The Sun.
London, England, 1850-01-14 00:00:00

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_ FOOT RACE BETWEEN A LORD
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the sprting portion of the inhabitants of Castledaw-
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its arrival, as that day it was whispered was to decide
the pedestrian capabilities of a lerd and a labourer in
i the neighbourhood. Tile fiot race was nearly the
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whole theme of conversation. Both old and young,
male and female, seemed to be interested in it. All
currence in this part of the country, yet, notwith-
, populated, neither pedestrian nor gymnastic exercises
scene
Foot-racing aafrai d
commonlestthz
standing, a great many have some pretensions to
running. Though a rural district, somewhat densely
are much practised. We have said that foot-racing
h 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 midst of
aliuence, would be seen competing with a
handloom weaver, who had been brought
,up in the midst of poverty. No one bdieved that
1 such would be the fact. Those who went to the scene
of action went in doubt, and were afraid they would
he made fools of; those who Stayed away were afraid
they would miss the sport. However, one o'clock
in the afternoon of the above-mentioned day con-
vinced those who had mustered courage enough to
go to the domains of the Right lion. G. R. Damson,
that they had not gone for nothing. The Daw-
sons vt ere 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 came 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 teet 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 51. each side. His Lord-
ship backed himse;f, and the Dawsons backed Keenan.
His Lordship had On a pair of well-made white pan-
taloons, wash-leather pumps, and a yellow jacket.
Keenan ran in a pair of white drawers, barefooted,
and a 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 reply, "you can commence first, I'll give
you the start." So Keenan commenced, and, after
he had got a start of about six yards, 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 of the
errors of his life." Keenan, on the other hand, seemed
to be better acquainted with the practice than he 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 be
had run two miles (which he did in 12f 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 13f
minutes; the third two he ran in 14 minutes; and
'the last two in 131 minutes ; running the eight miles
in 53f minutes, amidst the vociferous cheering of his
friends and acquaintances.—Carlisle Patriot.

[PRICE SD.

THE WITS OF EDINBURGH.
(From the North British Mail.)
Professor Anderson, the -Wizard of the North, while
in Edinburgh, 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 twelfth-cake, 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-
MOD on their merits to take /place on the evening of
the following Monday, 7th inst., at the Music hail
The wits of Edinburgh set their brains a-working,
and the result was that, by the afternoon of Thursday,
so many as 595 conundrums were sent in! 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 soli by linen in the
streets, at the door, and in the lobby of the Waterloo
I Rooms, and elso at the Wizard's Royal 13almorial
Ticket-office, and so great has been the cotnbined sale,
that the " mighty magician" must have realised as
much from this scheme aloee es meets the expense of
Ithe cup and cake. On Monday night the Music
Hall was densely filled in every part. The whole of
0 a 595 conundrums were read, after which the occu-
pants of the various parts of the ball were at liberty
to call out the numbers 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 after being absent for some time they
return, d, when Mr. Cobbold, 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) before 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
tweltth cake:—
* " Why is a ' poor vorkhouse boy' at Christmas
like the Emperor of Russia at present ? Because
he's confounded Hungary, and longs for a piece of
Turkey"
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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.

SUPPOSED MURDER OF THREE MEN AT LYNN.--.
For some time Fast the greatest excitement has pre-
vailed in the town of Lynn, in consequence of the sudden
and mysterious disappearance Ef two male persons, and
from the inquiries made by the megistra'es and police,
no doubt is entertained cf the missing persons having
been murdered. A reward cf 220/. has been offered by
the Government fir the apprehension of the murderers,
and a pardon to any accomplice, not being the actual
perpetrator cf the murder, in either cage, who shall give
such evidence as will lead to the t ame result. One of
the missing persons is named John Bell, eighty-one years
of age, five feet seven inches high, missing since the 13th
f November fait; the second, John Kirk, was fifty
years ( f age, five f et six inches high, missing since the
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sa s t
few
wlvedr ataywsch and
another
man, about twenty years old, has been missing. It
seems that he took a lodging for a night at an inn at
Purfleet-bridge, Lynn, and after taking off his boots and
putting on a pair cf slipper', he went out into the are( t,
and has not since been ht and

CLIARING-CROSS HOSPITAL The conductors of
this truly charitable and useful insttuCon have just is-
sued their annual report, from which it appears that net-
w&lst anding, 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 contribuCona
could only have been st tyed 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 ef the mst-opolis. Notwithstanding
the withdrawal, however, c f this very large proportion
:t; resources, the charity was enabled within the_ past
year to relieve 18,500 patients, 1,4 96ivistuhblsectrtiebersrso,
re-
commendationand
from governors and
17,004 without recommendations. The committee add
e cases, although
its were found so dangerously
recommended as out-pattet.
jtttitedlatasteriins-Patlents
in their stns moat that the e
several funds
os
ft stand greatly in need
f augmentation, and t
; and as
between two and
the average committee indulge the hope that those
supporters who contribute a more limited aubscriptior
three guinea.,
ill as to requoirset
Indly co-
to
obeeohadxrof
ate by such additional assisiance f ,r the relief of in-
fa- the recominendation of out-patient. will
patients, as may render the annual income of the hos-
pit„i more commensurate to the extent c f human suffer-
ing applying for relit f.
IZOBBBILT FROM A SOLICITOR'S OFFICE.--The
Mcsirs. liagsbaw and Son=, solicit rs, Man-
chest r, w,.s fnterc d t wet 1, find upwards of 80/. in
gi di! and rift %; stolen freer the sof 6uspicion having
t ached t) a discharged copying clerk, named
Ifugh«.s, he was apprehended, and 4tl. to go!d found in
poesesion. The rest of the money was discovered
concealed in a ditch on the f't•ettord-road, where
Hughes coa ssed to have hidden it. It appears that he
halt entered Mr. 13a,;shaw's pretuLcs during the day,
and concealed himself with the view of effketing the
robbery sf,er the closing c f the office. He was ex-
,imined bif ire the magistrtt2s on Saturday, and corn-
intted f Jr trial.

HEAD-MONET FOR PIRATES.-The extravagant rate
at which the capture or de:tructun of pirates is
warded i, fixed by Act of Parhameot, and' t optra4 A
tion of this Act was very widely extended by the emiz.
struction put upon it by the Judicial Ckinoilttee of the
Privy Council in the ease t f the S7matang..The la;ge •
claims lately made fur the destruction of piratelin the
Indian Ocean has called especial atteecirt to'thie
subject, and we have reason to believe that a 441 t 0...,
amend the present Act will be introduced kFamadlately:
after the meeting of Parliament —Timm

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