The Sun.
London, England, 1853-09-13 00:00:00

RACING FIXTURES FOR 1853.

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The figures within parenthesis denote the number of
day's racing.
SEPTEMBER.
Folkestone, Hythe, and Lanark (2) 22
Sandgate l3 Manchester Autumn (2).22
Doncaster (4) ..13 Canterbury (2) 22
Dover 15 Newmarket F. 0. (3)...27
Pontefract (2) l9 Walsall (2) 28
Bedford (2) 2O Northallerton (2) 29
Leicester (2) 21

OCTI
Chester Autumn (2) 4
Monmouth
YorkshireUnionilunt(l) 6
Wrexham (2)
Newmarket S. 0. (5) —lO

IBER. .

Warwick Autumn (2) lB
Caledonian Hunt and
Kelso 18
Richmond (2) 19
Newmarket (H.) (6) 24
IBER.

NOVE
Worcester (2)
Epsom Autumn (2) 3
Cowbridge Hunt (2) 9
Liverpool Autumn (2) 9

Shrewsbury (2) 15
Newton Autumn (1) 24
Aberystwith (3) Last week

IRISH RACE
SEPTE
Tipperary Autumn 12
Tuam (2) 2O
Limerick Grand National2l
OCTO
Curragh October 31

!IS TO COME.
:MBER.
Roscommon (3) 26
Johnstown (2) 2B

IBER.
Eeeting. lB

BUSH ROADS IN AUSTRALIA.—The travelling corres-
pondent of the Argus gives the following amusing de-
scription of bush roads in Australia, :—Let me, then,
first state what a road is. It may be aptly compared to
a geometrical line ; it has length without breadth or
thickness. Ido not say a straight line, for it is by no
means the nearest way between two points. A road is
the most vile of sublunary deceptions. A will-o'-the-
wisp is something ; a ship's track thro ugh the waves has
a transient existence ; but an Australian road is an
abominable nonentity. When you axe told you cannot
possibly miss your road, be assured -of the truth of it,
for there will be no road to miss ; :look forward con-
fidently to an agreeable night "by moonlight alone,"
about which I could "tell you a tale," but that
I don't like to be talking about inyself. What do
you think of the following for' a direction ? Squatter,
standing at his hut door, with one .arm stretched out
before him, loquitur "Take that rim, on the other side
of the creek, and it will bring you on. to an open plain ;
go straight on for about a mile, and :7ou'll see a belt of
timber on your right ; make a cut t,IE ;rough it till you
come to a swamp ; go on beyond th.:at for three miles,
keeping the sun on your right should € r, and you'll see a
large mob of wild cattle ; leave them on your left, and
keep on, heading the gullies, till you come to a camping
ground ; there will be a flock of sheep somewhere in the
neighbourhood, and the shepherd will t put you on the
right track. You can't miss it." Tlh ank you, so much
for roads. Not that a creek is differs nt ; not but that
some creeks are roads, and some road's ; are creeks—nay,
I have ridden along a plain level road that was a river.
But, generally speaking, a creek is dit brent from a road.
A creek is an indentation in the grout d, into which, if it
should happen to rain heavily, water v ould probably run
and remain there till it dried up. Aad in this consists
the difference between a creek and a gully • the gully
watrsere
being more or less on a slope , the w: "ter would' not re-
creek, or
main in it, but flow down somewhere else. It is easy to
Fridersta.nd, then, what a creek or a g oily is (and a river
after
is just the same, except that you will seldom follow the
may have crossed aw
hla river for a mile or so witl 1-out meeting with a
) ; but the difficulty is to k ]now what is not a
a gully, or a river. You . may be told that,
Passiiinoturwo,:creeks, you will co; me to a certain hut;
it. lam not yet d
and yet,
humble and ini weent opinion you
when a creek dozen creeks, ant not have reached
(crick"o 13 enough in the mysteries to say
creek, and r a gully (or gull-ye)
rest orthography) is nroterink' I think:, must be the cor-
is not a gully.—Augraz?'
wire 4114 AT.lO.*. Zeazand Gazette.