The Sun.
London, England, 1853-01-04 00:00:00

RACING FIXT.

FEBRUARY.
.. 8 Coventry Spring
17
IVIARcH.
Carmarthenshire Hunt. 1 Kiplin Coates
Liverpool Spring '2 Leamington
Doncaster Spring 8 , Catterick Bridge .....
Salisbury
Warwick Spring Abergavenny

Nottingham Spring..
Hereford

'RIL.

Croxton Park 6
Epsom Spring 7
Newmarket Craven ll

York Spring
Mahon

Newmarket F. S

M.
Chester 3
Newmarket Sec Sp lO
Liverpool Hunt ll
Shrewsbury ll

. 17
. 28
. 29
. 30

Newton
Ascot...
Hampton.
Beverley, Hull, &c l5
Ju

. 19
. 21
. 25

Newmarket
Worcester
Carlisle (3)
Liverpool

. 15

Brighton
Brighton Club
Wolverhanipton
North Staffordshire
Reading
York .

AUG

Warwick ...
Doncaster .
Bedford ...
Leicester ...

Bath l7
Manchester (3) lB
Epsom 24

:Bibury 22
Stockbridge 23
Winchester 24
Newcastle 2B

10
17

Stamford
Nottingham
Goodwood

. 19
. 21
. 26

Radcliffe 22
Derby
Egham 24 or 25
Eccles 29
Lichfield 3O

OCTOBER.
Chester Autumn 4 Richmond l9
Newmarket S.

NOVEMBER.
Worcester.. 1 Warwick Autumn l6
Epsom Autumn 3 Shrewsbury 23
Cowbridge Hunt 9 Aberystwith Last week
Liverpool Autumn 9

Epsom ...
Newton..

Hereford

Carmarthen
Liverpool ..
Doncaster..
Kirkham ....

Abergavenny,
Cheltenham..

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t.IIARY.
1 Coventry

Wetherby ll
Chipping Norton l5
Birmingham 2B

APRIL.
1 I Epsom
5 Liverpool Hunt..

Nov:

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MATRIMONT.—A CHRISTMAS INCIDENT.—In a district
in the neighbourhood of Inverness, which of late has
become locally notorious for the fickleness of its fair ones,
and for breaches of promise of marriage, of contracts, &c.,
the following incident took place on the evening of the
25th instant. On this occasion, however, it was the
swain, a farm servant, who proved faithless. He had, it
seems, wooed and wen the affections of a young woman ;
her consent to marriage was obtained, and Christmas
night appointed for the celebration of the nuptials. A
large party of friends and acquaintances were invited to
attend the wedding, and the apartments of the principal
inn in the district were secured for the occasion—a sub-
stantial 'supper having been ordered to be ready for all
and sundry who chose to partake of it. The day preced-
ing that set apart for the festivities, however, brought
" mine hostess" the following laconic epistle :—" Decem-
ber 23, 1852.—Mem, yeu will not require to be at the
trerible of preparing a weding for me." The party most
interested—the intended bride—received no intimation of
the change which had come over the spirit of her lover's
dream, and, consequently, at the appointed hour,
accom-
panied by a batch of friends, she reached the inn. The
was also pre
asinaent,
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brief epistle
loudpistlequwoteerde atbhoevehnwpions asreeatexpressed towards
the faithless one, and a number of those present sallied
produced, the party became
forth to effect his capture and compulsory fulfilment of
hisx ertenedgagheimmesenlft.
to Theom
While the proceedings narrated were going on, a farm
lad from Forres arrived at the inn, on his way to visit
exerted
his friends in a neighbouring strath, and having been
fleorrtgym thea n
unfortunate
made acquainted with the whole affair, gallantly "popped
the question" to the deserted fair one, and was at once
accepted. The minister was still present, the knot was
tied, dancing commenced, and the evening was spent
right pleasantly. The matter has ever since been the
talk of the district ; and it is hoped that the spirited
young ploughman may never repent his hasty marriage.
—lnverness Courier.

HORRIBLE TREATMENT OP A HORSE.—The following
statement has been forwarded to us by the secretary to
the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
Our readers will, of course, suspend their judgment until
the case has been heard :—On Thursday before Christ-
mas-day a bay cob, the property of Mr. Deane, of the
Crown Hotel, Erith, was sent to a brewer named Row-
lands, in the same village, on trial, with a view to a
sale, if the animal suited the work. On the Friday it
was tried, when it refused to go round the machine
used for raising the water for the purposes of the
brewers. It was then beaten most savagely ; when,
finding that useless, the human brutes concerned pro-
cured a quantity of straw, and one of them coolly struck
a lucifer-match and lighted a fire underneath the belly
of the animal and burnt it shockingly. A rope was
afterwards tied round the neck of the cob, and, being
fastened to another horse, it was drawn out of the place
in which it had been so shamefully tortured and turned
out into a field, where it remained without any protec-
tion from the weather or attention to its wounds until
Sunday, the 26th, when it was returned to Mr. Deane
in a most pitiable condition from the treatment it had
received. A great number of persons have seen the ani-
mal, and expressed their indignation and disgust at the
conduct of the persons concerned, who, fortunately, will
not escape exposure and punishment. The case has
been investigated by Mr. Thomas, the secretary of the
Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals,
who, on Saturday last, attended before the magistrates
at Dartford, and obtained summonses against Benjamin
Rowlands, .Frederick Townend, and Charles Gamble,
who will appear at Dartford on Saturday next to answer
the charge.

ESCAPE FROM A TIGER.—On the evening of Christmas-
day, as a young woman was carelessly gazing at a
leopard in Batty's menagerie, now exhibiting in Hud-
dersfield, she sauntered within the reach of the tiger's
den, when one of the ferocious animals thrust forth one
of its paws through the wires, and seized her by the coil
of plaited hair behind the crown of her head. Fortu-
nately a female, of slender frame, but of heroic forti-
tude, was standing by, and saw the tiger seize its in-
tended prey. This woman, with extraordinary presence
of mind, seized the girl by the waist, and notwithstand-
ing the terrific growling of the beast, maintained her
hold and pulled with masculine vigour. The tiger's
" lusty sinews" still retained their grasp, and it roared
and plunged terrifically. At this moment the struggle
was a fearful and awful one. The people inside the
menagerie set up shouts of alarm, which communicated
with the crowd outside, and produced a scene which may
be better imagined than described. At length the comb
dropped from her hair, the coil unfurled, and the young
woman was rescued, leaving the tiger's paw full of her
hair, and a silk handkerchief which she had thrown over
her head when•the tiger seized her. The unfortunate
girl fainted, but soon recovered again, and we are happy
to add without having sustained any injury beyond the
fright, and the loss of about a handful of hair.—Leeds
Intelligencer.