DONCASTER RACE&

The accounts of the great sporting meeting of the North state that the attendance of the aristocracy this year was thin—" such," add the turf accounts, "has been the fact this year throughout the season "—but the attendance of the "middle and lower ranks" was almost as great as on the unprecedented occasion of last year. The sport was "above the ave- rage in quantity, and was full of interest." The races began on Tuesday ; when the chief prizes contested were the Fitzwilliam Handicap Stakes, the Champagne Stakes for two-year olds, and the Great Yorkshire Handicap Stakes. The first, won by Lord Zetland's Randulphus (J. Maroon), against Mr. Shepherd's Post Tempore (Charlton), and seven others. The second, won by Lord Zetland's Augur (J. Marson ,) against Mr. Bowes's Daniel O'Rourke (F. Butler), and seven others. The last, won by Sir J. Hawley's The Confessor (Charlton), against the Duke of Richmond's Antigone, and fifteen others.

The celebrated St. Leger race was run on Wednesday. Stakes 251. each, for three-year-olds; there were 119 subscribers, and eighteen horses started. The winner was Mr. A. Nichors Newminster (Templeman) ; and the second horse was Sir John Hawley's Aphrodite (Marson). The first favourite in the betting ran only eleventh ; the winner had been fourth on the betting-lists. The race was not remarkable in its incidents. Captain Rous volunteered to supply the place of the late Mr. IIibburd as starter, and succeeded to admi- ration.

On Thursday, the Cleveland Handicap was won by Mr. Phillips's Le Juif, from six others ; and the Handicap Sweepstakes was won by Mr. Worthing- ton's The Irish leirdeatcher, from eight others.

A feature of yesterday's sport was that Sir John Hawley's "lot" won no less than five out of the seven races run. The Handicap Plate was won by his Clincher (J. Manion), from nine others ; the Park Hill Stakes, by his Aphrodite (J. Marson) ; the Doncaster Cup, by his The Ban (Arnold), from six others ; the Doncaster Stakes, by Aphrodite again (I. Marson) • and the Don Stakes were walked over by his great gun Teddington. Aphrodite came out very strong : her races were won in the "commonest of canters," and one of them was "a ridiculously hollow affair, scarcely worth describing."

Results of the Registrar-General's return of mortality in the Metropolis for the week ending on Saturday last.

72 71 10 27 227 232

Age 421

Sudden 108

Violence,Privation,Oold, andintemperance 331 ss

Total (including unspecified causes) 11,013 1,026

London is as healthy as is usual at this season of the year : 1026 deaths were registered in the week. The average number of deaths in the corre- sponding week of the ten years 1841-60 was 1104; or 1000 if we correct for

Ten Weeks Week of 1841-30. 401851. Zymotic Diseases 4,386 Dropsy, Cancer, and other diseases of uncertain or variable seat" 463 Tubercular Diseases 1,735 .... 179 Diseases of the Brain, Spited Marrow, Nerves, and Senses 1,105

Diseases of the Beast and Blood-vessels 238

Diseases of the Lungs, anti of the other Organs of Respiration 732 Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion 724 • ... 88 Diseases of the Kidneys, &c Childbirth, diseases of the Uterus, ite Ithermiatism, diseases of the Bones, Joints, ac Diseases of the Skin, Cellular Tissue, •fic Malformations

Premature Birth

Atrophy

inareesepf plOsktiou, and exclude 286.5 deaths ui the second week of Sep_ tetuber 184% when the cholera Nilts epidemic. In Vie teat week there was a death every ten minutes in London ; but the population is now about 2,381,000, and the mortality is therefore at the rate of 1 in 2381 weekly. The births were 14292 and exceeded, the deaths by 403; the population is inereasing, partly by immigration, at the rate of 42,000 a year, or 80a weekly.-rironi the Registrar-General's Report.

For some weeks past we have observed great numbers of sheep exported to Ireland by the various steam-boats that ply regularly from Greenock to Dub- lin and Belfast. At first it was supposed that some of our Scotch farmers had taken land on that side of the water, and were transporting_theie,stock; but it appears they are carried over for the purpose of being more speedily fed fat on the rich pasture of the Green Isle, whence they are again' trans- ported, per steamer, to supply the various English markets. This is a new source of employment for the steam-boats.--Greetiock Advertiser.

No less a sum than 30/. sterlingwas offered and refused for the Single sheep belonging to the Messrs. Gunn, Glenhu, that carried the Highland and Agri- cultural Society's first prize of 51. at the Lairg show last week. The price was offered by one of the most celebrated breeders of Cheviot stock in this county.—John o'Groat Journal.

Great scarcity exists in the district of Oestmark, province of Wermeland, in Sweden. The inhabitants are obliged to crush the bark of trees and eat it, mixed with green rye, chopped up hire straw for horses. A fortnight ago, as a young girl was returning from a mill with a sack containing a small cjuintity of flour, she was stopped by three young men, who demanded that she should give it up to them. She refused; " whervimon they beat her with sticks until she was dead, and then devoured the flour." Two of the assassins were shortly after arrested. All three belong to respectable &miller- According to letters from Berne, of the 29th August, the damages caused in the canton by recent inundations are valued at 2,400,000 francs. Sub- scriptions are open all over Switzerland to cover the losses of the inundation.

A steam-engine of six or eight horse power is erected at Abington, Massa- chusetts, for grinding up the chips and shavings of leather which are cut off by the shoe and boot makers, and which have heretofore been burnt or thrown away. These are ground to a powder resembling coarse snulf, and this powder is then mixed with certain gums tuid other substances an thoroughly that the whole mass becomes a kind of melted leather. In a short time this dries a little, and is rolled out to the desired thickness—per- haps one twenty-fourth of an, inch. It is now quite solid, and is said to be

entirely waterproof. ' A Spanish matador or bull-fighter arrived at'Southampton on Sunday from Cadiz, en route to South America, where he has a lucrative engagement. He is a stout-built man, and appears to possess great activity and strength. During the voyage, he exhibited the sword with which he is armed when in the amphitheatre; it is a heavy, straight, two-edged sword, about three and a half feet long, with a red hilt. To use such a weapon effectually must re. quire remarkable strength and dexterity. The matador had a servant with, him, a slender and effeminate-looking youth, who was dressed more fantas- tically and singularly than his master. The behaviour of the matador in the baggage-warehouse of the Southampton Customs, with his brusque man- ners, deep husky voice, and vehement volubility, seemed to cause much amusement amongst his fellow-voyagers who were standing by.

Mr. John Dickinson, a yeoman of Clifton in Westmoreland, lies in a gerous state from the effects 9f a strange mistake. Returning Irons Peruith market, he went to sleep in a recess on Lowther Bridge; on awaking, he groped about, found the parapet, and, imagining he was getting into bed, leaped over, and fell into the river, forty feet below. Though very much hurt, he managed to crawl to the edge of the stream, where Be was found next morning.

The dangers of the absurd discrepancies between the formulee of the Eng- lish, Scotch, and Irish pharmacopcems, as issued by the London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Colleges of Medicine are illustrated by " aledicus " in a letter to the glues. "Sir, would you 'believe it possible that some of the formulae which have emanated from these oracular bodies under the same name are yet, for no earthly reason, so unequal in strength that a salutary dose pre- scribed by a London physician becomes a deadly poison if compounded in Scotland or Ireland, and vice versa ? Yet such 113 the ease. I proceed to the proofs. The fleet= colchici ' of Dublin is three times the strength of the "acetum colchici' of Edinburgh and London. The acetum opu of Edinburgh is three times the strength of the acetum ' of Dub- lin. The hydrocvanic (Prosaic) acid' of Edinburgh is nearly twice as strong as that of London and Dublin. The London solution of hydro- chlorate of morphia ' and 'solution of acetate of morphia' are twice as strong as the analogous preparations of the other two Colleges." . . . • "I happen to know that a celebrated Alderman pays from time to time in the form of a fit of the gout the penalty attached to over-indulgence at civic meetings and corporation dinners' but for this, good man, he has a most efficient remedy in a prescription given him by his town physician, which contains two drachms of the acctum colchici' for a dose. Loyalty, pleasure, or business, may by chance take him to Ireland, and he partakes, nothing loth, of the abundant hospitalities of our warmhearted neighbours; but soon do certain well-known twinges remind him of his prescription (which he is too wise to travel without,) and he has it in due course prepared ; but, alas! the first dose is enough !—two drachms of the Dublin aeetum colchici ' will infallibly carry off the gout and our worthy Alderman together ! Again, hydrocyanic acid, opium, and morphia, are not uncommon ingredients in certain family prescriptions for coughs and other ailments' and who shall calculate the mischief that might arm from a double or treble dose of such medicines as these to a delicate child, or a feeble old invalid ? " "The re- medy for these evils is easy and simple, namely, one pharmacopceia for the Three Kingdoms."

The Paris Gazette des Tribunal's has the following dramatic morsel. "A. tradesman of the Quartier des Lombards having cause to suspect the fidelity of his wife, resolved to put it to the proof. He pretended that he had oc- casion to go to London with respect to some articles sent by him to the Rchi- ition ; and having obtained a passport a few days ago, went away. At about one o'clock on Tuesday night, he secretly let himself into his 'house, and proceeding to his wife's chamber, found her in bed with a man. The woman and her accomplice thought that thieves had entered the house ; and the former, losing her wits, shouted Murder ! thieves!' while the man rushed on the husband, and attempted to secure him. The husband, furious with rage, cried 'This is your last hour and he produced a dagger. But when about to strike, his resolution failed him, and perceiving that his wife's cries had begun to alarm the neighbourhood, he suddenly changed his inten- tion. 'Fear nothing, madam,' said he, lighting a candle, is I. You have been very guilty, but I still love you enough to pardon you. As for you,' he said to the accomplice, whom he recooluz,, ed as a clerk formerly in his service, 'dress yourself quickly—be off—and all shall be forgotten !' The clerk, glad to get away so easily, began to dress, and the husband undressed. When the latter had got all his clothes off, and resembled a man who had just quitted his bed, he seized the clerk by the throat, and shouted, ' Thief:

murder!' By this time the guard and genie of the neighboms had arrived,

and the husband, giving, the clerk into their custody, This is one of the thieved who has broken into my house : I could only seize this one; the others:have escaped.' The poor clerk was taken off to the guard-house, and the next day the husband declared that he had broken into his house and had robbed him. But the clerk told the true story ; and the examining ma- gistrate having ascertained it to be exact, Compelled the husband to with- draw the charge of housebreaking and-to make one of adultery. This he did, and he included his wife in the complaint also. The wife and clerk are now in custody awaiting- their trial for violation of Article 338 of the Penal Code."

The Algiers papers relate a melancholy accident which recently took place on the beach or Mustapha. An order had been given on the previous night by the Colonel of the Eighth Regiment of the Line, that the men should march down the next morning to bathe. Although the sea during the night had become very rough, the order was not countermanded. At the roll of the drum, the men went into the water, and in a few minutes a number of them were knocked off their legs by the waves. By the exertions of such of their comrades as were expert swimmers, they were all saved, with the ex- ception of five, who were washed away and drowned.

Thompson, a private in the First Royal Regiment, accused himself at Halifax, /Ova Scotia, of the murder of a girl at Norwich, eight years ago : he has arrived in England,, and is in Winchester Gaol. His story is, that the name of his victim. was Hannah Barber, and that he drowned her in the liver. Inquiries have been commenced, and it appears probable that Thomp- son is not a murderer in fact, though possibly he was in intent. It seems that about the time mentioned by the soldier, a man who was bobbing for eels at night heard blows struck, a splash, and the sound of somebody run- ning away. The eel-fisher went with his boat to the spot where the splash occurred, and pulled a young woman from the water. She refused to tell what had happened. There seems reason to believe that this was Han- nah ' Barber ; and some persons say they have seen her in Norwich Within the laat twelve months. She is supposed to be a countrywoman, who occasionlly visits the city.

While a Stafford letter-carrier was on his rounds his dog discovered, close to a ditch, a foot and part of a leg of a human body: a piece of rope was tied round the ankle. Surgeons say that the fragment has been detached -after death, not by a medical man, the bone having been sawn half through and then broken off. The leg appears to have belonged to a young healthy person.