The Sun.
London, England, 1851-08-06 00:00:00

Won by a length.
STOKE- UPON• TRENT RACES.—TIIESDAT.
[Br ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.]
The Newcastle Stakes.

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Director

Three ran.
The North Staffordshire Stakes (Handicap).
Lady Bibina ...
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The Hanley Stakes.

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The Traclumen's Plate.

The 'lease
Aldgate

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BRIGHTON RACES. ---
BRIGHTON, TUESDAY EVENING, SEVEN O'CLOCK.—
The following plates, &c., closed this evening at six
o'clock:—

Trial Stakes.

Duster, 3 yrs—The Squaw, 3 yrs—Cheerful, 5 yrs—
Marge!Una filly, 3 yrs.
Hotel-keepers' Plate.
Gloom, 3 yrs—Tordesillas, 4 yrs—lraeundus, 3 yrs—
Guardsman, 3 yrs—Eurus, 3 yrs—Hurry-scurry, 3 yrs
—Margellina filly, 3 yrs—Exeter, 3 yrs—Hippogriff; 3
yrs—Preslaw, 4 yrs—Abdallab, 4 yrs—Handsome Doe,
4 yrs—Timid Fawn, 3 yrs—Ella, 3 yrs—Mignon, aged
—Catalpa, 3 yrs.

Stewards' Plate.

Ploughboy, 5 yrs—Preslaw, 4 yrs—The Moor, 6 yrs
dresine, 2 yrs—St. Ann, 6 yrs—Miss Landon, 2 yrs.
Town Plate.

The Verderer, 4 yrs (100/.)—Cheerful, 5 yrs (1000—
Ella, 3 yrs (1001.)—CEdipus, 5 yrs (1001.)—Aristocrat,
4 yrs (1001.)—Manilla, 3 yrs (1001).
Licensed Victuallers' Plate.

Timid Fawn, 3 yrs—Ploughboy, 5 yrs—Hurry-scurry,
3 yrs—The Squaw, 3 yrs—Hippogriff, 3 yrs—Preslaw,
4 yrs—Fernaude, 4 yrs—Fifty-one, 5 yrs—Eurus, 3 yrs
Iracundus, 3 yrs—Kuight of the Thistle, 3 yrs—Mignon
aged—Alicia, 5 yrs—Handsome Doe, 4 yrs—Kakistos,
3 yrs—Forest Flower, aged—Chatterer, 5 yrs—Catalpa,
3 yrs—Kick-up-the-Dirt (late Protectionist), 3 yrs—St.
Ann, 6 yrs—Eva, 5 yrs—Prestige, 3 yrs—Gloom, 3 yrs
—Tordesillas, 4 3,rs—Fallow Deer, 6 yrs.
Handicap for two and three years old. Half-a-mile.
Ley bourne, 3 yrs—Prestige, 3 yrs—Hampton, 2 yrs—
Herschel, 2 yrs—t by Epirus, dam by Emilius, 3 yrs—
Julia, 3 yrs—The Squaw, 3 yrs—lresine, 2 yrs—Spark,
2 yrs—Miss Landon, 2 yrs—Eurus, 3 yrs--o by Veni-
son, Passion, 2 yrs—France. 2 yrs— Wadrasta filly,
3 yrs—Lady Isabel, 2 yrs—Ethelwolf, 2 yrs—Freedom,
2 yrs.

Sussex Plate.
Perjury (late Pandora). 4 yrs (501.)—Ella, 3 yrs
(801)—Duster, 3 yrs (500—Chatterer, 5 yrs (501.)—
Norton, 3 yrs (500—Mignon, aged (500—Manilla, 3
yrs (80L)—Hurry-scurry, 3 yrs (500-4' by Epirus, d
by Emibus, 3 yrs (500—00am:his, aged (501.)—Aris-
tocrat, 4 yrs (501.)

Handicap for the Grand Stand Plate.
Landgrave, 5 yrs, 9st Olb—Westow, 5 yrs, Bst 51b—
Duc-an-Durras, 6 yrs, Bst 41b—Retail, 5 yrs, Bst 21b—
Agis, 6 yrs, 7st 111b—Cheerful, 5 yrs, 7st 91b—
Remunerator, 4 yrs, 7st 91b—Garforth, 4 yrs, 7st 71b—
Mrs. Tuft, 6 yrs, 7st Mb—Comas, 3 yrs, let 21b—Beebee
Bunnoo, 5 yrs, 6st Mb—Aristocrat, 4 yrs, bat 71b—
Ingratitude, 3 yrs, sst 101b—Ischia, 3 yrs, sat 41b.
Gilly flower is scratched for the Brighton Stakes.
Arrivals—The following is a complete acra unt of the
horses now in the neighhourhood, or who will be here
before the commencement of the races :—Lord George,
Duo-an-Durras, Catalpa, Herschel, Tilsit, Sir Rowland
Trenchard, Fifty-one, Chatterer, Manilla, Ethelwolf,
Ischia, Falcon, Champion, Pelerine filly, Landgrave,
Ploughboy, Guardsman, Miss Landon, 2 yrs, Cossack,
Pitsford, Ingratitude, Spark, Wadastra, filly, Newport,
The Moor, Fernande, Upton, Freedom, Glen Saddel,
Cnreus, Backbiter, Perjury (late Pandora), Windisch-
grutz, Remunerator, Agis, Eva, Aristocrat, Hurry-
scurry, Cheerful, Alicia, Narcissus, CEdipus, The Heriot,
Sulky, Tordesillas, Exeter, Duster, The Verderer,
Kakistos, Pre.tige, .Ellrp, Hampton, Preslaw, St. Ann,
Abdallah, Mrs. Taft, Valentine, Kick-up-the-Dirt (late
Protectionist), Julia, Hipprgriff, Baroness, Marcellina
filly, Lady Isabel, Handsome Due, Norton, The
Nautch Girl, Waterfall, Iresine, Mignon, Timid
Fawn, The Squaw, Iracundus, Knight of the Thistle,
and Spark.
A two yrs old from Goodwood, either Harbinger
or Maidstone, will be here to-morrow for the Marine
Stakes.

The races commence at two o'clock.
BRIGHTON, WEDNESDAY.
LATEST BETTING.
(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
BRIGHTON STAKES.
4 to 1 agr.t Westow—taken freely
5 tck 1 agst Backbiter
6 to 1 agst Narcissus
8 to 1 agst Lord George
9 to 1 apt Landgrave
10 to 1 agst Ingratitude
BETTING AT MANCHESTER.—TUESDAY.
BRIGHTON STAKES.-7 to 2 agst Narcissus (t), sto 1
agat Westow, 11 to 2 agst Backbiter, 8 to 1 agat Cos-
sack (t), 9 to 1 agat Sir Rowland Trenchard (t), 12 to 1
agat Coleus (t).
GREAT YoRRAHIRE STAKES.-2 to 1 sgst Nancy (t),
4 to 1 apt
Buck Neasbaw (t), 5 to 1 sgst Marlborough
(t). 8 to 1 agst Newminster (t).
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HOthorpe (t), 12 to 1 agat Nm
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given, the health of Mr. Paxton was proposed and responded
to wit': the greatest enthusiasm. Mr. Patton acknowledged
the compliment in a speech of considerable length, which
was listened to with profound attention, and Warmly ap-
plauded throughout.
EVANGELICAL CONTINENTAL SOCIETY.---A crowded
public meeting was held last night at John-street Chapel,
Doughty-street, to form an association in aid of this Society;
the Hun. and Rev. Baptist IV. Noel in the chair. MM. the
Pastors Roussel! and Frangois addressed the meeting, and
gave highly interesting accounts. from personal observation,
of the growing desire among the people of Paris, and other
parts of France, to discard Popery and embrace Protes-
tantism. At the recent census which was taken in Paris,
many thousands had registered themselves in the columns for
stating their religion as Protestants, and others as wishing for
some better religion than that of the Roman Catholic. The
sale of Bibles was stated to have very greatly increased of late
in France : the sale of the Protestant version of the Scrip-
tures by the Colporteurs had been forbidden by Leon Fauche,
and both the Government and the Roman Catholic priests
offered every obstacle to the people attending the pastors
who met the people for worship; but the cause of evangelical
religion had made much progress. Other speakers then ad-
dressed the meeting on the subject, and resolutions were
adopted for forming an auxiliary society to the above, after
which the meeting separated.
THE BODY or A POOR CRIPPLE FOUND IN THE
SERPENTINE. - Yesterday morning one of the men of the
Royal Humane Society found in the Serpentine River the
body of a remarkable cripple, and it is somewhat surprising
how he got into the water. Ile is about 45 years of age,
short. His left arm and hand turn inwards, and hang close
to the body, and the right foot is also turned in the same
direction. The dress consisted of a brown cloth overcoat,
fustian trowsers, and hat, but nothing was in his possession
likely to lead to the identity of the body, which appears to
have been in the water for some time. Mr. Smith, the
beadle of St. Margaret's, has bad it removed to the dead-
house at Knightatlidge, vOorq A will rmlaiu tultil the
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LONDON,'

HER 2,IAJESTY'S THEATRE.

Mr. Lumley has always been celebrated for bring-
ing the opera season to a brildant conclusion by the in-
troduction of some unexpected and almost unannounced
novelty, which takes the town by storm. That which
Madame Sontag did for the season of 1849, and
Madame Fiorentini for the season of 1850, Madame
Barbieri Nini will do for the season of 1851. This
lady, who hap created the greater number of the
heroines of Verdi's operas, and for whom the operas
of .1 due Foscari and Macbetto were expressly com-
posed, has long been at the head of her profession in
Italy. At Florence, at Turin, and at Genoa, Madame
Barbieri Nini has ong been known and admired.
She comes to us, not the young debutante of mere
promise, but the prima donna of Italy, whose powers
have been matured by diligent and careful study,
and who is at once as a musician most accom-
plished, and as an actress of the very highest order.
Madame Barbieri Nini reminds us most forcibly of
Madame Pasta. In her personal appearance she re-
sembles her much, and still more in the power,
energy, and irrepressible force of her style of acting.
The voice of Madame Barbieri Nini is one of great
power and compass, and is beautifully clear in the
upper notes. Her fioriture, of which she is very lavish,
is in exquisite taste, and perfectly original ; and the
manner in which she at once attacks and vanquishes
the most difficult passages, proves that she is not only a
most accomplished musician, but that she is always
sure of herself. There is none of the slow approach
to, and cautious preparation for difficulties,
which is observed in many of the most
accomplished musicians. Madame Barbieri Nini
at once attacks and overcomes them. The charactershe
chose for her debiit was Lucrezia Borgia, and in the
whole range of the lyrical drama she could not, per-
haps, have found one more admirably suited to her
peculiar powers. Her rendering of the cavatina
" Come belle" was beautiful, and at once secured
to her the favour of her audience; the applause at
the conclusion of the cavatina was enthusiastic,
and from that moment it was evident that the success
of Madame Barbieri Nini was certain. The enthu-
siasm thus created was increased to the highest
pitch by her magnificent acting and singing
throughout the whole of the second act, the
conclusion of which was rapturously encored.
Equally magnificent was she in the third act,
and equally enthusiastic were the audience in
their plaudits. At the conclusion of each act
she was called on, and at the conclusion of the opera
she had to make her appearance three times before
the curtain. She has achieved a great and a well-
merited triumph, and in the delineation of characters
in which dignity combined with intensity, majesty
combined with passion are required, there are few
who can approach Madame Barbieri Nini. Me.dlle
Alboni, who was in exquisite voice, resumed her ori-
ginal character of Maffeo Ortini, and sung the music
deliciously. The " Brindisiwas, as a matter of
course, encored. Lablache was full of dignity and
power as Alfonso, and Gardoni made a most interest.
ing Genaro. The choruses were superbly rendered
The house was crowded in every part.

GRAND DISPLAY OF SWIMMING.
Yesterday evening gr. Harold Kenworthy took his
benefit at the Swimming Baths in Holborn, and gave a
grand display of swimming, floating, diving, &c. The
large bath-room was well filled with spectators, both up
and down stairs. As everyone who chose had the privi-
lege of bathing in addition to the sports, the watery
course between the heats of the several races presented
almost as crowded an appearance as the Epsom or any
other racecourse after a race. The refractory swimmers,
namely, those who would remain disporting themselves
in the water after the warning signal to clear the course
was given, were greeted with hissings and hootings like
those an unfortunate dog encounters when attempting to
find an outlet between the legs of a dense mass of people
impatient for the start of the Derby. The only things
wanting to heighten the similarity were policemen to
keep them off the sides and insist on their landing no-
where. There was also a little of that delay consequent
on getting the competitors up to their posts, which
seems part and parcel of every race, whether equine,
human, or aquatic. However, all these difficulties having
been surmounted, the amusements commenced by a race
of adult swimmers for the Leander medal in heats. The
distance was six lengths of the bath, about 192 yards.
There were three heats, the first in each again starting
for a final grand heat. The medal was gained by Mr.
Stedman. The champion belt of the Surrey Swimming
Club was contested in a single race of 12 lengths of the
bath. It was won, apparently easily, by Mr. Beckwith,
who was the successful candidate of the previous year at
the Westminster Baths. It he is fortunate a third year
be will be entitled to keep the belt. Afterwards there
were displays of scientific swimming, eating, drinking,
and smoking under water, going through the figures of
the alphabet, and other feats, to show the proficiency of
the exhibitors in the water. Sergeant Tuohy, of the
Royal Artillery, exhibited with his two children, one of
two and a half and the other four years old, who both
swam like young fishes, and showed at what an early
age the art of swimming can be satisfactorily learnt. As
much amusement seemed to be caused by the amateurs
as by the matches themselves. A few impromptu splash-
ing bouts and accidental jostlings of these gentlemen in
the crowded bath afforded great merriment to the nu-
merous lookers on.

THE ANCIENT SPECTACLE OF THE " EASTER SE-
PULCHRE," AT ST. MARy's, REDCLIPFE.—In a Paper, read by
Mr. Godwin to the Archxological Meeting at Bristol, on the
Cuurch of St. Mary, Redchtle, it was stated that amongst
the ancient records of the church inspected by the speaker,
the most interesting was the invenbry of the furniture for
the " Eastern Sepulchre," given to the church by Canynges.
The document in question, which has been several times
printed, but not quite correctly, is as follows:—" Med. That
Mayster Canynges bath delyrded the iiij (4) day of Jule, in
the yere of our Lorde 1470, to Maistr. Nicholas Pyttes, Vicar
of Redclif, Moyses Conteryn, Phelip Berthemew, and John
Browne, procurators ( ?) of St. Mary Redclif byforeseid, a
new sepulcre well gilte with fyne golde, and a cever thereto.
Item an ymage of God Almighty risyng out of the same
sepulcre, with all the ordynance that lougeth thereto, that
is to say, a lath made of tymbr and the yron worke thereto,
&c. Item thereto 'longeth Hevyn, made of tymbr and
steyned clothes. Item, Hell made of tymbr and yron worke,
with devells the number of Itiij (13). Item iiij (4)knyghtes
armed kepynge the sepulcre with their wepyns in their
bonds, that is to sey, ij (2) speres with ij (2) pavyes. Item.
iiij (4) peyr of a, gels' whynges for iiij (4) angels made of
tymbr and well peynted. Item the ffader the crowne and
visage the ball with a crosse upon, well gilte with fyne golde.
Item the Holy Goete comyng out of Hevyn into the sepulcre.
Item longyng to the iiij (4) angells iiij (4) chevelers."—
Buiider.

ARREST OF ABSCONDING DEBTORS.—Yesterday
the new Act for the arrest of absconding debtors, which re-
ceived the royal assent on Friday, was printed. It contains
twelve sections and two schedules. By virtue of this law,
which is now in force, the district Commissioners of the
Court of Bankruptcy and the judges of the county courts,
except in Middlesex and Surrey, are empowered, on applica-
tion by or on behalf of any creditor, to grant a warrant for
the arrest of absconding debtors. A capias is to issue, and
the warrant of apprehension to be auxiliary to such writ of
capias. Persons so arrested may be discharged on payment
of the debt and the deposit of 10/. for costs. When a person
is arrested on a warrant, the effect of such warrant is to
cease on detention by writ of capias. Any person for whose
arrest a warrant shall have been granted, " either bef re or
after the arrest," may apply to a Commissioner of Bank-
ruptcy, judge of a county court, or judge of one of the supe-
rior courts, for their protection from such warrant, and the
matter is to be heard and order made. There is a form of
the warrant given in a schedule annexed to the Act, and a
notice of warning to a defendant of a capias to be served on
him after the warrant. In another schedule a table of fees
is given, the highest of which is a fee of one guinea for the
caption of the warrant.

FATAL BOAT ACCIDENT AT TEIGNAIOUTIL—An
accident, attended with a fatal result, occurred here on
Wednesday last. A gentleman and his wife (who have
lately been lodging at Sheldon) accompanied by Miss Ste-
vens of the latter place, engaged a boatman to take them
over the bar; when they came nearly abreast the break-
water of the South Devon Railway, a sudden squall capsized
the boat, precipitating the whole party into the sea. The
gentleman succeeded in keeping the heads cf his wife and
Miss Stayers above water for a considerable time, but was
at last compelled to resign his hold of the latter, who imme-
diately sunk. The boatman kept himself up by swimming.
The three survivors were picked up by a boatman named
Heath who saw the accident. They were landed on the
beach in a very exhausted state and taken to the dispensary,
where every attention was paid them. The body of Miss
Stevens was recovered on Sunday. —Devonshire Chronicle.

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE.—Yesterday a meeting of
the council of University College was held for the purpose
of considering what change in the regulations of the college
were requisite to meet cases of insubordination on the part
of students, such as occurred some few months ago at the
college. It was enacted that in future, on any occasion, any
professor, lecturer, or teacher, may report any student in
his class-room guilty of disorderly acts ; and, should he
deem the case urgent, may require the student to withdraw
from the class-room. That the secretary shall have charge
at all times of all parts of the college, and authority to
maintain order therein. That the dean be authorised to
pass sentence, comprehending either admonition from the
dean, reprimand from the dean in private, or in presence of
the faculty, suspension from attendance, which would dis-
qualify the student from receiving his certificate; exclusion
from any place of instruction; rustication from the college,
and expulsion.

A MAN OF ONE IDEA.,—When you spoke of my
upsetting a decanter, I was reminded of a story which I
mean to tell you now. A gentleman who carved a goose
was inexpert; and, thinking only of the stubborn joints that
would not be unhinged, he totally forgot the gravy. Pre-
sently the goose slipped off the dish and escaped into his
neighbour's lap. Now, to have thrown a hot goose on a
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idea. This gentleman's idea was the goose, and in the
absorbing interest attached to his undertaking, that he was
to carve that goose, not altogether knowing how, be had
shut out extranenous objects. Suddenly the goose was gone,
but his eyes followed it, his mind was wrapt up in his
struggle
eitfh or ith ghat did he know of that lady?--I'll
trouble you at goose expressed the perfect abstraction
of a mind bent on developing its one idea. No doubt he had
gone through a course of Oxford training.—A Defence of
Ignorance.
ANTWERP, MONDAY, AUG. 4.—The new iron
steamer between this port and London, the Baron Osy, ar-
rived here this morning, with a very large number of pas-
sengers, principally English travellers. Amongst them are
Sir James Blrs.
Williams,
and Dr. Perry, all with
Colonel Seymour, Baron de
Woelmont, Major Buchanan, &c. The ship was besides
quite full of cargo, but the passage was, notwithstanding,
their Lady
respective The
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families;
made in 18 hours, and her well-known commander, Captain
Jackson, states thitt it Was effected With the greatest NO.