The Sun.
London, England, 1849-07-17 00:00:00

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The Queen and Prince walked at an early houetHitilV
morning.
His Rnyal Highness the Prince of wales, the Princess.
Royal, and the younger members of the Royal Family,
walked in the grounds of Osborne.
Thiißoyal dinner party -3-,-4te-r(lay
flightif-s., the. Dechcks of Gloucester. the Lady
GEorgiana Bathurst, the Hon. Colonel Liddell, and Ge-
neral Wemyts.

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Their Royal Highnesses the—Duchess—of—Gambridge
and the Hereditary Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg_
Strelitz visited her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent
on Sunday, at Clarence-house, St. James's.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge
sad the Hereditary Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg
Strelitz honoured the performance of the French play
with their presence yesterday evening.
Mr. Yates had an interview with Earl Grey yesterday,
at the Celonial-office.
Mr. C. Lushington, M.P., and Mr. Robert Ingham
(Directors), Mr. Hardwick (Solicitor), and Mr. Marsh
(Secretary), a deputation from the' National Provident
Institution, had an interview with the Chancellor of the
Exchequer yesterday, at his official residence in Down.
Ing.street. Trio deputation was accompanied by Mr.
John Wood, Chairman of the Board of Inland Revenue.

Dispatches were sent off last evening from the Colo-
nial-office, for the Governors of the West India Colonies.

The marriage of Lord Pols), with the Lady Mary
Fitzal in Howard, daughter of the Duke and Duchess of
Norfolk, was solemnized yesterday evening, in the Chapel
Royal, St. James's.

SPORTIN G IN TELLIGENCE.
T AT TERSALL'Ser-YESTERDAY.
GOODWOOD STAKES.
10 to 1 agat Mr. Rolt's Collingwood, 6 yrs,9st alb
11 to 1 agst Mr. Parr's Van Diemen, 3 yrs, sst 61b
12 to 1 agst Captain Wrather's Maid of 'Madam,
4 yrs, 75t 91b—taken
14 to 1 agst Lord Exeter's Tophana, 4 yrs, Est 81b—
taken
14 to 1 agst Mr. E. R. Clark's Giselle, 6 yrs, Est 121 b
14 to 1 agst Duke of Rutland's Fire -eater, 3 yrs, 6st 31b
20 to 1 agat Mr. Blake na 'Bacchinialian, 4 yrs, sst
131 b—taken •
20 to 1 agat Lord Eglinton's Plaudit, aged, 7st 71b
Collingwood and Tophana were the only horses backed
with any spirit; the former was in great force, and at
the close of the botting wag first favourite.
GOODWOOD CUP.
5 to 8 agst Lord Stanley's Canesou, 4 yrs, Bst 111 b-
- 3 to 1 - •
3 to 1 sgat Mr. Powney's Ike Hero, 6 yrs, lOst—t
4 to 1 agst Colonel Peel's Tadmor, 3 yrs, 7st 41b—
take 9 tot
15 to 1 agat Baron Maltzhan's Standard, 4 yrs, 7st
Ilb—taken
20 to 1 agst Sir G. Heathcote's Black Eagle, 3 yrs,
7st 41b—taken

ST. LEGER.
5 to 4 on Lord Eglinton's Flying Dutchman—taken
1,500 to 50 agst Mr. Pedley's Chatterer—taken
3,000 to 50 agst Sir J. Hawley's Vatican—taken
. DERBY, 1850.
30 to 1 agst Mr. Gordon's William the Conqueror—t
30 to 1 agst Sir R. Pigot's Moultan—taken
40 to 1 agat Baron Rothschild's Decoy colt—taken
40 to 1 agst Mr. Pedley's Sweetheart—taken
40 to 1 agat Mr. Gannon's Deicoon
50 to 1 agat Lord Eglinton's Seneca—taken
DERBY, 1851.
5,000 to 75 agst Lord Chesterfield na Brother to
Drakelow
10,000 to 150 agst Mr. H. Lacey's Aristippus
5,000 to 75 agst Lord Eglinton's Bonnie Dundee .
5.000 to 50 agst Mr. Howard's Bobadil
5,000 to 50 agst Mr. Howard's Grecian
5,000 to 50 apt Lord Stanley's Storm
6,000 to 50 agst Mr. Powney's Lamartine
5,000 to 50 agst Sir J. B. Mill's Mungo
5,000 to 50 agat Sir J. Hawley's The Confessor
5,000 to 50 8134 Sir J. Hawley's The Ban
5,000 to 50 apt Sir J. Hawley's Balsamo
5,000 to 50 agst Sir J. Hawley's Miss Twickenham colt
5,000 to 50 agst Sir J. Hawley's Testatrix colt
5,000 to 50 agst Sir J. Hawley's Haitoe colt
5,000 to 50 agst Mr. St. George's Bro. to Chanticleer —t
SUTTON PARK RACES.—MONDAT.
The Sutton Park Stakes of 10 sous. each, h ft, and 25
added. About five furlongs.
Mr. Stebbings's Actress, 2 yrs ..•
Mr. Stewart's Wilmont, 2 yrs ••• ••• •••
The Birmingham Stakes of 20 soys, each, h ft, and 100
added. Twice round and a distance.
Mr. Critchley's Sir Henry Hardinge, 3 yrs ...
Mr. B. Green's Lammermoor, 3 yrs ...
Miss Bunuey and Skudar also started.
The Innkeepers' Plate of 25 soya, added to a Sweep-
stakes of 3 soya. each, once round and a distance, was
wnn- in two heats by Mr. Richards's Jack Cade, beating
six others.

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-SONNET -TO LAMARTINE.
ELECTED IN JULY, 1849, BY TWO DEPARTMENTS-

LOIRET-SAONE ET LOIRE.

Friend of thy country 1 to her honour true; '
The bold asserter of each sacred right;
Guardian of freedom! Thou, whose genius bright
In her extremest need impassioned flew,
As, to her aid, its blest resources drew,
With fervid eloquence, t' instruct, delight,
Convince, control, thro' Revolution's night,
As, with Promethean splendours, more renew:
It e'er devotion, courage, probity,
Unflinching energy, undying worth,
Demand returns of gratitude on earth;
Oh, Lamartine! thy name exalted high!
On thy fair brow the bay with laurel blend;
(This the reward of MAN! the other Heav'n shall send).
J. L.

CIIISWIc GARDENS.—HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY'S
Exittamose—The extreme fineness of the weather oa
Wednesday last caused this celebrated aristocratic July
fete to be fully attended. The exhibition of fruits were
truly superb. Much curiosity was manifested about
some strawberries, named by the growers " Eleanor."
They were indeed very surprising both as to size and
colour. The growers were Messrs. Myatt and Sons, of
Deptford, and Mr. Sheppherd, also of Deptford. The
council awarded to each the certificate of merit. They
were grown upon Roberts's Registered Horticultural
Tiles. We found several hundreds of these tiles in the
strawberry garden of the society. They had been em-
ployed for rearing those early specimens of this fruit.
The tiles are made in two parts, elevated upon feet,
hich raises them about two inches from the ground.
The two parts aro brought together round the stem of
the strawberry plant, and the fruit rests on the top of the
tiles. The ripe fruit is thus protected against the effects
of heavy rains, or continuous wet, and also against
slugs, &c., The moisture required by the plant is also
retained, while the substance of the tiles absorb the heat
of the sun, and thus greatly accelerate the ripening
process. The exhibitors before mentioned attributed
their success in obtaining their fruit in perfection to their
having employed this ingenious contrivance, which is
really worth the attention of all cultivators of this fruit,
after such publicly attested facts of its value. Mr. John
Roberts, of 34, Eastcheap, City, is the inventor, who has
also introduced a new form of tile for rearing melons,
and another for accelerating the growth of grapes in the
open air. His illustrated circular should be in the hands
of all horticulturists.
BALLOON ASCENT FROM WM:TEAM—Mr. Gypson,
the celebrated aeronant, made a splendid ascent with bis
magnificent balloon, from spacious premises near the
gasworks in this town, ou Thursday last, the 12th,
accompanied by a gentleman of the neighbourhood. The
assemblageand the
The gigan gigantic
weather wasrenaartkhaeblays,efiQnnet,
immense.persons to witness
machine left the earth, as if disdaining the bonds that
bound her to terra firma, arid soared aloft in a clear
blue sky, till she became a mere speck in the distance.
The intrepid aeronauts accomplished a safe descent at
Ingauston Fen, in the direction of Stamford, a trifle short
of 20 miles from the place of ascent. Apart from the inte-
rest created by the ascent some novel machinery attached
to the car was a great point of attraction, it gave the
car of the aeronautical barque somowbat the appearance
of the nautical steamer, having several small sails or
paddle-whees on each side the car, both sides of which
were worked by ingenious machinery in the centre, en-
tirely under the control of the aeronaut. Mr. Gypson
candidly admits that in the teeth of a breeze the ma-
chinery would have difficulties to contend with, but
at high elevations where calms generally pre-
vail the assistance to an aeronaut would
be great. Should he be approaching the
coast, Us was the case with the celebrated Major Money,
when he descended in the sea at Lowestoft, near Yar-
mouth, then the apparatus could be worked to advan-
tage, and the course of the balloon steered away from
the fluid element; at all events it is nu enterprising
scientific step out of the long beaten track of aeronau-
tics, an effort made to advance the science of aeros-
tation, which we hope time and perseverance may con-
siderably improve.
MELANCHOLY FATE OF AN AERONAUT...-.
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prevailed in the vicinity of Cardiff Swansea
through-
out
the „k ',gars:ling the fate d
of an aeronaut named
Green (not Mr. Charles Green of Vauxhall celebrity),
who it is feared perished by falling into the sea after an
ascent he bad made in a balloon from the former town
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ascent.thTheevening,
machine,
,which was of large dimensions, containing 700
square yards of silk, and requiring 70,000 gallons of gas
tJ inflate it, was perfectly sound and secure, Mr. Wadman
seeing to its t ffieiency before Mr. Green got into the car.
Its course on leaving the earth was over the town in the
direction of Penartb, Mr. Green liberating a parachute
with a cat attached to it as he passed over. Soon after
its course changed, the wind wafting the machine up
the Bristol Channel, towords.the Monmouthshire Moors,
and was in the course of an hour or so lost sight of by
the inhabitants of Cardiff. The next morning, about five
o'clock, the balloon was discovered at Wedmore, in
Sornersetshire, lying on the ground, about three parts
filled with gas, anti not at all injured. No one was with
it, but in the car a coat, a pair of boots, and a pocket
handkerchief were found. Inquiries have tn, en made
along that pa: of the coast after Mr. Green, but
not the least intelligence can be elicited of his fate. At
dusk on Monday evening, the coast guard, Mr. Cleven-
son, perceived a balloon crossing the Severn from the
direction of Cardiff. It was close to the tea when first
observed, and one party states that he saw it dragging
through the sea, and suddenly ascend to a great altitude.
This leads to a supposition that Mr. Green, finding him-
self in the sea, pulled off his boots and clothes, and
abandoned the balloon, endeavouring to save himself by
swimming, but perished in the effort.

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