The Sun.
London, England, 1836-08-01 00:00:00

SPORTING 111

GOODWOOD I- ,
The number of Stakes and
the late hour at which they tern •
possible to send more than an
further particulars of the e
A Free Cup, value 100 sovs.,
Beaufort, a Han •
Mr. J. Day's Foozool, 3 yr.,
Colonel Peel's Paitner, 3 yrs, ist. 11b
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Captain Gardnor's Ethilda, 4 yrs, Bst 31b
The Racing Stakes of 50 sovs. each, h. ft., for three years c 0..• •
Mile. 6 Subs.
Lord Lichfield's Elis, Bst. 131 b '"V. Day 1
Mr. J. Day's The Drummer, Bst. 71b
Mr. Rush's Taglioni, Bst. 41b
The subscriptions for next year are veiTiiiimerous, and
new Stake has been opened, to be called the Craven Stakes,•
to which several Noblemen and Gentlemen have subscribed.
The Racing Stakes is altered to close and name on the 13th or
August.
Latest betting on the Course.-5 to 1 agst Gladiator (taken),
6i to 1 agst Madge (taken), 8 to 1 agst Redshank, 8 to 1 agsft
Trapball, 9to 1 agst Vulture (taken), 12 to 1 agst Elis (01" '
ered), and 14 to 1 agst Bamfylde.

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BRIDGNORTH RACES—THURSDAY.
The Gold Cup, in specie, by Subscription of 10 sous. 'each. Twice
round and a distance.
Earl of Darlington's Sunbeam, 3 yrs, 6st. 31b...Cartvvright /
Sir G. Pigot's Altamont, 4 yrs, Bst. 31b o
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Mr. Campbell's Noodle, 5 yrs, Bst. 71b
The Hunter's Stakes of 5 soya. each, for horses not thorough-bre&

Heats, twice round and a distance. 10 Subs.
Mr. Ongley's Donnington, lOst. 101 b... —Calloway 0 1 1
Sir E. Smythe's Woodman, 5 yrs, 9st. 121 b......... 1 2 dr
Sir F. Acton's b. f. by Sailor, 3 yrs, 7st. 111 b:..... 3 3 dr
Mr. Mott's Daffodil, 5 yrs, 9st. 12lb .. 2 dr
Mr. E. L. Gatacre's b. g. by Belzoni, 5 yrs, 105 t... 4 Air
Mr. A. Pigot's ch. c. by Middleton, 3 yrs, Bst 0 0
The Member's Plate of 50/. Heats, twice round and a distance.
Mr. Painter's Matadore, 4 yrs, Bst. 21b Spring 3 1, 1
Mr. S. Patrick's Tenbury, 4 yrs, Bst. 71b ... 2 3
Mr. Lowe's Seventy-four, 3 yrs, 7st. llb
M.. T. Walker's King Cole, 3 yrs, 7st. 3lb 4 2 dr

KNUDSFORD RACES—WEDNESDAY.
The Gold Cup (in specie), with 25 added. Two miles and a a:II'
Mr. Allanson's Lady Moore Carew, 6 yrs, Bst. 61b...Jones 1 1
Colonel Peel's Jacob Faithful, 4 yrs, Bst
THURSDAT.
The Prover Stakes of 10 sovs. each ; three yrs old, 7st. - four,
Bst. 21b. ; five, Bst. 91b. ; six and aged, 9st. Mile and a d''
lance. 7 Subs.
Mr. E. Peel's Post Haste, 3 yrs 1
Mr. Egerton na. Miss Golborne, 5 yrs
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A Silver Cup, value 30 gs., with 20 added, and 10 for the SOC°
horse three yrs old, lOst. ; four, lOst. 91b ; five, llst. 411 r; 51%
and aged, I2st. Heats, two miles and a distance.
Mr. Smith's br. g. by Tram, 4 yrs Lear 1 1
Mr. Hooley's My Lord, 4 yrs . .
Mr. Allen's Mary Anne, aged
Mr. Mallar's Cheshire Round, 5 yrs 5 4
Mr. Wharf's Lancashire Witch, aged was third in the first licat,
but broke down in the second. . .

BECCLES RACES, JULY 29.
Allandicap Stakes of 3 sows. each, with 20 sovs. added. 06'..t9
once round.
Mr. IL Stracey's Pro Tempore Macdonald I 1
Mr. Peirson's Dwarf
• Mr. S. Smith's Mountebank 2 3
Mr. Law's Mr. Snooks
Mr. Gilbert's Grapeshot 3 ch'
A Handicap Stakes of 2 sovs. each, and 10 added. Heats, °l;e6
round.

Mr. Howard's Glencairne ... ..... Macdonald 1
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Mr. Peirson's Dwarf -
Mr. Smith's Woodpecker, aged, 9.;t. 71b... l3 1
Mr. Pedgrift's Cramp ...
A Silver Cup. Heats, once round.
Mr. H. Stracey's Pro Tempore ... Macdonald
Mr. Gilbert's Grapeshot ;.
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Five sovs: for ponies, catch weights, once round.—Mr. LW°
Blucher beat Mr. Webb's Matilda and Mr. Able's Phoebe.

FOOT-RACE AGAIN FT TIME.—On Wednesday last, f,°,1;.0;
wager of 100 sovereigns, a person of the name of Willi'
Wade, well known as a trainer and runner, undertook to 11
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three miles in fifteen minutes, over Kersal Moor race-g 10" Cs
near Manchester, which task he performed in fourteen nninutl
and forty-five seconds, the ground being very wet and sliPre
from the preceding rains. We question whether tire°, ig
another man in England to be found who could accomp;" ens
in the same time and under the same circumstances.--L.
lntelligencer.

Hyde-park and Kensington Gardens which,
years ago, used, occasionally, to be crowded with genteel cf.l4°/.'
pany, have been almost deserted this summer, Regent's-a
having become the chief attraction for pedestrians, and for
company in carriages with their splendid equipages.
A few days since a drunken fellow, having tbe oa
pearanee of a gentleman, mounted On a good horse, insist co be
riding through the Opera House-arcade; Pall-mall, to
great terror of numerous pedestrians, especially females. , d
At the late assizes, Mr. Platt put the followOZ
uestion to a witness in the Nisi Prius Court:—" Didn't ro
come to Maidstone this morning, upon your oath?"—Answe
" No ; I came on horseback."—Kentish Observer. r.
DINNER TO PROFESSOR WILSON, AT PAIS,'"
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—We have learned that Professor Wilson of Edinburgb"o,
tends to visit Paisley—. his native town—at the ensuing d
riPc
and that his fellow-townsmen mean to mark the respect tad
entertain for him, as one of the most distinguished liter,
characters of the age, by a public dinner in the Abercorn ,
It is not yet fixed what day the dinner will take place ; by A
will be on either the Thursday or Friday of the fair week-
meeting is to be held on the evening of Friday first to fi% t'ist
and make the other necessary arrangements.— Constitution
CURIOUS CIRCUMSTANCE.—On the 29th of Jai,
June, an inhabitant of St. Germain-sur-Ay found, on to
sands there, a bottle well corked, containing a leaf torn fr?Ad
Sir Walter Scott's novel of " Quinten Durward," on one Pio
of which the following was written in English :—" Chntl°,,tas
Woodger, Sarah Guion Napier, G. A. Wilson, and Wi,rir,
Howes, passed the afternoon of Tuesday, the 30th of 1"'of
1836, on La Motto, a rocky little island on the oast
Jersey." td
On Saturday an inquest was held at the Fox 51
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Hounds, ChiswiCk, on the body of Thomas Marlow, a bocci
four years of age, son of Mr. Marlow, brewer. It apPZ„a•
from the evidence that about half-past ten o'clock on vrbf
nesday evening last, an alarm was created in the fallil/db
the deceased being missed. Not being found after a thorlo
search over the whole premises; it occurred to Mr. Igar.o.
that he might have strayed as far as a small pond in the ylAti
pity. The pond was dragged, and in a few minutes the 7,3
of the child was found. All exertion to restore animation Pr° 00
ineffectual. It was supposed that the boy had followed 104
ducks to the pond, and in driving them along_ too eagerlYi! to'
stumbled into the water. The Jury returned a verdict oi
cidental Death. 1
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Between four and five o'clock on Friday mornl:os,
dairyman, named Smith, was discovered in an almost eY"
state on Wimbledon Common, having been attacked' 04
robbed of 155., all the money he had in his possessionf.4
then stabbed. Had he not been discovered when he 'reed
would in all probability, have soon expired, as it is !c"000
that his wounds are mortal. Suspicion attaches to 'bogs
gipies, and two of them, who had left the common' re,
been apprehended, and are now in custody. Several dfPool,
dations have lately been committed in the same neighhoecrPote•
and two or three houses have been entered and rob be
In consequence of these robberies a number of gentlemen the
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waited upon the Lord Chancellor, with a view to ttieg
very
police extended to Wimbledon, which at present ,5
sufficiently protected.
Last week, Joshua Crompton, Esq , of Sion „e of
near Thirsk, shot a fine male woodcock, in 'a
young sPrigoe°
plantation, within a hundred yards of his house; it we
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condition, and weighed, when lirst killed, io ounces. sol
During one of these visits to Pera the Sultalloo'
the daughter of M. Tolomei, proprietor of the Hotel det.estitf
rope, in which I lodged. The young lady, who possesses 5.% cle,
of the first order, enthralled the Grand Seignor to s°c" -osha
gree, that be offered the father enormous sums if n°l,:rerli.
allow his daughter to become an inhabitant of the re'
Both father and daughter, resolute Christians, decisi°e,fiorst,
jected these advances, and the latter at last left for Lerresll/
where she is now said to remain. The Sultan, vill°o,
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loved the' maiden, is reported to have sunk for some t'nessin
a species of melancholy, in .consequence of his utisecubtles:
wooing (to him so novel a thing) ; and althoughhe d°,,as lac(
had the power to carry off the beauty by force, °be lath
high-minded enough to despise this means, nor has t yer/
ever been exposed to the revenge of an offended I°
Tietz's Constantinople.