Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-06-16 00:00:00

The ELLING HANDI C
1 ages ; the winner to 1

ys each, 3 ft, with 40 added, for
40 sots; one mile ; 9 subs.

3 . 6 4
3...6 2
3...6 2

Coatentioi.
Neophite

a.. 3 7 1 A Pon}
4., 7 10 Certainty
3.. 7 2 Stir Pudding ..
3 6 12. Flash in the Pan
3..6 8 1
the s
Te Two YEAR OLD STAKES of 10 sovs each h ft, with 50 added
s;
h con
se to save his stake; colts Bst 71b, Hill es Bst 41b ; winner
of a stake value 100 soya 31b, of 200 51b, of two of 200, one of 500
sous or the Sapling Stakes 7113 ektra ; T.Y.C. ; 21 sub
Mr Wi -

;or's b c Little Colonel ; T Parr's gr c Rattlebone
1/11.11n,0 11,31 V • ... .

Osborne's, b f by 'Wes
.stralian ont of Birdtrap

fr, Merry's br c Trovatore
Mr Merry's ch f Lady Falconer
(5113 extra)
Mr E Buckley's gr c by Daniel
a O'Rourke out of Grevling's

ch f Lady

a I,a w 7.4011 S C aiontrose „
_
Mr Easrwood's ch f DMr awsonM nsCR b c ProfessOr
(31b ex) Dick
Captain Christie"s ch c Stanley Mr G Forster's b f The Gem
Mr W S llalford's ch f Gwellyan Mr.T Hopwood's ch eby Danie
Mr Copeland's eh c Hameses O'Rourke, dam by Sleight of
r Copeland's eh f Lady Rand
Grosvenor • . Mr T Wiseman's f Recluse

HER MAJESTY'S Pr,ATE Of 100gS • three

year olds 7st

hree miles and .a

PROPHECIES.
I take tbe following to win :

Ascot Gold Cup.-:-Fisherman or North Lincoln.
Manchester Tradesmen's Cup.--Gladiolus or Meg Merrilies

New Stakes,

A FRIEND OF TILE THE MOON

•
THE DONKEY AND THE BEES.—Though our beautiful
country is
,happily in the enjoyment of a state of peace, a
circumstance has recently occurred in the quiet little town
of Coleshill, where the battle raged as furiously, while it
lasted, as any yet recorded as -taking place between the rival
hosts who were striving

'‘ To feed the crows on Italy's fair plains,
And fertilise the field they each pretend to gain."
At the residence of a gentleman named Perceval
(brother to the gifted and unfortunate statesman of
that name who, half-ti century ago, fell by the hand of
the assassin Bellinpl—'

oam, in the lobby of the House of
Commons), • a swarm of .bees haying been successfully
housed, the hive was placed, covered with a cloth, on
the grassplot 'in front of the house. Mr. Perceval has a
donkey,: and, as•" the fates". would have it, the animal was
at the, time tethered and quietly browsing in close proximity
hive. Whether it was that "Jack" inquisitively
-4erneati-

nis nose lino, .a the covering, or that the bees consi-
dered him as encroaching too .near their new settlement,
one of the scouts alighted in no very gentle mood on
some part of his hide, inflicting so unpleasant.a titilation
that .4 Tank "

astance from its stand. Out flew the
inmates, buzzing angry imprecations, and in an instant the
indignant swarm had covered-the hide of their assailant
from "stem to stern." "Jack" kicked, jumped, and
brayed,. and committed all kinds of curvettings, using
his tail as a flail to clear, off his small assailants_

in g some d

w.a..aa4/./CA,AL.I,
flapping his ears, right and left, to dislodge those about his
head quarters ; but finding the stings and arrows "of the
outrageous enemy rather too much for him in a stand-un fight

Ile auopieu tue Lancashire mode, and, throwing himself upon
the grass-plot, commenced _ a fearful and exterminating
slaughter by rolling himselfoverand over. The outcry alarmed
the family, and 11,1t.,Perceval, who is advanced in years and

VVI6II lameness advanced to the scene of action; on
seeing a . fresh .Object the angry . insects left
prostrate foe and alighted on the hat: of Mr
Pereeval. The. servant lad, seeing the cluster on his
master's hat, ..imprudently removed it from his head,
which then became the object of attack, and it was
only by dexterously throwing the cloth over his head
and removing him from the -scene that Mr. Perceval
was not seriously injured, as the bees that "Jack"
had disturbed where .whizzing about in that angry state
of excitement that makes them highly desperate and
dangerous. It is satisfactory to know that, after all the
hubbub, the insects weresrehived, and that no one received
any great amount' f injury, although "Jack," the originator
of the disaster, is often seen to throw a glance of suspicion
across the plot, and by sundry shakings of his ears and tail,
to endeavour to indicate that, like the great Duke at
'Waterloo, "He never fought such a battle before, and he
hopes never to fight such another,"