The Sun.
London, England, 1838-09-04 00:00:00

BRIDGEND RACES.-THURSIM r

The County Stakes, with 15 sows. added, heats two miles, were
won in two heats by Mr. Cohen's Jenny Jones, aged, 12st., beating
Mr. Evans's b. m. Bridgend Lass, 4 yrs, l Ost. 71b ; Mr. Thomas's
ch. m. Witney Lass, 6 yrs, I2st., and four others.
The Victoria Stakes, with 20 sovs. added, were won in two
heats by Mr. Robinson's bl. g. The Moor, 5 yrs, I Ist. 71b., beating
Mr. Gough's ch. m. Dandina, aged, I2st. 71b., and Mr. Smith's
gr. h. Manager, aged, 12st. 101 b., after a good race..

- The Forced fiaiidiCap was won by Mr. Harris's br. g. beating
nine others.

7'OTNES AND BRIDGETOWN RACES.

WEDNESDAY.
The Hurdle Stakes, with 10 sovs. added from the Fund. heats,
once round and a distance, with three leaps over hurdles four feet
high, were won in two heats by Mr. Skinner's b. h. Cottager, aged,
12st., beating Mr. Dugdale's b. m. Rosalie, aged, 12st., Alr.
Bickford's b. h. Oxygen, aged, 12st. 31b., Mr. Elliott's bl. m.
Magic, 5 yrs, list. 31b., and Mr. Hannaford's Otho.
. .

Plate of 40 sovs., with 10 for the second. Heats, twice round.
General Gilbert's b. h. King of Clubs, 4 yrs, 9st. 101 b 2 1 2
Mr. Wreford's b. c. Tory, 3 yrs, 7st. 121 b
Sir W. Carew's b. g. Cornet, 6 yrs, lOst 4 4 2 dr
Sir J. Bu:ler's b. g. Why Not, 6 yrs, Bst. 81b 1 3 4 dr
Mr. Horsley's b. m. Countess of Devon, 5 yrs, ist 3 5 dr
The Bridgetown Stakes; with 15 sovs. added for the beaten
horses, once round and a distance, were won in two heats by Sir
W. Carew's Cornet, beating Mr. Brown's Lydia Languish, and
Mr. Horsley's Countess of Devon.
A Purse for Galloways was won by Mr. Carlisle's Blue Bell,
beating two others.

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TITERTON RACES.- THURSII! r.
Members' Plate of 501., added to a Sweepstakes of 5 toys. each.
W. Ley's ch. h. Rattle, 5 yrs, 9st. 31b
Wreford's br. f. Westeria, 3 yrs, 7st. 21b 2 2
Wills' b. in. Faustina, 4 yrs, Bst. 11b
Betting-2 to lon Rattle, who won by a length easily.
The Ladies' Plate of 351., added tl a Sweepstakes of 5 sovs. each,
_ _ .

3 sovs. forfeit.
Mr. W. Tucker's b. f. Lucretia (h. b.), 3 yrs, Oct. 61b 1 1
Mr. W. Ley's gr. h. Pocket Hercules, 4 yrs, 1 Ist. 61b 2 lr
Mr. Wreford's b. f. Westeria, 3 yrs, 9st. 131 b 3 dr
Even betting on Pocket Hercules, and 5 to 1 agst Lucretia.
First heat, won by three lengths ; the second, walked over for.
Hurdle Race Sweepstakes of 5 sovs. each, 3 ft., and 20 added.
Mr. 'l'. Collard's b. g. Walker, aged
Mr. Downe's Billy, 1 Ist. 41b.
Mr. Fearlie's ch. g. Minstrel, aged, list. 41b dis.
A Purse for Gallcways, not exceeding 14 hands, vms won in
two heats by Mr. E. IVilkins's br. m. Ellen Brown, aged, beating
Mr. Roach's ch. m. Victoria, aged ; Mr. Carlisle's b. m. Blue
Bell, aged; Mr. Hill's b. m. Lady Bessy, 5 yrs (lame); and Mr.
Brown's gr. f. Miss Medland, 3 yrs (distanced).
The Pony Race 'uas won in two heats by Mr. Elliott's Black-
and-all -Black, beating Mr. Hutchins's bl. g. Rum Dick, Mr.
Mills's b. rp. Creeping Jane, Mr. T. Collard's bl. g. The Unknown,
and Mr. J. Burrough's Free-and-Easy.

A VETERAN YEDESTR folkwina fact
is worthy of being recorded, as exh!biting art extraordinary
instance of biddy vigour and energy at an advanced period of
life, as well as for the interest it must possess to the lovers of
feats of pedestrianism, of which it futuishes an instance that
has seldom, we dare say, been Inuttiteei. A gentleman of the
name of Taylor arrived 0:4 Week in Berwick, on his way from
London to Edinburgh, having performed the entire journey
on foot in the space of three weeks, although he has arrived at
the adVartced age of 74 I Two years ago the same individual
walked from Edinburgh to London, and also traversed nearly
the whole of Ireland in the same manner. We understand he
is a person in circumstances which place him far above the ne-
cessity of walking, which he prefers to any kind of conveyance,
purely from the pleasure it affords him. In his peregrinations
he usually carries a small bundle and an umbrella. We believe
he intends to pass through Berwick on his return to London,
on foot, nem, week.—Berwick Paper.
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In the Katharinen Hospital, at Stuttgard, a case of
disarrangement of the nervous system consequent upon intoxi-
cation occurred some time ago, which was remarkable as well
by the violence of the madness as by the suddenness of the
fatal termination. The first attack was over when the patient
entered the hospital, but the second came on while he was
there. He shrieked fearfully, his features became distorted,
his eyes rolled, th© pupils dilated, his face became flushed, his
forehead covered with perspiration, his pulse violent and ra-
pid, the sensorium obscured by deceptions of the senses. He
always saw flames and fiery shapes, which seemed to stand
before him and threaten him. In the third attack his raving
was terrific ; he continually bzdieved that he saw a funeral
pile on which he was to be burnt. In the fourth attack,
which was so violent that the patient destroyed everything on
which he could lay his hands, and struck his head so violently
against the wall as to leave truces of blood, he suddenly died,
A physician has discovered that a few drops of any
mineral acid applied to a wound occasioned by the bite of any
rabid animal will prevent hydrophobia, ire the pati2nt. The
acid will decompose the poisonous saliva, and consequently, no
bad effects will follow, We find the foregoing in a morning
paper, and advise everybody to try the experiment," not
because we have much faith in it any moro:ihan we have faith
in specifics of any sort, but beeau*o it can do no harm and
may possibly do good to try it.„..,Anterican Paper.
DINNER IRON A LARGE SCALE.—.Doctor Shaw,
who publlslied his Travels into Africa and Egypt, gives the
following account of a family dinner prepared by the Emperor
of Morocco. At the top there was RA, consisting of a young
whale boiled, and a few sturgeons and porpoises fried, round
it. At the bottom the hind quarter of an elephant. On one
side a brat of lions fricaseed ; on the other side the neck of a
eatnel made kabad (as the Doctor calls it), or, in plain Eng-
lish, cabob'd. The second aourse—A brace of ostriches
:, griffin and a dish of cranes and storks;
on the
roasted.
other
i.onae
psi
,‘c re was no butcher's
but a roasted buffalo at the side table, The Doctor
odteted crocodile. Th
m eat,
says he only picked the short rills of a lion, which, to use his
own expression, was a delicious morsel. What can we say to
brother Jonathan after this ?
QUID PRO Quo.--A million of money has been
taken from the half starved people of England and Scotland
to give to Irish landlords and ahsontee Irish clergymen. The
Parliament p-ofessing to l'opresent the people committed this
grievous plunder of the people. When Ministers gave
their sanoion to this act of inju,tice, thoy told us that its ob.
kot was to purchase peace in Irelatld. Prudent men laughed
at them when they talked nI buying peace and stifling the
claims of a people for equal laws and rights, with a million
pieces of gold, But still the cry seas " Niggards ! would you
baiircl the peace of Ireland for a paltry million of money ?"
Before the country could put in its veto against this spoliation
of the honest avid hardwzrking people for the use of those who
do no work, onr. delightful Parliament adopted the proposal
rtn'l OW deed was done. Our money ig Seine. But that for
which we were told by Ministers it was paid is not secured.
The peace that it was pretended to buy is not obtained. On
the contrary, agitation, is renewed with more vigor than ever.
Ireland sworn to procure justice by reason or by might.
A last efiJit is to lie made to procure it from the honour of Eng-
land--if that fails she will endeavour to wring it from the fears
of her tyrant. But, meanwhile, be it not forgotten, our mil-
lion is lost to us. Is it possible to contemplate without indig-
nation such gross deceptions ? And it is more grievous to
think that they who thus nroaigately throw away a million of
money cannot find r, iiwe thousands for a cheap post-osce, or
public illikz„ or schools, or any ether such like object, whereby
iku whole people would be henefited.—Souserset County
Gazette.

NA ITAN OUT-DONF
Cojek°e;namT (said t 4 43.cc00n 11'.70irthc"*.tel .s at
at. 11ia4t. tiAi ilo has e . E ) a t4l ' c who is so quick
lutantiv '- him boatof water
present at
!CiQ4QI tlig 41cetile4 Q ~wide a Vi
A Storm- •
luo-- , Petrel was killed on Thursday on the
..s of the Avon, near the Gasometer, Bath. It is supposed
that the bird was driven so far inland by the boisterous weathe:
of the previous night, as it was so much exhausted that it Wil
easily knocked down with a stick. —path Gazette.

THE WELLINGTON TESTIMONIAL.

ark-ace, Auust 8 1838.
MY LORD—We, the undersigned pl g ,
members of the Welling-
ton Memorial Committee, beg leave to address your Lordship
under circumstances which we will as briefly as possible explain.
At a meeting of the Committee, on the 9th of June (at
which twenty. six members only were present), the Chairman
announced that her Majesty had been graciously pleased to
consent that an equestrian statue of the Duke of Wellington
should be placed upon the arch in the Green Parh, and at the
same time a letter was read from your Lordship, in which you
stated that the approbation of the Lords of the Treasury was
to be an indispensible preliminary to the execution of the
work. After this announcement, and at the same meeting, a
resolution was moved and carried, " That Mr. Wyatt was
eminently qualified to be entrusted with the execution of the
proposed statue."

The promulgation of this resolution excited great surprise
in the minds of many absent members of the Committee,
because, from the unusual shortness of the notice (the sum-
mons being dated the sth, for a meeting on the 9th of June),
and from the very vague and general terms in which the object
of the meeting was stated, they had no conception that
matters of such importance were to be then finally and irrevo-
cably determined.
A letter was accordingly addressed to the Mike of Rutland,
the Chairman, requesting him to call another meeting, at
which the resolution of the 9th might be reconsidered. This
letter was signed by the Dukes of Richmond, Buccleuch, and
Northumberland ; Lords Anglesea, Hill, Tavistock, Lyne-
cloth, the Bishop of London, and Mr. Ridley Colborne.
With that requisition his Grace did not think fit to comply,
and in consequence of his refusal the same individuals circue
lated a statement of their objections to the proceedings of the
9th of June, and of their own motives for the conduct they
had pursued.
This correspondence excited great interest among the sub.
scribers, and attracted a considerable share of public attention,
and the general opinion (as far as an opinion can be gathered
which is not expressed by any act), appeared to be strongly at
variance with the resolutions of the Committee of the 9th June.
Such a manifestation, and an earnest desire to terminate the
existing difference, induced certain other members of the Com-
mittee to come forward in support of the views set forth in the
above-mentioned protest, and a letter signed by Lords Liver-.
pool, Craven, Strafford, Wm. Bentinck, Duneannon, Palmer-
ston, Sir W. Anson, Sir J. Carnac, and the Hon. Mountstuart
Elpbinstone, invited the attendance of all the members of the
Committee, for the purpose of considering the best mode of
reconciling the prevailing disagreement.
The continued determination, however, of the Duke of
Rutland not to convene a regular meeting of the Committee
to reconsider the former resolutions, and the impossibility of
assembling at this advanced period of the year a general
meeting at which the matter in dispute might be referred to
the decision of the subscribers at large, compel us to apply
to your Lordship for the purpose of requesting that her Ma-.
jesty's Government will suspend their consent to any plan
which may be submitted for their approval until the whole
question shall have been considered at a full meeting of the
Committee, and, if necessary, at a general assembly of the
bscribers.
We are the more induced to make this request by a well-
founded belief that the ultimate amount of the fund to be
subscribed may be much influenced by the decisions which
may be come to upon the points above referred to, and we
would further submit that the nature of the design ought in
some degree to depend upon the amount which may be sub-
scribed.
We beg to add that we have no predilection for any one
artist, nor prejudice in favour of any particular design or situa-
tion ; but we think it our duty to use our hest endeavours to
accomplish the declared object of the subscription, and to take
care that the fund (whenever its amount shall have been as-
certained) be judiciously and effectually employed in the
erection of " a memorial worthy of the services of the Duke of
Wellington and of a nation's gratitude."
We subjoin copies of the correspondence which took place
with the Duke of Rutland, respecting a further meeting of
the Committee.
NORTHUMBERLAND, PONVIS, ANGLESEY,
RICHMOND, TA VISTOCK,
W. ANSON,
BUCCLEUCH,
DUNCANNON,
LI vEßporn„
G. ANSON,
STP.APPORD, J. ABERCROMBIE,
N. RiDLEY COLBORNE, E. KERRISON,
PALMERSTON, T. S
AIOUNTSTUA RT ELPHINSTONE, LYNEDOCH,TRANGE,
J. R. CARNAL, CRAVEN,
W. C. BENTICK, COMBERMERE.
C. J. LONDON,
To the Viscount Melbourne.

" South street, Aug. 26, 1839.
" 119 LORD,—I beg leave to acknowledfle the letter of the
Bth August, signed by certain members of the Wellington Me-
morial Committee, and as I understand that your Lordship
was the Chairman of the meeting at which that letter was
agreed upon, I have to request that your Lordship will con-
vey to the Noblemen and Gentlemen who hare signed it an
assurance upon my part that I will attend, as far as in me
lies, to their desire that her Majesty's Government will sus-
pend their consent to any plan which may be submitted for
their approbation, until the whole question shall have been
consilered at a full meeting of the Committee, and, if neces-
sary, at a General Assembly of the Subscribers,
" I have the honour to remain, my Lord,
" Your Lordship's faithful and obedient Servant,
" To the Earl of Liverpool." " MELBOURNE."