The Sun.
London, England, 1863-05-27 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

RADCLIFFE RACES.-TUESDAY.

Tho Radcliffe Plate of 50 sovs, for all ages, winners extra,

About half a mile.

Mr. Osborne's Flytrap, 4 yrs, Bst 31b (inc. 101 b extra)
(Whiteley) 1
Mr. Whittaker's David Ann, 5 yrs, 7st 21b.. (E. Foster) 2
Mr. H. Owen's Antipodes, 3 yrs, 7st llb ....(Midgley) 3
Mr. Ambery's Black-eyed Susan, 3 yrs, Est 4lb
(W. Britton) 4
Betting--5 to 2on Antipodes, 4to 3 each agst David
Ann and Fly Trap.
Won by half a length; a length between second and
third. Black-eyed Susan beaten off.
The All-aged Selling Stakes of 3 sovs each, with 25
added ; two-yr-olds, 7st 21b ; three, 9st ; four lOst ;
five and upwards, lOst 61b; selling allowances. 6 fur-
longs.
Mr. Whittaker's David Ann, 5 yrs, 9st 51b (£2O)
(E. Foster) 1
Mr. T. Hunt's Trentham, 3 yrs, Bst 21b (£2O) ..(Huby) 2
Mr. Barber's Gertrude. 2 yrs, 6st llb (£20).... (Carroll) 3
Betting--7 to 4on David Ann, sto 2 agst Trentham, 4
to 1 agst Gertrude.

Won by two lengths ; a bad third.
The winner was bought by Mr. Grimahaw for 33 guineas.
The Stewards' Cup (Handicap) of 50 soya in specie, added
to a Sweepstakes of 6 soya each , winners extra ; the se-
cond to save his stake. Once round.
Mr. Masterman's Honest John (late Robber), 3 yrs, Est 3lb
(Tomlmson) 1
Mr. J. Osborne's Fanfaron, 3 yrs, Est 121 b .. (Whiteley) 2
Mr. T. Cliff's Queen of Clubs, 3 yrs, Est 91b (Williamson) 3
Mr. Kenyon's Lord Dundreary, 3 yrs, Est 71b.. (Carroll) 4
Mr. R, Walker's Colonel Crockett, 5 yrs, 7st (in. 51b ex.) 5
Betting—Even on Fanfaron, 3 to 1 agst Lord Dundreary,
5 to 1 agst Honest John, 6 to 1 agst Colonel Crockett.
Won by a short neck ; half a length between second and
third ; a length between third and fourth.

The Grey de Wilton Two-year-Old Stakes of 5 soya each,
with 50 added; colts, Bst 101 b; fillies and geldings, Bst

71b ; winners extra ; the second to save his stake. T.Y.C.

about half a mile. 12 subs.
Mr. Barber's The Clown, Bst 101 b (J. Snowden) 1
Mr. R. Goodlass's Pretty Girl filly, Bst 71b (Midgley) 2
Mr. Saunders's Poetess, Bst 71b (E Foster) 3
Mr. J. Merone's The Cardinal (late Abdul Aziz Khan),
Bst 101 b
The following also ran :—Hartford Hill, Good Advice,
Sir Watkin, Wildman, and Greenland.
Betting-5 to 4 agst The Clown, 4to 1 apt The Cardi-
nal, 5 to 1 agst Sir Watkin, 6 to 1 each agst Poetess and
tireenland.

Won by three lengths ; two lengths each between the
second, third, and fourth.
Winner objected to.
The Scurry Handicap of 2 soya each, with 25 added; open
to all horses running at this meeting, but to which each
winner must subscribe. T.Y.C.
Mr. Whittaker's David Ann, 5 yrs, 7st 121 b
(H. Grimahaw) 1
Mr. Masterman's Honest John, 3 yrs, 7st 81b.. (Metcalf) 2
Mr. Owen's Antipodes, 3 yrs, 7st 81b (Midgiey) 3
Mr. T. Cliff's Queen of Clubs, 3 yrs, 7st 41b
(Williamson) 4
Mr. Coburn's Captain Knight, 6 yrs, Sat 41b .. (Lomas) 5
Betting--2 to 1 agst Queen of Clubs, 9to 4 agst David
Ann.

Won by three lengths ; a length between second and
third; the rest close up.

WAY TQ THE DIGGINGS.

One of the greatest difficulties of the search for gold in
new fields is the danger of the road. The Nelson (Now
Zealand) Examiner thus describes a part of the way to the
rich discoveries on the Buller river, on the west coast of the
province of Nelson :—" For about half a mile the road is
nat very bad, as there are flats on either side of the river,
and by crossing the stream some half-a-dozen times from
one flat to another, the first halt-mile up the Buller can be
accomplished. Then comes the tug. After this half-mile
the river is confined by a gorge the very appearance of
which is fearful, and it is most marvellous that no serious
accident has before this occurred there. In a few places
this gorge contains shingle bars, which render the mode of
travelling, when compared with other portions, tolerably
easy, because you can cross and recross the river from bar
to bar; but there are many places where you cannot, from
its great depth, wade the stream, and these are very
dangerous, because, in addition to very deep water beneath,
the rocks are excessively precipitous, and along their almost
perpendicular faces you have to scramble with a heavy
load strapped tightly to your back, hanging on, as sailors
say, by your eyebrows,' with your foot upon a narrow
ledge of rock. It is most dangerous ; many persons, in fact,
would declare that there were no means of passing these
rocks, but the diggers do manage to get along them, though
several of the juts of rock along which they scramble are
but about an inch in width. If your foot slips you are gone,
swag and all, into a deep hole, and, if no assistance be near
drowned you positively must be. Accidents have happened
several times, but assistance being at hand the unfortunates
were saved. It is no joke, I can assure you, to chop into
about 20 feet of running water with 501 b. or 601 b. strapped
on your back. In other places diggers have to climb up,
sailor fashion, in order to cross some steep spur, and then
drop again to the river. This sort of travelling lasts for
about two miles, when the country again opens in places."
But open country has its own dangers, as may be seen
from the warnings to the miners to retrace their steps too
soon rather than too late. "We do not desire," says an
Otago paper, 'to give currency to unfounded and exag-
gerated fears respecting the severities of the winter in the
Lake country, but we may reasonably anticipate that in a
country so rugged and broken, with few or no roads, and
solitary bands of miners scattered about in lonely and
sequestered gullies, at a considerable distance from depots,
serious distress, if not disaster, will be experienced during
the forthcoming winter, unless due precautions are taken.
All accounts agree that, although in the valleys the winter
season entails no inconvenience, the elevated districts are
exposed to extreme rigour. There may be, and no doubt
are, miners working in distant parts of the country unsus-
pected and unknown. The greater the success of these
outlying parties the greater the temptation to them to incur
risk and danger. Fearful of attracting attention to the
scene of their workings, they prefer to stint themselves in
supplies, visiting the townships as seldom as possible, and
then taking care not to excite remark by laying in too large
a stock of provisions. Between the distant mountain gully
or torrent's bank where they are reaping their golden har-
vest and the nearest depot many miles are placed. Roads
there are none, and the only tracks are those left by their
own footsteps. They have to climb rugged and precipitous
cliffs, to slide down dangerous precipices, and swim rapid
streams on their way. Their only landmarks are perhaps
solitary trees, or peculiarly shaped rocks. With all their
dread of exciting suspicion, they find that even the limited
supplies they do take with them are almost too much for
their wearied limbs to carry. During such weather as has
prevailed for the last two or three months this fatiguing
journey is at any rate tolerable, and not entirely without
enjoyment. The first grassy bank affords a camping ground
where the travellers can rest their limbs without pitching
their tents, and their pack horse can pick up from the nu-
tritious herbage an invigorating meal; but in a very few
weeks this will be all changed. If provisions are required
a journey of 20, or 30, or even more miles through such
country as we have depicted will be a perilous task. The
tracks will be obliterated by snow. The keen, biting south
wind will come howling down the mountain sides, driving
before it the frozen snow,. blocking the path, and benumbing
the limbs of man and beast. On the plateaux the whole
country will present the same uniform aspect. Landmarks
will be lost in the snow drifts, and perhaps after wander-
ing about in hopeless dismay, the miserable traveller will
lay himself down till sleep overpowers him, a sleep from
which in this world he will never reawaken. Such may be
the fate of many during the ensuing winter."

The Old Scotchwoman's Cry against

Crinoline !

Janet Hamilton, the daughter of a shoemaker,
and afterwards the wife of a shoemaker, never went
to school, but her mother taught her to read the
Bible. Through this doorway she entered the vast
library of English literature. What range of read-
ing she had we are not told, says the Atheneum,
but she writes English verse with ease and elegance.
The genuine nature of the old lady gets fullest and
fittest expression, however, in the racy Dune which
she writes. Here we find the shrewd keeking ob
nervation, the quaint pawky humour, and the sly
Scotch wisdom in full force. The true flavour of
her book is indeed Scottish, while the facts of the
life are universally enjoyable. Here is her laughab:e
picture of Crinoline as it appears to her in her own
neighbourhood, where the lassies—though they
may be barefooted and barefaced, are still devoted
followers of the fashion :

CRINOLINE.
Auld Scotian' gangs yirmin and chanerin' alane ;
She wunners whaur a' her trig lassocks hae gene;

She's trampit the kintra, an' socht thro' the toons,
An' fan' the Jule hizzies—blawn oot like balloons I

Cain they be my lassoeks—ance cozie and cosh,
Weel tshapit, weel happit—sae stumpy an' cosh, f
Twa coats an' a touch, or a goon, ye may ween,
Were boukie aneuch, wi' what nature had glen.

They're aye i' my e'e, an' they're aye i' my gate—
At the kirk 1 am chirtit waist oot o' my seat ;
Phan cauld, tae the ingle I needna gae ben,
If Kate an' her crinoliae's on the fire-en'.

When a lad wi' a lassie foregethers yenoo,
It's no her bricht een, or her rosie wee mou',
Her snod cockernony, waist jimry an' fine,
That first talc's his e'e—it's the big crinoline I
Tee say that he likes it would jist be a lee_
But ye ken that the big thing attracts aye the
n
a'
Wee—
An' the lass that cares nocht 'bout her heart
Tales care that her crinoline's weel spread abreed.
An' say, if dame Nature wad gi'e at her birth,
Tao ilka wee lassie that's born on the girth,
A bouk o' her sin, that grew bigger ilk year,
Ye'd no be sae prood o' the giitie I fear.