The Sun.
London, England, 1838-09-05 00:00:00

PARIS RACES-SEPT. 2.

The Champ de Mars was well attended yesterday, and was
honoured by the presence of his Royal Highness the Duke of Or-
leans, who was accompanied by several personages of distinction.
The weather was very fine, and great interest was excited by the
result of the dispute between the three and four year olds.
The Arrondissement prize, 2,000 f., for colts and fillies, three years
o'd, was won easily as follows (once round, one mile and a
quarter) :
The produce of the royal stud of the Hares du Pin, a b. c.,
Fretillon, by Sylvio, dam Ernelina, in 2m. 17 1-sth sec.

(Robinson) 1
His Royal Highness the Duke of Orleans's b. f. Margarita 2
Lord H. Seymour's b. c. Vendredi
M. Bouvier's b. c. Young Sultan
Richmond, belonging to the Royal stud, bolted ; their colt Eylau
was drawn, as also Lord H. Seymour's c. Fortunatus.
The Second Arrondissement Prize, for horses and mares four years
old and upwards (twice round), was won easily :
The Produce of the Royal stud, Ali Baba, 4 yrs, by Holbein,
dam Cloton (Robinson), 4m. 55 3-sth sec .. 1
Same produce, Dulciaa, 4 yrs 2
Lord H. Seymour's b. c. Oak Stick, 3 yrs
Corisandre, from the Royal stud, and Lord Henry Seymour's
h. Royal George, were entered, but did not start.
Ali Baba was bred in the paddocks of the Haras du Pin, in Nor-
mandy ; at eight months old he was worried by a wolf, who tore the
near hind quarter in a serious manner, and the colt was despaired
of for some time. He was a great favourite from a foal, and,
should he live to add to the amelioration of the breed of thorough-
bred stock in this country, the amateurs will always know him from
the laceration on his near hind quarter.

An inquest was held yesterday in King's-road,
St. Pancras, on the body of a female infant, apparently about
four months old, which was found on Monday by a policeman
floating in the Regent's Canal. A surgeon deposed that he
could find no marks of violesice on the body, and that he be-
lieved death had been occasioned by drowning. Verdict—
" Wilful Murder against some person or persons unknown."
The infant was dressed in a bedgown and nightcap only, and
appeared to have been in the water about two days.
THE COOLY MAN.—A Correspondent of the
Liverpool Chronicle writes—" I have been twice this week
called upon for my vote for Robertson Gladstone, the Cooly
man. It is hardly necessary for me to say that I sent the
canvassers to the right about. You cannot do better than
agitate the Cooly traffic : I know of three Methodists—
Tories, who will vote against the Cooly man, solely on account
of this traffic and reading your paper."
The Edinburgh Courant devotes a long and a
somewhat inconclusive article to the unqualified condemna-
tion
of the popular agitation now in progress. We arc not
about re-opening the main question relative to the People's
Charter, nor are we going to repeat the expression of our
opinion, that the working men should now prefer procuring
the repeal of the Corn-laws to agitation on behalf of that
Charter ; bet when the Courant states, as a fact w hick cannot
be denied, that " in this country there is really no practical
grievance to account for or to justify this agitation," we must
be permittco to think our Contemporary/1s strangely oblivious.
If the Corn-laws be not a " practical grievance," we really
know not what amount of mischief, of public wrong and rob-
bers', constitute a grievance, in our Scotch Contemporary's
estimate. When killing shall be hvld no murder, the star_
vation systNn, perhaps, may not be called a practical
grievance ; hut until then, laws to make food dear, and to
limit the supply of the people's daily bread, by iniquitous
prohibitions, down to the starving point, will, we apprehend,
be sool;en of by the people, and generally considered by
hem a great grievance, fully justifying agitation.
NOVEL MODE OF SHAVING.—W i
hile I was n
the shepherd's encampment I saw shaving performed in a
very extraordinary manner. The thigh-bone of a sheep was
i broken, and the narrow of it smeared on the patient's head,
icheeks, and chin. The shepherds generally carry a sheep's
thigh-bone, to be ready for the operation, stuck in their
Igatter, just as a Highlander wears his little knife for ham.
stringing deer.— Urquhart's Travels in the .East.