The Sun.
London, England, 1850-10-21 00:00:00

MONDAY EVENING, OCTOI3ER 21, 1850.

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
GRAND NATIONAL CONCERTS.

The fifth concert of the series to place on Satur-
day night, and, as compared with the first, it is impos-
sible not to perceive the vast progress which has been
made during the course of five nights. 'The production
of classical music before a mixed audience was
an experiment of a perfectly novel charac-
ter, and the directors were, therefore, per-
fectly justified in interspersing largely their
classical pieces with quadrilles and other " pretty
music," as they did on the opening night; but finding
that the mixed audience were attentive to, and appre-
ciated the master-pieces of Beethoven, of Mendels-
shun, and of Sphor, they have on each successive night
given their programme more and more of a "Phil-
harmonic" character, and on Saturday we had,
what may certainly be styled, a classical concert.
Beethoven's sinfonia Eroica was given as a
whole, and not as on the second night divided
into two parts. It was admirably conducted by Balfe,
and magnificently played by the orchestra. Balfe's
overture was repeated, and it is a composition that
will bear repetition. It was admirably performed,
and it grows on the liking by repetitions.
It is, we are inclined to think, the most
perfectly classical musical composition that Balfe
has yet produced. M. Charles Halle performed
%Veber's Concert Stuck for pianoforte and
orchestra in admirable style, and M. Sainton
gave us some magnificent violin playing
in the course of the performance of his new fantasia.
The overture to Guillaume Tell completed the
list of classical orchestral compositions, but not
of classical performances, for we had in
addition a duet for piano-forte and violin
magnificently performed by MM. Charles
Halle and Sainton. In the vocal' department we
had the "Una voce and the "Brindisi" both mag-
nificently sung by Madlle. Angri. A cavitina from
the Sonnambula, and another from Beatrice di Tenda,
most effectively rendered by Madame Biscaccianti,
besides airs by M. Jules Lefort, Mr. Gustavus
Geary, and Mrs. Alexander Newton, who seems to
have become, and most deservedly, as great a favou-
rite at these concerts as she is at Exeter Ilall. The
theatre was crowded.

DR. SCOFFERN'S PATENT. -
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Stn,—The question of manufacturing and refining
sugar by the process discovered and patented by Dr.
Scoffern is one of so momentous a character to the
sugar-producing and sugar-consuming public, and to
the .great interests of humanity, that I offer no
apology for troubling you with a few remarks re-
specting it.
The ordinary process of manufacture is so destruc-
tive to the material in its crude form, that not less
than 66 per cent. are lost in the effort to secure the
remaining 34, in which, moreover, there are so many
impurities, that a further reduction to a very great
extent must take place before the sugar is fit for
the market. Now it was thought with regard to
the extract of 34 per cent. that it needed nothing
more than an ingenious mechanical contri-
vance to separate the impurities ; but long
experience has demonstrated that any ma-
chine for this purpose, however beautiful, and,
under some circumstances, valuable, could only modify
the evil to an almost inappreciable extent. The truth
is the difficulty was of a chemical and not of a me-
chanical kind—chemists, therefore, have devoted their
energies to overcome it. They saw clearly that the
quantity of sugar lost by the processes of drainage
and filtration arose from the imperfect crystallization
which the agency of lime,
,the common defecator in
the colonies, secured.
The result to be aimed at, therefore, was the dis-
covery of an agent competent to effect a complete
crystallization. Such an agent was discovered in the
acetates and sub-acetates of lead, but the great, and up
to Dr. Scoffern's discovery, the unsolved problem, con-
sisted in the want of a chemical ingredient capable of
precipitating and converting the lead into an insoluble
substance, in which shape it could be removed by fil-
tration. This problem,Dr. Scoffern, in 1847, satisfac-
torily solved. He discovered that the application of
sulphurous acid gas to the liquor converted the acetic
acid into an insoluble sulphite of lead, since demon-
strated to be perfectly innocuous. This discovery he
made known to several refiners, through whom it
was tried on a large scale, and found to answer most
satisfactorily. It was subsequently patented, and the
patent secured to the inventor in every country in
which one could be obtained. The most important
feature of the discovery, however, remains to be told.
By the old system the amount of sugar extracted
from the juice is about six or seven per cent., by this
process the manufacturer is able to obtain from
eighteen to twenty per cent., in other words three
cwts., or thereabouts, may now be obtained in place
of one, by the time-honoured but destructive agency
of lime.
For this important invention, however, in place of
assistance from the British Government to determine
its safety and value, the inventor has had to encounter
a degree of opposition which is almost unprecedented.
Without intimation, without examination, the Colo-
nial Government issued a warning to the planters in
the colonies against the use of the process as highly
dangerous. The consequence was that the agents of
the patent, wherever they went, were met with the
caveat of Earl Grey, and found it difficult to obtain
a hearing, much less an opportunity of experimentiz-
ing. Where they did, however, they succeeded in
establishing the double proposition that the sugar was
not only perfectly free from noxious ingredients, but
the extract threefold in quantity. Complaints were
laid before the Government of the injustice of their
proceeding, and at length, ten months after the issu-
ing of their protest, a chemical inquiry was set on
foot. The result of this was that no more lead was
found in the samples by the new process than in
those of the old—the experimentisers add, more-
over, that, in no case, in any quantity that they could
pronounce dangerous. But another body of medical
men, adjudicating on this very report, considered that
the consumption of sugar with lead in it was dan-
gerous. This applies, however, with equal force
to both processes, since both, according to
the chemical investigators, contain lead. Dr. Scoffern
replies, and subsequent investigations by chemists of
great eminence go to establish his statement, that as-
suming the existence of lead in the produce of both
processes, that his is the safer; since the lead therein
is in an insoluble and innocuous form, whilst that in
the sugar by the old process is and must be poison-
ous. But he maintains, and a number of chemical
certificates substantiate the position, that in the sugar
manufactured and refined by perfect machinery
under his process, and sold in large quantities, is
destitute of any, even the slightest trace of lead,:so
that the most delicate tests of the laboratory have
failed to discover it. It is a fact that the sugar has
been used to the exclusion of all other at the tables of
many families for two years past without any evil re-
sult. If it is added to this also that the Doctor has
offered to ingest a quantity of the sulphite of lead as
long as any one will eat the same quantity of chalk it
surely requires an immense amount of incredulity to
deny its perfect harmlessness.
Now, what I wish to call your attention to, Sir, is
the bearing of this important discovery on two of the
great questions of the day—the revival of the West
Indies and the overthrow of slavery. Never, if the
above facts are true, was there a finer opportunity of
retrieving the condition of the estates in those islands
than by the use, especially if the process could be
made exclusive, of the patent for the manufacture of
sugar there. And were the planters free to act, can
any one imagine that capital would be wanted where
the returns are as enormous as are offered to the ca-
pitalist in such an investment. No doubt an abund-
ance of capital would flow into so profitable a channel.
The present appeal of the planters is for Government
aid, but where would the supplies go if any were
granted? Undoubtedly where the larger portion of
the twenty millions voted for slave compensation
went, into the pockets of the merchant princes of this
country. If, however, the same remedy were applied
to West Indian estates which has, with so much be-
nefit, been applied to Irish encumbered property, the
proprietors would speedily see the propriety of adopt-
ing a process so fraught with benefit to their future
interests.
With respect to the question of slavery in the sugar
growing countries of the United States, Spain, and
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tionln Cuba, in the height of the season, the slave is
taken from the field to the boiling-house and worked
twenty out of the twenty-four hours. Facts equally
paralysing may be gleaned from the history of slavery
in Brazil. But is there no remedy for this great evil ?
Surely the multiplication threefold by free labour of
an article of universal consumption, in the production
of which such enormous sacrifices of human life take
place, is the remedy. If the anti-slavery public re-
fuse to take it up, the self interest of men will do it,
and if so greitt a consummation as the overthrow of
slavery to a large extent is attained, it will be said
that great and effective as the efforts of philanthropists
have been, the selfishness of man has achieved what
they were unable to accomplish.—l am, Sir, &c.,
Oct. 18, 1850. HUMANITAS.

ANOTHER FACT FOR THE PROTECTIONISTS.—
WINCANTON.—RELIFF OFTHE Poon—From the financial and
statistical statement issued by the guardians of the Wincan-
ton union, for the six months ended Michaelmas last, it ap •
pears that the union comprises 39 parishes with a population
of 21,256, occupying an area of 65,019 acres, the rateable
value of which is 118,2861.; that at the formation of the
union the relief, maintenance, and management of the poor
was 14s. Oid. per head on the entire population, and that it
is now reduced to 103. Bid. per head. The total amount of
money expended by the guardians during the six months
now ended is 5,9951., being 8791. less than was expended in
the corresponding period of 1849, 4541. less than in the cor-
responding period of 1848, and 1,686/. less than in the cor-
responding period of 1847, and the decrease in the number of
paupers is 48. From the statement to which we have re-
ferred, the affairs of this union appear to be in a most satis-
factory state.—Sornerset County Gazette. [Wincanton is
situated in an exclusively agricultural district, consisting
principally of arable land.—En. Sun.]
FIRE NEAR OXFORD-STREET.—Last evening (Sun-
day), at a few minutes before eight o'clock, the neighbour
hood of Dean-street, Oxford-street, was thrown into a state
of great conftision, owing to a fire of a very serious character
breaking out in the premises occupied by Mr. Sapwell, a
grocer, &c., carrying on business at N 0.86, in the above-
mentioned thoroughfare. The parochial engine of St. Ann's
was the first to arrive, and was closely followed by several
Company.
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mains, the engines'
belonging to the London establishment and that of the
obtainedlV es oft E
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New Comp
were called into reti.iisition, but the flames were not extin-
guished until a serious destruction of property had taken
place. The houses adjoining fortunately received but trifling
damage. Mr. Sapwell and his family not being at home
when the fire occurred, it was impossible to learn whether the
sufferer was insured or not.
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OXFORD, OCT. W.—lntelligence reached this city
to-day of an alarming and most destructive fire, which broke
out yesterday, about mid-day, at Bloxham, a village near
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homestead of Mr. Potter, a large farmer, and ten cottages,
which were totally destroyed. The origin of the fire is un-
known, but is supposed to be the vile act of an incendiary.
Many of the labourers refused to render assistance, and stood
looking on with apparent apathy, with their hands in their
pockets, and when the fire was at the highest on Mr. Gul-
liver's premises, one of them remarked, " It is of no conse-
quence—he can well afford to lose it!" The timely arrival
of the fire-engines from Banbury, and agood supply of hands
to work them, prevented the devouring element from de-
stroying half the village, which, until their arrival, was in
great jeopardy.
DISPATCH FROM LONDON TO CHINA.—The Penin-
sular and Oriental steamer Pekin landed the overland mails
i at Hong-Kong within 45 days after their dispatch from
London.

LITERATURE.

HARRISON AINSWORTH'S ROMANCES.
Vol. X.—Guy Fawkes.

Several weeks having elapsed since the appearance
of the preceding volume of this re-issue, we accord a
yet snore lively welcome to its successor. In the histori-
cal romance of '• Guy Fawkes" the novelist has aimed
at a loftier object than that of penning an enthralling
narrative—although in the latter respect his success
has been here very:distinguished. Besides the interest
with which he has surrounded the incidents of the
fiction, our author has diffused over the whole work
an earnestness such as of itself sufficiently indicates
the existence of that more elevated intention to which
we have referred—the intention of advancing, under
the fascinating garb of a romance, the beautiful and
ennobling principles of religious toleration. A more
brilliant or more beneficent purpose has certainly
never actuated any, writer in the process of bringing
to maturity any similar composition. To it Mr.
Ainsworth refers in his recent " Preface" with a very
reasonable and even enviable complacency. One
portion of these remarks we cannot refrain
from especially particularizing. " From those,"
be observes, " who have wilfully misinter-
preted one of my former productions, and have attri-
buted to it a purpose and an aim utterly foreign to
my own intentions, I can scarcely expect fairer treat-
ment for the present work. But to that wider and
more discriminating class of readers from whom I
have experienced so much favour and support, I con-
fidently commit the book, certain of meeting with
leniency. and impartiality." By very gracefully and
significantly selecting Doctor Lingard as his au-
thority, Mr. Ainsworth has added new weight to the
arguments of this powerfully conceived story of the
gunpowder treason, more particularly where they
bear reference to the restiveness engendered among
the Roman Catholics throughout England by the re-
vival, during the reign of King James 1., of the penal
laws, those cruel and grinding enactments firstframed
at the instigation of Queen Elizabeth. In the " loyal
and devout" character of Viviana Radcliffe, in the "un-
scrupulous and ambitious" Catesby, in " the subtle and
yet sincere" Jesuit Garnet, but more especially in the
person of Gay Fawkes himself, " the gloomy and
superstitious enthusiast," the historical romancist has
pourtrayed most vividly the passions excited by the
ferocity of the legislators, the bigotry of the monarch,
and the cupidity of his Scottish courtiers. After
reading the tale as it is told by William Harrison
Ainsworth, we cannot for the life of us help appre-
ciating the fantastic extravagance of that joke of poor
Charles Lamb, where he regretted the failure of the
gunpowder conspiracy on the ground that its suc-
cess would have been such a magnificent thunderclap
in history Two more volumes, we presume, will
complete the present republication of the collected
writings of Mr. Ainsworth. When concluded the
series will take its place in the libraries of the
people with the cheap re.-issnes of the works of other
distinguished novelists, his contemporaries. Our
author has acted judiciously in reproducing his fic..
tions in a form so accessible to the community, as is
being simultaneously done by Mr. Charles Dickens, by
Sir Bulwer Lytton, and even by Mr. G. P.R. James, in
spite of his effusions being so voluminous. One additional
re-issue would perfect the present re-publication of
Harrison Ainsworth's romances, and, we are con-
vinced, would be peculiarly acceptable to its sub-
scribers—we mean the publication of a supplementary
volume (of a larger size, of course), containing a re-
print of the numerous and brilliant illustrations from
the pencils of Tony Johannot, and of the inimitable
George Cruikshank, not forgetting the admirable
wood engravings from the drawings of Delamotte.

THE QUARTERLIES.

THE EDINBURGH REVIEW.
No. CLXXXVIIL

A more brilliant or more diversified number of the
great Whig quarterly has not appeared for a very long
time than the current one for this present October.
As the leading contribution, we have a critical and
etymological essay on the "History of the English
Language," in the course of which the reviewer does
full justice to the laborious researches of Dr. Latham.
Among the many epigrammatic sentences scattered
through the article, the reader cannot fail to be struck
with one in which it is observed that " five-eighths at
least of the language spoken by Alfred still circulates
in the veins of modern English." The writer
comments at some length on the non-retention of
Celtic names, and dates the greatest purity
of the Anglo-Saxon tongue at the time
immediately preceding the arrival of the Con-
queror. It is remarked that chief among the
changes consequent on the Norman invasion were the
difficulties of orthography, where the peculiarities of
spelling almost equalled the
"Ingenuity of the man who managed to spell his name
(Jacob) without a single letter which there ought to have
been in it, namely, Gikup;' and accounts sent in similar
to that which bail for its inexplicable items osafada,'
agetinonimemer—which, however suspiciously they
may look like some South Sea or Malay combination of
rocables, were really meant to signify no more than
horse half a day,' and ' a getting on him home.' ".

Having proceeded a little further in his disquisition,
the reviewer refers successively to the influences, good
and bad, exercised upon the development of the lan.
guage by Sir John Mandeville, by Chaucer, by
Caxton, by Sir Thomas More, by Wilson, the first
English rhetorician, by Jeremy Taylor, and by
Samuel Johnson. From the reference to old Jeremy
Taylor, the good, the wise, and the eloquent, we
must make one quotation, being a specimen of his
lovely and sonorous style, thus introduced by the
reviewer

" How exquisite is the harmony, as well as the con-
ception, of the following sentence! The close is music
itself:—' So much as moments are exceeded by eternity,
and the sighing of a man by the joys of an angel, and a
salutary frown by the light of God's countenance, a few
frowns by the infinite and eternal hallelujahs, so much
are the sorrows of the godly to be undervalued in respect
of what is deposited for them in the treasures of eternity.
Their sorrows can die, but so cannot their joys. And if
the blessed martyrs and confessors were asked concern
ing their past sufferings and their present rest, and the
joys of their certain expectation, you should hear them
glory in nothing but in the mercies of God, and in the
cross of the Lord Jesus. Every chain is a ray of light,
and every prison is a palace, and every loss is the pur-
chase of a kingdom, arid every affront in the cause of
God is an eternal honour, and every day of sorrow is a
thousand years of comfort, multiplied with a never
ceasing numeration,—days without night, joys without
sorrow, sanctity without sin, charity without stain, pos-
session without fear, society without envying, communi-
cation of joys without lessening; and they shall dwell in
a blessed country, where an enemy never entered, and
from whence a friend never went away."'
One other paragraph we must transcribe from this
learned and intelligent contribution; and then briefly
refer to the remaining articles in the Edinburgh :
" The Anglo-Saxons invaded Britain in 449, and in
something less than a century had conquered nearly as
muck of the island as they ever conquered at all. They
retained their language uncorrupted—by no means
always the,case with conquerors. As Gibbon expresses
it, ' a large army is but a small nation;' the progress of
conquest is slow; and the victors, in time, are apt to
adopt, with some modifications, the language of the van-
quished. The Anglo-Saxons, however, partly extirpated
and partly expelled the ancient inhabitants, to such an
extent, that with comparatively few exceptions (as in the
ease of great natural landmarks), even the names of
places were changer), and received Saxon appellations.
The word Kent (Cuntiu:n)
is anhexception; nor is it
difficult to see why. The Anglo-Saxons did not mike
their first appearance as invaders, but ostensibly to assist
the British against the Northern marauders, the Picts
and Scots. It was same time before they assumed a
hostile posture. While yet allies they were entertained
in Kent, and they became accustomed themselves to call
that province by its name, before they proceeded to eject
the rightful owners. Not so with other portions of the
island, where they had never planted foot except as con-
querors, end to which, therefore, they naturally gave
new names.
A comprehensive chapter on the " United States,"
has been suggested by the recent volumes of Mr.
Alexander Mackay and Sir Charles Lyell, the re-
nowned geologist. In this paper will be found some
very curious information in reference to the fanati-
cism of New England, referring especially to the
Mormons and the Millerites. The wonderful spread
of Roman Catholicism in the valley of the Mississippi
is noticed, and the writer (disclaiming, while so do-
ing, " any shade of Protestant jealousy") speaks in
terms of admiration of the goodness and beneficence
of the Catholic missionaries. After sneering rather
sardonically at the faults and blemishes of the Yan-
kees, the reviewer exclaims with enthusiasm—

" But all Englishmen should remember this, that these
their brethren of the New World have sown the insti-
tutions of Alfred, and the language of Shakepere, broad
cast, from the Atlantic to the Pacific! that in the north-
eastern states at least, they have cherished and im-
proved upon the virtues of their fathers, and outgrown
many of their vices; that the slavery f the southern
states is a legacy from the parent land, and that all the
ignorance and pauperism of New England is an overflow
,from Europe!"
A rather gossipping paper follows on the " British
Museum Commission," in which tha difficulties of
compiling a catalogue are thus ingeniously illustrated:
" One man might enter the ' Rejected Addresses' un-
der Satire, another under Drury-lane Theatre, a third
under Parodies, a fourth under Imitations, a fifth under
Horace,Smith, a sixth under James Smith, a seventh pos-
sibly under Courtship: if seven cataloguers were em-
ployed, it might depend upon which of the seven got this
book to do; and if four different editions happened to fall
to four different men, they might be distributed under
four different heads."
As a sample of the absurdities committed occasionally
by the best cataloguers, we are told the subjoined
ludicrous anecdote of a literary blunder :
" In the sixteenth century lived G. J. Rheticus, well
known as the most laborious calculator of tables that
ever lived,And the friend and follower of Copernicus, a
worthysman,'who had nothing to do with beer or ale ex-
cept to drink that modicum which would strengthen him
without unfitting him for going from his dintwr to his
slow and laborious calculations of sines. The Bodleian
catalogue has him down for a treatise on beer, Rheticus

(G. J.) Cerviia,' said to be contained in the Amphi
theatrum sapientice Socraticce juco scrim of Dornavius, a
kind of toll() light reading of the year 1619. Now the
fact is that Rheticus, honest man, made a joke—or what
was called a joke in his day—upon the signs of the zodiac
and Breslau beer, on which joke one Brusch wrote verses
which Dornavius inserted in his miscellany: and hence
the asserted work of Rheticus on beer, to the exclusion
even of the zodiac, though he was an astronomer."
The scholastic labours of Colonel Mure are eulo-
gistically celebrated in a charming criticism on the
"Ancient Greek Language and Literature ;" and the
fifth article compacts within a very readable compass
a narrative of the " Euphrates Expedition." A delight-
ful paper on " Recent Classical Romances" awards
the highest commendation to Mr. Robert Eyres
Landor for his " Fawn of Sertorius " and his
" Fountain of Arethusa." The eloquence and ear-
nestness of Miss Lynn as displayed in her beau-
tiful tale of " Arnymone," are also commended by
the reviewer, although her classical correctness is
declared inferior to that of the author of " Pericles."
Wilkie Collins' " Antonina " comes in for a word of
panegyric, being termed by the Edinburgh a splendid
though rather over elaborated production. In refer-
ring to the various works of this kind which
have been producedat various times we are surprised to
find no mention whatever of that most exquisite of
all classical romances, the " Teletnaque" of Fenelon.
The article on " Emigration and Industrial Train-
ing" grapples boldly with one of the most embar-
rassing and problematic questions of the age; and the
next one, scarcely less puzzling in character, exa-
mines into the various "Difficulties of Republican
France." The peroration of the latter contribution
is expressed thus emphatically;—
_ _

" If the President will make secret war on the Assem-
bly, and intrigue for an illegal augmentation or con-
tinuance of power—if the Assembly will thwart the
President and encroach upon his functions—if the con-
servative majority will fatter the press, and disfranchise
half France, because it fears the Socialist minority—
while the Socialist minority lives, moves, and breathes in
a perpetual conspiracy against government and order,—
the issue cannot be either distant or doubtful; and, end
how it may, the result cannot but be lastingly injurious
to France, and discrediting to the cause of representative
government all over the world. Oar apprehensions for
Republican France lie deeper, it will be seen, than any
revision of an impracticable constitution, or any fusion
of parties, honest or dishonest, can possibly remove."
_ _ _

Dean Ali!man, the biographer of " Horace and Tasso"
is favourably criticised in the concluding article of
the present number of the Edinburgh, an article in
which the genius of those great writers is discriminated
with considerable accumen. Speaking of Pomponius
Atticus,whom he happily terms t' the Prince of Trim-
mers," the reviewer says inadvertently, gist while At-
ticus burnt his correspondence, " Talleyrand seems to
have extended his caution beyond the grave." The
writer appears to be ignorant of the circumstance
that the autobiography of the latter is only reserved
for publication until after a certain number of years
shall hare expired. Altogether, the Edinburgh for
October indicates anew its right to rank at the head of
all the periodicals..

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
BRIGHTON RACES.

The race committee have got up an autumn meeting
for Tuesday and Wednesday, and with every prospect of
success. The railway directors, to give the public an
opportunity of attending it, have announced special trains
at 7s. 6d. first-class, ss. 6d. for the second-class, and 3s.
6d. for the third, for the double journey.
CLT RRAGH RACES.—Tn URODAY.

The raciug this day was very good; the attendance
large and fashionable. The Lord-Lieutenant's Plato
was won by Mr. Watts' colt the Marquess cleverly; the
Sligo Stakes, after as fine a race as ever we witnessed, by
the Perdita filly; and the Curragh Cesarewitch Stakes
by Captain Grant, beating Ballinafad by a neck.
An objection was made by the rider of Louis Philippe
on the ground of a cross, which, after a patient investi-
gation by the stewards, was declared to be " frivolous
and vexatious."

His Excellency the Lord-Lieutenant's Plate of 100 gui-
neas; two yrs old, 6st 51b; three, 9st 21b; four, lOst;
five, lOst 51b; six and aged, lOst 61b; mares and
geldings allowed 31b. Red post.
Mr. Watts' eh c The Marquess, 2 yrs...(J. Wynne) 1
Lord Waterford's c by Coranna—Monica, 2 yrs 2
Mr. Farrar's bl c Tapered, 2 yrs
Mr. Coffey's h c by Monarch, 3 yrs 0
Mr. H. Coatsworth's ch c Hecate, 2 yrs . 0
Mr. French's b f Medes, 3 yra
Mr. Courtenay's gr f Caprice, 3 yrs
Mr. Irwin's br f Tribute, 2 yrs
The Marquis and Coranna colt singled otit from the
lot at the turn, and after a fine race the former won on
the post rather easily.
Sweepstakes of 50 sots., h ft, for two yrs old ; colts,
Bst 41b; fillies, Bst. New Anglesey Post. 31b allowed
to untried stallions or mares, 51b to both.

Lord Waterford's ch f by Bird. catcher, Perdita
Mr. Watts' b f by Birdcatcher, out of Echidna
Mr. Quin's br c Whiff (un)
The following paid forfeit:—Mr. Courtensy'a ch c by
Napier (un)—Mr. Courtenay's b c by Ben-Y-Glo (un)—
Lord Waterford's ch f by Coranna (un)--Sir. St.
George's ch c by Birdcatcher, Whim—Mr. b o
Lord Edward.

The Pardita filly made all the running, and won in a
canter.

Curragh of Kildare Cessrewitch Stakes, a free handi-
cap of 20 sovs. each, 10 ft, 50 added. About two

miles and a quarter; second horse to save his stake.
Mr. Disney's ch c Captain Grant, 3 yrs, 7st 121 b 1
Mr. Irwin's ch h Ballinafad, 6 yra, 9st 71b
Captain Oakes's ch f Dolly's Brae, 3 yrs, 7st 41b 0
Mr. Murphy's ch fby Tearaway, Zulitua,3 yrs, Est 7d3 0
Mr. M•Cormick'sch c Louis Philippe, 3 yrs, 6st 121 b 0
Lethargy, Whim colt by Veralam, and Larry's the
Lad paid forfeit.
Betting—Even on Captain Grant, who made the run-
ning at a slapping pace all the way with Ballinafad
close at his quarter; a splendid finish between. the two
ended in favour of the gallant highwayman.
Selling Stakes, 5 goys. each with 25 added. Anglesey
Post. Three years old, 7st 71b; four, Bst; five, six,
and aged, Bst 61b; 31b to mares and geldings. All
horses starting are subject to be sold for 200 sou.' if
entering to be sold for 150 to be allowed 51b; if for
100 sovs., 91b; if for 50 soya., 141 b; if for 25 soya.,
181 b. The winner to be put up and sold by suction
after the race, and any surplus to go to the Racing
Fund.

Mr. Cunningham's ch m Mies Fortune, aged (1001) 1
Mr. Harrison's b m Lethargy, 6 yrs (501) 2
Mr. Irwin's ch c Independence, 3 yrs (501) 0
Lord Waterford's ch f Modesty. 3 yrs (1501) 0
Mr. Walsh's b m Panic, aged (501)
Mr. Doyle's ch m Pauline, h b, 5 yrs (251.)
Mr. W. I-Zeynolds's b e by Templar, 3 yrs (501) 0