The Sun.
London, England, 1846-09-12 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR,

The giteen and Prince Albert took their accustomed
early walk yesterday in the pleasure grounds of Os-
borne House.

Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, Prince
Alfred, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice went
yesterday forenoon to the beach, and took their usnal
exerci:le.

Mr. Aglionby, M.P., and a deputation on the subject
of emigration, had an interview with the Chancellor of
the Exchequer yesterday in Downing-street.
Mr. Laing, from Berbice, had an interview with Earl
Grey yesterday at the Colonial-office.
Le Commandeur Marques Lisboa, the Brazilian
Minister, transacted business yesterday at the Foreign-
office.

The Right [lon. George Dawson, Deputy Chairman of
the Customs, had an interview with the Chancellor of
the Exchequer yesterday.
Dispatches from the Governor of the Mauritius were
received yesterday at the Colonial-office.
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The Earl of Clarendon arrived in town yesterday from
Grove Park, Herts.

Viscount and Viscountess Fickling arrived at Far.
ranee's Hotel yesterday from Brighton.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE

BETTING AT MANCHESTER.—FRIDAY' FIVE O'CLOCK.
ST. LEGER.-3 to 1 agst Sir Tatton Sykes (taken), 5 to 1
agst Brocardo (taken), 8 to 1 agst Fancy Boy (taken), 9 to 1
agst Traverser (taken), 10 to 1 agst Grimston (taken), 11
to 1 agst lago, 18 to 1 agst Cranebrook, 20 to 1 agst Sting
(offered), 20 to 1 agst Poynton (take 22 to 1), 4 to 1 agst
Mr. O'Brien's two (taken).
CHAMPAGNE STAKES.-7 to 4 agst Slander, even on
Slander agst Van Tromp.
GREAT YORKSHIRE HANDICAP.-6 to 1 agst Ennui, 7to 1
agst Quadruped, 7 to 1 agst June, 8 to 1 agst Dlorpeth, and
10 to 1 agst Fair Rosamond.
Cur.-7 to 1 agst The Hero for Queen's Plate and Cup (t).
WEYMOUTH RACES.—WEDNISDAY.
The Portland Stakes of 10 soya. each, and 30 added. Two
miles.
Mr. W. Sadler's New Forest Deer, 5 yrs, 9st 31b, walked over.
The Borough Stakes of 3 sovs. each, and 20 added. The
winner to be sold for 1001. Heats, one mile and a dis.
Mr. Sadier's New Forest Deer, 5 yrs, 9st .... .. (King) 1 1
Mr. Whieldom's Sparsholt, 4 yrs, Bst 71b
Captain Paiton's Flirt, 5 yrs, 9st ... 3 3
The Hunters' Stakes of 2 sovs. each, with 20 added, the
winner to be sold for 70/., one mile and a dis., were won in two
heats, by Mr. Benjafield's Little Chance, 5 yrs, lOst 51b,
beating Mr. St. Lee's Eliza, aged, I Ist, and three others,
easily.
The Weymouth Stakes (Handicap) were won, in two heats,
by Mr. Goldsworthy's My Mary, 4 yrs, 9st 51b (Cowley),
beating Mr. King's Jack, 4 yrs, Bst 91b, and Mr. Benjafield's
Little Chance, 5 yrs, Bst 71b.
LEICESTER RACES.—THURSDAY.
The Queen's Plate of 100 guineas. Thrice round.
Mr. John Day's The Hero, 3 yrs, 7st 111 b.
Mr. Cooper's Roebuck, 4 yrs, 9st llb 2
Mr. Wildman's The Heiress, 5 yrs, 9st 91b
Sweepstakes of 2 sovs. each, and 40 added. Heats, twic3
round and a dis.
Mr. Ongley's Fama, aged, 9st 4 1 1
Mr. Collins' Engineer, 3 yrs, Est 11Ib 1 2 dr
Mr. Hawkes's Redleg, 3 yrs. Est 91b ...... 2 dr
Mr. Flintoff's The Rhine, 6 yrs, 9st 31b ........ 3 dr
The Cup Stakes of 10 sovs. each. Twice round and a dis.
Mr. Bankes's The Duke of Richmond, 3 yrs, 6st 91b
Mr. Ongley's Mystery, 4 yrs, Bst 21b
Mr. Raworth's Idolator, 4 yrs, Bst 21b 3
Mr. Pratt's Venus, 4 yrs, Bst 21b ... 4
Handicap of 10 sovs. each.
Mr. Raworth's Idolater, Bst 51b walked over.
The Beaten Handicap of 3 sow. each, and 25 added, was
won by Mr. Rogers' Forest Flower, beating Idolator, Mys-
tery, Heiress, and Galia.
YARMOUTH RACES—THURSDAY.
The Vauxhall Stakes of 5 sovs. each, and 30 added. One
mile and a-half. (5 Subs. )
Mr. Pemberton's Tagnet, 3 yrs, 7st (Pettit) 1
Lord Stradbrcoke's Boarding-school Miss, 5 yrs, Bst 101 b 2
Mr. James Royall's Sir Fretful, aged, Bst 121 b............. 3
Mr. John Drake's Bold Archer, and Mr. Howlett's Liba-
tion, bolted.—Won by a head.
The Norfolk and Sufll,lk Stakes of 25 sovs. each, 15 ft, and
5 only if declared; the second to save his stake. Two
miles. (20 Subs. ), 11 of whom declared.
Mr. Drake's Bold Archer, 3 yrs, Est 71b
Mr. Theobald's Chemise, 4 yrs, 7st 41b
Mr. Gurney's Cantley, 3 yrs, 6st 121 b
Mr. Leslie's Britannia, 4 yrs, ist 71b
Won-by two lengths.
The Borough. Members' Plate of 501. The winner to be sold
for 200/. Heats, one mile and a half.
Mr. Pemberton's Best Bower, 5 yrs, Bst 91b (Pettit) 2 1 1
Lord Suffield's Alvanley, 5 yrs, Bst 12Ib .., 1 2 2
Mr. Abel's Edmund of Langley, aged 9st llb
Mr. Royall's Sir Fretful, aged, 9st 4 dr
Won by two lengths.
Match, 50 soya. Once round and a distance—Mr. Davey's
Governor, 12st, beat Mr. Beaumont's Little John, l2st.
CURRAGII SEPTEMBER MEETING.
This meeting opened on Tuesday, under new and favour-
able auspices, such ready access to the field of sport being af-
forded by means of the Great Southern and Western Rail-
way. Two special trains, at 11 a.m. and 111 E a.m., were
dispatched, and well freighted they were with the lovers of
the turf. The weather was everything that could be desired,
bright and clear, showing off to the utmost advantage the
noble plane, which has been almost from time immemo-
rial associated with the most brilliant sporting events of the
Irish turf. The stand-house exhibited a brilliant display of
beauty and fashion, and the course was more than usually
crowded with anxious groups of citizens, and the inhabitants
of the county for twenty miles around. Amongst those
present were the stewards (the Marquis of Waterford, C. St.
George, Esq ,and John Maher, Esq.), the Earl of Howth, the
Earl of Miltown, Lord Rusborough, Hon. Captain Foley,
George Watts, Esq., Robert Browne, Esq. (ranger), E. Irwin,
Esq., J. Preston, Esq., and a number of officers from;the gar-
risons of Dublin, Newark, Naas, Ike,
The racas did not commence until some time after the
special trains had arrived ; the stranger visitors, many of
whom bad never been on the " short grass" before, had ample
time to see the extent of the plane, and the direction of the
various race-courses. The first race was for
Scurry Stakes of 5 sovs. each, with 25 added. Anglesey
Post. 2 soya. each for entrance.
Mr. Nolan's ch m Miss Nuttin, 5 yrs, 7st 131 b (Murphy) 1
Mr. Irwin's br h Warp, 5 yrs, Bst 121 b
Lord Waterford's ch g Henry, aged, Bst 31b 3
The following also started but were not placed :—Lord
Waterford's Vaudeville, Sir. Armstrong's Star of Eris, Mr.
Knaresboro's Hark-over.
Won easily.
The Anglesey Stakes of 10 sovs., pp, for two yrs old; colts
Bst 41b; fillies, Bst. Anglesey Post. The club to add 50
soya. ; second horse to save his stake. The winner of the
race to give three dozen of champagne to the club on the
slay of the race.
Mr. Colgan's The Horn of Chase, by Harkaway—Victoria 1
Mr. Preston's The Irish King, by Conjuror—Emily 2
The following also started, but were not placed :—Colonel
Westenra's Watch Dog, by Ratcatcher, out of Isora—Mr.
M‘Donnell's b f by Freney, out of Amina—Mr. Whaley's Cal-
cavella (late Sauterne)—Mr. Bynde's b c by Philip—Mr.
Maher's Souter Johnny—Mr. Armstrong's Vesta—Mr.
Irwin's Rideaway, by Harkaway.
AWFULLY SUDDEN DEATH OF MR. ROBERT
LATOUCHE.
Just as this race had terminated, a most awful and
melancholy catastrophe took place. Mr. Robert La-
touche, second son of of the late Robert Latouche, of
Harristown, county Kildare, Esq., who was standing
upon the upper leaded roof of the stand-house, suddenly
dropped down beside his friends, with whom he was
conversing in the full enjoyment of good spirits a few
moments before. From the instant he fell he betrayed
but little signs of life, and although medical aid was in-
stantly at hand, and every possible means resorted to
for his restoration, he expired with a slight motion of his
eyes and mouth. The immediate cause of his death was
supposed to be disease of the heart. A sudden and
solemn gloom pervaded all parties when the melancholy
event became known, and the majority crowded to the
temporary station at Dublin, impressed with the so-
lemn and sudden visitation which fell upon this highly
estimable member of so practically benevolent, useful,
and beloved a family. The lamented gentleman was
about thirty-two or thirty-three years of age, and was
unmarried.
There were some matches to be run off, but they were,
with great propriety, postponed.
ASCENT OF MR. HAMPTON'S BALLOON.
This evening, at four o'clock, Mr Hampton made an
ascent in his splendid balloon, the Erirs-go-Bragh, from
the Rotunda Gardens. The evening was very fine, and
the intrepid aeronaut effected a successful ascent in first-
rate style. His Excellency the Lord Lieutenant was
accompanied by Lady Georgiana Bourke and her two
infant children,- the Hon. Gerald Ponsonby, and the
Hon. Mr. Daly, A.D.C. The attendance was numerous
and fashionable, by whom his Excellency was received
with every mark of respect.
The balloon took a south-easterly direction, and, after '
a sojourn in the realms of air for about twenty-five
minutes, Mr. Hampton safely descended on the strand
between Irishtown and Sandy mount.

THAMES AMATEUR REGATTA.—We have been re-
quested to state that the Sphynx Cutter Club have pro-
tested and intend to appeal against the decision of the
committee who awarded the four-oared prize to the
Ariel Club on Monday last, upon the ground that the
Ariel crew were disqualified from rowing in the grand
heat, not having rowed their trial heat, and that there-
fore the second boat was entitled to the prize.
A French soldier, named Delpech, serving in the
army of Africa, who was made prisoner by the Arabs,
on September 23, 1845, lately escaped from the tribe
with whom he had been left, and reached Lalla-Ma-
ghrina on Aug. 2. He gives an account of the massacre
of the French prisoners at the deira of Abd-el-Kader,
which perfectly agrees with the statement formerly pub-
lished by Rolland, the
.trumpeter, who escaped some
months back.—Galignani.
VOLUNTARY SOLITARY CONFINEMENT.-After the
Royal Sailor, on her passage from Norfolk to Antigua,
had been four days at sea, her cook was suddenly missed,
and it was supposed that he had fallen overboard. On
the arrival of the vessel at Antigua, to the astonishment
of the crew, on unloading her cargo, they found the cook
comfortably stowed away amongst bags of corn and peas,
wh,,re he had formed himself a berth about the size of a
puncheon, which he plentifully supplied with bread,
having also constructed a tube, through which he drew
ttthieme causepre assigned for this sin-
to his guir co previous water from an adjoining puncheon. Thus he lived 30
days.
disappear-
ance the bread made by the cook for the use of the cabin
was condemned as bad and uneatable by the captain,
who, in instructing the mate to 'discontinue the use of
Tnhdeuc fto:l—lowAinsgho is r
flour, remarked, in allusion to the waste occasioned, that
"it might as well be thrown overboard." This observa-
tion was understood by th. e cook, as he himself states, to
allude to himself, which, in consideration of his imperfect
knowledge of the language, might not unreasonably be
inferred; and his secretion, he alleged, was a measure of
self-preservation. He descended the scuttle leading from
the cabin to the room beneath, thence through a small
opening in the bulk, and had gradually wormed a pas-
sage to his retired quarters.
Many of the slaves escape from the French Wrest
Indian islands to the nearest tree island under theßritish
crown. They effect the passage in open boats.

COURTS OF CONSERVANCY.
THE NAVIGATION OF THE THAMES.
Yesterday an. adjourned Court of Conservancy was
held by the Lord Mayor at Stratford, for the purpose of
receiving a special presentment of certain encroachments
and obstructions erected in Hole Harm, a navigable
creek of the Thames, which separates Canvey Island
from the main land on the Essex coast.

At the last sessions of the Court the jaw had made a
similar presentment, omitting, howevie, to state the
names of the parties who had placed the obstructions in
the creek. The Court, under these circumstances, re-
fused to receive the presentment, and directed the City
solicitor to prepare a presentment and summon witnesses
to show who had erected the imisdnees complained of,
and yesterday the jury assembled at three o'clock, having
previously again viewed the creek. The Lord Mayor
attended to preside, assisted by the Town Clerk, who,
in the absence of the Recorder, charged the jury, who
having examined the witnesses named on the back of the
bill, returned to the Court, finding that the obstructions
in question had been placed by, or under the direction
of, William Hilton, Esq., the treasurer of the Commis-
sioners of the Canvey Island, and it is understood that
the Commissioners intend to justify the placing of the
breakwaters in the creek, under the authority of the Act
of Parliament.

The Lord Mayor then proceeded to Greenwich, where
the Court of Conservancy for the county of Kent was
held. The jury, after retiring for about an hour, re-
turned into Court, finding true bills against theTatent
Fuel Company and the proprietors of two charcoal works
on the Thames, for a nuisance in discharging deleterious
refuse of the works into the Thames. - They likewise
made presentments against the owners of the tanyard in
Deptford Creek, for choking up the channel with refuse
tan ; and also against the proprietor of Deptford Pier.
The Town Clerk thanked the jury for their attendance,
and was about to discharge them, when the Lord Mayor
desired to know whether they had any observation to
make about the Garden Stairs Pier ?

They stateci that they had no presentment, and after
having inspected the pier they returned, and said that
the jury could not agree in a verdict, whereupon the jury
were discharged, and the Court adjourned at a late hour.

JOSEPH AD Y.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SIR,-With reference to your remarks on the subject
of the noted Mr. Joseph Ady, I confess that I was, some •
what foolishly, deluded into the sacrifice of the sum of
one pound, under the promise of information greatly to
my advantage ; such information, however, proved to
be a mere warning as to my liability to be outlawed as
a subscriber to one or two of the railway schemes pro-
jected last year.
Should Mr. Ady be sufficiently fortunate as to obtain
a like amount from even a very small portion of the sub-
scribers to such schemes, his system will prove highly
lucrative, if not altogether honourable.
Your insertion of these few remarks may tend to put
the unenlightened on their guard, and will oblige, Sir,
your very humble servant,
Sept. 10, 1846. Z.

MILITARY and NAVAL FLOGGING.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SlR,—Since an inquest was held on the body of the
7th Hussar who was flogged at Hounslow, many cases
of similar barbarity have " been brought to light," and
it is but fair to presume that they are perfectly true,
for if they were not so surely some " advocate of the
lash" would ere this have come forward to contradict
them.

I read of one man whose " back mortified ;" of
another having had 115 lashes, who was attacked with
" lock jaw ;" of two others, each of whom received 150
lashes, whose sufferings terminated in " sloughing and
fever,"—in all these instances death was the result of
military flogging.
It was, no doubt, with reference to the above•named
cases, that Mr. Wakley, in his speech at Exeter Hall,
stated " he was sorry to be compelled to express the
opinion that it had been inflicted with a knowledge that
it had proved fatal to human life." Whether the Hon.
Gentleman was or was not correct in his supposition, it
is impossible to say—whether the Commander-in-Chief
was or was not acquainted with the cases alluded to,
when he " approved and confirmed" the sentence for the
" cruel" flogging of White, it is not for me to decide.
This, however, appears to have been certain, that the
reduction of the punishment from two hundred lashes
down to fifty lashes vi as not made until a storm of
public indignation had fallen upon the heads of all the
"military authorities" who were concerned in that " deed
of blood."

I fully believe it to be the wish of the Duke of Wel-

lington, that, in future, no British soldier shall be
flogged to death ; for he not only said, when speaking
of the Hounslow affair, " this shall not happen again"
—but he has also provided in the " law of fifty lashes,"
that even that reduced punishment shall not take place,
should the weather be either too hot or too cold, and
that the state of health of the party sentenced shall be
ascertained.

Now, I would ask any one possessed of the com-
mon feelings of humanity, is it just that for "no in-
famous offence," a fellow-creature should be tortured in
so horrible and dangerous a manner, that the " probable
preservation of his life shall partly depend on the heat'
or the cold' of the weather at the time his punish-
ment is inflicted ?" I think after the opinions which
have been expressed by Mr. Wakley and other eminent
medical men, with regard to flogging, that it would be
exceedingly difficult to find tho man w.ho would, upon
his own responsibility, decide at what degree of tempe-
rature fifty lashes might be inflicted with safety to
human life.

But I turn from the contemplation of such cruelties
as these to the cheering fact, that the public press have
nobly laid aside all party feelings and political differ.
ences, in endeavouring to obtain the total abolition of a
law, which, being in " direct opposition to every precept
of Christianity, is necessarily demoralising in its effects,
and utterly at variance with the mild and merciful spirit
of the age in which we live."

To you, Sir, who have been foremost in exposing the
iniquities of military and naval flogging, I take the
liberty of sending these few observations, and if you
consider them worthy of insertion in the columns of
The Sun, you will much oblige, yours, &c,
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- I. W. BOYES.
14, Angel-court, Throgmorton-street, Sept. 9, 1846.

THE MIDLAND RAILWAY.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sin,—l shall feel obliged by your allowing this letter
to be inserted in the next number of your valued journal,
which has reference to a paragraph that appeared in the
one for last evening, the 9th instant, giving an account
of the possibility of collision on the Midland Railway,
by the train leaving Nottingham for Derby at 5 P.M.,
and the one from Derby to London at 5 5 P.M., the
express. Your correspondent in the midland district
seems to be labouring under some delusion which I
cannot describe ; but by reference to the following ex-
tract from his account you will see the error he has
fallen into, and the sooner it is corrected the better. As

it is, it will only mislead the public, and make it appear
that the company do not attend to the necessary pre-
cautions which are requisite. He states that, " the de-
parture line from Derby till the 5 5 P.M. train arrives at
the turn to the Junction at Red Hill, is the same line as
the 5 P.M. train from Nottingham to Derby passes
upon after reaching the turn nearest Derby to the
Junction." Thus, distinctly informing the public that
the trains to Derby pass on the same line as those from
Derby, which is an erroneous idea. I should have
thought that the Midland line had been made long enough
for him to see that there were two lines of rails. Hoping
that these few lines may be of service to him and all
others who are constantly in the habit of reporting, I
beg leave to subscribe myself, JUSTICE.
Newark, Sept. 10, 1846.