The Sun.
London, England, 1839-12-14 00:00:00

PRICE sd.

CALEDONIAN GOLD CUP.

(From the Glasgow Chronicl2.)
On account of the untoward frost the meeting at
Eaglesham was postponed from Monday till to-day,
acct has beets further postponed till Friday first.
Whatever annoyance is experienced in the meantime
by those from a distance, one thing consolatory, how-
ever, is, that the calm, dry, snowless, freezing wea-
ther is sure to put the hares in superior condition, so
as to make it almost certain that the long-legged,
red-necked hares of Eaglesham will on this occasion
spin out the extreme speed of the dogs, and, while
affording unexampled sport, give the best dog an ex-
tra chance to win. We mentioned on Monday that
of the 84 dogs entered, 22 are English, to each of
' which an asterisk is put in the card. Those, entered
by Messrs. Elliot, Bainbridge, and Armstrong are the
picked dogs of the Northumberland and Lowther
Meetings, in the returns of which in the late Nos. of
Belts Life will be found most of their recent per-
formances. Mr. Turner's dogs are well known in
the Fleetwood Club in Lancashire. Mr. William-
son's solitary dog, of the Union Club in Lancashire,
is best known. Lord Ossulton's, of the Victoria Club,
Middlesex, made a creditable appearance at the Cale-
donian meeting last spring. But though last, not
least, is Mr. Fowler's lot from the Louth Club in Lin-
colnshire. His " Tippoo" won the Barton-upon-Hum-
ber Cup last spring, and ran two undecided courses
with Bugle for the Waterloo ; and his " Bashful" won
the Greath Louth St. Leger of 170 sovs last season,
and was thrown out in a bad trial, rather than truly
beat, for the last St. Leger. Such make, shape, and
size, and style of performance, are rarely united in
one animal, as in Bashful, and will warrant both the
offer and refusal of 100 sovs for her 10 days ago at
Louth. She and'Sir W. A. Maxwell's Mountain Dew
may be backed even against 5 for the cup—and at
small odds against the field may be backed Mountain
-Dew—Bashful—Chance—Prince Albert (late Snow-
ball,)--Driver—Twist—Kent —Waterloo Trimmer
—and Match. But we will not play the part of pro-
phet more specifically at present, but content ourselves
with this general prediction, that if the country open
with a moderate thaw, the result of this great meeting
will prove that the race sometimes is to the Swift.

AN ATTORNEY CONVICTED OF FELONY.-

At the Salford Sessions on Thursday last, Charles
Harwar, attorney, of Ashton, was tried on an in-
dictment charging him with feloniously receiving goods,
the property of Mrs. Anne Broadbent, of Ashton,
knowinc, them to be stolen. The case arose out of an
unlawful seizure of furniture at Ashton, by two bailiffs,
named Joseph Buckley and John Holt, who were pro-
secuted at the New Bailey Sessions in May last, and
found guilty. It was then found that the seizure was

made at the instance of the prisoner, Charles Harwar,
and indictments having been preferred against him at a
subsequent Sessions, charging him first with inciting
the bailiffs to the act, and secondly with receiving the
goods, knowing them to have been feloniously stolen.
The prisoner was tried on the indictment for receiving,
and the Jury found him guilty. The sentence of the
Court was, that he be committed to her Majesty's
Castle of Lancaster, there to be kept to hard labour, for
three calandar months.

At a meeting of the Directors of the Reform
Association held yesterday, we understand it was re-

solved to oppose the New River and Harbour Bill pro-
posed to be brought into Parliament next Session, by
every means in their power. We believe the proposed
constitution of the Trust to be the principal objection

to the Bal.—Glasgow Chronicle.
AMPUTATION OF WOMAN'S BREAST.—Four
months ago, a poor woman named Mary White, re-
siding in Spitalfields, had a bad breast, brought on by
a milk fever, and which was then in such a dreadful
state that it was deemed necessary to amputate it,
which operation she would not undergo. She is now,
however, perfectly cured by the means of Holloway's
Ointment, and his External Disease pill. Mothers of
families are perhaps not aware that there are such re-

mcdies in the world as those for the cure of bad breasts

and sore nipples, and that they are to be obiairled.;
any respectable Chemist's throughout the Kingdom.
The Proprietor's Establishment is at 13, Broad-street
buildings, where advice may be had gratis.
FALKIRK.—DREADFUL OCCURRENCE.—On
Sabbath last, about mid-day, the following awful acci-
dent happened at the Carron Works, near this place.
The person whose duty it is to oil the engine at the
furnace No. 6, had just done so, and entered into the
apartment in front of that part of the furnace from
which the melted metal is let off. There were also two
boys, his sons, two brothers of the name of Campbell,
and a lad named Brown. From the particulars we have
been able to collect, it seems that this blast had not for
some time been acting properly, and it was found that
green coal thrown in among the other materials was an
improvement. It is alleged that the superior mass had
formed %%hat is called a bridge—the middle of the furnace
becoming for a considerable space hollow. As fuel, iron-
stone, &c. became heaped on the top, the great weight
forced the whole to fall in, and with a tremendous roar,
the molten metal was vomited forth from the bottom, in-

stantaneously deluging the unhappy sufferers around, like
a gush of lava. One of the boys, with the father, named
Walker, were burnt to death on the spot, and the other
four extricated with great difficulty. On the alarm
being given, Mr. Dawson, the manager, was at once on
the spot, and took the most prompt measures. The
gates were opened, and the bell rung. Its unusual note of
alarm speedily collected several of the workmen, who
exerted themselves in every way. The fire-engine was
brought to play on the buildings attached, which, from
the intense heat, had at once caught fire, and the flames
were got under. Brown and one of the Campbells ex-
pired on Monday, and the other two are in a condition
that might well render death a release. This sorrowful
event has cast a general gloom over the neighbourhood.
It is singular that the man Walker, some time ago, while
greasing the machinery of the engine,- had his hand en-
tangled, and remained pinioned to the spot from seven
o'clock in the morning until five in the afternoon, when
his absence brought some of his family to seek him.—
Scotsman.
MR. O'CONNELL UPON TEMPERANCF.—

Before sitting down to the Bandon dinner, at which
Mr. O'Connell was entertained on Thursday, by the
Liberals of the West-riding of the county of Cork, the
strong-hold of Orangeism, the Learned Gentleman ad-
dressed his countrymen, and, among other topics, ad-
verted to the progress which it is said temperance is
making in Ireland. " There is," said he, " a second
struggle-e-a glorious moral struggle—going on in the
country. I hope many of you have been to Father
Matthew—(Great cheering.) As many of the vast as-
semblage which I have now the honour to address as
are for temperance will lift up their hands (about half
the multitude responded.) Oh, the great moral gigantic
struggle--that which will convert the people from mak-
ing slaves and beasts of themselves into habits of high
moral thinking and acting, is in successful progress
throughout Ireland.—(Cheers.) The Temperance So-
cieties arc big with importance to the future welfare and
independence of the country. In a moral and social
point of view they are destined to produce vast amelice
ration amongs the people. Morality, comfort, cleanli-
ness. and contentment, will take place of recklessness,
squalidness, filth, and bickerings.—(Hear, hear, and
cheers.) Let me have three cheers for the Temper-
ance Societies.—(Enthusiastic and prolonged cheering.)
The blessings of God are poured upon the cause, and the
moral glories of your country will be yet realized by the
Tempearnee Societies of Ireland.—(Cheers.) I own
I see great events in store for Ireland, from the exten-
sion and spread of temperance ; nor is there a national
or political right—one based upon the principle of equa-
lity—that will not be conceded—and that not a little
by reason of the Temperance Societies."
STATE OF THE COUNTRY.---111 nearly all the
manufacturing districts the distress and suffering of the
working classes have almost reached the summit of en-
durance, and there is no wonder that they are becoming
desperate. Thousands and tens of thousands of willing,
able hands, are denied the privilege which even the most
savage natkons enjoy undisturbed—the privilege of
earning their bread by the sweat of their brow.
Were all the inhabitants of Britain subjected to
the same privations, they might be endured in the
hope that better days would come—but when
the starving labourer sees from his damp, fireless
hovel, the pomp, splendour, and luxury by which the
aristocracy are surrounded, and when lie traces his
own misery to the selfish legislation which has made
each what he is, need we wonder " curses not loud but
deep" should be vented against a body of seen who
could so far forget their duty as to entail wretchedness
and famine on countless thousands for the sake of mi-
nisterizes to their own pride and folly, and who would
ruin their country by destroying her manufactures,
merely that they might live in splendid mansions, keep
a band of liveried puppies, and give dinners, which Mr.
Gaily Knight told his tenants was the great object of
the Correlaws.—Slte.lliehi Iris.
To PREVENT DANGER FROM LEAVING A
PorEB. ye THE FlRE.—lmmediately above that square
part of the poker, called by blacksmiths the bit, let a
small cross of iron be welded about an inch and a half
each way. The good consequences of this simple con-
trivance will be—first, if the poker, by the fire giving
way, should slip out, it will probably catch on the edge
of the fender ; second, if it should not, it cannot injure
the hearth or carpet, as the hot part of the poker will
be borne up some space ; and third, the poker cannot
be run into the fire further than the bit, which, in
regard to a polished poker, is also of some consequence