The Sun.
London, England, 1837-09-25 00:00:00

HEATON PARK STAKES.

2 to 1 agst Scroggins (taken), 6 to 1 agst Jupiter, 6 to 4 agsi
Amurath, 7 to 1 agst Promise, 8 to 1 agst liirdeatcher, and 10 to 1
agst Cowboy.

42,000 to 200 laid that Sharpset does not win the next Si
Leger, and the Purity colt that of-1839.

A Q UATIC S.
ROYAL THAMES YACHT CLUB.—SWEEPSTAKES MATCH.—
On Saturday three of the first class vessels belonging to the
above club sailed a match of pounds for tonnage, from Green-
wich to Gravesend, and back to a flag buoy moored off the
Royal Hospital. A steamer was engaged to accompany the
yachts, which came to the station as follows —l. Mr. Barron's
Princess Victoria, of 25 tons • 2. Mr. H. Gunston's Sabrina,
21 tons ; and 3. Mr. T. Snooks's Widgeon, of 20 tons. As
the three had frequently shown superior powers of sailing in
various matches, and each had won public prizes, the match
excited very considerable interest. The Sabrina was taken
for choice against the field, but the others had numf•rous
backers. At eleven o'clock W. H. Harrison, Esq., the Com-
modore, gave the signal for starting, the wind at the time
blowing half a gale from the E. N. E. The Widgeon canted
round and took the lead, but they were all close together down
to Woolwich, where the Princess Victoria carried away her
mast, which came down with a tremendous crash, and knocked
knocked overboard one of the crew, named Anderson, who
was, however, picked up unhurt. The Sabrina and Widgeon
were now left to themselves, and one of the best contests of
the season ensued. For ten miles they made tack for tack ;
but at length the Sabrina beautifully drew by her opponents
to leeward, and rounding her bows, took the lead, which she
most gallantly maintained the remaining distance, arriving at
Greenwich at five o'clock, the winner, however, by only one
minute and 46 seconds.

Pheasant shooting commenced this day. There are a great
number of these beautiful birds in the preserves this year, and
sportsmen report that the outlaying birds are tolerably nume
roux, considering that the early part of the breeding season
was unfavourable to hatching. The markets will soon be
stocked by all sorts of game.

His Royal Highness the Hereditary Prince o.
Orange arrived on the 16th at Frankfort from Wiesbaden

The gross receipts from the opening of the Grand
Junction Birmingham Railway on the 4th of July, to the
2d instant, have been 46,4621., being an average of about
5,000/. per week. Of this immense sum 41,9421. have
been received from passengers ; the number being in the
first-class carriages 43,888, and in the second class 45,341.
The remainder of the receipts comprises the following
items :—parcels, 2,396/. ; gentlemen's carriages, 1,4631. ;
horses, 520/. ; and expresses, 1201. No fewer than 740
mail-bags are taken up and set down every day on the se-
veral stations of the railway.

DEATH OF CRARLES MACDOUGALL,
We have this week to state, with feelings of no ordinary
regret, the premature death of our townsman, Mr. Charles
Macdougall, advocate, who expired after a short illness, at
Georgetown, Demerara, on the 27th of July last. He wcs
carried off by the yellow fever, which has this season raged
with unusual severity in British Guiana. Our readers may
recollect that, previous to Mr. Maedougalls' deparaire, a
public dinner was given him in Inverness, in August, 1836.
We cannot do better than transcribe a passage from a let-
ter written by a gentleman of the colony after this melan-
choly event. The writer states that the Rev. Mr. Haig
had also been carried off by the fever, and he thus records
the death of Mr. Macdougall :—" Mr. Charles Mao lou-
gall is gone—another of the many 'ictims of this pesti-
lence. He had been attacked and had recovered, and
had gone to the country for change of air; but, alas!
on his return to town, whether he had caught cold, or
from what other cause is unknown, he was again taken
ill and died, after a confinement of two or three days,
on Thursday last ; regretted generally, and much more so
than from his short residence in the colony might have been
expected. His was a bard fate. A very extensive practice
opening to him looking forward by the next packet for his
appointment as Attorney-General (the salary of which
office had been increased to 1,0001. a-year.) As he became
more known, becoming better liked and more highly es-
teemed ; his society courted, his talents estimated and ad-
mired, and looked upon by every one as a groat acquisition
to our colony, not only as an able advocate, but as a kind,
warm-hoarte'd, upright, honourable man. His loss is
justly, as it is deeply and generally deplored ; while perhaps
it is even more keenly Mt by the los by whom he was asso-
ciated with hallowed remembrances olcountry and kindred."
eon,

On Friday morning Ow rate-payers of the parish of
St. Martin in the ViQlds assembled very numerously in their
vestry-ronm, for the purpose of making a poor-rate, to in-
elude the police and -county rates for the ensuing half year,
Mr. Churchwarden Smith the chair. The amount re
quired by the Quardians for the relief of the Poor for two
agarterf.w •as 4,3501., in addition to 1,600/. due on the order
,2.f biy 17. The aggrivato required was 101131.,
toward, that tha parish had a credit of 4arly 700/. Mr.
Webb, one of the overseers, p.,r4.)sed a rate of one shilliwg'
and threepence in (14., iunind. A sixpenny rate was then
propoted, as an amendment, and a good deal of argument
ensured.. The amendment; however, was carried by a large
majority, upon which Mr. Wthh proposed a tenpenny rate,
in addition to the 41'penny rate agreed to, contending that
the statute .gave. the power of nicking a " rate or rates.'
anti after a renewal of the argument, the secot.ti rate was
4Al§o aireeti tg,