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

LORD WODEHOUSE AND. MR.
WODEHOUSE. - •
The family of Wodehouse is, we believe, an ancient and
honourable one in the county of Norfolk. We appreciate this
give it its fail weight and limisptionretatinocne. sameal..lAltatrheewiliing to
time we are. afraid—and- we hope
the remark will not be thought invidious—we arc afraid,
from some recent circumstances, that their appearance in
Parliament is riot quite equal to their figure in the peerage.
Without the least wish to say anything against the Noble
Lord who sitsin the Upper House, or the Hon. 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 distinguishin.characteristic of the Wodehouse
family. Lord Wodehouse and Mr. Wodehouse are honour-
able men,• in aristocratic language ; very good sort of men
in the -i-irdinary way of speaking. Lord Wodehouse too
made so handsome an apology to our correspondent the other
-dayfor! his animadversions upon him -.in the House, that
ire should be really going . against our feelings
to "make a single ill natured observation. upon the
Mere slip of. the tongue that his Lordship was betrayed
'into on that occasion.. Still,'M all good-will, and in perfect good
hiimonr, we will tender a respectful piece. of advice. It is,
We say, unlucky that Lard Wodebouse and Mr. Wodehouse
sbould both, 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 Mime 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 ; iris-as -a mistake, and there was an end of it ; and Lord
Wodehouse acknowledged it. But that Mr. Wodehou.se
should, just a week after, make an onset upon the character
of a Member of the House, and should have to apologise for
it, elevates the business into 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 ars and enter Lord Wodehouse and Mr. Wodehouse, ,
reproaching and each apologising with great volubilits.. But
Mr. Wodehouse's is much the more unfortunate mistake of
the two. The Hon. 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 justice. A single question asked about the
matter referred to would have put Mr. WodehOuse 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;
lie 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, course, tell
much more against the Hon. Member who wakes 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 to be remembered 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 no authority. Mr. Wodehouse is not a man
who aims at any great Parliamentary 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, therefore, we will advise the
lion. 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.
SALPonD, MONDAr.—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 and
Co., engineers, millwrights, and screw-bolt-manufacturers,
Garden-lane, Salford, which, together with the extensive
sizing works of Messrs. J. G. Lavino and Co. adjdining, were
quickly destroyed. Of Messrs. Wilson's premises only part
of the walls and chimney are left standing, but the greater
part of MessYs. 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 ass
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 tr,i.
tages on three sides of the building were in a state of great.
danger, and the roofs and windows were frequeutl".- on fire.
It was therefore determined to save the duelling;hOuses, and
the efforts of the firemen were directed to thP't object. The
people were running gut of their bed-rooras into the streets
in their night-clothes, and the screams of the women and
children were dreadful. The funi!dure 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 theP
flames were issuing from all the windows at the same time,.
The high state of the wind rendered it impossible to says
any considerable quantity of property..

SPORTING IN TELLIGEN Crrl,
TATTERSALL'S.—YEsTEnIu
THE LIVERPOOL CUP.
6 to 1 agst Lord Maidstone's Th;s Caster--taken
7 to 1 agst Mr. Johnstone's The "Era,
7 to 1 agst Lord Chesterka's Thq Poor Soldier—taken
7 to 1 agst Mr. Jaquee's British Yeoman—taken
9 to 1 agst Mr. nelklam's Aristotle
10 to 1 agst Lord Eglinton's Pompey—taken _
12 to 1 apt Duke of Richmond's Red Deer
100 tu 8 agst 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 inipludee
within two or three of all that are likel/
to run, there
we're not more than five backed seriously, viz., The
Caster and The Poor Soldier, both ;
British
Yeoman, chiefly at 6 to 1, but at a slight decline just
Ara
before the close of the room; Tho (no friends after
the first half-hour) and l'onapey. The investments on
the other horses que.;ced were m small amounts.
GOODWOOD STAKES.
5 to 1 "dgst Mr. Wreford's Franchise
1Q 'co 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 ho
other respect did the betting possess the ,slightest in-
terest.

GOODWOOD CUP. ,
2 to 1 agst Mr. Salvin's Alice gawthorn
8 to 1 agst Mr. Bell's The F.,quiro--taken.
8 to 1 agst Lord Verals:in's Robfitrt de Gorham—taloa
10 to 1 agst Mr.Hettert's Antler.-
Layers of the cons against Alice Hawthorn, and
plenty of takers of them about Robert de Gorham and
the Squires it is said that Robert de Gorham will Ise
sent to Idverpool to obtain the slbs. 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—tr.ken
12 tel 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,
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the greatest number ever known, and clear roof that
the late wholesale exposures have Der,t, /nad a prejudicki
effect on the turf. The Ascot scad other Slake**
also filled satisfactorily, s- ha

NATURAL MORY. A correspondent residing
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near Bar:arg village has beeti kind enough to ;lora-
munie:dte the following 'eye-witnessed particulars.. On
Wednesday last, while a farmer was engaged w'ith his
workpeople in the open field, a sparrow-hAwk all
of a sudden pounced upon a little bird, fell-
ing, rather than killing It in the first
by a single stroke of its reaver win in.stance,
g. After brier pause the quarry was lifted and hoisted alofta to be
jleisurely devoured at some other spot ; but just at this
uncture two brace of lapwings, alarmed for flie 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 might have escaped ultimately, but fur another curious
incident. During the battle in she ter a corbie crow,
which happened to be passing, wheeled slowly and mo-
tionlessly leant on the breast of the sky to await the
issue ; and, on observing the hawk worsted, and iris
prisoner relieved, it fancied there was something
going in its own line of business, stooped as directly
as a body of some weight, cleaving the, sky,
and recaptured 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
peaceful domain, that the affrighted little bird was Ea
second time relieved. But the respite was brief ; for
after the lapwings had retired to their respactive nests,
the crow, watching an opportunity, stooped afresh, and
eventually carried off its prize.—Dumfries Courier.
EXTRAORDINARY QUICK. TRAVELLING Er STEAM.
BOAT AND RAILWAY.—The Earl of Westmoreland, Lord Burg-
hersh, and other distinguished noblemen, left Cologne on.
Sunday morning by the railrpad for Ostend, embarked at
midnight on board the General Steam Navigation Company's
steam-ship Rainbow for London, and arrived at London,
bridge Wharf shortly after ten yesterday mSining. The dis-
ta4ce between Cologne and London occupied only terenty-
seven hours.