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., &c. First half
of Ab. M.
Meeanee colt—Theodine—f by Lochinvar out of
Madcap's dam—Diamond—Ravenswing.
Handicap. D. M.
Iris, 3 yrs, Bst 71b—Bushranger, 4 yrs, 7st 71b—,
./Eolus, 3 yrs, 7st 21b.
Handicap Plate. Cambridgeshire Course.
Vatican, 5 yrs, Bst 101b—Thornhill, 5 yrs, 7st 61b--
Borneo, 5 yrs, Est 1 lib—Retail, 5 yrs, 7st 121b—Louis
Napoleon, 3 yrs, ist 41b—Mokanna, 4 yrs, 6st 111b—
yyrrs Est
6st—No 41 b
Lady Evelyn, 5 yrs, 7st 101b—Abdallah, 4 yrs, 7st 21b
rs6,3t7_st—stP}a,qaubeiattna,,,43
—Prestige, 3 yrs, 6st 101b—Barcelona, 3 yrs' 7't 81b—
itym
pMharenyn,er4ing;r3as:
Chance, 3 yrs, sst 121 b.
LATEST BETTING.
(By ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
CRITERION STAYED,
7 to 4 agst Red Hind—takon
2 to 1 agst Daniel O'Rourke
6 to 1 agst any other
CAMSRIDGESHIRE.
5 to 1 agst Breba
6 to 1 agst Newminster
11 to 1 aget Mountain Deer
20 to 1 agst Haricot
25 to 1 agst Ariosto
30 to 1 agst Hernandez
33 to 1 agst The Nigger
WILTSHIRE CHAMPION COURSING MEETING.

SATURDAY.
The Great Western Cup of 3201.
Deciding Course—Mr. Fowla's na Imprudence bt Mr.
Randali's Rhoda, and won. _

The Druid Cup of 3201.

Deciding Course—Mr. Holilies' Mocking Bird bt Mr.
Minces Merry Lass, and won.
The Stonehenge Stakes.
Deciding Course—Mr. W. Etwall's World'a Fair bt
Mr. Randall's Reuben, and won.

The Elston Stakes.

rence's Lyn Deciding
x, Coand won.rurse—M. Walsh's Waxy bt Mr. Law-
Th© Beacon Hill Stake.
Mr. Bennett's Beam bt Mr. Lawrence's Lopez, and won.
The Everloigh Stakes,

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Major Clowes' Complete bt Mr. Holmes' fedora, and
won.

[ADVERTISEMENT.]
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
I see, Sir, that some impudent pretender
Has ta'en my name; I'm sum '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, sod oblige
Yours,

Newmarket, Oat. 26.

PP►IAM.

REMARKABLE ESCAPE.

An almost miraculous escape from destruction by
a railway train occurred a few evenings since upon
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 sidinga. The night being
quite dark he was beckoning the driver forward in
tne 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 fur nearly half a mile. Fortunately, his voice
washe heard by Samuel Fortune, the gatekeeper at the
lane junction, which the train was then ap-
peroarcrhying, and believing from the cries that some one
had got entangled among the machinery, this indivi-
dual with great presence
of mind exhibited the danger
signal, and the driver atoncereversed the engine and.
brought the train to a
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providential escape of their friend may
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imagined.

CHARGE AGAINST A CLERGYMAN.
An inquiry, which occupied seven days, under the
3d and 4th Victoria, c. 36, 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 llalliwell, 16 years old, gave birth in the month
of May last. The girl, who up to a short time before
her confinement bad been a scholar, and afterwards
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 Yen. Arch-
deacon Musgrave ; the Rev. John Bell, vicar
Bothwell; the Rev. \V. Tait, incumbent of Trinity
Church, Wakefield ; Mr. E. R. Wheatley, of Mir-
field ; and Mr. T. Cooke, 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.

BLOO.2II.ERLDI EXTRAORDINARY.
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 arm-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 exposed 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 of 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.

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 ...
Hants ..
Isle of Wight
Stourbridge
Surrey „,
Worcester

Duty.

£974 5 61
11,711 16 2
8,629 5 7i
2,402 12
299 5 5i
6,%7 13 3;

£30,084 183
Old duty at 1 12-20 d. per lb. 16,963
41 12 1 12.20
1 8-20
0 :
New duty at 8-20 d. per lb. 12,5
Additional duty of 5 per cent..
per Act 3 Vic., c. 17

l ,475 5 11

£30,984 1 3 1 The returns from the remainder of the districts will be
published as soon as received.

Inland Revenue Office, BroaL d-street, Oct.. S.
LYNE.
25
A.,
1&51.
and C. G.

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IMPROVEMENT OF GREENWICH PARK.—The com-
mittee appointed at the late vestry met on Thursday, to con.
eider 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
the
alsofoor et
resolved
eeosnfotl
zaveaid f et deter-
minationo.
ranger. At the time, however, such portion was enclosed it
and Forests in the
was understood that it was only to continue enclosed during
the life-time or residence of the then Princess of Wales, and
nal reason for the
that at her death or removal it should again be thrown open
agittlurtdhneetnagin should e placed in the
top artkli-ek public.eepoefr ,park-keepers
h leglair
Commissioners
committee m
that
hm
ai
ttt e
was
ev consideraosf aWoodsatledtiatwti byadditional
sth e
ranger's e
trta'
that
closed many years, should be thrown
beenthat a carriage road should be formed from
Blackheath,oheurpeeirlsnegi tnteorw;retahhaotiniafcodthuthaahoenitafsorsoet oshterhenre gate at St. Mary's Church. These im-
provements, we hope, will be carried out. The necessity has
often beam urged in these columns.—lCehtish Mercur
THE LIVERPOOL COUNTY COURT.Sliaiurd
was received that it was the intention of theay
j information
udg
etohold a court of inquiry concerning the conduct of
e lltohfe the
5 th
the clerk of the court,
preparatory to the investigation before
at lit
e P Cr
ehs at
on ri, on
c
o rY
which is appointed to take place
proximo; but although all the officers
of the court were in tt a endance until four o'clock Mr. Run-
shay did not appear, and the court will not be opened until
Monday (this day.)
DRURY-LANE THEATRE.-311r. Bann is in Paris,
actively employed in making engagements for his ensuing
season; and amongst others he is in treaty with Alboni,whe
is nightly filling the Academie de Musique.
ofthl4e Mersey for
passengers,
the u,sual mails, and a good general freight.o
DEPARTURE OT THE ROYAL MAIL STEAD. SKIP
AFRICA.—On Saturday forenoon, at 25 minutes past eleven,
the British and North American Royal Mail steam-ship
Africa,ew C
Yorkaptain direct,L placeohtatvcinngon of
board wßuYprie)ad 'rlestt: