The Sun.
London, England, 1840-02-17 00:00:00

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1111111 ELL'S LIFE IN LONDON of FEB. 16,
IL3 contains all the Particulars of the Queen's Marriage,
illustrated with a Folio Page of Splendid Prints, got up in a
very superior manner, has been reprinted, and will be kept on
sale all the month of February.
The price of Bell's Life in London is Fivepence. A sixpence
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"Mr. Clement, junior, 170, Strand," will ensure, by return of
post, a copy of a Newspaper worth at least half-a-crown.

McCULLOCH'S GEOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY.
This day is published, price ss. with a large Map, Part I. of
ADICTIONARY, GEOGRAPHICAL,
STATISTICAL, and HISTORICAL, of the va-
rious COUNTRIES, PLACES, and principal NATURAL
OBJECTS in the WORLD.

By J. R. M'CULLOCH, Esq.
London Longman, Orme, and Co.
`Of whom may be had, price 505., a New Edition of
MR. M'CULLOCH'S COMMERCIAL DICTIONARY.

Just publi,hed, Second Edition, price 11. Is.,
COMMENTARIES on the CONSTITU-
TION and LAWS of ENGLAND, incorporated with
the Political Text of J. L. De Lolme, LL.D.
By T. G. WESTERN, Esq., F. R. A.S., of the Middle
Temple.
DEDICATED by Special Command to HER MAJESTY.
This work contains the entire new Legal and Political Con-
stitution of the Country, revised and corrected to the Present
Time; also an APPENDIX, containing all the New Real
Property Statutes.
"Mr. Western's Execution of this design is at once great,
laborious, and laudable, and well deserves to become popular."
—The Sun.

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Now Ready, in Imperial Bvo., embellished with Fifteen Fine
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edges, price 4s.
pItINCE ALBERT;
HIS COUNTRY AND KINDRED.
" The author of this seasonable pamphlet has given a clear ac-
count of the pedigree and alliances of the family from which our
Sovereign has chosen a husband. There is a good deal of inte-
resting,historical matter, in the account the writer gives of the
connection of the Elector of Saxony with the events of the
Reformation, and the noble part he acted towards the heroic
Luther ; the reader will find a great deal of what is interesting
at this moment."—Record Newspaper, Feb. 13,1840.
" It is adorned with wood-cuts, and is very respectably exe-
cuted."—Literary Gazette, Feb. 15,1.840.
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" We know of no form of welcome that could be presented to
his Serene Highness so effectual, cordial, and sincere as this
brouchare. This excellent publication will doubtless command
a most extensvie sale."—World of Fashion, Feb. 1, 1840.
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CHURP7I OF SCOTLAND.—Mr. Bridges, a non-
ru.;:zmist, has just published a pamphlet, against patronage
7a the Snottish Church, in which he recommends that the
Crown, the Town Councils, and Universities, should give up
their claims to present, and that compensation should be made
to the landed proprietors and others who are patrons of
livings. These, according to his calculation, amount to 582.,
and reckoning their average value at 5001. the whole might be
purchased for 30,0001. But Mr. Forbes here reckons without
his holt. The average value of a single presentat ea worth
5001. and does he suppose the patrons, backed as they will be by
the numerous Peers and Commoners in Parliament, and above
all by the heads of the Church, will give up their right for such
a trifle? We doubt if this Government or any other could
carry this measure, or any one like it through Parliament.
AWFUL DEATH.—On Thursday last, as Wil-
liam Nash, bricklayer, of Leighton Buzzard, was sinking a well
at Chelsea, on a piece of ground on which he intended to build
him a house, when about fifteen feet deep the earth gave way,
and he was buried in the mass. Every assistance was imme-
diately rendered, but it was an hour before be was extricated.
Of course, life was then quite extinct. The deceased was a
good, sober, and industrious tradesman, and generally respected.
He has left a widow and a family of young children.

-
CHARLES THE .1 m WELFTH.— IWO Or three
applicants arc in treaty for the purchase of this celebrated
horse. The price set upon him is, 3,000 guineas.
THE QUEEN'S MARRIAGE.—The happiest
pictorial illustrations of this gratifying event we have ever seen
in a newspaper, appeared in Belts Life in London yesterday.
They comprise five engravings of the interior of the Chapel and
Palace, at the most interesting periods of the ceremony,
together with medallion portraits of the Queen and Prince
Albert, with allegorical accompaniments, presenting a unity of
design and effect rarely produced in such attempts. The
deseription of the wedding ceremonies is complete, and prettily
relieved by appropriate vignettes.
ASHBY-DE-LA-ZOUCH.—( From a Correspond-
ent. )—This beautiful little bathing-place, ever foremost in
loyalty and attachment to our beloved Sovereign, and in kind-
ness and charity to the poor, has sustained its well-earned re-
putation on this exhilarating and soul-stirring occasion. Up-
wards of 600 poor men, a like number of poor women, and
1,000 children, partook of the bounty of their wealthier neigh.
bours, and with beaming countenances, and gladdened hearts,
testified their love and affection
,for their youthful Sovereign
and her Consort. The poor, too, in the Union Workhouse,
were net forgotten, but were abundantly supplied with roast
beef, plum-pudding, and ale. There was anything but joy de-
picted in the countenances of the Tories ; but, to do them jus.
Ste some ef them were pretty liberal with their contributiens.
'''`'THE BARON GERAMB'S PILGRIMAGE TO
PALESTINE.—This is a singular work, full of a strange and
strong interest, partly from the nature of the scenes to which it
relates, but chiefly from the character, habits, and past career
of the narrator. Fancy such an individual as the celebrated
Baron Geramb making a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, and re-
cording his feelings, observations, and adventures during the
course of the journey, and the occasional residence at various
remarkable spots connected with it, and the reader will readily
believe that the result must be as full of entertainment as of
novelty and strangeness. Nor are these in the least impaired,
but rather increased, by the sarong and evidently sincere reli-
gious feeling which pervades the volumes throughout, and which
will give them so strong an interest with the religious portion
of the community. The volumes are, indeed, the most curious
and interesting of their kind that we have lately met with.
They are written in the form of familiar letters, addressed to a
friend, and may be looked upon as the first written record ever
made public, of the actual daily observations and feelings of a
religious pilgrim to the Holy Sepulchre, and the other most
_famous scenes of holy writ.--Naval and Military Gazette.
The Hull Advertiser says, a beautiful pair of
shoes, made by Mr. W. Norris, of Junction•street, are in-
tended to be presented to her Majesty.

(From the Nottingham Review.)
POST-OFFlCE.—Previous to the departure of
Colonel Rolleston, M.P., from this town to the metro-
polis, a number of gentlemen represented to him the
serious injury the commerce of the town sustained by the
late arrival of the London mail in Nottingham, and the
Gallant Colonel promised to make a personal application
to the Postmaster-General, as memorials and private
letters seemed to have no effect. The following is the
copy of a letter from Col. Rolleston, to Thomas Moore,
Esq., upon the subject :
" DEAR MOORE,—I have soon Lord Lichfield respecting
the Nottingham post. His Lordship is quite aware of the
great inconvenience to which the mercantile and other in.
terests are subjected by the present arrangement, and de-
sires me to say, that an alteration will be made in a few
weeks, or even shorter time, which he doubts not will be
perfectly satisfactory. Should nothing be definitively set-
tled very soon, I will again press the subject.

" Believe riio to remain;
" Dear Moore, very faithfully, yours,
(S'gned) "LANCELOT ROLLESTON."
THE POST-OFFICE AGAIN.—A tradesman in this
town, on paying a visit to Sutton-in-Ashfield, saw an
evening edition of The Sun delivered at ten o'clock in
the morning of Tuesday last. The letters and papers
to Sutton and Mansfield are brought by the Birming-
ham railway, and then forwarded by a gig mail. An
edition of the same paper was not to be obtained through
the Post-office in Nottingham, until nearly two hours
after the time it was delivered a village 14 miles
north of Nottingham.
POST-OPFICE.—The public are not yet aware of the
facilities afforded by the new Post-office regulations.
Last Saturday, we sent nine boxes of Whelpton's Pills
to DownpatricL-, in Ireland, in a letter through the
Post-office, for the postage of which we paid Bd. On
the same morning we received a Post-office order for
the amount, which cost the party sending the order
only Gd. A sovereign or half-sovereign may be stitched
in a thin sheet of letter paper, and sent to any part of
the United Kingdom, by merely paying one penny there-
upon at the Post-office.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

MANCHESTER.-.LATEST BETTING.

Thera is no alteration in the position of the leading
favourites for the Chester Cup. Bto 1 was offered on the
field; takers of 111 to 1 on Cruibkeen.
THE DERBY AND OAKS —l4 to 1 is offered on the
fiell for the Derby, and 3 to 1 on the Oaks field.

GREAT TROTTING MATCII NEAR GRAVESEND.--The
celebrated Mr. Burke undertook the extraordinary feat, on
Monday, of trotting thirty miles in one hour and thirty
minutes. He was to have as many horses as he liked for
the occasion for this difficult undertaking. The match
was made for twenty sovereigns, and came off on the
ground chosen as the hest that could be selected ; it was
the London road below and near to Gravesend. At .he ap-
pointed time he appeared, and the throng assembled towitness
this wonderful undertaking was immense; numerous Fetswere
laid against time, and great was the anxiety on all sides for
the termination. Every facility was given to Mr. Burke
to ccmmence, and his horses were placed at different dis-
tances; as he required, and the ground was kept thoroughly
clear from all intruders; but none there were, as all
seemed anxious to give fair play on both sides. The sig-
nal was given, and off he started, evidently feeling confi-
dent of success, and be, like a thorough good sporting
character, took pattern of the old motto, " Slow and steady
wins the race." He continued to go at a very steady and
winning pace for about the twentieth mile, when it was
thought he was getting rather slack in his movements. Ho
continued at that rate for some time, and extra bets were
laid that he would lose, and many were caught to bet, but
the old hands knew the bottom of Mr. Burke, and the
power he possessed from his long experience in sporting
affairs. He accomplished the undertaking in one hour and
twenty-eight minutes, being two minutes under the time
allowed. On his arrival at the winning post he was re-
ceived with tremendous cheering from the multitude. as-
sembled, and the hearty congratulations of his friends and
backers. We have little hesitation in saying that we think
he could undertake a more difficult match, from the manner
in which he rode, and being perfectly fresh at the termina-
tion of this wonderful feat. Mr. Burke has some good
horse-flesh of his own, but through the kindness of Mr.
Mayhew, and other numerous friends, he had the opportu-
nity of selecting some of the best horses suited for the
occasion, by chick he was able to accomplish the under-
taking, as his own cattle never would 'nave been able to
have performed the task, and he was unwilling to run the
risk of not only losing his own money, but the various bets
that were laid during the race. It is expected this under-
taking will lead to further ,ines being made, as a similar
affair is on the tapir, and expected to come off during next
week.—Sunday 7 insas,
STEEPLE CIIAsa, MAN AGAINST HORSE.—The race be-
tween an old Isanter called George I V., belonging to Mr.
Griffiths, and Cootes, the celebrated runner, took place
on Monay at Hyde Park, Sheffield ; there was an
im-
menso number of people to witness it, including most of
the sporting gents in the neighbourhood. The start took
place at a quarter before four ; Cootes took the lead ;
the horse refusing his first leap, he was again tried, but
again refused. It was then discovered that the rider was
rather ovorweiglited, not with shot, out with heavy wtt.
He was ordered to dismount, when his spirited owner
mounted him, and got him over; he went away at a good
pace, but the horse was too hot, and much on his mettle.
and again refused his leaps. By this time Cootes
had made considerable progress, and was full
half a mile ti-head. With a little bit of good jockeyship
and management, Griffiths got his horse pretty well over
the next ten or twelve leaps, taking them very cleverly;
be was, in the ninth round, very near his opponent, and
it was very clear if he went on he must win ; however, he
again refused his leaps, and Cootes made way fast, and ha
the thirteenth round, or about four miles and a quarter.
Cootes was full three quarters of a mile before him in the
course. Eleventh round he slipped at a leap, and with
difficulty pulled over the bar, laming himself so badly,
that, after taking three or four more leaps, Griffiths found
it impossible for the horse to perform the remainder of the
distance, consequently he gave in. Cootes went the whole
distance, and was proclaimed the winner. Every one
appeared most terribly dissatisfied. Everything went off
tamely.

Our correspondent desires us to give the Proprietors of
Ott ground a hint to put a little more malt into their pan,
or less water; either would do; the ale was both meat
and drink.—lbid.