The Sun.
London, England, 1860-10-06 00:00:00

CARDIFF RACES-FRIDAY.

The Ladies' Plate of 50 sous. One mile and a half.
Mr. Thomas's Emblem, 4 yrs, Bst 7st
Mr. Sadler's The Gift, 4 yrs, 6st 41b 2
Mr. Saxon's York, 5 yrs, Bst 81b
The Ely Stakes of 10 sous each, 5 ft, and 2 only if declared,
with 50 added. One mile and a quarter.

Mr. Formby's The Speaker, 4 yrs, Bst 101 b 1
Mr. Charle's Marwell, 4 yrs, 7st 31b
Mr. F. Jacobs's Waterford, 3 yrs, 6st 71b 3
The Volunteer Stakes of 2 soya each, with 20 added; two-
year-olds, 7st ; three, 9st ; four, lOst 61b ; five, llst ;
six and aged, list 21b ; mares and geldings allowed
31b. One mile.

Yorkshire Miss, 4 yrs
Reverie, 2 yrs
Northam, 2 yrs .. 3
The Two-year-old Stakes of 5 sovs each, 2 ft, with 40
added; colts, Bst 71b; fillies, Bst 41b. About 5 furlongs.
Lord Coventry's Orion .. 1
Mr. E. Brayley's Ringbone 2
Mr. Pallett's La Belle Noisette
A Handicap Hurdle Race of 5 sovs each, 2 ft, with 30
added. .Gentlemen riders; professionals 7st extra. About
two miles.

Mr. Holman's Bantam, 4 yrs, lOst 31b 1
Mr. F. Jacob's Norma, 4 yrs, lOst 111 b....

BETTING AT MANCHESTER-YESTERDAY.

No important change occurred in the Cesarewitch bet-
ting. Golden Pippin was rather freely supported ; the
highest offer towards the close was Bto 1. Dulcibella was
not in such great force ; 100 to 7 was taken, but afterwards
100 to 6 was freely offered. Plumper and The Alderman
were in fair demand at their respective prices, and a little
money was put on Mavourneen at 25 to 1 ; but, as is often
the case, when there is little business being done, the offers
predominated.—Closing prices :

CESAREWITCH STAKES.
9to 1 agst Golden Pippin (taken)
14 to 1 agst Killigrew (offered)
16 to 1 agst Barabbas (offered)
16 to 1 agst Dulcibella (offered)
16 to 1 agst Optimist (offered)
20 to 1 agst Newcastle (offered)
20 to 1 agst Comforter (taken and offered)
25 to 1 agst Alderman (taken)
25 to 1 agst Plumper (taken)
25 to 1 agst Mavourneen (taken)
30 to 1 agst Bevis (taken)
33 to 1 agst Moorcock (taken)
33 to 1 agst Glendinning (offered)
33 to 1 agst Ancient Briton (offered)
50 to 1 agst Viatka (taken)
50 to 1 agst Sandy M'Pherson (taken)
66 to 1 agst Starke (taken)
1000 to 10 agst Miss Digby (taken)
100 to 6 agst Osborne's lot (offered)

THE "PROPHETS" ON THE CESAREWITCH

The following are several of the prophecies of the sport-
ing writers on the Cesarewitch. They are principally from
the weekly publications, as the dailies will not appear till
Monday :

" Beacon," in Bell's Life, after analysing the chances of
the various horses likely to take part in the race, winds up
by saying :—" Having thus briefly noted my opinion of
the respective competitors likely to contend for the great
handicap of the year, it will be easily seen that on

MAVOURNEEN
I rest my hopes ; and I shall expect to see Ben Webster,
Ancient Briton, Sandy M'Pherson, and Rising Sun hold
a forward position at the termination of the struggle."

" Rhyming Richard," in Ball's Life, concludes with the
following verses:—
But one, I know, who, should he go,
In spite of saint and sinner,
The stake will land, and so I stand
On WEATHER-BOUND for winner I
" Yet, if the oracles are dumb,'
Health or forestalment letting,
And Weatherbound declines to come,'
And totters in the betting,
" Then must my Muse her friend refuse,
Which cruel to believe is ;
Or with him take, for safety's sake,
The little Buckthorn—BEVlS."

" Touchstone," of the Era, says :—We can see nothing
equal to MAVOURNEEN, PLUMPER, and BLRAISBAS among
the light weights, and with Starke and Bevis under suspi-
cion, the heavy weights should be held safe by ANCIENT
BRITON, THE BREWER, and ALDERMAN; the lot we are
justly entitled to stand upon as our selected, seeing there is
not one of the first four favourites among them, and if we
may presume to spot the first three,

MAVOURNEEN, BARABBAS, and ANCIENT

OUR COMMERCIAL RELATIONS TVITII

CHINA.

A statement was published a few months back to
the effect that a large trade might be opened up by
a short land route from our Indian possessions to
the western frontier of China, and the project ex-
cited very favourable attention among the commer-
cial classes in London and the provinces. Anv one
glancing at the map of Asia will be struck with the
proximity we have already attained to China by
means of our acquisitions in Pegu. From the port
of Rangoon our territory extends towards China a
distance of 250 miles. We then come to the terri-
tory of the King of Burmah, and across this, which
is also about 250 miles in width, we come to the
Chinese frontier town of Esmok. We are thus
brought into direct communication with that people
almost at our own doors, the whole of the navigation
via Singapore and the Chinese Sea would be saved,
and we should moreover reach a class of the popula-
tion with whom we could never otherwise come in
commercial contact, even if our political relations
with the Chinese Government were of the most unre-
stricted and cordial character. What, then, is the
difficulty ? The first idea likely to occur is that the
hind of Burmah would throw obstacles in our way.
Such, however, is not the case. The King of Bur-
mah seems to understand commercial interests better
than some English statesmen, for he is represented
to be friendly to anything that will promote traffic
through his dominions. Apparently there is no diffi-
culty except the old one. Our Foreign-office are not
fond of new questions, and least of all of commercial
questions. The Leeds Chamber of Commerce re-
cently memorialised the Government on the subject.
They represented its important bearing on the in-
terests not only of our home manufacturers, mer-
chants, and shipowners, but of our traders in all
parts of India. The hambers of Commerce of
Bradford, Halifax, Huddersfield, and Liverpool
had previously made similar representations. The
reply has been such as to damp as far as possible
all effort in the matter. Nothing was required but
a civil negotiation with the King of Burmah,
which the Government alone can make, and that
in any future diplomatic arrangements with the
Chinese authorities the town of Esmok should be
recognized as a leading place of trade. Lord John
Russell, however, thinks that " much inconveni-
ence" might arise from such a " novel" propositiott.
Moreover, it would be " impossible to protect Bri-
tish trade at so inland a city," or "to exercise duo
control over British subjects." Next to the possi-
bility of anything that might cause " inconveni-
ence" to the Foreign-office, the idea of allowing
"British subjects" to run without leading strings
has always been the most distasteful to that depart-
ment. The Chambers of Commerce have likewise
been furnished with a hint that they know nothing
about the true interests of trade, since the very mea-
sures for which they are now praying, under the idea
of extending it, would only bring it into jeopardy.
" Redress for any wrong done in such a remote
quarter as Esmok," observes his Lordship, " could
in all probability only be obtained by applying pres-
sure at places more accessible, and so placing in
jeopardy the more important interests of British
trade on the seaboard of China." The Foreign-office
doctrine therefore is, that we must shut ourselves
from the trade of the largest continents, and Pro-
vinces, provided any diplomatic correspondence
that might arise out of it would have to be carried
on with authorities resident at some other locality.

His lordship's words, in fact, might be paraphrased
as fellows :—lt is bad to trade in the Sea of Azoff

or at Odessa, because any disputes would have to
be settled at St. Petersburg, and might compro-

raise our trade in the Baltic. Avoid likewise alp
intercourse with San Francisco, becayse the neces

sits of an appeal to Washington would not only
create much inconvenience to the Foreign-office, but
might interrupt our transactions with New York

or New Orleans. In like manner let the Canadians

hold no traffic with Chicago, the difficulty of con
trolling British subjects at "so inland a town'

being especially formidable. It is to be hoped that
no one will be disappointed with this view. It may
be a question whether the new route will be found

so practicable or advantageous as it would seem to
be from all the evidence at present possessed, but
there can be no question, supposing past experience
to be worth anything, that, if it is ever opened up,
the task will be performed by private enterprise,
not only unassisted, but obstructed, so far as official

power extends, and that it will be only when
everything has been fully accomplished that the
Government will step in to encumber it with help.
dines' City Article.

GARIBALDI AN!) TIIE WOUNDED AT

CA S ER, TA.

(Front the Medical Timm.)

The following extracts from a private letter to
the editor of the Medical .Times and Gazette, writ-
ten by a friend who has recently visited Naples,
will be read with interest. The letter is dated
Naples, Sept. 27, and was received this week :

" A few days ago I was one of a party which
went down to Caserta to visit the military hospital,
where the wounded were brought after the unfor-
tunate affair of Capna. We first walked in the
gardens of the palace, where we were so fortunate
as to come, accidentally, on a body of officers prac-
tising rifle shooting. Among these was no less a
personage than Garibaldi himself. As soon as he
perceived us lie came frankly forward to Mrs.
W-, who had with her a large hamper of lemons
and oranges for the wounded. On her requesting
him to givo orders that she might be admitted to
the hospital, he immediately offered to escort her
thither himself. A few minutes afterwards the
people were a little astonished to see Garibaldi
drive off with an English lady and her two daugh-
ters, without any of his staff, to visit the hospital.
I was perched on the box. After a ten minutes'
drive we arrived at the hospital, a fine modern
building to look on from without, but the wards
are too small, and the ventilation is bad. As to
organisation there is none. When the crowd out-
side knew that the General was there they flocked
into the wards in such numbers that he could

ardly move about. It was a most affecting sight
o see the tenderness with which the weather-
beaten warrior approached the sick-bed. Every
one was visited in turn, and he had a few words
of consolation for each individual. He laid his
rough hand so kindly on the fevered brows of the
most suffering, that the tears started from their
eyes. It was a hot, sultry day, and the air was
very carefully excluded. The reason given to me,
on my asking why the windows were not open,
was that the air too freely admitted was apt to
cause fever among wounded men. Of course there
was no answering such a profound observation, but
after a few minutes Garibaldi ordered the windows
to be thrown open, Mrs. W- having suggested
to him the propriety of doing so. Before leaving
the wards, where there were about sixty wounded,
the most of them having been sent into Naples,
Garibaldi made his secretary, who had followed
him, give each a patient dollar to get
any
thing he might fancy. On seeing one poor fellow
very uncomfortable with a dry dressing, the usual
Neapolitan one, he caused him to
be a
dressed, and made some observations b
water for dressings, by which the
sargeons here
ouPtre usingP
r
might profit. He asked particularly if they used
chloroform during operations,staenpd was answered
in advance. On
in the affirmative. This is
the visit to the common soldiers a being finished,
officers, of whom there
Garibaldi went to
were about a dozen.
hands warmly with all, re-
s e e
shooklie kissed some of them af.
fectionately, and
to
make known to him any
qlesting every g
Not one of theme omplained to him,
wants, etc.
questioned byrs. Mr-. itdwas
but on being were many things required
evident that therecomfort ;
above all, night attendance.re
for
their own
.s full of quacks and pretenders of all
One " gentle-
The place 1 medical and military.
kinds, both
shimself an Inspeetor-General of
man," calling
Ho_ pita.ls, wasoffering quinine for
Garibaldi 's
other day in Naples. Query, where did
sale the
it come from ? I saw a case where the -haemorrhage
had been stopped by Dr. Simpson!, plan. 1 can-
not enter into details, as it is lust post time, and
I write in haste. One of the surgeons was pre-
sent when I was showing the modus operandi
in the hospital here. He had tried in vain to
secure the artery, a small one, and the man was
getting faint from loss of blood. He then thought
of the needle, and succeeded in arresting the
bleeding instantly. So you ace they may begin
to use it by-and-by."

I‘l USIC Al D 1 )ANCING LICENCES.---AS previously
announced, the Middlesex magistrates will hold a sitting at
the Sessions-house on Clerkenwell-green on the 11th inst.,
to hear applications for the grant, renewal, or transfer of
licences for music, and for music and dancing, under the
statute 25th of George 11., cap. 36. Petitions for renewals
must be lodged with the clerk of the peace this day (Satur-
day). Notices of opposition have been given in the follow-
ing cases :—Cremerne-gardens ; the Alhambra Palace,
Leicoster-square ; the Hare and Hounds, Chalk Farm-lane;
and the Boar and Castle, 6, Oxford-street ; and they are
fixed for hearing on the 12th. There are about 70 new
applications to be heard, of which the following 10 are
opposed :—The Windsor Castle, Long acre ; Jeuncs's
Dancing Academy, 159, Edgware-road; the Sir Hugh
°
Myddelton, Clerkenwell ; the Pegasus, Green-lanes ;
premises No. 194, Whitechapel-road ; the King's e;g2j:
Road-side, Whitechapel ; the King's Arms, 12 r.
CVusteindia-
Shoreditch ; the Victoria, Providence-p
road, Limehouse the Upper Welsh nal-place,
oiless than 420
the Old Welsh Harp, Hendon. There are n
it is expected,
'rendon and
applications in the list, and it will occupy,
three days to dispose of the business.

THE ROAD CHILD MURDER.

(From tke Times.)

If the late Edgar Poe had sat down to invent a
tale of mystery, he could not have imagined any-
thing more strange and perplexing than the child-
murder which for the last three months has occu-
pied the attention of the public. The matter, after
repeated investigations, remains still as dark as
ever. Neither Inspector Whicher's presumed pro-
fessional skill, nor the exertions of the local police,
nor Mr. Slack's unprecedented and almost un-
English inquiry, have succeeded in eliciting any
facts which can throw any light on the deed of that
mysterious night of the 29th of June. The one or
two new circumstances which have been made pub-
lic seem, indeed, rather to confound than to con-
firm former suspicions. There is no conceivable
hypothesis which has not met with almost insur-
mountable difficulties, and if three or four persons
meet they:are nearly sure to have so many different
theories on the subject.
We presume the public are by this time well
acquainted with the main facts. When the body
of the murdered child was discovered suspicion
naturally fell on the nurse, from whose roots it
had been taken, and who, if innocent, must have
slept while her room was' entered and a child four
conveyed away. Elizabeth
years of age
Gough was accordingly apprehended and under-
went an examination. Nothing, however, was
discovered which could even
be
picious, beyond the bare fact ofthceallaebdstrsaucs:
don of the child from her sleeping room.
The nurse was discharged, but the detective em-
ployed, anxious to keep up his reputation for acu
men, was ready with another culprit. " I charge
Miss Constance Kent with the murder," said In-
spector Whicher ; and accordingly a school-girl of
16 was dragged into court to meet the accusation
of cutting her brother's throat. The evidence was
of the most frivolous kind, all the basis of this con-
fident denunciation being that a bedgown was miss-
ing-, and that Constance hal talked to her school-
fellows about their homes being more pleasant than
her own. The girl was of course discharged, and
for six weeks the inquiry flagged, and justice was
obliged to own itself baffled. The circumstances
were, however, so mysterious, the crime so fright-
ful, and the hope of a solution so attractive, that
the neighbourhood could not rest. There is at
present a well-grounded apprehension that detec-
tion lags more slowly after crime than ought to be
or than used to be the case. The poisoner calls all
the resources of modern science to his aid ; the
highwayman takes the train at the nearest station
to where his victim lies bleeding in the ditch,
and in an hour or two is in another part of the
kingdom ; burial societies had to take murder into
account in their calculations, and even first-class
assurance offices are sometimes not without their
suspicions. People are unquiet at seeing an act
like this escape unpunished. There has been an
uncontrollable desire to get at the bottom of the
Road child-murder, and this feeling has been in-
creased by the fancied easiness of the solution. The
facts seem to lie in so small a space, and to narrow
the field of research so much, that detection appears
inevitable. Once take for granted that no one was
in the house that night except the family, and the
guilty party among those eight cr nine people must
soon be made known. Experience has, however,
shown the futility of this hope. Every single in-
mate has been examined again and again, not only
publicly, but in the course of private conversation,
and nothing sufficient to incriminate any of them
can be substantiated. Mr. Slack's inquiry lasted
four days, and at its close Elizabeth Gough was
apprehended a second time, to be a a second time
discharged, leaving the county authorities and the
public in as much bewilderment as ever.
The new case against the nurse rested principally
on the fact of a flannel, such as worn by women
on their chests, being found with the child. All

that connects the flannel with the nurse is that it
fits her, and does not fit some ether women in the
house. The value of such a piece of evidence we
leave our readers to appreciate. Then there are con-
tradictions in the statements of Elizabeth Gough.
Now, contradictions are very properly held to
shake the force of testimony, and if the nurse were
giving evidence against any one else they might
be dwelt upon with great effect by the counsel for
the defence; but they go a very little way in bring-
ing home guilt. A woman may give ten different
versions of the time she awoke, whether she got out
of bed, or sat up, or knelt up, or stood up in it, and
of her reasons for lying down quietly when she
saw the chi:d's crib empty; but, even supposing
her to be wilfully stating untruths, you do not get
any nearer to proving her guilt. It is quite possible
for an innocent person to tell an untruth for the
purpose of averting unjust suspicion. Then there
arc fright, stupidity, sheer forgetfulness, all tend-
ing to make the same person give different accounts
of an occurrence at different times. A reliance on
these so-called contradictions gen orally shows but a
limited acquaintance with human nature and the
practice of the courts of law. There is, however,
one circumstance of considerable importance which
was either not brought forward or not conspi-
cuously mentioned on the former inquiry. The
taking out of the blanket from between the coun-
terpane and sheet, as if it were used to wrap up the
child when he was taken from the room, is one of
the most extraordinary parts in the whole transac-
tion. The blanket was found with the body in
the watercloset, with marks of blood on it, as if the
child, or its newly-stifled corpse; had been wrapped
in it when the murderer finished the work with
the knife. Moore the constable says that when
he went in at half-past seven the clothes in the
child's crib were smooth, " smoother than I should
have expected." " The clothes were turned dowN,
and I saw the mark of the little fellow's head on
the pillow." The nurse, on being asked if anything
were missing, spoke of the blanket being gone.
Something has been made of this, as if it showed a
knowledge that the child had been taken away
wrapped in the blanket; but it is evident that the
slightest touch of the bedclothes would enable a
nurse to know that only the counterpane and sheet
were there, and we are not disposed to attach any
importance to the incident. But the fact of the
blanket being taken at all is highly significant.
The clothes were tucked in, according to the nuhrasNeva
account, so that it was invisible, and it
been carefully drawn out, so as not to dmisnutusorttblotohke
rest of the covering. This certainly
like the act of a common murdererldnieshsoei
wishes to despatch his victim ; merely
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hand. The stifling or stratnhge
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carrying away of the
heavy child without_ atchrey,
severing the
body, the deep stab,
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head from the body
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ft h2a3n.
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In
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the theory of the.
Gough
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gdieied, a man and
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ethat e nEglaizgaebdetihn was, perhaps,
passivetathwweooPme tirnsa
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she had admitted to her bedroom.
ntollfluetshwteohrbakivae been cool and deliberate indeed. It is
difficult to learn at what hour the murder was com-
mitted, and whether the nightlight was burning.
If the room was in darkness it would be still more
difficult for a stranger
etwo
otrhke.house to have accom-
plished this part of
The incident of the open drawing-room window
acquires considerable importance if it can be shown
that it could not to placed in that position by a
person who had just made his escape out of it. One
theory of the prosecution is that the window was
so placed by some one inside, who wished it to be
thought that the murderer had escaped. But the
evidence of one of the witnesses is to the effect that
the shutters could be partly drawn to from the
outside, as would, indeed, seem plain enough. Still,
the presumption that a stranger committed the act
is as beset with difficulties as the presumption that
an inmate of the house was guilty. No one is sus-
pected. Only the most diabolical spirit of yen-
geance could induce any one to secrete himself in a
house to strangle an infant. Such moral depravity
is very rare, and in this case no one is known to
have any grounds of animosity against Mr. Kent.
A discarged servant was spoken of, but she hasar
been proved incontestably to have been veil' far
from the neighbourhood on the night in "hs
es'
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of
Again, there is the negative proof—though tux eton
ex_
course, is not conclusive—that the house vv__n the
amined by Mr. Kent the night before.r
other hand, we have, undoubtedly, to
in mind
that no trace of blood has been foundeF
with what
floor cif the water.closet was P
snulrdercd child, and
belonging to any inmate cf the house, thouungyltintinhge
flowed from the throat
the blanket and flannel
strong knife must have Abs -
to the prisoner on the
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pen has been found.
not the shadow of evi-
dence the
motive for faking
assumption that she had a paramour
child's life, the as.n
i)sen that she asoccasion,
hadntherean y is
scaonnottenun:taorwraaniteu.ntil
some
unsus-
pected caught the actr by Teach? being per-
to a solution of this
In fact, there
faencdt
has been no approach mystery,
and
chance draws the secret from its obscurity.
we'gasrmautustitobue

. --
Such satisfactory progress has been made with
the private subscription for the metropolitan extensions of
the London, Chatham, and Dover Company, that upwards
of 55,000 of the 52,500 shares have been taken, and nume-
rous applications continue to be received. Being viewed,
under the arrangement, as a permanent six per cent. gua-
rantee, the attention of investing capitalists has been at-
tracted to these securities.