The Sun.
London, England, 1861-08-26 00:00:00

SPORTING NOTES.

The York Meeting commences on Wednesday, and bids
fair to outrival any of its predecessors. There arc 10 races
set for decision n the first day, the principal of which is
the Convivial Stakes, for which 58 two-yr-olds are nomi-
nated, being a decrease of 18 compared with last year,
when it fell to Mr. Merry's Folkestone, who was only op-
posed by a field of nine. On this occasion a much larger
number of runners need not be anticipated, as seven are in
the obituary, and no fewer than 24 of the remainder have
been tried, and all " found wanting" with the exception of
five—Neptunus, Lorelei, The Elector, Sir William Arm..
strong, and the Chieftain's Daughter—who have thereby
become subject to a penalty of 21b each ; but as the two
former take an untried allowance of 31b they will run on
almost as good terms as any of their antagonists. Amongst
the dark division are Mr. Robinson's North Star, Sir Chas.
Monck's colt by Stockwell out of Vignette, Col. Towneley's
Whitendale, and Lord Zetland's Garibaldi, the former of
whom, being a son of Neville (an untried sire), is entitled
to 31b allowance. As public performances are generally the
best guide, I shall place my faith in Neptunus to pull me
through. If Dictator has any pretensions to the St. Leger
he can hardly lose the Fifth North of England Biennial
Stakes. The Black Duck Stakes of 1,000 sous each will be
reduced to a match between Mr. Merry and Lord Glasgow;
and The Chieftain's Daughter will, no doubt, easily dispose
of the Maid of Masham filly. Brown Duchess will have no
difficulty in disposing of her opponents in the Yorkshire
Oaks. The Three-Yr-Old Produce Stakes will be won by
Starlight; and the Juvenile Stakes will go to Sir Charles
Monck. Thormanby will carry off the Burgundy, and
Will-o'-the-Wisp the Bramham Park Stakes. The
Chesterfield Stakes has Voltella amongst the entries
but as she will be reserved for the Ebor Handicap,
I shall anticipate the success of Jingling Johnny or Donner
and Blitz. Thursday will be the most interesting day cf
the meeting, which includes the Great Ebor Handicap, the
Eglinton Stakes, and three two-yr-old races. The Great
Ebor Handicap seems to have given great dissatisfaction
amongst owners and trainers of horses, as out of an entry of
74, nearly the half unaccepted. Gamester stands at the
head of the list with Bst 121 b, and if he was in anything
like his St. Leger form, when he defeated Promised Land,
he would be difficult to dispose of amongst such a moderate
lot of horses as are likely to take part in the race, but he will
most likely bo an absentee. The next that attracts my at-
tention is Cape Flyaway, who now seems to be the repre-
sentative of the Whitewall stable. This son of the Flying
Dutchman won the Great Newton Handicap, one mile and
a-half, easily by a length, carrying 7st 111 b, and ran a dead
heat with eantine tar the Qtalreafa at Epsom_ one
mile and a-quarter ; but at Manchester, Wildman gave
him llb and a 51b beating in the Union Cup, one mile and
a-quarter. As I do not believe in his staying powers over two
miles, I shall look elsewhere for the winner. Moorcock and
Lady Trespass and Raparee are John Osborne's lot, and
whichever he trusts will be very near winning. Rising
Sun, Stockade, Sir William, and Bevis are of no use to
win, but I should not be surprised to see Sir William run
into a place. Wildman, with 7st. 81b., would keep Cape
Flyaway safe if he put in an appearance. Prologue, if all
right at the post, will be very dangerous to the favourites.
Voltella has come with a rush into the market within the
last few days, and her clever party make few mistakes
when they are in earnest. Bally Edmond, with his 141 b
penalty, I have no fancy for. Gardener and Virgilius are
the only others amongst the light weights worthy of
notice. The public are sure to have an honest run with
Lord Zetland's horse. To LADY TRESPASS, VOLTELLA,
VIRGILIUS, and PROLOGUE I will leave the race, giving
my preference for them in the order named. The Eglin-
ton Stakes will fall to Marignan or Lady Clifden. Car-
bineer will secure the Ebor St. Leger ; Ivanhoff the Hope-
ful ; and Feu de Joie the Filly Sapling Stakes. The Sixth
North of England Biennial should be carried off by either
Caterer or Neptune; and Hippodamia looks a good thing
fir the Prince of Wales Stakes. There is nothing in the
Cup on Friday likely to lower the colours of the Wizard.

A FRESH MAN.

BETTING AT MANCHESTER-SATURDAY.

For the Ebor Handicap Lady Trespass was very firm,
and, when all the 6's to 1 were taken that could be got,
there was an offer made to take five fifties. Everything
besides her fluctuated more or less ; but there was money
for either Voltella, Bally Edmond, or Cape Flyaway at
any advance upon the prices quoted. Virgilius receded to
12 to 1, but a very small outlay stopped him, and at the
close Bto 1 was the highest offer. Moorcock was at 25 to
1 (taken and offered.) The same price was taken against
Stockade, but from the fact of the same parties backing and
laying against her, it would be difficult to predict what the
Trice may be on Monday. For the St. Leger 2 !to 1 would
have been taken about Kettledrum. Kildonan and Lady
Ripon also had their supporters. Upon the whole there
was no great amount of business done. Closing prices :

EROR HANDICAP.
sto 1 agst Lady Trespass (wanted)
Bto 1 agst Voltella (wanted)
Bto 1 agst Bally Edmond (offered)
Bto 1 agst Virgilius (offered)
10 to 1 agst Cape Flyaway (offered)
12 to 1 agst Sir William (taken)
12 to 1 agst Prologue (taken and offered)
20 to 1 agst Tulip (offered)
25 to 1 agst Moorcock (taken)
25 to 1 agst Gardener (taken)
25 to 1 agst Stockade (taken)
25 to 1 agst Rising Sun (offered)
THE ST. LEGER.
7to 4 agst Kettledrum (offered)
10 to 1 agst Kildonan (taken)
11 to 1 agst Lidy Ripon (taken)
20 to 1 agst Dictator (taken)
20 to 1 agst Janus (taken)
20 to 1 agst Big Ben (offered)
20 to 1 agst Imaus (offered)
50 to 1 agst Pagoda (offered)
50 to 1 agst Bombardier (taken)
66 to 1 agst Botts (taken)
100 to 1 agst Neighbour (taken)
THE DERBY.
1000 to 18 agst Zetland (taken)
THE YORK CUP.
6to 4on Ihe Wizard (laid)

CAPTURE OF A BURGLAR AND HIS

WIFE.

Living quietly with his wife and family in Church-
lane, Horseley-heath, Wednesbury, Davis com-
mitted no less than 13 or 14 successful burglaries.
Davis is a miner, and no doubt by the semblance
of steady habits (he says he worked in one place
for eight years), and from his cool and systematic
mode of going about his " night work," he for a
long period went on unsuspected. At length the
police got no fewer than 13 clear cases against the
burglar and his wife, for the woman was charged
and placed in the dock with her husband. Out of
the 13 charges of housebreaking only four were
then gone into. In all these the plan pursued by
this experienced thief was precisely the same. The
shutters well fastened had holes bored in them,
and then with a piece of wire, constructed for such
purpose, the bolts were drawn back. This done, the
sash fastenings were lifted, so that the windows
were easily drawn up, and ingress was then afforded
to the robber. The thing next done was to secure the
doors at the foot of the staircase, and then Davis,
lighting a candle by means of the dark lantern he
brought with him, proceeded to rummage cup-
boards, drawers, and such other receptacles as con-
tained property, and packing up a selection of these
they were carried off. In his exit with these he
appears to have passed through the front door,
which he left open. From the evidence of Inspec-
tor
Phair, it was shown that the detection of Davis
was owing to the fact that his wife had resorted to
various pledge shops, where she pawned portions of
the articles stolen by her husband. Mrs. Agnes
Oldacre, pawnbroker, proved the pledging of pro-
perty pledged by the female prisoner, and as to
which the persons who had been robbed established
that such was part of the plunder obtained from
their dwellings. Inspector Phair produced as com-
plete a burglar's kit as he had met with in the
course of his many years' experience. Some of the
implements were of such a clever yet simple con-
struction as were new even to him. Mr. Phair
found a six-barrelled revolver pistol, loaded to the
muzzle, as well as powder and shot in abundance.
Inspector Phair has found a very large quantity of
what is no doubt stolen property (irrespective of
that produced in court) in the house of the prisoner.
The magistrates and Mr. Sharp, who remained until
a late hour to hear the charges, fully committed
both Davis and his wife for trial at the next Staf-
ford assizes.

A REAL MIIRDER.—We learn from Captain
Henry Johnston, of Washington county, Mississippi, now
in our city, that on the 18th of July Mr. Preston Pickett,
an influential planter of Egg Point, while riding along the
levee, near the Point, was shot by some person concealed
behind a cluster of cotton-wood bushes, at a distance of
not more than 15 or 20 paces. The weapon used was a
double-barrelled shot gun. 15 shots entered the clothes
of Mr. Pickett, but four taking effect in his body. The
murderer, supposing Mr. Pickett killed, stepped from his
ambush, but, seeing him stand with pistol in hand,
made his escape through a cornfield. Mr. Pickett returned
to the hotel, which was about 300 yards distant, where he
fainted from the loss of blood consequent upon his in-
juries. A physician was called in, Mr. Pickett's wounds
were skilfully dressed, and he was rapidly convalescing,
when, on the following Wednesday night, his assassin,
finding he was not mortally wounded, entered the room
in the hotel where Mr. Pickett was lying, attended by his
body servant, chased the boy out, and placing the muzzle
of a double-barrelled gun so close to Mr. Pickett as to
burn the bedclothes in its discharge, fired both barrels
into the body of the wounded and prostrate man, lite-
rally tearing him to pieces and killing him instantly.
The murderer eszaped, and although the most strenuous
efforts were being made to ferret out the cold-blooded as-
sassin, up to the time our informant left no traces had been
found of the perpetrator of this inhuman deed.—Netn244
.Appeal,

ARRIVAL OF THE 73d _REGIMENT

FROM LYDIA.

PLYMOUTH, MONDAY MORNING.

The head-quarters and staff of the 73d Regiment,
from India, which landed from the Algiers at
Gravesend on Saturday, and which embarked in.
the afternoon on board the steamship Duke of
Cornwall, arrived at Millbay Pier this morning.
Just after they commenced marching two horses
in a stable, the door of which had been negligently
left open by the ostler, rushed out, and twice broke
through the ranks of the 73d. Colonel Smith, who
was waiking in the rear, was knocked down and.
injured in the head and shoulder. Private Thomas
Howell received a violent and dangerous blow on
the temple, and Drummer MacNally was prostrated.
Howell and MacNaily were conveyed to the Rag-
lan Barracks, Devonport. Two hours afterwards
Colonel Smith was sufficiently recovered to do duty
on parade with his arm in a sling.

STATE OF FEELING IN lIUNGARE

A letter from Perth, of the 18th, states that on
the play-bills of the 17th it was announced the
Austrian national hymn would be sung on the eve
of the birthday of the Emperor, and that the
theatres would be illuminated. No sooner were
these bills posted than they were torn down. At
the National Hungarian Theatre an express order
of the Governor was required in order to have the
fete announced, the first bills issued having made
no mention of it. The second bills contained the
announcement, but the letters were so small as to be
illegible. There was, however, no demonstration.

The military alone were present during the sing-
ing of the hymn. The public did not go in till it
was over. A young man who refused to take off
his hat was arrested. The authorities took the
greatest precautions on the occasion, and soldiers
with loaded muskets stood behind the scenes.

CORRESPONDENCE UPON FOREIGN

AFFAIRS.

A batch of papers relating to the action of the
Foreign-office, presented to Parliament by her Ma-
jesty, were issued by the Parliamentary printers on
Saturday last,
Despatches relating to administrative and finan
cial reforms in Turkey, 1858-61, occupy 116 pages.
Amongst them is the following from Earl Russell to
Sir H. Bulwer, dated the 4th ult. :
" LORD J. RUSSELL TO SIR H. BULWER.

" Foreign-office, July 4, 1861.
" Sir,—The accession of a new Sultan appears to
her Majesty's Government to furnish a fit occasion
for the Turkish Government to make a vigorous
effort to relieve the empire from that financial em-
barrassment to which all the enemies of the Porte
have pointed as the sure and proximate cause of the
fall of the Ottoman power.
" Yet there are ample means in Turkey for falsi-
fying this prediction. The empire has provindes of
great fertility, and is inhabited by races some of
which have industry and a genius for trade, while
others furnish hardy and obedient soldiers, the fit
materials for a strong and faithful army.
" Integrity, order, energy, and impartial justice,
would soon redress the most flagrant evils; eco-
nomy would in a few months furnish a surplus
beyond the ordinary expenditure.
" Upon these means her Majesty's Government
are convinced Sultan Azis ought to rely. Her Ma-
jesty's Government would consider they were faith-
less friends to the Porte if they held out any pro-
spect of the guarantee of a loan. It would be pour-
ing water into a cask with a hole in its bottom.
But when order and economy with publicity of
accounts shall have restored confidence to capita-
lists, the Sultan will find that the credit of his
Government will stand as high as that of any State
on the continent of Europe.

Lord Hobart and Mr. Foster will, I trust, before
long be able to furnish you with an authentic re-
port on the State of the Turkish finances.
" With that report in your hands, your excel-
lency will be abla to give proofs to the Porte of that
sincere friendship which animates her Majesty's Go-
vernment, and which is as far apart from flattery as
it is from hostility or indifference. It is the anxious
desire of her Majesty's Government to see the Otto-
man race combine with its ancient virtues of cou-
rage and fidelity the improvements and the acts
which modern civilisation has spread over Europe.
—I am, &e.,

(Signed) " S. RUSSELL."
Papers relating to the annexation of Eastern
San Domingo to Spain include the following expres-
sion of opinion on the part of our Foreign Minister :
" LORD J. RUSSELL TO MR. EDWARDES.

" Foreign-office, May 14, 1861.
" It is for the Spanish Government to weigh in
the balance of their judgment the advantages and
inconveniences which may arise from the annexa-
tion of the territory of the Dominican State to the
dominions of Spain, and any opinion which her
Majesty's Government may form on the subject
can be founded on no other consideration than a
regard for what they may look upon as the real and
permanent interests of Spain.
" Her Majesty's Government would, no doubt,
have felt a strong and decided dissatisfaction at the
proposed annexation if it had been likely to lead to
the introduction of slavery into a community which
is free from the taint of that pernicious institution ;
but the formal and repeated declarations of Marshal
O'Donnell that under no circumstances will slavery
be introduced into the Dominican territory, have
removed the main cause which would have led her
Majesty's Government to view the proposed annexa-
tion with dislike and repugnance.
" Her Majesty's Government certainly appre-
hended, when first this projected annexation was
talked of, that it might, if carried into execution,
involve Spain in unfriendly discussions, if not in con-
flict, either with France or with the United States,
or with both. With regard to France, her Majesty's
Government have not learnt that the French Govern-
ment has expressed any positive objection to the
proposed arrangement, although she may not think
it advantageous to Spain. It appears also, from
what has been stated to you, that there is no pro-
bability at present of any positive resistance to the
measure, either by the Northern. or the Southern
Confederation of North America. But the Spanish
Government should not too confidently rely on the
permanent continuance of this indifference or
acquiescence on the part of the North Americans;
and it is not impossible that when the civil war
which is now breaking out shall have been brought
to an end, an event which may happen sooner than
at present appears likely, both the North and the
South might combine to make the occupation of the
Dominican territory by Spain the cause of serious
difference between the North American Govern-
ments and that of Spain.
" Her Majesty's Government do not deny that
Great Britain, as a power naturally inclined to peace,
and systeinaticallyaddicted to commerce,must always
view a war between any two powers as an event
not only at variance with her principles, but to
a certain degree injurious to
.her interests. But
with respect to Spain, the motives of the British
Government spring from far higher scources ; Great
Britain and Spain have for long periods of time,
and in circumstances of high moment to each, been
faithful and active allies ; their alliance has been
greatly useful and eminently honourable to both.
It is a fundamental maxim of British policy to wish.
well to Spain, and earnestly to desire her welfare
and prosperity ; and therefore any combination of
events which might at any time involve the possi-
bility of Spain
. being engaged in a conflict which,
from local circumstances and disadvantages, might
be in the end seriously injurious to her rule over
her ancient possessions, would be viewed by her
Majesty's Government with lively apprehension
and sincere regret."
We have received, also, Correspondence relating
to the attack on Porto Novo by her Majesty's
naval forces on the West Coast of Africa ; Corres-
pondence with Prince Talleyrand respecting Poland,
1831 ; Correspondence with the Government of Rue'
sia respecting the affairs of Poland,. 1831-32 ; and
Correspondence respecting the affairs of Modena,
1855-58.

THE PRIVATEER " JEFFERSON DAVIS."—The
American barque California, Captain Ilathorne, from St.
Thomas's, with pine, pitch, &c., consigned to Messrs.
Briggs, Lennard, and Co., has arrived at Hull. Captain
Hathorne reports being boarded by the privateer brig Jef-
ferson Davis, in company with another privateer schooner,
about 150 miles S.E. of Bermuda. The privateer hoisted
the French flag of distress, in consequence of which Capt.
Hathorne at once altered his course, and bore down to her.
When within hailing distance of the supt)osed French ves-
sel it turned out to be the Southern privateer Jefferson
as he wanted to send ;1. letter on board.
Davis, the commander of which requested the barque to
back her topsails,
When the brig's boat came alongside, iin place of a letter
4, eing handed in, the boat's crew, eight
in number, and
armed to the teeth, boarded the vessel, a ad the commander
of the party demanded the ship's
papers, which were imme-
diately placed in his hands. Tre, howevt ir ,as soon returned
them, with the observation that the cargo was
a nature to suit, and they should, there fore, let them go.
Capt. Hathorne states that the commanclier of the Jefferson
Davis more resembles a South Carolina not of
pigdriver than the
captain of a vessel. The brig is an old one, of about 20
tons register, and her average speed
is a Pout four knots an
hour,