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

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE

RACING FIXTU.

rREs FOR 1864.

FEBRUARY.
Birmingham
Harrow
Chelmsford l7

MAnctr.
Nottingham Spring .... 1 Warwick
Derby Spring 3 Durham
Liverpool
Shrewsbury
Doncaster Spring

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 2O
Epsom 24

Chelmsford.. 2B
New Forest Hunt 2B
Newcastle-on-Tyne
Worcest,r (Summer)
Ipswich

Ascot 4 7
Hampton l5
Newton
Odiham
Bibury
Stockbridge
JULY.

Newmarket July
Carlisle
Abingdon
Liverpool July
Stamford l4
Pontefract

Nottingham . l9
Winchester
Southampton .. 2O
Chesterfield
Goodwood

Au,
Brighton 2
Brighton Club
Lewes 5
Reading
Egham .. l6
Oxford
Yarmouth .. 23

SE PTE:

Weymouth 1
Warwick September 6
Leicester 8
Doncaster
Brecon .. 19

OCT,

York August 23
Plymouth
Derby
Lichfield
Stockton 3O
Devon and Exeter

Richmond
Monmouth 22
Manchester Autumn
NewmarketFirst October 27

IBER.

Northallerton 6
Newmarket Second Oct lO

Gloucester
I Newmarket Houghton 24
:MBER.

WOVE:

Shrewsbury Autumn .. 14
Leamington & War. Hunt 22

Worcester Autumn .... 30

STEEPLECHASING FIXTURES FOR 1864.

" THE PORTRAIT," A NEW OPERA, by the Baron
von Perla', has been given at Munich; the journals say,
with entire success.
A WORK BY M. M. LTJSSY ON TEACHING THE
PIANO, entitled "Reforme dans l'Enseignement du Piano,
has sufficient merit to have been highly praised by Kossini.
THE NEW DEAN OF CORK.—The Rev. Dr. Magee,
rector of Enniskillen, hag been appointed Dean of Cork.
MR. HENRI DRAYTON, we regret to learn, has
been recently dangerously ill;
OXFORD DRAMATIC CLWB.—The ninth annual
ball of the above club took pliAce on Tuesday last, when
upwards of 400 persons availed themselves of the invita-
tion, and dancing was kept up fill an early hour in the
morning. Great 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 Irol ds,
give 3 some curious specimens of child life in this second
half of the 19th century in " modern Athens." This is ono
of them :—" Here was a boy who had been found lying on
straw in a dark cellar which had literally nothing in it hut
this one heap of straw. The parents were in the habit of
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 one
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 1' 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
of—
God knows what, Still, the life has been saved so sorrel
THE SHAMROCK on the coins is the wood-sorre.l
this is the plant represented on a monument in SI
Cathedral; and there is the testimony, not merely cf poets,t.n
but of serious writers, that the " shatnrogges" were ea ;he.
Natives of the West Highlands of Scotland call both
wood-sorrel and the Dutch clover, shatarog.