoMpanied the umpire in a
chaise, with provisions.

The Carol in St. Janaes's Park was drained lest week,
expectations were entertalted that some fi .e ti.h would have
heen caught; hut, to the surprise of the keepers,•notte of any
value were found. A qui minty of Crussien, commonly callei
Prusaian carp was the only sort taken. It is snpposed that all
the good fish were killed by the frost. in consequence of
the want of due attention in breaking the ice to give them
air.

Psets, AtGIIAT 30.—The weather is again h-come wet. gni
f•ara are entertained for the vintage, as it will require at
1-avt a month's wean sun to render the wine of good quality.
Toe corn harvest. however, has finished very abundantly in all
parts of Francs. except in the very northern proyitlces. where
it is only partially carried. Fruit is very plentiful. but, owing
to the wet. by no mem, of a ries quality. Very good pescaaa
asy be had at shout 911. per dozen. and green-stages at If. 31.,
per hundred. Provisions, generally speaking, however, etai.t►
lain their prices.

Monday, Charles Long and John Hendon wereetru
milted to Shepton Mallet gash for tri el at the next Session,
flanged with wilfully and tudieiunsly bre ikine the win.
o a of Mr. ,John Nliobileton, of Weston, nese 1,3011, on
Friday the 221 inst. It will be fresh in the recollection of
o+►r readers. that Mr. Mi.idleton preferre.l bills of in list•
ment at the late As aesinst Thos. Wheeler, his serra
assaalts noon three of his children, which bills were ig-
nored by the lirAnd Jtlf);..
Ja sloping the Trent hank, near Iteeriner-hone., in the
parish of Sutton-upon-Trent, a great quantity of humx.l
bones, and several pieces of silver coin. were lately dis-
covered.

A few days since, at a lodging lionse, in Newark, two
travellers became acquainted ; the oi.e a Cockney. the other
an Hibernian. The Londoner persuaded his follow travel-
ler that he had got a hawker's liven-i• for blaekine, bit
being without money, he could do no liusitu,s, and wanted
a partner. Poor Paddy took the bail., ianovediately con-
sented, and terms bei ag agreed upon, pradaeed ;is. 6.1.,
which amounted to all lie hid. after paying for himself
and friend's entertainment. The ingredients arere
pro-
(hircd. and the lilavking made, but on going to sell,
ilidieulty °Turfed, and the wary friend informed him,
1 that the license would ualy do tot one, and that if they
went out together, they would bout lie taken •iip and com•
whereupon Paddy, after in any promises, consented
to stay, and wait for what never happened—the retera of
hisfrieod.
Lag week a considerable number of that delicious fish,
the mullet, was caaglit in Lewes river. and some v.sited the
water as high irp as the bridge.
The coach office of Messrs. Costar and Co at the Angel
Inn. Oxford, was entered by means of skeleton keys, on
Saturday se'tinight, and robbed of cash, amounting to about
4001. with which the villains got clear off.
A DOMESTIC HEN.—Mrs. Webb, wife of the foreman of
the brick kilos at Wick, near Brighton, his a hen of the
Poland breed, so perfectly domesticated that she will often
attend at the house at meal times, and take a plaevat the
table ; and in return for a breakfast, she ham occasionally,
presented Mrs. I't'chy with an eze.,, by dreppi P. 5( and depo-
siting the sauie in her lap, added to those she laid
in her nest, within the last year, itinounted, in number to
320. For the eggs of this lien, customers are never want-
ing. at two penca each.
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Pnussims Tu. vectsßt.—Dri. Ehrenherg and Hemprich,
Prussian naturalists, now travelling in Eppt, are nut expected
as some Journals have stated, to return immediately to Europe.
On the contrary, they were, according to the last accounts from
them, about to avail themselves of the &moistened afforded by
his hlsjesty fora new e7pedition. The.r plan, as described in
a letter, dated Suez, June 8, is as follows :—ln tne first place
to proceed *long the coast of the Red Sea, making their
longest halt at Tor and Akahe. 't'hey will afterwards embark
for Mocca, whence they wilt make excursions on the coast of
Abyssinia and In the islands situated near tab an.: Nandeh.—
Hence they mean to proceed to Suakin, and, if circunistencts
permit, to penetrate again intr. Nubia abd Seamier, to exa-
mine those fertile countrief W.tb which they had acquired •
slight acquaintance on their toner journey. but only by skim-
ming the frontiers. . They wow% to return to Gairo by Cosseyr
and Gineh. We have already received from them thirty large
packing cases. cnntuitting valuable articles eallected during
their voyage in Nutria. and which furnish meet luteresting 1 ,-
formation on countries hitherto very little knows: What en-
riosities they have, since collected have been embodied rior
Trieste, and we expect to receive them before the ent, vf ND
' present year. From the resear:hes of these zealots rind in
' iriligent travellers, we expect Important results 'for of ovdy
of natural history and geography.—(Ber.isi Paper)