The Sun.
London, England, 1863-08-14 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONPON, FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 14, 1863.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

READING RACES, AUG. 13.

The lovely weather, the pleasant distance from town,
and an attractive bill of fare were the inducements that yes-
terday brought crowds to the King's Meadow and filled the
hotels of this quiet Berkshire borough to overfl ,wing. The
Great Western, of course, carried the greatest number of
passengers, but the more circuitous routes of the rival lines
were not disdained, and the trains from Waterloo and Lou-
don-bridge were heavy.

The entry for the Readieg Stakes, it is true, dwindled
down to four starters, and the absence of Mr. Ten Broeck's
Derby colt Paris robbed them of a great deal of their inte-
rest; Mr. Merry's good-looking filly Crisis winning with
perfect ease.

A pretty race for the King's Meadow Stakes heralded
the event of the day— the Berkshire Stakes, for which only
five came to the post. Change and Blackdown were nearly
equal favourites, the former, from his running at Wolver-
hampton, having the call. The race was left to these two,
Change succeeding in defeating the Goodwood winner by a
neck.

Mr. Merry was able to place the Ladies' Plate to his
account with Sister to Melsonby, and a very slow-run race
for the Nursery eventuated in the easy victory of Mr.
Trimmer's Verbena by two lengths,
The Stewards' Plate brought 11 to the post, and after
some delay in starting Kingswood landed his owner's
colours victorious by a head, after a good race with Bali-
verne.

The sport, though not first-rate, was satisfactory, and
the praiseworthy punctuality of the arrangements deserves
notice at our hands.

The Easthampstead Park Stakes of 5 sous each, 2 ft, with
30 added ; for 3-yr-olds and upwards; weight for age;
winners extra, with maiden allowances. One mile and a
half. 11 subs.
Mr. Brayley's Golden Dust, 3 yrs, 7st 21b (Cannon) 1
Mr. Beadman's Fontenoy, 3 yrs, st (Plumb) 2
Mr. Merry's Lioness, 4 yrs, 7st lllb (H. Covey) 3
Betting-7 to 4on Golden Dust.

Fontenoy took the lead, followed by Golden Dust and
Lioness, until the turn into the straight, when Mr. Bray-
ley's colt drew up, passed Fontenoy at the Stand, and won
cleverly by a neck. A bad third.

The Reading Stakes of 15 sous, 5 ft, with 50 added, for 2-
yr-olds ; colts, Bst 101 b and fillies Bst Mb ; winners extra.
Half-a-mile. 32 subs.
Mr. Merry's Crisis, Bst 21b (H. Covey) 1
Mr. J. Powney's Lady Williams (31b), Bst 21b .. (Judd) 2
Mr. W. S. Cartwright's Isca (31b), Bst 21b (Custance) 3
Mr. Greville's Bradamante, Bst 51b (J. Goater) 4
Betting-9 to 4on Crisis, sto 1 agst Lady Williams, and
6 to 1 agst Isca.

The favourite, in company with Bradamante, Lady Wil-
liams, and Isca, made the running to the enclosure, where
Mr. Greville's filly was beaten ; Crisis at the same time
drew slightly in advance, and won very cleverly by three
parts of a length. Lady Williams obtained the second
honours by a head ; a bad fourth.

The King's Meadow Stakes (handicap) of 5 sous each, with
30 added. Winners extra. Straight, 7 furlongs. 15
subs.
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Betting-400 to 30 agst Churchman, 4to 1 agst Topsy,
5 to 1 each agst Rubini and Margery, 8 to 1 agst Lufra, 10
to 1 agst Dictator, and 100 to 6 agst The Reserve.
Upwards of half an hour was wasted at the post
before Mr. M'George could get them in anything
like order. At last the signal was lowered, when
Topsy, next the rails, made play, closely attended by
Lufra, Margery, Churchman, and Tailor ; Rubini, with
Tom Sayers, heading the rear division. As they
rounded the bend into the straight, Margery and
Mr. Saxon's colt were beaten. The favourite, with Lufra
and Tailor lying up, came on with a decided lead to the
enclosure, when Lufra got up, the pair running a punish-
ing race home; Topsy winning in the last stride by a head.
Tailor, who ran extremely raw and ungenerous, was beaten
by two lengths for second; Dictator was fourth, The Re-
serve fifth, and Rubini next.

The Berkshire Stakes (handicap) of 20 sous each, 10 ft, and
5 only if declared, with 100 added.
,The owner of the
second horse to save his stake. Winners extra, About
two miles. The highest weight accepting being Bst 31b,
it has been raised to Bst 121 b, and the others in propor-
tion. 35 subs, 17 of whom declared.
Mr. Whittaker's Change, 3 yrs, 6st 71b (J. Grimshaw) 1
Mr. Wyon's Biackdown, 3 yrs, 7st 41b (in 71b e()

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(H. Grinishaw) 2
Mr. Merry's Wasp colt, 3 yrs, Est 71b (H. Covey) 3
Mr. R. Drewett's Detective, 3 yrs, 6st 91b....(Mordan) 4
Mr. Low's Gibraltar, 6 yrs, Bst (C. Searle) 0

Betting-6 to 4 agst Change, 7to 4 agst Blackdown, 100
to 15 each agst Gibraltar and the Wasp colt.
Gibraltar, as usual, rushed to the front, and made the
running at his best pace, followed by Detective and Black-
down, the favourite and the Wasp colt lying off. In these
positions they came past the Stand, but proceeding along
the river side the leader ran on the inside of two of the
post, but still went on in advance, closely attended by
Blackdown, the Wasp colt, and Change, to the bottom
turn, when Gibraltar again bolted and stumbled over the
rails, leaving Blackdown in possession of a clear lead, with
the Wasp ,colt and Mr. Whittaker's colt lying close up
with him. At the distance Change came out, and in a few
strides obtained a slight lead, which he retained to the end,
and won a fine race by a neck. There were four lengths
between the second and third; Detective was fourth. Gib.
raltar did not pass the post.
The Ladies' Plate of 25 sovs, added to a sweepstakes of
3 sovs each; for 2-yr-olds and upwards. Weight for
age, with selling allowances. Straight five furlongs. 10
subs.
Mr. Merry's Sister to Melsonby, 3 yrs, 7st 51b, £5O
(H. Covey) 1
Mr. Chancellor's Wee Aggie, sst 51b, £5O (J. Grimshaw) 2
Mt. John Day's Eudora, 2 yrs, sst 71b, £5O ..(Mordan) 3

The following also ran :—Maid of Lincoln colt, Canter-
bury, Buckhound, Skuddle filly, Falsestep, and Aber-
nethy.
Dawdle was weighed for by Loates, who was found to be
21b. overweight, and his number was taken down,
Betting-4 to 1 each agst Wee Aggie and Buckhound, 6
to 1 agst Eudora, 100 to 15 agst Sister to Melsonby, and 10
to 1 agst Abernethy.
Sister to Melsonby, with the favourite and Eudora lying
up, made all the running, and won in a canter by three
lengths—Wee Aggie defeating Eudora by a length for
second. The Maid of Lincoln colt was a bad fourth, and
Buckhound fifth, and Abernethy next; the others were
beaten off a long way, the last being Falsestep. The winner
was sold to Mr. Rayner for 280 guineas.
The Nursery Plate (Handicap) of 100 soya; for 2 yr-olds.
Winners extra. Straight run in, about seven furlongs.

33 subs.
Mr. Trimmer's Verbena, by De Ruyter, 7st
(J. Grimshaw) 1
Marquis of Hastings' Attraction, 7st 71b (Judd) 2
Mr. W. Day's Signalman, 7st 91b (S. Adams) 3
The following also ran :—Lady Wild filly, Stainley,
Anglo-Saxon, Langford, Danaus, Heber, Elise, Petit
Oiseau, Fairy, Nervous colt, and Wheldrake.
Betting-7 to 4 agst Verbena, 4to 1 agst Attinction, 8
to 1 agst Wheldrake, and 10 to 1 agst any other.
The favourite getting the best of the start made the run-
ning, with Attraction at her side, the others prior to reech-
ing the distance being widely spread. Verbena retained her
advantage to the end, and won in a canter by two lengths.
Signalman was a wretched third, Danaus was fourth, Whel-
drake fifth, the Lady Wild filly and Elise next; the others
were pulling up, the last being Anglo-Saxon, who got
badly off.

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Winners
a quarter. 36 subs, ofexltOrOa. sooysneinressipeecanied;
Mr. S. Thellusson's Kingswood, 3 yrs, Est 01b (Mordan) 1,
Mr. W. Burbidge's Baliverne, 4 yrs, 7st 41b (Midgley)
Mr. T. Hughes's Remunerator, aged, 7st 21b (T. French) 3
The following also ran :--Berkeley, Ripon, Flash in the
Pan, Everlasting, The Dreue, Dux, Salisbury, and Lady
Emma.
Betting--9 to 4 agst Ripon,
6 to 1 agst Everlasting, 7 to
1 agst Kingswood, 10 to 1 each eget Lady Emma and Flash
in the Pan, and 100 to 8 agst Remunerator.
Remunerator jumped away in advance, having Dux,
Salisbury, Everlasting, and Ripon in close attendance,
Kingswood, with Baliverne at his side, lying two or three
lengths in their rear. As they rounded the bend into the
straight Ripon ran into the second place, and came on in
waiting upon Mr. Hughes's representative to the distance,
where the pair were healed by Kingswood and Baliverne,
who came on together, the former with a slight lead, which
he retained to the end, and won on the post by a head ; a
bad third, Flash in the Pan was fourth. Everlasting fifth,
and Salisbury sixth ; the others, who were widely spread,
were pulled up and did not pass the post.
The Borough Plate of 25 sous, added to a sweepstakes of 3
each; 2-yr-olds and upwards. Weight for age. The
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winner to be sold for £BO, if demanded, &c. Half a mile.
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16 subs.
Mr. W. Hart's Dawdle, 2 yrs, 6st 41b (E. Taylor) 1
Mr. R. Law's Duke of Cambridge, 4 yrs, Bst 81b

(Custance) 2
Mr. Simpson's Neilgherry, 3 yrs, 7st 111 b (Fordham) 3
The following also ran :—Bubble, Nereus, Queen of tha
Gipsies, Blanche of Lancaster, Rosa, Telscombe, Irishman,
Toy filly, Good for Nothing, and Lawrestina.
Betting-6 to 4 agst Neilgherry, 5 to 1 agst Good for
Nothing, 100 to 15 agat Dawdle, 8 to 1 agat Queen of the
Gipsies, and 10 to 1 agst Duke of Cambridge.
Blanche of Lancaster cut out the work, with Dawdle,
Duke of Cambridge, the favourite, Queen of the Gipsies,
and Nereus lying at her heels to the distance, when Mr.
Ynrir'' waF beaten, leaving Doke of Cambridre with

a clear lead, which he retained to the stand, when Dawdle
came with a rush, and won a fine race by a head; a length
and a half separating second and third ; Queen of the Gip-
sies was fourth, and Nereus next; the others beaten off, the
last two being the Toy filly and Rosa.

BETTING ON THE COURSE.

EBOR HANDICAP.
sto 1 agst Clarior (taken)
100 to 15 agst Golden Pledge (taken)
10 to 1 agst Melrose (taken)
10 to 1 agst Caristrook (taken)
10 to 1 agst Piccador (taken)
10 to 1 agst Bellman (taken)
12 to 1 agst Captain Crow (taken)
15 to 1 apt The Monk (taken)
20 to 1 agst Oldmizster (offered)

ST. LEGER.
sto 1 agst The Ranger (taken)
6to 1 agst Lord Cliiden (taken and offered)
100 to 15 agst Queen Bertha (taken)
7to 1 agst Avenger (taken)

YORK AUGUST MEET.
Weights for the Chesterth
Age st lb
Dictator 5 9 5
Johnny Armstrong 4 9 5
Ace of Clubs 4 8 13
Calabria
Little Pippin 4 3 5
Lothian's King
Stanton .. 5 8 2
Gemma 4 8 0
Doncaster ..
Bertha
Toggery 6 7 7
Flash in the Pan a 7 7
Cornet .. 3 7 7
Golden Pledge .... 3 7 5
Despair
Weights for the Nurse

ENG.—TUESDAY, Aug. 18.
Ad Handicap. One mile.

• Age st lb
Beauvale
Old Orange Girl
Paddy O'Rourke 3 613
Angelus 3 6 13
Fluke 3 6 13
Dolphin 3 6 9
Michael Scott
Newchurch
Alice
Littlecote
Marchester
Trump Queen 3 6 5
Jcrny Wren 3 6 2
Middlewatch 3 6 0
Coverdale
ry Handicap. T.Y.C.

at lb
The Clown 8 10
Madame Walton
Thimblerig 8 2
Tarleton
Ap.
lup(ie3nll
R oge,
lio'Ceekrossse 7 11
Procella .... 7 11
G 7
11
Prescription
Lyra
Inverness
Balderstone " 6
Coverdale ..
Good Advice
Ghillio Callum
Mysterious Lady
Rose .... .... 7 2
Theobalda ... 7 2
Lady de Trafford .... 7 2
Claxton
Oulton Lowe .. 7 0
Nemo
Skylark .. 7 0
Harvest Mell 7 0
Jet colt 7 0,

st lb
Ess Bouquet
Idle Girl
Fauconberg 6 13
Acolyte
Greville
Mother Carey's
Chicken
Cutaway .. 6 12
Kapunda 6 12
Ignorance filly
Daunus (late Stonewall
Jackson) ....
The z,huiller
Land of the West .... 6 10
Dawdle
B angle 6 9
Exile of Erin's dam c 6 9
Caroline
Jane Shore 6 7
Frondenr 6 7
Villagiatura
Thornton 6 6
Alice Lee 6 4
Laura

HORSES STRUCK OUT OF THEIR ENGAGEMENTS.—
August 7, at 9 a.m. all Sir Joseph Hawley's horses out of
their engagements at York August Meeting. Bth, at 5.50
p.m. Mulberry, out of Chillington and Nursery Stakes,
Wolverhampton. 10th, at 9 a.m. Breechloader, Umpire,
and Polynesia (left in by mistake) out of Wolverhampton
Stakes ; Lytham out of Nursery Stakes, Reading ; Tro-
janus out of Ebor Handicap, York ; at 10 40 a.m. Village
Belle out of Berkshire Stakes, Reading ; at 4 15 p.m.
Madame Walton out of Reading and Wolverhampton en-
gagements; at 4 30 p.m. Turn of Luck out of Holyoake
Stakes, Wolverhampton. 11th, at 9 a.m. Blight and
Oneida out of Staffordshire Nursery, Wolverhampton ,
Queen Elizabeth out of Stewards' and Borough Members'
Plates, Wolverhampton; Cachuca oat of Yorkshire Oaks ;
at 11.40 a.m. Wild Rake out of Fifth Stamford Biennial
and Chillington Stakes, Wolverhampton ; Queen of Trumps
out of Patshull Stakes, Wolverhampton ; Trojanus out of
Stamford Biennial Stakes, Wolverhampton ; at noon, all
Mr. James Smith's horses, out of Wolverhampton and
Reading engagements ; at 2 5 p.m. Rouge Dragon out of
all engagements ; at 4 5 p.m. all Mr. Hodgman's horses
out of their Reading engagements. 13th, at 9 a.m. Brown
Duchess, Killarney, Countess, Jerry, and Ordeal out of
all their engagements, and Lady Superior out of all engage-
ments this year.

The Late Dreadful Accident near Lynn.

KING'S LYNN, Thursday Afternoon.

The proceedings before Mr. Be!oe, the borough
coroner, was resumed this morning at the Guildhall.
Mr. Edwards represented the rahway company,
and Mr. Coulton, solicitor of Lynn, appeared for
the family of the deceased, Mr. John Dennis.
After some evidence had been adduced similar to
that given on the former inquest,
Captain Tyler read the following statements by
the permission of the coroner, as the company felt
the decision of the inquest as too strong :
" I will now, gentlemen, with the coroner's per-
mission, say a few words in my own defence, in
consequence of the censure which I have so unex-
pectedly, and as I think very unjustly, received in
a recent verdict.
" It was quite impossible for me to distinguish, in
passing over the line in September last, between
those ditches which retained and those which would
lose their water during the present summer. The
farmers who live on the land from year to year
have good opportunities of observing the rise and
fall of the water in the district, but no person
visiting the country for the first time, and for a
limited period, can pretend to form an accurate
judgment in this respect. It any of them had taken
the trouble to write ever so short a note to the
Board of Trade before the line was inspected, and
expressed, however feebly, the apprehension that
they now, after the lamentable occurrence, proclaim
so loudly, my attention would in that case have
been specially directed to the subject. I should have
placed myself in communication with them when I
made my inspection, and we should have had a dif-
ferent result. I need hardly tell you, for instance,
if I could have foreseen that the ditch opposite Mr.
Bloomfield's field would become dry in the present
year, and be for this reason a cause of danger to
the public, I should have required the railway com-
pany to place a higher fence on the inside of it.
" Mr. Valentine, the engineer who constructed
the line, who has had considerable experience in
similar marsh districts, Was himself deceived with
regard to the water. The low fence was, of course,
only intended as an additional protection to wet
ditches. He paid great attention to the construc-
tion of those fences, and
if he could have formed a
more accurate judgment he would, of course, have
extended the high fence fora greater distance along
both sides of the line.

" I have myself no control 1
of railways, and am onl over the construction
y called upon to inspect
them after they are
Isupposedwould
to be complete and
ready for traffic; and
you in this way. Supposing put the question to
g that 1 was called upon
near the end of next month
round again—to inspect I:—a.s September is doming
similar country, and were similar line through a
find, as in this case,
wet ditches with a low fence,
a high one, should I say to and dry ditches with
eengineer, ' I mis-
trust your wct ditches, and therefore you shall now
add a high fence along the whole of the line, and
of
I will recommend the Board Trade to postpone
the opening of the line from
until it is completed.' if 1 month to month
were to adopt
this course, gentlemen, shareholders and directors,
engineers and managers, would all cry out, and
would justly complain of being put to unnecessary
expense in construction and delay opening; de-
putations would be sent up to th
and an impatient public would join in denouncing
me as an unreasonable inspector, and one to whom
such duties ought not to be entrusted.
" The engineer of the line would naturally cry
out, 'Let us open the line, and We
will add to the
fences, from time to time, as experience
e may show
li
it to be necessary ;' and I should be
obliged to recom-
mend the Board of Trade to allow the
opening of
the railway upon that explanation, leaving vin t
g it to the
railway company to maintain, from
t i
i time
dar
o time, El
sufficient fence at the side of the ,and to
clear them out and to repair them, :d i to
them
as may be required, taking due care of the safety
of the public while they did so.
"I can only, by recommending the Board of
Trade to postpone the opening of the line frm
month to month, cause such deficiencies to be u
recti-
fied as I am able to observe, and I feel, I assure you,
a heavy responsibility in doing so ; but I am obliged
to trust to the care and watchfulness of the officers
and servants of the railway company in guarding
against contingencies which constantly arise—many
of them of far greater importance than the condi-
tions of the fences—in the working of a railway.
The present accident will, however, bring the o tics-
...ion
of fences into greater prominence than anything
that has previously occurred in railway history, and
will, no doubt, induce greater care on all hands
with regard to it.
"
Government inspection, before the opening of a
line,
does good •
in many ways. It is the means of
obtaining for you stronger bridges, a better perma-
nent way, more substantial earthworks, superior
system of signals, and a more finished
railway than
you would have
in the majority of cases without it ;
but it
Cannot be
rnqi,,, expected to make up for defect of
.ar ,t)c., ; .
1 -oaaalnch PR the_: inspector has no cn-

trol whatever over the lines, nor even an oppor-
tunity of seeing it after it has been opened for traffic.
" And I would here ask to be permitted to make
an observation upon a doctrine laid down by Mr.
Wilkins in his address to the former jury.
" That learned coroner represented the Great
Eastern Company as sitting in London, and as
having a right to assume that having the certifi-
cation of the Government inspector, the fences were
i❑ a fit and proper state. It was impossible (he
said) for them to know, being in London, and not
having constructed the fences, that they were not
so. But having taken upon themselves the work-
ing of the line, immediately they saw the state of
the fences they were bound to take notice of them
and to repair them. And the best evidence that
they did so is this—that they have gone to consi-
derable expense in putting up a good new fence, so
as to prevent the possibility of an accident of this
kind ever occurring again from such a cause.' Now,
gentlemen, a railway company, in taking over a
railway from another company and in undertaking
the responsibility of working it, is bound to see
through its own officers that it is in a safe condition
in all respects, according to the mode in which it
is worked, and—irrespective of any Government in-
spection which may have taken place—to main-
tain it and improve it from time to time, and you
have heard from Mr. Sinclair, in his evidence, that
he did go on the line, on the part of the Great
Eastern Company, as was his duty, and that his
inspection was made previous to mine.
" A railway is a complicated concern, requiring
constant attention and supervision from month to
month, from day to day, and from hour to hour.
Those only who have charge of it can only be re-
sponsible for the safety of the public using it. The
doctrine which the learned gentleman has laid
down, besides being entirely erroneous, has a most
dangerous tendency, because it would absolve rail-
way companies from their legitimate responsibi-
lities. Parliament, taking a contrary view, has
always wisely abstained from permitting Govern-
ment interference in the management of railways,
and principally for this very reason, that responsi-
bility aright not be shifted from the shoulders of
those who alone are in a position to undertake it."
Mr. Edwards having addressed the jury on the
part of the railway company, the coroner summed
up.
The Jury returned the following verdict :—" We
find unanimously that John Dennis died from in-
juries received on the Lynn and Hunstanton Rail-
way on the 3d of August, in consequence of an ac-
cident caused by a bullock having strayed upon the
line. We are also of opinion that the accident was
owing to the insufficiency of the fences and the
neglect of the same by the Great Eastern Railway
Company ; that the driver and guard of the trai❑
to which the accident occurred acted to the best of
their ability and in accordance with the instruc-
tions issued to the company's servants. The Jury
strongly recommend that the carriages used by the
company should be more frequently subjected to
close examination. We are further of opinion that
Captain Tyler, the Government inspector, was per-
fectly justified in passing the line in September
last."