The Sun.
London, England, 1868-04-18 00:00:00

NOTICE.

The Third Edition of " The Sun" of last evening, con-
taining the Latest Betting, and Races at Newmarket
and Catteriek Bridge, was published in time for delivery
in town at 7 p.m.

LATEST WEST END BETTING.

10 to 1 agst Dalby (taken)
30 to 1 agst Priest (offered)
40 to 1 Minster Bell (taken)
GREAT NORTHERN HANDICAP.
13 to 2 agst Fortunio (taken)
15 to 2 agst Blinkhoolie (taken)
9to 1 agst Westwick (offered)
TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS.
100 to 30 agst Rosicrucian (taken)
13 to 2 agst Formosa (taken)
15 to 2 agst Pace (offered)
100 to 9 agst Green Sleeve (taken freely)
100 to 8 agst La Sarazzin (taken)

SPORTING INTEL LIGENOE.—This Day.

VICTORIA CLUB BETTLNG—Tuis DAY.

CHESTER CUP.
10 to 1 agst Dalby (offered)
100 to 3 agst Priest (offered)
40 to 1 agst Minster Bell (offered).
50 to 1 agst See Saw (offered)
GREAT NORTHERN HANDICAP.
7to 1 agst Fortunio (taken)
Bto 1 agst Blinklioolie (taken)
10 ta 1 agst Westwick (taken)
100 to 8 agst Geant de Battailes (offered)

TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS.
3to 1 agst Rosicrucian (offered—take 100 to 30)
7to 1 agst Formosa (taken)
Bto 1 agst Pace (taken)
10 to 1 agst Green Sleeve (taken)
12 to 1 agst Le Sarazzin (taken)
14 to 1 agst Vale Royal (taken)
100 to 6 agst Banditto (offered—take 20 to 1)
25 to 1 agst St. Ronan (taken and offered)
28 to 1 aget Moslem (taken)
1000 to 30 agst Seo Saw (offered)
1000 to 30 agst Harvester (taken and offered)
40 to 1 apt Chelsea (offered)
50 to 1 agst Michael de Basco (offered)
1000 to 15 agst Blue Gown (offered)

DERBY.
25 to 1 agst Pace (offered)
25 to 1 agst Orioncoffered)
40 to 1 agst Blue Gown (offered)
40 to 1 agst Banditto (offered)
40 to 1 agst Franchise (offered)

ROTUNDA CLUB AND COMMISSION EXCHANGE,
Three Doors from Blackfriars Bridge, Surrey Side,
IS NOW OPEN FOR BUSINESS.
Annual subscription, Five Shillings. Applications for
membership should be made to the Secretary, 3, Black -
friars-road.

LONDON COMMISSION EXCHANGE,
FARRINGDOS-ROAD,
Established Nov. 1, 1867.
ANN rAL SUBSCILIPTI(n—FIVE SHILLINGS.
NIT. 1. R °CAB, Secretary.

RACING FIXTURES FOR 1868.

APRIL.

Abergavenny ..... 16
Catterick Bridge l6
Eastbourne
Lewes Spring
T hirak

Curragh April 23
Croydon Spring
Liverpool Hunt
Newmarket Ist spring 27
Cardiff

Chester 5
Eglinton Hunt 7
Winchester
York Spring
Doncaster Spring
Salisbury l4

Bath
Wye
Croydon Ist Summer .., 21
Harpenden
Epsom Summer
Paris 3l

West Dray ton 1
Croydon 2d Summer
Manchester
Ascot Summer 9
Beverley, Hull, and j
East Riding lO
Windsor Summer
JU.
Chelmsford
Worcester Summer
Carlisle 7
Newmarket July 7
Ilungerford
Pontefract
Reading
Down Royal Corp. l5

Newton
Hampton
Newcastle 23
Bibury Club 23
Stockbridge
Alexandra Park 3O

Liverpool July M.
Odiharn lB
Stamford
Radcliffe . ... 2O
Huntingdon 2l.
Nottingham July
Southampton
Goodwood

WHAT IS PERSONAL LUGGAG.3I

At the Derby County Court on Monday, before
George Russell, Esq., Judge, a cause was tried,
which, his honour said, raised a question of great
importance both to railway passengers and railway
companies. The plaintiff, Henry Hudston, is a
stock and sharebroker at Nottingham, and he
brought an action against the Midland Railway
Company to recover £2 4s. 61, on the 11th March,
186 E to amount paid under protest to the Mid-
land Railway Company at King's-cross Railway
Station, London, carriage from London to Bees-
ton, near Nottingham, of a personal toy called
a spring horse, weighing 781 b., which they
wrongfully charged as merchandise, he being
a first-class passenger, and entitled to 1121 b. of
luggage, 2s. 6d. He also claimed for detention from
3.0 p.m. to 5.35 p.m. at King's-cross, expenses and
business loss, by being prevented getting to Not-
tingham to answer his letters that day, £2 2s.
Plaintiff conducted his own case, and Mr. Huish,
barrister, appeared for the company. Plaintiff said
onlOthMarch last he took a first-class return ticket
from Beeston, near Nottingham, to King's-cross.
He had no luggage on going to London, but whilst
there he bought a toy, which in the trade is called a
spring horse (but not a " rocking " horse), and gave
instructions for it to be sent to King's-cross station,
as he had to leave by the 3.0 p.m. train. The toy
arrived at the station in time, but a Midland
porter told him it would not be allowed to be ford
warded without a special payment for it. He told
them that he had no luggage, and that it was the only
article he had, and that as a first-class passenger he
was entitled to carry 1121 b. weight of luggage. The
toy weighed 781 b. He asked them upon what prin-
ciple they made the charge, and they replied that it
was not luggage, but merchandise. He told them
it was not merchandise in his hands, as he was a
stock and sharebroker, and he had bought it as a
toy. They persisted in making a charge for car-
riage, and he paid the 2s. 6d. under protest. His
Honour—lt is simply a question what is and what
is not personal luggage. Mr. Huish—Mr. Hudson,
you don't mean to say that the toy was a matter
of personal necessity? Plaintiff—l consider it
was personal luggage. It was carried for the
use of my family. Mr. Huish contended that
the toy—rocking horse—was not an article within
the meaning of the words " personal luggage." His
Honour asked what was the size of the " rocking
horse." Plaintiff replied that it was not a " rock-
ing horse," but a small horse that moved on a
spring on a flat surface. He purchased it because
it was a novelty. His Honour said the question
raised—what is personal luggage ?—was one of
very great importance to travellers. He should,
therefore, go very carefully through the authorities
quoted, and give his decision at the next court day.
It was quite evident that the company must draw a
line somewhere, and the question was—where ought
it to be drawn ? There appeared to be a great
analogy between a perambulator and a.spring toy,
but the former certainly appeared to
ggage. I e would
more under the head of personal lu
deliver judgment next month. him
Ito couTti

AND
isTetaClfliend,o nhNasE .b—e
been
hi
net r
o‘d‘
uGe
erde "Great
T icThAbrror:oßSCAaLsLe," as it
Tattersall's and made the subject of speculation. We hear
tdoeu claim-
ant's theni-
d that theelcassetdodg :a tlis titledsveret.3nt and ino one
estafatveosuf
No b
of
h
odds will
s ain
continue on the ascendant, when it is considered
that
of the late Dowager Lady Tith-
boe independently
lYvPi enngd erencteived and recognised the claimant as
her son, there are from eighty to ono hundred per-
sons, most of them of high standing in the country,
who have signified by affidavit or oath that the claimant
is the man he professes to be, viz., the eldest son of the
late Sir James Doughty Tichborne. It is said, however,
that the opposing party will produce negative evidence, on
which they place so much reliance that they expect to
upset the testimony of nearly one hundred persons who
have identified the claimant. We apprehend this negative
evidence is something of the character of Pat, who, when
he was accused of having committed a theft, and told that
two persons could be produced who had seen him in the
act,responded that he could bring twenty persons who had
not seen him.—Land and Water.

THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES
'lll PEINC.FIESTOWN NAM.

:t MC'

The incidents of the royal visit to the races at Punches-
town are vividly described by Dr. Russell in his letter to
the Times. The enthusiastic reception which characterised
the entry into the city was dwarfed into nothingness by
the reception at the races. On the previous day the ter-
rible Lord Strathnairn had been whirled about in the
surging crowd, and Lord Henry Lennox might have sighed
'for a quiet board-day at Whitehall. But on the day of
the races the scene was amplified, and the play was in
many acts. Here is Dr. Russell's description of it :

• •
THE ROAD TO THE RACES.

" From an early hour,"—No, there is not the least use in
trying to describe it. The people were simply determined
to have their own way as regarded railway accommoda-
tion. They took possession of the carriages, and as the
trains came up they filled them. Then, when the autho-
rities bethought them of the device of sending up no
more carriages, the people marched down the line.
and by a stroke of genius compelled surrender.
AS a good way of securing a passage to Sallins they lay
down on the rails crossways, so that no train could pass up
to take the Prince except over their bodies. Some
frightened officials thought there was a riot, and talked of
calling out the military ; but the settled purpose of the
Lord-Lieutenant and Lord Mayo, and, we may be sure,
the desire of the Prince, was, that not a soldier should be
seen under arms on the day of Punchestown, and Colonel
Boyle, of the 89th, a gallant and experienced officer—
senior on duty—placed a proper value on the representations
addressed to him. True, the Prince was detained for some
time at the Castle. !But what of that? He got off at last,
and came in—take racecourse proceedings generally—good
time to the course. Every road in Ireland does not lead to
Punchestown, perhaps, but there must be many which do,
and one of them, at any rate, is not a gooel one. Let me
not dwell at such a time on the sorrows and anxiety of a
breakfastless pedestrian, who found himself landed on the
side of a black mountain road in Wicklow, nine miles from
the course, by the sudden collapse of the horse which the
driver assured him was "turned out of a mail coach
because they never could stop 'im from galloping,"
but rather hasten on to that distant scene, though
it be quite hopeless to give an idea of what hap-
pened there. The Prince and Princess, the Lord-
Lieutenant and Lady Abercorn, the royal and viceregal
suites, and a vast number of distinguished personages
came by train to Sallins, and then drove through the
town of Naas to Punchestown ; but although monster
trains were started as fast as they could be torn from the
grasp of the people, the railway contributed but a small
proportion to the great gathering on the course, and it is
not at all clear that the estimate given above of the num-
ber present is not consid6rably under the mark, as the
masses were spread over an immense distance, and were hid
now and then in hollows, out of which they rushed, as if
thrown from a crater, wken the horses passed. The roads
which intersect or climb the Wicklow hills, creeping
through valleys or skirting ridges, were black with vehicles,
the occupants of which were white with dust. The day
was not quite what it ought to be at the beginning
for pleasure-seekers, though it was capital for race-
horses. There was a cloudy sky, a strong cold breeze,
with easterly in it, and the higher of the hill ranges
were capped with drifting vapour. But as noontide
came the sun shone out, lighting up the fresh foliage
of the hedges and sparse plantations on the undulating,

smoothly-rounded folds of land which rise from the Dublin
basin over the course of the Liffey, and justifying the
claim of Ireland to the title of the Green Isle, which is,
perhaps, purchased a little dearly, because, though the
fields and hedges were surpassingly verdant in their emerald-
hued honours, and the work of spring appeared to be nearly
over, in reality the work of the harvest is far more ad-
vanced in England, which seems at present comparatively
so backward in vegetation. Through their lane-like roads,
not so often skirted by hedgerows as by banks of stone
or turf, trailed long processions of vehicles, of which
the " low-backed car " was the most frequent, though
the proprietors of those places where London cabs must
be put when they are worn out seemed to have sent a large
accumulation of their stock to join the revelry. There
were of course private vehicles, and there were open sparse
drags and wheeled eccentricities " of sorts ; " but the most
characteristic of all were the farmers' carts, laden with
country girls, and rustics who ought to be friezecoated,
but who prefer inferior broadcloth. They were not so
numerous as one could wish ; but the country here is
not populous, and most of the farmers and small gentry
were apparently on horseback, for the show of
equestrians galloping about the course was one of the
special features of the occasion. One route from Dublin
lies through a place which has recently gained what is
called an " unenviable notoriety," even among people
who could not easily or properly pronounce the name—
" Tallaght." Formerly it gave a title to a sort of
conversation not yet disused in Ireland, and not un-
known in other countries. A native, who was desirous
of impressing his friends with an idea of his courage,
told them how "he bad up and said to the master
that he was a black-hearted tyrant, and that for a
trifle he'd leave him a pair of black eyes." "Did you,
in truth, Pat ?" "To be sure I did." "And when did
you say it to his honour ?" " Oh, begorra, I waited till I
got to the other side of Tallaght-bill." He waited a long
time, for Tallaght-hill, though not high or steep, is very
long and wide. Near the few houses which stand on both
sides of the road, and by so doing constitute a town, lies
the police-station of Tallaght, which was attack4l last
year. And who that saw the iron shields pierced for
musketry covering the windows would not feel sad that
such a spectacle should be witnessed within a few miles of
the capital, and deem it worth while to make any sacrifice
not inconsistent with principle or honour to remove the
painful memorial ?