The Sun.
London, England, 1845-04-11 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

(RECEI VED THIS DAY.)
NOTTINGHAM SPRING MEETlNG.—TfivEscalr'tbe
The Hurdle Stakes of 3 sovs. each, with 20 added blOl
Town; the second saves his stake. Heats, one wile
three-quarters. (5 Subs )
Mr. Hallam's Goose Green, 5 yrs
Captain Davenport's Coheiress, 5 yrs
Mr. Clipton's The Lawyer, 6 yrs
Mr. Jamieson's Retriever, aged
Mr. Bromley's Old Spot (late Rattler), aged .... ...
The -Pony Stakes of 2 soya. each, and 10 • added, 01
round and a distance, were won in two heats.by Mr. G!
Polly, 5 yrs (Frost), beating Mr. Bucklow's Locomotive'
yrs, and two others. ade4
A Forced Handicap of 5 sovs. each, h ft, with 20• 15)41
(3 Subs), was won by Mr. Allcock's Little-thought-of,
(Stagg), beating Mr. Morris's Ploughboy, 6 yrs. „idea+
The Consolation Stakes of 3 soya. eal-1, 1 ft, and 20 "";
once round and a distance (4 Subs), was won by
Cockerell's Niobe, 6 yrs (Darling, jun.), beating the-,
.1
6 yrs, and Sola, 4 yrs of rfej
Match, 50 sovs.—.Mr. Jamieson's Retriever received
from Mr. H. Marshall's Makeshift.
Match, 50 sovs., once round and a distance—Mr. Broollel.
Newmarket, beat Mr, Bruce's Sir William.
Match, 50 sovs.—Mr. Barton's Ten of Trumps belt
Hooton's Nuttall.
The weather was unfavourable and the attendance till°.

We are requested to state, that Mr. BentlePher
New Burlington-street (publisher in ordinary t° of
Majesty), has this day published " The Chronicle° of
Fashion," by Mrs. Stone, Author of " The Artor
'
Needlework, &c., in 2 vols. Bvo., with numerous Arthe
traits, which may now be had of all bookseller ,
following new works have also just been-publicheo,do
Mr. Bentley :-1. The Life and Travels 'of •111,0°0,
Simpson, the Arctic Discoverer, by his Brother, -Toil.
ander Simpson, Esq., one vol., Bvo., with a Pori' the
2. The Improvisatore ; or, Life in Italy, &Wages,'
Danish, by Mrs. Howitt, 2 vols. post Bvo. 3. -"
.the
Edition of Sipcial Life in England and France, bfasi
Editor of " Madame du Deffand's Letters," 2 vols' her.
Bvo., with additions, and a portrait of the ittl"py
4. Anne Hathaway ; or, Shakspeare in Love ;
mance, 3 vols., post Bvo.
WASHINGTON CITY, UNITED STATES, MARC,— )4
1845.—We are authorised to announce that Robert P1A.114
Levering, the "American Antiquarian," will visit Eng—tbe
shortly in the United States steam frigate Princeton, for ti,
purpose of completing a work he is writing, called lost
quarian Analogies," exhibiting the similarities disc°,:,,,tltio
between American antiquities and those of the Old v`vots
principally Great Britain, establishing at the same time
unity of the human race."
DISASTROUS.—One of Punch's friends, Wbo 3/40(
present at the battle of Navarino, in the peaceful caPnitipte
a passenger, received a cannon ball in his chest--willc"
terly destroyed a dozen shirts that were packed up in ,• Of
PUGILISTIC MATCH FOR THE CHAMEIONSII''
ENGLAND AND 4001.—The long-talked of match bet b 9
Ben Count (the champion) and a pugilist to be predue
Johnny Broome, has at length been decided upomi
large assemblage of the milling fancy met at Toni N 31,101
Holborn, for the purpose of making the match. Caun'tbsg
the champion's belt presented to him on the condition ho,
it should be transferred to the man that beat him , be oc•
however, maintained himself for some time in his Pncept
house in St. Martin's-lane, in respectability and cell god
from the ring, and, from his giant strength and weigo.“olo
well-known merit, he has been permitted to retain theiLl"be.
of championship till the present time. His weight fa re'
tween seventeen awl eighteen stone, but which will '7 the
duced by active training. 501. has been deposited, 0104
stakes are to be augmented to 4001., and the winner to 0
the belt. The tight is to come off in September next,.ll.olo
is pretty well understood that the celebrated Bendigo
Caunt's opponent.
The Rev. Thomas Scales and Mr. J. Wales
of Leeds, waited upon Sir Robert Peel, at his residencenters
morning, to present a memorial from Protestant Dif,etre
and Methodist ministers in Leeds, and the deacons at'u iV6
tees of their respective chapels, praying
the Minister to
further time to the country to express its opinions roleo%
the Maynooth grant.