The Sun.
London, England, 1846-05-02 00:00:00

DERBY.

3 to 1 agst Sting—t.
13 to 2 agst Sir Tatton Sykes
12 to 1 agst Torn Tullock
33 to 1 agst lago—t

33 to 1 agst Crown Prince--
taken freely
35 to 1 agst Malcolm
40 to 1 agst Peri colt—t.
OAKS.
8 to 1 agst Mendicant—t.
FRIDAY'S RACES.
Handicap Sweepstakes of 20 sovs. each, and 5 ft only if de-
clared. A.F. (4 Subs.) lof whom declared.
Duke of Richmond's Peasant, 3 yrs, Bst llb
Mr. Payne's Collingwood, 3 yrs, Bst 81b 2
Mr. W. S. Stanley's Leaconfield, 3 yrs, Bst Elb 3
Betting.-5 to 4 agst Leaconfield; 6to 4 agst Coiling-
wood, and 3to 1 against Peasant. Peasant made running,
followed by Collingwood, to the T.Y.C. post, where the
second place was taken by Leaconfield. In the bottom the
three closed, and they raced home almost abreast, Peasant
winning by a neck, and Collingwood beating Leaconfield by
a head. Run in 2 minutes and 30 seconds.
Match, 200, h ft, A. F.
Sir J. Hawley's Alamode, Bst 31b, beat; Mr. Osbaldeston's
Sorella, 8s 91b; 6to son Sorella; Alamode made all the
running, and won by a length. Run in 2 minutes 28
seconds.

Match, 200, 75 ft, T.Y.C. Bst 71b each.—Sir J. Hawley's
Bishop of Romford's Cob, beat Lord Waterford's Corranna.
Betting-5 to 4on Corranna, who made tremendous run-
ning till half way up the cord; the Cob then challenged, and
after a fine race, won by a length. Run in 1 min. 20 sec.
The Newmarket Stakes, of 50 sovs. each, h ft, for three yrs
old colts, Bst 71b; and fillies, Bst 21b, D.M. (20 Subs.)
Mr. Gully's ch c Pyrrhus the First (Day) 1
Colonel Anson's lago 2
Lord Exeter's br c by Colwick, out of Galata ......
The following also started, but were not placed :—Lord
Albemarle's The Little Vulgar Boy, Mr. Wigram's Heiress,
Lord Stradbroke's Polecat, Lord G. Bentinck's Marquis of
Conyngham, Duke of Rutland's Sister to Flambeau.
Betting-11 to 10 apt lago, 3to 1 agst Pyrrhus the First,
6 to 1 agst the Marquis of Conyngham, and 8 to 1 agst
Galata.

The running for the first quarter of a mile was made by
Little Vulgar Boy; it was then taken up by Tag° at a good
pace, followed by Marquis of Conyngham, Galata colt, and
Pyrrhus the First. The Marquis was beaten at the cords,
and half-way up Pyrrhus the First, joining the favourite, de-
feated him, after a good race, by half a length; Galata a
length from lago. Run in 1 min. 53 sec.
Match. 100, h ft. D.M.—Mr. Osbaldeston's King Charles,
Bst 81b (F. Butler), beat Sir J. Hawley's Prospect, 7st 91b.
Betting-6 to 4on Prospect.
Won by a head. Run in 1 min. 58 sec.
Handicap Sweepstakes of 10 soya. each for three and four-
years-old. D. M. (5 Subs).
Lord Orf)rd's Blackie. 3 yrs, 7st 101 b ..................(Sly) 1
Lord G. Bentinck's Ennui, 3 yrs, 7st 101 b 2
Mr. Mare's Breastgirth, 5 yrs, 6st 111 b 3
Mr. 0-baldeston's Petit Morceau, 4 yrs, Bst 81b
Betting —6 to 5 agst Blackie, 5 to 2 agst Petit Morceau, and
3to 1 agst Ennui. Won easy by a length. Run in 1 min.
51 sec.

Match, 200, h ft. D. M.—Lord Maidstone's Torn Tullock,
Bst' 41b, agst Lord Glasgow's f by Retriever, out of Emilia,
Bst. Off by consent.
The Cup was not challenged for atthis meeting.
CHESTER Cup.—Uu to the close of this meeting nothing
had transpired to confirm or disprove the rumour of Mr.
Hill's death.

SUPPLIES OF FOREIGN MEAT.—The state of the
home market in the supply of the staple article of food for our navy
and mercantile marine has lately been such as to cause not only
much enterprise amongst speculators, but anxiety amongst the Lords
of the Admiralty. One of the most important facts connected with
the former is the deficiency in quantity as well r,s quality of the
Irish meats, owing to the rapid means of transit off irded by means
of steam communication making it more to the interest of Irish
farmers to transmit their cattle alive to this country titan to let their
capital lie dormant in curing the meat. So great has been the late
deficiency in quality that the Lords of the Admiralty were com-
pelled a few weeks ago to issue orders to the Admiralty of the diffe-
rent stations to purchase supplies of fresh meat to compensate for the
deficiency which this has caused in the rations. At the same time
the Lords of the Admiralty have not been ioattentive to the means
of obtaining an adequate supply from toreigu sources, and for this
purpose have given a fair and extended trial to the process of curing
by pneumatic pressure, by transmitting samples to the four quarters
of the globe, which being returned, were opened a few days since at
the Victualling-office at Deptford; but the results were not found
sufficiently satisfactory to sanction the general adoption of the
principle. A newly patented process is now under course of
trial, which is for the purpose of preserving meat in a fresh
state for foreign countries, which is equally applicable to fruit and
fish, and, if successful, must produce some ver) important results to
this country. In all experiments, however, connected with the al-
ti ration of food for the naval and mercantile marine, the greatest
care is required, from the fact of any innovation upon their esta-
blished mode of life and habits proving very injurious to the health
of the seamen. At the same time, the introduction of meat from
foreign sources is most important in a commercial point of view; and
at a recent meeting of many Members of Parliament and friends of
free trade, held in Monument-yard, where specimens of al the de-
scriptions of foreign food which are now admitted duty free by the
new tariff were exhibited, Dr. Bowring very pertinently asked,
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BURGLARY AND ROBBERY AT PAINGE COMMON,
5u.,,,,y,—0n Monday, Samuel Keywood, John Wentran, and John
Gordon, three " navies, were examined before a magistrate at
Croydon, on a charge of breaking into the dwelling-house of Mr.
John Phiilips, a fat mer, en the border of Painge Common, Surrey,
and stealing therefiom one ten and four five pound Bank notes, and
also several articles of plate. From the evidence it appeared that
between twelve and two o'clock on Thursday night last Mr. Phillips,
who is a very eccentric character and lives alone in his house, was
awoke by hearing the noise of footsteps on the stairs, and called out
lustily, " Who is there?" He had scarcely pronounced the words
when three men with their faces blackened entered his bedroom.
He asked them what they wanted, they rushed towards his bed,
threatened they would kill him if he made the slightest noise, threw
the bed-clothes over him, and one of them held him down in the
bed while he heard the others " forraging " about the room. The
man held him down so tight in the bed that he was nearly suffocated,
and in this state he (the prosecutor) called out to him for God's'
sake to let him have a little air. The man, however, did not relax
in his pressure u; mn him until he had heard one of the others, who
had been forragiug about, say he had found something. They, soon
after went away, having, however, renewed their threats of killing
hint if lie made any noise, or attempted to follow them. Some time
atter the old malt ventured to get up, and on examining his bedroom,
he found that a tin box, in which he kept his cash and plate, had
been broken open, and its contents taken away. Information of the
robbery was given to the police, and Sergeant Morton, an active
officer of the P division, was employed to trace out the thieves. In
the course of his inquiries that officer found that at a late hour of
the night of the robbery the prisoners were seen loitering about the
house of the prosecutor, and he, in consequence, apprehended them
on Saturday night and Sunday morning. On comparing one of the
shoes of the prisoner Keyword with some mark on the tin box from
which the property had been taken, it answered so exactly that there
could be no doubt whatever that the marks on the latter had been
Caused by the former. It also appeared that Keyword was no
stranger to Phillips's house, as his wife had been in the habit of doing
some odd jobs for the old man. The prisoners, who denied the charge,
were remanded until Saturday next.
BAPTIST MISSIiiNARY Si ,CIETY.—The great annual
Meeting cf this respectable society was held on Thursday, In Exeter.
hall. The chair was taken by Mr. Peto. The ball was full to all :te
extent, and ministers from all quarters of the kingdom were present.
The highest spirit of liberility animated the assemblage, a large
number of subscriptions, varying from 5001. (of which there Were
many) to 201. having been handed in. It was, taken altogether, COO
Of the most spirited meetings of a religious tharactor on record.