The Sun.
London, England, 1841-05-06 00:00:00

MORN'IN'Cr Er.DITY

John Paston and the members of his family, and
containing many._ curious anecdotes relamg to
those turbulent aad_ sanguinary periods of our
history. The work was originally edited by Sir
John Fenn; but the present edition, in which
some of the more unimportant letters • are
abridged, is brought out under the. careful super-
intendence of Mr. Ramsay.

ARAGO'S LECTURES ON ASPRONQMY.
Whittaker, London, 1841.
A translation, by Mr. Walter Kelly, of a
series of Astronomical Lectures that were ori-
ginally delivered, by M. Ara.go at the Royal
Observatory of Paris. The translation forms one
of the Numbers of the " Popular Library, of
Modern Authors," and has been rendered' with
laudable accuracy.

THE WEATHER.—NOON, MAY 5.
ROYAI, GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDE-STREET.
Barometer
Thermometer ...60 I Highest 70 I Lowest ..... 50
Wind S.W.—Freezing Point 32 Deg,

A LETTER TO LOHDIfISCOUNT

DUNCANNON.
MY Lunn.—While I admit the right of the public
to the land purchased with the public money to lorm
the Regent's Park, I cannot but lament that your
Lordship does no: appear to feel the absolute necessity
of affording, and that at the earliest toomett, to the
public large spaces of land at the eastern end of Lon-
don. Your Lordship has stated in your pace in Parlia-
ment, that it is difficult to procure land suitable for the
purpose, and the object of this ►etter is to show that no
such difficulty in reality exists, but that unless messures
are taken forthwith the difficulty will be increased ten-
fold, in consequence of the building mania, by the nest
Session.

Lest it may be said that I am an interested *liter, I
do not suggest any site for the proposei Eastern Park.
I merely inform your Lordship of open land which I
am cognizant of in the locality, leaving it to your Lord.
ship to say which will benefit the district most.
LIST OF LAND NOT BUILT OK IN TOWER HAMLETS.

ACRIM.
Bishop Bonner's Field and adjoining land
Cat and Mutton Field, &c. 5O
Behind Pritchard's-place, near the above . 5
`Hutford-road, Hoxford
Land extending to Mile End from Green-street, par-
sing the Devonshire-street Station of the Eastern
Counties Railway, and extending eastward, form-
ing► an entrance to the Park, opposite Crown-row,
Mile End-read
220
Land near Bethnal Green-road 8
Land behind the present Workhouse, Bethnal Green 5
Land opposite and near Green-place, Green-street... l 4
Various portions of land under five acres

Total 437
Thus you perceive, my Lord, there is land; and I
have only to implore your Lordship to pause deeply ere
you decide upon taking upon youtselt the responsibility
of delaying this measure of justice to the poor artizan of
the Tower Hamlets for another Session.
I am, my Lord,
Your Lordship's most obedient servant,
A RESIDENT OF THE TOWER HAMLETS

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
CHESTER RACES.--TVESDAY.
Her Majesty's Plate of 100 guineas, fot 3 yrs old, Tat 21b,
4 yrt, 9st 21b; 5 yrs, 10se ; 6 yrs and aged, 10.: 51b.
Twiee round, rather more than 3 miles.
Mr. B. Minor's b h Clation, 5 yrs (Darling) 1
Mr. Gray don's br h Rosetta, 5 yrs
2 to 1 on Clarion, who won by nearly a length.
Two-yrs old Sweepstakes of 25 sous. each; colts, Bst bibs;
fillies, Bst 21bs. Half a mile. (9 Subs.)
Mr. F. R. Price's br. f. Marion (Cartwright) 1
Sir T. Stasley's brother to Susanetta ........ ......... 2
Mr. J. o.born's Gipsy Queen 3
The following also started, but were not placed :
Marquis of Westminster's Hookah ; Mr. Worthington's
be. f. byMuley Moloch d, by Blaekloek, and Mr. Alostyn's
Boreal.

Betting.--2 to 1 tgst Marion (t) ;3to 1 agst Brother
to Suianctta (I); 7to 2 agst Boreas (t) ; 4 to 1 agst
Hookah ; and 5 to 1 agst Gipsey Queen.
A fine race. Won by a length.
The City Members' Plate of 60 guineas; for three yes
old; colts, 6st 101 b, and fillies, Est 71b. —four yrs old.
colts, Bst 61b, and fillies, Bst 31b. Heats, once round
and a distance.
Mr. M. Jones's gr c Portrait, 3 yrs (Howlett) 1 1
Mr. Peel's b c Bugle, 3 yrs
Mr, Meiklam's Ll c Bushranger, 4 yrs
Mr, J. Osborne's cis g The Emperor, 3 yrs
Betting-6 to 4on Portrait, 2to 1 agst Bugle (taken),
and 4to 1 agst Bushranger. Won by two lengths.

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EGLINTON-PARK STEEPLE CHASES—FRIDAY.
Sweepstakes of 15 soya. each, 10 ft, with 100 added,
13st 7lb each. Four miles.
Sir D. Baird's Pioneer (Owner) I
Lord Eglinton's Mattoon in Parvo 2
The following also started :—Lord Waterford's Saladin,
Lord Saltoun's Uncle Dick, Mr. Alexander's Roulette,
Mr. Gilmour's Ceoturion, and Mr. Ramsay's the Gaudy
Ch:ef. Won by half a neck.
Sweepstakes of 15 sovs. each, 10 ft. with 100 adeed, 12st
each. Four miles.
Mr. W. Campbell named Ashton...(Capt. Campbell) I
Lord Waterford's Manilla..
Muhum in Parvo, Pionker, and two others were not
placed.

Saturday.—The Military Chase was won by Helen,
beating several others, and the Handicap by Mr. H. John_
stone's The Returned (owner), beating Manila and four
or five others, after a fine race.

At the meeting of Magistrates at the Town
Hall, Croydon, on Monday, Inspector Collier, of the P
division, applied to the Bench to issue notices, requiring
the inhabitants to keep their dogs properly secured, in
order to prevent mischief from canine madness or other-
wise. The Inspector stated that complaints had been
madeto the Commissioners of the number of dogs that were
suffered to be about the streets loose ; and a day or two
previous a child had been bitten as it was walking in the
High-street. The Chairman said that it was very neces-
sary the public should he protected, and he at the same
time observed that as he was returning home from the
Bench a feN days before, he was attacked by a dog, and
very narrowly escaped from being bitten. • He expressed
hit opinion, however, that the Commissioners were em-
pose ered • under the Police Act, to take more active
and effectual proceedings than the Magistrates could
under the Croydon Local Act. The clerk to the
Bench then read the clause of the Metropolitan
Police Act, by which constables belonging to the
force were authorised to destroy any dog that
might reasonably be supposed to be in a rabid state,
or to have been bitten by any other dog in a rabid state.
The Inspector said there might be difficulties in the way of
carrying this clause into execution, but by the Croydon
Local Act, any owner of a dog who suffered it to be loose
about the street after a notice to the contrary being given
by the Magistrates, would be liable to a penalty of 5/.,,
and if this acre to be put in force, it would, in all probete
bility, have the desired effect. The Bench said it was al.-
sotutely necessary that some steps should be taken for the
protection of the public, and they gave the necessary in-
structiona for the issue of notices, with the understanding
that the law would be put strictly in force against all per.
sons who offended.

THE SHERIFF OF LONDON AND THE SHE-
RIFF OF MIDDLESEX FOR TILE ENSUING YEAR.—Tbe Lord.
Mayor, pursuant to ancient custom, nominated to the
Court of Aldermen, on Tuesday, the following gentle-
men to be put in nomination to the Livery of each Core-
pany on Midsummer Day next, as fit and proper persons
to serve the offices of Sher.ff of London and Sheriff of
Middlesex, viz. : —Alexander Rogers, Esq., citizen, and
spectacle- maker ; Henry Plumptre Gipps, Esq , citizen,
and spectacle-maker; George Thomas Nicholson' Esq-,
citizen, and fishmonger; and William Simpson Potter,
Esq., citizen, and paiten-maker. Alderman Magnay sad
Mr. Rogers will be elected without contest.
The workmen in excavating for part of the site
of the new Exchange have found several Roman a"ti-
quities ou the site of a large pond 50 feet icings 34 feet
wide, and 13 feet deep. Amongst these iwqaurito,iesosesare.
bones and the -
a Roman wall and pedestal, articles of pottearnyt
and glass vessels, lamps, coins, styles
writing, and a striget, such as had been used in the baths
and 'Tablets for
Cambridge Houle.
of Pompeii. The latter is perfect. Sheep
Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cam_
te:Zncaevaatainodnsh.orns of stags have also been discovered in the
bridge and the Princesses Augusta and Mary, attr4id by 13e,
rein Knesebeck and the Hon. Miss ikerr,. will embark at Cu,.
wafting on that day.
The Countess of Islrownlo:
_se grand ball on
lAa i son
GovernmentllaY snextieamfoe steamer edentorobeute'lint'azil
Tuesday next, is given in eelel: Jaattliwo fth
i Ds
oorvdeer:
Catherine
Cu of her Lady-
ship's second daughter, Lady. ' who Wig pre-
awang-room on the 22d ult.
sented at her Majesty's Buck .
The Duke of Angh.am gave orders that
and enchanting
Stowe and its spacious
to the public o a pleasure-grounds sheol¢
be opened for the sea.).
blyke Acl id ni"daY
fit.
Sir Thomas . al ,
.Bart., I\l P If • •, I t
the close of the. last week for Killerton PaA, D iya
town at Princes were to
where the Ashantle outhhave arrived on Satu7da;
from visiting the. 371:11 and Devonport doek,yodo. The
bark in a few days for India.
Princes em
EXTENSION OF VACCINATION..
On
n account
of the attention directed to vaccination, by the Aet of la
Session, the increase in the applicati both for v • 4
lion and the vaccine virus at the Royal
onjsenn .
nadci3l.,
don Vaccine Institution has been threefold. eiTiahneaMedir.
al
Director has vaccinated one thousand five hundred and t
more children this year, from January Ist to March Tb
than he vaccinated from and t Vatil)
o the same dates last year.
The new railway carriages are intended to combine
the pleasantness of an open with the comforts of a closed
earriage, Ile object is accomplished by - •
covering thew.
ries,
i„e. either wholly or in part, with
cloth, or net,of a texture sufficiently close to break the
force of the wind, and destroy the violence of the currents
produced by sapid motion through it; and also to impede
the entrance of the particles a coke dust emitted by the
locomotive engine chimnoy, and yet not materially to ob-
struct the view of external objects, The wire gauze re-
commended it of copper wires, I.looth- of- aninch in dia.
meter,woven with 30 wirer to the inch.—Mamelester. Paper.
It has been decided by the Directors of the
London and Exigkton Railway to open twenty.miles of the.
line, from London to Haywavd'a Heath,
in Jane. The vtlaokt
work will be completed net opened to the mink in August.,
ATTORNEYS.—No fewer than 10 gentlemen
have given notice of their intention to appl‘y to be admit-
ted attorneys of the Court of
.. Qttee4,Beach on the last
day of the present term. ~
.

MORNING EDITION

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, 'MAT 3
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REPEALASSOCIATION.

A letter from 3lr. O'Connell wa= real at the weekly meet-
ing of the Repeal Association, held at the Corn Exchange this
day. We subjoin some extracts from it :
" TO THE LOYAL NATIONAL REPEAL ASSOCIA-