The Sun.
London, England, 1852-12-01 00:00:00

CREWE STEEPLECHASES,

TUESDAY,

The Eddleston Free Handicap of 5 sovs each, and 30
sovs added. Three miles.
Mr. James's Jenny Jones (301.), 9st Olb
Mr. Byron's nd Falcon (301.), 9st 101 b...
Mr. Smith's Gulnare (801.), 10st 121 b
Mr. Land's Frank (301.), lOst 41b
Mr. Henderson's Crabbs (30/.), lOst 41b 0
Mr. Lamplough's Yorkshireman (301.), 9st 101 b 0
Mr. Tilbury's Quickstep (301.), Oat 101 b
Mr. Blow's Flying Buck (301.), Ost 81b
Mr. Tustin's gr g, by Greatheart (801.), Ost 61b .1
Mr. Smith's Harmony (301.), Bst 61b
Betting-2 to 1 agst Frank, and 4to 1 agat York
shireman and Quickstep. Won by three lengths.
The Annual Steeplechase Stakes of 10 soya, each, and
60 soya. added. About three miles. 16 subs.
Mr. Spier's Benedict, Bst 101 b (White) 1
Mr. Bretherton's Clatterbox, 9st 41b
Mr. Laing's Johnny Barry, 10st 21b
Mr. Land's The Screw, 9st 81b
Mr. Clayton's Janus, 9st 81b
Captain Pascoe rid Royal Blue, 9st 41b
Mr. Henderson's Widow Machre, 9st 21b
Mr. Williams's The -Unkown, 9st 21b
Mr. Roberts's Emperor, Bst 121 b
Betting-3 to 1 agst Clatterbox, 4to 1 agst Emperor,
sto 1 agat Janus, 6to 1 agst The Screw, 6 to 1 agst
The Unknown, and 10 to 1 agst Johnnie Barry. Won
by three lengths.
The Hatherton Stakes of 30 soya. each, and 15 added;
one mile and half, 16 subs., were won in four heats by
Mr. Steven's Lady Wilton beating Mr. Johnson's The
Lame'un, Mr. Grimer's Sarah, Mr. Tempest's Knight
of the Pipe, Mr. Barton's Pioneer, Mr. Smith's Gulnare,
Captain Phelam's Louisa, Mr. Rickard's Emma, and
Mr. Welling's Miss Moulton.

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BETTING AT MANCHESTER—TUESDAY.
CHESTER CUP.
50 to 1 agst Nancy (t).
50 to 1 flack Doctor (t).
111:, Joe Miller (t).
Richard Primmer (t).
Muscovite (t).
1,000 to 10 Goldfinder.
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Lord Fauconberg (t).

METROPOLITAN HANDICAP.
50 to 1 offered on the field.

DERBY.
12 to 1 agst West Australian (t).
15 to 1 -- The Reiver (t).
18 to 1 --- Pharos (t).
20 to 1 -- Elmsthorpe (t).
20 to 1 -- Umbriel (t).

TRADING IN DRATR.—Several years have now elapsed
sincerational men, that the English people had fallen into a
to be clear to the comprehension of most
condition
began
muc
much
to be regretted, in respect of their Fu-
neral customs. A system of barbarous show and ex-
pense was found to have gradually erected itself above
the grave, which, while it could possibly do no honor
to the memory of the dead, did great dishonor to
'le living, as
of inducing them to associate the most
human occasions with unmeaning
mme mu ri es, dishonest debt, profuse waste, and bad ex-
ample in an utter oblivion of responsibility. The more
the subject Was examined, and the lower the investiga-
tion was carried, the more monstrous (as was natural)
these usages appeared to be, both in themselves and in
their consequences. No class of society escaped. The
among the middle classes for superior
competition
gentility in funerals--the gentility being estimated by
the amount of ghastly folly in which the undertaker was
permitted to run riot—descended even to the very poor,
to whom the cost of funeral customs was so ruinous and so
disproportionate to their means, that they formed clubs
among themselves to defray
.such charges. Many of
these clubs, conducted hy designing villains who preyed
upon the general infirmity, cheated and wronged the poor,
most cruelly ; others, by presenting a new class of temp-
tations to the wickeest natures among them, led to a
new class of mercenary murders, so abominable in
their iniquity, that language cannot stigmatise them
with sufficient severity. That nothing might be
wanting to complete the general depravity, hollowness,
and falsehood, of this state of things, the absurd
fact came to light, that innumerable harpies assumed the
titles o furnishers of funerals, who possessed no funeral
furnituie whatever, but who formed a long file of middle-
men between the chief mourner and the real tradesman,
and who hired out the trappings from one to another—
passing them on like water-buckets at a fire—every one
of them charging his enormous per centage on his share
of the "black job." Add to all this, the demonstration,
by the simplest and plainest practical science, of the
terrible consequences to the living, inevitably resulting
from the practice of burying the dead in the midst of
crowded towns ; and the exposition of a system of in-
decent horror, revolting to our nature and disgraceful to
our age and nation, arising out of the confined limits of
such burial-grounds, and the avarice of their proprie-
tors ; and the culminating point of this gigantic morkery
is at last arrived at.---Dickens's " ilouseltold Words,"

solemn