The Sun.
London, England, 1869-05-27 00:00:00

THEFT OF £430 BY SHA.RPE.RS,

On Monday one of those tricks was performed in Man-
:heater which make people wonder at the confiding sim-
plicity which some people display in their intercourse with
strangers. The victim was a young gentleman from
Bury, whose name is Ingham, and the facts are these :
NIL Ingham had been spending a few days in London,
and at the Alhambra Music Hall he fell in with two men
with whom he seems to have formed a friendly acquaintance.
They went to different places of amusement together, and
on Mr. Ingham's return to Manchester they accompanied
him. Between one and two o'clock they went into the
Thatched House Hotel, where Mr. Ingham treated his
two companions to some champagne. While enjoying the
N% hie the conversation turned on the Derby, and they
got on betting. A large bet was made, Mr. Ingham pro-
duced £430, and laid the sum in notes upon the table. One
of the sharpers produced notes, most probably flash ones, to
the amount of £64, 'which he laid against the larger sum.
One of the men, under pretence of holding the stakes,
got possession of the whole, and then inventing some excuse
for a momentary absence, ho went out. The other shortly
afterwards made an ex use to go out; and Mr. Ingham, after
waiting some minutes for their return, began to feel a dis-
agreeable suspicion that he had been "sold." The enter-
taining companions of his travels wero, in fact, a couple of
sharpers, who had succeeded in possessing themselves of
his £430.

THE METROPOLITAN HORSE SHOW

FOR 1869.

The sixth annual horse show at the Agricultural Hall,
which will commence next Saturday, will present several •
remarkable features of novelty. Hitherto the incidents
connected with this now regularly recurring exhibition,
which possessed most interest for the general public, were the
trial of hunters over furze•covered hurdles. This year the
competition to which we have referred will be made still
more exciting by the addition to the barriers of a water.
leap some 12ft. or 14ft. wide. Velocipede races, to be
held on a space reserved for these contests in the galleries,
will doubtless at the present season attract large
numbers of spectators, who will have an opportu-
nity at the same time of seeing specimens of almost
every modification of the bicycle machine which
has hitherto been invented. Vocal and instrumental con-
certs will, it is arranged, be held in the new auxiliary
hall, which will be also fitted up as a fancy bazaar. This
magnificent apartment, which contains a spacious stage, is
upwards of 100 ft. by 75ft. wide, and will afford ample
acommodatiun for some 2,r.03 visitors. The prizes offered
for competition in the several classes of horses will amount
to nearly £l,OOO. I n the first class of hunters—weight carriers
of not less than 15 stone—three prizes of £SO, £4O, and
.k2O respectively will be awarded. In class 2, -for hunters,
no condition as to the weight-carrying power being re-
quired, the prizes will be £5O, £25, and £l5 respec-
tively ; in Class 3, for hunters not exceeding 15 hands
2 inches high, two prizes of £4O and £2O respec-
tively ; and in Class 4, for hunters four years old,
two prizes of £5O and £25 respectively. In addition
to these awards the Agricultural Hall Company will
give a gold medal, value £25, which will be adjudged

to the best of the first four prize horses in the four
classes specified above. In Class 13, for thorough-bred
horses, the first prize wilt be coo In auitlcton to a rn cdal
given by the Agricultural Hall Company ; and in the
classes in which stallions exclusively are enumerated the
prizes will be .£3O, £l5, and £lO respectively. Three
prizes ranging in value from £2,0 to £5 will also be offered
in each of the following classes :—Riding horses, harness
horses, park hacks, and ladies' horses, cover hacks,
roadsters, park cobs, and ponies. Agricultural, cart, and
dray horses are excluded from the Metropolitan Show.

The man Breardy, who murdered his young daugh-
ter at Carlton, near Glasgow, on Friday, has died from hie
self-inflicted injuries.

The dedication festival of St. Augustine's Church,
Haggerston, one of those which have recently been erected
in Shoreditch, was observed on Wednesday.
The Conservatives of Leeds are to be asked to at-
tend a great demonstration against the Irish Church Bill at
Leeds on Saturday.
A telegram from Wick states that another boat has
been lost in Shetland, in North Mavine ; three or four of
the crew are drowned. She was upset while returning
from the haddock fishing.

A telegram from Birmingham, dated this morning,
says :—" Violent thunderstorms have occurred here. A
perfect deluge of rain has fallen since midnight. Mr. Plant
reports that his observations show that the rainfall since
&fay 3d has been unprecedentedly large."
The betting-house keepers of Manchester will have
reason to remember the Whitsun and Derby weeks of 1869.
Another of the fraternity was taken before the City magis-
trates on Tuesday, and fined .£75 for keeping a betting-office.
This raises the total amount of fines for the offence to
£1,400, and there have been no defaulters.
There are very many, says a contemporary,
who will regret to hear that Mr. Peabody will leave Englan
probably for the last time, on Saturday next. He has beau
for some little time past in ch_elining health, and in yielding
to a natural desire to return to his native place, every one
will hope that he will regain his strength, and that the
symptoms which have occasioned uneasiness will pass away.

The inquest on the Liverpool herbalist who poisoned
limself and a patient by ono of his preparations for rheu-
matism has resulted in a verdict to the effect that ho died
from having voluntarily and ignorantly eaten a portion of a
plant commonly called Monkshood or Wolf's bane. The
woman to whom the deceased administered the poison is
under the care of a regular medical practitioner, and is
recovering.

The papers report some improvement in the
Bishop of Salisbury's condition, but it is not, we fear, of
character to build much hope of any speedy recovery.
The Bishop of Carlisle remains in a very critical state,
but his mind is and has been perfectly clear. The real
nature of the disease undo- which he is greatly suffering is
obscure, and great hare are entertained for the result, though
his friends are by no means without hope of a favourable
issue. Prayers are general in the churches of the diocese
to his behalf.—Guardian.

The first annual report of the Registrar-General
for Ireland has been published. From the general summary
we gather that in 1864 the estimated population was
5,675,307. The number of marriages registered was 27,40 G ;
there were 136,414 births and 93,144 deaths. The emigrants
during the year were 114,169. Of the 54,812 persons mar-
ried, 10,574 men and 13,778 women signed the register with
marks—that is, nearly one-half could not write their names.
In England the proportion is about one in four, and in Scot-
land, among the males, one in 8-72, and among the females
Dne in 4-10.
The Yen. Archdeacon Cust on Tuesday commenced
at Ripon his first annual visitation to the clergy of the arch-
deaconry of Craven. The Rev. Canon accepted the result of
the general election and the overwhelming majorities in the
House of Commons in favour of Mr. Gladstone's "astound-
ing" propositions, as proofs which must convince them that
"the doom of the Irish branch of our Church is sealed," and
he directed attention rather to the danger to the Church
from within, from the excessive and mistaken zeal of those
who declaimed against the connection of the State with the
Church as a yoke from which they woad ji4cllx..lo fpcy

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE—This Day

EPSOM SUMMER MEETING—THIS DAY.
(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH)
RESERVED LAWN STAKES.
Fugitive
66 1
Curio ...... 2
Mysotis ...... 3
Nine ran.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

EPSOM RACES-YESTERDAY.
EPSOM TOWN PLATE.

1

Conrad .
Fugitive..
Prince Imperial a
Eleven ran.
THE DERBY.

PRETENDER, Sst 10:b (J. Osborne) 1
PERO GOMEZ, Sst 101 b (Wells) 2
DRUMMER, Bst 101 b (Morris) 3
Duke of Beaufort, Bst 101 b (Cannon) 4
Ityshwortli, Bst 101 b (Maidment)
The following also ran :
Thocwaldsen, Fst bulb (Chaloner) 0
flaw; horn, Bst 11db (Hudson) 0
Belladrum, Bst 101 b (J. Daley) 0
Ladas, Bst 10th
Ferry Down, SA 101 b (Butler) 0
Alvrtyrdorn, B,t 101 b
De Vero, Bst 101 b (Grimshaw) 0
Border Knight, Bst 101 b (Snowden) 0
Ethos, Bst 101 b .. (J. Goater) 0
Alpenstock, Bst 101 b (Mr. Bevill, juu.) 0
The ..iEgean, Bst 101 b
Rupert, Bst 101 b
King Cophetua, 8$ 101 b (J. Adams) 0
Tasman, Bst 101 b
Neuchatel, Bst 101 b (Hammond) 0
Defender, Bst 101 b
Tenedos, Bst 101 b (Metcalf) 0
EPSOM MANOR STAKES.
My Honey
Thunderclap
Sabrina

Eighteen ran.
BURGH STAKES.

Cast-off
Coral colt

Hinton

1

3

Eleven ran.
BEN TIN CK PLATE.

•
Fugitive
Mysotis
Hecate 3
Thirteen ran.
LATEST BETTING ON THE COURSE.
THE OAKS.
9 to 4 agst Morna (taken)
7 to 2 aget Scottish Queen (taken)
10 to 1 agst Dryad (taken)

Race Glasses, by Voigtland, are now no longer the ex-
clusive luxury of the rich. Since the great demand for
photographic lenses has diminished, au opportunity has
been afforded for applying mechanical power with the
greatest succes, whereby the cost of these beautiful and
most perfect instruments is reduced in price in some
instances to as much as 20 por cent. In fact they are now
no dearer than those of the best French or English makers.
At the depot Aallaghan, 23A, New Bond-street, corner of
Conduit-street, the patrons of the Derby may indulge
their taste in the possession of a veritable Voigtlander at
comparatively trifling cost. It is superfluous to say the
quality is as ever matchless.

RACING FIXTURES.

J UNE.

Croydon 2,3, 4 1 Newcastle 22, 23, 21
Newton 2,3, 4 Odiham 22
Newark 3 Bibury Club 23
Barnstaple 3 Stockbridge 94, 25, 2G
Ascot .....8, 9, 10, 11 New Forest Hunt
Boveley 9 (Lyndhurst) 28
Windsor 15, 16 1 Chelmsford
tn liapton l7, 18 Liverpool Summer ...29, 30
Curragh 22, 23, 24 Sutton Park .....29, 80
JI.LY

Worcester l, 2
Newmarket July 6, &c.
Carlisle
Hendon ..... 9, lt)
Poutefract l2, 13
Nottingham l3, 14
Southampton 13, 14
AUG

Down Royal Corpo. l4
Airdrie 15
Beading 15, 16
Knutsford 16
Huntingdon 2O, 21
Stamford
Goodwood 27, 28, 29, 30
JST.

Deauville 1
Ripon 2
Brighton 3, 4
Tiverton 1
Brighton Club 5
Lewes 6, 7
Eguam lO, 11
Wolverhairpton lO, II
Windsor 12, 13
Bronilpy . 17, 18
Stockton
Dovcr 18 I
SEirli

Oxford
Hunger furd 24
York 24, 25, 26
Croydon
P 1) mouth 26, 21
Scarborough -..30, 31
Baden Badun 3l
Great Yarmouth 31
Derby Summer .. 31, Sep. 1
Weymouth 3l, Sop 1
Cauterbury .......,.:31, Sep. 1

Nlargato
Ipswich 2
\Vest liniyton 3
Warwick._ 7, 8
Curnigh (lioyal) 7, 8, 9
Abingdon
Dont.Aistur l-1, 13, 16, 17
Hampton 2l, 22
OCT
Bedford 5, 6
Edinburgh 6, 7, 8
Leicester 7, 8
llt vniloy- 7 8
Newmarket 2d 0ut...11, &c.
Chelmsford l9 20
Kelso 19 20
NOV]

Harrow ...2, 3
Worcester ...... .....„ 5, 4
St. Albans 5,- ti