The Sun.
London, England, 1844-10-05 00:00:00

TUESDAY.

The Dee Shad Handicap of 20 sovs. each, h ft, if de-
clared on or before Tuesday next.
Millepede, 6 yrs, Bst 111b—Princess of Wales, 5 yrs,
Bst 61b—Philip, 4 yrs, Bst 31b—Collina, 6 yrs, Bst
What, 4 yrs, 7st 81b—Hudibras, 6 yrs, Est 131 b ;
Poussin, 4 yrs, 6st 131b—The Bride, 4 yrs, Est 91b—
Princess Alice, 3 yrs, 6st—Alamode, 3 yrs, sst 101 b
The Elbe, 3 yrs, sst—Assay, 3 yrs, 4st 71b—and Yarrow,
3 yrs, 4st 71b.
Nominations for the Challenge Stakes :—Cornopean,
Elysium, the Dog Billy, Antelope (late Walton), Catha
rina (half-bred) Auld Lang Syne, Brenda, and Tees, by
Physician.

MURDER NEAR BOROUGHBRIDGE.—During the
night of Saturday last, a murder was committed in the
neighbourhood of Boroughbridge. Mr. Wm. Inchbald,
of Low Dunsforth, was wilfully shot at, and he was so
severely injured that he has since died. We have not
been able to learn the particular circumstances under
which the perpetration of this diabolical deed took place,
nor the nature of the motives which induced the mur-
derer to accomplish so vile a purpose. A reward of 201.
has been offered for the apprehension of the assassin.
Suspicion, we understand, has fallen upon a man of the
name of William Kendrew. He is about twenty-three
years of age, stands about five feet ten inches high,
round shouldered, rather square, light brown hair, low
forehead, short face, eyes rather sunken, large feet, and
shuffles in his walk. A warrant is issued against him,
and hopes are entertained that he will be apprehended.
—Doncaster Gazette.

WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN EXPECTED.—The bride
of the Ojibbeway Indian has returned to the parental
roof. The " happy couple" could not live comfortably
together.—Patriot.
Within the last week an occurrence which, as yet,
would not properly come under the head of "fighting in-
telligence," fur it was all on one side, came off at a pretty
little town in this county, which is at present the country
quarters of a company or detachment of the Regi-
ment, and which, as it has created rather a " sensation "
in that neighbourhood, we give the particulars of, as we
received them from a correspondent, on whose accuracy
we can place perfect reliance. They are briefly these:—
A short time since a gallant son of Mars, distin-
guished by a purely Milesian patronymic, was stationed
with part of his regiment at a country town some thirty
miles from our "beautiful city," and it appears had been
paying marked attention to a young lady there for a
considerable time, but had recently discontinued his
visits, which, up to that period, had been unremitting.
The regiment soon after left that town for another, not
far distant, and the inconstant one having taken himself
off sans ceremonie, considered, most probably, that the
matter was at an end. Not so, however, with some of
the young lady's friends, for on Tuesday last her bro-
ther, passing in the streets of a locality rendered famous
in song and story, met the quondam suitor on horseback,
and immediately formed the intention of in the wordo vf
out incormant, horsewhipping him at the most conve-
nient opportunity." The desired " opportunity" soon
presented itself in the hotel, when Mr. -- addressed
the gallant sans cullote, and without waiting for a reply,
laid on with his whip, and " continued to belabour him,"
until he managed to make his way into an adjoining
room. So the matter remains, says our informant, and
no further steps have been taken in it by either party.—
Cork Southern Reporter.

TIIE UNITED SERVICE MAGAZINE, AND NAVAL
AND MILITARY JOURNAL FOR OCTOBER.—For diver-
sified range of sterling information of the kind that men
need in their daily intercourse with the world (observes
the Morning Post) commend us to the United Service
Magazine. Not confining itself to matters of strictly
professional interest, it extends the features of its con-
tents to every branch of subjects that is likely to attract
the attention of persons of curiosity and intelligence. In
the Number
,now before us there is an admirable col-
lection of papers of first-rate merit. Among the most
interesting will be found France and Morocco—Notices
from Kaffirland—MilitaryPrisons—Brevet-Major Smith's
Sketch of General Pollock's Campaign in Affghanistan—
The Naval Chaplain's Note-book—Duelling in our Indian
Army—The Memorial of the Mandarin Shu in relation
to the War with England and the State of China—The
Late War in the Indian Ocean, &c. &c.

" REVELATIONS OF LONDON," BY MR. AINSWORTH.
—The admirers of Mr. Ainsworth's writings will be
glad to find in the present Number of his Magazine he
has commenced a new tale, or romance, called " Revela-
tions of London." The prologue opens in 1599, two
hours before the commencement of the seventeenth cen-
tury, and we are introduced to one of those spots Mr.
Ainsworth loves so well to delineate—an old house at
the foot of London-bridge. Here an alchemist is keep-
ing his lonely vigil in his labNratory. His attention is
directed to the Southwark gateway, the fiat leaden roof
of which is planted with a forest of poles, each garnished
with a human head, and he beholds a tall man in the act
of bearing away two of these grisly mementos. The ma-
rauder, however, is surprised by the sentinel, who wounds
him with his halberd. lle is conveyed into the chamber
of the alchemist, who at that moment makes the actual dis-
covery of the true elixir vita.. A conversation ensues
between these worthies, when it is discovered that the
younger man is the great-grandson of the alchemist,
who, in early life, had been charged with sorcery, and
bad fled to avoid the stake. • . . The next chapter
commences in the year 1830. The scene is laid in a
ruined house in the Vauxhall-road, where two ruffians
are lurking. They make an attempt upon the life of a
man who is in this lonely spot for some mysterious pur-
pose, and the chapter ends with his rescue by the watch-
man, and some other persons, who arrive at the critical
moment. Such is the starting point of Mr. Ainsworth's
new romance.—Morning Chronicle.

LITERATURE.
PERSECUTIONS OF POPERY. 2 Vols.
Bentley, London, 1844.
"A morbid liberalism, which seems to be gaining,
ground, and which would fain pass for philosophy,'
says the author of the present volumes in his pre-
face, " may, perhaps, be disposed to cavil at some of
the sentiments expressed in this work ; but if I have
occasionally hazarded warm remarks, or drawn sever
conclusions, I can only plead that they have been irre-
sistibly forced upon me by the facts and circumstances
which the nature of the subject brought under my
consideration." At the hazard of being classed
among those morbid Liberals of whom Mr. Shoberl
speaks so contemptuously in the above passage, we
must express our disapprobation of the spirit and
tendency of this work. In point of execution we
have no fault to find with it ; the materials are skil-
fully put together, and the author's diction is simple
and perspicuous throughout; but the spirit of his
work, we repeat, is objectionable, for it is an attempt
to revive the old, worn-out " No-Popery" cry, by
raking up, with the most assiduous perseverance,
every instance of persecution of which the Vatican
or its agents have been guilty, and bringing all the
most inveterate prejudices and bigotry of Pro-
testantism to bear against the antagonist religion.
Nothing can surpass the virulence of the author's
denunciations against Catholicism and its confe-
derates, the Jesuits—denunciations which will be
pretty sure to find an echo in the bosom of the
Exeter-hall Saints, and will, we fear, be read
with approbation by a numerous class of the
community, who think that it is the chief duty of
a pious and orthodox Protestant to hate Popery as
the Devil hates holy water. However ingeniously
and cleverly executed this may be, we must confess
that we entertain great dislike of productions such as
the one before us, which can be attended with no other
result than to revive religious animosities and jea-
lousies, which, for the peace and happiness of society,
had far better be buried in oblivion. If Popery have
its annals of persecution, so has Protestantism ; wit-
ness the closing years of the reign of that sanguinary
tyrant, Henry the Eighth.