The Sun.
London, England, 1850-09-07 00:00:00

DONCASTER RACES.

The Great Northern Railway Company intend to start
at extra
expresstrain s
speedsdurio g the r act single e we: k,
fa
, ctaersrying passengers
for
the
double
journey. On Monday, in addition to the usual express
arid a4,ven o'clock trains, a special train will leave the
King's-cross station about a quarter before eleven o'clock
in the morning, for the exolusne accommodation of the
racing community, and on each of the four following
dais a fast train will be dispatched at seven saa , to re-
turn from Doncaster at six P.m. As similar facilities
will be afforded to the north of Doncaster, there is every
reason t.i expect a very full meeting; the sport promises
to be brilliant.

EXTRAORDINARY CRICKET MATCII.--A great
number of extraordinary elevens have at one time or another
been made up to play the national game of cricket—married
men and bachelors—old and young—maids and wives—
fathers and sons against a parish - blind against the lame--
all these and many other odd assortments have we at one
time or other recorded, but we have now a match to relate
which out-herods Herod. There formerly lived at llunton a
worthy yeoman, named Nash, who had two comely
daughters. One was " wooed andwon" by a youth named
Whyman, and the other by a similar process changed her
name to Tucker. So numerous are their descendants that,
on Saturday last, a match at cricket was played at Hunton,
in which both the " elevens," the scorers, umpires, and all
engaged were furnished by them ; in short, the whole party
were either Whymans or Tuckers, besides twice as many of
the same lineage, who acted the part of " lookers on," A
liner or more athletic race could seldom be met with, and
when all were assembled with their wives, sons, and daugh-
ters, a more interesting scene could scarcely be imagined;
they could not have numbered, including Ihe second and
third generations, less than a hundred. No fewer than
forty of the males of the family sat down to supper. After
supper a vocal performance of no slight merit took place,
the performers all belonging exclusively to the family. The
game was played by the Tuckers against the W hyrnahe
'
i
and the former were victorious in one innings,--aidstone
Journal,

EMIGRATION.—On Friday morning Upwards of fifty
persons from the county Fermanagh, consisting of farmers
and their families, all Protestants, with scarcely an exception,
proceeded from this city by the early train to Belfast, on
their way to " the land of the west. Tltihey eyweeornescailelnitniohliisgihy
spirits, and expressed the greatest satisfaction at exchanging
a country where they are already looked upon as aliens, for
one in which they will be i owned upon on account of

CHISWEL COVE, WEST-BAY, I
PORTLAND.

There are ficquently during north-easterly gales
from twenty to thirty sail at anchor here bound to
the eastward. This shows the necessity of the Port-
land Breakwater in the East-bay. It is to be observed,
in the West-bay Admiral Christian's fleet of transports
were wrecked in a south-west gale, on their voyage
to the West Indies, in November, 1795, when 1,500
perished.
Captain Joseph Bennett, late senior commander of
her Majesty's packet service on this station (after
being seventy years at sea), remarks to Mr. John
Harvey, Nov. 20, 1834, in regard to Chiswel Cove,
as follows:

" Vessels anchoring in Chiswel Cove during N.E.
gales reed keep a sharp lock out in the evez.t of a shift
of wind, fur if it should suddenly veer round to the
southward and westward whilst there, the consequences
are fatal, and almost inevitable, as an easterly wind is a
dry wind, and as soon as moisture is observable in the
atmosphere, although the wind may be still tastcrly,
Chiswel Cove must be avoided, and vessels must get
under weigh from thence instantly, as a sudden shift of
the wind from the S.W. is most certain ; and ho it fur-
ther observed, for the benefit of mariners, that should a
vessel remain too long under these circumstances, even
if the master has a thorough knowledge of the locality
at Chiswel Cove, viz., that there are nine hours strong
outset of the tide towards the Bill of Portland, and only
three hours inset from the Bill towards Ct,iswel Cove,
she will inevitably be drawn into the Raee of Portland,
unless the master has sufficient confidence to stand with
her head towards the Rocks of Portland, in doing which
with a sufficient breeze, the tide will take her (by keep-
ing its force upon the larboard bow) clear of the Race,
and in the proper channel between the Race and the
Bill of Portland.

"If a calm ensues after an easterly gale, the vessel
must be got under weigh immediately; and should the
calm continue but for a short period, the tide will cer-
tainly take her through the Race, where there is a great
chance of foundering."