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

SONNET TO ALPHONSE DE LA-

MAR TINE.
33Y 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 flout for evermore;
Affections, hopes—all our life's naked store.
How hest 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 stone;
A poet, worthy of the Spartan van;
A patriot, who with noble sseal had cast
His heurt into the fire,—henceforth a star
Enshrined between the future and the past.

NE WMARKET RACES.
NEWMARKET, WEDNESDAY NIGHT.
THE TRIENNIAL STAKES.
Even on Tadmor 13 to 1 agst Elthiron.
CESAREWITCH STAKES.
12 to 1 agst Lanesboro'—t 25 to 1 agst Palms
16 to 1 agst Dacie—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 agat 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 admor, winning this and the
Triennial—taken.

DEATH OF WILLIAM SCOTT, THE CELEBRATED
JocxEir.—William Scott, so well known, and so univer-
sally admired as a jockey, closed his earthly career at•
his residence Highfield-house, near Malton, 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. He
was a bold, undaunted horseman, whether on the
course or across the country, where he rode to hounds
on all occasions. He commenced his career on the
pigskin very early, but it was not until he won the
great St. Leger on Jack Spiggot, in 1821,
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of the Great Saint Leger, being but one less than
double number of any other jockey upon
re the
record. He also bestrode four Derby victors, viz., St.
Giles, Mucdig, 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
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will drain even the best• filled coffers. Ilighfield.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
" sH ells" 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-
class railway carnage at Sheffield, and perpetrated the
theft between there and hlasborough. The " two gents"
were apprehended on the arrival of the train at Mas.
borough, but the third party succeeded in going on north-
wards with the train. A description of him was promptly
legraphed 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 Ohm,
'by wbich 119 di§lopsted bio collar-bone,