The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-12-21 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL RACES.-1839.

The following stakes close on the Ist of January, 1839.—
The Croxteth Stakes, the Mersey Stakes, the Sefton Stakes.
the Tradesmen's Cup, the Derby Handicap, the Liverpool
St. Leger, the Stand Cup, and the Grosvenor Stakes.
1840.—The Sefton Stakes, St. Leger, Chesterfield Stakes,
and the Knowsley Dinner takes.
1841.—The Foal Stakes, the Bickerstaffe Stakes, and the
Produce Stakes. . . . . .

The St. Leger nominations will henceforth be made at
:he same age as the Doncaster St. Leger.

LIVERPOOL AUTUMN RACES.-1839.

The meeting, which our readers will no doubt recollect, is
about to be established in lieu of that hitherto held in Heaton
Park, takes place on the Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday
following Doncaster races, under the stewardship of Lords
Chesterfield and Sefton Mr. Lynn officiating as secretary,
and Mr. Etty as clerk of the course—a guarantee that there
will be no want of sport, patronage, and exertion. The fol-
lowing programme will show that it will be conducted in the
same liberal spirit which has always been displayed at the
Liverpool meetings :
WEDNESDAY.

The TRIAL STAKES of 15 sows. each, 10 ft. for all ages;
three-year olds Bst, four Bst 121 b, five Oat 31b, six and aged
Oat 51b; mares and geldings allowed 21bs. One wile and
a quarter.
The EGLINTON STAKES of 50 sous. each, h ft, for two-year
olds; colts Bst 71b, fillies Bst 51b. T. Y.C. The winner of
the July or Chesterfield Stakes at Newmarket, or the
Champagne or Two-year old Stakes at Doncaster to carry
51bs extra, if more than one 21bs extra for each winning
after the first, but no horse to carry more than 71bs extra.
Horses, &c., having started and not been placed at the
Liverpool July, Goodwood, or Doncaster meetings, allowed
3lbs • having started twice and not won, allowed 51bs; in
Scotland or Ireland, having„ started once and not won,

allowed slus; twice 7lbs ; allowances to be deducted from.

extra weights if carried.
The PALATINE STAKES, a Handicap Sweepstakes of 25
sovs each, with 200 sovs in specie added, 15 sovs ft, and 5
only if declared before two o'clock on Tuesday before start-
ing : for four-year-olds and upwards. Two-mile course.
Gentlemen riders.
The ST. LEGER STAKES of 25 says each, with 50 added, for
three-year-olds; colts Bst 71b, fillies Bst 51b. One mile and
three-quarters. The winner of the Derby or Doncaster St.
Leger to carry 121bs extra; second for either, or winner of
the Oaks, or of the Drawing-room Stakes, or of the Cup, at
Goodwood, or the Cup or Gascoyne Stakes at Doncaster,
71bs extra; maidens allowed 4lbs, and horses having started
and never been placed allowed 71b.
The SELLING STAKES of 10 says each, h ft. with 50 added.
Heats one mile and a half. The winner to be sold for 200
sovereigns, if demanded.
THURSDAY.

The WILTON STAKES, of 30 sovs each, 20 ft, with 50 added,
for two-year•olds 7st 41b, three 9st 4lb ; fillies allowed 2ib;
maiden three-year-olds at starting allowed 41h. Two-year
old course.

The &raw Attn.' CUP, value 200 sovs, the rest in specie, by
subscription of 20 sovs each, with 100 sovs added. Two
miles and a half. Three-year-olds 7st, four Bst 71b. five
Bst 131 b, six and aged 9st 21b; mares and geldings allowed
41b. The winner of the Derby, the Goodwood Cup, the
Doncaster St. Leger or Cup, in 1&39, to carry 71b extra ; the
second horse for the Derby or St. Leger, in 1839, the winner
of the Ascot Cup,l&39,thePalatine Cup at this meeting of the
Oaks, 1839, or the Derby or St. Leger in any year, 51b extra;
of any weight for age cup in 1839, 31b extra ; extra weights
to be accumulative, but no horse to carry more than 121 b
extra ; no horse liable to extra weight to be entitled to claim
allowances; but except as above, maiden four.riar-olds
a)xcept such as had been placed in the Derby or the St.
Leger in 1838) allowed 71b; maiden five-year-olds 101 b;
and madeu six and aged 141 b. Horses, &c., having run in
Scotland or Ireland after the Ist of July, 1839, and not re-
ceiving other allowances, to be allowed 71b. If twenty sub-
scribers, the second horse to receive 50 sovs out of the stakes.
A HANDICAP STAKES of 10 sovs each, for three-years-olds.
Gentlemen riders. One mile.
The ORMSKIRK PURSE of £5O, added to a subscription of
15 sovs each, 5 ft ; three-year-olds Ist 21b, four Bst 21b, live
Bst 71b, six and aged Bst 111 b. Mares and geldings allowed

31b. Once round.
The SELLING HANDICAP of 10sovs each. h ft, the winner to
be sold for 100 sous, if demanded. Heats, two-year-old
course. Gentleman riders.
FRIDAY. _

The KNOWSLEY STAKES of 30 sovs each, h ft, with 50 sovs
added for two-year-olds ; colts Bst 71b, fillies, Bst 41b. One
mile course. The winner of the Eglinton Stakes to carry
51b extra.
The HEATON PARK STAKES, a Sweepstakes of 20 soya each,
10 ft. and 5 only if declared on or before the Ist September,
with 100 sovs added. Once round and a distance. Weights
to be declared on the 14th August.
FREE HANDICAP of 25 sovs each, 10 ft, for all ages except
three-year-olds. One mile. The winner of the Racing
Cup to carry lib extra. Gentlemen riders.
A HANDICAP of 20 soya each, h ft, with 20 sovs added, for
the beaten horses of Wednesday and Thursday. Once
round and a distance.
The OPTION STAKES of 10 sovs each, 5 ft, with 30 sovs added.
Heats, one mile and a quarter. Three-year-olds 7st 21b,
four, Bst 21b, five, Bst 91b, six and aged, Bst 121 b. The
winner to be sold for £l5O, if demanded, with the option of
not being sold for less than £2OO, £250. or £3OO, carrying,
if for £2OO, 51b extra, for 250, 101 b extra, and for £3OO,
141 b extra.
The St. Leger Stakes is the only one which closes on the Ist
of January.

TERMINATION OF THE BRICKLAYERS' TURN-OUT.—We
are happy in being enabled to state, that the turn-out of the
bricklayers in this town is now at an end. After a five or
six weeks' struggle, the workmen have wisely abandoned
their claims, and have gone to work at their original wages.
It will be well for them if, in many instances, their places are
not already filled with new hands, or by strangers, who have
been induced to come here in consequence of the local
differences. This ever has been, and ever will be, the result
of a struggle such as has characterised the late turn-out.
A HORSE KILLED IN WATER-STREET.-011 Tuesday
afternoon, a cart heavily loaded, drawn by three horses,
was Passing up Water-street, and when opposite the City of
Dublin Co's office, the force of the two chain horses was so
great upon the shafts, that the shaft horse could not keep his
feet, and the pavement being very flat, his hoofs had no pur-
chase on it. In addition to this, a portion of the toad fell from
the back part of the cart, giving it a sudden impetus which
caused the shaft horse to come down with such force as to
break one of his fore legs. The poor creature writhed about,
apparently. in great agony, and there being no possibility of
removing it, a knacker was sent for, who struck it. Such a
scene, in so public thoroughfare as Water-street, was par-
ticularly distressing.
FRIENDLY UNION, FOR THE PROMOTION OF USE-
FUL. KNowLEGE AND THE SUPPRESSION OF VICE IN
MONTREAL.—A gentleman has just arrived in Liverpool,
deputed on behalf of the above institution, to receive assistance
for the purpose of carrying out its benevolent objects. The
Friendly Union was established in the spriug of 1837, since
which time it has erected a temporary place of worship for
seamen and emigrants, in which divine service has been per-
formed twice on the Sabbath, and twice (luring the week; in
which is kept a library of 300 volumes, free to any disposed to
read. This year a small building has been added fora School
of Industry, to which 110 children have been admitted: about
thirty-five, on an average, are in daily attendance. This has
been accomplished by the voluntary offerings of a few friends.
'rhe funds of the institution, however, are not sufficient to
meet the demands upon it, and a building is pressingly re-
quired for the accommodation of seamen and emigrants, and
for public lectures. We have seen the testimonials of the
agent, which are in the highest degree respectable; and we
are requested to state, that donations in aid of the society,
either in money or books, will be received by Mr. Marples,
Lord-street, of whom likewise further information may be
obtained.

The inhabitants of Wakefield are about to memorialise the
government to build a squadron barracks at that place. The
nearest military station is at Leeds, and the present state of
the west riding renders it desirable that the object of the me-
morial should be obtained; as in case of any sudden out-
break, property to a great extent may be destroyed before
the arrival of any soldiers from that station.
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From a communication in the -Wiltshire Independn

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would seem that distress prevails in Potterne, near 'that own,
and in other villages around. The writer says, that—" Last
week, a man and his wife with six small children, had nothing
but potatoes and water to enter their lips for the space of
three days; the mother of these poor suffering babes had to
maintain the youngest of them at her own breast."