The Sun.
London, England, 1867-01-03 00:00:00

£33,429,100

BANKING DEPARTMENT.
Governmt. Secu-
rities(including
Dead Weight
Annuity) .... £13,111,068
Other Securities '22,816,503
Notes 10,142,255
Gold and Silver
Coin

Proprietors' Capi-
tal £14,553,000
Rest
Public Deposits
(including Ex-
chequer, Sav-
ings' Banks,
Commissioners
of - National

986,262

Debt, and Div •
Accounts) 8,162,130
Other Deposits 20,059,223
Seven Day and
other bills

£47,056,088

£47,056,088

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

HOW THE TRIAL GOT WIND.

The following episode is extracted from a pleasant ar-
ticle headed "Town and Moor" in Baily's Magazine for
January :

"Wary as the trainer himself may be, however keen-
eyed his assistants, and let the surrounding points of van-
tage be scanned and examined as keenly as they may, it is
wonierful how frequently the result of a trial is seen and
spread abroad. Some years ago a three years old was un-
dergoing a preparation on a high northern training-
ground. In his early days he had performed very mode-
rately. He was not fashionably bred, and had died out of
the memory of the public altogether. The colt was, how-
ever, so good that, if treated with any degree of leniency
by the adjuster of weights, one or both of the great autdmn
handicaps at Newmarket were nearly certain to fall to his
lot. Towards the close of the summer, it was determined
that his merits should be severely tested, and very early
one morning before aught was astir on the moor, and
with no discernible witnesses save owner and trainer, the
colt was ' asked a question.' He answered it in a manner
so unexpectedly clever that those interested in him hugged
themselves at the bright prospect of gain which opened
out before them. As their exultation was at boiling-pitch
a ragged, dishevelled form rose above the crest of a neigh-
bouring hollow, and approached the party. Consternation
pictured on their faces, they gazed upon the unwelcome in-
truder. It's only Fond Jemmy,' exclaimed one of them,
with a sigh of relief, as the poor addle-pated creature, walk-
ing up to them, displayed a large basket of mushrooms which
he had collected in the neighbouringpastures. Jemmy,' he
continued, in a seductive tone,`halt thou seen aught?
We're nobbut giving t'horses a bit of a gallop. ' Nay,' said
Jemmy, carefully avoiding the speaker's eye, and staring
fixedly into vacancy. Ah hevn't. Mebbe yell want a
few misherums.' A glance was exchanged by the two
principal conspirators, and Jemmy was directed to hand
over his succulent burden then and there ; and with a brigh
half-crown clasped tightly in his dusky fist, he moved
hurriedly away towards the town. Luckless and mistaken
liberality ! Had the reward been confined to the shilling
which usually repaid the mushroom-gatherer's exertions,
all would have been well. Half-a-crown was too much for
Jemmy to carry unbroached. An early visit to the Black
Lion was the natural consequence. One three-penn'orth
was consumed ; a second ; and when a third dram of un-
sweetened Xicholson had been despatched, he grew talka-
tive. It chanced that one acute member of the brotherhood
of touts was taking his ' morning' in the same establish-
ment; and, pricking up his ears at the disjointed sentences
uttered by the weak-headed tippler, he soon extracted from
him the secret of the trial at early dawn. Jemmy, it ap-
peared, had seen the spin, and, notwithstanding his infir-
mity, retained sufficient Yorkshire cunning to deny the
fact when first taxed with it on the moor. Now that his
tongue was loosened he described with such accuracy to
his tempter how the short-legged bay, who carried his head
so low, had beaten the others to a stand-still, that the shrewd
listener—himself a great believer in the prowess of ' Le
Medecin'—putting this and that together, was able to place
the information, within a few hours, at the disposal of his
London employer. The latter quietly took advantage of
it. Owing to an extraordinary and unprecedented blunder
the good thing did not come off. Had it done so, the dis-
burser of the half-crown and his allies would have disco-
vered that the amount which they had backed their colt to
win was considerably less than the great stake for which
he was stood by the Metropolitan bookmaker, who had ac-
quired his information through the tipsy babbling of Fond
Jemmy.' "

'URES FOR 1867.

VARY.

iNottingham 26
Derby
CH. _ _

Epsom Spring 26
Lewes Spring 2B
Croxton Park 29

T rsk

ll arham
Newmarket Ist Spring 22
Catterick
Chester BO

Y.
17
Harpenden
1
Epsom Summer
Newton
'2,SI
Croydon

NE.
19
Stockbridge
Chelmsford
Newcastle
Carragh
27
Worcester Summer
27
Ipswich
JUL

,Y.
Down Royal Corporate l7
Stamford
Huntingdon 23
Winchester
Southampton
Goodwood

:UST.
York August
Dovor
West Drayton 22
Plymouth.. . 23
Canterbury
Lichfield
Derby Summer
Weymouth
Tunbridge