The Sun.
London, England, 1860-10-01 00:00:00

SPORTING NOTES.

The most remarkable feature in last week's races was the
meeting of Dundee, Walloon, Little Lady, Queen of the
Vale, and Evenhand, it being the first appearance of the
latter, a good-ookin3-, fine-sized colt, by Mildew out of
Underhand's dam, who was, however, too " backward" to
perin't of his showing his true form on this occasion. The
Ring, true to their instincts, stood the field bravely against
the " Bonnie Dundee," but short though the distance—three
furlongs 217 yards—wag, neither of Lord Stanford's
could effect his overthrow, Walloon, who was ridden
in a very jolly fashion, cutting it at the top of the hill
when it looked " any odds" on him. The filly was
then brought into play, and Dundee, who lay off in the
early part of the race, had to be called upon to reach
her, and to effect which both whip and spur were in re-
quisition, but after being struck three or four times he won
by a neck, the cowardly Walloon finishing two lengths
behind his little stable companion, who, had she " come
through," would very possibly have effected the overthrow
of the favourite. Thus the stain of his only defeat this
year is wiped away, for Lady Clifden only beat him half
a length in the Tyro Stakes at the Liverpool Spring, and the
61b improvement manifested on Tuesday last will more
than make up for that defeat. It might be presumed Lord
Stamford has his measure to an inch now, and that if they
back Diophantes or Imaus in earnest for the Derby, Dun-
dee is doomed ; but, at the same time, it must be recollected
how difficult Dundee found it to dispose of Brown Duchess
at Liverpool over half-a-mile, while he fairly lost her over
three-quarters at Goodwood, and those who hang on the
Hopeful " line" may find it just strong enough to drop
them anywhere but on their feet. Mr. Merry has
now a great chance of performing the same feat
as Sir Joseph Hawley did, two years ago, of winning
the Derby two years in succession.

In the Eastern Counties Handicap, Cantine (one of my
selection) had no difficulty in winning.
The remaining fixtures for the season are now rapidly
drawing to a close. The programme for Malton is all that
could be desired.

Seven items are in the list for the first day, of which the
Melton Handicap, being the principal race of the meeting,
claims to be first noticed. Gladiolus and Petra from the
top weights have nothing to complain of, nor Secret
Treasure and Greta from the light v eights. I shall trust
the two last-mentioned to represent me. For the Two-
Year-Old Stakes Scrubbing Brush and Lady Louisa should
not be lost sight of.
Both Deefoot and East Stanley arc engaged in the Fitz-
william Plate, for two and three-yr-olds, and though both
are penalised 71b, either can effect the overthrow of all
others entered, though The Dutchman, who ran second to
Walloon at York Spring, and second to Prudence at New-
castle-on-Tyne, is bound to run well on his own ground.
The Northcliffe Handicap looks a" good thing" for either
Eidolon or Edmund Kean, as both have much the best of
the weights with the two year olds.
The result of the Langton Stakes, for two and three year
olds, straight half-mile, will depend upon the issue of the
Two Year Old Stakes on the first day, nearly the same
horses being engaged in both.

Bedford, on Wednesday and Thursday, will, doubtless,
on the eve of the Cesarewiteh attract a large attendance, as
everybody will be on the qui rite, anxious to learn the
"last move" of a game in which are involved such im-
mense and conflicting interests. The sport, so far as an
opinion may be formed from the skeleton appearance of the
programme, is likely to exhibit some shortcomings, three
only of the ten races in the list having yet filled, and in
the face of the Newmarket meeting large fields need not
now be expected.

-
In the Bedfordshire Handicap, Sandy Macpherson and
Faultless should keep the rest of the field safe.
The Two-year-old Stakes has Conundrum and South-
port engaged, and if the owner of the first chooses to part
with his horse for £2OO, he will have no difficulty of se-
curing the stakes, but in the absence of Conundrum I shall
put my trust in Southport.

There will be two excellent day's racing at Cardiff on
Thursday and Friday—the Cardiff Handicap being the
principal attraction. Fifteen out of the twenty-eight
weighted have accepted—a flattering testimony to the skill
of the handicapper, as a third of the horses entered for
most of the principal handicaps this year has in most in-
stances been ne,arsr the number of " contents" than a half,
two in excess of which have stood in this race. Those that
I have most fancy for are Emblem and Frederick. The
other events I shall not touch upon at present.
I shall refer to the Cesarewitch Stakes at length, next
week, but at present I think an outlay on The Alderman,
Comforter, and Conscript will prove remunerative—the first
fir choice.

A FRESH MAN.

BETTING AT MANCHESTER-SATrxDA.y.

We had a fair amount of business done on the Cesare-
witch. At one time during the afternoon it seemed as
though Feodorowna, Weatherbound, and Bevis had done all
that was required of them. 40 to 1 was offered against each,
and as much as 50 to 1 was laid against Bevis, but towards
the close 33 to 1 became the offer against Weatherbound or
Bevis, but no change took place as to Feodorowna. Com-
forter had always friends at 20 to 1, and there was always
money for The Alderman at 30 to 1, at which price Opti-
mist was supported; it was also taken about Starke, but
that price was offered at the close. Conscript was more in
demand than Plumper, but no one seemed to hold the
latter too lightly. Most of the horses quoted received their
share of support. The backers of Barabbas, Killigrew,
Mavourneen, and Stapleton were quite willing to go on at
their respective prices. There was little disposition evinced
to speculate on the Cambridgeshire, and the only animals
for which we saw any use for the metallic were Sutton at
20 to 1, and Prelude at 30 to I.—Closing prices :

CESAREWITCH STAKES.
16 to 1 agst Comforter (off., take 20 to 1 freely)
25 to 1 agst Conscript (taken)
25 to 1 agst Plumper (offered)
25 to 1 agst Cape Flyaway (offered)
25 to 1 agst Alderman (off., take 30 to 1 freely)
30 to 1 agst Optimist (taken)
30 to 1 agst Starke (offered)
30 to 1 agst Killigrew (taken)
33 to 1 agst Barabbas (taken)
33 to 1 agst Bevis (offered)
33 to 1 agst Weatherbound (offered)
33 to 1 agst Courier (off., take 40 to 1)
40 to 1 agst Glendinning (taken)
40 to 1 agst Mavourneen (taken and wanted)
40 to 1 agst, Stapleton (taken)
40 to 1 agst Feodorowna (offered)
40 to 1 agst Golden Pippin (offered)
60 to 1 agst Miss Digby (taken)
50 to 1 agst Lifeboat (taken)
66 to 1 agst El Hakim (taken)
CAMBRIDGESHIRE.
20 to 1 agst Sutton (taken)
30 to 1 agst Prehide (taken)

EXTRAORDINARY RACE CESAREWITCH STAKES.
YOUAI T WILLIAM GRAY'S advice on this race reveals all
the mysteries connected with this extraordinary event. No
previous contest for this or any other great event ever mys-
tified the racing public more than the betting on the present
Cesarewitch Stakes. 20 to lon the field nine days before
the race is to many a puzzler. A horse now at 30 to 1
ought, but will be at 8 to 1 before the word " ;o," is sure
to win. He has kept an eye on every move while at New-
market, but in spite of all dodging is not to be cheated. Pit-
man has already tried one, Tame Deer has gone to try
another, Master Bagot a third, and the fourth, and
very likely the winner. Remember, nothir g could stall
me off St. Albans for the St. Leger, and come what may
I shall remain staunch to the helm, with the confidence of
bringing my friends' investments to a profitable and vic-
torious issue. Cambridgeshiro Stakes, a horse at 100 to 1
is sure to win by half a distance. Terms, to the end of the
season, 7s. 6d. ; all races up to and including the Cam-
bridgeshire Stakes, is. ; the two great events, 2s. 6d. Ad-
dress, 45, Charing-cross. N.B.—A. liberal per centage
is
expected on the Cesarewitch and Cambridgeshire. TEL,
e
the double event, £l,OOO to £1 can be obtained.

STOCKPORT AND WOODLEY JUNCTION ...,-PPAILIV'II''
—The railway which is about to be construcot9debe_tzehn.
Stockport and Woodley Junction, the first sod loing"
;"'but
was cut on Saturday, will be but three 1
its importance must not be measured. by
ng great interest in
The inhabitants of Stockport are show' its :rum length.
art of a line to Tim-
the undertaking ; and it is generally understood that the
works just commenced will fotrumckp
s port more immediately
perley, which will connect
It is anticipated that the
with the seaports of the ea7rtea.nd west coasts, as well as
with the coalfields of Yorkshire.
aJI
enction line will be completed in
ost being £60,000. The whole
Stockport and Woodlev
about one third being
eighteen months, its tOt
of the capital has bee!! Sheffield, and Lincoln-
contributed by the N
,eue
ansab,s,csrtibe,d,
The engineer is Mr. John G.
shire Railway Company 'the eontractor Mr. John •
C E. ; an Hill,
Blackburne, •
Wistash, near Crewe.
, ' LINE-OF-BATTLE SHIPS.—The time
IRON- CASED . .
must be
when e decision
has come
satisfied with large fleets of wooden line-of-
bittle ships, or i advice f
we are to be lwe are to take
which they from our neighbours,
and adopt the system are bringing into play of
armour-cased vessels wh •
having armou Wherewith to fight our future
battles. . that We believethe comptroller of the navy is
most anxious not to be behind in the race which
France
bids fair to run with us in the building of iron t s eam-ships ;
and we are certain that any apparent delay which has taken
place in giving orders for the construction of a further
number of these formidable but most expensive ships,
proceeds merely from a desire on his part to be convinced
that he possessed the plans and models of vessels best
calculated not only to act as engines of warfare, but as
safe seaboats. The Lords of thAdmiralty have also, we
believe, felt reluctant to hazard any more of the public
money in what might have been considered a hazardous ex-
periment, and have been desirous first of testing all the
various qualities of the Warrior and Black Prince. These
ships should, according to contract, have been ready for
sea at the very moment wo are writing, but from delays
which have arisen from various causes, the time mentioned
for their being fit for service is precisely the autumn of
next year. We have taken pains to ascertain the reason of
this serious breach of covenant, and find that the autho-
rities have a right to complain of the tardy conduct of the
contractors, although, on the other hand, the latter excuse
themselves by saying that they are not to blame for the
alterations which have been made by the Admiralty during
the time the ships have been building, and for which they
have claimed an extension of the period originally allowed
them.—Army and Navy Gazette.
A half-yearly dividend on a portion of the
£1,111,500 of the second preference debentures of the Grand
Trunk Railway of Canada, which were issued to the public,
only in May last, falls due on Monday, and there is uncer-
taintyt if it will be paid. Some formal announcemep 00,.
ho subject will be made by the direct9r3 Cll the recoPt 1
thg aclvico by tits wail AM clues

THE FRIGHTFUL SUICIDE, OF
PSEUDO CLERGYMAN.

An inquest was held on Saturday at Northamp-
ton, on view of thebody of Richard Williams, other-
wise Richard Heyward Grove Wi'Herne, the pre-
tended clergyman, who, while in custody of a city
of London detective, committed suicide by jumping
under a train at the Northampton station.
Mr. Bedford of the London and North-Western
Railway Cd., attended to watch the proceedings.
Mr. Henry Webb, a detective of the city of Lon-
don, said he had charge of the deceased under the
folio wingcircumstances :—The Rev. Hewitt Linton,
of Nassington, in this county, advertised for a cu-
rate. The deceased answered the advertisement
from Copenhagen-street, Islington, at the same time
giving as referee the Rev. Mr. Solly, of 7, Cathe-
rine-street, Thornhill-square, which was the house
where the deceased himself was living. Mr. Linton
answered deceased's letter, believing the reference
to be correct, was accepted as a curate, and he
went to Nassington and remained there, performing
the services at the church as curate. fter heliad
been at Nassiangton about three weeks he wrote to
fir.te
a nFertehnecrh
,watwchatineharlie
ark; earnidn tolbietaSietreadndtilraenedgaelsldo
watches, stating that they were to be about £25, as
they were for a testimonial to a clergyman. One
gentleman from whom he had obtained watches had
a friend at Nassington,
and suspecting d
sucee e all was
getting not
right, wrote to his friend,
who
deceaseded i
then left
two of the watches back. The
Nassington, absconding with Mr. French's watch,
worth £25. Mr. Linton then made inquiries, and
it was found that the deceased was never in holy
orders, and that he was not a minister. Having
performed the marriage ceremony of Mr. Linton's
daughter to a gentleman in London, the marriage
was illegal, and the lady has since been remarried.
These facts being laid before the Bishop of Peter-
borough a warrant was issued for the apprehension
of Williams for obtaining money by means of a
forged letter. Witness could not obtain any infor-
mation till last Monday, when he heard deceased
was living as a tutor at Mr. Gregg's, Woburn Col-
lege, near Beaconsfield, Bucks. °Went there on the
Tuesday, and after showing the photograph of the
deceased to Mrs. Gregg she identified it as that of
a person who had been living there as the Rev.
Morris Jones. Deceased obtained that situation by
applying to a scholastic agency in Tavistock•street.
While at Woburn he was continually in a state
of intoxication. On the 17th of September he had
two gallons of brandy and two gallons of rum from.
London, which he drank in a short time. He like-
wise obtained two suits of clothes and several boxes
of cigars from London. He behaved in such a dis-
graceful manner that the police were called in, and
he was turned out of the house on the 21st inst.
Traced him to London, and learned that he had
been applying to scholastic agents in the names of
John Ferguson and John Morris, giving his address
as Sams Hotel, Strand, which was false. On Wed-
nesday he was arrested and locked up at the Moor-
lane Police-station for the night. Witness brought
the deceased away by the half-past eleven train on
the London and North-Western Railway from
London, on Thursday morning, with the intention
of taking him to 0 undle, to be examined before the
magistrates. On the journey deceased was very
sociable, laughing and joking, and saying how
he had gammoned the old people at Nassington.
Arrived at Northampton about 1.20, and were
told they would have to wait half an hour.
Deceased said he should like to have some
refreshment, and had cold, beef and bitter ale.
Afterwards went back to the station, and were
waiting on the platform for the train. Just before
the train came up, deceased said, " What do you
think will be my sentence if I am convicted ?" Told
him that he could not inform him. Deceased said,
" If it is for any long term I am sure I shall not
live through it." Deceased was then standing close
to witness on the right side, The train came in
less than a minute afterwards, when the deceased.
sprang in front of the engine. Witness caught
him by the left hand, but could not hold him fast
enough to stop him. He fell belween the rails with
his right foot across the rail nearest the platform,
and the engine went over it. He then deliberately
turned himself over upon the other rail and the
wheel of the next carriage went over his body. On
searching deceased he found a letter on him which
he had written, giving himself a good character.
Believed deceased had before been in custody for
horse stealing.
John Genders, a policeman at the Northampton
Station, said he heard a scuffle on the platform, and
the deceased rushed past him. Tried to stop him,
but could not. Deceased then stepped down into
the " four feet" in front of the engine. The tender
was first, and knocked him down, and the last
wheel of the engine took his heel off. Witness
called out to him to lie still, ae he lay between the
rails, and nothing could have hurt him if he had
kept quiet. Instead of doing so, however, he, as he
was lying on his face, turned round, and with a
spring from off his hands and knees, threw his
head and shoulders across the rails, and the carriage
heels went over him.

Mr. Moxon, surgeon, said he examined the body
of the deceased, and found the right heel lacerated,
and the train had apparently passed over his chest,
the ribs and chest bone being both broken.
The coroner summed rp, and the jury returned a
verdict that " Deceased committed suicide while
labouring under temporary insanity, and they
thought that no blame was attached either to Mr.
Webb or the railway officials."

LARGE ROBBERY OF AOTES AND

GOLD Al LIVERPOOL.

John Thomas Richardson, who was brought be-
fore the Lord Mayor at the Mansion-house on
Wednesday, char-red with being concerned in the
robbery of upwards of £1,500, in November last
year, from the house of Mr. Henry Moore, grocer,
then residing in Sandstone-road, Old Swan, near
Liverpool, was yesterday brought before Messrs.
Brocklebank, Preston, and Moss, at the county
magistrates' office, Liverpool. Mr. T. Toulmin,
solicitor, who appeared for the prosecution, said
that on the 9th of November last Mr. Moore's
house was robbed of three notes for £5OO each,
and between £6O and £7O in gold. One of the
notes was subsequently found to have been cashed,n
at Berne (Switzerland) and the proceeds (forel,
notes) were found in the prisoner's possession,ltng
: ,ohnaeonntdeshe
went
out in
who was recognised in the act of tetatieldn faion.
to get them changed at Messrs. Samuel
don. Mr-
tague's bullion dealers, Cornhill, .
Lsloicnd to adduce
Toulmin explained that he only'
sufficient evidence to justify the CourtNc'
remand. Mr. Henry examined Moore,
Swan st he resided at
Toulmin, said that in Noved inabnytinAgira.
and on the 9th
No. 36, Sandstone-road, (Ll
a d rxa7wf
00
ri
inn
sdh
gissoolbode
.d
er
aorreo
iinli ie,
of that month he placed
for the purchase of some
money was intendedallsafe pro-
perty,return he discovered that the
tthogreeetheßrawnkithof between England
the
evening. forced open and the money taken
drawer had been
and
On
his
away. The room was in a state of great disorder,
and the things. in it were all strewn about.
On the following morning notice was given
to the Bank of England. The pocketbook in which
he had an entry of the numbers of the missing
notes he could not find after the robbery, but
their numbers were ascertained through the
medium of the Bank itself; and within the last few
days he (Mr. Moore) had recognised at the Man-
sion-house, in London, one of the notes for £5OO of
which he read been .
plundered. The prisoner was
present on the occasion referred to, and from the
number of the note he (Mr. Moore) could swear
that it was one of the stolen notes. Mr. Toulmin
requested a remand, in order that the banker from
Berne who cashed the note, and also the person to
whom the prisoner offered the foreign notes in
London, might be present. In answer to a ques-
tion by the prisoner, Mr. Moore stated that he had
never seen him (Richardson) before, and the pri-
soner himself declared that he had never previously
been in Live /pool. It was then arranged that a
remand should be taken until this day (Saturday)
week, as Mr. Beard, the solicitor who appeared for
the prisoner in London, would at that time be able
to attend.

Mr. Wigan has already made several engage-
ments for the St. James's. Among his company are Mr.
Emery, Miss Herbert, and Miss Kato Terry. M. Pechter
goes to the Princess's, and makes his first appearance
.'
in
the English language ; and Mr. John Brougham,.tn.
Columbian Irishman, appears at the Haymarket in
comedy of his own writing.
It is now said that Madame Grisi will reoal,liiiogiog
to her Majesty's Theatre—that for Signor 3Prrd'uring a
bound by a forfeiture not to be heard in Lona?
tie theatre is
twelvemonth save at Covent Garden, an
that t Mr. Smith
to be fitted up at Sydenham,—thirdlY,
ii•and that there
intends to have Italian operas at Liveroiomol
moving about his company as suits
tic
t theatre in the Al.
may be yet one more English opera
hambra. :and 3lanchester,
by M, Talcxy are, it
The French plays
winter in the Opera Con-
it is said, to be given duringi.
- THAMES.—Yesterday morn-
ing at her Majesty'
HIGH TIDE INhTe
premises, more particularly on
Hit tide in the river rose to an unusual
ing at high water t
al of the low lying wharfs, landing-
lig sever Theatre.
height, inundateir w
and in the vicinities of Shadwell, Lime-
the Surrey side
11 •some buoyant
_,_clya , articles that
places, and other
Lime-
house, and Islahad been
' -ed were swept away by the
left unsecured receding tide, and
tions have bee
ater-sill
n taken to prevent d
u amage should the
i tides increase, it being the opinion of persons who work on
the river that should the wind continue in its present quar-
ter it will have the effect, with the equinoctial full moon
which took place yesterday, of driving a large accumulation
of waters from the Nor.—
Spa and Gernaag Ocean into the
t:yQr,