The Sun.
London, England, 1834-07-30 00:00:00

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GOODTVOOD RACES.
JULY 29.—The Levant Stakes of 50 sous each, 30 ft., for 2-yrs.•
old; colts, Bst. 71b. ; fillies, Bst. 31b. Half a mile. 16 subs.
Lord Chesterfield's f. by Sultan (Natt) 1
Mr. Yates's br. c. Clarence 2
Mr. Rawlinson's b. f. Reliance
Mr. Gratwicke's b. c. by Emilius
Mr. Kent's b. f. Mischief 5
7t040n f. by Sultan. The favourite and Clarence ran together
in front till opposite the Stand, where the filly went in front and
won by a length.

Match, 25 sovs. each, Bst. 41b, each. Half a mile.
Mr. Greville's gr. c. Marmoset (Natt) 1
Duke of Richmond's c. by Mameluke 2
5 to 4 on Marmoset, who won easy by a length.
The Drawing-Room Stakes of 25 sovs. each ; colts, Bst. 71b. ;
fillies, Bst. 21b. Once round ; second to receive 100 sovs. ;
thirty-one paid 25 sovs. each, and thirty-five 10 sovs. each.
Sir M. Wood's Charivari (Pavis) 1
Mr. Forth's sister to Echo ( Twitchet) 2
Mr. Rush's Rebel ( Robinson) 3 -
The following also started :—Mr. Cosby's Patapan (J. Day),
Mr. Bristow's Languid (Conolly), Lord Exeter's sister to Baleine
(Arnull) ; Lord Lowther's c. by Reveller, Trictrac (W.
Wheatley) ; Mr. Sadler's Defensive (Chapple), and Sir F. John-
stone's f. by Merlin, dam by Phantom (Wright).
Betting-6 to 5 agstMerlin f., sto 2 agst Charivari, 11 to 2 agst
Rebel, 10 to 1 agst Trictrac, 10 to 1 agst Languid, and 10 to 1 agst
sister to Baleine. Won by a length ; the favourite was last.
The Inkeeper's Plate of 50/.—The first heat was won by a neck
by the Duke of Richmond's Ketchup, beating Lord Egremont's
Faunus and Mr. Pay's Adelaide. (Second heat not over when our
express left. )
GOLD CUP.-4 to 1 agst Colwick, Bto 1 agst Liston's dam
(taken), 8 to 1 agst Nonsense, 8 to 1 agst Glencoe, and 8 to 1 agst
St. Giles.

ANECDOTE OF MRS. PORTER, THE ACTRESS.--
Her history inspires regret. With a character not only un-
questioned, but marked by the noblest traits of generosity, she
had to ply her profession for many years on the stage when
she was absolutely a cripple. The cause of her lameness de-
serves honourable mention. On a summer evening, when she
was taking the air in a one-horse chaise, having with her, ac-
cording to custom, a brace of pistols, to defend her against
robbery, a highwayman came up and demanded her money.
She levelled one of her pistols at him ; the assailant imme-
diately changed his tone to supplication, told her his name and
the abode of his starving family, and appealed to her compas-
sion so strongly that she gave him ten guineas out of her purse.
He left her, and she lashed her horse to go on, but the animal
started out of his track, upset the chaise, and caused her by the fall
to dislocate her hip joint. Notwithstanding all the pain and loss
which the man had thus occasioned to her, she inquired into
his circumstances, and finding that lie had told her the truth,
she raised sixty pounds among her acquaintance, and sent it to
the relief of his family. She was so much injured by the ac-
cident, that in acting Elizabeth in The Rival Queens, she had
to support herself on a crutched cane ; but she turned even
that circumstance to advantage ; for after signing Mary's
death warrant, she expressed her agitation by striking the stage
with her cane so violently as to draw bursts of applause. When
she could act no longer in consequence of her lameness, she had
to subsist upon charity. Dr. Johnson paid her a visit some
years before her death. She was then so wrinkled that he
said a picture of old age in the abstract might have been taken
from her countenance.—Campbell's Life of Mrs Siddons.

TERRIFIC VOLCANIC ERUPTION AT ST. YIN-
, CENT'S.—Scarcely had the day closed when the flames burst
at length pyramidically from the crater through the smoke ;
the rolling of the thunder became more awful and deafening.
Shortly after 7 P.M. the mighty cauldron was seen to simmer,
and the ebullition of lava to break forth on the N. W. side.
This, immediately after boiling over the orifice, and flowing a
short way, was opposed by the acclivity of a higher point of
land, over which it was impelled by the immense tide of liqui-
fied fire that drove it on, forming the figure V in grand illu-
mination. Sometimes when the ebullition slackened, or was
insufficient to urge it over the obstrueting hill, it recoiled back
like a refluent billow from the rock, and then again rushed for-
ward, impelled by fresh supplies, and scaling every obstacle, car-
rying rocks and woods together in its course down the slope of
the mountain, until it precipitated itself down some vast ravine,
concealed by the intervening ridges of Morne Ronde. Vast
globular bodies of fire were seen projecting from the fiery fur-
nace, and bursting, fell back into it, or over it, on the sur-
rounding bushes, which were instantly set in flames. About
four hours from the lava's boiling over the crater, it reached
the sea, as we could observe from the reflection of the fire and
the electric flashes attending it. About half-past one another
stream of lava was seen descending to the eastward. The
thundering noise of the mountain, and the vibration of sound,
that had been so formidable hitherto, now mingled in the sul-
len monotonous roar of the rolling lava, became so terrible that
dismay was almost turned to despair. At this time the first
earthquake was felt : this was followed by showers of cinders,
that fell with the hissing noise of hail, during two hours. This
dreadful rain of stones and fire lasted upwards of an hour, and
was again succeeded by cinders from three till six in the morn-
ing. Earthquake followed earthquake almost momentarily, or
rather the whole of this part of the island was in a state of
continued oscillation ; not agitated by shocks, vertical or hori-
zontal, but undulated like water shaken in a bowl. The break
of day, if such it could be called, was truly terrific. Darkness
only was visible at eight o'clock, and the birth of May dawned
like the day of judgment. —From Montgomery Martin s His-
tory ,ef the British Colonies, Vol. IL, West Indies.