The Sun.
London, England, 1866-06-28 00:00:00

MAIL TRAIN-A MYSTERY.

(From the Sporting Life.)
[The following extraordinary document was picked up
near our office a few days since. The writer evidently
means something, and we leave our readers to interpret it.]
CHRONOLOGIA MAIL TRAINIANA.

1864—Mr. William Day dreams that he has a horse in
his stable which will pull off ono of the big handicaps. He
gets up early, and telegraphs to a friend or two. Betting
—66 to 1 Mail Train.
1865—Mr. W. Day not wishing to distress Mail Train
after his severe eiertions in the Cesarewitch and tte Cam-
bridgeshire, does not bring him out during tho whole year.
The horse is, however, persistently entered, and hungrily
nibbled at by the public. Betting-66 to 1 Mail Train.
1866 Mail Train is made a great " pot" for the North-
amptonshire Stakes, and manages to run second. Tho
public insist that the money was not on, and that " the
Mail Train" is still in reserve for something. Betting-66
to 1 Mail Train.
1867—Mail Train having failed on the flat, is tried as
hurdle racer. Betting-66 to 1 Mail Train.
1868—Mail Train having failed both as a hurdle racer
and a flat racer is put to steeplechasing, and is entered for
the Grand National. Betting-66 to 1 Mail Train.
1869 —A tipster having ruined the majority of his sub-
scribers by continually sending Mail Train as a good thing
for fiveycars in succession, goes mad, fancies himself a
locomotive, and incessantly shouts "Look out I The Train's
coming !" Betting-7-6G to 1 Mail Train.'
1870—A bookmaker having realised a fortune by 'laying
against Mail Train, retires, and leaves the business to his'
son. Betting-66 to 1 Mail Train.
1871-72-73-74-75—Mail Train is put into physic, and
nothing else of consequence occurs except that the public
will continue backing M.T. Betting-66 to 1 Mail Train.
1876—A year of wonders. Lord Glasgow, seized with a
fit of remorse, names two of his horses ! Mr. Nailor wins
a race, two horses having Inn, and the first being disqua-
lified!! Lord Stamford Wishing to back something of his
absolutely succeeds in doing so at the liberal odds of 5 to
4! !! Sir Joseph Hawley is seen without his umbrella!!!!
Betting-66 to 1 Mail Train.
1877 and 1878—Mail Train is turned out of training, and
is successively driven in a Hansom, an omnibus, and a
parcels' delivery cart. The public will no; however, be
stalled off. Betting—C6 to 1 Mail Train.

1879—The Sporting Life accomplishes the 20th year of
its existence, and commemorates the anniversary by offer-
ing to bo run for a Consolation Cup, for horses that have
never won. Betting-66 to 1 Mail Train.

1880—Mail Train is put into training again; and "Our
William," remembering Cosmopolite, fancies that the
" ohrun" may do something after all. Betting —66 to 1
Mail Train.

1881—Mail Train is turned out to grass, and there meets
a follow-sufferer—Lord Zetland. Affecting interview. Bet-
ting-66 to 1 Mail Train.
1882—Mail Train is entered for the Grand Barnet Han-
dicap at sst 101 b. The public is indignant at his being so
heavily weighted. Betting-66 to 1 Mail Train.
1883—International Railway completed. Trains start
every five minutes from Farringdon-street to Paris direct.
Mail Train goes over to run for an all-aged race. Betting
—66 to 1 Mail Train.
1885—Mail Train takes his 54th maiden allowance at the
Clapham Common Summer Meeting. Betting-66 to 1
Mail Train.

1885—A stableman, who has attended on Mail Traiu.
from his infancy, dies of a broken heart. The horse refuses
Ws corn, and is slightly ashamed of himself. Betting-66
to 1 Mail Train.

1886-1890—No tidings of Mail Train during this interval.
Thai nowing ones declaro that ho has gone all to pieces, but
the public won't have it. Betting-68 to 1 Mail Train.
1891—The Brower dies of extreme old ago, and being the
oldest inhabitant of Epsom is buried with great pomp.
Betting-6G to 1 Mail Train.

1892—The Stud Book is accidentally destroyed by fire,
and Dr. ShorLhouse being unable, through lapse of time, to
remember Mail Train's pedigree, he is entered as "sire and
dam unknown." Betting-66 to 1 Mail Train.
1893—Mr. W. Day, having scratched all the hair off
his head in thinking of Mail Train, is compelled to ordor a
bath. Ho sti'l thinks the horse will do something. Bet-
ting-66 to 1 Mail Train.

1894—Lord Mayors and Aldermen abolished. The busi-
ness of the Albert Club removed to the Mansion-house ;
Sir Ishmael Fisher, Bart., president. Betting---66tolMail

Train.

1895—Mr. W. Day, awakening at length from his dream,
disposes of Mail Train to the veteran Tommy Hughes.
Betting-66 to 1 Mail Train.
1896—The Earl of W— pays his throe surv:v:sg cre-
ditors a furJior dividend of twoponco halfpenny in tho

pound. Betting—CG to 1 Mail Train.
1897—Mr. John Valentine's grandson rnatries Mr. Henry
Wright's granddaughter. The venerable John Read gives
the bride away. Bettiug-66 to 1 Mail Trait].
1898—Admiral lions completes his 103 d year ; anti his
sympathisers present him with a gold nib to replace the
pen ho has worn out in repeatedly writing Mail Train's
name and weight. Betting—GC to 1 Mail Train.
1899—Messrs. Quilter and Ball, the eminent account-
ants, are requested to furnish au estimate of Mail Train's
cost of keep and other incidental charges. Estimate given
in, £3,742 IGs. 9.1 d. Betting—GC to 1 Mail Train.

1900 - Dr. Culiiming's prophocy is fullilled, and tho world
COmoS to an end. Butting-66 to 1 Mail Train.

Jamaica—A Parallel.

A writer in a contemporary says the follow ng is
copied out of De Lolmo's " Constitution of Eng-
land," and may have some bearing on the Jamaica

massacre :

"A groat number of instances might be produced to
prove the above-mentioned subjection of the civil to the
military power. I shall introduce one which is particularly
remarkable: I moot ilith is in the periodical publications
of the year 1746.
" A lieutenant of marines, whose name was Frye, had
been charged, while in the West Indies, with contempt of
orders, for having refused, when ordered by the captain, to
assist another lieutenant in carrying another officer pri-
soner on board the ship. The two lieutenants wanted to
have the captain give the order in writing. For this Lieut.
Frye was tried in Jamaica by a court-martial, and sen-
tenced to 15 years' imprisonment, besides being declared
incapable of servingtho King. Ho was brought home ; and
his case, after being laid before the Privy Council, appear-
ing in a justifiable light, ho was released. Some time after
ho brought an action agst Sir Chaloner Ogle, who had sat
as president to the abovo court martial, and had a verdict
iu his favour for £lOOO damages (it was also proved that
ho had boon kept 14 months in the most severe confine-
ment Wort) ho was brought to trial). The jury, moreover,
informed him that ho was at liberty to bring his action
against any of the members of the said court-martial Le
corld meet with. The following part of the affair is still
more remarkable. Upon application made by Lieutenant
Frye, Sir John Willos, Lord Chief Justice of the Corn-
mon Pleas, issued his writ against Admiral Blayne and
Captain Renton°, two of the persons who had sat in the
above court-martial, who happened to bo in England
at that time, and were members of the court-martial that
was then sitting at Deptford, of which Admiral Mayne
was moreover president; and they wore arrested immedi-
ately after the breaking up of the court. The other mem-
bers resented highly what they thought the insult. They
met twice on the subject and came to certain resolutions,
which the Judge Advocate was directed to deliver to the
Board of Admiralty, in order to their being laid before the
King. Iu these resolutions they demanded satisfaction
for the high insult on their president from all persons how
high soover in office have set on foot this arrest or in any
degree advised or promoted it,' moreover complaining that
by the said arrest 'the order,'discipline, and Government of
his Majesty's armies by sea was dissolved, and the Statute
13, car. 2, made null and void.'

" The altercations on that account lasted some months.
At length the court-martial thought it necessary to sub-
mit ; and they sent to Lord Chief Justice Willes a letter
signed by the seventeen officers, admirals and commanders,
who composed it, in which they acknowledged that 'the re-
solutions of the 16th and 21st May were unjust and un-
warrantable, and do ask pardon of his lordship and the
whole Court of Common Pleas for the indignity offered to
him and the court.'

This letter Judge Willes road in open mutt, and di-
rected the same to be registered in the Remembrance-eine°,
'as a memorial to the present and future ages' that who-
ever set themselves above the law wi'liu the end find
themselves ra'staken."

" The letter from the court-mai thil, together with Judge
Willea's acceptation, were iusei'i,ed in the next Gaze: te, Nov
15, 1746."

TILE AMERICAN FREE-TRADE LEAGUE.—The fol-
lowing resolutions acknowlodging the receipt of the
Free-trade address recently sent from this country to the
United States have been received by the Secretary of the
Free-trade Association :—" 115, William-street, New Yoik,
June 7, 1866. On motion of the chairman, seconded by
Mr. Alfred Pell, jun., Resolved, that the officers and mem-
bers of the .A.morican Free-trade League have read with
much pleasure the address of the London Free-trade Asso-
ciation. Resolved, that the League feels greatly encou-
raged by the proofs of sympathy and the deductions of ex-
perience embodied in the address!—C. A. BRISTED,
Chairman, pro tem."
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