The Sun.
London, England, 1855-10-08 00:00:00

NOTIONS FROM NEWMARKET.

The calm and quiet of Sunday were scarcely disturbed
by the arrival of the well-freighted " special." For a
brief interval after the screech of the railway whistle
there was a rattling of omnibuses and flys through the
streets, and then silence again brooded over the snug
little tuwn. At different posts and corners, however,
were motley throngs of people, whilst many gentlemen
sportsmen "cooled their heels" in front of the coffee-
room. These were the only indications of "a meeting
Sunday."

The discussions of the Cesarewitch chances were pur-
sued amidst much bantering and badinage. Amongst
the worthless " chaff" which was freely scattered on all
sides it was difficult to detect a few valuable grains of
information. The stream of favour had, however, again
set in with seeming steadiness towards Robgill, whose
partisans apparently place implicit confidence in the
sound judgment of his owner, M. T. Parr. Some people
believe that a line by which to measure the chances of
Robgill and Scythian has been furnished in private, aad
that the superiority of Robgill's pretensions was proved
beyond dispute. The scratching of Scythian, and the
announcement that Wells will ride Robgill have given
strength and consistency to this supposition. Mr. Parr
has the utmost confidence in his horse, and present ap-
pearances certainly indicate that his most sanguine ex-
pectations will be realised.

Mr. Sykes keeps close company with Robgill in the
betting, and his party seem already flushed with success,
for they certainly deem the race " all over but shouting."
Last week Mr. Clark expressed his determination to
scratch the horse unless he could get twenty-five
" monkies" to one ; he has, I believe, been accommo-
dated, and all the money being on, the backers of Mr.
Sykes may now feel assured that no " untoward circum-
stance" will exercise a pernicious influence over the
horse's chance. At Egham, Mr. Sykes showed in his
best form, and in private it is said that he has figured to
greater advantage, The report runs that he has beaten
Wild Huntsman at even weights, and if this rumour be
founded on truth, Mr. Sykes will be formidable indeed.
He has for many weeks been placed under the care of
J. Dawson, who has exerted all his skill to bring the
horse fit and well to the post. This task he will,
doubtless, successfully accomplish. Mr. Sykes is han-
dicapped leniently enough, but the remembrance of his
defeat for the City and Suburban Handicap, for which
he was backed in earnest, compels me to hesitate before
sharing the sanguine expectations of his partisans.
Perhaps, however, my suspicions of Mr. Sykes may be
derived from an over partiality for Brother to Grey
Tommy, whose running for the Craven Handicap at
Goodwood, and the Berkshire Stakes at Reading, is
sufficient to render his chance worthy of serious con-
sideration. This horse I shall expect to see beat the
great tearing Mr. Sykes.

King Tom advances steadily in the betting, and

hould he be absolutely the first favourite at starting
I shall not be surprised. That he is a race-horse of a
superior stamp ample evidence has been afforded, and, t
lie a familiar expression, I believe him to be as sound
as a roach. Good as he unquestionably is, however,
his heavy weight will sorely try his powers, but expe-
rience has taught us that horses really sound and good
can " accomplish wonders" under a crushing impost.
He will, I anticipate, keep Neville and the other high
weights safe.

Sultan was tried on Friday and not found wanting.
William Day has had the benefit of his father's ad►ice
in the management of his horse, and he calculates hope-
fully upon carrying the Cesarewitch Stakes to Wood-
yates. When not half prepared Sultan ran forward in
the race for the Goodwood Stakes, and in that encounter
he evinced a high order of racing merit. Still in bestow-
ing consideration on Sultan the claims of Joe Miller
must not be overlooked.

The Newmarket folk are pleased with the appearance
and action of the French horse Monarque. He must
be good, indeed, however, to win under his heavy
weight. Black Swan will, perhaps, run forward,
but I cannot "stand her." Doubts exist as to whether
Messrs. Grvville and Payne will have a representative.
Crown Pigeon I am inclined to regard as being one of
the most formidable three-year-olds in the race. John
Scott, however, who used to train him, declares him to
be a moderate horse. Stilt, although I fancy a shorter
distance will be suited to his powers, I shall not think
slightingly of his chance. His light weight may "bring
him home." Bolton seems much improved ; he goes
well, and will indubitably run forward. Paletot, it is
asserted, beat Vindex in a trial, hence the retrogression
of the latter and the advance of Paletot. Without ex-
tending my remarks to the other probable starters I shall
merely state, that of the extreme out3lder3 I deem Eulo-
gist, St. Care, and Lady Tattoo worthy of notice•
The winner will, I anticipate, be either

ROBGILL OR BROTHER TO GREY TOMMY.
King Tom stands next in my estimation. Were I in-
clined to risk a trifle on a couple of outsiders, I should
select for that purpose Cro Nn Pigeon and Balton,
Notwithstanding the heavy rains the ground is some-
what hard.

The minor items of the programme I will briefly dis-
miss. A match between Comfort and Para has been
made, the former to carry Bst. 71b., and the latter
Bst. 91b. They will run over the last half of the Abing-
don mile. I shall expect Comfort to be the winner.
For the Clearwell Stakes I fancy Porto Rico, and for
the Royal I shall select Claret. The Bedford Stakes I
shall assign to Mincepie and, The Bretby to Kali.
pygee. Dramatist may "perform" succe-sfully for the
Prendergast.

A FRESH MAN.

Ne wmarket, Oct. 7, 12 p.m.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

TATTERSALL'S.- SATURDAY.
LATEST BETTING.

CESAREWITCH STAKES.
6 to 1 agst Robgill (taken)
13 to 2 agst Mr. Sykes (7 to 1 taken)
11 to 1 agst Ring Tom (taken)
12 to 1 agst Sultan (taken)
12 to 1 agst Monarque (taken)
100 to 8 agat Brother to Grey Tommy (taken)
14 to 1 aget Neville (taken)
25 to 1 agst Siding (taken)
30 to 1 agst Crown Pigeon (taken)
33 to 1 agat Bolton (•aken)
33 to 1 agst Muscovite (offered)
40 to 1 agst Paletot (taken)
40 to 1 agst Lady Tattoo (taken)
66 to 1 agst Quince (taken)
100 to 1 agst Topsawyer (taken)
20 to 1 aget Messrs. Greville and Payne's lot (t)
500 to 10 aget Robgill winning this and the Cam-
bridgeshire (taken).
Alice was scratched on Saturday morning at nine
o'clock.

THE JOCKEY CLUB.—There will be a general meet-
ing of the 'members of the Jockey Club, at the New
Rooms, on Wednesday next, immediately after the
races, when the consideration of the question respecting
the new road to the course, which was adjourned when
the club met at Goodwood, will be resumed. The "P.P.
Betting" will also be brought forward. The following
members have expressed their concurrence in the object
of the resolution :—Lord Glasgow, Sir Joseph Hawley,
General Peel, Lord Enfield, Gerard Sturt, Esq., H.
Lowther, Esq., Lord Zetlasd, Duke of Richmond, Lord
March, Lord Clifden, J. M. Stanley, Esq., Lord Angle-
8-7, Lord William Powlett, W. Sloane Stanley, Esq., S.
Batson, Esq., Sir John Mills, and R. Etwall,
We (Bell's Life) regret to announce the retirement
front the turf of Mr. J. M. Stanley, the whole of whose
stud of horses in training, including Orinoco and Mary
Copp, will be brought to the hammer at Tattersall's on
the Monday after the Houghton meeting.
SPORTING IN FRANCE.—The Assemblee Nationale
says :—" Some persons have made the remark that the
number of sportsmen in France has of late decreased
every year. In the department of the Nord the list of
licences granted from the Ist January to the 30th Sep-
tember, in the years 1850 to 1855, gives the following
results :—ln 1850, 3,600 ; 1851, 3,550 ; 1852, 3,450 ;1
1813, 3,400 ; 1854, 3,200 ; and in 1855 only 2,991."---
Our contemporary, in giving these figures, appears to
have omitted taking into consideration the fact that
the game-licence at present costs 25f., whereas the
charge, not long since, was only 15f. CJasiderinc.;
therefore that the sum now paid is almost double what it
was formerly, we should be inclined to say that the
above statistics rather tell in favour of au increased
taste for sporting than against it.

SWARM OF INSECTS.—Last week Portsmouth was
visited by a cloud of insects, which to the country people
are known by the name of "daddy-long-legs." These
insects in myriads covered! the whole of the houses in
King's-terrace, Southsea' ate well as the fields in front.
The heavy fall of rain has cleared Portsmouth of this
pest.
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LYNCH LAW

The following appears in the New York Tribune :
Big Foot, Wis., Friday, Sept. 14.
On Sunday afternoon last our usually quiet neighbour-
hood was thrown into great commotion by the news
that a highway robbery had been committed and murder
attempted.
It appears that an Irish family by the name of M‘Lane
had recently come into the country from the State of
New York, and settled about four miles from this place,
on the Illinois side of the line. M'Lane had a son-in-
law by the name of Cozen, who had accompanied him
as far as this place, with the exception of proceeding
to lowa as soon as the haying season should pass.
Coxen was a poor, but industrious and worthy man.
By his industry and frugality he had accumulated some
three or four hundred dollars, and this constituted all
his worldly p,ssessions. This little sum excited the
cupidity of M`Lane, who, on the day first mentioned,
repaired to the woods about forty rods from his house,
and there secreted himself in the thicket by the road-
side, and awaited the coming of Cozen, whom he ex-
pected that way ; and when Coxen approached the spot
M`Lane sprang upon him. A. fearful conflict ensued, in
which Coxen, being wholly undefended, was felled to
the ground, robbed of 375 dots., and then brutally
pounded and lacerated until he was supposed to be
dead. Ccrn, however, was able to crawl to the house
of a near neighbour, to whom he related the occurrence.
The news spread over the land with the rapidity of a
prairie fire, and on Monday, at an early hour of the
day, hundreds of sturdy yeomen were seen coming from
all directions to the house of the magistrate, where, it
had been rumoured, the examination was to take place.
I arrived on the spot at about three o'clock in the after-
noon,w
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m theme conclusionuon the of
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one
case
of my near neighbours, in a speech replete with elo-
quence, and marked with great force and energy.
From the moment I arrived on the ground, I could but
notice the excitement which appeared to move the whole
assembly. Fire flashed from every eye, and revenge
appeared to be the ruling spirit of the hour, and at the
conclusion of the examination it broke forth in tones of
thunder. M`Lane insisted on his innocence, in defiance
of the testimony cf Colon against him. This incensed
the people to a degree almost uncontrollable. They knew
that the law would take good care of M`Lane ; but that
would not restore to Coxen his money, and they re-
solved with one accord that M‘Lane must tell where the
money was concealed, or he would be hanged on the
spot. "Tell us where the money is, you old villain, or
you will never leave the house alive," came from many
mouths simultaneously. M‘Lane persisted in his inno-
cence. " Bring the rope I" " Hang him ?" " Who can
throw the lasso ?" came from all parts of the house at
once. It was evident a storm was brewing, and the offi-
cer having the prisoner in charge very prudently took
him aloft out of the reach of the incensed multitude be-
low, who kept up a continual cry for the rope and the
gallows. Here the officer, with two men, entreated
the prisoner, as he valued his life, to tell them where to
find the money. The enraged people below stairs were
determined to lynch him if he did not disclose it. Again
and again it was urged upon him to no purpose, he in•
sisting that he knew nothing whatever of the transaction.
At this juncture Judge A—, becoming tired of
entreaty, stepped up, confronted the prisoner, looked -
him full in the eye, and in a loud, earnest tone, said :
" William M`Lane, make now your last prayer, for
in less than one half-hour your soul will be in eternity.
You will carry with you the stain of a brother's blood ;
but do not, I entreat you again, appear before your God
with a lie upon your lips. We have shielded you thus
far from an outraged and incensed people, but we can do
so ao longer.".

This Ina fervid appeal brought the culprit to a sense
of his real situation. He turned deadly pale, and
then called for his wife, who advised him to keep
silent, which advice he determined to take. At
this a rush was made for the upper floor, the rope
thrown over his head, and then commenced a con-
flict which the pen cannot describe. I had been ac-
customed to read of lynching affairs, but never until
now had I witnessed such a scene. The struggle was
between the people, the officers, and the prisoner.
While the strife was raging within the outer yard was
thronged with spectators, gazing up into the windows to
catch a glimpse of the battle. Among the number of
eager spectators I observed many whose wrinkled brows
and silvery locks told plainly that they bad long since
passed the meridian of life—some of whom, too, had
been the pillars of the church for a quarter of a century.
Perhaps this was the first time in their whole lives that
they bad ever been called upon to sanction such a pro-
ceeding, and in the atrocity of the crime committed
they found their justification.
After a struggle of perhaps a quarter of an hour in
which the prisoner had been several times suspended by
the neck, and as often released to give him a chance to
tell of the money, he sued for pardon ; and as be stood
gauping for breath and telling the spot where the money
was concealed, I saw the blood standing on his neck,
which had been wrung from it by the rope. After a con-
fession of his guilt and a delivery of the money, the
people were content to leave him in the hands of the law,
and at the conclusion of the matter they gave six hearty
cheers for Judge Lynch.
M`Lane is now lying in prison, awaiting his trial for
attempted murder and highway robbery.

FORTHCOMING PRIZES AT THE PARIS

EXHIBITION.

The Moniteur, in accordance with the imperial decree
just published, gives a list of the mixed international
jury appointed to award the prizes at the Universal Ex-
hibition. The selection Of agriculture and industry forms
27 classes, divided into groups.
The following is a list of the council of presidents and
vice-presidents of this first section :
President—Prince Napoleon. Vice-Presidents—The
Minister of State, the Minister of Finance, and the Pre-
sident of the Senate.

Presidents—MM. Elie de Beaumont, Ist class; Sir W.
Hooker, 2d class ; Count de Gasparin, 3d class ; Gen.
-lorin, 4th class ; Hartwich, sth class ; W. Fairbairn,
6th class ; Gen. Poncelet, 7th class ' • Marshal Vaillant,
Bth class; C. Wheatstone, 9th class ;Durnas, 10th class;
A. R. Owen, 11th class ; Dr. Ro3le, 12th class ; Baron
Ch. Dupin, 13th class ; Mary, 14th class ; Von Dechen,
15th class ; Dr. von Steinbeis, 16th class ; Lord Hert-
ford, 17th class ; Regnault, 18th class ; Th. Bazley, 19th
class ; Cuniri-Gridaine, 20th class ; Arles Dufour, 21st
class ; Legentil, 22d class ; Grenier-Lefebvre, 23d class ;
Hittorff, 24th class ; Lord Ashburton, 25th class;
Louis Forster, 26th class ; J. Helmesberger, 27th class.
Vice-Presidents—MM. Devaux, Ist class; Milne Ed-
wards, 2d class • Evelyn D.nison, 3d class ; Combes,
4th class ; Schneider, sth class ; Gen. Piobert, 6th class;
R. Willis, 7th class ; Sir D. Brewster, Bth class ; Babinet,
9th class ; T. Graham, 10th class ; Payen, 11th class ;
Rayner, 12th class; J. Burgoyne, 13th class ; Ch.
Manby, 14th class ' • Michel Chevalier, 15th class ;
Pelouze, 16th class ; Count de Laborde, 17th class ; Ch.
de Brouckere, 18th class ; Mimerel, 19th class ; Laou-
reux, 20th class ; Diergardt, 21st class ; M6vissen, 22d
class ; Sallandrouze de Latuornam, 23d class ; Duke of
Hamilton and Brandon, 24th class • M. Rondot, 25th
class ; A Firmin Didot, 26th class ; Haldvy, 27th class.
Secretary of the Council—M. Ad. Blaise (des Vosges),
Secretary of the Jury.

The section of the fine arts forms three classes, which
are also divided into several groups. The members of
the council of this section are :—President—Count de
Morny, President of the Corps Legislatif ; Vice-Presi-
dent—M. Baroche, President of the Council of State
Secretary.

Class 31 is a special class composed of products of
domestic economy. A list of the members of the jury
of this class has been already published.
The fete to be given to Prince Ncpoleon by the exhi-
tors will take place positively on Oct. 15, at the new
hotel Louvre, as already announced. The hour fixed
is half•past eight in the evening. The subscription list
will be closed at five on the 11th inst.

LIST OF SCOTTISH. COMPANIES' PRICES.
Dividend Amount '
Name of Company, per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
£ s. d. X s. d.
'lank of Scotland .... 71. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 185/ 0
British Linen Company 81. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 223/ 0
Caledonian Bank ..... 81. per cent. 10 0 0 210 0 31. 1813
City of Glasgow Bank U. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 111 18s
Clydesdale Bank ••.. 539 1. p cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0 12 7s
C mmercial Bank .. 71. per cent. 500 0 0 100 0 0 215/es
Eastern Bank.... .... 6/. per cent. 25 0 0 10 0 0 11l 2s
Edinb. & Glasgow.... 331. p cent. 5 0 0 5 0 0 4/. 19s
Exchange Bnk of Scot..
National Bank ...... 634 per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 117210 s
North of Scotland Bank 5/.per cent 20 0 0 210 0 4/. 14s
Royal Bank ofScoil. .. 51. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 1331 s
Union Bank of Scot. .. 81. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 0 941 Os
Western Bank •....... 71, per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 771 Cr
Mance Fire and Life.. 834 1• pr cent. 100 0 0 11 0 0 18110,
British Guarantee ... 41. per cent. 10 0 0 2 0 0 11. 7,
Caledonian Fire Insur . 101. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 251 0,
City of Glasgow Lite . 6/. per cent. 0 0 2 0 0 4/. 10,
Co'onial Life ......... 51. per cent. 50 0 0 I 0 0 5/. 58
Edinburgh Life Insur. 61. per oent. 100 0 0 15 0 0 126/ les
Eng. & Scot, Lass Life 51. per cent. 50 0 0 3 5 0 41. 8s
Life Assoc. of Scet,and 6/.percent. 10 0 0 110 0 5/, 08
N'ationai Fire and Life 61. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 2/. 0.
North British Insur... 71. per cent. 200 0 0 20 0 a 33/ (~,,
,cottish Union Insrnc. 73{1. prcent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 !1/. IL,
,tandar,,. Life •• •• .. •• 5/. per cent. 50 0 0 7 0 0 201 Ps
United Pep. Assurance 51. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 : ....