The Sun.
London, England, 1844-05-03 00:00:00

EPSOM, 1844.

Handicap for the Surrey Cup—Alice Hawthorn, 6
yrs, 9st 101b—Gorhambury, 4 yrs, Bst 81b—Semiseria,
4 yrs, Bst 81b—Robert de Gorham, 5 yrs, Bst 61b—New-
court, 4 yrs, Bst 31b—Khorassan, 4 yrs, Bst 21b—Jobn
o'Gaunt, 6 yrs, Bst—Lucy Banks, 5 yrs, Bst—Hydaspes,
5 yrs, 7st 121b—Orion, 4 yrs, 7st 1 lib—Ben y Ghlo, 4
yrs, ist 101b—Arundo, 4 yrs, ist 101b—;'calteen, 5 yts,
7st 101b—Arctic, aged, 7st 101b—Mania, 4 yrs, 7st 91b
—Cattonite, 5 yrs, 7st Sib—Wee Pet, 4 yrs, 7st 71b—
Thirsk, 6 yrs, 7st 71b—Give-him- a-Name, 6 yrs, 7st 61b
—Blackdrop, 4 yrs, ist 61b—I-am-not-aware, aged,
7st 61b—Revocation, 5 yrs, ist 51b—Playfellow, 5
yrs, 7st 51b—The Bioken-down, aged, 7st 41b—
The Currier, aged, 7st 41b—Sir Robert, 5 yrs—Ar-
canus, 5 yrs, 7st 21b—Pristilia Tomboy, 5 yrs, 7st 21b—
Captain Flathooker, 5 yrs, 7st 21b—Auld Lang Syne,
4 yrs, 7st—Running Rein, 5 yrs, ist 21b—Reciprocity,
4 yrs, 7st—Naworth, aged, 7,t--Epaulette, 5 yrs, 7st—
Rowland, 4 yrs, 7st—Arnagill, 6 yrs, Est 131b—Mallard,
4 yrs, Est 121b—Einilian, 5 yrs, Est 121b—Patchwork,
5 yrs, 6st 121b—Farce, 6 yrs, Est 121b—Shocking
Mamma, 4 yrs, Est 81b—Tom Thumb, 4 yrs, sst 71b—
Broadholm, 4 yrs, Est 71b—Delapre, 3 yrs, Est 41b—Fox,
4 yrs, 6st 31b—the Exquisite gelding, 4 yrs, 6st—The
Curate, 4 yrs, Est—Hemp, 3 yrs, sst 61b—Barbarina,
4 yrs, sst 41b—Vin Ordinaire, 3 yrs, sst 31b—Hashed
Venison, 3 yrs, sst.
'The Ascot Stakes closed with 103 nominations.

(RECEIVED THIS DAY.)
CHESTER RACES.-Titu RSDAY.

Her Majesty's Plate of 100 Guineas. Thrice round.
Mr. Meiklam's Trueboy, 4 yrs
Mr. R. W. Bulkeley's b m by Bay Middleton, 5 yrs
Mr. Gough's Fausta, 6 yrs
Sir W. Stanley's Forester, 6 yrs
3 to 1 on Trueboy. who won by a neck, Fausta a moderate
third, Forester nowhere.

The Dee Stakes of 50 Sovs. each, h ft, with 200 added ; for
3 yrs olds, Derby weights. Grosvenor Course.
Mr. Williamson's The Cure ......, (Rogers) I
Lord Stanley's Ithuriel
Colonel Cradock's Infidel . 3
_ _ _

The following also ran :—Mr. Jones's British Tar, Mr.
Copeland's Assay, Mr. Copeland's Imam, Lord Westmin-
ster's Carol, and Sir R. Pigot's b c by Heron, out of Columbia.
Even on The Cure, and 2 to 1 agst Ithuriel. The running
was made to the first turn by Imaum, and thence at a good
pace to the Castle Pole by Ithuriel, where The Cure went up,
left him at the half distance, and won in a canter by five
lengths; Infidel a bad third.
Marquis of Westminster's Plate of 100 sovs., added to a Han-
dicap of 20 sovs. each, h ft. Mile and quarter.
Mr. Plummer's Alice Hawthorn, 6 yrs, 9st 61b (Templeman) 1
Mr. Meiklam's Philip, 4 yrs, 7st 61b
Lord Eglinton's Brevity (late Egidia), 4 yrs, Est 121 b.. 3
The following also started :—Sir W.W. Wynn's Rowland,
4 yrs, Est 61b—Mr. Price's The Lily, 4 yrs, 6st; Mr. Worth-
ington's Gipsy Queen, 4 yrs, sst 121 b ; Mr. King's Yarrow,
3 3,1..8, 4st 71b. 5 to 4on Alice. The light weights had it
all their own way to the lower end of the course, where the
old mare took up the running, went on with it to the end,
and won easy by a length. Philip second, and Rowland a
bad third.
The Selling Stakes of 5 sovs. each, with 30 added from the
Funds. Heats. Grosvenor Course.
Mr. Dawson's Dalesman, 3 yrs, 7st 21b ...(Lye) 2 0 1 1
Mr Smith's Morpeth, 6 yrs, 9st 21b
Mr. Cook's Bedalian, aged, 9st 21b... 1 0 2 3
Mr. Tate's Sunflower, 6 yrs, Bst 131 b 0 2 3 dr

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Won easy.
DERBY BETTLNG at CHESTER.
5 to 2 agst Ratan—taken 25 to 1 agst Bay Morrill/
7 to 2 agst Uglyßuck—taken 25 to 1 agst Orlando
11 to 1 agst Leander—taken 33 to 1 agst K. of theGipsies—t
18 to 1 agst lonian—taken 140 to 1 agst Mount Charles—t
20 to 1 agst Campanero 150 to 1 agst Qui Tam—taken
PLYMOUTH AND DEVONI'ORT SPRING RACES.

WEDNESDAY.

The Lyneham Stakes, of 5 sovs. each, 2 ft. :Heats, once round

and a distance.

Mr. Cox's Sister to Ferneley, aged, 12st 61b (Mr.
Carter)
Mr. John King's Fee, 4 yrs, list 61b
Captain Cotton nd Eli, aged, 12st 81b
Lord Elliot nd Mamercus, 4 yrs, Ilst 31b
Sir W. Trelawney's Elf, 6 yrs, list lib ...... 0 0 dr
Mr. Crofton's Icarus, 12st 11114
Handicap Plate of 501. Heats, once round
Mr. Crofton's Sea Fowl, 3 yrs. 7st 61b (Horseley, jr.) 1 1
Mr. Scobell's Cayenne, 5 yrs, 9st 91b
Mr. Reid's Mona, 5 yrs, 7st llb
Mr. Graham's The Ranger, aged, Bst 51b ........ ..... 4 4
The Hurdle Stake of 5 sovs, each, with 15 added, 12st each ;
winners extra. Gentlemen riders. Heats about three
quarters of a mile. 6 subs.
Mr. Beresford's Magpie, 5 yrs, 12st ....(Mr. Smith) 2 1 1
Mr. Crofton's The Fair Penitent, aged, 12st 61b 1 0 2
Mr. Luxmoore's Grisette, 6 yrs, 12st 4 0 3
Mr. Cudlip's Mary Ann, aged, 12st 121 b ..... . 3 2 4
Mr. Graham's Ranger, aged, 12st

LADY BROUGHAM'S ASSEMBLY.—On Wednesday
night her Ladyship had a brilliant assembly at the family
mansion in Grafton •street. Above 250 of the elite of society
met in the salons of her Ladyship. In the saloon the beau-
tiful tapestry presented to Lord Brougham by King Louis
Philippe, representing two hounds fighting over a dead boar,
was greatly admired, and on one of the tables in the same
apartment was displayed a valuable piece of porcelain, also a
souvenir from the King of the French, given to the Noble and
Learned Lord when recently in Paris for the Easter holidays.
Among the visitors we observed the Duke of Wellington,
Prince Wallerstein, Duke of Leeds, Duke of Richmond
and Lady Caroline Lennox, Marquis and Marchioness
of Normanby, his Excellency Prince Castelcicala, Mar-
chioness of Sligo and Ladies Browne, Marchioness Wel-
lesley and Miss M'Tavish, Earl of Shaftesbury, Lady
Harriet Corry, Earl and Countess of Rosebery, Viscount
and Lady Sarah Ingestre, Countess of ' Essex and
Lady Amelia Capel, Viscount and Viscountess Barrington
and Hon. Miss Barrington, his Excellency Baron de Cetto,
Countess of Clarendon, Lady Jane Grimston, Earl and Coun-
tess of Wicklow and Lady Harriet Howard, Sir John and
Lady Shelley, Lady Paget and Misses Paget, Lady Dufferin,
Earl of Auckland and Hon. Misses Eden, Hon. Capt. Eden,
Mrs. A. Montgomery and Miss Montgomery, Lady Clinton
and Miss Seymour, Hon. F. Leveson Gower, Lord Elphin-
stone, Lord Ernest Bruce, Countess of Charlemont and Ladies
Ponsonby, Hon. Spencer Ponsonby, Lady Elizabeth Palk,
Lady Lucy Vaughan, Mr. M. Milnes, 31-. P., Lady Graham,
Mr. Duff, air. S. De Horsey, M.P., and Miss de Horsey, Lord
and Lady Sondes and Hon. Miss Miller, Lord Ranelagh and
lion. Miss Jones, Countess of Jersey, Mr. and Mrs. Bradshaw,
Lord Beaumont, Sir T. Gage, Lord Henry Lennox, Baron
and Baroness Rothschild, Earl of Altamont, Lady Rolle, Lady
Charles Somerset and Hon. Miss Somerset,
Right lion.
George and Mrs. Dawson, Lord Redesdale, Mdlle. D'Este,
Lord Dudley Stuart.
CAPTURE OF OTTERS.—Yesterday, as some gentle-
men were fishing in Mr. Featherstonaugh's
thewateirs,taonnee oiLer a
brook, they sighted an otter, and with assistance
spaniel traced the fell spoiler a considerable way, till he
" treed" —a feat in which otters are not generally supposed to
indulge. Losing sight of him here, the piscat ors, by some
means, had their attention drawn to the tree, a decayed wil-
low, or "sally," close to the water's
edge, and having knocked
on its trunk, a purring or squealing noise from the interior
rewarded their research. The tree, a very rotten one, was
quickly cut into, and there, a few feet above the water, was
found the otters nest with three fine cubs, which were seized,
and are now in the possession of Mr. Featherstonaugh. The
otter breeds twice a year; the litter in this case was believed
to be the first of the season, and apparently about three
weeks old. Close to the tree were found a great quantity of
bones and fin parts of fish, among which were the remains of
a salmon, so that either the parent otter must travel all the
distance to Teme for prey, or else salmon have been recently
in Leigh brook. We are aware that 20 years ago a salmon
was caught still higher up, viz., beyond Starling's mill, but
none has been observed in the brook lately.— Worcester
Herald,

LITERATURE.
HISTORY OF IRELAND.
Strange, London, 1844.

Doctor Smiles, the-author of this History of Ire-
land, commences with the period immediately pre-
cre,iing the Anglo-Norman invasion, and closes with
the passing of the Catholic Emancipation Act, in the
memorable year 1829. Portions of his work are
wri:ten with considerable vigour of style; and his
sketches of the Irish Rebellion in 1798, and of the
debates that soon after followed in the House of Com-
mons respecting the projected union with England,
when the illustrious Grattan rose from the bed of
sickness, in order to protest in his place against that
project, are detailed at length in a careful and circum-
stantial spirit. The work is written in a commend-
able spirit of moderation; and the author justly ob-
serves in his preface, that " it is in no small degree
due to England's apathy and indifference as to her
fate, that Ireland's present sufferings are to be attri-
buted. When the English people and the English
Government know Ireland, they will give up attempt-
ing to govern her by the sword—that old and used-up
instrument of despots—and betake themselves to jus-
tice, emp oyi lg instead of the weapons of the soldier
and polio eman, the more powerful instrument of re-
dress."

REMEDIES SUGGESTE.I3 FOR THE PE-
RILS OF TH.4FATION
Sealey and Burnside.. 4.9ndon, 1844.
The spirit in which this volume is written is
highly commendable to the author, who exhibits him-
self throughout it in the amiable character of a
Christian and a philanthropist. After furnishing us
with his impressions respecting the present state of
the country, and lamenting the fierce hunger and
thirst for gain that more or less pervades every class
of the community, he proceeds to suggest remedial
measures for the distressing condition to which he
conceives the nation to be just now reduced. Fore-
most among his suggestions is one for lightening the
labour-market, which is good so far as it goes, but can
go but a little way towards diminishing the evils
complained of. The author also insists on the neces-
sity of a system of general education, which we, too,
have always strenuously advocated, though with no
very sanguine hopes of shortly seeing the day when
the system will be carried into execution. Of the
merits of the proposal for a cottage-allotment scheme,
we cannot speak with any confidence, for we do not
exactly see our way through the arguments em-
ployed by the author ; but we cordially agree with
him, that an amelioration of the new poor-law is de-
sirable, inasmuch as it contains a great deal that is
oppressive in its character, particularly as regards the
poorer classes of society, whose character it proposed
to elevate by instilling into them a horror of depen-
dence on public charity.

MAGAZINES (CONTINUED).
TAIT S MAGAZINE.

In his political article for the month, Tait, we are
sorry to perceive, speaks in terms of hostility to the
Ten Hours Factory Bill, adding, however, that " the
triumph of Lord Ashley and the advocates of that
bill, brief and precarious as it will in all likelihood
turn out to have been, belongs undoubtedly to the
class of great facts ; facts significant of the birth and
growth of new ideas." Alluding to the Irish State
prosecutions, Tait forcibly remarks :—" the Incar-
ceration of O'Connell will do more to make Repeal
serious and real, than two score more of monster-
meetings. It will make it a religion ; and there
never yet was a religion that was not ready with its
martyrs, as many as might be wanted." The "Spirit
of Aristophanes" is an intelligent criticism on some of
the leading plays of this great Greek comic dramatist.
" Episcopacy in Scotland," is a dry article on a dry
subject. We quote a description of " the Overlander,"
from a paper headed " Australian Sketches :"
The men recognised in Australia by this title, are such
as make it their calling to convey stock from the middle
districts to the new territories. They are a migratory.
class, and have seldom any fixed place of abode. They
are always changing, and always dissatisfied. When a
new country is opened, the Overlander is in the very hey-
day of spirit ; for he knows it will be a fortune to him.
He purchases flocks and herds in the Sydney districts,
and starts for the distant territory. The journey is
often one of no ordinary hazard : to traverse a country
little known, encumbered with many thousand sheep ;
where the difficulty of procuring water is often great ;
and where no one, unless possessed of great intelligence,
and accustomed to wander through desolate regions,
could thread his way. The Overlander, however, loves
such a life for the very excitement it affords ; and he
would not exchange with the easy and wealthy men of
Europe. In personal appearance, the Overlanders are
rough, dirty, half shaved, and ill-attired ; the stranger
would look upon them as of small repute in society, and
as ignorant and poor. How would he be surprised to
learn, that those men could tell down their twenty thou-
sand pounds ; that they claim kindred with the nobility
of Britain ; nay, more, that not a few of them could
correct a false quantity in Sophocles, and arc versed in
the literature of all ages. Many of them have travelled
over every country in the world, and acted their part in
the gaieties and frivolities of a continental life ; and
they pride themselves upon their knowledge of languages.
Some of them have been extensive merchants ;

others, army and navy officers ; others, pro-
fessional men ; but few of the Overlanders are of
mean extraction. Their business is not exactly confined
to the transmission of stock, although this is what they
prefer : they are likewise land speculators, and extensive
graziers. It is no uncommon thing for an Overlander to
hold stock in nearly every district of Australia ; some of
them have, also, thousands of acres of land in Australia
and New Zealand. When a new township is opened, the
Overlanders buy up the most promising town-lots, which
they hold until the town is fairly estaolished, and then
dispose of them at an advance of a thousand per cent.
Perhaps the most gigantic undertaking of the kind on
record was that of the first Overlanders, who carried
stock from New South Wales to South Australia. This
party started from the Port Phillip district soon after
the formation of the South Australian colony, about the
year 1837. The route was totally unknown, except
from the vague and conflicting accounts of the abori-
gines. The distance to be traversed was supposed to be
one thousand miles; which, encumbered by a large num-
ber of sheep, would make the journey tedious, even if
successful. Few expected to hear more of either the
party or the stock when they entered the wilderness.
Men shook their heads, and deemed it the rash act of
insanity ; yet, the party reached Adelaide in safety, al-
though strange to say, they were in more than one in-
stance indebted to the sagacity of the friendly natives in
their party, from being cut off, or perishing in the
wilderness."