The Sun.
London, England, 1848-09-06 00:00:00

GREAT YORKSHIRE HANDICAP.
9 to 2 agst Executor 12 to 1 agst Maid of 1110-7
7 to 1 agst Vamp) re therwell
9 to 1 agst Keleshea The others as before.
No cl ange in the St. Leger.
The weather favourable up to three o'clock, but now
showery and very unpromising. Owing to one of the
carriages having caught fire near Watford, and a long
detention near Leighton, caused by the accident to the
Newcastle night :mail, the nine o'clock train did not
reach Leamington until near two o'clock, by which some
hundreds lost the two first races.
SOUTHAMPTON RACES.—TUESDAY.
The Southampton Stakes of 10 sovs. each, 5 ft, &c., with
50 added. Two miles. (6 Subs.)
Mr. Bartley's Grist, 3 yrs ... (Hornsby) 1
Mr. Richard's Liu:drat], 3 yrs... ... 2
Mr. Parr's Mr. Caudle, 3 yrs . • ••• 3
Mr. King's Self•delence, 3 yrs... ~. 4
A good race.
The Maiden Plate of 20 sovs., added to a Sweepstakes
of 3 soya. each, the second to receive 51. and save his
stake, once round and a dis. (4 Subs.), was won in two
heats by Mr. Bray's Prospect, 5 yrs (Donaldson), beat-
ing Viper, 3 yrs, Madge Grey, 4 yrs, and Strife, 6 yrs.
The County Members' Plate of 251., added to a Sweep-
stakes of 3 soya, each, T.Y.C. (5 Subs.), was won by
Mr. Sadler's Moodkee, 4 yrs (Donaldson), beating Land-
rail, Cerberus, Tell, and Royalty.
The Borough Members' Plate of 251., added to a
Sweepstakes of 2 sovs. each, once round and a dis., was
von in two heats by Mr. Caffill's Bohemienne, 4 yrs,
beating Mr. Dorrien's Triton, 6 yrs, and two others.
BETTING AT MANCHESTER—TUESDAY.
LEAMINGTON STAKES .-2 to 1 agst Doctrine (t)-3
to 1 agst The Cur (t)-4 to 1 agst Yardley (t)-5 to 1
agst Sylvan (0-10 to agst Ulysses (t).
Not a bet laid on any other event.

THE WORCESTER MUSICAL
FESTIVAL.
The festival, annually held at either Worcester, Here-
ford, or Gloucester, commenced yesterday at Worces-
ter, and judging from appearance, it is likely that the
aggregate proceeds will bo considerable. We need
hardly remark that the profi,s arising from the periodi-
cal union of the three choirs aro devoted to the benefit
of the widows and orphans of the poor clergymen con-
nected with the respective dioceses. Jenny Lind was
expected at the commencement of the preparations, but
although the nightingale, in the first instance, promised
her services, her subsequent arrangements with Mr. Lum-
ley compelled her to abandon her intention, much to the
disappointment of the committee and the probability
of evil influence upon the subscriptions. However, the
difficulty has been got over as well as circumstances
would admit of instead.
, and Alboni has been engaged
Besides this exquisite contralto, Madame Castellan,
the elder Lablache, Mr. Finis Reeves, and Mr. Lockey,
tre found in the list of vocalists, as well as Miss Dolby
and the Misses Williams. The band, a very large and
efficient one, has been selected from the chief metropo-
litan orchestras; and the chorus singers are gathered
from the local societies, in conjunction with the elite of
the London professionals. The leaders are Messrs.
Willy and Blagrove, and the conductor Mr. W. Done,
the organist of the cathedral, upon whom has devolved
the general management of the festival. The nave of
the cathedral has been appropriately and conveniently
fitted up for the sacred performances; and the College
Ilan for the evening concerts. The musical service of
yesterday consisted of Handel's Dettingen Te I)eum,
Vurcell's Jubiate in D, and Mendelssohn's "As pants the
hart," the sermon being preached by the Dean of the
diocese; after which a collection was made at the doors
for the benefit of the charity.

OLYMPIC THEATRE.
A little sentimental piece, called Time tries all, has
been brought out at this theatre, with a success not in-
commensurate with its merits. The subject is a hack-
neyed one—that of a young lady who rejects an honest
and well-meaning lover through the impulses of coquetry,
but is at length brought to a conviction of the real state
of her mind by the remorse she experiences when she
finds the youth she has insulted and discarded on the eve
of marriage with another. In depicting the vicissitudes
!?.1 feeling involved in such contrasts as these, Mrs. Stir-
ling has no equal, and her vivacious frivolity in the pre-
sent case, coupled with the bitter agonies of retribution
and repentance, are but fresh proofs of her histrionic
!ersatility and power over the sympathies of an audience.
..py. Leigh Murray aids her with equal cleverness, and
his neat, manly elocution is well suited to unfold
the sufferings of neglected and abused affection. A
yawning exquisite and a priggish clerk are amusingly
embodied by Mr. F. Vining and Mr. Cowell. The
Piece, we need hardly add, has been quite successful, and
the author, we believe a Mr. Courtnay—a name new
to metropolitan fame —was called before the curtain on
alonday night, when the piece was first produced, to be
applaudedby the spectators. Besides this drama a new
Jame has been ae.,ied to the list of novelties, entitled
What to Eat, Drink, and Avoid, turning upon the ner-
vous terror of an old gentleman who' fancies he is in
danger of being poisoned by a servant who has left his
employ. The incidents are broad and improbable, but
they are made diverting by the tact of Compton, Emery,
and Cowell, enforced by a Mrs. Tellett, who pro-
mises to become an available actress in bagatelles of
this class.

Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston entertained
at dinner last evening, at their residence in Carlton-.
gardens, a select circle, including his Excellency the
Turkish Minister and Princess Callimaki, his Excellency
the Prussian Minister and Madame Bunsen, his Excel-
lency the Belgian Minister and Madame Van de Weyer,
Sir Charles and Lady Mary Wood, Sir Henry Lytton
13niwer, Sir Augustus Clifford and Miss Clifford, Mr.
Syndicus Banks, Mr. T. Wyre, &c. On Monday the
Noble Viscount and Viscountess had a party, when the
dinner circle comprised her Highness the Princess Bra-
bration, his Excellency Baron d'Andrian, his Excel-
lency Count Ludolf, the Marquis of Clanricarde, Lord
Howden, Lord and Lady Holland, Lord de Manley,
Lady Seaford and Miss Hardy, Baron Koller, and Mr.
Mandeville. A small party assembled after the banquet,
his Excellency Chevalier Bunsen, his Excellency M. Van
de:Weyer, his Excellency M. Gustave de Beaumont, his
Excellency Count Revel, Count l'halen, Viscount and
Viscountess Ebrington, the Earl Granville, Lord Foley,
Sir Henry L. Rulwer, the Htn. Miss Eden, &c., being
among the visitors.
NATAL ACCIDENT ON THE CITIEEN C., RIVER
STEAMER.-Mr. Mills held an inquest yesterday at the
Magpie, Cheyne-walk, Chelsea, on the body or William
Hiram Howard, aged 23, helmsman of the Citizen C,
steam-boat, who met with a singular accident whilst
steering. William Mitchell, the mate of the vessel, said
that on Saturday evening last when the boat reached
the Cadogan Pier, Chelsea, the word was given to "put
her astern," to get alongside the pier and land pas-
sengers. At such times it requires great force to hold
the tiller, and while the deceased and a boy were en-
deavouring to govern it, the wheel flew from their grasp,
and one of the handles catching the deceased under the
waistooast, and whirling him up, flung him completely
overboard. His body was not found fur an hour. Wit-
ness attributed the accident entirely to the great pressure
of the water. He had himself sometimes been unable It
pvern the wheel when the vessel was put astern. Ver-
-4'04 "Accidental Death."