The Sun.
London, England, 1852-11-16 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

SPORTING NOTES.—No. CCCXLIX.

Great mystery prevails with respect to the principal
Steeplechase to be decided to-morrow at Warwick. • At
first, I imagined, as Maurice Dally and British Yeoman
were so favourably handicapped, they would be the nags
destined to figure foremost in the fray. I have since
expressed a slight penchant for Abd-el-Kader as well.
Now, as far as I can discover, the Yeoman is not
meant. Abd-el-Kader seems to be in the same fix ; and
there were some reports out yesterday, that the party
had not got their money on Maurice Daily ; that they
wanted longer odds than could be got ; and so on.
Taking all this into consideration, I do not feel disposed
to depend upon either of these three to pull my judgment
through, although I confess I have still a strong fancy
that Maurice Dally will run to win, and if he does so,
he will be about the mark. Therefore I should advise
the looking after that game animal Peter, who, at list
31b, is weighted quite enough, but not sufficiently to
stop him from having a good chance of victory, The
money is on, so we may expect he will do his best. Pro-
ceed, at 9st 121 b, was backed rather stiffly yesterday ;
and as he seems to be meant, will, I presume, finish in
one of the three first places. In short, in PETER, PRO-
CEED, and MAURICE DALLY, I anticipate seeing the
first, second, and third horses. The race for this Steeple-
chase last year produced one of the most exciting and
quickest contests of the kind on record--the time being
8 minutes and 57 seconds—Maurice Dally then, with
9st up, finished a good second to Oscar, at 9st 41b, and
beating the heavy-weighted Lord George, who, carrying
12st 41b, finished third.

The Free Handicap Steeplechase of 5 sow. each, with
25 added, with penalties for winning, the winner to be
sold by auction, &c. (three miles), will, not improbably,
terminate in the victory of GUIZIARE ; Simple Peter and
Widow Machree finishing second and third, with Maria
Bennett and Frank in the next places. Simple Peter is
the only animal who has incurred a penalty, and he will
carry 51b extra for winning at Edgware.
The Free Handicap Hurdle Race of 5 soya. each, with
30 added, winners of any hurdle race after the declara-
tion of the weights, 51b extra (two miles, over five flights
of hurdles) will probably be contested by about a moiety
of the acceptances: Up to the present time TOMBOY has
monopolised all the the attention of the betting world
for this race ; and if his exertions of to-day in
the race for the Great Warwick Handicap do not
tie him up, in him we may expect to see the winner ;
Courier, my first fancy, being, I understand, out of the
fray. Gaylad and Odiham are his most dangerous rivals ;
the starting of both, however, is more than doubtful.
The filly by Don John, dam by Munchg, has the repu-
tation of being a tidy hurdle fencer.
The Hunt Cup Steeple Chase, by subscription of 10
sovs. each, for all horses that have been regularly hunted
with any established pack of hounds, 11 st. 7 lb. each,
the winner to be sold for 150 sovs. &c. Sze. Gentlemen
riders, professionals 6lb extra, (three miles). This race
will probably terminate in the REIVBR and VICTRESS
being first and second, with Trust-me-not in the third
position ; Sir Edward and Quick-step being close up,
fourth and fifth.

THE SPIRIT OF THE TURF.

TATTERSALL'S--YEsTERDAY.
WARWICK HANDICAP.
11 to 2 agst Ariosto (taken and afterwards
offered)
7to 1 Lindrick (taken and afterwards
offered)
8 to 1 Odiham (taken and afterwards
offered)
9 to 1 Miss Ann
10 to 1 Hungerford
10 to 1 Ischia
11 to 1 Dame Tattle
12 to 1 Alp
12 to 1 Little Fawn
14 to 1 Little Davie
Te above were the highest laying prices at the close.
Very little was done.

CHESTER CUP.
1000 to 15 agst Nancy (t)
1000 to 12 Merry Bird (t)
1000 to 10 Indian Warrior (t)
1000 to 10 Black Doctor (t)
1000 to 10 Richard Primmer (t)
DERBY,
12 to 1 agst Mr. Bowes's West Australian
20 to 1 Duke of Richmond's Pharos
25 to 1 Duke of Bedford's Sittingboume
(taken to 200 sow. and afterwards offered)
25 to 1 Captain Lane's Ninnyhammer
The room will not be opened on Thursday.

the Faith, a beautifully modelled
BIR
for the African Mail Company, was launched from the
IRON SHIPBUILDING AT
BldßelillEedNH
• building-yard of Mr. John Laird, atsEcApreWlenamSeart,urdbuayill Birkenhead. She
is intended
beam, 30 feet ; and burthen, about 900 tons.
at
present
td for
pla heetd.e sHtateirodn on which
imensi the Forerunneronsare,length,i feet
is
et;
THE SCOTTISH IRON TRADE.—The rapid advance in
the price of pig iron in Scotland from 355. to 58s. per
ton has had the effect of increasing the means of produc-
tion as follows :—Additional furnaces going this year in
Ayrshire, 14 ' • additional furnaces building in Fifeshire,
8 ; additional furnaces building in Ayrshire, 4 ; total, 26.
These twenty-six furnaces will produce, on an average,
about 140 tons each per week, or an aggregate of nearly
180,000 tons per annum.
ComidivrAT. OF AN AUCTIONEER AT IhRNET.—At the
Barnet Peety Sessions yesterday, Mr. F. W. Thomas,
auctioneer, of 28, Leadenhall-street, and Josiah Selwyn
Brewer, late: schoolmaster at Barnet, were brought up
for final examination upon a charge of cohspiring to
defraud Messrs. Cramer and Beale, music-sellers, of
vfaolruetritawl.enty-five guineas,
—A clue has at length
been obtained to the perpetrators of the atrocious murder
andßeg
THEethn et -mys twur eßeeprte,E
Rfuo fNI al
yE pAcin*
committed
mnsoTrafAoiprtttFeeo,di
tr, .
of the Blackburns, at the Ashflats, near Stafford. The
county police, who have been indefatigable in their ex-
ertions, succeeded in capturing on Saturday night last an
Irishman, who was an associate of the sons, Henry and
Thomas Blackburn. From admissions made by this
man, there is little room to doubt that the robbery of
the old couple was planned and the murder committed
by a gang of five men, two of whom were sons of the
deceased. These, who have been suspected from the first
discovery of the crime, and two other men, have been
lodged in gaol.
Rising-Sun, Charles-street,
of Wiliam Dorling, aged
SUICIDE OF A SOLDIER.--yesterday an inquest was
body of
the 25th Regiment, and
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32. It
oesnvlebtnyo
appearedrM.s rc;
üßaread,fh oeornbd ,et
belonged
ten tgbheoedd
since his return home had lived with his brother, at 17,
White-street, Little Moorfields, but whose house he left
on the 27th of October, and had never smce been seen
aliveO
asnwThuratdahin morning, about eight o'clock, a
gentleman g in the Serpentine, and in making
a plunge his face came in contact with that of the de-
ceased, who was lying at the bottom of the river ; from
the
in the water at least a fortnight. state of theb
The
ody, it had apparently been
and under his arm, fastened to his shirt, body
was got out,
was a piece of
paper, on which he had written in pencil, " When you
find this I shall be in the water. My time is come."
This was addressed to his brother. The jury returned a
they had no evidence to prove how he came in the
_
verdict,water "That the deceased was found drowned, but
.„

trfliecoinclets for London from Birming-
,.....---
STOPPAGE OF A TRAIN.—
Special trains to London
for the Duke's funeral were announced to leave Birming-
ham by the Great Western line yesterday morning ; but
thilthe line near Oxford, the
e neighbourhood of Oxford,
NT 3—HoLLo ,
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a certain Cure for Skin Diseases, Cutaneous Eruptions,
Ringworms, and Scorbutic li umours.—The virulence of
theSe complaints is veay Much increased by the impurity
of the blood; therefore, to cleanse the same is the first
step towards checking the baneful effects of these mala-
dies on the constitution, and
there is no medicine so effi-
cient
for this purpose as lielloway's Pills, with which
should be applied his invaluable ointment, as, when corn-
_a conceivingnodnhesgatout
bined, there is no disease of the skin that can resist their
glandular swellings, and ulcerous sores, these medicines
are unequalled.—Sold by
, all Druggists, and at Professor
cure of old wounds, bad legs,
DARING ESCAPE OP A CONVICT.—On Saturday, infor-
mation was received that cHuroalltoivweayp,oswEerstas.bliFsnmor tenhet
) 244, Strand, London.
fit John Barrow, a convict under
had succeeded in breaking out of his cell, and effecting
an entry into the room
(If Mr. C. Male, one of the war-
dens of the prison, where he attired himself in a full
ma:rt. Isika-41;
giving
dation in Dartmoor prison,
suits e n t eonfc et
hoaftlooffiyeeearrs, s '
wt r
a number of valuables belonging
to him. The fellow
then coolly walked out of the prison, the gate-keepers
Saturday, about
off with apparel, taking in addition
, his booty.
EXTENSIVE ROBBERY
one o'clock, a serious robbery was
OF BANK NOThEiSMATreLadIvEy LIVERPOOL.
effected at the Liverpool branch of the Bank of England.
A.young man from the arm of Messrs. Brown, Shipley,
and Co., agent for the United States Transatlantic
Steam Company, proceetied to the bank with bank notes
to the amount of 3,0001. This sum was composed of
five 5001. and five 1001. kotes. On arriving at the bank,
the youth inconsiderately placed the roll of notes on the
counter, covering them ',kith his left arm. At that mo-
ment a gentleman tapped him on the shoulder, and
civilly asked him where he should be able to obtain
change for a 51. note. Thrown off his guard, he raised
his arm, and, pointing to a particular counter, said
"there." During this brief period the notes disappeared
from the counter. The simpleton immediately perceived
his loss, and, in considerable alarm, he told the agreeable
looking person at his side that some one had stolen his
notes. "Indeed," was the reply, "then it was the man
I saw go out just now. Here, come to the door, and I
will show you which way he went." He accompanied
his "friend" into the street. " See, that's the man :
he's just turned down Cook-street." The youth pursued
the imaginary thief down Cook-street, while the real
rascal walked briskly away in an opposite direction.
GRATIS.—'SUPPLEMENT WITH THE `DISPATCH."—PUB-
WC FUNERAL OF THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON.—In com-
memoration of this great National Ceremony, so univer-
sally interesting as a mark of respect to the memory of
the most distinguished of British Generals, the proprie-
tors of the "Dispatch" will give a Supplement Gratis to
their readers, on the 21st instant, the Sunday after the
funeral. This supplement will contain every particular
relating to the procession and ceremony, with a graphic
detail of the events of that memorable day ; as well as
every incident connected with the military and political
life of the Great Duke, so as to render it a fitting memo-
rial of his extraordinary career.—Orders may be given to
all newspaper agents in town or country ; and at the
office, ap, Fleet-street, London.