The Sun.
London, England, 1845-04-30 00:00:00

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E SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL 30, 1845.

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
Madame Castellan appeared here last evening as Adina, in
d'Amore, that delightfully light and elegant Opera
Buffa of Donizetti. She was most successful, and has fairly
proved her claim to occupy the position which was formerly
held by Madame Persiani. Her duet in the second act with
Lablache (whose Dulcamara was a rich bit of drollery) was
beautifully given, and was encored as a matter of course.
She sang the whole of the music with clearness, precision,
facility, and brilliancy, and her acting was delightful—
coquettish, sportive, espiegle, and intelligent. She was the
very Adina of the author. She was excellently supported by
Co relli, whose Nemo-in* was excellent. He gave the celebrated
" Una furtiva lagrima" delightfully, and was rewarded by a
unanimous encore. Between the acts of the opera we had
Les Vennoises, whose performances are as wonderful and as
attractive as ever, and afterwards Lucille Grahn appeared in
Kaya. This was the last evening of the sole reign of the
classical Lucille Grahn as the deesse of this theatre. On
Thursday, Cerito and her husband, St. Leon, make their
first appearance for the season. The house was crowded
with the elite of the fashionable world.
There were present the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge,
the Duke and Duchess of Mecklenburgh Strelitz, Prince
George of Cambridge, attended by Baron Knesebeck and
Mr. Mildrnay. The Queen Dowager's box was occupied by
Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, the Earl Brownlow,
the Hon. Miss Mitchell, and the Honourables Misses
Cust and Mr. Hudson. The Duke and Duchess of Beaufort,
the Duchess of Hamilton, the Marquises of Ailesbury, Douro,
Worcester, Lansdowne, Sligo, Claaricarde, Granby, and
Huntly ; the Marchionesses of Douro, Wellesley, and Miss
M"l'avish ; Baron and Baroness Brunnow ; Count Kielman-
segge ; the Earls of Lonsdale, Liverpool, Jersey, Falmouth,
Wilton, Bective, Munster, Shelburne, and Kenmare ; the
Countesses Breadalbane and Shelburne; Lords Brougham,
Charles Wellesley, Aylmer, Petre, Templetown, William
Beresford, Vaughan, and Ernest Bruce ; Ladies Charles
Wellesley, Georgiana Curzon, Aylmer, Vaughan, Wombwell,
Joddrell, Pym, and Fremantle ; Baroness Rothschild ; the
Honourables James M'Donald and R. Curzon ; Mr. and Mrs.
Carew ; General Upton ; Conti Koudriaffsky ; Sirs H. Wil-
loughby, A. Barnard. William Fremantle, C. Grant, H.
Pym, A. Douglas, H. Webb, and C. Kent ; Captains Lyon
and Cuddy ; and Count Louis de Noailles, &c.

Mr. Newton's Ma Mie, yrs
Mr. J. Drake's Anonyme; 5 yrs, and Lord W. Powlett's
Eclogue, 4 yrs, also ran. sto 2 on Sorella, who took the
running from Anonyme at the B.M. post, had it all to her-
self, and won by twenty lengths.
The races were brought to a close shortly after four o'clock,
having, as our return will show, afforded some very superior
sport. The ring was formed in the town as usual, but to no
purpose, not a bet having been laid at the time our parcel
was made up.
(RECEIVED THIS DAY.)
NEWMARKET SECOND SPRING MEETING.
TUESDAY.—Sir J. llawley's Bishop of Romford's Cob,
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THURSDAY.—CoI. Peel's Garry Owen, 844 711), n:"!., Lord.
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ANNE HATHAWAY; or, SHAKSPEARE IN
LOVE. By Emma Severn.
No man has been more celebrated, yet less
known than the bard of Avon ' • scarcely any details of
his private life have reached our days, while the
bright inspirations of his genius will be known and
admired through all time. One of the few events
which history has recorded is his marriage, at the
early age of eighteen, with Anne Hathaway, the
daughter of a yeoman of Stratford, then in her
twenty-sixth year. This lays the foundation of the
tale before us—the rest is the work of fancy. Though
bearing a name so celebrated, professing to chronicle
the adventures of persons so renowned, it is in reality
a work of fiction, not a history of the poet. The
"gentle Willie" is its hero, not the immortal Shaks-
peare. We may congratulate the authoress on this
discrimination ; people have ceased to fancy a poet a
different being from other mortals; yet we have all
some indi,tinct, undefined idea of Shakspeare—he is
like a mighty wizard, " perceiving all, yet watching
unperceived ; he knows our thoughts and feelings,
unveils the secret recesses of our hearts, we are
awed by his power, and spell-bound by his genius.
He is our ideal hero, joined in our minds with all that
is grand or sublime—then, should some daring hand
seek to disturb the mysteries of the past, and to show
us the great poet, only as a man, we should regard the
deed as profanation. Anticipating such objections,
the authoress has left the poet untouched, ai.d only
showed us the ardent and high-spirited youth, such as
Shakspeare must have been. Being a tale of do-
uestic life, it has little variety of incident or adven-
ture, but as a compensation we find a series of
highly-finished portraits, rendered more forcible
by their combination. The calculating, avari-
cious character of the old lawyer, supposed to have
been his master, contrasts admirably with the generous
independence of the young poet, and the picture
of Anne Hathaway tends to remove our
objections to Shakspeare's ill-assorted marriage ;she is
described as a thoughtful, enthusiastic girl, yet ren-
dered wise by longer experience, and consequently
better suited to associate with him who was so much
above all others. We have one scene from the life
of Elizabeth, where she appears in a new and unusual
light. —her character drawn with softer touches than
historian ever used. We here behold her, not as an

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agst Semiseria 33 to 1 agst Counsellor
agst Fitz-Allen 40 to 1 agst Sorella
agst Obscurity 1,000 to 15 agst Pride of Kil-
agst Queen of Tyne. dare (t)
agst The Era (t) 1,000 to 15 agst Beatrice
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DERBY.
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2 to 1 agst Alarm 1,000 to 15 agst Fitz-Allen (t)
No others mentioned.

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1,000 even was betted that Idas beats all the other horses
.hat were engaged in the Two Thousand Guineas Stakes.

OAKS.
123 to 1 agst Stamp.

3 to I agst Kent's lot
16 to 1 agst Miss Elis
ENTRIES FOR WEDNESDAY.
B. C. Plate—John. o'Gaunt and Plantagenet.
The Handicap and Selling Stakes did not fill.
One Thousand Guineas Stakes ( Thursday)—As-you-like-it
is scratched.
Newmarket Stakes (Friday)—Winchester is expected to-
morrow. Old England is declared not to start.

DRURY-LANE THEATRE.
Miss Rainforth took her benefit, here last evening, and, as
might have been expected, the house was a bumper. The
opera of Fidelio was the piece chosen for the occasion, the
fair bent &hire appearing as the heroine, Staudigl, the prince
of bassos, taking the character of Pizarro. He was received
with the utmost enthusiasm, and sang and acted magnifi-
cently. Miss Rainforth's Fidelio was exceedingly beautiful ;
as a piece of vocalization it was most tasteful, and as a piece
of acting exquisite. We have never before seen her exhibit
so much intensity of feeling as she did last evening. She
was called for at the fall of the curtain, and greeted with a
complete shower of bouquets. A concert followed, in the
course of which a very successful debut was made by Herr
Oberheffer, a new German barytone.

THE COFFEE HOUSE-KEEPERS'
ASSOCIATION.-ANNIVERSARY DINNER.

The eighth anniversary of the above Association was
held last evening, at the London Coffee-house, Ludgate-
hill. The chair was taken by Mr. Alderman Sydney,
one of the sheriffs of the City, supported by General Sir
De Lacy Evans, D. W. Wire, Esq., J. Curtain, Esq.,
Treasurer of the Institution, and several other gentlemen.
Dinner was served at six o'clock, and put on the table
in a style reflecting the highest credit on Mr. Lovegrove.
The viands and wines were of the most excellent quality.
The cloth having been removed, and Non Nobis
Domino sung,
The CHAIRMAN gave the health of her Majesty, which
was drank with great enthusiasm.
The remaining loyal toasts were then given and re-
sponded to with the utmost warmth.
The CHAIRMAN then proposed the toast of the " Army
and Navy," coupling with it the name of General Sir De
Lacy Evans. In doing this he alluded to the exploits of
the Gallant General in Spain, and congratulated the
members of the Association upon their having amongst
them so honourable and distinguiahed a guest.—(Hear.)
The toast was drank with all the honours, and amidst
loud cheers.

imperious sovereign, but as a woman. The " Great
Queen" has had many admirers, and many enemies,
to give her praise, flattery, or reproach ; but who
would offer her sympathy Q Yet it is in the touching
character of one claiming sympathy with her sorrows
that the authoress seeks to excuse the faults of this
not fairness woman.
" If, indeed, as has been eloquently said, she lived but
for conquest and display ;' if she, indeed, thought in-
finitely less of bringing a sister queen to the block, than
of failing to make an impression on a gentleman usher,'
not unto her name wholly be the sin or the shame ;
with the crown of her inheritance she won a fearful gift
of error and weakness The heartless levity of her
mother's spirit, the obstinate recklessness of her father's
will, were the needful and perilous adjuncts to her hope-
less isolation on a throne. Shut out from the blessings
of human sympathy, the dangers of her early life bad
cast her lot with Ishmael, to exist essentially alone. To
live with an enemy is perhaps the bitterest curse ma-
lignancy need wish to a hated foe ; even to abide over
long on the defensive, perverts the understanding,
tramples on high thoughts ana crushes the whole soul
into the mire of mean selfishness. Perhaps there is no
woe like unto this woe ; but Elizabeth was selfish—even
as a thief-taught child, driven by strong circumstances,
.
becomes a felon ; and at that hour was her own re-
grets, her own misfortunes she mourned."
The third volume contains "Martin Luther," and
some other tales; but the chief attraction of the
work is the name of him who has himself said—
" What's in a name ?
A rose by any other name would smell as sweet."
The following passage is an example of the fidelity
with which the human passions are described :
" Memory,' observed Sir Ludovick, evasively, is a
true usurer, that multiplies past errors, wrongs, and
miseries, ad it!finiturn, long after they have vanished
away. A cursed tyrant is memory, gnawing the heart,
and racking the brain with an odious maddening repe-
tition of circumstance, place, and time, till the mind
grows giddy, and the soul sickens at the endless tale.'
" You forgot,' replied Sir Fulke, that no remem-
brance of past woes, no succession of present calamities,
can blind and obliterate the vivid picture of past happi-
ness, or efface the consolation which thought affords,
when looking back with thankfulness on the feeblest
deed of self-denial, mercy, generosity, or unselfish pur-
pose carried into effect.'

ST. JAMES'S THEATRE.
" MONSR. PHILLIPPE.
"It is respectfully announced that the celebrated
Monsr. Phillippe, of the Thatre Bonne Nouvelle, Paris,
whose extraordinary experiments have created universal
astonishment, is engaged to present a short series of his
Soirees Mysterieuses, at the St. James's Theatre, which
will be commenced to-morrow evening, Tuesday, ,
April 29, and be continued, for a short period only,
every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday."
Such was the announcement which drew us to the ,
St. James's Theatre last evening. We knew not
what to expect. Who is Monsr. Phillippe, and what
is a " Soiree Mysterieuse ?" Such were the questions
we asked ourselves. Sages tell us that the future is
to be learned from the study of the past, and, accord-
ingly, we interrogated the past to enlighten us.
There was a Monsieur Phillippe (Due D'Orleans),
who flourished in the year 1789, and
they have writ their annals true," held sundry
" Soirees Mysterieuses" in his palace, au Palais
Royal, which produced the first French revolution.
Was Phillippe Due d'Orleans the prototype of this
M. Phillippe ? Was M. Phillippe, of the St. James's,
about to create a revolution—was he to introduce a
reign of terror ? Again, in 1830, there were sundry
" Soirees Mysterieuses" at Neuilly, and shortly
afterwards, Louis Phillippe, who had assisted
at these soirees, became Ring of the French
by the election of the people. Was M. Phillippe
about to become a king by the choice of the people ?
Then as to " Les Soirees Mysterieuses," perchance
he might, like Sir Robert Peeel, be a financier who
was about to create a large surplus revenue. The
evening on which Sir R. Peel brought forward his
property-tax was a " Soiree Mysterieuse." The
evening on which he brought forward the tariff was
a " Soiree Mysterieuse." The evening on which he
proposed the Maynooth Bill was a " Soiree Myste-
rieuse," and even last Friday, when he brought for-
ward his project for the regulation of the Scotch and
Irish banks, was a " Soiree Mysterieuse," seeing that
he refused to give the least information on the sub-
ject before the arrival of the great, the important day.
Now, M. Phillippe is all these. A great revolutionist
is he certainly, for he has produced a
complete revolution in the art of Ps blanche
majie, which he professes. A king is he, too—
the King of Magicians, elected to the throne by the
unanimous voice of the people, and certes he is a
great financier, for if he do not create a surplus for
the treasury of the St. James's by his engagement,
there is no love of good acting, and laughter, and
fun extant. M. Phillippe is the very Prince of Ma-
gicians. To him even the renowned Herr Dobler
must yield the palm. Last night was the Jena of
the Prussian—M. Phillippe is the monarch of his
craft, and as one of the Ministers of the St. James's,
he must produce a surplus revenue. To attempt to
describe the tricks of this the most wonderful of
wizards would be as impossible as to attempt to com-
prehend them. Who can describe the incomprehen-
sible ? For ourselves, we were contented to sit still
and to wonder. We saw basin after basin filled with
water, in which were swimming gold fish innume-
rable, produced from a carpet, which had been pre-
viously thrown up into the air and spread out before
the audience. We saw rings placed in papers
and eggs, and flour and water poured into a hat; and
from that hat we saw produced—not a pudding, but
seven bouquets, to each of which was attached one of
the rings, which had been previously placed in paper.
From another hat we saw produced bon-bons suf-
ficient to have stocked a confectioner's shop, and from
one stick there were drawn forth more union-jacks
than T. P. Cooke has ever waved during the whole
course of his career. A hat borrowed from a gentle-
man who sat next to us, after producing feathers
enough to stuff a large bed, brought forth
cocks, hens, pigeons, ducks, geese, turkeys—
all alive • it was, in fact, a portable Leaden-
hall-market. Add to this that M. Phillippe
is also an excellent actor and a polished gentleman,
and the reader may form some faint idea of the treat
which is in store for him at the St. James's. It was
a just complaint against Dobler that he could not
speak a word of English. Now M. Phillippe speaks
English excellently well, but with the slightest pos-
sible foreign accent, which adds immensely to the pi-
quancy of his entertainment. The house was well
and fashionably attended. M. Phillippe will, if we
mistake not, become the most popular magician that
has appeared of late years.

Sir DE LACY EvANs returned thanks, and said that
he had been absent at the last anniversary meeting of
the Association, but it had given him the greatest
pleasure upon having the invitation renewed this year,
and of accepting it.
The CHAIRMAN then rose to propose the toast of the
evening. This Institution was one of benevolence
simply. The recipients of the bounty of the members of
this Institution were those who had been prostrated by
misfortune. This was a society which he felt more than
ordinary interest in promoting.—(Cheers.) It was a
society, it was true, which had been established by
humble individuals, but those individuals by this act of
charity had ennobled their characters, and rendered them-
selves worthy of the admiration of mankind.—(Cheers.)
The society had been in existence for seven years. It
had commenced in a small stream, and had slowly pro-
ceeded unostentatiously on until it had become an orna-
ment to the City in which they were assembled. It bad
been the means of relieving the sorrows and afflictions of
deserving, but heart-broken and unfortunate men.—
(Cheers.) He had been requested by the Committee to
state, that by the next half-year their funds would enable
them to advertise for ten pensioners upon their bounty.
The amount at present allowed was 131. annually, but
the Committee had authorised him to state that they, in
many instances, considered this too small a sum, but
they were willing to extend the amount if they should
be empowered with the means of doing so. They would
raise the amount as soon as they felt in a position to do
so.—(Cheers.) He concluded with proposing, " Pros-
perity and perpetuity to the London Coffee-house and
Eating-house-keepers' Association."
The toast was drunk with three times three, and loud
applause.
Mr. HUMPHREYs then announced the following dona-
tions to the Society, which were received with loud
cheers, namely—
The proprietor of " The Sun " £2l 0 0
The proprietor of the " Era " 2 2 0
The proprietors of " Punch "
The Chairman lO 10 0
The Lord Mayor 5 5 0
D. Salomons, Esq. 5 5 0
General Sir De Lacy Evans
D. Wire, Esq. 2 2 0
J. Cartain, Esq_
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MUSIC.
THE SHOCKING YOUNG MAN, WITH THE

GALVANIC RING.
This is another production from the pen of Mr.
Bueler, to whom comedians and comic singers owe
a debt of gratitude, and the sooner they pay it the
better—a service of plate, for instance, for the service
he has done them for so many years, would, doubtless,
be very acceptable. A word to the wise—it is better
to remember a man alive than dead I
The song is announced as " Beuler's Galvanic
Ring," and as such rings are all the fashion, people
may as well have his as any ; because, though it
won't cure the rheumatism and tic-doloreux, it will
tickle their fancy and dispel the blue-devils, the
vapours, and doldrums, and so may prove a good two-
shillings-worth to humanity.
The song is of a racketty gentleman, called young
Wit, who wears a galvanic riug to cure him of his
tricks, and who, either at the Polytechnic Institution, or
the Adelaide Gallery, Mr. B. don't mention which, gets,
out of bravado, so overcharged with electricity that
he ever afterwards goes through the world shocking
people, till, as one verse says:—
" At length his appearance was shocking to see!
His friends he had shock'd, and, of course, he was shied;
And with ' shocking bad hat' on his head at last he,
With shocking intentions, went to the sea-side.
And one dull day at Bright on, to finish the spell
That was set upon him, he took his last dip;
And some say 'twas he that exploded the shell
That fired Captain Warner's experiment ship!
Oh, oh, 0,0, 0, oh! What a shock! ! and I sing
Of the shocking young man with the galvanic ring."

Sir DE LACY EVANS proposed the health of the
Chairman, which was received %ith great enthusiasm.
The CHAIRMAN briefly acknowledged the compli-
ment, and said that he should be always most happy to
do anything calculated to forward the interests of this
institution.

Mr. WIRE then, in an eloquent speech, proposed the
Press, and may it ever be guided by wisdom and virtue,
and may all its efforts be to promote the happiness and
welfare of mankind.

The toast was drunk amidst loud acclamation.
➢7r. BLACKBURN, on the part of the Press, returaed

thanks.
Several other toasts were then given, and heartily
responded to, and the company separated at a late hour,
after an evening of most delightful and unalloyed en-

joyment.
During the evening several excellent songs, duets,
&c., were given by Mr. G. F. Taylor, Mr. G. Rennie,
and R. F. Smith and Moody.

THE MAYNOOTH ENDOWMENT,
A public meeting of the electors and inhabitants of the
borough of Finsbury took place yesterday evening, at White
Conduit. gardens, Pentonville, to protest against the grant to
Maynooth on the voluntary principle.
The great saloon was crowded with a most respectable
auditory.
There were present on the platform—Thomas Duncombe,
Esq., M.P. ; Dr. Epps, J. H. Parry, Esq., Q.C., T. Hodgskin,
Esq., R. Besley, Esq., R. Taylor, Esq., Dr. Price, and a great
many other leading men of the borough.
Mr. BESLEY having been unanimously called to the chair,
briefly stated the object for which the meeting had been
called. It was to avow their opposition to the principle in-
volved in the proposed grant to the Catholic College of May-
nooth. That principle was one of endowment. The present
meeting were the friends of the voluntary principle, and
therefore they were opposed to the grant. He did not sympa-
thise with those who had started the " No-Popery" cry upon
this occasion. He was happy to believe that, bad as the
present times might be in many respects, they were infinitely
better in every respect than the time when it was penal to
harbour a Roman Catholic priest.—(Hear, hear.)
Dr. Errs moved the first resolution, to the effect--" That
in the opinion of the meeting
.all endowments by the State
for religious purposes were injurious to civil and religious
freedom." He did not object to this grant on the ground of
its pecuniary pressure on the country, but because he deemed
it an impertinent assumption of power on the part of any
Government to dare to take on itself the right of taking
money from one man to supply thereligious wants of another
man.--(Cheers.) It was interfering with that freedom of
conscience which all men should enjoy. By State establish-
ments in Ireland the people had been reduced to the lowest
degradation, and this was the real source of the power which
Mr. O'Connell now possessed.—(Cheers.)
Mr. BELLINGHAM seconded the resolution.
Mr. R. TAYLOR was opposed to the resolution. In France
they would find that Protestants and Jews were equally en-
dowed with the Roman Catholics. He had very great doubts
about the voluntary system, as it was embraced by a fana-
tical and bigoted class of religionists.—(No, no.) Look at
Exeter-hall.—(Cheers.) He feared that the electors of
Finsbury were playing the game of the fanatics who were
trying to resuscitate the cry of " No Popery " all over Eng-
land. Ireland had been so greatly injured by England, that
he was willing to countenance any step which would lead to
a reconciliation between the two countries.—(Cries of "No,
no," and cheers.) Mr. Taylor, though an old and much re-
spected inhabitant of the borough, was heard with impatience
—the meeting being all but unanimous against the grant.
The resolution was then put and carried unanimously.
Dr. PRICE moved the second resolution—" That this meet-
ing strongly sympathises with the Irish people in their
struggle against Protestant ascendancy, and declares that in
opposing the grant to Maynboth it is not actuated by the
slightest feeling of hostility to the Roman Catholic faith,
but solely by a desire to carry out in that country the great
principle of religious liberty."
The resolution having been seconded by Mr. VINCENT,
was unanimously adopted.
Mr. PARRY moved the third resolution—" That this
meeting declares its solemn opinion, that the Anglican Pro-
testant Establishment in Ireland is a national nuisance.—
(Immense cheering.) That beyond every other religious
endowment in the world it is opposed to the plainest yrin-
cißles of justice • that it always has been and still is the
principal cause of discontent and disunion among the Irish
people, and that this meeting pledges itself to co-operate at
all times with the Irish people, in every constitutional
manner, to abolish it." It was not to oppose the grant to
Maynooth, he said, merely that this meeting was convened,
but to enter a protest against all religious endowments by the
State. By sending this resolution to Ireland, it would show
to Mr. O'Oonnell and the Irish people that the people of Eng-
land were not ignorant of the great grievance under which
they (the Irish people) suffered, and were not backward in
seeking to relieve them from it.—(Cheers.) At all events, the
passing of this resolution would separate the vast multitude
he was then addressing from all sympathy with the odious
cry of "No Popery."—(Cheers.) Under that cry ages
of
injustice had been perpetrated, and under that cry I rotes
ants had exhibited the very worst features of Popery which
the Protestants themselves alleged against the Catholics.
Mr. HOBOS/UN seconded the resolution.
The resolution was unanimously agreed
to.
It was then resolved that a petition,snpresented to the
embodying the fore-
going resolutions, should be adopted
House of Commons by their Member, d
Mr. Duncombe.
Mr. DUNCOMBE came forward, and was very much cheered.
He was proud to find that his vote in the 'House of Com-
mons on this subject was in such perfect accordance with the
opinions of the great majority of the electors of Finsbury.
If it had not been so, lie should have felt it his duty to have
returned
mtht e trust into their hands, in order that their sen-
timentsght have been better represented.—(Cheers.) He
should be most happy to present their petition to the represented.-(Cheers.)
of Commons, but he should be deceiving them if he were to
tell them that that petition would have the slightest weight.
—(Laughter.) There had, within the last month, been pre •
sented to the House between 7,000 and 8,000 petitions
against the grant to Maynooth, signed by nearly a million
of persons ; and what was the answer given to tlieso
time ? Why, Sir R. Peel told„ them he, (Ad lid" lk
uw• • • • ••. • • .•

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And then, becoming food for fishes, he is supposed to
be the origin of electrical eels, more especially as—
" The last one exhibited, dying, did bring
To light the true cause that its shocks were so free,
For in it was found the great galvanic ring
Of the shocking young man who had jump'd in the sea."
It is rather an ingenious story, bearing a good
moral, and, like Mr. Beuler's " Shiver and Shakery,
may be made much of by the experienced singer.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
NEWMARKET, TUESDAY NIGHT.
TUESDAY'S RACES.
The extraordinary bustle in the town this morning proved
the interest excited in the public mind on the all-important
race of the week, " the Two Thousand Guineas Stakes." At
an early hour the rattle of vehicles of every description, from
all parts of the country, all verging towards one common
centre, gave 'earnest of what might be expected,
and, at a later hour, the coaches from ondon, as well
as innumerable " posters," having discLharged their
" freights," the mass assembled in front of the Subscrip-
tion-rooms defied calculation. All ranks were here con-
gregated, and the busy hum of the spectators, a they pro-
claimed their wishes, or sought or received information,
proved the intensity with which they regarded the approach-
ing event. Ides maintained his supremacy, 6to 4, and in
oue or two instances 7 to 4 having been laid on himof ; but it
was obvious from the eagerness with which many but
it
corners took the odds that " the fielders" were by no means an
insignificant body, and that Winchelsea, with whom Mr.
Wreford declared to win, was by no means lost sight but on The
first race was appointed for half-past one o'clock ; but g
before that hour the display on the heath equalled anything
we have ever witnessed on any similar occasion. The equi-
pages of the aristocracy were numerous, and filled with
beauty and fashion, while the throng of vehicles of a
less pretending character was unprecedented ; in
fine, a more crowded assemblage, or a more
exciting scene it has never been our lot to
witness in this region. Reserving our list of the fashionable
visitors for a more convenieit opportunity, we must now pro-
ceed to describe the events of the day in the order of their
occurrence
The Coffee-room Stakes, of 50 sovs each, for 3 yrs old colts,
Bst 71b; and fillies Bst 41b, A. F. 3 subs.
Lord Exeter's Lyons (Mann) 1
Duke of Bedford's Prologue. 2
Duke of Richmond's Refraction 3
7 to 4 on Refraction ' • 7 to 4 agst Prologue ; and 10 to 1
agst Lyons. A very fine race up the cords ; Lyons, who
made all the running, winning by a head. Prologue never
having quite got up ; Refraction was beaten a length. The
pace was bad to the bushes.
Match ; 100, h ft. First half of the Ab.M.—Sir J. Haw-
ley's Comrade, 3 yrs, Bst 71b, beat Lord Exeter's Dr. Hill, 4
yrs, Bst 41b. 6t04 on Dr. Hill. Won Bedford's head.
Match ; 200, If ft. T.Y.C.—Duke of Oakley,
9st, received forfeit from Mr. T. Wesley's The Counsellor.
Sweepstakes of 300 soya. each, 100 ft, for 4 yrs old. B.C.
Bst. (Three subs.)
Duke of Bedford's Panther, Bst 71b Walked over.
The Two Thousand Guineas Stakes, by subs of 100 sovs.
each for three year old colts, Bst 71b, and fillies Bst 41b,
R.M. (IS Subs.)
Lord Stradbroke's Idas, by Liverp00l
Mr. Wreford's Worthless, by Camel
Mr. Wreford's Winchelsea, by Camel 3
Lord Exeter's Wood Pigeon, by Velocipede
Duke of Rutland's Paultons, by Royal Oak
We have already mentioned that up to the close of the
betting in the town 6to 4 was laid on Idas. On the heath
the fielders became more confident, and at one moment it was
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sea, and 12 to 1 agst Wood Pigeon. The race was
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lying up with the latter and Worthless two or three lengths
behind. They observed this order to the new ground, where
la)lasuolrteocnesivwed hiasbseaten ;at. the T. Y. C. post, Wood Pigeon
quietus, and Idas took his place. In de-
scending the bill he went up to Winchelsea, made him safe
before he reached the bottom, went on by himself, and won
easy by two lengths. Worthless, who took the second place
on Winchelsea's defeat, never having got nearer than his
quarters. Winchelsea was a bad third. After the race Idas
was backed for the Derby at 3 to 1.
Match, 100 h ft, D. M.—Mr. Ramsbottom's Pine Apple,
Bst 11b, beat Duke of Bedford's Minotaur, Bst 101 b, by a head.
4 and 5 to 1 on Minotaur.
The Queen's Plate of 100 Buis. for mares ; four yrs old,
Bst 91b ; five yrs, 9st 81b ; six yrs and aged, 10st. R.C.
Mr. Osbaldeston's Sorella, 4 yrs
L Sir J. Hawley's Vibration, 6 yrs 2