The Sun.
London, England, 1844-01-18 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

BETTING AT MANCHESTER—TUESDAY.
DKR-BT.-7 to 1 agst The Ugly Buck-7i to 1 agst Rattan
—lB to 1 agst Loadstone--18 to 1 agst CoekaMaroo--25 to 1
agst Orlando-30 to one agst lonian-30 to 1 agst Leander
(taken)-33 to 1 agst Running Rein-35 to 1 agst T'Auld
Squire (taken)-50 to 1 agst Lancet-50 to 1 agst Saddlebow
—.50 to 1 agst Antenor-50 to 1 agst Campanero-50 to 1
agst Bebington-5i to 1 agst Scott's lot.
OAKS.—Offers to take 15 to 1 about Princess.

CHESTER CU P. —5OO to 30 agst Sir Robert (taken several
times)-25 to I agst Ballinkeele-30 to 1 agst Merry Andrew
(taken)_3o to 1 agst 11,,oton:-30 to 1 agst Alice Hawthorn.

COURSING.
THE UNION (SOUTHPORT) COURSING MEETING.--The
Scarisbrick Cup, for 18 dogs, was won by Mr. Craven's Car-
melite—Mr. E. G. Hornby's Hill Coolie ran up. The Union
Cup, for 16 puppies, was won by M. Eden's Exquisite, his
Ecarti being drawn. The Great Fleetwood Cup, for 8 dogs,
was won by Mr. E. G. Hornby's Hermit—Mr. T. B. Ben-
nett's Emperor ran up. The Bold Stakes, 8 dogs, were won
by Mr. Swan's Satisfaction—Mr. Ridgway's Redgauntlet ran
up. The Champagne Stakes, for 8 dogs, were won by Mr.
Swi.n's Sovereign Queen—Mr. Slater's Signora drawn. The
Claret Stakes, for 8 dogs, were won by Mr. Swan's Syria—
Mr. Kennedy's Knockallen ran up.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.—GIBRALTAR, JAN. 6.
At Ancher—Her Majesty's ships Belvedere, and steamers
Geyser and Locust. The Geyser arrived on the 4th, with India
mails from Malta. LICLIN, JAN. 9.—Her Majesty's ship
Warspite, and the French brig of war Volage. The ,Pacha
spoke the Peninsula and Oriental Company's steamers—on the
7th the Oriental, 10 leagues S. E. of Cape St. Vincent ; the
9th, the Lady Mary Wood, off Oporto; and en the 13th the
Liverpool 2, off Ushant. No ship of war at Cadiz on the 7th
inst. ; nor at Vigo, of any nation, on the 10th.
THE LATE LADY BUEDETT.—The funeral of Lady
Burdett will take place on Tuesday next, at Ramsbury, Wilts.
ELLoN.—The Committee of Ladies for selecting
subscriptions for behoof of our poor householders, in the
village and parish of Ellon, have lately distributed 80
barrels of coals, a quantity of shoes, blankets, and arti-
cles of clothing, which must place in comparative com-
fort, at this season, the humble recipients of their bounty,
and relieve the Kirk-session of many an extra call which
would have been made on their funds.—Aberdeen Pape.

THE SECRET PASSION.—We hear that the author
of those truly original works, " Shakspeare and his
Friends," and " The Youth of Shakspeare," has a new
novel on the point of appearance of a highly attractive
nature under the title of " The Secret Passion," where,
in a story of great novelty, told in that picturesque
style which directed such general attention to his former
w. rks, he has made the principal feature a married
lady of high rank, distinguished not less for her beauty
than for her unrivalled, moral, and intellectual attain-
ments, struggling against the influence of a dangerous
sympathy for one whose genius was not less exalted
than his virtues were ennobling. Thus placing two of
the most admirable examples of their sex under cir-
cumstances that would at once both try. and prove their
pretensions to the excellence for which each was cele-
brated. Report speaks highly of this work as affording
delineations of human passion of absorbing interest, and
as being equally remarkable for its intellectual character
as for its moral tendency,
Messrs. 11. dander, May, and Thomas Plume, are
appointed by " The National Animals' Friend Society."
of Exeter Hall, London, to visit the principal towns of
Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire. and Yorkshire, during the
months of February, March, and April, for the purpose
of holding meetings, to disseminate the important ob-
jects of the Society, and aid the gre it movement now
being made in putting a stop to those barbarities And
enormities inflicted on the harmless dumb, so prevalent
in these counties.—From a Correspondent.
THE TEApE OF TUII TYNE.—We are enabled to
state the custom-house receipts of the port of Newcastle
in the year 1843, and we give them in comparison with
those of the previous year :
Duties received in 1842 £4.12,781. 0 1
Duties received in 150..., ,• • • 494,524 2 9

Ircreaie in 1843 61,7T7 2 8
The increase is owing, almost altogether, _to the_duties
paid on the importation acorn from abroad, and on the
exportation of oval to foreign countries.—Gateshead
Observer.