The Sun.
London, England, 1851-05-22 00:00:00

EV ENIN G, NI Y O.)
1851.

Sir J. Hawley's The Ban (Pearl) 0
Lord Chesterfield's Heartbreaker (F. Butler) 0
Mr. Waller's Enterprise colt (Wakefield) 0
Mr. Greville's Ariosto (Flatman) 0

Mr. Higgins's Theseus (S. Rogers) 0
Mr. H. Hill no, The Mountain Deer (Amon) 0
Mr. E. R. Clark's Glenhawk (Dockeray) 0
Lord Exeter's Midas (Norman) 0
Mr. Moore's Alompra (Charlton) 0
Mr. Wentworth's Azeth (Bumby) 0
Mr. A. Nichol's Newmiuster (Pettit) 0
Mr. Delamere's Guy Mannering (Bartholomew) 0
Mr. Morris's Hungerford (Fenn) 0
Sir T. Burke's Bro. to Chanticleer ...(H. Robertson) 0
Baron Rothschild's Tearaway colt ...... ...(Robinson) 0
Mr. Nevill's Telescope (H. Bell) 0
Lord Eglinton's Bonnie Dundee (Cartwright) 0
Lord Eglinton's Hippolytus (C. Marlow) 0
Mr. Methlam's Constellation ( fempleman) 0
Mr. Saxon's The Black Doctor (W. Abdale) 0
Mr. Thompson's Gholab Singh (Winteringham) 0
Mr. F. Garner's Serus (H. Edwards) 0
Mr. Worthington's Goliah (Osborne) 0
Mr. Merry's Louis Napoleon (I Howlett) 0
Duke of Richmond's Buckhound ........(Kitchener) 0
Sir R. Pigot's /Bolus (W. Boyce) 0
Sir R. Pigot's Runnymede (Sly) 0
Betting-3 to 1 agst Teddington. 7 to 1 agst Marl-
borough Buck, 7 to 1 agst Hernandez, 7 to 1 agst Prime
Minister, 15 to 1 agst Constellation, 15 to 1 agst The-
seus, 15 to 1 agst Neasbam, '22 to 1 agst Black Doctor,
30 to 1 agst Lamartine, 30 to 1 agst Hippolytus, 40 to 1
agst Bonnie Dundee, 50 to 1 agst Ariosto, and 1,000 to
15 agst any other.
Buckhound took the lead from the post, and with the
Enterprise colt in his wake, the latter waited on by Ted-
dington, Constellation, Neasham, and Ariosto, led the
way nearly to the top of the hill, the running being then
taken from him by the Enterprise colt, Teddington fol-
lowing Buckhound, in company with Neasham and
Ariosto, next to the latter lying Constellation, Heart-
-1 breaker, the Marlborough Buck, and Lord Eglinton's two.
This order lasted only to the mile post; Teddington
then quitting his horses, and going on with a decided
lead, the Enterprise colt and Buckhound giving way to
Hernandez, the Marlborough Buck, Neasham, and
Ariosto, to which lot the race, after making the turn,
was confined. Marlborough Buck took the second place '
at the road, and held it to the distance, where Neasham
went up, and by sufferance, got within a neck and
shoulder of the favourite, by whom, however, he was
very speedily disposed of. The Marlborough Buck
and Hernandez were thus left within half a
length of the favourite, who, having had the race in
hand from the time he took up the running, left them
without an effort, and won in a canter by two lengths,
the Marlborough Buck beating Neasham by a length,
Hernandez, who would have been third but for a disap-
pointment opposite the stand, finishing a neck from the
latter. Prime Minister was fifth, and Theseus, Ariosto,
and Lamartine well up. Run in 2 min. 51 secs.
Epsom Town Plate of 50 sovs. (handicap) for three and
four yrs old, the winner of any race after the publica-
tion of the weights to carry 51b extra. Ono mile.
Lord Stanley's Croupier, 3 yrs, 6st 101b...(Charlton) 1
Mr. Douglass's Lybourne, 3 yrs, 6st (A. Pavia) 2
Lord 11. Lennox's Theorem, 3 yrs, Est 31b (Garvey) 3
Mr. Greville's Estafette, 4 yrs, ist 71b...(car. ist 91b) 4
Mr. J. Perren's Fernande, 4 yrs, Bst 21b (J. Rowlett) 5
Mr. Payne's Guardsman, 3 yrs, Est 61b (Hiett) 6
Betting-2 to 1 agst Croupier, sto 2 agst Fernande,
4 to 1 agst Theorem, and 4 to 1 agst Estafette.
Fernande took a clear lead at starting, and with Esta-
fette and Leybourne in attendance, cut out the work to
the road, where she was beaten, and Leybourne took up
the running at the stand; however, Croupier went up,
quitted him without a struggle, and won in a canter by
two lengths. Run in 1 min. 46 secs.
The Great Exhibition Plate of 100 sovs. (handicap). 'A.
winner subsequent to the publication of the weights to
carry 51b extra. One mile and a quarter.
Mr. Jones's lanthe, 3 yrs, 6st 21b
Captain Archdall's Badajoz, 3 yrs, sst 101 b (N. Treen) 2
Mr. Dennett's Subterfuge, 4 yrs, 65t...(T. Sherwood) 3
Mr. Magennis's Ingratitude, 3 yrs, sst 12b (Paris) 4
Betting-2 to lon lanthe, who made all the running,
and passed the winning chair twelve lengths first. Run
in 2 min. 15 secs.

The Carew Stakes of 3 SOTS. each, with 40 added, for
three yrs old, ist 61b; four, Bst 71b; five and up-
wards, Bst 111 b; mares and geldings allowed 3lbs;
the winner to be sold for 1501., if demanded; three
quarters of a mile. (7 Subs.)
Mr. Hornsby's The Old Fox, 5 yrs (C. Hornsby, jun.) 1
Mr. Burgess's Handsome Doe, 4 yrs (Burn) 2
Mr. Carew's Soufflé, 3 yrs (Basham) 3
Mr. Thomas's Durdans, 3 yrs (Donaldson) 4
Betting-5 to 4on Old Fox, who made the running
horn end to end and won, hard held, by two lengths;
Soufflé a bad third. The winner was claimed.

BETTING ON THE OAKS.
7to 2 agst Payment (taken) 9to 1 agst Iris
4to 1 agst Hesse Homburg 9to agst lanthe (taken)
7to 1 agst Aphrodite (t) 12 to 1 agst Miserrima (t)
THE W OODCOTE STAKES.

Elcot was ezamined before the races yesterday, by Mr.
Field, who pronounced him to be only two years old.

HAMPTON, 1851.
Handicap for the Surrey and Middlesex Stakes of 20
sovs. each, 10 ft., and 5 only if declared on Monday
week.

Age at. lb.
Vancouver
King Charming
gr h by Verulam,
out of Whim
Joe Sutherland
Terpsichore
b c by Corranna,
out of Monica 3 6 9
Tilsit .
The Savage 4 6 9
Bellissima
Ballet Girl
Abdallah 4 6 0
Miss Lottery
Hippogriff
lanthe 3 6 5
Aristos ....
Guardsman 3 6 0
Ingratitude 3 6 0
British Boy
Don Pedro
Jagellon

Age st. lb.
Cariboo
Vatican
Windiscbgratz
Vampyre a 8 7
Old Dan Tacker 5 8 7
Sauter-la-Coupe... 5 8 7
Nutcracker 4 8 4
Hagley 6 8 2
Westow 5 8 2
Garforth
Repletion 5 7 12
Cocktail
Mrs. Taft 6 7 9
Beebee Bunnoo 5 7 8
Utrecht
Selina
Era
Valentino
Landseer 5 7 4
Coola
Melford
Gladiola
Roller
Acceptances for the South-Western Railway Plate of 501.
Age at. lb. Age at. lb.
The Moor
The Swede 4 8 7 Miss Lottery
Woodlark
Z Acloc
The rest pay 5 sous. each.

FRENCH PLAYS.

The reign of the one- act scream of Valais Royale
still continues. No less than four of these little pieces
were performed last evening, two of them for the first
time. Levassor appeared in them, and was the life and
soul of both. They have evidently been written:for
as farces at the Lyceum or Adelphi are written for
Charles Mathews or Edward Wright. They have
nothing in them either in the way of incident or plot,
but just consist of a few scenes, in which some gro-
tesque original is the prominent object with a few other
characters, who merely servo to bring him out, and set
off his ludicrous absurdities. Levassor absolutely revels
in fun and frolic, and indulges in the most extravagant
flights; but his humour, though rich and broad, is free
from vulgarity. Compared to the humour of some of
our popular farceurs it is the effervescence of cham-
pagne to the briskness of bottled beer. It is a plesant
thing to enjoy . a most hearty laugh without being
offended by indelicacy or coarseness.

DIORAMA OF NINEVEH.
A grand moving diorama of Nineveh, painted by Mr.
Frederick Charles Cooper, the artist sent out by the
British Museum to assist Dr. Layer& is now being ex-
hibited at the Gothic Hall, 3, Lower Grosvenor street.
The views are very accurate,
exceedingly well painted,
and very interesting, and the explanatory lecture, de-
livered by Mr. Cooper, sufficiently explains them to
those who have not read the work of Dr. Lsyard. The
views commence with the city of Mosul, continuing with
both the banks of the Tigris as far as the Mound of
Nimroud, the first scene of 1)r. Layard's labcurs. There
is then a moonlight view of the great Lion Gateway of
the north-west palace, the excavations at Konyunjiek, the
remains of the great halls of the Assyrian Kings, and
the French discoveries at Khorsa'oad. This interesting
diorama, will no doubt be visited by all who take an in-
terest in the subject which it illustrates, and it is quite
as worthy the support of the public as any which have
hitherto appeared.

ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION.
Having already noticed favourably two of the lectures
" On Fire in its various relations," delivered by Mr.
J. H. Pepper, chemical lecturer to the above institu-
tion, we therefore cannot permit the third and last of
the course to pass without recording its particular in-
teresting features. The Learned Professor commenced
by calling the attention of his audience to the ordinary
appearance of light giving flame, and showed in a satis-
factory manner that when it affordedilluminating power
not merely gaseous matter was brought up to a high
temperature, but that solid substances, as charcoal, is a
gas flame. Lime is the oxy-hydrogen light now abso-
lutely required. The maintenance of the heat and the
supply of oxygen were next considered, and it was de-
monstrated that flame could be as it were frozen out and
extinguished by the simple withdrawal of the heat by
conducting metal. The obstruction of flam 3 came next
under consideration, the external figure being conical
and shaped like a myrtle-leaf, because the air rushed
past the outside and dragged up. Some beautiful expe-
riments with ascending and descending flames illustrated
this part of the subject. Finally, the internal portion of
flame was shown to be hollow. A flame wag made up
of three divisions, tr,o external in a state of intense
combustion, and a third inside being a centre core or
hollow full of unburnt gas. This fact was demonstrated
by some very curious experiments—a case of red fire
with quick matches was held in the centre without igni-
tion. Fire appeared to extinguish fire, because the
centre of the flame was full of unburnt hydro-carbon,
which did not support combustion. This, with many
other equally striking experiments and lucid explana-
tions, was received with great applause.

MUSIC HALL-HENRY RUSSELL'S MUSICAL
AND PICTORIAL ENTERTAINMENT.

This well• known and highly-popular lyric author and
vocalist, presented to our public, for the first time on
last evening, his admirable musical and pictorial treat.
The first part consisted of a representation of the scenes
and incidents of an emigrant's progress from our shores
to an American seaport, and thence up the giant western
rivers, through forest and prairie, to the yet half-re-
claimed settlements in the far west. Nothing could be
more beautifully depicted than the various scenes on land
and sea represented in this portion of Mr. Russell's
panorama, whilst -his admirable and racy descriptions,
and the music of his apposite and finely-rendered melo-
dies gave additional interest to each scene thus doubly
illustrated. The second part of the entertainment con-
sisted of a series of panoramic scenes illustrative of negro
life in primitive freedom, and afterwards in slavery. The
first scene opens with a view of an African village, with
its festivities—then follows a battle of the tribes—then
the capture and embarkation of the prisoners on board
the slaver schooner, the chase by a British cruiser, and
the rescue of one set of slaves. The scene changes to
the Havannah, and we see the slave market and the suc-
ceeding pictures ponrtray the various descriptions of
slave labour in the southern states.

The entire of this panorama in all its phases is de-
scribed by Mr. Russell in a style of elegant and familiar
dissertation, interspersed with numerous original anec-
dotes, and rendered still more delightful by a series of
songs and ballads, pathetic and descriptive, the whole
forming an entertainment which has been rarely equalled,
and certainly never excelled (of its kind) in Dublin.
The audience of last evening was a crowded ono indeed.
The spacious Music Hall, in boxes, pit, and galleries
was crowded to excess, and the repeated and enthusiastic
plaudits that greeted every effort of the gifted vocalist,
evinced the doep delight experienced by all present at
this novel and unique entertainment,—Dublin Freeman's
Journal, May 20.