The Sun.
London, England, 1859-08-22 00:00:00

TALLOW

The business doing in our market is only moderate, yet
prices continue to rule steady. To-day, P.Y,C, on the
spot is selling at 55s 3d to 55s 6d per cwt. Rough fat,
2s lld per 81bs.

1855. 1856. 1857. I 1858. 1859.
Stock this day.... 38,292 8,946 12.910 11,639 21,181
Price of Y.C. . • I 5760 d to 54s Od to 62s 6d to 48s 9d to 556 3d to
—s Od —s Od —s )d —s Od 558 6d
Delivery last week 2,771 2,410 710 1,,,10 1,815
Ditto from June 1 23,404 25,460 18,059 17,964 12,9, 8
Arrivals last week 639 706 2,085 1,533 1,474
Ditto from June 1 13,281 16,697 17,877 18,036 22,071
Price of Town ....1 57s 3d 556 9d 63s 0 d 508 Od 55s 9d

SPORTING NOTES.

PAST DOINGS AND PROSPECTIVE
CHANCES.

Party spirit and party spite cannot always be
regarded with indifference ; they are sometimes
carried to an extent which raise them from insig-
nificance, and not only become public questions but
public nuisances. Now the recent Lewes Meeting
furnishes a point by which these remarks may be
illustrated. Because a certain gentleman chose to
abandon an engagement from a misunderstanding
on a weekly sporting authority (9) the meeting in
which he was intereti.td has been maliciously
attacked, and an attempt to write it down has been
made, which might have produced a desired effect
if directed against an object worthy of censure, but
which is only contemptible in the present instance.
Admiral Rous has lent the weight of his indiscreetly
used authority to back up the unwarrantable re-
marks whieh had been made respecting the
management of the Lewes Meeting; but the
quarrel, which was a very pretty one as it stood,
between the sporting " authority" and the Clerk of
the Course, has now drawn other and unoffending
persons into an unpleasant position. With private
matters, however, the public have now nothing
to do ; individual squabbles invariably excite
more derision than serious attention. The
question, however, as I have stated, has
assumed a public shape, and therefore I should
be guilty of a dereliction of duty did I not refer to
it. The Clerk of the Course will be compelled to
make an explanation of the charges which have
now been publicly asserted against him. His case
he himself .oust defend.

Mr, Thornhill, the really aggrieved party, will
not, however, perhaps possess the same facilities
for showing how he has been blamed for doing
that—not discreditable in itself—a thing of dais
practice on the turf—and which, for motives which
" the Admiral" has misunderstood, has been made
public, in order to injure a man who dared to act
independently in private matters, and who is work-
ing hard to conduct honestly and legitimately a
meeting which has not of late been over prosperous,
and who is endeavouring by fair means to render a
precarious undertaking remunerative.
" The Admiral" has " marked " Mr. Thornhill
because Tournament was started to make running
for Blue Jacket for the Lewes Handicap, and be-
cause Blue Jacket could not win. Now, how does
the case stand ? Wild Rose had been backed for

the race at evens against the field, but she receded
and Blue Jacket became favourite. A stable lad
was put upon Tournament who—if no declaration
was made respecting his being sent to make running
only—was not backed for sixpence in the ring, be-
cause a tacit understanding existed amongst the
people present as to the purpose for which he was
started. Now, is it a very uncommon thing for one
horse to be started to make running, for another
without a declaration being made ? Why the thing
is done every day. Now mark the injustice to Mr.
Thornhill. He was at Wolverhampton with his
jockey, Fordham, and did not reach Lewes till the
Tuesday. Previously to Tournament's race with
Wild Rose for the Guineas, he went to Admiral

Rous and explained to him the circumstance of
Tournament's being started on the Monday, and
informed him that he left instructions to Drewitt,
his trainer, to make public the fact of the horse's
going to serve his stable companion. This Drewitt,
who has been confined to his bed by a long and
painful illness, neglected to do ; but the omission
was not a serious offence, and the Admiral made no
remark at the time. After the race, however, when
Tournament won, the Admiral waxed wroth, and
told Mr. Thornhill he would mark him. He has
done so. He gave a decision more than ques-
tionable against him in a disputed race :
he most unfairly handicapped Mr. Thorn
hill's horses for their engagements at Egham,
and has threatened to " remember" him for the
Cesarewitch and Cambridgeshire. Now Mr.
Thornhill has, it must be confessed, been shame-
fully treated. How came Admiral Rous in the
position, by his mere ipse dixit, to destroy a man's
property and to put the object of his wrath at an
unwarrantable expense ? What would be thought
of a captain who took charge of goods, and when
he got them safely shipped expressed his determi-
nation that their owner should never realize a pro-
fit on it, and that he intended to throw it over-
board ? Mr. Thornhill paid the entrance money
for his horses to the Stakes for which they are
nominated, and he is immediately afterwards in-
formed that his horses will have such a weight
placed upon them as will deprive them of any
chance of winning their engagements. Mr. Thorn-
hill might as well have thrown his money into the
streets, or have had it taken from his pocket. Ad-
miral Rous has worked well for the Turf, but such
acts of caprice as I have brought under notice will
operate more for the evil than for the good of the
Turf. Than Mr. Thornhill a more straight-
forward man is not on the turf, and in justice
to him I have taken up the cudgels, not only
in his behalf, but in behalf of the entire
sporting community. In giving his decision the
Admiral has laid himself open to the charge
which he makes respecting people's drawing upon
their imagination for their facts. He draws upon
his imagination and his prejudices for his facts and
his decisions, upon cases which are unfortunately
brought before him. Surely the Stewards of the
Jockey Club will not be influenced by his vapour-
ing determination,to shut out whatever chance Mr.

Thornhill's horse s would possess for the Cesarewitch
and Cambridgeshire, if they were weighted upon
fair terms with their opponents.
The length to which the above remarks have ex-
tended will prevent my referring, at present, to the
York Meeting, and the in and out running on
Knavesmire. The sport will commence this day
at Radcliffe, and will terminate on Friday at Oxford.
The Radcliffe gathering I may pass over.
The pleasant little meeting at Egham will occupy
the attention of the Cockneys.
The King John Stakes will enable Thunderbolt
to improve upon his Goodwood running, and I shall
not look for a more formidable champion.
For the Surrey and Middlesex Stakes I shall
give my preference to Clydesdale and Clara
Webster.

For the Runnymede Handicap I shall stand
Queen of the South and Lord Berkeley.
Broadstairs. A FRESH MAN.

ARRIVALS AT RADCLIFFE.

Raspberry, Vatty, Secret Treasure, Charlotte, Flash in
the Pan, Alfred, Little Poll, Birdcage, Amy Sedgwick,
and Brother to Flying Cloud.

THIS DAY'S SHIPPING.

LONDON, Aug. 22.—Wind this day at noon, North-
Westerly; light, with fine summer weather.
OFF SALCOMBE, Aug. 21.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—
Josephine, from New York for London.
FALMOUTH, Aug. 21.—Wind N.E.—Arrived—Leland,
from Matanzas ; Bertha, San Jose, Ocean Favourite, and
Secundina—allfrom Havanna ; Pandora, from Mazagan;
Euxine, from Berdianski ; Favorite, from Taganroe;
Legore, from Ibrail.

QuEENSTOWN, Aug. 21.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—
Earl of Chester, from Callao ; Margaret, from Havannah ;
Gluckup, from Camillas.
PORTSMOUTH, Aug. 21.—Wind N. to N.E.—Arrive 1—
Her Majesty's steamer Himalaya, from Gravesend ; her
Majesty's steamer Trafalgar, from Sheerness ; her Ma-
je‘ty's steamer Arrogant, from Southampton. Sailed—
Her Majesty's steamer Royal Albert, Algiers, James
Watt, Hero, Herald, Diadem, Agamemnon, and Flying
Fish.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
SOUTHAMPTON, Monday Morning.

Wind calm.

Arrived, Aug. 20—Annie Vernon, from Cardiff; Sophia
and Margaret, from Lynn ; Ceres, from Dublig ; L' Etoile,
from Carenton ; Wear and Nancy, from Sunderland ; Sup-
ply, Hero, and Adelaide—all from Seaham • Emulous,
from Middlesborough; Harriet, from Poole.
Arrived, Aug. 21—Gratitude, from London; Argyll,
steamer, from Carenton ; 'Waterford, from Cardiff.
Sailed, Aug. 20.—Mechanics' Own, for Newport ; Bro-
thers, Minerva, and Aurora, for Sunderland ; Ceres, steamer,
for London; Ceylon, steamer, for Alexandria; Renown,
for Porthcawl ; Doore, for Sundswall.
Sailed, Aug. 21.—Kathleen and Delight, for Sunderland;
Elizabeth and Mary, for Cardiff; Teviot, steamer, for West
Indies ; Marion Lass, for Plymouth ; Amicus, for Cardiff.
LIVERPOOL, Monday Morning.

Wind W.
Arrived, Aug. 21—Douro, screw steamer, from Oporto ;
Mary Glover, from Mobile ; Alice Wilson, from Morti-
more ; Amos, from Sulina ; Bjarke, from Saakyobing.
Arrived, Aug. 22--Holger, from Iceland ; England, from
Quebec.

(BY StrBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, Monday Morning.
Wind W. ; tide, three hours' ebb ; weather fine.
Arrived, August 21—Christine Marie, from Thisted;
Aalto, from St. John's, New Brunswick; De Veer Gebru-
ders, from Gottenburg ; Anna Dorothea, from Nykoping ;
Union, from Struer ; 2Bolus, from Cronstadt ; Omen and
Pilot, from Riga ; Copernicus and Hermon Hill, from
Cronstadt ; Hebe, from Marstrand.
Arrived, August 22—Fyenoord, from Rotterdam; Hop-
pet, from Cette ; Salacix, from Cronstadt; Behrend, from
Tslemel ; Halicoch, from Cronstadt; Frederica Louise, from
Memel. _ _

DEAL, Monday Morning.
Wind N.N.E., moderate. _ _

Passed.—PreMier, from London, for Demerara • Kate
Dyer, from Shields, Leghorn; Roscitate, from Shields,
for Genoa,

The Daily News, Express, Morning .Herald,
Morning Chronicle, Sun, and two other penny papers were
seized in Paris on Saturday. I find by Bunter's Corre-
spondence that they contain a letter from Louis Blanc,
stating that he does not intend to avail himself of the
aronesty.—.Paris _Letter.
THE SUNDAY MARKET IN SOMERSTOWN.--Thue.
vestry of St. Pancras have adopted the followingre resolu-
tion :—" That this vestry having received
, memorials,
nu-
merously signed by the inhabitants of bomere t
com-
plainingonSun instructed
to take
daoyf,thdoe
resolve
ehoaft at public market
bo being held there
steps for the suppression of the =sauce.

ME SERPENTINE.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES.

Sir,—There are occasions when, despite his own
previous resolutions to the contrary, a professional
man must abandon his retirement for the arena of
an unsought and most disagreeable controversy.
Messrs. Easton and Co. now seek to impute to me
a wilful perversion of their voluntary proposals for
cleansing the Serpentine, and particularly in re-
spect to the alleged intended application of the
water to the ornamental lakes in Buckingham Pa-
lace Gardens and St. James's Park, after it shall have
been previously employed to cleanse the Serpentine.
They neither deny the statement nor explain it
away, but content themselves with saying the sug-
gestion " is too much like a portion of Mr. Hawks-
ley's plan for it to have originated elsewhere than
in his own brain," thus leaving the public to infer
that my conclusions had no foundation in fact, and
that I had deliberately and wilfully misrepresented
Messrs. Easton and Co.'s own propositions. Messrs.
Easton and Co. shall therefore reply to Messrs.
Easton and Co. out of their own printed communi-
cations.

On the 10th of the present month Messrs.
Easton and Co., having been twice repulsed by two
succeeding heads of the Department of Works, ad-
dressed to the First Commissioner the following
remarkable epistle :

"THE SERPENTINE.
" Grove, Southwark, S.E., Aug. 10.
" Sir,—We must ask you to excuse our again troubling.
you with a communication on this subject, but we are de-
termined that such a plan as that of filtering the Serpen-
tine water shall not be carried into effect without your
being made fully acquainted with the fact that the supply
of water to that lake can be accomplished in a simpler,
more effectual, and less expensive manner.
" The quantity of water at present pumped daily by the
six-horse agricultural engine and temporary pump into the
lake in St. James's Park is not less than 500,000 gallons ;
and it is from the knowledge of this fact and from the extra-
ordinary quantity of water we met with in making the pre-
sent tunnels finm the well in the a•ack island that we are
enabled to guarantee to obtain the quantity mentioned in
our letter of the sth inst.
,4 Our calculations in that letter were made upon the basis
of supplying as much fresh water daily to the Serpentine as
it was proposed to filter,—viz. 2,000,000 gallons ; but we
are of opinion that by pumping 1,400 gallons per minute,
equal to 1,000,000 per day of 12' hours, into the basin in
Kensington Palace Gardens, whence it would run into the
Serpentine as at present, the supply would be amply suffi-
oient.

"-We are willing to obtain this quantity of water, erect
the steam-engine, pumps, and buildings, lay down the pipes,
and execute all the works necessary for the sum of £11,500;
and we will further contract to work the engine for six days
in the week, 12 hours per day, and keep the whole in repair,
for the sum of £7OO per annum, which is only about £2OO
per annum more than the present cost of keeping up the
lakes in Buckingham Palace Gardens and St. James's Park.
" We are satisaed that 1,000,000 gallons per day will be
sufficient, but should it be requisite to work the machinery
by night in the summer, it could be done for 40s. per night,
and thus give 2,000,000 gallons per day instead of
1,000,000.

" The annual sum here stated would be the total cost for
supplying the whole of the lakes when the present contract
with. the Chelsea Waterworks Company expires, which we
believe will be the case in less than two years.
" We have the honour to" be, sir, your obedient servants,
" EASTON, Amos, AND SONS.
The Right Hon. Henry Fitzroy, M.P., Chief Com-
misSioner of her Majesty's Works, &c.”
This letter is, as I read it, perfectly distinct on
five material points :

1. The quautity of water to be pumped is
6,000,000 gallons per week of seven days, equiva-
lent to an average supply of only 857,143 gallons
per day.
2. The sums to be paid to Messrs. Easton and
Co. for this service are £11,500 down for machinery
and apparatus, and £7OO per annum for working
expenses.

3. The sum to be saved is £5OO per annum, being
" the present cost of keeping up the lakes in Buck-
ingham Palace Gardens and St. James's Park."
4. The annual cost (.£700) is " the total cost for
supplying the whole of the lakes" with this dis-
tinctly stated quantity of water (857,143 gallons
per day.)

5. The water is to be obtained " fresh" from the
well, and is to be pumped direct " into the basin in
Kensington Palace Gardens, whence it would run
into the Serpentine as at present."
From this statement it therefore follows, as a
matter of course, that the other two lakes—the one
in Buckingham Palace Gardens and the one in St.
James's Park—can only be supplied (unless, in-
deed, the same water, like the celebrated Hibernian
bird, is capable of being in two places at one time)
by the down-flow from the Serpentine, and this, as
appears from other parts of the correspondence
with which I need not now trouble you, was clearly
intended by Messrs. Easton and Co.
But in order apparently to prevent any possibi-
lity of mistake on this subject, Messrs. Easton and
Co. present the readers of the Times of Tuesday
last with an elaborate comparison of the costs of
the corresponding undertakings ; as adopted by the
Government and as proposed by themselves, in
which they charge against my plan the following
saving by their plan—viz., the whole of " the sums
paid last year for pumping water into St. James's
Park and Buckingham Palace Gardens, £500,"
being the identical amount mentioned in their letter
of the 10th of August above referred to. All the
water is, therefore, to travel from the well to Ken-
sington basin, thence pass into the Serpentine,
afterwards descend into the garden of Buckingham
Palace and the lake in St. James's Park, where,
finally, it will in part escape by the sewer into the
Thames, and in part filtrate into the gravel by
which the well is supplied to re-commence the same
distinguished circuit.
I decline to comment upon, or in any way notice,
the personalities of which I am made the subject,
simply for having performed a strictly professional
duty in a strictly professional manner. You, sir,
and your readers are the best judges of the good
faith with which I have acted in my professional
capacity, and as well of the truthfulness of the
statements I have been compelled to make in the two .
defensive communications you have done me the
honour to publish. If I have been the means of
misrepresenting Messrs. Easton and Co., it is only
because they have been at pains to misrepresent
themselves, for I have not knowingly altered a
word of their own propositions, nor have I, as I
believe, in any respect changed the clear and ob-
vious meanings attaching to them ; neither do I
perceive that Messrs. Easton and Co. have failed
to convey a distinct expression of their
cause every member of their several propositions
is
satmatpelmifieendt and
ma de corroborated
themselves.
to
There is one other matter on which I desire
make a short remark. Messrs. Easton and Co.
state in their last letter to you :

" We are willing to undertake to put the bottom of the
Serpentine into the same state as that of the lake in St.
James's Park, and that the cost of the whole to the country
shall not exceed £33,000 beyond the present grant of £17,000.
There have been many exaggerated estimates made of the
cost of this operation ; Sir S. M. Peto to-day says it will
amount to £BO,OOO or £90,000."

Now, sir, the estimates for cleansing the Serpen-
tine have been more numerous than the public are
probably aware of. They have ranged from about
£30,000 to considerably more than £lOO,OOO, ac-
cording to the varying amounts of work proposed
to be performed. Most of the estimates include, as
a prominent item, the entire removal of the deposited
mud, because this operation has for more than 10
years past been of all others the one most insisted
a anti
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upon both by the press and the individuals who
have interested themselves the most largely in
regard to the so called " purification of the Serpen-
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Having
explanations, I venture to
express the hope—a hope I scarcely expect to rea-
lise—that I shall now be. permitted to relapse into
that condition of professional quietude from which
I consider I have been improperly withdrawn by
the pertinacious interferences and personal attacks
of Messrs. Easton and Co. I may have, unluckily,
but notwithstanding quite accidentally, stepped
between those gentlemen and a tradesman's gains
for " goods sold and delivered, and work and labour
done and performed" on a, supposed to be impend-
ing, Government contract of the amount of £50,000
or more ; I must therefore abide the consequences
of my temerity, and submit myself to all the pun-
ishments I deserve for an offence at onc3 so grave
and graceless. I believe, however, that during my
prolonged revolutions in Messrs. Easton and Co.'s
pillory, the public, who are now gradually gather-
ing the facts of the case, will not be disposed, as in
old times, to decorate my person with that Serpen-
tine mud in which Messrs. Easton and Co. take
and have so manifest an interest. I continue to
m
riofifeamtioonneoyf
money, , or
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necessary
vfaosrt
the outlays
pu
pentine ; andl have no doubtof b • ttihmeeS er-
eing able to effect
that object with satisfaction to the Government
public.
and with advantage to the
Sincerely thanking you for your courteous ad-
mission of this letter, I have the honour to be, Sir,
11°11r ninst obedient servant,
T. HAWKSLEY.

Aug. 20.