The Sun.
London, England, 1863-10-01 00:00:00

allowed 31b. One mile,

Father Daley (Owner) 1
Regulation
Fidgets
The Innkeepers' Plate (handicap) of 60 sovs ; winners
extra. One mile and a quarter and 46 yards.
Mr. Temperley's Alice, 3 yrs, Sat 41b (Snowden) 1
Mr. Rudiock na Dick Swiveller, aged, Sat 11:lb (Bunting) 2
Mr. Jenkinson's Enfield, aged, Set 101 b (Calvert) 3
Spirit of Air and Reviver also ran,

The Auld Heckle Stakes of 3 sovs each, with 25 added.
Once round and a distance.
Sherwood, list 91b.......... (Metcalf) t w.o.
Weatherwise, list 41b (Buck) fi
Fernando, llst 41b .................... (Goodhall) 3
The Yeomanry Cavalry Handicap of 3 soya each, with 30
added. 1 mile 3 furlongs 66 yaids.
Mr. Ray ns Johnny Cope, aged, list I Ilb (Mr. Bellamy) 1
Mr. Black ns Aubone, aged, 12st 10Ib ('llr. Miller) 2
Mr. Charles's Adrift, yrs, 12st 101 b .... (Mr. Rayner) 3

BETTING AT MANCHESTER.—WEDNESDAY.
For the Cesarewitch Lioness was in great force ; and all
the money at 25 to 1 that could be obtained were taken
about Limosina, There is little doubt but that the business
done here during the week will be but the reflex of that
done at Newmarket. Closing prices :

CESAREWITCIi STARES.
14 to 1 agst Lioness (taken)
21 to 1 agst Blackdown (taken)
20 to 1 agst Umpire (offered)
25 to 1 agst Limosina (taken)
30 to 1 agst Jack of Hearts (taken)
CAMBRIDGESHIRE STAKES.
16 to 1 agst Borealis (offered)
40 to 1 agst Anfield (taken)
50 to 1 agst Gemma (taken)

The Extraordinary Mail-bag Robbery.

On Tuesday, at the Hull Police-court, before the stipen-
diary magistrate, Maria Cooke, the lady who is charged
with being concerned in the robbery of the South Cave
mail-bag and a letter containing checks to the amount of
£7OO, was again brought up. Mr. F. F. Ayre appeared for
the prosecution, and Mr. F. Summers for the prisoner. The
following evidence was called :

Douglas Mackintosh, a merchant's clerk, stated that he
remembered being in Whitefriargate, Hull, on Friday morn-
ing last, about a quarter past 10 o'clock. The prisoner came
up and said to him, "Are you in a hurry ?" He replied
"No." She said, " Will you get a check cashed for me ?"
He said, "I don't suppose they will pay me." She said,
" Yes they will." He said, " I shall have to sign my name."
She said, "Oh no, you won't." While she was speaking
she produced an envelope with a:check in, out of a bag, and
gave it to witness. He said he would take it, and he asked
her where the bank was. She said, " The Yorkshire Bank-
ing Company, corner of Parliament-street." Witness went
to the bank with the check, which was in the envelope. It
was for £2B, and drawn by Thos Jackson, of North Shields,
upon the National Provincial }Link of England at Shields.
He presented the check to the bank clerk, who refused to
cash it. He then left the bank and went back to the pri-
soner, and told her they would not cash the check, and ho
handed both the envelope and check back to her. He then
lett, and immediately afterwards pointed her out to two
bank clerks who had followed him. One of these clerks
went up to her and asked her if she had just sent a check to
the bank. She replied in the affirmative. He asked to see
the check, when she handed him what appeared to be the
same envelope and check. He asked her to step back to the
bank, and she went, witness accompanying them, In the
bank they asked where she had got the check from, and she
said a gentleman had given it to her in a railway carriage,
as she was coming from Hessle the night before by the last
train, and in a second-class carriage. She was asked if there
were many people in the carriage, and she replied thatit was
full, and that the gentleman, who was sitting opposite to
her, threw it across to her. She had not seen him before.
The lady was then taken into custody by a detective who
was present in the bank at the time.
William Boyes, of Beverley, bankers' clerk in the York-
shire Banking Company at Hull, said he remembered Fri•
day last, the 25th inst., when the last witness brought a
check to the bank to be cashed, but it was not cashed, and
it was returned to Mackintosh, and the latter left the bank
followed by witness and another bank clerk. The prisoner
was pointed out to them as the person who had sent the
check to the bank. Witness asked her if she had sent a boy
to the Yorkshire Banking Company with a check on the
National Provincial Banking Company. She said " Yes,
one of Mr. Popple well's" (the person to whom the check
was payable). Witness asked her to show him the check.
She then produced an envelope in which was a check on the
Ycrk City and County Bank at Goole. Witness told her
that this was not the check he wanted, and he asked her it
she had another. She then produced another envelope with
the check on the National Provincial Bank. Witness told
her there was some mistaao about the check she had pre-
sented to the bank, and would she return there ? She said
she hoped that there was nothing wrong about it, but she
would go. When in the bank, the manager asked her the
questions deposed to by the last witness. She said when in
the train the gentleman said to her, "There, young woman,
there's some checks for you ; get some money for them if
you like." She was asked if she had not given something
for the checks. She said " No." She was asked what was
his appearance. She sa dhe was tall but she would not
know him again. She was then given into custody.
Elizabeth Jane Taylor, wife of Mr. Taylor, of Spring-
arch, Spring-street, was next examined. She knew the pri-
soner, and she came from Ferriby station with her on Thurs-
day evening, in the last train. They rode in a third-class
carriage, and witness sat opposite prisoner, There were
eight women (including the prisoner) and two men in the
compartment. During the journey she never saw anything
given to the prisoner, and if there had been she must have
seen it. Witness went to the gaol on Saturday last, and
identified the prisoner from amongst several other women.
Mary Eleanor Ward said she knew the prisoner. She was
with her between 3 and 4 o'clock on Thursday afternoon
last, and went with her to the Hull Railway Station. She
said she was going to Hessle, and intended to walk back at
night. Witness advised her to return by the last train, and
then left her.

John Wilson, of South Cave, clbrk in the branch bank of
the Yorkshire Banking Company at that place, was next
called. On Thursday last ho made up a letter containing
seven checks, addressed to the Yorkshire Banking Com-
pany at Beverley. The two checks found upon the pri-
soner when taken into custody were two of the checks he
placed in the letter, The letter was sealed and posted be-
tween a quarter and half-past 5 o'clock. He knew the pri-
soner, having seen her at South Cave.

Henry Michael Daly, 54, Saville-street, Hull, said he
was clerk in the General Post-office, London, and acting
postmaster of Hull. (Witness was here shown the envelope
in v. hich the checks were placed before being posted at
South Cave.) This envelope, he said, was again posted in
Hull on Friday morning, between 9 15 and 10 15. There
was a South Cave postmark on it for the 24th inst. It did
not bear the Brough postmark, which it ought to have done
in its transit from Cave to Beverley. (This evidence was
to show that the letter containing the 7 checks was stolen
at South Cave and re-posted at Hull, for Beverley, minus
the two checks found in possession of the prisoner.)
The evidence of how the robbery was effected, and the
receipt of the 5 checks at the Beverley Yorkshire Banking
Company, was postponed until next Tuesday.
Bail was applied for, but refused, the magistrate remark-
ing that there was too much mystery about the case.

ROUGH WEATHER IN THE NORTH SEA,

LOSS OF A BRIG AND ALL HANDS.

SHIELDS, Tuesday.—The vessels recently in our port
from the Baltic report that they have encountered fearfully
rough weather in the North Sea. Not only gales of wind,
but storms of thunder and lightning, and fears are enter-
tained for the safety of laden collier vessels which were out
in the storms. Some particulars have reached this port to-
day of the total loss of the collier brig Capt. Cook, of North
Shields, with all hands. This vessel left the Tyne in the
early part of the month for Hamburg, and she has foun-
dered in one of the gales off the coast of North Europe.
The body of her master, Mr. Fisher, and the bodies of sone
of the crew, have washed up on the Danish coast. The
master had his eldest son on board the vessel with him, and
he is lost of course, His widow and another son are lying
dangerously ill at home, and the widow is not expected to
recover. While the weather has been so rough and stormy
out at sea it has been tolerably tranquil upon our coast.
Torrents of rain must biz,ve fallen in the west of Northum-
berland on the Sunday, ae the Tyne is very much flooded,
and some damage has been done by the river rising so ra-
pidly, and by the strong ebb tides.
SCARBOROUGH, Tuesday.—At an early hour yesterday
morning, during a heavy gale from the SSW, the schooner
Maria, of Yarmouth, was driven ashore on the south point
of Cloughton Dyke, a few miles north of Scarborough. The
vessel was bound from Newcastle to Caen, in France, with
a cargo of cement and firebricks, and while working up the
coast, almost against the wind, the master (Henry Sewell)
unfortunately kept too near the land, and the schooner,
missing stays, was driven upon the rocky beach. The mas-
ter and crew, considering themselves in imminent danger,
availed themselves of a lull, during which they gained the
shore in their small boat. They were speedily obliged to
betake themselves for shelter to the cliff above them, against
which the sea beats up at high water, Here they remained
from a little after midnight until about 8 o'clock in the
most deplotable condition. The situation of the master wee
even still worse. After reaching the cliff he endeavoured to
return to the vessel. His crew positively refused to accom-
pany him, and while proceeding alone in his foolish as
tempt he was carried in his boat by the wind and 511:efverai
reef of rocks, where he was obliged to remain
_f°,_reir p 08
hours, exposed to all the severity of the storm.
the crew of
Lions were dent ied by a passing fishing smackr,e, who were
which, with much difficulty, rescued the 0
The has
in a benumbed and exhausted condition.
been got off the rocks, but she is greatly in)ilt; used.

another
CORPORATIoNs 1
CONSOLATION FOR ALL CIVIC
—Between the chest and hips we bayewaithcotlitlsdniffeel
bone which supports the former, and rests upon
but of a
that we shall speak of presently. This column is composed
bony, but
un-
Isailtu%\ation, for within
were not
of five vertebrae, which are like our model,
rsiennecwe—y,tohreifir
flexible
ea ndde 8 front
eripti
description.
Pieces awroeuindotbe
singularly
this region lat would be-
fortunate were there osseous ribs in thiso
lie the 4toulach and intestines ; and
capable
the future advancement
come of the Alderetanic race
Provided against the hor-
rible distension ? Nature, foreseeing
of the gastronomic art, has wisely
might arise, if a man's belly were
tibia contingencies that atai
boned Z f‘yon's Popular PhysioeogY.

SECOND EDITION.

SUN OFFICE, HALF-PAST 4 o'CLocx.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.—This Day,

NEWMARKET RACES.-THIS DAT.
(By ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH)
QUEEN'S PLATE.

Isoline •
Harlequin

Six ran.
SWEEPSTAKES OF 10 SOVS.

Walloon
1
Croagh Patrick
2

Ten ran.
SIXTEENTH TRIENNIAL.

Ely:
1
Tomato 2
Eight ran.

LATEST BETTING.
CESAREWITCIf.
11 to 1 agst Lioness (wanted)
25 to 1 agst Anfield (offered)
CAMBRIDGEWHIRE.
100 to 3 agst Anfield (taken)
1000 to 15 agst CariBbreok (taken)

THE SUMMER OF 1863,

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SlR,—Because last summer was somewhat warmer
prevalent that the temperature of the
than its three predecessors, which were cold, an im-
pression isst closed exceeded the average of former
years. This was by means the Case, a deficiency
instead of an increase being the fact.

I beg to furnish the result from observations
taken here, compared with the mean temperature of
18 years—from 1846 to 1863 inclusively. I may
premise that in estimating a fair value of monthly
mean temperature the range of period should not
be less than 12 or 15 years; at Greenwich the come
putations are made on much longer time.

Mean of 18
Years. 1863. Above. Below.
May
June
July
August
September 55 deg, .. 52 deg. 3 deg.
It will be seen that the only month which had a
surplus was August, and this was a very wet
month. Rain fell on 20 days; total depth 3.69
inches ; which quantity is almost double the ave-
rage. Four out of the five months were, therefore,
characterised by deficiency of temperature.
The above realises my anticipation. My predic-
tions in May last, and reiterated June 27, were
accompanied by the reasons which induced me to
expect a falling off of mean temperature this sum-
mer. The data comprising the theory on which my
calculations were based aipplied to mean temperature
exclusively.

Confident that this will be useful for future com-
parison and reference, I am, Sir, your obedient
servant,

THOMAS L. PLANT, Member of the
British Meteorological Society.
Birmingham, Sept. 30.

* At Old Trafford, Manchester, the deficiency is July
was 1.7, from observations made by4Mr, Vernon in that
city extending over 15 years.

Two Children Claiming One Mother.

A singularly romantic case of two children claiming one
mother has just come before the Imperial Court of Agen. In
October, 1833, a widow named Francois° Beausoliel Dufour,
gave birth to a female child, her husband having died on
the 6th of February in the same year. This child she put
in the turning-box of the Foundling Hospital of Marmande,
having reasons which are net explained for concealing the
birth. By the French law the legitimacy of a child born
within 300 days of the husband's death cannot be disputed.
In the present instance the birth took place considerably
within that period; but it is conjectured that the mother
feared the opinion of the neighbours might not be in ac-
cordance with legal presumption. However this may be
she presented herself at the Foundling Hospital a few days
after the infant had been deposited there, satisfied the direc-
tors that she had means to support the child, and told them
that she intended to take it out very soon. In order to
establish the identity of her infant she mentioned that
among its linen there was a piece of printed muslin of a re-
markable pattern, and this muslin the lady superior of the
hospital at once admitted having noticed. She succeeded
(contrary, apparently, to the rules of foundling hospitals)
in inducing the directors to tell her where the child was.
They said it was with a wet-nurse, named Gaillard, in a
village which they mentioned. To this village Madame
Beausoliel Treuve Dufour) replired,inquired for Madame
Gaillard, overwhelmed the infant which she found in her
cottage with maternal caresses, and delighted the whole
household by the assurance that she would augment the
meagre pittance allowed by Government for bringing up a
chance child. These promises were more than kept. Her
visits to little Denize Achet—that was the name officially
given in the hospital to the child, who was registered, as
the custom is in such establishments, " born of unknown
parents"—were frequent, and every time she brought with
her little comforts and delicacies for the child, and presents
for the nurse. At the end of lour years she reimbursed the
hospital the expenses it had incurred, and took the child to
her own home, where she so managed that it was received
without question as a sister by the four children who were
born before her husband's death. Denize, brought up with
unvarying affection, and well educated for a country girl of
modest pretensions, was at the age of 25 respectably mar-
ried to a M. Caussade, and upon that occasion the register of
births at the Foundling Hospital of Marmande was, pur-
suant to a judicial decree, corrected in her favour, and in-
stead of being described as " born of unknown parents,"
she was stated to be the legitimate child of Monsieur and
Madame Dufour. Thus we find the heroine of this little
story married and settled and happy in the affections of
a respectable family of which she is a legal as well as an
accepted and cherished member. But five years after her
marriage, and in 1862, a domestic servant at Agen, named
Denize Achet, brings an action against M. and Madame
Caussade and widow Dufour, alleging that she, the plaintiff,
is really the child deposited by Madame Dufour in the
turning-box of Marmande, and enveloped in the remarkable
printed muslin; that the defendant, Madame Caussade,
was never baptised or registered by the name of Denize
Achet, and that she was an unknown child thrown into the
box about the same time, and registered in the books of the
hospital by the name of Isabelle Tolland. Extraordinary
as this claim appears, it was most conclusively made out by
evidence. The explanation is that in the abovementioned
village there were two women named Madame Gaillard,
who had simultaneously received a child to nurse from the
Foundling Hospital. Madame Dufour went to the wrong
one. The consequence is that the register is again corrected,
and the true Denize Achet, the maid servant of Agent ie
declared to be the legitimate child of M. and Madame
Da-
four, while poor Madame Caussade, the darling and Pria
the family for the last 30 years, is judicially astertaii:od to
n_
be the " child of nobody." Madame Dufour says laves
not transfer her affections in accordance with tcheussado
'Achet, of'
decree, and that she neither abandon Mad,azaol
nor (otherwise than legally) recognise Denize authority
PareidDdlle. Denize
Agen. The first use she has made of her
/I;afour is totally
is to refuse her consent to a marriage
idiot meant to pre-
has contracted. The refusal is, howevweerh,
vent the marriage, about which Mad.aews
being of full
do with her. Denize may marry all ,
indifferent, but only because she desires
leg," sum Mons called
age, by serving her mother with th oto have nothing to
odes respectueux.

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number wounded.
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recent gun explosion :trt__hoße fil_oratsofBSt t Joao. appears to have
ending within two or
been most remarkablc.,„:
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was unhurt, although two
three
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ere
HORRIBLE 1).-EA.. Two HOP-PICKERS.—On
Friday last all. ir est Was held at the farm of Mr.
~,,ken, in eeds, lient, to inquire into the deaths
ei. O. 'l•gi •..
iseaney, 4 ,
and
of Ilarriet
The _ ,) Ana Beaney, 14, mother and
daughter. deceased (Mug d • Mrs. Beaney, who lived at
Chatham, had come into the nei labourhoed with some
live or six of her children, 6
Tbirkell in ho killed and
nt 0
P pi ,king.
and had been employed by Mr.
16 They were sheltered, with many
otheri
,p.iekers, in BOthe temporary huts, the roofs and sides
~ e sng of Straw thatch and hop-bines, with wooden
uprights
u and rafters. The picking having been brought to
a conclusion on Wednesday, the hoppers were paid off, and
at night the deceased and a number of others went to
a public-house at Leeds, where they remained drinking
for several hours, returning to their huts shortly after
twelve o'clock, the whole of them the more or less intoxi-
cated ; in fact, some of them dropped down on the road,
and remained there all night. The deceased, Harriet
Beaney, was quite drunk, and her two eldest sons were
also the worse for liquor. About 4 o'clock in the morning
the Beaneys were awoke by finding that their but was on
fire, and the two deceased lost their lives. Both bodies, when
brought out from the ruins of the huts, presented a fright-
ful spectacle, none of their features being distinguishable.,
and on one of the hoppers taking hold of the girl's artn
L
crumbled to pieces in his hand. Nothwithstanding the hutse.n
were built upon the bank of a running brook, they
were
which
tirely destroyed ; and considering the rapidity
with
did
the flames spread, it is a matter of surprise that more
not lose their lives. As it was, three or four children were
severely burnt, and everything in the huts belonging to the
hoppers was entirely consumed.