The Sun.
London, England, 1851-06-23 00:00:00

NEWCASTLE-ON-TYKE
RACES.
(THIS DAY.)

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
The First Triennial Produce Stake 3.

Pitsford

walked over

The Tyne Stsites.

Stntagorn
The Sheltio

... I

.• ••• ••• ..
Won by a leugtb. •
The Convivial Stakes.

Toni Holtby
Unity ...

E;ght ran. Won easy.

D EPARTURE OF THE AFIRIC o Saturday, at
two o'clock, P.M., the British and North American Royal
Dian steam-ship Africa, Captain Eyrie, left the Mersey for
New York direct, with the mails, about 80 pawengers, and
one of the most valuable cargoes ever shipped from England
to the United States. The wind and weather were bth
fa and she proceeded to sea amidst the cheers of a
numerousvourleabConcoarse of spectators, after a passing salute of
four g,:ns to her tender the Satellite.

GREENWICH ELECTION.—On Saturday Joshua
Morris, Esq., the returning officer for the borough of Green-
wich, pursuant to precept from the High Sheriff for the
county of Kent, gave notice that the nomination of a fit and
proper person to represent the borough of Greenwich in Par-
liament, in the room of the late Mr. Barnard, would take
place at, ten o'clock on Thursday morning, the 26th inst., on
the hustings, in front of St. Mary's Church, Greenwich. A
numerous meeting of the supporters of Alderman Wire took
place on Saturday evening, at the Greyhound Tavern; the
friends of Alderman Salomons assembled at the Stags. The
great and nearly complete agreement in the political prinei-
pies of the two aldermen almost reduces the electors to seek
the grounds of their preference in the more personal
qualifications of the candidates. A very large number who
would have supported Alderman Salomons a year ago, in
the present posture of affairs object to a candidate who
would
in feel himself precluded from supporting the Govern-
ment its endeavours to repress the attempts of the Burnish
oefccl liberty. Othersesiasticstoestablish an arrogant desp ,tism in the name
well disposed towards Alderman Salo-
mons, and giving him full credit for the intention he has
expressed of claiming and takin his seat in the House of
Commons if elected, look at the actual state of the law,
and fear that his return would
a representative to Greenwich. Mr. Wire has the advan-
tage of living in the borough. His practically prove the loss of
as. voteshisurpivoain
l
questions, it is urged, would be suchgive.ra
while he would be free to support Lord John liussell's anti-
Papal measure.
A RUNAWAY TOWN CLERH.—The greatest ex-
walolulgden
consequence of
ex-
citement prevails in Tunbridge 1% ells in
Benjamin Sears, the town clerk, having absconded. It ap-
pears that he has obtained money to the amount of above
2,0001. by discounting very recently, and that many respect-
able inhabitants of the town who placed confidence in him
will be brought to the verge of ruin. He was collector of
assessed taxes. town clerk, collector of the gas and water
companies, and held other appointments. It is reported he
is a defaulter in almost every instance, and a warrant has
been issued for his apprehension, and placed in the hands of
i
Mr. Superintendent Moreton. A search warrant, tie said,
has also been. granted to enable the officer to examine the
premises of a relative in London. Sears is suspected of being
in the metropolis, and Superintendent Moreton speaks con-
fidently of finally bringing him to justice. His income ex-
ceeded COL, a year.

A LADY POISONED BY MISTASE.--DOVER,
SArVaDAY.—A feeling of much concern has prevailed in this
town bylthe following painful occurrence :—For several weeks
past Pars. Eliza Prickett, the lady of George Prickett, Eaq.•
of Castle-street, in this town, had been suffering from some
malady which required the application of liniment, the usual
caution being given by the medical man who supplied it.
On Wednesday the lady was additionally indisposed, and
Mr. Sankey, surgeon, prescribed an anodyne mixture. He
left directions that, on requiring the mixture, she should
ring a bell which cirimunica,ed with Mr. Pricker is apart-
ment, and that he would then come and administer it. In-
ste :d of doing so, however, she ruse during the night and
took in mistaiie a large portion uf the liniment. The stomach
pump was applied, and various restoratives, but she died
under the effects ot the dose. Toe coroner's jury returned
a verdict "'That the deceased was poisoned by ivadvertently
taking a liniment containing morphine."
THE ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY DINNER.—
The contract for supplying this dinner, which will be pro-
vided for 2,000 persons, aed take place about the 15th of
July, in a pavilion now being erected in the Home Park,
has been given to M. Soy er, whose;tender, in reply to the ad-
vertisement ot the society, has been accepted by the com-
mittee. This decision has occasioned no small disappoint-
ment to the good people of Windsor, some of whom had
made offers to the committee, and who, on the ground of
their liberal contribution in aid of the expenses incurred by
the preparations for the cattle-show, conceived themselves
entitled to reap all the incidental benefits of the display.
They will, however, have small om for complaint, since
they cannot fail to profit largely lite the crowds of visitors
who will be attracted to Windsor and its vicinity on the oc-
casion.—Sunday Paper.
AN AMERICAN CLOCK.—Some rascal has stolen a
Connecticut cluck front the New Fork Mirror office. Where-
upon the editor remarks: " All we have to say iv, that the
eiuek never went &fore, and but for the principle involved in
the case we should say nothing about it."
LACE.—We cannot report any improvement in any
department of the multitudinous articles made under this
head, except, perhaps, a little more mand for silk laces,
for which we anticipate au improved business during the
season, as they have become a : ecessery article of ornament
to the dress ot all ladies who desire to be in the fashion. All
descriptions of lace male of cotton are in very moderate re-
quest—a circumstance not at all unusual during the height
of summer. - Nottingham Journal.
MR. PAXTON, ARCHITECT OF THE CRYSTAL PALACE•
—Some thirty years ago, a young man, a gardener, who
worked. for 12s. a week at a garden near the Duke of
Devonshire's villa at Chiswick, live miles west of Hyde-
park, said or did something which offended the master-
gardener, and was turned off. He was standing unem-
ployed one day near the Duke's garden gate. His Grace,
in passing, spoke to him, entered into familiar conversation,
ascertained that he was a journeyman gardener out of
work, and walking into the garden, the young man with
him, was pleased with his intelligence and manners; not
the manners of a sycophant sneaking up to the side of a
nobleman with sycophantish words, but the manners of an
intelligent man who knew his profession, and could speak
about it unembarrassed to another, no matter whom. The
Duke asked him to call at Devonshire House the next day,
and the young man did, and the call resulted in his being
sent down to Chatsworth, in Derbyshire. There he soon
made way, and reached, as a practical and scientific gar-
dener, the very head of his profession, which position he
had long maintained before he was known to the world as
Mr. Paxton, the designer of the Crystal Palace. Such
according to
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gin of 'CMhri.Bl-""Ticetal::.
tEoxn'asmcioane!!.exion with the Duke of Devonshire.-21/tmehasier
CHURCH BUILDING AMENDMENT ACT'—Uri Satur-
gthe Act,
H which
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hasday pleoasrsdadCtahrelisLlea'rsdßs,ilsllaosnptrhinetCadhuhry orderchßui ofldin
Commons. By!. thise d measurea
apportion the p e
ws churchwardensfor the
a cco omf
mod parishestioa
will be =poet e
of the deserving poor.
We regret to learn that in consequence of the
illness
.o f Lotrhtle Dmuee
mi e
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the visit of
Society to Tortworth Park (which we mentioned last week
had been fixed for July 3), until the autumn.—Gloucester
Chronic/e.
CUsToMS DUTIES.—On Saturday a return to the
House of Commons was issued showing that the amount of
customs duty received in the year ending sth of January last
on goods imported, was 10,969,535/.

REGISTERED id.LFCTORS,--011 Sciturday a return to

Parliament was printed, from which it Rippears that the_icA
i
re-
gistered number of electors in Ireland s 160 890 of which
132,589 were in counties, '20,255 in counties of cities or towns,
and 8xE,0w4611
Ai nv bEoz
ir
.o—u g
Ah s ,
rather laughable incident oc-
curred a week or two ago in this neighbourbood. The coast-
guard, while on duty, observed a thhing-boat out at sea, and
its course apparently being
for the spot, and found a
neighbourhood of Alfri Crew men lying in the
bottom, all suffering severelyutterly undirected, they made
of
thethree men
of sea -sick-
from
nese. It appears that ii. a agricultural labourer in the
ston has
money—it is said ' young
lately been lett a sum of
De-
termined to follow the pl ugh no longer, he gave up his
have an excursion to -Lewes,
/,0001.—by a near relative deceased.
situation, and choosing somo e lively c-mpanions, set forth to
town or hamlet where frolic and fun
Brighton, and, indeed, every
could be found fur
money. In the course of a few months the legacy had been
reduced to almost units, and then with two well-tried friends
our modern Tinton resolved on the purchase of a boat. Our
hero, being the capitalist, was to be the captain of
fisherm en the craft,.
and they were to become good, true, and honest
Next morning, accordingly, they set out on their first expe-
dition; but the "skipper never having been on the sea
were in e less stale;
before, got as sick as a dog before he had been on the briny
deep much more than halt an hour. The mate and second
manadrewshoeon° tfohuenCol asthtamt ethnerortunatelythe sawsa tmhehel bopat she was
turning round for all the world like the vane of a weather-
cock, the whole crew lying in her bottom in the position
p
described. Our heroes, however, nothing daunted, are still
ursuing their career, and we heartily
verance may eventually be crowned
Express.
SnIP RACe TO C111NA...... B w wtshs.e—irSP:smr";
7 theith suischce
Overland Mail
letters have been received from Anj ,which contain the
arrival at that port of the celebrateder rival clipper ships
emeernthbeer,
Reindeer and Oriental. The Reindeer,which lett the Aler-
Oseryionnt
atihe3 sailedo th
from
0
at
Ahre el4th January, and
,Tahrarimveeds
ont jr.in 99 days. The
arrived at the same port in giving the vaunted
9 1 days, thus
American clipper an advantage of but six days only over her
tiny antagonist, a fact which sufficiently proves that our
English builders can produce vessels in every way capable of
successfully competing with the highly-extolled clippers of
our trans-Atlantic brethren, the Reindeer being only abort
501 tons burden, whilst the tonnage of the American ship ii
upwards of 1,000, thus giving her an advantage over her
rival which speaks much in favour of the Reindeer's sailing
qualities.
Tag GREAT EX.EIIBITION.—To the long list of
large firms who have generously treated the persons inhtoeir
employment to a view of the Great Exhibition, we havetied the names of Messrs. Smith and Son, coal merchants,
to
Waterloo-wharf, Strand, who intend sending their men
the Exhibition to-morrow, in a number of new waggons, ac-
companied by their wives; and on theirreturn a good dinner
will be provided for them, all expenses, as well as their day's
wo..k, being paid by their liberal employers. .
At the meeting of the clergy of the Tiverton
Deanery, we undetstand that ten out of twenty-six of
whom that deanery consists, took no part in the election of
representatives for the diocesan synod, either personally or
by proxy.