The Sun.
London, England, 1832-10-11 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

EPSOM OCTOBER MEETING, 1832.
YESTERDAY, OCT. 10.
Since the commencement of the October Meetings at
this place such fine weather and such excellent sport have
not been known as yesterday, nor h eve there on any occa.
sion been so many horses collected together. Great pains
have been taken by Baron de Tessier (the resident Steward)
to provide attraction to the public, and he has eminently
succeeded. In the general details there was nothing fresh,
except that as a matter of economy the services of the
Newmatket Judge were dispensed with, and the duties
undertaken by the Baron, to the entire satisfaction of all
concerned. The racing came off as follows :
The Epsom Plate of 501., for all ages. The winner to be
sold for 150 soya., if demanded, ice. Two-mile heats.
Mr. Theobald's Gretna Green, 3 yrs
Lord Lowther's Timekeeper (rec. 10 sovs.)
Mr. Kent's f. by Sultan, 3 yrs 2 0
The following also started, hut were not placed :
Mr. Forth's c. by Partisan, 3 yrs. (lad)
Mr. Robert's Zarina, 4 yrs. (Wakefield)
Mr. Shackell's Hindoo, 6 yrs. (S. Mann)
Mr. Gardnor's Ida, 4 yrs. (Pavis)
Sir G. Heathcote's Ferdousi, 4 yrs. (Buckle)
the last two were drawn after the first heat.
First Heat.-5 to 2 agst. Hindoo, and 4 to 1 agst.
Timekeeper; Zarina made play to the rubbing house,
where Gretna Green took it up, Hinder) lying second to
the turn, at which point he gave way to the f. by Sultan ;
a close race between Gretna Green and f. by Sultan was
won by the former by half a neck only ; Timekeeper third.
Second Heat. —2 to 1 agst. Gretna Green, and 2 to 1
agst. Zarina. The running was pretty much the same as
in the first heat till near the mile-post, where Gretna
Green went in front, was never after headed, and won
easy; very cleverly ridden by N. Farrall, Timekeeper by
Macdonald, and f. by Sultan by a lad.
Sweepstakes of 20 sovs. each, h. ft, for two-yr. .old colts,
Sat. 71b. ; fillies, Bst. 31b. ; winners to carry 31b. extra.
Half a mile. Three Subs.
Mr. Ley's Partiality
Sir G. Heathcote's ch. C. by Blacklock
3to lon Partiality. A very fine race, and won by not
more than a neck. Pavis rode the winner, Buckle the loser.
Sweepstakes of 3 sovs. each, with 35 added. The winner
to be sold for 100 sovs., and the second horse to save
his stake. Mile heats. Fifteen Subs.
Mr. Wiltshire's Wassailler, 5 yrs
Duke of Richmond's Cassador, 3 yrs
Mr. Thomas's Blinker, 6 yrs 0 2 0
Sir G. Heathcote's Ferdousi, 4 yrs 0 0 0
Mr. Watson's Miss Fidget, aged 0 0 0
Mr. Pococke's Chance, aged
Mr. Balchin's Pamella, 3 yrs
Mr. Roberts's Zarina, 4 yrs 0 dr
Mr. Haywood's Metheglin, 4 yrs 0 dr
Mr. Shackell's Hindoo, 6 yrs
First Heat.-5 to 2 agst. Cassador, 5 to 1 agst. Zarina,
4 to 1 agst. Wassailler, and 6 to 1 sgst. Blinker. Hind ,o
made running to the turn, where Blinker and Wassailler
came up, beat him off at the distance, and finished with a
dead heat.
Second Heat.-2 to I agst. Cacador, 3 to 1 agst. Wae
sailler, and 7to 2 agst. Blinker. Ferdousi made play to
the distance, whence the race rested between Wassailer
and Blinker; Wassailler happened to have the best jockey,
and won cleverly.
Third Heat.—Even on Wassailler, and 5 to 2 agst.
Cassador, who, having waited on the others, made an effort
to win this, but was beaten easy by Wassailler. Cowley
rode the winner.
No race for the Oatlands.

SPECTACLES EXHIBITED AT ROME BY
JULIUS CACSAIL. —Never before, according to traditions
which lasted through several generations in Rome, had
there been so vast a conflux of the human race congregated
to any one centre, on any one attraction of business or of
Pleasure, as to Rome on occasion of these spectacles ex-
hibited by CasAa. In our days the greatest occasional
gatherings of the human race are in India, especially at
the great fair of the Hurdwan, in the northern part of
Hindostan ; a confluence of many millions is sometimes
seen at that spot, brought together under the mixed influ-
ence of devotion and commercial business, and dispersed
as rapidly as they had been convoked. Some such spec-
tacles of nations crowding upon nations, and some such
Babylonian confusion of dresses, complexions, languages,
and jargon was then witnessed at Rome. Accommoda-
tions within doors, and under roofs of houses, or of tem-
ples, was altogether impossible. Myriads encamped
along the streets and along the high roads in the vicinity
of Rome. Myriads of myriads lay stretched on the ground,
without even the slight protection of tents, in a vast circuit
about the city. Multitudes of men, even Senators, and
others of the highest rank, were trampled to death in the
crowds, and the whole family of man seemed gathered
together at the bidding of the Great Dictator.—Black-
wood's Magazine.

M. PICQUEROL, Juge de Premiere Instance,
at Paris, went to Honfleur with his wife, his three chil-
dren, and a young cousin, to pass the vacation. There
they agreed with the master of a sloop, about to convey a
cargo of eggs to Portsmouth, to carry them across the
Channel, in order that they might see England. They
were scarcely in the open sea before an extraordinary bustle
was observable in the sloop. The vessel had sprung a
leak ; all hands were set to work at the pumps ; and the
passengers went below in order that they might be out
of the way. The efforts of the sailors were vain, and M.
PICQUEROL and his family soon heard the voices of the
crew...—. Come up instantly if you wish to save your lives;
the boat will be off directly." Our voyagers were soon
on deck. The young cousin jumped into the boat, which
(already too full) could not receive more than the three
children. M. and Madame PICQUEROL resigned them-
selves to their fate ; and putting into the boat, with their
children, all their money, and all the articles of value they
had with them, they gave themselves up to certain death.
Left alone on the wreck, which was manifestly sinking be-
fore their eyes, M. and Madame PICQUEROL, hanging by
the cordage, had abandoned all hope, when they saw the
boat again approaching. They then discovered that the
boat which had put off with the crew was not that of the
sloop, but of an English schooner, which bad answered
the signals of distress hoisted by the former. Intothis
boat they were taken, and safely conveyed to their children
on board the schooner. Toe Captain, whose name was
JOHN Porwes, was bound for St. Petersburg ; but he
consented to return and land his passengers at Dover,
where they arrived on the 15th ult.—French Paper.

Extract of a letter from an officer of rank,
dated Oporto, September 27, 1832 :—" I was as near
having CAMPBELL in the morning of the 24th as he could
be. He was at a farm-house in front of my part of the
line on the night before. I went two hours before day •
light with 30 men, but we were discovered before we
reached the house by some guerillas; he was off, however,
in a hurry, but I have not done yet with this Tory knight.
The officer, who was the bearer of a communication from
Admiral PARKER to GASPAR TEIXEIRA, the Miguelite
General, was treated in the most slighting manner by Sir
JOHN CAMPBELL, who declared that if Portugal had
50,000 bayonets, England durst not act es she now did—
that war was inevitable—and that she would pay dearly
for her temerity ! ! Desertion among the enemy's troops
is increasing rapidly. Two officers anti 12 Cagadores
came in the day before yesterday ; the day before that, 6
dragoons with hors,s, &c., and when offered the premium
of 61. each, they nobly refused it. Yesterday 2 sergeants
and 16 privates from the 13th Regiment came in, and
this morning 6of the Bth Cagadores. I ant convinced
that in one month, should they remain near us, half of
their army will join us. Lieutenant CHATTERTON has
been staying at my house ; he is now almost well ; his
wound was in the leg. I expect he will be at his duty in
ten days. Privates JAMES and JARRET, both of Rye, are
very well, and excellent young men. lam glad you did
not know my dear friend STAUNTON, who fell on the
16th : be was a most splendid soldier. I cannot tell you
how great is the loss I have sustained in him. The affair
at the heights of the Lugar des Antis was one of the most
brilliant little things I ever saw."

ROBBERY AT THE CORN EXCHANGE.—A well-
dressed man, one of whose names is William Webb,
was brought before the LORD MAYOR, charged with
having stolen a great-coat, the property of Mr. Fell,
a cornfactor, in the Corn Exchange Subscription-
rooms. The Subscription-rooms have, it appears,
been frequently robbed. One of the subscribers saw
the prisoner, whom he knew not to be a subscriber,
enter the closet where tha great coats, &c., are kept,
and deliberately put on Mr. Fell's coat, and walk
towards the place where the umßrellas are kept,
probably with the intention of supplying himself
from that depository likewise. The subscriber
stopped him, and he immediately took off the coat,
without insisting that it was his own, although in
the first instance he said it was.

The LORD MAYOR—Do you choose to say what
you are ? Prisoner—By no means, my Lord.
The LORD MAYOR-1 must commit you. Pri-
soner—Yes, my Lord, I suppose so.—Fully com-
etnitted for trial.

Soley Solomon:, a fruit seller about the streets,
was brought up under the following circumstances :
—Edward Smith—" Please your Lordship, I went
up to this here gentleman (the prisoner) for to buy
some nuts on him, and so I hands him the only shil-
ling as I had, and it was a good shilling, please you,
my Lord. So he claps it in his mouth, and then
lie throwed it down on his basket, and says, vy, its a
bad un. And so it was a bad un, but it wa'nt the
one as I gave him."—(Laughter.)
The LORD MAYOR—Are you sure it was not the
one you gave him ? Smith—" I'll take my oath
on it. Ven he showed it to me, arter he took it
out of his mouth, it was a regular stinker."-
-(Loud laughter.)
A witness stated, that the shilling which the
prisoner took from his mouth was one of the greasy
" consarns," which but an indifferent judge would
at once detect.

Soley Solomons—" Please you, my Lord, the
gentleman gived me the very shilling as he says
wa'nt his'n. How could I change it for a bad'un
when I had'nt no bad'uns about me ? It's inapos.
sible."

The Lor) MAYOR—Why did you put it in your
mouth ? You could 'Ave discovered that it was a
counterfeit without tasting it.
Soley Solomons—Please you, my Lord, I jist put
it to my mouth for to bite ir, for to see whether it
wa'nt a stinker; so when I finds that it bited soft, I
'mowed it wa'nt jist the thing as I'd give the pro-
vision of my basket for."—(A laugh.)
The LORD MAYOR—That won't do, Mr. Solo-
mons. Depend upon it you sha'nt bite us here. If
you don't give this poor man his money, I'll not let
you out of my hands.

_ .
Smith—Please your Lordship, he offered for to
give me a sixpence, which was the half of the money
as I gived him, if I'd say nothing about this here
robbery; but I wouldn't do no sich a thing. Be-
sides, please you, my Lord, I believe the sixpence
as he wanted me to take was a stinker too."—
(Laughter.)
Soley Solomons—" As your Lordship advises me
I'll give the poor man a shilling; but I knows
nothing of that ere bad 'un ; he corned across some
out•and-outer afore he seed me."

A young man was brought up, charged with
having been drunk and offensive on the preceding
night. Those who had the most reason to com-
plain declined pressing the charge against him, be-
ing satisfied at the humility and regret which he
manifested. A watchman, however, would not
compromise his dignity by any silly tenderness of the
kind, and said, he hoped the Lord Mayor would
not let the gentleman go without giving him some
" illumination" for his trouble.

The LORD MAYOR.—" You mean remuneration,
I suppose ?" Watchmen—" Surely, my Lord. Its
the practice, you see, my Lord, when a watchman
is knocked about by gentlemen in the streets, for
the Halderman to tell the gentleman as knocks him
him about for to ' illuminate' the watchman."
The LORD MAYOR—" But I have not heard a
word about your being knocked about. How does
it happen to come in at the tail of the business ?"
Watchman—" He kicked my lanthorn, and he
knocked about my coat as I was just a going to put
on, and he assaulted me in other ways ?"
The Lon]) MAYOR—" But you were not in your
coat when he knocked it about ?" Watchman—
"No ; but please you, my Lord, it was just the
same thing."
The LORD MAYOR—" Well, I hope God will
' illuminate' you, I can't."—(Laughter.)
The watchman on leaving the Justice-room,
really seemed to want illuminating, for he looked as
black as thunder.

George Evans, a fellow who has been in the ha-
bit of going about the town as a sailor, and com-
mencing his begging address with the compliment of
" Gallant Captain," was brought up charged with
having defrauded a poor lodging-house woman of
one shilling and sevenpence.
The complainant stated that she boarded several
of the Greenwich pensioners, and was in the habit of
lending them money when money was due to them.
The prisoner had put a number in his hat, and told
her he was a pensioner, and wanted five shillings.
She would have accommodated him with the whole
of the sum, but that somehow she didn't like his
cut; she therefore refused to lend him more than
Is. 7d. He took it, and she learned that he is as
an impostor.
Remanded for further examination.
MARLBOROUGH STREET.

"A PIGEON."—Mr. Thomas Heath, a gentle-
man of high respectability, was brought before Mr.
CON ANT, yesterday, charged by a policeman of C
division with having created a disturbance, at eleven
o'clock list night, by attempting to force his way
into No. 64, Quadrant, which premises have lately
been converted into a common gambling house, and
at which riots and outrages are constantly occurring.
The policeman found the defendant beating violently
against the door of No. 64, from which house, he
had, apparently, been rudely ejected ; and, upon
witness questioning him as to his motive for so act-
ing, the defendant answered that he wanted to get
in for the purpose of borrowing a sovereign, as he
had lost every farthing of his money at that house
during the evening. From the extreme excitement
and agitation of the defendant, when taken to the
station, it would appear that he had been " fleeced" to
a considerable extent. Mr. Heath admitted that he
had been at play in the house, and had lost all his
money, arid that his object, in endeavouring to get
admission again into the house, was, if possible, to
borrow for a few hours a sovereign of one of the
proprietors of the table.
Mr. CONANT inquired if he was intoxicated ?
Mr. Heath replied, he certainly had not drunk more
than a single bottle of wine in the house, and he
was positive that quantity could not have intoxicated
hIL (Probably the wine had undergone a pro-
cess, well known at such houses, termed " doctor-
!rig," which wine is offered to those only whom it
is designed to " pluck.") As no person attended
to make
;any
further charge against the defendant,
he was permitted to depart, on paying the usual fine.
- A porter at Webb's Hotel, named Roberts,
charged Mary Harper, a young female of decent ap-
pearance, with having created a disturbance at the
hotel on the previous evening.
The porter had some acquaintance with the fe-
male, which he wished to put an end to, but she
would not permit it, and she was constantly in the

custom of calling at the hotel and abusing him, by
which proceeding he was fearful he should ulti-
mately be deprived of his situation.
The female burst into tears, and, in defence, said,
the prisoner had seduced her about five years ago,
uuder promise of marriage, and they had cohabited
together from that period. He had acted most
ungratefully towards her; for when he was out of a
situation, and totally destitute, she had supported
him, and now he wanted to discard and leave her
to perish. She further said it was not true she had
annoyed the porter in the manner he had stated ;
for he had promised to meet her that evening, and
after waiting a long time, and not finding he kepi
his appointment, she went to the hotel to ascertain
the reason.

Mr. CONANT, at first, was inclined to hold her to
bail; but, after her earnest promise not to go near
the place again, she was discharged.

BOW-STREET.

THE MURDER OF THE POLICEMAN, JOHN LONG.
—The murder of a policeman of the E division,
named John Long, in Gray's Inn-road, by one of
three men who stabbed him to the heart, about two
years and four months ago, must still be fresh in the
recollection of our readers, one of the three of the
name of Smith, a journeyman baker, having been
executed at the Old Bailey for the murder. It may
also be recollected that the chief witness against
Smith was an unfortunate woman named Mary
Anne Griffiths, who was then in the habit of walk-
ing the streets in the neighbourhood where the
crime was committed. She was at the time com-
mitted by the Coroner to prison to ensure her forth-
coming at the trial, as her life had been threatened
by the friends of the accused. After the trial, at
the recommendation of the Judge and other persons,
a sum of money was raised to enable her to leave
London, and once more to resume a reputable course
of life, which she expressed great anxiety to do.
She was furnished with the means of going into
the country, and nothing was seen of her after-
wards until Tuesday night, or rather Wednesday
morning, about 2 o'clock, when the attention of
Lawrence, policeman, No. 72, F division, was
called to a disturbance in Wych-street, where a
woman was surrounded by four others, and calling
loudly for held. Lawrence, on coming to the spot,
found the unfortunate Mary Anne Griffiths, whose
person he knew very well, almost fainting from the
treatment she had received. The four women ran
away before he could ascertain the true state of the
matter, and Lawrence took her to the station-house,
where Mr. Thomas ordered her to have refreshment,
and to be placed in a comfortable bed.
Yesterday morning she was brought before Sir
FREDERICK ROE, when she gave the following ac-
count of herself from the time that she left London
—She went straight to her relations in Somerset-
shire, who, upon the assurance that she was dis-
posed to alter her course of life, interested them-
selves in her behalf, and by the influence of the
Lord of the Manor she obtained a situation in the
family of a gentleman named Maurice, a retired mi-
litary officer, residing in Queen•square, Bristol, who
had a wife and three children, of whom she had the
care. She continued very comfortable in her situa-
tion until the riots occurred, when her master and
mistress and one of the children were burnt to death
in the dreadful conflagration that then took place,
and she and the other two children escaped with
great difficulty, in doing which, however, she got
into the crowd, and was accidentally wounded very
severely in the leg by a soldier's bayonet.
Mr. Thomas, the superintendent, and Lawrence,
here stated that they had seen the wound, which
was still an open one, and it was in a dreadful state.

The woman went on to state that she was a long
time in the hospital at Bristol, and when she came
out she endeavoured to obtain employment, but
failed, and had no resource, her friends being very
poor, but to come to London, her parish being St.
Clement Danes. Some delay had taken place in
fixing her settlement, and in the mean time she had
been recognized by the friends of the murderer, who
hunted her about wherever she went, and swore
they would have her - life. The four women who
were about her when the constable interfered had
followed her a considerable distance, calling her
" a life-selling -," and swearing they would
murder her. When they came into Wych-street
they began to beat her, and she called for assistai ce.
" All I claim now," said the poor creature, " is
protection against insolence until I can get into the
workhouse."

Sir F. Roe assured her she should be protected,
and directed that she should at once be taken into
St. Clement's workhouse, at the same time olherv-
ing that her's was a fit case for the consideration of
the Commissioners of Police, to whom Mr. Thomas
undertook to represent it. The poor woman seemed
very grateful. She has been educated in a very su-
perior manner, and speaks French, Italian, and Ger-
man fluently.