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

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

SPORTING NOTES.—No. CCCXLVI.
With the exception of the Steeplechase, every stake
yesterday attracted good fields to the post. The Scurry
Handicap, which led off the business of the afternoon,
realised its name by being a scurry, and nothing but a
scurry, from end to end. They started, anyhow ; and
nothing was discovered to have any decided advantage
until a moiety of the course had been run, when the
two-year-old Mickey Free made a desperate ( ffort to
obtain the lead, in which, however, he failed ; the four-
years-old Jupiter—with sst 101 b on her back—came out,
and took the lead, though closely pressed by Miro Hill,
Henrietta, Little Davie, and the Ithuriel filly, and was
not headed, and won a very close race by a neck; Hen-
rietta beating Mire Hill a like distance for second place.
Little Davie and the Ithuriel filly were close up. The
rest, with the exception of Wee Wee and Mickey Free,
were beaten off; and Dacony put his chance out by
throwing young Primer at starting.
The Optional Selling Stakes was won by that very
useful animal, Needle, after an exciting struggle for the
last hundred yards with True Girl and Henrietta, by a
head ; the last-named animal losing the second place by
a short neck. The remaining four were beaten into fits.
The winner entered to be sold for 40 sous, fetched 135
guineas ; consequently realising for the fund 115/. 15s.
The Steeple Chase was a very uninteresting
affair, as Carrig had it all his own way from end to
end ; Victress being got rid of by a fall at the brook,
and the General shortly afterwards, also by a fall. The
only opponent that the winner bad left in the race was
Bourton, who was outplaced from the start.
The Anitree Stakes came off precisely as I anticipated,
ray selection, Truth, having won without any difficulty,
though seemingly a close race at the finish, by half a
length. Fuze receiving 2at llb for the year obtaining
the second place. Royal George was third, leading a
batch of three or four. This race brought the meeting
to a conclusion.
With the exception of the Steeple Chase and Hurdle
Race, the Stakes produced good fields and plenty of
Sport, and the meeting may, on the whole, be considered
a successful one.
The authorities of Shrewsbury have put forth a first-
rate bill of fare for their autumnal gathering on the 23d
and 24th instant. The prig ctpal stakes have unusually
strong entries: the number being, for the Shrewsbury
Handicap thirty-four, and for the Column Handicap
forty six.
Steeple-chasing, somehow or other, does not seem
quite so successful this year as heretofore, the entries
and acceptances for the steeple-chases being decidedly
small; and Shrewsbury will form no exception to this
rule. This decadence in the neck-or-nothing sport is
evidently entirely owing to the very doubtful proceed-
ings of many of the persons connected with it. The
aristocracy, for the most part, seem this winter to have
cut its acquaintance.
The fashionable Warwick and Leamington meeting,
Which comes on for decision in the course of a few days,
I shall touch upon to-morrow.
THE SPIRIT OF THE TURF.

LIVERPOOL AUTUMN MEETING.

WEDNESDAY.
The Scurry Stakes.

Jupiter
rieerietta
Mire Hill
The Selling Stakes.
Needle
True Girl
Tho Autumn Steeplechase.
%nig
No other placed.
The Aintree Stakes.
Truth
ruse

.... 2
.... 3

Eleven ran.

, ..... 2

NEWCASTLE BOAT RACE.
Cpndlith won by foar boats' lengths.

REMARKABLE DISCOVERY ICI THE WATERLOO-
,IIL6Ap•—Yesterday an unpleasant excitement was created in
`le neighbourhood of' the Waterloo railw..y terminus, by the
discovery of a dead body, under circumstances standing
greatly in need of explanation. A female, who for some
considerable time had resided in the house 86, Granby-street,
had not been seen for several days by her fellow inmates, and
3e3terday morning one of them had the curiosity to rush the
door of ner room, which was ajar, wide open, when the body
of the female was disclosed sitting in a chair, the head re-
clined on a pillow, which was resting on a table. Life was
extinct.
..iI3ANK or VIENNA.—The return of the Bank of
venna, as made up to the 31st Oct., shows the amount of .
and bullion to be 43,523,007 florins, whilst the notes in
circulation were 200,55'5,170 florins. The changes exlsibited
.
Oita return are not !mt.