The Sun.
London, England, 1852-11-22 00:00:00

MUNIFICENT GIFT.—Mr. Joshua Bates, of the firm of
Baring Brothers and Company, of London, has written
a letter to Mayor Seaver, of Boston, United States,
offering to supply the new public library of that city
with books to the amount of 50,000 dollars. One con-
dition only attends the gift.. It is, " that the building
shall be such as shall be an ornament to the city—that
there shall be room for 150 persons to sit at reading-
tables—that it shall be perfectly free to all, with no other
restrictions than may be necessary for the preservance of
the books."
RATHER ANOMALOUS.—It is a singular consequence of
the institutions of the United States, that although the
recent Presidential election has virtually annihilated the
principles and the party of the present administration in
the first week of November, yet Mr. Fillmore and his
cabinet will continue to conduct public affairs till the 4th
of March, and that in the interval the President will, as
usual, address Congress, and take all the steps he may
think fit, in obedience to a system of policy which the
nation has repudiated and condemned.
THE DONCASTER RACE GRANT.—We are very glad to
hear that a 2001. addition to the 1,000/. Autumn Race
Grant of 1853 was carried in a Council Meeting of the
Doncaster Corporation, on Monday lgst. The proposi-
tion was made by Mr.• COuneillor Johnson (one of the
most active and liberal originators of the Spring Meet-
ing), who proved by some most unanswerable figures,
that every concession of late years on the part of the
Corporation had been most liberally responded to by the
racing world, and had brought greatly increased receipts
into the Corporation exchequer. After a warm discus-
sion his motion-was carried by 11 to 9, the mayor voting
in the minority. When we remember that the receipts
of the last year were nearly 5001. more than they had
been in any previous year, we are sorry that the vote
should not have been an unanimous one ; • but, as the
racing interests have now so many staunch friends in the
Corporation itself, and the burgesses are almost unani-
mous on the point, there is no doubt that the grant will
soon be fixed permanently. at 1,2001. The Corporation
very liberally concede to the Race Committee the entire
use of the grand stand free of all charge in the spring,
and thus next year Doncaster will give very little short
of two thousand guineas to be run for at her two meet-
ings: We trust that the Corporation will only follow up
ttnralngood deed by building a proper stand for reporters,
in oblivion.
the ers, and jockeys ; and we may then safely assure
rn that the little feud which has long existed between
rnensely to str The
themselves
and
the racing world will be for ever buried
first day ; andewn additional 2001. will contribute inl-
et least two new
gtheri the programme, especially on the
so nobly done its acrU.
er het Lr that it is proposed to establish
"added money," well Now that the Corporation has
by the racing men, as regards
Koope that the annual subscription
of Earl Scarborough
the nucleus of an entlirel
1
heir Race Fund, will be made
tt
eKeneeNvu_Plate, which the visitors
furnish between them.
and the railways mig
LIVERPOOL WOOL MARECIL,4I•To 17.--A good in-
as
quirt' for wool, bu not much business,v.
stocks are
small. Prices stiff. Imports the past Week, 163 bales
1
Buenos Ayres,