The Sun.
London, England, 1853-09-21 00:00:00

PONTEFRACT RACES.-TITESDAY.

The PONTEFRACT HANDICAP of 5 sovs. each, with 100
added by the members of the borough, for all ages.
One mile and three-quarters.
Mr. W. E. Milner na b c Grapeshot, 3 yrs, 6st 31b
(Ashman) 1
Mr. Robinson's Billy Richard-on, 4 vrs, Est 7lb (Lye) 2
Mr. l'Anson's Braxey, 4 yrs, Est 71b (Hayhoe) 3
Mr. R. Harrison's b c by Melbourne, out of Sally

Warfoot, 4 yrs, 6st 12113
The following also ran : Maidstone, Lough Bawn,
Master Norton. _ _ . _

Betting-5 to 4 agst Sally Warfoot colt, 2to 1 agst
Braxy. Won by a length, same between second and
third.

The CASTLE STAKES of 5 soya. each, with 25 added.
Three-quarters of a mile.
Mr. H. Lister's Hotchpot, 2 yrs (501.) (Kendell) 1
Mr. Baker's Pansy, 3 yrs (301.) (Harrison) 2
Mr. Wilson's Polly Burns, 2 yrs (301.) (Waddington) 3
Hotchpot made all the running, and won easy by
three lengths.
The GRAND STAND STAKES of 5 sovs. each, with 25
added, for three-yr-olds Bst, four 98t, five 9st 71b, six
and aged 9st 101 b. One mile heats.
Capt. Reynard's Vinegarette, 3 yrs (201.) 2 1 1
Mr. Ashworth's Killarney, 4 yrs (301.)
The SCURRY STAKES of 3 soya. each, with 20 added, for
all ages. Three quarters of a mile.
Mr. T. Elsworth's Solyman, 4 yrs, 7st 31b (Kendell) 1
Mr. J. Marson's The Twin, 5 yrs, 7st 9lh (Harrison) 2
Mr. Burke's Nancy • Martinson, 4 yrs, 6st 61b
(Waddington) 3
Betting-5 to 4 agst Solyman, 3to 1 agst The Twin.
Won by two lengths, easy.

AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS.--It appears that the ex-
Periment sanctioned by the present Government with a
'view to the ultimate introduction of a complete annual
system of agricultural statistics has made some progress,
and has furnished evidence of the general willingness of
landowners and farmers to lend their assistance towards
the objects aimed at. The secretary of the Highland
Agricultural Society of Scotland has transmitted to the
Board of Trade returns of the specific condition of acrri-
cultural operations in three counties of Scotland, namely,
Roxburgh, Haddingtcm, and Sutherland, on the 20th of
IVIaY, 1853. Each county is divided into certain dis-
tricts, comprising several parishes, and the number of
acres under different kinds of crop is precisely specified.
'B, there are columns for wheat, barley, oats, rye,
beans,vetches, turnips, potatoes, mangold, carrots, cab-
bage, flax, turnip-seed, alternate grasses, improved per-
nianent grass enclosures, and irrigated meadows. The
number of acres not in crop is also stated, whether con-
sisting of bare fallow, sheep walks, houses, gardens,
roads, fences, &c., woods and waste ; and, finally, the
amount of stock is described and classified under the
designation of horses, milk cows, other cattle, ewes,
tuPe, wethers, and swine. The whole of the tables
are concise and simple, and the totals for each county
are discernible at a glance. All the information con-
tained in them was voluntarily given by the occupiers
of the land, except in three instances, where the sche-
dules were filled in by the enumerator. After the liar-
°eat, it is proposed to proceed in a similar manner with
4.11 estimate of the crops.
STRAM•BOILU EXPLOSION.—On Monday morning a
f
T _etzfUl explosion occurred at the Low Fold-mill, Bank,
'ads, belonging to Messrs. G. Hammond and Son, flax
P
tow
Premix spinners, doing considerable damage to the
05, severely scalding ten or a dozen of the hands
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slightly it uriog more.