The Sun.
London, England, 1854-07-03 00:00:00

THE PRAIRIE ON FIRE.

" Oh how sublime, how awfully sublime this spectacle
on which we rivet our fascinated eyes, while our heart*
leap to our throats, and our lips are compressed with an
indescribable fear. Now listen to theSe apparently us.
earthly sounds. The prairie is alive with millions of
voices, which fancy would. give to the fiery tongues of
this rushing monster, as the cheering song of his death.
dealing advance—but which stern reality tells us are the
frantic cries of droves and herds of wild animals of all
species, mad with affright, all pressing forward together,
pell mell, to escape one common but ever-conquering
enemy. Look yonder, there goes a stampede of buffalo;
yonder—another of wild horses. How they tear ahead,
with foaming mouths, expanded nostrils, dilated eyes,
and a tread that makes the very earth tremble beneath
them. Look closer, nearer—here they come, above us,
before us, behind us, beneath us, on all and every side,
birds, beasts, reptiles, and insects. How they dart past
us now, with lolling tongues, and fiery eyes, half starting
from their sockets, entangling the very legs of our
horses, and causing them to rear,!and plunge, and snort,
and shriek with appalling terror. - Here are wolves and
wolverines, and rabbits, and boars, and serpents, each
and all howling, shrieking, and hissing their fears.
God of Heaven ! What a scene ! "

The following is a specimen of an examination at
a female college related by an astonished visitor :—.

" COLLEGE EXAMINATION.

" Bimeby the bell rang, and the zamination commenced,
and sich larnin' as we had thar don't grow in the pine
woods, I tell you. The master, after axin' them a heap
of questions 'bout 'rithmetic and grammar, and the like,
ses he, ' What's mathew matix r My hart began to kink
when he mentioned that feller's name. I rim up and
looked over a tall feller's shoulder so I could see him if
he was thar. Just then I caught Miss Mary's eye.
'Mathew matix,' see she, 'is the science of 'quantity,
magnitude, number ;' and she went on with a heap of
larnin', but I could'nt hear no more.
" Go to the board,' said the master, and she walked
up to a grate black board and tuck hold of a piece of
chawk. S'pose a canon ball is fired at the moon,' see
the master, how long would it take it to go thee r
reckon it would done you good to see her chawk slide
over that board. She made figers faster than I could
o3unt, and the chawk rattled on a board like a flock of
chickens pickin' corn of a clap board. Bimeby' ses she,
one thousand one hundred and seventy-eight yearly
five months, three weeks, four days, sixteen hours/
twenty-three minutes, and forty-two seconds and a half.
My Lord, thinks I, how could she tell so zaotly to half a
second."

RACING FIXTI
JIJ
Newmarket
Worcester 4
Barnstaple 6
Lancaster
Odiham 7
Harrogate 10
Mansfield ll
Liverpool l2
Abingdon l3
Ipswich 13

RES FOR 1854.

'L Y.
Stourbridge ...... l7
Stamford lB
Newton . . ................ IS
Knutsford...- l9
Nottingham . ......••••••20..
Great Grimsby 24
Goodwood ' 25
Radcliffe 3l
Deritend Pool 3l
Ripon 3l
ITST.

AUG
Brighton • 2
Airdrie ................. . ... 3
YBD u•
Riponirgrmhhato Brighton nt.:.. ........ ...
C1ub............. 3478
North Staffordshire ...... 8 I
Reading 8
Lewes
..10 I
Wolverhampton ~....,,.14

Egham — ' l5
Folkestone, Ilythe, and,7
Sandgate
York .. . ..... 23
Hereford
Eccles 289
Chelmsford 29
Derby 2O
Plymouth
Lincoln,

Warwick SEPTI 5
Lichfield
M
Western eetino• 7
Rochester and Chatham 7
Doncaster 12
Pontefract 18
Bedford 19

41BER.
Leicester

...20

Manchester Autumn 2l
Lanark 25
Newmarket F 0 26
Walsall

Chester Autumn 3
Kelso a
Yorkshire Union Hunt 5
Wrexham 6
Newmarket S 0 9

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Northallorton 2B

IBER.

ACES.—FiatsT DAY.
rANDICAP. One mile.
Yrs of lb
Miss Agnes .4 7 1
Little Tom
Ammonia 5 0
1
Domino
3 7 0
Census '3 6 1.2
lealamns
JBox
Quince ...... .
Middlesborough 36 4
Hermi4ge 3 6 4
Mande igary 3 5 12
Boddicot
Nally 3 5 11
f 13y Chanti a 1 ee r
Elliirdale 2 5 2

Caledonian Hunt —ll
Warwick Autuma ......17
Richmond ...11
Newmarket H 23
Worcester Autumn 31

YORK AUGUST R.
The CHESTERFIELD H.
Yrs at lb
Rataplan
Nabob
Typee 4 8 9
Snowdon Dunhill 4 8 0
Hunca Munca
Prime Minister 6 7 121
E vaclne
The Deformed 4 7 7
Mentmore Lass 4 7 7
The Early Bird 3 7 7
Comfit 4 7 6
The General
Catherine Parr 4 7 4
Catspaw...
Marc Anthony 3 7 2
William Rufus 4 7 2

The Earl of Wilton's eldest son, Lord Grey de Wil•
ton, who has entered the Ist Life Guards, in which hie
lordship's relative, the Hon. Captain de Roe, command,
a troop, will attain his majority in November next, when
the event will be 'celebrated with the customary re-
j oicin gs.
THE ATTENDANCE OF WITNESSES.--On Saturday the
bill amended by the Lords was issued, to compel the
attendance of witnesses in the United Kingdom—from
Ireland to England vice versa. The partiei need not
attend unless they have their expenses defrayed in corn-
jug and returning from the place where they reside.
LETTERS PATENT FOR INVENTIONB.—On Saturday
bill before the Commons was issued, to enable the Lord
Chancellor in certain cases to extend the timr for seal-
ing Letters Patent for Inventions, and filing specific"
tions for a more extended period from the expiration Of
the terra of proyieiona protection.