The Sun.
London, England, 1858-09-08 00:00:00

LATEST BETTING ON THE COURSE

ST. LEGER.
9to 4 agst Toxopholite (taken)
6to 1 agst The Hadji (taken)
10 to 1 agst Fitzßoland (offered)
100 to 8 agst East Langton (taken)
100 to 6 agst Volta (t and off)

CESAREWITCH.
207 t, o 1 agst Warlock (taken freely)
20 to 1 agst Melissa (t and off)
25 to 1 agst Poodle (off)
1000 to 30 agst Fadladeen (t)

SELLING PLATE AT DERBY.—This race, which was in
dispute, has been awarded to Nougat, who came in second.

WEYMOUTH RACES.

ENTRIES FOR THE QUEEN'S PLATE.—Fisherman, York-
shire Grey, King of the Forest, Odd Trick.
HORSES ARRlVED.—Yorkshire Grey, Fun, King of the
Forest, Sister to Amsterdam, Childrey, Ham, Theory,
Martha.
EXPECTED.—Odd Trick.

BETTING AT MANCHESTER.—TunsDAY.

ST. LEGER.
6 to 2 agst Toxopholite (t 3 to 1)
6 to 1 agst The Hadji (t)
7 to 1 agst Fitzßoland (off)
11 to 1 agst Governess (t)
12 to 1 agst Sunbeam (t)
100 to 6 agst East Langton (t)
20 to 1 agst Knight of Kars (t)
25 to 1 agst Longrange (off)

DEATH OF MR. DORLING.—Otir sporting readers will
regret to hear of thedeath of Mr. William Dorling. There
are very few who have not been to Epsom, or on the road
to it, on the Derby day, and who have not been included
amongst the " gentlemen sportsmen," who have been
invited to buy a card of the races—" Dorling's correct
card." Mr. Dorling had, for a long series of years, the
management of the course and the races generally, and was
held in the highest possible respect by persons of all classes
who were devoted to turf pursuits. Mr. Dorling, at the
time of his death, was in the 86th year of his age.
BEADSMAN AND FITZROLAND.—A correspondent in-
forms us that he recently visited Mr. Manning's, the for
tunate trainer of these two horses, and he found him "in a
very out-of-the-way place, -between Overton and King's-
clere, called Cannon Heath, and there, in a barn, are the
two celebrated horses which have nonplussed the racing
world. This same Cannon Heath bids fair to become the
centre of quite a sporting circle; for Lord Portsmouth is
about to form a racing stud, and a pack of hounds is
about to be formed and stationed near King'sclerc."—,
Salisbury Journal,

MIGRATION OF HOP-PICKERS.—During the
greater portion of the past week the high roads of the
county have swarmed with heavily-laden pedestrians, of
both sexes and of all ages, wending wearily to the various
hopgrowing districts. The Parliamentary trains on the
South-Eastern railway have also been unusually crowded
but Sunday lilt
perhaps, passengers bound to " the hoping
crowned the immigration, and showed in a stronger light,
perhaps, that it has appeared at any former time, the im-
mense quantity of extra labour employed in the ingathering
of the hop-harvest. In the morning the Parliamentary
train from London, though larger than usual, did not suffice
for the number of travellers, and a second train had there-
fore to be despatched at Parliamentary fares, and it was
found necessary. to resort to special trains, at 10.50 a.m.
and 1.45 p.m. in order to afford the accommodation re-
quired. The 'total number of hoppers thus conveyed,
prin-
cipally from Gravesend and London, to Maidstone, on
Sunday alone, was upwards of 3,000, to say nothing of the
foot passengers who had previously, on that day and yes-
terday, swarmed the roads.—South-Eastern Gazette.
CHEAP TRIP TO BOULOGNE.—A grand musical
and miscellaneous festival will take place at Boulogne on
Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday next. The South-
Eastern Railway Company have advertised a cheap special
trip in connection with their steamships. This train will
leave London-bridge on Saturday next at 10 a.m. returning
from Boulongne on the following Wednesday. The fares
are extremely moderate, and the festival promises to be of
a very attractive character.
THE LATE CAPTAIN PILRINGTON.—We (Lite-
rary Gazette) see the death of Capt. Pilkington announced
in the Cape journals. •He distinguished himself in the
Royal Engineers, and his name is associated as civil engi-
neer with various works in Europe, at Sierra Leone, Trini-
dad, and the Cape, but he will be best remembered by his
travels in the Brazils on behalf of the slaves. He was their
champion for nearly two years, as a pamphleteer in the
Portuguese language. His principal letters were printed
in one volume, and dedicated to the Emperor. During his
stay in the Brazils, no less than 240 cargoes of slaves were,
in spite of British cruisers, landed in the neighbourhood of
Rio alcr.3: now their importation is prohibited. He may
be in some degree instrumental in founding the present
anti-slavery feeling in that empire. He only escaped
assassination at the time through the interposition of
British merchants and the British ambassador ; upon their
security and assurance, the usual necessity for three weeks'
preyieus
notice in the public papers to his departure was
, NAPA