The Sun.
London, England, 1851-04-05 00:00:00

THURSDAY.

A Sweepstakes of 100 sovs. each, h ft, for foals 1848 ; colts
Bst 71b, fillies Bst 41b ; the produce of mares that have
bred a winner of the 2,000 Guineas, Grand Duke Michael,
Derby, or Doncaster St Leger Stakes, 71b extra; those
by untried stallions, or out of untried mares allowed 31b.
*Duke of Bedford's Santiago—Colonel Anson's b c by
Touchstone, out of Ellipsis (31b)—Lord Stanley's Storm
—Mr. W. 11. Brook's Jnoogernaut—*Mr. Greville's Ariost,o
(31b)—Mr. Nicholl's OWRlinster (31b)—Mr. Payne 's
Catalpa.
The Claret Stakes of 200 sows. each, h ft, for four yrs oil ;
colts, Bst 71b; fillies, Bst 21b. D.I.
Duke of Bedford's John o'Groat—aLord Exeter's ut-
shell—Duke of Richmond's Ghillie Cullum—*Lord lIN. G.
Lennox's William the Conqueror.
A Sweepstakes of 50 sovs. each, h ft for thres years old;
colts, Bst 71b ; fillies, Bst 21b, which never won before
the time of closing this stake; horses which have started
twice before the closing of this stake allowed 41b ; thrice
or more, 61b ;such allowance to be claimed at the time of

naming. D.M.
Mr. E. R. Clark's Glenhawk (61b)--"Lord Exeter's Rein-
deer (61b)--'' Mr. Howard's Christina (61b)_Duke of Rich-
mond's Hurry-Scurry (61b).
FRIDAY.
The Port Stakes of ICO sous. each, h ft ; for four years old ;
colts, sst 7lb ; fillies, Bst 41b, not named in the Claret; the
second to save his stake. ruLig.
Lord Airlie's Clincher— Lord Exeter's Monima—*Mr.
Irwin's The King of Oude—Mr. Jaques's Blildew.'Lord
Eglinton's The Knight of Avenel—Duke of Richmond's
Officious—*Lord H. G. Lennox's The Bee Hunter—Mr.
Gratwicke's The Nigger--*Lord Clifden's Torpor—Mr. w
Edwards's Bolingbroke.
A Sweepstakes of 100 sous. each, h ft; for three years old;
colts, Bet 71b ; fillies, Bst 21b. D.M.
*Lord Exeter's INl.idas—Lord Exeter's Phlegra—Lord Or-
ford's Alboni —*Mr. Osbaldeston's c by Touchstone out of
Mountain Sylph.
Match,' 200 h ft; D.Bl.—*Lord Clifden's Oleander,
Bst 101 b, agst Lord Glasgow's Nondescript, Bst 21b.
The following outline will show that ample arrangements
have been made for extra traffic during the race week :
On Monday and Tuesday morning a special train will leave
the Bishopsgate station at 8.45, returning from Newmarket
at 6in the evening ; on the two following days there will
not be any extra train down, but one will leave Ner.market
at 7 r. m., in connexion with the up-train, due in town at
10 o'clock ; and on Friday a train will start half an hour
after the last race. We are also given to understand that
parties leaving Shoreditch to-morrow (Sunday) at 1.30 will
be enabled to continue their journey by a special train from
Chesterford.

[ADVERTISED' ENT.]—The Observer and GriltiS
stamped twenty-column Supplement; sixty folio columns
for sixpence. Sunday, April 6, a full report or and on
the Budget and Income-tax; also the Quarter's Revenue
Tables, further Chancery movements in Miss Talbot's case
&c. The extensive publication of the Observer commences
at five o'clock on Sunday mornings, in tune for all the Sun.
(lay morning railways. A Monday's edition, which is the
best for the country and abroad, at four I<tondey afternoon,.
DEPTH OF THE OCEAN.—The late lamented Lieut.
Bache was employed last season in making observations in
the Gulf Stream, and much valuable information concerning
the temperature, depth, and current, was obtained; sound-
ings to the extraordinary depth of fifteen hundred fathoms,
in one instance, and two thousand one hundred and sixty
fathoms in another, were made without reaching the bottom.
By the first sounding it was ascertained that the water at
the depth of fifteen hundred, fathoms was 87 degrees only,
while at the surface it was 82 degrees. For the last-named
sounding the lead weighed 80 pounds, and the line was 39
minutes in running out. TWO and a Lalf how were occu-
pied ill bauliPa it ill.,