The Sun.
London, England, 1853-09-19 00:00:00

SPOR'

OTES

MEMS. OF THE DONCASTER MEETING.

The sporting and pecuniary success of the Doncaster
Meetirg are unequivocally indicated by the satisfactory
character of the racing and the return of the Grand
Stand receipts. Indeed, the supply of sport was unex-
pectedly ample, and the betting in every instance un-
usually brisk. The " fielders" were particularly fortu-
nate in their investments, and on this occasion the
victory of the leading favourite for the St. Leger Was
perhaps more profitable to the majority of them than
would have been the success of The Reiver, Sitting-
bourne, Cineas, or Rataplan. The "Leviathan Book-
maker" was a winner of 5,000/. by the result of the race,
and by the end of the week I am informed that his
balance sheet showed double that amount in his favour.
The losers are principally confined to the "gentlemen."
Friday's proceedings were marked by certain ques-
tionable ‘` doings," which excited much just indignation,
and the chief actors in them are not likely to escape
easily from the odium and contempt which they have
incurred. The pernicious practice of "post scratching"
was seldom carried out with a more daring disregard of
public opinion and honourable principles than on Friday
last. Rataplan, The Reiver, and Goorkah were respec-
tively backed for the Doncaster Cup, and, after a large
amount of money had been invested on them, they were
successively declared not to start. Goorkah was not
scratched until 1.45 p.m., within an hour and-a-half
only of the time appointed for the decision of the race !
The conduct of his owner admits of no extenuation, and
in all sporting circles it is freely and justly canvassed in
no measured terms of censure and indignation.
The racing at Doncaster confirmed in a striking man-
ner the opinions which were stated in The ,Sun respect-
ing its probable result. For the St. Leger and the Cup,
I selected the absolute winners ; for the Great Yorkshire
Handicap my selections were second and third ; and for
the minor events I was equallyfortunate in my "guesses
at truth."
The racing fixtures for the current week are remark-
ably numerous, but interest attaches only to the Man-
chester Meeting, which will take place on Thursday and
Friday. On Wednesday I will enter into a discussion
of its programme of sport.
September 19.

A FRESH MAN.

PROGRESS OF THE CHOLERA.

NEWCASTLE.—Deaths on the 16th—Cholera, 101 ;
diarrhoea. 4. No returns from Gateshead.
Great efforts are making by the medical authorities,
and it is gratifying to find that the mortality has made
no material progress in the last twenty-four hours. A
house of refuge has been opened, and bedsteads supplied
from the barracks, by authority from the Board of Ord-
nance. Dr. Sutherland has received directions to pro-
ceed under the Provincial Interments Act of last session
to close the most over-crowded burial-grounds.
At Hexham, the epidemic has as yet made little way ;
only 6 deaths are recorded, though diarrhceal tendency
is general. The authorities are very active, and great
good effect must be attributed to their timely efforts in
the way both of medical visitation, cleansing, and
washing.
SHIELDS.—Except the fatal case on board the Expert,
of Peterhead, at the South Stanhope and Tyne drops,
on Tuesday, the medical officers have no information of
any other person being attacked with cholera on ship
board, or on the south side of the water. A female of
the name of Hall died after a few hours' illness, in Ste-
phenson-street, North Shields, on Thursday morning.
It is stated that she died of cholera, but we have no
medical authority for saying so. The board of guardians
of South Shields have organised the medical staff. The
poor law guardians at North Shields, and the public
health committee, are taking every step to purify the
town, and to prevent the extension of diarrhoea. Fifty
notices have been served by the police in South Shields
for the removal of nuisances.
DARLINGTON.—The local board of health is on the
alert, owing to the cholera having made its appearance
in Newcastle, and are taking effective measures to clear
away nuisances.
LEEDS.—The mayor of Leeds, with his wonted vigi-
lance, has issued a circular, recommending the prompt
reassembling of the district sanitary committees which
were appointed in Leeds in September last, for the pur-
pose of making a house-to-house visitation of the dif-
ferent wards of the borough, recommending and assist-
ing the inhabitants to adopt all sanitary measures, and
ordering the removal of all nuisances. The mayor urges
that the committees shall at once proceed to fulfil the
purposes of their appointment, and shall report to him
the progress they make. He wisely intimates that early
precautionary measures, taken whilst the enemy is yet
at a distance, combine the greatest degree of efficiency
with the least degree of alarm. The Nuisance Com-
mittee of the town council have already taken vigorous
measures for the removal of all accumulations of filth,
and that the Ward Committees also are in movement.
MANCHESTER.—The first case of Asiatic cholera in
Manchester was reported to the board of guardians on
Friday night, by Mr. Walker Golland, medical officer
to the Market-street district. The case which was, hap-
pily, not a fatal one, was that of a woman named Mary
Heald, an out-door pauper, living in a confined alley
leading out of Back Thomas-street. She was in the
cold stage of the disease, when visited by Mr. Golland,
quite pulseless, and in a state of collapse, but he suc-
ceeded in giving relief in four hours, though 24 hours
elapsed before she rallied sufficiently for the symptoms
to be considered decidedly favourable. She is now quite
recovered. There had been several bad cases of diar-
rhoea among the families living in the same entry.
DUBLIN.—The extension of cholera in the north
of England has led to the adoption of precautionary
measures at Dublin. At a meeting of the Privy Coun-
cil, held at the Castle, on Saturday, an order in Council
was passed, in anticipation of the approach of cholera,
for bringing the Nuisance Removal Act of 1848 into
operation throughout the whole of Ireland for the next
six months. No general board of health will be ap-
pointed, the Poor-law Commissioners being constituted
by the Medical Charities Act the authority who are to
take the necessary precautionary measures for the pre-
vention of the epidemic.

THE ACT FOR THE PREVENTION OF CONTA-
GIOUS AND EPIDEMIC DISEASES.
The Act of Parliament under which the Order in
Council respecting the cholera was issued, passed on the
4th of September, 1848. It is entitled, "An Act to
renew and amend an Act of the 10th year of her present
Majesty, for the more speedy Removal of certain
Nuisances, and the Prevention of Contagious and Epi-
demic Diseases." The first part of the statute has
reference to the removal of certain nuisances, and the
second empowers the Privy Council to issue orders for
putting in force the provisions relative to contagious
and epidemic diseases. The order having issued for
Great Britain for the next six months, the General
Board of Health, by the 10th section, is empowered to
issue directions for the prevention, as far as possible, or
mitigation of the disease. The Board may provide for
the frequent and effectual cleansing of streets and
public ways ; for the ventilating and disinfecting of
dwellings ; for the removal of nuisances, and the speedy
interment of the dead, and generally for preventing or
mitigating such epidemic, in such manner as to the
Board may seem expedient. Medicines may be dis-
pensed, and medical aid provide 1. A medical member of
the Board of Health, during the operation of the order,
can be added. The Poor Law Board is to carry out
the regulations, and to compel the Guardians of the
Poor to do so. Houses can be inspected during the
day time, and anything injurious to health removed.
The expenses are to be paid out of the poor's rabe.
There are various provisions to enforce the act, and
penalties are to be levied and recovered for obstructing
its execution. All orders and regulations are to be laid
before Parliament, and Gazetted. It is expected that
the General Board of Health will forthwith issue direc-
tions and regulations, which will appear in the London
Gazette, and immediately be acted upon by the Poor
Law authorities—they will have application, by the
order of the Privy Council for Great Britain, and may
be altered or revoked according to circumstances.

ADMIRALTY VISIT TO PEMBROICE.—Sir Jas. Graham
and the other Lords of the Admiralty intend paying an
official visit to Pembroke dockyard, in the course of the
present month.
A MAN STABBED BY AN ITALIAN.—Yesterday (Sun-
day) morning the policemen of the E and F division had
their attention directed to to a brawl and cries of murder
proceeding from Middle-row, Holborn, and, on going to
the spot found a man, William Buckley, a bricklayer,
aged 21 years, who resides at 28, Sharp's-alley, Cow-
cross, Smithfield, lying on the pavement in a pool of
blood, which was streaming from his bead, the wound
having been inflicted with a stiletto knife by an Italian
named Ekniara Antonio, aged 25 years, barometer and
looking-glass maker, residing in Hatton-garden, who,
on the alarm being raised, ran down Southampton-
buildings, Holborn, for the purpose of making his escape
through Staple's-inn, the gates of which were fortunately
locked. He then endeavoured to get over the iron rail-
ing of No. 28, Southampton-buildings, which is let out
as chambers to barristers, in doing which he fell through
the window, cutting himself in a dangerous manner, and
the iron spike penetrated his thigh. A desperate en-
counter ensued with the policemen, but other constables
came up, and, by their united exertions, he was eapture.d
and taken to King's College Hospital. Buckley was, in
the meantime, taken to the same hospital, where every
assistance was rendered by Mr. George Lawson t
andwas Mr.-
J. W. Hulke, the medical resident officers. las
certained that the stiletto had entered
rel
the forehead, ex-
tending over to the right car, which was seve. There
are, besides, stabs in the arms and thighs, Which were
found to be of a frightful description. The origin of the
affair cannot at present be ascertained.
COMPLAINTS OF ENGINE DRIVE its.On Saturdayof the
last
a deputation of engine drivers in the employ
London and North-Western Railway Company attended
at the terminus, Euston Grove, for t purpose of
obtaining an interview with the chief of
.the locomotive
department, Mr. 31:Connell, f
wh i and the directors, in re.
ference to certain grievances o ch they consider they
have to complain. It is stated that another attempt has
recently been made in the locomotive department to re-
duce the wags
tohfe theengine drivers and firemen, at the
same
time
amount of labour imposed upon the
tghaest.
men has been increased. The more prominent ground
i
of complaint s, that steps are being taken to remove the
old hands one by one, and the introduction of new, and,
as the old servants allege, wholly incompetent engine
drivers. They do not contemplate a turn out. They
contend that they are overworked, and that a contem-
plated reduction in their pay is an injustice, and they
desire an explanation as to the causes which are ope-
rating to induce the locomotive head to be continually
discharging the old hands. The deputation waited for
some considerable time in the hope of obtaining an in-
terview, but it was found impossible to receive them on
account of the pressure of other business,