tified by well-contested running each day. The weather was unfavourable on the first day, but on Wednesday and Thursday the course was thronged with carriages, and spectators, on horse and foot. Among the company were the following: the Right Hon. Lord Hill, and Sir J. T. Tyrwhitt Jones, Bart. (Stewards.) Earls Powis and Denbigh: Countess Powis,-Lord Bradford.-Ladies H. and C. Clive, R. Fielding, three Fieldings, K. Forester, Puleston, and Egerton.-Honourables F. West, C. Jenkinson, Fielding, R. Hill, and T. Kenyon. -Sirs, John Hill, T. N. Hill, R. Puleston, John Boyd, W. Wynne. -Generals Egerton and Lethbridge. The balls and ordinaries were well attended. The Stewards named for next year are F. R. Price, Esq. of Brynypys, and Edw. W. Smythe Owen, Esq. of Condover Park.

THE Course on both days of Newbury Races was attended by a great many mobility and gentry, and some of the first sporting characters in the country. The racing was very good. The ordinaries were conducted in a very superior manner, and the Theatre never boasted more fashionable audiences. The ball at the Mansion House was crowded by all the neighbouring families of rank and fortune, and many strangers of distinction.

Ar Kingscote Meeting, which began on Tuesday, the 19th inst. Mr. Rush's Lapwing wou the Produce Stakes of 100gs. each; the Kingscote Stakes of 25gs. each, were won by Mr. Rush's b. f. and the Eighty Pounds by Mr. Whitmore's Charles Surface.-Wednes

day, the Sweepstakes of 10gs. each, with 50gs. added by the Club, was walked over the course for by Robin Adair (named by Mr. Goddard). -Mr. Jones's Fatima won at three heats, the 501. for all ages, and the 5gs. Sweepstakes were walked over for by Mr. Whitmore's Topsy Turvy.Thursday, the Berkeley Hunt Stakes of 10gs. each were won by Captain Berkeley's Lustre; and the Handicap Plate of 501. by Mr. Charlton's Don Rodrigo.-A match for 50gs. between Mr. Langley's Selima and Mr. Dare's Schweppe (rode by the owners), was won in two heats by the former. This match had excited considerable interest, and bets were generally 5 to 4 on Selima. The first heat was closely contested; but the second was won by some lengths, amid the exultations of the numerous sportsmen who had accepted the odds.The uncommon fineness of the weather attracted a very numerous assemblage; and the sport, though perhaps not equal to some former years, afforded much amusement.

YARMOUTH Races, Norfolk, were numerously and fashionably attended; the weather was remarkably fine, but rather too dusty; on the first day, for the Gold Cup, Lord Suffield's Hocus Pocus walked over the course. Sweepstakes of 10gs. with 25gs. added, were won by Lord Rous's Shrapnell; and Ladies' Plate of 501. by Lord Suffield's Huntingdon. - Second day, a Handicap, one mile and a quarter heats, between Lord Suffield's Little Turk, Major Wilson's Courier, and Mr. Goodisson's Gift, won by the latter after two most excellent heats. A Handicap, two-mile heats, between Lord Suffield's Huntingdon, and Lord

Rous's

Rous's Shrapnell, two very capital heats, and won by Shrapnell, the first heat by half a neck, and the second by not more than half a length; these two races afforded much gratification to the amateurs. General Loftus, M. P. the Hon. John Rous, and John Penrice, Esq. are the stewards for next year.

AT Leicester Meeting, the grand stand exhibited a display of beauty and fashion unprecedented. The ordinary, at which his Grace the Duke of Rutland presided as Stew ard of the Races, was numerously attended, and a sumptuous dinner, consisting of every delicacy in season, was each day served up at the Three Crowns Inn; among the most distinguished characters were the Dowager Duchess of Rutland, Lord Fitzroy, Sir

Noel, Bart. G. A. Le Keck, Edward Farnham High Sheriff, J. Mansfield, Richard Cheslyn, Richard Astley, Richard Astley, jun. Charles William Pochin, E. Barnaby, John Finch Simpson, Chas. Loraine Smith, T. A. Smith, Clement Winstanley, A. G. Heselrige, John B. Story, Colonel Crump, W. E. Hartopp, Esqrs. ; Sir William B. Cave, Bart. Henry Greene, R. Haymes, Esqrs.

BASINGSTOKE Races, which began the 7th instant, were well attended, and afforded excellent sport. The steward's ball, at the Town Hall, was honoured with the presence of all the principal families in the neighbourhood.

WARWICK Races were this year unusually attractive, and afforded considerable sport. The weather, which was extremely fine, drew to the race course a greater concourse

of spectators than seen for many years on a similar occasion; the town consequently, during the race week, wore a very gay and animated appearance. The balls displayed a brilliant assemblage of rank, beauty, and fashion.

LICHFIELD RACES.-On Tuesday, there was no race for the King's Plate of 100 guineas; a horse of Lord Derby's walked over the course for it. The sweepstakes on the same day were won by Mr. W. Hill's br. m. Cora, beating Mr. J. Smart's b. m. Woodbine and two others.

BECCLES Races on Tuesday, the 12th, were most numerously attended. Never was the race course before honoured with such an assemblage of nobility and gentry from all parts of both counties; and the ball in the evening eclipsed all the former ones since the reestablishment of these races. Lord Suffield and Major Wilson have accepted the stewardship for next year.-There were upwards of two thousand persons at Chipperfield's garden, and its amusements gave universal satisfaction.

THE sporting counties have had the finest breeding season; the coveys of partridges, and nides of pheasants, are the largest throughout Norfolk that have been known for many years past.

MR. Smith, of Vinehall, Sussex, on Tuesday, the 12th instant, brought to bag two brace of partridges, at one shot!

GROUSE shooting, in the county of Dublin, and on the Wicklow Mountains, has been but indifferent, owing to the heavy fall of rain.

RIFLE SHOOTING.-At a trial of skill on Sunday, the 10th inst. at Chalk Farm, anong some amateurs of the rifle, there was witDessed some excellent shooting from the shoulder, at 150 yards, and from the rest and shoulder at 200 yards; after which Mr. Forman, ci-devant Captain in the Duke of Cumberland's Sharpshooters, hit six successive shots from 250 yards, five of them from the rest and one from the shoulder, all of them near the centre, and one in the ball's eye, at a target two feet in circumference, and a nine inch bull's eye. Although this effort has never been beaten, it may be considered as no otherwise worthy of being recorded, than to show the excellence to which rifle shooting has been brought in this country.

In a short time the establishment of a regular pack of Chester hounds will be formed. The subscription is filled; and Earl Grosvenor, Sir J. G. Egerton, and Sir W. W. Wynne, Bart. are contributors.

Casarian Operation.-On Friday, the 1st of September, as Mr. Dudeney, of Herstmonceux, Sussex, was shooting, a female hare, very large with young, jumped up before his dogs, and was nearly killed before any steps could be taken to save her. Mr. D. like a true sportsman, regretted the circumstance, though he could not prevent it, and having proceeded to open the ill-fated animal, he was surprised to find in her THREE lively leverets, which he tenderly drew forth, carefully carried home, and by proper treatment, preserved. They are all living, and exhibit a degree of health and sprightliness,

that leaves no doubt of their being reared to maturity.

Ferocity of a Pole-cat.O Tuesday, the 5th of September, some carpenters, who were at work at Falmer, near Lewes, hearing, in an adjoining field, a hare cry out lustily, hastened to the spot from whence the noise proceeded, and perceived a pole-cat bad fixed on the hare, near the head, when one of the carpenters immediately flung himself down on both the animals, seized each of them by the neck, and continued to hold them until Mr. Hart (for whom they were at work) came to be a spectator, and although the young man grasped the neck of the pole-cat with all his strength, in order to choak him off, he would not let go his hold, until his brains were literally beaten out with a pair of iron compasses, and by which time poor puss was quite dead.

The Landrail perched!-One day in the early part of this month, as two gentlemen were hunting for partridges in the vicinity of Lewes, Sussex, their dogs put up a landrail, but in a direction that afforded them no shot; they however marked the bird, which, after soaring to a certain height, to their great astonishment, relaxed its pinions, and settled on a branch of a lofty tree, whereon it remained until their nigh approach, when it again took the alarm, and escaped. The above gentlemen, who are experienced gunners, mention this fact, as a circumstance new in the character of the landrail, and as such, under their authority, we record it.

FAITHFUL DOG.-" In our paper of the 8th of July last, we no

ticed the miraculous escape of Lieut. Frank Warde, of the Rocket Corps, nephew of Gen. Warde, at the battle of Waterloo; and his loss of a favourite dog on that memorable day. Lieut. W. afterwards advanced with the Prussians to Versailles, where he was wounded-but subsequently joined his own corps, and marched with part of the British army to Neufchatel (a distance of 400 miles from Waterloo), where, five weeks after the battle, he was joined by his faith. ful dog, wounded, and having lost the use of one leg !"—(Cambrian),

THE "Annals of Austrian Literature" mention that the late D. Christian, Dean of the Faculty of Canon Law at Vienna, has bequeathed the sum of 6000 florins for the maintenance of his three dogs during their natural lives; and after the death of the said three dogs, or the longest liver of them, that sum is to fall into the funds of the University of Vienna.

AT a Meeting held in London, the following Land Proprietors in North Wales bave resolved to establish an Association for the Preservation of Game, by prosecuting persons from various parts of the kingdom, (many of whom are sellers of game), travelling from inn to inn, and sporting on the property of subscribers without leave; also all receivers for sale, of game or fish, unlawfully taken. Sir W. W. Wynne, Viscount Kirkwall, Sir T. Mostyn, Sir E. P. Lloyd, Sir R. Williams, Hon. P. Burrell, Col. Vaughan, C. Lloyd, Esq. F. Cunliffe, Esq. and Dr. Wynne.

ON Monday, the 11th of this month, at Pilton annual feast, So

merset, some of the most celebrat ed single stick heroes of that famous neighbourhood entered the lists, and played several bouts with that good humour, skill, and dexterity, which place them on a rank of celebrity above all competitors. Will. Wall, Stone, Bunn, Dunker. ton, Kearsley, and five others, formed the list of champions. The prize was nominally awarded to Wall, who divided it among some of his most successful companions. A bye-stander who observed the happy countenances of the rustic assemblage, dressed in their holi day donnings, cannot resist enjoy. ing these annual revelries; and thinking their suppression inconsistent with the spirit that should be kept up amongst the true Bri tish yeomanry.

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CRICKET.-A cricket match, for fifty guineas aside, was played on Nottingham ground this month, between G. Osbaldeston, Esq. M. P. of Thurgarton Hall, aud Mr. Joseph Dennis and Humphry Hopkins, two of the Nottingham Club. The match excited consi derable interest among the ama teurs in that neighbourhood, and drew a great concourse of specta tors to the forest. The play be gan on Monday the 21st, but was not over till Wednesday, on count of the heavy rain which fell on the intermediate day. Mr. Os❤ baldeston was allowed one to field; and for this purpose he brought Mr. Lambert down from London, and Mr. Bentley to act as his umpire, they being considered two of the best players on Lord's ground, Dennis, being lame of a finger, chose Pacey, another Nottingham player, to act as fieldsman in his stead.-Mr. T. Warsop was um pise for the Nottingham players,

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The game was commenced about one o'clock on Monday by Mr. Osbaldeston's going in; and when he had got eighty-four notches he gave up his hat, Mr. Hopkins being completely tired with bowling. Hopkins got only eleven at his first innings, and three at the second, having been bowled out both times. Dennis got but one at his first innings, and two at his second; like his companion, being bowled out at both. Mr. Osbaldeston consequently was the victor: his bowling is the most rapid that can be imagined, and he is deemed the best single-wicket player in England.

On Tuesday, the 27th nit. a cricket-match was played on Sir Gerard Noel's new ground in Exton Park, between the Exton Club and the Braunston Club, the latter being allowed two of the Oakham players. The following is a statement of the play:-Exton, total both innings, 88; Braunston, 86. Sir G. Noel was one of the Exton players.

On the same ground a match was played on Thursday, the 24th ult, between the Oakham Club, and the players of Exton, Cottesmore, and Barrow, as under:-Oakham, both innings, 96; Exton, &c. 46.

A DESPERATE boxing match took place on Monday, the 18th inst. at Golder's-green, near Hampstead, between Gripp, a butcher, in Tottenham Court-road, and Bill Hales, a costermonger, in Somers Town, for ten guineas a side. These pugilists were nearly of equal weight and size. Grip was seconded by Oliver and Shelton; and Hales by Tom Jones and Dick Weal. At setting-to, from the scientific knowledge of their sparring, betting became equal, and one of the most

sanguinary battles that ever was witnessed took place. They fought one hour and three quarters, in which fifty-seven most desperate rounds ensued, and they displayed such a system of fighting as completely surprised the amateurs: on the 57th round, Hales missed his foot, and received a most dreadful fall on his head, from which he was scarce able to meet his antagonist in time: after this odds were ten to one in favour of Grip. They fought fourteen more rounds, in all of which Hales received the worst, and at the end he was not able to stand any longer. There were present at this battle a number of scientific men, amongst whom were Belcher, Bill Gibbons, Scrog. gins, Knowlesworthy, and nearly the whole of the amateurs of the fist in the metropolis, who in general gave it as their opinion that both these young men were complete boxers, and well-bottomed.

Melton Mowbray, Sept. 25.This morning the Leicestershire hounds, (now Mr. Smith's), threw off at Barkby Holt, where they immediately found, and after running their fox a sharp burst of about twenty-five minutes, killed in high style. The field was numerous, but very few of the best horses were out, on account of the hardness of the land.