The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-12-28 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGIINCIL

- - against _ .ove pro-
tiniest that melancholy rithibiti‘i.—driven and com-
pelled by your tyrannical mandates, that man has seen
the wife of his bosom, the mother of his child, appear-
log against him, to falsify his testimony, in order to
save you, who would have destroyed them both. These
are atrocities not to be endured in any country.
Baron M'CLett.sso continued at great length, and
concluded by pronouncing the awful sentence this :
That you and each of you be taken from the place
where you now stand, to the gaol from whence You came,
and on a day hereafter to be named, your irons to be
strnck off, and you and each of you, to the common place
of execution, the gallows, and their be hanged by the
neck until you are dead, and may the Lord of his infi-
nite goodness, have mercy on your soul.
Baron M.Clelland, and every individual in Court, was
deeply affected during this awful scene.
, After Baron M'Clelland had pronounced sentence on
the unhappy men, and they had been removed from the
clock heavy ironed,
1.. • The SOLICITOR-GENERAL rose to request of the Court,
that a young person, named Curtaine, might be discharg-
ed from custody ; he was charged with the same offence
as Histon and.Mullane, and the same evidence which
bad been given on their trial, would also have applied to
him ; bat his extreme youth induced the Counsel for
.the Crown to make the present application, conceiving
that he must have been misled by others.
The SOLICITOR-GENERAL also requested the discharge
of James Jordan, who had been almost miraculously ac-
quitted of the charge of forcibly taking arms from Mr.
Sperling; and he trusted in Ood, that those two men
might return to society, as missionaries, preaching obe-
dience to the laws among their deluded associates.
The SOLICITOR-GaN KRAL farther prayed their Lord-
ships to adjourn the Special Commission, for the
County of Limerick, to Saturday, the 18th ofJanuary.
It was the firm determination of Government, said the
Learned Counsel, until peace was effectually restored,
to hold a permanent Court of Justice in the County
of Limerick. The White Boys, or the Law, must
prevail. More murders may be committed; Magis-
trate after Magistrate may be murdered, but successors
will be found, who will neither slumber nor rest, until
the strong arm of the Law shall visit the perpetrators
of crime with condign and exemplary punishment. It
was most gratifying, however, that if the County of
Limerick has been disgraced by the acts of a lawless
banditti, it has also been raised by the firm and
upright conduct of the resident Oentry, who, in the
midst of fire and sword, shrank not from their duty.
—The Country was much indebted to the
and to the Magistrates; to one in particular (Mr.
Yokes) thanks were due in an eminent degree.—
It must afford great satisfaction to those around bins
to hear that the unfortunate men who bad already ex-
piated their crimes by a public death, manifested a
contrite deportment, and made a full confession of
their guilt. Much praise was due to the respectable,
Clergymen who attended the unhappy men, and who
brought them in their latest moments, to a due sense
of their awful situation. Under these circumstances
he trusted lie was warranted in indulging a hope el
better days; bat should acts of violence again miser,
tie perpetrators might depend upon it, that troops.
after troops waild be poured into the sountry,
until
teanquillity woild be fully and firmly establithaiLl
He would esk this deluded banditti what preyed)
they had made for the last fifteen yeas ? Could
not their own experience slew them the folly of
their attempting to cope with the laws? if it could
pot, let them ask their fathers and their grandfathers
what progress such banditti had made since the
year 1776. In that year appeared the " White Boys,"
lafter those another banditti called the " Right Boys,"
then the " Night Buys," the " Peep o'day Boys," the
" Threshers," the " Shanavests," the " Carayets," and
the " Ribbonmen." I pass over the great insurrection
of the year 1795, by the United Irishmen, and speak
only of the banditti; and I ask, bow did they terminate
their mad career but at the gallows? The history of
the Country sliews that such only was the result, and as
long as the laws of the country are violated such
only can be the result.
When the Solicitor-Oeneral closed, Mr. Howly said
that he felt it not only his inclination, bat his duty, to
return thanks to his brethren of the Bar, the Crown
Counsel, for the great candour which he met with from
them in the discharge of the arduous duty he was called
upon to perform, as Counsel on behalf of the Prisoners.
He was anxious thns to state his sense of the mild and
becoming manner in which they conducted the prates-
don, on behalf of the Crown, and lie could not witness
the present adjournment, without testifying what he felt
by a strong and public expression.
The Court then adjourned to the 12th of January.

COUNTY COURT, Dicc. ?I.
This morning, at hall-past nine o'clock, Baron
NICLELLA N D and Mr. Justice Meows took their seats on

the Beach.
Michael *Grath was then placed at the. Bar. The
prisoner was indicted for that be, on the lbth December,
in the 2d year of the present Reign, at Cahiraarry, in
the County of the City of Limerick, did assault Bernard
Morgan. and by force and violence take from the person
of the said Bernard Morgan, one gun, value ten shillings,
the property of our Sovereign Lord the Kink. Bernard
Morgan Is a private in the 93d Highlanders. After wit-
nesses had been examined, Mr. Justice Moons rec9i-
tulaied the evidence, and charged the Jery, who having
retired for about ten minutes, returned with a verdict of
(Witty, but recommended the prisoner to mercy.
The Court asked the Jury on what ground was the
prisoner recommended, and if they had any doubt of
his
The foreman of the Jury replied, that they bad eat
the slightest doubt of his guilt, bat recommended him
on the ground of his being drunk at the time .f dal
commission of this offence.
The Court declared, that at such a time, who. a
Special Commission was sent down to that county,
such a recommendation could not be attended to.
Francis Shaughnessy and Michael M'Orath was then
placed at the bar, and the awful sentence of death was
pronounced upon them, by Mr. Justice. Moore, in feel-
ing and emphatic language.
The prisoners begged repeatedly for a losg day.
After the prisoners had been removed from the bar,
the Special Commission in the City Court, at the re-
quest of the Solieitor-Oeneral, was adjourned to Satur-
day, the 12th of January nest.
Thirteen wise have bees eenteseod to lead, daring
this week, at the Special Ceimisitoa.

'There .. ....g more characteristic of the true.
Awer tidiria of our Northern friends. than their a.
traordinery &Machines ter their mallow% lanpage tali
dress. Their salve sports and amusements, which being
founded la general upon harmless aid innocent simplici.
ty. As themselves so firmly upon the youthful mind of
the Gasittiat neither thinner distance efface them from
his mensery ; fur whenever he engages in the ath-
letic unwise of throwing the stone. the manly in
healthy game of the Shinny or Cammanach, or bears
the martial sounds of the Pipes, his eye glistens
" with the joys that are past, for the thoughts of Ms
soul are en the days of other years."
New Year's Day, old style, was the only great festi-
val or holiday known to the ancient Highlanders ; but
of tate, Christmas and New Year's Day, new style.
are partially kept. On these occasions, when the old
and the young meet to congratulate each other upon
the happy return of the season, the usual past-
time of the youth is, then, a match at the Shinny or I
Cameniach; while the aged encourage or instruct
them, 'and often seise the Shinny in their nerveless
grasp, with an energy beyond their years, and wish
they were young again. The rosy cheeted and plaid
clad lane% tie* with delight the manly exertions of
their Anon hatbands in the close eontested field; and
at the end of inch match the pipes strike up, the young
and old trips the merry real with light fantastic toe,
upon the now bound heath, and at the same time the
brim-filled shell goes round charged with L'squebagb
(whisky), which is necessary to resist the chilling
blast from penetrating the over-heated breast of the
players.
Then reflections upon the days of our youth, in
which we were not unconcerned spectators, arose from
a eiretutstanee which occurred last Christens day.—
Some enthusiastic Highlanders, having a few days
before hastily proposed to renew the sports of their
youth, by a Shinny match on Blackheath, on that
day in their native garb, accordingly met at King's
Hotel, in the Haymarket. at ten o'clock, and f
thence proceeded. by Greenwich-coaches previcat'
engaged. to the Hare Inn, Blackheath. and having re-
freshed themselves, they marched to the heath with
their Piper before them to the tune of " The Garb of
Aid Gael," and " Oillean an eiladh," (the lads with
the kilts), to the no small astonishment of the inhabit-
acts of Blackheath. who imagined that the High-1
leaden, being armed with Claibh-nior, pistols and
dirks, had met to decide some deadly fend, accord-
ing to the ancient practice of their country. They
were, however. agreeably surprised when they saw
the Highlanders divest themselves of their deadly
weapons. and appear on the heath with only the
harmless Shinny or Cowman (a club bent at the end)
in their manly grasp. Two gentlemen being appointed
to select the players and to ascertain the first choice
according to the roles of the game. one of
the gentlemen threw his shinny to the other pe-
daling who caught it about e middle. The first
ai
gentisesan nixed it close to above the hand of the
`fileman, who, in .1 turn
_grasped it close
rst, and so on site' ately to tun top of the
*ism% and the last bold had the choice. The players
*finites- selected, and the 'bail, or ground, being
properly marked, the choice of sides was decided by
alternate heeds upon the shinny as before. every ar-
rangement being thus completed. the ball (about one
inch and a half in diameter and covered with lea-
ther) was brought to the centre of the hail. or
ground, and the game commenced by giving the con-
tended globe to the wind. Thee began the friendly
*if.. " Chief mixes his strokes with chief, and man 1
with man, as Autumn's dark storms pour from two 1
echoing bills ; towards each other approached the II
youth ; the field echoes from wing to wing, as an
hendred hammers that drummed by turns on the
anvil ; the strokes of the youth were heard, and many
were the anxious eyes of their Mends as they saw
them dim on the heath."
The Blackbeathians had now an opportunity of
calming their fears, and joining in the general laugh
°unlined by the slipperiness of the ground, which pro-
duced falls and ludicrous tumbles. that gave rise to
mach merriment. They, however, witnessed and praised
the uncommon agility cf the highlanders, from %fie
freedom which there native garb (none being allowed
to play with say other) gives to their sinewy limbs.
The match was finished at three o'clock, and the
plaided youth returned from the well contested field in
regale" order, with the victorious party in front and
the Pipers before them. playing " Scots wlsa liae wi
Wallace bled," and the " Highland Laddie." After
taking some refreshment, they mounted their cars
and returned to town with their Piper playing all
the way, and arrived at King's Hotel, between four
and Ave o'clock, elated with their day's atensements,
and with an understanding to repeat the same on
New INA'
's day next.

There Is a copper cola in the possession of Colon.
Res., etNigg, of a else somewhat less than a farthing
which was found is the ruins of his old farm-offices
On one tide of it the Scotch Thistle is easily traced
bat the hopression on the other side seems difficult to
&medals. The date, however, is perfectly dibtinct.
being Stl. We cannot venture to affirm that this is a
Scotch coin, the silver penny of Alexander 11., 1214,
being the oldest we have any knowledge of. The cots
in the pommies of Col. Rose. however. deserves time i
attention of the antiquary, as it may strengthen del
belief that there are Scotch coins of older date than the
last atentiosed.—(h.erneer Courkr.)
We are happy to be able to state, for the satisfactiou
of hir. • Waliack's friends, that the account of thr
aecideat Ohl had befallen him, extracted from the
Kew York .Pipers, is greatly exaggerated. Ur. Wal-
ks* has bad the misfortune to break his leg but not
in kW pieces. The report of the surgeon was highly
faviewaider when• the last accounts came orr (two days
ow the widest), and there was every reason to anti-
, cipato a speedy recovery aid resumption of his prof*.s*-
dead permits.
A match for a considerable wager, between a seas
es foot and as ass ridden by a buy, was'docided last
ends, is Yorkshire, in favour of the latter. The es-
details, was, which ran from Whenby to York, a
&tame of 13 miles, in the shortest time; whieb
ass ran la one boor and twenty minutes, beating the
petiestrlan &boat a mile.

NETTING AT TATTERS 4LL'It.
No notarial alteration marred la the bettlefr at Tatter-
sall's yesterday. 'lto attendance was very thlo, and scantly
a bet made.

FREE II tlolnic APS.
NEWMARKET FIRST SPRING MEETING, len.

MOND ALY.
Sweepstakes of 100 gs each.h. ft. for 5-yr-olds and upwards.
Last three Riles of B. C. Four to accept, or no race.
Are. st.lb. Age: st.lb.
Spectre
Muter Henry
hittleJohn 5 812 Romp 6 8 5
Euphrates
Sultan ...
Banker
Champignen
Consul
Alder .. .. .... 5 S 9 Schedam 6 712
Cardinal ....... 5 8 8 Philip, 6 7 .12
Regent
Miss Allegro 8 9 6 Letitia ..• .. 5 7 9
Shreckhorn
TUESDAY.
Sweepstakes of 100 gs each, h. ft. for 4-yr-olds: D. I. Four
to accept, or no race.
et.lb. st.lb.
Selma
C. by Ardrossan, out Antiope 8 5
of Vicissitude .... 9 0 Sorcerer. e. (Mr.
Sres
Borpoodino
Anti-Galilean
St. Patrick, by Sir Trance
Walter
Deadness 8 11 Canoes, by Ruben'.. 8 0
Mr. Low • 8 9 Vaal**
Cavalier 8 8 Athenian ... ...... 7 13
Sir John 8 8 Arbutus
Cripple
Mavis
Moonraker. 8 6 F. by Trul e. out of
Paintbrush... 8 6 Reserve 7lO
Less
WEDNESDAY.
Sweepstakes of 100 gs each, h. ft. for 3-yr olds. T. Y. C.
Four to accept, or no race.
st.lb. at lb.
Zeal
Michaelmas
,Prophet
North Wester .. Bl2 Chryseis ... • ... 6 9
Lawrence
Varennes
8 0
Pa storella
Pantoudo
C. by Sena, out of Phidias
Palma .... 6 8 Kildare ... 7 1*
Rostcruslan
Jock the Laird's brother 8 4 Luster
Prosody
Rasselas 8 4 Totals
Civet
THURSDAY.
Sweepstakes of 100 gs each. h. ft. for 3-yr-olds, A. T. Four
to accept, or no race.
st.lb. at.lbl
Jack Spiggot 9 0 Blue Ruin i II
Augusta 9 0 Ineantator .. S 11
Guavas
C. by Partisan, out of Henry 8 9
Rldieds
Fortuna 8 9 Carbonaro .. 8
Adolphus
Reginald ....•
Princess Royal .
Sir Hudibrand. by Octa- Lady FMK", .• .. 8 6
sirs. out of Troth's d. S 4 Gr. a. by Y. Goltnina.
My Lady 8 4 data by Sella .... I /1
Black-sad-all-Blasa 8 4 Matte 7 1$
Tressilian - 7 111 •
Ibis 8 3 Titian 7 11
Cutest 8 11 C. by Sootbsayei, out of
Peter Lily ..
Rioter • 8 2

BOXING.

The last of the four boxing matches. on Wednesday
and which for manhood never was exceeded, took place
in Frampton Parish, on Epping Forest. an enemy hay
ing driven the cavalcade out from Fairfield, Herts. This
match was for thirty guineas, between W. Cox a sawyer,
who had put on the gloves at the Fives' Court, and
Ilarry Miller, a coachman. The seconds were Appleby
for Cox, and Mason for the coachman. Seven trainee.
dons rounds were fought in 26 minutes, as follows:—
In the first round, on loosing each other's hands, the
men turned to for mischief, and exchanged many heavy
blows upon the head and body. Cox lost two teeth in
the rally, and Miller's right ogle was nearly closed.
They separated, and then renewed another mischievous
rally at equal fighting, when both went down weak.
2. A short rally; Cox was floored by a right-handed
blow on the side.— 5 to 4 on Miller.
3. The claret flew in streams from the beads of each,
and the seconds wore the vermillion hue. Glee and
take was again the will of both, and another slaughter-
ing round was fought, until both went down from di*
4. In a short rally, Miller was dropped by a kit on
the breast, which produced aloud groan, and the rattling
of the hit was beard throughout the ring. •
5. A minute elapsed in attituding, until some wind
was fetched to relieve the piping of both. The men at
length turned to and fought the best round in the bat-
tle. It lasted eight minutes, and at least half a dozen
hits were exchanged upon the head; Cox was thrown,
Miller's eye was closed, and the features of both were
nearly invisible; their beads were truly excheqnered.
6. A gay round in favour of Cox, whose adversary
was too bhod to find his object; be however floored
him by a blow in the jaw.
7. This round won Cox the fight by placing a left-
handed hit below his adversary's chest which doubled
him up, and he could not come to time.

.Thwircns.
CORN EXCHANGE. Dec. 28.--Owing to the eentiesance
of boisterous weather, we have bad so arrivals of any
grain this week, and scarcely any nsines,
was done in
our market to day, the consumers ttfratoing from pur-
chasing, in anticipation of very large supplies when the
wind Changes, in consequence of which our prices may
be quoted the same as on Monday.
SMITHFIELD 3141 suave-There was an uncommon short
market this morning owing to the main being out in
various parts of the country, in conseqnence of which,
the prices of different descriptions of Cattle is rather
higher than last week.
To sink the offal per st. of sibe.
. ,
Beef . ... 25. dd. to 4s. 0.1. CATTLE AT HAMLET t
Mutton.. Is. od. to Ss. N
.. . . SOO •
Veal .... Ss. Od. to 4s. Sd. i l2d • .
Pork .... ns. 04. to 4e. 01 Lambs— . 11,H10 •.. -
1..Jah.... Os. Od. to Os. Od. Plgs •... .. l6ll -, ‘-',,
Straw and Clover as per last.
H AY- MA RILZT.--NO alteration in the price of Heppe
...-. •
*rite and Clover as per our last. .
Hay $1 10s. to 41.45. I Straw .11.11 s. to 11. 16e.
Closer 41. Os. to N. Os. j
In the evening of New. Year's Der. Wt.'s, , Rdir
sad sis o'clock, there will be moth if the warm'
prove fine, an interesting conjunction of Saar% Je plo
tie, sad eis Moon.

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