The Sun.
London, England, 1822-10-02 00:00:00

FRIDAY.

The Hackwood Stakes of sgs each, with 30/. added, for three
and 4-yr-olds. Heats once round the Course and a distance.
Mr. Portal mimed gr. f. Gift, 4 yrs - - 1 1
Mr. Jervoise's b. g. Gossoon, 4 yrs - - ,3 2
Mr. 0. Powlett named Sir Huldebrand, 4 yrs - 2 3
Ld Palmerston named Annot Lyle, 3 yrs - 4 0
The Handicap Stakes of sgs each, with a Silver Cup, given by
the Town of Basingstoke, for the beaten horses. Heats once
round the Course and a distance.

Mr. Fleming's b. h. Blandford, 5 yrs, Bst. 101 b. - 1 1
Mr. Jervoise's gr. m. Music, 4 yrs, 7st. Gib. - 2 2
Mr. Jervoise's b. g. Gossoon, 4 yrs, 7st. 91b. - 3 3
An excellent race ; each heat won by about half a neck.

MATCH TO 'MAIDENHEAD AND BACK TO KENSING-
TON.-Mr. Barnard West, the pedestrian, started at 12 o'clock
on Monday night to go from Kensington to Maidenhead bridge
and back, forty-eight miles, in seven hours, for a stake of 200
guineas. Betting was 6 and 7t04 on time. The pedestrian
did eight miles in the first hour, eight and a half in the second,
and he halted at Slough, 19 miles of his match. He reached
Maidenhead-bridge in three hours and 18 minutes, fresh. He
travelled on to Colnbrook at the rate of seven miles an hour, and
he halted at Brentford, having the last five miles to do in forty
minutes. He won the match with great difficulty, having three
minutes to spare. ,

LORD CHANCELLOR ELDON a wonderful in-
stance of good fortune. He was the pupil, of Mr. Bray, the
great conveyancer, who was the nephew of Matthew Duane,
the great Roman Catholic conveyancer. .Such was his assi-
duity and attention, that Mr. B. observed, " there are several of
the young men in my office, who possess equal, and , even
greater talents. than Scott, but none who have equal
patience, or plod so much. I therefore have great hOpes of
him." Mr. Scott, however, had no great hopes of himself;
for he despaired of rising in Westminster Hall, and actually
conceived the idea of retiring into the country, and prac-
tising as a provincial lawyer. Accordingly, when the Re-
cordership of Newcastle became vacant, he applied to Mr.
Bray for his interest on this occasion. The latter assured
him of his utmost efforts on his behalf, but recommended a
longer trial. On a longer trial he succeeded. At that
penod he resided at Powis-place, near Great Ormond-street,
in the vicinity of his old master; dined every day at half-
past three, and at five regularly trudged down 'to Chambers.
—As lie constantly passed the door of Mr. Bray, the latter
was accustomed to say to his wife, " Remark what I say, my
dear; you will live to see this young man Lord .Chancellor
of Great Britain !" a .prophecy that was actually fulfilled in a
very few years. The pride of wealth of the SUrtees wa..§
wounded' at the
.alliance ; the country banker and his family
disdained connexion with the son of a coal-fitter and' he grand-
son of a coal-skipper; but the young lawyer replied officially,
by affixing his seal as Lord Chancellor to the docket that
sanctioned the bankruptcy of the family.

Dr. Burnaby and Mathews, Esq., two of the
commissioners appointed under Mr. Brougham's act for investi-
gating the state of charitable foundations for the • purposes of
education, have arrived here ; and on Monday commenced with
an examination of those connected with the corporation of
this town.—( Hull Rockinghatn.)

,
On Saturday morning last three great fish, of
the whale tribe, of enormous bulk and uncommon appearance,
were discovered in shoal water, close by the' lesser Saltee
Island, off the county of Wexford. They appeared much
weakened by their efforts to get in deep water, and two of them
were secured without much difficulty by the persons who dis-
covered them, but the third escaped. They were of a deep
black colour all over ; the skin perfectly smooth ; one about
25, the other nearly 30 feet in length : the body, at the fullest
part near the head, 15 to 16 feet in girth. They were almost
immediately cut up for the sake of the blubber, the quantity of
which was so large as to yield above 200 gallons of fine clear
oil.—( Waterford Chronicle.)