The Sun.
London, England, 1837-08-29 00:00:00

SPORTING IN T ELLIGEN CE

TATTERSALL' S—YESTZIMI r.
DONCASTER ST. LEGER..
The room was better attended than on Thursday last, with-
out any material improvement in business. Cardinal Puff was
not so much in favour as when we last quoted the odds, owing,
no doubt, to a slight improvement in his stable companion,
Epirus. Bto 1 was offered against Mango, but no one seemed
disposed to get on ; The Doctor was out of demand. Hen-
riade was backed for about one hundred and fifty pounds at 10
to 1 in good quarters, but we did not notice a single bet
against Grisette or Slashing Harry. Prime Warden dropt
three or four points, and Robin Hood colt about as many.
Closing prices :-
3 to 1 agst Lord Westminster's Cardinal Puff—taken
6 to 1 agst Mr. Greville's Mango—offered
10 to 1 agst Mr. 5. Fox's The Doctor—offered
10 to 1 agst Duke of Cleveland's Henriade—taken
10 to 1 agst Mr. Forth's Grisette colt—offered
10 to 1 agst Mr. Bowes's Epirus--taken
11 to 1 agst Mr. Heseltine's Slashing Harry—offered
16 to 1 agst Mr. Walters's The Prime Warden—take 1,7 to I
17 to 1 agst Mr. Golden's Robin Hoed colt—offered
20 to 1 agst Lord Exeter's Dardanelles—offered
200 even be.tween Robin Hood and Prime Warden
5 to 1 agst Henriade and Slashing Harry—taken
Melbourne, we understand, is dec'ared not to start.

BOULOGNE RACES, Auarsr 25.
The Pas-de-Calais Stakes of 100 francs, given by the town, added
to a subscription of 50 francs for each horse, for horses bred in
the Department; three yrs old, 104111 ; four yrs, 1131 b ; five yrs,
1171 b ; 6 yrs, 1211 b ; aged, 1241 b ; stallions, 31b. extra. Heats,

ene mile and a quarter.
Mr. M. Grieve's Front-de-Bceuf, by Pegasus, 4 yrs 1 1
Count Deboissieur's Coeur-de- Lion, by Pegasus, 4 yrs 2 2
Won easily. Betting-3 to 2on Front-de-Bccuf.
The Jockey Club Stakes of 500 francs, with 500 francs added by
the Prince of Moskovra ; three yrs old, 931 b ; four yrs, 1071 b ;
5 yrs, 1141 b ; 6 yrs and aged, 118 lb ; mares allowed 31b. Tho
horses to be bred in France. Heats, once over the course. En-
trance 150 francs.
Mr. J. Horlock's b. m. Zerlina, by Houston, 2 yrs... walked over
The Gold Cup, value 3,000 francs, given by the Town, for horses
of all ages and countries, added to a subscription of 300 francs for
each horse. The weights the same as for the Jockey Club
Stakes. Heats, once round the course.
Mr. T. Carter's b. m. Miss Carmarine, 5 yrs 1 1
Mr. J. Horlock's b. m. Lady Albert, 5 yrs 2 2
Mr. M. Grioves's h. f. Longlawn, aged
The horses commenced both heats at full speed, and continued
it throughout. The first heat was won by a neck ; the second easily
by throe lengths. Betting—The second heat, 6tol on Miss Car-
marine, with numerous takers.
The third and last day's rases will take place on Wednesday
next, the 30th instant.

INTELLIGENCE EXTRA.
LIVERPOOL OCTOBER RACES.
These races are fixed for Monday, the 9th of October next, under
the Stewardship of Viscount Molyneux. The Stakes to run for
are :
A Hurdle Sweepstakes of 15 cove. each, 10 ft., with 50 added by
the Gentlemen of Liverpool ; four yrs old, lOst. 71k ; fiy; yrs,
list. 61b ; six and aged, 12st. A winner of one Hurdle Race or
Steeple Chase to carry 51b. extra, of two, 71b. extra; thorough-
bred horses, 51b. extra. Two miles. Gentlemen riders.
A Hurdle Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each, 5 ft., with 25 added by the
Proprietors of the Race Course, for horses that have hunted with
the Cheshire Hounds, Sir Thomas Stanley's, and Mr. Leech's,
of Carden. 12st. each. Once round. Gentlemen riders.
A Hurdle sweepstakes of 7 sovs. each, 5 ft., with 25 added by the
Proprietors of the Course ; four yrs old, 10st. 71b ; five yrs,
Ilst. 61b ; six and aged, 12st. A winner of one Hurdle Race or
Steeple Chase, before starting, to carry 51b. extra ; thorough-
bred horses, 31b. extra. Heats, once round and a distance.
Gentlom-n riders.
The nominations take place at Liverpool on the 11th September.

ROCHESTER AND CHATHAM RACES.
Entries for the Rockingham Stakes :—Airy, 6 yrs ; Sir Frede-
rick, 3 yrs; Sepoy 4 yrs ; Dudu, 3 yrs ; Pincher, 6 yrs ; Ranvil-
lette, 6 yrs ; Pinerose's colt, 3 yrs.
There is no alteration in the acceptances for the West Kent
Stakes.

The matches between Morella and the Problem filly, and between
the Mysie colt and the Ursula filly, in the Newmarket First and
ieconi October Meetings, are compromised.

AQUATICS.
SWEEPSTAKES MaTcti.—The announced sweepstakes match
amongst watermen and landsmen took place yesterday, and
was really well contested, although there were but very few of
the gentlemen who laid any money out on it. It was with
four pa'rs of oars, in one heat, the distance being from Vaux-
hall to Westminster, back round the pier of Vauxhall, round
the pier of Westminster, and back to Archer's-road, to finish
the match. There was a waterman and a landsman in each
boat. They came in thus .—J. Moreton, Stangate, and
Rooke ; F. Godfrey, btrand-lane, and Farrell ; Job Jones,
Whitehall, and Hall ; Thomas Piner, jun., Whitehall, and
Cousins. Piner and his partner got aground while turning
the pier.
Scut,usits' iNIATcH.—The apprentices plying at Westmins-
ter-bridge contested yesterday for a purse, given by the gen-
tlemen patrons of the manly sport of rowing. It was to be
contested by seven pair of sculls, and the distance was from
Westminster-bridge round the police vessel below Somerset
House, up the north shore round a boat of Chandlers at Mil-
bank, and back to Westminster-bridge. The following had
entered to contend :--Charles Smith, green ; Henry Camp-
bell, blue ; John Birch, red ; Thomas Goodrum, yellow ; Wil-
liam Meckiff, purple ; William Newell, pink ; and James El-
lis, white. Shortly after three tine men took their respective
stations, and on the signal being given started off well, yellow,
blue, and white being close together, when, after an arduous
and well-contested heat, yellow came in first, white second,
blue third, and green fourth. The above boats were placed
by the umpire, the terms of the match being that the first
four boats of the first heat should be entitled to contend for
the grand one. At half-past six the men were again at work,
the distance being the same as in the former heat. Yellow
took the lead, which he kept throughout, white being second,
blue third, and green fourth. The rowing of this heat was a
treat to all the spectators, that of Goodrum, Ellis, and Camp-
bell in particular ; in fact it would be invidious to attempt to
draw a distinction. Smith, however, did his best, and is en-
titled to his share of praise.

The Hon. Wm. Howard, the new M.P. for Suther-
land, is uncle to, and not a brother of, Lord Morpeth. Mr.
Howard sat in the House many years ago for a long time
during the minority of Lord Morpeth, as Membr for
Morpeth. He is second son to the late, and brother to the
present Earl, and the Dean of Lichfield. Lord Morpeth
and the young Duchess of Sutherland are his nephew and
niece. The Hon. Gentleman had a brother, a Major of
the 10th Hussars, who was killed at Waterloo.
Yesterday the Lady of Adrian Hope, Esq., of
Carlton-gardens, gave birth to a daughter—the first fe-
male child that has been born in the Hope family for a
series of years.
It is rumoured at the United Service Club that
Admiral Sir Josias Rowley is likely to succeed Sir Philip
Durham as Port-Admiral at Portsmouth, when the three
years' service of the latter have terminated. Sir Josias
Rowley has recently held the command in the Mediterra-
nean, and was a great favourite of the late King. Many
other officers, however, are-named ; as also for Plymouth,
now held by Admiral Lord Amelius Beauclerk.
The lessee of Drury-lane has arrived in Paris to
look for novelties for the ensuing campaign. He will also
engage a new corps de ballet from the French theatres.
Official advices from Smyrna state that the plague
was then rapidly on the decline, only eighteen cases hav-
ing occurred from the Ist to the 9th inst., the date of these
accounts. The disease had also very much diminished in
the surrounding districts. .

GRETNA GREEN.-011 the afternoon of Tuesday
last a chaise with the pole broken, and otherwise damaged,
drove up to the Commercial Inn, Carlisle, and curiosity was
immediately excited to know the cause—the " how," the
"wherefore," and " all about it." It appears the chaise had
been employed in dispatching from some twenty or thirty
miles south of Manchester towards Gretna Green a gen-
tleman vi hose daughter had flown away on the wings of love
in company of some devoted Adonis. Papa, as may be
presumed, was in mighty haste to recover the " lost one ;"
but in driving down Natland Brow, about two miles to the
south of Kendal, the accident which we have just noticed
occurred to the chaise. Fortunately her Majesty's mail
for the north came up as the gentleman was in his quan-
dary how to proceed further, and he availed hi▪
mself of a
vacant place in it to pursue his romantic daught en—West-
morland Gazette.
LIBEL LAW.—The principal anomaly of the law
of libel is that which permits slander to be uttered with
impunity, and circulated without limit, while the same words
reduced into writing, and communicated to only one person,
would form the subject of an action. The modern and
well-settled doctrines on the law of libel is, that it is for the
jury to say whether the tendency of the writing i▪ s to injure
the plaintiff. The great anomaly between the two species
of slander would be best removed by extending thi▪ s principle
to slanderous words. It is certainly a very unreasonable
distinction to hold that, in one case, the meaning and effect
of the words are to be determined by the court, and in the
other by the jury. The interests of the public might be
safely left in the hands of juries ; they are not disposed to
put a harsh and strained construction upon the language
either of private individualsor the press.—The Jurist.
Mr. Assheton Smith once was ready, a la Cum-
berland, the late, not the present Duke, to take his Bible
oath that he had not interfered in the Carnarvon Election,
when everybody knew that
.he had. Last week he was the
hero of a Tee-total gathering, Feliheli, displaying a
large medal on his breast. '1 his week he has gloried in
making as many electors drunk as he could get together,
which were precious few. He cheated his tee-total con-
science by being absent.—Cernarvon Herald.
A Preston paper winds up an inquest paragraph
with the following startling sentence :—" Tho jury then
found a verdict that the deceased had died by the visitation
of God, in consequence (y. fits."
Mushrooms are exceedingly plentiful this year. On
Thursday last eleven hundred weight were sent by the
boats from the tieghbourhood of Northwich and Nantwich
to Manchester, to be there converted into ketchup. On
the previous Tuesday six hundred weight were sent from
the same place,

WIND

DAY.

Yesterday, previous to the departure of the King of
Wirtemberg from the castle, the Queen conducted his Ma-
jesty into the library and other apartments of the castle.
The King expressed the highest admiration at the gran-
deur and elegance of those splendid rooms, and frequently ac-
kncwledged the condescension and kindness of her Majesty
in conducting him through them herself. Shortly after-
wards the King took leave, and, attended by his suite, left
for the Clarendon Hotel, Bond-street, whence he will
shortly take his departure for the continent.
The Queen, on her return from her drive, yesterday
afternoon, walked on the new terrace, and through the
slopes, as far as Adelaide Lodge.
Her Majesty was accompanied by the Duchess of Kent,
and attended by her ladies and gentlemen in waiting.
The Marquis of Conyngharn left yesterday, for Dudley
House, Park-lane ; and Lord and Lady Charlemont left
to-day.
It is not expected, at present, that her Majesty will go
to Egham races to-morrow.