The Sun.
London, England, 1859-12-07 00:00:00

MISS AMY SEDGTVICK'S READINGS.

Last evening this accomplished lady, whose fame has
hitherto been confined to her impersonations on the stage,
made her first appearance, at the St. John's-wood Literary
Institution, as a reader, and with such unequivocal success
as to establish her reputation as among the best proficients
in that apparently very easy, but really difficult, art—read-
ing aloud.

She gave specimens of her power both in tragedy and
comedy, selecting her reading chiefly from Shakespere,
Tennyson, and Sheridan Knowles, and elicited such de-
monstrations of applause from the audience, which filled
the large room, that she was called for twice in the course
of the evening, and loudly cheered at the conclusion of her
reading. We are very glad to find that Miss Sedgwiek
vi ill again read at the same institution on Marth the 6th.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE?

BETTING AT MANCHESTER-TUESDAY.

THE DERBY.
Bto 1 agst Umpire (offered)
11 to 1 agst Nutbourne (taken)
12 to 1 agst The Wizard (taken)
12 to 1 agst Mainstono (taken)
12 to 1 agst Thormanby (taken)
12 to 1 agst Buccaneer (taken)
100 to 3 agst Thunderbolt (taken)
• 100 to 3 agst Upperhand (taken)
Offers to give six against the field, or to take seven.

THE SMITHFIELD CLUB CATTLE
SHOW, 1859.

jTho sales throughout the day were exceedingly languid,
so far as the prize animals were concerned, and more espe-
cially in the Devonshire and Hereford classes. In the Ist
class Devons no prize whatever was sold ; and in the 2d
class but two, viz., the 2d prize of £lO to No. 14, his Royal
Highness the Prince Consort, to Mr. Thomas Pawsey, of
Bath ; and the 3d Prize of £5, to No. 16, Mr Wm. Heath,
of Ludham Hall, near Norwich, sold to Mr. T. H. Hatch,
of Croydon. In class 3, No. 26, Mr Edmund Cole's Devon
heifer, 2d prize of £5, sold to Mr. Hooke, Frederick-street,
Hampstead-road. In class 4, No. 31. Mr. S. Turner's
Devon cow, 3d prize of £5, sold to Mr. Fisher, of Ayles-
bury. In class 5, No. 41, Mr. Richard Shirley's .two years
six months and 27 days old Hereford steer, which obtained
the Ist prize of £25, and the gold and silver medals as the
best specimen in any of the classes, and which also carried
off the first prize at the Birmingham show, found a pur-
chaser in Messrs. C. and G. Davis, of the Black Bull, in
the New Cattle-market. In classes 6,7, 8, and 9, there
were no sales of prizes effected. In class 10, Mr. Thomas
Swingler's short-horned Hereford steer, No. 7', 2d prize of
£lO, sold to Mr. Hooke, Frederick-street, Hampstead-road;
and No. 78, 3d prize of £5 in the same class, to Mr. Chas.
Duffield, sold to Mr. Charles Davis, of the London-road.
In classes 11 and 12, no sales. In class 13, No. 97, Ist
prize of £2O and silver medal, to Mr. John Shoesmith, for
his Sussex steer, was sold to Mr. Sharp, of Brighton. In
class 14, No. 105, Ist prize of £lO and silver medal, to Mr.
Thomas Child, of Horsham, sold to Mr. J. Parker, of
Waterloo-street, Brighton ; and the 2d prize of £5, to Lord
Leaconfield, of Petworth, No. 108, sold to Mr. Withers, of
Guildford. In class 15, the Ist prize of £lO and silver
medal to Mr. T. M. Hudson, No. 110, sold to Mr. King, of
Paddington-street ; the 2d prize of £5 to Lord Lowndes,
No. 109, sold to Mr. Petherbridge, of Knightsbridge. In
class 16, No. 112, 2d prize of £5 to Mr. H. Cannon, of Bi-
sham, sold to Mr. F. Copeland, of Windsor. In classes 17 and
18 no sale of prizes. In class 19, No. 123, Viscount Boyne's
Scotch horned steer, Ist prize of £2O and silver medal, sold
to Mr. Collingwood, of Lamb's Conduit-street ; and No.
122, 2d prize of £lO to Mr. Thomas Ball, Troughton, sold
to Mr. H. Fowkes, of Queen-street, Hammersmith. In
class 20 no sale. Class 21, No. 127, Ist prize of £2O and
silver medal to Wm. M'Combe, Tillyfour, near Aberdeen,
sold to Mr. S. Mann, of Croydon. In class 22, No. 137,
the 2d prize of £5 to Mr. John Tawill, sold to Mr. Ackland,
of Basingstoke. In class 23 no entry. In class 24, Irish
heifers or cows, No. 138, prize of £lO to the Bail of Darnley,
sold to Mr. S. West, of Croydon. In classes 25, 26, 27, 28,
and 29 there were no sales effected.

With respect to the sheep classes the long-wools scarcely
found any purchasers, the only sale announced in this por-
tion of the show being that of No. 187, in class 31, the first
prise of £2O and silver medal to the breeder Mr. G. S.
k oljambe, of Osberton Hall, near Worksop, Mitts, sold to
Mr. W. C. Hayhow, St. James's-place, Hoxton. In the
short-wools the sales were more brisk. In class 35, No.
246, the pen of Southdown wethers exhibited by Mr. W.
Rigden, of Hove, near Brighton, which has beaten those of
the Duke of Richmond, and carrying off the gold and silver
models and first prise of £2O, sold to Mr. Stevens, of Oxford.
No. 246, the second prize of £lO in the same class to the
Duke of Richmond, found a purchaser in Mr. King, of
Paddington-street. In class 37, No. 268, first prize of £2O
and silver medal to the Duke of Richmond, was also sold to
Mr. King. In class 38, the first prize of £l5 and silver
medal to Mr. W. B. Canning, of Chiseldon, near Swindon,
No. 280, sold to Mr. 13otrill, of Rochester-row, Westmin-
ster; and No. 276, the third prize of £5 to Mr. Stephen
King, of Hungerford, sold to Mr. Barclay, of Titchfield-
street, Haymarket.
In the pig classes the sales generally were exceedingly
dull, and up to seven o'clock last evening no purchase had
been effected of the Prince Consort's pen of gold medal
porkers. In class 40, No. 322, the first prize of £lO aad
silver medal to Mr. George B. Moreland, was sold to Mr.
Sinkler, of Knightsbridge. In class 41, No. 332, second
prize of £5 to Mr. Henry Wilson, sold to Mr. Bonny, of
Camberwell-gate.

THIS DAYS MARKETS.