The Sun.
London, England, 1862-08-26 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

TATTERSALLSLYESTERDAY.

ST• LEGER.
7 to- 2 agst Marquis (offered)
sto 1 agst Buckstone (taken and offered)
10 to 1 agst Carishrook (taken)
11 to 1 agst Caraetaous (taken)
12 to 1 agst Enchequer (taken)
20 to 1 agst Johnny Arrastiong (taken)
20 to 1 agst Hurricane (offered)
25 to 1 agst Bonny Breast Knot. (taken)
1000 to 10 agst Bertha (taken)

CESAREWIT CH.
1000 to 30 agst Dulcibella (taken)

THE DERBY.
11 to 1 agst Lord Clifden (taken)
25 to 1 agst Trojanus (taken)
33 to 1 agst Early Purl (taken)
40 to 1 agst Hospodar (token)

SHE D.-LAGER OF PHILANTHROPY.

We make no pretension to the utterance cf any-
thing original when we say it is dangerous to be
kind; but only those who are kind know of what
sort the danger is, and how much self denial is
needed, first, to do a good deed, and next to bear
with its too often unpleasant consequences. We
believe it to be the experience of every citizen
given to acts of unobtrusive philanthropy, that the
annoyances which follow them are enough almost
to make a stout heart quail, and compel a geniai
nature to belie itself, for the mere sake of peace
and quiet. But this part of the subject, embracing
as it does all the asperities of human ingratitude,
would better suit the pen of the leisurely essayist
than that of the newspaper writer, whose duty it
is to deduce conclusions from events as they fly
past in the rapidly -moving panorama which
nature paints and time exhibits for the edifica-
tion of both men and angels. Had we space and
inclination to moralise, events would furnish
themes suitable for discourse in these columns,
for even in the present week a person has been tried
by a jury on a charge of endeavouring to extort
money under threats that make one shudder. Sc
much, in that particular instance,forthe dangers o
philanthropy. Let, the good. citizen who has been
invited as are ,o;yoBle:tleed,of pittire benevo-
lence tak
't e worst off of -
all the •
-4s an!.
ether dangers, %4
tion—which
compels us—to the fact that, rielitiial •
persecuted with beggars'., His noliteted of charity
to the poor of London has sent a thrill through the
ranks of the unfortunate, and the whole army of -
needy, dissolute, improvident, and rapacious people
—deserving and undeserving alike—throng around
the man, and deafen him with a clamour for gifts.
His privacy is invaded, his business interrupted, his
peace disturbed, his very means of enjoying life and
doing good made, in some measure, a discomfort to
him; he is like the well-fed and well-disposed house
dog, who fell into the company of a pack of hungry
wolves, and the howling of the pack warns him
that ho (is to be torn to pieces. The only means of
replying to applicants for charitable assistance, is
by a printed circular in which Mr. Peabody says ,
" The immense number of letters daily arriving at
his address renders it difficult for him to read them
even partially ; and a written reply to each would
take up the time of a dozen persons. To those who
ask pecuniary relief, Mr. Peabody will say that if
his means would allow him to assist all in adversity,
nothing would give him more:pleasure; but as they
are not, applicants must take the will for the deed.
To give one-tenth that ask, would deprive Mr.
Peabody 'of the means of support in one month."
We venture to say that this is the most curious of
all the curiosities of benevolence, and we do ear-
nestly hope there will be no occasion to inscribe on
Mr. Peabody's tomb the short epitaph, " Worried
to Death."— City Press.

ANOTHER CRINOLINE ACCIDENT.—About 1100E1
yesterday, a lady named Brandon was going across the
Euston road, for the purpose of entering an Exhibition
omnibus, when at the moment she had reached the -vehicle,
a mail cart from the railway station, turning the corner of
Seymour-street, passed so closely behind her that her dress
was caught by the wheel, and she was dragged a consider-
able distance before she could be extricated. On receiving
me:dical assistance it was ascertained that she had sustained
Id f ,f the le, ad a dislocation of the
come in raeakord-puce,

was mightily
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in the affirmative,