The Sun.
London, England, 1828-01-22 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

TATTERSALL'S.---JaN. 21.
Until near five o'clock nothing was done, and every
thing seemed to promise a dull day ; but at that time there
was a reaction in the market, and the betting became brisk
and important. In the Derby, it would seem that Mer-
chant is a little out of favour, as no one would back him
under '7N to 1.; indeed, 8 to 1 were laid at the opening.
Folly and Larissa are rising, and Amy is getting up the
ground lost last week. The Oaks' betting was unusually
puzzling ; and although we have for some time been pre-
pared for a radical change, we did not look for so com-
p plete a one as that effected by one half hour's betting yes-
terday. At one time the positions of the favourites were
so confused, that it would have been impossible to say
which was first, second, or third, in the list ; at last Ro-
sanne and Sarah fairly headed the rest, and settled first
and second favourites. This alteration is hard to account
tor; we can only suppose it to be attributable either to
the.lcier-':of the horses, or to a desire to make them good
hock favourites; certainly, never was betting more com-
pletely without criteria, than that for the Oaks.—The
odds left off thus

71 to 1
I'4 to 1
12 to 1
15 to 1
17 to 1
20 to 1
20 to 1
20 to I
25 to I
28 to I
40 to I
40 to I

DERBY.
agst Mr. Thornhill's Merchant
agst Duke of Rutland's Sorcery colt (13 taken)
agst Hon. E. Petra's The Colonel
agst Duke of Grafton's Druid
agst Mr. Payne's Johanna Southcote colt (taken)
agst Lord Exeter's Folly colt (taken)
agst Lord Grosvener's Navarino (taken)
agst Mr. Thornhill's Mariner
agst Sir J. Shelley's Amy colt
agat Lord Grosvenor's Finesse colt
agst Mona •
agat Sir J. Shelley's Barnard()

10 to 1
12 to 1
11 to 1
14 tot
13 to 1
20 to 1
30 to 1

OAKS.
agst Rosanne (taken)
agst Mr. Peirse's Sarah Sister to Swiss
agst Colonel Udny's Lisette filly
agst Lord Jersey's Trampoline (taken)
agst Duke of Grafton's Turquoise
agst Mr. Molony's Zoe
agst Mr. Shard's Baleine (taken)

13 to 1
13 tot
18 to 1
15 to 1

ST. LEGER.
agst Colonel King's Bessy Bedlam (taken)
agst Mr. W. Scott's_ Velocipede
agst Mr. Watt's Coulon—Miss Cranfield
agst Sir T. Mostyn's Ultimatum (taken)
No others mentioned.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LONDON ME-

DICAL GAZETTE.

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I had pre-
vailed farmer's wife,r
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coming up to town, from being
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found
an abscess pointing, and I thought something like a
foreign body within it. .1 opened this with the lan -
cet, and struck on something hard; and, having got
hold of it with the forceps,
I drew it out. My sur-
prise was very great to find it was a piece of a
comb ;• but nothing to that
of the poor woman, who
was quite speechless , With amazement. She could
dive no account
.01 the manner of its coming there;
'indeed, the talkativeness of the two good ladies
ceased altogether, mid they seemed very desirous to
ilepart. he surgeon who attended her in the
13, coup-
; , wrote me, some time after, that he had extracted
Lilother portion of the comb. That which I took out
consisted of four of the coarse teeth of a dressing-
comb.--I am, your obedient servant,
Soho•square, Jan. 11. CHARLES BELL.

the earth.
A few days since the skeleton of a human body
bung the depth of
as discovered in Deadman's Bay field, by some labourers,
*6o were. employed in cutting a road to Skardon's Quarry.
wo feet under the surface,
l'he bones were in a state of preservation, and were about
The spat where they were discovered. was near the hedge,
Ind a short distance within the gate of the field.— Glasgow
Herald.

Notwithstanding the severe losses which the
:hin-owners of Alloa have sustained during the last year,
li'rn the year egiitei.tonnage
nnagr ending upon the whole, considerably in-
creased g, Ist January 1827 ; more ships
'utve been built than the number lost. There are registered
mounts to 19,500, employing 1010 mem—Edinburvh
PATning Courant. whose united tonnage
:t the port of Alloa, 153 vessels,