The Sun.
London, England, 1862-09-26 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENT' G, SEPTEMBER 26, 1862.

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.-
CHEAP EXCURSION to the WEST of ENGLAND,
ALLOWING EIGHT or FIFTEEN PAYS.
On SATURDAY, Sept 27, an EXCURSION TRAIN will
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Company's Offices.

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.— .
CHEAP EXCURSION to the SEA SIDE.

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On SATURDAY, Sept. 27, an EXCURSION TRAIN will
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WEYMOUTH, Dorchester, Bridport, and Maiden Newton
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k... 4 On SUNDAY, Sept. 28, an EXCURSION TRAIN will
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for CHIPPENHAM and BATH (9s. and 55.), and BRISTOL
(10s. and 68.); returning the same day at 7 p.m.

QCINDE R AIL WAY (INDUS STEAM
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At the THIRTEENTH HALF-YEARLY GENERAL
MEETING of the above Company, held at the Landon
Tavern, Bishopegate-street, in the City of London, on
THURSDAY, the 25th of September, 1862,
- -

W. P. ANDREW, Esq., Chairman of the Company,
presiding,
the following Resolutions were carried unanimously :-
1. That this meeting receive and adopt the Report of the
Directors.
2. That all the Delhi Railway shares, upon which the full
amount of .£2O has already been paid, shall be converted or
consolidated into Delhi Railway Capital Stock ; and that the
Directors be authorised from time to time to convert or con-
solidate into Stock all Delhi Railway shares as, and when,
the same shall be fully paid up.
3. That the best thanks of the meeting be tendered to the
Chairman and Directors for their continued attention to the
interests of the Company.
4. That the cordial thanks of this meeting are due to W.
P. Andrew, Esq., for his courteous conduct in the chair this
day.
W. P. ANDREW, Chairman.
W. PETERS, Acting Secretary.
Gresham House, Old Broad-street,
Sept. 25, 1882.

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AN IRISH STEEPLECHASE.

LIMERICK RACES.
These sports commenced on Tuesday over the Newcastle
Course, and brought in an immense crowd of spectators,
every county in the province being largely represented.
Excursion trains from every district communicating by
rail with the city poured in thousands at an early hour of
the day, while every other mode of conveyance was also
availed of. The number of vehicles on the ground, filled
with the aristocracy of the neighbourhood, was unusually
large. The course was admirably laid out, and a perma-
nent stand-house erected from which a perfect view was to
had. The first race was for

The Newcastle Plate (Handicap) of £7O, added to a
Sweepstakes of 5 sous each. Two miles and a halt.
Flat Course.
The following ran :—Pitman, Nancy Hand, Castle-
hacket, Con Cregan, and Colleen Dhuv.
e to gain upon both.
Nancy Hand lad off beautifully, and maintained the lead
during the first half of the race. Castlehacket then closed
upon her, and Con Cregan began.
Henceforth the race was between Nancy Hand and Castle-
hacket, who contested it closely. Castlehacket, who was
ridden by Archer, came in first, Nancy Hand being a good
second, Con Cregan third, Pitman fourth, and Colleen
Dhuv fifth. The fencing was excellent, and the race was
pronounced one of the most interesting and spiritedly con-
tested that have taken place for a long time.
The Limerick Tradesmen's Plate of £2OO, added to a
Sweepstakes of 5 eovs each. Four miles. Steeplechase
Course. Weight for age; 4-yr-olds, list; 5-yr-olds,
list 131 b ; 6-yr-olds, and aged, 12st 41b.
This was the great event of the day, and excited a large
amount of interest. The horses entered were as follows,
being, with a few exceptions, all prize winners :
Mr. Woolfe's Sir Edward. Mr. Noble's Vesta, Mr. S.
Mansergh's The Cook, Mr. Loughead's Roebuck, Mr. P.
Brown's Evergreen, Mr,, 0' Neale' s Maggie, Capt. Nugent's
Anonyms (late Maid of Gurteen), Mr. Furnell's Kenmare
Lass, Mr. Falkner's Bendemere, Mr. R. Kinsella's Stout-
heart, Mr. Lloyd's Kate Fisher, Mr. R. Ryan's Merrimac,
Mr. Ennis's Agnes, Mr. Inglis's Photograph, Mr. Dwyer's
Morning Star, Mr. O'Meara's Palermo, Mr. Reeves's Vo-
teer, Mr. D. O'Connell's Biddy Early, Mr. D. Canny's
Fisherman, Mr. P. Russell's Glendinane, Capt. Leslie's De
Reuter (late Wizard), Capt. Machell's Grisi, Mr. Keyes's
Mountain Fox, Mr. J. H. Moore's Dove, Mr. Fraser's Ro-
maika.

The start, which took place exactly up to the time, was
the most correct and beautiful we have ever seen ; the field
appeared covered with the varied hues of the riders, as
they dashed forward, each in high spirits, many elated with
hope, a few with the apparent certainty of winning, all
with good feeling and in the best humour. The first fence
was taken without a balk, Vesta leading, keeping the lead
up the hill, and sustaining her position to the satisfaction
of her backers, until the rider (Capt. M'Creight) got a tre-
mendous fall, which incapacitated him from riding during
the remainder of the day. At the fourth fence Glendinane
got a dreadful fall ; the rider (Mr. Russell) fell also, and
received, we regret to state, serious injuries, such as are be-
lieved to be dangerous. Glendinane's back was broken.
Bendemere fell, rolling over the rider (Mr. Falkner), who
sustained spinal injury to some extent; he was conveyed to
the weighing room in an exhausted state, and was attended
by Dr. Calahan, of Nenagh. Palermo fell, and the rider
(Mr. Long) received slight injuries in the leg, from which
it is expected he will soon recover. Merrimac fell, and re-
ceived mortal injuries ; the rider (Mr. Hearty) escaped
without serious damage. Romaika also fell ; Anonyma
fell, and the rider (Mr. Thompson) was rescued from a
dangerous position by Mr. Shannon. These were all put
hors de combat, and as the others were coming home, in
the second round of the course, the favourite were narrowed
to seven, and these again were narrowed to four—the
running being between Grisi, Kate Fisher, Kenmare Lass,
and Photograph. The excitement was never surpassed as
they cleared the water cut, when it was impossible to decide
which was most likely to win, the favourites being Grisi
and Kate Fisher. Grisi, it was thought, should have come
in winner, were it not for a slight balk she sustained in the
early part of the race. As it was the riders did their ut-
most ; whip and spur were actively employed with desperate
effect between the last single fence and the winning post,
when Kate Fisher came in some 1 ngths before Grisi, Ken-
mare Lass being very near, the three running home in ad-
mirable style, Kate Fisher winning amid tremendous ap-
plause, the owner, Mr. Lloyd, being a favourite with all
classes, and the rider, Mr. Apjehn, having done his duty
well. The winner nets between £3OO and £4OO by this race.
The casualties by which the sport was marred are to be re-
gretted, but we trust that none of them will prove fatal to
the riders, though some of them have been very seriously
injured. To indicate the wonderful speed with which this
race was run, we may say that the entire time occupied by
the race was only 10 minutes and a quarter.
The third race, for the Garryowen Plate of 40 sovs, was
won by Mr. D. Meany's Miss May, beating Mr. Holmes's
Nun, second, Mr. Wynne's Lady Grey, third, and three
others.

The Military Stakes of 3 sovs, with 30 added, was won
by Captain Treherne's Chateau Lafayette, beating Major
Bone's Pitman, second, Captain Machell's Isis, third, and
Captain Treherne's Father Batt, fourth.
The Scramble Plate of £25 was won by Mr. Bouchier's
The Rambler, beating Fatty Darling, Medora, and Brace-
let.

ANCIENT TRADES, 700 LS, MAN UFAC-

TURES, AND MACHINERE

Mr. Clarkson last Tuesday evening (in consequence of
the inadvertent absence of an announced lecturer) delivered
an extempore lecture on this subject at the Holloway
Literary Institute. He said the subject of the trades, tools,
and manufactures of ancient Egypt was embarrassed by no
problematical inference. The illustrations (of which he
produced enlarged copies) derived from the painted sculp-
tures of the tombs, temples, and palaces of Thebes, speak
for themselves with the unmistakeable logic of tangible
demonstration and ocular conviction. Noticing the pro-
ficiency of the ancient Egyptians in the arts of peace, he
h ira pe r
f i n e e
ttheir
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thprimitiveey we re ,
produced structure
finer
those
n er
remarked that some industrial occupations stood out in
pre-eminent relief from the rest. Thus their looms, pre-
cisely h
i tresemblinge n ,imperfect
tissues
in Indian and Chinese departments of the International
E
in weft and woof than the Dacca muslin, and won the
poetical designation of "woven air." So of their upholstery
it may be affirmed, that no sensible improvement in their
original tasteful designs have been effected. They decorate
the drawing-rooms of our gentry and the saloons of royalty
as they adorned those of the Pharoahs; nor is the improve-
ment esthetically exhibited even now at the International
Exhibition, although the materials may be more various
and costly, for the unexceeded forms of couches, chairs,
footstools, tables, and buffets, were by the same artists who
transmitted the unrivalled designs of pottery to Etruria,
Magna Grmcia, lonia, and Athens, a striking tribute to
pre-eminent Egyptian taste. A similar remark may be
made on the workmanship of their goldsmiths. The
ancient golden ornaments which attract thronged attention
in the Egyptian department of the International Exhibition
are less remarkable for their taste than curious as antiques.
Their date is anterior to the golden age of art—that of the
18th dynasty. Those copied and displayed by Rosellini,
constituting the splendid banquet service of the Pharoahs
of that dynasty—epergnes, plateaus, jewelled goblets,
hunting cups, golden vases supported by caryatides, in
honour of victors and victories—will not shrink in chastity
of design (though inferior in wealth of material) from com-
parison with those exhibited by Elkington, Hunt and Ros-
kell, or others, in the precious metal department of the
International Exhibition—some of whose contributions
have, indeed, been subjected, on account of the incongruity
of their purposes, to severe testhetical criticism. " Why,"
it has been asked, "should a dish for macaroons be planted
in the topmost branches of a silver palm tree ? Why should
the fiery war-horse become the bearer of panniers for salt ?
The Graces support a trifle dish ; heroes tipsy cake ; and
the brawny shoulders of Hercules are employed in bearing
aloft a few pounds of grapes." There is no such incon-
gruity chargeable on the Egyptian goldsmiths. The Lee-
turer having quoted the description by Homer (who from
his gorgeous account of it had evidently visited Thebes) of
golden clockwork automata; for instance—
" Two female forms the monarch's steps uphold,
Who breathe and move in animated gold ;"

and golden clockwork tables, conveying their dainties, at a
wish to the guests of the banquet chamber, as at present
beyond modern rivalry—adverted briefly to the question of
" Lost Arts," The ancient Egyptians were able to,impart
a cutting edge to copper which we are unable to accomplish.
Had they the knowledge of the artesian well ? Ancient
artesian wells have been found, and recently reopened in
the singularly level road from Cosseir to Kenneh. That
road, so apparently artificial, suggests the next re-
mark. This ancient people had, at all events,
a knowledge of the principles of the railroad,
although not carried out to its modern maturity. They
had level causeways extending for many miles, on which
they conveyed enormous colossi and thonolithic temples on
trucks in oil-lubricated grooves. Lastly, a more startling
query presents itself in pursuing the subject of " lost," and
"lost and recovered arts," Was steam-power known to the
ancient Egyptians ? This had been partially suspected ero
it was asserted and, indeed, demonstrated, by M. Arago—
a great name and trustworthy authority. Hero, the Egyp-
tian engineer, to whom the first invention is ascribed, con-
structed, it seems, a gigantic ship capable of holding about
3,000 persons—about the size of the Great Eastern—to be
worked by thirty banks of oars. All naval architects were
aware that all the upper banks of indefinitely protracted
oars would be powerless to move the ponderous mass ; and
thence an internal motive mechanism like steam was sus-
pected and inferred. Again, Homer describes a vessel of
Phoenicians—an undoubted Egyptian colony (as Lord
Nugent, when Lord Commissioner at Corfu, proved)—
which conveyed Ulysses to Ithaca, in terms which would
accurately apply to a modern steam-vessel, and, indeed,
nothing else. These are the terms of the description :
" So shall thou swiftly reach thy realm assigned
In wondrous ships, self-moved, instinct with mind.
No oars have they to urge, ne sails to guide,
Like man intelligent, they plough the tide.
Though tempests and tho' clouds obscure the sky,
Heedless thro' tempests and thro' clouds they fly ;
Far as Eubcoa tho' thy kingdom lay,
These ships with ease convey you in a day.
Thither of old earth's giant son to view
On wings of wind with Rhadamanth we flew.
This isle, which saw our morning course begun,
Saw us returning with the setting sun."
That is to say, a regular course of twenty miles an hour, in
spite of wind and weather, by self-motive action. So much
for presumptive inference. But M. Arago proceeds from
suspicion to assertion. This is his allegation :—That
Simon de Caus, imprisoned by Richelieu as a mad-
man for his importunity, gave the first suggestion
of a steam engine, which he himself derived from the
Egyptian engineer Hero's mathematical diagram, termed
the Elopole, preserved by Euclid, to the Marquis of 'Wor-
cester, who, adopting it in his "Century of Inventions,"
and receiving a grant for employing it in waterworks by
Charles 1., transmitted it, through Captain Savary's inter-
vention, to Watts, of Bolton. It must, however, be admitted
that the construction of steam engines in ancient Egypt, or
rather the application of steam power, was principally de-
voted to the cause of superstition and idolatry ; for the
steam-engine, which is now in alliance with the paddle-
wheel, the railroad, and the printing press—one of the
most powerful agents for the diffusion of civilisation—was
employed in ancient Egypt to work sham miracles—to pour
spontaneously from hydraulic vases wino and oil on their
sacrificial altar tables—to open wide the clanging gates of
Amente during the severe trials of initiation—and to ex-
hibit, by means of self-motive machinery in the dramatic
mysteries of that originating Freemasonry, the pains of
Tartarus or the joys of Elysium. These ancient Egyptian
steam-engines were not, however, endowed with great
power. If they gave out articulate sounds from the mouth
of an oracle or brazen dragon, or whirled round the ghostly
figures of a choral dance in the Great Mysteries of
Amente, they pretended or aspired to little more. One
additional fact adduced by M. Arago is exceptionally note-
worthy, since he avers that the simple machine of Hero,
the ancient Egyptian engineer, on the rotary principle, is
at this time in practically efficient and economical opera-
tion in America.

At the doss of the lecture, a vote of thanks to Mr. Clark-
son having been proposed, carried and responded to, an in-
teresting evening terminated with mutual gratification.

WHAT IS A CONLRACT?-NOVEL POINT

At the Secondaries' Court yesterday the case of Keiler
v. hillier occupied a considerable time, the question for the
jury being "What is a contract ?"

Mr, Shaw, as counsel for the plaintiff, said his client was
a manufacturer of cattle food, of Holloway, and defendant
kept the Market Inn at Gloucester, the action being
brought to recover £9 for 5 cwt. of cattle food sold and
delivered to defendant. In the course of the present year
a traveller in the employ of the plaintiff called upon the
defendant and persuaded him to become agent for the sale
of plaintiff's cattle food in Gloucester. After some demur
defendant consented, and a contract was given to him.
Now this Contract was in the form of a cheque, having a
body and what is termed a counterfoil—the body being re-
tained by the agent and the counterfoil by the principal.
In the present instance defendant having Eigned the
counterfoil, retained the other portion and then gave an
order for 5 cwt. of the food. That food was sent to him,
but he wished to return it to plaintiff, who considered that
he was not justified in taking goods back. The counterfoil
had been read to defendant, who signed it with his eyes
open, and it was now too late to draw back. Mr. Shaw
called the traveller alluded to, and the plaintiff, who gene-
rally fully bore out the statement of the learned counsel.

Mr. Henry James, for the defendant, said it was very true
that if a man signed a document having the full Inaowloedid
that its contents tended towards a certain end, there i_Lls
be no doubt but that he must be held bound by it,rofouroodsvi;
a contract. On the other hand, if a man was
tiut of the
representations to sign a document, being
contents, and believing them to be to a dti" The learned
they really were, there was no contratcuat
the defendant
,ige:e°send than
counsel would be in a position to show
of
the counterfoil,
was entirely ignorant of the contents ply
og
ht he had sim
which was not read to him, and he t pared that he had
been appointed agent, whereas it now li
AP
become an out-and-out buyer- were called, but though
laintiff's traveller, the ex-
Defendant and two witnthes:esp
they directly contradicted the
planation as to signing :0y counterfoil was not very clear.
said the only questions for the
The learned Secondary
defendant signed the counterfoil
jury were whether
of
its contents, and if the defendant
having a knowledge.
sewt• of cattle food.
The jury, after B°nie deliberation, found
for the plaintiff
ongavbeoanu pooriudtrof.o
verdict for plaintiff.