The Sun.
London, England, 1857-12-07 00:00:00

CANTERBURY HALL.

Mr. Morton, the ever-active proprietor of this popular
plice of amusement, is, we hear, making extensive pre'
parations for the purpose of giving his friends a treat
at the fast approaching festive season of Christmas.
In addition to this, he has for some weeks been busying
himself to provide an entertainment specially for his
provincial friends, who annnally on the occasiou of
the Cattle Show visit the great metropolis. The pro.
gramme for the present week is one of the most varied
description possible ; it embraces selections from the
mo,t eminent composers, and to
give
the entertainment, the most humourous a relish
to
songs
of
Sam Collins, and the irresistibly comic MackneY,
have been added thereto, so an evening's amusement of
no common order is insured. For the last few nights
several new compositions have been sung with great
success; and we must say that we have nothing but the
Very highest praise to bestow upon all the performers.
If, however, we might select from such excellencies one
effort for special eulogy, it would be the singing of
Hatton's last new song " Delhi," by Herr Jonghmang,
which in truth reaches the utmost limits of musical ex.
pression, and occasions such enthusiastic encores as
seldom fall to the lot of a public vocalist to be honoured
with, The attendance each succeeding evening is
extraordinary, and it is exceedingly gratifying to find
that Mr. Morton is reaping the golden harvest sown
by liberality, energy, and perseverance.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

READING STEEPL
Weights for the Berkshire
mi.
Age st lb
Escape a 12 0
The Forest Queen a 11 6
The Minor a 11 1
Lilford a 10 9
Theodine a 10 7
Old Dog Tray a 10 6
Humboldt 6 10 5
Evington Lass a 10 2
Maid of the Glen a 10 0
Teddesley
59
1123
ACobmd.ee Kader a 9
Comet
Al thorp 6 9 12

AEC BASES, DSO. 29.
Open Steeplechase. Three

Age it lb
The Archer

ilindley a 9 11
Westo a

Black Be a
Nicholas -

~a 9 10
.6 9 10

Frank
Miss Dobler
Dayton (late First
of May) 5 9 7
The Don a 9 7
Tease(latePeacock)a 9 5
St. Julian
Hymely

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FEIST'S RACING RECORD —The last number and th•
yearly volume of this admirable little work have just
been published. In addition to the record of the racing
season in England, Inland, and Scotland, it contains
much important information not only of value to the
genuine racing man, but of interest to all persons who
tyke a delight in horse-racing. Unlike other books of
its kind, it also includes steeplechasing—and, indeed,
Mr. Feist has furnished the racing public with a standard
authority on all turf matters.

How DO THEY MAKE IT OUT ?—The Sunday Times,
weekly newspaper, whose ingenious labours in the hope-
less attempt to render sporting matters .amusing are
beyond all praise, had last week an article headed,
"How do they make it out I" endeavouring to prove
the law as to betting either stupid or incomprehensible.
It seems that in a lite action, the plaintiff sought to re-
c 'vet a sum of money which he had lent to defendant, a
betting man, to pay a wager lost upon a race. Defen-
dant appears to have the orthodox betting conscience,
and while scrupulous in paying the money he had lost,
repudiated the repayment of the sum borrowed for the
purpose of a friend, and pleaded that it was lent
hire, defendant, for an illegal purpose. Lord
Campbell said that the law did not forbid bets,
although it did not enforce them, and no penalty was
incurred by parties entering into them. The Sunday
Times, recalling the memory of certain recent convic.
tions, asks, " If the law does not forbid bets, how is it
that the police do l" The answer is easy, and the reason
slew-. The law forbids offices to be established, and
public-houses or thoroughfares to be used for the pur.
pose, a practice injurious alike to public policy, conve-
nience, and. honesty. A man may' make, bets as
he may play at whist, with a friend privately; but the
eotablishment of a public whisk office, or an assemblage
of
.lazy sharpers shuffling cards in the streets, and
inviting shop-boys, clerks, and. stray rustics to " cut
in" and be swindled, would be neither more nor less
obj r:ctiorable and illegal than the extinguished betting
houses, or the assemblage in our streets of the repel-
sive blacklegs, who vainly seek to evade the law as it
at present stands.—lllustrated Times.

MESSRS. OVEREND, GURNEY, AND CO.—Mr. B. D.
Chapman bas addressed the following letter to the editor
of the gaily Ncws :—Sir,—la justice to myself,
I hope
you will allow me to contradict, through your columns,
the assertion made by Mr. Henley in his speech in the
}louse of Commons on Friday night, that I stated in myevidence that the firm to which I belong would not
touch any re-discounted paper. I never did say so, nor
does it appear in my evidence; but in answer to ques-
tion No. 5,127 I stated that we should not knowingly
take any bill that was intended to be re-drawn (i.e.,
renewed), which I need not say is a totally different
thing.
THE GREAT GLOBE.—Mr. Wyld has just made some
additions to his exhibition by the introduction of some
views of the cities of Lucknow and Delhi, which will be
viewed with great interest on account of the recent
events which have occurred in those places, enabling the
visitor to form some conception of the difficulties and
dangers encountered by our countrymen in their Capture.
&sides a general view of Lucknow, the vast and hand.
some proportions of the palace of the Kings of Oude, the
British Residency, the residences of the Europeans, and
the street through which General Havelock marched to
relieve our countrymen, &c., are exhibited. There are
;hree views of Delhi, showing all the principal parts of
this extensive city, with its marble palace, its mosques,
magazine, &o. The diorama is accompanied by all
interesting descriptive lecture.