The Sun.
London, England, 1828-05-24 00:00:00

The rest as before.

In order to keep up the fashion, there were five tape
starts, and much time was lost. At last they came away,
Ruby in front, and making the running at a tremendous
pace; Lestelle, Zoe, and Delta followed her very well, and
the others in the rear. They rattled along at tip-top
speed, and without much change among the above; they
came half way between the distance, where Zoe was beat
off and Turquoise took her place. The struggle then as-
sumed an interesting appearance between Ruby, Turquoise,
Lestelle, and Delta. Turquoise soon got up to Ruby, and
improved her pace, passed her, and won easy by two lengths
Ridicule was beat early in the race ; Trampoline was done
np before she reached Tottenham corner ; Rosalia dropped
her running early, and the rest were expeditiously tailed
off. The winner was rode by John Dav in that steady ju-
dicious style which we have often noticed. Ruby was rode
by Wheatley, Zoe by Robinson, Rosalia by G. Edwards,
Ridicule by Arnnll, Trampoline by 11. Edwards, Delta by
S. Day, Zelinda by Pavia, Lestelle by Lear, Lisette by
Goodison, Varnish by Dockery, Olympia by Curtis, Alad-
din by young Buckle, and Sarah by W. Scott.
The value of the stakes to his Grace the Duke of Graf-
ton is 2,1501. The result was totally unlooked for, and is
a floorer to the layers of odds.
The Town Plate of 50/. ; 8 yrs, tist. 71b. ;
4 yrs, 9st.
21b. ; S yrs, flit. 91b. ; 6 yrs and aged, 9st. A wtoPer
in 1828 to carry 31b. ; twice, 51b. ; thrice, 71b. era.
The winner to be sold, with his engagements, for NO
sous. if demanded, &c. Heats two miles.
Lord Mounteitarles's c. Coronet, 3 yrs 1 7 1
i
Mr. Stanley's ch. h. Thales, 5 yrs I 2
Mr. Bacon's b. c. Forfeit, 5 yrs
Mr. Pearce's ch. f. Tramp, 3 yrs
Mr. Messer's bl. c. Whim, 4, yrs
Rr
In the first heat Thales made all the runnjw,_cithi won
cleverly. In the second he also made the ..ee till within
a short distance, when Coronet cant'.-41 and beat him
cleverly. The third heat two w.— tSY Coroset by a length,
after a good race. In the first heat, Coronet was rode by
T. Oliver (not the pugilist), and in the other two by W.
Lear, who displayed good jockeyship. Thales VMS jockied
by by a lad, and
Whim Fran
bky Boyce,.Lroay .ForTfehiterbey.
IDvaiockaecrayrce, Tlyraamnpy
betting, the
ring having been broken up after the Oaks ; but Thales
was the favourite.

The Woodcot Park Stakes of 10 cove. each, and 10 added
from the Racing Fund, for 3-yr-olds and upwards.—
The last half mile.
Mr. Crosby's br. h. Logic, aged, Bst. 121 b 1
Lord Normanby's b. h. Tarandus, aged, 9st. 121 b.
Mr. Rawlinson's b. na. Resemblance, 5 yrs, 6st.
Mr. Beardsworth's bl. c. Frederick, 3 yrs, fist. 111 b 4
Tarandus the favourite. After a false start they came
off nearly abreast, at a fine pace ; Logic soon got in front,
and continued so all the way home, winning a good race
by a length ; it is thought that if he had gone another 100
yards, he would not have won. He was rode by Dockery ,•
Tarandus, by W. Scott ; Resemblance, by ravis ; and
Frederick, by Lear.
The same report which is annually circulatep th s
d in the
towns and villages adjacent to Epsom, was re aced
year, to its prejudice—viz., that it is nut capable of nal'd
i
ing lodgings for the occasion, and that the charges were
exorbitant. As this prevented many stopping there, we
think it but justice to say, that there were
lodgings more
than sufficient for the occasion, and at not higher charges
than the neighbouring places.

THE FANCY.
We here present our readers with a few fancy freaks of
the fag end of yesterday. In the first place, Jem Savage
and Kirkman, whose match has become nearly a standing
one, announced that they would once more see lehrch was
the hest. In consequence the ringleaders tnade ;: more to
a valley just over the hill. A place, as our " men of
honor" say, " sufficiently retired for such a I-11-pose."
After waiting there for the space of about a three- quarters
of an hour, and depositing about ten quid in ti:. hands
of the Collector-General, Stockman, the spectator had at

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satisfaction of seeing the man at the scratch'. The liakfi
was announced as 101. a-side. The seconds wee duly it
pointed, Dick Curtis kept time, and everybody kept the
ring, which was thronged by a large portion of Adsra.s
family, and properly adorned by reporters, who were tsot,
however, the only note-takers. The men set-ts,
their boasted taking qualities were concentrated in whio9
time, for that was all they did take except the purse. Afar
about twenty minutes catching-hold, hitting open-haniel
and letting each other down comfortably, Savage beces
suddenly ill, apparently overcome by his prospect of vi'
ning, and all the yells and laughter of the ring could od
bring him up more than once after it, in order probabil
to show his game, and he came up only to De
instantly sent down. Time was called again ;
stood up, and put his baVils up to his ears. Kirkman'
seeing he did not come to Ole scratch, threw up his Or
cond's hat, and walked off. The fancy followed his f_;,
ample, cursing the prize ring, which nothing but OP
deplorable humbug could ever deprOciate•
SPRING'S TURN-UP WITO SAMPSON.
While the above was going on, Tom' Spring
Sampson had a turn-up in a booth. • Th,'Y
met acctu
tally. Spring complained of Sampson's ULNa'anlY tanlll,,
ing him. Sampson retorted, and they wen, 4. to wortol,
The booth was full, and they had a tumble in te ``e cco hi'
and were parted without mischief. Spring decla.
re
determination to lick Sampson wherever they met,
had challenged him (Spring) in many public places a ,
respectable companies, and now refused to fight him,
elt:
the ring. 'ln the scuffle that ensued, we heard tbst
Spring was hit by snore than one or two of Samperdn
party. His friend Jack Martin was en the course, lAA no
with him, or he would most probably have had a hand in it'
Ould Jack Scroggini and Joe Fishwick tried to help
him, but numbers and sticks were overpowering. Spria
challenged him to fight on the course but Sampson declind''

CULTURE AND USES OF POTATOES,

At the weekly breakfast, given by the President of tbt
Royal Society, on the Ist inst. Sir John Sinclair resoleitec2
permission to lay before the Meeting a statement' of 0'
objects he had in view, in wishing that public attentil
should be more steadily directed than heretofore it 1331'
beeu, to the Culture and Uses of Potatoes; azd having
produced specimens of Potatoe Meal and of the Ewints TNY
tatoes, he proceeded shortly to explain how these tsrsosuir
stances were prepared, and to what purposes they we! l*.
spectively applicable.

POTATOE MEAL.
In preparing potatoe meal, no material part of the WO
is lost. The whole, after being merely scraped or peeled,
is cut into very thin slices,
.then carefully dried in ad
kiln or stove, and afterwards ground into meal in a.cosse
mon mill. The advantages of this process are—
I. SECURITY FOR SUBSISTENCE.—As potatoes are
very precarious crop, and cannot be preserved in their ns'
tural state, beyond a few months after they are dug I
any country in which they form the chief sustenance of the.
people must, according to the present system, be extremely
liable to scarcity. But when dried and converted int°.
meal, potatoes may be preserved for a long period of tio
and the abundant crop of one season may thus be made e`'
compensate for the scanty produce of another.
2. INCREASE OF FOOD FROM THE SAME QUANTITY" Or
LAND.—Where a family depends entirely on their potatoet
garden for food, such dependence necessarily leads to gre3
waste. The potatoe is seldom ready for consumption l
fore the month of October, and frequently it becomes utO
for food before the month of June or JUIT. The familP
however, being obliged to live on their potatoes through.;
out the year, have no recourse but to consume one part
the crop after it has lost much of its nutritious prepertlet
and another part before it is thoroughly ripe. in
way, prolsably, one-sixth of the whole crop is wasted.
as the potatoes may be always converted into meal, 147131`
in their greatest perfection, this waste may be preventtl
and the same quantity of land will thus produce one-sii',
part more of wholesowne nourishment at all times ready i`r
consumption.
,die
3. PREVENTION OF DISEASE.—The unwholesome ‘•'
to which a population, dependent wholly on potatoes,
obliged to have recourse during the months intervening r
twcen the decay of the old crop, and the thkvough riper
ing of the new, causes typhus and other diseases of a rose
infectious and fatal kind. But these diseases would
great measure disappear, were the necessity for using-11)!,
unwholesome food, which principally occasions them,
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longer to exist.
whTenhecolomwparraedte
,avtitivhoich
therpoarttaitcolese mofeahl canuman
fboeodsurrilve,w.
from grain, appears from the following result of the Of
periments made by General Dimn, in Dumfries-shires t:
ascertain their relative proportions :---Wheat, two and
,'
quarter ; Oatmeal, one and a half; Barley Meal, one 004"
a quarter ; Potatoe Meal, one per pound.

POTA TOE FARINA.
The! mode of extracting farina from the potatoei
to separate by grating, straining and repeated washine
the mealy from the coarse and fibrous part of the roof'
The former, which contains the moat nourishing pesstior''
of the root, is then dried, and becomes exactly in sr
pearances like wheaten flour. The fibrous part marl
employed for making coarse bread or other useful purrs 's*
The advantages of this process are—
I. IMPROVEMENT IN BREAD MADE FROM INFESO";
WHEATEN Fr.ourt.—Flour produced from inferior soil',
exposed to unfavourable seasons, is deficient in that intrri
taut article, the gluten ; but, by a mixture of the jelly
the potatoe, bread as light in texture, and as nutritious
quality, may be produced, as from flour of the finest qua;
lity ; the gluten, in which inferior wheat is defective,lbei*' .
supplied by the farina.
2. GREATER QUANTITY OF NOURISHMENT raorit .11°
SAME EXTENT OF SOIL.—An acre of land, in polish'
will produce shout
2700 lbs. weight of farina ; wpere.;
an acre of land in wheat will not produce 1550 lbs. weigh,
of flour. It is evident, therefore, that in proporeio ad-
farina is used instead of wheat in the composition of bre3_,'
the country will become capable of supporting a gresw;
population, and be rendered more independent of fi-treig
nations for subsistence.
Sir John proceeded to mention many other valoabl
webs,
Nchtiheeh pitreseepamraedtiortioofb:::::
uses to which potatoes may be applied, as the rearing In
en gt
upon,f weavers'w e those
fattening of domestic animals, the manufacture of RIO"'
dyes, adding, however, that the points he hitt
important to illustrate, •
theread dyredsswi

PARIS, MAY 21.—(From a private letter)
—Mr. KEA N was to have played Othello again last oigb4
bat on Sunday he was taken ill, and Miss SstunsoS
also seriouslx indisposed, so that it was necessary to
what the French call a Ilelache. This disappointine°l
however, could not have caused loss to the managers fot
am sorry to say that up to the morning of Monday, ,11,
before it was announced that Mr. KEAN would not Pi'
there were not six boxes taken. lie is advertised for ight
lock to-morrow night ; but it will probably, in the totir;
mation of the French, prove a failure. Miss Sstrrgle
is a great favourite in Portia, and a decent house noYtbe
expected. Mademoiselle Mans is quite delighted with for
idea of her journey to London ; and as she has atoned the
her general dislike of the English by her kindness to el.
English actors in Paris, I hope she will be well receive'
Madame PIS A RON', of the Italian Opera, is not to
England this season, nor will Madame MAL/.0"t0
GA ECU ; the English have, therefore, some novelty
look forward to.

BIRTHS.
On the 28th tilt., at Naples, the lady of Captain Pile°,
Hay, Royal Navy, of a son.
On the 18th inst., at Hawthorn Lodge, near Caster'the lady of Charles O'Malley, jun., Esq., of a eon.

MARRIED.
On the 22d inq., at Tottenham Church, by the it'd
Laurence GwYnne, 8.A., the Rev. Markland Barns!
B.A. of Trinity College, Cambridge, and IncumbOt ra
St. Peter C('lneY, to Emma, second daughter of Lauren
Gvorn"e, Es 9., LL.D., of Teignmouth, Devon.
On the 19th inst., at Winchester, Thomas B.
bridge/ Esq., of lioxton, to miss Alfrey.

DIED.
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On the 22d inst., in the Bth year of his age, To- ei
Richard, the youngest son of Thomas Beckett, 540
Russell-place, Fitzroy-square.
On the 23d inst., Mr. Andrew H. Cohen, aged
od'
second son of Judah Cohen, Esq., of Leman-street, G°
man's-fields : a young man of unblemished character 3120
amiable disposition, beloved by his family, esteemed by
friends, and regretted by all who knew him. • bxra
On the 23d inst., at Dartford, the lady of Ric
Coke, Esq., after a long and painful illness, which "
bore with Christian patience and resignation.
On the 224 inst., at his residence in Belgrave-strceto the
Right
thHon. Lord Forester. „_,Act
n e 21st inst., in Sloane•street, Lieut.-CoL
late of the 48th Regiment.
On the 21st inst., William, fourth son of the late it
Hewitt, Esq., of Muswell-hill.

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