The Sun.
London, England, 1836-09-08 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

ROCHESTER AND CHATHAM RACES,TuEsDA Y.
A Maiden Plate cf 301., given by the Members for the Western
Division ; three yrs old, 7st. 41b ; four, Bst. 71b; five, 9st ; six
and aged, 9st. 51b. Mares and geldings allowed 31b. Heats,
one mile.
Captain Gardnor's Idiot, 3 yrs S. Day 3 1 1
Mr. Johnson's Ticket, 3 yrs 1 2 2
Colonel Peel's Partner, 3 yrs
The Rockingham Stakes of 10 sovs. each, with .50 added; three
yrs old, ist. 41b ; four, Bst. 71b ; five, 9st ; six and aged, 9st. 41b.
Heats, mile and a half. The winner to be sold for 300 sovs., &e.
S Subs.

Duke of Richmond's Pussy, 5 yrs... ...... ......A lad 1 1
Mr. Best na. Pincher, 5 y-rs
The Members' Plate of 591. Weights as for the Rockingham
Stakes. Mares and geldings allowed 31b. The winner to be
sold for 2001. if demanded. lleats, two miles.
Captain Gardnor's Skirmislier, 3 yrs ...S. Day 0 1 1
Mr. Brown's Arbaces, 3 yrs... 0 2 2
Mr. Wickham's Robinette, 5 yrs 3 dr

WARWICK RACES, TUESDAY.
The Guy Stakes of 50 save. each, h. ft., for three yrs old. Mile.

12 Subs.
Mr. J. Day's ch. c. by Velocipede, Bst. 31b Paris 1
Lord Warwick's Pelopia, Bst. 41b
Mr. Giffard's br. c. by Filho da Puta, Bst. 41b......... 3
Won by a head.
The Leamington Stakes of 25 sovs. each, 15 ft., with 100 added
by the town of Leamington. Two miles.
Captain Bunney's Miss Newton, 5 yrs, 7st. 91b 1
Mr. Collins's Theophilus, 6 yrs, 7st. I lib
Mr. B. King's Lucy, aged, Bst. 21b
Captain Berkeley's Paris, 5 yrs, Bst. Sib., and Mr. Wyatt's Fi-
delio, 4 yrs, Est. 131 b., also started, but were not placed.
A Sweepstakes of 5 sovs. each, with 20 added. Heats, two miles.
Mr. J. Day's Venison, 3 yrs, Bst... ...... J. Day 2 1 1
General Yates's Sylvan, 4 yrs, 9st. 21b ...... 1 2 2
The Yeomanry Plate of 50 sovs., and 10 for the second horse.
Two miles.
Mr. Newman's Smallhopes, aged, 12st. 7lb Owner 1
Mr. T. Bateman's Pandora, aged, 12st ... 2
Mr. T. Holloway's St. Peter, aged, 13st. 71b

BARNET RACES—YESTERDAY.
The Barnet St. Leger, by a Subscription of 5 sons. each, with 30
added from the Fund. Ileats, twice round and a distance; three
years old, ist. 41b; four, Bst. 61b. ; five, 9st. ; six and aged,
9st. 41b. Mares and geldings allowed 31b. A winner of one
race in the present year to carry 41b. extra ; two, 71b. extra.
Half-bred horses allowed 71b. To name and close on the entrance
night. The winner to be sold for 150 sovs., &c. 5 Subs. or
no race ; if more than five, the second horse to receive back his
stake.

Mr. Stubbs's Edward, 4 yrs, Bst. 71b... Mathews 1 1
Mr. Bacon's Tiara, 6 yrs, 9st. 81b 2 2
Mr. Mason's Water Nymph, 3 yrs, 7st. Ilb 3 3
Mr. Lambden's Little Rover, 5 yrs, 2st
Both heats won easy.
The Town Plate of 501., by a Subscription of 5 sovs. each, with
25 added from the Fund. Heats, weights, &c., the same as for
the Barnet St. Leger. The winner of the Barnet St. Leger to
cary 101 b. extra. Maiden horses to be allowed 51b. The win-
ner to be sold for 100 sows., &c. 5 Subs. or no race. If more
than five, the second horse to receive back his stake. To name
and close on the entrance night.
Mr. Scott's Catalonia, 6 yrs, 9st. 41b Sly 1 1
Mr. Firth's Swallow, 3 yrs, ist. 41b
Mr. East's Quicksilver, 5 yrs, Bst. 81b 3 3
Mr. Webb's Exposita, 3 yrs, Bst. 61b
Mr. Harrison's Cicero, 3 yrs, fist. 121 b
Mr. Ray's Mountain Lass, 6 yrs, Bst. 121 b 0 dr
Won easy.
The Tradesmen's Splendid Silver Cup, value 501., for horses of all
ages, which were on or before the Ist of July, 1836, the property
of Tradesmen residing in Barnet or Hadley, or within one mile
thereof, and being Subscriber of not less than one guinea each
to the Fund. Heats, twice round and a distance. To carry 9st.
To name and close on the entrance night. To pay 15s. entrance.
Five horses to start, or no race.
The afternoon's amusements terminated with this race. The
course was very numerously attended.

CURRAGH SEPTEMBER MEETING, MONDAY.
The Northumberland Handicap (Sweepstakes), 20 sovs., 10 ft.,
with 100 sovs. added. Ilathbride Post.
Col. Westenra's Freney, 6 yrs, lOst. 41b...P. Connolly 1
Mr. Disney's Maria, 3 yrs, ist. 101 b 2
Mr. Watt's Blackfoot, 3 yrs, ist. 131 b
Eight others started, and three others paid 5 sovs. ft.
The Anglesey Stakes of 10 sovs., p.p., with 100 sovs. added, for
two yrs old; colts, Bst. 41b. ; fillies, Bst. Anglesey Post. The
winner to give three dozen Champagne to the Club.
Mr. Watts's Magpie ,
Mr. J. Kelly's eh. c. by Philip
Mr. Ferguson's b. f. by Economist 3
Fifteen others started.

PARIS RACES,• SEPT. 4.
A Prize of 2,000 fr. for three yrs old. Once round the Champs
de Mars.
_ _

_ ...._....
Mr. Lupin's Belinda ... ~
Mizeu 1
Lord A. Seymour's Timensul ... 2
111. Riviere's Bertram
Duke of Orleans's Brougham
M. Fasquel's Topaze
A Prize of 3,000 fr. for three yrs old and upwards. Twice round.
Lord 11. Seymour's Frank, 2st. 21b Flatman 1
Duke of Orleans's Volante, lOst. 41b 2
Duke of Orleans's Esperance

Won easy.

REGISTER OF PUBLIC SALES.

SEPT. 7.—By Mr. RICHARD Ews, at Garraway's.—The
Leasehold White Horse Wine-vaults, High Holborn, held for
104 years, at 1151. a year-4501.
The Punch-bowl Public-house, Moorfields, was withdrawn.
Six Houses, with large gardens, Marc-street, Old Ford, let
at 831., held for 80 years, at 41/. a year, 2001.
Thirteen Houses adjoining, let at 1371. 165., held for SO
years, at 651.-1001.

A Rent of 441. 4s. a year, for nine years, amply secured on
houses in St. Luke's parish--3851.
Four Houses, Nos. 38 to 41, Underwood-street, Mile-end
New Town, let at 56/., held for 68 years from 1822, at 101.
ground-rend-1451.
By Mr. W. FIELD.—The Old George Public-house, Stable,
and a House adjoining, Fulham-road ; held for 11 years at
70/. a year-8501.
By Mr. GARDINER._Two Freehold Houses, Nos. 46 and 47,
Margaret-street, Hackney-road ; let at 43/. 165.-3901.
By SOUTHEY and Sox.—A Plot of Freehold Building_
ground, having a frontage of :32 feet, in Long-lane Bermond-
sey, by a depth of 157 leet-4001.

FATAL STEAM-BOAT ACCIDENT._ Yesterday an
inquest was held at the Black Horse Poplar, before Mr.
Baker, the Coroner, on the body of Louisa Selby, aged 29,
who was drowned on Tuesday evening last, by
.the boat in
which she was, with two other persons, being run down by the
Gipsy Greenwich steam-boat. The inquiry excited much
interest, from the fact of the waterman who was rowing the
parties being intoxicated at the time, and having since been
taken into custody, and committed by Mr. Ballantine at the
Thames Police-office for re-examination, on a charge of hav-
ing, by carelessness and neglect, caused the death of the de-
ceased. The Coroner, after examining several witnesses, who
proved that the waterman rowed right in to the bows of the
steamer, and that he was intoxicated at the time, adjourned
the inquiry until Friday to hear evidence on the part of the
waterman. To rebut this statement a clerk from the office of
Mr. Loney, a solicitor, appeared for the waterman, and the
Secretary of the Steam-boat Company for the Captain of the
Gipsy.
On Monday evening, at the denouement of the
Bill Sticker, at the Strand Theatre, when several persons
were coming down the stairs for either fresh air or refresh-
ments, the horses in an omnibus from the City, full of passen-
gers, fell opposite the entrance door, and on being pulled up
turned round and bolted into the lobby, to the great peril and
astonishment of the passengers and egressers, the latter of
whom took unconscious refuge in the pit and boxes, which they
had just left, without standing much on the order of their re-
treat. The horses, however—who were, probably, not the
least astonished of the parties—were backed out without
mischief.

GREATEST ASCENTS IN THE ATMOSPHERE.—
M. Boussaingault, in company with Colonel Ilall, on the 15th
of December, 1831, ascended Chimborazo, to the height of
6,006 metres (19,699 feet), the greatest elevation which has yet
been attained en land, Humboldt having been able to reach as
high only as 19,400 feet. M. Gay Lussac, in a balloon, rose
to 22,900 feet at Paris. The barometer carried by Boussain-
gault fell to 13 inches 8 lines. The temperature in the shade
was 7.8 C. (45.60 F.) This chemist thinks it possil•le to live
in rarified air. Thus, at a height almost equal to that of
Mont Blanc, where Saussure had scarce strength to consult
his instruments, young women may be seen in South America
dancing the whole night. The celebrated battle of Pichincha,
during the war of independence, was fought at a height little
inferior to that of Mount Rose. The guides who accompanied
Saussure assured him that they had seen the stars in broad day.
Boussaingault never witnessed them, although he reached a
much greater altitude.—Journal de China. Medic.
A club existed forty years since in London, called,
" You F:bould have been here before ;'' it consisted of an equal
number of theatrical and literary persons, originally but four,
ultimately upwards of fifty. A new member was added every
week ; no ceremony was gone through of making the members,
which is customary in other clubs, but the new corner partook
of a splendid dinner, &c., and when the party were about
breaking up and the bill was called for, it was handed over to
him, the president bidding him to pay it. "I !" the stranger
would generally exclaim, " why should I pay all?" To this
was replied, " You are the last among us—you should have
been here before." This was the inauguration. Merry was,
I believe, the last member; his bill amounted to nearly 100/.,
and it was then agreed that the whole affair was rather too
keen a joke, and " You should have been here befere," was
changed into " We'll never go there again. "_New Monthly.
LIVERPOOL COTTON-MARKET, SEPT. 6.
There has been little business stirring in the Cotton-market
to-day ; there is, however, no sign of a decline in prices, which
are, in fact, firm as well as steady. The sales to-day do not
exceed 1,500 bags ; say 70 Egyptian, 15d. a 17d. ; Maran-
hams, 13d. ; 60 Pernambuco, 12d. a 131 d. ; 120 Surats, 51d.
a Bd. ; the remainder American, 81-d. a
Yesterday, at twelve o'clock, a gentleman was ob-
served walking towards Kensington, and apparently in a bad
state of. health ; when he arrived opposite the Palace gates
he dropped into the arms of George Pearce, the sentinel on
duty at the Palace, who considered that he was dead. He
took him to the Crown Inn, where he was attended by Mr.
Morris, a medical gentleman, of Kensington ; but he died in
a very short time afterwards. The deceased is understood to
be the Rev. John King, the Rector of Bossen, Suffolk. Upon
his finger were found several gold rings, upon one of which
was an inscription relative to his daughter. The body awaits
a Coroner's Inquest.