The Sun.
London, England, 1848-05-24 00:00:00

Mr. B. Green's Shy lock. . • • • • • • • Stebbings.
Lora Eglinton's Eagle's Plume • • Fobert. Marlow.

Mr. T. Parr's Sponge ... • • •• .• •• Stinton.

[Owner, or
Whitehouse

Lord Clifden's Loadstone • . • • • • .. Kent. J. Marson. 18 to I
Duke of Butland's The Fiddler.. 11. Boyce. Robinson. 25 to 1
Mr. Lillia's The Great Western • • Lord. J. llowlett.33 to 1
Mr. Bakei's Oscar •• •••••• • • • • Hesseßine. Ittantiy. 33 to I
Major ritt's Fern ..........Percy.•••• E. Edivardsso to I
Mr. E. R. Clark's Weathercock Dockeray. Tant.

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Mr. Osbaldeston's Fugleman •• .. Warrener. Rogers. 50 to 1
Mr. Molt's Comet • • ........ French. Pettit. 1000to10
Mr. Cooper's Slug •• • .. E. Jones. Unknown. 1000to10
Mr. Lumley's Voyager.-- Dawson. Cartwright.
OAKS BETTING.
3 to 1 ngst 1)o-it-again 12 to 1 asst Queen of the
7 to 2 agst Cymba—taken May
9 to 1 agst Attraction
12 t 0 1 agst Miss Lydia
10 to 1 agst LdExetr's two 14 to 1 agst lodine
No others mootioned.

THE DUCHESS OF KENT.—Her Royal Highness,
attended by the Lady Augusta Bruce and Sir George
Cowper, left town yesterday morning by the South-
Western Railway express train, at a quarter past ten, to
pay a visit to the Queen and Prince Albert at the Isle of
Wight. Her Royal Highness arrived at Gosport at
half-past twelve, and was received in the naval yard
there with all the honours usually paid to royalty. The
naval Commander-in-Chief, Sir Charles Ogle, and the
Governor, Lord Fitzelarence, also Captain Sir W. Parry,
R.N., and the staff-officers of the authorities, received
the Royal Duchess, and conducted her to her Majesty's
yacht Fairy, which was in convenient contiguity
theuity to the
train; and on her Royal Highness ivroyal
standard was hoisted, which was the signal for a salute
from the flag-ship. On the vessel leaving Portsmouth
harbour the battery of the garrison was fired, and
similar honours were paid by Sir Charles Napier's fleet
at Spithead.
ITER MAJESTY'S BIRTIIDAY.--.A.lthOUgh to-day is
the twenty-ninth anniversary.,of her Most Gracious
Majesty's birthday, it will not be publicly kept until
Saturday next, the 27th instant, on which occasion the
Queen will hold a drawing room at St. James's Palace.
Notice was issued yesterday at the Stamp-office, that it
will be closed on Saturday, being the day appointed to
celebrate her Majesty's birthday, and on Monday, the
29th instant, being the anniversary of the restoration of
King Charles 11. (1660). It will be a holiday at all the
Government offices, both in town, Deptford, Woolwich,
Portsmouth, &c., and at the law courts. A grand in-
spection of a battalion of each of the three regiments of
Foot Guards will take place on the Parade, St. Jan,c3,._
park on Saturday morning, and a review in Hyde-park
of the embodied out-pensioners' battalions of the London
District, before Lord Hardinge, G.C.11., the
lately
returned Governor. General of India.
THE Moons.—The corning season promises to
be an excellent one for grouse shooting. The disease
whichprevailed
two aml
lest anions
yearn, serums birds,
tot toh
a6voelno altogether extent
throughout
disappeared.
In no one instance have parties that we
have met with, who have been traversing the mesons
Journal, to
choose their quarters, detected either dead or weak birds
in this or the neighbouring counties; nor is there any
reasonable probability that the first hatch will be lea
sened or destroyed by frost or storms, happens
when goodshootin ' demand
weather i 3 premature.., The
Is equal that of previens seasons.
Aberdeen