The Sun.
London, England, 1845-12-09 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

TAYIERSALL'S'—YEsTnunAv.
About a dozen subscribers looked in in the course of the
afternoon, and a disposition to back Brocardo, Humdrum,
and Fancy Boy, was shown in more quarters than one.
Hoorrah and Vanish were also in request, but the layers
were not "i' the vein." The nature and extent of the busi-
ness will be gathered from the following quotations :

THE DERBY.
7 to 1 agst Lord E. Russell's Sting.
15 to 1 agst Gen. Shubrick's Brocardo-16 to 1 t. freely.
30 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Ginger—taken.
30 to 1 agst Mr. Ramsey's Malcolm.
35 to 1 agst Mr. O'Brien's The Traverser—taken.
40 to 1 agst Sir J. Hawl's Humdrum—taken "to 35/.
40 to 1 agst Mr. D. Cooks Fancy Boy—taken to 1001.
40 to 1 agst Mr. Bowes's Hoorrah—take 45 to 1.
OARS.
25 to 1 agst Mr. Preston's Osprey—taken to 201. -
Offers to take 15 to 1 about Vanish.

EXTRAORDINARY MATCH AGAINST TIME.—Mr.
Liley, a gentleman well-known in the sporting world, has
undertaken, for a bet of 100/., to ride, in saddle, on the
turnpike-road, from the Star Hotel,Newmarket, to the Angel
Inn, Islington, and return to Newmarket, within twelve
hours. The match will come off on Monday next.
itEPORTING.—In connexion with the report of the
excellent addresses delivered at the great demonstration on
Thursday, of the opinions of a very large majority of the
citizens of Bath, and which will be found in our columns
this week, we would call the attention of our readers to a
fact indicative of a reform in other matters as well as in the
corn-laws. By the kindness of Mr. I. Pitman, of this city,
whose systems of writing and printing by sound have made
such astonishing progress in all parts of the kingdom, we are
enabled to give nearly a verbatim report of the excellent
speech of R. Cobden, Esq., and which our compositors have
set up from Mr. Pitman's phonographic notes, there being
no necessity for their transcription. With all other systems
of shorthand writing, not only was there never known such
a thing as a reporter passing over to the compositor his notes
of a speech, an hour and a quarter in the delivery, but he
is often unable to decipher them himself. All that was ne-
cessary in this case, Mr. Pitman has assured us, was to give
the speech one reading the next morning—which he found
as easy a task as to sit and listen to the speaker, while he
dropped the consonant outlines of his words on paper—and
fill in a few vowels. We are convinced that we shall, in a
few years, by this invaluable system, save all that immense
amount of toil which our present reporters have to undergo
in deciphering and transcribing their notes for the press.—
Bath Journal. _ _

TETE DANGER OF EATING MuscLEs.--Yesterday
morning, between eight and nine o'clock, Mr. de Sandels, a
foreign gentleman, residing in Dean-street, Soho, was attacked
with alarming symptoms, caused by eating profusely of mus-
cles that had not been properly cleansed. his body and head
were swollen to a frightful size. Medical assistance was ob-
tained,' and antidotes administered, hut, though out of imme-
diate danger, doubts are entertained of his ultimate recovery.
Mr. De Sandels had partaken of two quarts of muscles, and
neglected to deprive them of their beards.