The Sun.
London, England, 1841-01-21 00:00:00

RACIN G.

The weather certainly does not indicate the approach
of the racing season, 1841: the last number of the old
sheet Calendar, containing the weights fixed for the first
great handicap (the Oatlands, with the addition of 100
added), to accept on Monday week, looks more like
business. It is a complicated question, whether it be
advantageous to sport to require the acceptances to be
signified so long as eleven weeks before the race. I
think that one fortnight is ample time to elapse between
the declaration of the acceptances and the race for all
the great handicaps in the kingdom. Horses only would
be then named that were fit, and probably fifteen out of
twenty would start for their money ; horses would not
so frequently be left to bet against ; horses would not so
often be drawn or start for the sole purpose of getting a
more favourable weight on a future occasion.
While on the subject, although too late to take effect
this year, the conditions of nearly all the great handi-
caps having been published, I would again suggest to
the Jockey Club the propriety of dividing the handi-
caps into two classes where the subscribers number one
hundred. Ne weight will make a race between Hetman
Platoff and Pluto ; no weight will make a race between
Lanercost and Bandboy. Calypso gave the latter two
years and near two stone, and beat him a hundred yards
across the flat. Would Bandboy turned loose catch
Lanercost with ten stone on his back, Goodwood Cup
course ?
.No. Then how can any handicapper match
them ? The classification of the horses should be
left entirely at the discretion of those gentlemen
kind enough to undertake the no very envious
task of handicapping. We should have two better
races at Goodwood than we have ever yet had one.
Second-rate horses make quite as much sport as clip-
pers, and, if I mistake not, while 9st. 71b. was the top
weight, Get. 71b. (perhaps 7st.) might be the lightest.
There would not be then the difficulty of procuring
riders, and we should not see horses of a year running
at three or four stone difference of weight. There is
something unsportsmanlike in the very notion.
The following is a correct summary of the betting to
the present time :—One horse only has been under 10
to 1 ; nine more have been at 20 to 1 (taken freely) ;
six have been quoted between this and 25 to I; from
this to 33 to 1, fourteen; nine at 40 to 1 (taken) ;
eleven at 50 to 1 ; at greater odds, twenty-three ; in
loco, seventy-three. Pretty well, n'est ce pas, .Monsieur
Jan. 15. JUDEX.
—Morning Post.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

MANCHESTER-TUESDAY EVENING.

In the course of a dull morning's betting, several parties
connected with the coursing meeting appointed for to-
morrow, at Fleetwood-on-Wyre, " drop't in." Empress
appeared the decided favourite for the leading prize ; 12
to 1 being repeatedly accepted ; offers to give 7 versus the
remaining► 25.
THE CHESTER Cur.—This event continues a very luke-
warm affair ; 12 to 1 was for some time offered on the
field, when one gentleman accepted. 100 to 8 on Blooms-
bury. A second favourite was not mentioned. 25 to 1
was repeatedly offered against Queen Bee; 500 to 20 was
offered against Chasseur ; and 10 to 1 very freely against
Mr. Collett's horses ; 25 to 1 was also bid against Sir
Thomas Stanley's horse, with takers of 20 to 1 on Lord
Derby's two ; plenty of offers were launched to give 12
versus the field, and wo thought 14 were given in one in-
stance. The betting at Chester is alike insipid,
Tug Dtanv.-15 was repeatedly offered on the field ;
20 to 1, in sums, against the horse so much backed re-
cently, viz., Lord Chesterfield's Rattle colt ; at the close,
22 to 1 was bid. The takers wanted the London figure,
and that, we thought, was only wished for from outside
quarters. It was clear he was a little on " the go ;" for 20
to 1, in fifties, was booked in a sterling quarter last night.
500 was offered to be laid Soult beats him ; Sir Hans, Co-
ronation, EringO, Ralph, the Duke of Wellington,
Joachim, Morning Star, and several others, were not even
named. 50 to 1 was offered against the Darioletta colt ;
and double the sum against Ben Brace and Clarendon. 25
to 1 would have been taken on Cameleon, and probably 22
to 1 on Soult ; 200 to 5 was laid against Brother to Tom.
The Nob, and all the fillies, claimed a little attention, as
far as chat, but not a step further.
THE OAK: was not named, that we are aware of.

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SEWERS OF WESTMINSTER AND
PART OF MIDDLESEX.

A Court of Sewers for the City and Liberty of West-
minster and part of the County of Middlesex, will be held
at the Sewer's Office, in Greek-street, Soho-square, to-
morrow, to proceed with the following business :-
1. The orders of Court on the Bth, L'ith, and 19th of
January, 1841, to be read.
2. To receive Collectors' Reports : of Cash received
and paid to the Treasurer—On Warrants granted at pre-
ceding Courts—Of Warrants or Summonees required for
Defaulters.

3. To receivo the Clerk's Roport : Of the state of the
Collectors' Accounts—Of the Money in the Elands of the
Treasurer.

4. To order Payments— s. d.
On Account of Commissioners' Wages 5O 0
G. Bird, Jun., Contractor, Balance of Bills to

Midsummer, 1840 505 4 7

X 555 4 7

3. To hear Appeals, particularly those of Messrs. Rose,
Newton, Aveling, and Owen, against the Presentment of
the Jury on the Ranelagh and Counters Creeks Districts.
6. To receive Petitions and Memorials.
7. To consider the Cases of Parties summoned to ap-
pear for irregular Drainage in Caroline-place, and Cum-
berland-street, Chelsea.
To sanction the Order of Court on the sth of Ja-
nuary fur rebuilding 100 Feet of Sewer in 11Jrnton-
street, Kensington, estimated at 1101.
9. Surveyors to present Reports, Opinions, &c., as fol-
lows:—On Nest Gullies rcquird—On Letter of Messrs.
Fuller, of Rathbone-placc, respecting Drainage of Gran-
ville-mews—On Petition of Daniel Sutton, Esq., for leave
to cover over, or build a wall by the side of, the Edwardes-
square Sewer.
10. To inspect the Book of Informations.
11. To examine Bill..

12. Mr. Leslie to move—That the Bye-law, No. 10, be
altered so as to stand thus :—That all Questions be de-
cided by the names of the Commissioners voting being
taken down by the Clerk.

SEWERS IN PROGRESS.

PUBLIC.
Ranelagh Sewer, Kilburn,
High Road, Knightsbridge.

PRIVATE.
Thurlue-street, lirompton,
Uxbridge-road, by Shep-
herds' Bush-bridge,
Williams-mews, Pimlico,
Eaton-mews, ditto,
Jia ida hill West, Padding-
ton, North of Canal.

INCREASED PREVALENCE OF
SMALL PDX IN THE METROPOLIS.

A circular letter, of which tho following is a copy, was
yesterday sent by the Poor-law Commissioners to the
Boards of. Guardians of the Unions in those districts of the
metropolis where small-pox is now unusually prevalent:--
"Poor-Law Commission-office, Somerset-house,
Jan. 19, 1841.
" EXTENSION OF VACCINATION.

" Sir—The Poor-law Commissioners deem it right to
call the special attention of the Guardians to the preva-
lence of small-pox in the metropolis, as exhibited in the
weekly returns of the mortality, and in the number of cases
which arc sent to the Small-pox Hospital.
" The Commissioners arc informed by Dr. Gregory, the
physician of that establishment, that the number of cases
sent to the Small-pox Hospital is so great that the este-
Ll'shment will soon be filled, and that it may shortly be ne-
cessary to provide wards in the union houses for the recep-
tion and appropriate treatment of such cases.
" The Commissioners are informed that nearly the
greater proportion of the persons received into the
Smallpox Hospital a:e (in the proportion shown in the
annexed return) adults, who have not received the protec-
tion of vaccination.
" The Commissioners feel assured this announcement
will be sufficient to induce the Board of Guardians to avait
themselves to the utmost extent, of the powers placed al
their disposal by the Vaccination Extension Act, and of
the influence which they possess, in order to arrest the pro-
gress of this fatal disease.
" They would recommend the Board of Guardians to
confer with the vaccinators on the subject without loss of
time, to ascertain from them—l. Whether the measures
for vaccination already adopted in compliance with the
Commissioners' instructional letter of the 20th day of
August, 1840, and the recommendations and orders sub-
sequently issued, are sufficient to meet the present emer-
gency. 2. Whether the inhabitants of the Union avail
themselves of the opportunities afforded to them, or whe-
ther any means can be suggested of removing their objec-
tions (if such exist), or of stimulating their apathy.
" The Commissioners would recommend that, at all
events, a fresh notification of the times and places of at-
tendance, in large characters (and that in case the in-
crease of small-pox should have extended to the
Union, the notification should be headed ' Increase of
small pox in the parish of ') should be placed in
conspicuous places in the Union, and it should be particu-
larly stated therein that the arrangements are not confined
to children only, but are also intended for the benefit
of adults.
" The Commissioners would also suggest for the consi-
deration of the Guardians and the vaccinators, whether,
under existing circumstances, it might be expedient for
the vaccinators to visit from house to house in their several

districts, and thus to bring to the homes of the inhabitants
the means of vaccinatiun.
" Under ordinary circumstances, the Commissioners
would hesitate to recommend such an arrangement ; but
feeling that on the present occasion, by energy and promp.
titude on the part of the Guardians and the vaccinators,
the progress of the small-pox may be arrested, and its at-
tacks rendered comparatively ifirtoLoouv,
ers think it well worthy the consideration of the Guardians.
.4 The Commissioners think, moreover, that if the extra
exertions of the vaccinators should require further remu-
neration the -Guardians would be perfectly justified in
giving it.
" The Commissioners are desirous that, in order that no

time may be lost, you would, if possible, request the vac-
cinators to be in attendance tomorrow at the meeting of
the Board of Guardians, in order that they may be at hand

when you lay this communication before the Guardians.
t' The Commissioners also wish that you will not fail
to apprise the Guardians of any facts relating to the spread
of small-pox which may come to sour knowledge as Su-
perintendent• Registrar, and that, in addition to other steps
and precautions which may be decided on, you would your-
self inform the vaccinators of any particular parts of the
Union in which you may have ascertained the small-pox to
be prevalent, and that you will specially call the attention
of the resident in those parts of the Union, by hand-bills,
or by the agency of the Relieving-officer, to the measures
provided for vaccination.
" By order of the Board,
(Slgned) "E. CHADWICK, Sec.
" Tho Clerk to the Guardians of the - Union."

RETURN OF THE NUMBER OF CASES (AND DEATHS) AD-
MITTED INTO THE SMALL-PDX HOSPITAL DURING THE
YEAR 1840.

Whereof
Numbers. died.
194 87
128 8

Patients wholly unprotected
... previously vaccinated
... supposed to have had small-pox
previously
... not baring small-pox

2 0
3 0