The Sun.
London, England, 1850-05-30 00:00:00

SOYER'S MAGIC STOVE.

THE WEATHEIZ.—....4e mean daily reading of the
barometer in the past week was 29.456 in. The mean tem-
perature was 55 deg. 5 min., and was rather higher than the
average of the same week in seven years. Ou Tuesday the
mean temperature was 6 deg. above the average of the same
day ; on Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday, it was more than
1 deg. below it.
SIGNS or THE TlMES.—Yesterday afternoon, at the
city of Bristol, Mr. G. C. Harril, auctioneer, sold the rever-
sion or remainder in fee simple of an estate situate in the
parishes of Marlborough and West Alvington, South Devon,
for the sum of 3,020/., the reserved price upon which, and at
which the biddings commenced, being only 1,5001.

Mr. Oabaldeston's Joe o' Sur, 6 yre, Bst 101b(F.Butler)
[lon. S. Herbert's Radulphus, aged, Bst 121 b ...(Sly) 2
Mr. Gurney's Bullfinch, 3 yrs, 6st 61b ...(E Sharp) 3
Mr. Burgess's Slashing Alice, 4 yrs, Bst (Dockeray) 0
Mr.C.Horneby'sThe Old Fox, 4 yrs,Bst(Horusby, jun.) 0
Mr. H. Wadlow's Stanton, 4 yrs, Bst...(Whitehouse) 0
Mr. Bingley's Christiana, 4 yrs, Bst (Thick) 0
Mr.Dennistoun'4Ferryhill,syrs,7st 101b(R.Sherwood) 0
Mr.R.Cooper'sPassion-fiower,syrs,7st 101b(C:Planner) 0
Mr. J. Day's Mignon, 6 yrs. 7st 71b (Rob. Sherwood) 0
Lord Strathmore's g byEpirns,4 yrs,7st 101b(J.Smith) 0
Duke of Richmond's Ilarum•Sce,rum 3 yrs, Est 710 0
Mr. Osborne's Sobersides, aged, 6st 711) ...(G. Mann) 0
Mr. Dorrien's Chariclea, 3 yrs, 6st 31b (Hiatt) 0
Mr. Marson na Rubina, 3 yrs, sst 91b (T. Smiih) 0
Betting-4 to 1 agat Bullfinch, sto 1 apt Stanton, 5
to 1 agat Joe o' Sot, 6 to 1 agst Slashing Alice.
Radulphus, with Bullfinch in company, made the run-
ning to the road, where they were joined by Joe o' Sut,
who waited with them to the stand, and, obtaining a
slight lead, kept it to the end, and won by a neck, a
length separating the second and third. Run iu 1 min.
47 sec.
The Derby Stakes of 50 sovs. each, h ft, for three yrs
old; coltr, Bst 71b; fillies, Bst 21b; the second to re-
ceive 100 sovs. out of the stakes, and The winner to pay
100 sovs. towards the police, and 50 soya. to the judge.
One mile and a half.
Lord Zetland's Voltigeur, by Voltaire (J. Marson) 1
Mr. B. Hill's Pitsford (A. Day) 2
Lord Airlie's Clincher.
Mr. Gratwicke's The Nigger (Elliman) 4
Hr. Ford's Penang (H. Sly) 0
Mr. W. Edwards ne, Bolingbroke (Rubinson) 0
Captain Bastard's Mildew (Bartholomew) 0
Mr. Hussey's Royal Hart (Simpson) 0
Mr. Gannon's Deicoon (J. Sharp) 0
Mr. Gurney's St. Fabian (1?. Pettit) 0
Mr. Greville's Cariboo (Rogers) 0
Mr Davidson's Charley
Mr. Meiklam's The Italian (Templeman) 0
Lord Exeter's Nutshell (Norman) 0
Mr. Lister's The Knight of Gwynne (Dockeray) 0
Count Batthyany's Valentine (Crouch) 0
Duke of Richmond's Ghillie Callum (S. Mann) 0
Mr. Merry's Brennus (1 Pris.ce) 0
Lord Eglinton's Mayors (Marlow) 0
Major Martyn's The Swede (W. Abdale) 0
Mr. Disney's Captain Grant (D. Wynne) 0
Mr. Moseley's Alonzo (Whitehouse) 0
Sir G. Ileathcote's Dark Susan c01t...(R. Sherwood) 0
M. S. Herbert us Aegean (U. Edwards) 0
BETTING AT STARTING.
7 to 2 agat Clincher
9 to 2 agst Mildew
5 to 1 agst Bolingbroke
6 to 1 agst The Nigger
12 to 1 agst Pitsford
16 to 1 agst Voltigeur
20 to 1 agat Deicoon
33 to 1 agst Nutshell
40 to 1 agst The Italian
40 to 1 agat Ghillie Callum
50 to 1 agst The Swede
1,000 to 15 agst any other.
Penang and Deicoon got away together, and, with The
Nigger, Mildew, The Swede, and Ghillie Callum laid up,
Voltigeur next, in company with Clincher, cut out th e
work to the mile post, where Penang died away. Del-
coon went on with the running at a good pace, followed
in rotation by Mildew, The Swede, and The Nigger,
Ghillie Callum, Clincher, and Voltigeur remaining in
their original positions. They went on thus to the road,_
where Deicoon was beaten, and Mildew took the had,
Clincher and The Nigger waiting on him, Ghillie Callum
and Cariboo next, and Pitsford, who laid off for the first
half mile, well up. Mildew was beaten at the distance,
and Voltigeur and Clincher then singled themselveds out,
the former taking the lead opposite ,thel d
who came opposite
ning home a very
Imoney by half a length, The Nigger fourth, Mil-
mom xth Mayors laid for-
dew fifth, and Ghillie Callum si . •
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turn, and was not persevered with. The race was run in
2 min. 50 see.-
The Carew Stakes of 5 sovs. each, with 30 sovs. aided;
three yrs old, 7st 10lb; four, Bst 111 h; five, 9st 21b;
six and aged, 9st 61b; mares and geldings allowed
31b; the winner to be sold for 150 sovs. if demanded,
fee. 'Three-quarters of a mile.
Mr. Hornsby's Old Fox, 4 yrs, BstBlb...(Hornhy, jnn.) 1
Mr. 11. Hill's Equiria, 3 yrs, 7st 101 b (Raton) 2
Mr. Ilebson's Lanudrymaid, aged, 9st 31b ...(11. Bell) 3
Lord Strathmore' s Hood, 3 yrs, ist 71b... ..... (Pettit) 4
Mr. Drewitt's Mr. Milner, 4 yrs, Bst I Ilb (Abrnhams) 5
Betting-5 to 4 eget Equiria, sto 2 agst Laundry-
maid, and 4to 1 agst The Old Fox. Equiria made the
running until half way up the distance, when he gave
way, and The Old Fox, taking the lead, won easily by a
length. Run in 1 min. 16 sec.
The Burgh Stakes of 5 sovs. each, with 30 added. The
winner to be sold fur 100 sovs., if demanded, &e., and
allowances if to be sold for less. The winner to be
sold by auction immediately alter tie race, and any
surplus over the selling price to go to the Fund.
Half a mile.
Mr. Hobson's Laundrymaid, aged, Bst 61b (Hornsby) 1
Mr. Ha) ter's The Handsome Doe, 6st 71b (Gower) 2
Mr. Lister's Hind of the Forest, 7st lllb (Abdale) 0
Mr. Cooper's Dorset, 4 yrs, Bst 31b (C. Planner) 0
Duke of 'Richmond's Claymore, 3 yrs, 6st 71b(Collins) 0
Mr. Ramsbottom's Tole, 3 yrs, 63t, 71b (E Sharp) 0

" The sky is overcast, the morning lowers,
And heavily with clouds comes on the day."
But shortly after eleven o'clock the sun attained full
power, and by the time we reached the Downs, every
line in the well-defined horizon was brought out in as
clear and bright a sunshire as we ever saw. The very vul-
garities of fair and booth, aggregated in gigantic fashion
along the course, took something of poetry from the
sunlight, while the natural beauties of the locality,
which no corruption of Cockneydom can spoil, were de-
liciously developed in the brightness of the day.
The second—and more " sporting " peculiarity of the
day, was the utter overthrow of the whole race of im-
postors called " Derby Prophets." The entire lot, upon
whose absurd audacity, or circumambient mystification,
whole droves of yokels and cockneys are not ashamed to
risk their savings, were held up as laughing-stocks in the
eyes of thousands upon thousands assembled. Not a
shuffle nor a wriggle remained to these unlucky hum-
bugs. But what of that? Every horse upon which a
" Prophet " had staked (natant quantum) his character
and his judgment, was defeated. But the race of fools
is as enduring as that of knaves, and next Derby we
shall hare the whole squad in full prophecy again, each
certainly contradicting all the rest, but each boldly ap-
prising his gang of dupes that " there is bat One Horse,
and * * * is his Prophet."
Setting aside all the cant and twaddle, the "Derby"
is a flue sight. As to calling it a development of " na-
tional" taste, that is all trash. You collect an immense
mass of people upon Epsom Downs, no doubt; but where
is the common object which is necessary to make the
assemblage a " national " one? Every class sends its
representative, but no two classes send representatives
with similar views. Nearly the only attendants who at-
tend because there is a " race," are composed of that
oddly constituted body called the " ring. ' It is their
business, just as it is the stock-jobber's business to be
near the Stock Exchange, the political jobber's to be in
the House, and the music jobber's to be at the Opera on
the first night of a bought composition. But out of the
myriads who line the course, how many care about the
three minutes' work called the race? Not the " car-
riage aristocracy," who naturally enough like a
charming scene, and the rare novelty of being sur-
rounded, in perfect safety, by every variety of amusing
rascaldom. Not the professional man, who treats his
wife and daughters to a day's fresh air, in anticipation
of the long vacation and the Ramsgate first floor. Not
the gool-natutei, lihtleas guardsman, who comes down
in dog-cart or drag, and is very likely shying at little
Napoleans on a stick while the Derby is being run.
Not the attractive occupants of those vehicles profanely
called " loose boxes," whose inmates are sometimes in-
troduced as wives, but never to wives. Not the smart
articled clerks, or seedy copying clerks, who go down in
a state of hilarity and come up in a state of beer. Not
the small tracksman, who drives down his taxed-cart,
with a full-faced spouse in front, and a thin daughter
crouched in the rear. Not the sturdy mechanic, who
arrives from the railway footsore and weary, and un-
dergoes the rating of his termagant consort all the way
there because the road is dusty—all the time ho is
there because he has not provided her a better place,
and all the way home, because he is drunk. Not the
hundreds upon hundreds of vagabonds of every kind,
from the " ring the bull" men down to the " balls
and rolling" gentry, of whom the police, in any more
rational and less constitutional country, would make a
splendid battue on the Derby day. What do all these
people care about " Mr. Gratwicke's b c," or " Mr.
Has ch c," or " Sir G. Heathcote's br f?" Fireworks,
fountains, or fiddlesticks would, if similarly favoured by
prestige, and the puffs of public house-keepers, draw as '
large an assembly.
But, take it for what it was, yesterday's Derby was a
scene worth seeing. The superb amphitheatre was
densely crowded; the carriages displayed even more
than their usual attractions, in the form of pretty faces
and pretty dresses; the weather was brilliant, the mob
was orderly, and the horses ran—very fast. Whether,
as the winners affirmed, the great race was a beautiful
display of animal power, or whether, as the long-faced
losers averred, the affair was obviously a " sell," was,
upon the grounds we have stated, of not the slightest
consequence. The day was a perfect success, and there
seemed to be an unanimous feeling that " Oak-apple-
day" was more brilliant in gold-leaf than usual.
(From the Advertiser.)
EPSOM, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON.—How to narrate
anything "new, novel, or ,entertaining" anent a Derby
day, is beyond my range of diversity. Never was there
a more exquisite one in point of weather, and never
were the Downs more enormously attended.
The road reminded one of ancient times, when there
was no other mode of transit, and yet the rail conveyed
its thousands, with a celerity . and precision upon the
direct route from London-bridge which admitted of no
complaint, and extorted eulogies from the veriest of
" Young Rapids," as it did from the surliest of the old
safety-coach school.
The A division of police clearing the course, the su-
perb stand, the commanding enclosure, the inspection of
the saddling after the lounge in the paddock, rendered
that which was in former times a scene, or continuous
scenes of turmoil and inconvenience, one unbroken chain
of comfort.
If we admit that in the good old times, or bad old times,
we could get a tolerably fair peep at the tits in the
Warren, there we must stop, as upon the old course, un-
cleared into the bargain, no man ever saw the race run
for the Derby.
Then, again, the luxurious caterings of Mr. Lumley
and the solidittes of Mr. Careless at his monster booth,
with no end of liquids, at a moderato cost for indu-
bitable quality, made things pleasant for those who did
not choose to traverse the hollow or scale the bill, where
pic-nits were progressing in profusion.
After all, John Bull is not so unsociable, an animal as
he has been traditionally accounted.
Most extraordinary interest attached to the great
event, as I have over and over again adverted to, and its
openness has been evinced by the wiuuers being from 20
to 1, layers, to 25 to 1, takers, at starting.
But trivial attention was paid to the Epsom Town
Plate, a mile, which Joc-o'-Sot won from Radulphus,
mainly owing to the fine riding of I3utlor, Bullfinch run-
ning up a fair third.
Some proceeded now, instanter, to the paddock, where
Bolingbroke, Clincher, Mildew,The Nigger, with Ghillie
Callum well fortified with flesh, Deicoon, and Voltigeur
challenged attention, and all the usual variety of opinion
was Offered.
A friend of mine, who bad stood hard as a bran against
the son of John o'Gaunt, who was walking in the shade,
as typical of his running there, said " What a superb
horse he is; I shall be ganimoned no longer; I'm off,
and will get out at any price; and so he did; and with
strong subsequent play in the Champagne Sakes to
drown the recollection of his fatuity.
Lord Zetland was so nervous, teat he abandoned his
intention of coming down to see the race, and trusted
to the telegraph to put him out of his agony.
Butler rode Clincher, in spite of all the rumours. to
the contrary, and had he not made the struggle which
he did with the winner, between the road and the dis-
tance, he might have got second.
At length all was settled, the canters taken, and they
went to the paddock to commit themselves to the cus-
tody of Mr. Ilibburd.
Mildew, in the saddling, showed some temper, and
d little, but be was so blooming, and went so
"clique "were fond to madness.
wsweellate that his
It was a game of up and down with the three fa-
vourites, but their closing prices stood thus:-4 to 1
agst Clincher, 9 to 2 agst Mildew, and 5 to 1 agst
Bolingbroke. The Nigger's mark was 7to 1, and Pits-
ford receded to 10 to 1, whilst Deicoon was offered agst
at 30 to 1, and a Noble Lord, and one or two others,
came to the Leviathan, and " tumbled to Voltigeur " at
20 to 1.
Mr. Davis stated after the race, that Voltigeur was
the worst horse in his book ; but I may observe, that he
will be about the best nag in the settling, as the public
have stuck to him, and there is a coterie of coachmen
and flunkies at the west-end, who, officed by the big wig
of the Earl of Zetland, have won their moneys to a eurte
which will probably induce many of them to leave ser-
vice, and set up establishments of their own !
Deicoon, with Penang, cut out the work at a jolly
pace up the hill, the immortable Bolingbroke being
nearly the last off, and about the very first to cry," hold,
enough !" His work for the Derby was most mysterious,
as I ventured some time since to observe, and I imagine
that no one will be particularly anxious henceforth for
the pass-word to the stable, or to purchase him out of
chancery as the winner of the Emperor's Plate at Ascot.
~u
A more thundering impostor never presented himself
..,ed
th hills of Surre, and he i in every respect nu "
toe
lay the foundaytion-stones for a horse hospital for
lunatics.
But to return, Mildew went up at Tattenhaidme
led over the ma, and looked well to Cthoerndcisr. ,
tance, from whence, that is, from the Lhotndeoufntiltrowaidthtoviehla.
distance, Clincher tried to make a fig
tigeur. there was no
red
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'As they drew towards the S
tandjecke
t withthe
shadow of a doubt as to the white
spots,.. Voltigeur eventually earlwhite
dth,e, cahlength
aincoaud--
Pl° (41°4;1" with " prettyfollowed by The Nigger and
vance of Clincher, Who was o
Mildew.
Now, a braggard is a. humbug. and a cur; a Falstaff
without his wit, and a Pistol without a tithe of his voca-
bwullary of euphuism-, but it is an act of justice to the
Advertiser Sir Oracle to remark, that I landed two cut
of Loy three in Voltigeur and Clincher, Mr. Clark put-
ting my No. 1 No. 3, and my No. 3 No. 1.
It may also .be recollected, and I know that it has
been, though the multitude who flocked to " The Pro-
Oct" after the " funking" encounter, that Mounseer, my
third on the Roodee, vas the first for the Chester Cup!

After various experiments, which have extended
over a period of nearly twelve months, M. Soyer has
succeeded in bringing to perfection his magic stove,
the first idea of which was broached in his admirable
manual of gastronomical science, " The Modern
Housewife," published last summer, and the first
edition of which was exhausted in less than a week.
The magic stove was exhibited to the public at No.
5, Charing-cross, on Saturday and on Monday last,
and a more efficient, portable, clean, and ornamental
cooking apparatus it is impossible to imagine. The
whole apparatus can be placed in a bat, and the cook-
ing is conducted on the dinner table, without smell,
without smoke, and without even soiling the cloth.
The apparatus itself is rather ornamental than other-
wise. It consists of a round copper, in shape and
size somewhat resembling a counting-house inkstand,
with a furnace opening, and a flue passing from this
opening near the bottom of one of its sides, through
the middle, and up the centre to the top ; on this top
is placed a frying-pan, stew-pan, saucepan, kettle, or
coffee-pot. Adjoining the stove or copper is a vessel
with two reservoirs for spirits of wine, or any other
kind of spirit, one at the bottom the other at the top.
To the bottom reservoir are affixed two burners
with their wicks; one of the burners is placed oppo-
site the opening of the flue in the stove, the other
burner is under the other reservoir. In connexion
with the upper reservoir is a tube, or blow-pipe, pas-
sing from the centre of its apex, down by its side,
under it, and opening in the wick that burns at the
mouth of the flue. The spirit in the upper reservoir
being heated by the burner beneath it, a gaseous va-
pour is generated, which, rushing out of the blow-
pipe, and coming in contact with the burner at the
mouth of the flue, is ignited and passes in a volume of
flame through the flue, and fries, stews, or boils
whatsoever is placed over it. It will cook l lb. of
rump steak in five minutes. It is the cheapest and
most commodious cuisine portative ever constructed.
A little explanatory book is sold or given with it.
And, to make everything complete, M. Soyer gives
receipts and instructions for the cooking of about a
dozen-and-a-half dishes, by means of this pocket-
kitchen of his. He has, moreover, fitted up
a small box, in size and shape like a lawyer's
deed-box, with a complete apparatus for cooking
and sending up a dinner for twelve persons.
The magic stove will go on cooking for about 48
minutes with one charge of spirits of wine, the cost
of which is just fourpence-halfpenny. We have par-
taken of chops and steaks cooked by the magic stove,
and they are certainly far superior to those cooked by
any of the ordinary methods. The heat is so intense
that the exterior of the chop or steak is at once car-
bonised, and thus the juices are retained without the
chop being burned, so that it is at the same time
crisp and succulent. To the sportsman, to the sailor,
to the soldier in camp or in bivouac, the magic stove
must be invaluable. It will enable pie-me parties to
vary the eternal pigeon pie and cold roast fowl with
chop or steak or some warm viand, and will
emancipate the bachelor living in chambers from the
thraldom of his laundress ; while to families, as a sum-
mer cooking-apparatus, it will save more than its
cost in coal, and enable them to keep their domiciles
cool by doing away with the necessity for a kitchen-
fire, as it will boil water or coffee as efficiently as it
will cook chops or steaks. On the occasion of persons
wishing to use it in the open air there is a cover
which prevents the lamp from being blown out even in
the most tempestuous weather. This will render it in-
valuable at sea. We understand that Captain Austin
Las directed that all the ships engaged in the northern
expedition shall be supplied with magic stoves.
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MR. ALBERT SMITH'S ENTER-