The Sun.
London, England, 1844-07-26 00:00:00

soya. each, h ft, for two years old, 6 subs. ; one of
200 sovs. each, pp, for two years old, 10 subs. ; tw3 other
two years old stakes of 25 sovs. each, one with 11 subs.,
and the other with 10. The Duke of Richmond's elate
of 1001. (to name the day before running). The An-
gleney Stakes of 15 sovs. each, gentlemen riders, 12 subs.;
and the match between Alva and the Purity filly,
complete a day's racing of extraordinary attraction,
amounting, after allowing for forfeits, to at least seven
thousand pounds. The Maid of Orleans is in one of the
25 soy. stakes, but the others are favourable to specula-
tion. On Friday the meeting will terminate, and as the
following sketch of. the present fixtures will show, with
a brilliant promise of sport :—The Chesterfield Cup, 42
horses named. The Nassau Stakes of 50 sovs. each, pp,
for three yrs old fillies, 26 subs., including The Princess
(91bs extra), All-round- my-Hat, The Bee, Barricade,
and Zenobia. The Maidstone Stakes of 15 sovs. each,
gentlemen riders, 35 subs. The Match (in heats or
classes, according to the acceptances) of 10 sovs.
each, h ft, gentlemen riders, 56 subs.)
,to name
in the race week. The Bathyany Stakes of 5 sovs. each,
gentlemen riders, 14 subs., to name in the race week ;
and the post match between Lord G. Bentinck and Lord
Glasgow ; making in round numbers nine races a day,
exclusive of heats, amounting to 25,000/. The races
will be under the stewardship of Sir W. W. Wynn,
Bart., and G. Payne, Esq., and will commence each day
at half-past twelve o'clock precisely.
We understand that for the furtherance of business
during the race-week, a subscription betting-room will
be opened at Chichester, within a few doors of the
Swan.

Handicap for the Goodwood Club Stakes.
Lothario, 4 yrs, 12st 71b—Cattonite, 5 yrs, 12tt 21b—
Currier, aged, list 101b—Aristides, 4 yrs, 1 Ist 101 b-
- 4 yrs, llst Mb—Porto Bello, 4 yrs, list 8113—
Naworth, aged, list 31b—Priessnitz, aged, lOst 121 b
—Queen Mab, 5 yrs, lOst 111b—Quebec, 4 yrs, lOst I Ilb
—Pastoral, 3 yrs, lOst 91b—Emma, 3 yrs, lOst 51b—
Miss Miggs, 5 yrs, lOst Sib—Fox, 4 yrs, lOst 31b—Coal
Black Rose, 3 yrs, 10-t-7Elemi, 3 yrs, 9st 1011},--Sea-
mew, 3 yrs, 9st 31b.
BLACKWALL AND POPLAR REGATTA.
Yesterday being the anniversary of the day on 'which the
first meeting was held at Blackwall for the establishment of
the Watermen's and Lightermen's Almshouses, the water-
men of All Saints, Poplar, and Blackwall, selected it to row
their match for a new skiff and some other excellent prizes,
liberally presented by the residents. The contest was with
six scullers, in four heats, and was highly attractive, there
being some thousands of persons congregated during the day
to witness it. Three men started in the first heat, and the
remaining three in the second, and the first man of each heat
laid by while the other four rowed for the third heat. The
fourth heat was between the best two of this lot, and the
first man of the first heat and first man of the second heat,
and the two winners only of this were qualified to row in the
grand heat. The boats started in each heat from Blackwell-
stairs, and went twice round the distance, extending from
the Folly-house to the East India Dock-bridge, opposite the
Brunswick Wharf.

FIRST HEAT.
J. Curd, light blue
H. Venton, red
G. Ball, yellow •.

SECOND HEAT.

H. Corey, dark blue
G. Atkins, pink
O. Smith, green 3
THIRD HEAT.-
Won by G. Ball cleverly, followed liy G. Atkins.
FOURTIX, HEAT.
Won by H. Corey, G. Ball being, second, J. Curd third.
GRAND
The two men, Corey and Ball, started away very evenly,
but in a few strokes Ball contrived to draw about half a
length in advance, which he continued to hold throughout a
very spirited and closely-contested heat. Corey was hardly
half a length astern at the cionlingoifinatid both he and the
winner were much distressed.

•
WEATHER AND Citprs IN DERBYSI4RE.—The
weather is as seasonable as the most sanguine could desire,
and, under its influence, the. various crops are fast approach.
ing maturity. Wheat-cutting is likely to be almost imme.
diately commenced. The reports respecting the probable
yield are, with few exceptions, favourable, whilst the quality
is likely to be uncommonly fine. Barley, though greatly im-
proved within the last few weeks, can scarcely be expected
to produce well, the previously experienced drought having
had a very injurious effect on this plant. Beans have re•
covered wonderfully; and peas and oats will, we trust, yield
a better return than was earlier in the season deemed pos-
sible ; on the whole, therefore, our prospects are encouraging.
—Derby Mercury, July 24.
DREADFUL ACClDENT.—Wednesday morning, at
about nine o'clock, a man named Thomas Hudson, em-
ployed as a labourer on the Gravesend, Chatham, and
Stroud Railway, now in the course of formation, was
severely injured by the falling of some earth. He was,
at the time above-mentioned, engaged with many other
workmen in excavating at a cutting at a village called
Higham, about seven miles from Gravesend, when, from
an oversight, or the want of proper precaution for the
safety of the men (though 'no cause has as yet been
assigned), a mass of at least two tons of earth gave way
from above and fell upon him. Numbers of the men at
work close by ran to the spot and found Hudson buried
up to the chest, and suffering dreadfully from the im-
mense pressure upon the lower part of his body. With-
out loss of time they commenced shovelling away the
earth, and finding his legs crushed between the knee and
and ankle, carried him to a surgeon in the neighbour-
hood. The surgeon promptly attended to the poor
man's injuries, and found them to be of such a
serious nature as to justify him in sending him at once
to one of the metropolitan hospitals. A fly was then
procured, and the man was driven to town and taken to
SL Thomas's Hospital. Mr. Travers, one of the chief
surgeons of the institution, attended him upon his admis-
sion, and though the man's lower extremities are
crushed in a frightful manner, and his body in other
places bruised, there are still hopes of his recovery. He
was a steady man, and was in the employ of Mr. Brown,
contractor, of Shorn, Kent.
A CHILD POISONED.—On Wednesday afternoon
Mr. Baker, Coroner for the eastern division of the county
of Middlesex, held an inquest at the Hen and Chickens.
Bath-street, Shoreditch, on the body of George Greene.
a very fine child, eighteen months old, who came by
his death under the following circumstances :—lt
appeared by the evidence of a number of witnesses
that on Sunday afternoon last, about half.past two
o'clock, a man came into the shop of deceased's father,
who is a boot and shoemaker in a small way of busi
ness, residing at No. 1, Bath-court, Shoreditch, for the
purpose of' having a pair of boots repaired. The indi •
vidual was only known to the deceased's father by the
name of " George," from his having called some time
before on a similar errand. During the time occupied
by the repairs the man, apparently feeling incom•
moded by something in his coat pocket, took out a
four ounce phial and laid it upon the leathern seat.
The boots having been repaired, the man went away, and
no notice was taken of the bottle until about an
hour and a half after he had left, when the father had
occasion to pass through the shop into the yard,
and was followed by the deceased, who was his youngest
son. The boy espying the bottle on his father's seat,
seized it, and immediately drank off a portion of its con-
tents. Its excruciating effects instantly took place, and
the poor child ran screaming after its parent with the
bottle containing the remnant of the liquor in its hand.
He was immediately conveyed to the surgery of Mr.
Morgan, of No. 14, Old-street-road, who, on seeing
the state of the infant, instantly pronounced the
case .to be hopeless ; and, notwithstanding lie
administered every possible antidote, the poor chiid
only survived a few minutes after he was brought
in. It appeared by the subsequent evidence that
the man George ran back in about two hours after
ho had left the bottle in a most excited state, to
inquire for it, and upon being told that the de-
ceased infant had swallowed a portion of its con-
tents, and was then dead,' was extremely affected, and
said that the bottle contained a preparation used in his
business as a jeweller. Mr. Morgan said he bad no
doubt the deceased had died from taking a portion of
the contents of the phial, which was a solution of nitrate
of silver, a deadly poison, which is frequently used by
jewellers in their business. The jury returned a verdict
of " Accidentally poisoned from drinking a solution of
nitrate of silver.'
ASCENT OF ANOTHER MONSTER BAL,LOON.-011
Monday evening last Mr. Hampton, the aeronaut, who, it
will be recollected, about five years since made perilous
descents in a parachute at Chelsea and Cheltenham, as-
cended from the Vauxhall-gardens, Birmingham, in a
stupendous new balloon. The machine, which is
the sole invention of Mr. Hampton, has been con-
structed in an entirely novel manner, both with
respect to the valve, shape, and car, the silk of
which it is composed amounting to several thousand
yards, being manufactured by Spitalfields weavers. It is
nearly the size of the great Nassau balloon, being 67 feet
in height, 124 feet in circumference, calculated to contain
about 24,000 cubic feet of gas, and the car, which, is
capable of holding six persons, being five feet in
diameter and of a circular form. The fete was
under the patronage of Colonel Whyte, of the
7th Hussars and the officers, who attended the gar-
dens, as also a large concourse of spectators. Several
gentlemen having expressed their desire to ascend with
Mr. Hampton, amongst whom was a Mr. H. Wells, of
London, some considerable disappointment was caused
as the time drew nigh for its inflation, for, by
that period, the machine was found not to be one-
third inflated, and the gas of so inferior a description
that it soon became apparent that it had only ascend-
ing power enough to take up the aeronaut by himself:
Every endeavour was made to further its inflation, but
to no effect, and at seven o'clock being liberated from
the earth, and it rose almost
.perpendicularly from the
gardens. The atmosphere being very clear, the ascent
was beautiful in the extreme and after the aeronaut had
gained an altitude of two miles, he effected an easy and
safe descent at Shear's-hill, near Wolverhampton. It is
understood that the valve and other improvements have
fully answered the inventor's expectation.
TRADE or DUBLlN.—mother quarter of the
financial year has been accomplished ; its results in Dublin
have been again favourable to the Exchequer of the country.
Notwithstanding the decadence of manufactures—the nearly
total annihilation of commerce and the prevalence of almost
universal poverty—the improved habits of the people are
fully exemplified in the continued increasing amount of
the duties received on teas, sugars, &c., and a corresponding
decrease on those which accrue from malt and spirituous
liquors. In the quarter ended the sth July, 1843, the
amount of moneys received at this port was 223,228/. ;
the number of entries passed to obtain that sum has
been 5,160. The quarter ended the sth of the present
month gives 261,9761., and 6,587 entries—increase in favour
of the late quarter over the corresponding one of 1843,
38,7481. To this increase on the quarter sugar has contri-
buted 6,380/. ; coffee, 1,176/. ; tea, 6,739/ ; wine, 17,5591. ;
and tobacco, 6,527/. For the quarter just. ended, sugar pr.,-
duced 53,8941., in that 0f1843, 47,514/. Tea stands at 87,4:!1/.
against 80,689/. for last year. Wine returned 38,044/. in
place of last season, 20,4851., and tobacco 65,731/. in place of
59,204/., the receipt of 1843. In the various departments
connected with the receipt and discharge of the goods sub-
ject to customs duties, the great accumulation of business
which is daily occurring entails on the very meagre and
scanty paid establishments who are now employed at this
port a vast increase of responsibility and heavy work, and
causesto the publicdelayswhich result in great inconvenience
and lose of timi.—publin Freeman.