The Sun.
London, England, 1852-10-14 00:00:00

LONY,)ON, THURSDAY

very quietly; it is stated, however, that some extensive
"list" defalcations may be expected I:1 town.
BETTING AT SIX O'CLOCK.
THE PRENDERGAST STAKES.
5 to 4 apt Clwdclar.
THE CAMBRIDGESHIRE STAKES.
12 to 1 tigbt Ephesus 18 to 1 tigst Lady Evelyn
15 to 1 agst Knight of the 18 to 1 agst Convalsien
Shire 20 to 1 agst Babette
16 to 1 agst Azael to 1 agst 11.1acinth
16 to 1 agst Robbie Noble 25 to 1 agst Bardolph (t)
17 to 1 agst Weathergago
DERBY.

20 to 1 agst Filbert (taken).
30 to 1 agst Ninnyharnmer (taken).
It is reported that one of Lord Exeter's boys has con-
Zessed to having "focussed" Filbert before his race on
Tuesday, and that the matter will undergo magisterial
investigation on Thursday,
NEWMARKET.—WEDNESDAY NIGHT,
HNTRIES FOR THURSDAY.
Handicap. A.F.
Cariboo, 5 yrs, Bst 124b—Kingston, 3 yrs, Bst 12th—
Indian Warrior, 3 yrs, Bat 51b—Retail, 6 yre. fist 41b—
Garforth, 5 yrs, Bst 21b—Bordeaux, 5 yrs, 7st 121 b
Beauclerc, aged, 7st 71b—Timid Fawn, 4 yrs, 7st 51b—
Poodle, 3 yrs, ist—Father Thames, 3 yrs, 7st—Vivan-
diere, 4 yrs, 6st 101b—St. Fabien, 5 yrs, G.at 101 b
Gladiole, 5 yrs, Est 101b—Sackbut, 3 yrs, 6st Sib—
Muscovite, 3 yrs, Get Sib—Harpsichord, 3 yra, Gst 81b—
Lady Speedy, 5 yrs, Get 4th—Mary Ann, 3 yrs, 6st—
Waverley, 3 yrs, 6st—King Pepin, 3 yrs, 63t—No
Chance, 4 yrs, sst 121 b—happy Joe, 3 yrs, sst 121 b
Cre.tsa, 3 yrs, sst 91b—Jewel, 3 yrs, sst 71b —Apostate,
3 yrs, sst.

Handicap. D.M.
Frantic, Sat 71b—Khadtdja, 7st 91b—Mary Ann, 7st—
Dame Tattle, bat 121 b.
Sweepstakes; first half of Ab M.; winner to be ;sold

for 40/, &c.
Cock Pheasant—Admirnl Tschiticheff—Longstock
Lass—Ragc—b c by Assault, dam by Lanercost—c
by Alarm, out of Alkali—b fby Weatherbit, out of
Azora—c by lletman Platoff, out of Infidelity.
Sweepstakes; T. Y. C.; winner to bo sold for 1501.

Luxurious, Warbler, besdemona, Guava.
Sweepstakes; first half of Ab._M.; winner to be sold for

3001., &c.
Newport, 6 yrs—Thornhill, 5 yrs—Old Rowley, 3
yrs—Lapidist, 3 yrs—Hambletonian, 3 yrs—Gold Dust,
2 yrs—Nicotine, 2 yrs—William Rufus, 2 yrs.
LATEST BETTING ON WEDNESDAY NIGHT.
PRENDERGAST STAKES.
7to 4 agst Sittingbourne 13 to 1 agst Cheddar
Offers to take 4 to 1 about Estrella.
CAMBRIDGESHIRE STAKES.
4 to 1 agst Azael (t) 18 to 1 agst Convulsion
5 to 1 agst Ephesus (t) 20 to 1 agst Hobbie Noble
00 to 6 agst Lady Evelyn 20 to 1 agst Le Juif (I)
00 to 6 agst Knight of the I 25 to 1 opt Bard°lph
Shire I 25 to 1 agst Hyacinth (t)
BY.
25 to 1 agst Cheddar
25 to 1 apt Filbert (t)
25 to 1 agst Pharos

15 to 1
18 to 1
20 to 1
20 to 1

agst Orestes
agst Cineas
agst Elmsthorpe (t)
agst The Reiver

THE MATCH BETWEEN THE AMERICA

AND THE VERSICH.
The match between the well-known yacht Ame-
rica, and a new Swedish yacht, the Versich, came
off on Tuesday. The start took place a few minutes
past eleven o'clock, but it was not concluded till eight
at night. The two vessels are very much alike in
build and rig, but the Versich is some thirty or forty
tons heavier, and of greater beam than the America,
The wind during the day was but light, blowing
chiefly from the north-east. The course was from
Ryde-pier to the Nab-lightship, off the east end of
the Isle of Wight, and then twenty miles to the south-
ward, round a steamer that had been brought to,
and back the same run to Ryde. The America had
much the better start of the two, getting well away
some two or three minutes sooner than the Versich,
which gave her a great advantage. She reached the
Nab-light the first by some time, when, getting a
tolerably fair leading wind, she farther distanced her
opponent. When, however, the Swede succeeded in
reaching the light vessel, she gradually began to
gain on the America, and at length passed her. The
time at rounding the steam-vessel was as follows :
Versich, at
America, at 3 hrs. 34 min. 55 sec. _

The run back to the Nab was a prolonged affair,
several long reaches having to be made by both ves-
sels. In the course of it a fog set in, and the America
again got the lead, which she kept, arriving off Ryde-
pier at about eight o'clock some twenty minutes
earlier than her competitor. The match was divested
of much of its interest, and of nearly all importance,
so far as the question of the qualities of the two ves-
sels are concerned, from the lightness of the wind,
and the consequent prolongation of the contest to so
late an hour of the night, from which circumstances
its issue became too much dependent on a knowledge,
by the steersmen, of the set of the tide and currents.
The Swede was further disadvantaged by having to
change her pilot, on Lord De Blacquiere raising an
objection, that, as he had sailed in the America,
he had become possessed of a knowledge of her
weak points.

Mit. GREEN'S FIVE HUNDRED
AND THIRD ASCENT.

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TO TTIE EDITOR OF TIIE, SUN.
Sra,—/ elioulcl fear that a narrative now-a-days of
a two-hour;' sail " on the bosom of the ni7" would
have in it no special novelty, were it not for the fact
that of late we have only heard descriptions of dan-
gerous trips, of "hair-breadth escapes," end of
deseens sufficiently perilous to jeopardise bone and
limb. A quiet ascent, at the quiet hour of two in the
afternoon, is really a novelty, and, I believe, an in-
teresting one.
This was the hour selected for a trip to which I
am about to refer you. We had no Italian Brothers
posturing from the car; we discharged no fireworks,
for we borrowed no romance from midnight; and
we avoided the companionship of any Smithfield
quadrupeds.
Our party consisted of six gentlemen, piloted by
the Solon of aeronauts, the veteran Green. The Great
Nassau Balloon left the "Royal Property," on Mon-
day last, at a quarter past two, freighted with—Dr.
Goodeve, 2, Kensington Palace-gardens; Septimus
Parrott, Dq., Clapham-common; G. Moulson,
Esq., Clapham; Charles Huffnagle, Esq., of
Calcutta, Consul of the United States of Ame-
rica ; George Stevens, Lq., of Vauxhall;
and myself. The day was fine, but occasionally
cloudy and somewhat autumnal. At the hour above
mentioned we left terra firma, and were very soon
above houses, churches, and trees, enjoying a bird's-
eyo view of our great city. In a little time distance
vouchsafed us its " enchantment." Then all that
wee unpicturesque became lovely, and common things
were clad in the drapery of the beautiful. We saw
shorts strips of streets, and long strips of roads ; but
surely not the streets and roads we are accustomed
I to walk and drive on, although there were little cabs
there with baby drivers, that almost cheated one into
the belief that they were rattling along a genuine
highway ; and there were little omnibuses there, with
little horses drawing them, driven by little coach-
men,
and there were Lilliputian ponies there, ridden
by Lilliputian men " fussing" onward. And along
the roads there were little red houses with little blue
roofs, such as never could have been built with real
bricks and timber, and before and behind them were
gardens almost as large as hearth-rugs, scrupulously
neat and trim ; and here and there appeared little
white houses, with a dark line round their tiny front
gardens to indicate an iron railing, within which
samplers were spread to look like ornamental lawns.
In the distance appeared a zigzag river, not really
like the Thames, but bearing some resemblance to a
map of it. Here and there little churches were most
picturesquely placed, made, I am sure, entirely out
of card-board; except the windows which surely must
be made of gold-beater's skin.
And then we saw miniature commons, dotted with
little bits of sponge to imitate furze, with here and
there a pond quite as large as a pie dish. And then
we saw trees that looked like oaks and elms, only so
ridiculously small; and then there were plenty of
lines to represent hedges which surrounded fields not
quite so large as tablecloths. And we discerned hay-
stacks too, though we mistook them for toadstools ;
and we beheld abundance of shrubs, that could nicely
be enclosed within tumblers. INe seemed to be look-
ing at the world through an inverted opera glass.
Nothing seemed real except the balloon and ourselves.
Every thing had been minified and idealized. It was easy
to believe that some one had arranged in a most pictu.
resque manner a multitudinous variety of beautifully
executed toys, in order to represent a city and its en-

virons.
As we rose higher the earth appeared like a co-
lossal bowl inlaid with marqueterie. We soon
ascended rapidly, and were presently in the midst of
a cloud, which was very like being enveloped in a
thick November fog. As we were still ascending we
soon left the clouds below us, and in a few minutes
were in an entirely new world. The sun was shining
brilliantly, the sky was of the purest blue ; the atmo-
sphere was like that of summer, the clouds lay like a
mighty earth below us. We seemed to have entered
a land uninhabited as yet by beast, or bird, or man.
We could scarcely reason ourselves into the belief
that we were not in an Artie region,
Colossal accumulations of feathery snow, huge
firm rocks, and many " a frozen Alp" ap_
parently surrounded uq, while the entire sur-
face below seemed solid as a world. In the distant
horizon there was precisely the appearance of the
ocean, and as if nothing should be wanting to com-
plete the illusion, the cliffs were there, the shore was
there, the foam of the breakers was there, and rooted
in the sea there stood in solitary grandeur
the threatening iceberg. We were then 12,333 feet
above the level of the sea. This entire scene made on
all of us a solemn impression. It was scarcely pos-
sible to avoid feeling that
6, We are such stuff as dreams aro mado of."
For a long period we had a reflection of our balloon
in the distant clouds.
It is strange that when we were really gazing on
the earth, it appeared more like the picture of' a world
than its reality.
When we were gazing on " cloud land" we realized
a positive, solid, and substantial world.
We now began to descend • ,It•
one time
so rapidly
were we going downward that we overtook the bal-
last we had just discharged,
- and afterwards received
it on our heads.
Occasionally in the clouds below us we discerned
what appeared to be a brilliant star, and sometimes
we saw a cluster of stars like the Pleiades. We found,
on nearing the earth, that these starlike appearances
by ou
were occasionedr seeing, through small aper-
tures in the clouda,Thave
a ter on which the sun was
pouring its rays. long rope was how thrown
from the car, the grapnel followed, and in a few mi-
nutes we quietly descended at Cuckfield, near
Crawley, about forty miles from London and thirteen
from Brighton. Neither in ascending, descending,
nor in journeying
were we at all conscious of motion.
ever W
more rapidly. passed more pleasantly or fled
a debtor to Mr. ,Everyone of our party feels himself
Green, whose kindness and cour-
tesy each desires to
All timidity acknowledge.
was entirely banished, because perfect
confidencesv
pilot who ore this
as
felt
in
the skill of the experienced
occasion made his 503 d ascent.
I am, Sir, Sac,
J. TELL TOPHA.M.

COURT CIRCULAR.
BALMORAL, OCT. 12.
The ceremony of building the " Carn Clach-
Chuirnhneachan Balmoral" took place
morning on Craig Gowan. Her Majesty laid the
fist stone, yesterday
and his Royal Highness Prince Albert,
with. the rest of the Royal Family, assisted, each.
placing a stone upon the Cairn,
rent members of the Royal Household, and the as did also the d
inha-
bitantsitle-
living upon the esstate of Balmoral, who had
assembled for that purpose.
Th- t,

Le Earl and Countess of Derby arrived in town
yesterday from Knowsley Hall, Lancashire. In the
afternoon the Earl and Countess proceeded to St.
Leonard's, near Windsor.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer arrived in town
yesterday from Hughenden Manor, Bucks. Mr.
Pressly had an interview with the Right Hon. Gentle-
man yesterday, at his official residence in Downing-
street.

TILE QUEEN'S VISIT TO NORTEIVALKS
BANGOR, WEDNESDAY, 8 P.M.
The Royal train reached Bangor at a quarter to
six o'clock.
Her Majesty was received, on alighting at the
station, by Sir Richard Bulkeley, Lord-Lieutenant
of the county, Colonel Douglas Pennant, Mr. G. H.
Whalley, High Sheriff, the Bishop of the diocese,
Mr. Bulkeley Hughes, the borough Member, and
other leading inhabitants of the district.
The Royal party in proceeding to the Penrhyn
Arms Hotel were loudly cheered, the people of the
neighbourhood having assembled in great numbers to
welcome them.
As soon as night closed in bonfires were lighted
on all the hills, and are now burning brightly ; the
town is partially illuminated, and the most enthu-
siastic expressions of loyalty are heard on all sides.

MANSION-Houss.—Yesterday the Lord Mayor
entertained a distinguished party of the Dissenting ministers
and laymen of the different denominations, at a banquet in
the Egyptian hall. Nearly two hundred guests sat down to
a splinadid entertainment, and among those present on the
occasion were the following :—The Rev. Dr. Morrison, Rev.
Dr. 13ennett, Rev. Dr. Burder, Rev. Dr. Dick, Rev. Dr.
Tidn- lan, Rev. Dr. Campbell, Rev. Dr. Stowell, Rev. Dr.
Mas: sey, Rev. Dr. Steane, Rev. Dr. Archer, Rev. Dr. Harris,
Rev. Dr. Fletcher, Rev. Mr. Harrison, the Lord Mayor Elect,
M.P., Mr. S. M. Peto, M.P., Mr. Apsley Pellatt, M.P., Mr.
J. Pil:kington, M.P., Mr. Kershaw, M.P., Mr. Milligan, M.P.,
Mr. 1 Ball, M.P., Mr. T. Barnes, M.P., Mr. T. Chambers,
Sir John Kerr Haberfield, Mayor of Bristol; the Mayor
of Th:adford, Dr. Lankester, Dr. Risdale Bennet, Mr. Alder-
man. Humphery, Mr. Alderman Lawrence, Mr. Alderman
Wire, Mr. Sheriff Croll, Rev. J. Edwards (Chaplain to the
Lot d Mayor), Rev. Messrs. Stratten, Bergore, G. Smith,
Bu: net, G. Clayton, T. Binney, J. Hill, J. Stoughton, P.
Ma rtin, Sherman, J. H. Hurton, Aldis, Stovel, Angus, J. C.
Ha rrison, J. B. Brown, Watson, G. Wilkinson, S. Davis,
E.. Slannering, S. B. Hollis, C. Gilbert. Hallon, T. Aveling,
R. Phillip, J. James, W. Groser, J. Weir, Madge, Tagart,
Da vison, Ransom, Godwin, Smith; Messrs. T. Priestly, G•
Ba: 'lay, Tozer, G. Kemp, Carling, Milsom (of Lyons), Law,
Mo rley, J. orley, Coombs, H. Spicer, J. Spicer, R. Cun-
lift; 3, sen., R. Cunliffe, jun., Snow, E. Edwards, W. Knott,
Lol v., Wilcox, W. Hunter, Hare, J. R. Hunter, Reed, Burkitt,
Edw, and Hunter, W. Redley, Cook, &c.
T HE AMERICA YACHT.—Lord de Blaquiere, the
owne r of this yacht, has challenged the yachts of all coun-
tries , America excepted, not exceeding the America inston:
nags to sail with his yacht, for a sum not less than 00L.
sand not more than 1,0004 on any day and iln
of
j3lacte ;ex.
y :t, over any course (the inside of thetlseesaLWigh
g qualities
ex-
ce p ted) that would give scope for testing h
of the America and her opponents, uncler all pointst in a nine-
k not breeze. This challenge will remain open until the 15th
o INovember.
ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH,—
STATISTICS OF THE
I '1 7110 total extent of telegraph in England is nearly 4,000
n e iles, representing an outlay of about 300,0001. The staff
vi sniploy6s clay be take:lst PPYfard3 of 600 persons.