The Sun.
London, England, 1865-05-27 00:00:00

THE STABLE MOUSE.

Archimedes will run a good, sound, honest, horse, and
greatly improve on his Two Thousand form. He was not
" wound-up" for that race ; but all that can be done, or
properly left undone, by the clever Captain White to insure
the prize for Lord Stamford will be observed to the letter,
and if Wild Charley and Breadalbane are doomed to be de-
feated, I think Archimedes will prove to be the cause of
their overthrow. In placing the first three, however, I must
have them thus :

WILD CHARLEY 1
BREADALBANE
GLADIATEUR 3

(From the Sunday Times.)
VATICINATOR.

To our idea, the winner will spring from Archimedes,
Breadalbane, Christmas Carol, Gladiateur, Longdown, and
Wild Charley ; and at the time of our writing we have a
great affection for ARCHIMEDES and BREADALBANE.

(From the Weekly Times)
FLY-BY-NIGHT.

Having now taken a bird's-eye view of the principal
competitors for the approaching fray, it becomes my task
to sum up in favour of one thereof, and as Tho Duke is
scratched, I shall, on the present occasion, take

GLADIATE UR
as my champion, leaving it to the judge to place his im.
mediate followers, who, to my thinking, will be ARCHI.
MEDES and BREADALBANE•

(From the Illustrated Sporting News.)
VANGUARD.
BREADALBANE or ARCHIMEDES to win, and WILD
CHARLEY and CHATTANOOGA to struggle for place.

POLITICAL PROSECUTIONS IN AMERICA.—Three
persons, convicted of belonging to the Knights of
the Golden Circle, are under sentence of death at Indiano-
polis. The Cincinnati Enquirer says :—" The most pro-
found feeling exists with regard to the ordered execution
of Messrs. Bowles, Milligan, and Horsey on the 10th
inst. It was thought that since the war no more blood
was to be shed. Bowles is an octogenarian, a man who
has served his country in wars heretofore. Milligan is a
lawyer, respected by the people of his town (Huntington),
a member of the Christian Church, infirm in health, and
nearly 60 years of age. Horsey is a plain farmer, unso-
phisticated, who simply followed the lead of others. All
of them have wives and children, and all of them have suf-
fered a long incarceration. I unhesitatingly say that pub-
lic opinion, as I have ascertained it, is that if the penalty
threatened is visited on these men it will be productive
of no good in Indiana or elsewhere, and will consign
men to their graves who might just as well be suf-
fered to live. To-day the prisoners made applica-
tion in the United States' Circuit Court for a writ of
habeas corpus. If it is not granted they will appeal to the
President directly ; if it is refused they will appeal to the
Supreme Court of the United States. It is said that the
military authorities, to whom the order for their execution
by hanging was transmitted, have instruction to pay no
attention whatever to the civil writs. Meanwhile the work
of preparing for the tragedy goes on at Burnside barracks."
The Cincinnati Commercial asserts that the prisoners now
about to be hanged wore promised by the late President a
commutation of the death sentence.
EXTRAORDINARY ESCAPE FROM DEATH AT
BENNETT'S CLOCK WAREHOUSE, CHEAPSIDE.—For
the last month workmen have been busily engaged in fix-
ing a projecting clock, of huge dimensions, at Ben etthad
's,
the well-known watchmaker of Cheapsido. He
added the adjoining house to his establishment, and
was determined to improve the occasion by making his
illuminated clock into one striking the hours and chiming
the quarters in a bold manner. Mr. Bennett, therefore,
arranged a design to make Time strike the hour bell, and
Gog and Magog chime the quarters in the face of the City
public. For this purpose the whole of the roof
and front of the houses had been removed, and
the design carried up, and the striking clock
was surmounted by a ball 15 feet in diameter, a current
of electricity had been laid on from the observatory at
Greenwich, by which the ball would fall every hour
throughout the day within the thousandth fraction of a
second of time. Yesterday his foreman of the works was
busily engaged superintending the fixing of the great ball,
when, suddenly, the scaffold on which he was standing
gave way, and in an instant he was precipitated from the
parapet. The workmen saw him go, but had no power to
assist him. In his descent, by some miracle, he clutched
at the lower stage of the scaffolding and then threw him-
self across the planks, and, according to the man's state-
ment, he could not believe his life was saved, as nothing
seemed possible to interpose between his meeting with a
horrible death.