The Press.
London, England, 1854-09-16 00:00:00

WEDNESDAY.

ONE HuNDEED SovEuEuiNs, added to a Sweepstakes of 10
soya each.
Mr. T. Parr's Rataplan (Flatman) 1
Mr. H. T. Thompsou's Syvagee
Mr. Copperthwaite's The Early Bird 8
SWEEPSTAKES of 10 soya each, with 50 added.
Mr. Ewbank's Jack Sheppard (Charlton) 1
Mr. Dobson's b f by Pyrrhus the First
The DONCASTER PLATE (Handicap) of 10 soya each, with
70 added.
Mr. White's Florist (Aldcroft) 1
Mr. E. Gill's Bourgeois
Mr. Hill's Dan Cupid
Mr. C. Monck's Hunca Munca
Lord Clifden's Anteverta 5
The Sr. LEOER STAKES of 25 soya each, for three-yr-olds;
colts, list 71b ; and fillies, Sat 21b. The owner of the
second horse to receive 100 soya out of the stakes. St.
Leger Course. 159 subs.
Mr. Morris's Knight of St. George (Basham) 1
Lord Zetland's Ivan
Mr. G. Barton's Arthur Wellesley
E Mr. Howard's Scythian

SATURDAY,

The following also ran :—Hesse Cassel, Boiardo, Dervish,
Acrobat, ch c by Pantaloon out of Physalis, Midsummer,
Autocrat, Dr. O'Toole, Ba'men*, Baalbec, The Trapper,
Middlesex, Aribbas, Calamas.
Betting : sto 4 abet Boiardo, S to 1 agat The Trapper,
6 to 1 agst Acrobat, 10 to 1 each agat The Knight of St.
George and Dervish, 15 to 1 apt Scythian, 100 to 6 Agit
Casinos, 25 to 1 agst Autocrat, 50 to 1 agst Midsummer.
When about a distance from home, Ivan and The Knight of
St. George who had gradually gained ground, singled them-
selves out, and after a line set•to the Knight, amidst
tremendous cheers, achieved the victory by a head; the
second beating the third by a length and a half.
HER MA,JE STY'S PLATE of 100 Guineas.
Mr. Morris's Kingston ( itasham)ll
Mr. Jones's Reivelllee 2
Mr. Newland's El Dorado

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The MosictrAL STAKES of 200 SOTS each.
Lord Derby's De Clare ( T einpleman ) 1
Mr. Howard's Gretna
Lord Eglinton's Dirk Hatteraick
The CORPORATION PLATE of 100 sore in specie, added to a
Handicap Stakes of 10 sous each.
Mr. Mather's Eva (T. Cliff) 1
Mr. J. Osborne's The Deformed
Mr. Smith's Sir Rowland Trenchard
Lord Chesterfield's Typee

THURSDAY.
The FOAL STAXES of 100 sovs each.
Mr. Morris's Gamekeeper , „(Basham) 1
Mr. Payne's Boer
The SCARBOROUGH STILLER of 20 sous each. '
Lord Zetland's Hospodar (J. Manion) 1
Mr. Mather's Eva
Mr. Osborne's Seducer 3
The CLEVELAND HANDICAP of 20 BOYS each.
Mr. J. M. Stanley's Orinoco (Charlton) 1
Mr. H. T. Thomson's Guioo*ar 2
Mr. Handley's Lancashirt Lase 3
The EOLINTON STAKES of 10 soya each, with 100 added.
Mr. H. Baker's The Chicken (Wells) 1
Lord Derby's Dervish .... 2
Mr. J J. Henderson's Itylstone 3
Mr. Gully's Andover 4
SWEEPSTAKES of 10 soya each, with 50 added, for
two-yr-olds.
Mr. Edwards's Saraband (Wells) 1
Mr. S. Hawke's Marchioness
Captain liarcourt's Dame Judith
The Juvatatz Samaria Sraass of 5 sous each, with
40 added, for two-yr•olds.
Mr. Morris's Donald (Basham) 1
Mr. Wilson's Puncture
HANDICAP SWEEPSTAKES of 10 Boys each, with 50 added,
for two-yr-olds.
Ami 1
Cherry Brandy

FRIDAY.
200 sous SWEEPSTAKES.

Apollonius Walked over
PARK-HILL STAKES.
Honeysuckle
2
Jetty Treffz
3
Sister of Mercy
Six ran.

DoN STAKES.
Andover 1
Hospodar
DONCASTER STARES.
Acrobat
2
Ivan
Eight ran.
Dreadful row in the ring. The St. Leger considered
not square, and John Scott ill•used.
TOWN PLATE.
Sir Rowland Trencher('
King of Trumps
Hence Mums
Idercn.—Meenee filly beat Miss Whip filly.
DONCASTER Cvr.

Virag0..
Kingston
Two ran.
NURSERY STAKES.
Capny cnne
Twelve ran.

IT turns out that the report of the speeches attri-
buted to the Emperor and the Prince is without
foundation. The Moniteur states that no speeches
were made on the occasion.
A Rovrno tLEPEANT.—On Wednesday night the
elephant accompanying the menagerie of Mr. Batty
which had been exhibiting in this town, after the
performance was safely lodged in a stable near the
George Hotel. The keeper, on going to feed the
animal in the morning, found to his great astonish-
ment that his charge had absconded. Riders were
sent about in every direction to find the missing
brute, but they returued whhout any success. In the
forenoon he was discovered lying fast asleep in the
wine-cellar of the hotel, having, it seems, opened the
door of his lodging in the night, in a roving dispo-
sition, and quietly walked up a long flight of steps to
the George, and afterwards descended to the cellar.
Several bottles were broken, and the contents drank
by the elephant, till he was satisfied he had bad
enough. When found, he locked the picture of con-
tilltsnent—North Wald Chronicle.

SEPTEMBER 16, 1854.

artlata

THE Nation says that positive information has
been received of the arrival of Mr. Smith O'Brien in
Belgium.
THE accounts of the progress of harvest business
are all that could be desired. The Cork Examiner
says :
" Since our last report the weather has been warm and
brilliant, with heavy fogs and occasionally light rain at night.
The blight has in isolated spots made its appearance during
the last week, amongst potato-fields hitherto healthy, but
the damage done is no considerable increase on that
suffered before. In the neighbourhood of Killarney the
potatoes both on boggy and sandy soil have been quite un-
touched, while those in the district of Bantry and on to
Glengariffe have suffered heavily."
The reports from the other parts of the island are
equally satisfactory; notwithstanding, there has been
a rise at the Dublin Corn Exchange on now wheat
of from Is. to 2s. per barrel.
THE MAN RYAN, who was waylaid some days ago
in Tipperary, has died of his injuries.
ACCORDING to the Dublin Express the Lord Lieu-
tenant was to leave on Wednesday or Thursday for
England.
THE Freeman's Journal has the following on the
increase of railway traffic accommodation between
England and Ireland :
"We understand that important alterations are about
being made in the present systeth of through traffic be-
tween this country and England, and that the contemplated
changes include improved postal arrangements and greatly
increased facilities for the transit of merchandise, &T.
These are alterations in which not alone the railway com-
panies but the public generally are deeply interested, and
we believe that they are about to be carried into speedy
operation. Some of the directors of the London and North-
Western and Chester and Holyhead Railway Companies,
with their principal officials, are now in Ireland with the
view of hastening that event."
THERE has been, unfortunately, no abatement of
cholera in the north.
THE rumour that the cholera had broken out in
the Prince of the Seas emigrant-ship, which has put
in at Kilrush, in her voyage from Glasgow to Mel-
bourne, hes been contradicted by the surgeon and
passengers of the ship. The captain had died of
diarrhoea, and another case of the same kind had
taken place on board; but that was all the sickness
that occurred, with the exception of what is incidental
to ordinary voyages.
AFTER the late sectarian riots in the north of Ire-
land a new occurrence has added to the excitement.
It would appear that a Roman Catholic priest, named
Conway, was returning on that night from a sick call,
when, as stated by his friends, be was assailed by some
groups of persons in the street, and that he fired a
pistol, as he says, merely to frighten his assailants. He
then went to the police to complain of the attack made
on him, and was arrested by the officer on duty, and
kept in custody until next day, his pistol being seized
and detained by the police. The organs of both parties
are busy with the affair, one declaring that the priest
fired at an unoffending young woman, the other de-
claring that he was unjustifiably detained. Thus the
matter rests at present.

AN ACCIDENT occurred on the North Kent Railway on
Tuesday morning, fortunately without loss of life. An
engine and train, composed of fifteen trucks, left Strood
terminus at aquarter past one for the Bricklayers' Arms
station, and on its way stopped at the Higham station,
which is the first on the line and close to the tunnel,
for the purpose of unhooking one of the trucks and
taking on another. At twenty-five minutes past one
another train, consisting of twenty-nine empty cattle-
trucks, left Strood for London, and proceeded through
the tunnel at its usual speed, and immediately on its
emerging therefrom the driver, Tickler, observed the
lights of the goods-train standing on the up-line of
rails. He at once put on the breaks, and did all in
his power to bring up the train, but to no purpose,
as the engine dashed with great force into the last
truck of the goods-train, smashing several of the coal-
trucks, and causing the engine of the cattle train to
he thrown off the line on to the down-line, where it
lay. None of the carriages of the cattle-train were
injured ; but the guards, who were in break-vans at
the latter end of the train, were thrown with great
force against their breaks and received some bruises
and contusions : the driver and stoker of the engine,
however, received no injury. The line was not cleared
till eleven o'clock. The down train running over a
portion of the up-line, the signals were all set at
danger, so that the conduct of the driver is quite
unintelligible.
A FARMER IN HEREFORDSHIRE committed suicide
from a too hasty despair at his pecuniary circum •
stances. He took arsenic, and submitted w►th great
reluctance to the operations of the stomach-pump,
which were unavailing. His circumstances, though
low, and causing him great apparent anguish of
mind, were not irreparable, and, with a little assist-
ance from his brothers, he could have paid all his
debts. He has left a widow and eight children.
Verdict, " Temporary insanity."

THE PRESS.

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ATI:NAGE ILLNEHN AIdONO THE LABOURING CLASSES
Mr. Finlaison thus calculates the average number of days'
illness per annum suffered by the population at different
ages. At the age of 45 he states that 09 out of the 100
benefit clubs close their doors to the admission of candi-
dates, and above that age the number of illnesses begin to
increase. Between 15 and 10, the average number of days
per annum with persons engaged in general labour is 61 ' •
between 16 and 26, ; between 26 and 30, 7 ; between 41
and 40, 8; ; between 46 and 51, 101 ; between 51 and 56,
121; between 56 and 01,101 ; between 61 and 66,•2,31 ;
and between 60 and 71, 30 days. Mr. Finlaison adds, on
an examination of the amount of sickness per annum
recorded for the whole mass of the male members of friendly
societies, from the age of 15 to that of 85, it may be pre-
mised that almost exactly five years' sickness is undergone
by the man in the 70 years of time. But during the period
of labour—that is, from the commencement of the 16th
year of age to the close of the 60th—there are in this 51
years but 78 weeks, or exactly one year and a half, of sick-
ness. Further, that in respect of this period of labour,
the sickness, during what may almost be termed its second
moiety—viz., from the age of 41 to that of 60--is almost
exactly the double of that undergone in the previous moiety
—from the age of 15 to that of 41 years. For the sickness
during the first 20 years of manhood if 'meetly half a year,
or 1821 days, while it is 3621 days, or almost exactly one
whole year, during the next ensuing 25 years of maturity.
THE COMPLAINTS OP BAD VENTILATION so often made
during last session by the members of both Houses of Par-
liament is producing its effect. Both chambers are now
undergoing extensive alterations, preparatory to the intro-
duction of Mr. Goldsworthy Gurney's system of lighting
and ventilation, in conformity with the recommendation
of the committees of both houses which investigated the
subject in the last session. The members' benches in both
chambers have been entirely removed, the perforated floors
are being stripped of their leaden coverings, and the walls,
which so recently echoed to " the applause of listening
senators," reverberate now with the operation of artisans.
The ventilation and lighting of both houses, and all the
contiguous chambers, corridors, galleries, and passages, are
henceforth to be under the sole control of Mr. Gurney.
The artificial lighting of the two debating chambers, how-
ever, will be different. In the Commons the system of
lighting through the ceiling, which was introduced
in the last session as an experiment, and met with such
general approval, will be retained, its great merit being that
it throws rays of light alone into the chamber, without rays
of heat, and thus leaves the atmosphere of the house wholly
uninfluenced. But in the Lords there appears to be a diffi-
culty in carrying that arrangement into operation, without
extensive alterations in the ceiling, which would mar its
beauty, while they could only be introduced at considerable
cost ; and therefore, in pursuance of the recommendation
of their lordships' committee, the pendent lights put up by
Mr. Mees in, which were tried in the chamber before the
close of the session, are to be adopted permanently, but
perfected in a mode by which all products of combustion
which vitiate the surrounding atmosphere shall be carried
out of the house. The ventilation of the Lords' chambers
will be conducted on the same plan as that recently intro.
diced into the Commons by Mr. (Jamey.