The Sun.
London, England, 1841-02-18 00:00:00

RACING PROSPECTS FOR 1841.

The " races to come" open as usual with the Craven
Meeting. We cannot but exclaim, " What a falling
off is here !" No ()attends, no coffee-room, no claret,
no vacillation ; only two matches, a miserable Riddles-

worth, and but eleven races down for the five days !
We can give no better tidings for the First Spring ;
but seven stakes are made. The Two-year-old Stakes

for the summer and autumn have filled well. Some
dozen are named in the St. Leger—Pakomon the most
formidable ; but matches are unusually scarce. The
Newmarket entries for future years, especially 1842,
arc superb.

We have the largest Derby and Oaks ever known,
only to be exceeded next year. In the entry for the
former, 1841, the word " dead" should have been
added to Mr. Etwall's e. out of Mopsa and Sir R. Bulke-
ley's Blucskin ; and Mr. NV imbush's c. out of Espagnolle
is named Finehley.

At Ascot the list looks well, but scarcely any of the
stakes In re close until the Ist of April, except the Cup,
for which the horses must be named on the first day of
March. There are already 17 subscribers to the stakes,
and 20 to the Wokingham. The Great Ascot Pro-
duce Stakes for 1844 has 39 nominations.

There arc 23 subscribers to the Stakes at Bibury ;
steward the Earl of March. There are 37 to the Pre-
duce Stakes at Stockbridge, 1844 , 30 in 1843.
There are forty-four names appended to the Hamp-
ton handicap, to close and name on the let of May.
The usual liberal supply of the money added by indi-
vidual Noblemen] appears under the head of Eglinton
Park.

At Doncaster there arc, to the Champagne Stakes,
26 subscribers ; to the St. Leger,l3s, the greatest num-
ber ever known ; 30 to the Two-year-old Stakes ; and
24 to the Park-hill. Ido not observe the much-to-be-
desired liberality on the part of the Corporation ; the
money added does not amount to ten per cent. on the
usual receipts at the grand stand. However unde-
servedly the St. Leger keeps up its attraction, there are
136 subscribers for next year.
We pass over the minor meetings, and notice 'those
only that appear coming out in a fresh place, like Gor-
hambury, where seven races are announced for each
day. The officers of the Household Brigade are here
to make sport.
'The Chester Meeting is judiciously arranged to take
is the intervening week between the First and
Second Spring Meetings ; 53 horses were named for
the Tradesmen's Plate, and 38 have accepted. Blooms-
bury, 9st. 41b., the top weight, is much fancied by the
co ,noscenti. The races here are spread over five days.
'l' tree, in my opinion, would be quite sufficient.
To the Wolverhampton Stakes there arc 49 sub-
scribers ;to the Holyoake, 40. Mr. Giffard and Mr.
B ewes are the stewards.

The first two days of the Hippodrome are appointed
for the same week as Chester ; the next the week after
E2som ; both times judiciously selected. One thou-
sand sovereigns are advertised to be added to the Pro-
duce Stakes, 1843 and 1844. There are, respectively,
86 and 85 subscribers.

At Goodwood there are eight races down for the
first day, including the Drawing-room Stakes ;
a sweepstakes or five hundred sovereigns each,
two hundred forfeit, for two year olds ; and
the Ham Produce Stakes (first year), with forty-
one subscribers. To the Goodwood Stakes there are
one hundred and forty-four, the largest number ever
known to any handicap race in the world, thereby in-
creasing my arguments for dividing it into two classes;
to the Cup forty-five ; and on the last day the Orleans
Cup, given by his Royal Highness the Duke of
Orleans, and another large Produce Stakes with 43
nominations. There are altogether 20 good stakes for
the four days at Goodwood, besides stewards' prizes,
and more plates, private and public, than given at any
other meeting. Verily, the Goodwood 1841 will go
near to eclipse its predecessor, by far the most brilliant
meeting ever witnessed. The enormous Produce and
other Stakes to come on in succeeding years at Good-
wood occupy no less than thirteen pages io the Calendar
book.

The Liverpool Meetings are in future to be under
the same regulations as to the appointment of the
stewards as Newmarket, one of the thtee retiring annu-
ally. The principal alteration in the July is in the St.
Leger, which numbers just double the number of sub-
scribers it had last season ; beyond this, the entries are
rather below the average. The Autumn Meeting will
see a better day ; the Grand Junction Stakes for 1843
and 1844 are well filled.

To the Leamington Stakes there are in the book
eighty-five subscribers ; there will, doubtless, be more,
but it cannot be expected that such a race-course as
Warwick can keep up such a meeting as took place
under the direction and liberality of the ►ate steward,
Lord George Bentinck, when there were to the Stakes
130 or more nominations. The Warwick Meeting falls
this year in the week immediately preceding Doncaster
--a good alteration, as it will serve as a halfway house
to the latter race-course. JUDEX.
—.Morning Post.

MEDICINE CHESTS FOR SEA.

TO 7'HE EDITOR OF THE SUIV.

Stn,-;—You will greatly oblige,me by inserting in your
columns (which are always open to the cause of justice)
the following brief analysis of the report that appeared
yesterday in the Police Intelligence, under the head of
" Mansion-house," respecting the supply of medicines of
an inferior quality to the ship Nunez.
Raving resided for the last twelve years with a gen-
tleman at the East-eod of London, who has been exten-
sively engaged in fitting and refitting medicine chests
for sea during the last thirty years, I presume to be com-
petent to judge somewhat of the affair.
First—As regards the certificates produced from Mr.
Battley, and Messrs. Allen and Co., and the opinion of
Mr. Hennel, of Apothecaries'-hall, it would appear to
me that a medicine chest was never refitted in either of
those establishments, or at any rate, one that had been
entirely under the Captain's care (i. e. on board a vessel
not carrying a surgeon, which was the case in the pre-
sent instance), for I would ask any druggist that has had
experience in that branch of business, in what state me-
dicine chests return from a sea voyage ? The answer
would be," the corks and stoppers are all, or nearly so,
neglected to be replaced after using, hence the state of
the " jalap, rhubarb, and dover's powder," which by ex-
posure to air and moisture, frequently become of a con-
sistence fitter to roll into pills, than exhibit in the form
of powders, and the " tinctures," by evaporation, lose
the greater part of their spirit.
Secondly—As regards the statement of Capt. Paddon
respecting his inability to take the medicines, it is ex-
tremely futile, implying, if Frightly understand that the
bad quality was the cause ; for I should consider him as
good a judge of medicine, as myself of the rigging of a
ship ; and should they have been deteriorated on the
passage from the cause above mentioned, the flavour,
and consequently the nauseousness, would have been
much removed, and therefore more agreeable to the
palate.

Thirdly—As regards the statement of Mr. Forster,
there appears in it a great incongruity ; for it is re-
markable that the ship " has been to the coast of
Africa, detained there during the rainy season," and
yet " six months" only have elapsed since the medicines
were supplied.
Finally—Allow me to observe, in behalf of the cha-
racter of druggists, and to remove the slur that these
proceedings may cast upon them, and consequently the
prejudice they may incur (to their great disadvantage),
of merchants and captains, that to judge of the quality
of medicines on hoard merchant vessels, carrying no
surgeon, they must be inspected before, and not after
the voyage.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant,
Feb. 16,1841. VINDICATOR,