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, 10st 71b (401.) (Mr. Beedon) 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, lOst (30/.) (Holman) 0
Mr. Tallitt's Alexander, 10st (301.) (Tasker) 0
Mr. Phillips's Gallia, lOst (30/)...(Mr. Le Terriere) 0
Mr. Oakey's Active, lOst (301.) (J. Sadler) 0
Mr. Land's Ilarkover, 10st (301.) (Ablett) 0
Mr. May's Buscot, lOst (301.) (H. Bell) 0
Even on Victress, who won easy by five lengths; she
was sold for lis 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
Mr. Darling's Bedford, lost 81b (Holman) 1
Mr. Land's Combatant, flat (Ablett) 2
Mr. Braithwaite's The Dreg, lOst Blb (White) 3
Mr. Jordan's Lady Arthur, 9st 71b (Archer) 4
Even on Bedford, 2to 1 agst Drag. Won in a canter
by three lengths.
The Scurry Stakes (flat race) of two sous. each, arid
10 added. Gentlemen riders, &c. About a mile (14
Subs.) were won by a neck, after a fine race, by Mr.
Land's Cosachia, list 71b (Mr. Elwes), beating Mr. Phil-
lips's Boldfaced Hack, 10st 51b (Tacker), Mr. Morgan's
Goodfellow, lOst 121 b (D. Wynne), Amber Witch,
list 21b (011ivor), Maismore Lass, 103 t. 51b Dar-
ling). Hc.sum•Scarum, list 51b (Ablett), Rifleman,
10it 121 b (Archer), Buscot 105 t 121 b (a Bell), and
two others.

NEWCASTLE MEETING, 1859.
Acceptances for the Northumberland Plate.
Two miles.
Declarations to be made on or before March 24.
- Yrs at lb! Yra st lb
Nancy .
Elthiron
Ruasborough
Miss Ann
Cossack
Confessor 4 8 1 l'he Proctor
Backbiter a 7 12 Goliah 4 5 12
Chatterh.a 5 7 10 Phantom ...... .. ... 3 5 12
Neasham 4 7 4 Bird-on-the•wing 3 5 12
Musician . .
Goldfiuder
Cricks tress ...
Castaway 5 6 10 England's Glory... 4 5 10
Constellation
Ringleader ... ..... 4 6 10 Conrad 3 5 8
Hothorpe 4 6 10 Galvanism
Storyteller
br g by Morgan Pelopidas 3 5 7
Rattler out of Captain Flub 3 5 4
Count, sits
Hungerford 4 6 6 Snowdrop
Orelio
Colsterdale 4 6 4!Caracara . . 3 4 10
Haresfoot
Knock 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
end ~my little band, by Mr. Anstey and 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 be transgressed with re-
spect to myself and my men.
1. I bad the privilege of solving the Esquimaux
story, which had brought the whole of her hlejesty's
expedition to to a stand•still.
2. I did all that man could do to get the provisions
of the North Star landed in Barrow's Straits, pointing
out Navy Inlet as a suitable place.
3. On learning (after following for a distance of 29
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 Ommaney, and by Captain Stewart (who had
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
wouirl do—l offered to take lots to remain, and urged
upon Captain Austin 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
Otninaney 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 he passed in an open strait.
7. We passed the winter without a single person cn
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; launcned a
boat over 120 of himmochy 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 curse, 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 be used to cover the inefficiency of others, when I
know; and they know, what was the true state of matters.
I may add that (sa 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 115nour to be, Sir, your most obedient
servant,

\YILLIAM PENNY.

Aberdeen, March 24, 1852.
P. S. It more is reqaired I shall be happy to give it.

THE IMPROVEMENTS AT THE KING'S COL-
LEGE HOSPITAL—JOE MILLER.
The very existence of Joe Miller has bon called in
quesion by some, and others insist that he was so pro-
ve:bially staid and dull that the joke was to father jdies
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
Icon-Gelds, belonging to the parish of St. Clement Danes,
and close by the apt where the theatre once stood where
Garrick became so filmom. Miller's epitaph, by
Stephen Duck, is on a handsome stone on the lefthand
side as you cuter the burial-ground. The inscription
was originally on another stone, but being nearly worn
out, in the year 1816, the churchwarden at that time,
greatly to his credit, caused the present ono t be
;
erected. The following is the inscription on the _ _ Pre-
sent stone:—

.iliere lie the remains of honest Joe Miller, v,ho was
a tender husband, a sincere friend, a facetious (tom-
Pand an excellent comedian. Ile departed this
liafettntih day of August, 1735, aged 54 years.
"If humour, wit, and honesty could
.9ave
The hum roux, witty, honest, from the grave,
The grave had not so soon this tEnant found
Whom honesty and wit and humour found.
Could hut esteem and love preserve our breath,
Al:d guard us longer from the stroke of death,
The bin ke of de.,ith on him had later fell,
Whom all mankind eeteem'd and lov'd 5°4 last It has has nut yet been detumined where floss resting
mains of the great wit aro to fied theirrenny sebsorip-
place ; but it has been suggested that maoPeement•
tien should be entered into to erect a

LONDON SACRED n-ARMON/ C
soCIETY,
EXE FEB kital;•
Last night the Creation
was
excellence. The soloistsgien by the above
society, in their usual style of
sions—viz., Miss Birch,
Were the settle as OD former
&:cc:nd we need scarcely say
Yles,rs. Lackey, Phillips, Wiii,mple justice to Ilaydn's
that those talented tiros., y
tine music, while other respect the oratorio
it inl
epverrferuted. 1€ was precedrd by
W"
i XII. erling'ih "..-Li that day," the solo puts be-
Dr. Elevy 'a DDI.esIDDO
Dolby, Messrs. Lockey anti Phillips.
1,73:,g taken,„ bi I', Mi 6 ely crowded, and that alone is sutli-
r`" hall v%--- dheenshi h estimation in which the society
cient to show the
-
is held by the public.g

PETTNFIr BainGc.—A correspondent of a morning
ape
r 5 iys The above bridge is certainly one of the roost
P
inelegant that crosses old Father Thames, probably the least
expensive in erection, but without parallel in extortion as to
its tolls ; and now that London is really going out of town,
both in the north-west and south-west directions, such an
impediment (I might almost EAV total obstruction) ought
not to be longer borne. I drive -my chaise over the said
bridge twice a-day from Putney-beath, and pay toll thereto
Is., and the road 3d. The latter cannot be objected to if any
toll is collected. I can ride in the omnibus for Is. 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 bridge study their pockets?
I say, no. Many of the roblemen and gentry about Wim-
bledon, Roehampton, and Putney, go either over the Suspen-
sion, Richmond, Battersea, or Vauxhall-bridg(s to discoun-
tenance it. Suppose two-wheel carriages paid 6d. a-day, or
4d. singly? I will undertake when that it knows the reve-
lnue t 149 bridge wiltincreim 50 per coat.