The Sun.
London, England, 1857-11-12 00:00:00

LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 12, 1557.

SPORTING I N TELLIGENCE.

LIVERPOOL AUTUMN MEETING.
TUESDAYS RIOES (CONCLUDED).
The Aintree Plate (Handicap) of 50 sovs. One mile.
Mr. Saunders's Master Begot, by Faugh a'Ballagh,
3 yrs, Est 71b (Plumb) 1
Mr. Andrew's The Martlet, 4 yrs, 75t..........(Litt1e) 2
Mr, Peter's Leukothea, 2 yrs,
_4st 101b...(Grinashaw) 3
The following also ran :—Uzella, De Ginkel, Bour-
geois, and Little Cob.
Betting-5 to 2 agst Uzella, 7to 2 eget Bourgeois, 4
to 1 each agst The Martlet and Master Begot. Won by
three lengths, bad third, the others tailed off. Little
Cob did not pass the post.
WEDNESDAY.
Selling Stakes of 5 sovs each, with 20 added, for all ages.
The second to save his stakes T.Y.C. 6 subs.
Mr. Bates's Jane, by Mickey Free, 3 yre, 201., Est 121 b
(Pritchard) 1
Mr. Temperley's Omen, 2 yrs, 201., Est 81b (Challoner) 2
Mr. King's Knockburn, 2 yrs, 201., 6st (Bray) 3
Mr. T. Dawson's Breach, 3 yrs, 201., bet 121 b
(Bullock) 4
Betting-6 to 4 eget Jane, 4to 1 agst any other.
Wen by three-quarters of a length.; bad third. Winner
sold for 85 guineas.
A. Handsome Silver Claret Jug, of 25 sovs, added to a
Handicap Sweepstakes of 4 soya each, 1 ft, to go to
the fund. 6 furlongs. 16 Emir.
Mr. B, Land's Englemere, by Tadmor, 3 yrs. 6st 21b
(Bray) 1
Mr. J. Dawson's Thistledown, 2 yrs, 4st 816
(Grin:whew) 2
Mr. T. Dawson's Little Cele, 3 yrs, 6st 814 (Bullock) 3
The following also ran :—Borderer, Redcar, and
Meta. _
There were two heats for this race. For the first the
betting was 2 to 1 eget Englemere, 7 to 2 eget Borderer,
4 to 1 agst Meta, 5 to 1 aget Thistledown, and 10 to 1
agst Little Cob. Thistledown came in first by a head,
Little Cob and Englemere, who ran a dead heat for second
place, being about two lengths in advance of Borderer,
who was fourth ; Meta was close up, and Redcar, who
was last throughout, beaten off. After the heat, how-
ever, Mr. B. Land objected to the winner on the ground
that the horses bad gone five furlongs instead of six. The
race was therefore, run over again after the last event of
the day, and with the above stated result. Meta did
not go to the post a second time, and Plumb rode Red-
car. The closing prices were 7to 4 agst Englemere,
5 to 2 agst Thistledown, 3 to 1 aget Little Cob.
Englemere won by half a length, Thistledown beating
Little Cob by a length for the second place.
The Scurry Corinthian Handicap of 5 sovs each, 3 ft,
with 25 added. Winners extra. Gentlemen riders ;
jockeys, 51b extra. One mile. 12 subs
Mr. Harvey's Chester, 3 yre, Bst 121 b (inc. slb extra)
(Snowden) 1
Mr. Gill's Bourgeois, aged, list slb ...(Mr. Erskine) 2
Mr. T. Dawson's Red White and Blue, Bst 12Ib (inc.
51b extra) . . ...... (Aldcroft) 3
The following also ran :—Octavia, Conrad, and Little
Tom.
Betting-2 to 1 aget Red White and Blue, 4to 1 each
agst Chester and Little Tom, 5 to 1 agst Bourgeois.
Won by twe lengths, bad third. On returning to scale
the rider Of Bourgeois lodged an objection against the
winner on the ground of a cross. The case was investi-
gated by the stewards, who decided in favour of Chester.
The Scramble Handicap of 3 sovs each, 1 ft (to go to
the fund), with 20 added. T.Y.C. 14 subs.
Capt. White's Queen of the East, 3 yrs, Est 101 b
(Plumb) 1
Mr. R. Wilson's Capt. Wedderburn, 2 yrs, sst 21b
(Challoner) 2
Mr. Goedwin's Lady Nelson, 2 yrs, Est 71b (Whalley) 3
The following also ran :—Oltenitza, Jane, Birdlime
Girl, Aigrette, and Esperance.
Betting-6 to 4 agst Queen of the East, 4to 1 agst
Captain Wedderburn, 6 to 1 eget any other. Won easily
by half a length, a neck between the second and third,
Jane and Esperance were fourth and fifth, close toge-
ther, well up with the third. The others beaten off.
The Helter Skelter Stakes of 3 cove each, with 20 added,
for all ages. Optional selling allowances, &c. One
mile. 5 subs.
Mr. Grundon's Polly, 3 yrs, (201.), fist 41b

(J. Snowden) 1
Mr. Wilkins's Miss Allen, 6yrs (201.), Bst 9lb (J. Hall) 2
Mr. T. Dawson's Richmond Hill, 2 yrs (201.), sst 12ib
(Challoner) 3
Betting—Richmond Hill and Polly were backed al-
ternately at evens against the field. Won by a length.
Bad third. The winner was sold for 60 guineas.
Tho Sefton Handicap of 5 sqvs each, 3 ft, with 60 added.
Certain winners extra. The second to save his stake.
One mile and a quarter. (35 subs.)
Mr. W. Sannder's Master Bagot, 3 yrs, 6st (Plumb) 1
Mr. Aedrew's Tho Martlet, 4 yrs, Fist 10Ib (Fordhatu) 2
Mr. Windsor's Sir Humphrey, 3 yrs, Set 71b
(Pritchard) 3
The following also ran—Bourgeoise, Miss Harkaway,
Tiff, and King of Scotland.
Betting-7 to 4 agst Master Begot, 4to 1 agst Sir
Humphrey, 6to 1 agst any other offered. Won by two
lengths. Bad third. King of Scotland was fourth.

THE MONETARY PRESSURE IN IRELAND.

The Dublin journals, or at least the majority
of them, are just now exercising their influence
in the right direction, and are making every legi-
timate effort to prevent the occurrence of a mone-
tary panic in the country parts of Ireland. The
Freeman of Tuesday morning led the way in a
sensible article tending to calm the excitement
consequent upon the recent unprecedented advance
in the rate of discount. The Evening Post follows
in the same creditable course, and concludes a rather
lengthened review of the state of the money-markets
in England and Ireland in these terms :
" We have heard that the Bank of England during
the whole of this excitement has not in any instance re-
fused legitimate accommodation to its customers. The
Bank of Ireland, it is well known in commercial &roles,
has not in the least degree decreased those facilities it has
been in the habit of affording ; and the Irish banks gene-
rally, we know, have acted with the utmost degree of
liberality consistent with prudence. As regards the home
trade, theleshole question is the difference between a
higher and a lower charge in the percentage for interest
during this temporary pressure—a difference, even if it
'lasted for three months, which it most probably will not,
that would not amount to more than 20s. or 25s upon
a9l days' bill for 100/. This in all transactions, large
and small, would be some curtailment of profits ' • but let
it be remembered that the Bank of Ireland and the other
banks accommodate their customers as usual, that there
is no curtailment of discounts, no interference with the
legitimate operations of trade ; and further let this be '
borne in mind, that any limitation of discounts by the
banks, even for a single day? would produce far greater
loss and public injury -theio,the whole amount paid by
the public in the shape of increased rates of interest.
"It is clear, then, that the policy pursued .by the
banks is wise and thoroughly sound, because it iethe
sure mode of guarding the public and protecting trade
and mercantile credit from interruption. We trust that
this will be distinctly understood all through the country,
because it will prevent all undue pressure for accommo-
dation at the banks. There are ample means for all the
legitimate necessities of trade, and the banks are allowing
suoh fair latitude in that respect that complete quiet and
confidence prevail in this island, affording a striking
contrast with othercountries. We have no doubt what
ever that this fortunate state of affairs will continue,
because the admirable conduct of' the banks, aided by
the good sense of the community and the prosperous
condition of the country, has enabled us to carry on all
the operations of mercantile enterprise and industry as
vigorously and as safely as If New York were as free
from panic as Dublin or Cork. If the case were different
—if ' fools rushed in' with greedy desire to possess money
which they could not require, and if through such means
any extra pressure were created, the banks would be
compelled to act on the defensive, and to limit acoom-
modation to such an extent that the consequences might
be disastrous even to the parties whose rash conduct had
caused all the evil. But fortunately there is not the least
likelihood of such an interruption in the progress of
Ireland in that course of agricultural, commercial, and
industrial advancement which has in recent years signa-
lized her moving as steadily on towards prosperity as
any other country on the face of the globe."

THE MONETARY CRISIS.-EIOW THE LATE
SIR JOHN SINCLAIR SAVER GLASGOW.

While in the midst of the terrible monetary
crisis which has overtaken us, the following ex-
tract from the "Memoirs of the late Sir John
Sinclair, Bart.," published by the Messrs. Cham-
bers, of Edinburgh, will be read with the deepest
interest. It shows how that eminent philanthropist
and enlightened man commercially saved Glasgow
in the great crisis of 1793 :

" No one who lived in his house could remember a day,
till Sir John was above 80, in which he was not able
and ready for active exertion, chiefly in the public ser-
vice ; and the inventive genius which he frequently dis-
played astonished even his friend Mr. Pitt. None of his
numerous suggestions was more useful than one which he
threw out the commercial crisis of 1793, for the relief of
the suffering merchants. At that time, in consequence,
of the stagnation of trade produced by the war, the
number of bankruptcies exceeded all that had pre-
viously occurred in the niest calamitous times. Sir John,
with great difficulty, obtained the consent of Parliament
that notes from the Exchequer, to the amount of five
millions, should be issued immediately, as a loan to such
merchants as could give security ; and be also offered,
without receiving any remuneration, to carry out his
own plan, with the assistance of Lord Sheffield, Mr.
Wilberforce, Sir William Pulteney, and Mr. Thornton,
who bad consented to act as a committee.
" Many of the first housei in Manchester and Glasgow
were tottering, not from want of property, but from the
temporary stagnation of sales and of credit. Sir John,
therefore, immediately after carrying his motion in
Parliament, borrowed, on his own personal security, the
sum of 70,0001., which he despatched to the merchants
the morning after the vote was granted. Mr. Coutts
advanced Sir John a loan of 20,0001., and Mr. Devaynee
lent 10,0001. Pitt, meeting Sir John next evening in
the house, expressed great regret that the pressing wants
of Manchester and Glasgow could not be supplied so
soon as their urgent difficulties required, and added,
The money cannel be raised for some days.' It ie
already gone ! It left London by to-night's mail,' was
Sir John's triumphant reply ; and in relating this anec-
dote, he used to add, with a smile of pleasure, a Pitt was
as much starlted as if I had stabbed him.'
" The good effect of lending Exchequer Bills ex-
ceeded the hopes of its very sanguine adviser, for em-
barrassment ceased, credit was re-established ; and Sir
John's scheme not only cost nothing to the country,
but actually brought a profit to nation, after the whole
loan had been thankfully repuid, of above 4,0001. It
is difficult now to imagine such a thing as the utter
ruin of Glasgow and Manchester ; but unquestionably
it was then believed that, but for the plan suggested
by Sir John Sinclair, that event must have taken place."
We believe there are few instances on record
of such a combination of statesmanlike sagacity,
proud
energy of character, and generosity of nature, as
was exhibited in the person of the late Sir John
inoculdair.
of
such a
Scotlandso son while had, indeed,
livedeed
,r,eaasnond
hasto no
less reason. to venerate his memory now that he
sleeps with his fathers. When he died, she lost
one of her best friends and greatest benefactors.

THE SOUTH WALES RAILWAY
COLLIS[ON.

SWANSEA, Nov. 11.
The inquest on Mr. Ashman was continued and
concluded last evening before Mr. Collins, the
Swansea coroner.
The jury, after considerable discussion, returned
verdicts of "Manslaughter" against Edgar Evans,
the clerk, and Henry Barney, the porter at Port
Talbot station, and against Charles White, the sta-
tion-master at Stormy. They also added the fol-
lowing :

'The jury also wish to express their sentiments with
reference to the highly blameable conduct of Mr. Henry
Turner, the station-master of Port Talbot, in having in-
cautiously started the up-passenger train from Port Tal-
bot before ascertaining whether any further telegraphic
communication had taken place between Stormy and
that station, more particularly as to whether the message
he ordered to he sent to Stormy had been duly sent and
acknowledged. The jury also desire to express censure
upon the South Wales Railway Company for not em-
ploying persons at their stations properly qualified and
competent to work and duly understand the telegraph.
The jury also desire to suggest, in order to lessen the
effects in case of any future collision, that a luggage-ran
should be placed immediately after the tender of each
train."
We should mention that Mr. White, the station-
master of Stormy, was only admitted to bail in the
case of the first inquest on Saturday last. On that
day the depositions taken on the Neath inquest
having been laid before Mr. Justice Cresswell in
chambers, he carefully wont through them and gavo
amagistrate in the county of Bucks,
White was temporarily residing with
hawnihseofrrreideenrditrs:
to admit him to bail, himself in 501.,
and two sureties in 2°l. each.
attended the inquiry on behalf of
Mr. Tripp, of Swansea, and Mr. Cottenham, ofn
Company. Mr. Owen,
of Pontypool, for the deceased, and Mr. White,
sen., for his son, the station-mater at Stormy.
theo dSoonult again
igNaViaales Railway
The trials are expected to take place at a winter
assize to he held at Swansea.

Accounts from Brazil state that some persons having
purchased for 100,000 y. a large French merchant ship,
called La France, which ran ashore some months ago in
the Bay of Bahia, and has remained there ever since, are
about to endeavour to raise her. The Brazilian Govern-
ment has placed at their disposal six large vessels, and
they are now having made at Marseilles 5,000 yards of
sailcloth, which they propose to pass under the hull, as
it is raised from the water, so as to stop the holes in the
bottom.
on the previous evening, as the supericure of the
Petites Seeurs des Pauvres, accompanied by one of the
7th states that
of
the the
etablishment in the
Faubourg St. Pierre, they were suddenly assailed by a
ance of
as
band of about a dozen children under 15 years of age,
returningN.antcoy
and in the midst of the most
.savage vociferatious pelted
with laud and other mispile., fn such a nianner that when
st The
erho(7:
reached home their clotnes were covered with filth.
they
The journal expresses astonishment at this outrage com-
mitted onfemales whose livesare devoted to acts of charity,
and who themselves submit to every privation rather
than that the poor shall suffer. It also expresses a hope
that the police will speedily discover the miscreants who
excited these children to such an act.

NATAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.

Admiral Lord Lyons, with the squadron of four
Liners under his command, arrived at Malta on the
7th inst.
The Council of Military Education, composed of
Major-General Cameron (vice-president), Colonel
Portlock, and Colonel Addison, commenced the
second examination of candidates for the army
yesterday at Burlington-house, Piccadilly. The
examination will be resumed this day.
The entire of the 69th Regiment, except one
officer and 50 men, have orders to proceed to India
by the overland route. At Suez they will embark
for Madras or Bombay.
The whole of the Queen's forces in India up to
the 29th ult., according to official returns amounted
to 33,660. In the Bengal Presidency there were :
Cavalry (6th Carbineers and 9th Lancers), 1,317 ;
Infantry (including 3d, 82d, and 93d), 23,450;
Artillery, 67 ; and Engineers (23d company), 126 ;
total, 24,960. The troops ordered to the Presi-
dency and on their passage thither consists of—
Cavalry, 2,159; Infantry, 12,616; Artillery,
2,711; and Engineers, 252; total, 17,738. In the
Madras Presidency—Cavalry, (12 c h Lancers),
1,305 ; Infantry (43d and 74th) 2,122 ; on passage
or under orders—lnfantry (44th and 66th) 1,605 ;
and Artillery (under orders), 301. In the Bombay
Presidency there were—Cavalry (12th Lancers and
14th Light Dragoons), 1,012 ; Infantry, 5,200 ;
and Artillery, 62; total, 6274. On passage—Cavalry,
1,677 ; Infantry, (including the 94th), 6,021 ; Ar-
tillery, 712 ; and Engineers (overland), 246. It will
be seen from the above that up to the 29th ult 28,300
was the number of troops on passage to the East
Indies, making the grand total of the Queen's forces

India and en route -61,960. The East India Com-
pany's European troops in India amount to 18,260
of all arms.

The finding of the general court-martial which
assembled at Chatham garrison'.several months since
for the trial of Lieut. Colonel J. Clarke. Ist West
India Regiment, was promulgated yesterday. The
charges on which Colonel Clarke was arraigned
were :-1. For insubordinate conduct, in having at
Tower-hill Barracks, Sierra Leone, on the 6th of
March, 1857, disobeyed the lawful commands of
Lieut. -Colonel S. J. Hill, 2d West India Regiment,
commanding the troops at Sierra Leone and its de-
pendencies, his superior officer, in refusing to em-
bark on board her Majesty's steamer Perseverance,
and proceed with a detachment of his corps to
Bathurst, Gambia, although detailed in general
orders and warned by the Brigade-Adj atant, Lieut.
J. Watson, 3d West India Regiment. 2. For in-
subordinate conduct at Government house, Sierra
Leone, on the 6th of March, 1857, during an inter-
view with Lieut.-Colonel S. J. Hill, 2d West In-
dia Regiment, commanding the troops at Sierra
Leone and its dependencies, in having then and
there stated he would not embark on board her
Majesty's steamer Perseverance, nor would he obey
any orders given by Lieut.-Colonel S. J. Hill to
command the troops at sierra Leone, be being ex-
clusively the civil governor of the said colony of
Sierra Leone, or words to that effect. 3. For

insubordinate conduct at the time and
place mentioned in the second charge, in
having disputed the command of Lieu-
tenant-Colonel S. J. Hill, commanding the troops
at Sierra Leone and its dependencies, his superior
officer, in having refused to allow hinrelf to be
placed under arrest ; and, further' in having stated
to Lieut.-Col. S. J. Hill that he did not rocognise
the right of the said Lieut.-Col. J. S. Hill to place
him in arrest, or exercise any military authority er
command over him, he being exclusively the civil
governor of the colony of Sierra Leone, or words to
that effect. 4. For insubordinate conduct in having
at the time and place mentioned in the second
charge, when placed under arrest, and told that the
next senior officer would be placed in command of
his corps, stated to Lieut.-Col. S. J. Hill that that
officer would not take or assume the command of
the corps, for that none of the officers of the detach-
ment of the let West India Regiment would receive
or obey any orders given by the said Lieut.-Col. S.
J. Hill. 5. For beginning a mutiny, in having,
when stationed at Tower-hill Barracks, on or about
the 6th, 7th, or Bth of March, 1857, caused disob!-
diecue and resistance to the lawful authority of the
commanding-officer, by advising and directing Cap-
tain J. S. Macaulay and Captain C. W. Pearson,
Ist West India Regiment, motto obeythe commands
of Lieut.-Col. S. J. Hill. The members of the
Court have found Colonel Clarke not guilty of the
first, third, fourth, and fifth charges, but guilty of
the second charge, for which the Court directed him
to be reprimanded. In addition to this, however,
the Duke of Cambridge has superseded Col. Clarke
by nominating another officer to the death vacancy
of the second lieutenant-co lonelcy in his regiment,
and ordered him to proceed to the settlement of
Gambia as a punishment, a small detachment of his
regiment being stationed there. Colonel Clarke
has thrown up his commission and retired from the
service.

The following reinforcements will leave Chatham
garrison this morning, and embark at Gravesend on
board the George Marshall, Indiaman, 1,500 tons,
for Calcutta :-20th Regiment, 42 men ; 23d
Royal Welsh Fusiliers, 20 men ; 35th Regiment,
18 men ; 53d Regiment, 19 men ; 61st Regiment,
15 men ; 84th Regiment, 11 men ; and the 90th
Light Infantry, 25 men ; the whole in charge of
Ensign nontgomery Williams, 64th Regiment. The
84th depot will furnish 38 non-commissioned offi-
cers and men, who will proceed to Cork and embark
on board the steamer Leopold to join head-quar-
ters in India. The whole of the reinforcements were
yesterday inspected by Col. W. IL Eden, comman-
dant of Chatham garrison, who expressed himself
well pleased with their general appearance. The
non-commissioned officers and men are all armed
with the Enfield rifle.

On Tuesday evening a party of 90 recruits arrived
at Oliatham, chiefly from the London district, for
the purpose of joining the various depots of the
Indian battalions.

Recruiting for the 12 additional battalions of
infantry is progressing satisfactorily. The numbers
enlisted and now in training average nearly 600
each battalion.

The severe distress now existing at Woolwichs
among the wives and children of the soldier
despatched on active service to India has in-
duced a number of ladies of the garrison to
form themselves into a committee, with the view
of collecting subscriptions for the immediate relief
of the most necessitous. Major-General Sir W. F.
Williams yesterday made an application to the Lord
Mayor for permission to devote to the same object
the fundi collected by the Indian Relief Committee
at Woolwich, and a concert will shortly be given
in the Arsenal, the proceeds of which will be simi-
larly applied. The ladies have already collected
the sum of 3051., including a donation of 1001. from
Mr. Prater, the army clothier.
Rear-Admiral Sir Henry J. Leeke has arrived
from Calcutta, having made a short stay at Alexan-
dria on his way home. The gallant officer has re-
signed his appointment of Superintendent of the
Indian Navy, which he has held since 1851.
Commander R. G. Craigie was yesterday appointed
to the Desperate.
Her Majesty's paddlewheel steamer Triton, Lieut.
Commander Burton, now at Greenhitbe, has been
ordered to prepare for departure to the West Coast
of Africa.

The Rifleman, recently from the coast of America,
is to be brought forward for foreign service.