The Sun.
London, England, 1866-02-16 00:00:00

COURSING.

GREAT WATERLOO MEETING—THURSDAY,
The Waterloo Cup, value £1,600 in specie, by subscription
of £25 each ; 64 subs ; the winner to receive £5OO ; the
second, £2OO ; two dogs, £5O ; four dogs, £3O ; eight
dogs, £2O; and 16 dogs, £lO each. The winner to give
three dozen of claret to the dinner.

11.
Mr. Armistead nd Little Grey beat Colonel Bathurst nd
Godira.

Mr. Brocklebank's Isaac beat Mr. Strachan's Marquis.
Mr. Mallaby nd Becca beat Mr. W. Long's Lagrange.
Mr. D. Bateman nd Robe beat Mr. Jones's Jem Mace.
Mr. J. Johnstone nd Fieldfare beat Mr. Williams's nd
Good Gracious.
Mr. T. D. Hornby nd Rower beat Mr. Bland nd Gaudy
Poll.

Mr. Callender nd Love Bird beat Mr. J. Blake nd Prime
Minister.
Lord Bective's Lady Alexandra beat Lord Grey de Wil-
ton's Glendower.
Mr. J. Jardine nd Annaballa beat Hon. Capt. Molyneux
nd Saturn.
Mr. J. Savage nd Blue Eye beat Mr. Massey nd Cauld
Kail (1).
Mr. Deighton nd En Route beat Mr. C. Randall nd
Monkshoof
Mr. G. Thompson's Theatre Royal beat Mr. J. Hyslop
nd;de Morny.
Lord Binning's Basil beat Mr. Saxston's Samuel.
Mr. Blackstock nd (Mr. Holmer's Belle of the Cottage
beat Mr. J. Spinks's Sea Ranger.
Mr. Mather nd Megbeat Mr. Wise's Wee Bob.
Mr. Gorton nd Brigadier beat Mr. Stocker nd Kerrie.
111.
Isaac beat Little Grey.
Rabe beat Becca.
Fieldfare beat Rower.
Lady Alexandra beat Love Bird.
Blue Eye beat Annabella.
Theatre Royal beat En Route.
Belle of the Cottage beat Basil.
Brigadier beat Meg.
The Waterloo Purse, for 32 dogs beaten in the first course
for the Waterloo Cup, amounting to £260, to be divided
as under :--The winner, £100; runners-up £5O; two
dogs, £l5 ; four dogs, ..£lO ; and eight dogs £5 each.
The winner to give one dozen of champagne to the
dinner.

Golden Hair ran a bye (Curiosity drawn)
Sea Fly beat Bonus.
Revelry beat Master Burleigh.
Whitehall beat Bull's Bank.
Stockwell beat Waterloo.
Wide Awake beat Dick (1).
Liddington beat Constance.
Bye Go beat Desperate.
Queen Mary beat King Tom.
Bess beat Simon Pure.
Eyes Right beat Gipsy Girl.
Johnny Cope beat Marquis.
Scapegrace beat Hydra.
Cassiope beat Black Boyd.
Black Topsy ran a bye (Sixty-Two drawn).
Naworth beat Marshal Forward.
LATEST BET TLNG ON THE WATERLOO CUP.
LIVERPOOL, Thursday, Midnight.
7 to 2 agst Isaac (taken)
5 to 1 agst Lady Alexandra (taken)
6 to 1 agst Theatre Royal (taken)
7 to 1 agst Robe (taken)
8 to 1 agst Brigadier (taken)
8 to 1 agst Fieldfare (taken)
8 to 1 agst Blue Eye (taken)
100 to 8 agst Belle of the Cottage (taken)

The Poor-law Board and the Guardians of

the Holborn Union.

Yesterday, at the meeting of the Board of Guar-
dians of the Holborn Union, Mr. Trigs in the chair,
Fa letter was received from the Poor-law Board, stat-
I ing that they had received a report from Mr. Far-
nail, their inspector, on the subject of the wards for
the houseless poor in the Holborn Union Work-
house, in which Mr. Farnall states he had heard that
in consequence of the vagrant wards being full the
guardians are, or recently were, sending sixty
vagrants nightly to registered lodging-houses, and
that having visited the workhouse he had ascertained
that the premises the guardians had promised him
they would take for the purpose of providing the
requisite additional accommodation for vagrants bad
not yet been taken, and that if the negotiations
pending should be successfully closed next week, six
months at least would elapse before the new pre-
mises could be made use of. And further stating
that Mr. Farnall had reported he had in November
last pointed out to the guardians that the system
pursued by them was extremely injudicious, and
that, if continued, the wards provided for the
vagrants were likely to prove insufficient, and sug-
gesting that, under these circumstances, the Poor-
law Board have great doubts whether they ought
not to revoke the certificates they had issued under
the provisions of the Houseless Poor Act,• and in-
viting the guardians to make any observations on
the subject they
law Board took that step.
'might think right before the Poor-

(Signed) ENFIELD, Secretary.
In answer to the above the board of guardians
resolved to send the following :

" The guardians are as fully unprepared as the Poor-law
Board.with the fact that under existing circumstances the
general treatment of the house/ess poor in the Holborn Union
Workhouse is not in a satisfactory condition, but at same
time the guardians have used every means in their power
to meet the difficulties of the case ; they have had a per-
manent committee (appointed before Mr. Farnall's visit in
November) to superintend the matter and to endeavour to
obtain space for enlarged wards, and means for putting
vagrants to work. The premises referred to by Mr. Farnall
as those which the guardians had promised they would
obtain (if possible) are the same which the guardians have
now entered into an agreement to take a lease of, and the
agreement for a lease has been forwarded to the Poor-law
Board for approval. The first negotiation for these premises
failed in consequence of the parties holding them having
only a termlof about five years in them, and in their present
condition they aro utterly unfit for the purpose for which
they are wanted. With much trouble the guardians have
at length secured a term which will justify them in incur-
ring the expense of erecting wards in then. The committee
referred to visited every space in the union to endeavour
to obtain the accommodation required, but unsuccessfully,
except at a cost which they dare not incur. One small plot
of vacant ground they negotiated for, 150 ft. by 50ft., the
proprietor asked 8,000 guineas for, and this is a sample of
the difficulties the guardians have met with. The guardians
have now appointed a superintendbnt of labour, with the
view of endeavouring to apply a labour test, but as they
expected, from the distance of the labour yard from the
workhouse (the only place they have the opportunity of
using for the purpose), many of the vagrants abscond on
going to it. With respect to sending the applicants to
registered lodging-houses, the guardians have taken that
course because the Poor-law Board have laid it down as
the law that when the vagrant wards are full the
guardians must not saya,Oourmlnvaciradtisonafrner
them,full and they
full, gaototehye
next wards, but must find cnrn
cannot do so except by means of these lodging-houses. With
regard to the vagrant wrds
tihnatthien Holborn Union Work-
house, the guardians believe
they are not inferior to the majority of the wards in the
London workliousce, and they can see no reason for the
threat of the Poor-law Board to revoke their certificate.
The guardians have done, and are doing, the best in their
power to meet an emergency which has come suddenly on
them, and they intend to use their best exertions to get their
new wards into operation at soon as possible, and they
leave to the Poor-law Board to exercise their power in
such way as they may deem right."