The Sun.
London, England, 1848-09-29 00:00:00

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NEWMARKET RACES.
(THIS DAY.)
(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)

Match—Festus beat Lady Mary.
Match Carissima beat Touchy.
Handicap Plate of 501. A.F.

Diplomatist
Duplicity

Ziska c.
Blunder Luis

Circus ...

Sweepstakes. T. Y. C.

Arsimic colt •••

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Match—Tuscan beat Minto.

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VAUXHALL-GARDENS.—The season at this place
will be terminated this evening, when the lessee of the
premises, Mr. Wardell, will take his benefit. A long
list of entertainments is announced in the bills, and the
price of admission is so moderate that the public may
see Mr. Pell and his Africans, Juba, &c., Mr. Van Am-
laugh, and his lions, Mdlle. Macarte and her equestrian
feats, the " Petite Ryan," and five juvenile dances in the
ballet of Coquina, living statues from the antique by
Mr. Day, fireworks. &c., for almost nothing. It is to
be hoped that Mr. Wardell will be supported by public
patronage as he has laboured most zealously for public
amusement during a long, and for many weeks a most
arduous season. The amusements at Vauxhall have
never been better arranged than during the summer of
this year, but the weather has been most unpropitious,
and consequently the profits to the lessee have been far
below what was expected.
EXTENT Or TEE CIIEATION.—Our system, great
and wonderful as it is, is a mere speck compared with
the real extent of the creation. Satisfactory evidence
exists, that every star which twinkles in the firmament
is no other than a sun, a world of light surrounded by its
own attendant planets, formed into a system similar to
ours. Forty-five thousand such stars have been counted
by the aid of the Ilerschelian telescope in so small Is
part of the heavens, that, supposing this part to be sown
no thicker than the rest, the same telescope would
reach at least 75,000,000 in the whole sphere. By means
of new improvements in the same optical instrument,
they have been found to be numerous to a degree still
more astonishing. Every one of these is, in my view,
rationally concluded to be the sun and centre of a system
of planetary worlds. Beyond this, I think it not at all
improbable that were we transported to the most distant
of the visible stars we should find there a firmament ex-
panding over our heads, studded in the same manner
with stars innumerable. Nay, were we to repeat the
same flight, and be again wafted through the same dis-
tance, it is not improbable that we should behold
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CANAL AROUND THE FALLS OF ST. MART.—The
Buffalo Commercial Advertiser says that another effort
is to be made for the construction of this great work,
the connecting link in the navigation of the great chain
of lakes. Mr. Felch, senator from Michigan, has sub-
mitted a report from the committee on public lands, to
NNllicti had been previously referred a petition of B.
Dibble, George C. Bates, and other citizens of Detroit,
asking for the right of way and grant of land to aid in
the construction of a ship canal around the falls, and the
joint resolutions of the Legislature of Michigan in rela-
tion to the same. The report recommends the cession
of the right of way asked for, and the grant of 500,000
acres of land to aid in the construction of the canal.
What action Congress will finally take upon this subject
remains to be seen. This subject is of national import-
ance. A great trade is destined to come from Lake Supe-
rior, and the work should be commenced and completed
with the least possible delay.
OPENING or THE SHREWSBURY AND CHESTER
RAILWAY.—WO understand that this affair is postponed,
or deferred, till the 9th or 10th of October.