The Sun.
London, England, 1829-11-10 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

TATTERSALL'S.

So thin was the attetyLnee, and so limited the betting,
that we need only refer to our Riper of Friday last for the
present state of the odds, aiding to them 40 to 1 agst
Air. Shard's De 'ere. There is some improvement in
Brunswieker, who was backed at 14 to 1 ; the same gen-
tleman who took them offering also to haztk him agst Cetus
for 500 even. The Mummer keeps steady at the head of
the list ; there were plenty of commissions to take S to 1,
but no bidders over 7to 1. Cetus declines a little in fa-
sour, without any palpable variation in the quotation.
As it is probable that Sir Mark 'Wood's lot may be backed
occasionally, it may be as well to state that it consists of
the Mummer, Cetus, and a co't by Middleton, dam by
Smolensko—Zoraida. 'We believe Sir Mark was once in
treaty for the Cressida colt, thinking, perhaps, to make
sure of the Derby, upon the same principle that the Irish-
man insured winning all the prizes in the Lottery, by
" buying all the tickets." The Leeway filly is in greater
force than last week, several who have laid the odds
against her evincing a strong desire to get out of it ; she
has been beaten twice, and they hedge to this by saying
that she stopped in both her races. This may possibly be
the case, but it does not appear to us that she ought to be
anywhere in the betting, even supposing she did show
such faint-heartedness.—At the sale in the yard Captain
Berkeley's f. Credulity was sold for 25 guineas, and Mr.
Greville's Blue Bonnet for 19 guineas ! ! In our last ac-
eount we stated the Nina colt at 25 to 1 ; it should have
been the Nina filly, and for the Oaks.

Prince GEORGE of Cumberland witnessed the
"Lord Mayor's Show" from the house of Messrs. RUNDE L L
and BRIDGE in Ludgate-street. His Royal Highness seemed
delighted with the pageant, and gracefully returned the sa-
lutations. of the different occupantrof the state carriages as
they passed. The interesting young Prince more than di-
vided the attention of the people with the great object of
their annual curiosity and admiration.

The Bth of November being the day impera-
tively fixed by the statute for swearing in the LORD MAYoa
elect in the city, previous to the same ceremony being per-
formed on the 9th at Westminster, the sheriff and city
officers met at the Mansion-house soon after the conclusion
of the morning service, and proceeded from thence to
Guildhall, where a Court of Aldermen was held. The
Court broke up at nearly three o'clock, and soon after the
Loan MAYOR, Lord Mayor elect, aldermen, sheriffs, city
officers, &c. entered the Hall and took their seats amidst
loud plaudits ; the usual oathsand declarations having been
administered to the Loan MAYOR elect by the town clerk,
the former immediately took possession of the civic chair,
which had been previously vacated by the Loan MAYOR
for the past year. As soon as his Lordship had taken his
seat, the venerable city chamberlain thrice approached the
table, bowing, and presented to the Loan MAYOR the
sceptre, the city purse, and seal ; in the same manner the
sword bearer acquitted hi inself, his Lordship returning the
sword to him again, as the proper depository thereof. The
ceremony having been concluded, the Loan MAYOR re-
ceived the hearty congratulations of his fellow-citizens.

An anecdote respecting Miss FANNY KEM-
BLE has been copied from a provincial Paper into some of
the London Papers, in itself highly improbable, and ac-
tually untrue ; but, like many other improbabilities and
untruths, it is founded in fact. We believe we are fully
authorised to give the following version of it as correct:—
"At the first rehearsal of Ronrea and Juliet, when Miss
KEMBLE assumed the attitude in question, a Gentleman
connected with the Theatre exclaimed, CANOVA !
CA-
NOVA !' After the rehearsal the young Lady said to Mrs.
KEMBLE, en badinage, Mother, did you see my CA-
NOVA?' "—lt is too absurd to suppose, that with all the
anxiety attending so novel and suddenly assumed a position,
and with the very rudiments of her new profession to
learn, a young person capable of showing the judgment as
well as talent Miss KEMBLE has evinced, should have
commenced her career by imitating CANovA's attitudes, or
doing any thing but accommodating her deportment to her
own ideas of the situation. Added to this, supposing the
story first given to be true, it may be worth while to ask,
from which of CANOVA'S sculptures is it pretended that the
study was taken ?
A detachment from WOMBWELL'S and
MORGAN'S collection of wild beasts, in four caravans, was
exhibited at Grimsby on Monday week and on Tuesday, on
their route from Hull towards the south. About feeding
time, in the evening of the latter day, an accident hap-
pened to one of the assistants, which so disconcerted the
nerves of the spectators that they flew out of the caravans
with great precipitation; and even the big drummer was
so affected that he was unable to labour in his thundering
vocation. The poor fellow hid placed a ladder against the
bars of the leopard's den, in order to amuse the company
by distributing fruit or biscuits amongst the smaller ani-
mals in the cages above, when the ladder suddenly slipped,
and in the struggle the man's hand fell within the mon-
ster's reach, who instantly seized it with great fury, and
though the keeper very promptly relieved him from his
perilous situation by sticking a hay-fork into the leopard's
nose, yet the injury he had sustained was so great as to
endanger the loss of his hand.— York Herald.

By the great number of prosecutions insti-
tuted by the French Government against the metropolitan
and provincial journals, it would appear, either that the
French Ministers are very despotic, or that the French
press is very ill-disposed. Every liberal political journal
in Paris, the Constitutionnel, the Journal des Debats,
the Courrier Francais, the Journal du Commerce, and
several of the smaller literary papers, have been cited on
different allegations to appear before the Court of Correc•
tional Police, where their editors may have the pleasure
of hearing their names called over, in conjunction with
those of drunken brawlers, or the nightly disturbers of the
peace. In the provinces, prosecutions have commenced
against the Precurseur de Lyons, the Sentinelle des
Deux-Sevres, the Indicateur de Bordeaux, the Journal
de Rouen, the Courrier de la Moselle, and others. A
considerable number of these provincial vexations have
been instituted for the publication of the Brittany project
for resisting illegal taxation, which, in Paris, has been
pronounced to be no offence.

The French Academy on Thursday elected
M. do la MARTINE, the celebrated poet, to fill the chair,
vacant by the death of Count DARu, author of the elabo-
rate history of Venice. The list of candidates for this
honour amounted at first to six or seven, (including the
names of M. SALVANDY, Count de BAssisro, and M.
PORGERVILLE), but the contest lay at last between Gene-
ral de SEGUR, author of the history of the Russian cam-
paign, and M. de la MARTINE. The number of acade-
micians who voted on this occasion was 33, of whom 19
declared for the poet, and 14 for the General. The
Academy could not have made a better choice, as, in con-
ferring an honour on M. de la MARTINE, it has conferred
a greater honour on itself. The Meditations Poctiques,
and some of the more recent poems of the new Acade-
mician, are known over all Europe, while few of the
works of his elder colleagues have established titles to
fame recognized as legitimate and lasting even by their own
countrymen. To him, therefore, it must have been a
matter of perfect indifference whether he obtained a seat
among the immortal FORTY or not, so long as he occupied
such an undisputed eminence on the French Parnassus ;
but it redounds highly to the character of the Academy to
have brought within its sphere such a brilliant reputation.
M. de la MARTINE is known as the founder of the new
or romantic school of French poetry, which has enrolled
among its disciples M. VICTOR HuGo, Count de VIGNY,
with others of. less note ; and among its admirers, a great
part of the educated youth of France.

Last week a man who stood in the range of
target firing, whilst the military were at exercise on the
Strand, was shot dead.—Limerick Chronicle.

A FUNNY OCCURRENCE.—During last week
the following circumstance has been the theme of conver-
sation in the good city of Lincoln :—" A tradesman, who,
to acquire business, is obliged occasionally to leave home
in the capacity of a Commercial Solicitor,' in the begin-
ning of the week started for a three days' journey : hav-
ing completed his engagements before he calculated he
should, he:returned home, unexpectedly and unlooked for,
his frail rib was, he supposed, locked in the arms of
Morpheus, and he with great care awoke her; she came
down, welcomed his return, and provided supper: being
fatigued, he soon retired to bed—scarcely had he closed
his eyes, than his wife complained of a violent attack of
the spasms, and implored him to fetch her some brandy:
with alacrity and affection he quickly obeyed her wish ;
he procured the brandy, and the servant at the public-
house said, I'll give you your change in the morning !'
What change ? I asked fur a shilling's worth ; I want no
change !' Yes, sir, you gave me. a sovereign." A
what?' A sovereign, Sir.' Impossible !' Again he
dipped, and found fourteen more in the same pocket.
4 By what magic is this effected—all my shillings turned
into sovereigns ?' The girl being of that notable class,
chambermaids, slily asked him if they were his own inex-
pressible.: The murder was out !'—he dashed the
brandy to the ground—flew to his home—the spasms were
better, but his small clothes gone. Oh ! for Don JUAN !"