The Sun.
London, England, 1852-03-27 00:00:00

The Selling Steeplechase Stakes of 3 sovs. each, and 25
added; the second to save ;his stake. About three
miles. (12 Subs.)
Mr. Boyce's Victress, lOst (301.) (C. Boyce) 1
Mr. Williams's Conrad, lost 71b (401.) (Mr. Bcedon) 2
Lord Hopetown's Cayenne, (110/.)—(Mr. Chapman) 0
Mr. Smith's Philip the First, lOst (30 soya) (Stevens) 0
Mr. Clifford's Lady Bolingbroke, lOst (301.) (Archer) 0
Mr. Evans's Prodigal, 10. t (30/.) (Holman) 0
Mr. Tallitt's Alexander, lOst (30!.) (Tacker) 0
Mr. Phillips's Gitane, lOst (301:)...(Mr. Le Terriers) 0
Mr. Oakey's Active, lOst (301.) (J. Sadler) 0
Mr. Land's Harkover, lOat (301.) (Ablett) 0
Mr. May's Buscot, lOst (30/.) (H. Bell) 0
Even on Victress, who won easy by five lengths; she
was sold for 155 guineas.
The Free Handicap (hurdle race) of 5 sou. each, and
30 added; the second to save his stake. About two
miles and a half. (8 Subs.)
Mr. Barling's Bedford, lOst 81b (Holman) 1
Mr. Land's Combatant, list (Ablett) 2
Mr. Braithwaite's The Drag, 10it 81b ...(White) 3
Mr. Jordan's Lady Arthur, gat 71b ...........(Archer) 4
Even on Bedford, 2to 1 agst Drag. Won in a canter
by three lengths.
The Scurry Stakes (flat race) of two sovs. each, and
10 added. Gentlemen riders, &c. About a mile (14
Subs.) were won by a neck, after a fine race, by Mr.
Land's Cosachia, llst 71b (Mr. Elwes),beating Mr. Phil-
lips's Boldfaced Hack, lOst 51b (Tacker), Mr. Morgan's
Goodfellow, lOst 121 b (D. Wynne), Amber Witch,
list 21b (011iver), Maiswore Lass, lOst. 51b (H. Dar-
ling) Harum-Scarum, list 51b (Ablett), Rifleman,
10.4 121 b (Archer), Buscot lOst 121 b (H. Bell), and
two otters.
NEWCASTLE MEETING, 1852.
Acceptances for the Northumberland Plate.
Two miles.
Declarations to be made on or before March 24.
Yrs st lb Yrs at lb
Nancy 4 8 13 Vivandiere ..... ... 4 6 4
Ei•L;,...
Russborough
Miss Ann ... 6 8 2 Coquette 4 6 0
Cossack
Confessor 4 8 1 she Proctor
Backbiter a 7 12 Goliah 4 5 12
Chatterbox 5 7 10 Phantom 3 5 12
Neasham 4 7 4 Bird-on-the-wing 3 5 12
Musician 5 7 2 Herry Bird ....,.... 3 5 12
Goldfinder
Trickstress ...
Castaway 5 6 10 England's Glory... 4 5 10
Constellation
Ringleader ...
Hothorpe 4 6 10 Galvanisth
Storyteller
br g by Morgan Pelopidas 3 5 7
Rattler out of Captain Flash 3 5 4
Countesss
Hungerford 4 6 6 Snowdrop
Orelio
Colsterdale 4 6 4 Caracara . . 3 4 10
Heresfoot
Knook Knoll

CAPTAIN PENNY.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SlR,—After the remarks made by Admiral Berkeley
and Mr. Parker in the House of Commons, on the 13th
instant, in reply, professedly, to the notice taken by me
and ~my little band, by Mr. Anstey end Sir Robert
Inglis, you will not, I trust, deem it presumptuous if I
solicit a small portion of your valuable space for the
following statement. lam not accustomed to the kind
of work into which I am likely to be dragged; hitherto,
for reasons, which need not be explained, I have main-
tained silence in the face of much provocation, and even
now I place before your readers only enough to render
the style of remark, which Admiral Berkeley and his
friend appear to consider befitting, not altogether in the
circumstances allowable. I must add, moreover, that
there is a limit to forbearance, and that very probably
I have allowed that limit to bo transgressed with re-
spect to myself and my men.
1. I had the privilege of solving the Esquimaux
story, which had brought the whole of her Majesty's
expedition to to a stand-still.
2. I did all that man could do to get the provisions
of the North Star lauded in Barrow's Straits, pointing
out Navy Inlet as a suitable place.
3. On learning (after following for a distance of 2')
miles, my signals being observed but not answered) that
traces of the Erebus and Terror had been discovered by
the Assistance, and judged to be traces of a retreating
party, I followed; up the discovery, and had the good
fortune to find the tent of Sir John for watching any
movement in the ice in Wellington Channel, and his
winter quarters in 1845 46.
4. This intelligence was immediately communicated
to Captain Owmaney, and by Captain Stewart (who bad
been sent with a boat to the eastward) to Captain Aus-
tin, who mistook Captain Stewart's boat for one belong-
ing to the " Erebus" and " Terror."
5. Before leaving Beechey Island—when nothing else
would do—l offered to take lots to remain, and urged
upon Captain Anatin to leave two of his ships to examine
the Wellington Channel.
6. I remonstrated in suitable time against all the
vessels trying to pursue the same course. Captain
Ommaney agreed to draw lots. Captain Austin stated
he would act independently of me. I wintered where
Captain Austin had, in theory, determined to do so,
and the same winter be passed in an open strait.
7. We passed the winter without a single person on
the sick list.
8. Our travelling parties being ready, we went over
2,470 miles ; discovered, off New Coast, partly island,
655 miles, 25 miles of open water; lauucned a
boat over 120 of hummochy ice into the above
water; contended for 33 days against adverse winds and
strong tides, which brought the broken ice upon us and
beset us.
9. In lat. 76 deg. 27 min., long. 96 deg. 30 min., dis-
covered an open sea of not less than 80 miles of water;
was obliged to abandon the boat 110 miles from the ship
and to ford three rivers. The average (taking every
man under me, and, of course, some travelled not at all,)
was 56 days for each man.
I have said enough to convince Admiral Berkeley, if
he chooses to look into the matter, that I and my men
have at all events had the work. I have respect enough
for my family and for my friends not to allow my name
to bo used to cover the inefficiency of others, when I
know, and they know, what was the true state of matters.
I may acid that (as I believe, right or wrong) the course
of Sir John Franklin can be followed, I am
willing to meet any jury of my countrymen and to state
my reasons, but I am not willing to be badgered, and to
have evidence cooked, to have my language perverted,
and to have my tongue tied by respect to etiquette,
which those who most require it are the last to observe
towards me.
I have the honour to be, Sir, your most obedient
servant,
WILLIAM PENNY.

Aberdeen, March 24, 1852.
P.S. If more is required I shall bo happy to give it.

THE IMPROVEMENTS AT THE KING'S COL-
LEGE HOSEI rAL.-JOE MILLER.
The very existence of Joe Miller has been called in
question by some, and others insist that he was so pro.
verbially staid and dull that the joke was to father jokes
on him; but his grave and tombstone still remain for a
few days in what was formerly called the Green Church-
yard or burying-ground in Portugal-street, Lincoln's
Inn-fields, belonging to the parish of St. Clement Danes,
and close by the spot where the theatre once stood where
Garrick became so famous. Miller's epitaph, by
Stephen Duck, is on a handsome stone on the lefthand
side as you enter the burial-ground. The inscription
was originally nn anothor (stone, but being nearly worn
out, in the year 1816, the churchwarden at that time,
greatly to his credit, caused the present one to be
erected. The following is the inscription on the pre-
sent stone:—
Here lie the remains of honest Joe Miller,faeetio wushowas
t
a tender husband, a sincere friend, a
com-
panion, and an excellent comedian. He departed this
life 15th day of August, 1738, aged 54 years.
If
r,
on wit,s:
witty,a n d
honesty
honest,couldfromh
savee grave,
The grave had not so soon this tenant found
Whom honesty and wit and humour found.
Could but esteem and love preserve our breath,
And guard us longer from the stroke of death,
The stroke of death on him had later fell,
Whom all mankind esteem, d and lov'd so well.
It has not yet been determined
re-
mains of the great wit
re to fi d their final resting
,
place; but it has been sungested that a penny ebscrip-
tien should be entered into to erect
swinhoenretuntehieu. last

LONDON SACRED HAillifoNrc -s'OCIETI'
EXE MR BOLL'
by the above
Last night the Creation was given The soloists
society, in their usual style of eacelleneveiz., miss Birch,
were the same as o❑ former
Messrs. Locket', Phillips, "; sn le justice to Haydn's
that those talented artists did amp
respect the oratorio
fine music, while in every otherea. It was preceded by
nnensicr We—need scarcely say
vies exceedingly
Dr. Elevy's anthem 111 "In tMessro. Lackey and Phillips.
in;; taken by Miss Dolby,wde _,
d and that alone is sutli-
Pertnt day," the solo parts be-
The hail was densely 0
is held by the public. bnrestimation in which the society
dent to show the big-

PUTNEY Bninaz.—A correspondent of a morning
The above bridge is certainly one of the most
paperinei
expensive in erection, withoutbut'
parallel in extortion as to
its tolls; and now that London is really going out of town,
asnaYtstiiat .
both in the north-west and south-west directionson, )
ought
such an
impediment (I might almost say total obstructi
not to be longer borne. I drive my chaise over t
lh tehereto said
bridge twice a-day from Putney-heath, and pay tol
Is., and the road 3d. The latter cannot be objected to if any
toll is collected. I can ride in the omnibus for ls. both ways.
I ask you, who take an impartial view of things, if this is a
proper state of matters of what may be called a public high-
way ? Do the proprietors of the badge study their pockets ?
I say,
no. Many of the noblemen and gentry about Wim-
bledon, Roehampton, and Putney,
go either over the Suspen-
-sion, Richmond, Battersea, or Vauxhall-bridges to discoun-
tenance it. Suppose two-wheel carriages paid 6d. a-day, or
4d. singly ? I will undertake when that is knoWia the reve-
-1 nlic cf. 04 inidGE3 vill increase 50 Per cent.