The Sun.
London, England, 1863-04-14 00:00:00

Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day.

(RE U TER' 8 TELEGRAM.)
Good demand. Sales, 8,000 bales. Firmer, i
above Friday. Import, 13,565.

SIR JAMES GRAHAM.—Taere was in him, it mus
be owned, sometimes too much of a haughty and
imperious mood, which especially betrayed itself in his
demeanour as a Minister. lie seemed as though he were
haunted by a morbid fear of appearing (as he phrased it)
"to be hustled into doing anything by the mere pressure
from without," so long as he believed that pressure could
be resisted. " How do you account fur it I)" said a mutual
friend standing one day below the bar to a noble lord whom
Sir James had lately complimented highly in debate, and
towards whom he had certainly never shown anything like
disrespect. " How why just look at him, as he sits there,
with his hoed thrown back, and his eyes fixed on the win-
dows over the gallery, as if there was nothing going on in
the house .se orth his listening to." Another distinguished
supporter, when asked why so many people hated him,
replied, " He has cocked his hat on the wrong side of his
head ; and depend upon it, that's a mistake not easily got
over."-211•Cullagh Tort ens' " Life of Sir James Graham"
An honest Irishman's mingeed sense of the duty
of gratitude and the awkwardness of obligation found vent
in the characteristic aspiration—" 0 that I could see your
honour knocked down in a fight I Sure and wouldn't I
bring a faction to the rescue l''
A RACE FOR A THOUSAND GUINEAS.—In 1804
this match between Mrs. Thornton (the quasi-wife
of Colonel Thornton) and her sister's husband, Mr. Flint,
was no sooner made than it began to engage the attention
of a great part of sporting Yorkshire, and it became a com-
mon topic of conversation. Opinions and speculations re-
specting it were current enough from the time the match
was made up to the very day it was run ; and all sorts of
notions got abroad as to the manner in which the lady would
ride, her costume, &o. ; great interest was also felt as to the
result, and, as the time drew near, it was evident enough that
the lady was the favourite—a lung way ahead of her opponent
in this respect. The 25th August, 1804, was the day
appointed for the match between Colonel Thornton's Vin-
garillo and Mr. Flint's Thornville, four miles; Mrs. Thorn-
ton to ride her weight against Mr, Flint's. The York
Herald of that date states that such an assemblage as was
drawn together to witness this match was never before
seen ; there were at least 100,000 people at the races on this
day; ten times the number that appeared on the Knaves-
mire either when Bay Melton ran, or on the day when
Eclipse ran, and left two of the best horses of the day a mite
and a half behind him. The conc.rurse of people was so
great, that several additional bodies of men were employed
to keep the course clear, amongst them a detachment
of the 6th Light Dragoons on horseback. Mr. Plint's
colours were white, and Mrs. Thornton rode side-saddle in
a dress the body of which was a leopard colour, blue sleeves,
and the rest buff, and a blue cap. The betting at starting
was 5 and 6 t 9 4 on the lady ; and it is stated for a fact, that
upwards of £200,000 were depending upon the result. In
the running, the lady took the lead at starting, and kept it
for upwards of three miles, when Mr. Flint pushed for-
ward, obtained the lead, and kept it; and Mrs. Thornton,
finding she could not win, pulled up when about 600 yards
distant from the winning post. The race was run in 9min.
59seo.—.71istoq of horse Racing.
The Military Tribunal of Algiers was lately en-
gaged in the trial of a Kabyle woman named
Fathma, on a charge of having poisoned her husband, The
prisoner, who is scarcely more than 15 years of age, was
sold by her brother to her late husband Mohamed Akli, and
as the woman was pretty, the sum demanded was 500 f. but
after lengthened negotiations the price was reduced to 270 f.
The consent of Fathma was never asked in the matter, and
she was handed over nolens volens to her purchaser,
and in six months atter Akli died rather sud-
denly. The event caused great emotion in the
tribe, and suspicion of foul play on the part of Fathma
having arisen, she was gagged and taken to the Arab bureau,
having first had the soles of her feet burnt with a hot
ploughshare to force her to confess. When examined she
the tri bun
said that her husband had ill-treated her, and that by the
advice of a female neighbour she had poisoned him with a
e repeated
substance
by the
al Kabylesh women tance call, d radj (sulphuret of arsenic), a substance
tihnetheeeimr toilette.same avowal. e WThheen
Court,before
taking coraextenu • compassion on her youth, found her guilty, but with
g circumstances, and condemned her to the mini-
mum extenuating
punishment of 20 months' imprisonment.
EXh.CUTION AT LIMERICK.—D-Inti Dillane, who
was convicted at the late spring as an accessory be-
fore the fact to the murder of
Mr. F. Fitzgerald,
was exe •
cutod in front of the County gaol ou Monday morning.