The Sun.
London, England, 1850-10-03 00:00:00

The Town Plate.

Match—Santiago beat Tcurus colt.
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Queen's Plate.

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The Triennial Stakes.

Rutland Stakes.

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CESAREWITCH BETTING.
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RECOVERY OF STOLEN PROPERTY.—In July last,
upwards of 50 silver watches, 11 gold watches. 320 fancy
gold rings, 20 diamond rings, and an endless quantity of gold awl silver pencilcases, bracelets, and other articles of jewel-
lery, were carried off by some expert burglars from the shop
of Mr. Balerna, situate in one of the principal streets in
Halifax. Nine weeks ago a woman named Moult left a large
box at a house in Manchester, and, not appearing again, it
was opened, and found to contain 44 gold and silver watches,
a large number of gold pins, and other articles, many of
which were the produce of the Halifax robbery. The
woman was then traced to Liverpool, and apprehended. Mr.
Beswick, the chief constable of Manchester, at once recog-
nised her as one of the most notorious thieves in the district,
whose real name was Amelia Wade, but who had found it
convenient on many occasions to adopt an tails. She has
been sent to Halifax to be examined before the magistrates
there. It is believed that three men, who are in custody on
another charge at Liverpool, were concerned in the robbery.
PROJECT FOR THE ISSUE OF A LIVERPOOL LOCAL
PAPER CunaExcr.—Much discussion has occurred, from
time to time, in contemporary journals of Liverpool, relative
to the issue of a local paper currency by the corporation,
based on its magnificent estate, a project which it was cal-
culated would free the municipal revenues from a large
annual charge of interest from capitalists. We may state
that such a measure is not unprecedented in this town, as
we have now before us a 5/. note, of which the following
is a copy :—" No. 0846. Liverpool, 9 July, 1793. On de..
Mind I promise to pay to George Stirling, or bearer, Five
Pounds, according to an Act of Parliament passed in the
thirty-third year of the reign of his Majesty King George
the Third. For the Corporation of Liverpool. Thos.
Earle. John Wilson, actuary. Eutd. T. Radish."—Liver-
Pool .11bicn.
HAUNTED CHURCHYARDS.—It is not perhaps
generally known that churchyards in this country are in-
festel t y ghoules and vampyrea. One " Justitia," however,
rite to the Times, stating that on sending a person lately
into Walthamstow-churchyard to cut a new inscription out
on his family tomb, the man was pounced upon with a de-
mand of ten-and-sixpence, and two half-crowns, by three
hor ib e c,cat urea in the shape of the parson, the sexton, and
the eierk. Punch.
POT ATOES.....it is better to plant w ho!e moderate -
sized potatoes than cut sets; the drills should be about 36
l ea apart; pl Letting the blossom off th.:stem seems to
hive a cuitaiclerable increase in quantity.

T H E

ALL GE D ILL-TRATMENT of a TAILOR'S
A P PRE :‘ TICE.
Iu reference to the ease 0: Robert Minden, an ae•
count of the inquest on whont appeared in The Sun a
few days since, we have received the following com-
munication, which we publi,h (with the omission of
one sentence only) verbatim :
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
you wohld give the following testimonies
a place in your paper as to the exaggerations made on
the inquest of Robert Minden, held Wednesday, Sept.
25th, 1850, you would greatly oblige, yours truly,
JOHN TRIGGS.

54, Church-lane, Whitechapel.
I was in Mr. Triggs ainploy fur about 18 months,
from May 1848 to October 1849, and can bear testa-
loony that Robert Minden wss neither stinted in his
food nor neglected in his bed linen, fur before i lett i
saw him have clean Blankets, Sheet!, &c.
MATILDA GROUT.
No. 3, Port-place, Wal worth-common.
I was in the employ of Mr. Triggs for 15 months,
and i always saw Robert Minden partake of the same
has the Family ; i akkays braid him say he had suffi-
cient food on Sundays; he went out morning and af-
ternoon ; and the room he slept in was a Airy room,
for i have C:eaned the room, and assisted in washing
his bed clothes. I Left Mr. Triggs Employ to Marry.
Signed my hand. MRS. ANN BAKER.
15, Church-lane.
I have lived iu the employ of Mr. Triggs about 12
years, and i never saw Robert Minden stinted in his
food nor liltreated; his hours for working was about
8 o'clock in the morning till 9 at night.
JOHN MARDALL.
_

4, Rutland-street, Stepney.
Sir, the evidence i had against me was a girl who
had not been in my employ more than 8 or 9 days.
When i found my Apprintece was 11l i gave him Me-
dicine he wished for ; on wednesday, the 18th Inst., i
found he got worse, and by Consent of his Father and
Mother i got a Cab and took him to Guy's Hospital;
when we got their he asked me to forgive what he bad
done and said against me, his Mother being present
at the time. The above statements I solemnly declare
to be true.

I Remain Your Humble S9rvant,
JOHN TRIGGS.

PAUPER LABOUR.—The Si-tlield papers contain a
report of the proceedings of the poor-law guardians of that
union with respect to the employment of pauper labour.
Two or three years ar,'o, as will be recollected, they leased
from the Duke of Norfolk some fifty acres of moorland,
about six miles from the town, and converted it into a parish
farm. A substantial house, capable of accommodating 120
persons, was built with all the appurtenances, at a cost of
1,7001. or 1,8001. During the whole period in which this ex-
periment has been in progress, upwards of 500 heads of fami-
lies have found casual employment on the farm. The resu t
of the first year entailed a loss of 481., but what proportion
this loss bore to the cost that would have fallen upon the
rate-payers, had the relief afforded to the numbers who had
been thus furnished with labour been given in the workhouse,
is not mentioned. But it is expected that the produce of
this, the second year, will cover the cost of maintenance to
those who have been employed upon the farm ; and there is
every prospect, judging by the results of the second as com-
pared with the first year, that the third and fourth years will
show a considerable surplus over the entire expense of the
establishment. The experiment is interesting, chiefly as
evidence of the fact that pauper labour can be made remune-
rative.

THE REVOLT OF THE CABMEN.—Yesterday the
town was thrown into a state of commotion in consequence
of the proceedings of a number of cabmen accustomed to ply
for hire at the Railway terminus. The facts of the matter
appear to be as follows :—Mr. Steers has lately entered into
an arrangement with the railway company for the exclusive
privilege of running a certain number of cabs from the rail-
way terminus. These are about 21 in number. They are
new, nicely fitted up vehicles, and the proprietor has made
arrangements to prevent the incivility and other faults too
frequently manifested among cabmen. The first three or
four of these terminus cabs came into work yesterday, and
the other cabmen were then informed that though there was
" room enough for all," and though all would be at liberty to
avail themselves of the room, yet the new comers must on all
occasions be allowed to take precedence. At this information
the old stagers " riled," and the result was that at two
o'clock, when the arrival of the trains from London and
Portsmouth was sure to cause a great demand for cabs, the
whole body of them, to the number of forty or fifty, started
from the terminus with hoots and hisses, and with handker-
chiefs floating in the breeze from their whip-ends, and leav-
ing the travellers in the lurch. They then went in proces-
sion through the town, and the last we heard of them was,
that they were carousing in a body at the Rock Inn.—
Brighton Guardian.
A BETTING• OFFICE KEEPER —At the Westminster
County Court, yesterday, an action was brought by Mr.
Appleyard, the news-agent, of Duke-street, Adelphi, against
the defendant, who described himself as managing clerk to a
Mrs. Barnard, the keeper of a betting-office at No. 28, Cran-
bourn-street, to recover 9/. for the rent of furnished apart-
ments, at 11. Is. per week. It appeared that an order had
been made for payment of the amount in a month, so late
as June last, but the order had not been complied with, and
an application had been made to rescind the judgment of the
court, which his Honour positively refused to entertain. Mr.
Appleyard now stated that it was a downright fraud on the
part of the defendant, who had resorted to all kinds of sub-
terfuges to evade payment and impose upon the credulity of
the court. The fact was that the defendant Campbell and
Mrs. Barnard (as he now called her) occupied his apart-
ments as husband and wife. The defendant stated that he
was not in a position to pay more than 1. a month. Mr.
Appleyard, in contradiction of this statement, read a report
from an evening journal, from which it appeared that Mr.
Campbell had sworn before the Magistrate at Marlborough-
street that he was paying a clerk 3/. a week. The plaintiff
expressed a hope that his Honour would give effect to the
County Court Act, the defendant not only having put him
to the expense of 41. in this court, but would in all proba-
bility, if an immediate order was not made, still laugh at him,
as the betting-office would no doubt be closed in a few days.
The Learned Judge considered that the defendant ought cer-
tainly to pay a portion of the claim at once, but after hear-
ing the defendant's solicitor, his honour ordered the amount
to be paid by instalments of 21. a month.

While a large iron rib was being hoisted to its place
on the Cork and Bandon Railway, one of the workmen let go
the guide-rope, the mass fell, and cut cif the head of a la-
bourer as if he had been guillotined.

That periodical visitor, the floating island in Der-
went Lake, Keswick, made its appearance above the surface
of the water in the course of last week, after having' been
submerged exactly twelve months.—Cumberland Pacquet.
A HORSE AS BIG AS AN ELEPHANT.—The Stam-
ford Mercury publishes the following strange story :—"Late
in the evening of Saturday last, while some parties were in
the sitting.room of the Plough Inn, Tilney, Fen-side, kept
by an eccentric couple of the popular and wide-enduring
name of Smith, a stray foal was pushed into the door by
some half•wittcd lads, who immediately closed the door.
The foal went forward, knocking down the table, with its
crockery and glasses, and extinguishing the light of the
candle; thence it passed into the parlour, on the centre table
of which had been carefully collected all the earthenware and
crystal of the evening, which were thrown over with a
frightful crash. The foal (the property of Mr. Sutterby,
miller, and which is usually quiet) became frightened at the
novelty of its situation, and commenced plunging and kick-
ing most furiously, literally breaking all the furniture, tables,
and chairs of the room, smashing all the decanters, jugs,
glasses, &c., and destroying walls, doors, windows, and
chimney ornaments. Poor 'Charlie Smith,' who sat in an
adjoining room, unconscious of the entrance of this strange
visitor, was dreadfully frightened, and roared out, It is
thunder! I knew by my feelings all day that there was a
tempest coming!' Thunder,' said Airs. Smith; it's a horse.
as big as an elephant in my best parlour!' After much ado
the intruder was extruded."

FRIGHTFUL DEATH OP A ROBBER. —D ERBY,
`WEDNESDAY. —A shocking accident occurred at the railway
station, Derby, last night at half past ten. The pafticulars
of tl.e case are as follows : During the early part of the even-
ing a man, shabbily attired, had been observed prowling
about the station-yard, and suspicions had been aroused
amongst several of the cffic als. At half-past ten o'clock the
mail train arrived, when the stoker informed one of the
policemen that he thought a slight collision had occurred
when he passed a luggage train which had arrived a short
time before. A search was immediately commenced, when
the body of the man who had arrested the attention of the
officials during the early part of the evening was discovered
shockingly mangled. The whole of the carriages had passed
over his body. It is almost needless to say that life was ex-
tinct. Near to the body were three parcels, which the robber
had succeeded in extracting from the luggage-carriages, and
it appeared evident that he was in the act of pilfering the
carriages when the London train came up. The remains of
the deceased were taken to the station to await an inquest,
which will be held this evening, before Mr. Balguy, the town
coroner. It has not yet transpired, we understand, who the
deceased was.

DEATH OF CAPTAIN LAWRENCE, R.A.—WooL-
wicti, Ocr. 2.7-This comparatively young officer, who had
been for a considerable time captain and adjutant of the first
battalion of Royal Artillery at head-quarters at Woolwich,
was taken ill about a fortnight ago with English cholera, but
was so far recovered during the last week as to be considered
quite convalescent. Unfortunately lie suffered a relapse, and
died at one o clock P.m. yesterday, much regretted by all
the non-commissioned officers and men of the battalion, and
by all who were acquainted with him, or had occasion to
visit him in his official capacity. The gallant officer was
also greatly respected by the commandant and authorities of
the garrison, and during the recent absence of Capt. Tylden
on leave, Capt. Lawrence was appointed Acting Deputy-
Assistant Quartermaster-General of Artillery, and in that
capacity attended on the Nepaulese Ambassador when he
last visited Woolwich. Captain Lawrence went out to Canada
se. eral years ago as lieutenant, and acted as adjutant there
and at Halifax, Nova Scotia,
.where he was married. His
remains are to be interred with military honours.
HAYNAU'S ENTIRE HONOURS.—The Times corres-
pondent says—" The Austrian Government will show its
sympathy for the insulted general by raising him at once to
the rank of a marshal." How much will he owe to Barclay
and Perkins! May we not then trace the noble rank of
Haynau till we find it issuing from a bung-hole? What
conquest in battle has not done, a retreat from a brewery has
effected. He who is not rewarded for standing lead and
iron, is made a marshal for running from pewter ! Punch.
A very handsome chimney, of 120 yards high, has
just been completed at Messrs. Johnston's chemical works,
Weston, near Runcorn. It contains one million of bricks.
it is the highest (except Messrs. Muspratt's, of Newton) in
this part 01 the kingdom. It was built by Mr. White, of
Runcorn, in the short space of live months.
WRECK OF A SCHOONER —On Saturday week,
during the heavy storm which took place in the Channel,
the schooner Charles sunk of Cardinal's Point, Holyhead.
She left this port on Friday, and was laden with coal, for
Dublin. All on board, consisting of the captain (Thomas
Heath), his wife, two children, and three men, pelished.—
Liverpool Mercury.
Lusus NATURE.--A pure white common house
sparrow is freque-tiv to be seen in company with a flock of
his drab-coloured brethren. at Bloomfield, presenting a sin-
gular appearance when on the Essex Herald.

WIIO WILL BE WITHOUT A PIG ?-011 Wednesday
last a pig was sold in the market for the small sum of 3a. 6d.
The animal was certainly but a small one, and hat is gene•
rally termed "the nestgull," or the least of the litter. The
good old dame who bought it very lovingly carried her pur-
chase sway 41 her 14/124.—Hereford Times.

LONDON,

MAGAZINES, Ric.--(CON TIN UED.)

FBAS ER.

In the first chapter of the " Age of Veneer," the
writer runs amuck at journalists, at what he calls
out-of-door Parliaments, at political economy, and
more especially at statistics, the very mention of
which makes him rabid. We can make great allow-
ances for a gentleman in that state, and certainly
consider it but natural that a Protectionist should
hate statistics, which have proved to demonstration
how utterly groundless are alike his hopes and his
fears; but he ought at least to keep probability in
view, and in his long list of the crimes for which
statistics have to answer he should, at all events, not
so far commit himself as to assert that "statistics draw
the mind away from the contemplation of facts."
Waat, we should like to know, is the study of
statistics but the study of facts ? The concluding
advice of the writer to his friends, the Protectionists, is
admirable; he tells them " they make a sad business of it
whenever they meddle with statistics that they only
damage themselves, and that they had better alto-
gether abstain from dealing with matters 'vith which
they have no concern." It would be well for " the
country gentlemen" if they would follow this advice,
and content themselves with an increasing faith in
their idol protection, for they may rely on it that
whenever they attempt to argue the question of pro-
tection, or to give a reason for the faith that is in
them, they " only damage themselves." The
Naturalist continues his pleasant leaves from his Note-
book, and gives us much entertaining information on
the habits of reptiles of the tortoise tribe, and the
New Yorker furnishes us with another of his ad-
mirable sketches of American society. The article
on " Public Nurseries" should be read by every
philanthropist, it is the history of the working of au
attempt to introduce into England those valuable
institutions known in France as Creches. " The
Foreign Prince" is an account of the career of a foreign
swindler who has entrapped an English girl of re-
spectable family into a marriage, and who ultimately
absconds, leaving her a widowed wife, with no means
of obtaining a divorce. The story is well told. An
officer of the Royal Artillery gives us an admirable
account of a visit to the mammoth cave of Kentucky,
which extends into the bowels of the earth for a dis-
tance of six or seven miles, and which is one of the
wonders of the new world. We have besides these
articles able reviews of the clever but snobbish book
of Madame Blaze De Bury on Germany, of Ni r. Baillie
Cochrane's " Young. Italy," and of Mr. Miller's and
Professor Sedgwick's recently published exposures of
the errors of the author of " Vestiges of Creation."

THE WESTMINSTER REVIEW. No. CVI.
A more miscellaneous and, consequently, a more
entertaining number of this popular periodical we
cannot call to our recollection. The October instal-
ment of the double quarterly, for 1850, shows very
conspicuously the good results of uniting together
the Foreign Quarterly and the Westminster Review,
publications which, diametrically opposite in cha-
racter, have, nevertheless, now for some considerable
time blended their contrasting qualities most admi-
rably, thereby producing a very agreeable diversity. As
an opening production, of a rather eccentric kind,
we have a critical paper on the " Hindoo Drama," a
subject first revealed to the scrutiny of the European
scholar by the industry and erudition of Sir William
Jones, the oriental Mezzofanti. After this, a popular
essay on the " Natural Systems of Botany" treats
exoterically a hitherto somewhat too esoteric theme,
that of plants and flowers, called by Professor Long-
fellow, with such exquisite and beautiful truthfulness,
the "revelation" of the love of God, blossoms
" All woven in gorgeous tissues,
Flaunting gaily in the golden light!"
An excellent argument is afforded to the cause
of the Financial Iteformers, in the consideration
of those " Consular Establishments" which
constitute the text of the subsequent contribu-
tion. Further on, one of the reviewers pays his weed
of admiration to the music, the wisdom, the pathos,
and the verbal splendour lavished upon each of the
131 poems "Iu Memoriam," by Alfred Tennyson.
Most of his elegiac celebrations of nature are judici-
ously selected for quotation. An inquiry into the
influence of the " County Courts Extension " is fol-
lowed by a vindication of,William Fenn from the asper-
sions cast upon him by Thomas Babington Ma-
caulay. An effective and useful " Summary of the
Session" is in its turn succeeded by a very learned
article on " Septenary Institutions." In this
well-digested disquisition the writer has torn out the
very root of the sophisms advanced in support of their
fanatical arguments by those most superstitious reli-
gionists the Sabbatarians. Referring to the most
classic and the most modern systems of calendars, as
contrasted with the greatest of all—the Gregorian—
the reviewer maintains that provision has not, as
pretended, been invariably made fur the institution
of a day of rest periodically. In testimony
of his argument's correctness, he points to the
division of the ancient Greek months into decades
—called menos istamenou (tbe beginning of the
month), menos mesountos (the middle of the month),
and menos phinontos (the end of the month). This
system of decades was of late years adopted by the
French after the first revolution. Then it was that
the year was divided by the Gallicans into twelve
months, of thirty day s each, with five sacred days at
the close of the year, dedicated to V,rtue, Genius,
Labour, Opinion, and Reward—the Bissextile being
appropriated every fourth year to the renewal
of the eath of Liberty. Similar to and
yet unlike the Greeks, the Romans partitioned
their months, not in regular decades, but in three
irregular intervals, named after three fixed epochs in
each month—the middle days of each month being
called ides from the obsolete verb iduare, to divide ;
the first days of the month being termed the halends,
from calo, to call, or summons the people to a reli-
gious ceremony ' • and the nine days before the ides
being designated the nones from an obvious deriva-

tion.— For both the decades of the Greeks and the
kalends, nones and ides of the Romans were sub-
sequently substituted the day of the sun, the
moon, i\lars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, and Saturn,
dies Solis, dies Luna, dies Martis, dies Mercurii, dies
Jovis, dies Veneris, and dies Saturni; subsequently
changed into the Saxon Son-daeg, Moon-daeg, Tuis
daeg, Woden's-daeg, Thor's•daeg, Friga's-daeg, and
Seterne's•daeg. So that the modern system of the
seventh day, the Sunday, so far from being a divine
and scriptural, is a pagan and idolatrous institution.
The writer of this remarkable and learned contribu-

tion brings his observations to a close by looking
forward to the time when the weapons of supersti-
tion shall be turned against itself by universal con-
sent, and whe❑ men shall for ever disarm those who
would fain " crush the human mind under the wheels
of the modern Juggernaut of conventional idolatry."
Among the most striking criticisms in the notices of
foreign literature will be observed a review, of Eugene
Sue's novel, " Les Mysteres du Peuple," and another
of Lamartine's tragedy, Toussaint Louverture. The
latter author is convicted by the reviewer of the high
crime of penning a bad and faulty drama. In select-
ing the Black Liberator for his hero, M. de Lamar•
tine evidently desired to gratify his intense hatred to
the Emperor Napoleon. Besides the contributions
already particularised, the Westminster and Foreign
Quarterly are embellished with a variety of contribu-
tions and intelligent criticisms upon books and bro-
chures of a very miscellaneous character.

THE BRITISH GAZETTEER.
Maps of the counties of Northumberland and Rut-
land, executed with characteristic accuracy and neat-
ness, illustrate the eighteenth part of this admirable
compilation, together with an engraving of the
Bridgewater Monument at Tring. The fair promise
of the first part is fully borne out, each successive
number rivalling the excellence of its predecessor in
every particular.

COURT CIRCULAR.
BALMORAL, SEPT. 30.
Her Majesty went out riding to-day, and his Royal
Highness and Prince Albert went out deer-stalking.
The Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal
went out walking. The Princess Alice rode on a
puny.
Mr. and Lady Agnes Duff had the honour of
dining with her Majesty.

The Right Hon. Sir Francis Baring arrived at his
residence in the Admiralty on Tuesday evening from
the north.

THE AFRICA CUNARD LINE STEAMER.--Mr.
Moody, ins; ector of shipwrights at Woolwich Dockyard, has
returned from Liverpool after an official inspection of this
fine vessel while she made an experimental trial of her
speed from the Liverpool Docks to the Light-ship, a dis-
tance of about 'twenty miles. The result of the trial was
an average speed of thirteen knots -per hour. The vessel
has been fitted in a style of great magnificence, and some
idea may be formed of her magnitude when it is known
that she is of 2,672 24.100 tons burden, or 825 tons larger
than the Terrible steam-frigate of 21 guns, one of the largest
steam-vessels in the Royal Navy. The Africa was built by
Messrs, Steele and Son, at Greenock, and fitted with engines
of 800-horse power, by Napier, of Glasgow. She has a
breadth of beam of 40 feet 3 inches, and a depth of hold
of 27 feet 9 and is supplied with four cutters, one
life-boat, one pinnace, and one gig, and two long 12-pounder
brass guns for signals.
VESSEL FOR CALIFORNIA.---On Monday the Queen
of Sheba, a splendid new ship, left the Leith Docks with a
full cargo and a few passengers for San Francisco. This is
the second vessel which has sailed from this port for that
quarter. The Queen of Sheba, besides a large quantity of
unisc.-Ilaneous goods, has on hoard about 30;) tons of coals.
On Monday, a beautiful little steamboat, between 80 and 40
feet long, steamed over from Belfast on purpose to be taken
on board as freight, but although 130/. was offered to take
her out, the captain found it impossible to receive her on
board ; in fact, large quantities of goods for which she had no
room have been lett lying on.the quay.—Aorth British Mail.
Earl Newburgh very recently well .nigh met with
an accident that might have been serious.. His Lordship
was taking an airing in the vicinity of his mansion at alas_
sop, when a vehicle, at great speed, came upon his Lord-
ship's pony carriage, and carried it off the turnpike-road.
Fortunately his Lordship Was extricated unhurt.

THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 3; 180,