The Sun.
London, England, 1863-08-04 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 4, 1863.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
SUNDAY TRADING. CAUI lON TO LICENSED VIC-
TUALLERS.-Mr. John R. Marshall, of the Greyhound,
Brick-street, Piccadilly, attended before Mr. Tyrwhitt to
answer the complaint of Inspector Walker, of the C Divi-
sion, for keeping his house open for the sale of spirits and
beer during the prohibited hours on Sundays.
William Barker, a police constable of the C Division,
proved watching the defendant's house on Sunday morning,
and from 11 till 20 minutes past seeing nine persons go in
and remain a short time. On going into the house he saw
six persons at the bar, and three pints of beer and two of ale
drawn and paid for. He had a pint of ale himself, and paid
4d for it.

In answer to a question from the defendant, Barker said
he did not observe the defendant thare at the time.

Butcher, 137 C, proved seeing eight or nine men go into
the house, and remain a short time and then leave. He
knew the house to be much frequented by skittle sharpers,
and persona had complained of them.
Mr. Tyrwhitt a,ked whether the defendant had ever been
convicted ?

Inspector Walker said he had not.
Mr. Tyrwhitt fined the defendant 48s. and costs, and said
the next time it would be £5, as it was clear that the Sun-
day trading had been carried on in a wholesale manner.
PARISH PROSECUTION OF A NOTORIOUS BROTHEL-
KEEPER.—Thomas Donohue, a middle aged man, was
brought before Mr. Tyrwhitt by Sergeant Appleton, 26 C,
having been apprehended on a bench warrant for keeping
two brothels at 7, Lower James-street, and 14, Golden.
square.

Mr. Allen, solicitor, of Carlisle-street, Soho, prosecuted
on behalf of the parish authorities of St. James's.
The wife of the prisoner was convicted at Clerkenwell
Sessions a short time since for a similar offence, the prisoner
managing to keep out of the way since March last.
Prisoner was committed for trial.

Enlargement of the Sailors' Home.

(THIS DAY.)

The ceremony of laying the foundation stone of the build-
ing for the enlargement of the Sailors' Home, situate in
.Dock-street, was performed by Viscount Palmerston, K,G.

his day.

His lordship was received at the entrance of the court-
yard next to Seaman's Church by Admiral Sir W. Bowles,
the President, Vice-Presidents, and a great number of the
supporters of the institution, and conducted to the ground.
The proceedings took place under a very elegant marquee
gaily decorated with the flags of all nations, 60 feet in
height and 40 feet in length, under which sat a brilliant
assemblage of ladies. The entrance of the tent was taste-
fully decorated with a profusion of beautiful flowering
plants.

An address was then presented by Sir J. BOWLEB, which
set out at length the advantages offered by the Sailors
Home, and also the great benefits that had occurred through
their establishment to the mercantile marine. The present
" Home" owed its origin to three naval officers, and was
establish d in 1835, and since that time no less than
£1,110,980 had been received from seamen, and directed
into legitimate channels. The arrangement of the
present building having been determined on, the
plans of Mr. Bracebridge had been adopted,
the cost of which will amount to £10,626, of which
sum £B,OOO had been obtained, leaving £2,000 to
be met by further subscriptions. Since the opening of the
Home, the address stated that no less than 139,180 had been
inmates,

Lord PALMERSTON replied as follows : —Sir William
Bowles, ladies and gentlemen, I can assure you that I feel
great pleasure, and I may say pride, in having been per-
mitted to take a part in this most interesting ceremony.
We are by our insular position necessarily a seafaring
nation. I may say our national independence is connected
with the skill, the enterprise, and daring courage of our
seamen. (Loud cheers.) It is needless to point out that
by the great eat ension which the principles of free trade have
received of late years, our commercial intercourse with other
nations, carried on on every ocean. have incredibly increased ,
and that we are now dependent upon our commerce for the
maintenance of our national industry, for the subsistence of
a great partof our population, and for the markets to which
the produce of our manufactures are destined to go. If
then nothing but commercial interests were concerned it
would be needless to point out how greatly the strength
and prosperity of the country depend upon our seafaring
population. But there are still higher considerations
than those to point out their value, and how
much they deserve encouragement from their
fellow-countrymen. It is true that something near
30,000,000 of men could not be conquered by any invasion
that might reach these shores, but short of that we might,
if we lost the command of the seas—
we might be blockaded
by the cutting off of our foreign supplies, and by the pre-
vention of our export trade be reduced to very distressing
extremities, and, therefore, in that point of veiw we ought
fully and highly to appreciate the value of our sailor fellow-
men. (Loud cheers.) Well, it is the result of their life to be
separated in a great measure from intercourse with their
fellow-men on land that they are peculiarly a simple-
minded and guileless set of men; but simple-minded and
guileless men are too often, when they come in contact with
them, the victims of men of different character. A
sailor, when ho comes to port, cannot go probably to the
seat of his family ; he cannot go to his friends and relations.
He must remain in the port where he has landed, and in that
port he is exposed to every temptation, and to the loss
both of his money and his health. Well, these institutions
tend to provide him with a home. It is said, indeed, that
"his home is on the deep," but we provide bim with a
home on terra firma, and it is needless to point out how
much his physical and moral interests are promoted by a
reception such as he meets with in these institutions.
(Loud cheers.) They are indeed a part of those great
social improvements which have been made in recent
times, and I may say that among them, few are more de-
serving of public encouragement, and few are more con-
ducive to the real interests of the country. (Cheers.) 1
therefore am glad, and I return thanks to those who
have given me the invitation --am glad to
be present and. contribute to the foundation of
an institution which will be attended with such national

advantage.
His lordship then, with the usual honours, laid the foun-
dation stone, which bore the following inscription :
" This chief stone of the new building in extension of the
Sailor's Home was laid on the fourth day of August, in the
year of Our Lord, 1863, and in the twenty-eighth year of
the reign of her most gracious Majesty Victoria, Queen of
Great Britain and Ireland, by the Right Hon. Lord Vis-
count Palmerston, K.G."
The singing of the National Anthem concluded the pro-
ceedings.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

TATTERS ALL'S—YESTERDAY.
BRIGHTON STAKES.
sto 2 agst Blackdown (taken)
ST. LEGER.
4to 1 agst The Ranger (offered)
6to 1 agst Queen Bertha (taken)
Bto 1 agst Lord Clifden (take 9to 1)
100 to 12 agst Avenger (taken)
THE DERBY, 1864.
100 to 6 agst Paris (taken)
25 to 1 agst Hollyfox (taken and offered)
33 to 1 agst Idler (taken)
50 to 1 agst Harkforward (taken)
Very little betting—time occupied with settling.

YORK AUGUST MEETING.
Weights for the Great Ebor Handicap of 100 sovs, added
to a Sweepstakes of 25 soya each; 10 ft, and only 5 if de-
clared. Two miles. 73 subs.
Yrs st lb Yrs st lb
Asteroid 5 9 8 Scamander
5
Carbineer
Caller On
5 5 9 1 Fantai1.......... 3 6 2
Fairwater
9 0 Barchettina ...... 3 6 0
Millionaire
Zetland
Joey Jones .
Carisbrook
4 8 0 Maria .......... 3 6 0
*Buckeuham
Investment
Bellman 3 5 12
5 7 10 *Marmion
Cowley
5 7 10 *oakapple
Costa 4 7 10 Melrose ........ 3 5 12
Old minster
" 7 9 Double ....... .. 3 5 10
Turn- of-Luck
Bedouin 4 7 8 Trust .......... 3 5 10
5 7
Canary 7 Michael Scott .... 3 5 10
Myrtle
" 5 Newchurch 3 5 10
Brighton
Welcome
Captain Crow
Lacydes 4 7 0 Brian Born. ..• . . 3 5 7
Makeshift
Watchman
Earl of Surrey
Citadel
Monk 6 6 13 Cape Flyaway .. 6 paid
Magnum Bonum 4 6 13 Retcatcher
Anfield
My Mary .... 4 6 10 Truant 3 paid
Evenb and 5 6 10 Pilot 4 paid
Piccador
*Catcla'em Alive
Revolt ... 4 6 7 Gardener 5 paid
Bonny Breast Knot 4 6 5 Doefoot
ILord Strathmore and Mr. Hawksley are subscribers, but
did not name.

* These horses having been entered without the know-
ledge of their owners will be struck out at the time pre-
scribed, unless specially ordered to remain in.
Weights published, August 1, at noon; forfeits to be de.
dared August 8, at 6 p,m.

RACING FIXTURES FOR 1863.

AUGUST.

Brighton
Brighton Club 6
Lewes
Wolverhampton .... 11
Reading l3
Wenlock l4
SEPT.

York August lB
Plymouth 20
Egham 26
Stockton
Oxford
Lichfield
;MBER.

Devon and Exeter
Derby Summer
Weymouth
Kings Lynn 3
Warwick
Leicester
Doncaster ..15

Word sley
Brecon . 21
Richmond 22
Monmouth ..24
Manchester Autumn ....26
Newmarket let Oct. ....29
Edinburgh, &c. Club.... 30

OCTi

Coventry
Bedford 6
Caledonian Hunt
Newmarket S. (IQ 12

Noes:
Worcester 3 I

Lincoln Autumn ...20
Kelso 21
Gloucester
Newmarket Houghton ..26

LBER.
Shrewsbury Autumn....l6

IRISH.
AUGUST.

Heath.... 6 Londonderry ....14
I Wicklow ll

SE PTEMBIIII.
Curragh
I Carlow . 9 Jenkintown Park ...... 23
Listowel 2l
Curragh

20

in
• —ilhe course of exchange at New York on London in still
a very fluctuating state, the latest quotation of the exchange
being about 144 per cent, and the premium on gold is about
31} percent. Some gold has been received by the last packets.

THE BOMBAY MAIL.

By the arrival of the Overland Mail we have
received our journals and correspondence from
Bombay to July 9, and Calcutta to June 27.
The report of the arrest of Nana Sahib is con-
firmed.
The limes of India gives the following details of
the arrest :
" The news of the capture of the Nana at Aj-
mere, near the military cantonment of Nusseerabad,
is well founded. It appears he has been skulking in
the Rajpootana States during the last four months,
while we have been supposing him to be hidden in
the wilds of Nepaul. We believe the first httma-
tion of his presence in this part of India arose
from some information supplied to Capt. Nuttall, at
Sholrpoor, when it seems the Bombay police were put
on the track. However this may oe, one of these
police was present at the capture. There can be
little doubt that the man was very recently in the
neighbourhood of Poona and Sholapoor, and, as far
as our information extends, no doubt exists as to his
being the real Nana of Bithoor. We are not so certain
of the rumour that Tantia Topee has been captured
with him. Such, however, is reported to be the case ;
the man who formerly suffered death as `natio. Tope
not being, it is alleged, that leader at all. It is
certain that a considerable gang have been cap-
tured at Aj tn ere. The Nana, we are told, will he
sent to Bombay under a strong guard of Europeans)
and conveyed from this city for trial to Calcutta or
Cawnpore, The detachment will be under the
command of an officer of rank, and be composed of
picked officers and men.
" Since writing the above, we have heard that a
jemadar of the Bth Regiment of Native Infantry, in
company with two Bombay policemen, traced a
companion of the Nana from the Deccan to Bike-
neer ; that the Nana was there found residing as a
guest of the Bikaneer Rrjah ; that he was allosied
to depart thence to Aj mere and there denounced,
his trackers having joined him on the road, and
introduced themselves as agents from one of the
neighbouring durbars. It is said the prisoner has
no want of funds, having several lacs of rupees at
his command, an incidental corroboration of his

identity."
The following is the official report of the capture :
" From Major A. G. Davidson, Deputy Commissioner 01
Ajmere, to the Chief Secretary to Government, Bombay

dated Aj mere, June, 1863.
" Sir,—I have the honour to inform you that, on the 22d
instant, a native officer of the Bth Bombay N. 1., by name
Dwarka Tewarie, brought me your letter, No. 113, of 27th
April, 1863, to the address of toe Political Agent, Jyepoor,
and gave me such information regarding the object
with which it had been written, that I thought myself
justified in opening it, and having satisfied myself that
he was acting under Mr, Forjett's orders and with your
sanction, I rendered all the assistance in my power, and
had the satisfaction of capturing the persons indicated by
the informers, Dwarka Tewarie and Gyapershud ; and from
their statements, which have been confirmed by Mr. For-
jett's detectives, who accompanied them, as also from com-
parison with the descriptive roll furnished by Government,
and a statement made by a sergeant-major of the Royal
Artillery, stationed at Nusseerabbad, who was formerly in
the 14th Dragoons, and constantly saw the Nana at Meerut,
I have not the slightest doubt whatever that the prisoner
now in the Ajmere magazine, under an European guard of
her Majesty's 28th Regiment, is the Nana Dhoondoo Punt,
One of his companions is stated by the informers to be
Naroo Punt Bhalla Bhut, also entered in the descriptive
roll. The third person is a blind Brahmin, made use of by
the Nana to conceal his real, and to confirm him in his as-
sumed, character.
" There are two striking marks on the person of the
prisoner supposed to be the Nana, one of which is not en-
tered in his descriptive roll; this is a grooved scar under
the hole pierced in his right ear, and the other is a scar of
(as the civil surgeon certifies) either a lancet cut or a cut of
a very fine sharp-pointed bistoury, about an inch and a half
in length, and slightly oblique : and, indeed, the prisoner
corresponds in nearly every particular with the description
given in the roll, except that his hair is white, he has lost
two front teeth, and his cheeks are not so full as they were
six years ago.—l have, &c.,
"A. G. DAVIDSON, Commissioner."

The intelligence of the fall of Herat had been
received in Bombay by a telegram from Lahore.
The Government at Lahore was informed that Dost
Mahommed had taken the city by storm, " assisted
by treachery within, and stratagem without."
A correspondent of the limes of India says:—
" Previous to the attack on the 26th of May it had been
given out that Dost Mahommed was at the point of death.
He had assembled his sons, nominated his successor, and
given his parting advice to all, which demonstration appears
to have thrown the Heratees off their guard, and enabled
him to surprise and capture the citadel by a sudden assault
aided no doubt by treachery within the wills. This event
ought to facilitate the solution by treaty of all remaining
difficulties. Lut the course which Persia may pursue is,
perhaps, uncertain, and much may depend on that."

TERRIBLE RAILWAY ACCIDENT.

LYNN, Monday Night.

To-night, at a quarter to nine o'clock, an accident
of a frightful character occurred to an excursion
train from Hunstanton to Lynn. A bullock having
strayed on the line, the engine of the train dashed
against the animal, the sudden shock throwing six
of the carriages off the metals.
Two or three of the carriages were comple4,ely
smashed, and the occupants buried in the debris.
Assistance was promptly procured, when it was
found that five of the passengers were killed, their
bodies being dreadfully mutilated, and about twelve
others much injured. Up to twelve o'clock to-
night only two of the bodies had been identified.
The accident, occurred at Gay wood, about three
miles from Lynn.

THE "FEMALE BLONDIN" DISASTER.

The following correspondence is published in the
Birmingham Daily Post :
Whitehall, July 29, 1863.
Gentlemen,—l am directed by Secretary Sir Geo. Grey
to inform you that a memorial, very numerously signed,
has been addressed to him on the subject of the death of the
unfortunate woman, who was killed in consequence of the
breaking of the rope on which she was performing at a fete
recently given in Aston Park. And I am to express Sir
Sir George Grey's hope that after this melancholy occur-
rence you will not allow a repetition of such dangerous per-
formance in the Park.—l am, gentlemen, your obedient
servant, H. WADDINGTON.
The Directors of Aston Park, Birmingham.

Birmingham, August 1, 1863

Sir,—l have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of
your letter of the 29th ultimo, informing the directors of
the Aston Hall and Park Company that Sir George Grey
has received a memorial very numerously signed, addressed
to him, on the subject of the death of the unfortunate
woman who was killed in consequence of the breaking of
the rope on which she was performing at a fete recently
given in Aston Palk, and you express sie George Grey's
hope that, after this melancholy occurrence, the managers
will not allow a repetition of such dangerous performances
in the park.
I am requested by the managers to say that they concur
in the sentiments contained in the memorial referred to.
The managers have endeavoured, as far as possible, to
provide healthful recreation and instruction for the people.
On the melancholy occasion referred to the managers had
let the park for a charitable purpose, and omitted to reserve
to themselves any right to control the performance.
(Signed)
WILLIAM LUCY, Chairman to the Company.
H, Waddington, Esq., Whitehall, London.

AMUSING ENCOUNTER WITH A Fox..—A young
girl, about fifteen years of age, named Janet Cruik-
shank, at present herd to Mr. Gibb, farmer, Aitnock, Edit'-
, out one day last week in the hill, looking
killie, was
someth sheep, and followed by a little black dog. It hoping
the ground was infested with foxes, and the dog having
after
raised one of the number, gave chase, and got between rey-
nard and his den. The latter finding himself thus refused
admittance to his own house, sought shelter behind a large
stone and based the dog by constantly running
He appeared, however, not to be much alarmed, although
round it.
so hotly pursued, and Janet fearing lest this enemy to her
flock might escape, contrived to get to a small height whence
she threw a stone so well directed and with such force that
the fox was knocked down. Reynard. , h.ewever, was not
long in getting up again, but by this time he was made
aware that he had met with foemen worthy of his steel, and
advancing from behind his covert showed Janet a case of
teeth anything but inviting, upon seeing which she ex-
claimed in her own broad Scotch, "Paige, my lad, ye need
fulfilled
her vi c.
na lauch at me ;11l gie ye lauchan, may be."
milder and
with such deadly effect that the wily old lox had eventuallyn
her promise by opening a tremendous bEatxteurlyti
to succumb. Janet now advanced, crook inhand
burden to
a blow or two laid reynard prostrate.
commencedt ory , Janet phreoru dml ya
rthrew
home,t h e
but
tx over her 1 and with
heavy, she was reluctantly obliged to leaveerhtehre carcase in
h to her delighted
the hill, but carried the brush in tgrijurimlpo
t having displayed
msoamsteurc,hwgheonrueiwnaerlideidghthlaenidntrepid
pluck,—lnverness Courier.
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