The Sun.
London, England, 1862-09-24 00:00:00

BETTING AT MANCHESTER.-TUESDAY.

For the Cesarewitch, 7 to 1 was freely offered against
Silkstone-8 to 1 was asked for. An offer was made to take
25 to 1 about Dulcibella, and 100 to 3 against Henham
Lass. Business for the future was very quiet. Closing
prices .
CESAREWITCH.
7to 1 agst Silkst.one (offered)
20 to 1 agst Dulcibella (offered)
25 to 1 agst Henham Lass (offered)
33 to 1 agst Moorhen (taken and offered)
33 to 1 agst Catchsem Alive (taken and offered)
40 to 1 agst Guiding Star (taken)
40 to 1 agst Cowboy (taken)
40 to 1 agst Rising Sun (offered)
50 to 1 agst Chere Arnie (taken)
50 to 1 agst Knutsford (taken)
60 to 1 agst Rapparee (taken)
100 to 1 agst Doncaster (taken)
DERBY.
___,-,-1.0041ta-15-st,gstZapateittlo (offered)
-1000 to 15 'agst Golden Pledge (offered)

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, SEPT. 23.

The general abstracts showing the acreage under
the several crops and the number of live stock in
each county and province of Ireland for the present
year, taken under the direction of Mr. Donnelly,
the Registrar-General, have been printed. They
have been compiled from the summaries made by
4,000 enumerators, selected from the constabulary
and the metropolitan police, who have been every-
where readily assisted by the landed proprietors,
the clergy of all denominations, and the tenant
farmers. The inquiries commenced on the 2d of
June, and terminated in the middle of July, during
which period the particulars of the acreage under
crops and the number of live stook on nearly
600,000 holdings are enumerated.
Comparing the returns of this year with last, I
regret to say that there is a considerable decrease
both in the quantity of land under tillage and in the
number of live stock. The total number of acres
under cereal crops in 1861 was 2,624,957 ; in 1862,
it is 2,552,223, showing a decrease of 72,734 acres.
The decrease has occurred chiefly in wheat and oats
—in the former, amounting to 43,427, and in the
latter to 24,423 acres. There is an increase of 1,000
acres in peas and beans. The net decrease in
cereals, comparing 1862 with 1861, is 2.8 per cent.

There is a decrease to about the same extent in
green crops—that is, 74,785 acres. There is an in-
crease in turnips of 43,045 acres; in mangold and
beet, of 296 acres ; in cabbage, of 491 acres ; car-
rots, parsnips, vetches, and rape have decreased.
The most serious matter is the decrease of land
under potatoes, which amounts to 116,187 acres.
Meadow and clover covered 1,552,829 acres in 1862,
being an increase of 6,623 acres above the extent in
sheep, farmers
andw e
prei
g s 1 obliged no f a
1861. We have about 150,000 acres under flax,
which is 2,000 more than last year. The total de'.
crease of land under crops in 1862 is 138,841 acrelsd.
Of this area Mr. Donnelly says 117,832
would
seem seem to have merged into grass, 1,066 were returned
to
as under woods and plantations, and
increase the fallow, leaving 19,000 screBs7of vipeastu re
j a of
returned
land unstocked. The quantity which ---.
as " bog and waste " is confined
Con-
naught. The distress which prevailedmall holders in
districts last spring prevented the !
thew crops as usual.
many instances from putting
inrobably operated in
The dearness of labour h"thPe quantity of tillage.
other districts in lessening:
fionces have tended to
The same unfavourable_ olive
stock. The small
tihne ilrr e
lana horses,i 8
worth cows,
in order to get food. The falling
diminish the number
temporary pressure, which
off is the result of
1.0 of the soil to live upon their
ivstoDut
liveto-stsoelelk
capital fora timed' op should the country be blessed
with
will soon be filled
good harvests. "
three
with two or .
diminished by
horses have . 9,789, cattle by 221,292,
.00,169 ; pigs have increased by 49,743.
sheep byl
The total number
£1,849,153, and is less valuable than the total num-
bercaused the cult
last year to the amount of £1,564,710, conse-
quently the farmers are so much the poorer. Stock
to the amount of a million and a half sterling have
since gone last year to pay their rents and support
their families. In this estimate horses are valued
at £8 each ; cattle, £6 10s. ; sheep, 225. ; pigs, 255.
These figures show that the goodness of the har-
vest this year is a double blessing.
The number of emigrants who left Ireland from
the Ist of May, 1851, to the lat of August, 1862,
including males and females, was 1,273,609. This
is a large number. But many of them went only
to Great Britain, and would return again. The
number of persons who stated it to be their inten-
tion to leave the country permanently during the
first seven months of this year was 45,899, being
an increase of 391 over the number who emigrated
within the same period in 1861.
I After aye nights' rioting and wrecking in Belfast,
of live
deficieneslB.nteorea somet
ed

Since the conclusion of the trial, says the
Northern Daily Mail, public opinion has swayed to
and fro as regards the verdict given. The manner
in which her " statement" before sentence tallies
with the evidence of the Crown has been generally
remarked upon as favouring the idea that she had
told the truth. A memorial to the Herne Secre-
tary asking for a commutation is being prepared,
and a public meeting is spOken of with the view of
a general request to the same effect to Sir George
Grey.

The Scotsman says •--." Yesterday an additional
v,ttness turncd up in the unson of a Oil, who
alleges that on the morning after tho murder she
called at Flemin
g's house, and having rung the
bell, was answered by the old man. She told him
h
was
washin Thee.
s.thabite.o
bybhecirnegiziplhoeyetdook he
the
servant that he
to r
in and caused her to wash part •of the lobby, for
which he gave her sixpence. Another witness gives
more reliable testimony to the effect that one day
shortly before the murder, when Jessie M'Pherson
was in her shop, she r, marked to M'Pherson that
ts
some acquaintance of hers seemed to think she was
made of money, as sbe was always borrowing from
her ; whereupon M'Pherson remarked that it was
the same with her and Mrs. M'Lachlan, who was
always borrowing from her. She added that she
would not only stop lending, but have back
from her what she had lent. The Crown autho-
rities were very minute in their search for
any article of clothing belonging to old Mr.
Fleming that could show whether he haaanY hand
in the murder, but found nothing. They made him
account also for every article of clothing of which
he had been possessed. They took down the jaw-
box and water-closet pipes and dug the whole gar-
den, without any result."

The Glasgow Morning Journal, which warmly
espouses the cause of Mrs. M'Lachlan, says :—" No
great public or national event could have produced
for the time being greater or more universal excite-
ment than that which prevailed throughout the
city on Saturday afternoon. From the opening of
the trial on Wednesday all other topics were lost
sight of, and the progress. of the case was watched
day after day with an attention that has been given
to no criminal case, not even excepting the famous
Madeline Smith trial. The ferment in the public
mind reached the greatest pitch, when, with the
issue of the trial, was made known the extraordi-
nary statement read by the prisoner's counsel before
the passing of the sentence. The scene in court
whilst Mr. Clark read the paper was a striking one.
The prisoner, stolid heretofore throughout her weary
sitting, cried bitterly but silently, her grief seem-
ing greatest whilst the account of the last moments
of the murdered woman was being read; but on the
conclusion of the statement becoming, whilst Lord
Deas told her, in harsh and unmerciful terms, her
fixed doom, and his opinion of her:story, once more
composed, and wearing, indeed, an air stern even
to defiance. The jury who had just settled her fate
seemed much more dis Composed than before the
reading of the statement, the faces of some of the
gentlemen showing a great deal more alarm, in-
deed, than the prisoner herself did; while the feel-
ing that prompts some to cry on hearing the death-
warrant of a fellow-being pronounced seemed
overcome by astonishment, one tender-hearted
policeman, near the place where the prisoner sat,
being the only person we saw shed tears. The aspect
of the city at large seemed one of unusual agitation.
Meanwhile the miserable woman, delivered over to
the charge of Governor Stirling, was at once
lodged in the cell which had been prepared in case
of an unfavourable verdict. Possessing rare
strength of will, she has retained her self-command
since sentenced with the same outward quietude as
heretofore, and has expressed her innocence in strong
terms several times. Whatever her hope of a respite
may be, she does not express herself regarding it in
any way, making the remark on one occasion that
she wished her statement given to the public, not
for her own sake, but that for the sake of her hus-
band and child the world might know she is not the
deeply-stained criminal she is convicted of being.
Her story finds many believers, and many more,
though not convinced, would yet give the unfortu-
nate woman the due benefit of the doubt as to the
justice of the verdict."

AT7EMPTED ESCAPE FROM SUSSEX
COUN7Y GAOL.

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wash
On Wednesday and Thursday last, considerable
excitement prevailed at the County Gaol, in conse-
quence of a prisoner attempting to make his escape
from the building. His name is Dimollard Francois,
a Frenchman, about 32 years of age. He was com-
mitted for trial from Eastbourne, on the charge of
stealing some silver spoons and wearing apparel at
Hailsham. It is the custom at the gaol to allow
prisoners awaiting their trial to take two hours'
open air exercise each day—one hour in the fore-
noon and another between 2 and 3 o'clock. On
Wednesday, Francois and 12 other prisoners took
their afternoon's airing together, being, as usual
guarded by turnkeys. At the termination of the
exercise they were marched again into the prison and
finding the man had not returned, inquired
proceeding to the governor to get aletter written. At
a prisoner,
iting
their
but the governor had not seen him, and sus-
picions areplacedhalf-pastk for it nh4e their
o,c
purpose,lo cells.
ck after i
it was
aFrancois,
thought
ho uhr o
awante
dvt however, stoppedhalf
ai litime,
ehaodf
elapsed, the turnkey in whose ward Francois was
those that the
aw
-dons were at once aroused that he had effected his
Wednesday is a day
escape.
ahsadin
passed plain
on which visitors are
i:htr:allv,
allowed to see their friends in prison, and the infe-
rence
clothes, and not in the prison garb, this being the
through the gate with other persons. The gatekeeper ,
who has a register of all persons admitted, was
positive that no such man as the prisoner was de-
scribed had gone out, so that the first conclusion
seemed to be unfounded. The building was then
, searched over and over again. Every crack and
corner where it was thought possible a human being
might secrete himself was closely inspected, and the
place in fact literally turned inside out. No Fran-
cois, however, could be found, and the first oonclu
sion—namely, that he had gone out at the gate—
was again adhered to. To guard against any pos-
sibility of his being secreted about the premises,
however, double watch was put on inside and out-
side of the building all night, and a body of police
likewise patrolled the outer wall. Thursday morn-
ing came, but no ' signs of Francois, and all hope of
‘g preventing" his escape was abandoned. Every
one concluded he was gone. About a quarter past
one in the afternoon Mr. William Sanders (son of
the governor, Mr. John Sanders), who had but
shortly before returned from London, saw a man
run from the direction of the coal-hole to the outer
wall, taking with him a short ladder which was
being used by men engaged in painting the build-
ing. He immediately gave chase, and rushing up
the ladder after him, caught the runaway as he was
in the act of attempting to scale the wall. This
man was the missing prisoner Francois. He made
no resistance, and was speedily marched off to his
call. Upon examination it was found that he had
secreted himself in a small place near the engine-
house filled with coke. The coke had been piled
nearly up to the ceiling, and Francois, during the
time that elapsed between his leaving the other pri-
soners and the alarm being given, had crawled up
to the top of the heap and completely buried him-
self under the coke. Upon this hard bed he lay
and fasted for 24 hours. Francois, although a
young man, is stated to be an old offender, and was
evidently fully acquainted with the habits of the
prison, as the hour when he attempted to scale the
wall was at a time when the prisoners were at
dinner and the turnkeys were all engaged inthe
building. Had not Mr. Sanders, Jam, accidentallythe
been in that particular part of the
premises,tewal I, if
probability is he would have got
overl h
not clean away. It is perhaps
on y due to Mr.during the 23
Sanders, the governor, to state,
i thatm
years that he has had.the.eapP? nt appointment of chief officer
prisoner
has
effectedlaic
ia
of the gaol, not a sing!
0 Advertise.
escape....sasse

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