The Sun.
London, England, 1861-10-23 00:00:00

THE FSUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER; 23, 1861.

ous mischief, and there is the still greater
danger of the impurities of the soil passing un-
changed into the water, and being a source of quick
and certain injury. The water from the city wells
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corrupting refuse, which passes in variable propor-
tions into the porous strata from which the water
is pumped. This ought to tell us, not merely of
the disgUsting nature of the supply, but also of the
dangers which lurk within it. Experience has
shown that wells like these are liable at any mo-
ment to receive the leakings of a cesspool or a sewer,
and thus be the immediate cause of fatal disease. In
the autumn of 1854 there was a sudden and serious
outbreak of cholera in the parish of St. James's,
Westminster. The course of the disease was con-
fined to a small area in the neighbourhood of a
favourite pump in Broad-street ; and soon it was
remarked that of 73 persons who died during the
first days of the visitation 61 had been drinking
the water of the pump. It was also remarked that
among persons who were living in the same street,
and occasionally in the same houses,those only were
attacked who drank the favourite water of the
pump; in fact, in a number of cases which were par-
ticularly investigated it was ascertained that per-
sons who lived at a distance from the parish, and
who had the water sent to them because of its sup-
posed goodness, were seized with cholera and died.
A full inquiry into all the circumstances of the
matter proved that the well had become charged
with cesspool drainage, and had thus acquired its
poisonous action. Again, in the cholera visitations
of 1848-9 and 1853-4 there were two striking ex-
amples of the influence of such water in the propa-
gation of disease. The Southern districts of Lon-
don, comprising nearly a fifth of the population of
the metropolis, were visited most severely with
cholera at both of these outbreaks, and the persons
who suffered most on each occasion were those who
drank the worst quality of water. The inhabitants
of those districts are supplied by two rival companies,
who obtained their water from the Thames at diffe-
rentparts of its course. In one case the water was
charged with a larger amount of organic matter than
in the other ; and,althongh the conditions of the popu-
lation were in every other respect the same, yet this
hai the effect of augmenting the mortality to a
frightful extent. In the second visitation of the
disease the circumstances of the supply were changed
the water of the old company, which was once the
worst, was then the best, and the severity of the
disease was then changed likewise ; for those who
partook of the still bad supply suffered as before,
and there mortality was three and a half times
greater than their neighbours. The town of New-
castle-upon-Tyne was supplied with comparatively
pure water in the year 1849, and then it suffered
but little from cholera ; whereas, in the visitation
of 1853, when there was so calamitous a loss of life
from this disease, the water supply was made im-
pure by the drainage from the sewers. The same
effect was the result of the same cause in Hull, in
1849 ; and other examples may be cited, in which
the converse happened, as at Exeter, where the in-
habitants, after having suffered severely from
cholera in 1852, obtained pure water and escaped
its ravages. Nor are the percolations from the
graveyards of a city less injurious; experience has
demonstrated that this also is a prolific source of
disease. Sir James Macgregor relates that when
the British army was in Spain about 20,000 soldiers
were buried in a rather small space of ground; this
was done in the course of two or three months, and
soon the troops who drank the water from the wells
of the neighbourhood were attacked with dysentery
and malignant fevers. The cause of the mischief
was clearly traced to the hardly recognizable im-
purity of the water from the shallow wells.
Here, however, in the churchyards of this city,
there are remains of ten times such a buried
army undergoing decay; and in the whole of
this metropolis, in a space of not more than 218
acres of soil, there were buried not long since as
many as 50,000 dead in the year. In a generation
of 30 years this would give us 1,500,000 of decom-
posing bodies in the surface soil of London ; and
through these the water percolates to find its way
into the porous stratum which supplies the shallow
wells. At best the change of this corruption is but
imperfect, and the presence of ammonia and saltpetre
tells of the process of decay, and indicates the dan-
gers which accompany it.
" All these considerations have forced upon Dr.
Letheby the conclusion that water from rivers and
surface wells, contaminated with the refuse of drains
and the soakings from graveyards, is unfit for public
use."

The report, of which the above is an abstract,
was ordered by the commission to be printed and
circulated.

AGRICULTURAL PROSPECTS IN

IRELAND.

The letters on Irish agriculture which have ap-
peared in these columns will have been interesting
to people of all pursuits. Agriculture to Ireland
means prosperity—nay, existence. In the other two
kingdoms it is an imnortant—the most important—
branch of industry. But both England and Scotland
have other pursuits, and derive wealth from manu-
facturing the productions of foreign countries, or
digging and working the minerals which nature
has placed beneath their soil_ In this part of the
United Kingdom the majority of the population is
no longer dependent upon agriculture, and it has
been found by the last Census that the proportion
of agriculturists to manufacturers and miners and
traders is steadily diminishing. Bat in Ireland ag-
riculture still rules supreme. Only a small popula-
tion, comparatively, is engaged in the manufactures
of the North, or in trading pursuits in the large
towns. An agricultural survey means an inquiry
into the condition of the entire people. It means an
examination of all the questions which have arisen
during the present generation. Population, emigra-
tion, religion, crime, political feeling, the relation
between Saxon and Celt, and all sorts of matters des-
tined to historical ethnological importance, depend on
the pig and the potato, the wheatfield and the mea-
dow. Sincere, then, must our congratulations be
when it is announced that in agriculture Ireland
has made wonderful progress during the past ten
years. This progress means not only a better fed
and contented people, but it means tranquillity to
the whole empire—it means the cessation of that
bitter wail which, partly real and partly affected,
raised the pity of the world, and gave our foreign
rivals a never failing subject of invective against us.
In reading the letters of our special correspondent,
and comparing them with our reminiscences of a few
years since, we are impressed with the fact that the
greatest social change of this age has taken place
at our doors. Such revolutions commonly make but
little noise. Mexico or Hayti will be more talked
about and written about in a year than a country
which is reforming all its institutions will be in ten
years. The overthrow of a legitimate despot or the
brilliant career of a military adventurer will engage
public attention, while the movement of a large
population is studied only by a few economists and
politicians.
It now appears clear that the chief evil which
afflicted Ireland in former times was a too great
population. It may be said that other countries,
such as England and Belgium, are able to support a
more dense population in comfort and contentment.,
But these are countries where men have other re-
sources than the tilling of the soil. It would be as
useless to compare London, which has its 3,000,000
souls within a few square 'miles, with a similar ex-
tent of ground in the country,as to compare England,
wealthy from its many varieties of industry and
from its world-wide trade, with Ireland, dependent
only upon what it can raise from a soil fertile
certainly, but checked in its powers of production
by a damp and subless climate. Twenty years ago,
before famine and emigration had done their work,
the population of Ireland was over 8,000,000 souls.
All but a small proportion of these were dependent
on the coarsest food and the lowest kind of cultiva-
tion for their daily subsistence. They grew little be-
sides potatoes on their miserable holdings, to which
they clung with a tenacity which made conspiracy
and murder familiar instruments to there. The pigs
which they bred almost in their houses were gene-
rally sold to pay the rent, and the cottier seldom
had a taste of bacon to give a relish to the potatoes
of which he consumed such a prodigious bulk. What-
ever may have been the faults of Ireland's social
state, they were all insignificant in comparison with
this. No Catholic Emancipation, no reform of the
Church Establishment, could give these 8,000,000
people enough to eat. We doubt even if the Encum-
bered Estates Act and the transfer of property would
have any effect on their condition. Indeed, it would
have been impossible to tempt men to purchase as'
long as these millions of gaunt and hungry Irishmen
were weighing down property, and threatening to
swallow up the whole income of the landlord. For
such a culture as existed in Ireland 3,000,000 of
people would have been enough, and here were
8,000,000, fighting and struggling for little spots of
the earth's surface insufficient to feed a single
family, or to give an able-bodied man two days'
races.ez ttaiTl4e,or
work-in the week. But the famine came, and then
followed that remarkable emigration, which deserves
to be recorded in the history of the movements of
Ireland,Pouoola,tin°enaorlfyt
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grants being of that class of the peasantry which
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correspondent gives a
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from statistical returns,
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own observation. While thr:ioibtained from his
tots has so greatly diminifgr ,u sine of inhabi-
v4 tun moms? in

agricultural wealth is most remarkable; so that
the wellbeing of the people las advanced in a
double ratio. The most extraoxlinary increase is
in the numbers of live stock. 'The animals alto-
gether are 50 per cent. more nunerous than they
were 20 years ago ; but cattle aid sheep have mul-
tiplied far more quickly than his. Horses have
hardly increased since 1841; lgs, owing to the
emigration of cottage feeders of lacon and pork, are
actually much fewer; but the timber of sheep is
3,538,000 in 1860 against 2,160)00 in 1841 ; and
the number of horned cattle is 3,600,000 in 1860
against 1,864,000 in 1841—that s, sheep have in-
creased more than 50 per cent. old cattle about 100
per cent. in 20 years." In the teantime 3,200,000
acres, being nearly one-sixth of the extent of Ire-
land, have been sold in the Etcumbered Estates
Court, the sums realised amoulting in the whole
to £23,000,000. Ireland is theefore now on the
high road to prosperity, if not tcgreat wealth. The
change in the condition of the Pasant is shown by
the comparatively small number of those outrages
which made Munster a field of hood. Wages have
risen from Gd. and 10d. to is. 2d a•clay, and it may
be said that political agitation iE dead and religious
hatred is dying throughout th) island. But it
would be untrue to say that Ireand even now is a
model country. The deficiencie in its agriculture
have been pointed out in these letters, and we need
not recur to them here. But t may be observed
that even now a fourth of the s)il of Ireland is un-
cultivated, and that, though nuch of this is bog
or hill side, yet hundreds of ;housands of acres
still wait the improving hand )f man to minister
to a large population, and to tdd to the strength
of the Empire. One remarkable change, however,
is, we think, in store for Irelani, and perhaps Great
Britain. No one can reflect on the prospects of
agriculture as influenced by the wants of such
masses of population as dwell it England and Scot-
land without feeling that a tine must come when
the breeding of cattle and the growth of the crops
they consume will be the chief occupation of the
British farmer. Wheat can le pown over vast
tracts of sunny territory in both hemispheres, and
brought to this country at rates which, as new
land comes under cultivation, are likely to become
gradually lower. The climate of Irela*-a• *ho
other heal , rringt nnsinitablo tv tne growth of
wheat. In a land of rain and mist the wheat harvest
must ever be a lottery. The tendency must then
be, we think, to abandon this ungrateful culture,
and to produce in larger quantities the increasingly
valuable staple of butcher's meat.--Times.

TEE CHICRESTER MURDER,

CHICHESTER, OCT. 22.

The adjourned inquest on the body of Jas. 0 uton
was resumed this morning in the large room of the
Dolphin Hotel before the coroner, Mr. Jas. Powell.
The prisoner, John Cleary, was for the first time
present at the examination. Shortly after the
opening of the court the large room began gradu-
ally to fill with the people, and towards the middle
of the day became much crowded. _ _ _

Thos. Flood sworn—The rifle produced is Cleary's
rifle. I know it by the number-383.
Patrick Mears sworn—l am a private in the 59th
Regiment. I went to bed last Tuesday night, the
15th, between 7 and 8 o'clock. I belong to Com-
pany No. 12, the same as Cleary's. I saw him
come into my hut about 9 o'clock, and throw his
cap on the bed. He lay down on his bed with his
clothes on. He said he was bad in his bowels from
bad beer which he had had. At a quarter to 10 the
lights were put out. A short time afterwards he
went out. Three-quarters of an hour after he left
I heard the noise of a gun.
David Miller gave evidence to the same effect.
John Woodham sworn—l am colour-sergeant in
the 59th Foot, now stationed at Chichester. I
know the prisoner Cleary. On Tuesday, the 15th
inst., about half-past 10 o'clock at night, from in-
formation I received, I went to the prisoner's hut,
which I searched. I found his rifle and 10 rounds
of ammunition gone. I produce his pouch and the
10 rounds left. A light jacket was found in the
hut, and his forage cap.
Wm. Dawtrey, sworn—l live in Chichester. On
on the night of October 15, at half-past 10 o'clock,
on passing the old gravel-pit, about a mile from the
city, and 700 to 800 yards from the barracks, I was
startled by seeing the flash and hearing the report
of a gun. The man who fired it was on my right
hand, the barrack side, and 70 or 80 yards from the
road.

James Jolliffe, sworn—l am a farm labourer, and
live at Ashling. On the night of October 15 I was
coming from Funtington towards Ashling about 12
or 1 o'clock that night. Wm. Sheppard was with
me. I saw a man under the hedge about 100 yards
from East Ashling. He was standing up. I saw a
rifle piece under his arm.
Charles Cowper, sworn—l am a farm labourer
and shepherd, living at Funtington. On the even-
of Wednesday, Octooer 16th, I was at the Fox and
Hounds publichouse, Funtington, between 7 and 8
o'clock. While there a person of light complexion,
with no whiskers, came in with a long, dark rough
coat on.

The prisoner was here directed to stand up, and
his cap was put on.
Witness--I cannot swear to the man, but I be-
lieve him to be the same man that came into the inn.

George Wm. Reed, sworn—l am a carpenter at
West Ashling. lam a member of the Sussex Vo-
lunteer Rifle Corps. On Wednesday night, the 16th
inst., I was standing near Mr. Russell's gate, at the
side of the main road at East Ashling. About half-
past 9 or 10 o'clock I saw a man coming towards
me from Funtington. He had under his right arm
a gun or a rifle. The rifle produced is like the one
he had.

Charles Stringer-1 am a police sergeant of the
city of Chichester. On the night of Oct. 16, at about
a quarter to 12 o'clock, I was at Northgate, Chi-
chester, near the Sun publichouse. I saw a young
man come round into Franklyn-place from North-
gate. It was Outon, who passed me. Pullen joined
me, at which time we heard a loud report of firearms,
followed by a scream, apparently from the New
Broyle-road, going towards the barracks. We went
to the barracks on our way. We saw no one but the
infirmary surgeon. I, with the barrack police,
searched the barracks. While there Pullen sent for
assistance. I afterwards saw the deceased at Mr.
Parrington's house. It was the same person who
passed me in Franklyn-place.
John Parnell, sworn—l am superintendent of
police of the Midhurst division. From information
I received on Thursday, the 17th of October, I went
in pursuit of the prisoner. I met him in the turn-
pike-road between Petworth and Ceultersham. I
said, " I charge you with the wilful murder of a
young gentleman, a student of Bishop Otter's Col-
lege, last night, at 12 o clock, by shooting." He
said, " You have got the wrong man ; I am only a
deserter, and left Chichester two days ago." He
said, " How could I commit a murder ? I have no-
thing to do it with."
Henry Grant, a police constable of the Midhurst
division, gave evidence to the same
leffaenact'Armoury
Sergeant Lewis H
ateCnhryichleVshel
teerßera'rracks. I examined the
rifle produced last night. It is numbered 383, and
belonged to the 59th depot. It was loaded with Go-
vernment ball cartridge. It was not capped. I drew
the charge. I have been acting as Armoury Ser-
geant to the regiment three years last August. The
rifle had been fired off since it was last cleaned.
Michael Quin, sworn—I am a private of the 73d
Regiment of Foot. On Thursday morning, the 17th
October, I went in search of the prisoner. On
searching the fields, about three or four fields from
the College, in a water meadow leading to the White
Swan, I found the rifle produced, concealed under
some bushes near the watercourse.
Richard Clark, sworn—l am a police constable of
the city of Chichester. On Friday morning, the
18th inst., I saw the prisoner in the police-station at
Ensgate in his cell—from 6 in the morning to 9 at
night. Ho said he slept in a wood on Wednesday
night this side of Petworth. I said, " What time
did you leave the barracks ?" He replied, " About
10 o'clock on Tuesday evening, and I went to
Littleharapton that night." I asked him who com-
manded his depot. He replied, " Major Bushe,
who would hang me if he could." On Sunday he
said it was reported in barracks that Major Bushe
had been shot at in China twice, and that the Major
knew who did
i it. I said, " What did the sol-
diers say about t?" He replied, " Some said it was
a dirty action ; others, that he deserved it."
Superintendent Everett, sworn—l produce a rifle,
No. 383. It was found in a field through which
runs a footpath leading into the high road. The
statement made by the deceased, that the soldier
ran away towards Chichester, would indicate this
pathway.
David Miller recalled—There were 12 men in the
hut on Tuesday night, the 15th inst. Cleary was
the only man absent, except one who was in hospi.
tal. On the night of the 16th the prisoner was the
only man absent. He said, "he should not do the
drill," or " he'd drill some of them," or words to
that effect.

The Coroner having summed up, the jury retired,
and after an absence of a quarter of an hour re-
turned a verdict of wilful murder agaiat John
Cleary.

The inquiry did not terminate until past 5 o'clock,
some 400 persons being present during the day.

During the six months ending in Sept., 1860, the
Peninsular and Oriental Co.'s steamers conveyed to the
east gold to the value of £1,102,383, and silver to the value
of £5,493,010. During the six months ending last Sept.
the steamers conveyed gold to the value only of £684,110,
and silver to the value only of £4,494,182, showing a fall-
ing off of nearly half a Willi()); of E91(1 and, abgAt tif
of oily%

RUNNING THE BLOCKADE.

We suggested a fortnight ago that the most effec-
tual blockade of any Southern port where such a
measure is possible—as, for instance, Charleston
and Savannah—would be to render its channel im-
passable. To escape the vigilance of a cruising
squadron is not, as all history proves, a difficult
matter, and the facility of doing so in this age of
steamships is immensely increased. In all the Euro- ,
pean wars of the last 75 years where blockades have
been attempted, the trade carried on with the inter-
dicted countries has been immense, in spite of fleets ;
it is idle to expect that our own prohibition of com-
merce along our hundreds of miles of sea coast is
to prove an exception. How many ships and other
vessels have run in and out of Southern ports, what
quantities of arms, of provisions, and munitions of
war have been thus conveyed to the rebel forces
within the last three months it is impossible to
tell ; but, as we know that the war was not
undertaken without careful forethought, that
the conspirators used Floyd, long before the
rebellion was an overt act, to disarm the Govern-
ment, to deprive it of a navy, and to secure for
themselves the weapons which they have turned
against it, so it is not at all likely that they neg-
lected other means to put themselves in a condition
to carry out their treasonable purposes. Certainly
if they made arrangements to purchase arms in
Europe, as seems highly probable, they have been
successful in running them into Southern ports, for
none that we know of have ever been intercepted.
Nor is the British steamship Bermuda, reported to
have gone into Savannah a few days ago laden
with arms, the only vessel that has thus carried
aid and comfort to the enemy. That the Ber-
muda has been thus successful we have no doubt.
A gentleman arrived here last week from Savan-
nah, by way of Louisville, assures us of the fact,
and as he is vouched for to us as a man on whose
word implicit reliance may be placed, we see no
reason for doubting his statement. It is in
itself, moreover, entirely credible. He assures us
that Mr. Edward C. Anderson, as ex-Mayor of
Savannah, went over to England in Lord Ducie's
yacht America, which was, if our memory serves
us, in the port of Charleston some time in June,
for the express purpose of buying arms. The Ber-
muda was sent out by Mr. Anderson and bruuKut
6,500 Enfield rifles purchased by him. This we
understand from our informant is only one instal-
ment of Mr. Anderson's purchases, as three to five
more steamers are looked for with confidence at
Savannah, all to bring arms. The Bermuda gets,
of course, a high freight on these arms, but her
profit will be still larger on a return cargo of cotton,
should she be as fortunate in getting out as she was
in getting in; and the double chance of a good
voyage both ways is inducement enough for all
these steamers to take the risk of capture. The
Bermuda, it seems, was expected, and may possibly
have been signalled somewhere on the coast. At
any rate, at a precise moment to suit her conve-
nience a heavy cannonading was opened at a dis-
tant post by the rebels, and the blockading
squadron hastened thither to ascertain its cause.
When out of sight the Bermuda slipped
in. She took a risk which there are always men
ready enough to take in time of war with the hope
of great gain, and we, of course, are without remedy.
Were Savannah closed by proclamation as a port
of entry we might have some ground of complaint
to urge to the British Government at the evasion
of our laws by her subjects. But, as the case now
stands, her sufficient and very proper answer would
be, " You have proclaimed a blockade, and the
whole world has a right to break it if you can't
maintain its integrity." But if one department of
Government does not think it best to close Savan-
nah by law, we pray that another department will
close it with hulks. Two or three fn the channel
off Tybee Light a fortnight ago would have been a
loss to the rebels of 6,500 Enfield rifles and the sale
of a cargo of cotton. If done now it will prevent
the entrance of the expected steamers, and it is
better to rely on a material obstacle so impassable
than upon the chance of the squadron not being
again enticed away by some new " dodge," or the
luck king next time with our ships. The loss is
too much and the gain too small on our side, while
the rebel gain is too great and the loss only that of
adventurers, for us to leave anything to chance in
this matter where it can be avoided.—New York
Tribune.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

GLOUCESTER RACE S.-TUESDAY.

The Badminton Stakes of 3 sovs each, with 20 added, for
all ages; mares and geldings allowed 31b, with selling
allowances. One mile.
Mr. Stevens's Violet, 2 yrs (L 80), Est (car. bat 21b) _ _

(Pearson) 1
Mr. York's The Principal, 2 yrs (£150), Est 10Th
(Wheatley) 2
Mr. 11. J. Smith's Avongrove, 2 yrs (RSO), 6st 31b (car.
Gst 41b) (Woodhouse) 3
Mr. J. Land's Dunoon, 2 yrs (£SO), Est 31b.. (J. Reeves) 4
Mr. Adams's Wortham, 3 yrs (00), 7st 121b(11. Taylor) 5
The following also ran :—Joy, Ludlow, Maid of Peru,
Whimsical, and Couleur-de-Rose.

Betting-5 to 2 agst The Principal, 7to 2 agst Dunoon,
5 to 1 each agst `Northam and Couleur-de-Rose, 7 to 2 agst

The running was alternately made by Dunoon, The
Principal, and Avongrove, until rounding the turn for
home, where Violet passed Avongrove and Dunoon, and
reaching The Principal at the half distance, raced in with
him neck and neck to within a couple of strides of home,
where Violet got her head in front, and won a good
race in by a head ; four lengths between the second and
third ; Dunoon and Wortham close up ; Whimsical last,
beaten off.

The Innkeepers' Plato of 30 sovs, added to a handicap
sweepstakes of 5 sovs each. Winners extra. One mile.
36 subs.
Mr. S. Jacob's Bookaloom, 3 yrs, 6st 21b (car. Est 41b)

(Roper) 1
Mr. J. Clerk's Dotterell, 3 yrs, Est (Cannon) 2
Mr. J. B. Starky's Nativity, 3 yrs, Est 131 b (G. Parsons) 3
Mr. J. Turner's Jackall, 3 yrs, Est 91b (Woodhouse) 4
Mr. J. Wood's Caliban, 3 yrs, Est 41b (E. Taylor) 5
Betting-5 to 4 agst Jackall, 2to 1 agst Caliban, 4to 1
each agst Bookaloom and Nativity.
Caliban was the first off, and led at a good pace, followed
by Bookaloom and Jackall, Nativity:and Dotterell several
lengths in the rear. In this order they came up to the
railway turn, where Bookaloom left Caliban and Jackall,
and before entering the straight was half-a-dozen lengths
in front. After this he came on at his leisure, and won
easily by two lengths. Nativity was a bad third, Jackall
several lengths behind her, fourth. Caliban broke a blood-
vessel a quarter of a mile from home, was pulled up, and
trotted in last.

A Farmer's Plate of 25 sous, added to a Sweepstakes of 3
Bove each, for horses bone
,fide the property of the nomi-
nator and regularly hunted during the season. To be

ridden by farmers or gentlemen, not professionals,

Winners extra. One mile and a half.
Mr. Chapman's Gift, 5 yrs, 12st 31b (including 101 b ex.)
(Mr. Bryer) 1
Mr. Smith's Perseverance, aged, 12st 101 b (in. 101 b ex.)
(Mr. Harraway) 2
Mr. Denton's The Corporal, aged, 12st (Mr. Blake) 3
Mr. Dowding's Holdfast, 6 yrs, 12st (Owner) 4
Betting-7 to 2 on Gift.

The Corporal had a slight lead when passing the Stand
the first time, Gift laying off until nearing the railway
turn, when Gift, who was pulling hard, closed with the two
leaders, and at the distance had them safe ; Gift then came
on and won without an effort by aneck: The Corporal was
a bad third ; Holdfast beaten off.

The Gloucestershire Handicap of 10 sovs each, 2 ft, with
50 added, for 3-yr-olds and upwards. Winners extra.

One mile. 33 subs.
Mr. F. Bell's Gleam, 3 yrs, 6st 101 b (J. Reeves) 1
Lord Coventry's Flitch, 5 yrs, Bst 21b (L. Snowden) 2
Mr. Dray's Noblesse, .? yrs, Gst 21b (G. Parsons) 3
The following also ran :—Fitzavon, Atherstone, Miss
Eleanor, Billy Dwindles, Conqueror, Sycophant, The Don,
Redpole, Confession, Acco, and Wortham.

Betting-3 to 1 agst Billy Dwindles, 6to 1 agst Gleam,
6 to 1 agst Flitch, 7 to 1 agst Noblesse, 8 to 1 each agst
Acco and Redpole, 100 to 8 agst Confession, 10 to 1 each
agst The Don and Miss Eleanor, 100 to 6 agst Conqueror,
20 to 1 agst Northam.
After a couple of false starts with Sycophant and Red-
pole, the signal was given, when Sycophant was several
lengths in the rear; Billy Dwindles, Redpole, Flitch, and
Noblesse heading the lot, with Gleam and Acco close at
their quarters. On rounding the bottom turn Redpole
deprived Billy Dwindles of the lead, the two coming on in
front to the turn for home, where both were beaten, and
Flitch, with Gleam and Noblesse close up, cams first into
the straight. At the half-distance Gleam had caught
Flitch, and in a few strides was leading, was never headed,
and won in a most easy manner by three lengths; Flitch
beating Noblesse for second place by two lengths. Wor-
tham and Confession close up, fifth and sixth, Sycophant
and Fitzavon bringing up the rear. Conqueror, when go-
ing round the first turn towards the Willows hung so much
to the left that he ran against a couple of flagstaffs and sent
them flying. On rounding the turn for home he ran against
one of the posts and came down on his head, rolling over
little Parson, who was not severely hurt, as he soon got up
and walked to the weighing-room. Conqueror immediately
jumped up and bolted round the course.

Handicap Hurdle Race of 3 soya each, with 20 added. Over

four flights of hurdles. Winners extra. Ono mile and a
quarter.
Mr. T. Patrick's Kington, 4 yrs, 9st (G. Smith) 1
Mr. J. Weymer's The Miler (h. b.), aged, 9st 71b
(Et. Sly, jun.) 2
Mr. Marshall's Emily Harris (late The Nun), 4 yrs, gst 71b
(G. Holmer) 3
Yorkshire Grey, Mary Stuart, Eheu, Estella, and Gril-
lade also ran.

Betting-6 to 4 agst Estella, 4 to 1 agst The Miller, and
6 to 1 agst Emily Harris.
Estella went off at a fearful pace, flying the hurdles in
fine style, Eheu following in her wake, second ; Emily
Harris next, Grillado and Yorkshire Grey heading the re-
plaint*, with, Pl 9 Miller loot, all the let geiPEl (Mr the

hurdles in fine style. In this order they went along the
bottom of the course, when Eheu went up to Estella, the
pair coming away:several lengths in advance up to the Rail-
way turn, where both dropped back, and Kington, with
Emily Harris, took first and second places. At the half
distance The Miller made his effort (having laid so far from
his horses in the early part of the race), but failed to reach
Kington, who won cleverly by two lengths, half a length
separating the second and third; Eheu was a good fourth,
Mary Stuart and Yorkshire Grey close up, fifth and sixth;
Grillade and Estella both beaten off a long way.

LATEST BETTING ON THE COURSE.
CAMBRIDGESHIRE.
9to 2 agst Henham Lass (taken)
25 to 1 agst Limeflower (taken freely)