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London, England, 1845-11-11 00:00:00

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SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
TATTERSALL'S-YESTERDAY.
THE DERBY.

The little business transacted yesterday afternoon, does not
admit of a quotation : premising, therefore, that Sting, Bro-
cardo, and Spithead are nominally at the previous quota-
tions, we may confine our report to the bets actually laid :-
625 to 25 agst Colonel Anson's lago, 3,500 to 100 agst Mr.
O'Brien's The Traverser, 1,000 to 30 agst Lord Chesterfield's
Gi-ger, 350 to 10 agst Mr. Ramsay's Malcolm, 2,000 to 50
agst Mr. D. Cook's Fancy Boy, 1,000 t. 25 (twice) agst Sir
J. Hawley's Humdrum, 900 to 20 agst Lord Albemarle's
Smuggler Bill, and 1,000 to 20 (three times) agst Lord Exe-
ter's Galata colt.

SALE OF THE LATE MR. RAWLINSON'S STUD.
The sale of this stud took place yesterday, at Tattersall's,
and reali.ed the following prices : Gs.
Coronation, by Sir Hercules, out of Ruby
Conningsby, a yearling colt, by Venison, out of Ruby 630
Ruby, Rubens, covered by Venison ... 310
Chadlington Maid, 5 yrs, own sister to Coronation,

covered by Veniion - 135
Coral, 6 yrs, sister to Coronation, covered by Venison 130
Cherry Bounce, 2 yrs, sister to Coronation ll5
Chess, yearling filly, by Elis, out of Coral BO
Reliance, by Fungus, out of Ruby's dam 34
Charming Xate, 4 yrs, sister to Coronation

2,506
WIISTDSOR, Nov. 10.—His Royal Highness the Prince
Consort, accompanied by his Royal Highness Prince Augustus
of Saxe Coburg, and his Serene Highness Prince Leopold,
met Sir John Cope's fox-hounds this morning at Cumberland
Ledge, in Windsor Great Park. They commenced by draw-
ing the preserves by Virginia Water, Mr. Corfield's planta-
ti-ms, and the Belvinere'Gerse, all of which were drawn
blank. The hounds then proceeded to the F, rest, which,
after some time, produced a fine fox. The scent at first was
very cold and bad, and the hounds had great difficulty in
picking up the scent, but the hounds stuck right well to their
work, and their perseverance was rewarded by an improved
scent. After ringing about the wilds of the Forest, the fox
crossed the road to Bray-wood, went through it at a racing
pace, and broke covert opposite St. Leonard's ; he was headed
in the open and returned to Bray-wood, where, however, he
had no intention of remaining, but pasting through the it ood,
broke covert again at New-lodge. made across the country
round by Captain Blanc's Park, and Fyfiekl, where he was
headed by a shepherd dog back towards the Forest, and after
running two fields in view, the hounds ran into him, after a
fine hunting race of one hour and twenty minutes. Sir
John Cope sent the brush as a birthday present to his Royal
Highness the Prince of Wales.
INTELLIGENCE EXTRA.
NEWMARKET, FIRST SPRING MEETING, 1816.

NURSERY RHYMES.

Some of our classical readers will be pleased with the fol-
lowing translations from old nursery rhymes. They come
neither from Eton nor Harrow, but from the plebeian dis-
trict of Bermondsey, and do credit to the locality. The
translation, of course, is not very literal, but it conveys the
meaning, and the metre of the three different kinds of verse
is correct ;
Old Mother Hubbard went to her cupboard,
To get her poor dog a bone,
When she got there the cupboard was bare,
And so the poor dog had none.
Mater erat longceva ; canem pascebat amatum—
Ossa peteus ibat solitum explorare canistrum.
Heus! escre sed enim, nil inveniebat edendum,
Jejunusque canis, sic, pabula nulla videbat.
See-saw, Margery Daw,
Jackey shall have a new master;
He shall have only a penny a day,
Because he can work no faster.
Motibus hand properis Margrita monedula ludat,
Namque novo domino possit servire Johannes.
Assem mercedem capiat pretiumque laborer,
Lentus enim puer est—siut eprremia debitacuique.
Old Father Long-legs would not say his prayers,
Take him by the left leg, and throw him down stairs.
Cruribus immensfs genitor vivebat hebescens ;
Nolebat pravus dicere mane preces.
Hunc malum oportebat raptatum crure sinistro
Pessum jactari, frangere rnembra solo.
Taffy was a Welshman, Taffy was a thief—
Taffy came to my house and stole a piece of beef.
I went to Taffy's house, and Taffy wasn't at home—
Taffy came to my house and stole some marrow-bones.
Magnus erat latro ; gaudebat quaerere prsedam.
lotus erat multis, Cambrius ille fuit.
Ille mihi partem bovis abripiebat, iniquus.
Ipse suam qucero, deserit ille, domum.
Improbus at cupieus nostros renovare dolores,
Ossa medullarum subtrahit atque fugit.

Girls and boys come out to play,
The moon doth shine as bright as day;
Come with a whistle or come with a call,
Come with a goodwill or come not at all.
Virgines pulchroe, pueri decori
Tempus est ludic, rediunte lute
Luna nunc orbem radiis gubernat,
Gaudia prcebens.
Fistulis claris, sonitu canoro
Cordibus lcetis veniatis tape
Ad jocos dulces adeatis l Ecce
Cuncta relucent.

MAGAZINES CON T ['WED.
DUBLIN UNIVERSITY MAGAZIAE.

This is a good number. The " German Catholic
Church " is a capital essay on the present singular
phase of Catholicism in relation to Rcmanism in Ger-
many ; and, among other things, literally "picks a hole"
of very discouraging extent in that most impudent of
modern impostures, Bishop Von Hommer's and Bishop
Arnold's (of Treves) "Holy Coat." It comprises, also,
by far the best notice of Ronge (the modern Luther,
as his countrymen term him), his past history, and pre-
sent doctrines, that we have yet seen. " Blackletter
Recreations" are very amusing and instructive papers.
Under "Irish Dress and Customs " we have some very
curious lore, portions of which we extract for the
amusement f the reader :

"All the laws against Irish customs, especially the earlier
ones, were evidently made by men extravagantly preju
diced against the native Irish. The Erwlish settlers then
regarded the mere Irish' and the wild Irish' much as we
do a Mohawk or an Ojibbeway. The language of their acts
is therefore almost invariably that of a civilised speaking of
a barbarous people. The Norman settler's, indeed, in some
things seem to have been as credulous as the Greek geo-
graphers of several centuries before. Strabo describes the
native Irish as being greedy cannibals, delighting in eating
their dead fathers, and pub'icly committing incest and simi-
lar crimes. In the reign of Richard the Second, at least, the
story of Irish cannibalism was believed by the English. It
is recorded in Froissart, on the authority of a gentleman
who had been much in Ireland, that the natives cut the

throats of their enemies like sheep, and take out their hearts,
which they eat as a great delicacy. They use knives, he
says, 'dont ils occient leur ennemy et ne tiennent point un
homme pour mort jusque a tant lui. ayent coupe la
gorge comme a un mouton; et Im ouvrent le ventre et en
prennent le cueur et l'emportent ; et dient les aucuns qu
congnoissent leur nature qu'ils le mangeuent par grand de-
lla.' According to the same authority, the natives sheltered
in forests, and lived in huts made of boughs, like wild
beasts. Et demeurent en grotes faites dessous arbres ou
haves et au buissens, ainsi comme bestes sauvages.'—Frois-
sak Chronicle, torn. iv., c. 63. Edit. Lyons. So Giraldus
Cambrensis, in his history of the conquest, mentions that
Dermot M`Murrogb, seeing among the heads brought to
him the face of one he particularly disliked, bit the nose
and lips off. He also mentions that one Donald had put
out the two eyes of 3494urrogh's son, upon which his corn
mentator, Hooker, notes that among the barbarous Irish
this was a courteous kind of punishment.'—Giral.Camb.,c. 4.
" Froissart states that this account was given to him by a
gentleman named Castide, who, by his own statement, was
in early life a retainer of the Duke of Ormond here, and
taken prisoner by an Irish gentleman (whose name
Frenchified into Brin Costeret'), who kept him seven years ;
and it would appear treated him very kindly, for he
married his daughter and had two children by her. He was
afterwards retaken by the English, and as he had become
quite familiar with the Irish language, was chosen by
Richard H. to be with the five Irish kings who came to do
homage to him in Dublin, to teach them how to behave
themselves. His account of his progress in this is very
amusing. He first observed that at dinner they made ugly
faces, which he resolved to correct. They also allowed their
dependants to eat off the same dish, and when Castide, to
correct their taste for law company, put the minstrels and
servants at the lower part of the table, they at first strongly
objected, but afterwards good-humouredly doucement' as
sented. He also objected to their not wearing breeches.
Their names are Frenchified as follows : —Le Grand Ancel,
Roy de Mecte, Brun de Th.imond, Roy de Thomond et
D'Aire, Arthur Maquemaire, Roy de Linstre, Conhuo, Roy
de Cheveno. and D'Erpe. When at last they were knighted
and brought to dine with the king, they were, says Castide,
much stared at by the lords present, not without reason, for
it was, believe me, a great novelty, 'grand nouveautd,' t
gee four Irish kings.--Froissart, torn. iv., cap. lix. Edit
Lyons. The whole account leaves an impression that their
wild Irish majesties had much more sense and genuine
politeness than their self-sufficient and frippery Norman
instructors.

"Besides their inveterate prejudices, there were also other
reasons for the low estimate these early writers give of the
Irish. The country had been for a long time previous to the
English invasion torn by internal dissensions and civil wars,
and the natives had, in fact, much declined from the high
state of cultivation we read of in the golden age of Irish
civilisation; in addition to which the Anglo-Normans had
little opportunity of being acquainted with any other na-

Lives than the liOstile septs engaged in the marshes on the
border of the pale, whose habits, like those of all men en-
gaged in an irregular border warfare, were wild and coarse.
Some of these writers, too, were so extravagantly credulous,
that they are to be believed no more than Marco Paulo or
Pontoppedon. Giraldus Cambrensis, for example, among
many stories of dreams and prophecies, stoutly asserts the
truth, and endeavours to prove the probability, of a story
of a conversation between a wolf and a priest in Meath; of
a coin that always came back to Dublin of its own accord ;
and numerous other equally extravagant miracles ; and lastly
asserts that the true cause why Ireland was not wholly con-
quered, was because Prince John came here when he ought
to have assisted the holy church at the crusades."
The best of the other papers in this Magazine are
" The Whychcots—a Leaf from the Census of 1841 ;"
" Travelling in India ;" " A Night with Mephistopheles;"
"Italian Poets, No. V. (Arioqo) ;" and " The Cock and
Anchor—a Chronicle of Old Dublin City."