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The first heat was a very fine one, but Thaïs ran against a man when first, for the second. At Newmarket July Meeting, she won the Town Plate of 50l. (with Mr. Perram's 20gs. added), colts, 8st. 4lb. fillies, 8st. the last mile and a distance of B. C. beating Thaïs and Ostrich. Four to 1 on Penelope. In the First October Meeting, she won the Town Plate of 501. (with Mr. Perram's 30gs. added), colts, 8st. 7lb. fillies, 8st. 3lb. Ditch-in, beating the Sister to Gouty, Fop, Striver, Horns, and Deserter.Three to 1 on Penelope. And in the Second October Meeting, Penelope, 7st. 4lb. won the October Oatlands Stakes of 30gs. each, B. M. beating Striver, 3 yrs old, 6st. 7lb. Chippenham, 5 yrs old, 8st. 8lb. Vivaldi, 5 yrs old, 8st. Horns, 3 yrs old, 6st. Ploughboy, aged, 7st. 12lb. and Georgiana, 4 yrs old, 8st. 5lb. (eleven paid 10gs. each).-Five to 4 agst Penelope, and 3 to 1 agst Chippenham. The above were the whole of her running that year.

At Newmarket First Spring Meeting, 1802, Penelope, 8st. 7h. received 20gs. from Informer, 6st. AF. 100gs. b. ft. And in the Second Spring Meeting, at 8st. 71b. she won a sweepstakes of 15gs. each, D. M. beating Friday, 4 yrs old, 7st. 3lb. the Sister to Gouty, 4 yrs old, 7st. 11lb. and Mr. Lake's Volunteer filly, 3 yrs old, 8st. 71h, -Seven to 4 on Penelope, who won quite easy.

At Newmarket Craven Meeting, 1803, Penelope, 8st. 9lb. beat Duxbury, 3 yrs old, 8st. A. F. 200gs. Two to 1 on Duxbury:A good race, and won by a neck. In the First October Meeting, at 8st. 6lb, she won a Subscription of 5gs. each, (twenty-four subscribers) B. C. beating Surprise, 6 yrs

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old, 8st. 13lb. Lignum-Vitæ, old, 8st. 13lb. Creeper, 4 yrs old, 7st. 71b. and Galloper, 4 yrs old, 7st. 7lb.-Seven to 4 agst LignumVitæ, 4 to 1 agst Surprise, and 5 to 1 agst Penelope, who won very easy.

In the Second October Meeting, she won a Subscription of 25gs. each, (sixteen subscrihers) B. C. heating Eleanor and Malta, 8st. 5lb. each.-Six to 4 on Eleanor, and 7 to 4 agst Penelope, who won quite easy. In the Houghton Meeting, at 8st. 7lb. she heat Whirligig, 8st. 1lb. B. C. 100gs.-Eleven to 8 on Whirligig: -Won quite easy.

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At Newmarket Craven Meeting, 1804, Penelope, 9st. 1lb. won the first Class of the Oatlands' Stakes of 50gs. each, b. ft. (nine sub'scribers) Ditch-in, beating Chip penham, aged, 9st. 5lb. Brighton, 6 yrs old, 8st. 71b. Strathspey, 4. yrs old, 8st. Driver, 5 yrs old, 9st. 4lb. and Cæsario, 3 yrs old, 6st. 9lb.-Five to 2 agst Penelope, 7 to 2 agst Chippenham, and 6 to 1 agst Driver-A good race. the First Spring Meeting, at 7st. 81b, she received 60gs. from Eagle, 8st. glb. A. F. 200gs. h. ft.-The next day, she won the King's Plate for mares, 10st. each, R. C. beating Eleanor.-Seven to 4 and 2 to 1 on Penelope :-A good race. -And the day following, at 9st. she won the 501. Plate, D. C. beating Quiz, 5 yrs old, 9st. and Montalto, 3 yrs old, 7st. 4lb.-Eleven to 10 on Quiz, and 6 to 5 agst Penelope, who won easy. In the Second Spring Meeting, at 8st. 9lb. she won the Jockey-Club Plate of 50gs. 50gs. B. C. beating Dick Andrews, aged, 8st. 11lb.-Six to 5 on Penelope, who won easy. And in the Houghton Meeting, at 8st. 7lb. she beat Bobtail, 8st. B. C. 100gs. -Six to 5 on Bobtail:-Won easy.

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At Newmarket Craven Meeting, 1805, Penelope, 8st. 7lb. was beat by Walton, 8st. 6lb. B. C. 200gs. -Five to 4 on Penelope.-She was put to the horse, and was a brood mare in the Duke of Grafton's stud, and produced in 1806, a bay filly; in 1807, a br. colt, Whalebone; in 1808, a bay filly, Web; in 1809, a bay colt, Woful; in 1810, a ches. filly, Wilful; in 1811, a br. filly, Wire, and in 1812, a bay colt, (a favourite for the next Derby) all by Waxy:In 1913, she missed to Vandyke; and in 1814, she produced a bay colt, by Walton.

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Prunella (the dam of Penelope) was also the dam of Parasol, by Pot8o's; Pelisse, by Whiskey; Podargus, by Worthy; Pioneer, by Whiskey; of Pope, Pledge, and Pope Joan, by Waxy; also of Picquet, by Sorcerer.

Promise, (the dam of Prunella) was also the dam of Patience, Peeress, and Pallas, by Herod; Prude, by Highflyer; Prizefighter, by Florizel; Peppermint, by Highflyer; and several others.

THE WONDERS OF THE MICROCOSM, OR THE WORLD OF MAN.

THE scales of the cuticle grow upon the human body as they do upon the external skin of a fish, and are placed like them, three deep; each scale being partially covered by two others, one third part only of the two lower ones appearing, and lying over one another, which may be the principal cause why the body appears white; for on the lips, and other parts, where they do not fold over, the blood appears through, and such parts are red. The perspirable matter issues between these scales,

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through innumerable pores, each scale representing an irregular pentagon, or five-sided figure. Lewenhoek teaches that two hundred of them may be covered with a grain of sand, and that each scale covers one hundred pores; so that if a grain of sand can cover two hundred of such scales, it will also cover twenty thousand places, through which perspiration may issue. If one grain of gold be diffused through five pounds of silver, and a grain of the compoundbe submitted to the action of nitrous acid, the twenty-eight thousandth part of a grain of gold will be discovered. A grain of salt dissolved in one hundred thousand parts of water, may be detected in each drop of the solution. The melt of a fish contains animals so minute, as to be only the millionth part of the size of a grain of sand, and more numerous in the melt of a single cod, than the human population of the whole globe. Each of such animals must be possessed of muscles, nerves, and vessels, conveying blood, or they could neither have life, motion, or feeling; and yet what is this inconceivable minuteness of blood globules, in competition with atoms composing light? It has been found that a particle of the blood of animals, must be as much smaller than a globe of the tenth part of an inch in diameter, as that globe is smaller than the whole earth; and yet, if these particles be compared to the atoms of light, they will be found to exceed them as much in bulk, as mountains do single grains of sand; for the force of any body striking against an obstacle, is directly in proportion to its quantity of matter, multiplied into its velocity; and since the velocity of the particles of light is demon

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tems; shoes with seats for the crusts of the hoof to rest upon→→→ and shoes with no seats at all. We have had concayities and convexities, planes, and cockleshells, ample discussions of all which, with names attached to them who scarcely ever saw a horse-shoe forged in their lives. We have had shoes proper to be nailed from toe to heel, and shoes to adhere to the hoof without a nail at all; and now comes a redoubted champion of the forge, with a shoe that sweeps

NEW INVENTED HORSE SHOE. away all the others, and attempts to be the Ego sum.

To the Editor of the Sporting Ma

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A Shoe, called the Levarian, or easy shoe for horses troubled with corns and sandcracks, beginning to be talked of by every body at the west end of the town; some stating that it has been used in the studs of many Noblemen for a long time, which in consequence have been kept perfectly sound; I wish to ask, through the medium of your useful publication, whether any of your correspondents know how it is formed, and upon what principle it acts, so as to preclude the necessity of using a bar shoe, the horse continuing in work at the same time, though troubled with deep-seated corns or sandcracks? I never having seen any person as yet who could explain its manner of operation in the least, although many have been ready enough to talk of its great virtues, am greatly at a loss. We have long enough been bored by systems of shoeing horses, and publications declaring there can be no system applicable to every foot. We have had thin-heeled, and thickheeled (if not thick-headed) sys

As a matter of great public in terest, I must beg your insertion of this; for the curiosity and wonder of many people as well as myself, are on the stretch, most people supposing the powers of invention to have been frozen ever since the days of Osmer, at least since those of Moorcroft, who was inspired upon the same sacred spot. I have not been more than four days in town, and this shoe is the first topic of conversation, particularly among coachmen, as I understand; eacb, I suppose because it may be new, giving it the preference to any other.-I am, Sir, most respectfully, your's, IGNORAMUS. Limmer's Hotel, April 21.

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eatch bares, in a place much frequented by those animals. They had with them a lurcher dog for the purpose of starting the game, and driving it into the snares. When the gamekeeper had fully satisfied himselt as to their object, be obtained assistance, and was proceeding to apprehend the defendants, but they took to flight: a chace commenced, which afforded some sport. It was not hetween the dog and the hare, but the game-keeper and his party and the poachers. The gamekeeper was the swiftest of foot, and he came up with the defendants. He found in the pocket of Davey wire gins, such as are used for ensnaring hares; but nothing of the kind upon the person of the other defendant. These facts were stated by the gamekeeper. He admitted, on cross examination, that the defendants were near a quarter of a mile off when he first saw them laying the gins. He also admitted these gins would catch weazles.-Mr. Baine attributed this prosecution to the Association of Preston-a set of rich gentlemen, who were deter mined that nobody should eat any hares but themselves. The present action, however, was for the penalty given by the statute for having engines to catch hares. Now it did not appear that the defendants had used them for that purpose. The witness had admitted they would catch weazles, and non constat, that it was the object of the defendant to catch weazles, and not hares.-The Jury found a verdict for the plaintiff only as to Davey, on whom the gins were found.

Wordon v. Parkinson.--Mr. Scarlett said this was an action brought to prevent trespass by the defendant and his coadjutors, who were

persons of the same description as the defendants in the last cause. The defendant lived in Walton le Dale, and having frequently trespassed on the plaintiff's lands for the purpose of killing game, received a written notice that if he was found on any part of the plaintiff's premises he would be prosecuted. Notwithstanding he had received this notice, he was observed on the 29th October last, at two o'clock in the morning, on the plaintiff's grounds poaching. He was seen to take a gate off the hinges, lay it down, and in the place of it spread a hare net; he was also observed to fix a gin in a gap in the hedge, and then proceed to rouse the hares with a lurcher.

The Learned Counsel observed, that whatever might be said as to the severity of the Game Laws, yet no fact was more certain than that persons of the defendant's class of life, who annexed ideas of profit to any thing but their own honest industry, and who, to gain a precarious livelihood, went about in the night destroying game, usually finished their career by an ignominious death. He trusted, therefore, that the Jury, by their verdict, would do all in their power to prevent the practice. The case was fully made out, and the plaintiff had a verdict-Damages, 101.

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