The Sun.
London, England, 1848-09-16 00:00:00

FRIDAY'S RACES.

The North of England Produce Stakes of 50 sovs. each;
for three yrs old; the winner of the St. Leger, 71b
extra, &c. Leger Course. (19 Subs.),
Lord Clifden's Surplice ... ... walked over
The Gascoigne Stakes of 100 sovs. each, 30 ft ; for
three yrs old. St. Leger Course. (8 Subs.)
Mr. Green's Assault ... ••• ••• walked over
The Park Hill Stakes of 50 says. each, h ft, for three yrs
old fillies, Bst 71b each ; the second to receive 100
toys. cut of the stakes, and the winner to pay 20
soya. towards the expenses. St. Leger Course. (41
Subs.)
Lord Stanley's Canesou ... (F. Butler) 1
Mr. Foljambe's Queen of the May 2
Mr. Quin's Attraction
4 and 5 to 1 on Canesou, who made all the running at
a strong pace, and won by three lengths. Run in 3 min.
20 secs.

The Two Yrs Old Stakes of 20 sovs. each; colts, List 71b;
fillies, Bst 41b; the second to save his stake. T.Y.C.
(30 Subs.)
Lord Eglinton's Flying Dutchman ... (Marlow) 1
Mr. Green's Garrick ... 2
Mr. Bell's Velox 3
• • •••
• •
••• • •• •
Mr. Meiklam's Raby 4
7 to 1 on Flying Dutchman, who took the• lead, made
her own running, and won in the commonest of canters
by three lengths. Run in 1 min. 43 secs.
The Cup, of 3001., added to a Sweepstakes of 20 sovs.
each, the second to receive 501 out of the stakes.
Cup Course. (12 Subs.)
Mr. Merry's Chanticleer, 5 yrs, Sat 121 b ... (Nat) I
Captain Harcourt's Ellerdale, 4 yrs, Bst 216 •••
Lord Eglinton's Van Tromp, 4 yrs, 9.t 31b... .• 3
7 to 4 on Van Tromp, 3 to 1 agst Chanticleer,anh.dalf6.
to 1 agst Ellerdale. Won easy by a length and a
Run in 4 min. and 50 secs.
The Retriever Stakes of 300 sovs. each, h ft, for two-
years old colts, Bst 71b ; fillies, Bst 41b. One to the
post. Red House in. (6 Subs.)
Lord Stanley's Eberilade ••• •.• (Butler) 1
..
.
Lord Clifden's Honeycomb ..• ••• ••• 2
5 to 2 on Honeycomb. Won easy by two lengths. Run
in 1 min. 17 secs.
Sweepstakes of 200 soya. each, h ft• for three-year olds,
St. Leger Course. (7 Subs.)
Lord Stanley's Can( son ... walked over.
Major Yarburgh withdrew his stake.
Match, 300, h. ft. Red House in.
Mr. Hill's Windermere, Bst 41b., lecLived ft from
Lord Wutertord's c by Birdcatcher, out of Perdita,
Bst 71b,
Handicap Plate of 100 sow.. for three yrs old and upwards,
Last mile and quarter of the St. Leger Course.
Lord Caledon's Wanota, 4 yrs, Bst 121 b (J. Matson) 1
Duke of Richmond's Vampyre, 4 yrs, Bst 71b 2
Mr. J. Scott's Sorceress, 3 yrs, Bst 101 b 3
The following also started, but were not placed :
Mr. Bell's Fiddlestring, 5 yrs, Est s!b; Mr. Meieklum's
Gedirey, aged, 7st 91 b ; Mr. Henderson's3l47riss,a6Natelail;bll;
4 yrs, 7st 91b; Lord Strathmore 's Swallow,
7st 711; Mr. Johnstone's Confederacy, 4 yrs,
Mr. S. Hawke's Miss Harrison, 3 yrs, 6st 101 b; Majcr
Yarbtugh's Snowball, 3 yrs, 6st 61b; Mr. Bowes's
Wiasma, 3 yrs, 6st 61b.

5 to 2agst Svvallow; 4 to 1 sgst Louisa Newell; 5 to
1 Egst Wilispia; sto 1 agst Vampyre, W9u*ivey by
halt a length bormess a bad thud.

INDELIBILITY OF HOLT ORDERS.—The following
opinion has been givin by the Advocate-General, Sir
John Dodson, in reference to the case of Mr. Shore :-
1. I am of opinion that a priest in holy orders of the
Church of England, although styling Ihmself a seceder
from that Church, and being, in faer, a voluntary seceder
therefrom, may be committed to prison fur contempt of
Court in preaching as a Dissenting Minister, contrary to
the lawful monition of the Court. 2. It is quite obvious
that neither deposition from holy orders, degradation, or
excommunication, can confer o❑ a clergyman a legal
right to officiate or preach as a Dissenting minister. 3.
I think that if the Bishop were to degrade and depose a
clergy man from holy orders, ho might be liable to the
penalties imposed by the statute 41 George 111. v. lxiii.,
if he attempted to sit in the Commons House of Parlia-
ment. 4. lam of opinion that excommunication would
not entirely release a clergyman from his priestly cha-
racter so as to give him the status of a layman.—Doctors'
Commons, Aug. 24, 1848.
Tha DISCOVERER OF GUTTA PERCHA.—The
Gutta Percha tree, or Gutta Tuban, as it ought more
properly to be called—the percha being a spnrious
article—abounds iu the indigenous forests of Singapore,
although it is not more than four years since it was dis-
cover, dby Europeans. The first notice taken of it ap-
pears to have been by Dr. W. Montgoinerie, in a letter
to the Bengal Medical Board, in the beginning of 1843,
wherein he commends the substance as likely to prove
use Jul for some surgical purposes, and supposes it to
belong to the fig tribe. In April, 1843, the substance
was taken to Europe by Dr. D. Almeuia, who presented
it to the Royal Society of Arts of London; but it did
not at first attract much attention, as the Society simply
;retinue, ledged the receipt of the gift. Its use would
rather appear to have been found out by the Malaya,
who first manuteciured some of the gutta percha into
whips, and brought them into the town at Singapore for
sale, where they were seen by Europeans.—Lendors
ulmcd,tts.

INCENDIARY FIRE.—We have again to record an
act of incettniarisui, in this instunce, in a field ad-
joining to Kelstou Round-hill, the prop. rty of Joseph
t
Neell, Lg., and in the occupation of Mr. Neil, of the
Golden Lion, Southgate-street. On W ouesday night,
several labourers who had been employed in no adjoin-
ing field left their work about eight o'clock, without
having seen anything tending to a suspicion that tolleil tin
act of wanton outrage was intended ; there was tit, ap-
pearance of fire, nor was any one seen lurking about the
neighbourhood. Immediately i‘djoining the field were
pile
tt
two ricks, one of clover and the other of clover seed,
whenwu tahe ilay . ofe
u looseer went straw.
andile
followingplace morning, between
ricks, he found that the straw had been reduced to
t-) theOn
t
tidies, and that the fire had communicated with the
la dge and had burnt a tree which stood in it, but singu-
larly enough, had not touched either of the ricks.—
Bristol Gazette.

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LONDON DISPENSARY, SPITALFIELDS.—The quar-
terly gtneral meeting of the governors of this institution
was held at the dispensary, Church-street, Spitalfields,
last night, Llr. Bruslifield in the chair. The minutes of
the last three monthly meetings having been read and
confirmed, the chairman said that the prospects of this
excellent charity were at present somewhat beclouded.
The lease of their premises having recently expired, was
about to be renewed, but the lessees were bound to effect
very extensive repairs; and to enable them to accomplish
this, they had been compelled to trench seriously upon
the permanent resources of the institution, by selling off
about 8001. worth of their original stock. The committee,
however, had not been necessitated as yet to contract
their operations for the relief of the afflicted, among
the dense masses of poor located in Spitalfields; but
aoifdof
the
he ft ared that they would soon be obliged to mak an
appeal to the public for increased support, in order to
spare themselves being reduced to the painful necessity
of turning away numerous needy applicants unsuccoured
e r
hmaoprse
any requiring
other
part the
from their doors. The district which formed the sphere
suchof their
a dispensary operationsh
t wass onen
perhaps
metropolis, and he therefore hoped the humane and be-
nevolent would come forward and readily
contribute the
funds rt quisite to render the labours of th
vigorous and , ffici, nt. We understandthate committee
than twenty-five old subscribers have lately no fewer
from deaths and owing to the fallen off,
depressed state of the
times. The average annual numbt
on the books is about 3,000, and number of patients entered
486 under cure. Concurrently there are at present
vii_usly mentioned, it is cuntetnl With the repairs pre-
tni,es, and provide them with p attd to enlarge the pre-
greater conveniences than
at present exist. After the usual routine business, the
proceedings terminated.
'IRE SOLITARY SYSTEM IN GAOLS.—The following
is the copy aof ;0,
a subject whichter received by Sir Peter Laurie, on
is to be brought forward at the c"2 -
tnencenavnt of next session of Parliament . before the House
of Lords:—

" Pot tman• square, Sept. 11, 1848.
" My dear Sir,—Your remark at,tho meeting of Mid-
dlesex magistrates on Friday last (as reported in The
Sun of this evening), that solitary confinement was the
nurse of lunacy,' recalls to my recollection that a similar
opinion was held by the late Sir James Macintosh, when
Recorder at Bombay, as well as by bis successor, the
late Sir Alexander Anstruther, with both of whom I t as
associated as an Mclennan of Bombay, and it was a
punishment which neither of these judges would ever
award or sanction, from their expressed conviction of
its tendency to produce insanity.—Yours very truly,
" JOHN STEWART.-'
"Sir Peter Laurie.

"in eztsetresoiitary system should become tiro sub-
ject of icquiry, it occurred 0 we that opiujons of then
judge§ gaglai be useful."