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SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
TATTERSALL'S.—YESTERD
LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE.
8 to 1 agst Lord Waterford's Sir John
10 to 1 agst Mr. Mason ne The Chandler
10 to 1 agst Mr. VeverN's Vain Hope
1$ to 1 agst Mr. HoakWs The Victim
25 to 1 ag3t Mr. Voters's Vengeance
30 to 1 agst Mr. J. Doyle's Rory be Airo-
-30 to 1 agst Mr. Hughes's Tipperary ft( y
33 to 1 agst Mr. Treadgold's Maria Day
35 to 1 agst Captain Barnett's Maid of 8 thens
50 to 1 agst Mr. J. C. Renton's Rainboor
Sir John, who was not mentioned until n usr the close,
was backed at 8 to 1, and had the call c,f 'Vain Hope,
who bad previously been the first favourite. Victim was
iu force at 18 and 20 to I.
TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS STAILEn•
9 to 4 agst Lord H. Lennox's Beehuntes7—taken
NEWMAREET lIANDICAP.
8 to 1 agst Mr. Gratwicke's Cheerful, 4 yrs, sst 121 b
10 to 1 sgst Lord Exeter's Little Jack, 3 :yrs, sst llb
THE NORTHAMPTONSHIRE STARES.
TFe only bets were 20 to 1 agst Belus, and 25 to 1
agst Puffy, to small sums.
METROPOLITAN HANDICAP.
5 to 1 spit Mr. Gratwicke's Cheerful, 4 yrs, 6st
20 to 1 agst Mr. Murphy's Dough, 5 yrs, gst 51b
25 to 1 agst Mr. Douglas's Sir Gilbert, 4 yrs, Est 21b
25 to 1 agst C.sptain Lowther's Bastinado, 3 yrs,
4st 71b
30 to 1 agst Mr. Adams's Ellerslie, 5 yrs, 7t:t 21b •
30 to 1 agst Mr. Carew's Eva, 4 yrs, Est 121 b
Not above half a dozen bets laid, and those only to
trifling amounts.

CHESTER CUP.
13 to 1 agst Mr. Payne's Glauca, 4 yrs, 7st 51b
14 to 1 agst Mr. Merry's Miss Arm, 4 yrs, 7st
25 to 1 agst Lord Howth's Peep-o'-day Boy, 6 yrs,
9;t--taken
33. to 1 agst Mr. Eddison na John Cosser, 5 yrs,
Bst 51b—taken
35 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Lady Evelyn, 4 yrs,
Bst 21b—taken
40 to 1 agst Mr. Wreford's Woodlark, 4 yrs, 6st
12lb
,000 to 15 agst Mr. Armstrong's Vests, 6 yrs, let 51b
—taken
Little or nothing done on this event.
DERBY 1850.

8 to 1 agst Duke of RiChmond's Ghillie Callum
10 to 1 agst Mr. W. Edwards na Bolingbroke
10 to 1 agst Lord Eglintou's Knight of Avenel
13 to 1 agst Mr. Gratwicke's The Nigger
15 to 1 agst Lord Zetland's Voltigeur—taken
25 to 1 agst Lord Air lie's Clincher
25 to 1 agst Mr. J. Scott's Cyprus—taken
33 to 1 agst Lord IL Lennox's William the Con-
queror—taken
33 to 1 agst Lord Eglinton's Mayors—take 40 to 1
1,000 to 30 agst Mr. Hill's Pitsford—taken
1,000 to 30 agst Sir R. Pigoi's Afoul=
40 to 1 agst Colonel Peel's Hareliege
1,000 to 20 agst Mr. Gannon's Deicoon—taken
660 to 10 agst Mr. Lee's Charley—taken
500 even bete ten Mayors and Piteford
Bolingbroke was backed for 1001., at 10 to 1; The
Nigger, v4-ry freely, at 14 to 1; Voltigeur, in three or
four quarters, at 14 and 15 to 1; a few other horses
were backed at the quoted prices, nearly all of which
were offered at the close. The advance of The Nigger
sent Ghillie Callum to 8 to 1, layers.

DERBY, 1851.
4,000 to 80 ag!st DUke of Richmond's Buckland—taken
HUNTING Ati.POINTMENTS,
,orcestersh ire hdFckiliton:4KtAlls.i' Woodcote-
green ; ,Fri.,
Upton tom., Tues:;.
Ledbury Mon., Bth milestone on the Tewkesbury-
road; Fri., Maxterfield-stocks-14.
Herolorthhire ,hds., Tues., Rackhull; Fri., Engiand'L-
gate—l 0.
Ludlow,. hds., Tufo., the Serpent; Fri., Brampton
Brian-gate.
Brighton burs., Mon., Patcham; Fri., Dyke-101.
Brookside, harm, Mon., Newmarket hill; Tours.,
Telscombe
Crawley and Ilorham hds., Mon., the Fox, Three
Bridges; Wed., the New Inn, Climefold; Fri., Monk's-
gate--lo;.
Warwickshire hds., Mon„ Napton-on-the-Hill; Tues.,
Mitford-bridge; Thurs., Cabbington-gate; Fri., Edge-
hill-town; Sat., Fox colt—loi.
Lord Redeedale's hds., • Mon., Chapel House; Wed.,
Bradwell-grove; Fri., Egford; Sat. Blenheim-10i.
Shropshire hds., Mon., Harps-wood; Wed., High
Ercall; Thurs., Walcott Mill-10i.
Mr. Farquharsou's hds„ Mon., llogberry Turnpike.
gate.
Mr. Drax's hds., Mon., Canford-bridge; Thurs., Cock
and Bottle, Morden.
B. V. H., Tues., Pointington-ridge; Fri., Sturminster-
common-11i.
Cheltenham stag hdo., Sat. (Feb. 16), Mytton Lodge,
near Tewkesbury-12.
Somerset Subscription hde., Tues., Halsey-brake,
Quantock; Fri., King's-wood, .Nettlecombe-101.
Sir Tatton Sykus' hds., Mon., Whinmon-build; Wed.,
Sand Hutton House; Fri., Garrowbrbill-top-10i.
Suffolk-hds., Tues., Ardleigh Crown; Fri., Isiotley-
wood-103-.

CORN AVERAGES.
GENERAL AVERAGE _PRICES OF BRITISH CORN
For tho Week ended Feb. 7, 1850, made:up from the Returns of the
Inspectors in the different Citiesand Towns is England and Wales
per Imperial Quarter.
',MEAT. I BARLEY.' OATS. I RYE. ARANO. I PEAS.
PRICE .. 381 Ed 24s 7d 15s 3d 22s Id 2bs 3d I 26s 4d

DUTIES ON FOREIGN CORN.
!MEAT. I BARLEY. . OATS. I AYE, I BEANS. I YEAR.
15 Od Is Od Is Ott Is Od is Od Is Od

SERIOUS FIRE AT lIOXTON.—A fire, nearly at-
tended with a loss of human life, broke out at a late
hour on Wednesday night in the private residence of
commenced Mr. J.
nJuaumdeisn,
the second
s Re
eeebhedr t
floor-str e Robert-street, tr, 0
ni Buxton. a
t which
James's children were in the same room asleep. A loud
The
ti flames
Mr.es
crackling noise proceeding from that part of the building
satisfied the inmates that something wrong had hap-
pened. Mr. James, therefore, ran to the second floor,
vi hen, on opening the door, he found the room enveloped
so doing he was most severely burned. The inmates
then attempted to extinguish the flames, but finding they
ii nn gf hit
hnareosu. g hi3tyhea fld ae ms peesr aatnede rffeosrete ihn eg
bsui seceehei di
de rde ui n,
bruuts hi n-
were unable, they closed the dour of the room and sent
fur the firemen. The engines from Whitecroas-street,
Jeffrey-square, and Watling-street stations, quickly at-
tended, and after some time the firemen and police suc-
ceeded in getting the fire out, but Hot before a consider-
abletor, besides being so
quantify of Mr. James's property was destroyed;
situate at ic
and he was doubly unfortunate,
badly burned, he was nut insured for a single penny.
ALARMINGthe IC'tiat:: —i
nY
cc
os
nt esredqauye n morning, oorfn la. n' gfi
r, e
extensive pile of premises belonging to Messrs.
minute's before five o'clock, considerable alarm was
at a few
breaking
outcausedtbi:ex
~,e. 3, Old Fish-street
hill, Upper Thame;-street. The flames, when first dis-
covered, were issuinj through the roof of the back
warehouse, a building ol some magnitude, and formerly
James Luray ttiA Co.,
used as a sugar house. The mains of the New River
having yielded an abundance of water, the engines were
set to work, but in spite of the most strenuous exertions
of the firemen, they were unable to get the mastery
over the alarming element until about one-half of the
roof of the warehouse was destroyed, and the third
floor of the same building considerably damaged by fire.
The valuable contents of the lower floors were also
severely injured by the water from the engines. Fortu-
nately, the property was insured in the Imperial Fire-
office. The fire was caused from the heat of one of the
flues running at the side of the roof.
PROPOSED SCHOOL FARM AT PERTH'. Our
readers will doubtless recollect that, at the annual meet- '
ing of the friends of the House of Refuge. a remit was
made to Mr. Maiben, the secretary to the Refuge, to as-
certain the practicability of adding to the institution a
school farm for boys similar to that of Quatt, alluded to
in the report. Since that time Mr. Maiben has received
a letter from Mr. Cook, the master cf the Deaf and
Dumb Institution, in answer to one from him, giving an
account of the experiment he has made in cultivating a
piece of ground by means of the labour of the boys
under his charge. This experiment, Mr. Cook mentions,
has been attended with a very remarkable degree of
success. The ground brought under cultivation con-
sisted principally of a bank so very steep that it was a
favourite amusement of the boys to slide down from the
top cf it to the bottom, seated upon a piece of board.
This barren piece of ground was broken up by means of
picks and spades, and the bank was cut into terraces,
having walls of turf or stone in front, and these planted
with potatoes and other vegetables. One-third of the
bank was composed of good ground and the remainder
of bad gravel, and the whole extent of the place was
only about an acre and a half, and yet within these
narrow limits Mr. Cook has managed to raise a suffi-
cient quantity of vegetables to supply the whole of his
pupils, sixty-five in number, besides a large quantity of
potatoes, and food sufficient for two cows and nine pigs.
The saving thus effected to the institution has been very
considerable.—Perth Advertiser.
THE DUKE OF PORTLAND'S RENTS.IIIS Grace
the Duke of Portland has just announced to the tenants
on his immense estates in Nottinghamshire, that from
Lady-day last, a moiety of their rents shall be calcu-
lated according to the averrge price of wheat for the half-
year preceding the usual time of payment, taking 565,
per quarter es the standerd of the present rents. The
venerable Duke has for some time been engaged in
making himself acquainted with circumstances connected
with teach farm ; and whenever any appeared to be
higher rented than others, after ascertaining the cause,
he has ordered such additional reductions to be made as
will put them on a par with their neighbours. To
other tenants his Grace has given the option of remaining
at their present rentals if low, or having their farms re-
valued, and the rents adjusted to the present price of
corn.—Derby Mercury.
Some of the papers seem to insinuate that Doctor
M'Hale, in opposing the "godless" education scheme, is
r.v)re. -:c•_tiAed by a M.A. 1.-:, 1:,e;-, s,i) his *Pin rower Ili d
Idi*Lity that: by anxiety fur the *eliz,,ro elhis dock. The
Doctor, however, declares that a regard for mum shall
never make him neglect Tuam. Then why doesn't he
sue 'em fin 1ibe1?...-Pcispin,