The Sun.
London, England, 1836-05-16 00:00:00

ROYSTON RACES, FRIDAr.

These races were very numerously attended.
an outline of the sport :
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The following is

For the Wimpole Stakes Mr. Sowerby's Mozart walked over.
The Gold Cup was won easily by Mr. Fester's Nike (Mr. Parr).
Match.—Mr. Sharp's b. h. (owner) beat Mr. Powy's ch. h. by
half a length.

The Odsey Heath Stakes were won by Mr. Radcliffe's Lady
Emily beating Mr. Ongley's Jane and Mr. Maule's Bampton, jun.
The Town Plate was won in two heats by Mr. Jackson's Victoria.

Worctstershire Foxhounds._ Mr. Candler has taken very con-
venient premises at Newland for the kennel. There is also suffi-
cient stabling for all the horses, so that the whole establishment can
be kept together.
It is understood that Mr. Shirley, of Eatington, and five or six
other Warwickshire gentlemen, have undertaken to hunt that
country, and that the kennel will be at Stratford-on-Avon.
The cricket match between the Marylebone and University
Clubs, announced to have come off Tuesday last, is postponed until
to-morrow.

The Dukes of Orleans and Netnours ate expected
in the month of June at Vicuna, after their visit to Berlin,
and apartments are prepared for them in the Imperial Palace.
The friends of peace rejoice in this intercourse between the
two Courts as the indication of a desirable peace, and the in-
creased probability of a sensible diminution of the public bur-
ders. The reduction of the army now in progress will effect
a saving of 12 or 15,000,000 of florins per annum.—Gern►an
Paper.

A nest of white mice was taken by Mr. Hall, of
Patrington, on Wednesda; last, whilst taking down a wheat
stack—seven in number, nearly full grown.
One day last week, as Mr. Colley, innkeeper, of
.Thirsk was eating a boiled egg, he fould a full-grown horse-
bean in the centre of the yolk.
A fine Durham Bull, eight months old, has been
sent from Sir C. Morgan's, Bart., stock at Tredegar, to be
presented to his Majesty, at Windsor, by Colonel Evans.
The unnatural cold of the season has proved fatal to
the geese in the fens about Spalding. One farmer has lost
500 goslings.—Stanybrcl Mercury.
The Robinhood Bowmen had a strong muster on
Wednesday last, their opening day, at the Old Archery
Grounds, Bayswater ; the Captainship was won by Mr. Betty,
the once celebrated actor, the Lieutcnantship by Mr. Fortescue.
CHINESE CIIRONOLOGY.—The Chinese have a
fabulous chronology similar to that of the Hindoos, and almost
equally extravagant. It includes dynasties of monarchs ; the
iduring
narrow
Tienhoang and the Tihoang, each of whom held the sceptre
dur
18,000 years; but after this their lives dwindled to
so
a span, that the reigns of nine monarchs are com-
prehendedelapsed from Pan-Kow, the first man, to Confucius, is variously
in 45,600 years. The ten kis, or ages, which
estimated from 276,000 years to 96,961,740. These eras may
certainly vie with those assigned in the Vedas and Puranas.
There is, however, this important distinction, that which the
successive Ilindoo yugs, or ages, extending to millions of
years, from the sacred chronology of that people the Chinese
treat their own fabulous records not only with contempt, as
puerile and ridiculous, but with horror, as profane. They
were the work of the Taotse, a monkish and superstitious
sect, who sprang up in defiance of Government, by whom
even they were generally persecuted, —Edinburgh Cabinet
Library.