The Sun.
London, England, 1851-10-27 00:00:00

Course.

Longinus, 4 yrs—Turtle, 3 yrs—Newport, 5 yrs
Loadstone, 6 yrs—Trinket, 3 vrs—Pulcherrima, 5 yrs.
Sweepstakes; winner to be sold for 2501., Ssc. First half
of Ab. M.
Meeanee colt—Thcodine—f by Lochinvar out of
Madcap's dam—Diamond—Ravenswieg.
Handicap. D. M.
Iris, 3 yra, Sst 71b—Bushranger, 4 yrs, 7st 71b_.
AAus, 3 yrs, 7st 21b.
Handicap Plate. Cambridgeshire Course.
Vatican, 5 yrs., Bst 101b—Thornhill, 5 yrs, ist 61b—
yrs, ist 41b—Mokanna, 4 yr, Gst 111 b
Borneo, 5 yrs, Git 111b—Retail, 5 yrs, 7st 121b—Louis
Napoleon, 3
3 yrs, 6st 41b—
Lady Evelyn, 5 yrs, ist 101b—Abdallah, 4 yrs, ist 21b
t s-1; Ppaubri
at tne,, . 4
yrs, 65t—No
—Prestige, 3 yrs, Gat 101b—Barcelona, 3 yrs, 7st 81b lb
Manneriug, 3 yr6s
Humphrey, 4 yrs,
Chance, 3 yrs, sst 121 b.
LATEST BETTING,
(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
CRITERION STAKES.
7 to 4 agst Red Hind—taken
2 to 1 agat Daniel O'Rourke
G to 1 agst any other
CAMBRIDGESHIRE.
5 to 1 agat Breba
6 to 1 agat Newminster
11 to 1 agst Mountain Deer
20 to I agst Haricot
25 to 1 agst Ariosto
30 to 1 agst Hernandez
33 to 1 agst The Nigger
WILTSHIRE CHAMPION COURSING MEETING.

SATURDAY.
Th© Great Western_ Cup of 3201.

Deciding Course----Mr. Fowla's ni Imprudence bt Mr.
Andali's Rhoda, and won.

The Druid Cup of 3201.
Deciding Course—Mr. Holmes' Mockiug Bird bt Mr.
Miller's Merry Lass, and won.
The Stonehenge Stakes.
Deciding Course—Mr. W. Etwall's World's Fair bt
Mr. Rlndsll's Reuben, and won.

The Elston Stakes.
Deciding Course—Mr. Walsh's Waxy bt Mr, Lttiv-
renco's Lynx, and won.

Tho Beacon Hill Stake.
Mr. Bennett,4 Beam bt Mr.. Lawrence's Lope; and won.
The Everleigh Stakes.

Major Clowes' Complete bt Mr. Holmes' Medora, and
wou.

[ADVERTISEMENT.]
TO TEE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
I see, Sir, that some impudent pretender
Has ta'en my name; I'm sure 'twill be in vain,
For I appeal to you as my defender—
I with the Racing Times shall still remain.
This day my verses on a noble race,
Though carping critics may perchance decry 'em,
You'll find, Sir, in the old familiar place;
I pray you say so, and oblige
Yours,

Newmarket, 03t. 26.

PRIAM.

REMARKABLE ESCAPE.

An almost miraculous escape from destr:niicteiconupbcyn
a railway train occurred a few evenings
the South Yorkshire line, near Doncaster. Mr.
Cartmell, a clerk in the employ of the company, was
engaged near the Little Moor outgang crossing in
assisting the driver of a coal engine to " shunt" his
locomotive into one of the sidings. The night being
quite dark he was beckoning the driver forward in
the usual manner with his hand-lamp, and for this
purpose was standing upon the main line, when the
Barnsley train came upon him unawares, and before
he could escape he was struck by the buffer of the
tender, and his right arm caught the draw bar hook,
which fastened itself between the shoulder and the
elbow. At first he was so stunned as to be momen.
tarily unconscious of his dangerous position, but on
recovering he found himself suspended in the
coupling chain, with the train going at the
rate of from fifteen to sixteen miles an hour.
His cries, drowned by the whistle, were not
heard either by the driver or the guard, and in
this way, hanging between life and death, and expect-
ing every moment to be dashed to pieces, he was
carried for nearly half a mile. Fortunately, his voice
washe heard by Samuel Fortune, the gate•keeper at the
hadC rgrOrth the train was h
proaching, and believing from the cries that some one
d signal,
ia
te,y and
extricated the driver
from a
his
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machinery,
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en
indivi-
dualianpg -,
with great presence mind exhibited the danger
upon
tchneeecxfc.
kepistiaornmosf, tbhuetshkotctkle
brought the train to a standnee2rieversed the engine and
and
worsean o
Mr. Cartmell was imme-
diately
he was enabled in a day incisedthewoauccnid•
duties. Two fellow-clerks, who or two to resume his
whowere with him at the
point where he was struck,- and
on the approach of the train, picked called out to him
lamp, and walked slowly along the lineup his cap and
search of
him, expecting every moment to find in
' his mangled
remains. Their surprise and delight on learning the
providential escape of their friend may be easily
imagined.

CHARGE AGAINST A CLERGYMAN.
An inquiry, which occupied seven days, under the
3d and 4th Victoria, c. 86, entitled "An Act for
Better Enforcing Church Discipline," was brought to
a conclusion at Dewsbury on Friday last. The in-
quiry was into the grounds of certain scandals or
evil reports which had existed for nearly two years
concerning the Rev. Stephen Mathews, incumbent
of St. Paul's Church, Hanging Heaton, in the West
Riding of Yorkshire. The chief allegation against
the reverend defendant was, that he was the father of
an illegitimate child, to which a girl of the name of
Mary Halliwell, 16 years old, gave birth in the month
of May last. The girl, who up to a short time before
her confinement had been a scholar, and afterwards a
teacher in a school established by the defendant,
swore positively to the truth of her allegation; but
her evidence, which in several particulars was sup-
ported by other witnesses, was not free from any dis-
crepancies. The defendant, who was represented by
Mr. Watts, of Dewsbury, solicitor, made no state-
ment himself, but witnesses were called on his behalf to
contradict some of the statements of the girl and
her witnesses, and to show that whatever suspicions
there attached to Mr. Mathews, in his connexion with
the girl, they rested on false grounds, and arose from
his uniform kindness of disposition to her and the
children in his school. The case altogether was a
very complicated one, and the commissioners who
conducted the investigation—namely, the Ven. Arch-
deacon Musgrave ; the Rev. John Bell, vicar . •
Rothwell; the Rev. W. Tait, incumbent of Trinity
Church, Wakefield • Mr. E. R. Wheatley, of Mir-
field ; and Mr. T. dooke, of Dewsbury, were in de-
liberation for five hours before they gave judgment,
which was pronounced by the Ven. Archdeacon as
follows :—" The proceedings under the commission
having now been brought to a close, it is my duty, in
conformity with the provisions of the Act of Parlia-
ment, to state openly and publicly the result of this
inquiry. After due consideration of the depositions
taken before us, I have to declare the opinion of the
commissioners present at this inquiry, that there is a
sufficient prima facie ground for instituting further
proceedings." We ought to observe that the Bishop
of Ripon, in whose diocese both Hanging Heaton
and Dewsbury are, had suspended Mr. Mathews from
clerical duties pending the inquiry. Mr. Mathews is
a married man, and about 67 years of age.

BLOOMERISAI EITRAORDMAII r.
Yesterday afternoon, a female, attired in full
Bloomer costume, made her appearance in St. James's-
park, about half-past three o'clock, accompanied by a
protector, who, however, was not walking am-in-arm
with his fair charge. She was rather a pretty looking
young woman, of about twenty-four years of age,
rather below the common stature, and evidently well
suited to encounter the various circumstances that
her bold conduct expo!ed her to. After making a
circuit of the enclosure, she went through the St.
James's Palace-yard into Pall-mall, and thence up
St. James's-street into Piccadilly. She then went
through Burlington-arcade, Burlington-gardens,
Vigo-street, Regent-street, Regent-circus, and Co.
ventry-street, into Leicester-square, the mob swelling
almost incredibly.
In Leicester-square the crowd could not have been
less than 3,000 persons, and, instigated by a man who
WAS there selling penny plates cf the Bloomer costume,
the rabble portion of them gave some hearty cheers.
Nothing daunted by the remarks with which she had
been greeted during her progress, she walked to the
corner of Cranbourn-street and Long-acre, or St.
Martin's-lane, and then turned back to Leicester-
square. Up to this time the only actual personal an-
noyance she had experienced was from a young urchin
in St. James's-street, who pulled the riband of her
chapeau, and was rewarded by her protector with a
smart cuff on the head. In Leicester-square, however,
on her return, from the mischievous disposition evinced
by some of the youthful multitude, the beadle con-
sidered it necessary to interfere, and, assisted by three
policemen, he managed to keep off the mob, which, in
their curiosity, where pressing round her on all sides,
till a cab was brought, into which she and her protec-
tor quickly stepped, and were driven off at a rapid
pace in the direction of Piccadilly. This is the boldest
step towards Bloomerism which has yet been made in
London.—Sunday Paper.

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HOP DUTY.
An Account of the Duty on Hops of the growth of the year
1851, for the under-mentioned districts, distinguishing the
Old from the New Duty.
Districts.
Essex
Ilants ..
Isle of Wight
Stourbridge
Surrey
Worcester

Duty.

£974 5 63
11,711 16 21
8,623 5 7k
2,402 12 11
299 5 bit
6,967 13

£30,984 18 31,
Old duty at 1 12-20 d. per lb. 1e,968 1 0.1 -
New duty at / 8.201 per lb. 12,541 12 1 20
512.20
Additional duty of 5 per cent.,
per Act 3 Vic., c. 17

1,475 5

4:30,4 18 34,
The returns from the remainder of the districts will be
published as soon as received.

L. S. .eland Revenue Office, Bro LYNE A. C.
ad-street, Oct., 25, Isand
51. G.

, IMPROVEMENT OF GREENWICH PARS.—The corn-
-1 mi.ttee appointed at the late vestry met on Thursday, to con-
sider the present state of the park. They appear to have
began their duties well, for it was determined to present a
memorial to the Commissioners of Woods and Forests, call-
ing their attention to the fact that a large portion of the
park had been enclosed, and added to the garden of the
ranger. 4,t the time, however, such portion was enclosed it
was undelltood that it was only to continue enclosed during
the life-time or residence of the then Princess of \Vales, and
hro
thrown
that at her death or removal it should again be thrown open
to the , ,
.s ,trfli
garden,e
thatcommittee
w asconsai
additions)
(elritiob
ny
atih
re
er recent
fiod
nret
tte
hhr
(la-
mination of the Commissioners of Woods and Forests in the
t years, was
shalosuol d resolvedbet
marnoad should be formed from
urge that an ornamental fountain should be placed
centre of the reservoir; that the gate at the foot of Maize-
bill,
carriage closed
restoration of the ranger's garden. It
Blackheath, to the gate at St. Marv's
openbil' w;banicdh ahlasso tbheaetn
im-
provements, we hope, will be carried- Church. These
of:en been urged in these columns.—koucti; . The necessity has
izsh Mercury.
THE LIVERPOOL COITNTY C
information was received that it OURT.—On Saturday
judge to hold a court of in
uir was the intention of the
1
the clerk of the court, pre y concerning the conduct of
the Chancellor of the Ducpbarateryto the investigation before
at Preston, on the sth y which is appointed to take place
proximo; but although all the officers
of the court were in attendance until four o'clock Mr. Earn-
shay did not appear, ea p r, and the court will not be opened until
Monday (this day.)
DRURT-LANE THEATRE.—Mr. Bann is in Paris,
actively employed in making engagements for his ensuing
season; and amongst others he is in treaty with Alboni, who
is nightly filling the Academie de Musique.
DEPARTURE OF THE ROYAL MAIL STEAM SHIP
AFRICA.—On Saturday forenoon, at 25 minutes past eleven,
the British and North American Royal Mail steam-ship
Africa, Captain Lott (in place of Ryrie), left the Mersey for
New York direct, having on board upwards of 140 p tiSnD gen,
the usual mails, and a good general freight.

[The following appeared in our Third Edition of
Saturday:—]

RUSSIA,

A letter from Berlin, dated October 23, says there
is a report of a conspiracy against the Imperial
Government at St. Petersburgh, mentioned in the
second edition of the Cologne Gazette, which, if true,
is very important. I translate verbatim the commu-
nication I allude to :—" Rumours are in circulation
of a newly discovered conspiracy among the
obility at St. Petersburgh, and of the arrest of
several considerable persons standing very near the
throne. The discovery, it is said, was made by
officers of the body guard of the Emperor, whom the
conspirators endeavoured to bring over to their party,
out who revealed the whole matter to the Emperor.
Further details are not known. The St. Petersburgh
journals make no allusion whatever to the affair. But
it is not to be expected that in Russia such events
should be publicly announced till three or four
months after their occurrence."