The Sun.
London, England, 1853-07-09 00:00:00

NOTTINGHAM MEETING.--Juty 21.

ACCEPTANCES for the NOTTINGHAMSHIRE HANDICAP.
Two miles and a quarter.

The highest weight accepting being Bst, it has been
raised to Bst 71b, and the others in proportion.

Age st lb
Hungerford 5 8 7
Young England 6 8 7
Little Jack 6 8 1
Truth
Indian Warrior 4 7 9
Bardolph 4 7 9
Montague
Musician
Etbelwolf 4 7 7
Black Doctor
The Hero, hb a 7 5
Melford
Galvanism 4 7 0
Allegro
Talfourd
ACCEPTANCES for the Sr
mile and a quarter.
Age st lb
Agis
Sir Robert
Italian
Thirkleby (h-b) 5 10 0
ACCEPTANCES for the Cm
mile and a half.

Age st lb
Tickton
Ann Eliza
Audubon 3 6 3
Placid
Jacqueline 3 511
Contentment
Lord-Lieutenant 3 5 9
The Hatchet , 3 5 9
Dick Turpin
Florist 3 5 7
Deerhound
Bloomer 3 5 5
The Old Soldier
Extasy 3 5 5
Rosabella 3 5 3

ERWOOD HANDICAP. One

Age st lb
Smuggler Bill., a 10 0
Captain Phalen 4 9 10
Pride

:STERFIELD HANDICAP. One

Age lb Bt
Lamartine
Indian Warrior
Evadne
Candlewick 6 7 0
lanthe
Calot
Lord-Lieutenant 3 5 8

Age st lb
Contentment 3 5 8
The Hatchet 3 5 8
Pride
Bold Davie 3 5 7
f. by Gameboy,
out of Maid of

Mon ton

3 5 6

RACING FIXTURES FOR 1853.
The figures within parenthesis denote the number of
day's racing.
JULY.

Macclesfield (2) 12
Liverpool (3) 13
Maidstone (1) l3
Ipswich (2) l4
Leith (1) l4
Stourbridge (2) 18
AU(

1 Stamford (2) 10
Whitehaven (2) 15
Knutsford (2) 2O
Nottingham (2).. 2l
Goodwood (4) 26
Wenlock 27
UST.

Canterbury lB
Radcliffe (3) 22
Egham (2) 23
Toulyidge (1) 24
Liverpool Hunt Cup (2) 24
Derby (2) 2b
Hereford (2) 29
Eccles (3) 29
Lichfield (2) 29
Chelmsford (2) 30

Ripon (2) .
Newton Abbot (2)
Brighton (2)
Airdrie (2)
Edgware (2) 4
Brighton Club (1) 5
Wolverhampton (3) 8
Yarmouth (2)
Reading *(2) lO
North Staffordshire (21 10
York (3) 17
SEPTEMBER.
Lincoln (2) 1 I Bedford (2)
Warwick (2) 6 Leicester (2) 21
Doncaster (4) 13 Lanark (2) 22
Weston Zoyland and Manchester Autumn (2) 22
Bridgwater (1) 12 Newmarket F. 0. (3)...27
Dover 15 Walsall (2) 28
Pontefract (2).
NOVEMBER.

.. 1
.. 3

Worcester (2)
Epsom Autumn (2) 3 Shrewsbury (2) 15
Cowbridge Hunt (2) 9 , Aberystwith (3) Last week

SPITALPIELDS RAGGED SCHOOL.—The sixth report of
this very useful institution has just been presented to the
subscribers. It states that the number of children
attending the school during the last few months has
not been so great as in former years. This is accounted
for by the fact that other benevolent agencies have of
late sprung up in this neighbourhood. The number
of children admitted during the last year has been
about 350. There are at present 450 names on the
books, with an average daily attendance of more than
300. Some parents, through the prosperous state of
trade, have been able to send their children to schools of
a higher class, and have therefore voluntarily withdrawn
them, with expressions of deep thankfulness to the com-
mittee for the advantages they have freely received.
During the last few months there has been a marked im-
provement in the staple trade of the whole district, and a
consequent demand for juvenile labour, which has created
a new obstacle in the way of direct educational effort. The
committee find it a general subject of complaint, in other
schools as well as with their own, that boys and girls are
withdrawn at a much earlier age than was customary
in former years, and sent immediately to work, many
of them being called upon to keep the same long hours
as grown-up workmen. Although the improvement of
the material condition of the poor is always a fitting
subject for congratulation, the committee regret that
it should lead to the withdrawal of so many of
their children who were just of an age to reap
the greatest advantages from the schools, and
were beginning to make rapid progress under the
judicious care of their teachers. The master reports
that 70 or 80 boys and girls have left his own room alone
since Christmas, nearly all of whom are now at work,
earning from 2s. 6d. to 6s. a-week. Many of the boys, who
are now in full employment, could not have suc-
ceeded in getting work had it not been for the use-
ful instruction they acquired at the school. With the
view of encouraging habits of economy and frugality
among the parents of the children, the committee, in
the early part of last year, opened a penny bank in con-
nection with the school. The pence are received every
Monday, and are marked on a card retained by each de-
positor. The whole sums paid during the year are re-
turned at Christmas, with interest proportionate to
the amount. The committee report that the plan has
been found to work well, and proved a blessing to many
of the poor parents, who have gladly taken this oppor-
tunity of depositing small sums in the name of their
children. The receipts for the year amount to about
2501., the expenditure to a few pounds beyond this ; but
still leaving a balance in the hands of the Treasurer.
Amongst the most liberal supporters of this school is
Mr. Robert Hanbury, who appears as an annual sub-
scriber of 101. A few other gentlemen contribute in
the like liberal way.
THE MOORS.—PROSPECT OF THE EWING! SEASON.
—The grouse in this district have not been more nume-
rous for many years, and most of them are now on the
wing. It seems that among the Yorkshire hills the dry-
ness of the weather has exercised a prejudiaial influence,
so that though the coveys are abundant, the number of
th e prevalent
alreadymost
birds i n
have
strongs
trustworthyquarter,
on
hardly birds in a brood is generally below the average. A re-
port has been circulated that the same state of things is
glad v
et to
thisbe arbul em, ouffr
information,Weareg toan emphatic denial. We are led to believe that a pair
of barren
beenwing,
asneedn,cawnhifiley the y. o
ounng
are
the highest moors there has been plenty of water, and
all the watchers concur in saying that they have not
seen a diseased bird. Two-thirds of the moors in this
district have been let, and applications for the rest are ,
constantly.combig in,—Inverness Courier.