The Sun.
London, England, 1818-12-08 00:00:00

SPOlt I ING INTELLIGENCE.

WETTING AT TATITBSALUS, Disc. 7.
DERBY.
Taken...4lo is 1 agst Duke of Rutland's Pledge.
Taken--11 to 1 agst Lord Rous's Euphratus.
Taken-15 to 1 agst Mr. C. L. Lechniere's
Taken-17 to 1 agst Mr. Andrew's Morel.
Taken-20 to 1 mot Duke of Grafton's Moril.
High artids agst any other.
tiaKS.
• 10 to 1 agst Gen. Groseenor's Bine Stocking*.
7414v11--10 err 1 ugs'.i 141 0. H. Cavendish's Burma.
Taken-12 to 1 agst Brother to Magistrate.
20 to 1 agst any other.
DoNCAS'THR ST. LEGER. •
Taken-10 to 1 not Laird of Markhouse.
.Taken—ll to 1 agst Mr. Watt's Mundane.
Talien—l2 to 1 agst. Brother to Magistrate.
Higli odds aot any other that tuay be named after the re-
gular day, Ist January, 1810.

BETTING AT TATTERSALL's ON THE FIGHT (rats DAY).-6
to 4:Martin again‘t Scroggins.

On Titnrsday night, at 9 o'clock, their Royal
Highneises the Princess AUGUSTA and tire Du-
chess of ULOUCKSTER arrived at their apartments
in Windsor Castle, from Kew. The rong absence
of their Royal Highnesses from Windsor was
sensibly felt by the inhabitants, to whom their
benevolence and condescension were ever ex•
tended ; and their return is an occasion of sincere
joy, which is only diminished by the melancholy
circ-►mstances by which it is accompanied.
DUSLIN, Dsc. 4.—Addresses to Mr. Secretary
GRANT are, we understand, it► progress in the city
Limerick, and in the towns of G<Llway and
Drogheda.
.Miss O'NEILL, we arc informed, made her first
appearance on the stage at the early age of seven
years, in the county of Westmeath, for the heretic
of an old distressed gentleman, a friend of her
father's. The part in which she made her debut
WAS Angela, in the Castle Spectre.
Covent•Gardrn Theatre, it is said, is about to
receive the powerfid acquisition of Miss KELLY'S
admirable talents. It is added, that she is to ap-
pear in a principal character in the forthcoming
new Comedy.--(Herold )
The Edinburgh Theatre re-opened on Thurs-
day with the comedy of She Stoops to Conquer;
the part of Miss Hardcasile by Mrs. H. SIDDONS
Mrs. RENAUD, a-decant Mrs. POWELL, is engaged
for the season.

THE BoXING BING. -- The battle between
Scroggins and Martin, for 100 guineas a side,
will take pl,ice this morning, 14 miles from bon-
dun. This fight also excites considerable interest,
and ihoutands are pending. ntrrin has been the
favourite at 6 to 4, although Seroggins's barkers
(o:kited a deposit of 101. in order to make an-
other match trom AU to 1001. a side. The odds
got a point higher upon Martin yesterday.
(itsa CLUB.—Saturday the first meeting of the
printipal,Glee Club of England was held at the
Crown and Anchor Tavern, Strand, S tephenG room,
bridge. Esq. the President, in the Chair ; Mr
Gore, Vice-President ; Mr. Sale and Mr. Leyte,
the Conductors, were both present, as was Mr.
Clarke, the Secretary. Among the professors pre-
etit were Messrs. Hawe%, J. Sale, Williams, Pyne,
King, Ellio!, Master Turle, and Master Cole.
SVDDEN DEATH..--About 7 o'clock on Sunday
eveuitig, a poor old woman, who resided in
Fox• court, Gray's-ion-lane, and who was vartli
known for many years as a vendor of fruit in that
neighbourhood, was, whilst sitting at her apple-
stall at the corner of Gray's Inn-lane, taken with,
a fit, dud expired qn the wt.

MU; CLIE.IOSI I'l

The curiosities -and natural productions col-
lected by Captain JOHN Ross, in hiS recent
Voyage of Discovery round .11•-i ,n's Bay, were
yesterday brought to the Admiralty Office. They
consist of various botanical • and mineralogical
specimens, with a large meteoric stone, and-some
sea. water, taken up at various depths• There is
also the skin of an amazing huge white hear, kill-
ed on the ice, and which weighed between 10 and
111)0 cwt. The most remarkable is the sledge
Used by the natives, which is of the most simple
'form, and so slight, that it appears sOuost impos-
sible to bear the Weight of a human being-. It
consists of two pieces of hone between five and
six feet long, abtstht three inches from the ground,
:which are keio togethe'r by fie -other pieces,
about 18 or 20 inches in length,. and placed at
intervals of nine or ten inches. At 'the end are
.two 'upright pieces, about two feet logh ; at the
top of each is' fastened a piece of "seal or sea-ele-
phant's skin, producing -rather a curve, which
tornis the seat for the person, without any other
support: The whole of this curious carriage, which
is entirely of hone; N.-bound together with pieces
,of skin and •whalehone, and is so extr,ensely light
as to atlailt of its being conveyed front -place -to
phice with the greatest facility. To the fore part
six dogs are •atlixed, fastened together, two and
two, with a specks of harness made,of slips of
skin, who draw it with much rapidity. .The whip
for managing these useful animals is about three
yards in length, made of skin, and which the na-
tives are represented as using with a's much dex-
terity as any of the Members of the London Whip
Club. The handle is about the-length.of those
used by post itions, consistingt)f*sik pieces of bone,
one placed transversely at- the handle, to prevent
its slipping, fastened together by skins and the
sinews of birds.

Captain Ross has also brought four dogs and
two hitches,having. their heads and tails of the
tox speciex. They possess much strength, and
will bear, whenlying down, the weight of a man
on the shoulder, w4hont experiencing the smallest
imonvenience. The hair is very thick, and their
skins appear impervious.. They are remarkably
docile and good-natured, and tint at all shy front
mixing in a society so different front that in their
own regions.

A dog and bitch have been sent to her Royal
Highness the Duchess of ITS es, and a dog and a
bitch with pup, to Sir JOSEPH HANKS. There are
also several stuffed birds, the plumage of which is
very remarkable, together with some-very curious
star fish, and the appargitus by which the natives
catch the seals and sea elephants. The whole of
the curiosities have been very properly sent to the
British Museum, where, as soon as they are ar-
ranged, they will be submitted to the inspection
of the public.