The Sun.
London, England, 1826-12-29 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

TATTERSALL'S.—Dsc. QS
An important alteration took place yesterday in tics odds agalw
the two first tkvourites for the Derby ; they opened at evens, but
towards live o'clock same country Gentlemen took the odds 'about
Webb, who was immediately placed first favourite, sod left ail
at 9 to 1, a point before 'haler. Whether the qualities of the horse
entitled him to this pre-eminence we will not venture to say, but
we have heard that he ie nut only inferior to Mameluke„ but is,
in fact, any thing but a Grid rater—at all events he has not dune
any thing in public. Nothing was said about the Oaks, if we
except an even bet ou Maria eget Brown Duchies, and Trituida.
tion. The St. Leger betting will be slack till the nominations
are known. We give the odds

"1170
9 to 1 agst Webb* to 1 agst Manselake
10 to 1 apt Tatler 95 to 1 agst Metro
14 to 1 apt Espagnolle 80 to 1 apt Augusta
90 to 1 agst Elfrid SO to 1 apt Dablia
20 to 1 apt Cathariue SO to 1 apt,Gatnelius •
20 to 1 apt Trumpeter SO to 1 apt Loyd Aihiebury
20 to 1 agst GUltollll SO to 1 apt Itircoutan
20 to 1 apt Dauntless fib to 1 apt Cressida
1000 to 80 apt Snowdrop ; 2000 to 40 apt Chieftuin4
1000 to 17 apt each of the followill lot of borses—Metrit,
Gantelius, Lord Ailesbury's, Antar, Chieftain, Snowdrop, Cat,
Elias Tragic, intruder, and Prestbury.

1800 to .50 ago each of the following six—Elfrid, Catherine,
Tru►npeter, Dauntless, Gustavus, and Ma►neluke._These two
bets made together between the sante parties.
30 to I was taken about each of the following in one bet :
Farb', Catherine, Irumpeter, Gustavus, lilameluke, l)auntless,
Metre, Cressida, bird Ailesbury's, and Tureoman.
The odds on the Oaks and St. Leger an last week.
Those Marked thus (*) were takes.

The business of the House of Common oft
y tOs a the
recto, will necessarily begin late each day. Them are forty.oas
election committees to be ballotted for; two are to be ballotted
for each day, and the ballot da
There must he 100 members present • before four o'clock, or the
House will he adjourned, and no other business can be proceeded
in till the Committees are 04m,"1. The 1um144
of them, all the
Members having to be called over, sic. will occupy about one hour
s will be Tuesdays arid Thursday.,
and a half each days and the ballots will not conclude till May lb,

EFFECTS
or SNUFF-TAKING 7—The late Mr.
Goose,of cdich„ste, in a letter to the Editor of the &Oath
Chronicle, dait'd
the 25th of November, relate. the eircent-
stem**, of the complaint which terminated his existence, of Which
is an extract About three week. ago,
,leythtilsrtitetetatil7piiiiittuing a subject about which I was at that mo-
ment interested, and as a consequence of tech abstraction, raking
vuttfrather profusely, I was ueizpd with it Nymptotti technically
called tinnitus and fell into a paroxysm of insensibility,
which may be called ,synnixthetic apoplexy.' Upon recovery, I
found myself surrounded by several ntedical friends, who bail
been convened on the occasion. -13 y these gentlemen I any
bittil from thinking, and almost from eating. This atiV ;CO cost'.
our* with my own judgment ; notwithstanding, such is the per»
verseness of mac, and the force of habit, I have preeeuted both to
eat and to think since- that event." On the day before his death,
(the ed instant), Mr. Chaise was well enough to take tut airing
on horseback; but a eteutul attack in the evening closed his exis-
tence at the age of forty-three.-21furcItOki Herald.