The Sun.
London, England, 1844-02-06 00:00:00

MANLY SPORTS RELIEF BlLL.—Bell's Life in
London of Sunday, Feb. 4, price Gd., contained a copy of the
Bill to be presented by the Duke of Richmond to the House
of Lords, for the repeal of the statutes ofAnne and Charles,
and for legalising horse-races, foot-races, boat-races, regattas,
rowing-matches, sailing-matches, fencing-matches, putting-
stone, wrestling-matchee4cricket, tennis, fives, raquets, bowls,
quoits, curling, golf; and other manly games ;!and for regulating
betting-thereon, with acopious digest. Bell's Life in London of
_Sunqav,
.Jan. 7, with the gratuitous stampecL,Supplement,
consisting of 24 folio columns of the Chronology of Sporting
Events,-1843, has. Been 'redulaty kept on safe, and copies can
be had till the end of February. A sixpence or six Queen's
head stamps, sent from the country to Mr. Clement, jun.,'
170, Strand, will insure a copy of the two sheets by return
of post.
E SECRET PASSION. By the author of
" Shakspeare and his Friends," &c. In this singularly in-
teresting work, so much talked of in the best circles, the
author has brought before us a heroine famous above all her
contemporaries, not less for her extreme beauty than for her
extraordinary attainments in an age wnen genius of the
highest order prevailed in both sexes to an extent never ex-
celled. In short, this gifted being is no other than the lady
immortalised by Ben Jonson in his matchless epitaph :
" Underneath this marble hearse,
Lies the subject of all verse—
Sydney's sister, Pembroke's mother.
Death, ere thou shalt find another,
Fair and good and wise as she,
Time shall throw his dart at thee."
It is only necessary to add that the whole interest of the
story of "The Secret Passion " lies in a clandestine attach.
mont the Countess of Pembroke is represented to have formed
with, in every sense, the most noble of the many distinguishd
characters by which she was surrounded, and from which
after mutual struggles, the result only occur to such natures,
both at last are disentangled by means which still more
ikeply excite the reader's sympathies.
CHILD BORN IN THE STREET.—It having been dis-
covered by a family resident in Pembroke-street, Devonport,
that a servant in their employ, named Ellen Johnson, was in
a state of pregnancy, the young woman was thereupon im-
mediately dismissed from service. Having no home, and
being unable to procure a lodging, she slept in the streets on
Monday night, and attempted also to find shelter in a door-
, waythe night following, but the pains of labour suddenly-
coming
on, the poor creature was carried to the workhouse
by the police, whom she had brought acquainted with her
condition before, however, the gate of the workhouse could
be opened, she gave birth to a child. Mr. Winchester, the
parish surgeon, was instantly sent for, and every comfort
%;!:iell the house could afford was given to her, and we hear
that bath the unhappy mother and her offspring are now
dully,' well— West Briton.
EVERT LITTLE HELPS.—A new trade was com-
menced last week between Sunderland and London, by Mr.
Erabant, butcher, who sent to the metropolis by steamer,
front Mr. French's wharf, a consignment of sheep's carcases,
packed two and two in sacks.—Durham Chronicle.
80,-LSTONE.—There was interred in the church-
yard fSf Somersal Herbert, in this county, on Friday last, an
age(Vcouple (Richard and Ellen Phillips), the husband being
93—the wife 75. They were interred in one grave. The
great ages of the five last in the register are remarkable,
viz. :-87, 84, 82, 93, and 75 years. We very much doubt
whether any register in the county, or even in the kingdom,
contains anything like it.—Derity Reporter.
ANTEDILUVIAN REMAINS.—A few days since se-
veral elephants' tusks were discovered in the gravel near
Cainscross, ono mu-swing seven and a half feet in length,
together with a few bones and teeth. The depth at which
these remains were found is nearly twenty feet from the sur-
4w, and although they must have been buried many thou-
sand
.Years, yet the exterior appearance of the ivory
chemistn unof
dergone but little alteration. An able practicalchemical
the neighbourhood has submitted a portion to.
aniination, and finds the earthy matters existing in the same
t 'era ; but, as might
proportions as in the ivor": of the pre
be anticipated, it was destitute of -all sOilanic matter.—Chel-
tenham Examiner.