The Sun.
London, England, 1842-11-07 00:00:00

COURSING.

llootnn Meeting, Oct. 28.—The CuP was won by Sir
W. Stanley's Selina, the Ilooton Stakes by Mr. Swan's
Syria, and the Wirral Stakes by Mr. Ball's Moss Rose.
Biggar Club, Oct. 27 and 28.—The Plate was won by
Mr. Waddrop's Menie, the Puppy Stakes by Mr. 13Or-
ron's Brenda, and the Biggar Stakes by Lord Ivory's Fly.
Cockney lub at Everleagh, Oct. 27, 28, and 29.—The
Oaks Puppy Stakes were won by Mr. Jones's Empresi,
the Derby Puppy Stakes by Mr. Parkinson's Pioneer,
the Everleigh Stakes by Mr. Palmer's Little Vic, the
Jenner Stakes by Mr. Miller's Mona and Mr. Budd's
Spider (who divided), the Enford Stakes by Mr.
Spooner's Spartan, the Netheram Stakes by Mr. Russell's
Rival, and the Consolation Stakes by Mr. Parkinson's
Passion.

Whitehaven Meeting, Oct. 31 and Nov. I.—The Cup
was won by Mr. Harris's Hector, and the Puppy Stakes
by Mr. Lindcm's Lowther.
Newsham, Oct. 31.—The All Aged Stakes were won
by Mr. Hobson's Whisker, and the Puppy Stakes by
Mr. I3ayle's Spanker.
Mold. Club, Oct. 31.—The Hawarden Castle Stakes
were won by Mr. Bunnell's Trapball, and the Plass Teg
Stakes by Mr. White's Wizard, and the Nergins Stakes
by Mr. S. White's Topper.
Mid-Lothian Club. Nov. 1 and 2.—The Puppy Silver
coup!es were won by Mr.W. Sharpe's Annie Landie, the
Cup by Mr. Dewar's Diable Noir, the Champion Cup
by Mr. Dewar's Darling, and the Newbattle Abbey
Stakes by Mr. H. Maxwell's Melampas.
Chatsworth, Nov. 2 and 3.—The Chatsworth Cup was
won by Mr. Houghton's Hester ; the Devonshire Puppy
Cup by Mr. Hunt's Lynch • the Burlington Cup by Mr.
Hu n t's II arri et ; the Cavendish S takes by M r.King'sßlooms-
bury ; the Edensor Stakes by Mr. Clarke's Sailor ; and
the Derbyshire Stakes by Mr. Deakin's Priam.
Gisborne, Nov. 2 and 3.—The Ribblesdale Stake was
won by Mr. Hardman's Swallow, the Puppy Stakes by
Mr. Hardman's Ariel, the Craven Stakes by Mr. Raws-
thorne's Rosebud, the Berry Hunt Stakes by Mr. Hodg-
son's Zurich, the Horton Puppy Stakes by Mr. Hard-
man's Arid, the Stockback's Stakes by Mr. Harman's
Miller, and the Consolation Stakes by Mr. Forest's
Swinger.

BRISTOL SUGAR-MARKET, Nov.' 4.—Sugars con-
tinue exceedingly brisk, and anything good, more par-
ticularly in groceries, is eagerly taken at gradually
advancing rates. The stocks are decreasing, and con-
fidence in future prices seems to be perfectly esta-
blished. Our fruit-market is in a sate of confusion,
owing to peculiar local circumstances, and although
the quality of this year's import is much finer than
usual, prices of currants are daily declining, and will
not now bring more than 50s. Valentias, 368.
Bristol Mercury.
There have been statements and counter-statements
in the newspapers in respect to the grant of a
Civil List pension to Wordsworth, the poet. We
understand the fact to be that her Majesty has
been graciously pleased to grant a pension of 300/.
per annum on the Civil List to Mr. Wordsworth.
Her Majesty has also, we are informed, granted a
pension of 1001. per annum to each of the Miss
liennedys, the sisters of the late Sir Robert Ke-
nedy, to whose distinguished services during the
war, as Commissary-General of the Forces, such
honourable testimony was borne by the Duke of
Wellington in his place in the House of Lords during
the last session of Parliament. Neither have the claims of
science been overlooked by her
.Majesty in the
appropriation of the very limited fund which
has been placed 'by Parliament at the dis-
posal of the Crown for the reward of public service
and of distinguished literary and scientific merit.
Every friend to science will rejoice to hear that the
name of Mr. Owen, the Hunterian
.Professor of the
College of Surgeons, has been added to the list of
eminent men (Airey, Farraday, and others of equal
distinction), whose claims upon public gratitude have
been acknowledged by the Sovereign.—Evening paper.
A gentleman of advanced years called upon 111 r.
Cobden on Tuesday last, and placed in his hand a
Bank of England note, with a slip of paper upon which
was written as follows :—" A landowner, possessed of
several farms, subscribes 1001. to the Anti-Corn-law
League Fund. It is a money question, and the money
speaks for itself. The subscription will be repeated if
requisite." The stranger declined to disclose his
name, nor did he stop to enter upon a discussion of
the Corn-law, but merely repeating the pithy re-
mark, " It is a money question; it is a money ques-
- he departed. Our unknown friend was right ;
the settlement of the Anti-Corn-law.agitation is now
a question of money ; and the 50,0001. fund, to which
he has so munificently subscribed, will settle the ques-
tion.—Anti-Bread Tax Circular.
VIENNA, OCT. 22.—We learn from good authority
that a considerable reduction will shortly be made in
Austria on the import duty on several foreign articles,
especially on coffee and sugar. The Ist of January,
1843, is the time when this alteration is to take place.
This is an additional proof that the Austrian Govern-
ment Is departing from the prohibitory system
hitherto in force, to adopt a system of protecting
duties.

PRESE RV AT I 0 N OF MEAT AND
I WATER FOR SEA-VOYAGES.

(From the Colonial Gazette.)
The substitution of iron tanks for casks in ships has
enabled double the quantity of water to be stowed in
a given space ; and a similar stowage-saving might be
enected with salted provisions, by following Captain
Cook's plan of removing the bones from the meat pre-
viously to salting; by which there would be also an
annual saving of at least 6,000 tons of bones for
manure, that are now thrown waste into the sea from
the ships of our war and mercantile marine.
Salt in excess is a scurvy-producer ; whilst it
hardens the lean and tends to expel its nutritious
uices, as well ea the oleaginous particles of the fat
during the heat of boiling. Olives, on this account,
are salted previously to hot pressure, in
order to force out the oil from the pulp.
Sugar, on the contrary, is a scurvy-preven-
tive, whilst aiding the retention of the nutri-
tious juices of the lean, and the oleaginous particles
of the fat, and thereby counteracting the hardening
and shrinking of the meat, by the escape of these
from it during the heat of boiling. When I was serving
on the Brazil station, the dry fatless beef there was,
always found to be inedible in the mess, after being a
fortnight in corn, on account of its excessive saltness,
hardness, and dryness ; but after sugar was combined
with the salt, no fault was found with it at table as
long as it lasted. Hence the benefits that would result
to the health of our seamen, soldiers, and emigrants,
from having a sufficiency of sugar in the cured meats
to neutralise the salt's action, so as to make these
meats no salter than was agreeable to the palate,
thereby assimilating them to the meats that are
fresh. Captain Cook, by introducing into ships
the English housewifery practices of cleanliness
and ventilation for health-preservation, esta-
blished a new sera in naval hygiene ; but
had lie adopted also the English housewifery
practice of combining sugar with salt in the
useat-curing, he would have had less occasion for the
various scurvy antidotes he was obliged to employ ;
and although there has been a great advance in many
naval hygiene matters since his time, it is unfortunate
that his system of cutting out the bones before meat-
salting has not been followed up; as the meat nearest
to the bone is not only the first to spoil when the salt
does not sufficiently take, but eventually becomes the
saltest when it does so. Were, indeed, the bone removed
and the mixture of sugar with the salt universally
adopted in meat-curing, ship's beef would cease to be
known among sailors, when long in brine, by- the
sobriquets of "old horse," "old junk," "mahogany,"
&c.; or a ship-carpenter be puzzled to tell " what
species of wood it was," on a salt-hardened piece of
lean, cut square and polished, being presented for his
inspection.
Water in ships' casks soon becomes so nauseous to
taste and smell as to be a frequent source of disease,
owing to the evolution of inflammable noxious gases
by the chemical action of the water upon the wood.
A table-spoonful of fresh lime well mingled with a
butt-full of water, by a stick-agitation through the
bung-hole, not only prevents this, but destroys the
contained animalcules, and precipitates the dissolved
vegetable matter ; thus keeping the water pure, sweet,
and wholesome during the longest voyages; a desi-
deratum so conducive to health and comfort, that the
lime-mingling ought to be enforced in every emi-
grant ship by the Government agents.
P. CUNNINGHAM, R.N.