The Sun.
London, England, 1834-09-30 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

NEWMARKET FIRST OCTOBER MEETING.
MONDAY, SEPT. 29.
The Trial Stakes did not fill.
Sweepstakes of 25 sovs. each. T. Y. C. 3 subs.
Colonel Peel's Lochinvar, Bst. I`4lb
Mr. Greville's Gondolier, Bst. 71b Pavis 1 "
Won by a length. Betting 6t04 on Lochinvar.
The Holt Stakes of 30 sovs. each, 20 ft., for two-years-old fillies
not engaged in the July Stakes, Bst. 61b. each. New T. Y. C.
11 subs.
Duke of Grafton's Florin . J Day 1
Lord Orford's f. by Whisker—Elizabeth
Sir M. Wood's br. f. by Whisker 3
Duke of Rutland's bl. f. Flame, by Lamplighter
General Grosvenor's f. by Phantom—Maresfield's dam 5
Won by half a length. Betting sto 1 agst Florin, 3to 1
agst filly by Whisker, 6 to I agst Flame, even on Theme-
dory filly.
Gmnd Duke Michael Stakes of 50 sovs. each, p.p. ; for three yrs.
old colts, Bst. 71b. , and fillies, Bst. alb. A. F. 27 subs.
Sir M. Wood's ch. c. Flatterer (Clare c. )...Robinson 1
Mr. Yates's ch. c. Bentley
Lord Oxford's b. c. Paris -
Duke of Grafton's ch. c. Olympic
General Grosvenor',: Dick 5
Won easy. Betting 6t04 on Flatterer, 3to 1 agst Bent-
ley, 6 to 1 agst Paris, and 10 to 1 agst Olympic.

Kingston House Rooms, Monday Night.
ST. LEGER. STAKES (WEDNESDAY).
Charivari the favourite, but no odds quoted.
HOPEFUL STAKES (TO-MORROW).
sto 2 agst Lord Chesterfield's Eva. No others mentioned. A
large field is expected to start.

ENTRY mu, TIIE B. C. PLATE (To-MORROW).
Mr. Biggs's Littl3 Red Rover
Mr. Greville's Chantilly
Lord Lichfield's Dissolution
Lord Bcrners' Spotless colt

MR. ALDERMAN THOMPSON AND HIS COISr..
STITUENTS.—Mr. Alderman Thompson, one of the worthy
Members of this borough; intends to give a dinner to his con-
stituents on Monday ; and on the. day following the electors
will give one to the Hon. Alderman. This harmonious reci-
procation-of respect between the represented and their repre-
sentative is highly gratifying. It evinces that the latter is
proud of his constituents, and that the 'former know how to
appreciate the labours of an active, valnable and upright
senator.—Sunderland Herald.
.
Mn. ALDERMAN 1 HOMPSON.-- This patriotic,
independent, and distinguished representative of the borough
of Sunderland arrived off the bar of the Wear on Monday, In
one of the Edinburgh steam-ships, on a visit to his constitu- _
ents. The Hon. Member's arrival having been made known
to the inhabitants, nearly the whole population of the borough
crowded the piers and the sea-shore, to give him a welcome
reception. The Hon. Alderman. was accompanied by his
ffiend Mr. Alderman Pirie, of London. Mr. Alderman
Thompson has published an Address, cordially accepting an
invitation to dine with his constituents, but stating that he
cannot forego his intention of entertaining such of the electors
as will do him the honour of dining with him on Monday.
Under these circumstances, it has been determined that the
dinner at Mr. Laing's works shall take place on Monday, as
at first arranged, and that the Hon. Member shall dine with
his constituents in the Assembly Room on Tuesday.—New-
castle Journal.

Go VER NESSES.—An eminent English physician
states, that, of the female inmates of madhouses, the largest
proportion consists of women who have been governesses. We
should like to have this verified—although we agree with the
author of " England and America," when he asks " What con-
dition of life is more detestable than that of an English gover-
ness ?" "In England," says he, " governesses, young, beau-
tiful, well-informed, virtuous, and, from the contradiction be-

tween their poverty and their intrinsic merit, particularly sus-
ceptible, are generally very harshly treated; imprisoned, set
to hard labour, cruelly mortified by the parents and visitors,
worried by the children, insulted by the servants ; and all for
what ?—butler's wages I" The vast number of this respect-
able and educated class of females, and their almost insur-
mountable difficulties in procuring comfortable situations, form,
indeed, one of the most remarkable. characteristics of English
domestic society in.the present day."

TEMPERANCE IN EATING.---it is surprising to
what a great age (says Dr. Cheyne, in his Essay on Health
and Long Life) the Eastern Christians, who retired from the
persecutions into the deserts of Egypt and Arabia, lived
healthful on a very little food. We arc informed by Cassian,
that the common measure in 24 hours was about 12 ounces, or
a pound (for the Eastern pound was but 12 ounces), with
mere element for drink. St. Anthony lived to 105 years on
mere bread and water, adding only a few herbs at last ; James
the Hermit to 104; Arsenius, the tutor of the Emperor Arca-
dius, to 120, 65 in the world and 55 in the d2sert ; St. Epi-
phanus to 115 ; St. Jerome to about 100 ; Simeon Stylitcs to
109, and Romauldus to 120 ; and Louis Cornaro, a Venetian
nobleman, after he had tried all other remedies in vain, so
that his life was despaired of at 40, yet recovered and lived, by
mere force of his temperance, to near 100 years.

The Right Hon. Lord Auckland, Admiral Dundas,
and Mr. Labouchere, M. P., Lords Commissioners of the Ad-
miralty, attended by the Hon. Captain Elliot, M.P., their
Secretary, and Captain Symonds, Surveyor of the Navy, slept
at !Vets' Hotel; Hot*Ollt,' yeSterthry sell-might, having landed
at a late hour from his Majesty's steam-ship Firebrand, last
from Milford, which vessel proceeded to her destination with
the morning's tide on Saturday. His Lordship and party were
waited upon at an early hour, and invited to dinner by the
Mayor, which invitation they were compelled to decline, being
under a previous engagement to the Marquis of Lansdowne at
Bow Wood, for which place they proceeded, after having exa-
mined Mr. Brunel's iron steam-boat and the whole of the
Float; Queen-square, and the Quays, attended by Lieutenant
Claxton, R. N. The Captain of the Pilot had an opportunity
given him of stating the particulars of his rencontre with a
pirate (as stated in our last), which no doubt will cause a sharp
100k-out, if it does not lead to the detection of the villains.
Upon seeing the County of Pembroke steamer it was remarked
that she had well beaten them in the Firebrand the day before,
which vessel, although very long, and a very beautiful model,
has only 60-horse engines on board.—Bristol Journal.
POPULATION.—It is curious to observe the diffe-
rent proportions of inhabitants distributed to the different
quarters of the world. It is undoubtedly a general rule, that
the mild and temperate climates, bordering on the tropics,
have a more compact population than the rest of the world ;
but the causes why countries which are separated only by a
mountain, or a river, or an imaginary line of latitude, differ so
much in their comparative population, are more evanescent,
and must be sought' in circumstances which at first appear
unimportant. Few minds are capable of detecting and de-
monstrating their causes ; but any one who will take the trou-
ble to calculate,. may see that the following statement is eon.
rect, although almost every one will be astonished at the dis-
proportion between the spare population of Iceland, and the
multitudes which throng the little island of Malta. Upon an
equal space where one man subsists in Iceland, three men
subsist in Norway ; 14 in Sweden; 36 in Turkey ; 52 is
Poland; 63 in Spain; 99 in Ireland; 114 in Switzerland;
127 in Germany ; 152 in England ; 153 in France ; 172 in
Italy ; 192 in Naples; 224 in Holland ; and one thousand one
hundred and three in Malta!

SINGULAR SCENE.—At the meeting of the Mayor
and Corporation of Bodmin, at the Guildhall, on Wednesday,
for the purpose of electing a Mayor for the ensuing year, Mr.
R. B. Edyvean; the Alderman, who stood in rotation for
scrving the office of Mayor, walked into the hall without his
go7,i'n, and tendered his resignation as a member of the corpo-
ration, which tender was at once accepted. The Rev. John
Wallis then said that the Rev. Nicholas Every, of St. Veep,
who stood next in rotation, could not fill the office of mayor
as he was not a resident in the borough, and that he ought
therefore to resign, and so also ought the Rev. Wm. Phil-
lips, of Lanivet. Mr. Digory King, the Alderman next on
the list, was then proposed as Mayor for the year ; but as he
was not present,.a messenger was sent to inform him that if
he did not make his appearance in ten minutes he would be
elected. This inthoation brought Mr. King into the hall,
when he stated that he should decline the honour intended
him, and concluded by resigning his aldermanic gown., The
Rev. John Wallis, who stosud next on the list, said that rather
than serve the office of . Mayor he also would resign,
which he did. A consultation between the remaining corpo-
rators then took place as to the best way of getting over the
difficulty, when after having " laid their heads together" for
some hours, Robert Flamank, Esq. was prevailed upon to
accept the office so frequently declined.
CHOLERA.—We haire been at some pains to ascer-
tain the progress of this scourge in our land ; and though we
cannot help looking upon its re-appearance with a feeling of
dread, in consequence of the ravages it makes in families, we
are almost gratified to be able to confine our notices t 9 a very
few places. First in point of time is Beith, where we think
its appearance is satisfactorily accounted for, as well as its
progress described, by an intelligent correspondent. About
ten days ago the disease broke out at Sprmgburn, a small
suburb north of Glasgow, where, however, it has not been
very virulent. At the same time it appeared in Duntocher, a
township in the parish of Kilpatrick, and the village itself, and
the accounts of yesterday bring the number of cases to be
about forty, and the deaths thirteen. A report from Irvine
states that the disease had also appeared there, but it is not
well authenticated. On the whole, in its present visitation,
cholera is extremely insulated, and though violent in its com-
mencement, appears not to be extensive in its ramifications.
If greater sobriety characterised our working population, it
would have far fewer victims.-,-Scots-Scots Times.
THE WORLD.—When we stand upon the sea-
shore, we mark the gathering waters rise into a wave ; We see
it increase in size, and roll with violence towards the shore ;
of a sudden it sinks, and the particles of which it is composed
disperse and form parts of other masses.
‘equally_-h
ired
d„ys you would imagine its duration
and unsubstantial. Just such arc the events of human life.
A novelty occurs—conversation is engrossed—the.newspapers
-riymepoormtparnet_,
i
are filled—for a few
would be for ever; but whilst you speak another shadow has
risen in its place,and b
forgotten.,enfolirse
b•raisefthielisatlol
is gone—is lost—is
hends nearly all the occurrences in the world ; a new play, a
debate in Parliament, a drawing-room, or a sermon ; a mar-
e had conversed perhaps only a few days
bcfee
; o
riage, a birth, or a death. Yes, even a death : the loss of
n
with7c ho
uhm.osne. voice yet lingers in our cars, whose image
hag scarcely passed from our ey-es----the loss of such an ono is
for the mpst part merely the wonder of a moment. We drop
a tear in his grave, and then pass on and forget ; or if we do
.
not entirely forget, it is because memory will, in spite of our.
selves, retain some scattered fragments of the Rao.