The Sun.
London, England, 1839-05-06 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE

THE HIRST.

The following list of the odds up to last ni,;ht will show one
or two highly important changes :-
11 is 2 agst Mr. G. Clark's Dragsman—taken
8 to 1 agst The Corsair
9 to 1 agst Euclid
10 to 1 agst Col. Peel's The Dey of Algiers
10 to 1 agst Mr. Watt's Clarion—taken freely
18 to 1 agst Fulwar Craven's Deception
22 to 1 agst Sir G. Heatheete's Valainceurt
Caesar was quite out of favour ; no odds were offered outright,
but as 2 to 1 were laid on Dragsman against him, he cannot be
put at less than 11 or 12 to 1. Clarion was backed to win a
heavy stake.

CHESTER TRADES' CUP.
5 to 1 agst Captain Berkeley's Caravan—offered
6 to 1 agst Mr. Copeland's King Cole—taken
7 to 1 agst Lord Normanby's Gipsey—offered
8 to 1 agst Mr. Ferguson's Harkaway—offered
9 to 1 agst Captain Healey's Van Buren—taken
13 to 1 agst Sir T. Stanley's Cowboy—taken
200 to 14 agst Mr. Meiklam's Modesty—taken
100 to 6 agst Lord Westminster's Sir Ralph—takes
100 to 6 agst Mr. Griffiths' Lugwardine—taken
20 to 1 agst Lord De Tabley's Zillah—taken freely
100 to 5 agst Mr. Allan's Percy—taken
100 to 5 agst Mr. Barrow's Eaglet—take 100 to 4
20 to l agst Capt. Lamb's Chit Chat—taken freely
35 to 1 agst Mr. Mark Browne's Hopeful
40 to I agst Mr. Mostyn's na Piccottee-500 to 10 taken
500 to 20 :gst Lord Milltown's Cruiskeen—taken
DERBY.

Dragsman was backed on Wednesday night at 5 to 1 ; Euclid
today and during the week at 11. Ilderim was backed to-day
at 20 to 1, and tEther at the same figure.

KELSO SPRING MEETING.—WEDNESDAY.
Fifty Guineas, given by the Duke of Roxburgh, for horses of
all ages. Heats, one mile and a half each. Three yr olds,
7st. ; four, Bst. ; five, Bst. 71b. ; six and aged, Bst. 101 b.
Mares and geldings allowed 21b. Two horses to start, or no
race.

Mr. W. R. Ramsay's Sunbeam, 6 yrs, Bst. 81b 1 1
Mr. Robertson's Berwickshire, 6 yrs, Bst. filb ... 2 2
Lord John Scott's br. c. by Voltaire, 4 yrs, Bst. 3 3
Both heats won by about half a length.
The Duke of Buccleuch's Plate, value 501., given by him for
hot ses the property of farmers residing within the limits of
his Hunt. Heats, once round and a distance.
Mr. J. Laing's Birthday, 6 yrs, 13st. 61b.
Mr. Usher's Hab, by Rocket, I Ist. I llii 2 2
Mr. Binnie's The Laird's Brother, aged 13st. 11b.
Mr. J. Harper's Little Mary, aged, 12st. 61b
Both heats won easy.
The Omniparity Plate, added to a subscription of 3 sovs. each ;
open to any horse bona fide the property of a farmer or mem-
ber of any Yeomanry Corps. Heats, a mile and a half each.
Mr. T. S. Mitchell na. Princess, aged, l2st. 7lb 1 1
Mr. Robert Boyd na. Clansman, aged, 12st. 71b 2 2
Mr. Watson's Hearts of Oak, aged, 12st. 71b.
First heat a good race, and won by half a head ; second heat
won easy.

THURSDAY.
Sweepstakes of 5 sovs. each, for horses that have been regularly
hunted ; Gentlemen riders ; 12st. each. Two mile heats.
Mr. J. Laing's ch. f. Birthday, by Percy, 6 yrs... Owner 1 1
Mr. Robinson's b. g. Robin Roughhead, aged 2 dr
Mr. Boag's b. g. Donald Caird, 6 yrs ... 3 dr
Lord John Scott's br. h. Cant ............... 4 dr
Mr. Binnie's ch. g. The Laird's Brother, aged__ 5 dr
The Oats Sweepstakes, for horses that never started except
for matches, hunters' stakes, &c., mile and half heats, gentle-
men riders, were won easily in two heats, by Mr. Boag's br. g.
Donald Caird, 6 yrs, 12st. (owner), beating Mr. Crawford's
b. m. Norma, aged, 12st., and two others.
The Farmers' Plate, heats once round and a distance, was
won in two heats by Mr. J. Fawcus's b. c. Jack Palmer, by
Reformer, 3 yrs, lOst. 21b. (Mr. E. Mole), beating Mr. R.
Arthur's b. g. Clansman, aged, 12st. ; Mr. Usher's b. g. flab,
aged, 12st. ; and Mr. Anderson's gr. f. by Houndsfoot, 4 yrs
1 Ist. ; after a capital race.

THE GRAND DUKE ALEXANDER

OF RUSSIA.

His Imperial Highness and his attaches were presented
to her Majesty on Saturday, at a Court held for the pur-
pose. Four Royal carriages were sent to convey the
Royal Prince and his suite to the new Palace. Count
Pozzo di Borgo, the Russian Ambassador, had the honour
to introduce the illustrious Duke. On leaving Mivart's
Hotel for the new Palace his Imperial Highness was
cheered by the populace assembled in front of his hotel.
In the afternoon his Imperial Highness, accompanied by
Prince William Henry of the Netherlands, and attended by
Prince Dolgorouky, Prince Bariatinsky, Count Tolstoy,
&c., Viscount Torrington, Lord in Waiting to the
Queen, and Sir George aentin, &c., went for a ride
in the Parks; the horses, we believe, were from the
Royal Stud.
In the evening his Imperial Highness dined with her
Majesty, as did also the Prince of the Netherlands.
Last evening the Count Pozzo di Borgo gave a sump-
tuous entertainment to the Grand Duke and the Prince of
the Netherlands at Ashburnham House, the party being
composed entirely of the Noblemen and Gentlemen form-
ing the Grand Duke's suite, Count Woronzow, and the
members of the Russian Embassy.
In addition to his Royal Highness the Duke of Cam-
bridge, the following Nobility paid congratulatory visits to
the Grand Duke at Mivart's on Saturday :
DUKES—Wellington, Cleveland, Richmond.
MaaQuisEs—Lansdowne, Anglesey, Huntley, Hertford,
Ailsa, Headfort.
MARCHIONESS—Ansa.

EARLS Durham, Minto, Shelburne, Malmesbury,
Sandwich, Lichfield, Winchilsea, Clanwilliam, Delawarr,
Aberdeen, Bruce, Dunmore, Haddington, Jersey, Belfast,
Morton, Surrey.
COUNTESSES—LichfieId, Durham._

ViscouNTs—Sydney, Melbourne, Howick, Combermere,
Duncannon, Maynard, Beresford, Castlereagh, Ingestrie.
VISCOUNTESSES—Howick, Sydney, Maynard.
LORDS—Lyndhurst, Morpeth, Cowley, Fitzroy Somer-
set, Bloomfield, Eliot, Poltimore, Rolle, Stuart, Heytes-
bury, George Quin, De Ros, Redesdale, Alfred Paget,
Fitzgerald and Vesci, Cranstoun, Barham, Portman,
Arthur Lennox, Hotham.

LADlES—Lyndhurst, Poltimore, Portman, Rolle, Agnes
Buller, Heytesbury, Glenlyon.
SlRS—Robert Chester, George Hamilton, Thomas Ar.
buthnot, H. Townshend, Robert Peel, James Graham,
Edward Codrington, George Murray, George Clerk,
Thomas Hammond, Richard Jenkins, Wm. Fremantle,
Wm. Pringle, Hussey Vivian, Wm. Houstoun.
The Turkish Ambassador, American Minister, French
Austrian, Dutch, and Sardinian Charges d'Affaires, Count
Revel, Count Forbin Janson, Baron de Tuyll.
This evening the Countess Charles Pozzi di Borgo, has
an assembly at Ashburnham House, for which upwards of
SOO cards of invitation have been issued to meet his Impe-
rial Highness.

A few days before his departure from Holland his Im.
perial Highness, accompanied by the Royal Family of the
Netherlands, proceeded to Saardam, and visited the humble
roof which sheltered the Czar, Peter the Great, when he
learned the art of ship-building under the incognito name
of Michaeloff. There the young Prince was courteously
reminded of a custom of his native land. The Grand
Duchess Ann, Princess of Orange, who is the owner of the
hut, had ordered a sumptuous dv'euner to be prepared ;
and her Royal Highness, in compliance with the Russian
fashion, herself presented bread and salt to her illustrious '
nephew, which among the northern nations as well as
among the descendants of Ishmael, is the token of the
highest degree of hospitality. Upon a marble slab which
the Princess had also ordered to be placed in the hut to
commemorate her Imperial kinsman's visit, the Czarewitch
pencilled some lines in the Russian language of the fol-
lowing purport :—" Angels of Heaven, hover above this
humble roof. Here a great man planned the welfare of
his empire ; this was the cradle of Russia's grandeur l"
When Peter the Great left Saardam, in the year 1697,
he presented each of the six children of the poor widow in
whose house he resided, with a silver cup. One of the
cups though often pawned in hours of distress, had re-
mained in the hands of a ship-carpenter, a great grandson
of the poor widow. On its being presented to the Grand
Duke, his Imperial Highness immediately provided for the
future maintenance of the descendant of his great prede-
cessor's host.

HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCE WILLIAM
HENRY OF THE NETHERLANDS.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge visited his
Royal Highness on Saturday, at Mivart's Hotel ; as also
the Dukes of Wellington and Argyle, Marquises Anglesey,
Ailsa, and Heathen; Dowager Duchess of Richmond ;
Earls Jersey, Haddington, Aberdeen, Delaw•arr, Malmes-
bury, Minto, Vcrulam, Dunmore, and Athlone ; Lords
Hotham, Lyndhurst, Cowley, Morpeth, Fitzroy Somerset,
Redesdale, De Ros, Poltimore, and Eliot; Barons Bour.:
queney, Bertouch, Werther De Cetto, and Gersdorff;
Sirs Charles Bagot, H. Vivian, William Pringle, Horace
Seymour, Thomas Arbuthnot, Henry Wheatly, George
Murray, Robert Peel, &c.; Counts Charles Pozzo di
Borgo, and Forbin Janson, &c.

FIRE AT ABBEY-STREET THEATRE.--A
♦ery alarming fire broke out on Friday morning, about one
o'clock, in the Theatre, Abbey. street. It was discovered
by P. C. Crosbie, 203 C, who immediately went to
Henry . street Office, from whence an effective supply .of
men was had to aid in keeping order, &c. The fire
burnei for a time with the utmost fury ; all the contents
of the house— scenes, frames, machinery,. &c. were con-
sumed within an hour. At three o'clock the fire was com-
pletely got under.—The Theatre lies insured for a con-
sidrrable sum.—Dub. Even. Post.