The Sun.
London, England, 1822-09-18 00:00:00

HURSDAY•

The Gentlemen's Sixty Pounds; the second horse received 101.
Heats, thrice round.
Mr. Hudson's br. c. Sir Henry, 3 yrs old, 6st. 131 b. 1 1
Mr. Kay's br.'c. by Comus, 3 yrs old, 6st. 131 h. - 2 2
Mr. Dixon's h. f. by Comus, 3 yrs old, 6st. 101 h. - 3 3

ABERDEEN, FORFAR, KINCARDINE, and BANFF
MEETING, TuEsDAY, SEPT. 10.
The Meeting Stakes of 20gs. h. ft. for horses, &c. Two miles.
Twelve Subscribers,
Lord KennAy's b. h. Eglinton, aged, list. - - I
Sir D. Moncrietfe's ch. m. Louisa, 5 yrs old, 10st. 51b. 2
Lord Saltoun's b. h. Milton, fr yrs old, lOst. 51b. - 3
Mr. Maule's gr. f Angelica, 3 yrs old, Bst. 121 b. - 4
• Even betting on Eglinton. Won easy.
The Gold Cup, value 100 gs, for horses, &c. Two miles.
Sir A. Ramsay's b. f. Meets, 3 yrs old, 7st. 71b. - 1
Sir D. Moncrieffe's ch. m. Bossy, aged, 9st. 61b. - 2
Two to one on Meeta. Won easy.
WEDNESDAY.
The Produce Stakes of 50gs each, for 3-yr-old fillies, Bst. 41b.
Two miles. Three Subscribers.
Sir A. Ramsay's b. f. by Prime Minister - walked over
The Caledonian Welter Stakes of 30gs each, lOgs ft. for all
ages, 12st. each. Two miles. Fifteen Subscribers.
Mr. Maule's br. g. Harlequin, aged . - 1
Lord Kennedy's b. h. Eglinton, aged - - 2
Five to four on Eglinton. Won by a head.
Fifty guineas for ages. Two-mile heats.
Sir a Ramsay's b. f. Mesta, 3 yrs old, 6st. 101 b. - walked

ROWING MATCH.
Yesterday a Prize Boat, given by the Ladies and Gentlemen
of Fulham, was ably contested by several watermen, and won
by one named Quintin. Fine weather induced many gay par-
ties to be present.

The munificent CHARLES FORBES, Esq. M.P.
has given an additional subscription of 2001. for
the completion of the Public Rooms at Aberdeen.
On Saturday last, being Holy Cross Day, Alderman Jon
COOPER was elected Mayor of Canterbury, for the ensuing
year.

AFFECTING ANFCDOTE.—At the Anniversary
Meeting of the Southampton Auxiliary Bible
Society, on Thursday, the Rev. LEIGH RICH-
MOND, (author of the Dairyman's Daughter) re-
lated to the meeting an anecdote of the most
touching interest, which rivetted the attention
and affected the hearts of the whole assembly in
no common degree ; and to which, though we
will generally and briefly state the facts, we
cannot pretend to do any justice. By a sudden
burst of water into one of the Newcastle Col-
lieries, 35 men and 41 lads were driven into a
distant part of the pit, from which there was no
possibility of return, until tie water should have
been drawn off. 'While this was being effected,
though all possible means were used, the whole
number gradually died, from starving- or from
suffocation. When the bodies were drawn up
from the pit, seven of the youths were disco-
vered in a cavern separate from the rest. Among
these was one of peculiarly moral and religious
habits, whose daily reading of the sacred Strip-

tures to his widowed mother, when he came
up from his labour, had formed the solace of
her lonely condition. After his funeral a sym-
pathising friend of the neglected poor went
to visit her ; and while the mother spewed
him, as a relic of her son, his Bible worn
and soiled with constant perusal, he happened
to cast his eyes on a candle-box, with which, as a
miner, he had been furnished, and which had
been brought up from the pit with him ; andthere
he discovered a record of the filial affection and
stedfast piety of the youth, than which the annals
of martyrdom scarcely furnish a higher or a more
affecting instance. In the darkness of the suffo-
cating pit, with a bit of pointed iron, he had en-
graved on the box his last message to his mother,
in these words : " Fret not, my dear mother ; for
we were singing and praising God, while we had
time.—Mother, follow God more than ever I did.

—Joseph, be a good lad to God and mother."
Mr. R. produced the box, which he had borrow-
ed of the widow, under a solemn promise of re-
turning a relict so precious to a mother's heart.

A few evenings ago, while the family were
busily engaged serving customers, a thief con-
trived to sneak up stairs into the bed-room of
Mr. THOMAS, landlord of the Green Man, Strat-
ford, and plundered a desk of 400 sovereigns, a
201. note, and three valuable watches, with which
the villain got clear of.—(Essex Herald.)