... DONCASTER RACES.—The nominations wbicb- dosed on the let instant, have surpassed, in point of numbers, the expecta- tions of the most sangufne lovers of the turf, and opened a prospect for the future of a more attractive and gratifying cha. racter than has been presented on any former occasion. For the present year, the oomiolltions for the Champagne are 42; for the two year-olds, 47 ...

... This affair, respecting the character of which some doubt at first existe.1, appears to have been taken in hand as a seuous rnfltter. by the Commissioners of Police. Enquiries are being made in every part of the neighbourhood in wiiich it is said to lave transpired. On Sanjid^y morning police-constables ilJiouie and Langton p oceeded down the river, and called at the various boat-builders' as ...

... DEATH AT 108 YEARS OF AGE—Died on Monday week. at the patriarchal age of 108, Mr. Morns Thurston, of Guinea- slreet, Exeter. The deceased, up to the last seven weeks, enjoytd excellent health and fopllils. He Jived for upwards of sIxty years in the house in which he died, and never till lately allowed any one to go into II. He was a herbal doctor, and as veiled through Devon, working ...

... arrivals and Sailings for the week ending January lit, 1845. ARRIVED. Economist, Smith. Maria, Corrigal, Quebec, timber and deals. -Foltuna, Kehn, Guernsey; Ellen Sophia. Hantman, Cadiz; Hulda, Sidien, Bordeaux, ballast.—Unanimity, Mitchel, Bridg- water; Ceies, Ioman, Friendship, Fryer, Gloucester, Friends, Hernard. Harriet and Ann, Morgan, Watertord. ffour, &e. Unitv, Bower, Padstow, ...

... COLLIERY.—The number of men injured was eleven, and con- trary to the expectations which we expressed, they are all rapidly getting better. The cause of the explosionis supposed to be, the falling away of a. portion of the walls which separate the working from the old levels, by which a large quantity of &re damp WM liberated, and took fir. It of tn. workmen's ...

... FODTIFICATION OF HARBOITH. It is the inten- tion of the Board of Ordnance to order the harbour at this port to be fortified. Two strong batteries, with fifty-six pounders capable of firing red-hot shot, will be erected at Staddon Heights, one at the Obelisk, and one or two others at other points at Mount Edgecombe. Heavy guns will also be placed in the Citadel %t Clarence Point Stonehouse- ...

... Present—W. Brewer, T. Hughes, and T. Hawkins, Esqrs. William Hemmingway was charged with stealing a two-foot rule lrom Robert Linton Discharged. Walter Halstow was charged with assaulting Wm. James. Discharged. Hopkin Hopkins was summoned for poor-rate and was or- dered to pay. + ...

... GREAT PEDESTRIAN MATCH FOR TWO HUN- DRED POUNDS I The great running match between Sheppard, a celebrated pedestrian, of Birmingham, and Jackson, alias the American Deer, a noted runner for £100 aside, was decided on Monday in favour of the latter, who accomplished a feat said to be un parelleled in the annals of pedestrianism, that of running 11 miles all but 100 yards within one hour. The ...

... DUBLIN, JANUARY 5. The correspondent of the Evening Chronicle states :—I have learned, from an unquestionable source, that ministers have de- termined to increase the annual parliamentary grant to May- nooth. You may remember that a deputation from the Roman Catholic prelates, recently assembled in this citv at their annual conference, had an interview with the lord-lieutenant and the chief ...

... The Commissioners held their first meeting this day, at their cffice, Lower Gardiner-street Mr. R. O'Carroll, the new Ro- man Catholic secretary, and Mr. W. P. Matthews, the Protest- ant secretary, attended. A second meeting of the commission- ers is to be held in the course of a week. ...

... OUR LETTER BOX. POACHERS VERSUS PHILOSOPHIC ANGLERS. Remember man:—The universal cause Acts not by partial, but by general laws, And makes what happiness we justly call, Subsist, not in the good of one, but all. —— POP, To the Editor of the Monmouthshire Merlin. (Continued from our last.) The facts stated in the last paragraph appear to contradict the tenor of my argument; but when I s ate ...

... FRIDAY, JAN. 7. [Before Commissioner SergI. Stephen.] The hearing on the fioal order of Thomas Hands, Pontvpool, insolvent, was adjourned, on account of the time occupied by the case of Williams and Sawtell, to Feb. 2. In the matter of John Jones, Llangattock, then a prisoner in lUonmouthshire jail, Mr. Bridges applied to the court to con- tinue the Interim of protection to the insolvent the ...