The Sun.
London, England, 1858-07-05 00:00:00

NEWMARKET.

The rain which fell yesterday, although it was not of
sufficient duration to effect much good, has induced
trainers to hope that the protracted drought is at an
end, and that their horses will be able to fulfil, engage-
ments without hazarding a break down. The hardness
of the ground last week militated considerably against
the success of meetings, diminishing the fields, and
imparting quite as insigaifieant character to events
which•at onetime promised to be marked- by incidents
of much importance. Hetce the Shrewsbury and Lud-
lov/ gatherings were failures ; at Carlisle the weather
was more destructive of sport than "the Dean ;" at
Ipswich the proceedings were mere leather•flapping ;
.and the Pontefract programme was sadly shorn of its
fair proportions. Indeed, amidst the crowd of Meet-
alga which were celebrated last week, ()Ely one—the
quiet " little go" at Odiham—was a decided success.

"Newmarket July" and the Worcester Summer are
the only two fixtures for the current week, and at nei
ther meeting is the sport likely to be over-abundant.
The stewards of the Jockey Club have issued a more
attractive lust than umal f)r the gathering at head-
quarters ; and they deserve all credit for the attemptA
which they have made to p: event the utter decline of
the meeting. lam not amongst the go-ahead tu: fites
who would like to see the July follow the Second
Spring, and I therefore trust that the efforts of the
authorities may be attended by sumss. The match-
making spirit seems to be revived with good effect, for
half a dozen matches are comprised in the present list,
and numbers have been made for the October Meetings.
A most interesting race will be witnessed for the July
Stokes, amongst the public performers for which will be
the Black Bees ojlr, Sir Hercules, Mareke, ana
Stockbarn. A dark animal named Crofton, too, will
make hi.; debut, and report states that it is as good, if
not better, than North Lincoln. My partiality,
however, for public runners, compels me to
withhold confidence from him and to look to the
Black Bess colt and Stockham to occupy the foremost
places. For their respective matches I shall select SUE-
grew, Melibieus, and Pandora.
Haymaker ought to win the Summer Handicap.

The result of the C'uesterfi-11 Stakes will, of course
materially depend upon the July performance. At prr.
sent I may direct favourable attention to S r Hercul. s
and Marske.

Advices from Worcester state that " Pitchcroft "
would be materially benefited by rain, and by this time
perhaps the 1,4)g-desired pluvial visitat;on may have
freahened the new mown grass, and rendered the course
good going. That a pleaiant meeting will take place at
Worcester, under any circumstances, may be confidently
anticipated, for the race committee work with (X`3o3-
plary zeal and cordiality to promote sport. Their liberality
in•carrying ont any arrangement tending t'a increase
the popularity of the meeting has been unanimously
acknowledged by the entire sporting press. The Trial
Handicap will, perhaps, be oarried off by either Kestrel
or Little Cob. Underhand seems likely to sport the
Worcestershire Handicap, but, as at Newcastle, Messrs.
Barber and Saxon may furnish him with his most
troublesome opponent. They can at any rate, through
Hamlet, measure pretty accurately the chance of Prin
cess Royal or Commotion. The Two-year. Old Stakes
may be placed to Mr. T. Parr'e account by Indiffer-
ence, and for the Flying Handicap I shall select
New Brighton and Knockburn. Barbarity seems
likely to win the Bentinck Handicap, and SchismatiC
may carry off the Cup.
Newmarket, Monday Morning

A FRESH MAN.

FATHER THAMES ON TRIAL.

( From the Money Bag.)
Last week a very old and foul offender was
brought before the police court of Westminster.
He was charged with being a public nuisance.
He was by trade a nightman and general scavenger.
But it was urged against him, that he exercised his
functions solely as a pretext, carrying to and fro
beneath the noses of his neighbours all sorts of
fcetid, noxious ordures, without ever practicaliy
removing them, or even seriously attempting to do
so. That he made a show of spreading the filth on
flats by way of drying it up ; and then, with the
most flagrant inconsistency, would dilute it again
with water—That when the police questioned him,
ho said "he meant to wash it away." But when
they asked him "Where to ?" he could give no
satisfactory reply ; and mumbled something about
" Mucking flats." To this the police had very pro-
perly rellied that "they were not such flats as to
allow any more of his mucking," and had accord-
ingly taken him into custody.
His worship ordered tho prisoner to be brought
in. His appearance excited the most unbounded
disgust; while the effluvia he exhaled was revolting
in the extreme. His worship called loudly for
aromatic salts, and several persons in court fainted.
During the confusion we had full leisure to note
the culprit's bearing and exterior.
He appeared to be of great age ; his countenance
wore a smooth, treacherous, hypocritical expression,
which he attempted to disguise under the affecta-
tion of helpless iinbeciliiy. His long hair and
beard, matted with filth, hung about him in oozy
tags and c'ots, some of which proved on nearer in-
spection to be the corpses of drowned kittens.
What clothes he wore, if any, must remain in mys-
tery ; he was so thickly smeared with the blacke-it
shine, wet and reeking, as if he had been recently
dragged out of the mud. In his hands he bore a
large cracked crockery-ware bowl, half filled with
faecalsemi-liquid matter, which slowly subietd
through a round aperture in the bottom of the
bowl, and streamed down his thighs: Under his
arm he carried the carcass of a drowned clog, seem-
ingly much distended with decomposing gases.
Inspector Y, 4, said the prisoner had first given
his name as Mr. Lambeth Reach, but he bad seve-
ral aliases. In the City, and especially about the
docks, be had gone by tire name of "Pool ;" somo
of the journals had mentioned him as "Cess Pool,"
but Cess did not appear to be a Christian nam..
He was hest known by the nickname of "Father
Thames," but it did not seem he had any children
—though many wished him farther. He was
strongly suspected to be a wholesale poisoner. A
lighterman of his acquaintance had recently died
under the most suspicious circumstances, laying
his delth at the prisoner's door. The prisoner lm
long been in very bad odour, and whether guilty of
• crimes or nor, was at any rate a public nuisanc,.
He was moreover full of turns and windings, had
'nothing straightforward ab att him, and was to be
considered :a dangerous character.
His worship said this was a very serious case, and
ordered the prisoner to give an account of himself,
and name his parish.
Father Thames said he came originally from the
Cotswold hills, in Wiltshire ; that he was a scion
of the noble family of Rivets.
His wor,hip observed that the family name of
Lord Rivers was Pitt, and if he had such a disre-
putable connection his lordship was very much to
be pitied (nobody in court, however, pe ceived the
joke). The prisoner said his name was not Pitt,
but that he himself was more to be pitied than con-
demned. He hail seen better days, and never
thought he should come to thi.. He had passed
through Oxford with credit and an unsullied name.
He had on leaving the University allied himself
with a young lady of good family (her Christian
name was Isis), who did not long survive their
union. He had been presented to her Majesty at
Windsor. Indeed there had never been a word .
against him till he came to town, when he had
fallen into low company, and had all sorts of ditty
jobs thrown upon him most unwillingly.
His worship asked what was the use of the pierced
bowl ? .He replied, he had from his youth upward
been in the habit of carrying an urn, and this was
the best shift for one he had at present.
Did he earn his living with it f He said it was a
necessary part of his accoutrement. •He bad no
original aptitude for his present trade as a night-
man, which had been thrust upon him by the
Sewage Commissioners. His tastes were all Datil-
' rally pure and innocent. His conduct was or-
derly. He appealed to the Metropolitan Police to
bear him out when he asserted that he had never
been drunk for years. He bad done his best to
carry his nigh tsoil to the sea.
His worship asked him what sea, whether he al-
luded to the Bishop of London's see.
No, the sea at the Nore, which threw up all he
could carry down. It was a most thankless busi-
ness, and he believed that the Sewage Commis-
sioners, the Metropolitan Board, and the Board of
Works were the real culprits, while he, with the
best intentions, got all the abuse. The Court •
should appeal to the Privy Council to enforce the
necessary steps. There should be pipes and cul-
verts to take the sewage under ground to at least
twenty miles from London. He himself could
force it along the culverts by flushing.
His worship said no one could flush these pipes
unless he was very flush of money, and that it was a
question who would pay the piper. The court hay-
ing henonre most oppressive, the prisoner was diro
charged with an injunction to behave better fur tire !
future. Tho prisoner said he would do his beat,
but unless ho had a weir or dam below London,
the sewage must conie back. His worship, as he
ler, seat, made song; scarce audible obstrvation,
which reemed to have refeience to the scheme
seeing the Thames dammed at the most convenient
locality, but no definite arrangement was come to. 4