The Sun.
London, England, 1862-08-15 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENI AUGUST 15, 1862.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

READING RACES, THTJESDAY.

•
The Easthampstead Park Stakes of 5 sovs each, 2 ft, with
30 added, for 3-yr.olds and upwards; certain [penalties
and allowances. One mi!e and a half. 5 subs.
Mr. Mcrry's Phemy filly, 3 yrEst 81b ...•(Gri,mshaw,)
Mr. J. Clark's Bloodhound, 3 y'yrs 7st 31b .• • • (Cannon)Captain Coates's Flirtation, 4 yrs, Bst 101 b •.(Fordhaln) 3
Mr. C. E. Johnstone's ScaramoUcb, 4 yrs Bst (Bartlett) 4
Mr. Saxon's Churchman, 3 yrs, Est 81b (car. 6st 91b)
(Midgley) 0

Betting-6 to 4 agst Flirtation, 2to 1 agst Bloodhound,
and 3 to 1 agst any other.
Churchman twisted round and threw his rider when the
flag tell, Bloodhound going at once to the front, with Flir-
tation and the Phemy filly in second and third places,
Scaramouch, who ran out at the bend, '..being fourth, and
Churchman following, riderless. At the distance Phemy
passed Flirtation, challenged Bloodhound at the Stand, and
won cleverly by a length. Flirtation was a bad third.

The King's Meadow Stakes (handicap), of 5 soya each,
with 30 added ; winners extra. Straight 7 furlongs.
Mr. Brayley's Jack-in- the-80x,3 yrs,sst 71b (S. Adams) 1
Mr. J. Stephenson's Parasite, 4 yrs, 7st 71b
(H. Grimshaw) 2
Mr. C. Snewing's Commerce, 3 yrs, 6st 51b
(J. Grimshaw) 3

Misty Morn and Mayflower also ran.
Betting-7 to 4 agst Jack-in-the-Box, 4to 1 each agsi
Commerce, Parasite, and Misty Morn, and 5 to 1 agst May.
flower.
The favourite made the whole of the running, and won
in a caner by ten lengths; a head between the second and
third.
The Berkshire Stakes of 20 sovs each, 10 ft, and only 5 if
declared, &c.. with 100 added; the second received back

his stake ; winners extra. Two miles. 43 subs, 28 of

whom declared.
Mr. Merry's Costa, 3 yrs, Gst 81b (c Gst 91b) (H. Covey) 1
Mr. W. H, Mundy's Watchfire, 3 yrs, Gst 71b ex)

• (Reeves) 2
Mr. R. Boyce's Conqueror, 4 yrs, 7st 10Ib....(Midgley) 0
Betting—Even on Watchfire, G to 5 agst Costa, and 100
to 8 offered agst Conqueror.
Watchfire led off at a moderate pace for the first quarter
of a mile, when he increased it, and Conqueror at once
dropped to the rear. Watchfire went on with a clear
lead to the distance, where Costa laid up with him, and,
after waiting at his side to the end of the stand, won easily
by three-quarters of a length. Conqueror did not pass
the post.

The Nursery Plate (Handicap) of 100 sovs, for 2-yr-olds.
Entrance 2 sovs each. The winner of any handicap
to carry 51b extra. Straight run in. About 7 furlongs.
Mr. Sax, m's Countess, Est 71b (J. Grimshaw) 1.
Mr. J. Clark's Brother to Scent, Sat.... (H. Grimshaw) 2
Mr. T7owson's Hilly Grove, 7st (J. Nightingall) 3
Mr. Bowers's First Attempt, Est 131 b (J. Plumb) 4
The following also ran :—Lina, Canzonette, Declara-
tion, Ossian, Mountain Doe, Pearl colt, Erin-go-Brash,
Blanche of Lancaster, Birdlime, Aconite filly, Harleston,
King of Italy, and Zeeloo.
Betting—Even on Erin-go-Bragh, 5 to 1 agst Countess,
10 to 1 each agst Birdlime and Brother to Scent, and 100 to
7 agst Harleston.

Countess jumped off the moment the flag fell, and made
her own running, with Hilly Grove, Lina, the Pearl colt,
Brother to Scent, and the favourite next. As they ap-
proached the distance Countess increased her lead, and the
favourite was seen to be in trouble. Brother to Scent ob-
tained second place at the Stand, but could not reach
Countess, who won in a canter by ten lengths, half-a-
length separating the second and third. First Attempt was
fourth, and Erin-go-Bragh fifth, the Aconite filly, and
Pearl colt being next. The last three were King of Italy,
Harlestcn, and Zeeloo.

The Stewards' Plate (handicap) of 200 sovs in specie, for
3-yr-olds and upwards. Entrance, 2 soya each. The
winner of any handicap of 100 sow, after the weights are
declared, to carry 71b ; of two such, or one of 200 soya,
101 b extra. One mile and a quarter.
Mr. Greville's Cawperdown, 3 yrs, Est .. (J. Grimahaw) 1
Mr. J. Stephenson's Turn of Luck, 3 yrs, 6st 101 b _

. . ,
(H. Covey) 2
Mr. Samuel's Twilight, 6 yrs, Bst 61b (J. Adams) 3

The following also ran :—Spencer, Nemesis, Wombat,
Bloodhound, Don John, Innellan, Medusa, Silkstone, Lord
Stanley, Ophelia, Saracen, Mily, Principal, and Pares-

seuse.
Betting-10 to 3 agst Nemesis, 9 to 2 agst Camperdown,
sto 1 agst Twilight, 10 to 1 each agst The Principal, Spen-
cer, and Turn of Luck, and 15 to 1 agst Wombat.
Twilight led off, followed by Bloodhound, Camperdown,
Mily, Medusa, and Paresseuse, and was not headed until
they turned for the straight, where Mily went to the front
on the outside, and carried on the running for a quarter of
a mile ; Camperdown then deprived her of the lead, and
Nemesis with The Principal and Turn of Luck on her
near side improved their positions. Little further change
occurred, except that Turn of Luck passed the leading
horses at the distance, and challenged Camperdown at the
stand, but, being unable to reach him, was beaten cleverly
by half a length. Twilight was a bad third, Nemesis
fourth, The Principal fifth, Paresseuse sixth, and Blood-
hound seventh ; Saracen, Medusa, and Ophelia were the
last three.
The Ladies' Plate of 25 sovs, added to a sweepstakes of 3
SQVs each; 2-yr-olds 7st 51b, 3-yr-olds 9st 31b, 4-yr-olds
lOst 11b, 5-yr-olds lOst 71b, 6-yr-olds and aged lOst 91b,
mares and geldings allowed 31b. The winner to be sold
for £2OO if demanded ; if entered to be sold for £l5O al-
lowed 71b, if for £lOO 141 b, if for £BO 181 b, if for £5O
231 b. The winner to be sold by auction immediately
after the race, and the surplus to go to the fund.
Straight 5 furlongs.
Capt. Grey's Peace colt, 2yrs (X5O), sst 101 b (car. sst 121 b)
(Dowling) 1
H. Sopp's Rantipole, 3 yrs (£5O), 7st 51b (Midgeley) 2
Thomas's Castor Oil 3 yrs (£5O), 7st 51b.. (Pearce) 3
E. Taylor's Alba, 3 yrs (£5O), 7st 51b ...• • • (Pegg) 4
Payne's Amygdalus, 2 yrs (£5O), sst 101 b
(J. Grimshaw)
Mr. Briginshaw's Sweetbread, 6 yrs (L 80), Oat 21b (car.
9st 61b)
Betting-2 to 1 agst Amygdalus, 9to 4 agst Rantipole,
3 to 1 agst Alba, and 5 to 1 agst Peace colt.
Alba took the lead at starting, but was soon headed by
the Peace colt with Rantipole next. They ran thus to the
end, the Peace colt winning very cleverly by a neck, and
Castor Oil finishing two lengths from Rantipole. The win-
ner was sold to Mr. Morris for 260 guineas.
The Abbey Stakes of 10 scvs each, h ft, with 50 added, for
2-yr-olds ; cats, Bst 101 b ; fillies, Bst 61b. Winners extra.
Three-quarters of a mile. 11 subs.
Mr. J. Whittaker's King of Utopia, Bst 131 b (inc. 31b ex.)
(Bullock) 1
Lord Stamford's Revolver, Bst 101 b (Edwards) 2
Mr. R. Sutton's Glengowrie colt, Bst 101 b (Clement) 3
Lord St. Vincent's Lady Stafford, Bst 61b (Hibberd) 4
Betting— 3 to 1 on King of Utopia, 6 to 1 agst Revolver,
and 7 to 1 agst Lady Stafford.
The Glengowrie colt and Lady Stafford lay in front for
the first quarter of a mile, when Revolver took the lead on
the near side, with the favourite waiting patiently next the
rails. The favourite came out at the stand and won with
the greatest ease by a length ; bad third.
The Borcugh Plate of 25 sovs, added to a sweepstakes of 3
soya each, for all ages. The winner to be sold for £BO if
demanded, &c. Half a mile,
Mr. Fleming's Lady Derby, 4 yrs, Bst 51b —(Daley) 1
Mr. Payne's Titmouse, 3 yrs, Bst
Mr. Stephenson's Parasite, 4 yrs, Bst 81b (Custance) 3
The following also ran :—East Sheen, Elba, Miss Ed-
monson, Mayflower, Postulant filly, Singwallah, Badinage
colt, Ironside, Phantom, and Little Nelly.
Betting-7 to 2 agst the Postulant filly, sto 1 agst Tit-
mouse, 6 to 1 agst Lady Derby, 7 to 1 agst Miss Edmon-
son, and 8 to 1 agst East Sheen.
Atter once breaking away, an excellent start was effected,
and Titmouse took the lead, with Phantom, Ironside, Lady
Derby, and the Badinage colt in attendance. At the dis-
tance Lady Derby, and Titmouse had defeated all but
Parasite, who joined them at that point; and in a few
strides further Derby came away by herself, and won in a
canter by four lengths, Parasite being a length from the
*cond. Miss Edmonson was fourth, the Badinage colt fifth, Phantom sixth, and the Postulant filly next. I

Mr.
Mr.
Mr.

LATEST BETTING.
DROR, HANDICAP.
7to 1 agst Cape Flyaway
10 to 1 agst Ivanhoff
10 to 1 agst Pembroke
10 to 1 agst Bally Edmond

ST. LEGER.
Ito 2 agst Caractacus (taken)
11 to 2 agst Buckstone (take 6 to 1)
20 to 1 agst Hurricane (taken)
THE DERBY.
40 to 1 agst King of Utopia (taken)

To all appearance there is "a good time coming"
for boys and girls. This year—an extraordinary one for
many reasons—will be a marked
i one in the history of Eng-
lish education, for a fresh start n the training of the body,
which cannot but cause a frah start in the development of
many of the faculties of the mind. The Prime Minister has
listener] and spoken on the subject of the physical training
of the rising g
and our
drill has
generation. So has Parliament. So have the
managers of Popular education, and the guardians of the
poor. Rifle matches between
select b
public
schools have been witnessed at winibeydso fron
been introduced into various classes of schools: In
ray long
life I have seen many
,es and varieties in the treat-
ment of human limbs in their growing state ; but all that I
01,
changes
have seen in half a century is less remarkable than the pro-
gress made this year towards giving the youth of the coun-
try a sound body in which to develop a sound mind' G'nec
0 Wok.

OUR JOCKEYS.-IVELLS.

of Wel
1 s ' s
until fortunes ca
commenced axenciciemdin earnest heontnhneotb
Goodwoodesaid to have
Stakes
on Weathergage for Mr. Parr, and laid the foundation of
that gentleman's fortune, by not only putting several thou-
sands into his pocket, but relieving him from the millstone
which so long had hung round his neck. And he followed
up his luck by getting through the Cesarewitch for him
with the same horse. For the Cambridgeshire he was
simply backed for his luck. And when he told his friends
that he should win that race, he told them " The Truth,"
and found it confirmed. With Candlewick ho landed the
Epsom Autumn Handicap for "The Alderman ;" and he
may be said to have taken "Excelsior" for his motto. In
1853, he was out of his indentures, and scarce could he move
" but each eye was upon him." At first he steadily refused
all retainers and masters, for he said they kept him off good
horses. But by our strong recommendation, he, on the
promise of 'old John Day "that he would be father to him
and make him a jockey," became engaged to him for Mr.
Howard. His first mount, which was on Lascelles, for the
Craven at Epsom, was a winning one, and it foreshadowed
his future victories in the black and orange, which, barring
those in Sir Joseph's colours, were the greatest he ever
achieved. For the same year he got placed for the Derby
for him on Rataplan, and won the Queen's Vase at Ascot on
Oulston ; and the Leamington Stakes with Little Harry.
Prior to this
,in the spring, he had secured the City
and Suburban for Tom Stevens, after a dead
heat with Pancake ; and he had done another
good thing for Mr. -Parr with Defiance in the North-
amptonshire Stakes. His .reign in 1854 was a com-
plete "blaze of triumph,' for " Honest John" prepared
Virago for him, and he took the turf by storm with her.
With this flyer, Well's Made short work of The Great
Northern and The Dutohman's Handicap, at York, as well
as with "The Thousand" at Newmarket, and the Good-
wood and Doncaster Cups ; and the picture portraits of the
trio were in every print-shop in the country. In 1854 he
won the Chester Cup on Scythian, beating Mortimer by a
head, and doing Mr. Parr out of a magnificent estate he
had engaged to purchase had the head been the other way.
For Mr. Gully he got Hermit third for The Derby, when
the Danebury division had taken long odds they ran first
and second with Andover and Hermit. By this time they
had negatived his original sobriquet of " Tiny," and the
sweaters could not bring him lower than 7st. His next
great performance worthy of record was in the following
year, when he won the St. Leger with Saucebox for Mr.
Parr, with any odds against him, for he had been beaten
with another jockey upon him at York, and was considered
nothing but a plater. We fancy, however, if Rifleman
had not been got at by "the cooperer," that Saucebox
would have come off second best. For this mount he re-
ceived from Mr. Thornhill, the Gracechurch-street baker,
a couple of hundred, and from the " Squire of Wantage"
the expression of the satisfaction he experienced to
give him such a horse to immortalise himself upon. In
1856 he was always there and thereabouts in every race ;
and to this hour he believes he won The Derby on
Adamas for his friend, philosopher, and guide, Mr.
Mellish, and, if he had done so, he would partly have
imitated Jem. Robinson, who won the Derby the
same year he was married. In 1857 Wells and Fisherman
went a very profitable tour over the country, and wherever
there was a Queen's Plate, there they were sure to be
found. One day we would read of him at Manchester, and
the following one at Weymouth. Every railway porter
knew them as well as they did old Clothworker and George
Hall, and equally respected them. After this year the re-
lations between Wells and Mr. Parr were of a less friendly
character ; and although, at the earnest solicitation of Mr.
James Smith, he agreed to ride Avalanche for The Oaks,
when she got second to Butterfly, he is no longer retained
for Wantage. In 1858 he surprised Sir Joseph Hawley not
a little by winning The Thousand for him with Fitz-Ro-
land, on that memorable occasion when Fordham, irritated
by some remarks of Lord Ribblesdale, rode Happy Land's
head off, and got brought up before the stewards for it.
And he subsequently astonished the lucky baronet still
more by carrying off the Derby with Beadsman for him,
having had the choice of him or Fitz-Roland. Two Derbys
in successive years fall to the lot of very few jockeys; and
by his Musjid race he at once placed himself on a level
with Wm. Scott, Jem Robinson, Sam Templeman, and
Frank Butler. By his industry Wells must, by this time,
have accumulated a pretty fortune, as a few years ago he
had invested a round sum in a steel pen manufactory at
Birmingham, which, in his own language, " gave him fives
for it," He also placed his father in a small brewery at
Sutton Coldfield.—Baily's Magazine for August.

THE BR UNELS AND THE GREAT

IP ES I'ERN.

The directors seem early to have had misgivings
as to the expediency of the changes introduced by
their engineer, and in 1838, while the line was still
under construction, they invited several engineers
of eminence to advise with them on the subject.
Robert Stephenson and James Walker declined to
do so, but Nicholas Wood and John Hawkshaw
consented. Both sent in reports, which concurred
in recommending the adoption of the narrow or
established gauge in place of the broad or excep-
tional one, Mr. Hawkshaw clearly pointed out that
the existing gauge had originated in experience,
and that the men whose practical knowledge of
railways had been the greatest saw the least occa-
sion for its alteration ; that three-fourths of England
was being traversed by the narrow gauge, and it
would be a great evil if the Great Western district
were to be isolated front all the great lines in its
neighbourhood ; that nothing was to be gained by
increasing the width of the gauge, while much
might be lost by unnecessary expenditure of capital
in the first place, and by driving traffic in other
directions in the next ; and under these circum-
stances he strongly urged that, as only 22 miles of
the railway had been laid down at the date of his
report, that portion should be forthwith converted
into narrow gauge, and the remainder executed of
the same width, Mr. Hawkshaw's recommenda-
tions were of no avail. Mr. Brunel, Mr. Babbage,
and Mr. Russell Gurney opposed their adoption by
the company ; genius, science, and eloquence car-
ried the day; Mr. Brunel assured the shareholders
that the broad gauge was the best gauge, and that
the Great -Western "could have no connexion with
any other of the main lines of railway." On a divi-
sion, the shareholders endorsed the recommendations
of their engineer, and the controversy was for a time
put an end to by the completion of the Great Wes-
tern as a broad-gauge railway. Years passed, and
railways of a different gauge met Mr. Brunei's line
at many points. Mr Brunel himself was the engi-
neer of various lines of narrow gauge, thereby ad-
mitting its practical sufficiency for railway traffic.
The break of gauge eventually came to be viewed
in the light of a public calamity. The intervention
of Parliament was even called for, and a Royal
commission was appointed to take evidence, and re-
port on the subject, which they did in 1846. But it
was too late to remedy the evil. While an actual
saving of capital would have been effected by the
adoption of Mr. Hawkshaw's recommendation eight
years before, it was now tound that the alteration of
the Great -Western lines from the broad to the nar-
row gauge would cost upwards of a million sterling.
How was this amount to be raised a By the share-
holders or by the public ? The question was, in-
deed, felt to be surrounded with difficulty ; and all
that the commission did was to recommend the
future restriction of the broad-gauge lines to their
own district. Since that time soniething has been
done to remedy the original
evil. The mixed
gauge—that is the narrow gauge
within the broad
—has been adopted, and is gradually extending.
The most recent application of this
plan has been
between London and Reading ; and the proprietors
of the Great Western Railway will probably have
to make up their minds before 1
-ong to extend the
narrow gauge to Bristol, if not throughout their
entire system. Notwithstanding air B ru nel's great
engineering skill, it is to be
doubted whether he
possessed much of the genius of an original inven-
tor. He took up a principle already
established,
and pushed it further, exhibitie,
a striking
in
light the development of which the ideas of others
were capable. His ruling idea was
magnitude; he
had an ambition to make everything bigger than
he had found it. Thus, he found the railway gauge
4ft. 81in., and be increased it to 7ft., thereby in-
volving wider tunnels, more expensive works,
and
a heavier equipment in working stock. So, in. the
atmospheric railway, he found the tube in use
on the Dalkey railway 15in. in diameter, and on
the South Devon
line he doubled it. Then, in steam
ships, his Great Western was nearly double the
power and tonnage of any previous steame • the
Great Britain which followed, was double the ton-
nage of the Great Western; and, the Great

Eastern exceeded in size all that the most imagi-
native shipbuilder had conceived to be pos-
sible. It was a race of bigness run against
himself as well as others. 33ut in the case of the
Great Eastern steamship, as of the Great Western
Railway, it is not probable that Mr. Brunel's exam-
ple will be followed ; for it is now pretty well under-
stood that ships, like railways, may be made too big
—at least, for those who own them. Notwithstand-
ing the want of success which attended Mr. Brunel's
principal undertaking, he was well supported
throughout by the moneyed interest. The share-
holders in the Great Western Railway not only
readily found the capital which he required to carry
out his splendid ideas with reference to that line,
but they presented him with a handsome testimonial
in acknowledgment of his genius. Though the Great
Western steam-ship proved a commercial failure, he
had no difficulty in finding capitalists to enable him
to build the Great Britain at a still greater sacrifice ;
and, still again,
to project and bring to completion
his magnificent idea of the Great Eastern steam-
ship.—Quarterly Review.