The Sun.
London, England, 1870-03-22 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 22, 1870.

MISCELLANEOUS.

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COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES.

THE TURF.

Sir Joseph Hawley writes an important letter to the
Times on turf reform. Many of his remarks are in sup-
port of his proposition that no bets should be paid unless
the horse in question actually started in the race, or, as
the professional phrase is, that P.P. betting be abolished.
This letter is in reply to a previous communication from
the great turfite, Admiral Rous, who makes a great
stand against suppressing P.P. betting. Sir Joseph
Hawley says :—" I take it on myself to say that if you
mired the opinion of any ten of the principal betting
men they would, without hesitation, tell you that no
more fatal bloW could be aimed at the whiespread and
protracted gambling which pervades all classes of the
community at present. The Admiral supports P. P.
betting by some singular arguments. His first is that a
person with a Derby book cannot get round unlese
he has his bets P. P. He says, If a person makes
bets not P. P. instead of £2,000 field money which
he would probably have on a £2,200 book, he will
find it reduced by non-starters to £l,lOO ; thus
he will lose £l,OOO by every horse supposed to have
a chance to win.' He gives as an illustration an
anecdote of Sir Charles Banbury ; that in 1815,
when the Jockey Club passed a resolution that no
bets should be P. P. unless especially agreed to be
so, Sir Charles asked Crockford to lay him the odds against
a colt for the Derby. Crockford offered 25 to 1. Not
P.P.,' said Sir Charles. Then,' replied Crockford, ' I
will lay you £5OO to £lOO ; and, adds the Admiral, the
rule became a dead letter at once.' Why did it become a
dead letter ? Simply because it struck at the root of all
betting before starting; and if non-P.P. betting had been
carried out all the long protracted betting transactions,
and three-fourths or nine-tenths of the disreputable got-up
false favourites and making safe of horses, would never
have occurred. I could not possiblYhave selected a better
illustration for my argument than the Admiral's own anec-
dote. Then again says the Admiral, With non-P.P.
betting the facilities of playing a fraudulent game are
thrown into the hands of the disreputable horse-owners,
who have no objection to a pull when it suits their book.
The public may be deceived by three or four horses being
worked up in the betting by false quotations and by being
started while only some forth horse is intended to win,'
and he adds that clever man, by watching the commis-
sioners on a P.P. race, can scent the robbery and avoid •
it but he cannot do so in a non P.P. race.'
No doubt, clever men can sniff out robberies and
do so, though we have constantly seen the cleverest
men, the Admiral himself, fail in power of detection ; but
it is not for very clever men we wish to legislate, but
for the public. Moreover, the Admiral is well aware that
no betting men who intend to pay will lay large sums
against ally horse that starts. They have had too many
and too severe lessons for that ; unless the key of the
stable is in their pocket the betting-book shuts up.. But
it is useless to waste words on this argument, for if
betting were not P. P. there would hardly be a bet
made until the numbers of the horses were up.
Is. the Jockey Club, then, powerless to effect this
great reform ? Certainly not. Even should it consider
my proposal too stringent it might at once declare that it
would not warn off any defaulter unless the Committee of
Tattersall's on sending up his name, should affirm that
he was not warned off for the non-payment of P.P. bets.
That would be one mode, not effectual, I acknowledge, of
dealing with this evil, but it would, at all events, show
the earnest desire of the Jocksy. Club to remedy
it. But the Jockey Club might go further. It
might enact that in all the future great handicaps, many
of which are published and betted on for weeks before the
time of running, the weights should not be declared till a
week before the race, and that there should be no declara-
of forfeit. That would at once put an end to many
of the grave evils attending these great handicaps,
which are at present the bane of fair honest racing,
and fraught with detriment not only to racing
morality, but to the breed of horses in this kingdom."
Sir Joseph then proceeds to give a hint that where there
is a will there is a way ; and that if the Jockey Club do
not interfere a greater power will :—" The Legislature has
already stepped in and taken in hand the minor fry ; but
are tritons to be allowed to slip through where minnows
are now caught ? Does any one suppose that a set of list
men and betting-house keepers are for ever to be hunted
like hares by the police, while the same guardians of
public morals are protecting the more fashionable specula-
tors at Tattersall's against interruption and intrusion?
The members of the Jockey Club strangely misunderstand
the spirit of the times if they imagine that Parliament
will long remain inactive in the face of the great evil
which everyone acknowledges and deplores. Parliament
swept away the ambling houses some seven-and-twenty
years ago, and Crockford's had no immunity from the
blow. No one who Watches the temper of the present
House of Commons can doubt that any morning he might
wake up and find a bill read the first time with acclama-
tion for the total suppression of all betting."

DEPLORABLE DESTRUCTION BY FIRE.
A fire of an unusually lamentable kind took place on
Saturday evening on the premises of Mr. Watts, the
Oriental printer, and printer to the British Museum and
British and Foreign Bible Society, situated in Gray's Inn-
lane. The printing offices and buildings had been erected
only a few months, and comprised a large and lofty build-
ing of five stories, filled with a valuable and costly collec-
tion of types, cast expressly by the firm for printing their
Bibles in nearly 100 different languages, and for the works
executed for the British Museum. There were also on the
premises the sheets of an immense quantity of work
which had been printed, including a dictionary for the
British Museum, each sheet of which was, it is said,
insured for £5O. When the alarm was given assistance
was speedily rendered, but owing to the building being
surrounded on all sides by houses it was difficult for the
engines to be got to work; and the immense mass of paper in
the lower part of the premises served as fuel brow hich the
entire property was speedily destroyed. Nothg was left
but bare walls. Mr. Watts thus speaks of the destruction :
—" Manuscripts, copy in type,
and a valuable
stock of printed works have been in many in-
stances destroyed. Of our well-known collection
of Oriental and other types (with which we have
lately printed the work entitled Our Lord's P
arerayer in
100 Languages") many have been lost. But arty r
to say that we have preserved the whole of the valuable
stock of punches and matrixes required for reproducing.
them. The premises contained. founts of Hebrew, SjriaTam.c,
Syro-Chaldaic, Turkish,PerFan, S"nskrit, Telegu,
Bengali, Arabic, Coptic, Chinese—in fact, of every known
language--most of which have been destroyqd. In the
property lost must be included a most expensive fount of
printing
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INCENDIARY FIRES IN ESSEX.
Inceildiary fires appear to be greatly on the increase in
Essex. About eight or nine weeks ago a large fire took
place at Henham,
_destroying a large quantity of farm
produce,' and within the last three days two more
incendiary fires occurred—one at Berden, and another at
Manndew, the three places named being
within a few
miles of each other. The Berden conflagration broke
out early on Thursday morning at the Priory Farm, be-
longing to Christ's Hospital, and occupied by Mr. a
Seabrook, in an extensive range of out-building ; a large
quantity of corn, chaff; and implements, and several pigs
and 100 head of poultry were burnt up by the flames. As
giving some idea of the extent of the homestead, it may be
mentioned that the thatching of the buildings burnt was com-
puted at a superficiaLarea of one acre. Some
ed of therega rustics
took advantage of the opportunity present, and led
themselves on the dead pigs, several eating the remains of
a young greyhound, which was thought to be a calf. The
fire at Manudew was discovered about eleven o'clock
on Saturday night last, at the Cock Farm, occupied
by William Baker, the property of Mr. Bush, of the
Chequers' Hotel, Bishop Stortford, and nearly the whole
of the outbuildings, a donkey, and numerous hens were burnt.
The damage cannot be less than between
on £3,000 and
£4,000. In this case, also, the villagers theunday
morning, during church time, the ug out t
ai he burnt foe
is
wls
and feasted themselves upon remns. Th
no doubt all these fires have been wilfully occasioned,
but the police have failed to find any clue to the perpe.
% trators.

THE ALLEa.ED muRDER ON WESTMINSTER
BRIDRE:.

MONDAY.
An inquest Was held this morning e ore Mr. Carter,
the Surrey coroner, at Lambeth, on the body of Louisa
Ovary, aged 29 years, WhO, it was alleged, had been
thrown over Westminster Bridge some five weeks since by
Charles Nobbs, a porter in the India Office, with whom
she had cohabited for welve years. The body of the
unfortunate woman had not been discovered until Friday
last. A lighterman named Stratford stated that he was
standing on the Thames Embankment near Lambeth
Bridge, when he w a dark object floating in the water
near Doulton Doc . He jumped into a boat, rowed out,
and found it was the body of a woman. Her bonnet was
tied round her neck by the strings, and a white
handkerchief was the only thing that was found in
her pocket. Nobbs, it arpears, has been in custody
since the occurrence, and states that, notwithstanding his
endeavours to prevent her, the woman threw herself over
the bridge. A woman named MaynaTd proved stripping
the body and finding no marks of violence on it. The
mother of tha deceased, who lived at Dartford, proved
that she was now living at the house of Nobbs. She had
spoken to Nobbs about the girl's death. He said
he was innocent, and she believed he was. She
stated that her daughter was of a passionate disposi-
tion, and given to drink. On one occasion, when witness
was present, she seized a razor, threatening to take her
Nobbs took it from her.
The coroner said a prima fade case had been established
against the accused, and he must adjourn the inquiry in
consequence of being compelled to attend the assizes.

THIRD EDITION.

SUN OFFICE, 7 o'CLocK.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT,

HOUSE OF COMMONS—Tiiis DAY.
Tie Speaker took the chair at four o'clock.
SECOND READINGS.

The Metropolitan District Railway, and the Teign
Valley Railway were read a second time.
WATFORD AND EDGWARE JUNCTION
RAILWAY.

Mr. CHARLES FORSTER moved that the minutes of the
evidence taken before the committee on the Watford and
Edgware Junction Railway Bill, in session 1864, and the
Great Northern Railway Bill, in session 1567, be referred
to the committee on the Great Northern Railway Bill.

The motion was agreed to.
METROPOLITAN RAILWAY.

Mr. CHARLES FORSTER moved that the minutes of the
evidence taken before the committee on the Metropolitan
Railway, and the Metropolitan District Railway Bills, in
Session 1864, be referred to the committee on the Metro•
politan District Railway Bills,

The motion was agreed to.
DISABILITIES OF WOMEN.

Mr. MILLER presented a petition from Edinburgh, pray-
ing that electoral disabilities on women might be removed.
Colonel SYKES presented similar petitions.
BRITISHH MUSEUMS.

Mr. C. TORRENS presented a petition from Totten.
ham, praying that the British museums and galleries
might be opened on Sundays.
PROPERTY OF MARRIED WOMEN.
Sir G. JENKINSON presented two petitions from North
Wilts in favour of the bill to amend the law with respect
to the property of married women.
SOUTHWARK PARK.

Mr. LOCKE presented a petition from Bermondsey pray-
ing the House not to allow any buildings to be erected in
Southwark Park.
ELEMENTARY EDUCATION.

A number of petitions were presented in favour of the
Government bill, and also against that portion of it
giving power to Local Boards.
LOTTERIES (SCOTLAND.)

Mr. CHARLET moved for a copy of the circular of the
15th day of August 186 G, addressed by the Lord Advocate
to the Procurators Fiscal respecting illegal lotteries in
Scotland.
The motion was agreed to.
MURDERS IN IRELAND.

'4;;

Mr. STACPOOLE moved for a return in a tabular form,
setting forth in numerical and chronological order, the
date and (as near as may be) the hour of each murder
and homicide committed in each county in Ireland.
since the Ist day of January, 1860 ; and stating as to each
outrage the name and surname of each person killed, also
of each person arrested, with the date of his conviction,
acquittal, or discharge from custody ; such return to be
accompanied by a map or maps indicating thereon, by a
corresponding number, the spot where each outrage took
place ; and similar return as to all attempts at murder
during the like period.

The return was ordered.
PEACE PRESERVATION BILL.

Mr. MAGUIRE gave notice that on going into committee
on the bill, he should move the omission of all clauses re-
lating to newspapers.

PAUPER EDUCATION.

Mr. W. WILLIAMS asked the President of the Poor-
law Board, whether his attention had been called to a
report in the papers of the proceedings of the Ellesmere
Board of Guardians, on Tuesday, Bth March, stating that
" a letter was read from the schoolmaster, apply-

ing to the Board for a map of England and
Wales, also one of Palestine. The Board were
of opinion that it was not necessary for the
pauper children to learn geography, and therefore the
application was refused." And, whether the statement
was true and whether the conduct of the Board was
approved of by the Government.
Mr. GOSCIIEN said his attention had not been called to
the subject by the newspapers, but in consequence of the

hon. gentleman's question he had made inquiry, and

he found that the schoolmaster of Ellesmere
Union applied to the guardians for some
books, slates, and maps. The first two
articles were supplied, but the maps were thought to be

unnecessary, as there were only six boys above ten and six
bel )w in the school, and therefore the maps were thought
to be unnecessary. That was the cause of the refusal,

and not that assumed by the hon. member.
had been an anti-geographical feeling in a neighbouring
union, but the Poor-law Board had addressed a short
reproof to those who refused to supply the necessary maps,
&c., required for the use of the school.

There

CAPITAL PUNISHMENT.

Sir GEORGE JENKINSON asked the Secretary of State for

the Home Department if he would state, for the informa-
tion of the house, the grounds upon which he had within
the last week, as stated in the public papers, recommended
the reprieve of three convicts, sentenced to death for
murder, and the commutation of such sentences—viz..
William Cunningham, who was lately sentenced to death
by Lord Justice Clerk, for the murder of a woman at Glas-
gow ; Susannah Hyde, who was lately sentenced to death
for the wilful murder of her infant child at Tetsworth ;
and Jacob Spinas, who was convicted at the last session
of the Central Criminal Court, and sentenced to death for

the wilful murder of Cecilia Aldridge.
Mr. BRUCE said he had been in Parliament for eighteen
years, and he never had heard a Secretary of State called
upon to justify the course he had felt it his duty
to take with respect to the commutation of sen-
tences in the form of question and answer. Undoubtedly
it was the right of hon. members to ask for information,
and in the cases of Wright, Townley, and Jessie Mac-
lachlan, notices had been given of the intention to bring
forward a motion on the subject, and the Minister

had the fullest opportunity of justifying the course taken
in each of those cases. No doubt curiosity was felt on
the subject by hon. members, but then it was thought
improper and unfair to the Home Secretary to ask for the
information in the form of a question. He would not
shrink from answering the question of the hon. member.
(Loud cries of " No, no.") He gathered from those cries
that it was the wish of the House he should not
answer the question, and he thanked the House for
enabling him to resist the question put to him.
THE CENTRAL HALL.

Mr. A. GUEST asked the First Commissioner of Works
whether he had applied to the Treasury to sanction the
necessary provision for completing the decoration of the
central hall.
Mr. AYRTON said he had already stated that estimates
on the subject would be laid on the table, further than
that he declined to give any information at the present
moment.