The Sun.
London, England, 1828-03-17 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

RACES T
Warwick Spring ........ March 19
Pytchley Hunt ................... 19
Holderness Hunt ............... '24
Anson Hunt i..... 25
Cottesmore Hunt (Stamford) 26
Mallon 27
Mostyn Hunt 31
Croxton Park April 2
Newmarket Craven
Catterick Bridge 9
Bath Spring l6
Newmarket First Spring .....
Chester ' May 5
Newmarket Second Sprit:g 5
York Spring Meeting l2
Hambleton Hunt l3
Clifton and Bristol l3
Kelso l5 '
Epsom 20
Manchester 28
Ascot Heath June 3
Buxton
Cheltenham 1;l;

CO COME. ,
) Bibtiry .June IS
Haigh Park 2.,
Bath and Bristol
' Newmarket Jul) 7
Newcastle-on-Tyne 7
' Stamford
Knuttiford 'it
York August Meeting.... Aug. F,
Wolverhampton ll
Goorlwood
Stockton l4
Burton-upon-n(1 ft 'ii
Warwick................... Sept. ~Lichfield .............
Northampton
Abingdon f 0
Doncaster l.,
Tewkesbury I;,
Newmarket 21
Heaton Park - 9l,
Perth Oct. 4
Newmarket 1:1
Newmarket Houghton 'Zi'

HUNTING APPOINTMENTS
FOR' THE 'PRESENT WEEK.
The H. H., meet on Tuesday, at Matterly Cate; Tli urq-
day, at Medsted Green ; Saturday, at Bentley Green—
at 10.

The Hambledon Hounds, on Wednesday, at Southwick
Park ; Friday, at St. Margaret's—half-past 10.
N. F.H.—Mr. Nieholl's Hound,,, on Thursday, at °wet-
Bridge ; Saturday, at Shoe, Plaitford—half-past 10.
The Vine Hounds, on Thursday; at Wolverton Church ;
Saturday, at Maplederwell Hatch-10.
Mr. Osbaldeston's Hounds, on Thurssday, at Harlqoae
Hall; Friday, at Cold Ashby—half-past 10.
The Duke of Graf eon's Hounds, on Wednesday, at Castle
Thorp—half-past ten.
The Oakley Hounds, on Tuesday, at. Yardley Cha>e ;
Saturday, at Easton Wood—half-past 11.
The Quorn Hounds, on Wednesday, at Barden Hail;
Thursday, at Oakley Wood ; Friday, at Great Dalby-1 1.

THE RING.—FIGHTS TO COME.
March 18.—Dick, Acton and Jack Nicholls,
257. a side.
March 25.-:—Harr3,, Jones and Bill Savage, 257. a side.
April 2.—80 b Castles and Paddy Flynn, 25/. s;jle.
April B.—Brown and Sampson, 2507. a side, half way
between Birmingham and- Bridgenorth.
April B.—Piefinch and Young Cas, 100/. a side—same
ring.
April B.—Dobell and Bailey, 1001. a side.
April 14.—Ned Savage And Kirkman, 25gs. to 26/,
April 15.-111‘Carthy and Ballard, 257. a ide.
April 29.—Ned Neal and Baldwin, 2501. a side.
May 27.—Jem Ward and Carter, 50/. a side.
PREPOSTEROUS FASHIONS.

For the benefit of our female readers we have in-
serted an article from the Spectator, which might al-
most pass for a production of the present day, were
there any living writer whose style could be Mis-
taken for that of ADDISON. Its satire is wonder-
fully applicable to the modern head-dresses, vhich
like " coming events, cast their shadows before"—
and it shews by a reference to the days of Juvi
NAL, that these monstrosities, like comets, return
periodically, to alarm the pout' inhabitants" of
earth. The dirtingue air of the PAGET or the BRIT-
DRNEus may carry off any thing; but our fair
countrywomen as a body, can scarcely venture to
take the same liberties, even with theie 'acknow-
ledged beauty.

-Tanta est goirreniii Cola deco) is.
Jt.v. Sat. ri. ver. 50d.
So studiously their persons they adorn. • -
There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's
head-dress. Within my own memory I have known it
rise and fall above thirty degrees. About ten years ago it
shot up to a very great height, insomuch that the female
part of our species were much taller than the men. The
women were of such an enormous stature, that we appeared
as grasshoppers before them. At present the whole sex
is in a manner dwarfed and shrunk into a race of beauties
that seem almost another species. I remember several La-
dies, who were once very near seven feet high, that at
present want some inches of Aye. How they came to he
thus curtailed I cannot learn ; whether the whole sex he
at present under any penance which we know nothing of,
or whether they have cast their head-dresses in order to
surprise us with something in that kind whirls shall be en-
tirely new ; or whether some of the tallest of the sex, be-
ing ton cunning for the rest, have contrived this method to
make themselves appear sizeable, is still a secret ; though
find most are of opinion, they are at present like trees new
lopped and pruned, that will certainly sprout up and flou-
rish with greater heads than before. For my own part,
as I do not love to be insulted by women who are taller
than myself, I admire the sex much snore is \ their present
humiliation, which has reduced them to their natural -di-
mensions, than when they had extended their persons, and
lengthened themselves out into, formidable and gigantio
figures. lam not for adding to the beautiful edifices of
nature, nor for raising any whimsical superstructure upon
her plans ; I must therefore repeat it, that I am highly
pleased with the coiffure now in fashion, and think it
shows the good sense which at present very much reigna
among the valuable part of the sex. One may observe that
women in all ages have taken more pains than men to
adorn the outside of their heads ; and, indeed, I very much
admire, that those female architects, who raise such won-
derful structures out of ribands, lace, and wire, have not
been recorded for their respective inventions. It is certain
there has been as many orders in these kinds of building, as
is those which have been made of marble. Sometime,
they rise in the shape of a pyramid, sometimes like a tower..
and sometimes like a steeple. In dievegars time the build-
ing grew by several orders and stories, as he has very ha,
asourously described it. •

Tot-rem:l ordinihns, 10l adhuc compagibus
fEdrficat caput : Andromachen a
.fronte videbis ;
Post minor est : Allan credos.

• Juv. Sat. vi. ~-er. 50i, • With curls on curls they build her head befote
And mount it with a formidable tow'r : .
A giantess she seems ; but look behind,
And then she dwindles to the pigmy kiud.—Darrri,N.
But I do not remember in any part of ,my read',„g,
that
the head-dress aspired to so great an extravaianee as ii,
the fourteenth century, when it was built up' in a couple
appeared like a colossus upon put-
ting of cones or spires, which stood so excess.viely high on each
crape
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pointed
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fteneoredndh Monsieurtaeitaniokdge-t
oeshsl r tesi.:oBtes:efeppisies3a.
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trnosh:::;:t:iillieic:ll4
headig. Thatwloo:
es
ettlehl these
coettoisi
sl,
etoil;-fr.
side of the head, that a Woman wlao was but a pygmy
fringed, and hung down their backs like streamers."
The women might possibly have carried this grAthie
building much higher, had not a famous monk, Thomas
Conecte by name, attacked it with great zeal and reach,.
tios. This holy man travelled from place to place to
preach down this monstrous commode ; and succeeded so
well in it, that as the magicians sacrificed their books to
the flames upon the preaching of an apostle, many of the
women threw down their head-dresses in the n.iddle of his
sermon, and made a boss-fire of them within sight of the-
pulpit. He was so renowned, as well for the sanctity of
his life as his manlier of preaching, that he had often a "
The woun'in that, like
con-
gregation of twenty thousand people ; the men placing
themselves on the one side of his pulpit, and the women on
the other, that appeared (to use the similitude of an Inge- •
nious writer) like a forest of cedars with their heads remis-
ing to the clouds. He so warmed and animated the people
against this monstrous ornament, that it /ay under a kind,
of persecution, and, whenever it, appeared in public, virus
pelted down by the rabble, who flung stunts at. the peraubs,
that wore it. But, notwithstanding this prwilgy oauje
Jed
while the preacher was among them, it began to e,„pen
I.
again'some months after his departure, or, v., t, Lll
LH it in
shot them nut
time
eallL observed, that
of laws
again as soon as the danger Was over. ' Phis
extravagance
of the women's head-dresses in fiat aP. e is taken notice of bs
Monsieur d'Argeutre, in the his. 0,..,
) of Bretaone, and by
other historians, as well as
sAniaoiillsSiiCnUra Pfriagrhatd,ihna'.ds odsrma
drawn
oirnd s,
their
i.
11,,
o:4e person I have here quoted,
good reign is the only
o
attacked the. Insist effectually when the fashion is
saagainst the exorbitance
in the same 'manner an excessive bead-dress
against it. I (10, -b,erefore recommend this paper to myfes male readers by way of prevention.
I wouisiksire the fair sex to consider how impossible it
is far them to add any thing that • can he ornamental to
what is already the master-piece of nature. The head has
the Most li ..oantiiiil appearance, as well as the highest sta-
tion:in a human figure. Nature has laid out all her art in
:proper
p ooyl It
bewrei
es r ;
beautifying the face ; she has touched it with vermillion,
planted in it a double row of-ivory, made it the seat of
smiles and blushes, lighted it up and enlivened it with the
brightness of the eye, hung it on each side with curious
argana of sense, given it airs and graces that cannot be de-
scribed, and surrounded it with such a flowing shade of
hair, as sets all its beauties in the most agreeable light. la
short, sheseems to have designed the head as the cupola to
the most glorious of her works; and when we load it with
such a pile of supernumerary ornaments, we destroy the
symmetry of the human figure, anti foolishly contrive to
call off the eye from great and real tesauties, to childislk
,7eW-gaws, ribands, and bone-lace, i__