The Sun.
London, England, 1851-09-06 00:00:00

LONDON,

Scurry Stakes, 5 'soya. e .eh, it.h 25 sous. added. Argle-
sey Post. Two soya. each for entrance.-
Lord Waterford's oh f by Birdcatcher—Ferdita, 3
yrs, ist 41b • (1). Doyle) 1
Mr. R. Noweornen's oh f Lady Cecilia, 2 yrs. 91b 2
Capt. Jobnston's br m Carbuncle, 5 yrs, Sat 21b • 3
Mr. Irwires ch g Pio None, 4 yea, 73t 4
Mr. M. J)ucne'a b m Portia, 5 yrs, Bst 7113,
Betting-2 to 1 each agst.Perdita filly and Lady
Cecilia, 4 to rapt Carbuncle and Pio N0ri0..., Perdita
filly made the running, 'followed ~by Parbanek and
Portia, in wbich order they continued• to the L2rd-
Lieutenant's gate, when Lady Cecilia came up and took
second place, bat-could not reach Perdita, which *on
cleverly by a length, Carbuncle obtaining third place.
Sweeepstakes of 10 soya:, h ft, with 20 sore. added from
the Trainers' Fund, and 20 soya. from the Turf Club..
Waterford Post. (10 Subs.)
Sir T. Burke's ch c Brother to Chanticleer, 3 yrs.
7st 7tia:. (G. Harrison) 1
.Lord Waterford's oh c Captain Grant, 4 yrs, Bst 91b 2
Mr. J. Barron's b o Mallet, 3 yrs, 7st ... ... 3
Mr. Nolan's bl c Dauphin, by Tearaway, 3 yrs, fiat 61b
Lord Waterford's ch.f by Birdcatcher—Perdita, 3 yrs 0
Mr. Quin's b Whiff, 3 yrs, 7st 41b •0
Betting-2 to 1 agst Mallet, 3to 1 agst Daupbin, 4to
1 agst Br to. Chanticleer, 3 to 1 eget Captain Grant.
Perdita filly led, followed by Whiff to the chains, when
Captain Grant and Br to Chanticleer passed them. The
latter Tau out at the blue post and lost some ground. He,
however, came up again at the distance, and heading
the Captain, won by two lengths.
The Anglesey Stakes of 10 toys., p p, for two yrs old;
colts, Bat 41b; fillies Bst. Anglesey Post. 50 80V4.
added. _ Second Hors° to save his stake. The winner
of the race to give three dozen of Champagne to the
Club on the day.of the race. (30 Subso
Mr. Disney's oh c Indian Warrrior, by
.Napier t 1
Mr. Ilyland'a bor ,br c by Magpie—Allegrette t 2
Mr.:Cplgan's oh Iby Harkaway—Victoria
Mr. Dunne'a b c Redmond O'Hanlon.: 0 0
Mr. M. Dunne's oh e Warhawk
Mr. Harrison's clic Taunder
Mr. Keegan's.ch f Matilda bed, . 0 0
Mr. Watt's oh f by Magpie—Flighty
Betting-2. to 1. agst Indian Warrior, 5. to 2 agst
Allegrette colt, 3 to 1 agst Redmond °Manion, 5 to 1
agst Flighty, .10 to 1 agst arty other. A good start was
effected, the lot running close together to the bank,
where Indian Warrior, Victoria filly, and Allegretto
colt quitted the nick; Victoria gave way Mille Lord-
Lieutenant's gate, and her place was taken by Allegrette
colt; bz,tween which and Indian Warrior a desperate
struggle ensued to the chair, which ended in a dead heat.
Betting on the deciding heat-6 to son Allegretto
colt, who took a alight lead, and maintained it to the
half distance, where the Warrior came up, collared him,
and, after a fine ince, won by a length. Magee rode
the winner in this heat, having been substituted for
Lilly. A great deal of money changed hands, Mr.
Diiney being a winner to a large amount.

CRICKET.

ELEVEN OF ENGLAND V. FIFTEEN OF SHEFFIELD.
—This • match -was brought to its- conclusion on
Wednesday night, at the Hyde-park Ground, Shef-
field. As is usual upon there occasions at Sheffield, the
town turned out nearly the whole of its inhabitants, all
of whom wended their way up the heights to Hyde-park,
which, as we have in former years stated, is the most
singularly-beautiful situated .ground in the kingdom.
The Sheffielders were unsuccessful this time, or rather
they were well beaten, for the Eleven won in one innings
by 24 runs.

THE INCOME-TAX.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUM

Sur,—The commercial community are indebted to
you for your opposition to the continuance of that
part of the income-tax which is levied on industry.
Government no doubt are alarmed at the idea of
losing such a source of revenue; but a substitute for
this loss seems to me so easily suggested that lam
much surprised to observe that no one has pointed
out a less objectionable tax. You know that per-
tonal property, when descending to heirs, is liable to
the legacy and probate duty, and that freehold pro-
perty, similarly situated, is not liable to legacy and
probate duty unless the property is ordered to be sold.
Now, can you assign any just reason why freehold
property should be exempt from a tax which is levied
upon personal property ? I trow not ; therefore I
would propose that this probate and legacy duty
should be levied on freehold property, to compensate
for the repeal of the income-tax on industry.
Liverpool.

I am, Sir: tte.
EQUIS.

LONDON MECHANICS' , INSTITUTION. Mr. E.
Wheeler yesterday delivered electure at this institution on
" The His'ory, Principles, and Construction of the Conway
and Britannia Tubular Iron Bridges." After some prelimi-
nary remarks on bridges, Mr. Wheeler addressed himself to
an elucidation of the texture and properties of iron, as wit-
nessed in its resistance to tensile strain and compression.
He as first showed the superior strength of cast-iron against
a compressing force; of wrought-iron against a tensile
strain; and then entered into an account of the experiments
tried by Mr. Stephenson at the request of the directors of
the Chester and Holyhead Railway, in order to ascertain
whether such a bridge required might be successfully.
constructed. By the aid of sketches and plans he exhi-
bited the mode of testing ,resorted to, and the various dif-
culties which -had)been encountered and overcome. On
his models he pointed out the deflections in the tubes, which
in various places, and at different times during the expe-
riments, overweighting had occasioned, reminding his hear-
ers that the result which they saw in the mass had been ar-
rived at bit by bit ; and that three years ago truths which
they now recognised as simple and almost self-evident were
utterly. unknown. After a careful and intelligible illustra-
tion of the respective strengths of iron bars, rods, and wires,
and much enforcement of the importance, in this respect, of
a proper disposition of the metal, he described most parti-
cularly the Conway-bridge, remarking' on the apparent
thinness of its sides, made of cast iron only half an inch
thick, and then pOinting out the rigidity 'given to them by
the iron ribs which ,are attached. He next told how the
principles elicited from the success of experiments had been
applied in the construction of the Conway-bridge, and con-
cluded by promising to add some details of interest in his
next lecture on the same subject.
CHARGE AGAINST THE TURNKEYS OP THE KNUTs-
FORD House OF -ConnEurtore.—Joseph Leigh, Edward
Shore, John Burgess, . and three other turnkeys, were en
Saturday last brought up before Trafford Trafford, Esq.,
and a bench of fourteen magistrates, on a charge of,having
acted in concert to employ a prisoner in the gaol to make
shoes, &c., on their private account, under a promise to
give him 10s. each on his discharge. This promise,- it was
alleged, they failed to keep, and the prisoner immediately
wrote to Sir George Grey, the Home Secretary, informing
him. that during his incarceration he bad been employed by
the turnkeys to make shoes for their private use, and that
the leather had been supplied from the prison stores., Upon
receipt of this letter, Sir George caused an inquiry to be in-
stituted, and' the result of an examination by Irwin and
Douglass, of the constabulary, was the finding of fourteen
pairs of new shoes in Shore's house. These shoes bore a
private mark of the informer, who had previously made the
constables acquainted with it. Several other pairs of shoes
were found in the pos,session of the others. The testimony
of the informer, and other witnesses, decided the bench to
commit all the accused for trial, at the next assizes at
Chester. Leigh has been a turnkey for near twenty years,
and has a wife and six children. Shore has also a wife 'und
four children. One of the prisoners, we are informed, is a
nephew of the Governor. Other charges, we understand,
were also preferred against the officers of the prison, the
nature of which we
_are unable to give, owing to the exa-
minations being conducted with closed doors.—Manchester
Guardian.' , • ,

MUTE OF TED REV. MR. WILKIE.—We have to
record the painful intelligence of the death of the Reverend
David Wilkie, the respected minister of the East Free con-
gregation, Forfar, which took place at Liverpool, on Friday
evening last. Mr. Wilkie had gone to Liverpool forthe pur-
pose of soliciting subscriptions to aid in the erection of the
new East Free Church. On the Thursday preceeding the
day of his .death, he had been on a visit to St. George's Hall.
On passing along the interior of the building, he acciden-
tally • fell down one cf the many openings which are in the
corridor and passages, and in the fall be broke his leg. He
was immediately conveyed to the infirmary, where he was
promptly attended to, and during the whole of that evening
seemed to be progressing satisfactorily towards recovery. On
Friday, bewever, fever ensued. followed by alarming symp-
toms, which . terminated fatally that evening. This event
has cast a great glooM over the whole town. but especially
over the little Bock of Which he had been the pastor only for
a short time..—Dundee Warder. _ _

ACCIDENT TO J. R. MULLINGB, EsQ.,
Tuesday morning, as the Hon. Memi-er for Cirencester was
proceeding in his gig to attend the Sheriff's Court for the
election of coroner, at Cheltenham, he met with an accident
which totally prevented his being present. Ho had gone but
a short distance up the street, when his horse suddenly took
fright and ran off at a furious pace, and shortly after passing
the Ram, Mr. Mullicgs, seeing the animal was determined to
turn the next corner,' pushed him at all hazards against the
shop window in front. • The horse thus controlled jumped
right through the window and doorway into the shop, over
a child sitting on the steps, who escaped unhurt, dragging
the gig with him. Mr. Mullings was thrown by the concus-
sion with considerable force on the pavement and against
the wall; fortunately sustaining but a few severe bruises,
which, however, are not of a serious character.—Cheltenham
Chronicle. • •
•
BLOWING UP A CASH SAFE WITH GUNPOWDER.—
Between twelve and two o'clock on Monday morning week,
the counting house, and vaults of Alderman R. Wilson and
Co., spirit merchants, Brumley, were broken open and plun-
dered. After forcing admittance into the premises, the
robbers secured about lU. in cash belonging to a local insti-
tution, together with several bottles of spirits and porter.
They then proceeded to blow open the cash safe with gun-
powder, anti succeeded in their object, but the explosion ap-
pears to have been greater than they had calculated upon.
It was so terrific that 'not cnly was the safe blown up, but
the neighbourhood alarmed, and one of the robbers, it is sup-
posed, was injured. However that may be, the noise of the
explosion, or the personal injury they had themselves sus-
tained, so scared the thieves that they decamped without
plundering or even examining the safe. Information was
immediately given to the
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ceeded to investigate the matter, and about three o'clock the
rolling
.about Pudsey quite drunk, with a powder flask in his
de-
tained Dawson, and ascertained that he had been absent
from his lodgings all night. Davrson's fingers had been in-
jured, and were tied up. The prisoner was remanded.—Leeds
Mercury. ut3pr police,
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CONETITpENCY or LIVERPOOL.—It appears
from the list of persons qualified to vote for Members for
Liverpool, that the constituency now amounts to upwards of
eighteen thousand electors. The number of household
voters has about doubled itself in twenty years, but there has
been a considirable decrease in the number of freemen. The
decrease in the number of freemen would have been still
greater, if the 'regulations of several trades,_ as carpenters,
sailmakers,-and'shipWrights, did not require a seven years'
apprenticeship previous to working as a johrneyman. In
p; into lights there is no difference between the
C, iced,
4en pound fiensehtildei i‘nd the freeman; and the exemption
from town dues has no,iniltience except with the higher class
of freemen. Liverpool Times.

SATURDAY EVENING,

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE :MORNING D.,121,1tS Gl' THIS DAY.
TiLES be annoyances insepatenle, from any,
system of Customs regulations are bed enough with-
out nay unneceseery agaravation. It is sufficisntly
tiresome for a traveller wise has been tossed about
' through a long autumn's night at the mercy of winds
unit waves to bo detained for hours at the portals of a
kingdom, even if the amount of his luggage should
in a manner justify the detention. Bus to those who
travel in light marching order—to the man of busi-
ness with his carpet bag—to the tourist with his
campstool and sketching-book, the annoyance is in-
tolerable. Every minute of delay is stretched out
into an hour from a sense of absurdity and injustice
of the situation. Now, however; much we may be
in the habit tilt uttering complaints lainst the petty
;?wanton and anton procrastination of foreign
douaniers, is it quite so clear that we are not
throwing stones out 'of glass-houses ? Are our ar-
rangements, either in .London or at the various
outports, so well condtietederthat- we are jus-
tified in holding ourselves ' the eyes of
Europe as models of fiscal arrangement and dis-
patch ? We doubt it'much. Leta traveller from the
Continent land where he Will on the British shore
from Harwich to Southampton, and he will find an
unhappy uniformity of delay and mismanagement.
Arrangements which should be of the simplest nature
are unnecessarily complicated, without any obvious
advantage either to the great bulk of the passengers
or to the interests of the Exchequer. Sometimes, as
at Dover and Folkestone, there is a shallow pretence
of examiniDg a single article belonging to each pas-
senger ; but we put it to the experience of all per-
sons who may have availed themselves of this privi-
lege, if petty delays have not been so idly interposed
that in nineteen cases out of twenty they have been
compelled to take refuge for the night at some one or
other of the extortionate caravanserais with which
these parts are thickly studded ? Twenty minutes or
half an hour being allowed between the arrival of the
boat and the departure of the train, how often does
it happen that the most moderate per-centage of the
passengers have succeeded in reaching the rail-
way terminus with the simplest articles of baggage?
The Custom-house at London has its own peculiar
annoyances., 'These are, indeed, of a different cha-
-1 ratter, but yet they are sufficiently distressing to the
patient. It does not, indeed, so frequently happen
that the scheme of his journey is so violently inter-
rupted, inasmuch as London in ordinary cases, is the
journey's end. .To make up for this comparative
benefit, the period of the detention is aggravated in a
fourfold degree. The nuisance must be endured by
persons who, in all probability, are jaded and worn to
an'extreme point of fatigue by the accomplishment of
a protracted journey. Their home and their friends
may be at hand, but the one they cannot reach and
the others they may not behold until they have
passed through two hours of dirty purgatory
near London-bridge. All this is aggravated
by the consciousness that their sufferings
are inflicted with no better object than to satisfy,
the demands of an extortion so petty that it con-
tents itself with the amount of a beggar's aims.
The trumpery fine is nothing, but the delay is every-
thing to the over-spent traveller. Far less burden-
some would it be if a capitation tax were imposed on
all passengers who may land at the port of London
than this paltry levy of sixpence upon every article of
heggege they may clear through the Custom-house.
The head-money might be dropped in the hand of the
man who takes the tickets, and no delay ensue. The
sixpenny impost on the carpet bags and portmanteaus
leads to indefinite vexation and delay. We published
yesterday a letter from a correspondent, who calls at-
tention to this contemptible extortion in question and
to its coesequences. He, it appears, had started
from Boulogne by steamer in company with some
300 passengers. Many of these had no more than
a single article of baggage, containing the usual
tourist's equipment. Nothing could have been
more simple than that the Custom-house officer
who boarded the vessel should have examined these
trumpery packsges before the vessel arrived at the
wharf. A few strips of lead and a pair of pinchers,
with the Customs' stamp, would effectually have dis-
armed all tampering with such baggage after exami-
naafi:). Tnere is plenty of time between Graysend
and London for the performance of all needful solem-
nities. This may be thought too awful a violation of
the traditionary humdrum of the Custom-house. But
half a dozen smart searchers could certainly have
turned 150 or 200 carpet bags inside out in half an
hour after the vessel had been moored to the quay.
What was the actual course of the affair ? Every
package was twisted from the grip of its astonished
owner. U.le'passengers were driven like a flock of
sheep into one of the dirty close waiting-rooms of the
Custom-house to wait the pleasure of the officials.
This pleasure manifested itself, after a long delay,
by a summons to ten of the expectant wretches to
fight their way through the crowd and struggle
up a narrow flight of stairs into a room where the
searchers were ready to perform their work. "A
few minutes elapsed," writes our correspondent, " ten
more are emancipated, and at each fresh departure a
scene ensues which reminds one of what we used to
call a scrunainage ' in our public schooldays, except
that the presence of ladies adds to the excitement and
increases the confusion on this occasion." The mind
can with diffitulty be brought to admit the necessity
of this hubbub and turmoil. The slightest degree of
foresight or arrangement would be sufficient to
obviate it all: It is not until we are told that the
Custom-house officials exact a fine of sixpence for
every parcel they search that we begin to understand
the object of turning the Custom-hhuse of England's
capital city into a Black Mile or Bartholomew Fair
such as this. Even so, and admitting the propriety of
filching sixpence on every article of baggage a tra-
veller may bring into the port of London, why cannot
the ceremony of extortion be performed a little more
expeditiously and with less annoyance to the patient ?
It it very hard if a man be throttled against a door-
post for two hours to pick his pocket of sixpence.
DAILY NEWS.—A tone of greater moderation
and forbearance on the affairs of the Deccan now
prevails in the journal connected with the East India
House. The 'Court of Directors and the Govern-
ment of India are no longer' urged to depose the
Nizam, and to annex his dominions; but hopes are
expressed that his new Minister, Suraj-eol-Moolk,
will be able to satisfy Lord Dalhousie 's pecuniary
demands. An expectation is indulged in that the
Deccan may be allowed to remain under his High.
ness's'rule and• dynasty; end even excuses are made
for the precipitation with which the Governor-Gene-
ral his acted in this affair. An apology might, with
still more propriety, have been added, for the most
improper, uncourteous, insolent, and impolitic letter
addressed by Lord Dalhousie to the Nizam---a com-
munication which must have made that accomplished
gentleman, General Fraser, the greater part of whose
life has been passed at oriental courts, blush for his
superior, white presenting it to that Severeign Prince.
And here we ,must, before going: further, again ob-
ject `to the continued absenCe of Lord Dalhousie
from 'the seat of the supreme government of Indies
from the Council intended by the Imperial Legisla-
ture to inform the Governor-General, to share in his
deliberations, 'to partake—if they agreed with his
policy, and to record their reason if they opposed
his acts—responsibilities, and from all those archives
and records without access to and use of which, it is
impossible for an unexperienced viceroy like Lord Dal-
housie to put 'himself into a position to decide pro-
perly on sucls'iuomentous questions as peace or war,
as the extinction or preservation of subordinate
states, as to the continuance or overthrow of rights
of native succession to vacant principalities, as to the
construction of treaties, and as to the effects of nego-
tiations spreading over a series of years. Within the
last seven or eight years the cost of these absences of
Governors. General from Ca'cutta has not been less
than half a million sterling, over and above their
ordinary and most liberal salaries of 25,0001. a year.
But in the cases of Lords Ellenborough and Har-
dingo, they had the very sufficient excuses of war to
carry them away. 'Whereas now, Lord Dalhousie
has no such apology for his continued desertion of the
Council Chamber at Calcutta ; it is in peace that he
continues away, retarding useful legislation,
lowering the character of his Council by su-
perseding its most important functions and
substituting and surrounding himself by an 'agree-
able family party, facile to his will, and distin-
guishe et for anything but statesmanship. Nor, since
Lord Dalhousie will take such important steps as
ordering the seizure of the Nizem's choicest terri-
tories, whilst ' cooling himself in the mountains of
Thibet, must his friends be offended by being re-
minded that these absences are largely profitable to
him ; that they enable him to save nearly the whole
of his ordinary salary; and that his Lordship's ex-
penditure on his travels has been so profuse as to have
attracted very general attention and nearly as much
animadversion. The finances of India can ill bear
the charges of new silver howdahs. When the wives
of high functionaries in other parts of the empire
join their husbands, it is not their practice to ask for
payment of the ladies' travelling expenses from the
and people will not look
Treasury at Whitehall;
favourably on noblemen who, going out poor, come
back wealthy from the government of India. On
every ground, then, public and private, per-
sonal and national, Lord Dalhousie ought
to return where he can have the advert-
tsge of the advice of his council, or Lord
Broughton de Gyfford ought to ask Parliament
for power to enable the council to accompany the
Governor-General on such prolonged travels as these;
for the freseni system of giving him a council to con-
and then enabling him to evade the advice by
getting out of its way whenever be pleases, is too
flagrant an absurdity
RS displayed under the Dal-
housie, regime to lest, even though thereis at home A
kindred anomaly its the' relations between the Court
of Directors end the Board of Control. Returning,
however, to the Deccan, it is, we are told, a mistake
to suppose that the British army, maintained at the