The Sun.
London, England, 1838-11-02 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2, iB3B

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

NEWMARKET HOUGHTON MEETING.

YESTERDAY.
Subscription Handicap Plate of 501., for three yrs old and upwards.
D.I.
Duke of Richmond's Hooglev, 3 yr 3, sst. 101 b ............ Howlett I
Lord Exeter's Adrian, 4 yrs, Bst
Mr. Shelley's Paraguay, 3 yrs. 6st. 81b
Lord C. Bentinck's D'Egville, 3 yrs, ist.
Lord Lichfield's Cassandra, 4 yrs, 6st. 91b
Mr. Bond's Sir Felix, 6 yrs, 7st. 111 b 6
Captain Gardnor's Reuben, 5 yrs, Bst 7
Bettin•g-7 to 2 agst Adrian, 2to 1 agst Reuben, 5 to 1 agst
Paraguay, 6to I agst D'Egville, and 6to 1 agst Cassandra. Won
by two lengths.
Sweepstakes of 50 sovs. each, h. ft., for two years old ; colts, Bst.
71b; and fillies, Bst. 41b. Ab. M. 14 Subs
Duke of Richmond's Reel J. Day 1
Mr. Poyntz's c. by Camel, out of Diamentina
Lord Exeter's f. by Reveller, cut of Amitna 3
Betting-12 to son Reel, 3to 1 agst Mr. Poyntz's colt, and 12
to 1 agstAmima. Won by a length.
Match, 200, h. ft. T. Y. C.—Duke of Richmond's Bulwark, 7st.
71b. ( Rogers), beat Lord Exeter's Romania, Bst. 71b. Even bet-
ting. Won by a length.
Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each ; for two years old, 7st. ; three years,
Bst. 121 b. Fillies allowed 21bs. T. Y. C. The winner to be sold
for 80 sovs. if demanded, &c. 7 Subs.
Mr. Bond's Maid of the Mill, 3 yrs ... G. Edwards 1
Captain Gardnor's Ochiltree, 3 yrs 2
Car tain Berkeley's Hilda, 3 yrs
Lord Tavistock's f. by Taurus, out of Whisk's dam, 3 yrs
The following also-started, but were not placed :—Colonel Peel's
St. Vitus, 3 yrs, and Mr. Greville's Peri'lama, 2. yrs.
Betting-6 to 4 agst Ochiltree, 7to 2 agst St. Vitus (taken),
and 4to 1 agst Hilda. Won b a neck.
Match, 50. A.F.—Major Graham's Bodice, aied, Bst. 10114
(Coleman), beat Mr. Currie's ch. c. Kensington, 3 yrs, 7st. 41b.
Betting to 2on Bodice. Won by a length.
Match, 200, h. ft. A.F. Mr. Greville's Morelia, Bst. 41b.
(Nat), beat Lord Exeter's Mecca, Bst. 71b. Even betting. •wO,
by a length.

EAST INDIA SHIPPING.

Arrivals,--The Thalia; Graham,. from Bengal, off Liver-
pool, sailed from Calcutta June 6, Sarigor Julie aptt, 8t:
Helena Sept. 17 ; Hoogbly, Bayley, from Bombay, off Port-
land, sailed June 26, and St. Helena Sept. 17 • Giraffe, Bain,
from Van Diemen's Land, in the Downs, sailed from Laun-
ceston July 4, and Perntmbuco Sept. 21 : Pheenix, Eeltjees,
from Batavia, at Flushing, sailed July 12, St. Helena,
Sept. 13.
Passengers per Giraffe, from Launceston—Mrs. Burn and
child, Mr. James and Mrs. Corbett, the two Misses Powell,
Mr, Powell, Mr. Bell, Dr. Koelir, Sarah Brown, John Lel!,
John Doubry.
Arrivals at Singapore.—The Glenann, Giueber, in July,
from Liverpool and the Cape, and sailed for Manilla ; Mary
Ann Webb, Lloyd, from Bengal, and sailed July 4 for China.

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Arrivals at Batavia.—The-Bencoolen, Tate: July 9, from
Liverpool ; Falcon, Middlemist, from London and Cowes.
Departures from Launceston ( Van Diemen's Land.—The
Black Joke, Freeman, June 11, for Port Philip.; Thomas
Lawrie, Price, June 12, for South Australia ; Albatross, West-
moreland, June 13, for Portland Bay, to return and fill up for
London.

Calcutta, Aug. 30.-Loading, the John Fleming, Rose, for
the Cape and London, to sail Sept. 10 ; Bombay, Waugh,
for London, Sept. 15 ; Dauntless, Pinder, for London, Sept.
12 ; Lady Raffles, Biles, and the Favourite, Robinson, fur
London ; Herecordshire, Isaacson, for the Cape and London,
Oct. 15 ; Ellen, Yopp, for Liverpool ; Francis Smith, Ed-
munds, for China, Sept. ti; Kellie Castle, Johnson, for China,
Sept. 3 ; Heroine, Bennett, for China, Sept. 10.
Departure from Diamond Harbour (Bengal).—Thc Ly-
sander, Curiie, Aug. 29, for Liverpool.

The good people of Berkshire bid fair to become as
celebrated as the citizens of Cockaigne for " wonderful sights
never to be seen." Last week handbills were distributed
through Maidenhead announcing that Mr. Van Amburgh was
to ride through Marlow on one of his lions, after which the
lion was to jump upon Marlow-bridge, with the "lion-tamer"
on his back ; and then the lion was to spring, to the sound of
the trumpet, into Father Thames, and swim to Lovegrove's
Wharf, at the foot of Maidenhead-bridge. Such is the love
of the wonderful in Berkshire, that 200 or 300 persons as-
sembled on the occasion. A short time since the entire town
of Maidenhead was put into motion in consequence of an an,
nouncement that a man of science was about to run a race cn
the Thames against a six-oared cutter ; the said man of science
having declared that he had constructed a wooden shoe which
enabled him to slide along on the water. The whole town, so
it is stated, walked out to see the race, and took their station
on the bridge, where they waited very patiently for the sight.
How long they would have remained it is impossible to say;
for a dozen at least of donkeys going over the bridge at the
moment, one of them set up " a braying" so significantly,
that the patience of the assembly was suddenly and simulta-
neously exhausted, and with visages as sad as that of the me-
lancholy donkey facetiously mentioned in the " Rejected Ad.
dresses," made the best of their way to their respective homes.
This is worse than washing the lions at Tower ditch. The
Maidenhead wits already call their neighbours " Marlow lions;"
and the wits of the latter town, in return, style the inhabitants
of the former place " barge boots," and jeeringly ask them
" whether they'll buy a pair of Berkshire skates ?"
A NEW ROBERT MA CA I R E.—A Portuguese
named Don Bernard, alias Senor Cacqueray, confined for a
burglary in the gaol of Boulogne-sur-Mer, made his escape a
few days ago by means of a ladder which had been inadver-
tently left against the inner wall. To deceive the vigilance of
the turnkey be had dressed up a mannikin, and placed it in his
bed—not forgetting to envelope its head carefully in an old co-
loured handkerchief, which, from the moment of his first in-
stallation in the Hotel d'Angleterre, as the gaol is facetiously
called by the sprightly Boulognese, had invariably decorated
his own caput in guise of a turban. The turnkey, in making
his nightly rounds, and visiting Don Bernard's chamber in its
turn, perceived the semblance of his prisoner ensconced
amidst the bed-clothes, the time-honoured handkerchief, as
usual, preventing the " winds of heaven from visiting" his
occiput too roughly; his back turned towards the door, his
garments
duly deposited on a chair by the bedside, and his
slippers methodically disposed near his table de nuit. Con-
ceiving that all was right, the Concierge retired quietly to his.
couch, and found out his mistake only on making a second in-
spection of his prisoner's chamber in the morning, when broad
daylight enabled him to obtain a clear vision of the stuffed
figure, still in the same position, and under the pillow a sen-
timentsl farewell letter, which Don Bernard had the delicacy
to address to him previous to his sudden departure.
Not many days since the son of a gentleman of high
respectability in Paris, made several applications at the Hotel
de Ville at Lyons to be arrested as a vagabond. On account
of his known respectability the demand was of course not com-
plied with, and the unfortunate gentleman who laboured under
insanity, at last threatened to dash out his brains against the
walls. His person was immediately secured and confided to
the care of two police agents who were instructe,l to convey
him to the hospital of Antiquaille : but on arriving near the
stone bridge over the Saone he contrived to make his escape
from them, and precipitated himself into the river. All at-
tempts to save him proved fruitless, and ty to Saturday his
body had not been found.

'File following anecdotes of Captain King, an early
Governor of New Smith Wales, quoted by the Quarterly
Review from Ross's Hobart Town Almanach, reminds us of
tht sagacious judgment of our old friend Sancho Panza, dur-
ing his brief government of the island of Barataria :—One day,
at Paramatta, he was waited on by two prisoners :using for
pardon. One presented a petition signed by all the first men
in Sydney, while that of the other was signed by only one.
" How comes it," said the Governor, " that you have only one
name to your petition, while this man has so many ?" " I
have lived," answered the man, "with only one master all
my time, Sir, and I did not know anybody." The Governor
immediately gave the latter a pardon; but to the former
he said, as he already knew so many rich friends he did
not need one. At another time a country settler waited on
him, requesting the loan of a man to assist him in shingling his
house. " Come to me," said the Governor, "in six weeks'
time, when the harvest is over, and I will find a man for you."
Accordingly, at the end of that time, the settler, who does not
appear to have been a man of much personal industry, again
presented himself. "Go into that room," said the Governor,
"and you will see him." After a few minutes the man re-
turned, saying he could not find him though he had looked all
about the room—even under the table and behind the sofa.
" Not find him !" said Captain King, " how is that? Come
with me; I will soon find him for you." Then, leading him
a second tima into the room, he made him look into a-large
mirror that was over the mantelpiece. " That is the man to
shingle your house," said he; "take him with you, quick, and
see that he does it."

On Monday afternoon, an inquest was held at the
Crane Inn, Edgware, on the remains of an infant that was
found in a coffin in a dry ditch in Lady Plumer's park. The
proceedings excited great interest, and there were many
rumours afloat upon the subject in the neighbourhood, It ap-
peared frotn the evidence that on Friday afternoon a lad, who
was in one of the avenues of the park, happened accidentally
to go into the dry ditch, and there he found what at first sight
appeared to be a box, but which, upon closer investigation,
proved to be a coffin, covered with leaves. He immediately
gave an alarm, and the coffin and its contents were removed to
the Chandos Arms' Edgware, where Mr. Foote, the surgeon,
was sent for, and the coffin was opened, and it was found to
contain the remains of an infant in a dreadful state of decompo-
sition. Soon afterwards, Mr. Fastnage, an undertaker, residing
at Edgware, was called in, and he identified the coffin as one that
had been made by him for a labourer named Parker, residing
near Edgware, about seven months before. This led to fur-
ther inquiry, the result of which was that it was ascertained
that the intant in question was still-born, and that it was the
same fur which Mr. Fastnage had made the coffin at the time
stated, but from a desire to avoid the payment of Church fees
or some other cause the infant had never been proPerly in-
terred by the parents, but had been placed in the spot where
it was found, and where it had remained ever since -without
being discovered. No grave or hole had been dug in the
ditch, but it appeared that the coffin had merely been placed
upon the surface of the ground, and it was only concealed from
the observation of any passer-by by the leaves that had been
blown upon it. The persons in the neighbourhood remarked
that the infant had never been buried, but that circumstance
did not appear to have attracted any attention. The Jury,
under these circumstances, returned a verdict that the child
was still-born. Yesterday morning the remains were interred
in Edgware church-yard. The occurrence has excited a very
great sensation in this secluded neighbourhood.
The mother of a newly-born child, found dead on
the premises of Mr. Warn, ironmonger, Devonport, was exa-
mined before the Magistrates in consequence of its being be-
lieved that the child had come by its (teeth through the neglect
of the mother. From the evidence adduced it appeared that
the prisoner had acknowledged that she had miscarried; that
she had said " she wished the dear lamb had lived, and that she
would have worked her fingers to the bone to maintain it."
The evidence of the surgeon went to show that there was a
compound fracture on the lower jaw at its symphisis, and there
were
deep penetrating wounds uoderueath the tongue, extend-
ing to the upper part of the chest. On the right side of the
mouth was a slight cut. The wounds appeared to have been
inflicted by a sharp cutting instrument. The right parietal
bone of the head was also broken. The lungs contained air,
and did not sink when put into water. The surgeon said he
was not prepared to state positively that the child was born.
alive. Had the lungs sunk in the water, he should have said
it had been still-horn ; but such was not the case. The in-
juries on the body were sufficient to cause death if it had been
born alive. On this evidence the prisoner was committed to
take her trial at the next Assizes on the charge of wilful
murder. e,
VERSAILLES, OCT. 26.--EXECUTION OF
'GuiLLoN.—Guillon and Michel, condemned to death for
murder, the first on the person of his aunt, the second on his
father-in-law, yesterday underwent their sentence. At seven
o'clock in the morning it was announced to them that they
bad only an -hour to live. They both received the terrible ill-
telligenee with resignation. At eight o'elock Giaillon, accom-
panied by the Abbe Setigny, Chaplain of the prison, was
taken to the place of execution on the boulevard St. Antoine.
Guillon evinced no weakness at sight of the scaffold. He
mounted the steps with firmness, and made his last prayer
with great seriousness. Before being placed on the fatal
plank he addressed the numerous crow assembled, say
see, my friends, to what guilt and the want of religion
leads." leads." At the instant the fatal knife was about to strikt, he
had still the force to cry out twice, " Adieu, my friends,
adieu !" At eight o'clock be had ceased to live. An hour'
afterwards Michel was brought; he, as well as Guillon,
evinced great repentance, and kissed the crucifix presented to
him by the Abbe Setigny with much fervour. After a short
prayer be gave himself up to the executioners.