The Sun.
London, England, 1854-09-18 00:00:00

SPORTING NOTES.

QUEER DOINGS AT DONCASTER.
Endurance has its limits. The duper wearies of prac-

tising the same petty tricks day after day, and emboldened
by success and impunity, extends the sphere of his ope-
rations, whilst the duped at length discovers the artifice
and sham of which he has been a passive victim, and
rouses himself to a violent reistauce. A bad actor once
strutted and fretted his hour upon the stage heedless of
the groans, hisses, and cat-calls with which he was
saluted ; these means failing to stop his antics, the
audience began to pelt him off the stage. Our hero of
the sock and buskin then stepped forward, and told
them he did not mind their hooting, and did not even-
care much for orange peels, but he asserted that ginger-
beer bottles and brick-bats he could not stand. Now
John Scott has been placed in the same awkward predi-
cament ; he has long openly defied public) opinion—so
long, indeed, as it was full of sound and fury, signifying
nothing ; and when people have talked rather loudly
about his doings ho has " shifted his trumpet and merely
took snuff." He made, I hope, his last appearance in the
character of Sir Giles Overreach at Doncaster, and will
not I trust again experience the "New Way " which
Turfites have of "Paying Old Debts."
Acrobat's performance on Friday was sufficient to in-
dicate that, to use the mildest language, his running for
the St. Leger was a mistake, whether premeditated or
not the reader must determine for himself. In allowing
him to start for the Doncaster Stakes was, however,
after all the greater mistake, and one which I was sur-
prised that John Scott with all his shrewdness and tact
should make. If Acrobat's performance for the St.
Leger was a delusion and a snare, the error of judgment
which his trainer committed on Friday in bringing him
out to compete successfully with Ivan and Scythian is
not a little extraordinary. The rough treatment which
John Scott experienced after the race, marked in an
unequivocal manner the disgust and indignation with
which the proceedings connected with his " Leger lot "
were regarded, and had it not have been for the effective
service rendered him by Harry Broome and Mr.
Robert Morris, the growing rage and fury of the
mob which surrounded him might have been
attended by terrible consequences. John Scott met with
no sympathy ; almost every man's hand was against him ;
and that overwhelming burst of public indignation will
be remembered and deplored by him as long as he lives.
Lord Derby, as the owner of the horses, is looked to
for an explanation of this disgraceful affair. In talking
of the matter, his name is disagreeably associated with
that of John Scott's. That Lord Derby is to blame for
his part, however small, in the business is unquestion-
able. He set the established usages of the turf at
nought when he started three horses for the St. Leger
without declaring with which he intended to win. A
thimble-rigger never more dexterously concealed the
little pea than did this sometime Prime Minister of Eng-
land mystify turfites with his three horses—Boiardo,
Dervish, and Acrobat, and puzzle them as to his inten-
tions respecting them. The turf has degenerated indeed
when those in high places resort to artifices which used
to be common only with the knights of the thimble.
The settling will take place this afternoon, and I
regret to state that well-founded doubts are entertained
of its being brought to a satisfactory conclusion. The
" gentlemen" are losers to a man ; the principal winners
are—the Messrs. Morris, Mr. T. Bell, Mr. J. Waring-
ton, Mr. W. Stebbing, and Mr. Davis, "the Leviathan."
The principle turf appointments for the current week
are—Bedford, to-morrow and Wednesday ; Leicester,
Wednesday and Thursday ; and Manchester, Thursday
and Friday. The acceptances for the Bedfordshire
Stakes have not yet been published, and a complete
programme of the Manchester Meeting has not yet been
issued.
To-morrow, however, I will throw some rough notes
together respecting the events to be decided at Leicester
and Manchester.
Sept. 18.

A. FRESH MAN.

REGISTRATION COURTS.—This day T. Y. McChristie,
Esq., the Revising Barrister, will commence the revi-
sion of the list of voters for the city of London, in the
Court of Common Pleas, Guildhall, in the following
order. The lists and notices of claim and objection to
the Livery will be first received, afterwards the parish
lists will be received in the order they stand upon the
register ; when that is concluded, the revision of the
Livery will be proceeded with, and subsequently the
parishes according to their polling places. The Revising
Barrister, John Frazer Macqueen, Esq., has appointed
to hold his court to revise the list of voters for the
borough of Westminster, in the Court of Common Pleas,
Westminster hall, on the 25th inst. • for the borough of
Merylebone, at the 'Court-house, karylehone-lane, on
the 28th inst. ; for the Tower Hamlets, Borough, at the
Court-house, Wellclose-square, on the 3d of October ;
and for the Borough of Finsbury, at the Vice-Chan-
cellor's Court, Westminster-hall, the 4th of October.
DIIPAIiTURE OF THE EGYPTIAN YACHT FAID GAHAUD.
—SOUTHAMPTON; Friday.- This splendid specimen of
ship-building has at last taken her departure. She went
POISONING Br TOBACCO.—A
la, dy,ll ~anied Watts, the out into the river last night, and started early this morn-
'wife of a retired physician, former) of tt'inham died iug During her stay in these docks the Faid Gahaud
'
at a lodging in New Brighton a l tlew days ago, from the has. been the subject of admiration to many hundreds of
effects of a decoction of tobacco, taken, it is sermi red. mesons, and no sooner was it known that she had ar.
Ineuicinally, without the knowledge of her husband, ;wed this port than numerous applications were made
,
'I °wing been long in a delieate state of health. She h,,d to ~,,,tore an inspection- The Fail G.thatid has left for
'''clert-!(1 the servant girl to boil half e.., ace, cw.ista„tiliople, where she will lend her noble Pasieegerrs,
Ilia pint of water, and she drank the half of the dean- who have (lepArteci ior the benefit of their hea:th ; hut it
lion, said to be five times more than sufficient to cause is very probable that sire will remain a few days at Malta
death,r_ and which of course produced death on the fol- on her voyage out. During her stay in these docks she
7fing day. she had never been known to uettobacoo has undergone a perfect renovation. She has left in
°"91", is say wif,y —GifiNow Daily Moil. " charge of laer commauder, Mustapha Dedeah.

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Ditto October Account