The Sun.
London, England, 1864-11-07 00:00:00

SPORTING NOTES.

There are now only two meetings of any importance
to come off this season, viz., Liverpool and Shrewsbury.
The former generally secures a large gathering of the
lovers of racing. The Liverpool Autumn Meeting com-
mences to-morrow, and extends over four days. The vari-
eus handicaps have obtained large entries, and there is
every prospect of the meeting being a great success. The
Knowsley Handicap has nearly 80 horses engaged. Edin-
burgh and Anonyma look as well in at the weights as any a
thing.
The Flying Handicap is another race of the same de•
scription, having a very large entry, and the distance being
only half a mile, it is almost impossible to venture an opinion
of the probable winner, as there are always so many false

starts in these short races.
The Sefton Handicap; one mile and a quarter, has sore•
ral horses engaged who ale is the Liverpool Handicap, viz.,
Twilight, Donnybrook, Brick, and My Mary. The whole
of them are adapted to the course, and will be difficult to
dispose of Should either of them enter an appearance. If
any demonstration should be made in favour of Summer-
side it will be worth following, as she looks the most likely
starter of the other four. Next to her I fancy Twilight.
The Liverpool Cup has a very meagre acceptance. Seve-
ral horses who were thought to be well " in" were heavily
supported before the acceptances came out, and great sur-
prise was expressed when it became known that not one of
Mr Merry's lot were among,t them. It was thought that
Costa was expressly kept for this race, Mr Merry being a
staunch supporter of the Liverpool Meeting. Nearly all
the horses engaged have been out lataly. Donnybrook,
immediately the acceptances became known, was installed
first f.vourite. In fact, nearly all the bookmakers are full
against him. Tha confederacy have been keeping him all
the year for something, and they seem now to have got
him handicapped to their satisfaction. The Tartar belongs
to the same interest ; therefore it would be better to wait
until the day of the race to see if any demonstration should
be made in his favour, rather than take the ridiculously
short price about Donnybrook at present. That the com-
mission that has been executed about the latter is genuine
there is not the shadow of a doubt. The pull in the
weights is so greatly in favour of DONNYBROOK that,
unless his party turn round and back The Tartar at the last
moment, I expect he will have no difficulty in disposing of
the moderate field that will oppose him, The next two, in
my estimation, are THE BREWER and TWILIGHT.
A FRESH MAN.

The Alleged Frauds on the Stock

Exchange.

At the Guildhall Police-court, on Saturday, Thomas
Burrows, aged 35, stockjobber, was again brought up on
remand, charged with obtaining certain bonds by false pre-
tencea, the value of which amounted to about £lO,OOO.
Mr Charles Hopkins, jun., said he was a stockjobber, and
had dealings with the prisoner, He sold him 3,500 Turkish
Consolides, in two parcols, for which he received a chequa
for £1,838 18s. 9d., which was dishonoured. He had also
sold him 5,000 Spanish certificates, which, at his request,
he had held over. He received the cheque about a quarter
of an hour after he had delivered the bonds.
In cross-examination witness said that he had received
back £1,400 out cf the amount due to him.
Mr John Heseltine, a stockjobber, said he sold the pri-

soner 1,000 Confederate Bonds, for which he received a
cheque for £GSO, which was dishonoured.
Mr Thomas Lanscey, proved the delivery of the bonds.
Mr Murray Richardson, a stockjobber, gave evidence as

to selling the prisoner £3,600 Mexican Three per Cent
Stock and £l,OOO Mexican Three per Cent, Coupon Stock,
for which he received a cheque for £1,259, which was dis-
honoured.
Mr Laurence James Baker, a stockjobber, said be had
sold to the prisoner 500 Turkish Bonds, for which he had
received a cheque for £458 13s 9d, which was dishonoured.
Evidence was then given as to transactions in which the
prisoner had sold stock and received payment in cheques,
which cheques had been paid, and the amounts paid into
the account of his clerk, which he had opened at another
bank.
Mr Sturdy said he was in partnership •with Mr Baker,
and on October 14 he went to the Charing-cross railway
station, when he saw the prisoner, who had shaved oft his
whiskers and beard, and had also shaved his head and were
a wig, He was with a lady at the time. Witness ac-
costed him, and, after some preliminaries, the prisoner ac-
companied him to his (prisoner's) brother at Barnet, when
he (prisoner) requested his brother to deliver to him (wit-
' ness) the parcel which he had entrusted to him that morn•
ing. This was done, and it was found to contain bonds to
the value of several thousand pounds. Witness did not pi o-
mise that no criminal prosecution should be instituted if the
bonds were given up. He also got from the prisoner £l5 in
bank notes, and four sovereigns. It also appeared that cir-
cular notes, to the extent of £3OO, on the London and West
minster Bank, had been recovered from the prisoner,.toge-
ther with two cheques in blank drawn by his clerk, Mr
Grantham, and two railway tickets from Charing-cross to
Paris.

Mr Lewis, jun., for the defence, said—There is really,
sir, no case against my client; several questions of law will
be raised, which if you decide on not adjudicating upon, I
will not address you.
Sir F. G. Moon—l certainly think, Mr Lewis, that this
is a case for a jury.
Mr Lewis—Then, sir, I will not urge any legal objection
to the charge, but leave it for a superior court. I have
spoken to Mr Mullens as to bait.
Mr Mullens—As the prisoner has been declared bank-
rupt we have no fear that he will attempt to escape. as he
would incur such great penalties. We therefore are willing
to accept his brother as bail in the sum of £5OO.
The bail was put in, and the prisoner liberated.

ARMING THE NEGROES.—On Oct. 18, the
New York papers re-published en article from the
Richmond _Enquirer on the subject of arming the negroes.
Curiously enough on Oct. 22 it is telegraphed from New
York as if it were latest inte.ligence. It is also
stated that the Government of the state of Louisiana
recommends the measure. Without some explanation
this telegram may lead to misapprehension. Now, the
.government of Louisiana recommends the arming of
some of the negroes as a species of retaliation, and as a
means of protecting the coloured race. The Federals
have kidnapped a large number of negroes in Louisiana
for their armies, and have treated the negro women and
children with the most horrible barbarity. It is there-
fore suggested that the negroes should be armed, and
necessarily admission into the military service of the
Confederate States will free them and their children.
The Richmond Enquirer, like the rest of the Southern press,
is an independent organ of public opinion, and what it re-
commends has no official stamp. But there is good sense
and earnest patriotism in what it says about arming the
negroes. The South is fighting for independence, and
for that cause the institution of negro slavery will be
given up. If the North is to win, then the negroes will
pass into the •hands of the Yankees, therefore if any
danger arises of the North over-running the country, it
will be politic to arm the negroes. If all the whites are
enlisted, Virginia will fight the invaders with her blacks.
The Enquirer, which, like the rest of the Confederate
press, is always discounting defeats and manfully pre-
paring for the direst extremity, recommends that Congress
should authorise the Government to purchase 250,000 slaves,
enlist them in the army, and of course free them. We do not
see any probability that the Confederate Congress will adopt
this advice, because there is at present no need of such a mea-
sure.. The Confederate armies were never numericall3, stronger
than at this moment, and the Northern Government never
found it more difficult to recruit its rapidly and continually
depleted ranks. Still there are conceivable contingencies
in which the negroes might be armed. If after another
four years of war the South is half as badly off as the
North now represents her to be, or even if she is as hard
pressed as were the colonists in the first war of indepen-
dence, the negroes may be called upon to fight for home
and country, for life and family. That freed negroes will
fight vastly better for their Southern masters than for
) their Yankee kidnappers is past questioning. It seems to
us altogether improbable that the Confederates will have to
enlist negroes. Still the battle is not over, and all other
sources failing, the Confederates havo the card in their
_ hands of " arming the negroes."—index.
f SALMON IN TIIE WEAR.—Duriug the past week,
• the dam on the Wear at West Mill has been n

place of considerable attraction, owing to the large number
of salmon which were to be seen vainly attempting to leap
the dam. On Sundiy afternoon last, a vast concourse of
people were walking to and from the dam to witness this
unusual spectacle, and to many a great novelty. Owing
to the Wear subsiding a little attar the recent heavy
rains, the salmon made their way up the river in large
numbers. This darn, however, appeared to interpose an
insurmountable obstacle to their further progress, and it
was positively painful to see the number of large fish which
were perseveringly endeavouring to surmount the dam.
There appeared to be some hundreds of them, but no one
had heard or knew of a single instance of the fish
succeeding in getting over the dam. The water was not
running very strong, yet no sooner did one rise out of
the water and dip in again until it was thrown back over,
and turned about like a piece of stick floating over the
water. Some odd ones might struggle up the ladder,
bnt the great majority would be compelled to return
down the water.—Durham Chronicle.
RAILWAY ACCIDENT AT DERRY.—Another serious
accident on an Irish railway occurred on Friday evening.
It appears that the special train with the Canadian mails
arrived at the Londonderry station shady before 3 o'clock,
and ran into a train which was about to start. A third class
carriage was broken, and five or six of the passengers were
injured, though not badly,