The Sun.
London, England, 1844-07-05 00:00:00

new mile.

Sir F. Collier's Arethusa
Mr. Wreford's b c by Camel, out of Margellina
Lord G. Bentinck's Alva 3
Sweepstake.l of 50 sovs each, h ft. One mile.
Sir John B. Mills' Pugilist, 3 yrs .. (J. Day, jun.) 1
Captain Delem's Red Skin. 3 yrs
Mr. Chamberlayne's The Stag, 3 yrs
Sweepstakes of 5 sovs. each, with 25 added; for 3 yrs, 6st
101 b ; 4 yrs, Bst ; 5 yrs, Bst 91b ; 6 yrs, Bst 121 b ; and
aged, 9st ; winner extra, &c. One mile and a quarter.
Lord George Bentinck's Fisticuff, 4 yrs
,(Rogers) 1
Mr. Pearce's Foxbcrry, 6 yrs
Mr. Etwall's Venatrix, 4 yrs ...
Mr. Etwall's b g, by Camel, out of Margellina, 3 yrs
The Queen's Plate of 100 guineas. Heats 2 miles.
Lord Glenlyon's Ben-y-Ghlo. 4 yrs (J. Day, jun.) 0 1 1
Duke of Richmond's Lothario, 4 yrs
Mr. Death's Misdeal, 5 yrs . 2 0 dr
Mr. Hook's Una, 6 yrs
Two others ran. Won cleverly.

ANTI-GRAHAM WAFERS.
(From Punch.)
DEDICATED TO THE HOME SECRETARY, AND POLITELY
PRESENTED TO HIM BY THOMAS SLINGSBY DUNCOMBE,
ESQ , M.P.

We have published this day, at our office, price—but
we will not appeal to the sordidness of our readers—a
sheet of emblematical devices, with mottoes, for Sir
James Fouche Graham, which, from the peculiar appro-
priateness of their sarcasm, backed by the extraordinary
adhesiveness of their gum, are adapted to stick to the
Home Secretary for life.

We have also just dotted off a good stinging envelope,
which we intend to hold up as a mirror to Sir James
Fond 6 Graham's very bad nature.
The following are some of the devices and mottoes :
DEVICE. MOTTO.
A blunderbuss on full cock I hope the contents will reach
you.
A black lobster S Not to be red without getting
into hot water.
I trust this will come to hand.
A clenched fist
A bee 1 Touch my wax, you'll feel
my sting.
A soda-water bottle . If open'd, a noise will follow.
Crocodile with mouth open You're welcome to the inside.
A fox
break cover.

The Lord 'Mayor and :the Lady Mayoress gave a
most splendid ball and supper at the Mansion-house on
Wednesday night. There were upwards of three hun-
dred and fifty guests. They were received in the grand
suite of apartments on the same floor with the Egyptian
Hall, which underwent, at the commencement of the
present Mayoralty, so coreplete a re-decoration, and
which was on this occasion fitted up, for the first time
during several years, as a ball-room.
A Toulon letter, the 20th inst., says :—The
Prince de Joinville arrived this morning, at seven o'clock.
He alighted at the Porte de France, where the authorities
were in attendance to receive him, the guns of the ramparts
firing a salute. He was escorted to the Prefecture, the 3d
Regiment of Marines lining the way. Having received the
civil and military authorities, and taken his breakfast, the
Royal Rear-Admiral, attended by a numerous staff,
headed by Rear-Admiiral Turpin, the Prefect ad interim,
went to the naval arsenal, and was again saluted with
twenty-one guns from the flag-ship, which was dressed
in all her colours. The Prince embarked in the
packet Rubis, and went on board the Suffren,
which carries his flag. On his being seen afloat,
the salvos were repeated from all the ships in the
ror.dstead. They were also dressed, and their yards
manned, the sailors hailing him with acclamations of
" Vine le At one o'clock all the ships took in
their colours, and the flag of his Royal Highness was
substituted on board the Suffren for the royal standard.
The wind is favourable, and, if it continues so, the
squadron will sail to-morrow, and in a few days will be
off the coast of Morocco.
WIIITE SPARROWS.—About three weeks ago a lad
residing at Upway, Dorset, took a sparrow'snest, which con-
tained live young ones, four of them perfectly white, the fifth
of the natural colour ; they were secured in a cage, and so
placed that they could be fed by the parent birds, both of
which were constant in daily attendance, and evinced the
greatest anxiety and impatience until they were permitted to
administer food to their young. The four white ones have
red eyes, the other the natural colour; both the parent birds
are brown. The five, in the same cage, are in the possession
of Mr. R. Rolls, ornithologist, Weymouth.
CONVICTIONS, &C., Or GAMBLERS....—SOME curious
evidence is just printed in the Report of the House of Lords,
given before the Committee appointed " to inquire into the
laws respecting gaming." • Thus, one of the police superin-
tendents delivered the following summary of what he had
done:—" Out of the number of 95, 85 were convicted. The
number discharged without fines was seven. The amount of
cash I seized in the different banks where I have gone was
591.25. 2d.. The amount of fines inflicted by the Magistrates
was 949/., and the amount paid was 704/. The amount not
paid was 245/., and those men served their time in prison.
Two appealed against the Magistrate's conviction, which
was confirmed by Mr. Sergeant Adams, at Clerkenwell.
They served their time in prison. The total amount of cash
and fines paid to the receiver of the metropolitan police, is
763/. 2s. 2d. The number of houses broken into is eight."
The following is an instance of the contrivances the officers
resort to, in order to obtain admission to the gambling-houses.
Mr. Superintendent Baker said—" It was by a plan of my
own which was adopted in getting the doors open so readily
as we did. A supposed twopenny postman, with a band upon
his hat, and a cockade, gave a knock at the door and the
porter came to answer the door. The porter who came to
answer the door at that moment made his escape, fortu-
nately, but I apprehended twenty-eight. The wife of the
porter threw herself, with a baby, between my constable and
the man he had got hold of, and if he had not let go some
thing serious would have happened to the child or the
woman ; but her screams raised an alarm which caused a
number of the persons in the gaming-room to rush up stairs.
Some were detected upon the roof, and sonic going into Lei-
ester-square."
EXTRAORDINARY OCCURRENCE.—WC learn from
the Ceylon Overland Observer, that a singular accident oc-
curred on board the Bentinck steamer, on the 6th February
last, while on her voyage from Aden to Galle, the particulars
of which we have not seen mentioned in any of the English
papers. It appears that the builders of the Bentinck placed
in her bottom, some distance below the water line, a large
brass sea-cock, through which, when requisite, a stream of
sea -water could be admitted; which, mixing with the bilge
water and pumped out by the engine pump, would moisten
and cleanse the vessel. This operation had several thrice
been performed with success during the voyage from Suez.
On the morning of the 6th of February a slight smell of
bilge being perceived, the sea-cock was turned, and the un-
pleasant odour soon abated; upon which the carpenter was
sent down to stop the influx of the water. The method of
closing the pipe was by turning a screw which worked in a
brass valve. Something having got displaced, the screw
moved without turning the valve, and all the efforts of the
carpenter to check the flow of the sea into the vessel were
unavailing. The water gained in spite of the pumps, and
soon completely flooded the lower parts of the vessel, damag-
ing some portions of her cargo. Endeavours were made to
stop the flow of water by means of sheets and blankets, but
without effect ; and at length, when the engines were stopped,
the passengers became acquainted with the state of affairs,
and much alarm prevailed. At length, after much labour,
the water having in the meantime risen several feet, the
carpenters and others contrived to force the end of a plank
over the top of the valve, forcing it down with a lever. By
this the influx of water was temporarily stayed. Bolts and
nuts were subsequently prepared, and the valve was securely
stopped. There were 250 persons on board the Bentinck
when this accident occurred. The impracticability of acting
on the valve was discovered at eight o'clock in the morning,
and it was not till three in the afternoon that the vessel was
reported to be water-tight.—Licapool Albion,