The Sun.
London, England, 1865-09-25 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Stn—Now that the Claxton case is finally settled and
all correspondence expected to cease, will you permit me
to say a few words on it. At the commencement of the
discussion, I explained in a note to the editor of the Globe,
which he did not think proper to allude to in any of his
articles, that the Newcastle case was decided by a majority
of the committee of Tattersall's, who are the lawmakers on
betting ; consequently it became the law, and must remain
so, whether good or bad, until a majority of the said com-
mittee think proper to alter it. This was well known at
the time to all the members of the sporting press, who had
not a word to say in opposition to it, nor yet when it
governed the Starlight and other cases ; and why they
should consider this decision so outrageous certainly re-
quires some explanation from them, as Claxton was once
in the race, but Newcastle and Starlight never were.—l
am, Sir, yours, &c.,

As OLD TURFITE.

September 23, 1865.

Attempted Extortion by a Newspaper.

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TO THE EDITOR OF TIIE SUN.

Sir,—An application was made on Tuesday to Mr.
Burcham, the sitting magistrate at the Southwark Police-
court, for a summons against parties representing a journal
styled the Joint-Stock Reporter and Insurance Review, for
a very disgraceful attempt to extort money from the
National Horse Insurance Company.
Will you permit me to say that this occasional periodical
was set on foot about a year ago, and presented in title—.
though in no other respect—so glaring an imitation
of the journal devoted to public companies and joint-stock
enterprise, which I had the honour of establishing nearly
20 years ago—namely, The Reporter; or the London Mone-
tary Times7that I have striven, but in vain, to discover
the parties implicated, in order that I might endeavour to
restrain the issue of the journal by injunction. No sooner
did I warn one printer of the obvious illegality of the pub-
lication than the imprint and place of publication Were
changed. Not having seen the periodical for some months
I naturally reckoned that its normal maleficent mode of
action had at length, and most justly, brought it t 3 grief.
But your police reports of to-day exhibit the reverse, and
also the dastardly means by which the plagiarists have
managed, up to the present time, to keep their print afloat.
My connection with the metropolitan press as reporter,
editor, and newspaper proprietor for over 23 years, and
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ignore the possibility of my being guilty of such rascality
as that imputed to the defendents, but, sir, The Re-
porter, or the London Monetary Tunes, is a class
journal, and the general public may by accident
get impressed with the belief that the journal, which I
have striven hard, from first to last, to conduct with honour
and independence, is the one indicated. For instance, it is
well known that the Royal British Bank owed its down-
fall to the criticisms that appeared in our columns. The
fact, too, of the contiguity of the offices of the two journals
may not unlikely favour this erroneous impression.
Will you, therefore, out of courtesy, permit this explana-
tion to appear in your next issue, and thus render simple
justice to your faithful and obedient vant,
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The Reporter ; or, the London Monetary Times

J. IRVING SCOTT.

Office, Fleet-street.
Sept 20, 1865.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This day.

LONDON, Sept. 25.—Wind this day at noon—North-
Westerly ; moderate breeze and fine weather, but rather
cloudy in the morning.
FORTSMOUTH, Sept. 24.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—R.
Wylie, from Richioucio for Grimsby.
FALMOUTH, Sept. 24.—Wind W.—Arrived -Carl, from
St. Thomas for Hamburg.
CLYDE, Sept. 24.—Wind S.E.—Sailed—Brenda, for
Demerara.
LIVERPOOL, Sept. 23.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Comorn
from Calcutta; Victory, from New York ; Red Jacket,'
from Calcutta.

BRISTOL,
Sept. 24.—Wind E.—Arrived—San Pietro,
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from New York.

LAMLASH, Sept. 21.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—Alolphus,
for Manilla.

SLIPS OF THE PEN.—Thackeray seems to have
had an intense dislike to the trouble of revision, for
his popular -works, especially those published periodi-
cally, abound in trivial mistakes, arising from haste,
ouna candle instead cf a
forgetfulness, and want of care. The novelist mortally
withrds attributes her death
Candlestick,dsan
to a stone staircase. Newcome senior is • colonel
and
laadfyterwa
and major at one and the same time ; Jack Belsize is Jack
on one page, and Charles on another; Mrs. Raymond Gray,
introduced as Emily, is suddenly rechristened Fanny;
and Philip Fermor on one occasion becomes trans-
formed into the author's old hero, Clive. With respect
to the last mentioned gentleman, author and artist seem
to have differed, for while Mr. Thackeray jests about
Clive's beautiful whiskers and handsome moustaches, Mr.
Doyle persists to the end in denying young Newcome's
possession of those tokens of manhood. It is not often that
an author is satirical upon his own productions ; but
Charles Dickens has contrived to be so. Describing the
old inns of the Borough, in his " Pickwick Papers," he
says they are queer places, with galleries, passages, and
staircases wide enough and antiquated enough 'to fur-
nish material for a hundred ghost-stories, supposing
we should ever be reduced to the lamentable necessity of
inventing any.' How little could.Boz have anticipated certain
charming Christmas books witching the world a few years
later! So also "American Notes," Mr. Jefferson Brick and tlie
transatlantic Eden lay unsuspected in the future, when he
made Old Weller suggest Mr. Pick-wick's absconding to
America till Dodson and Fogg were hung, and then re-
turning to his native land and writing a book about the
'Merricans as 'ill pay all his expenses and more, if he blows,
'em up enough !"- -Cha;nberis Journal.