The Sun.
London, England, 1864-01-14 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE

RACING FIXTU:
FEBL

[RES FOR 1864.

:lIAII.Y.

Birmingham
Harrow
Chelmsford l7
111 A

Lincoln Spring 23
Ilungerford

Nottingham Spring 1
Derby Spring 3
Liverpool
Shrewsbury
Doncaster Spring

Warwick .. 16
Durham
Northampton 29
Catterick 3O

Croxton-park
Edinburgh Spring 2
Abergavenny 5
Thirsk 5

Epsom Spring
Newmarket Craven
Newmarket First Spring 25

Chester
York Spring
Salisbury l2
Bath

Manchester
Harpenden
Epsom 24

Ascot .. 7
Hampton l5
Newton
Odiham
Bibury
Stockbridge

Chelmsford 2B
New Forest Hunt 26
Ne ivcastle-on-Tyne
Worcester (Summer)
Ipswich

Newmarket July
Carlisle
Abingdon
Liverpool July
Stamford l4
Pontefract

Nottingham
Winchester l9
Southampton .. 2O
Chesterfield
Goodwood ..

Bright on..
Brighton Club . ..... 4
Lewes 5
Reading
Egham
Oxford .. Is
Yarmouth .. 23

SEFTE
Weymouth
Warwick September 6
Leicester S
Doncaster .. l3
Brecon .. 19

0 CTO
Northallerton 6I
Newmarket Second Oct lO
NoTE:
Shrewsbury Autumn
Leamington & War. Hunt 22

STEEPLECHASING

FEBII

York August 23
Plymouth
Derby
Lichfield 3O
Stocktcn .... 3O
Devon and Exeter

Richmond
Monmouth
Manchester Autumn
NewmarketFiret October 27

IBER.

Gloucester
Newmarket Houghton 2l

:MBER.

Worcester Autumn .... 30

IXTFRES FOR 1861.

IARY.

Carmarthen
Harrow .. 2 Aberystwith
Cambridge

MARCH.
Grand Military (Rugby Hunt) l4
Arnm.

Abergavenny .. 5

NOVEMBER.

Leamington and Warwickshire Hunt 22

"TOE PORTRAIT," A NEW OPERA, by the Bareia
von Perfall, has been given at Munich; the journals say,
with entire success.

A WORK BY M. M. LUSSY ON TEACHING THE
PIANo, entitled "Reform° dans l'Enseignement du Piano,
has sufficient merit to have been highly praised by itossini-
THE NEW DEAN OF CORE.—The Rev. Dr. Mageo,
rector of Enniskillen, has been appointed Dean of Cork.
MR. HENRI DRAYTON, we regret to learn, hes
been recently dangerously ill;
OXFORD DRAMATIC CLUB.—The ninth annuftl
ball of the above club took place on Tuesday last, wheal
upwards of 400 persons availed themselves of the invita-
tion, and dancing was kept up till an early hour in the
morning. Groat praise is due to the principal stewards,
Messrs. Purkess, Morgan, and Mitchell, for their great
exertions.

THE COPENHAGEN PAPERS report that a French
and English squadron is shortly expected to appear in
Danish waters, which will very probably be the case when
the navigation opens in the spring; but the Baltic ports
are now closed and ice-bound.
MISERABLE CHILDHOOD.—In an account of a
Children's Hospital lately opened in Edinburgh, the
author of " John Halifax, Gentleman," in Good Words,
gives some curious specimens of child life in this second
half of the 19th century in " modern Athens." This is one'
of them :—" Here was a boy who had been found lying on
straw in a dark collar which had literally nothing in it hut
this one heap of straw. The parents were in the habit of
going out for the day and locking up the child there with-
out food or fire or clothes. He was brought in a mere
bundle of rags, quite paralysed, and lay for a week on ono
of the hospital beds without stirring or speaking, till they
almost thought he was deaf and dumb. At last he did
matter out one word, and it was whisky!' He afterwards
tried in his wretched, faint voice, to begin singing a whisky
song. He told the nurse he had hardly tasted anything but
whisky since he was born, Somehow his wretched mother
found him out and came to see him. Immediately after
she left, the miserable little creature was caught hiding its
wizened face and half-paralysed hands under the bedclothes,
trying to undo the cork of a small bottle filled with whisky !
But the child recovered, learned to feed on and enjoy other
food than grams, and has left the hospital for a future (A—
Gud knows what, Still, the life has been saved so far."

TUE SLTAMROCK on the coins is the woad-sorrel
this is the plant represented on a monument in Sligo
Cathedral ; and there is the testimony, not merely of poets,
but of serious writers, that the " shamrogges" were eaten.
Natives of the West Highlands of Scotland call both tho
wood-sorrel and the Dutch clover, shawrog.
The Madrid Gazette publishes a decree authois-
ing any person, from the Ist of January, 1865
duty
, to
set up a powder manufactory, on paying
to the Government. From the same date the im-
portation of foreign gunpowder an
ent of the same
d explosive sub-
of a
stances is declared free on pa my
duty.