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

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SPORTING INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

BETTING AT THE VICTORIA CLUB.
EASTERN COUNTIES HANDICAP.
9to 1 agst Cadeau (taken)
11 to 1 agst Vandervelde
120 to 1 agst Genima
20 to. 1 agst Wild Agnes
25 to 1 agst Audax (taken)
25 to 1 agst Salpinctes
33 to 1 agst Lord Douglas
CAMBRIDGESHIRE.
100 to 1 agst Soumise (offered)
CESAREWITCH.

11 to 1 agst Privateer
16 to 1 agst Morris Dancer
20 to 1 agst Alabama
20 to 1 agst Nuneaton (offered)
30 to 1 agst John Davis (taken)
40 to -1 agst Breeze (taken)
40 to 1 agst Lansdown (taken)
66 to 1 agst Fantail
66 to 1 agst Union Jack
100 to 1 agst Solon
100 to 1 agst Chimney Sweep
RACING FIXTURES FOR 1865.

OCTO:

WEIL

Bedford ..................... 3
Caledonian Aunt and
Edinburgh ............... 4
Northallerton ........... 6
Newmarket 2d pct.......' 9
Perth ........................ 12

Leek
West Drayton
Kelso
Newmarket Ho. 23
Worcester Autumn

The Claxton Case•

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SI7N.
Sea—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
rni
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 Starlightand 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.—.1
am, Sir, yours, &c.,

As OLD TURFITE.

September 23, 1865.

Attempted Extortion by a Newspaper.

-40.-

TO THE EDITOR OF THE 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 Times—that 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 to 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
the fair chaiacter I hope I have earned, in that long period,
as an honest newspaper writer, and a straightforward
man of business, would, I hope, lead those who know
me, and especially the liberal supporters of my journal, to
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 Times, 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 servant,

J. IRVING SCOTT.

The Reporter; or, the London Monetary Times

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.—Arrive 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,
from New York.

LAMLASH, Sept. 24.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—A/olphus,
for Manilla.

PLYMOUTH, Sept. 24.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Gosforth,
from London for Adelaide.

CARDIFF, Sept. 23.—Wind S.E.—Sailed—Mary Ray_
mond, for Baltimore. _ _

WIUTEHAVEN, Sept. 22.—Wind SM.—Arrived—Bea-
trice, from Quebec. _

[BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.I
GRAVESEND, Monday Morning.
Arrived, Sept. 24—Kanistane, from Aarhuns ; Princess
Royal, from Antwerp ; Sophia, from Trinidad.
DEAL, Monday Morning.

Passed—Mary Stenhouse, from London, for Bombay;
Sensation, from London, for Bayonne ; Mary, from New
York, for Rotterdam; City of Montreal, from New York,
for London ; Ellora, screw steamer, from Montreal, for
London ; Stentor, barque, from the north, for the west ;
Tecunseh, from Shields, for Copenhagen ; Sarah Metcalfe,
from Dover, for Shields.

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,
forgetfulness, and want of care. The novelist mortally
wounds an old lady with a candle instead cf a
candlestick, and afterwards attributes her death
to a stone staircase. Newcome senior is colonel
and major at ono and the same time; Jack Belsize is Jack
on one page, and Charles on another ;
Mrs. Raymond Gra ,
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
au
author possession o
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oonf man
his
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ioufut3e n; that
Charles Dickens has contrived to be so. Describing the
old inns of the Borough, in his "Pickwick Papers," he
staircases
sretahseeys awreidreeenropulgab and galleries,ces,with
antiquated
enoughp passages, g and
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 anticipatedcertain
charming Christmas books witching the world a few years
later! So also "American Notes," Mr. Jefferson Brick and the
transatlantic Eden lay unsuspected in the future, when he
made Old Weller suggest Mr. Pickwick'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 !"- -Chambera's Journal.
A VERY INTERESTING TRIAL OF RIFLED ARMS
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Range,place
Woolwich Arsenal, on the 7th September, in the presence
of Major Bagley, R.E., the Military Commissioner for the
Colony, and otherofficers. The rifles, which were selected
by chance out of 1,000 arms, were in pattern precisely
similar to that known as the " Oval-bore Sap-
per Rifle," except that the mountings are of iron
instead of brass, and the calibre of the minor
axis is .585 to suit the .550.ammuuition ; ratio of spiral,
one turn in 36in. The range chosen was 1,000 yards.
Each rifle was fitted into the machine rest and fired
without altering the elevation or direction of tho rest.
Diagrams of 20 shots with each rifle were taken. These
diagrams are really so extraordinary that we have great
pleasure in giving to them the publicity they de-
serve. Tho rifles were " Lancasters." oval-bore, the
bore being .565, quantity of powder 24 drams, R.F.G. The
bullets. The bullets were .55 boxwood plug, and the
lubrication wax. The cartridges were rolled one
cut outside, and the rifles were fired from a fixed
rest. The hits made were 20, the misses 0 with
each rifle ; total, 100 rounds, the range being 1,000
yards. The deviations were as follow :—N o. 1 rifle, mum
absolute deviation, 80.35 in. ; No. 2 rifle, 28.35 in.; No. 3
rifle, 33.15 in. ; No. 4 rifle, 26 in. ; and No. 5 rifle gave a
I mean absolute deviation of b 0.5 in.