The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-09-03 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

MANCHESTER, FRIDAY EVENING.
Very little business has taken place for some days. We
may briefly observe, that Bloomsbury and Charles XII. both
hold high positions, although it strikes us the recent offers
against the Derby horse are very freely given : 50 to 20 is in
vain offered. A fraction beyond our quotation would be
taken on Major Yarburgh's horse. Euclid is at 12 to 1, and
we do not discern any particular demand for him. The same
cannot any longer be said of the Duke of Cleveland's colt,
or the Provost. It is quite clear both are in high trim ; and
if the layers would only respond to the commissions in the
market, we might have some rather heavier work to touch
upon. Last night the Duke's horse was backed at 15 to 1
in fifties, and we rather think hundreds would have been
pencilled down had the layers deemed the speculation a good
one. The Lord Mayor improves ; 20 to 1 has been accepted.
On the other hand, Hetman Platoff has receded some three
points. Easingwold and one or two others occasionally
claim attention to trifling sums. The following are the
prices against the horses in any particular request :

DONCASTER ST. LEGER.
50 to 20 agst Mr. W. Ridsdale's Bloomsbury
65 to 20 „ Major Yarburgh's Charles XII. (tk)
12 to 1 „ Mr. Thornhill's Euclid

15 to 1 Duke of Cleveland's Commodore (tk)
16 to 1 „ Colonel Cradock's The Provost (tk)
17 to 1 „ Mr. Bowes's Hetman Platoff
20 to 1 „ Lord Westminster's Lord Mayor (tk)
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33 to 1 „ Mr. Clarke's Dragsman (tk)
35 to 1 „ Lord Lichfield's The Corsair (tk)
35 to 1 „ Mr. Ramsay's Easingwold
50 to 1 „ Mr. Newton's Tag-rag (off)
50 to 1 „ Mr. Golden's The Diver (tk)
Two beat the field is the general call.
THE DONCASTER CUP.-20 to 5 would be taken on Bee's
Wing ; 9 to 2 laid agst Harkaway, or 5 tolagst Charles XII.

TATTERSALL'S, TBIIRSDAY.
The room was too thinly attended to-day to do more than
a small amount of business, at the following prices :

DONCASTER ST. LEGER.
5 to 2 agst Mr. W. Ridsdale's Bloomsbury
6to 2 „ Major Yarburgh's Charles XII. (tk)
12 to 1 „ Mr. Thornhill s Euclid (tk)
18 to l „ Mr. Bowes's Hetman Platoff (20 to 1 tk)
20 to 1 „ Duke of Cleveland's Commodore (tk)
20 to 1 „ Colonel Cradoek's The Provost (tk)
20 to 1 „ Lord Westminster's Lord Mayor (tk)
40 to 1 „ Lord Lichfield's The Corsair (tk)
40 to 1 „ Mr. Newton's Tag-rag (tk)
15 to 1 agst The Corsair and Malvolio (tk 16 to 1) ; 1,000
:0 20 agst Bloomsbury winning the St. Leger and Glenorchy
the Derby (tk).

BURNING MINE.

(Prom a New York Paper.)

One of the coal mines near Pottsville Pa. was accidentally
set on fire last winter, and although Pottsville,
have been made
to extinguish it, it still burns as fiercely as ever. The editor
of the Miners' Journal, who recently paid a visit to it, thus
describes the scene :

Leaving the cars, we walked up the ravine, to the lower
levels of the workings ; here, although not surrounded by a
flood of lava, we found the waters issuing from the driftway
to be quite warm from the effects of the internal fire, and im-
pregnated so strongly with alkaline substances as to be ex-
tremely nauseous to the taste.

We are now prepared to ascend the west brow of the Broad
Mountain. Beetling above us for some hundred feet, and
belching forth smoke and flame, arose the track of the vein
which we ascended on the crop. A little puffing and blow-
ing brought us to the second level, where the disaster com-
menced during the extreme cold weather of last winter. A
hanging grate placed at its mouth to equalise its temperature,
communicated fire. to the couplings of the gangway, and was
the primary cause of the vast damage which has since accrued.
Some hundred feet farther up the hill a large space has ca-
ved in, and down the fissures between the upper and lower
rocks, could be seen a yawning fiery gulph, where Vulcan and
his Cyclops might revel in, and salamanders only exist. A.
sulphureous exhalation issued from it, which rendered ap-
proximation not quite so grateful as lavender water, or as
cool as ice punch. About the jaws of this vast cave were
deposits of sulphur and some alkaline substances in great
quantities. Large rents and fissures in the ground showed
the extent of the raging internal heat, and many places ap-
peared ready to fall in and precipitate the incautious spec-
tator into the chasm. Down the old air shafts the currents
of air rushed with a rumbling earthquake sound, to feed with
their oxygen the volcano beneath. Now and then a crumb-
ling mass of slate, or a detached portion of rock would leave
the bed where it had been recumbent since the world began,
and with resistless force plunge headlong into the smoky
crater.

The vegetation on the summit and sides of the hill; showed
the scathing effects of this unnatural heat ; the tall pine
drooped its giant arms, the hemlock bowed its head as if
parched by arid sufferings, the young oak and chestnut were
clad in a premature " sear and yellow leaf," and here and
there the mountain vines seemed to cling more closely to the
parent trees, as if like the children of Laocoon, they sought
aid from the fiery breath and •

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hissing jaws that sputter'd flame."
A dreary spot, is now, that once lovely mountain gap !
The elemental war has prostrated all its beauty of foliage,
the voice of industry is hushed, the rustic cascade seems to
leap less merrily than it was wont, and the once buoyant air
is heavy and oppressive with the murky vapours that lower
over the fair face of nature !
When, or in what manner, the ravages will be stopped is
a matter of uncertainty, and equally so, is it, whether hu-
man ingenuity can restrain them. In the mean time, the
loss of time and material falls heavy on Mr. L. C. Dougheaty,
the lessee, who has used every possible means within his
power, to check the destruction. Attempts have been made
to smother the flame, but it always breaks out in some new
place with increased fury, and baffles its opponents.

RAILWAY BETWEEN CARLISLE AND GLASGOW.-Mr.
Locke, the celebrated engineer, is now employed in survey-
ing the country between Carlisle and Glasgow, for a line of
railway, in connection with the projected Penrith' and Car-
lisle one. The line will pass near to the West-walls, so as to
form a central station for the city. The importance of this
and the line generally, to the future interests of Carlisle must
be obvious to every thinking mind, and every exertion should
be made to advance this important undertaking, for the ques-
tion is not simply, " are we to have a line by Carlisle or not?"
but " is Carlisle, henceforth, to rise into a town of great
trade or importance, or to sink into insignificance ?" As a
report from Mr. Locke of this project will be published in a
short time, we must defer further comment till then.—Car-
lisle Patriot.

SAGACITY OF THE DOG.—Amongst the numerous in-
stances recorded of the exercise of a faculty nearly approach-
ing reason, in the canine race, may stand the following :—At
Kendal, a few evenings ago, a horse belonging to Henry SI ee,
scavenger, had strayed off the New Road into the tan-yard
belonging to Joseph Banks, Esq., and had fallen into one of
the pits, which was almost dry. It was discovered by a dog
belonging to that gentleman (a remarkably fine animal, half
mastiff and half bull) which immediately gave the alarm by
barking and beating with its feet at the lower window of a
neighbouring house, the inmates of which, by means of ropes,
immediately rescued the unfortunate horse. It is remark-
able that the dog selected the only house in the immediate
neighbourhood where aitliStanOe way hi oly to y prtwl3ml,-
If4noster Gacette,