The Sun.
London, England, 1851-04-08 00:00:00

DERBY.

12 to I agst Teddington (t) I 2,000 to 14 agst Midas (t)
30 to 1 agst Theseus.
NEWMARKET, MONDAY NIGHT, TEN O'CLOCK.
LATEST BETTING.
NEWMARKET HANDICAP.
2 to 1 agst Hesse Homburg (5 to 2 taken freely), 5 to 1
agst Windischgratz.

PORT STAKES.
6 to 5 agst Beehunter.
2,CCO GUINEAS STAKES.
5 to 4 agat Grecian.
CHESTER CUP.

9 to 1 agst Rhesus, 12 to 1 agst Black Doctor, 12 to I agst
Montague, 16 to 1 agst

DERBY.

12 to 1 agst Teddington (taken to 2001.), 30 to 1 asst
Theseus, 1,000 to 10 agst Oleander, 1,000 even betweea the
Ban and Midas.

OAKS.
9 to 1 agst Iris.
ENTRY FOR TO-MORROW.

Sweepstakes of 10 sous. each. Winner to be sold for 801.

First halt of Ab. M.;
Fuoco, 5 yrs —Second Sight, 4 yrs—Alboni,3 yrs.
wEw.gARKEr HANDICAP.

The following are scratched :—Aloolan' Glance, Legerde-
main, Mouse, Knook Knoll, Harpsichord, Vatican, Uriel,
William the Conqueror, The Cutler, Brother to Trnthteller,
Clermont, Gillyflower, Woodlark, Minimum, Entre Nous.

FRACAS BETWEEN MR. SERGEANT WILRINS AND
BARON PLATT.-0.1 Saturday the monotony of the' Nisi
Pries Court at the assizes was enlivened by a little legal
fencing between the Learned Judge and the leading* barrister.
Daring the trial of the cause " mistead v. Wilde," Mr. Sar-
geant Wilkins put a question rather sharply to a witness called
by him on behalf of the plaintiff, when Mr. Baron Platt
reminded the Learned Sergeant that he was examining
his own witness. Mr. Sergeant Wilkins—" I admit, my
Lord, it is my own witness, but we all well know that
very frequently our own witnesses are not favourable
witnesses." Mr. Baron Platt—" That is not ' the
mode •in which witnesses ought to be treated, because
they are to be protected as well as yourselves." Mr.
Sergeant Wilkias—" Good God ! What have I said
to call for protection ?" Mr. Baron Platt —" The
manlier of addressing the witness is not such a manner as a
witness ought to .be addressed in." Mr. Sergeant Wilkins—
"I am sure the witness himself did not so feel it. I have
been spoken to by others above me with ten times less
courtesy." Mr. Baron Platt—" I Fops you will have no
more." Mr. Sergeant Wilkins—" Eight or ten times these
assizes I have been spoken to in this way. lam not to be
schooled and rated." Mr. Baron Platt--" You are not to be
schooled and rated, but when you are irregular in your man-
ner or conduct I shall interfere." Mr. Sergeant Wilkins—
" I submit to your Lordship that I was not irregular either
in manner or conduct." Mr. Baron Platt—"Of that lam
the best judge." Mr. Sergeant Wilkins—" You are a judge."
Mr. Baton Platt—" And I shall not forget how to act as a
udge." Mr. Sergeant Wilkins—" And I shall not forget
that lam a barrister and a man." Subsequently, on the
re-examination, Mr. Sergeant Wilkins inquired of the wit-
ness whether he thought he (Mr. W.) haddniod not.—Liner-
pool treated him
with proper courtesy, to which he replied be
pool Albion.
CURIOUS POTATOES..---WS are favoured by Col-
lector. Campbell, of the Inland Revenue here, with half-a-
dozen specimens of a most curious description of potato,
which, as far as our information enables us to judge. seems to
be a new variety—new at least in this locality. They bear
some resemblance to the kidney kind, but grow so long and
twist into such extraordinary shapes as to prove themselves
a different race from kidney. They taper away at the ends,
and form a very close resemblance to a snake, the head,
eyes, and mouth being remarkably well developed. Two of
the spe-imens before us are twisted like a snake coiled up
and sleeping, the head resting up the tail. All that we can
learn of the history of the potatoes is, that they were ob-
tained from a person in the neighbourhood of Elgin ; but
whether they were grown by him or obtained from abroad
we have no means of learning. A single specimen got last
year by Mr. Cogan, officer of the revenue here, was planted,
and produced at the rate of seventeen-fold, all sound and
good.— Inverness Courier.
SMALL TENEMENTS RATING ACT AMENDMENT.—
The Bill brought in by Mr. T. Abel Smith and Mr. Aglionby
to amend the Act of last session for the better assessing and
collecting the poor-rates and highway-rates in respect of
small tenements, proposes that the right of voting reserved
by the 2d and 3d William IV., c. 45, s. 33, to persons then
entitled, should not be affected by the change of rating under
the 13th and 14th Viet., c. 99, but that the occupier of any
such tenement as is described in the Act should be entitled
not only to the municipal privileges and franchises reserved
to him by the Act, but also to the right of voting at elections
for Members of Parliament