The Sun.
London, England, 1835-07-17 00:00:00

CHELTENHAM- RACES.-WEDNESDAY.

A Welter Stakes of 10 sovs. each, h. ft., with 10 added. Tw o
miles. (8 subs: )---
Mr. Ongley's Donnington, aged, 19. st. 31b. .
Mr. J. 11ayly na. Cyclops, 6 yrs, 10st. 101 b . ''
Mr. J. Day ne. Rufus, b yrs, 10st. 71b :t
Mr. J. H. Peel's Changeling, cged list_ 131 b
Col.. Gilbert na. The Miser, 5 yrs. 10st. 71b :')
Won by a /engt:,. •
The Sherborne Stakes of :5 sous. each, with 30 added from the

Fund, for all ages. About one mile. (15 subs.)
Mr. E. Peel's Tarick, 4 yrs, Bst. 2lb Spring .1
Lord 11. E. IL Somerset na. Paris, 1 yrs, Bst 9±b.... 2
Mr. Bristow na. Rambler, 4 yes, Bst. 111 b......... ......
The Gold Cup of 100 sews. value, by subscription of 10 sOvS. each,
Three miles. (10 subs.)
Mr.,'Bristow's Languid, 4 yrs, SA. 12Ib S. Mann 1
Mr. J. Day's b. an. Diana, aged, 9st. 21b. ......... . .... 2
5 to -1 on Diana. Languid took tho lead at a very moderate speed,
till within half a mile of home, when an improvement in -the pace
floored Diana. who was beaten easily by half a length.
Handicap Sweepstakes of 5 soya. each, 2 ft., to which was added
the Ladies and Gentlemen's Purse. Heats, about one mile and
three quarters.
Mr. Smith's Ganges, 4 yrs, fist. 41b Wakefield 1 1
Mr. White's Slang, 4 yrs, 7st. 4lb 2
Mr. C. Day's Boletas, 3 yrs, 6st. 81b.
Each heat won by a length. The company was great, and the
races altogether went off with remarkable spirit.
The following were omitted in our list of the first day's races.—
Two-yr-old Stakes of 30 sows. each.
Mr: Phillipson's Count d'Orsay
Mr West's . y av
• _ f b Sher
_ _ . .....

50/.—Mr: Jones's Westbury beat Mr. Williams's The
Cobbler.

LAMARTINE'S PILGRIMAGE TO THE HOLY
LAND.—These are delightful volumes. Lamartine's Syrian
Paradise is peopled with Houris. He describes in the most
glowing language the extraordinary beauty both of the Arab
and Christian races of peasantry, particularly in the neigh-
bourhood of Mount Lebanon. As a book of travels, indeed,
this work is chiefly valuable for its descriptions of Syria, of
Mount Lebanon, and Baalbee, and their different inhabitants.
We have, we presume, afforded our readers sufficient speci-
mens of the style of description which forms the principal
charm and interest of the work. From the pages devoted to
Constantinople, the Bosphorus, the Palace and Villa, Life of
the Turkish Grandees, and the enlightened Frank society of
Pera, we should have quoted largely bad we been dealing
with a book less certain of popularity. Lamartine's European
reputation will be infinitely heightened by this publication.—
Quarterly Review, July 1835.

On Sunday evening; between 7 and 8 o'clock, a wo-
man, decently dressed and apparently about 50:years 'of age,
went into the shop of Mr. Green, chymist and druggist in
Tothill-street, Westminster, and asked for sixpennyworth of
oil of vitriol, alleging she required it to clean some brass-
work. No suspicion being entertained of her purpose, she
was served with the article, and left the shop. It then appears
that she wandered about the streets for some time, and between
9 and 10 o'clock drank off the poison. She was discovered
by a policeman lying on the pavement in an obscure court,
writhing in the most dreadful agony. The stretcher or chair
was directly procured from the station-house, and the wretched
woman was conveyed without delay to tho Westminster Hos-
pital, where
.every possible assistance was promptly afforded
her. Her mouth and throat were in a most dreadful. state of
inflammation. She lingers in the very extreme of human suf-
fering, without the slightest hope of her surviving. She re.-
fuses to tell her name or address, and cannot be prevailed upon
to give any account of herself.

REMARKABLE EFFECT OF FRIGHTENING ANl-
mALs.—About a fortnight ago, eleven fine calves, belonging
to Mr. Milne, Mains of Watertown, having been frightened
by some dogs, rushed into the river Ythan, and swam till op-
posite Bilbo Park, where they took refuge in a barn. Being
taken out, they instantly made their escape from a dozen of
persons, and again took refuge in the Ythan, and swam nearly
a quarter of a mile to a for, where they took footing; end
fled like frightened deer from their pursuers, till they were
lost amidst the darkness of the evening, in the sand-bills of
the desolate parish of Forvie. On the following morning.
they were found near the seaside ; and after again crossing and
recrossing the Ythan, opposite to Newburgh, nine of them
committed themselves to the deep. Six of them rare caught
in the stake nets, and three, after a vain contest with the
fishermen's boats for nearly half a mile, were overtaken and
brought safe to land. The whole hayc since been recovered,
and hitherto appear nothing the worse for their frantic regatta.
—Aberdeen _erald.

CAPITAL SPORTING.—A party of gentlemen
have been enjoying the hospitality of Castle Hyde. They pro-
ceeded on Monday last at half-past one o'clock to the Park,
and in five hours and a half shot one hundred and forty-threo
brace of rabbits.— Cork Herald.

• A decrepit old man, upwards of 90 years of age,
tuuned Robert Jones; stands committed to our gaol for trial,
capitally charged with perpetrating a rape on Harriet Powell.
—Shretesbury. ChrOnicle.
THE EXETEIt:FIALL PESTILENCE.—Again
has
the moral atmosphere peen polluted by the pestilential vapout•-•••
ingi of the law-established evils of this unhappy country. • :Tcti
malign; asperse, donounce,• and lie to the wounding of human
feeling and the injury of human character is bad—but to do all
this in the name of the Author of peace—in the name of the
spirit of charity—manifests the lowest depth of denioniac4l de.
.lesion.—Dublin Register.