The Sun.
London, England, 1841-04-07 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE

INTELLIGENCE EXTRA.
NEWMARKET CRAVEN MEE

Duke of Bedford's c Jerry Sneak, agst Lord Exeter's c by
Rockiligh.m, out of thaw, .i:ajor's dam. R. AL 200 .ocs. h ft.
EDNESDA v.—Sweepstakes of llhl sous. each to it, cults t3si
71b, and li lies test 21b; males or stallions which never pro-
duced a vi-inmr, allowed Sibs, both 51bs. D. 31.
Lord Aluem rle's c by Horusea, out of Ralph's dam, (31bs. )
Duhe of Grafton's a by Hornsea, out of Pasteile, (31bs. ), Mr.
ho. nhili's c by Emilius, out of Mange! Wurzell, Mr. isoues's
cli c by Bretby, out i.f .streathain Spite, (Olbs.)
CitAVEN 111E.ETING, 1t44.
TUESDAY.—Duke of. Bedford's f by Liver. oul, out of Play.
thing, agst Lor.i Exeter's Iby Beiram, out ofbatura. 1).
200 sovs. h ft.

POTTERY, 1841.—WZDNESDAT.
The Copeland Handicap of 25 bow. each, 15ft, and 5 only
if declared on or btfore the Ist of May, with 100 suvs. added
by W. T. Copeland, Esq. ; the second to save his stake.
'1 µice round and a distance.

Caravan, aged, 9st 41b—Isaac, aged, 9st 216 —Pot cntate,aged,
Bst 1016—Zohrab, aged, Bst 91b—The Lord Mayor, 5 yrs,
Bst tlb—Gibraltar, 4 yrs, Bst slb—Prizetkmer, aged,
Bst 71b—Retriever, 5 yrs, Bst 216—King Cole, aged,
Bst 21b—Galen, 4 yrs, Bst 21b—The Shadow, 5 yrs, est—
Chantiliy, 5 yrs, Ist 1216-13eIlona, 6 yrs, 7st 12ib—
Dr. Carus, 4 yrs, 7st 12lb—interlude, 4 yrs, 7st 121)
—Confederate, 4 yrs, 7st 1016-slayboy, 4 yrs, 7st 101 b
—Au, ocrat, 4 yrs, ist 816—Dunstan, 4 yrs, Ist 816
—Bolus, 5 yrs, Ist 816—I-am-not-aware, 6 yrs, 7st Kb
—l3l4ck Beck, 4 yrs, 7st 816—George, 6 yrs, 7st, 81b—Re-
corder, 3 yrs, Ist 6,6—Tuly, 4 yrs, 7st alb—Vertumnus, 6 p.s,
416-1-anacea, 4 yrs, 7st 416—Turncoat, 6 yrs, 7st 410—
Prudence, 6 yrs, Ist 4113—Hautboy,4 yrs, 7st 21b—Lady Grove,
4 yrs Tat 216—Margaret, 5 yrs, 7st 21b—Sir Mark, 5 yis,
7st—The Ruler,. 4 yrs, 7sr-- ilksop, 4 yrs, 7st—Rough
Rubin, 4 yrs, 7st—Ardrat, 5 yrs, 7st—Little Philip, 4 y,s,
est 71b—Ssr' George, 4 yrs, fist lb—Martha Lynn, 4 yrs,
6st 716—Mustapha Multy, 3 yrs, tilt 416-6 c, by fiewtcn, d
by Ithmeluke, 3 yrs, fist 41b—The Witch of Whoriey Hal, 3
yrs, Est 416—Naamah, 3 yrs, sst 91b.
ASCOT HEATH, 1841.
WEDNESDAY.—The Swinley Stakes 0125 sous. each, 15 ft,
&c.—Lord Albemai le's Viola, 3 yrs : Sir 0. Heathcote's
Bokbara, 4 yrs ; Lord Lynedoch's Jeffy, 4 yrs ; Lord Exeter's
Amurath, 4 yrs.
THURSDAY.—The Windsor Forest Stakes, of 50 sous. each,
&e.—Mr. Treen's ch f Una 3 yrs; Lord Albemarle's Minaret,
3 yrs; Mr. S. Stanley's Minx, 3 yrs; Duke of Grafton's ch f
Florence, 3 yrs ; and Lord Exeter's Syria, by Sultan, out of
111-..rchesa, 3 yrs.

- WOLVERHAMPTON, 1841.
Nominations for the St. Leger Stakes of 25 sous. each, &c.
Sir. Bowes ns. Ihe Duke of Wellington, Mr. Bristow's
Sterne, and Mr. Jones's gr. c. Portrait.
Nominations for the Chillington Stakes of 25 scvs. each, &c.
Lord G. Bentinck's Straw Hat, Mr. E. Buckley's David,
Mr. Fowler's Ihe Pacha, Sir. i3ristow's Harroldston, Mr. J.
Wood's f. by Voltairol—Trinket ; Mr. Goodman's f. by Bran,
Happy-go-Lucky.

CAPE HORSES, SHEEP, AND

WAGGON DRIVERS.

I t'!e course of n.y ve:agrinationa I had seen many
very indiffeleat specimens of horse-flash, but never did I
behold such an asseinclage of carrion as were paraded
next day before the Clarence to take us across to
Cape Town, a distance of some three or four-
anti-twenty miles. ...iterally not one sound hub
could' be muste,ed among the whole s-t ; they ap-
peared to h.:ve menopelsed every t. iliag which
accident, disease, or ill t e itinent so often email on the
nobic animal. They were i•cco and cvery one like friend
Petrucbio'a steel, "troubled v‘i h ti e (slopes, irfected
with tee fashions, Rill t,f windgalls, sp. d with sp.vine, ' &e, ;
and as we mounted their galled backs, we despaired
of ever art ving at the enu of our iiurney, besides
having some slight misgivings if, by the ett-met,
we should not bring ourselves under Mr. Mar in's
AY. However, we were assuted that only apt ea •
ances were against them, and that ence warm in
toe saddle they would prove very Buccphali ; and
the event • justified this predic:ion. 7he first couple of
miles along the sviooth saaily beach gave them an
oppurtueity of matt g their limb; much more degaye;
and by the time we bad reached the Halfway House, mita e
we each had a glass of eapitl ale, they bouvied along alike
" bricks" over the fine broah aad level road which
would not have disgraced an English turnpike. Hitherto
We had passed over an open heathy country, on which were
gNAtingriarge flocks of sheep remarkable for the size of their
tails, composed of enormous masses of fat; and the skipper,
being a hit di a wag, enured us that in the more fet tile parts
of the country, where; this sea increased by the great:er
riahness of the pasture, it eas no uncommon thing to see
a huge (look of sheep, each tackled to a wheelbarrow,
being unable in any other manner to carry their tsils I
The waggons, their extraordinary-luoking drivers, and
the large teams of oxen employed to drag them along,
likewise attracted our attention, They are complete am-
bulatory towns, in which whaler families, carrying
every requisite of " board and lodging," often make
journeys of seven or eight hundred miles into the interior,
the tcattiS ()ken not unusually consisting of eight Couple,
two abreast. 'these at guided by the most peculiar-look-
ing charioteers that ever grated the Hippodrum, , the
Olympic games, or an English " fout.ln.hand." The
most prominent feature in am costume is the symbol of
their swaying a whip which in dirnensi ins beats ever,.
tbii g that the irnaginatien can picture. Then comes the
large conical htv, built of leaves like the thatched roof of an
Indian cottage, which it almost Ards, in dimensions. Las,,
though not least, are the " crackers." Hut the reader a could
in Vain rack his fancy to find out the meaning of aria wriin,
which does duty for what the ladies more delicately
(dear sensi fee creatures I) call " inexpressibles." The
euphonous appellation I believe originated from the
peculiar noise made by these articleg until long wear and
constant use bad somewhat suppled the stiff bullock
hides cf which they are constructed, and which, if not
" built" on the wearer, are so firmly fitted to his netber
parts, that, day and night, in health and stcknes,, in the toils
of travel, during the repose of the conjugal couch, they are
said to be his inseparable companions, aye even in death.
never "falling off" from their "close attachment" until the
hand of time and decay scatter their ragged remains to the
rinds of Heaven,—Old Sporting Magazine.

. NEW go WALEa,On Monday, a nunie-
nms meeting of merchants !nd ethers connected with New
itetith Wales was held at the George and ValtuM Tavern, to
tale info 6ohtititration the expediency of resisting the toggle.,
tions lately issued by the Commissioners for Colonial Lands
and Emigration. "for the inferniation of persons sending out
effilgtiiins otf botinty to New Sent!' Wake or Van Diemen's.
Land." Mr. Baldwin, M. in the Chair, The Chairman
shortly stated the object of tiie meeting:, Mr. Marshall then
proeeedeit in detail io give a narritiie of the Government sys-
tern emigration, and of that carried out 6ti tire Bounty sys-
tem, contending that the Bounty system was the beet. A se,
ties of reaoliiti,ms, which were first read colb.ctivelv, and then
Moved and seconded seriatim, were unanimously 'adopted by
the Meeting, pledging it to the resistance of these regulations,
the appoilittnent of a Commitiee to communicate wirh the Se-
cretary of Ntate ; and if this was not foni,d sufficient, to bring
the matter before Parliiiment, and expressi, g hope 'that at
least in the meantime the regulati. ns would be suspended.
After a vote of thanks to tht: Chairman and Mr. Marsh..ll, the
meeting geparatt d.

PIItSENTS TO THE UNITED SERVICE INSTI-
TUTION.—SIR JOHN MOORE'S MILITARY .SASH.—Amongst
the presents lately made to the United Service Institution was
the miltary sash which was used in carying Sir Joho %Joon-
from the field of Corunna, after he had been latally wounded.
The men in the hurry attendant upon that disastrous day took
the sa-h from the General's Aid de-Camp, and encircling Sir
John Alt,ore with it held the ends of the sash. Thus they con-
veyed the wounded soldier to the town, and afterwards with
the help of it let the 'Miss body into the grace that wile t re-
' pared for it on the ramparts. Lieutenant-General Paul An-
dersen, the gallant Aid-de-Camp of Sir John, pre,ented this
interesting relic to the institution. Previous to the action Sir
John Moore made General Anderson promise that wherever he
.marred. On the day the sash was pre-
fell there he shouiu
t
nnted, the following were also given „.
the ins4.emitution :—A
bottle of wine from the Royal George; a
rope the
Ell`-
gar, sunk in 1711 ; two Karbyle swords (the Karbyle
inhabit the mountains in the rear of Algiers, and have alr,va-ls
been independent of the Pe' s); three Chartist pikes. u-ed at
the attack on Newport ; and a complete collection of arms and
implements of the Nagas, a tribe inhabiting the hills near, Mu-
nipoor, India. The donors were F. W. Al. sat•ler, R.N. ;
Captain Michael Quin, Captain Howells, mid Major J. G.
Burns, son of Robert Burns, the poet.
The Shelland'ponies intended for the Lillipu-
lian equipage of the Princess Royal were erroneously stated in
he rapers of las we, k to have bean "purchased" for chat
puri,ose "I hey were, with the gracious permis,ion of her
alaj,,sty, presented, for the use of her Royal Highness the
Princess Royal, by Mrs. Cox, of Lawford, Essex. These
little animals, of scarcely larger size than a Newfoundland dog,
are beautifully marked black and white, and of exquisite sym-
metry. They are five years old, and have been brought up
almost like domestic animals, being accustomed to come into
the House, and to feed out of the hand. They were received
by her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert in the
gardens of Buckingham Palace on Saturday last.

rtstoetatiezill einh;rwtol, is :Ills present
g"iligon rapidly. letters or croiit :n•antel'tef PAyl,:q
eoetiKental travellers by tle' tivo'
the. west end of London, eXCA4CI th .11111 b,
value, by more than a half those of any preceding year, e 3 fir
as the number of months have gone by.

MONDAY NEXT.—Mr. Thornhill's Menalippe against Mr.
Greville's Perseus, dst 71b each. T. Y. C. 10u h ft. • Captam
Byng's Garryowen, Sst lib, against Captaint Rous's 'Nicholas .
7st Bilb. I . Y. C. 100 h ft.
WEDNESDAY.—Captain Rous's Langolee, Bst 71b, against
Mr. Payne's f. by Langor, out of Emigrant's dam, 4st. 1.). M.
bu h it.
THDRSDAY.—NIr. Thornhill's Menalippe, B.t 101 b, against
Mr. Urevile's Myr,le, ist alb. 'f. Y. C. lUO h ft.
NEWAI A tiKE I' CRAVEN MEE I'ING, 1843.
TUESDAY.—Duke of Bedford's e. by 'faurus, out of Mona,
agst Lu&d Exeter's ch cby Beiram, out of .t.l arinella. D. M.
:e.OO soya. h ft.