The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-09-24 00:00:00

The Queen will return to Osborne on the 9th proximo

Sir Edwin Landseer arrived at Balmoral on Monday

Lord Stanley has returned from Balmor..l to Knowsley.
Miss Miss Coutts is at present the guest of the Duke of
Wellington at Walmer Castle.
The Rev. Dr. Cumming preached before her Majesty
at the Parish Church, Balmoral, on Sunday last by Royal
command.
PRESENT TO THE QUEEN.—
will soon receive an extraordinary

-The Queen of England

resent from Posen

as a token of gratitude for the protection she has granted
to the fugitive Poles. It is the skin of a wether which
has been bred by Count Ignaz Lipsky. who is famous for

his breed of sheep. The precious skin of this wether,
Consul 1., is contained in a box, inscribed with the fol-
lowing genealogy :—" Genealogy of the wether, Consul
I.—(a) Prince; born in 1825, begat (b) Beatus, 1827;
(c) Leschek the White, 1830; (d) Dictator I. 1835; (e)
Dictator 11. ; (f) Cincinnati 1., 1844, and from him
Consul 1., 1846, of which the skin is enclosed in the said
box."—Ktilner Zeitung. [An assembly of 830 land.
owners declared the skin of this sheep to be the finest
produced, and the King of Prussia gave Ignaz Lipsky the
Order of the Red Eagle. What a pity Count Lipsky
was not an Austrian subject, for then the Emperor could
have bestowed on him the Order of the Golden Fleece.]
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instant,

)n the

Atli aer Majesty and the Royal family
witnessed the performance of the Highland games on the
spacious lawn of the old castle of Mar. The Royal party
were hailed by a burst of acclamation, and, on alighting,
were received by Mr. Farquharson and General the Hon.
Sir Alexander Duff, with whom her Majesty heartily shook
hands, appearing in excellent health and spirits. Thf

Royal children were handed out of the carriage by
M`Laggan, and a cordial greeting took place between them
and Mr. Farquharson's family of eight sons and four
daughters, the boys being dressed in the Highland garb.
Her Majesty was in mourning, and wore the royal tartan
shawl ; Prince Albert was attired in the royal Stuart tar-
tan, with philabeg and scarf, fastened by a buckle orna-
mented with a brilliant cairngorum. The young Princes
were also in the Highland dress. After the games, which
consisted of "putting the stone and throwing the hammer,"
the royal party were conducted to the hall of the castle, to
witness the sword dance, and a variety of Highland reels.
The hall was splendidly decorated for the occasion with
evergreens, amongst which were interspersed the royal
initials. The first dance was a reel, in which several
Highlanders displayed great nimbleness of foot ; then
followed the sword dance, which was danced by three
athletic young men successively, and by Master John
Arthur Farquharson, one of the Farquharson's boys, who
distanced all the others ; then came the strathspeys and
the Highland fling to the music of the bagpipes, her
Majesty evidently taking great delight in the whole per-
formance. At five the royal party left tae hall, and were
at Balmoral by six o'clock. Every day has been occupied
- her Majesty, P-' 41''-

.mibert, arid the royal children, in
excursions to view the delightful secenery of the High-
lands.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE,

DONCASTER RACES

These national races came off during the pas
and were attended by as many distinguished pen

aumber,

in the aggregate, of her Majesty's lieges than on any
previous occasion. The stewards for the races were the
Earl of Zetland, Viscount Clifden, and Lord Stanley.
The following are the leading events :

On Tuesday the Great Yorkshire Handicap was won
by Mark Tapley ; Harricot, 2 ; Priestess, 3.
started. Won by a head, a length between secon
third.

Ten others

On Wednesday the most exciting contest ever known
for the St. Leger took place, the first race ending in a
dead heat. Eight started, namely, Voltigeur, Russ-
borough, Bolingbroke, Windischgratz, Beehunter, Pits-
ford, The Italian, and Chatterbox. At the start for the
first heat, Beehunter took a clear lead immediately after
quitting the post, followed for a few strides by Russ-

and'then by Windiscbgratz, Russborough lying
next in company with Chatterbox and Voltigeur, Italian
and Pitsford in the rear. The rearmost horses closed
with the ruck in rising the hill, and before they had got
to the mile-post Pitsford was in advance of Russborough.
Half-way between there and the Red-house he went up
to Beehunter, forced the pace, and headed him round the
turn, Bolingbroke and Russborongh waiting on them,
The Italian and Voltigeur, the latter having been disap-
pointed in attempting to go up, lying in the rear. At
the bend of the rails, about a quarter of a mile from
home; the t•\•o leading horses were beaten, and were
passed by Voltigeur and Bolingbroke, the former leading
about three parts of a length. Next to them from the
distance came The Italian, and outside of them, fourth,
Russborough. This lot ran well together to the stand.
where Bolingbroke was disposed of. Russborough then
went up, but, coming in collision with Bolingbroke, drove
him against The Italian, whose jockey asserts that it
deprived him of a fair chance of winning. Be this as it
may, Russborough cleared them a few strides from the
chair, and Robinson, by one of his splendid efforts at the
finish, made it a dead heat, Marson, who evidently looked
for danger on the left, instead of on the whip hand, hav-
ing to use the " persuaders" to save the race. Boling-
' broke was beaten nearly three• lengths, The Italian was
fourth and Beehunter fifth. Run in three minutes 21
seconds. Shortly afterwards the deciding heat took place.
Betting 6 to 4 on Voltigeur, who laid a couple of lengths
from the Irish horse until within the distance, took the
lead from him half-way up, and cleverly won by a length.
Run in three minutes 24 seconds. The cheering, waving
of handkerchiefs, and throwing up of hats on the winner
returning to the scale lasted for at least ten minutes.
Such a scene of excitement, we venture to affirm, has
never been witnessed on this or any other racecourse ;
indeed, the St. Leger of 1850, third in succession carried
off by the winner of the Derby, and the second for which
a dead heat was ever run, may be fairly pronounced one
of the most memos able on record.

On Friday, the Doncaster cup was won by Voltigeur,
The Flying Dutchman second. The betting opened at H
to 2, on The Flying Dutchman, and closed at 4 to 1,
taken freely. The favourite took the lead at starting,
and was so far in advance for more than two miles that
10 to 1 was offered on him. Voltigeur, however, began
to draw up from the bend, caught him at the stand,
headed him three or four strides from home, and won by
half a length. The distance, two miles and a half, was
run in four minutes fifty-four seconds.