The Sun.
London, England, 1861-11-06 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 6, 1861.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

WORCESTER RACES.-TUESDAY.

The Nursery Plate Handicap of 5 sovs each, with 25 added;

for all ages ; winners extra. One wile. 30 subs.

Mr. Eastwood's May flower, Gst 21b.. (Hardeastle) t 1
Mr. Clarke's Bloodhound, 7st 31b (J. Snowden) t 2
Mr. Coverdale's Caracole, 7st
Baron de Niviere's Mdllo. do Champigny, 7st 91b
(H. Grimshaw) 4
The following also ran :—Bubbles, Miss Pennell, Miss
Mary, Summer Breeze, and My Mary.
Betting-5 to 4 agst Mayflower, 9to 2 each agst Miss
Pennell and Bloodhound, S to 1 agst any other offered.
Bloodhound, Mayflower, Caracole, and Mdlle. de Cham-
pigny lay in front throughout. Opposite the Stand May-
flower and Bloodhound closed, and running home neck and
neck the judge was unable to separate them, and pro-
nounced it a de4d heat between the two; Caracole beaten
by half a length;
,the French mare close up.
Deciding heat-5 to 2on Mayflower, who won easily by
a length and a half.
The Visitors' Plato of 30 sovs (Handicap) for all ages. Five

furlongs.

Mr. Lincoln's Memo, 3 yrs, Bst (Clement) 1
Mr. Brace's Lord of the Manor, 5 yrs, Sst 111 b
(G. Fordham) 2
Mr. Gulliver's Fairdale, 2 yrs, sst 111 b (car sst 131 b)
(Taylor) 3
Mr. Sadd's Commander, 2 yrs, Est 111 b (Pearson) 4
The following also ran :—Woman in Red, Mountain
Daisy, Eheu, Watersprite, Queen Bess, Antwerp, Holder-
syke, Cronstadt, Sweetmeat filly, Wild Dayroll filly, Church
Militant, Forest Hind, and Palermo.
Betting.-5 to 1 agst Lord of the Manor, 6to 1 each
agst Cronstadt and Antwerp, 8 to 1 agst Memo, 10 to 1
agst Fairdale.
The lot lay well together for a short distance, when
Memo, Antwerp, and Lord of the Manor showed in front.
On nearing the distance, Antwerp was beaten, and Lord of
the Manor took up the running. In a few strides further
Memo headed him, and won cleverly by three parts of a
length ; a bad third ; a neck between the third and fourth,
Cronstadt was fifth, and the Wild Dayrell f next.
The Selling Stakes of 5 soya each, with 31 added.
5 furlongs.
Mr. Hammond's Dunoon, 2 yrs (X3O), sst 81b
(J. Grimshaw) 1
Mr. G. Angel's Entomologist, 2 yrs (£5O), 6st 21b
(T. French) 2
Lord Coventry's Orion, 3 yrs (£3O), 7st 31b .. (J. Daley) 3
Mr. Brown's Mermaid, 3 yrs (£3O), 7st 31b
(H. Grimshaw) 4
Mr. Gulliver's Romero, 2 yrs (£3O), sst 81b (car. sst 131 b
(11. Taylor) 5
Mr. Elton's Sloth, 3 yrs (£3O), 7st 31b .... (Wheatley) 6
Betting-7 to 4 agst Dunoon, 4to 1 agst Rossmore, 6to
1 each agst Sloth and Entomologist.

Dunoon made all the running, and won by a head; Orion
was a bad third.
The winner was sold to LordUxbridge for 63 guineas.

Worcester Autumn Handicap, a sweepstakes for three-yr-
olds and upwards, of 10 soya each, with 100 added; win-
ners extra. Over the New Course. Ono mile and three

furlongs. 56 subs., 23 of whom declared.
Mr. Fitzhugh's Shepherdess, 3 yrs, Gst 21b (Pearson) 1
Mr. Dray's Noblesse, 3 yrs, Gst llb (Parsons) 2
Dr. O'Reilley's Stanton, 3 yrs, Gst 91b
Mr. 1). T. Stewart's Joey Jones, 3 yrs, 6st 71b.. (Doyle) 4
The following also ran :—Emblem, Fitzavon, Voltella,
Atherstone, Doefoot, Zodiac, Ipswich, The Tattler, Muti-
neer, Mayfield, and Dorking.
Betting-4 to 1 agst Joey Jones, sto 1 each agst Doefoot
and Zodiac, 8 to 1 agst Mayfield, 10 to 1 agst Emblem, 100
to 8 each agst Shepherdess and Mutineer, 100 to 7 agst
Voltella.

After a couple of false starts the lot were sent off on
good terms; Master Begot taking the lead, having in close
attendance Doefoot, Ipswich, and Joey Jones. On round-
ing the last turn Mayfield, Joey Jones, Fitzavon, Voltella,
Zodiac, and Mutineer comprised the front lot ; at the dis-
tance Shepherdess, Noblesse, Stanton, and Joey Jones had
the finish to themselves. Shepherdess won a good race by
a length and a half; the same between the second and
third ; Joey Jones was a good fourth; Zodiac fifth ; Em-
blem, Master Bagot, and Ipswich bringing up the rear.
An objection was lodged against the winner for going on
the wrong side of a post, but as it was not made until after
the jockey had left the scales it was not investigated.
Handicap Sweepstakes of 5 sovs each, with 25 added, for
all ages. IN inners extra. One mile. 30 subs.
Mr. J. Smith's Queen of Spain, 2 yrs, Gat Glb (G. Parsons) 1
Mr. W. S. Cartwright's Ripon, 4 yrs, Bst 81b
(H. Grimshaw) 2
Mr. Alford's Billy Dwindles, 3 yrs, 7st 81b (Cresswell) 3
Mr. John Dawson's Confession, 3 yrs, 7st 21b (in. 71b ex.)
(Wheatley) 4

The following also ran :—Sherborno, Diadem, Miss
Eleanor, Mermaid, Watersprite. Sycophant, Emblematic,
and Diamant.

Betting—G to 4 agst Quoen of Spain, 6to 1 each ngst Sy-
cophant and Confession,.3 to 1 agst Ripon, 100 to 8 agst any
other offered.

The four placed were in front throughout, the favourite
winning cleverly by a neck ; two lengths between the second
and third ; and half a length between the third and fourth•
The Severn Bank Stakes of 5 sous each, with 25 added, for
horses that have been regularly hunted, list 71b each,

winners extra. Gentlemen riders. Professionals 71b extra.

Three miles over the Steeplechase Course. (22 subs.)
Mr. Rowland's Medora, 12st 71b (Owner) 1
Mr. Jackson's Black Rose, list 71b .... (Mr. F. Loton) 2
Mr. Cartwright's Monmouthshire, 125 t.... (G. Stevens) 3
Mr. Edwards's Tom Rendon, list 71b (Mr. Mytton) 4
The following also ran :—Chatterbox, Catspaw, Heads-
or-Tails, Terry Lands, Corkscrew, Vainhope, The Martyr,
The Dodger, Unprotected Female, and Lord Lovell.
Betting-7 to 2 each eget Medora and Heads-or-Tails;
6 to 1 agst Monmouthshire ; 8 to 1 agst The Martyr.
Won by three lengths ; a neck between the second and
third. Tom Rendon was a bad fourth. Corkscrew fell.

111 E NAVY.

NARROW ESCAPE OF HER MAJESTY'S SHIP

EMERALD.

The Emerald, 51, screw-frigate, Captain A. Cum-
ming, arrived in Plymouth Sound on Tuesday morn-
ing. She left Spitbead October sth, bound for
Halifax with Armstrong guns for the fleet on the
North America and West India station. She ex-
perienced thick foggy weather till she reached the
meridian of Cape Clear, then met with strong wes-
terly gales. On reaching as far as 40 W., she expe-
rienced a very heavy gale on the 21st, 22d, and
23d, first from S.W., but which quddenly shifted
to the N.W. During the thre§ days it blew
furiously, the ship labouring and straining very
heavily. During the gale she lost her port quarter
boats and davits, had a closed reefed maintopsail
blown out of the bolt ropes, spare topsail yard
washed from the chains, close reefed fore topsail
split, foresail split, which was hauled up, but could
not be furled from the force of the gale ; had a cutter
from her starboard quarter washed away. At times
had 10 or 12 inches of water on her lower deck,
which was scuttled to let the water pass into the
bilge ; sprung her cutwater and stern post, and
had several ports knocked in ; set the engines to
work to relieve the ship, when the discharge pipe
was found to bo broken. With these damages sus-
tained, the captain did not think it right to continue
to face the gale, so bore up for the eastward on the
evening of the 23d, when in about 47 N. and 38 MT.
On the morning of the 22d she had a narrow escape
of being run into while lying to,*by a homeward-
bound timber vessel. The Emerald went into har-
bour at Devonport on Tuesday afternoon to refit.

cally inspected, when five men were admitted into
Fore Pitt Hospital for medical treatment, and the
remainder taken to the invalid establishment to
await the order for their discharge from the service.
Those of the troops not forwarded to Chatham will
be discharged at Gravesend. The Maria Soames
brings home a cargo of Indian cotton.

The following appointments were made yester-
day at the Admiralty :—Lieut. F. W. Lewis, to
the Cumberland; Lieut. Henry Berkeley to the
Donegal; George 11. Verner and Thomas IL
Broughton, midshipmen, to the Orpheus, addi-
tional as supernumeraries for disposal on the Aus-
tralian station; W. M. Chambers, acting chief en•
gineer, to be additional to the Cumberland, for
charge of the Pylades ; George P. W. Freeman, has
been nominated to a naval cadetship ; Edward
Rumble, master's assistant to the Nile; Nicholas
L. Gedye and William A. Kilner assistant clerks
additional to the Orpheus.

MI?. JOIN LOCKE, M P., AND HIS CON-

STITUENTS.

Last night a public meeting of the electors and
non-electors of the Borough of Southwark was held
at the Bridge-house Hotel, to hear from Mr. Locke,
M.P., one of their representatives, an explanation
of his parliamentary conduct. Dr. Challice occu-
pied the chair. There were upon the platform Mr.
D. E. B. Jones, Mr, Hawkins, Mr. Walker, Mr.
Rogers, &c.

The CHAIRMAN, in opening the proceedings, re-
joiced that the distinctive difference between the
two great parties in the state was every day be-
coming broader ; that the opposition had thrown
aside the mask and declared themselves Tories, as
thereby the nation would get rid of a great amount
of confusion and deception which had been occasion-
ed by the use of that bastard expression—Liberal
conservatism. (Hear, hear.)

Mr. LOCKE, M.P., then addressed the meeting.
He had on every occasion that he had had the plea-
sure to address his constituents received their ap-
probation of the course which he had thought it fit
and right to pursue. He said that advisedly, be-
cause the generous constituency which he repre-
sented knew and understood the scope of the
constitution, and did not expect their representative
to be merely their delegate, but placed in his hands
not only the interests of the borough, but also those
of the country at large. It was, therefore, that he
had peculiar pleasure in coming before them to state
what had been done during the past session, and
what *were their prospects for the future. There
were many who considered that unless some
startling measure which altered the state of the
franchise was passed nothing was done for the
benefit of the people, but he would be able to
show that among the 134 acts of the session
there were many which redounded to the credit
of the government, and likewise to that
of individual members. During the session he
had to appear before them for re-election on
being appointed Recorder of Brighton, but that was
a judicial office entirely independent of the Crown,
so that he was as clear of any connection with the
present administration as the talented leader of the
Opposition, Mr. Disraeli, himself. In saying this he
did not wish it to be understood that he deprecated
his colleagues taking office, for, on the contrary, he
considered that, as he had a great knowledge of
foreign affairs, it was his duty to afford the Queen
and the country the benefit of that knowledge.
Looking back, however, to the acts beneficial to the
public passed during the session, there was, first,
the consolidation of the criminal law, repealing 105
statutes, and assimilating the English and Irish
codes. There was also Mr. AI. Gibson's measure for
the abolition of passing tolls. The abolition would
not be immediate, but the tolls would be applied to
the maintenance and improvement of harbours of
refuge along the coast. The next important mea-
sure was that for the equalisation of the poor's-rate
by extending the area over which it was to be
levied. It gave a man a settlement after three years'
residence instead of five, and threw the burden on
the union instead of upon the parish. (Hear, hear.)
He had moved in committee a clause under which
the metropolis would be treated as one union, for
it was monstrous that some districts should be
heavily burdened, whilst others escaped scot free,
but he did not succeed in passing it. It, however,
gave him the opportunity of bringing forward the
question in a practical point of view ; and the only
objection he had heard urged against it was that it
proposed a great change which it was impossible to
adopt. The measure as it stood might inflict some
injustice upon the borough, as some of the parishes
within it were unions in themselves; but still it was
an acceptable act, inasmuch as it recognised a prin-
ciple on which the rating not only of the metropo-
lis, but of the whole country, would sooner or
later be based. Another important measure was
the repeal of the paper duty, in passing which
the House of Commons vindicated its honour and
dignity, and maintained the principle that it
alone had the power to tax the people. It,
however, experienced great difficulty in carrying
that measure, the rejection of which would have
thrown everything into confusion. (Hear, hear.)
They had had also an infinitesimal measure of re-
form in the Appropriation of Seats Bill. He was
one of the many who asked for a large measure,
and he believed that if such a one were properly
demanded it would be conceded to the people. He
considered the working classes ought to be admit-
ted to the franchise, for in that class there were
men as respectable, as high in morals, and as trust-
worthy as any peer in the realm. He would, how-
ever, never allow that every man should have a vote.
(Dissent.) He could not consent that every fellow
who went skulking about without a local habita-
tion, and almost without a name, should be admitted
to the suffrage. Leaving that a moot question, h e
would merely observe that the difficulties which
that infinitesimal measure encountered ought to
show them how hard it would be to pass a larger
one. Each one had his own nostrum, and among
others the late Sir J. Graham, whom, however they
might differ from him in opinion, they would all
admit to have been certainly one of the greatest
statesmen who ever addressed the House of Com-
mot's. (Hear, hear.) He united to the highest order
of intelligence, great industry and great honesty of
purpose. He jadged of him by the brief period of
his career which bad come under his own notice.
He was a man in whom he had always placed the
greatest confidence, and whose opinion he had
always been most happy to ask, for he was one
who never failed to give it in a free and frank
manner. Another measure of public importance
was the continuation of the coal and wino duties for
10 years, to be expended upon the embankment of
the Thames. It was for them to consider if they
would have an embankment upon the south side
of the river, and upon that question their views
should be his. Of the Bankruptcy Act they had
heard usque ad nauseam. They saw the effects of
it in every day's papers, and he supposed that
making a great number of persons bankrupts
benefited somebody. Another measure passed
last session was one which he himself intro-
duced, and which extended to witnesses in
criminal cases the same indulgence as was enjoyed
by those in civil suits—namely, that of an affirma-
tion, when they had conscientious scruples to taking
an oath. It was a measure based upon the great
principle of respecting the religious and conscien-
tious opinions of every man, no matter what might
be his creed. The Post-office Savings Bank Act,
another measure of last session, would prove of the
greatest convenience to the working classes, giving
them a Government security for their deposits, per-
fect secrecy, and every facility. Leaving the cata-
logue of the measures they had passed, he had now
to call attention to one or two of those they had re-
jected. Chief of these was a bill promoted by the
Metropolitan Board of Works—(hear, hear)—in
which they sought to unjustly tax his constituents,

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and to pass it by a trick. If the board could take
anything in good part, he would remind them of
the proverb, honesty is the best policy, and net to
overreach others lest in the attempt to do so they
themeelves might go to the wall. Another bill he
had succeeded in defeating was one which would
have continued the turnpike on the Dover-read.
He would now ask theme to consider what were
their prospects for the future. We were at this
moment at peace. They were, however, told by
the Conservatives that a reaction was going on.
Did they mean that there was a change in the
opinions of the people in regard to the foreign
policy of the Government--that they sided with
Austria, and not with Italy—that they sympathised
with Russia, and not with Poland? (Hear, hear.)
Did they wish to see Italy again dismembered
Government.
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Tory and Liberal principles, the latter were trium-
phant. In that borough they recollected that the
name of Addington was associated with the Adminis-
tration of Lord Castlereagh,and that the benefits they
had conferred on the people were the suspension of
the Habeas Corpus Act, and the employment of such
fellows as Castles and Oliver; that they made the
people conspirators against their will, and then
hanged them at Newgate. Such were the lively
recollections of toryism, which went upon, the
principle of keeping things as they are for the
benefit of the few, whereas liberalism extended the
liberties and privileges of the people for the benefit
of the human race. He had lately visited Italy,
and saw in the famed quadrilateral the troops of
Austria in the highest. condition ready for action,
while the people were impatient of the presence of
foreigners upon their soil, and felt themselves
backed by the public opinion of England. But
should the tories obtain power, they would sympa-
thise with despotism. But was this great nation
to take no interest in the future of other states—
(hear, hear)—and where was there a man more
capable than the present Prime Minister of giving
effect to the high feelings of Englishmen ? He had
maintained the honour of the British flag, which
the people would never see tarnished. It was an
exultation by the tories that because of the civil
war in America liberal institutions had failed, but
they forgot history when they did so. They forgot
that wars had been waged in the interests of
families and individuals, whereas each section of
the States considered its own interests at stake in
the quarrel. It was not for them, because they
wanted cotton, to break through the law of nations,
but to hope that there are in store for that great
section of the Anglo-Saxon race days of prosperity
and happiness.
On the motion of Mr. WALKER, seconded by Mr.
HARRIS, the thanks and confidence of the meeting
were voted to the hon. gentleman, and the pro-
ceedings terminated.