The Sun.
London, England, 1828-05-15 00:00:00

BETTING IN ST. JAMES'S.

Last night a great change took place in one of the Derby
favourites— Sir 3. Shelley's Giraffe is gone altogether; he
is lame, having strained himself in a gallop. Zoe has re-
covered on the odds, it being stated that she no longer
coughs. The odds closed thus at midnight:—

DERBY.
4 to 1 agst Hon. E. Petra's The Colonel
to 1 agst Duke of Rutland's Cadland
to I agst Lord Exeter's Zinganee (Folly colt)
10 to 1 agat Mr. Champion's Rough Robin
12 to 1 agst Mr. Houldsworth's Lambtonian
17 to 1 agat Lord Jersey's Lancastrian
17 to 1 agst Mr. Thornhill's Merchant
20 to 1 agat Mr. Payne's Johanna Southcote colt
I►ooo to 12 apt Mr. Nowell's Giraffe (Amy cult)—taken.

OAKS.
7 to 2 apt Lord G. Cavendish's Ridicule filly (taken)
4 to 1 agst Mr. Rogers's Zne
5 to 1 agst Mr. Nowell's Rosalie
6 to 1 agst Lord Jersey's Trampoline (taken)

DONCASTER ST. LEGER.
3 to 1 agst Mr. Armitage 's Velocipede (taken)
6 to 1 agst Colonel King's Bossy Bedlam (takeu)
12 to 1 agst Hon. E. Petre's The Colonel.

When he was told the King's Theatre had
fallen into its present management, " I hope (said SAM
ROGERS) it will be more lucky nuder La Port, tkan
Drury was under my old friend Sherry."— The Aye.
On the sth inst. there fell at Ugborough and
Ivy-bridge, Devon, a shower of hail so heavy, that it lay
nearly six inches in depth upon the grouud.—Bath (Aron.
DEATH OF MR. PETER MOORE.—On the
sth inst. died in France, at Abbeville, Mr. Perra Moonr,
aged 76. He was, for twenty-five years, the Represen-
tative of Coventry, and during a much longer period he
had taken an active part in the most important political
transactions of the day. He was the son of a respectable
Clergyman, and in early life he went out to India, in the
service of the East India Company. He there made an ample
fortune. His friends say that he might have made one
much more considerable, had lie been as unscrupulous as
to the means as are the great majority of those who go out
in official capacities to our Colonies. Certain it is, that
he objected to many of the transactions of WARREN HAS-
TINGS, during whose administration he resided in India,
and that on his return he furnished to 13usixe and SHE-
RMAN important materials for their memorable attack
upon that Governor. Ile became, from this circumstance,
connected with the leading Members of the Whig Opposi_
tion, and he maintained a successful contest for Coventry.
This contest cost him 25,0001., in securing the " freedom
and independence" of that city. He was re-elected for
subsequent Parliaments at comparatively little expence.—
From the first to the last he was a. thorough Wbig, but
during latter years he was chiefly distinguished as the most
active promoter of various public works. The first of
these was the erection of Drury-lane Theatre. He was
made Chairman of the Committee for its management.
The transactions of his administration in that capacity,
the circumstances of his co-operation with SHERIDAN,
and of the general line of theatrical politics, would
of themselves fill a volume. The next undertaking
which he promoted was the Highgate Tunnel. Ile
was the most successful promoter of the Imperial
Gas Light Company. He carried the Bills for their
incorporation through Parliament, and was made their
Deputy Chairman. In getting a Bill through the House,
be was one of the most adroit and successful men ever
known. Ile conducted the opposition made by the Im-
perial and other Coal Gas Companies against the promoters
of an Oil Gas Company, and defeated them with a loss of
about 30,000/. On his side only 15,0001. were lost.
He lost the last Election for Coventry, in consequence of
some local disputes. The majority of the Electors are
silk weavers, and they Suspected that in a contest for high
wages thtir two old Members (Messrs. 'Wooer and awe)
had favoured the Master-weavers. The Corporation or
Tory party took care to increase this suspicion ; and, by
plying the Electors with gin and beer, carried the Election.
This event weighed heavily on Mr. Moones mind. The,
known aptitude of Mr. MoostE caused him to he
cornuiena
onethe ofthe stability
luoostf
courted during the years 1824 and 1825 by the new
pwriassoin:adelitehefirsse: pepanics. He had by no means lent his
indiscriminately, and his friends offer evidence of the
thosesincerity
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which
hisd
d professions
adopt. ofAs h beliefeb a d
been name CO them-
ied himself in writing the me-
conspicuous in other
sCpoenmtpoaruitiseis,,iebae
goat for the sins of a multitude of jobbers, and was
assailed by legal process from all sides, that lie wee com-
pelled to fly to the Continent, for here there was no hope
of his last days being
re-
sidedo ir s t) f ei ps
oew.
times, but his mind was much
harassed by his reverses and his anxieties respecting the
affairs in which he had been engaged in England. He
bas left one son, who is. at present in India, and two
daughters, one of whom is married, and both respectably
provided for. n fee and°