The Sun.
London, England, 1850-10-14 00:00:00

MARLBRO'-STREET

.-(THIS DAY.)

PICKING A LADY'S POCKET.—Thomas Williams, 01113
of the swell•mob, was brought before hir. Long, charged
with picking a lady's picket of a purse, containing a
half-crown and a sixpence, at the Exhibition of. the Over-
land Mail, in Regent-street.
Mr. Francis Westmacott, the son of Captain West-
macott, R.N., No. 14, South Audley-street, deposed
that on Saturday evening he and his mother were
coming out of the Exhibition of the Overland Mail,
when he saw the prisoner put his hand into his
mother's pocket, and take out her purse, with
which he ran off. Witness pursued him into Re-
gent-street, where he saw the prisoner throw the purse
away. A constable stopped the prisoner until witness
came up, when he gave him in charge.
Mrs. Westmacott said, on Saturday evening she was
coming out of the Exhibition, when she was j. stied by
the prisoner and another man, and before she could re-
cover herself, she felt some person's hand withdrawn
from her pocket, and she immediately missed her purse,
containing a half-crown and a sixpence. The prisoner
ran away, followed by her son, who gave him in charge.
The purse and its contents produced are her property.
Police-constable 301 A said he was on duty in Re-
gent-street, when he saw the prisoner running towards
him, followed by the first witness. Directly the prisoner
caught sight of witness, he threw away a green :ilk
purse. Witness stopped the prisoner till Mr. Westma-
cott came up, when he gave him in charge for picking
his mother's pocket. The purse produced, containing a
half-crown and a sixpence, was identified by the pro-
seeutrix as,her property.
The prisoner was fully committed for trial.

MARYLEBONE REGISTRATION.

(THIS DAY.)
The revision of the listi fur the parishes within the
borough of Marylebone commenced this morning be-
tore Mr. Macqueen, at the Vestry Court-house, Maryle-
bone-lane.
The first list taken was that of Paddington, for which
Mr. Tickner claimed to be a voter, be having paid the
poor-rate, but not answering when called upon his claim
was disallowed. _ _ _

There was no opposition on either side, fur the first
me since Marylebone has been a borough.

SPuRTING NOTES.

No. XVII.

" say from whence
You owe this strange intelligence? Or why,
Upon this heath, you stop our way,
With such prophetic greeting? Speak, I charge you."
SHAKISPERE.

THE SPIRIT he answered, crabbed and sour,
Pray don't be pathetic, for this is mine hour,
Of the past no phantom or popinjay I,
But calm and practical, silent and dry.' "

IIEINE.

" 'Tis the sunshine of life gives me mystical lore,
And coming events cast their shadows before."
CAmPnELL.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SU.N.
SlR,—That section of my thoughts devoted to sport
ing interests not having been typ(e)ified (excuse the un-
healthy condition of the pun) since my Si. Leger epistle
was published on the 16th ult., I intend stealing an hour
or so from the " witching time of night, when church-
yards yawn" (and modern fast youths offer up their
oblations at those peculiar shrines of Bucchus, Momus,
and Apollo, yclept the Coal-hole, Cyder Cellars, Gar-
rick's Head, &c., L.c., drowning care in patent draughts
of Juniper's great spirit, or solacing themselves with
" Cognac!
Sweet Naiad of the Phlegethontic
thus coinciding with Byron, who says—
" Man, being reasonable, must get drunk;
The best of life is but intoxication;
Glory, the grape, love, gold, in these are sunk
The hopes of all men, and of every nation;"
to commit to paper my Doncaster dotting's, -and New-
market nibbling?, and hope in doing so I shall not be
burning the midnight oil in vain. '
Never in the memory of that extraordinary personage
" the oldest inhabitant" has the town of Doncaster been
visited by so numerous or so motley a specimen of the
genus homo as honoured it with their presence on the
memorable St Leger and Cup days of the present year,
to witness the decision of the two most exciting races
the sporting world has known for many a day; the
dense mass of humanity which thronged both sides of
the course, the stands, everywhere, evinced an anxiety
for the result of the great race on the Sellinger day,
which made the few minutes the race and the deciding
heat were being run, the most soul thrilling grains of
time the majority present had ever known.
Voltigeur's immense stride, as I expected, pulled him
through easily enough in the deciding heat with Russ-
borough; he only lost the first ingo by being baulked in
getting up; not one among his competitors being within
7lbs. of him. Bolingbroke or Russborough as the race was
run might have won the first heat, but it would only
have been by luck that they could have done so. Russ•
borough ran much bt tter than I gave him credit for,
but as for the other Irishers, Chatterbox and Windisch-
gratz, they ran—where I predicted they would, in the
rear, Windy being last but one, and Chatterbox
absolutely last. Pitsford and Beehunter passed the
winning post in company, only reversing the spring
running, the Hunter taking precedence of his former
conqueror, Pitaford. The first heat was run in 3 min.
21 sec., one second slower than the three preceding
years, and the deciding heat in 3 min. 24 sec., and for
the third year successively has the winner been the
double victor of Derby and St. Leger.
A word or two on the Cup. My prognostication on
this event was as wrong as it well could be. I unhesi-
tatingly gave the pas to the Dutchman, notwithstanding
he had to give Voltigeur 51135. more than weight for age.
This I imagined he could accomplish, and were they to
run the same course again in a different manner, i. e.,
the Dutchman, instead of cutting out all the work,
make a waiting race of it, I really think
it would be a near thing, and with the extra 51ba off
his back, I should certainly back The Flyer to win !
However, Voltigeur, by Voltaire, out of Martha Lynn
(half-brother to Charles Xllth., who ran a dead heat
with Euclid for the Sr. Leger in 1839, aftewards win-
ning the deciding heat easily, and on the Friday follow-
ing, a la Voltigeur, coming off victor in the race for
the Cup) is now the "great gun" of the British Turf I
and long may ho remain so.
The Second October Meeting on the Heath of New-
market commences to-morrow, with the usual 50 Sovs.
Plate, not entered for as yet; after which, in due order,
follows the 300 Sovs., 50 Sovs., and several other
stakes and matches of but little interest to the public at
large.
Tuesday, the day of the week, has the Clearwell and
Cesarewitch Stakes on the list for decision; for the latter
some score to two dozen will be brought to the post, fur
whose names see summary.
C
r-
eatKei Eim:
ani
udstase;iseanned;:esraal,:rns ibfedu7e sfrhioridaleoi,nr:nmetfri:
esbrDyLree
:sooaketedtnaek;tuses,
drEE:D dy(uiarensynad; ':sedNr
Musgrave,o:Nutmeg,
stable; Wanot a, Lord
Exeter's;
bsen
t,eoearirEl,std;Log geLregar,
distinctevsGt
isatmboEdwergrßri
1, eeal
interest;, Mulgrave, I believe, being the beat, although
Backbiter is their fancy horse.
The Squire, upon the strength of having won the
Chuster Handicap last Wednesday with Fueleman, in-
tends starting him for the off chance of obtaining a
grand finale to his sporting career, which closes, I be-
lieve, with the present week.
I have not heard what Dawscn intends for his horse,
but suppose it will be Snowstorm. The race, I expect,
will lay among the following :—Wanota, Bolingbroke,
Backbiter, Priestess, Chantrey, Westow, Lady Eden,
Letitio, Nutmeg, Mulgrave, and Landgrave; from these
I should weed Bolingbroke (who will be well up), Back-