The Sun.
London, England, 1863-04-24 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.—This Day

NEWMARKET RACES—This DAY.
BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.
£lOO HANDICAP PLATE.

Lapidiet
Rubicon
Thirteen ran.

LATEST BETTING.
GREAT NORTHERN HANDTCAP.
4to 1 agst Fantail (taken)
10 to 1 agst Carbineer (offered)
THE DERBY.
40 to 1 agst Avenger (taken freely)

RACING FIXTURES FOR 1863.
APRIL.
York Spring 2B I Balisbury

Chester 5
Bath l2
Harpenden l5
Epsom l9

Radcliffe 25
Manchester 27
Marlborough 29

Ascot 2
Newton
Hampton
Odiham 16
Bibury Club 17

Beverley l7
Stockbridge lB
Chelmsford 23
Newcastle-on-Tyne 23
Carlisle 3O
rrv.2
Stamford l6
Winchester 2l
Nottingham 21
Cambridge
Southampton.. 22
Gocd wood 22
GUST.

Worcester Summer 2
Newmarket July 7
Liverpool 13
Abingslon 14
Hungerford l6
Pontefract 16

Brightcn
Brighton Club 6
Lewes
Wolverhampton lO
Reading l2
York August lB

Plymouth 20
Egham 25
Stockton 25
Oxford
Lichfield ... 31

SEPT:

Devnn and Foratar
Derby Summer
Warwick
Leicester lO
Doncaster
_l5

OCTI

Coventry
Newmarket S. 0, 12

Now:

Worcester 3

IRI
Arl

Athlone 2l

:BER.

Brecon 2l
Richmond 22
Monmouth 24
Manchester Autumn 26
Newmarket Ist Oct. 29
IBER.

Lincoln Autumn 20
Newmarke‘. Houghton 26

:MEER.
1 Shrewsbury Autumn.... 7

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Curragh

JUNE.
Wicklow l7 1 Curragh 23

J ULT.
Bellewstown
Down Royal Corporation. 23

Mr. Whalley in the House of Commons.

" Squelch him I I say, biHeavens, Squelch him I"
THOMAS CARLYLE,

On Monday evening—writes the parliamentary
correspondent of The Queen, in the number of that
journal for to-morrow, but just now published—we
had one of these scenes which are peculiar to the
the House of Commons, and which, when once
witnessed, can never be forgotten. We allude to
the putting down of a member. The unfortunate
parliamentary victim on this occasion is well-used
to the infliction, and so he bore it most heroically,
and with the inflexibility of a martyr. The occa-
sion was the second reading of the Prison Ministers
Bill, and the legislator was Mr. Whalley. We
have frequently described the appearance of the
honourable member, who is short and thick,
and who has a large round head, covered with
thick, woolly, brown hair, which curls as persis-
tently and as closely as that of a negro. The object
of the Prison Ministers Bill is to provide Roman
Catholic chaplains for Roman Catholic prisoners in
gaols. The Roman Catholic church is Mr, Whalley's
dragon, and he looks upon himself as the Parlia-
mentary St. George, by whom it is to be destroyed.
No subject in any way connected with that church
is ever introduced into the House of Commons
without Mr. Whalley taking part in it ; and so
persistent has he become in that respect, that his
rising is now invariably taken as a signal for a burst
of merriment. Last session he brought under the
notice of the house a doggrel song that had been
got up somewhere in Dublin in connection with the
College of Maynooth, in which certain implied
disloyalties were promulgated, and which Mr.
Whalley desired to dignify by a State prosecution.
On that occasion he vainly attempted to read
the song to the house, but he had not got through
more than a verse or two, when there arose loud
hilarious cries of "Sing it! sing it !" but as the
rules of the House do not admit of a member inton-
ing or vocalising his speech, the hon. member could
not comply with the generally-expressed desire ;
and as the House declined to hear the song in any
other form, he was unable to get through it. On
Tuesday last, the House having no doubt a lively
recollection of that scene, the moment Mr. Whalley
rose, made the roof ring again with all sorts of dis.
cordant cries, distinguishable above the rest being
that of " Sing, sing;" and one member, with sten-
torian lungs,actually indulged in the irreverence of
crying out—

Sing, sing, darkie sing,

at which the uproar became more deafening than it
was before. Of course, under these circumstances,
not a word of Mr. Whalley's speech reached the re-
porters' gallery, although he was observed to be
gesticulating for a period of twenty minutes.