The Sun.
London, England, 1859-10-11 00:00:00

NEWMARKET .DACES-(

THIS DAY)

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
SWEEPSTAKES OF 5 SOVS,
Creeping Kate
Nuffield

Nine ran.
SWEEPSTAKES OF 20 SOWS.
Brother to Remedy....
Herman

Aurora .. .
Contadina

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Three ran.
CLEARWELL STAKES.

Ten ran,

LATEST BETTING

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CESARETTITCH STAKES.
7to 1 agst Special Licence (taken)
10 to 1 agst Clydesdale (taken)
13 to 1 agst Moorcock (taken)
100 to 7 agst Marine (taken)
100 to 7 agst Gaspard (taken)
20 to 1 agst Prioress (taken)
20 to 1 agst Borderor (taken)
20 to 1 agst Tunstall Maid (taken)
20 to 1 agst Yorkshire Grey (taken)
100 to 3 agst Royal Sovereign (offered)
30 to 1 agst Independence (taken)
CAMBRIDGESHIRE.
25 to 1 agst Petra (taken)
1000 to 30 apt Penalty (taken)

DERBY.
7to 1 agst Umpir• (taken)
15 to 1 agst Thormanby (taken)
100 to 1 agst Oliver (taken)

SPORTING INTELLIGENCI.

NEWMARKET SECOND OCTOBER MEETING,
MONDAY.

Renewal of the Sweepstakes of 50 sous each, 30 ft, for 3-yr-
old fillies, Bst 71b; certain allowances. D.M. 7 fur-
longs 201 yards.
Lord Zetland's Sequidille, Bst 71b (J. Osborne) 1
Mr. Alexander's Madrigal filly, Bst 41b (E. Sharpe) 2
Betting-5 to lon Sequidille, who led all the way and
won by three lengths.

Match, 500, h ft. T.Y.C. 5 furlongs 140 yards.
Lord Glasgow's Coalition filly, Bst (Aldcroft) 1
Duke of Bedford's Eda, Bst 71b (Rogers) .2
Betting-5 to 4 on. the Coalition filly, who made play
throughout, and won by half a length.
Match, 200, h ft. T.Y.C.

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Mr. Locke's New Brighton, aged, Bst 41b. (D. Hughes) 1
Sir J. Hawley's Lord Nelson, 5 yrs, Bst 101 b .... (Wells) 2
Betting-6 to 4on Lord Nelson.
New Brighton waited to the cords, when he went up to
Lord Nelson, had him safe half way up, and won easily by
three quarters of a length.
Match, 100, h ft. T.Y.C.

Lord W. Powlett's Delusion, 5 yrs, Bst 71b.. (S. Rogers) 1
Mr. Greville's Turret, 4 yrs, Bst .. (L. Snowden) 2
Betting-6 to son Turret.
Won by four lengths.
Handicap Sweepstakes of 20 sous each, and 5 ft, if declared,
&c., to go to the second horse. T.Y.C. 13 subs, 6of
whom pay 5 soya ft.
Mr. Powney's Felicitas, 3 yrs, 7st 51b (Fordham) 1
Mr. Hitchin's Sobersides, 3 yrs, 7st 51b (Johnson) 2
Mr. Morris's Hop Merchant, 3 yrs, 7st 81b ..(Custance) 3
The following also ran :—Tiara, Grand Duchess, Cha-
noine, and Lord of the Manor.

Betting-6 to 4 agst Felicitas, 4to 1 agst Grand
Duchess, 5 to 1 agst Hop Merchant.
Won by three lengths ; same distance between second
and third.

Fifty Pounds, for 2-yr-old ; colts, Bst 71b, and fillies, Bst 51b,

T.Y.C.
Mr. Alexander's Thunderbolt, by Stockwell, Bst 71b

(R. Cotton) 1
Lord Stanford's Tyrant, Bst 71b (Fordharn) 2
Mr. R. H. Nevill's filly by Pyrrhus the Frst—Sßeer,
Bst 31b
The following also ran :—Fravola, Gibraltar, Weather-
hound, Creeping Kate, Jane colt, Steppingstone, Locket,
Consequence, Brother to Rainbow, Lady Evelyn colt, Clio,
Senorita filly, and Market Gardener.

Betting--5 to 4 agst Thunderbolt, sto 2 agst Fravola, 7
to 1 agst Brother to Rainbow, 100 to 8 agst any other.
Thunderbolt made all the running, and won in a canter
by four lengths ; three-quarters of a length between the
second and third, same distance between the third and
fourth; Clio, Gibraltar, arid Weatherbound headed the
nick.

Handicap Plate of 50 sous for 3.yr-olds and upwards
Cesarewitch Course.

Mr. G. Lambert's Claire, 3 yrs, 7st (F. Adams) 1
Baron Rothschild's Newstead, 3 yrs, 6st 41b (J. Daley) 2
Mr. Payne's Rechab, 3 yrs, sst 121 b
The following also ran :—Theodora, Dispute, The Greek,
South-Western, Broadbrim, Commodore, and Woman in
Black.

Betting-5 to 2 apt Newatead, 9to 2 agat Rechab, 6to

1 agst Commodore, 7 to 1 agst Theodora, 10 to 1 agat The
Woman in Black.

Won by a neck ; bad third.

MATCH.-Sir Joseph Hawley's Gallus received 100 ft.
from Mr. Greville's Turret.

Produce Sweepstakes (reduced to a match).

Baron Rothschild's f by Kingston—Twinkle, received ft
from Lord Chesterfield's Lady Fair (dead).
MATcll.—Lord Glasgow's f by West Australian—Brown
Bess received ft from Sir Joseph Hawley's f by Longbow
—Venus.

MATCH.—Mr. F. Robinson's Actseon received ft from
Lord Lincoln's Indifference.

LATEST BETTING.
CESAREWITCH.
9to 1 agst Special License (taken)
10 to 1 agst Moorcock
10 to 1 agst Borderer
15 to 1 agst Gaspard
15 to 1 agst Clydesdale
100 to 6 agst Tunstall Maid
20 to 1 agst Prioress
20 to 1 agst Yorkshire Grey (offered)
20 to 1 agst Marine (offered)
30 to 1 agst Oddfellow
30 to 1 agst Polestar
30 to 1 agst Artless (offered)
30 to 1 agst Vanity
30 to 1 agst Whitewall
23 to 1 agst Compromise
40 to 1 agst The Argosy
50 to 1 agst Petra (offered)

CESAREWITCH SCRATCHINGS.—Magnum, Wild Rose,
Fisherman, Jade, Tournament, Sunbeam, Roman Candle,
Riseber, King-at-Arms, Jordan, Pensioner, Spiteful Dick,
Hungerford, Cincinnati, May Morning, Haymaker, Hy-
dromel, Aneurin, Ochiltree, Polly Taft, Wrestler, Cytherus,
Coxcomb, Beadsman, Musjid, Neva, Gleesinger, Mutineer,
Rara Avis, Sam Spode, Don Cossack, and Red Eagle.
CLEARWELL STAKES.—Concertina and The Don have
paid forfeit.

MR. ROBERT STEPHENSON.—We regret to learn
that Mr. Stephenson was much worse yesterday, and that
the physicians are no longer able to entertain any hopes of
his recovery.

A Shields vessel named the Edgar left the Tyne a
month ago, for Hamburg, and has not since been heard of.
It is feared she sunk in a gale which in common with other
vessels she encountered in the North Sea. Ten persons
were on board, and, in all probability, perished with her.—
Newcastle Chronicle.

The directors of the International Royal Mail
Steam-packet Company have received intelligence from
New Zealand of the safe arrival there of the screw steamer
Airedale from England. This is the fourth vessel sent for-
ward, completing the arrangements for carrying out the
service, not only between Sydney and Now Zealand, but
also between the several settlements of that colony. The
advice' generally are stated to be satisfactory.
DEATH FROM EATING A FUN GUS.-Mr. Newton,
coroner, held an inquest a few days ago at Collingham,
Notts, on the body of Thomas Batter, a boy eight years of
age. The father of the deceased said his son Thomas had
accompanied his brother into the fields to look for mush-
rooms. They found a qxantity and returned home with
them. At dinner time the boy complained of a pain in his
head and could not eat anything. At 7 o'clock the same
evening, upon his parents undressing him, he screamed
every time he was touched, and appeared in great agony,
shrinking from every one. His mind became affected, and
at midnight he expired. The surgeon made a post mortem
examination of the body of the deceased, and arrived at the
conclusion that the deceased met with his death from par-
taking of a poisonous fungus which he mistook for mush-
room. •
THE OLD WESTMINSTER MEMORIAL.-On visit-
ing Mr. Wright's Polished Granite Works in John-street
we observed a most beautiful shaft of red Peterhead gra-
nite, intended for the Westminster Column, about to be
erected near Westminster Abbey, to the memory of Lord
Raglan, and the other " Old Westminsters," who fell in
the Crimea. We learn from Mr. Wright that the column
is to be surmounted by a figure of St. George and the
Dragon, sculptured by Mr. Clayton. Below in niches are
to be placed the figures of Henry 111., Edward 1., Queen
Elizabeth, and Queen Victoria. This part of the monu-
ment is to be of Portland stone. The total height of the
column is 62 feet. The height of the base is 14 feet 3
inches, and its width 10 feet.-Aberdeen Herald.
THE STEAM RESERVE SQUADRON IN THE MED-
WAY.-Several changes have recently been made in the
fleet of the steam reserve at Chatham and Sheerness, and
the following are the vessels now attached to the steam re-
serve squadron in the Medway, viz. :-The Hood, 90, 600
horse power; the Queen, 86, 500 horse power; the Goliah,
80, 400 horse power; the Majestic, 80, 400 horse power;
the
Meanee, 80, 400 horsepower; the Forte, 51,400 horse power ;
the Phaeton, 51, 400 horse power , the Challenger, 21, 403
horsepower; the Charybdis, 21,400 horse power; the Fawn,
17, 100 horse power ; the Thunderbolt, 16, floating bat-
tery, 200 horse power ; the Miranda, 15, 250 horse power ;
the Thunder, 14, floating battery, 150 horse power ; the
Trusty, 14, floating battery, 150 horse power ; the Swal-
low, 9, 60 hone power ; the Wasp, 13, 100 horse power;
the Driver, 6, 280 horse power; the Eurotas, 12, 200 horse
power ; the Phoenix, 6, 260 horse power ; the Victor, 6,
350 horse power ; the Dragon, 9, 560 horse power ; the
Alacrity, 4, 200 horse power ; the Foxhound, 4, 200 horse
power; the Jackall, 4, 150 horse power; the Wrangler, 4,
160 horse power ; the Otter, 3, 120 horse power ; and the
Fearless, 76 horse power. In addition, to the above, the
Waterloo, 90, 500 horse power; the Renard, 4, 200 horse
power; and the Snake, 4, 160 horse power, are stationed at
Sheerness ; and the Rodney, 91, 500 horse power ,• the
Severn, 51, 500 horse power; the Ariadne, 32, 800 horse
power; and the Etna, 16, 200 horse power, are stationed at
Chatham. The above vessels give an aggregate of 1,000
guns, and 9,976 horse power.

A UCKLAND, NETT' ZEA LAND.

The following is the address delivered by the
Superintendent on opening the 11th session of tke
Provincial Council on the 11th of July :
" Mr. Speaker and • Gentlemen of the Provincial
Council,—The correspondence which was published
in the Provincial Government Gazette on the 21st
of June last will have sufficiently explained to you
the cause of your being summoned to meet thus un-
expectedly, and for the third time within a short
period. lam sure you will perceive, that the exi•
gency of this occasion necessitated your being called
together, and that it has become imperative to re-
move, so far as your power extends, any uncer-
tainty which may hang over our present mode of
dealing with the waste lands of this province, aris-
ing from the delay which has occurred in obtaining
the assent of her Majesty to the Waste Land Act
of the General Assembly.
" On a recent occasion, when I had the honour of
addressing you, I felt called upon to characterise
the action of the Colonial-office with respect to the
emigration arrangement of this Province, under the
Auckland Waste Land Act, as being inconsiderate
and ill-advised ; it has been found to be, in fact,
highly injurious to the interests of Auckland.
" You will have learned, from the despatch of the
Secretary of State, which has been made public,
the ground upon which it was thought to be neces-
sary to refer the Waste Land Act, 1858, to the
General Assembly for amendment. , It would ap-
pear that more mature consideration and more com-
plete information have modified the views of the
Colonial Minister, and that that Act, which vali-
dates our local law, may now have received the
Queen's assent.
" I have already expressed to you my opinion
that the Waste Land Act, 1858, would finally be-
come law; and as her Majesty's representative in
New Zealand had assented to the Auckland Waste
Land Act ; as the General Assembly of the Colony
were pledged to give it validity; and as the imme-
diate advisers of the Crown have taken no objec-
tion to its particular provisions, or to the principle
of confiding the administration of the waste lands
in the several provinces to the respective provincial
Governments, I have no hesitation in continuing
to carry out the provisions of the Act which
you have passed, and which in its effect on im-
migration and the settlement of the country, has
already conferred such signal advantage upon
Auckland. •

" As, however, it is
.possible that the influence
which has procured the delay in obtaining the
Queen's assent may be sufficiently powerful to pro-
long the existing state of suspense, and as his Ex-
cellency's advisers here think it advisable that
doubts of the legality of our proceedings should be
immediately removed, I thought it my duty to
comply with the invitation of the Colonial Secre-
tary, and at once to summon this Council for the
purpose of giving to the Auckland Waste Land Act,
1858, the form of regulations which the Waste
Land Act of 1854 enables a Provincial Council and
Superintendent to make, and to recommend to the
Governor to be issued and put in force.
" The proposed regulations have been already
published, and will be submitted for your considera-
tion as soon as the period specified by the Act—
namely. 14 days from the commencement of the
session—shall have expired.
" I received from the several emigration agents
of the province assurances of the continued atten-
tion which, in Great Britain, is being attracted to
Auckland as an eligible field for emigration. lam
advised that in'the course of this year a very con-
siderable addition to our population will be made ;
and that among the intending emigrants there are
being organised, under very favourable circum-
stances, two associations for the purpose of forming
special settlements.

" The respective agents appointed by these asso-
ciations for the purpose of selecting the, sites may
be expected to arrive immediately.
" I have now only to state tht, in anticipation
of the regular session of the Council at the close of
th• year, it is not my purpose to bring any measure
before you except that which you have been spe-
cially summoned to consider. •
J. WILLIAMSON, Superintendent.
" Provincial Council Chambers, Auckland,
July 11."

EXTRAORDINARY .FEAT.-A WALK
ON THE WATER,

(Front the Toronto Globe of Sept. 19.)
The announcement, though made by a well-
known resident of Toronto, that he had invented
an apparatus whereby he was enabled to walk upon
the water, was received with some caution. Since
then, in the presence of several members of the
press, Mr. Hickok has given evidence of his ability
to do all that he promised. On Saturday afternoon,
the party invited proceeded to the Don station,
with some amount of doubt upon their minds as to
the result of the trial. None of them expected that
Mr. Hickok would travel at a great speed, or that
his new-fangled invention would enable him to
dance to the music of the waves, had there been
any wherewith to dance to. But on- arriving at
the spot indicated, the best possible evidence was
furnished that it would enable him to walk upon
the water, for there he was in the middle of the
Don, making his way : gainst the current which at
this place runs rather quickly. He soon neared
the party, and when within speaking distance,
turned round with the greatest possible ease. He
had in his hand a small pole, scarcely large enough
to afford him any assistance, so far as preserving
his balance was concerned. That he could do with-
out it was soon proved, for he threw it from him,
receiving in lieu thereof, from a man who accom-
panied him in a boat, a walking-stick of ordinary
size. He commenced his return down the river,
proceeding very steadily, and almost as quickly as
a pedestrian upon dry land when walking at a mo-
derate pace. Before going far he threw the stick
from him, but shortly afterwards resumed the pole.
To the onlookers he appeared to do quite as well
without it. When nearly out of sight he retraced
his steps, and again came opposite the party. In
reply to a question asked, he said he was not at all
fatigued. After promenading for a few minutes
more, having been on the water at least half an
hour, he got into the boat and was rowed to land.
The apparatus used by Mr. Hickok is the first he
has made, so that, as in all new things, there is room
for improvement. The fact is established that a
man may, with this invention, walk upon the water,
and there is nothing to indicate that the feat is at-
tended with any peculiar difficulty. It appears
quite as easy as walking with snow shoes, the mo-
tion of which it somewhat resembles. Anybody can
d 3 it. It may be that, before long, the bay will be-
come a favourite place of resort, where our citizens
will upon a summer evening seek refuge from the
heat and dust of the city, amid the unpolluted
breezes of the lake, or that the shining path marked
out upon the waters by the beams of the silvery
moon will become a fashionable promenade. No
stones will be there to vex those troubled with ten-
der feet. no bruises can result from a fall, no danger
is to be apprehended from carelessly driven cabs, or
viciously given dogs. But whether this come to pass
or not, the invention is doubtless capable of being
put to useful purposes. In Venice how great an
acquisition it would be. There, if a man wants to
call upon a neighbour over the way, he has to hire
a boat ; but with Mr. Hickok's invention the indi-
vidual who should do that would soon come to be
looked upon in the same light as the 'op who called
a cab to convey him across the street. In the cross-
ing of armies over rivers, and in passing the streams
of a new country, like that traversed by. the Cali-
fornia emigrant, it will be invaluable. The shoes
arc of tin, we understand, about four feet long, and
can be easily packed into a small space. We have
no information as to the mechanism employed, and
we presume that will remain a secret till it is pa-
tented ; but if any one doubt that the feat can be
done, he can satisfy himself by witnessing the public
exhibition of his powers which Mr. Hickok in-
tends giving on Tuesday next.

The Lord Mayor elect (Mr. Alderman Carter) has
appointed as his chaplain for the year of his mayoralty,
the Rev. Henry Christmas, M.A., of St. John's College,
Cambridge.
RELICS OF THE PLAGUE OF LONDON.--A few
weeks since the workmen,in digging out the foundation on
the east end of Three Nun Court, by St. Michael's Church,
Aldgate, carnet° a considerable quantity, upwards of a cart •
load, of human skulls and bones, about seven feet from
the surface. In some of the papers it has been con-
jectured that they formed part of the sweepings of
some adjacent churchyard after the fire of London.
This was more likely the great pit, or " dreadful gulf,"
as De Foe calls it, provided for the parishes of
Aldgate and Whitechapel, which, during a fortnight after
it was opened, had thrown into it 1,114 bodies, when they
were obliged to fill it up. De Foe adds, " I doubt not but
there may be some ancient persons alive in the parish who
are able to show in what part of the churchyard the pit lay
better than I can ; the mark of it also was many years to
be seen in the churchyard, or the surface lying in length,
parallel with the passage which goes by the west wall of
the churchyard out of Houndsditch, and turns again into
Whitechapel, coming out near the Three Nuns Inn."—
Notes anu Queries.

PHEASANTS IN FRANCE.--The Court of Fontain-
bleau has just decided that the French law against selling
gamo out of season does not apply to pheasants (and con-
sequently not to any other kind of game) brought up tame
like poultry. It defines the word game (gibier) as com-
prehending, both in an etymological and legal sense, only
creatures taken in the chase. Consequently it acquitted the
landlady of a hotel who was accused by the public prose-
cutor of having a brace of pheasants in her larder in
August, upon p.roof that she had bought them of a woman
who for the last twenty years had been in the habit of rear-
ing pheasants in her poultry yard. This decision has a
certain gastronomic interest. The restaurateurs of Paris
would, however, do well not to presume too much upon it,
for we apprehend that in practice the onus probandi will be
put upon them,