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unhappy gentleman, in backing the field against 

 Lord Jersey's Bay Middleton, for the Derby ; 

 and which, it is believed, would have made him a 

 defaulter to the extent of nearly £8,000 on the 

 24th, the " settling day" at Tattersall's ; a position 

 his too sensitive feeling of honour made him 

 unable to face. 



Mr. Berkeley Craven's melancholy fate was 

 deeply deplored by all who knew him, whether as a 

 man or a sportsman ; in which latter capacity, he 

 had ever evinced the strictest integrity. He was 

 in his 60th year, was uncle to the present Lord 

 Craven, and a member of the Jockey Club. 



On the 1 7th of October, a Mr. Daniel rode a 

 half-bred horse, in a match, for £50 a-side, from 

 the Peacock Inn, Islington, to the Angel Inn, Nor- 

 thampton, a distance of sixty-six miles, against 

 the Telegraph, four-horse coach. They started 

 from the Peacock, at a quarter before six, and 

 arrived at Northampton at a quarter before twelve, 

 Mr. Daniel winning, with a minute and a half to 

 spare, and neither horse nor rider being seriously 

 fatigued. 



On the 4th of November, within a fortnight 

 after the death of his wife, and a victim to the 

 same incurable complaint, consumption, Frank 

 Boyce, the well known jockey, died at Newmarket, 

 generally esteemed. He did not rank as first rate 

 in his profession as a jockey, and was, moreover, 

 very unlucky, it having scarcely ever been his lot 



