The Sun.
London, England, 1837-06-08 00:00:00

.NEW TON MEE TING.-FAIDAr.

The Shrigley Cu:, value 100 sovs., given by W. Turner,
21.13., added to a Handicap Stakes of 15 sove. each, 10 ft., and
5 oily if declared on the Ist June. Mile and half.

GI tliator, by Partisan, 4 yrs Bst. 121 b ; Dick, by Mulcy, Bst.
6lb ; Trapl all, "4
yrs, Bst. 41b ; The Bard, by Waverley, 4 yrs, Bst ;
The Black Diamond, 4 xrs, 7st. 10. b Japh t, 4 yrs, 7,t. 91- ;
Morison, 4 yrs, 7st. 61b; Theano, by Waver:ey, 4 ye!, 7st. bib;
Clints, 3 yrs, bst. 71b.
Sevet, have paid.

BARNET RACES-1837.
Them races arc about to be put upon a footing which, it is
thought, will cause them to assume a much higher position in
public estimation than has ever yet been the case. For some
veers past, opposition races, at each end of the tuwn, have
been held the same day. The proprietors of the respective
courses have this year met each other upon a liberal.miuded
prineiplo, and adopted a plan by which the public convenience
will be consulted in the best manner ; while the inhabitants
will derive all possible advantage from the immense influx of
strangers, which invariably occurs at the time of the races.
A numerous meeting was held at the Green Man Hotel,
Barnes, on Tuesday last, when it was determined that the
races for the present year should take place in the Green Man
ficlth, on the 9th and 10th of August ; and a Committee was
chosen, under whose auspices the requisite preparations will
be conducted. A large accession to the funds is confidently
anticipated.

PIGEON SHOOTING.
The second day's shooting for a silver tea service (open to
all England)
came off yesterday at the Red House Inclosure,
Battersea. In the regulations of this match much had been
done for those who could succeed in bringin,, down birds at
33 and 45 yards' rise. It was lilt the childish wilful-murder
business of 4 I yards, but made at such a distance as to show
the real merit of gunning. The betting was very brisk at 6to
4 on the bird, where men such as Bloodsworth, Groom, and
two or three more took their turn, the gun being then taken
for choice at even. The following is the score :
Names. Ist Day. 2(1 Day. Total.
Mr. Dufaur
Mr. Brown
Mr. Law
A :r. Potter 5 ..... . ..... ...... 4
Mr. Toby •
Mr. 13loodsworth
Mr. Groom
Mr. Toombs
Mr. T. Smith
Mr.
Taylor
Mr. Gingle
Mr. Ensell
Mr. Townsend
Mr. Horlock
Mr. H. Smith
Those who killed yesterday at 35 ) ards' rise marked two for
each bird. The attendance was middling, the birds good, and
Ely's shot cartridge better. The next day's shooting is at 45
yards' distance.

RIFLE SHQ 0 TING.
The greatest excitement prevailed. yesterday ( Wednesday)
at Chalk Farm, in consequence of the grand Rifle Match for a

superb Silver Cup being appointed to he shot for on that morn-
ing, at 200 yards front the shoulder. The match being open to
all England, or rather all the world, and. having been ant►ci-
pated for the last twelve months, we were not surprised at
seeing all the crack shots from various parts of the kingdom as
s^mble on the go wind ; but we must confess our astonishment
at meeting a party of Swiss gentlemen, who had come from
Geneva for the express purpose of contending wi.h th,, Erg
lith riflemen, whose fame had reached their ears in their native
country. The Ss irs gentlemen alluded to were scl-_.etvd by
their countrymen as being the ablest teprese%tatives of their
skill and science, and were worthy to contopd with their Eng-
lish competitors, among whom we noticed Mr. More, the
winner of the Diamond Champiln Cron, the M ,ssrs. M ir-
gary;who won the last deld and silver medals of the Acretor-
mentarian Society, and Messrs. John, Dan, Catherwood,
Cl► intry, &e , who have frequently distinguished themselves in
the above corps. The shooting, as we expected, was of the
very first-rate order, and it was long doubtful to whom the
prize would belong. but after a severe strut.Tgl,s, the palm of
victory was awarded to
.M... M iqa-y, who hit 24 out of 25
shots allowed to each competitor, out of which he struck five
bulls'-eyes. Monsieur Gunival, the Swiss gentleman, struck
20, and out of them eight bulls'-eyes ; Mr. A. Margary 20.
of which five bulls'-eyes. The Messrs. Mirgary shot witta
rifles made by Mr. BrAgg:. of Holborn, arid Mr. Moore with
his newly invented gun. The day was very wilily.

LITERATURE.

THE CITY OF TEE SULTAN, 2 VoLs
Co4urn, London, 1837.

•Of all our rnodet it travellers in the East—and their
name is Legion—Miss Pardoe is by far the most en
tertaining, if not the most instructive.' Her " City of
the Sultan," which is a record of some months' resi-
dence at Constantinople, contains passages worthy
even of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, whose letters
from the East still live, and deserve to live. Though
the favourite of Pope exhibits more vivacity of style
and worldly acuteness of reflection in her Eastern cor-
respondence, she certainly does not surpass, if she
equals, the authoress of the volumes before us, so far
as a picturesque power of description is concerned. In
this respect Miss Pardoe may take her station beside
the most successful travellers that ever put pin to
paper. But though description is her great fete, it is
not Fer only excellence. She shows Considerable in-
genuity in pourtrayiug
off small, individual °laraete", and a tact in hitting
Peclf,arities, that proves her to be
a Maya and `..:4oacious observer. Another essential
gnat;
eationfor a traveller that she possesses, is a rest-
:ess inquisitiveness that keeps her perpetually on the
To increase her stores of local knowledge, she
tesitates at no labour—is daunted by no obstacles. She
wnetrates into the recesses of the Harem, and the
chapel .of the Howling Dervishes ; goes disguised into
the Mosque of St. Sophia ; and even ventures into that
of Sultan Aebmet, braving the certain cruel death- that
would have awaited her, had she been discovered. HLr
description of the approach to Constantinople, whose
crowded and picturesque port she happily compares
to " poetry put into action," is full of life and splen-
dour—to a degree indeed that reminds us of Hope's
memorable one in Anastasius, which it surpasses in
minute finish of detail, though not in effect as a whole.
Nor is Miss Pardoe less successful in her sketch of the
romantic " Valley of the Sweet Waters," which, if
her account be not preposterously over-coloured, must
be a spot unsurpassed by the Tempe of old (Dian,
or the fairy-land of the poets. A few weeks after our
traveller's arrival in Constantinople, the plague broke
out, the horrors of which she describes in the most

alert.

impressive terms :
" Only a day or two since, a poor. Greek inhabitant of The-
rapia was suddenly attacked with sickness, and thinking that
he recognised symptoms of the plague, he immediately pro-
ceeded to his cottage; and stopping, ere he touched the
threshold, call, d to his wife, who, astonished at seeing him on so
unwonted an hour, and struck by the change in hii appear-
ance, was about to approach him, when he desired her to stand
back; and then calmly telling her he was unwell, although lie
knew not from what cause, he desired her to throw him his
furred pelisse. If it be a mere passing sickness,' he added,
as he prepared to depart, it will only cost me a night in the
open air ; if it be the plague, you will at least save our few ar-
ticles of clothing, and the few comforts of the cottage—re-
commend me to the Virgin and• St. Roch.' And thus he left
his home, and wandered weak and heart sick to the mountains.
He felt that the brand was 011 him; and he went to die alone,
he knew not how, whether as a wild and frantic maniac, gather-
ing strength from the fever which would turn his blood to fire,
and howling out his anguish to the winds of midnight, with-
out one kind voice to comfort, or one fond hand to guide him,
until at length he dropped down to die upon the damp earth.
On the morrow the wife hastened to the mountains with food,
in search of her husband. She had not taught herself to be-
lieve that the plague bad touched him, and she feared that he
might suffer from hunger. She led one of her children by the
hand—his favourite child I—and they were long before they
found him ; for although the young clear voice of the boy
shouting out his name was borne far away upon the elastic ,air
of the mountain, there was no answer to the call ; the father
lay cold and stiff in a gulley of the rock. The anguish of the
unfortunate woman may be conceived. Is her first agony she
sprang towards the body, but the shriek of her child recalled
her to a sense of her peril, and the fate that she would entail
upon her little ones. • The struggle was long and bitter ; but
at length she turned away with the weeping boy, and returned
into the village to proclaim her widowhood."
_ _

Of a sill more tragic character is the following
anecslote, which has reference to the same friohtful

scourge :

" A melancholy tale was related to me by a lady of Therapia,
who had watched, from day to day, the proceedings of one of
these little plague. stricken mountain colonies, through a teles-
cope. It consisted of a miserable family—the father grey-
haired and feeble; the mother bent and pah.ied. The children
died first, one by one, for the disease drank their young blood
more eagerly than the chill stream which moved sluggishly
through the veins of the aged parents; and, at length, the old
couple were left alone. They used to sit side by side for hours
under a tree facing their village, the birth-place of their dead
ones, whom they had put into the earth with their own hands ;
but within a week the childless mother sickened in her turn,
and the grey old man dragged a wretched tnattrass to the foot
of the tree, from beneath which his stricken wife bad no longer
power to move; and he held the water to he: lips, and he put
the bread into her grasp; but all his care availed her nothing ;
and with his lean and trembling hands he scratched her a grave
under the shadows of the tree that she had loved in ; and
when the earth had hidden her from his sight, he lay down
across the narrow mound to die in his turn."

We should rejoice to see a prose Turkish tale from
the pen of Miss Pardoe, for we think she possesses
every requisite for such an effort—striking descriptive
powers—quick conception of character—an], above
all, acute and ready sensibility. Of one defect, however,
common with young, unpractised writers, she must
haste❑ to rid herself—we allude to her frequent redun-
dancies of epithet and imagery, which are the only
draw-backs on the merit of her present volumes.

The venerable Lord St. Helen's, who during the
%hole year never quits his house in Grafton-street, ''o• the
long period of 40 years has been in the receipt of a 'pension
of 23001. per annum, as a retired diplomatist to the Court of
Russia.

INDIAN TRIBES IN TILE ROCKY MOUNTAINS.
—The most powerful Indian tribe in these regions arc the
Blackfeet—the Crows arc next; and then come the Nez
Perces, Flatheads, Wnging-ears, and o:hers ; but nearly all
in bitter hostility one against the other The Nrz Pe: ces,
the Flatheads, and the Ilanging-ears pride themselves upon
the number of their horses, of which they possess more in pro-
portion than any other of the mountain tribes within the buffalo
range. Many of the Indian warriors and hunters, encamped
around Captain Bonneville, possess from thirty to forty horses
cr.c:i. One day a large band of Blackfeet appeared in the
open field, but in the vicinity of kicks and cliffs. They kept
at a wary distance, but made friendly signs. The trappers
replied in the same way, but likewise kept aloof. A small
party of Indians now advanced, bearing the pipe of peace;
they were met by an equal number of white men, and they
formed a group midway between the two bands, where the pipe
was circulated from hand to hand, and smoked with all due ce-
remony.—Adventures of Captain Bonneville.
If you wish to have a shoe of durable materials
(exclaims the facetious M itt. Lansber,g) you should make the
upper leather of the mouth of a hard thinker, for that never
lets in water. American Piper.

BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY, No. VI. (for June).
" edited by Boz,' and iilustrated by George Cruikshank—
the two finest humourists of the day—indeed we question
whether at any tune in our literature there were finer.
Cruikshank has as much wit and invention as llogarth, and
Boz' is worth half a dozen Smolletts ; for Boz' has double
the invention and none of the coarseness of the author of
Roderick Random.' Fhe best papers, ‘N here nearly all arc
good, are Darby the Swift,' by J. A. Wade; tl e • Character
of Shakspeare's Jaques,' by Dr. Macinn ; the Romance of a
Day,' by the lively author of The Bashful Irishman ;'
Nights at Sea,' by Lieutenant Balker; Family Stories,' by
T. Ingoldsby ; and Love in the City,' by Maxwell. The
illustrations, by Cruikshank, arc full of fun, e.zpecially that in
which we see Dick Diddler prevailing on a dry old mail, Miss
Priscilla Spriggit,s, to dope with him to Gretna I Between
Boz,' Cruikshault, and the best writers of a time when ma.
gtzine literature is superseding all others, Bentley's Mis-
cellany,' as a work of amusement, stands without an equal."—
Liverpool Mail.

LAW INTELLAGENCL.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, JUNE 7.
THE KING V. MISTERTON.

Lord DENMAN delivered judgment in this ens,. This
was an appeal against an order of sessions for the re-
moval of a pauper. The question raised for the eonsi-
(Lration of the Court was, whether a respondent parish
was entitled, without special notice, to go into gown,'
evidence of a pauper's settlement. The respondent Po.
risk had obtained an order for the removal of the pau-
per, stating his s.:ttl,.!.a.ent to be by app-cntieeship with ono
David Parkinson. Dnid Parkinson thud, and the tip
prentice then served out his time with the widow, nn4
in the fir:A instance he had been hired by David Parkin-
son's son as the agent for the father, and the ser%ieft with
the widow was only a continuing of the service under the
original indentures. The appellant parish objected that if
fall notice of these grounds of settlement had been g'..ven
Cloy might hin.e been disputed, or the - settlement rnio-it
have h!en acquiesced in ; hut that the rospotamts had no
right to let tit...! app.•llaot iincur the expense of int ap-
peal up)n alynsufli,..ient notice of the grourws of settlz,,nent,
and then
go Into Lvidence which might be amply s.utficient-
to make out a legal settlement. The Court adopted this
opinion, and, tbe.-efOre, cave judgment for the appellants.

BAIL COURT.
THE POOR OF T.
TIIE KING V. THE DIRECTORS OZ?

PANCRAS.
It will be remembered that it this case a mandamus had
been applied for by the sern-etary of the Foundling Hospital
to compel the dereni!Ants to maintain a child which had
been left in a gasket at the Hospital. The Learned Judge,
after hone ng the arguments o± the Learned Counsel who
mao7 the application, took time- to consider his decision.
Ills Lordship this morning thought there should he a rule
abt.olute for a mandamus, in the first instance.—Rule abso-
lute accordingly.