The Sun.
London, England, 1841-04-19 00:00:00

SHIPSTON-ON STOUR STEEPLE CHASES.

WEDNESDAY.
Sweepstakes of 5 sovs. each, with 20 added; second saves
his stake.
Mr. J. Garrett's President, aged (Taylor) 1
Mr. Cockbill's Little Bess, 5 yrs
Ada and Wigan also started.
Sweepstakes of 2 sovs. each, with 10 added; I Ist 71b each ;
two miles.

Mr. Cuckbill's Little Bess
Mr. Culdicott's gr g, by Marquis
Two others started.
The Hack Stakes were won by Mr. Bradley's John Bul
beating five others.

HUNTING APPOINTMENTS.
Her Majesty's stag hounds start for Lyndhurst on Monday,
to hunt in the New Forest on the two following days.
Bedale hounds Monday, Kirkby Malyeard; Thursday, Bel-
lerly—eleyen.
Hambleton hounds Wednesday, Ampleforth—ten; Saturday,
Lime-kiln House—nine.
Heythrop hounds Tuesday, Whitt's Green; Friday, Ranger's
Lodge—half-past ten.
Northumberland and North Durham hounds Tuesday, Link
Hall; Wednesday, Newton-on-the Moor : ihut sday, Fram-
lington; Friday, Roughby Wood—half-past ten.
Mr. Russell's hounds :Monday, Greencroft ; Friday, Witton
Bridge—eleven.
Air. Chandler's hounds Monday, Bidford Gate; Friday,
Bidford Gate—nine.
Herefordshire hounds, Tuesday, Wormslow Turnpike; Fri-
day, Gilbert's Hill—ten.
Pyteldey Hunt, Monday, Grafton Village ; Tuesday, Rush-
ton; Thursday, Weldon Toll-bar ; Saturday, Rockingham
White Pest—quarter to eleven.
Mr. Farquharson's hounds Monday, Milborne Wood ; Fri-
day' Martin Wood.

THE ATTACHMENT OF BIRDS TO MAN.—A
curate in the county of Kildare, in Ireland, some time
ago, related the following anecdote of his neighbour, a
worthy, good sort of a man, who carried on the cotton-
printing business, and who, although once in very pros-
perous circumstances, became after, in consequence of a
change in the times, very poor In his mill-yard was a
gander, which had been there forty years; he was the finest
and the largest bird of his kind I ever saw," said the cu-
rate, •‘ his watchfulness was excessive ; no dog could
equal him in vigilance, or be more fierce in attacking
strangers and beggars ; he followed his old master wher-
ever tie went, and, at his command, would fly at any man or
beast, and, with his bill, wings, and feet, he could hurt se-
verely. Whenever my neighbour paid me a visit, the gander
always accompanied him, and I was liberal of oats, having
one or two geese in my yard ; he would, besides, come up and
give me a gratuitous call before his master rose in the morn-
ing, but neither the oats nor theblandishments of thefeathered
fair ones could keep him long away, and he soon solemnly
stalked back to his proper station at the mill. Year after
year I perfected my friendship with " Toby," the gander,
and certainly had a share in his esteem, when, one winter,
after being confined to the house for a severe cold, I in..
quired in passing through the mill-yard for my friend,
whom I could nowhere see. " Oh, sir," says a man in the
mill, who had been about the place as long as Toby him..
self, " Toby's gone." " Gone where ?" " Oh, he's dead."
How dead ?" " Why, sir, we ate him for our Christ
mas dinner." Eat him!" I think I have been seldom
in my life more astonished and shocked ; positively I would
have given a fat cow to be eaten, could I have saved poor
Toby ; but so it was. Upon inquiry, I found that the poor
man had not the means to buy his Christmas dinner, that
he was too proud to go into debt, and, determined as he was
to give his people a meat dinner, poor Toby fell a sacri-
fice to proud poverty."—lndicator.
THE PROPOSED ROYAL PARK AT TIIE
EAST END OF TDB METROFOLI3. —Lord Duncannon has
expressed a strong desire to comply with the wishes of the
inhabitants of the east end, and to afford them every faci ity
in forming a Royal Park in the vicinity of the Tower Ham-
lets. His Lordship has, however, stated the inability of
Government to sell the Crown lands for the purpose of
sinking their produce in the formation of the proposed
park, as the public had paid half a million for those lands.
Lord Melbourne and the Marquis of Normanby have also
declared their approbation of having a proper place for the
recreation of the inhabitants of the densely-crowded vici-
nities of Whitechapel, Tower Hamlets, Upwards of
30,000 persons have signed a memorial to her Majesty in
favour of the park.
NEW MANIA.—This felicitous soubriquet has
been given by a high authority in Dublin to Pusoyism.