The Sun.
London, England, 1848-07-22 00:00:00

THIRD DAY.

The stakes to be run for on this day are inferior in
• tance to these specified in our outline of the Tues-
day'simpor engagements; nevertheless they are of great inte-
rest, and are so numerous that if the running does not
commence before one we do not see how it can be finished
before seven o'clock. There are no less than 12 events,
comprising the Cup, the Racing Stakes, the Duke of
Richmond's Plate, the Molecomb, and four other Two-
year-old Stakes; two Three-year-old Stakes, a Sweep-
stakes for two and threes, and the Anglesey Stakes for
gentlemen riders. The chances of the cup horses will
be ascertained by referring to the quotations at Tatter-
sall's; the field will, no doubt, include one or both of
the favourites for the Three Hundred Sovs. Stakes; John
Day, it is said, will ride the Hero. The Racing Stakes
contains a great number of penalties, amongst them
being 6lb on Glendower for winning the Newmarket
Stakes, and 91b on Surplice for the Derby; the field is
wretched, and as Surplice is not expected to run Glen-
dower is generally looked upon as "sate" to win. Glance
and Uriel are in the Molecomb Stakes, the former with a
penalty of 51b, and an additional 21b should she win the
Lavant; the field is very bad. Nearly all the horses en-
gaged iu the other two-year-ohi stakes are " dark." At a
moderate calculation the value of the stakes contended
for this day will be 5,0001.

DAY.
Including the MarchFOURTri
Stakes, which, should it fail to
produce two classes, will be run in heats, there are ten
races on paper, one of which, the Sweepstakes of 200
soya, each, between the Flying Dutchman, f. by Laner-
cost out of Canada, and Cucullus, is not likely to be run.
The principal events will be the Nassau Stakes for fillies,
evidently left to Canezuu, with a 61b. penalty, and Tisi-
phone ; and the Richmond Stakes for 3 yr-olds, for
which, as Springy Jack will not show, the only horses
with any chance are Glendower (61b. extra), Loadstone,
and the Sheriff. Next in importance are the Chesterfield
Cup (handicap), for which 29 horses are named ; a
Plate of 200/., a Plate of 150 L, and the March and Ben-
tack Stakes fur gentlemen jocks ; the whole amounting
to near 3,000/., and swelling the grand total for the four
days to nearly 22,0001., of which, including the Queen's
Plate, 1,5551., is public money. According to the pre-
sent arrangement tho races will begin each day at one
o'clock. The directors of the Brighton and South Coast
Railway have made ample arrangements for the convey-
ance of visitors, horses, &c., to and from Chichester.

POSTAGE STAMPS.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SlR,—Oar attention has been called to an article in
your paper, stating that Mr. Harris, of the Equestrian
Tavern, having moistened 200 postage stamps in the
usual way with his tongue ; in a short time it swelled to
an alarming size, when he sent for a surgeon, who " at
once pronounced his case one of poisoning, and stated
that some poisonous ingredient was used in the gluti-
nous matter applied to postage stamps.
The public aro not informed who this surgeon was,
but truth obliges us to give his statement the most un-
qualified contradiction.
Not only is there nothing whatever in the gum
used for the postage stamps, which is in the least degree
injurious to health ; but the principal in that depart-
ment, who is a son of one of our firth. moistens with his
tongue, in the usual way, from 400 to SOO of these
identical stamps every (lawful) day with the most per-
feet impunity, and probably nut a day passes but some
one or more of the public attach 200 or more of these
stamps to letters in the usual way, so that poisoning
must be a❑ every day occurrence if the story were true.
But beyond this all the venders have just the same
article always on sale, and we have the material with
which the Post-office labels are gummed, ready to give
any one who wishes it for analysis ; the truth, there•
fore, is in the power of any one to ascertain ; and,
knowing this, we pronounce the statement either an ig-
norant or a wilful fabrication. We do not say that a
person may not have used postage stamps and after-
wards had a poisoned tongue any more than he may
have used them and afterwards have broken his leg, but
wo fearlessly say that the gum in question would be as
innocent of causing the former calamity as the latter.
We are, Sir, respectfully,
Your obedient servants,
PERKINS, BACON, and FETCH.
No. 69, Fleet-street, July 10, 1848.

WEST INDIA PINE-APPLES AND TURTLES.—The
Trinity Yacht, Captain Hounsell, has arrived in 27
days from the West Indies, consigned to Messrs. Keel-
ing and Hunt, bringing an entire cargo, consisting of
the enormous quantity of 45,000 pineaples, a portion of
the same bring brought on the deck of the vessel grow-
ing in the soil in which they were originally planted,
and the turtles are in troughs in the same gulf water as
when taken alive.
A GOOD SINECIIII.E.—The door keeper of the Court
of Chancery, whose duties are returned as "none," re-
ceives a salary from "fees" to the extent of 3,2181. per
annum, his right to which is returned in the Parliamen-
tary papers as " usage" only.