The Sun.
London, England, 1851-01-16 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE.

100 to 8 agst Lord Howth's Sir John—offered
100 to 8 agst Mr. Vever's Vain Hope—take 200 to 14
20 to 1 agst Mr. Treadgold's Maria Day—take 25 to 1
No others mentioned.
METROPOLITAN STAKES.
100 to 6 on the field—offered
CHESTER CUP.
15 to 1 agst Mr. Treen's Rhesus—taken to 2001.
40 to 1 sgst Lord Eglinton's Knight of Avenel—taken
40 to 1 agst Mr. Metklam's Raby—taken freely
40 to 1 agst Mr. Barton's Haricot-45 to 1 taken
40 to 1 agst Mr. Metklam's Italian—tyke 45 to 1

40 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Lady Evelyn—off.
50 to 1 agst Mr. Combe's Trouncer—taken

50 to 1 agst Lord Caledon's The Flying Gont—taken
50 to 1 agst Sir J. Hawley's Vatican—offered
9 to 1 agst all the three yrs old—offered
DERBY, 1851.
5 to 1 agst Mr. Howard's Grecian—offers to take
7 to 1 agst Mr. Halford's Prime Minister—offers to
take

COURSING.
BORDER UNION MEETING.
The Border Stakes of 3 guineas each (16 dogs) wero
won by Mr. Sharpe's Dr. Hornbrook; Mr. Ratcliffe's
Splendour ran up.
The Puppy Stakes were won by Mr. Holliday's Pick-
pocket.

BIGGAR CLUB MEETING.
The Abington Champion Cup was won by Dr. Brown's
Brunswick.

'T'h© Douglas Stake was won by Mr. Paterson's
Craigie Burn.

Tbe Upper Ward Stakes were won by Mr. Green-
shield's Venture; and
The Lanarkshire Cup by Mr. Greenshield's

ANOTHER COLLIERY EXPLOSION IN DURIIAM.—On
Tuesday morning last an explosion occurred in the Black
Boy Colliery, about two miles from Bishop Auckland, \dile,
unfortunately resulted in the loss of two live!. About two
o'clock in the morcing some of the men had proceeded to
work, when the overman and a boy entered a drift recently
opened; they had proceeded upwards of a mile with naked
candles, when it is supposed they had come in contact with
a " Wower," or pent-up quantity of gas, which instantly ex-
ploded, and both were instantly killed by the blast. Hap-
pily no other men were in the neighbourhood, otherwise the
consequences must have been very disastrous. The bodies
were taken out during the day without further accident.
Mr. Dunn, one of the Government Inspectors, visited the
colliery last week, and pronounced the Black Boy pit one of
the best ventilated mines he had visited. Au inquest will be
held on Thursday.
THE SERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST THE SOUTHAMP-
TON BOARD OF GUARDIANS.-The adjourned inquest was
resumed for the fourth time yesterday, at the Guildhall,
Southampton, and after sitting eight hours in hearing addi-
tional evidence, the coroner further adjourned the case until
this day, when it is expected the coroner will sum up the
evidence, and the jury will return their verdict.
INFANTICIDE AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE AT LOWE-
STOM—A deplorable case of supposed infanticide and at-
tempted self-destruction occurred here on Tuesday morning.
The wife of a twine-spiner, named Isaac Thy, was discovered
by her mother with her own and her infant's throat cut. In
the mother's case the wound was not fatal, and, being
promptly attended by several medical gentlemen, hopes are
entertained of her recovery. The mother has been labouring
under fever, which produced delirium.
WHY QUAKERS WEAR THEIR HATS.—Quakers in-
variably wear their hats in places of public worship, or in
public assemblies, but few are aware how this custom origi-
nated. Fox, the founder of collarless coats and broad brims,
was in the habit of attending the Episcopal Church, when the
preacher uttered sentiments of which he disapproved, he
would solernoly'put on his broad-brimmed hat, and take it
off again whenever more welcome doctrine occurred. If he
sat long with his hat on, and the ill-sounding proposition or
fulmination continued, he would rise slowly and silently walk
out. Thus it appears that it was for the purpose of habitual
protest that the Quakers first learned to sit in places of wor •
ship with their hat on.

DEATH OF A CELEBRATED RACER.—Died on the
9th of January, at Brownstown House Paddocks, Curragh
of Kildare, the celebrated mare, Guiccioli, at the age of 30
years—the dam of Birdcatcher, Foigh-a-ballagh, George,
May Boy, &c. She was also the granddam of Mickey Free,
The Baron, Carouche, &c. She was interred with all due
honours, and a suitable monument will be erected over her.

EMBEZZLEMENT.—Henry Fordham, an innkeeper,
residing at Brotherton, near Pontefract, is at present in cus-
tody at Leeds, on the charge of having embezzled various
sums of money belonging to Messrs. Tetley, common brewers,
of Leeds. The prisoner keeps the Punchbowl Inn at Bro-
therton, and, while acting as agent to the prosecutors, he ap-
propriated money belonging to his employers. He has not
yet been examined by the magistrates, but stands remanded
ill the latter end of the present week.

CORNHILL WARD.—Monday being Plough Mon-
day, the inquest for the above ward proceeded to make their
presentments to the Court of Aldermen, and afterwards dined
with their foreman, Mr. ex-Sheriff Nicoll, who had also in-
vited the alderman, Sir John Pine, Bart., the members of the
Common Council, with other ward and parochial officers.
The large room in that ancient and well-known tavern,
Tom's Coffee-house, was fitted up for the occasion, and
every delicacy in and out of season was liberally provided.
After the usual loyal and civic toasts, followed by others de-
dicated to the rector (the Rev. Mr. Wrench), Messrs. Leg-
gett, Saxton, and Hoppe, the company separated, having
heard some well •ex ecuted glees, &c., from Messrs. Edney,
Shoubridge, and Holm, and all seemed well pleased with
the worthy ex-Sheriff's hospitality.

FOREIGN POTATOES.—The following numerous
and large arrivals of potatoes have taken place within these
few days, from the foreign ports mentioned : —The vessel
Omnibus, from Calais, brought between 50 and 60 tons
weight ; the Jeune Anyse, from Calais, 82 tons ; the
Amelie, from Rouen, 86 tons ; the Thomas and Anne, from
Dieppe, 61 tons ; the Corkscrew, from Dunkirk, 10 bls. ; the
Sirene, from Rouen, 100 tons ; the Charles and Caroine,
from Calais, 60 tons ; the Pauline, from Dieppe, 60 tons ;
the William Frederick, from Rouen, 50 tons ; the Thorea!
from Rouen, 180 tons ; the Venus, rom Rouen, 130_.t.0,98_,
the Venir, rom Rouen, 110 tons ; the ElizabethB2llll""
tons ;
oe s '
antie frofrmoht imi6e3 St. to nn Rouen,tFs ei;
Pierre,
dr
raeM,
Middle-
ton, from Rouen, 70 tons; the Oak, from Rouen,
the Dandy, from Rotterdam, 100 tons ; the
from Rouen, 112 tons; the Penguin, from joubenn,a9tnyhd
tons;eJcani
te,;
eß.Primrose, from
the Savannah, from Rouen, 175 tons; 120 tons
°from Rouen, 113 to'nso;
Rouen, 83 tons; the Mounotcehaprl.
the Constance Augustine, from Dunkirk,
from
wolfl I
andbe observed,
imported
of London, 134 sacks ;
hampers ; te Thomas and Diary,
the Elvine, from Nantes, 6
the article. It •
Rouen, 51 tons weight
that, with a few excep
toi°finvtehreththee produce of whole of these large sup-
plies of foreign potatoes •
bulk, and f •
from France, and being i n _ forming the entire car-
goes of the vessels, were entitled to the privileges recently
conceded by the authorities for their speedy discharge and
delivery
to their destination.
IVINPERMERE LAER.—Windermere Lake on New
Tear's-day, during the night and following morning, rose
one yard in height. Now, supposing it measured twelve
miles in length (and we believe it is not far short) and to
measure on an average half-a-mile, or 800 yards in breadth.
the increase of water during
the night would be 118,585,600
solid yards. Again, suppose a cubic foot of water to weigh
1,000 ounces, there would be 14,001,428 tons, 11 cwt., 1 qr.,
20 lb. Lastly, Suppose 277,242 cubic inches make a gallon
(Imperial measure), there would be 3,127,335,8E8 gallons
of water, which fell in six hours Our readers may ima-
gine what sort of a shower it was.—Cumberland Pacquet.
SUPERSTITION IN TEE 19TH CENTURY.—ivvo ap-
parently respectable women applied at the surgery of a public
establishment yesterday (Thursday) to he permitted to
place the hand of a man who had been drowned the previous
day on the knee of one of the women, as a cure for the king's
evil, with which it appears she was afflicted. The surgeon
inquired what place of worship she attended, when she re-
plied, "High Church ;" by which it was understood
sho referred to St. Stephen's or St. n Peter's!
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IN TERVIEW WITH KOSSUTH
BY A LEEDS GENTLEMAN.
(From the Leeds Mercury.)
. A private letter, dated Broosa, December, 1850,
has just been received by a gentleman connected with
the Leeds Mercury, from which we are favoured with
some extracts. 'lee writer is an intelligent profes-
sional gentleman, a native of Leeds, who for the last
few years has resided in Asiatic Turkey, and who,
it appears, has had an interview with Kossuth, the
Hungarian patriot, who, with his companions, is now
an exile at Kutaya. The extracts nil', be read with
interest. The writer says :
" You know, of course, that Amer Bey is now in
America as the representative of the Sultan ; the first
occurrence of the kind in the history of Turkey. To
me it is a particularly interesting fact. I believe he
is accompanied by Mr. Brown, the American dragvma
to the American Embassy, on his return to .New
York a few months ego. I know Mr. Brown well,
and in biro the Turkish representative to the United
States will find a vauable friend. The American
missionaries here (for the East is the special field of
American missions) anticipate great results to their
own country from this new embassy to America.
The United States have done nobly in granting
10,000 dollars to pay the expenses of the Sultan's
representative. It will enable him to see the grand
achievements of the Franks.
" A few days ago the Protestants obtained a firman
from the Sultan, for k,ver establishing them in their
privilege to build churches like other Christians, as
the Armenians and Greeks. This was obtained through
the intervention of Sir Stratford Canning, who after
the Sultan bad granted the request, called the chief
men of the Armenian Protestants to his own house, at
Therapier, when he addressed them in the Turkish
language, and so affected were they that they all shed
tears. The Turks like the Protestants better than
other religious sects because of their hatred to images,
relics, and other fooleries of the Roman Catholics.
Our friends in Leeds will rejoice in this spread of
civil and religious liberty. How singular it is that
the Crescent of Mahommedanism should be a pro-
tection to the Cross, as it is the case in thousands of
instances at the present time, where the Sultan ex-
tends the aid of his sovereignty over Christians
driven by persecution from their own land.
" A friend of mine has just returned from Coniah,
the ancient Iconium (see Acts of Apostles) visited by
the Apostles. It is eighteen days' journey from
here, at the rate of thirty miles a day. The people
are little removed from barbarians, and at this day
they live in houses built of mud, with flat roofs. In
winter the streets are impassable, consequently men,
beasts, and cattle all walk upon the roofs, from one
house to another, instead of in the streets, .which are
filled with snow, thrown every morning from the
house tops. Coniah has about 60,000 inhabitants. A
revolution in religious opinions is needed to work a
change ; they are nominally Christians, but a sad
specimen of Christianity, as they live by fraud and
deceit.

"I have not been to Kutaya to see Kossuth (the
Hungarian patriot). I saw him in Broosa. Oh, the
spirit of patriotism that circulates in his soul 1 It
would almost enchant you to hear him talk in Eng-
lish. What then must be the effect of listening to
his eloquence in his own native language ? My inter-
view with him was delightful. I don't wonder at the
enthusiasm with which he is regarded by his country-
men. I believe he is yet destined to accomplish
great things for his country. You will per-
haps scarcely believe it, but he seldom sees a
newspaper, and is ignorant of many of the trans-
actions now going on in Europe, because the
post is very irregular to Kutaya. I should like to
send him two or three numbers of the Mercury,
which I occasionally receive. Many travellers in
passing to Kutaya call at our house, and thus
we have a certain opportunity of forwarding let-
ters, papers, or parcels, as Franks, American or Eng-
lish, are not searched. A friend, an American, from
Kutaya, called a week or two ago. He says' Kossuth is
much dissatisfied with his situation.' He spent two or
three days with him. They (the exiles) live in a
kind of barracks. 1 believe the Turks do all
they can to make him and his associates comfortable,
but you can have no conception of the grand diffe-
rence between English comforts and those of this
country. Here there are no household comforts but
those of your own creation. Without fur coats you
cannot in winter keep yourselves warm, kr the
houses are made to let in and not to keep out the
cold ; and the winters here are intensely cold. Kos-
suth, you know, is under the care of Suliman Bey,
who is a remarkably nice fellow. I had the pleasure
of visiting him here at the palace. He reminded me,
in his looks and manners, of George Goodman, Esq.
(of Leeds); he is like him, too, in form. He is, I
believe, one of the best men Kossuth could have
been placed under, for kindness and urbanity. It
will be pleasing to Kossutia's friends in England to
know that the Hungarian patriot is in the hands of
so kind a keeper us Suliman Bey.
",;early all letters to the exiles are opened, ex-
cept such us we have sent thiough Englishmen or
Americans visiting liutaya. Mr. Longworth, an
Englishman, has married the daughter of the British,
Consul, and next month (January) comes to Eng-
land to publish the history of the Hungarian strug-
gle from Kossuth'. lips."

FATAL ACCIDLiNT To A SOLICITOR.—On lionday,
at Abingdon, an inquest was held to inquire into the death
of Mr. Thomas Fcankum, solicitor. and for many years clerk
to the magistrates in that town. It scented that on Friday,
the 20th ult., the deceased, wall 'Mr. Nichol!, went in a
dog cart to Leeblade, elouce,tendlire, accompanied on the
way by Mr. E. Harris, diaper, and his servant, who were in
another vehicle. When the business which took the parties
to Lechlade was concluded they dined and drank mode-
rately, and returned from there about seven o'clock in the
evening. On their way home they stopped at Farringdon
and Pusey Furze, at both of which places they had refresh-
ments. It was about ten o'clock when they left Pusey
Furze, and when between that place and Kingston Bag-
prime Mr. Nicholl's horse swerved from the road and went
up a by lane, when Mr. Harris passed him, and the former
on getting into the road again whipped his horse, and
passed the other vehicle at a gallop, and then his horse
slackened his pace, and Mr. Harris again passed him, and
they kept in that position at the rate of about twelve miles
au Lour, until on coming to a part of the road where some
heaps of stone were placed at the side for repairs, the
vehicle of Mr. Nichol' Caine in contact with them, and
threw both him and Mr. Frank= out violently, and it was
subsequently found that the thigh of the deceased was frac-
tured by the fall. The coroner ordered a post-mot tern ex-
amination to be made, and the medical evidence showed
that death ensued directly from congestion of the brain.
The jury returned a verdict of " Accidental death."

DEATH OF THE AUTIIO/1 OF " WILD SPORTS OF
THE WEST."—We regret to announce the death of a writer
whose genial and sportive pen has delighted thousands.
Maxwell, the /ash novelist, and author ot innumerable
humorous sketches in the periodical literature of the day,
expired on the 29th of December, at Musselburg, near the
Scottish capital. His generally vigorous health had of late
broken down, and he crept into the retirement of this se-
questered village to die. He had been in early life a captain
is the British army, and was, of course, the deligkt of the
mess-room, and a general favourite in social circles. He
subsequently entered the Church, and was some years pre-
bendary of Balla, a wild Connaught church living, without
any congregation or cure of souls attached to it; though it
afforded what he was admirably capatle of dealing with,
piety of game. Of a warm-hearted, kind, and manly tem-
perament, he made friends of all who came within the range
of his wit, or the circle of his acquaintance. He was the
founder of that school which counts the " Harry Lorrequera"
and others among its humble disciples; but " The Story of
my Life" and " Wild Sports of the West" will not be easily
surpassed in the peculiar qualities of that gay, off-hand, and
rollicking style ot penmanship, of which he was the origi-
nator.

THE LATE PRETENDED POPISH MIRACLE AT
LYONS.. The Gazette de Lyon contains the following : -" Wa
learn that the Commission appointed by the Arclibithop of
Avignon, to examine into the facts affirmed
the picture in the chapel of St. Salumin-les-Apt, has decided
unanimously that there are no grounds for
gnooufncaestOus
further in the matter, as the facts havfealnt:hainn
pwrolctheediregngardantyo
conclusionm iraperuolvoesus
hoinwthe
super-
natural character in them. A letter which we have just t
of a miserable intrigue,
re-
ceived, and which emanates from a person as remarkable for
goocdie
very sad information
his intelligence as for his perfect
that everything
' has been given to us•
re-
ported
the work phenomenon
personi s ofon only the
s of this
neces-
sary it is on all questions . . kind to wat for the deci-
sion of the ecclesiastical authorities, who are alone compe-
tent, and, for our part, we cannot too much applaud our-
selves for having followed the dictates of prudence in our
i patrons
s Ro
reserve on this subject."
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friends
an:AY.
at the Hospital, 76, Queen-street, City; Nathaniel Ainger,
Esq., in the chair. It appeared from the report that this
dispensary, which was founded in the year 1789, for the re-
lief of the sick and diseased poor, in all cases requiring me-
dical and surgical ,
care, had since its opening cured and re-
lieved upwards of 306,759 patients. Upwards of 83.000
visits had been paid to the patients, at their own houses.
The committee thought that the great improvement in the
sanitary condition of the metropolis was to be ascribed to the
facility afforded by dispensaries of checking incipient sick-
ness. The receipts for the past year had amounted to 5581.
ls. 2d.; and the expenses to 5381.105. ; leaving a balance of
19/. lls. 2d. The report was adopted, some formal business
transacted, and a committee appointed for the ensuing year,
after which a vote of thanks to the chairman passed, and the
Meeting separated.

CELEBRATIOrri OF THE EARL OF STAMFORy'S
BIRTHDAY.—On Tuesday, his Lordship's birthday, the Earl
of Stamford and Wallington, gave a bail and supper to Ina
tenantry, at the Cat and Partridge Inn, Enville.
THE GREAT (EEPFCTED) SEASON Of 1851..-_
Every
il.--
Every one is expecting to make a tune in the Great Ex.
hibition Season of Vial. Beds are, by anticipation, going
up in the environs of London, and a large broker, in Broker's-
alloy, is selling so many bedsteads that lie s making a for-
tune at full gallop with feur•posters. Solnehodv has even
proposed to make the bed of the Serpentine available, and
perhaps it woulf nut be a bad idea to throw a Macintosh
cover across the whole turtsce, and thus turn it into one of
those water beds which are sometimes, so strenuously recom-
mended by ''the facult3-. rite plan would have the double
effect of hiding an offensive object and promoting theconveni-
ence of the public i while the Serpentine itself is well adapted
for the purpose of repose, as when anything is said about
cleansing the river the authorities seem determined to go to
sleep upon it.—Punch.

SPRING FLOWERS —During the past week, prim-
roses have been offered for sale in great quantities, wall-
dowers and polyanthuses may also be seen blossoming in
gardens in the neighbourhood. The appearance of these
heralds of sunnier days indicates the unusual mildaina of 14i
present ontlim.--Sussex oicivertiom