POLITICAL Cross-Readings at a Whist-party in Bath.-Dramatis Personæ, three old ladies and a gentleman:-" My dear Sir George, did you ever hear of any thing so extraordinary as that execrable tyrant, Bonaparte's, return to Paris?" (" The odd trick, I believe, Madam.")" Marvellous beyond all precedent! who would have thought it after the sacred treaty of Fontainbleau? (" A false deal, I fancy")—and the wise and equitable arrangements at Vienna, for the repose of Europe, by the high and mighty Allied Sove reigns?"

("Three knaves upon the table at once, declare.")"But surely, Sir George, there is so much feeling for royalty"-(I must trump your King, Miss Frowzy)-and still so much virtue in France, as to furnish a pistol or dagger for the Usurper!" ("The game is lost I perceive.")" Alas! I fear not, my lady! the people have called him back."—(“ A revoke, by all that's unlucky!") "Well! there is yet some hope from the dear whisker'd Cossacks, and the enchanting Blucher. Oh! I could kiss”—(" your ace, I presume, Sir George.")

A Farmer's Political Opinion of Parties.-A farmer dining with some friends a short time since, and politics being introduced, the conduct of the Opposition was commented on by some of the party; when the farmer observed, "Why now, gentlemen, I can compare their general conduct to nothing better than that of some of my pigs! I feed them with peas

in my farm yard; those that happen to be within the gate, eat the peas very orderly and quietly-you hear no noise or grumbling amongst them; but presently come a parcel of other pigs from the field, and being without the gate, they run to this side and that, push the gate with their noses, squeak, halloo, and kick up a sad disturbance but the moment I open the gate and introduce them the peas, they be come as quiet as so many mice in a full barn."

THE Spadille Mare (dan) of the celebrated racer X Y Z) was shot lately by order of her owner, Mr. Ord, supposed not in foal, but on being examined, she had a very fine filly foal in her, by Marmion: and Mr. J. W. Wilson's Hambletonian mare (dam of Bosville) was lately drowned by falling into a ditch, with a colt in her by Whitworth.

THE HON. T. O. Powlett, of Bolton Hall, near Middleham, Yorkshire, has purchased of H. Peirse, Esq. of Bedale, a bay mare, by Pipator, dam by Delpini, out of Tuberose, with a colt by her side, by Comus; and has also purchased two two-years-old colts and two yearling colts, of Mr. J. W. Wilson. Mr. J. W. Wilson also sold last week, a remarkably fine colt, by Whitworth, out of Bosville's dam, to the Earl of Darlington, who has since purchased Belville, by Orville.

At Catterick, Lord Queensberry bought the stallion, Bucephalus; Mr. Monkman, the Pegasus mare, out of Sancho's dam; Mr. Hutchinson the Brown-bread colt, that was second for the Yearling Stakes, and sold him again to the Duke of Leeds, at Middleham. Mr. Hutchinson sold bis Sweetwilliam gelding, dam by the brother to Eagle, to Mr. Shafto; and Mr. Don, a yearling colt, by Deceiver, out of the above Pegasus mare. Reed Denham, purchased Norton, by Hyacinthus, of Sir William Maxwell, after being beat at Mid

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dleham; and Sir B. R. Graham sold his Remembrancer colt, out of Masquerade, to go into the South.

Mr. Kirby has sold Fairville, by Orville, to Mr. Hesseltine, of Hambleton, near Thirsk, Yorkshire; and Mr. Stonehewer bas purchased Whisker (brother to Whalebone), by Waxy, of the Duke of Grafton. He is the first favourite for the Derby.

Lately died, Lord Fitzwilliam's Cossack, by Sir Paul, out of Fanny's dam, by Diomed.

PONTEFRACT, Yorkshire, March 30, which was uncommonly fine for the occasion, Mr. Chaworth's fine pack of hounds met on the race-ground, when we hardly ever beheld such a field of real sportsmen, there being nearly two hundred present. After trying a few covers, a good fox was found at Nostel Willow-Garth: he went away in full view, and after a chase of two hours, of such running as is rarely seen, he was killed within twenty yards of an old earth, which he had used his utmost exertions to gain. Mr. Chaworth's superior skill, in the bunting of these hounds, was very conspicuous to every one, who is not an entire stranger to such sports.

MALTON Races were numerously and fashionably attended, and the new and beautiful assembly-room there, was considered a great ac commodation to the ladies and gen tlemen attending the races, and

crossed the Thames a second time near Maidenhead, and ran with great speed towards Great Marlow, taking to the left, when he was taken near Hurley Bottom, after an excellent run of about three hours.

THURGARTON Hunt Races at tracted a numerous company to Nottingham race - ground this month, who were highly gratified with the day's diversion. After the races, a subscription was proposed for various plates, to be run for next Spring.

SINGULAR OCCURRENCE.-On Friday night, the 14th inst. two very fine horses, belonging to gentlemen at the Fountain, Huntingdon, broke loose from their respective stabies, which joined each other, kicked down the partition, and were found dead in the morning. There were no particular marks of violence upon the bodies, but the mangers were much stained with blood.

the late successful campaigns. It might naturally be supposed that such a horse, as a remembrance of the donor, would have been kept with the most extraordinary care, that it would have a separate grooni to attend it, that it would have been pampered, and suffered to pass the remainder of its life in a sort of riotous felicity. He heard, however, and was very sorry to hear it, that this animal was now employed in drawing a dung-cart at Hampton Court." The Ministerial papers have since denied the truth of this anecdote; while, on the other hand, its accuracy is persisted in by another of the daily prints.

On Wednesday, the 12th instant, two bullocks in a fatting yard at Steyning, in Sussex, engaged in a furious contest with each other, when the horn of one of them entering the mouth of his adversary, penetrated through the roof, and appeared externally to the extent of several inches. In this horrid state of entanglement (for the horn was curved, and most strongly fixed), the poor creature bellowed dreadfully, and, by the fiercest efforts, endeavoured to extricate himself, but in vain; until, at length; by a repetition of severe struggles on the part of both bul« locks, the horn was forcibly released from its hold, by tearing away the nostrils. The unhappy beast, being rendered by the wound incapable of feeding himself, has since been killed.

SINGULAR CIRCUMSTANCE.The following singular circum. stance occurred lately in the vil lage of Ugston, by Lauder :-A pair of pigeons, having taken up their abode in a dwelling-house in that village, built a nest there, in

which the hen laid two eggs. During the time of her incubation, an intimacy commenced between her and the family cat, which soon became so close, that they were very seldom seen apart; and, how ever incredible it may appear, yet it is a well-authenticated fact, that, as often as the pigeon left the nest, the cat was seen to take her place. Thus matters proceeded till the pigeons were hatched, when puss's predilection for the offspring became as apparent as it had been for the mother, and continued till the period of their braving become full fledged, when a painful separa tion ensued painful as it respected puss; but, regardless of her feelings, they took up their ordinary residence in the foof. Hither the inconsolable cat's eyes were öften directed; unable, however, to brook a separation longer, she clambered up to their abode, and, with evident satisfaction, seated herself contiguous to them.

THE Chancellor of the Excbequer, it is said, intends to take off the exemption of tax in favour of cottagers dogs, which are found to be very injurious to society in various respects, and a public nuisance, which has considerably increased under such exemption.

THERE is at present living, at the seat of B. Dashwood, Esq. Well Vale, near Alford, an eagle, measuring eight feet between the extremities of the two wings. It was wounded and taken some time ago by the gamekeeper.

A dash was made in one of the first circles, of deep play, a few evenings since, from which a young man of rank rose up the victim of indiscretion, to the amount

of 12,000l. This booty was to he participated by three veterans in the art, which is said to have occasioned so much confusion in the settlement, as indicated further dis-union in that hazardous corps.

THE spirit of opposition in the stage coach business, never raged to the extent that it does at pre sent. There are two coaches (the Union and Rockingham) on the great north road, which have for many months raced against each other daily; and this month one of them (the Union) performed a journey from London to Coltsworth, in Lincolnshire (a distance of one hundred and two miles), in exactly ten hours, all stoppages in. cluded.

A MATCH at cricket was played near Boston, on the 6th instant, by eleven married and eleven single men; when the married players proved too much for the single, beating them by ten notches.

Ar the Norfolk Assizes, a person named Garrett, was indicted for a nuisance in exhibiting a stallion in Derebam market-place; but the Judge was of opinion, that the mere fact of leading a stallion through a public market was not an offence indictable at common law; of course the defendant was acquitted.

A CHARGE of bigamy has been preferred against a celebrated character in the sporting world, which threatens very serious consequences to him. The Lady to whom the accused was first married brought him seven thousand pounds, and has a family of seven children. He left her on a voyage to the Baltic on important business; but af