The Sun.
London, England, 1844-07-16 00:00:00

LORD 110t)EtIOUSE AND MR.

WODEROUSE.
The family of Wodebouse is, we believe, an ancient, and
honourable one in the-county of Norfolk. We appreciate this
distinction, and are willing to give it its full weight and
importance. At the same time we are afraid—and we hope
the remark will not be thought invidious—we are afraid,
from some recent circumstances, that their appearance in
Parliament is not quite equal to their figure in the peerage.
Without the least wish to say anything against the Noble
Lord who sits in the Upper House, or thellon.' Member who
represents the county of Norfolk in the Lower, we cannot
help remarking, that what is called temper does not appear
to be the distinguishing characteristic of the Wodehouse
family:- Lord Wodehouse and Mr. Wodebouse are honour..
able men, in aristocratic language ; very good sort of men
in the ordinary way of speaking. --Lord WodehouSe to 3
made so handsome an apology to our",6rrespondent the other
day for his animadversions upon him in the House, that
we should • be really going against our feelings
to make a singlei;, ill. natured observation upon the
mere slip of.. the tongue that his Lordship was betrayed
into on that occasion. Still, in all gond. will, and in perfect good
humour, we will tender a re.pee.cel piece of advice. It is,
we say, untucky that Lord. Wodeliouse and Mr. Wodehouse
should hot ~ within so very short.a space of time, have made
in their- respective places in their respective Houses such ex-
traordinary slips of the tongue as they have done. It is a
curious coincidence. and an unfortunate coincidence, that
both in one week should have got into two exactly similar
scrapes.. There was nothing out of the way in the mistake
that Lord Wodehouse Made with respect to our correspon-
dent;.it.was a mistake, and there was.an end of it ; and Lord
Wodehouse acknowledged rt. But that Mr. Wodebouse
should,-just a week after, make an onset upon the character
of a Member of the-House, and shoul,d have to apologise for
it, elevates the business- intg the rank of decided oddness;
and the affair takes the authorised position and place of a
singular coincidence. Lord' Wodehouse and Mr. Wodehouse,
and Mr. Wodehouse and Lord Wodehouse, being so very
little heard of generally, and then firing off in succession so
soon one - after the .other, is- a curious circumstance. They
'say it never rains. but it pours. The curtain draws up,
and 'enter Lord Wodehouse and Mt. Wodehouse, each
reproaching and each apologising with great volubility. That
Mr. Wodehouse's is much the more unfortunate mistake of
the two. The llon. Member might so easily have known on
the slightest inquiry what kind of report the one affecting
Mr. Wakley's character was; that it was an utterly un-
founded one, and that it was regularly decided to be such by
a tribunal which should• be considered an impartial one—'an
English court ,of.jnstice. A single question asked about the
matter referred to would have ,put 3.1 r. Wodebouse in posses-
sion of this fact ; in which case it would have been impossi-
ble that he could have made the insinuation he did. We will
do Mr:Wodehouse, at any rate, the justice to think this. He,
we believe, only made the mistake Of levelling an insinuation
on a subject about which he knew .nothing, and had
never'asked a single question to discover what the
truth. Was. He Was in what is vulgarly called a rage ;
he was determined . to: -.say . something cutting about
Mr. Wakley-; an old trumpery report came into his head,
which he thought would serve this purpose, and out with it
accordingly. Such heedlessness and puerility, of course, tell
much more against the Hon. Member who makes such an in-
sinuation, than against the person who is the object of it. It
is a most fatal mistake for the person who makes the charge.
What is the immediate effect? He has to apologise directly,
forthwith, on the very spot, for the attack. The assertion he
makes dies still-born; it vanishes as soon as it is made. He
has to eat- his own words before the whole House, and to
confess that he ought not to have said them, and to
admit that what he has said or insinuated was utterly
wrong and false. He is instantly in a .most humiliating
position, and appears as a criminal at the bar,
instead of an accuser. All this takes place on the
spot, and the only good he gets by it afterwards,
is tohe-remerribered as having once done a very silly thing,
and being supposed therefore, prospectively, capable of doing
silly things again. This is all a man gets by giving way to
a momentary fit of ill-humour, and making an insinuation for
which he has ro- authority. Mr. Wodehouse is not a man
who aims at any great Parliathentary eminence, or who has
any statesmanlike career before him. We do not know that
this mistake, or.. twenty others besides, would do him very
much harm in this point of view. Nobody, however, likes
to be-thought a blunderer; and we suppose the Hon. Mem-
ber for Norfolk does not; and, therefote, we will advise the
Hon. Member to be more carefUl .before he makes such
attacks in future. It is a great pity when men who are
honourable and unobjectionable on the whole, will give way
to temper, and say whatever comes into their heads: and
with this observation we will take our leave for the present
of Lord Wodehouse and Mr. Wodehouse.—Times.

DESTRUCTIVE FIRE in SALFORD.
SALFORD, MONDAY.—An exceedingly destructive fire, in-
volving the loss of property to the amount of several thou-
sand pounds, broke out a little before four o'clock yesterday
morning, upon the premises of Messrs. George Wilson snit
Co., engineers, millwrights, and screw-bolt-manufacturers,
Garden-lane, Salford, which, together with the extensive
sizing works of Messrs. J. G. Lavino and Co. adjoining, were
quickly destroyed. Of Messrs. Wilson's premises only part
of the walls and chimney are left standing, but the greater
part of MesSts. Lavino's works are levelled to the ground. It
appears that the premises were locked up safe on Saturday
night, and about four o'clock yesterday morning one of the
neighbours saw smoke and flames issuing from one of the
windows on the second story Of Messrs. Wilson's works.
The wind at the time was blowing a brisk gale, and the
flames spread with a rapidity equally amazing and alarm-
ing. Information was quickly sent to the Salford and Man-
chester Fire- brigade, and four engines were promptly sent
to the spot. Mr. Darling, the superintendent of the Sal-
ford brigade, took the precaution 'of sending several water-
carts to supply the engines, and very fortunate it was
that he did so, for no water could be obtained from
the mains belonging to the Manchester and Salford
Water-works Company for about three-quarters of an
hour. Nearly the whole of Messrs. Wilson's premises were
in a blaze when the engines arrived, although they were on
the spot in less than a quarter of an hour after the alarm
was given. It was soon found that it was useless to attempt
to save either 'Messrs. Wilson's works or those of Messrs.
Lavino, the wind, carrying the flames with such fury that the
latter building was speedily enveloped in the fire. The cot-
tages on three sides of the building were in a state of 'great
danger, and the roofs and windows were frequently on fire.
It was therefore determined to save the dwmlling-houses, and
the efforts of the firemen were dieiected to that object. The
people were running out of their bed-rooms into the streets
in their night-clothes, and the screams of the women and
children were dreadful. The furniture-was removed from
the houses as quickly as possible, and at length a supply of
water having been procured, the buildings were saved, though
many of them were much damaged.
Messrs. Wilson are insured to the amount of 3,500/. in
the Globe' Assurance-office, and Messrs. Lavino to the
amount of 5,250/. in the Imperial and Atlas offices. There
was a communication between the two buildings by a wooden
passage, Messrs. Lavino's premises having been formerly oc-
cupied by Messrs. Wilson, jointly with the other building.
The buildings, which have a frontage of about 70 yards into
Garden-lane, presented a terribly grand appearance, as the
flames were issuing from all the windows at the same time.
The high state of the wind rendered it impossible to save
any considerable quantity of property.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE:
TATTERSALL'S.—YESTERDAY.
THE LIVERPOOL CUP.
6 to 1 agst Lord Maidstone's The Caster—taken
7 to 1 agst Mr. Johnstone's The Ara,
7 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's The Poor Soldier—taken
7 to 1 agst Mr. Jaques's British Yeoman—taken
9 to 1 agst Mr. Meiklam's Aristotle
10 to 1 agst Lord Eglinton's Pompey—taken
12 to 1 agst Duke of Richmond's Red Deer
100 to 6 apt Mr. Jones's British Tar—taken
17 to 1 agst Mr. Meiklam's The Best of Three
18 to 1 agst Lord Milltown's Scalteen—taken.
20 to 1 agst Mr. E. J. Irwin's Mickey Free
20 to 1 agst Mr. Creath's The Neill.
Formidable as the above list appears, and it includes
within two or three of all that are likely to run, there
were not• more than five backed seriously, viz., The
Caster and. The Poor Soldier, both freely ; British
Yeoman, chiefly at 6 to 1, but at a slight decline just
before the close of the room; The Ara (no friends after
the first half-hour) and Pompey. The investments on
the other horses quoted were In small amounts.
. GOODWOOD STAKES.
5 to 1 agst Mr. Wreford's Franchise
10 to 1 agst Lord G. Bentinck's Croton Oil
12 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Parthian
15 to 1 agst Mr. Irwin's Pride of Kildare—taken
17 to 1 agst Duke of Richmond's The Currier—taken
18 to 1 agst Lord Exeter's Elegance filly—taken
18 to 1 agst Mr. Shelley's Lucy Banks—taken
20 to 1 agst Mr. Meiklam's Poussin.
Mr. Wreford's mare was in great force, but in no
other respect did the betting possess the slightest in-
terest.

GOODWOOD cm
2 to 1 apt Mr. Salvin's Alice Hawthorn
8 to 1 agst Mr. Bell's The Squire—taken
8 to 1 agst Lord rerulain's Robqd de Gorham—taken
10 to 1 agst Mr. Herbert's Antler.

Layers of' the odds against Alice Hawthorn, and
plenty of takers of them about Robert de Gorham and
the Squire. It is said that Robert de Gorham will be
sent to Liverpool to obtain the ;Abs. allowance.

ST. LEGER.
7 to 2 agst Mr. Salvin's The cure—taken
7 to 1 agst Lord Stanley's Ithuriel—taken
7 to 1 agst Colonel Anson's The Princess
8 to 1 agst Mr. John Day's The Ugly Buck—taken
10 to 1 agst Mr. John Scott's Bay Momus—taken
12 to 1 agst Mr. Irvine's Foig-a-ballagh.
We understand that there are nearly 200 nominations
for the Derby, and upwards of 140 for the Oaks of 1846,
the greatest number ever known, and a clear proof that
the late wholesale exposures have not had a prejudicial,
effect on the turf. The Ascot and other Stakes have
also filled satisfactorily.

NATURAL HISTORY.— A. correspondent residing
near Barjarg village. has beeti kind enough to com-
municate the following eye-witnessed particulars. On
Wednesday last, while a farmer was engaged with his
workpeople in the' open field, a sparrow-hawk all
of a sudden pounced upon a little bird, fell-
ing, rather thaw killing it in the first instance,
bya single stroke of its .reaver wing. After a brief
pause. the quarry was lifted and hoisted aloft to be
leisurely devoured at some other spot ; but just at this
juncture two brace of lapwings, alarmed for the safety of
their own young, opportunely appeared and attacked the
hawk so furiously, that, during the melee, the hedge-spar-
row, or stone- chatterer, dropped lightly to the ground,
and miOit.have escaped ultimately, but foranother curious
incident. During 'the battle in the thr a corbie crow,
which happened tohe passing, wheeled slowly and mo-
tionlessly leant On the breast of the sky to await the
issue ; and, on observing the hawk worsted, and its
prisoner relieved, it fancied there was something
going in its own line of business, stooped as directly
as a bndy of sotne -weight, cleaving the sky,
and recantnred the prize its 'cousin-german had
missed. But again the valorous lapwings were up and
doing, and assailed 'so hotly the new invader of their
petmful domain, that the affrighted little bird was a
second time relieved. Bat the respite was brief ; for
after the lapwings had retired to their respective nests,
the crow, watching an opportunity, stooped afresh, and
eventually carried off its prize. --Dumfries Courier.
EXTRAORDINARY QIIICK TRAVELLING IVY STE AM-
EDAT AND RAiuwAy.—The Earl of Westmoreland, Lord Burg-
hersh, and other distinguished noblemen, left Cologne on
Sunday morning by the railroad for Ostend, embarked at
midnight on board the General Steam Navigation Comp Any's
steam-ship Rainbow for London, and arrived at London-
bridge Wharf shortly after ten yeSterday morning. The dis-
tance betiveen Cologne and London occupied only tonty-
seVen Lours.