The Sun.
London, England, 1852-11-23 00:00:00

SHREWSBUfiTIiACEV

(THIS DAY.)

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
The Astley Stakes.
Knight of the Thistle .
Ada
Doubt
Bit of Blue

Shrewsbury Handicap.

Twelve ran.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

SPORTING NOTES.—No.
To-morrow, at Shrewsbury, is devoted to the Steeple' .
chase and Hurdle Races. The first race—grandilo-
quently set forth as the Shropshire Grand Annual
Steeplechase, open to all England, with a water leap
opposite the stand, &c.—is of five sovs. each, two ft, ',
with seventy added, over about four miles of fair hunting
country. Of the dozen acceptances, in all probability
not more than six will be found at the post. Peter
made the top weight at list 71b, which, however,.
doubt his carrying successfully. Victress, at 11st, 111"
eluding 71b extra for her victory the other day, has als°'
to my fancy, got a little too much to carry. Vainhope,
at lOst 101 b, if in form and meant, is about the beg
thing in the race. Bourton at lOst 81b, has no chance
whatever. Vengeance, at lOst 41b, is not over-weighted'
The gelding by Sir Hercules out of Lepida, Heroine, and f
the Emperor must give place to Young Sir Edward, ,°
whom I observed the other day, in my remarks on tne
Hunt Cup Steeplechase at Warwick, that his, day
had not then arrived ; I think it now has. 14"ttJo
f
Charley and Clatterbox have their chances disposed ° •
by Annie Laurie, who, at 9st lib, ought to run velit:
forward—in fact, obtain a place. Looking over the PS /
if Mr. Vevers does not intend to attempt winning',
think YOUNG SIR EDWARD and ANNIE LAURIE quite
good enough to fill the first and second places.
The Hurdle Race of 40 sovs., added to a handil
sweepstakes of 5 sovs. each, 1 ft. &c., over six flights °
hurdles, on a two mile and a quarter course, will, I pr:
sume, be contested by about half of the acceptanceh'i
The top weight, HALF-AND-HALF, at lOst 131 b, oug-
to be about the mark at the finish of the race. It i 3 5
question however, whether he is better than Tninbl;
Ballet Girl, and Gaylad at the weights. He is certainly
the best hurdle jumper of the lot, therefore I shall PI
him first ; and award the second place to Ballet Girl,
she runs ; in her absence Gaylad and Tomboy will Prh(r
bably be second and third. I perceive there is a
shionably-bred horse that figured in the nominations it
the last Derby, at the tail of the acceptances ; knovlivP
nothing whatever about him, I must continue in the 81.
lent mood with respect to his qualities.
THE SPIRIT OF THE TURF'

TATTERSALL'S—MONDAY.
THE SHREWSBURY HANDICAP.
2 to 1 agst Mr. Palmer's Doubt
3 to 1 Mr. G. Barton's Little Fawn
5 to 1 Captain Archdall ns Kiteflyer
7 to 1 Mr. T. Dawson's Bit of Blue
8 to 1 Mr. Burton ns Lerrywhent The above were the nominal prices at the close ; le4
little was done.

THE COLUMN HANDICAP (SHREWSBURY"
2 to 1 agst Mr. W. H. Scott's Warwick (taken)
CHESTER CUP-
-2,000 to 30 laid agst Muscovite, and 1,000 to 10 each
agst Robbie Noble, Goldfinder, Madeline, Grey Tofll
Redmond O'Hanlan, qnd Tickton (taken)

DERBY.
1200 to 100 agst Mr. Bowes's West Australian
(taken and afterwards Offen
1000 to 60 Lord John Scott's The Beive
tak)
• 900 to 50 Duke en
of Richmond's rog
(taken and afterwards offered)
1000 to 50 Lord Derby's Umbriel (tak°
and afterwards offered)
1000 to 50 Mr. Howard's Elmsthorpe(t34'
and afterwards offered) d
1000 to 50 Mr. Powney's Cineas (takella-
afterwards offered)
1000 to 40 Captain Lane's Ninnyhavole,
43,a0k0eont aonldooafltaeirdwaatrdosnoeffoe rect
*As much as 1,000 to 30 has been laid againstthis
horse at the club-houses in the course of the last two or
three days.

ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL.--Yesterday the public vier'
admitted by tickets to "View the interior of St. Paul
1:
fitted up and lighted as it wrs on the day of the funell •
The number allowed in at a time was unnecessarily ern3
being limited to 700 per hour ; but we hope that a /Ilet
larger issue of tickets will be made durinc, the reit
the week, the object, in the first place, having7been to ssee';
tain how far the sacred edifice could be thrown open without
impeding the thoroughfare. Some change must be Mad°
in the mode of granting the privilege of admission,
which, as will be aeon, has led to great inconvenien.ce
and abuse. Great eagerness was displayed to see the 1_1)4.
terier, and those who succeeded in doing so appear'
much astonished at the extent and effectiveness of the
arrangements. Nor is this surprising. for we are assured.
that the amount of work got through within the time 19
quite unexampled ; 2,000 loads of timber having 10e°
used, and 6,000 feet of gaspipe, containing 7,500 Jets,
having been laid down.
f
TICKETS OF ADMISSION INTO Sr. PAUL'S.—lnstead o•
adopting some regular and methodical arrangement'
whereby respectable persons applying might obtain the!Ae ;
tickets, the officials to whom the matter was intreet'a
have allowed the place to be beset by a disorderly croii:
of the lower class, and to these the tickets were ilia's:
criminately handed, no name, address, or other parti,ct
lars, being asked or given. The consequence was wu'd
might have been expected—the tickets thus obtain
were hawked about in the neighbourhood of the excis':.,
office and in St. Paul's churchyard by a set of lucife ,
match sellers, and such-like vagrants, at half-a-crown,:
piece, and we believe, in many instances, a treat at 14'
nearest beer-house was the consideration demanded.
AGGREGATE COST OF SEATS AT THE DUKE'S FUNEBA'r; •
—The following calculation has been made with seraf,t
care, for the purpose of ascertaining the proximate atenil- •
the
of money paid by the public for mere seats to vieW,,,
ceremonial of the Duke funeral. There were in the .1-":
of ;procession, in Piccadilly, 100 houses ; St. Janes a.
street, 90 • Pall-Mall, 124 ; Cockspur-street, 34 ;."i",.
ring-cross, '24 ; Strand, 457 ; Fleet-street, 208 ; Ludg3, „5/
hill, 90 ; St. Paul's-churchyard, 30 ; in the whole,
1,1
to mention the numerous clubs, the ncl ci
i
in Waterloo-place and Trafalgar-square, and the
and
it
houses of every street abutting upon the line ; a 1,1,7
must also be remembered that the inclosure of St. It.
tin's Church, the New Church, St. Clement's, and
Dunstan's, furnished accommodation for full 6,000 Peer t
sons ; the gallery over the Opera Colonnade for at leas
1, people ; Crockford's three galleries, 1,000 peel' -0i
and the house in process of erection at the corner, at
Arundel-street, for 700 persons. Now, assuming 1,,'()),4
there were only 60 spectators in each house (694'
there must have been private accommodation for abut
120,000 people, and if one-third be deducted on aec°g.
of those who devoted their establishments to the ace002
modation of their connections and friends, there will e
main 80,000, which, at one sovereign a head,
80,000/.

re'
COUNTY TREASURERS.—Yesterday a Parliamentar9.
turn, procured by Mr. Frewen, was printed, contaiDlr,
an abstract of the accounts of the several county trea•
curers in England and Wales for the year Coutilti
Michaelmas, 1851. The total assessment for the eollr„ts
rate in the year was 59,994,9861. 6s. sd. The recei'ri s,
with the balance in hand, amounted to 1,489,4371-_,a
6d. The disbursements were 1,355,6451. 12s. I'4
The prosecution of prisoners in the year came to 194,3581ted
Os. 54d. The maintenance of pauper lunatics amount
to 16,990/. Bs. 44d., and the coroners cost in the
54,451/. 2s. Bd.

ST. MARYLEBONE SAVINGS BANK.—The return.'
this bank, whose offices are at 76, Welbeck-street,
hibit the following progress of accumulated dePegoo
during the last seven years :—Open deposit accountsdo,
20th Nov. 1846, 17,2801.; do. 1847, 18,119/-
1848, 19,019/. ; do. 1849, 20,382/. • do. 1850,,21,1' •
do. 1851, 22,1761.; do. 1852, 22,714/. tree 4
SAVAGE ASSAULT.—Yesterday, at the Worship-8,-ow,
Police Court, Jeremiah Donovan, a tall, muscular
was charged with a murderous assault upon his "1. of
who was lying in the London Hospital, with sever-„do.
her ribs fractured, and in a state of imminent dal%tio
' The prisoner, it appeared, in the course of a d°rte,,,ect
quarrel, had knocked his wife down, and then Ju
upon her several times, fracturing her ribs on both 810,0
and inflicting other very serious injuries, in conseque ro-
of which her life was in great danger. He was
manded.
ASSAULT ON A SOLDIER.—Yesterday, at the
Iv'
minster Police Court, a fellow named Higginbottoin 00
charged with the following very serious assault :r. •
the night of the 16th ins'z. some Light Dragoons, %al-
tered in the vicinity of Knightsbridge, _
were at the 133001 e
ham Head public-house, when, in consequence of ana
angry words between one of them (not complainard)this,
a civilian, the military left the place. Shortly after. was
Thomas Pitt, a private of the 13th Light Drageer':lonot
standing outside speaking to a friend, when the pris
eye,
threw a stone at him, which struck him in the right oner
and felled him to the ground insensible. The pris
was committed for trial. 11011°8'
CAUTION TO EMIGRANTS.—At the Mansion ,cheS°
yesterday, Lionel G. Thompson, late of No. 1, l',efore
court, Lime-street, shipping agent, was broughte,u-doy-
Sir Robert W. Carden, in the custody of Micha_lat',eo.
don, the officer, upon a warrant issued under the 1c.8%1,,
gers' Act, for the non-payment of the sum of 591.; the
being the amount of the passage money, 1. the
expenses incurred in consequence of the defatuwlt.•
prisoner to provide certain persons named Hart
rit,n_rYo.ocl
sage in a vessel called the South Sea ; and alsotr aged
to de-
upon a warrant for a conspiracy with G. Shot e ,oc_d to
fraud William Henry Ba-Isett, a person who exp
0,14141,
be a passenger by the same vessel, of the sumto larose
10s. The defendant was ordered to be sent to thethe
of Correction for three months unless he pad tioani%d to
which he did not do, and he was accordingly r ev
the Compter. arrived 8e
MORTALITY AT SEA.----The Patna, which
„can th.
Liverpool on Sunday night, brings accounts
emigrant ship Shackamaxon, Captain
.a.t.a." she
Liverpool on the 4th of October for Aubti
.1:
_a
isopno.k
2e
6bymrth.,eat awthniachontimthee
2239tphaOsseetno:eerrs.n(c,h_lidititcycija
=en) out Of Alie- 600 which sailed in her had
scarlatina.