The Sun.
London, England, 1844-08-22 00:00:00

THE SITN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING AUGUST 22,

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
(RECEIVED THIS I)AY.)
RIPON RACES —MONDAY.
Two Year Old Stakes of 10 sovs. each, with 20 added.
T.Y. C.
Mr. Shepherd's Alaric, Bst 21b (Lye) 1
Mr. Heseltine's Ape 2
Lord Glasgow's fby Bay Middleton, dby St. Patrick 3
Mr. Farrer's Row tonian
The Selling Stakes of 5 sovs. each, with 15 added.
Winner to be sold for 1501., &c. One mil"d► and half.
Mr. T. Walker's Master Thomas, 5 yrs (Cartwright) 1
Mr. J. Gill's Sands, 4 yrs
Mr. Stebbings' Celeve 3
Mr. Chilton's f by Sheet Anchor, out of Patty, 3 yrs ;
• Mr. Dawson's Daft Watty, 4 yrs ; Mr. Weighitl's Envy
3 yrs ; and Mr. J. Milner's Miss Prim, 5 yrs, also ran.
The Members' Plate of 50/., the second to receive 151.
Heats, two miles.
Mr. J. Osborne's Boniface, 3 yrs
Mr. Bank's Strathmore, 3 yrs 4 1 2
Mr. J. Walker's Bonnets-o'-Blue, 3 yrs
Mr. Ward's Vixen, aged 3 4 4
Ld Glasgow's Sister to Give him a Name, 3 yrs... 2 fell
TUESDAY.
The Great St. Wilfrick Handicap of 10 sovs. each, 5 ft,
and 3 only if declared, with 20 added. Two miles.
Mr. Milbank's Robinson, aged (Lye) 1
Mr. Bird's Betsey Bird, 4 yrs • 2
Mr. Powlett's Blindfold, 4 yrs
Mr. Harrison's Feronia, 3 yrs
Mr. Dawson's Daft Watty, 4 yrs 5
The Corporation Plate of 501. ; three yrs 7st ; four yrs,
Bst 31b ; five yrs, Bst 101 b ; six yrs and aged, 9st 21b.
Winners extra. Heats, two miles.
Mr. J. Osborne's Boniface, 3 yrs (Ridley) 1 1
Mr. Milbank's Robinson, aged 0 2
Powlett's Blindfold, 4 yrs
Mr. Stebbing's Celeste, 3 yrs 4 4
Mr. White's The Lord Mayor, aged 2 dr.
Mr. T. Walker's Master Thomas, 5 yrs
Mr. J. Gill's Sands, 3 yrs
BROMSGROVE RACES.— TUESDAY.
The Maiden Stakes of 3 sovs. each, and 20 added,
twice round and a dis., were won, in two heats, by Mr.
Saunders' Caitiff, 5 yrs, beating Mr. Hammond's Nora,
6 yrs.
The Bromsgrove Stakes of 3 sovs. each, with 40 added,
twice round and a dis., were won by Mr. Collett's Rory
O'More, aged (Whitehouse), beating Mr. Flintoff's
Countess of Lichfield, 4 yrs, and Mr. Pearce's Foxbury,
5 yrs. . _ _

The Hurdle Stakes of 3 sovs. each, with 15 added,
twice roum; and a distance, over six hurdles, were won
in two heats by Mr. James' Jack, aged, beating Mr.
Browne's Bayard, 6 years, and Mr. Palmer's Wamba
filly, 4 years.
PLYMOUTH, DEVONPORT, AND CORNWALL
RACES.—TUESDAY.
Match-50 sovs., once round. Mr. Allibone's Swindle,
4 yrs (F. Allibone), beat Mr. Creagie's Kate, 4 yrs.
The Saltram Stakes of 20 sovs. each, h ft, and 5 ft only
if declared. Once round and a distance.
Mr. S. Spry's Subduer, 4 yrs
Mr. King's fby Jack-in-the-Green, out of Eliza, 3 yrs 2
Handicap Plate of 51. Heats 2 miles and a distance.
Mr. King's cby Hornsea, dby Soothsayer, 3 yrs 1 1
Mr. Williams' Ely sium, 4 yrs
Mr. Crofton's Cornopean, 2 yrs
The United Service Plate of 50/. Heats about a mile
and a half.
Mr. Crofton's Cornopean, 4 yrs (Cowley) 1 1
Mr. King's f by Jack-in-the-Green, 3 yrs ....
2 2

Sir S. Spry's Bastile, 4 yrs
The Ladies' Plate, of 50/ (Handicap). Heats once
round.

Mr. Scobett's Fox, 4 yrs
Mr. Allibone's Scams, aged
Mr. Reed's Mona, 5 yrs
Mr. Brand's Dick Turpin, 3 yrs
Mr. L. Downe's Usurper, aged dis
Mr. Johnson's Gylkwar, 4 yrs dis
YORK AUGUST MEETING.--WEDNESDAY.
The Dundas Stakes, of 15 Soy. each, 10 ft ; with 30
added. One mile and a quarter. (4 Subs.)

Mr. Salvin's Alice Hawthorn, aged walked over.
Sweepstakes of 30 sovs. each, 'lO it, for three-yrs-old
colts, Bst 71b, and fillies, Bst 41b. One mile and a
quarter. (6 Subs.)
Mr. Smallwood's Prince Royal (Marson) 1
Mr. Osborne's Mount Charles.

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Won by a length and a half.
The Queen's Plate of 100 guineas, for three •yrs-olds,
7st 91b ; 4 yrs, Bst 121 b ; 5 yrs, 9st 41b ; 6 yrs, 9st 71b ;
and aged, 9st 91b. Two miles.
Mr. Salvin's Alice Hawthorn, 6 yrs (Templeman) 1
Mr. Singleton's Teresa, 3 yrs 2
Mr. Mostyn's Lady Sale, 3 yrs
Captain Boyd's Dog Billy, 3 yrs 4
10 to 1 on Alice. Won by two lengths and a half.
The Great Ebor Handicap of 20 sovs. each, 15 ft, and
5 ft only, if declared, with 200 added. Two miles.
Mr. Meiklam's Godfrey, 3 yrs, 4st 615 (Berwick) 1
Mr. Wreford's Franchise, 5 yrs, Est 71b
Mr. Speed's Everton, 4 yrs, sst 131 b 3
Mr. Dixon's Jamie Forest, aged, 6st 131 b 4
Mr. Pedley's Bonny Bonnet, 5 yrs, Est
Lord Stanley's Ambition, 3 yrs, 4st 21b 0
Colonel Thompson's Dr. Husband, 3 yrs, sst 41b 0
Mr. Johnstone's Rowena, 3 yrs
5t04 on Franchise, 10 to 1 agst Godfrey. Won easy
by three lengths.
The Two yrs old Stakes of 20 sovs. each, p.p., with 25
added ; colts, Bst 71b, and fillies, Bst 41b. T.Y.C.

(3 Subs.)
Mr. Dawson's Crim. Con.

(Lye) 1

LITERATURE.
RAMBLES IN GERMANY AND ITALY, 2 Volt

Mr. Jaques's Extravaganza
HEREFORD RACES.—WEDNESDAY.

111exon, London, 1844.
These rambles were, it seems, undertaken during
the three last years, and extended over a considerable
portion of Italy, and those districts of Germany which
lie along the banks of the Rhine. Mrs. Shelley, to
whose pen we are indebted for the present record of
them, visited few spots but such as are well known to
the generality of English tourists; but what her
volumes want in the novelty of matter, they make
up for in the vivacity of their manner. On every
subject which she discusses, the authoress writes with
an eloquence and animation that lure the reader on,
in spite of himself; there is a charm even in her
veriest common places; and when she describes a
scene characteriz•ed by any particular features of
beauty or grandeur, she throws her whole soul into
the description, and makes the reader a partaker in
her enjoyment. 'With the sublime scenery of the
Tyrol she appears to have been particularly struck ;
she traversed the greater portion of the ground where
the great struggle took place, in 1809, between the
French and the brave peasant chief, Hofer • and gives,
en passant, brief but graphic details of this desperate
contest, which ended—as those who are acquainted
with that eventful period well know—in the subjuga-
tion of the Tyrol,. and the murder—for-murder to all
intents and purposes it was—of the heroic Hofer, by
order of the French Emperor. With the Italians,
speaking of them generally as a people, and without
reference to particular classes or individuals, Mrs.
Shelley appears to have been much pleased. " I be-
lieve," she remarks in her preface, " that no traveller
can mingle much with them, without becoming at-
tached to them. Their faults injure each other—
their good qualities make them agreeable to strangers.
Their courtesy, their simplicity of manner, their
evident desire to serve, their rare and exceeding in-
telligence, give to the better specimens among the
higher classes, and to many among the lower, a
charm all their own." The authoress adds that,
despite present appearances, she thinks it highly pro-
bable that Italy will, ere many years have elapsed,
succeed in regaining her long-lost independence.
While Mrs. Shelley and her party were residing on
the banks of the Lake of Como, the following singu-
lar incident eccurred, which we give in the lady's
own words :

We begin to feel settled, but to-day a strange and
disagreeable incident occurred. Pepping came in with
wild looks, to say that a madman—an Englishman—had
arrived by the steamer, and was frightening everybody
with a pistol. It seems that two gentlemen had landed
from the steamer, and had proceeded, as was the wont of
visitors, to the Villa Sommariva, to look over it. One
was an Italian, the other an Englishman, who spoke
Italian perfectly. Suddenly, as they reached the gate of
the villa which opened on the road, the Englishman
said to the Italian, " Are you not afraid of being set
upon ? Are you not afraid of being assassinated ?" ,The
other, who had come from Milan with him, and was not
otherwise acquainted, and had no idea of his malady, re-
plied, " No, why should he ?" "Do you not know that
we are watched, and there is treachery everywhere
about us ?" " No," said the other, " and if there were,
you have as much cause to be frightened as I." " But I
am armed," said the madman, " this is loaded," and he
drew a pistol from his pocket, and still more excited by
the sight of the weapon. began to shriek "Tradimento!
Tradimento ! Alla Villa Somrnariva ! Tradimento !"
His companion, frightened enough, ran off and alarmed
the inn and village, and as Englishmen, my companions
were summoned to see if they could do anything with
their countryman.
There he stood on the steps before the gate of the villa
leading down to the lake, shrieking " Tradimento ;" he
kept every one at bay with his pistol, which was cocked,
capped, and ready. Some people from across the lake
tried to land at the steps to visit the villa, but he soon
made them row away ; the inhabitants around all flocked,
hiding behind trees and peeping from coverts. He was
well content to talk or to be spoken to in Italian or Eng-
lish, but no one must approach ; and his position, stand-
ing on a semicircular flight of steps leading down to the
lake, was sufficiently impregnable: it gave him the whole
command of the road in front, and no one could outflank,
or come behind him. After three or four hours, how-
ever, he grew less watchful. As the people talked to
him, he allowed them insensibly to approach nearer, till
one fellow getting behind, threw up his arm with the
pistol, and then throwing his arms round him, took him
prisoner. His pistol was double-loaded. But with all
his madness he was aware, that if he had fired it, his
power was at an end ; and this latent sanity saved, per-
haps, a life.
He was brought to the hotel, and a dismal day my
friends have passed watching over him. Poor fellow I
he is quite mad. He had given English lessons at Milan
for some years, and earned a sufficient livelihood. His
insanity has taken the turn of believing that the Aus-
trian police want to poison him. He said he never
went to the theatre but a police-officer was behind, who
scattered a poisonous powder over him. He will not
take any food in consequence ; neither touch bread nor
water. My maid took him a cup of tea made by herself;
and, to her great indignation, he refued it, as poisoned.
He tried to escape several times. First, he made friends
with his countrymen ; but when he found that they
watched him, he turned to the Italians, calling us, ac-
cording to the phrase of the country, " non Cristiani,"
and begging them to save him. He had sixteen napo-
leons with him. It seems that the doctor who attended
him (he was without relations or English friends) had
advised him to go to England, had put him into the
diligence for Como, introducing him to a Milanese in the
vehicle, without mentioning his malady, and thus he was
delivered over to the miserable wanderings of his mind.
A doctor had been sent for from Menaggio at the first
moment ; of course, he could do nothing. With diffi-
culty he was induced to go to bed ; he was thoroughly
persuaded he should be murdered in the night, and his
expostulations on the subject were shocking and ghastly
enough. The next morning, having taken an aversion
to all those with whom he had been friendly the preced-
ing day, he consented to go back to Milan, under the
escort of a police-officer. I saw him as he got into the
boat ; he was a spare man, with an adust, withered face
and unquiet eye ; but not otherwise remarkable.

THE YOUNG WIDOW. 3 Vols.
Newby, London, 1844.

The principal recommendations of this story are its
numerous descriptions, more particularly of Scottish
scenery. There are no features of novelty in the plot,
and the incidents, which are by no means remarkable
for freshness or fertility, are put very loosely together,
as if the author were wholly indifferent to the con-
struction of his narrative. But his descriptions are
uniformly excellent; he combines the eye of the
painter with the fancy and feeling of the poet; and
his sketch of a Highland mountain landscape seen in
the freshness of the morning, and more particularly
his account of a snow-storm at night among the
Grampian hills, are imbued with a vigorous and pic •
turesque spirit worthy of Scott. •

THE COLLIERS' STRIKE.

From a number of communications sent to us from
the colliery districts, we have selected the following,
to show that the human mind, even in the lowest
drudgery, and in the most dismal of employments,
still exhibits the " spirit divine." The verses, we
admit, are not above mediocrity, but they are highly
creditable to a man doomed to the sufferings of a
miner :--