The Sun.
London, England, 1871-02-14 00:00:00

THE WATERLOO CUP.

The sporting papers are generally in favour of
Mr. Punchard's Pretender, or Mr. Swinburne's
Countryman, fcr the Waterloo .Cup of 1871. The
great ' coursing event will come off at Altcar, near
Liverpool, on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. The
gentleman who enters the list as Mr. Swinbarne is an
Irish gentleman, well-known as the largest jeweller
in Dublin. His real name is very different from Swin-
burne. Other Irish sportsmen, whose dogs will be let
loose on the Altcar Plain, are L9rd Lurgan, Sir Cape];
Mdlyneux, the Hon. C. C. Molyneux, Mr. Cunningham,
and the owner of " Whittle." Mr. Punchard is a Twick-
enham gentleman.
During Saturday's betting in London the nominations
of Lords Lurgan and Haddington proved in great request,
and an acceptance of 10 to 1 about the last-named,
Bendinaere, made him almost as good a favourite as
anything. Notwithstanding his disaster last year,
when he was first defeated, and then nearly drowned
in a ditch, Master I\i`Grath will again attempt to
win the great event for Ireland; and the prestige of his
victories in 1868 and 1869 has made him figure in the
position of favourite now. He is, however, getting an
old dog, and can hardly be expected to shew the speed
and dash which distinguished him as a puppy. Last
year's winner, Sea Cove, has gone amiss. Chivalry,
who was in the last four in 1870, and was drawn
rather unluckily into the bargain, was generally sup-
posed to possess a great chance, and Mr. Clark's nomi-
nation was consequently strongly supported, but
unfortunately she has gone amiss quite recently, and will

not be seen at Altcar. Another eminent performer of last
year, Bed of Stone, will represent Mr. Briggs, and con-
sidering the almost uninterrupted success of this ' clever
greyhound, it is surprising that the nomination is not
quoted at shorter odds. Fritz, Smuggler, and, as we have
said, Countryman and Pretender, are amongst the most
prominent of the aspirants to Waterloo honours, and some
think that on public form the first named of these has an
undeniable chance.

CONVEYANCE OF SMALLPDX PATIENTS.
The following circular letter has been addressed by the
Poor Law Board to the several Boards of Guardians in
the metropolis :
" As considerable apprehension has recently been excited
in the neighbourhoods where the managers of the Metro-
politan Asylum District have erected hospitals for patients
afflicted with contagious diseases, in consequence of the
impression that patients are conveyed to the asylums in
public cabs, the Poor Law Board have caused careful
inquiries to be made on the subject by their inspectors at
Hampstead, Stockwell, and Hometon. The Board are
bound, in justice to the Guardians, to state that the
result of such inquiries is to shew that all paupers sent
to these hospitals by the Guardians have been sent in
vehicles exclusively appropriated to the conveyance of
contagious diseases: The impression to the contrary has
been chiefly occasioned by the fact that in many instances
these vehicles resemble in almost every respect ordinary
cabs, and the Poor Law Board would suggest that so long
as these vehicles are used, measures should be taken by
the Guardians for distinguishing them by some evident
mark (as, for instance, by the word Ambulance' painted
in conspicuous letters) from ordinary carriages plying
for hire.

" The Board would at the same time observe that it is

in the highest degree conducive to the safety of patients
who are to be conveyed considerable distances that the
carriage should be so constructed as to admit of their
being placed in a recumbent position.
" The Board would, therefore, earnestly impress upon
all Boards of Guardians who may not have already
done so the absolute duty which rests upon them of
providing a carriage specially constructed for this pur-
pose."

Mr. Charles Hammond died at his residence, at
Isleworth, on Tuesday, at the age of 71. He was father
of the eight brothers Hammond, whose business esta-
blishments in various parts of London are well known.
City Pvess.

SERIOUS ENCOUNTER WITH POACHERS NEAR
COVENTRY.—On Friday night, as the police-constable sta-
tioned at Brinklow was going his rounds, and when near
Berkeley Wood, on the estate of the Earl of Craven, he
came upon a net which had evidently been spread for
game. He was proceeding to examine it by the aid of his
light, When he was pelted with stones and beaten with sticks
by a gang of poachers, and very severely maltreated.
The constable, who is a powerful man, defended himself,
and uitima.tely the poachers left him. He was then in a
very exhausted condition from sundry serious wounds on
his head, but managed to get as far as Coventry, when,
at the hospital, he got his wounds dressed. The affair
occurred at about eleven o'clock. On Saturday the county
police were making diligent search for the perpetrators of
the outrage.
REvENGE.--American women continue to take
the law into their own hands against men whom they
judge to be guilty of offence against them. The New
York Times notices the course adopted recently by a lady
of Wayland, Steuben County, in that State :—" Feeling
herself aggrieved by certain remarks of one Mr. Lewis,
a merchant of the place, she took the simple
precaution of shooting him dead when, the
other morning, he visited her house on business.
Having eased her conscience by the performance of this
duty she next proceeded to the house of her brother, and
requested him to step outside, as she wished a private
interview. This he declined to do, but invited her into
the ouse, and led the way into a bedroom. Following
him as he entered, she put a pistol to his head and fired.
From the effects of this wound he, too, has since died.
Finding her character not yet spotless, this worthy woman
then determined to offer up a third victim on the
altar of insulted reputation. •She directed her
kind attention and her unerring aim towards her
nephew in ar adjoining room. This time, however,
fortune failed her, and before she could fire she was seized
her weapon taken from her, and herself place in custody,
with her fair fame not yet thoroughly vindicated. When
asked why she had committed this double minder she is
said to have replied rather inconsequentially, and with a
serene oblivion of the laws of God and grammar, ' that
she would learn Mr. Lewis not to be the cause of so much
talk as there had been about her.' Whether her lesson
will have the effect of diminishing the talk about her we
do not know. There can be at least no doubt that poor
Lewis has been effectually taught to hold his tongue for
evermore."

THE SMALLPDX AND THE METROPOLITAN ASY-
LUMS BOARD.-A proprietor of houses in Canning-terrace,
Whitmore-road, Hoxton, applied to Mr. Newton, at the
Worship-street Police-court, for advice under the fol-
lowing circumstances :—ln thirteen of his houses there
had been cases of smallpox and several deaths. The
sanitary authorities of the parish of Shoreditch had served
him with notices to repair, disinfect, and otherwise im-
prove the premises. Still, howeVer, there were persons
suffering from smallpox in the houses, and it was next to
impossible, besides being dangerous, to perform the work
required. He, therefore, wished to know what he was to
do. Dr. Sutton, the medical officer of the parish, who
attended with the sanitary inspector, stated, in reply to
the magistrate, that in the street mentioned smallpox
had found its way into every house. As many as six or
or seven bodies had been removed a, day. He had visited
the houses, and, having seen the state ' they
were in, found the work necessary to dis-
infect them was considerable. He attributed
the, spread of the disease to the want of suffi-
cient accommodation to isolate it. It was for the Poor
Law Board to provide this, but the Metropolitan Asylum
Board were in duty bound to see to the matter. The facts
had been stated to the latter body in a letter, but no more
than beds were provided in consequence at the Homer-
ton Hospital. A second letter was addressed to the Board
last week, but at their meeting he was told that it con-
tained " gross misstatements." On the 10th inst. a third let-
ter was sent from the Vestry Clerk to the Clerk of the Board,
giving a statistical return of the cases which had occurred
within the last month. In that time only 72 persons had
been removed to the asyluins at Homerton and Hamp-
stead, whereas 452 were left without hospital accommoda-
tion. Mr. Newton advised that a copy of the letter should be
sent direct to Mr. Goschen, the President of the Poor-law
Board, saying that doubtless something would come of
that, especially as the matter might be brought under the
public notice through the proper channels. He asked if
the disease was not more prevalent in Shoreditch than any
other London parish. Dr. Sutton replied in the affirma-
tive, adding that it had been so almost from the beginning.
Mr. Newton said that only a few days ago he read in a
report of a meeting of the Asylum Board a rather vaunt-
ing statement of what they had done, but he saw no refer-
ence to Shoreditch, Hackney, or Bethnal-green.