The Sun.
London, England, 1868-01-03 00:00:00

N, FRIDAY EVENING JANUARY 3, 18(8

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day,

BOW-STREET.

SYSTEMATIC PLUNDERING OF SOLDIERS AND
SAILORS.—SamueI Heath, a ccrffeeliouse -keeper,
carrying on business at 17, Western-place, close to
the Great Northern Railway Station, was charged
before Mr. Vaughan with having feloniously stolen
property, consisting of carpet bags, a musical in-
strument, and wearing apparel, the property of
soldiers who had been lodgers in his house, and also
of the colonel and officers of the 4th Dragoon
Guards.

It appeared that a soldier named Keeley, belong-
ing to the 4th Dragoon Guards, went to the house
of the prisoner on the 29th of November last. At
that time he was on furlough, and was introduced
to the house by some person whom he had met in
the neighbourhood. Oa the 30th, the next day,
which was Saturday, he was robbed of some money
while sleeping on the sofa. Ou that day Cor-
poral G'over, of the Ist Dr•igoon Guards,
having arrived at the Waterloo Railway
Station, and being on. his way to Wakefield,
on furlough, was induced to go to the same house,
and from his statement it seemed that af „er having
been there some time, during which he had three

cups of tea and three chops, the prisoner charged
for that 12s. 6d., which he considered too much,
and refused to pay it. He wanted to go out, but
the prisoner would not let him. He, however, did
go out, and slept at the coffeehouse afterwards.
The prisoner then took his bag. He ha 1 three
medals on. He found two of them off his breast
when he awoke. The whole three were on the
table. The prisoner had them; they were worth
about 255. His cloak, which he also lost, was
Worth about £3 15s, the carpet-bag 63. or 75., and
the things in the carpet-bag about £l. Keeley
told him that the hindlord had taken some money
from his pockets, and he also had to leave his
clarionet. The prisoner paid his fare to 'Wake-
field, which was 14s. 7id. In his carpet-bag, which
he identified, was an account-book, which he iden-
tified, and which contained his will.
Abraham Ballard, police constable 154 Y, stated
that he had gone to the house of the prisoner, who
was well known to the police, for the purpose of
seeking for a watch which had been stolen, and
which there was every reason to believe had been
left with the prisoner, and for the receiving of
which he was committed on tha previous day. On
ch i
he found a cupboard in the
b
the property already seaacrkng room the
containing
place,
men-
tioned. The prisoner was then taken into custody,
and the prosecutors having been communicated
with, the present charge was brought.
Mr. Besleycontended that the principal charges
had not been sustained.

Mr. Vaughan intimated his intention of commit-
ting the prisoner for trial.
Mr. Besley then. requested that substantial bail
might be taken, whoa it appeared that twice in
1865 the prisoner and his wife had been taken into
custody for robbing soldiers and sailors, and on
being liberated on bail had managed to square the
matter with the prosecutors. Bail was consequently
refused, and the prisoner committed.
Amongst the property discovered by Ballard not
yet owned are a gold pencil-case, from Z. M. H.
to his friend, L.M., 4 carpet begs, 22 silver forks,
and two spoons.

THE MAGAZINES.

Fraser's lifagaziue.—" Fraser" looks dry, but is brue
reverse of that. The articles are lorg, the subjects
somewhat grave, but the writing is lively. Some.
times there is a little too much liveliness, and •"M.,"
discoursing on "The Politics of Young England," is occa-
sionally flippant. Nevertheless, this is a very clever
essay, full of smart things, from a writer who is, in all things
but_ one, the antipodes of him who wrote " Shooting
Niagara." He believes, as Carlyle does, that democracy
is inevitable, and that the Tries of the Disraelian school
who think that the lowest class is essentially conservative
and williprove a bodyguard to defend "our glorious institu-
tion. in Church and State " are living in a fool's paradise.
He recommends algsuch to add to their Sunday Litany the
prayer, " From a reading peasantry, Good Lord, deliver
us ;" for so soon as the agricultural labouior attains t' the
education of the skilled mechanic will he begin to have
notions of his own about the law of entail and the right of
landowners to hold an unlimited amount of land. But
"M." does not dread the future—he welcomes it.
Mr. Edwin Chadwick, an old social zo,forrner;
writes to urge the consolidation of the police force. He
argues that our police are lamentably ineMcient because
they are under such a multitude of different authorities.
By placing them under as few as possible and mobilising
them, the police throwzhout the kingdom would be
available for any part thereof, and in case of riot we
should not be compelled to call out the military. Con-
solidation would, so fax as our experience h •is gene, render
the police force less costly at the same time that it became
more efficient. Miss Cobbe writes on "Household Service."
"Those plagues of servants" is rather a trite subject, but
Miss Cobbe makes the most of it, and is epigrammatic as
usual. She advises mistresses of househol,' 3to adopt the
system of increasing the wages in proportion to the length
of service ; this would be both fair to the employed and
save the employer much of the discomfort which arises from
the frequent giving of warning because the servant wishes
to " better" herself. Mr. Bonamy Price has a long paper,
the first of two, on Free Banking, with special reference
to the controversy which has arisen between MM.
Chevalier and Wolowski thereupon. We need hardly say
that Mr. Price sides with M. Chevalier and free trade.
Mr. Proctor, whose beautiful book on Saturn and its
System " scientific. readers will remember, writes on
"Coloured Suns." Sir Edmund Head ,sends a Norse
• ballad. " The Marstons "is continued. .

Paul's.—The editor's story of "Phineas Finn" is
better than ever this month, and Mr. Millais has surpassed
hiMself in one, at least, of his two charming illustrations;
in the one, we mean, which lie has coiitributed to Mr.
Anthony Trollope's serial tale, and in which the
Acade.nician's pencil has pourtrayed Phineas, the hand-
some young Irish member (" as handsome as a god," Lady
Laura Standish tells herself), standing on the mountain top
at Loughlinter beside the woman he loves best in all the
world, offering friendship instead of love immediately after
Lady Laura has announced to him her betrothal to Mr.
Kennedy. It is an exquisite picture of an incident that,
in the story itself, has been quite as exquisitely described.
The rut of the number—consisting of a further instal-
Ment of "All for Greed," and eight other contri-
butions—is of more than average excellence. Among
the miscellaneous papers there is one which we
cannot help attributing to Mr. Thomas Adolphus Trollope,
It is a paper on Italy, entitled " The New IVlemb9r of the
European Family," and in it occurs this remarkable inti-
mation in reference to the Roman question : " We will
abstain from touching it any further than to mention the
very pregnant fact that it is within our knowledge that it
was the opinion of Cavour that Florence ought eventually
to become the Italian capital." Florence, observe, not
Rome ! And that according to the opinion of Cavour !
The Month.—With the exception of a brief first instal-
ment of a new serial story, entitled "Eudoxia : a Picture
of the Fifth Century," there is nothing very attractive in
The Month for January. For the author of " Eudoxia,"
however, " Callisto " has not been written in vain ; and if
continued with an ability in any way comparable to that
in which it has been commenced, " Eudoxia " promises to
be a rare attraction.

Good Words.—Already an immense success, this first of
all the sixpenny monthlies makes a grander start than
ever with January—comprising among its contributors
such illustrious names as those of Mr. Gladstone and the
Poet Laureate. Tennyson's contribution is a new poem,
entitled " The Victim," while that from the hand of the
right hon. the leader of the Opposition is the first portion of
a remarkable criticism on a remarkable book, to wit,
" Ecce Homo." Dinah Mulock leads the number off with
the opening of a new serial love story, called " The
Woman's Kingdom." The Rev. Charles Kingsley is con-
spicuous among the other contributors to Good Words,
which is edited (all the way from India) by Dr. Norman
Macleod, and profusely, and occasionally very beautifully,
illustrated.

The Sunday Magazine.—Edited by Dr. Guthrie, the
Sunday Magazine is remarkable for papers from hands as
able as those of the Dean of Catiterbdry, Dr. Guthrie
himself, and George Macdonald, poet and novelist. It
also, like Good Words, is noticeable for the excellence of
its embellishments.

The Art Journal. —Two exquisite engravings form the
chief attractions of the January number of the Art Jour-
nal - one from Maclise's " Orlando and the Wrestler," the
other from Ward's " The King's Daughter." Besides
these, we have the tenth instalment of Mr. S. C. Hall's
magnificent French Exhibition Illustrated Catalogue,
giving us the choicest gems last year on view at Paris in
the great world-gathering in the Champ de Mars.

The Intellectual Observer and The. Floral World come to
hand simultaneously—the latter beginning a new series
with the new year, and still edited by Shirley Hibbred.
The British Postal Guile.—No. 47 for the Ist January is
as accurate as, and more copious than ever in its authen-
tic supply of information.

Under the editorship of Mrs. Henry Wool, the current
number of the Argosy is a capital sixpennyworth. "Anne
Hereford," commenced in the December number, is con-
tinued, and the two chapters now given possess some very
readable matter. The author of " Christmas Eve in
Rome " tells a story of absorbing interest to herself, and
that is, how she lost her way amid the shadowy ailes of St.
Peter's Cathedral, was found by an English gentleman,
who escorted her home, and soon afterwards became the
lady's happy husband. Another Christmas tale involves
the shaving of two proud ponies' tails as a practical joke,
or rather as a piece of revenge by a wayward son on a
passionate father—pater having previously inflicted on
young hopeful a smart personal chastisement. The recital
is an amusing one, and especially in the portion where the
youthful delinquent leads the parish constable a dance
which that stout official was not often in the habit of en-
joying. "The Miller's Revenge" is a story from Jersey
of rather a sensational character, including as it does a
murder and a suicide. There is a good description of a
hurricane in the West Indies, the details of which, after
the narratives of the recent disasters in those hotbeds of
volcanic disturbances, are read with a more than ordinary
interest.

The Presse, in a lengthy review of the state of Thirope
at the close of 1867, examines the probability of a was with
either of the Great Powers. Austria, it is argued,: has a
paramount interest in maintaining peace. Only by so
doing can her institutions be renovated and her prosperity
and- influence in the world restored. Like France she
has-nothing-4o expect from war, and the two Powers mry
be considered at this moment as the two resting points .of
general peace.
Having thus dealt with Austria, M. Cucheval-Clarigny
turns his attention to England, and remarks that she still
oscillates.between the jealousy of France and her abso-
lute inability to dispense with her alliance as . the means
of defending the most important British interests. She
will declare for peace, because perturbation
,in Europe
would be so prejudicial to her commerce, and Would so
seriously endanger "the fragile edifice of her prosperity."
Whatever sympathies she may profess for the Italian
revolutionists and the success of M. Bismarck, England
will make no more sacrifice for either the one or the other
than she made to save Denmark. France has nothing to
fear from England, and the more Russia discloses her
designs the more will England be disposed to approach
nearer to France. That a coolness has arisen between
Russia and France M. Cucheval-Clarigny does not deny, but
it does not follow that peace is seriously endangered. Russia
knows that she cannot go to Constantinople without the
consent of France or of England, and as she has nothing to
offer to either the one or the other which would be a
sufficient compensation
.for the perils involved in the
destruction of the Tuiki3h Empire, she has never conceived
any serious hopes of bringing such an issue about. What
she wants is to make the Christians take Constantinople
from Turkey, in order to transfer it to herself ; and the
question is, does she anticipate difficulties serious enough
to prevent any Power from coming to the aid of the
Sultan ?
Prussia, the reviewer thinks, has no grievance against
France, and if she only wants to preserve what she has con-
quered she has nothing to apprehend, and there is no
danger to peace in that quarter. The military prepara-
tions made by her are, however, admitted to be among the
most disquieting symptoms of the present situation. Any
attempt made by Prussia, to destroy the independence of
Gerthany would seriously affect the security of France and
Austria, which a common danger would bring close
together. Russia would not aid the ambitious projects of
Prussia, and England is quite as much interested as France
in saving Austria from destruction.
In concluding his review, M. Cucheval-Clarigny insists
that the only way in which the peace of Europe can be
secured is by France pursuing a policy which chews
Pruisra that she can, and Italy that- she will, resolutely
pasa_csi respect to treaties.

SPORTENG INTELLIGENCIi7,

DONINGTON HUNT MEETING.
THURSDAY.

On Thursday evening it was announced at Donington
that nothing short of a heavy fall of snow would interfere
with the sport of the following, day, and in such fine con-
dition was the running ground that the prospects of a
brilliant meeting looked cheerful. Snow fell in several
parts of Derbyshire on Wednesday afternoon, but there
was no visitation at Donington. With the shades of
evening, however, a severe frost set in, and the ground
this morning was found to be so hard in several places
as to be positively dangerous to run upon. When the
company assembled a conference of the authorities was
held, and it was decided to run off the Hurdle Race
and the Pony Race, postponing the steeplechases until to-
morrow (Friday). The Marquis of Hastings was present
with a numerous party from Donington Castle. A match
was got up prior to ate Hurdle Race bitwoon a couple of
the ponies, and resulted in the hollow victory of the non-
favourite. The Hurdle Race produced only a couple of
runners, and was as one-sided an affair as the match.
Snow fell whilst the race was being decided, and though
it was only slight, there was every appearance of a con-
tinuation. The frost was also severe, aud, unless there
is a change in the weather racing to-morrow will be
almost impossible. Details of the three races will be found
below :

.Match, 2cr sovs. Ouo mile, over three hurdles.

Mr H. Story's Silly, aged, list (Owner) 1
Capt. Johnston's The Bounder, list (car. list 21h)
(Owner) 2
Betting-6 to 4on the Bounder, who hold the lead for
a quarter of a mile, when the non-favourite took up the
running, and came in alone.

The Douington Park Hurdle Raco Handicap of 5 sous
each, 2 ft (to the fund), with 25 sous added. Two
miles, over hurdles. 19 subs.

Capt. Helmsley's Welford, aged, 9st (car. 9st 41b.)
(W.Johnston) 1
Mr. Saxon's Spurgeon, 4 yrs, 9st (H. Sharpe) 0
Betting opened at 10 to '8 on Spurgeon, and closed at 7
to 4 on Welfurd.

Spurgeon led for a short distance, when Wolfordtook up
the running, ills other following until about half the jour-
ney had been accomplished, when ho pulled up, having
been thrown a long way in the roar by bungling at the
jumps. Welford accordingly came in alone.
A Plate (pony race), by subscription of 1 soy each, with
15 added, and 5 to the second, for ponies of all ages up
to 14 hands 3 inches high ; lOst 71b each; weight for

inches below that height; one mile on the flat.
Mr. Goodwin's Little Robs, by Ledbery —datn by
Weatherbit, aged, lOst (T. Goodwin) 1
Mr. R. Herbert's Mystery, aged, lOst 71b ... (W. Reeves) 2
Mr. Nadin's Little Gipsy, aged, lOst 71b (Audinw)od, jn.) 3
Mr. J. Houghton's Moll in the Wad, 5 yrs,lOst 71b

(J. Pear) 0
Mr. Dickinson nd Crab, aged, 10st (carried 10st Mb)
(Mr. Brockton) 0
Mr. J. H. Johnstone's Rosa, aged, 9st (W. Page) 0
Mr. H. Story's Silly, aged, lOst 71b (11. Custance) 0
Mr. Barker's Dairymaid, 6 yrs, 9st (carried 9st 41b
. Page
Miss Fox's Little Dickey, aged, Bst 71b (car.(J Bst 111 b)) 0
(Compton) 0
Mr. Lathbury's Ina, Bst (J. Churchill) 0

Betting-11 to Bon Little Rosa, sto 1 agst Mystery, 6
to 1 agst Crab, 10 to 1 each agst Silly and Dairymaid.
Silly made the running, followed by Dairymaid, Mystery,
and the favourite, for about three-quarters of a mile, when
she relinquished the lead to Little Rosa and Mystery, the
former of whom won easily by a couple of lengths ; Little
Gipsy was a bad third ; Silly fourth, and the others finished
at wide intervals.

READING STEEPLECHASE MEETING.
TUESDAY, JAN. 7.

Selling Steeplechase of 8 sovs each, with 25 added ; 4-yrs
old, list, five, 12st, six and upwards, 12st 51b ; the v, in-
ner to be sold by auction after the race for 50 sovs, and
any surplus to be divided between the owner of tho
second horse and the fund; if entered to be sold for 30
soya allowed 71b ; about two miles.

An Open Hunters' Stakes of 3 SOPS each, with 20 added,
for horses which have been regularly hunted with some
established pack of hounds during the season of 1867-
68, and which have not been in any training stable for
three months prior to the time of running for this
stake ; 13st each ; any previous winner of 50 soya
to carry 71bs extra; the winner to be sold for 100

Boys.
Weights for the Whitley Stakes (free handicap) of 5 soya
each, with 30 added; winners after Dec. 31, at 10 a.m.
71b extra. About three miles.

Age st lb
Coverdale a 10 1(
Waterperry ... a 10 7
Nabocklish a 10 7
Forest Lass ... a 10 4
Chesterfield 6 10 4
Legerdemain ... 6 10 0
Puebla ... 610 0
The Switcher ... alO 0
Joker ... 6 10 0

Age st lb
Sir Bobby ... a 12 10
Tally-ho a 12 3
Lawrence ... a 12 0
Garus ... a 11 12
Harold ... 611 5
Bristles ... a 11 4
SI atchcock ... a 11 4
Arlescott n 11 4
Shiite ... a 11. 0
Portfire a 10 12
A Handicap Plate of 50 soya, for all ages ; the winner
to be sold fpr 70 sovs, ,aud auy.surplus to bo divided
between the owner of the second horse and the fund ;
entrance 2 Boys, to go to the fund ; about two miles
and a half.

Agii.st lb
The Robber (late
Quicksilver) ... a 12 7
Serious Case ... a 12 5

Age st lb
Love in a Mist ... a 11 7
Fitz-Adine ... a 11 b
Lord Waldegrave 6 11 0
Pakiugton ... 5 10 10

Sportsman
Farnborough

... a 12 2
... a I 1 12

WEDNESDAY, Jan 8.
A Handicap Steeplechase of 5 sovs each, 2 ft, with 25

added ; gentlemen riders. About two miles and a half.
A Handicap Selling Steeplechase of 3 sous each, with 25
added; the winner to be sold for 40 sovs; about two

miles and a half.
A. Selling Steeplechase of 3 sous each, with 20 added ; four
year olds list 41b, five 12st 51b, six and aged 12st 101 b ;
the winner to be sold by auction for 50 sues, and any
surplus to be divided between the owner of the second
horse and the fund; if entered to be sold for 30 soya
allowed 71b ; horses which have run at this meeting
without b3ing placed first or second allowed 51b; about

two miles.
Weights for the Berkshire Opon Steeplechase of 10 sous
each, with 70 added; winners after December 31, at ten
a.m. extra. About three miles and a half.

Age st lb
Sprit° ... a 12 7
Tally-h') a 12 3
Lawrence ... ... a 12 0
Garus ... a 11 12
Arlescott ... a 11 4
Meerschaum ... a 11 0
Captain Crosstree a 11 0
Siuite a 11 0
Imogene (in 71b ex) a 10 12
Marengo ... r 10 10
Bishopton 6 10 9
Weights for the Innkeepers'
winners after Dec. 31, at 1)
miles and a half.
Age st lb
The Guide... 6 12 7
Spatchcock ... a 11 12
SMite a 11 10
Portfire a 11 7
Coverdale a 11.
Fitz-Adine a 11 0
Lord Waldegrave... 6 10 9

Age st lb
Sylph a 10 9
Waterperry a 10 7
Farnborough ... alO 7
Topthorne... a 10 7
The Cripple ... a 10 5
Nabocklish a 10 5
Forest Lass ... a 10 4
Chesterfield ... 6 10 4
Joker . 6 10 0
Snowstorm ... 5 10 0

'late (handicap) of 40 soya ;
a.m., 71b extra. About two

Age st lb
Clarina ... a 10 7
Puebla 6 10 5
Le Willows ... 5 10 5
Joker „. 6 10 4
Ledgerdemain 6 10 0
Ned of the Hills ~. a 10 0

FORFEIT LlsT.—The forfeits of the following horses
have been paid :—Clarina, Rod in Pickle, Scavenger,
Special, Elvire, Prince of Wales by General Williams,
Bumboat, Foreign Stamp, Deerhound, Sisyphus, Seamew
(to qualify), Alice Mary, Greyfoot, Madame Bosco, Dutch
Admiral, Wild Bee (to qualifk), Fan (to qualify), Tormen-
tor (to qualify), Maurice, Morning Star, Arigill (to qualify),
Gleaner, Highland Chief, Lucette, Dunsany (to qualify),
Pest, Vittoria, Sportsman, and Trapeze (to qualify).
STEEPLECHASE FORFEIT LIST.—Tho folieits of the fol-
lowing horses have been paid :—Ballycasey, Tally-ho,
and Lady Newark. Bosco should not have been published,
as the forfeit was paid to the Clerk of the Course without
notice having been sent to the office.
Mr. Pedley's nominations for the Derby, Oaks, and St.
Leger, 1869, and any others made by him since the pub-
lication of the Forfeit List, Dec. 22d, 1866, are invalid,
Mr. Pedley having omitted to pay the forfeit for Ever-
green in the Derby, 1866, published in that list. The horse
had been sold with engagements, and the purchaser had
failed to pay.
ST. ALBANS.- The Cripple has been disqualified for the
Hunt Steeplechase Plate on the ground of insufficient
description, and the race has been awarded to Patience,
who came in second.
Warwick, 5 yrs; Bracken, 4 yrs; and Special Commis-
sioner, 2 yrs, are now geldings.
The following names have been given :—Mr. John Ing-.
ham's br f by Nutbourne, out of Lady Bird, by Te Sea,
2 yrs, Cicada; b f byMiriam.
Jordan, out of Wryneck,h 2 yrs,
The following assumed names have been registered :
Mr Peters, Mr. Hood, Mr. Tatton, Mr. Humble, Mr. W.
Hale, Mr. B. Hoe), and Mr. M.J. Partington.
COLOURS OF RIDERS.—Mr. Peters, blue jacket, and
orange cap; Mr. Hood, amber body, rose sleeves and cap;
mr. B. foal, white body, blue sleeves and cap ; Mr.
Tatton, green and gold stripe ; Mr. Humble, crimson,
white stars, white cap.
HORSES STRUCK OUT OF THEIR ENOAGENIENI.S.—Dec.
27, Lawrence, out of Local Cup, St. Albans; 28, at 3 p.m.,
(to Mr. T. Marshall) Helice, out of Reading engagements ;
30, at 9 a.m., Spatchcock, out of Donington Hunt Open
Steeplechase; 30, at 9 a.m., c by Tim Whifilm, out of
Lightfinger, out of all engagements; 31, at 9 a.m., Clara
de Clare and Lady Glencora, out of Manchester engage-
ments ; 31, at 545 p.m., King Arthur, out of Donington
Hunt Open Steeplechase. Jan. 1, at 9 a.m., Confidence, by
West Australian, out of all engagements.

BOMBAY HEAVY MAIL.

MALTA, Jan. 1.
The Pera left at 10 a.m. to-day. She may, be
expected at Southampton about the 10th inst.