The Sun.
London, England, 1839-10-03 00:00:00

WEDNESDAY.

501. for three-year olds, 7st 81b ; four, Bst Bib ; five, Bst 1316;
six and aged, 9st. D.I.
Mr. Thornhill's Mendizabal, 6 yrs ... .......... . ....Walked over ;
The St. Leger Stakes of 25 sots each, for three-year-olds,
colts Bst 71b, and fillies Bst 41b. D.I. Fourteen subs.
Duke of Grafton's b c Montreal ...(Stephenson) 1
Duke of Grafton's b !Ether 2

Mr. Watt's f Cara.
Duke of Rutland's Flambeau.

Lord Exeter's b c Bosphorus 5
Mr. Forth's ch c Top-gallant 6
Betting-7 to 4 agst Cara, 10 to 6 agst Montreal, and 7to
2 agst Flambeau. Won by half a length.

Lord Frederick Fitzclarence returned to his seat
at Etal House on Monday last, from Buxton, in Der-
byshire. Lady Kelhurne, who had been on a visit to
her sister-in-law, Lady Fitzclarence, since the 7th inst.,
left Etal on Tuesday morning, for the seat of Viscount
Kelburne, at Hawkhead, near Paisley, in Renfrew-
shire. The Earl of Errol and other persons of dis-
tinction are expected at Eta! about the 24th inst., and
the Etal Tillside games will conic off shortly after-
wards.—Kelso Chronicle.
BANKS.-In Scotland, with a population of but
0,065,114, there are 30:2 banks and branches of issue
and discount, while in Ireland, with a population of
9,000,000, there are only 160 banks, which, with the
exception of the Bank of Ireland, ind one or two banks
in Dublin, do not issue notes within fifty miles of the
metropolis.
DEER PARK AT TAYMOUTII CASTLE.—
There is something indescribably striking in the ap-
pearance of the antlered herd feeding on their rich pas-
tures, or bounding about in all the poetry of motion,
with their graceful figures, branching horns, and soft
sparkling eyes, which seem lighted up by intelligence.
The picturesque appearance of the deer is greatly
heightened by his almost preternatural acuteness of
hearing and smelling : he stops at every whisper, erects
his head, tosses his antlers, and seems to catch the most
faint and distant sounds ; whilst, at the same time,
some are slowly ruminating on the grass, the fawns
duly following their dams, and others are seen darting
off unhunted* to the woods. Deer feed generally in
the night or at early dawn, and retire in the day to the
shelter in the woods. Their morning retreat is thus
picturesquely described by Gilpin :
" The day pours in apace,
An: opens all the lawny prospect wide
The hazy woods, the mountain's misty top,
Swell on the sight, while o'er the forest glade':
The wild deer trip, and, often turning, gaze •
At early passengers."
The deer-park at Taymouth Castle contains seven
hundred fallow-deer, nearly a hundred red deer, some
fine specimens of the black deer, and you can move in
no direction without starting the light-footed roe : and
in a small paddock to the east of the deer-park are to
be seen sonic fine specimens of the moose deer, which
are so tame that they will come up and fawn upon you.
There are also sonic wild Indian buffaloes, sent to this
country a few months ago by Sir W. D. Stewart,a gßaazihtz.c,
Mof urthlv Castle and Grantulley, from the rocky
mountains of the New World.—Old Sporting lf
for October.
A serious accidentG letaoprgpeenDedeckr, oen Ih7lritdhe after-
noonay
of
I‘ r. to employ Thomas mannamed Green, one of the contractors to the
a
London and Brighton Railway Company. Decker was
proceeding towards his master's residence, near Holy
Lane, a short distance from Croydon, with a horse and
cart, when he observed a waggon, belonging to a farmer
named Stedman, residing at Balcombe in Sussex,
corning in an opposite direction, with the driver riding
inside. Finding that he could not avoid coming into
collision with it unless he pulled short on one side, ho
did so, but by same means or other he fell off his cart,
and the wheel passed over one of his arms and thighs
and crushed them in a dreadful manner. He lingered
for a few hours in great agony, and then died. The
driver of the waggon that was the cause of the mis-
chief went on during the confusion occasioned by the
accident, and got clear off.
GIG LAW.—At a meeting of the Commis-
sioners of Taxes, held at Anchridge, on the 23d ult., a
farmer appealed to be relieved from the tax on a gig.
The applicant proved it was marked with his name,
&c., agreeably to Act of Parliament, and that he (the
appellant), had given under the sum of:211. for the same
to a coachmaker. On further examination it appeared
to have been bought of the latter second-hand, and as
neither the appellant or coachmaker could prove that it
had never before been sold for a price exceeding the
above sum, the Commissioners held him liable, and con-
firmed the charge accordingly.
NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE, SEPT. 30.—(From a
Correspondent.)—We have most beautiful weather here
for the harvest, and the farmers are getting in their
corn in excellent condition.