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FO
. _____N A LORD
1 AND A WEAVER.
For some time previous to O.- q°l' of Decernbey
- - e ‘neriine- nneticm I,r ,:.
........ t: Casth-dasve•
te. aLa.1.1.,,, en:,.:;;::, 1,.,..... ,;()L431ata...... ..elety for its arrival, as that day it was whispered was to decide
the pedestrian capabilities of a lord and a labourer in
/. the neighbourhood. The foot race was nearly the
whole theme of conversation. Both old and young,
male and female, seemed to be interested in it. All
flock(d to the scene of action, all were afraid lest they
should be too late. Foot-racing is not a common oc-
cutanrrence in this part of the country, yet, notwith-
sding, a great many have some pretensions to
running. Though a rural district, somewhat densely
populated, neither pedestrian nor gymnastic exercises
are much practised. We have said that foot-racing
is uncommon in this part of the country ; in this in-
stance it was extremely so. No one ever imagined
that a lord, who had been reared in the mid.t of
rfilaence, would le en competing withwitha
handloan weaver, who had been brotwht
up in the midst 0 p ,veltj ...
No one believed that
such would be the fact. nose 'swim went to the ycet.e
Of action went in doubt, and %k ere afraid they would
be male fools of; those who stayed away were afraid
they would miss the sport. however, one o'clock
in the afternoon i f the above-xnentioned day con-
vinced these who had mustered courage enough to
go to the domains of the Right Hoe. G. R. Dawson
that they had not gone fur nothing. The Dew-
si ni were gallopping up and down seemingly all
in life. Other gentlemen of no less note were
doing the same, and seemed equally interested.
Shortly afterwards the two pedestrians cater out
in full uniform. His Lordship is about five feet ten
inches in height, slender-limbed, lightly made, and
about nineteen years of age. His countenacce is
very frank, and upon the whole a very likely..
looking person to take such a thing in hand.
James Keenan (for such is the name of the weaver)
is about five feet five inches in height, propor-
tionately built, about 40 years of age, and has
a wife and six children. The length of the race was
eight miler, and the stakes 5/. each side. His Lord-
ship backed himse'f, and the Dawsons backed Keenan.
His Lordship had on a pair of wel!--made white pan-
taloons, wash-leather pumps, and a yellow jacket.
Keenan ran in a pair of white drawers, barefooted,
and te';blue jacket. Before they commenced, his`
Lordship asked Keenan if he would run first and he
would run after, each of them running against time.
To this Keenan replied, " Since your Honour has
engaged to run against me, I would rather that we
ran together." "Well, I'll run with you," was his
Lordship's rep'y, "you can commence first, I'll give
you the start." So Keenan commenced, and, after
he had got a start of about six yard', his Lord
ship followed, and ran in a scientific; manner, keep-
ing his arms well up and his elbows close to his side.
It is evident that his Lordship is better acquainted
with the theory than he is with the practice of
running ; he ran gracefully, but did not get over the
ground quickly ; he seemed to have a notion that
there is as much in the look of a runner as there is in
his speed. This was, 83 Franklin has it, " one cf the
errors of his life." Keenan, on the other hand, seemed
to be better acquainted with the practice than be was
with the theory. He ran with his arms hanging
down and quite loose, but he was well acquainted
with the art of getting over the ground. When he
had run two miles (which he did in 121 minutes) he
was about a quarter of a mile before his noble compe-
titor; so he (Lord Lurgan), thinking it of no use
continuing the contest longer, gave up when he had
run about two miles and a quarter. Keenan, how-
ever, ran on, making the second two miles in 13i
minutes; the third two he ran in 14 minutes; and
the last two in 131 minutes ; running the eight miles
in 53i minutes, amidst the vociferous cheering of his
friends and acquaintances.—Carlisle Patriot.
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[PRICE SD«

DRAINAGE OF LONDON.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sin,—The plans or "suggestions" of Mr. Thomas
plac-d before the public so prominently on
the 17th instant, require careful exarninatior, because
s,ane opinion may arise, from that circumstacce,
pre judicial to the interests of all the inhabitants of
L neloa.
Notwithstan ling the pußic "zabsolute prohibition,,,
that any oee should, on any account whets )ever, be
tempted even to propose. the Thames as the " recap-
tachl• of the foul mattes" from the se.vers, Me. Thomas
Cubitt tells us our "river appears to be the only
means for carrying it away ;" and, " though the sub-
ject has been constantly before him during the last
ten years" he R ill " se no other way of effecting the
object desired !"
He would have " a large reservoir a little lower
than the water at high tide at Barking Level," which,
I believe, is some three or more feet below Trinity
high- water mark. II- would also have " a large
tunnel sewer, twenty feet diameter, and forty fret
below his reservoir—(i. e., about twenty feet below
low-water mark)—and fourteen miles long beyond
Paddington westward." He would, moreover,
" lower the inland ends of the great sewers," suffi-
ciently " to make them discharge into the new trunk
sewer."
The level of Farringdon-street, the Horse Guarcb,
Whitehall, Parliament-street, Westtninster bbey,
the Houses of Parliament, and Buckingham Palace,
is only about 3f feet above high-water mark; and
many other important parts of Westminster are even
less elevated! The sewer made lately, by Mr. T.
C. I believe, in front of Buckingham Palace, is
eleven feet below the above-mentioned level, and, con-
sequently, 7i feet below high- water mark ! The
sewer at the angle of Parliament and Bridge-streets,
drains Parliament-street, the Houses of Parliament,
the Abbey, &c. &c., and being nineteen feet deep, is
15 to 1G feet below high-water mark, or only 25 to
30 feet above the bed of Mr. T. C.'s sewer at
Barking, fourteen miles distant; consequently, the
declination can average only about 2 inches per 100
feet length ; therefore, Mr. T. C.'s "large tunnel"
will be the largest cess-pool that mortal man has ever
devised for accumulating deadly filth in London.
But, as a drain for sewage (with a fall of only 2
instead of 15 inches per 100 feet) it will be quite
useless! And that "it will be very costly" to the
People, Mr. T. C. plainly admits. Query—How
many more millions of rates and taxes will he not
require to lower the "inland ends" (i. e., to give a
declination north instead of south), and reconstruct
the one or two thousands of miles of great sewers and
house drains in London ? And how many years
must elapse before this "large tunnel sewer" can, if
it ever will, work ? I query also if the sewage will
he "carried into the sea within a few hours," being
of opinion it will remain at and about London in the
tidal Thames for many days, if not weeks! More-
over, our river will, as soon as the " Health of
Towns Bill" is fully carried out, come polluted to
London with the sewage of Cirencester, Oxford,
Reading, Windsor, Richmond, Brentford and seven-
teen other populous places, as well as numerous
hamlets, whose streams diseinbogue into the Thames,
unless the sewage of them all is treated properly,
1. e, de-putrified (the ammoniacal and other valuable
fertilising matters in it fixed and precipitated), and
the super-natant waters filtered perfectly pure, as
they can be, before they enter the river!
Will nut many more than one " powerful steam.
engine " require to be " always at work to lift the
contents of' Mr. T. C.'s " large tunnel sewer into
his reservoir ?"
Capital work for a builder would be the " new line
or road of communication " proposed " to the public
at the east end of the town I"
On the 24th inst., I sent the following note to
" Thos. Cubitt, Lyall-street, Thlgrave-square.
—Sir, on the 20th inst., I addressed the following
note to the editor of the Times—(' Having favoured
Mr. Thos. Cubitt's " Suggestions on the Drainage of
London," with such prominent insertion, in your
paper of 17th inst., permit me to ask him, through
the medium of your paper, what declination or fall
per mile, his " large tunnel sewer" is to have from the
westward of Paddington to Barking Level?')—consi-
dering it to be the proper medium of communication
with you regarding 3-our plan or 'suggestion on the
Drainage of London,' made public in that journal:—but
as he has not thought proper to insert it, although
the whole question is a public matter, may I request !
an answer to the point fro:n you, by note? I am,
sir, your very obedient servant, Richard Dav,r

HE WITS OF EDINBURGH.
(From the North British Mail.)
Professor Anderson, the Wizard of the North, while
E linbure, announced, about ten days ago, his in-
tention of giving a handsome twenty-guinea silver
cup to the inventor of the best original conundrum,
and an elegant twelf,h-eake, weighing 201 b., to the
inventor of the second best. The conundrums to be
sent in to Professor Anderson, with the names of the
inventors, by Thursday last, at latest, and the deci-
sion on their merits to take (place on the evening of
the following Monday, 7th inst., at the Music Hall
The wits of E linburgh set their brains a-working,
and the result was that, by the afternoon of Thursday,
so many as 595 conundrums were sent in l These
were immediately put into the hands of the printer,
and, on Saturday, they were offered for sale in the
form of a small pamphlet. price 3d. Notwithstanding
that the questions merely (no answers) were given in
this edition, still the demand for them was astonish-
ing. The pamphlets were sold by ;nen in the
streets, at the dour, and in the lobby of the Waterloo
Rooms, and also at the Wzard's R)y al
'Picket-office, and so great has been the combined sale,
that the " mighty magic-fiat," must have realised as
much from this schetne_aloLe. L.s_.theets-the-expenge—of-
-esoturtlffrt,iri;. On
(1 Monday night the Music
114'1 was ,-nsfly filled in every part Th whole o
tt-e 595 conundrums were read, aker. whiche the occu-
f
pants of the various parts of the I all were at liberty
to call out the narraers of the conundrums which
were thought to be the best, and, after fully half an
hour was spent in gathering the opinions of the com-
pany, the thirteen jurymen who bad been appointed
retired, and alter being absent fur some time they
returned, when Mr. Conbold, foreman, stated that the
jury had endeavoured to arrive at a correct decision.
The finding of the jury, therefore, was, that the
author of the following conundrum was entitled to the
silver cup :
" Why did the highland soldiers do most execution
at Waterloo ? Because every man had one kilt
(killed) b. fore the battle begun."
The silver cup was accordingly presented to Mr.
J. Mackay, 14, Princes-street, Edinburgh.
The jury also gave it as their opinion that the
author of the following conundrum was entitled to the
twelfth cake:—
" Why is a poor vorkhouso boy' at Christmas
like the Emperor of Russia at present ? Because
he's confounded Hungary, and longs for a piece of
Turkey."
The twelfth cake, it was accordingly agreed,
should be sent, per first train, to Mr. Easton, painter,
D unbar.
Thus terminated the proceedings of the Conundrum
Night.

. laws, novraren -wny tiotree oP it ~i3o nut,
therefore, know whether he intended giving his
" large tunnel sewer" any declination ; but by pro-
posing to "lower the inland ends" of the great
sewers, he is aware, evidently, that sewage will n 4
run up hill !—the customary declination fur a drain
is 11 inches per each ten feet length! ! jr Mr. T. C.
gives only one inch ascent in each hundred f: et from
Barking, I think the bed of his "large tunnel sewer"
would, at Paddington, be about 30 or 35 feet above
the sewers of Westminster!—consequently, the
sewage to run up there must ascend only about nine
feet per mile ! !!

I am, Mr. Editor,
Your very obedient servant,
RICARD
28, New-street, Spring-gardenHs, DOVER.
December 29th, 1849.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
PORTSMOUTH, SUNDAY.—The Right Hon. George
Earl of Cadogan, C.B , is now among the rumoured
as likely to succeed to the East India and China
command, but being a Rear-Admiral of the Red, and
within fourteen of promotion, which (without taking
the late year's mortality among the flag officers as a
criterion) he may reasonably expect in a year or so,
we do not attach much faith to the report.
It is also rumoured, and with much more appear-
ance of probability, that the office of Director of
Engineering Works at the Admiralty will be con-
ferred upon Captain James, R.E., director of works
in this dockyard.
The Terrible steam.frigate, Captain Hope, was re-
moved from the steam-basin yesterday to the harbour
to replenish fuel, prior to prosecuting her voyage,
which she will do this week.
The Penelope steam-frigate was re-docked yester-
day, after the 'Terrible was taken out, to complete
her repairs.
Wind, E., fresh breez-s and hazy weather.
APPOINTMENT.
WooLwlcir, JAN. 12.—Surgeon Charles T. S.
Kevern (1846) to the Gladiator steam-frigate, at
Devonport
The Enterprise and Investigator left their moorings
at Greenhithe at 830 A.M. to-day, the former towed
by the African and the latter by the Monkey steam-
vessels. The Enterprise only had her compasses ad-
justed by Captain Johnson, which process occupied
from 7 30 AM. to 1 45 P.M., and although the vessel
had been nearly two years away on her northern
voyage, the arrangements of her ironwork when re-
fitting had been so judiciously made, that the devia-
tion was found, on again setting her compasses yes-
terday, only to have amounted to a few minutes. A
copy of the slight deviation was furnished to the
Investigator, and would be a sufficient guide to her,
as both were to sail in company. A great number
of persons went to Greenhithe to visit the vessels
previous to their departure, and were much gratified
by their inspection.

SUPPOSED MURDER OF THREE MEN AT LYNN.—
Fur some time Fait the greatest excitement has pre-
vailed in the town of Lynn, in consequence of the sudden
and mysterious disappearance of two male persons, and
from the inquiries made by the magistrates and police,
no doubt is entertained of the missing persons having
been murdered. A reward of 2201. has been offered by
the Government for the apprehension of the murderers,
and a pardon to any accomplice, not being the actual
perpetrator of the murder, in either cave, who shall give
such evidence as will lead to the same result. One of
the missing persons is named John Bell, eighty-one years
of age, five feet seven inches high, missing since the 13th
of November last; the second, John Kirk, was fifty
years ( f age, five fset six inches high, missing since the
12th of October la,t, when he had a silver watch and
151. in his possession. Within the last few days another
man, about twenty years old, has been missing. It
seems that ho took a lodging for a night at an inn at
Purfleet-bridge, Lyne, and after taking off his boots and
putting on a pair of slippers, he went out into the strect,
and has not since been heard of.
CHARING -CROSS HOSPITAL —The conductors of
this truly charitable and useful institution have just is-
sued their annual report, from which it appears that not-
wit,lstanding the death of many beneficent patrons,
whose loss the institution has had to deplore within the
past year, its sphere of usefulness has not been circum-
scribed First in the list of those whose contributions
could only have been stayed by the hand of death,
of
course stands the name of her late Majesty the Queen
Dowager, and it is followed by the names of many who
emulated the example of that illustrious and most vir-
tuous lady, and were conspicuous for their support of the
excellent charities of the mttropoliF. Notwithstanding
the withdrawal, however, f this very large proportion
t
f it; iesources, the charity was enabled within tbe_praes.
f and
a nd
cyearom mtkonrdeal
ti
ieovne tfBc,osu3oo
governors patient, 1,4a9n6d w
subscribers,lettaro
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greatlyoo mdam add
nigtitenereonues
elyd
in
, their
ist.t withoutmernet etohma mt ett de aftai (n)ndos.
were found
if:?inut -patients; although;
of the latter is between two and
of augmeststion, and-eptaahtdaierrtnsittestv,eedwraearl
rilelcaosmtmoernedgeudiraes
to
oubt
indulge the three guineas, the committee
. hope that those
supporters who contribute a more limited subscription,
ertel
inudrta.rt
et the
the extent
tl
eni it; c o( inf.
he
uomf
ant hseuhffoe sr
aR
for the recommendation of out-patients, will kindly co-
the average cost 6f each
rate by such additional assistance for the relief of in-
Pa '
filii3e:l;olyr'eainscg°mmf.aimyr relit f.
ROBBERY FROM A SOLICITOR'S OFFICE.--The
office c f Mc s3re. Bagshaw and Sons, solicit .rr, Man-
chest 'r, w..s entered la: t woo k, end upwards of 801. in
gold and net 'a stolen from the sal.. Suspicion having
sstiched itself ti a discharged copying clerk, named
Hught s, he was apprehended, and 40/. in gold found is
his possession. The rest of the money was discovered
concealed in a ditch on the Stretford-road, where
Hughes coufsssed to have hidden it. It appears that he
had entered Mr. Bagshaw's premises during the day,
and concealed himself with the view cf effecting the
robbery a:es the closing of the office. He was ex-
amined before tan magistrates on Saturday, and cora-
mitt•d for trial.

ALARMING FIRE IN LAMBETH.—For upwards of
three hours on Satarday afternoon the neighbourhood of
Lanthetr,-walk was lit pt in a stat of fett• at by a fire in
the premises belonging to Mr. Hamlyn, a sealeboard-
cutter and lucifer-match box-maker, carrying on busi-
ness at No. 55, Union-streft, Latabet ~ The flames
commenced in tho drying-house, which, at the time of
the misfortune, contained 36,000,000 of lucifer splints.
The whole of the houses in the immediate vicinity were
enveloped in smoke of such a dense chatact q. that the
neighbours were unable to remain in their rooms. The
engines of the garish, with those cf the London Brigade
and Wert c f England Company from the Waterloo-
road stations, promptly attended, and were followed by
several others. Fortunately there was an abundant
supply cf water but in spite of the utmost exertions of
the firemen, the fire was not extinguished until upwards
f three hours f ai elapsed, and not till about t.vo-t'iirds
f the property in the drying-house were consumed and
w.dd
the building severely damaged. The fire originated
from the overheat of the drying-Stove. Fortunately the
property was insured in the I)efe itler's Fire-office.l
IRONMASTERS' QUARTERLY ATEETIN
RAM, SATUDAY.—
The la ,t of the
susual
meet-
ings of the ironma-t:rs ofR
South
GI:BIRMING-
U sly .a ' I •
Staffordshire was held
at Dudley this evening.
We have
have already st.ted that
at the preliminary
g held a fortnight ago, it was
c l'nation upwar and
ch tsrinined by the maters to maiptain existing d prices
(ft:though there was a decided .n •
occurred t) weaken the confilenee
mthing has since
t'len entertained in the stability and prospects of the
t- ale. The following are quoted as the current rates of
manufactured iron:—Bars, 6/.; rods, 61. to 61. 10s.;
hoops, a 109.; and sheet', 71. 109. Staffordshire pigg,
as announced on a former occasion, have made a trifling
aitance upon the prices of the previous quarter. A
general impression anew's to exist that we may speedily
expect an advance of all descriptions of hardware goods.
Block and bar tin have improved within the last six
weeks 7/. per ton. The letters of commercial travellers
continue to represent the trade of the country—so far at
least as Birmingham manufactures are interested—as ra-
pidly increasing. From the north of England these
accounts are particularly flattering.

HEAD-MONEY FOR PIRATES.--The extravagant rate
at which tie capture or destruction of pirates is re-
warded is fixed by Act of Parliament, - and the opera-
tion of this Act was very widely exttnued by the con-
struction pLt upon it by the Judicial Committee of the
Privy Council in the c:.e (f the Semarang, The large
claims lately made for the destruction of pirates in the
Indian Ocean has called especial attention to this
subject, and we have reason to believe that a Bill to
amend the present Act will be introduced immediately
aftei the meeting of Parliament.--Times.

RACE BETS
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