The Sun.
London, England, 1836-04-26 00:00:00

PORTING INTELLIGENCE.

TATTERSALL'S.
The attention of a very crowded room was occupied until near
five o'clock in settling the accounts for the late Newmarket Meet-
ing. On the conclusion of it, several bets were made on the Derby
at odds, differing in several important respects from those last
quoted. Colonel Peel's lot were backed freely at 10 to 1, and his
horses singly at the odds given below, to a considerable amount.
Brother to Bamfylde made as sudden, but not so an unexpected an
advance, repeated offers to back him having been made in the
course f eight or ten days. Neither Bay Middleton nor Ebbers-
ton were in much demand. In the Oaks betting there is nothing
fresh beyond a marked improvement in Fair Jane, and the " first
appearance" of a fair Cyprian, who is now travelling from the north
with a better character than her name would indicate. The bet.
ting closed at a late hour, as follows :
TUB DERBY.
5 to 2 agst Lord Jersey's Bay Middleton—taken
7 to 2 agst Mr. Osbaldeston's Ebberston—offered
7 to 1 agst Mr. Ridsdale's lot—taken
Bto 1 agst Colonel Peel's lot-10 to 1 taken freely
9 to 1 agst Mr. E. Peel's The Mummy—offered
10 to 1 agst Mr. Ridsdale's Bro. to Bamfylde--taken
18 to 1 agst Colonel Peel's Slane—taken
18 to 1 agst Duke of Richmond's Sepoy—taken
20 to 1 agst Colonel Peel's Mr. Wags—take 25 to 1'
22 to 1 agst Mr. Chifney's Bro. to Emiliana-25 to 1 taken
25 to 1 agst Mr Chifney's The Athenian—taken
25 to 1 agst Mr. Thornhill's Illendizabal—no backers
30 to 1 agst Lord Egremont's Emmelina colt—taken freely
40 to 1 agst Mr. Batson's Taishteer—offered
No others mentioned.
OAKS.

7 to 1 agst Lord Wilton'; Grenada—offered
8 to 1 agst Mr. Houldsworth's Destiny—offered
8 to 1 agst Mr. Dawson's Fair Jane—take 9 to
• 9to 1 agst Mr. Walker's Emineh—offered
10 to 1 agst Mr. Armitage's Vesper—offered
11 to 1 agst Mr. Allen's Promise—offered
12 to 1 agst Lord Exeter's Toga—offered
Offers to take 15 to 1 about Mr. Scott's Cyprian
5 to 4 on Grenada agst Emineh—taken
Lord Chesterfield has sold Glaucus to Mr. Tattersall, and he
will cover at that gentleman's farm at Dawley, near Uxbridge ; the
excellence of his blood, his symmetry, and the superiority of his
performances cannot fail to make him one of the most popular stud
horses of the day. The Noble Earl has also sold Zinganee to go
abroad at the close of tho

DURHAM RACES, Fnm

The Trial Stakes of 20 sovs. each, h. ft., with 15 added, for two
yrs old. Three-quarters of a mile.
Mr. Wilkin's Abraham Newland 1
Mr. Hodges's Velocipede 2
Mr. Metcalfe's Pompey
Fifty Pounds for all ages. Three mile heats.
Mr. Field's Durham, 4 yrs .. 1 2 1
Mr. Hutchinson's br. c. by Jerry, 3 yr 5......... 2 1 2
Mr. Attwood's Lithuanian, 3 yrs 3 dr
Match, 25 soya. each. One mile.—Mr. Fryer's Jenny beat Mr.
llavwood's Rory Bean.
Match, 50 sovs., list. each. Four miles.—Mr. Smith's Camel
beat Mr. Fosbrooke's Giblet.

MEETING AT APSLEY HOUSE.—A meeting of
Conservative Peers took place yesterday at Apsley House,
consisting, with the exception of the Duke of Wellington,
Lord Lyndhurst, and the Earl of Haddington, of the pro-
prietors of considerable landed estates in Ireland. Among
the Peers present were the Marquis of Thomond ; the Earls
of Wicklow, Limerick, and Bandon - Viscounts Beresford and
Gort ; Lords Dunsany, Downe, and Fitzgerald. The subject
of their Lordships' conference was generally. understood to be
the Irish Constabulary Bill.—Morning Paper.

DOING IT " ELEGANTLY."—A " countryman "
last week sold a horse in Worcester market, to two respectable
gentlemen for 51. to return a sovereign. A policeman, after-
wards induced him to look at the note which he had received in
payment, and it was a note of the " Bank of Elegance." The
gentlemen have left the city " on business."
TILE WEATHER IN SCOTLAND.—For a number
of years past, we have not had such cold and uncongenial wea-
ther at this season as at present The thermometer yesterday
was as low as 45; and the cold has been accompanied with
high winds and driving showers, more resembling the month of
November than April, by means of which the operations of
husbandry have been greatly retarded, and vegetation is ex-
tremely backward. Last night the weather became settled,
but very cold for the season. The sky was splendidly illu-
minated with those beautiful meteoric phenomena, the aurora
borealis, which presented an uncommonly brilliant appearance,
and appeared more steady than is usual with therm—Edin-
burgh Courant of Saturday.
The supposed Ralph Armstrong, who declared at
Corfu, that he murdered Mr. Fairies, has arrived at Ports-
mouth, but we are sorry for the cause of justice that there is
reason to believe he is not the individual he states himself to'
be. A description or the real Armstrong has been sent to the
solicitor of the Admiralty, and it differs in most respects from
that of the individual at Portsmouth. He is not of the same
age ; moreover, we understand, from authority, that he states
himself to have been born at South Shields, whereas the re-
gister of the real Armstrong states him to have been born at
Burraton, near Chester-le-Street.—.,Shields Observe.
Trade is generally prosperous in Aberdeen. The
shipping has lately taken a start, after a period of considerable
depression. Building is going on in several quarters, and is
projected in others. The Government grant of 18,0001. for
Marischal College has been received, and the foundation
stone will be laid July; it will be a splendid building. The
new infirmary. is far advanced, and will be completed this sea-
son. The East Church, a tasteful building in the Gothic
style, will be finished within a year. The society of advo-
cates have purchased a feu in Union-street, for erecting a new
hall. The proprietors of various manufactories are rearing ad-
ditional accommodation, and we learn from a respectable au-
thority, that the entire value of the buildings now in progress
will be nearly 80,0001.—Aberdeen Observer.
We understand that the wheat crops in general are
looking strong and healthy, having suffered little from the
severity and long duration of the winter.--Dorset Chronicle.
GREENWICH RAILWAY.—The newly-invented
break for stopping the train of carriages at a moment's no-
tice was exhibited to Mr. Rennie and several scientific gentle-
men on Saturday last, as well as the carriages fit lig up on
Lord Dundonald's principle, with which they expresAed them-
selves perfectly satisfied, as to the impossibility of accident or
their upsetting, a matter of some importance to railway tra-
vellers.

TILE NEW HISTORICAL NOVEL, " SEYMOUR
OF &MET ; OR, TilE LAST OF THE FRANCISCANS."—The
r..ign of Edward the Sixth is happily chosen by the authoress
Miss Burden) for the historical novel before us. The nume-
rous plots, religious and political, which agitated that period,
offered every facility tor the development of rapid incident and
strongly contrasted character. The haughty Prote:tor, the
Duke of Somerset; the intriguing Lord Seymour; the Prin-
cess Elizabeth, afterwards Queen ; Ascham, her tutor ; Lynd-
sey, the Last of the Franciscans ; the rash adrentul er Arun-
del; Agnes, his innocent and devoted wife • Mrs. Clifford,
the seductress; the Earl of Warwick, and others, sta id out in
bold relief, and impart gorgeous and animated effect to the
tale. It is a great merit in the Tresent work that the interest
never for a moment flags, and that, while the truth of • history
is not violated, the imaginary details invest the story in the
richest hues of romance.—Naval and Military Gazette.
FIRE AT THE HECKINGHANI HOUSE OF IN-
DHSTRY,—Wo are sorry to say that about three o'clock on Sa-
turday morning a large part of the Heckingham House of
Industry, belonging to the London and Clavering Union, in
Norfolk, was burned down. A pauper, who had been threatened
with a committal to prison for refusing to work, i 3 suspected
to be the incendiary, and is committed to gaol on suspicion.
A part of the house was insured; but unfortunately the chief
insurance acs upon that part of the house which his escaped.
It was an old and spacious house. The aged and the sick
hare been put in great jeopardy by the proceeding ; but most
active measures were taken by the magistrates arid guardians
to procure immediate workhouse-room for the paupers who are
now houseiess.