The Sun.
London, England, 1845-08-02 00:00:00

Deciding heat to; the Nassau Stakes.
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Duke of Richmond's Refraction
Sir R. Bulkeley's Queen Pornare
Produce Match, 100, h ft ; Mr. Phillimore's Lady
Anna received forfeit from Mr. King's Lady Trampoline,
Bst 41b each ; Last Mile.
Match, 500, 50 ft; D.R.S.C. ; Mr. • Clifton's Notting-
ham, 5 yrs, received forfeit from Mr. Johnstone's Pythia,
3 yrs, 7st 101 b each.
ST. LEGER BETTING IN THE MORNING.
7 to 4 agst John Day's Lot
5 to 2 agst Mr. Gully's Weatherbit
7 to 1 agst Mr. St. Paul's Mentor
10 to 1 agst Mr. Gully's Old England
10 to 1 agst Mr. Gratwicke's Merry Monarch
14 to 1 agst Mr. Johnstone's Annandale
16 to 1 agst Mr. Mostyn's Pantasa
25 to 1 agst Mr. Irwin's Ould Ireland
25 to 1 agst Mr. Watts's The Baron
25 to 1 agst Major Yarburgles Red Robin
25 to 1 agst Mr. Irwin's Connaught Ranger
33 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Pam
40 to 1 agst Lord Exeter's Wood Pigeon
40 to 1 agst Mr. Painter's The Paella
50 to 1 agst Mr. Ferguson's Clear the Way

GROWTH or SILK AT NORWICIL—A person named
Leeds, a working
,cooper, living in St. Edmund's, Norwich,
has this year about 10,000 silk-worms, which have just corn•
menced spinning in a room at the top of his house, without any
artificial heat ; they have been this. year in the most healthy
state, he having lost scarcely 20 from the time of hatching. Mr.
Leeds has now materials for several splendid silk dresses. one
of which it is contemplated to send to her Majesty.— Chelms-
ford Chronicle.
RESURRECTION OF A 'THREE-THOUSAND YEAR-
OLD PEA.—In the year 1838, Sir Gardner Wilkinson brought
from Egypt a vase of great antiquity, which had been dug out
of a mummy-pit. This vase was presented to the British
Museum, and was opened in the presence of several anti-
quarians; but it contained only a small quantity of dust and a few
seeds, among which were peas, vetches, and wheat. Three of the
peas were presented to Mr. W. Grimstone by T. J. Pettigrew,
who kept the peas by him until. 1844, when, having purchased
the Ilerbary at Highgate, he set them in a pot of composite.
The pea soon sprang from its three-thousand-year trance into
vegetable life—not into green leetable life, but yellow, as
if' it had been jaundiced with a diseased liver. This
yellow appearance, arose, no doubt, from its being confined
in a hot frame. When it had attained sufficient height
it was carefully transplanted into the open garden ;
the ealk thrived, blossomed, and, in August last, Mr. Grim-
stone harvested fifty-five seeds from its pads. These fifty-five
peas have beers planted this year, and all of them have now
thrown up their stems, their blossoms, and their pods, and
again give hope for an abundant increase. This pea has
many peculiarities, one of which is, that the pod pro-
jects through the blossom, leaving the latter behind it,
while the generality of peas push, or, rather carry off the
blossom at the tip of their pods. Mr. Grimstone was offered,
last year, twenty pounds for twenty of these peas, which ho
refused to accept, preferring rather to multiply than to sell.
The bloom of this pea is white and of a bell form; that of our
pea having. wings something like those of a butterfly. A visit
to Mr. Grimstone's herbary to see this production from the
antiquated Egyptian grandfather pea is well worth the trouble.
EAST INDIA HOUSE.—The Statue of the late
Maquis Wellesley, by Weekes, has been removed from the
Royal Academy, and is nos placed on a temporary pedestal in
the General Court Room, iweintratory to its being .fixed in its
destined position.