The Sun.
London, England, 1859-05-21 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

SALISBURY RACES—FRIDAY.
lam:Heap Plate of 60 Boys. Winners extra. Three-quarters
of a mile.

Lord Palmerston's Romsey, by The Flying Dutchman,
3 yrs, 7st 51b (in. 31b extra) (Fordham) 1
Mr. J. Powney's Felicitas, 3 yrs, Est 31b (Custance) 2
Mr. W. Day's Petra, 3 yrs, Est 121 b (J. Adams) 3
Mr. Gulliver's Apollo, 4 yrs, 7st 101 b .... (W. Stevens) 4

Betting.-5 to 2on Romsey, 4to 1 agst Apollo, 7to 1
agst Felicitas.
Won by half a length ; bad third.
Wilton Park Stakes of 10 sovs each, with 50 added, for
two-yr-olds ; colts, Bst 101 b ; fillies, Bst 61b. Winners
extra. T.Y.C. Three-quarters of a mile.
Mr. J. Merry's Cecilia, by Windhound, Bst 61b (Plumb 1
Capt. Pack Berosford's Lovebird, Bst 61b (Fordham 2
Mr. J. Day nas. Chere Amio, Bst 61b (A. Day 3
The following also ran : Plumper, The Assyrian,
Egbert, Panmure's darn colt, and Precise.
Betting.-6 to 4 agst Chere Amie, sto 1 each agst Cecilia
and Plumper, 6 to 1 each agst Lovebird and The Assyrian.
Won by a neck ; a length and a half between the second
and third ; Assyrian was a good fourth ; Plumper was
fifth ; Andover colt sixth, Precise seventh, and Egbert last.
The Longford Castle Stakes, of 25 soya each, 10 ft, and 5
only if declared, &c., for two-yr-olds ; colts, Bst 71b ,
fillies, Bst 31b. Certain allowances. Half a mile. 16 subs.
one of whom declared.
Lord Palmerston's Mainstone, by King Tom, Bst 21b
(A. Day) 1
Mr. Merry's Lady Falconer, Bst 31b (Plumb) 2
Captain Archdall's Skittles, Bst 31b (Faulkner) 3
Capt. Delme's Lord Palmerston, Bst 21b (Fordham) 4
Betting.--L9 to 4on Mainstone, sto 2 agst Lady Falconer.
The favourite made all the running, followed by Lady Fal-
coner, and won by a length and a half ; two lengths be-
tween the second and third ; bad fourth.
The South-Western Railway Plate of 25 sovs, added to a
sweepstakes of 5 soya each, for two-yr-olds and upwards.
Optional Selling weights, &c. Three-quarters of a mile;
7 subs.
Mr. Day's colt by Tadmore out of Mainstay, 2 yrs (MO)
sst (J. Adams) 1
Mr. R. Disne's Lady Bird, 2 yrs (£.50), sst 41b (Grimshaw) 2
Mr. J. Dowling's Lady Pamela, 2 yrs (£2O), 4st 111 b
(Malthouse) 3
The following also ran :—Sunlight, Ladywell, Soapy
Sam, and Surprise.

Betting.-5 to 2 agst The Mainstay colt, 4to 1 each
agst Lady Bird and Soapy Sam, 5 to 1 agst Surprise.
Won by a neck ; about half a length between the second
and third; Soapy Sam was fourth, and Sunlight fifth.
Tho winner was sold by auction to Mr. Barratt for 75
guineas.

The Queen's Plate of 100 guineas ; th.ree-Yr-olds, Est 71b ;
four, 9st 21b ; five, 9st 131 b ; six and aged, lOst 31b. Three
miles.
Mr. P trker's Bevis, 3 yrs, Gst 71b (J. Adams) 1
Mr. Higgins's Fisherman, 6 yrs, lOst 31b (Cowley) 2
Mr. Shelley's Sir Hercules, 3 yrs, Est 71b.... (Pritchard) 3
Mr. Cootes's Currier mare, aged, lOst 31b . (Roe) 4
Betting-5 to 4 agst Fisherman, 2to 1 agst Bevis, 4to 1
agst Sir Hercules.

The Currior mare showed in front about half way, when
Bevis took the lead, made the rest of the running, and beat
Fisherman, who was stopped opposite the Stand, by ten
lengths ; the Currier mare did not pass the post, and Sir
Hercules bolted at the far turn, about a mile from home.

The Longleat Stakes (Handicap) of 10 soya each, 5 ft, with

100 added. Winners extra. One mile and a half. 24 subs
Mr. W. Day's Schism, 3 yrs, 6st 41b (J. Adams) 1
Mr. Merryfield's Charles the Second, 4 yrs, 7st 41b
_ _

- (L. Snowden) 2
Mr. G. Thomas's Birmingham, 3 yrs, Est (car. Est 51b)
(Challoner) 3

The following also ran :—Southampton, Nosegay, York-
shire Miss, Creeping Jane, and Peeress.
Betting-5 to 2 agst Charles the Second, 3to 1 agst
Creeping Jane, 7 to 2 agst Birmingham, 4 to 1 agst York-
shire Miss, 5 to 1 agst Schism.

Won by five lengths; about two lengths between the
second and third ; Peeress was fourth, and Creeping Jane
fifth.

The jockey of Yorkshire Miss broke his stirrup at start-
Lag, and the filly was out of the race.

LATEST BETTING.
DERBY.
sto 2 agst The Promised Land (taken)
9to 2 agst Musjid (taken)
13 to 1 agst Marionette (taken)
100 to 6 agst Electric (taken)
25 to 1 agst Cavendish (taken)
1,000 to 10 was offered against Merryman, who is re-
ported to have broken away whilst at exercise, and cut
himself.

OAKS.
sto 4 offered on the field
10 to 1 agst Rosabel (taken)
30 to 1 agst Allegra (take 33 to 1)
33 to 1 agst Prelude (taken)

BETTING AT MANCHESTER.-FRIDAY.

With the exception of what was done upon the Salisbury
events, now decided, the business was confined to the
Derby. Promised Land was supported at sto 2, as long
as that price could be obtained ; Balnamoon and Enfield
were in demand at their quotations, and 1,000 to 10 was
taken a time or two about Bankrupt. In other respects the
following quotations will suffice :

DERBY.
sto 2 agst The Promised Land (taken)
9 to 2 agst Musjid (taken)
12 to 1 agst Marionette (taken)
20 to 1 agst Ticket-of-Leave (taken)
22 to 1 agst Gamester (taken)
25 to 1 agst Enfield (taken)
33 to 1 agst Glenbuck (taken)
33 to 1 agst Balnamoon (taken)
OARS.
sto 4 agst Mayonaise (taken)
sto 1 agst Ariadne (taken)
10 to 1 agst Rosabel (taken)
100 to 1 agst Bankrupt (taken)

WELLS.—We are happy to state that Wells is quite re-
covered from his recent accident at Chester, and was able
to ride a rattling mile and a half gallop at Newmarket on
Wednesday last, so that no apprehensions are at present
entertained about his riding Musjid for the Derby.

THE LATE MR. JO SERB STUROE.
BIRMIr GRAM, Friday Evening.
The remains of Joseph Sturge were borne to their
last resting place, the graveyard of the Friends'
Meetinghouse in this town, at halfpast 10 o'clock
this morning. The simplicity of Quaker fashions
forbade an opportunity of a public funeral. The
inhabitants Of the town in which Joseph Sturge
had for nearly forty years resided were anxious that
his funeral should be a public one, without display,
but simply expressive of affectionate regard. The
mayor (Sir John Ratcliff) waited upon the next
brother of the deceased, Mr. Charles Sturge, and
consulted him on the subject; but the family were
opposed to ostentation of any kind. In these cir-
cumstances nothing was left but for the inhabitants
to show their respect in their own way, and that
took so natural and simple, yet spontaneous and
genuine a form, that there was no mistaking its
'intention, or the motives which prompted it; in
fact, it has been truly said that such a funeral was
never seen in Birmingham.
The mourning procession left Mr. Stnrge's late
residence at a quarter-past 10 o'clock, the distance
to the place of interment being a mile and a half;
it was followed by nearly forty carriages, containing
the relatives and friends of the deceased, and, after
it left the gates, it was headed by a procession of
more than three thousand gentlemen, three abreast
—men of all ranks, creeds, and shades of distinction
in the town. This procession was headed by the
mayor and by the Rev. Dr. Miller, rector of St.
Martin's, the mother church of the town. In the
midst of a heavy rain, the shops being closed, the
procession moved slowly to the Friends' Meeting.
house. Before it reached there more than twenty
other carriages had joined the mournful cavalcade.
The burial ground was thronged by members of the
Society of Fa leads from all parts of the country.
Mr. Bright, M.P., was present at the funeral.

METROPOLITAN BOARD OP WORKS.

The weekly m3eting of the Metropolitan Board
of Works was held yesterday in the Court of Com-
mon Pleas, Guildhall ; Mr. I. Thwaites in the
chair.

The financial statement showed a total balance
of £75,432 Bs. 10d.

OPENING OF TENDERS FOR THE CONTRACT FOR THE
SOUTHERN HIGH LEVEL MAIN DRAINAGE.
The board proceeded to open tenders for the con-
tract for the Southern High Level Sewer, the
engineer's estimate for which was £212,457. This
work consists of a main line and a branch. The
main line will be five miles eighty feet, commencing
at Deptford Creek, and terminating near the
Plough Tavern, at Clapham. The branch line also
commences with the existing Seffra Sewer at
Deptford, and will run for a considerable distance
parallel with the proposed main line of sewer, ter-
minating with the rise of the Effra at Dulwich,
and extending for a distance of 4 miles 520 feet.
The tenders were opened, and the sums were as
follows : —Moxon, £211,000 ; Trust, £223,122 ;
J. Phillips, £193,169 • Hill and Co., £204,534;
Myers, £242,700 ; Walker and Co., £227,540 ;
Downs, £229,160; Lavers, £230,000; J. Diggle,
£215,000 ; J. Jay, £247,200 ; W. Webster,
£215,379 • Smith and Knight, £268,661; Norris,
Elling, and Co., £213,873.
The board then resolved themselves into a com-
mittee. On the re-admission of the public, the
Chairman announced to Mr. John Phillips that his
tender was accepted, subject to the usual inquiries
as to the sufficiency of his sureties for the due per-
formance of the work.

After some routine applications under the
Building Act had been disposed of, the board
adjourned.

GOVERNMENT ELECTRIC TELE-

GRAPHS.

The electric telegraph is an agency which has
not been altogether neglected by British Govern-
ments, Some small use was made of it during the
late Crimean war; -and in the more recent war in India
it has unquestionably been turned to good account.
But that any Administration has yet sufficientlycom-
prehended the advantages which are to be gained by
its means, or has sought to secure all these advantages
for the country, we must entirely deny. Even as an
auxiliary to the defence of this island, for which it
is so eminently applicable, how little has it been
yet adopted ? The Government have under their
own control one pair of wires putting them in in-
stant communication with Woolwich, Chatham,
Sheerness, and Deal; and they have another pair
extending to Portsmouth and Gosport, from which
a branch is led off to Aldershott ; and these are
all which belong exclusively to them. On the
other hand, notwithstanding all our talk of
coast defences, there is no direct electric
telegraph communication whatever between such
places as Brighton and Portsmouth, Dorchester
and Exeter, and so forth. Yet what could possibly
he more necessary, in case of our coasts being
menaced, than a continuous chain of telegraphs
along our shores, connected at all points with the
seat of Government ?

If we turn our eyes to our possessions abroad,
the facts are no more cheering. Up to this
moment successive Governments have uttnly
neglected to put us in direct and independent
telegraphic communication even with Gibraltar and
Malta—important as those possessions are, and
seriously as they would be endangered by some of
those naval combinations of which we have lately
heard so much! View the matter with as muck
lenience as we may, it is still manifest that sub-
marine telegraphs to such places as those have be-
come as essential to the security of our possessions
as fleets and armies themselves, and that every hour
of inaction in respect to them is attended by terrible
responsibilities. It is little less than sheer fatuity to
rely upon despatch vessels, and other like means of
communication in this day, with an instrument like
the electric telegraph in our hands. It is not less
absurd to trust, as we are now trusting. to lines of
telegraph which are as much in the hands of those
who may any day become our enemies as in our
own.

What appears to us to be necessary Is, the
instant establishment of a Government repart-
inent designed expressly and exclusively to
work out and put in operation a system of
electric telegraph communication, either apart
Hitherto
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t the
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altogether from commercial undertakings of a like
nature, or in some prudent connection with
A permanent staff of electricians or telegraph engi-
pnreueertsicies henceforthhas been
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takeindispensable.
privatepersons
tem-
porary employment under Government, and to dis-
miss them whenever it has been thought convenient.
We need not say that no kind of Government
work can be done well or economically
sundter
mustsuch abe permanence,
systemasts u
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in all such occupation and
in none more than that of which we are now
yd,
speaking, because there is no occupation in which
experience, and the skill which springs from it,
are more indispensably necessary.
These suggestions are made in the earnest hope
that something useful and reliable may be attempted
in the shape of a Government organisation with-
out delay. We refrain from entering into con-
siderations of cost, and matters of that kind, for
fear of encumbering a very simple but, as we
believe, important suggestion with needless details.
The only hint of the kind that we will here ven-
ture to give is a recommendation to the Govern-
ment to see, in laying down cables of their own,
that efficiency is not sacrificed by excessive
economy in the construction of their submarine
cables. The cable from Malta to Corfu, for ex-
ample, is much too fragile. One eminent electrical
engineer informs us that .El5O a mile should be
spent on a cable for connecting our shores with our
Mediterranean possessions, and that for this a cable
excellent in all respects for the purpose could be
produced. Another mentions a much lower amount
per mile as sufficient. But whether it cost little
or much, this cable in particular should be made
and laid down without delay.
—Mechanics' Maga-
zine.

are about to send an
additionalproviding still larger quantities of
Sardinia, to assist in
nes of our ships of war than are at
Italian oak, for the frames
now, when the timber is used
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following :—A
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boulevards ; "`There to ?" said the coachman. "To
glory," was the answer. The coachman scratched his head
and looked puzzled. " Ass that you are," said the son of
Mars, don't you know the Lyons railway station ?"
THE RAILWAY WORKS IN THE PUNJAUR.—Our
readers will perhaps be surprised to learn that the railway
works in the Punjaub have been—stopped. The moment
Sir J . Lawrence' h back is turned in India the supreme go-
vernment and its advisers have suddenly discovered that
the line laid down by Mr. Brunton, and so cordially aT-
proved of by Sir John, is objectionable.—Lahore Chronicle,
April 17.
SHIELDS, Thursday Night—The French full-
rigged ship Notre Dame des Victoires, which struck on th•
bar of the Tyne this morning and grounded, part of her
cargo and coals having been cast overboard, has been got
off and brought into port this evening. She appears to to a
good deal strained. She had a pilot on board in proceed it;
to sea. He states that the master informed him that the
vessel drew 10 feet 3 inches, and there being 20 feet water
on the bar, he ventured to tke the vessel out. An ingnir
will be made as to the water the vessel really draws. _
A CURIO; Iry OF HISTORY !—We learn
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