The Sun.
London, England, 1842-12-27 00:00:00

DERBY.

5 to 1 agst Scott's lot—taken and afterwards offered
25 to 1 agst Colonel Peel's Murat—taken to 601.
30 to 1 agst Mr. Bell's Winesour—taken to 101.
33 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Progress colt.—t
1000 to 15 agst Lord Exeter's Lucetta colt—t G times
2000 to 30 agst Major Yarburgh's Dumpling—do.
500 even between Blackdrop and Oygen colt—taken
Mr. James Bland, one of the few surviving proffes-
sional turf speculators, of the old school, died in Picca-
dilly on Sunday night.

The General Steam Navigation Company's vessel
the Columbine, from Rotterdam, arrived off the
Custom-house:yesterday with the hitch Mail.
SOUTH-EASTERN RAILWAY.—Our respected Mem-
ber, E. R. Rice, Esq., with Captain D'Aeth, Mr.
llodges, and another gentleman, visited the Shak-
speare
.and Abbot's Cliff Tunnels last week, when
they expressed themselves highly gratified with their
appearance, as well as the progress made in the Ab-
bot's Cliff Tunnel, nearly one-third being completed.
On their return they were further gratified by having
a view of a blast of two barrels of gunpowder, as a
specimen of the manner in which many tons of the
cliff over the sea-wall have been brought down
within the last few months, and in which it is in-
tended to bring down the Round-down. We are
happy to hear that all the persons who lately received
injury on these works have, with very few exceptions,
returned to their employment, and that none of the
accidents have proved fatal to life or limb, save in the
case of the poor boy Lorden, some three or four
months back.—Dover Chronicle.
PECULIARITIES OF SOME NATIONS AS TO FOOD.—
Other nations abstained from eating parts of certain
animals, as well as the Jews, from a religious princi-
ple ; neither the Assyrian, nor the Egyptian, ate any
fish, and the Priests of the latter nation used no meat
nor drink imported from foreign countries; and, as
to the product of their own, exclusive of fish, they ab-
stained from beasts that have a round foot, or divided
into several toes, or that have no horns ; and birds
that live upon flesh. The Egyptians accounted, espe-
cially swine's flesh, unclean ; whosoever touched one,
though in passing by only, washed himself and his
clothes.—Mayer's History of the Jews.
BIGAMY.—A FAMILY COMPLAINT.--A young man,
named William Bowden, was brought before a county
magistrate on Tuesday, at Stockport, on a charge of
bigamy. It was proved that he was married to Mary
Holland, at the parish church of Ashton-under-Ly ne,
on the 17th of May, 1835, and in July, 1839, to Betty
Holland, at Almondbury, near Huddersfield ; both of
whom are now living. He was committed for trial ;
but, on the application of Mr. W. Vaughan, who ap-
peared on his behalf, bail was accepted for his appear-
ance at the assizes. Strangely enough, the prisoner's
mother, Hannah Bowden, who, on hearing of his ap-
prehension, had come to see him, was also taken into
custody, under a warrant which had some time been
out against her on a similar charge. She was also
brought before a county magistrate the same day,
when Mr. J. S. Barrett, deputy constable, stated, that
a few years ago the prisoner was married to a person
named John Smith, of Stockport, her first husband,
Josepla.Bowden, being then and now living at Shef-
fkid. Smith is also living at the present time ; but
the prisoner and he had separated some time ago, and
she had lately baen residing with a man named
Joseph Lockett, near Huddersfield, to whom, it was
supposed, she hal also been married. She was re-
manded.