ENGLISH EXTRACTS. DONCASTER RACES.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume IX, Issue 780, 22 January 1853, Page 3

ENGLISH EXTRACTS. DONC ASTER RACES.

The attendance at the races has been less aristocratic this year than usual ; but the receipts exceeded last year by about £300, being the largest ever known. In some respects, however, there was an obvious falling off, and the gathering of the aristocracy was small beyond precedent. We are bound to compliment Mr. De Chesnel, the superintendent of the Electric Telegraph Company, on the success of his arrangements for the transmission of messages from the course. The instruments* by permission of the Corporation, are placed in the ground floor of the round stand — within a few years used for weighing, &c, — within a few feet of the judge's chair, so that the issues of most of the races on Tuesday afternoon were known in London and other distant places, before the i running horses bad returned to the enclosure. [ JW-or three clerks were kept in full employ throughout the afternoon. The St. Leger Stakes of 25 soys. each for 3-yr.

olds ; colts, Bst. 71b. ; fillies, Bst. 21b. ; the second to receive 100 soys , out of the stakes ; the winner to pay 100 soys. towards expenses ; 25 sov3. for the judge, and 25 for the starter. St. Leger course. 1 1 6 subs. Lord Exeter's Stock .veil, (Norman) 1 The Duke of Richmond'! Haibinger, (Fl»tm»n) 2 Mr. Bowes'« Daniel O'Rourke, (F. Butler) 3 Mr. Pedley's Trousseau, (Temr leman) 4 Mr. J. Scott's Songstress, (A Day) 5 Mr. Runcombe'a Alfred the Great, (Basham) .. 6 Betting at starting — 7 to 4 against Stockwell, 5 to 2 against Daniel O'Rourke, 3to 1 against Songstress, 7 to 1 against Harbinger, and 10 to 1 against Trousseau. The above prices which are made up to the time of starting, varied in several instances from the quotationsjn the town. At one time, ow- | ing to a report that she was lame, Songstress | declined to 5 to 2 and 3 to 1, and was quite friendless, Stock well, on her decline, rising to 7 to 2, Daniel O'Rourke to 3 to 1, and Harbinger to 6to 1. About half-an hour before | the room was closed, a strong reaction took place, Songstress rising to 2 to 1, and having a decided call of Lord Exeter's horse : Daniel O'Rourke receded to 7 to 2, but Harbinger remained steady at 6to 1. The start took place a few minutes before 3, Alfred the Great jumping off with a decided lead, followed in rotation and at wide intervals, by Harbinger and StockJ "well, Scott's two next, nearly abreast ; the pace as good as Alfred the Great could make it. No change Whatever took place until near the Red House, where Alfred the Great was joined by Harbinger and Stock well, and immediately after gave way. Harbinger then showed in front, but was headed in a few strides by Stockwell, who went on by himself, and won in a canter by ten lengths. Harbinger beating Daniel O'Rourke by a length. Time 3 minutes 21 seconds.

Ireland. — The British Association for the advancement of science, has just held its annual meeting at Belfast. We learn from an announcement by Mr. Renny, the secretary of the " Great Industrial Exhibition of 1853," to be held in Dublin, that much activity is being displayed in completing the preliminary arrangements; and there is every prospect of the work proceeding rapidly and satisfactorily. The Cork Exhibition was brodght to a close on the '11th September, with an appropriate musical festival and promenade on a large scale. Three military bands were in attendance, Mrs. Chisholra was in Dublin, and preparing to hold one of her class emigration meetings there. The Anglo- Celt newspaper is to be prosecuted for libel, for accusing the officers and men of the 31st regiment of cowardice. A man named James Fmnigan, who was committed to Dundalk gaol, charged with a participation in the conspiracy to murder Mr. Eastwood, and who subsequently turned crown witness, and continued for some time to give information to the police respecting the ribbon conspiracy, committed suicide in a very determined manner, having first cut his throat, and and then precipitated himself from a' top window of the police barrack into the street. Father Mathew has sailed for India, with five colleagues, to form a Roman Catholic See at Hydrabad. It appears from the Kerry papers that nearly 900 paupers were lately discharged from the Tralee workhouses, while the number of adi missions on last board day amounted only to forty. There are not now much over 2,500 paupers chargeable to a union that had not many months since little short of 8,000 to support and lodge. Applications for assistance to-, wards emigration still continue to be made by the inmates whose friends have preceded them to America.

The London and North- Western Railway Company has proposed to the Great Western Railway Company the absolute and entire amalgamation of all the property, power, and possesions of these two vast concerns. Lady Louisa Le Poer Trench was frightened to death by a flash of lightning while attending church lately in Kildare. Mr. Warren, Q. C, has been appointed recorder of Hull, vacant by the death of Mr. T. C. Granger, M.P. So great is the scarcity of hands in West Sussex, owing to emigration and other causes, that the farmers, unable to procure the means of housing their crops, have applied to the commanding officer of the Scots Fusileer Guards, who, on condition that his men did not compete with agricultural labourers, b,ut only supplied their places where vacant, consented to allow his ni en to wield the sickle instead of the sword.

A Rotal Traveller in a Difficulty — Paul Wilhelm, Duke of Wirtemburg, who has been travelling, last summer and fall, in the western wilds, has lately published in the Allemeine Zeitung a short sketch of his adventures, from which it appears that, on the 29th of October, he fell into the hands of a band of Indians near the mouth of the Southern Platte, who robbed him and his companions of all they possessed, and grievously ill treated them in the bargain. He fared, however, still worse on the 14th of November. An awful «now-storm broke over the hapless wanderer; his three horses died one after another ; with difficulty could he continue on foot for fifteen miles further, when, at last, near the mouth of the Big Sandy Creek, his strength gave way, and he laid himself down, as he thought, to rise no more. Already were his limbs stitf and his sense began to forsake him, when the mailriders from Fort Laramie found the wretched duke, and carried hied with great difficulty to Independence, Missouri, where, under the most hospitable care of its generous inhabitants, he soon recovered his health and strength. The duke expresses great gratitude to the people of Independence.

Thk Vacant Vice Chancellorship. — The 5 Globe stys it is expected that the lot will fall od Mr. Walpole, or, if declined by that geotlercau, that the offer must be made to Mr. John Stuart.

Net's Grandsok.— Michel Ney, the «on of General Duke d'Elchingtl, and grandson of Marshal Ney, has just enlisted as a private soldier in tbe 7ih Regiment of Dragoona. — Liverpool Journal Aug. 14. Jeuny Lind, according to last accounts, was prtparing a small edition of " Goldschmidt'a Animated Nature !"

Antiquity of the Influenza. — Of this now universally prevailing malady, we bare the following account in a letter from Randolph, the English ambassador at the Court of Mary, Queen of Scots, to Cecil, afterwards Lord Burgbley, dated Edinburgh, 30th of November, 1562 :—": — " May it please your honour, immediately upon the Queen's arrival here, she fell acquainted with a rjev disease that is p.evilent in this town, called the new acquaintance, which passed also through her whole court, neither sparing lord, lady, nor damsel, not so much as either French or English. It is a pain in their heads that have it, and a soreness in tbeir stomachs with great cough. It reraaineth with some longer, with others shorter time ; as it findeth apt bodies for the nature of the disease. The Queen kept her bed for six days. There was no appearance of danger, nor many that die of the disease, except some old folk. My Lord of Murray is now presently in it, and I am ashamed to say I have been free of it, seeing it maketh appearance at all men's hands." The letter is printed at 105-7 of the selections of unpublished manuscript*, illustrating the raign of Mary, Queen of Scotland, presented to the Maitland Club, in the year 1837, by the late Dr. N. Finlay, of Castle Howard. — Melbourne Argus.

To Make Mosquitoes Leave. — Tie a piece of flannel or sponge to a thread made fast to the top of the bedstead ; wet the flannel or sponge with camphorated spirits, and the mosquitoes will leave tbe room.

Eiectkic Telegraphs in India. — The Eait India Company have juit determined to establish a very extensive system of electric telegraphs in India, under the superintendence of Dr , B. O'Sbaaghnessy, of their medical establish* rnent. It is intended to connect Calcutta, Agra, Lahore, Bombay, and Madras, and as many of the principal towns and stations as can be embraced in the routes between these places. The distance to be traveised is upwards of 3000 miles, : and it is intended to proceed witth such expedi- J tion in its construction, that its completion ( may be expected in three years from the present ' time. <

French and English Feeling. — In a late debate in the House of Commons, Lord Pal men ton well contrasted English and French feeling with Austrian honour. " Why, sir," said his lordship , " we all know the anecdote of the English batcher, 4fco was struck by a man with whom be had words,- and whom be reproached with a good old English sentiment, " why, what a mean, cow. ardly fellow yon must be to strike a man who has a knife in his hand, and who cannot return the blow." (Hear and cheers.) That is the English feeling. (Cheers.) What is the French feeling ? Why, sir, many of ua know that there was a distinguished officer in the British service in the cavalry, who had lost an arm, but who served in the Peninsular war, mutilated as he then was. In an action in which he was engaged be got into the incite, and a French officer rode up to him, and was going to cut him down. But the Frenchman saw that his opponent bad only one arm, and seeing that, he dropped his sabre point (cheers), and passed on to seek ont an opponent with whom he might contend on equal terms. That is the French feeling.

The Hero of One Battle Field.— On the occasion of the review ia the Champ <ie Mars, the President wore the uniform of a General of the Infantry — or of a Colonel of the National Guard — for, as he baa never served in either, it ia extremely doubtful which uniform he wore, or in fact, what rank in the French army he hat gained at all, beyond that, from never having been in it, of a Bank Impostor. Aa these doubts make it very inconvenient td know what military title to give him, we suggest that Louis Napoleon do take his title from that of the only battle field in which he has hitherto distinguished himself, and be henceforth known as "the Great Shah de Mars."— Punch.