The Sun.
London, England, 1862-07-05 00:00:00

THIRD EDITION.

SUN OFFICE, SEVEN O'CLOCK.

SPORTING-THIS DAY.

TAT TERSALL'S—THIS EVENING.
JULY STAKES.
6to 4on Blue Mantle (taken)
4to 1 agst Saecharometer (taken)
sto 1 agst Weatherbow (taken)

GOODWOOD STAKES.
14 to 1 agst Schism (taken)
15 to 1 agst Canary (taken)
100 to 6 agst Earl of Westmoreland (taken)
25 to 1 agst Henham Lass (taken)
25 to 1 agst Earl of Surrey (taken)
25 to 1 agst Queen of Spain (taken)

LIVERPOOL CUP.
sto 1 agst Lady Ripon (taken and offered)
6to 1 agst Carisbrook (offered)
10 to 1 agst Fairwater (taken)
10 to 1 agst Sister to Stafford (taken)
12 to 1 agst Joey Jones (taken)
15 to 1 agst Sir William (taken)
100 to 6 agst Schism (taken)

GOODWOD CUP.
7 to 2 agst The WizarOd (taken and offered)
11 to 2 agst Zetland (taken and offered)

ST. LEGER.
9 to 2 agst The Marquis (taken)

THE DERBY.
25 to 1 agst Saccharometer (taken)

DUNDEE SERIOUS ACCIDENT TO A GOODS
STEAMER.—The large goods steamer Napier, Methven
master, on the ferry passage betwixt Tayport and Broughty
Ferry, left Tayport at six o'clock yesterday morning, having
on board eighteen loaded waggons. The tide was ebbing
rapidly at the time, and the wind rather boisterous ; and on
the steamer reaching Broughty she struck heavily against
the pier. The rebound shook the waggons, and loosened
the chucks' used to keep the wheels from moving, and the

restraininz power being thus removed, the whole eighteen
waggons rushed one after the other into the river, the water
at the place being from eighteen to twenty feet deep. Ten
of the waggons were loaded with coal, and the other eight
with general goods, including a quantity of wheat and flour
and 118 bundles of flax yarns. Men were as soon as
possible set to work to get the goods taken out of the
waggons; but the work was found to be very difficult, and

portions of the goods were washed away and set afloat in
the Tay. A despatch was sent to Burntisland for a diver
and a squad of men, so that, with their assistance, and the
use of a crane barge, they might get the waggons lifted up,
and the damaged goods secured. The accident will no
cause any interruption to the ordinary trafficof tie railway.
—Scotsman.

A WORD UPON THE ROYAL MARRIAGE ACT.—
The protests of the peers against this measure should be
studied from generation to generation till the Royal
Marriage Act is repealed. The two chief • grounds of
protest are that the Act violates the great laws of
Nature, in the first place, and constitutional principle in
the next. It was called from the beginning• an " Act
for the Encouragement of Royal Vice and Immorality ;"
and there was no less objection to the unconstitutional
powers which it gave to the Sovereign first, and to
Parliament afterwards, by which the succession was en-.
dangered, and every preparation was made for future dis-
cord and disorder. The act comprehended all the descen-
dants of George 11., except the offspring of princesses mar-
ried to foreign potentates ; and as there were then 30,000
persons in England, from the peer to the chimney sweep, who
had royal blood in their veins, this law gave the Sovereign
power over the domestic destiny of an incalculable and ever-
increasing number of his subjects. It was declared to be a
radical vice in the law that it imposed no restraint on the
marriage of the reigning Sovereign, or of any Regent who
should have reached to age of 21. It was declared mon-
strous that Royal princes should not be of age, in regard to
marriage, till '25 ; and that then they must depend on Par-
liament for permission to marry, and must wait a full year
from the time of petitioning, for the chance of a prohibition
by the legislature. Every effort was made to obstruct the
passage of the law ; the records of the Peers were ran-
sacked ; the Judges were invoked ; all the forms of both
houses were made use of to obtain delay ; but the King put
forth his resources also ; and by moral and political vio-
lence, the bill was carried in six weeks. At the conclusion
of the protest of the nine lords, they claim to be for ever
regarded as free from responsibility for the disorders and
sorrows which could not but arise from the operation of
such a law. Some of them lived to witness what they had
foretold ; but the King and Queen themselves had to en-
dure the worst of the retribution, in the spectacle of the
corruption and blight which they had inflicted on their own
children.— Once a Week.

SUICIDE WITH OXALIC AClD.—Yesterday morn-
ing a shocking act of self. destruction was committed by
Eleanor Hawks, aged 40 years, the wife of a mariner,
under the following circumstances. The deceased had
teen F operated from her husband and lived in the vicinity
of Limehouse, while the latter took up his abode at Green's
Sailors' Home, East India-road, Poplar. On Wednes-
day deceased had been out drinking, and returned home
at a late hour in a state of intoxication. At an early
! hour yesterday a groaning noise was heard in her room, and
i when one of the lodgers went to her sleeping apartment she
was discovered lying on the bed in a state of great agony.
1
Search was made, and two papers were found labelled
"Oxalic acid, poison," and " Red precipitate powder." No

time was lost in removingthe deceased in a cab to the Lon-
don Hospital, where antidotes were administered, but not-
withstanding all efforts to save her life, she expired.
THE MURDERS IN LONGFORD AND LIMERICK.—
£lOO has been offered by the Government for such infor••
[nation as shall lead to the arrest of any person who has,
since the murder of the late Mr. Francis FitzgeralJ, of
Garrynoe, near Kilmallick, county Limerick, knowingly
harboured, concealed, assisted, or in any way aided in the
escape from arrest of James Walsh, now a prisoner in the
gaol of Limerick; also a reward of £lOO, with a similar
in-
tent and for a similar reason, in the case of the murder of
John Corrigan, and firing at and wounding his wife, near
Malkagh, in the county of Longford, on April 20.
ELOPEMENT.—Some little stir has been caused
in in the Market Harborough district by the elopement
guardian,
on beautiful young lady from under the roof of her
that theon Friday last. It is most currently
gen-
tleman with whom she has made h and Rib-
offruirottedpeatatihna who has
for several days past been staying
worth, and, of course, being a strangers
the n 'whb
about elb our-
be so, made various anxious inquiries
ugh, where he appeared
hood, and last week was at Ilanrbnoer,
with others. It is also
to enjoy himself, in a joyialn at liarboerr
pretendingg to
"business" was arranged by a Har-
boriancurrently believed the
who is well known in the hunting
party.
relation and guardian in a small
' Nir• of Market Harborough, and has been,
field, resided with The jhaear
quiet village.N. •
aobnstitaFarisdharr t
matter
have it, pretending to be rather poorly ; so,
course, must retire to her room rather early
ev,,,ing last ; but here she appears to have stayed
or as someatte
time, for about 10 o'clock a fly and pair, with
the gallant captain, arrived at a certain guide-post only
about ten minutes' walk from the house, and here awaited
the lady, who, true to her promise, made her appearance,
and " Cabby" drove off with all speed to Rugby, where
they arrived in time for the midnight train for for London.
The feelings of the guardian of this lady appeared greatly
wounded at the discovery of her absence, and he at once
set off to London by train, but the sequel we are not at pre
sent able to state.—Leicester Chronicle.

INCENDIARISM N EAR FOLKESTONE.— About half-
past 12 o'clock on Wednesday night a police-constable at
Sandgate suddenly saw flames on the high ground between
him and Folkestone. He ran off towards the spot. On
approaching it be saw a ragged lad of 18 skulking under a
hedge and asked him what was on fire. The reply was "A.
stack ; I set it alight." On being asked his reason for doing
so the young man said, " That is my business." Thd con-
stable took him into custody and prooeeded with him to the
fire. He found the stacks and loose straw in the yard of
the Plain Farm in flames, and woke up the people living
the cottages which surrounded the yard. After he had done
so he found that the flames had extended to sheds at bo th
ends of the enclosure. On his return to the yard a young
man appeared in the midst of the flames in front of onefoorf
the sheds, who was unable to get out, and calling
assistance. assistance. A number of solCiers and other pero_iling.n
assembled, but all efforts to rescue him proved va
nothing
Water could only be obtained from a well, so
thna.their
could be done to extinguish the flames.
vio-
lence had abated some persons entered thel,,YValletide:
-h His body
and found
that the unfortunate young man had Preoq
hair and frag-
was brought out and identified, by itst
'r
was brought be-
as that of a home-
ments of a cap, which remained unbt:ol
less youth of 15. Yesterday
h
fore the borough magistrates tateyolkestone on a charge of
John Horsley, shoe-
arson. He described himselß
l and did not contradict the
maker, of Marylebone,LiverP olice-constable. He was
: p
statement he had made to the
remanded till Mondaf
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Our musical and theatrical
PARISIAN
a,,lntArlot great, but the debut of Mdlle. Dinah
Theatre Francais, in the comedy of " Le jeu
du hazard," is highly spoken of amongst
theatrical circles. is
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de l'an3our.oe'les The lady, it will be recollected, is the
nsFiesew: sxr
uthheePgr gedien n e , Md lle. Rachel.
It is stated that the proposed further issue of
£BOO,OOO of Egyptian Government stock has been
postponed until after the completion of the instal-
ments on the existing stock in September, and that
the transaction will then probably be intrusted to
Messrs. Fruhling and Goschen. Objection has
very Properly been raised to the additional amount
being brought forward as an addendum to the
original issue, the subscribers to which
were in lg.,
norauce of any further creation of stock being con-
templated. templated. The second loan may be intrinsically
quite as good as the first, but the first must always
s. enjoy a prior right to the revenues en pledged