The Sun.
London, England, 1836-08-15 00:00:00

SPORTIN G INTELLIGENCE.

STOCKTON RACES.—THURSDAY.
A Sweepstakes of 25 sovs. each, h. ft., for two vrs old; colts,
Bst. 31b ; fillies, Bst. T. Y. C.
Mr. Jaques's b. c. by Voltaire walked over.
Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each, p.p., with 25 added by W. Bowes,
Esq., M.P., for all ages ; three yrs old, 7st. ; four, Bst. 31b. ;
five, 9st. ; six and aged, 9st. 41b. Two miles.
Mr. Skipsey's The Bard, 3 yrs Barker 1
Mr. Claridge's Aveline, 3 yrs
Mr. Fox's Tiffanny, 3 yrs
Handicap Stakes of 15 sovs. each, 10 ft., and only 5 if declared,
with 23 added. Vile and a half.
Mr. Jaques's Burletta, 5 yrs, 7st
Mr. Smith's Florentia, 3 yrs, 6st. 21b 0
Mr. Wise's Lady Jane, 3 yrs, 6st..
Mr. Fox's Manta, 4 yr, 7st. 81b 4
A dead heat for second between Florcntia and Lady Jane.

LEOMINSTER RACES.—WEDNESDAY.
The Ladies' Plate of 501. Heats, twa_miles.
Capt. Lamb's Count d'Orsay
Mr. Davies's Latoria 1 3 0 3 2
Mr. Prest's Ostade
Mr. Elmsley's Ask my Eye 4
TH URSDAY.
A Plate of 501., given by Lord Hotham, M.P., added to a Sweep-
stakes of 5 sovs. each. Heats.
Mr. C. Fuller's Nell Gwynne Hardy 1 3 0 1
`Mr. Foster's Nike
Mr. Tanner's Timothy
Mr. Patrick's Tenbury
Mr. Haywood's Lentullus
The Farmers' Stakes of 3 sovs. each, with 30 added, were won
in three heats by Mr. Hughe's Hasbury, beating four others.
A Handicap Stkkcs of 5 says. each, with 30 added.
Mr. Williams's Charity ... T. Davies 1
Mr. Hughes's Woodman '2
Mr. Cliff's Brecon Lass

CRICKETING.
Sussex has been fortunate this season, hiving beaten two
great matches from home. On Monday and Tuesday they
achieved a victory over Kent ; and to-morrow they enter the
field at Brown's grounds, Brighton, against the following erne
nent Cricketters :—R. Kynaston, Esq., M. Mynn, Esq., A.
Mynn, Esq., W. Strachan, Esq., C. Taylor,. Esq., W. Ward,
Esq., Barker, Bayley, Good, Pilch, and Wenman.

His Majesty's Ministers had their annual fish dinner
on Saturday at Lovegrove's West India Dock Tavern, Black-
well. The party consisted of the following noblemen and
gentlemen :—Duke of Argyll, Marquis of Headfort, Lord
Chancellor, Lord Melbourne, Lord Duncannon, Marquis of
Lansdowne, Lord Templemore, Marquis of Queensberry, Lord
Gardnel., Lord Ilchester, Lord Albemarle, Lord Plunket,
Lord Dalmeny, Lord Fitzroy, Lord Howick, Lord Morpeth,
the Lord Advocate, Lord Palmerston, Lord J. Russell, Lord
Langdale, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Attorney-General,
Solicitor-General, Sir C. Adam, Sir R. Donkin, Sir G.
Grey, Sir J. C. Hobhouse, Colonel Anson, Captain Elliot,
Mr. F. Baring, Mr. G. Byng, Mr. W. Cowper, Mr. R.
Gordon, Mr. Labouchere, Mr. Fox Maule, Mr. More O'Fer-
rall, Mr. M. O'Loghlen,Mr. Vernon Smith, Mr. E. J. Stan-
ley, Mr. R. Steuart, Mr. P. Thomson, Mr. C. Wood.
MEMOIRS OF MRS. HEMANS.—The forthcoming
Memoirs of Mrs. Hemans will contain interesting particulars
and traits of her private character, with a variety of letters
written at different periods to the celebrated literary persons
of her time. It is riot perhaps generally known that the gen-
tleman under whose auspices this work appears, and who was
her personal friend, gave, at the time of her decease, some
brig notices of her, which were copied into most of the perio-
dical prints, and excited that desire for further information
which the present publication will so amply gratify.
ATTRITION OF IRON.--The following singular
calculation is not only curious from the research and attention
necessary to verify its details, but also as a proof of the won-
derful traffic that must be going on in a country where such
results are daily taking place on only one of its public
thoroughfares :—lt has been calculated, by an engineer of
eminence, that every four-horse coach deposits 12 pounds of
iron in every 100 miles of its journey, and that, consequently,
assuming the number of coaches passing daily between London
and Birmingham alone to be 20, the weight of iron deposited
during every transit exceeds 250 pounds. These results, it is
stated, are not conjectural, but derived from investigations ap-
plied to the horse-shoe and the tire of the wheel—in the first
in9t4ce, previously to use; and, in the second, after the wear
and tearof the road had rendered them useless ; and they have
been foUnd, it is added, as to every ton weight of iron so tried,
nearly uniform.—Hampshire Chronicle.