The Sun.
London, England, 1862-06-13 00:00:00

CHELMSFORD RACES, THURSDAY.

Rain fell in tor, eats throughout the day, and although
the racing ardour of the most determined followers of the
sport might have been damped thereby, still the attend-
ance of lovers of the national pastime was large. The
racing was good, and one great essential to the conduct of
sport, punctuality, was observed to the letter. Essex
seems to have had a fillip given to its racing instincts, in-
asmuch as it is proposed to commence the racing season
there with a Spring Meeting, under the auspices of the
Chelmsford Race Stand Company (Limited), with a capital
of £2,000, in 400 shares of £5 each. The offices of the com-
pany are to be at Chelmsford, and the architect is the
well-known Judge, Mr. J. F. Clark, of Newmarket. The
following are details of the running :
The Chelmsford Handicap of 15 sous each, 10 ft, with 100

added ; winners extra. Two miles. 22 subs.
Captain Lane's Breechloader, 3 yrs, sst 71b (Grimshaw) 1
Mr. S. jacobs's Dorking, 4 yrs, 7st 21b (Roper) 2
Lord W. Powlett's Flighty, 3 yrs, sst 71b (Clerk) 3
Mr. Richardson's Cock Robin, 3 yrs, sst 71b.. (Murray) 4
Mr. Ward's Traveller, 3 yrs, sst 131 b (inc. 61b extra)

(Plu.mb) 5
Betting-5 to 4 agst Breechloader, 4to 1 each agst Tra-
veller and Flighty, 6 to 1 agst Dorking.
Traveller got off with a slight lead, Flighty and the
favourite second and third ; Dorking and Cock Robin, on
going round the top turn, several lengths in the rear. Going
down the back stretch, Dorking took close order with the
three leaders, the four running abreast to the turn for
home, where Dorking took the lead, with Flighty and
Breechloader close up. Half way up the straight the
favourite went to the front, and won in a canter by two
lengths, the same between the second and third, Cock
Robin a bad fourth, Traveller last, beaten off.
The Maldon Stakes of 5 sovs each, with 30 added ; for all
ages ; maiden, selling, and other allowances ; winners
extra. Three-quarters of a mile.

Mr. R. Stephenson's Peneus, 3 yrs, 7st 71b (X4O)
(Daley) 1
Mr. Saunders's Mountain Doe, 2 yrs, sst 71b (£4O)
(Grimshaw) 2
Mr. Hodgman's Sagittarius, 3 yrs, 7st 101 b (inc. 31b ex.)
(40)
Capt. H. Rhys's Pretty Horsebreaker, 3 yrs, 7st 41b (£10)
(Jones) 4
Setting-5 to 4 each agst Peneus and Sagittarius, and 10
to 1 each agst Mountain Doe and Pretty Horsebreaker.
The latter, with Sagittarius, got away in front, the pair
leading until half•way up the straight, where Pretty
Horsebreaker fell into the rear, and Peneus with Mountain
Doe joined Sagittarius, the three coming on abreast u? the
hill to the staed enclosure, where Sagittarius was headed,
Peneus, after a good race, winning by three-quarters of a
length ; Sagittarius was beaten for second place by a head;
the others beaten off, The winner was bought in for 54
guineas.

The Mark's Hall Stakes of 5 sous each, with 25 added, for
2-Si-olds ; colts, Bst 71b ; fillies, Bst 31b ; the winner to be

sold for 50 says. Half a mile. 3 subs.
Mr. Flutter's Strawberry Hill, Bst 31b (Long) 1
Mr. Hodgman's Homily filly, Bst 31b ....(G. Fordham) 2
Mr. W. T. Collier's The Abbess, Bst 31b., (A. Edwards) 3

Betting-5 to 2on Strawberry Hill, who made all the
running, and won in a canter by five lengths; The Abbess
beaten off. The winner was bought by Mr. Mellon for 61
guineas, and goes into Reeves's stable at Epsom.
The County Members' Plate (Handicap) of 50 sous, for all
ages; winner extra. Half a mile. 25 subs.
Mr. Fleming's Acco, 4 yrs, 7st 71b (J. Daley) 1
Mr. R. Boyce's Tubal Cain, 3 yre, Est 41b.. (T. Osborne) 2
Mi. H. Law's Dunuuc, 3 yrs, Sat 41b (carried 6st 61b)
(T. French) 3
The following also ran :—Alba, Blackbird, Freestone,

Swindler, Deerfoot, Barchettina, and Passion.
Betting-6 to 4 agst Blackbird, 3to 1 agat Tubal Cain,
100 to 15 agat Acco, 16 to 1 each agst Dunoon and Free-

stone.
Blackbird, Zubal Cain, and Acco got well off in front,and
made the running to the distance, v, here Dunoon joined
them, the four coming on abreast until reaching the half
distance, where the favourite compounded. From this point
Acco and Tubal Cain raced in head and head to within half
a dozen strides of the chair, where Acco got her head in
front, and won a fine race by a head ; Dunoon was four
lengths in the rear of Tubal Cain ; Blackbird close up,
fourth; Freestone and Barchettina fifth and sixth ;
Swindler last.
The Queen's Plate of 100 Guineas, for 3-yr-olds and up-
wards. Two miles and a half.
Capt. Coates's Flirtation, 4 yrs, Oat 71b ...(G. Fordham) 1
Mr. J. Ward's Gibraltar, 6 yrs, lOst (Keeler) 2
Capt. H. Rhys's Rhoebns, 3 yrs, 7st 101 b .. (Mr. Wood) 3
The following also ran :—Charybdis, Blackbird, Cowslip,
and Ladybird.
Betting-8 to 3on Flirtation, 7to 1 agst Blackbird, 10
to 1 agst Gibraltar and Rhoabus.
Rhcebus and Flirtation alternately led for the first mile
and a half, when Blackbird took up the running, and car-
ried it on down the back stretch to the bottom turn, where
Cowslip made a spurt, and led for a couple of hundred
yards. On rounding the bottom turn, the lot, with the
exception of Flirtation and Gibraltar, were beaten, these
two having the finish to themselves. Flirtation, after a
good race, won easily by three quarters of a length;
Rhwbus was a bad third, and Cowslip fourth. Neither of
the others passed the post.
The Town Plate (Handicap) of 50 sovs, for three-yr-olds
and upwards ; winners extra. One mile. 13 subs.
Mr. Hodgman's Otho, 3 yrs, sst 121 b .. (J. Nightingall) 1
Mr. Stephenson's Peneus, 3 yrs, Sat 91b (car sst 101 b)
(Coe) 2
Mr. S. Jacobs's The Don, 5 yrs, Get 81b.... (T. Trench) 3
Mr. Fleming's Acco, 4 yrs, est 121 b (in 51b ex) •
(J. Daley) 4
Mr. G. Newton's Freestone, 3 yrs, sst 71b (J. Grimshaw) 5
Betting-2 to 1 agst The Don-5 to 2 eget Otho-3 to 1
agst Acco-5 to 1 agst Peneus-100 to 15 agst Freestone.
The lot, with the exception of Freestone, got off on
good terms, and lay well together until passing the dis-
tance, when Otho gained a slight lead, and improving his
position every stride, won easily by three lengths ; The
Don was beaten for second place by the same ; Acco was
fourth, several lengths in rear of the favourite; Freestone
beaten off.

THE DISPUTED RACE ON WEDNESDAY.—The objection
raised by J. Osborne, jun., against Mr. Hind's Lady Staf-
ford, who came in first for the Sapling Stakes, on the
ground that silo only carried Bst 41b, instead of Bst 71b—it
being stated that, according to the original conditions, the
latter was the proper weight—was brought before Sir H.
de Trafford, E. Buckley, Esq. (stewards), and Alderman
Copeland, yesterday afternoon, when it was decided that
Mr. Weatherby should be written to, to ascertain whether
the weights which appeared in the Racing Calendar were
those furnished to him by the Race Committee. If so, them
is little doubt but that Lady Stafford will be disqualified,
and the stakes awarded to Mr. Osborne's Lorette.
LORD CLIFDEN.—This horse, which was disposed of a
short time ago, for £4,500, with a contingency of £l,OOO
should he win the next Derby, has been resold for £6,500,
and a contingency of £2,000 in the event of his winning
that great race.

PHOTOGRAPHIC WONDERS.—It is a small matter
to reduce a photograph to invisibility. The little square,
dark patch, which for aught the eye can d'atinguish, is an
accidental blot, becomes under a sufficiently high magnifying
power the first page of the Times, on which may be read
that Hewitt Bernard, formerly of Jamaica, may hear of
something to his advantage by applying to certain persons
in London, and that W. B. had bettor return home, if ho
does not wish unpleasant consequences to result from his
absence, in addition to a great deal of other information
of a miscellaneous character. This other little blot, which
would be covered by one of the silver pennies which
Her Majesty distributes yearly among the recipients of
Queen Anne's Bounty, is in reality a cluster of sixteen
portraits, and this other tiny speck on the object-glass of a
model telescope scarcely an inch in length, when held up to
the light, becomes a perfect representation of the head and
shoulders of the individual to whose watchchain it is at-
tached. Such minute photographs as these cannot of oourse
be reproduced on a steel plate by chemical engraving, but
something very
closely approaching them may. I have a piece
of paper three inches in length, and half an inch less in
breadth, "' W— hic 1- i 9 a proof from a steel plate chemically en
graved by Mr. Fox Talbot, the only instrument which he
used in its production being a camel's-hair pencil. On this
piece of paper are the principal portions of 22 pictures,
the smallest of them is an almost entire copy of
andthe amonglarge painting of
" The Last Supper," by Leonardo
d a Vinci, the face of the Saviour, especially, being
a perfect portrait. The rest of the engraving includes
copies of famous paintings of Madonnas, and other sub-
jeots,—Once i Wok.

At length Mr. Hawksbaw's new and favourite
plan of making a coffer dam, by means of panels,
has been abandoned, and the old-fashioned but more
substantial plan of piling is to be resorted to. The
greatest alarm has now taken possession of the pub-
lic mind, and the greatest fears aro expressed that
the whole of the constructed dam will be carried
away before the tides begin to slack. That this
fear is not altogether wit hout foundation I am ready
to believe, from the very insecure state of the
" shores." By shores Ido not mean the sides of
the cut, but the piles that stretch from the back to
the front walling of the dam, and which are ex-
pected to support the dam against the force of the
tide. These shores consist of deals from 50 to 70
feet long; and, though they are of this extraordi-
nary length, there is no support for them except at
the two ends, and, not being exactly straight, when
there is a heavy pressure on them by the tide, they
may be seen to shake, vibrate, and bend, and it is
feared that they will snap—and, should that be so,
nothing can preserve the dam from certain destruc-
tion.

Yesterday afternoon the steam engine, which has
been lying on the bank useless for the last fort-
night, was brought into requisition, steam being
got up, and its assistance evoked to enable them to
draw the broken piles. These efforts were ineffec-
tual. The panels are all to be drawn, and sheet
piling to be drawn down from both sides of the cut.
There is always a fall of five feet of water on one
side of the coffer dam. When the tide is flowing
the fall is of course on the upper side, and when
the tide is ebbing the fall is on the lower or sea
side. The result of this is, that two very deep
holes have been scoured at the foot of the dam, and
these have, to a certain extent, loosened the foun-
dation of the piles. It does seem almost impossible
that any earth, either loose or in sacks, will be able
to stop near the dam until these holes are filled up.
To-day the Middle-Level Commissioners visited
the work,, and held a meeting at the office, the
chairman, Mr. E. Pellowes, M.P., presiding. There
was to have been a conference between the Middle-
Level Commissioners and the special committees of
the several bodies, but that they learned what the
demand of the local bodies were to be, and deter-
mined not to entertain such demands.
The fears as to the East side being doomed are to
some extent removed, on account of an understand-
given, that sooner
thaniwhichngthe we
waters
be
el believe
should go
b
over
rn
on to Magdalen Fen,
they would cut another hole in the West bank.
This plan would, of course, be satisfactory to the
Magdalen Fen people, but the result would be that
Islington if not Filney would be also laid under
water.

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The Mayor of 'Lynn was making arrangements
to convene a public meeting for the purpose of in-
augurating a public subscription for the small
farmers and occupiers who are sufferers by the in-
undation. Lord Leicester, the lord lieutenant of the
county, would have presided but had been compelled
to leave England for Sweden. Several subscriptions
have already been received by his worship. We
do not see how the raising of a subscription could
affect the liabilities of the Middle-Level Commis-
sioners to pay compensation.