The Sun.
London, England, 1848-09-28 00:00:00

SONNET TO ALPHONSE DE LA-

MARTIN E.
BY THE AUTHOR OF " ORION."
(From the Atlas.)
Greatest of elements is human blood;
Nor fire, nor air, the teeming earth and ocean,
Contain such wonders: on the vital flood,
That holds humanity in constant motion,
Thoughts, passions, actions float for evermore;
Affections, hopes—all our life's naked store.
How bast thou saved God's sacred gift to man
From fratricidal waste; how hest thou shone
In lofty brightness, calm above •the jar;
A statesman, proof against each vulgar atone;
A poet, worthy of the Spartan van;
A patriot, who with noble zeal had cast
His heart into the fire,---henceforth a star
Enshrined between the future and the past.

NEWMARKET RACES.
NEWMARKET, WEDNESDAY NIGHT.
THE TRIENNIAL STAKES.
Even on Tadmor 13 to 1 agst Elthiron.
CESAREWITCH STAKES.
12 to 1 agst Laneaboro'—t 25 to r agst Palma
16 to 1 agst Dade—taken. 30 to 1 agst Ellerdale
18 to 1 agst Fern—taken 50 to 1 agst Sylvan
25 to 1 agst Panic—taken 50 to 1 agst Reflection
CAMBRIDGESHIRE STAKES.
15 to 1 agst Lanesboro'—taken.
DERBY.
11 to 2 agst Flying Dutchman; 13 to 1 agst Tadmor;
15 to 1 agst Elthiron; 40 .to 1 agst Honeycomb
taken; 30 to 1 agst Tadmor, Winning this and to
Triennial—taken. "...

DEATH OF WILLIAM SCOTT, THE CELEIIRJTSP
JOCKEY.—William Scott, so well known, and so univer-
sally admired as a jockey, closed his earthly career al
his residence Highfield-house, near Mahon, in York-
shire, on Tuesday the 26th instant, in the fifty-first year
of his age. He had for a considerable time been
an ailing man, although his death was somewhat
sudden at last. His constitution, originally strong,
had been repeatedly broken in upon, and he died, com-
paratively speaking, the mere shrimp of a man. Ho
was a bold, undaunted horseman, whether on the
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pigskin very early, but it was n otuntil he won the
great St. Leger on Jack Spiggot, in l B2l, that he was
looked up to as the Northern Star, having fairly
rode the old ones out. Hewas very fearless in a
ruck of horses, nor did his riding Epirusinto the ditch
to the dislocation of his collarbone, make him one jot
the less resolute ; he would run any risk to get a
good place to finish in, and come what would, by
.
book or by crook, our would have the rails at
Doncaster. He rode, in his time, nine winners
of the Great Saint Leger, being but one less than
double the number of any other jockey upon
record. Ho also bestrode four Derby victors, viz., St.
Giles, Mundig, Attila, and Cotherstone. He married
somewhere about 1836 the only daughter of Mr.
Richardson, of Beverley, in Yorkshire, by whom he had
several children, two of which survive him, a
son and a daughter, who, thanks to the care
and watchfulness of the grandfather, are well pro-
vided for. William was once a thrifty man, and had he
not kept racers would have been so still ; but with a
string of that commodity, one single year of ill-luck
will drain even the best• tilled coffers. flighfield.house,
where he drew his last breath, stands in a beautiful situa-
tion, about half a mile from Whitewall-house, the resi-
dence of his brother John. His last resting-place will
be at Meaux, where he will be buried on Wednesday
next.--Peace to his manes.

POCKET-PICKING IN A RAILWAY CARRIAGE.--Two
" swell," from Manchester, together with a companion
of more common-place exterior, were apprehended on
Thursday afternoon by Sergeant Hudson, of the Rother-
ham police, on the charge of picking the pocket of a lady
of a sum of money. They followed her into a second-
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were apprehended on the arrival of the train at ulas
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Mas-
borough, but the third party succeeded in going on north.
wards with the train. A description of him was promptly
telegraphed down to the Swinton station, and when the
train arrived he was detained till Sergeant Hudson went
down and took him into custody. All the three pri-
soners were safely lodged in Rotherham Gaol within an
hour or two after the robbery, awaiting an examination
before the magistrates.
Sir Thomas Lethbridge, Bart., has nearly recovered
from the accident he met with about a fortnight since,
by which he dislocated his collar-hone,