The Sun.
London, England, 1830-01-14 00:00:00

NO DAY MENTIONED.

A Sweepstakes of 5 sovs. each, with 50 cove. added from
the Race Fund, (if walked over for, the 50 cove. will
not be given,) for all ages. 'Two miles. Three yrs.
old, fist. 121 h. ; four, Sst. 21b ; five, Bst. 101 b. ; six,
9it. ; and aged, 9st. 21b. The winner to be sold for
300 sor., if demanded.
Produce Sweepstakes of 50 cove. each, half fofeit; for
3 yrs. old colts, Sat. 71b. ; and fillies, Bst. 41b. One
mile.
Mr. Thornhill's ch. 1. by Rubens—Scarpa.
Mr I. Sadler's ch. f. by Tramp—Defiance.
Mr. Gauutlett's b. c. by Whalebone—Lanaia.
Mr. Griffiths's b. c. by Smolensko—Fanny Leigh.
Mr. Rawlinson's b. a. by Spectre—Reality.
Rattler, by Spectre—Reality's dam.
Mr. Dilly's ch f. by Reveller—Sentiment.

SPLENDID SHOT.—On Tuesday last, the
sth current, Captain HOUSTON STEWART shot a brace of
wild swans on the river Cree, and not far from his own
residence, Penningham House. He fired right and left,
and disabled both birds almost at the same moment of
time—a feat which, considering the size, strength, and ra-
rity of the bird, is perhaps unparalleled in the annals of
sporting. The largest bird, a female, measured four feet
two inches in length, seven feet two inches in breadth,
and weighed 1211bs. The other, a young one, and
darker in the plumage, measured three feet ten inches in
length, six feet eleven inches in breadth, and weighed
1011bs. A medical gentleman, skilled in and fond of the
pursuits of natural history, who happened to be at Pen-
ninghana House at the time, dissected the largest bird, and
found the following account of the wild swan's windpipe,
as given by WlLLoucHar, and quoted by BEWICE: (page
246, part 2), perfectly correct in every particular :
The windpipe of the wild swan, after a strange and won-
derful manner, enters the breast-bone, in a cavity pre-
pared for it, and is therein reflected, and after its egress
at the devarication, is contracted into a narrow compass
by a broad and bony cartilage; then, being divided into
two branches, goes on to the lungs. These branches, be-
fore they enter the lungs, are dilated, and, as it were,
swollen into two cavities. HEvstram corroborates the
above, and adds, that the wild swan, in this particular,
differs not only from the tame swan, but also from every
other bird.—Dumfries Courier.

Several years ago, a pugilist who stood very
high in public estimation for bravery and immense capabi-
lity, betrayed his backers and sold himself. His second,
who knew nothing of the arrangement, was convinced
from the pugilist's manner, while fighting, that he did not
intend to win the fight; and not a shadow of doubt re-
mained ultimately, for the purchased pugilist, without any
good reason, dropped his head at the finish of a round, and,
as the phrase goes, " went to sleep." In vain did thc
second bawl in the boxer's ear, in vain did he shake his
head about, dash water in his face, and use all the expe-
dients resorted to on these occasions--the pugilist would
not be roused. The second, who had betted to a con-
siderable amount on the man, stung with the baseness of
his conduct, and excited by the prospect of being thus
robbed of the money he had betted, caught with his teeth
the ear of the boxer, and pinched it to rouse him, but so
determined was he, that be actually submitted to the teeth
of the second meeting through his ear, and still maintained
his sham insensibility. This is an instance of the "game"
quality necessary to perform a cross, where there are per-
sons about who are suspicious. The pugilist was paid
7001. for the cross. The backer, who had heaped many
favours on this deceitful boxer, was, by this cross, minus
15,0001. ! The case requires no remark ; but it had one
good result, it caused the deluded patron to leave the Fancy
in disgust.—Morning Paper.
There is a religious colony founded in French
Guiana, by a Madame JAYONNEY, Superior of the Sisters
of St. Joseph, who sailed from France with about 100
person of both sexes, and established a settlement on the
river Mans, at the northern extremity of French Guiana.
Madame JAYONIIRY, who has the title of Mother, and
her sisters, rule this colony ; these pious vestals are seen
guiding the canoes on the river, or directing the opera-
tions of the wood-cutters in the forests. Discord has
lately visited We peaceful asylum. One of the colonists
named MATRAT, formerly a professor of Latin, who
quitted his classical pursuits to join the trans-Atlantic ex-
pedition of Madame JAYONHEY, had a dispute with a
workman of the colony, named Bouncutcworr, which in
its consequences induced the settlers to take one side or the
other, and become MATRATITXS Or BOURGUIGNONITES.
At length MATRAT charged his antagonist with theft, and
with an attempt to poison him; but on investigation he
failed to prove the theft, and with respect to the poison-
ing, the alleged venomous juice was examined by a medical
person, and found to be perfectly innocent. This defeat
enabled his adversary to prefer a charge against him of
calumnious accusation, for which MATRAT was sentenced
to six months' imprisonment.
For two or three nights last week a watch
was kept in Handsworth church-yard, in consequence of
the unfounded fears which a man, who was buried on
Thursday, had entertained just before he died ! About a
fortnight ago, the wife of this individual, from the neigh-
bouring hamlet of Woodhouse, was interred in Hands-
worth church-yard. In the interval since her death some-
thing had been said to her husband about his being a
likely subject for the doctors, which so affected his mind
that be left especial orders, in the event of his own de-
cease, that his wife's coffin should be taken up, the grave
dug a yard deeper, and his 'own remains be placed under-
most ! His request was literally attended to, and a watch
set as above stated....-Sheffield