The Sun.
London, England, 1836-04-08 00:00:00

BADSWORTH HUNT STEEPLE CHASE.

MONDAY, APRIL 4.
Sweepstakes of 5 sovs. each, with a purse added, for horses that
have been regularly hunted with the Badsworth Hounds this
season ; 12st. each. Four miles ; finished in Pontefract Park.
Gentlemen riders. The second horse to save his stake, to be paid
by the last. 8 subs.
Mr. Holland's ch. h. Jerry Mr. Stansfield 1
Mr. Stansfield's b. m. Edith Mr. Wilmot 2
Mr. Pedley's b. h. Cannon-ball ....Mr. Johnson 3
Mr. N. Fernandes's b. h. Nimr0d......... Mr. Watson 4
Mr. S. Hawke's gr. h. Barnaby Mr. S. Hawke 0
Mr. Murray's Caroline and Mr. Trafford's Grenadier were en-
tered, but disqualified from starting, as they had not been regularly
hunted with the Badsworth Hounds. Mr. S. Hawke was thrown
in the course of the chase, in consequence of his saddle becoming
loose ;he was not much hurt. This was the only fall. The start-
ing place was The Grove, near Ferrybride. The fences were stiff,
and well cleared by all the horses.
Match.—Mr. Pedley's b. m. beat Mr. Edwards's b. h.
Sweepstakes of 5 sovs. each, with a purse added, for horses hunted
in the Badsworth Hunt ; four yrs old, lOst. I Ilb ; five, Ilst. 71b ;
six and aged, 12st. Two mile heats.
Mr. Wood's b. h. by Wavcrley. 1 1
Mr. Watson's b. h. Satan ...
Mr. Atkinson's b. h 2 dr
Mr. S. Ilawks's Barnaby, by President
Match.—A mare ,belonging to Mr. Pedley. is matched in a
Steeple Chase with Mr. Wilmot's Jerry, the winner on Monday,
fir 501. aside. The ground the same as bofore. To come off this
day ( Friday).

Lord Elphinstone, Governor of the Presidency of
Madras, arrived at Fenton's Hotel the day before yesterday
from Windsor Castle, to transact official business at the Board of
Control. The Directors of the East India Company will give

his Lordship a grand dinner at the Albion Tavern after—the
recess, on the occasion of his appointment.
The Marquis of Anglesea's health is said to be
considerably improved since his return from Paris. His
Lordship is now able to take exercise on horseback. Lord
George Paget, who accompanied his noble parent to Paris,
has returned to his military duties, as lieutenant in the 2d
Life Guards.

Chevalier Solomon Dedel, the Dutch Minister, re-
turned to Mivart's Hotel yesterday evening, from a visit to
Lord and Lady Montagu, at D:tton- park, Oxfordshire.
Rear-Admiral Sir Charles Adam, Lord Dalmeny,
and Sir Thomas Troubridge, returned to the Admiralty on Wed-
nesday, from an official visit to Sheerness and Chatham.
BUCKINGHAM' PALACE.—(Froth a Correspon-
dent.)—The public foot-paths through the Palace part of the
Park may be described as dangerous. They have been long
in this disgraceful state. It is impossible for any person,
however well-booted, to wade through the accumulated slough
and water without their insinuating an undesired intimacy with
the feet ; whilst the hundreds of poor persons of both sexes
that are forced to traver.:e the vast expanse of bog in the
neighourhood are every day exposed to death from cold. In
this country, where so little account is taken of the poor, a
pedestrian who cannot afford to ride has perhaps no right to
complain that a great deal is done for the Prince and nothing
for the people. But the Public Paths, at least, might be ren-
dered passable ; and if, in addition to this, one of them from
Buckingham-gate to Spring-gardens were paved, the im-
provement would be a great benefit to the poor particularly,
and advantageous to all classes.
The talkers of St. James's-street are much occupied
in applauding the determination adopted by the Hon. Mr.
—, who has at length considered it necessary to separate
from his admired literary wife. Report says that it was on
Thursday night last, on the lady's return home at her usual
late hour, that his resolution was imparted, and on the fol-
lowing day she left his roof. The four children will, of course,
remain under the guardianship of the Hon. Mr. The
parties have been married nearly 10 years.—Morning Paper.
Lord Henry Russell, son of the Duke of Bedford,
who lately passed his examination for lieutenant, has been
appointed one of the Admiralty mates of the Vanguard ship of

tbC line.
PAVILION THEATRE.—The Easter offerings at
this house are all of a very splendid cast, and do infinite credit
to the management—both in respect to the selection and the
getting up. The first piece is entitled the Elfins of the Ice,
and is made the medium for the introduction of some excel-
lent scenery by Telbin, Gordon, and Brunning. The princi-
pal characters were ably sustained by Buckstono, Miss Grove,
Mrs. Wingrove, and Miss Daly. Of the second piece, The
Dream at Sea, it is only necessary to observe that as the
leading characters arc all supported by the same performers
who sustained them at the Adelphi, it has lost none of its at-
tractions by its transition from the west to the eastern parts of
the dramatic hemisphere. The melodrama of the Fatal Shaft :
at, the Murder (fate Mine, is the finishing piece and it suited
the Gods to a tittle. The house' has been crowded to excess
each night, and all the entertainments have gone off with ex-
traordinary eclat.
r
rile Birmingham Theatre opened for the season
this.
utin
Nveel:. We perceive that our very clever favourite, R.
engaged there for some time, and plays William
ell 00 Monday 'neat. It has been a matter of regret, very
generally felt, that after 15 years of hard work, both at Co-
vent-Carden and Drury_larte Theatres, Mr. Younge l:a3 not

had an engagement this season at either of the large houses.
We should have thought he was too useful to be lost sight of;
however, at Birmingham we are sure he pill he appreciated
as his public and,ptivate elighter deiet4e4. 1 ,
Lord trodghani is said to no amusing niniSeit iii iii
retirement at 'Brougham Hall, with preparing his decisions in
Chancery for publication, His Lordship has lately made ex-
tensive improvements on his estate in Westmoreland, where
his mother and sister eenstently.reside.
Prince Estefhady add liia Sdnl did ydlitig Ititiee
Nicholas, now in his 19th year, have left Vienna en route for
England.
Lord and Lady Stanley and family, Mr. Fazakerly,
M. P., and Colonel Owen, M.P., are passing the recess at
Tunbridge Wells; and the Earl and. Countess of Surrey at
Littlehampton.
The health of the Duke of Montrose has rallied
considerably since the last attack of gout. He scarcely ever
leaves his house, and has select parties occasionally to dinner;
and, notwithstanding his advanced age, enjoys good spirits.
Lord Dacre will give a grand dinner to day, at the
Hoo, Herts. Earl Grey, who is on his way to town from the
North, is expected to be one of the.guests.
There is no truth in the report that the Bishop of
Norwich was indisposed. His Lordship is necessarily
ofes verysarily feeblegood
from his venerable age, but is in the enjoyment
health.
It is repotted that his Majesty intends to present the
Prince Regent yacht (now in the basin at Deptford), to the
lmaum of Muscat, in return for his splendid present of the
Liverpool, now called the Inzaum.—Maidstone Gazette.
We understand that Mr. Maule, the Member for
the county of Perth, accompanied by the Right Hon. Edward
Ellice, waited upon the
,Earl of Lichfield, the Postmaster-
General, on Friday last, on the subject of a direct commu-
nication by mail between Perth and Inverness, when they pre-
sented to his Lordship a petition, numerously signed by the
landed proprietors and others, interested in this undertaking.
We are happy to be able to state, that the Noble Postmaster-
General has lent a favourable car to the suggestions which
have been submitted to him, and ordered the preliminary in-
quiries to be made ; and we hope ere long to be able to an-
nounce to our readers some definite arrangement for effecting
this most desirable object.—Perth Advertizer.
The Right Rev. Dr. Bowyer Edward Sparke, late
Bishop of Ely, whose death we lately announced, held
that diocese since 1812, having been translated to the see
from Chester, to which diocese he was consecrated in 1809.
His Lordship was advanced in years, and was formerly Fellow
of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and was Official Visitor
of Peterhouse, St. John's, and Jesus Colleges, and Visitor to
the Master of Trinity College in that University. The value
of the see has been variously estimated ; in Gilbert's " Cler-
gyman's Almanackr it is valued at 11,0001. a-year, and that
of Chester at 3,2501., so that since his elevation to the Epis-
copal Bench, Dr. Sparke has received nearly 280,0001., be-
sides enjoying, while Bishop of Ely, the patronage of 95 liv-
ings. The late Bishop had a large family, for two of whom
the Revs. John H. Spark° and E. B. Sparke—he had pro-
vided in his own diocese ; the former holding the preferments
and appointments of Prebendary, Chancellor, and Bishop's
Chaplain ; the latter those of Prebendary, Bishop's Chaplain,
and Registrar of the Diocese.
We learn that upwards of 6,000 tickets for the ap-
proaching Horticultural fetes at Turnbam-green have been al-
ready disposed of.
On Saturday night, a little before ten o'clock, the
Nimrod steamer, Captain Clark, with goods and passengers,
from Glasgow to Ayr, in attempting to take the bar at the lat-
ter port, with the wind blowing very strongly from the north,
and the sea running high, was met by a fresh in the river and
ran foul of the boxes on the old south dyke, which she struck
in the trough of the sea, and becoming unmanageable, drifted
to the south of the pier, broadside to the surge, which swept
unbroken over her. The vessel is beached outside the south
wall, having sustaineetconsiderable damage.
Yesterday a Coroner's inquest was taken before Mr.
Payne, at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, on view of the body
of Ellen Selby, aged 40, who died from the effect of drinking
ardent spirits. Elizabeth Whittington, barmaid at Mr.
Spark's wine-vaults, No. 7, Newgate-street, deposed that the
deceased, on Monday morning at ten o'clock, came to the bar
and had a pennyworth of rum, which she drank. Seeing
" Dublin Stout" marked up, she said that she would have half
a pint bottle of it, after having drank which, she asked for
another bottle, which she also swallowed. She then suddenly
fell on the ground. She was lifted up, and a policeman sent
for, by whom she was taken away. Mr. Squire, house sur-
geon, said that the deceased was dead when brought in. A
post mortem examination having been made, about a pint of
rum was found in the stomach. There was no disease of any
of the vital organs. Verdict—Death from excessive drinking.
During the greater part of last week and the week-
preceding, the authorities in Kinross-shire have been occupied
in an anxious investigation regarding the supposed murder of
Marion Sparks and her infant child. On the disinterment of
the bodies, a quantity of arsenic was detected in the stomach
of the mother ; and the result of the precognition, which has
been led before John Tait, Esq., Sheriff of the county, is,
that a woman of the name of Betty Burt, about thirty years of
age, who was a near neighbour, and attended the deceased
after her lying-in, has been fully committed for trial: The
husband of Marion Sparks, who had also been apprehended on
suspicion, on the rumour that ae improper intimacy existed
between him and Betty Burt, which turns out to be without
foundation, has beets liberated by the Sheriff; The deceased,
who was about thirty years of age, seems to have been much
liked in the neighbourhood, and was apparently on the most
friendly terms, with the prisoner Burt. The case has caused
the greatest possible excitement in the peaceful and retired
parish of Cliesh, where it took place, and in the whole sur-
rounding neighbourhood.—Ayr Observer.
At a meeting of the Trades' Union, in Dublin, on
Sunday, arrangements were made for giving the body of Mr.
Ruthven a public funeral, and for erecting a monument to him.
PUGNACITY OF NIGHTINGALES.—The nightin-
gale is at all seasons a solitary and pugnacious bird, each
selecting a little district to itself, and attacking all of its own
species that invade its territory ; in this, reminding us of the
robin redbreast, to which it is somewhat allied—indeed, suffi-
ciently so to breed with it in confinement.—The Analyst.
NINA LASSAVE.—This, young person has arrived
in London, and this morning has afforded the public an op-
portunity of seeing her at the Lounge in the Strand. From
the various contradictory reports which have appeared res.-
pecting her both in the French and English papers, there was
naturally some doubt whether she really was the person she
represented herself to be ; but from the conversation we had
with her, and the various documents in her possession, we
have no doubt as to her identity. She is about 19 years of
age, and though she cannot boast of any personal attractions,
her manners are agreeable, and her conversation betokens that
she has been better educated than Fieschi. • It is the left eye
of which she is blind, and she has lost one of the fingers of the
right hand. It appears that she has lived with Fieschi since
the age of 14. Among other documents Nina Lassave showed
us a letter from Fieschi, written the day before his execution,
in which he begs her to come and see him, and exhorts her to
be of good courage, and as he intimated that lie had hopes of
his life being saved, be must have been kept in ignorance that
the day following was fixed for his execution. Fieschi's style
is a very indifferent one, and the orthography is so faulty as to
to show that lie was quite an unlettere man. —Morn. Paper.
An inquest was held last night at the Commercial
Coffee-house, Wormwood street, City, before Mr. Payne and
a most respectable jury, on view of the body of Me. John
Burgar, aged fifty-three, who destroyed himself under cir-
cumstances of a very distressing nature. Mr. Edward Faunch,
proprietor of the Commercial Coffee-house, deposed that the
deceased was a stranger to him previous to Tuesday night,
when he came to the house and inquired if he could be accom-
modated with a bed ; he was told he could, and after taking a
pint of ale with a cigar in the coffee-roam, he retired to his
bed-chamber. Oa the following morning, at nine o'clock, the
chamber-maid knocked at his door for the purpose of inquiring
at what hour he wished to breakfast, but received no answer ;
she went again at eleven and twelve, but still she could not
obtain any reply. On witness being apprised of this, his sus-
picion became excited, and he sent for a smith in the neigh-
bourhood, who opened the door, when the unfortunate scan
was found suspended to one of the rails of the bedstead by a
piece of cord ; witness had not presence of mind to cut him
down, but sent fur one of the City Police, who arrived in a
few minutes and severed the cord. Mr. Thompson, a surgeon,
subsequently arrived, and endeavoured to restore animation,
but ineffectually. Several relatives of the deceased spoke
lo his low dejected state of mind for several months past, after
which the, jury returned a verdict of insanity.
AFFLICTING SUICIDE.-011 Good Fliday, be-
tween four and, five o'clock in the evening, a young man, aged
22 years, the son of a respectable widow of the name of Birk-
enhead, residing in Park-walk, Little Chelsea, terminated his
existence in the following manner ; —He bad come home to
see his mother, and on his entering the house he complained of
being thirsty, to which his mother replied, she would have an
early tea. He then went up stairs with the intention, as he
said, of taking his boots off, but remaining longer in his bed-
room than was necessary for that purpose, his mother called
to him; receiving no answer she became alarmed, and on en-
tering the room, she found him on his knees by the bedsiee,
his head reclining on the bed, and his face discoloured and
swollen. With great presence of mind she took a penknife
from her pocket and cut a handkerchief which he had tightly
tied round his neck. She then hastened fur assistance, and
afterwards returned to the room and commenced rubbing his
hands, in the hope of restoring circulation of the blood. In
the meantime Mr. Godrich, a surgeon, arrived, and bled him,
but his assistance was of RO avail—the young man was dead.
It appeared that he had suspended himself to a brass clothes
peg behind the door, which gave way ; and this accounts for
the position in which he was found. A Coroner's Inquest has
since been held on the body, and the Jury returned a verdict
of " Temporary Insanity."
FAMILY FROZEN TO DEATH.--The Haverstraw
Times gives the following appalling details of a most melan-
choly event in the vicinity of that town :—On Sunday last, as
a person had found his way into the mountains, which have been
inaccessible until the late moderate weather, he found, after
passing the Orange county line, a man in a sitting posture near
a cabin. On approaching him, it was discovered that he was
frozen to death, with a wooden shovel in his hand, with which
he had evidently been labouring to open a passage from his
snow-bound habitation. The traveller then entered the cabin,
and found on the floor the body of a middle-aged woman and
two children. The neighbours were then raised, the nearest
living at the distance of a mile and a half; and, upon examin-
ing the house, it was found that every particle of food and fuel
had been exhausted, and the whole family, without doubt, had
fallen victims to the combined horrors Qf cold and hunger.—
Couricr and Inquirer ( United States).

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