The Sun.
London, England, 1851-11-18 00:00:00

THE JOCKEY CLUB.

We have received, says Galignani, the following letter,
to which we willingly give a place, though, when we
(rioted the strange story alluded to, we expressed our
disbelief of it. The affair had, however, as will have
:been seen by the remarks we quoted from the Examiner,
attracted so much attention in England that it became
:necessary for the Messenger, as the impartial reflector of
the English press, to reproduce the article. It is so fir
satistactor99 as the renewed positive contradiction it has
iriow elicited will doubtless be copied by the papers
which have given circulation to the fabricated tale:—
" After the letter addressed by me to the editor of the
Potpie, on the 30th ult., to contradict in the most formal
manner the recital of a pretended combat, which, accord-
ing to that journal, had taken place in the salons of the
Paris Jockey Club, between owls and rats, it might have
been hoped that there would have been an end to the
mystification; but, as it has just been re-published by
you from an English journal, I beg you to insert the
present letter in your earliest number, in order to give
a t' tmplete contradiction both to the fact of the combat
an all the details which accompany the recital of it.
.Your article of to-day, and the letter whieh follows it,
.signed An Old Duck Shooter,' cannot in any way take
the pace of an official contradiction, and it is to pat an
end to this ridiculous juke that I request the publication
f ray letter in your journal.
• I remain, &^.,
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" GnA.NDHoMME,
" Secretary of the Jockey Club.
Paris, Nov. 14."

THE LATE GOLD T"'ST ROBBERY.
A
li inquest was held
on -L'u
Saturday in the Governor's
,roe,m Newgate, to inquireon
orinto the circumstances at-
Jr,nding the death of Ilr. G-
S_enior, aged 48 years,
ately carrying on business at the Three Crowns Tavern,
Crown-street, Hoxton, and one of the prisoners in the
Rold dust robbery on the South_Western Railway.
The Deputy-Governor stated that the deceased had sur-
rendered on Saturday, the lit inst., at the sessions
Central Criminal Court, Old Bailey,being nonruedor the
others in the late robberies of gold dust on the South-
Western Railway. The deceased was accordingly tried
is,nd convicted of receiving and concealing the stolen
property, for which he was sentenced to seven years'
transportation. After the trial the deceased seemed
Very ill, and, as a convict, was placed in the infir-
-31317, where he was seen by the two medical officers
Of the prison, but he died on Friday afternoon,
'at or.ie o'clock. The deceased never made any complaint,
, seemed to be suffering from difficult breathing;
wad Mr. Mqfurdo, the surgeon, said he had his attention
laboured
to the deceased on the 2d of November, as he then
I.*Ztur,?d under bronchitis, or inflammation of the lower
6.l3r,:2tei!ctie windpipe. The deceased appeared very much
ezehtina, and was low in spirits, and would occasionally
„fun 1„ an excited state of mind, " I am a ruined
ceased v arious remedies were adopted, but the de-
tita
ene refused someli.m of them, and was evidently careless
him to apptione
relief. The dof several things ordered to give
cre:ised died from bronchitis. His
death was quite natural,
deirtker. BY a relative—'Veceased had been a hardh
deceased certainly suf-
;ered from excitement arising his degraded posi-
tion, which it veal evi.lewnheh would probably hasten the
tipreyed on his mind from the
time he was con"ict.rl,
deceased's death. The jury returned a verdict of Natu-
ral death.

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CHRONIC HYDROCEPHALI79.—A. p n pf
laged 41.
the
ulme of James Scott, died in Elgin on Fri:AryS?
Scott's father was a glover in Elgin, and was latatset;
mate of the Beid• house, and as the son was never abireantoitcro
anything for his own support he was transferred to the poor's
roll on. his father's death. The size of his head was extra-
ordinary. In height he stood, or rather measured (tor he
never could walk from his birth), 3 feet 11 inches, while the
length of his head and face 'Was I 1 i inches, being about one-
fourth part of his entire length. The girth of the head was
27i inches. Over the crown of the bead, from ear to ear, it
measured 15 inches; from the occipital spine to the insertion
of nose, 20 inches ; the length of faee, from insertion of 11088
to extremity of chin, was 4i inches, Elgin Courier.;