The Sun.
London, England, 1826-03-30 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

DONCASTER HUNT RACES—(CoxcLurmn,)
SECQND DAY-TUESDAT, MARCH. 28.
The, weather to.day has been very favourable, and the com-
pany equally, if not more numerous than yesterday. The sport
was very tine, and was not marred by any accidents. Air. Fol-
jambe and the Hon. Petre have promised cups for the
next year.

Match, 50 sov. One Mile.
Mr. Gross's hr. h. by Young Guildford, 6 yr►. 114 71b.
Mr. Peart's b. in. Kate Kearney, 6 yrs. list. 71b. 2
The horse took the lead, kept it, and won in a canter, rOde
by-W. Kitching. Gto4 on the winner.
A Sweepstakes of 10 ;oy. each, and 10 added by the Corpora-
tion. Gentlemen riders. Two miles.
Mr. Clarke's ch. h. Harlequin, aged (Sir H. Burney) .
Mr. P. 1). Cooke's ch h. St. Patrick, by Orion, aged .2
Mr. Boomer's b, h. George, aged - - -w 3
6to 4 aget Harlequin, and 2to 1 asst George. The horses
went off well together, and kept abreast three parts of the
ground, when George declined, alter which Harlequin made
all the running, and won in a canter.
The lion. L. Petre's Cup, value 60gs. for 4-yr olds and up-
wards. Two Miles.

r. W. Tote's ch. h. Pomfret Catle, 6 yrs
Mr.: G. Hall's ch. h. by Caliban, 5 yrs.
Mr. Saile's hr. m. by Catton, 4 yrs. .
The race was truly run till towards the end, when Pomfret
Cake came out and won very cleverly.
The Sandbeck Hunt Stakes oe 5 soy, each, and 20 added by the
Town, for horses hunted with Lord Scarborough's hounds.
—Gentlemen riders. Two mile heats.
Mr. Clarke's ro. m. Chilton Lass, 4 yrs old - 3 1 1
Mr. A. Gordon's gr. h. Sir Harry, 5 yrs old - 1 2 2
Mr. Boomer's b. m. Maltby bass, ahred - 2 4 li
Mr. Cross's br. Iv. by Guildford, b yrs old - 6 3dis
Mr. Foljambe's ch. g. The Fiddler, 6 yrs old 4 dis
Mr. H. Woodcock's gr. in. Pluebe, 5 yrs od dis
The heats were each well contested at the first, but it was evi-
dent that the*winner had decidedly the race at command.
A Handicap of 6 sot. each. One mile,
Mr. Wood's b. in. by Young Orville, yrm old, lOst. 71b. 1
Mr. U. Brown's ch. h. IVoodpecker, aged-, last
Capt. Ilinton's gr. I. Nuncio, 5 yrs Qh l Ost. 121 b.
Mr. Watson's br. in. by Capsicum, 4 yrs'old, flat. 71b - 4
lirookfield's ch. h. Chance, 6 yrs old, 1 lst. . A
Mr. J. Itirles b. In. The Duchess, ti yrs old, lOst. 111 b . It
Mr. Linuley's b, in. Georgians, 6 yrs old, lost.olb . 7
Mr. Footer's Diana, 6 yrs old, 12st. - 8
A good race, but won 'cleverly.
ROYAL HUNT.

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- 2

A fine deer.was turned out on Easter Monday on Farnham
Common for the day's diversion, which the King's hounds
hunted. A numerous assemblage of sportsmen of all ranks
were assembled on the Common to partake of the sport, as well
as a great number on foot. The deer on Starting proceeded in
the direction of -Drupmere..bill, through the woods leading to
it, where he was headed by the sportsmen, on foot ; the deer
then made a double round towards Clibton, and ran down the
hill towards the Thames. The sportsmen, who imagined that
he would cross the water, proceeded, together with the hounds,
over Maidenhead-bridge, and took to the right, but the deer
was running along the bottom of the Wood, under Clibton.lllll,
by the spring; one of the Yeomen I'rickers, who was follow.
lug the deer,- gave a signal for the huntsmen and hounds to re.
turn over the bridge, which they did, and, turning to the left,
renewed the chase. The deer proceeded up the hill towards
Lord Boston's scat at !leaser, taking to theleftby Wooburn,
up the hill, and through Beaconsfield, then to the right, anti
back again through the woods and enclosures down by Burn-
ham, crossed the Bath road towards the Thames, which he
crossed opposite Bray wich. whence he ran with great swiftness.
The sportsmen and hounds went over Maidenhead bridge, anti
many of the sportsmen were now thrown out. The remainder
renewed the chace front Braywich, the deer took across the
fields towards White Witham, then to the left towards Ben.
field,- and through the enclosures near Lord Brooke's Park,
where this fine deer was at last taken, after an excellent chase
of abOve live hours, during which time it is supposed to have
run above GO miles.

FOOT RACE ON CLAPHAM COMMON.
The rbove neighbouthood was crowded yesterday afternoon
by some thousands, to witness the performance of IL pedestrian
match for 100 sovereigns; the runner being a crack Yorkshire-
men, a.protegli of Jogli. Hudson. The time appointed was
3 o'clock, but the parties were not on the ground till li, when
the pedestrian appeared ready for the start. The distance to be
run was 10 miles, a mile being measured from opposite the
Ploqh, on the road leading to Wandsworth, winch necessa-
rily occasioned nine turns, and for which 27 seconds were added
to the hour. the time in hich the 10 miles were to be accom-
plished. Each two miles were run,as follows
Ist 2 miles - 11 turin. 33sec. 4th 2 miles - 11 min. 37 sec.
2d de.. - 11 32 3th do. - 1l 40
3d do. - 11 ati
Total, 37 minutes and 158 seconds; winning by 2 minutes and
29 seconds, including the allowed 27 seconds. The pedestrian
is short, but very muscular; carried himself in true running
style, if we except his going rather wide, Ile appears rapoble
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WARD AND BROWN.
The following card from Ward was circulated yesterday
throughout the sporting circles:—
" It has been said that my. backers have deserted me,
but that is untrue, as they are willing to post any sum of
money for me, to fight arty one in the world, Ex-Champions,
Retired Champions, or who they may be. It is true I have
Neon unwell, but at this season of the year, I feel a con&
dense in ono month of winning the money of the gentle.
men who may stake it for me. Cannon has also been boisterous
in the country about what he can do with me. Well or ill, I
cattlio as I please with him, anti as to any hoots, he will want
'no more than my fists. lamto be found at the Crown, Hol.
loway, anxious for a customer. ' "JAMES Wpm',

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after scratching his head for sone time, answered, 6' .4. kirkjie
o' snettlan'-and a well e whiskey," (ft church full of snuff' and
a well of whiskey.) " But," said the other, "if you got these,
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High-
lander.

DREADFUL FIRE,-
A dreadful fire- took place between tv44,0
and three o'cloCk this morning at the Om,
SOU= SEA HOUSE, at present called the oth
SOUTH SEA CHAMBERS, in Broad-street. This
spacious building is entirely c„i,stuned
and a
part of which still remains burning. Fortunately
we have not to record any lives being lost. The
property destroyed must :have been to a couii.:
detable amount, as most part of that spacious
building was let out as counting-houses. At that
early hour in the morning at which the fire broke
out but few persons were- on the spot to give
assistance, and a great -scarcity of water pre..
trailed ; but fortunately in the adjacent gar•
dens, which join the premises, there wag
a fountain with a reservoir of water. Two
engines %tere immediately attached to that
.spot, which commenced playing with consider-
able effect, preventing the adjoining houses from
taking fire. Two children, who were in bed in
one of the second floors, were fortunately saved
from the nettles by one of the %t 'tell (Mansfield)
of the North and South American Coffee=house,
‘‘ho tidied his life to save that of the two infants.
It is not a vet exactly ascertained the cause of
this dreadful fire, but supposed to have originated
in one of the vaults beneath the building, which
was occupied by a wine-merchant, where a candle
was left burning. At one period the whole of
the neighbourhood of Broad-street was in immi-
tient danger of being destroyed.

Two o'Ciock.—The fi te continues hurtling; it
broke Out in I. WATctt's Counting;-hou,e ; Mr.
Cu ILT 15 only saved himself in his clothes.

PERPIGNAN,MMICII 14.--MUUDER IN FRANCK.
.-..A murder was perpetrated in the vicinity of
this town. On Monday last ; the per Son Who lost
his life is supposed to be an English gentle-
man, who had been making a pedestrian tour
in the Pyrennees. Big papers and money had
been taken away, and. nothing' indicated to
what country the unfortunate man . belonged,
save that a hat was found near the spot,
bearing the maker's •name, " Lloydf London."
The body, and particularly the face, had been so
shockingly mutilated, that any person who might
have been acquainted with the victim, could
never have been able to recognise the indivi.
dual, A small portfolio, containing a few bo.
tanical and mineralogical specimens, was also
friend.; the only paper di•covered was. a small
account for hoard and lodging, partly in , French
and a few words in English. The police was
very active in their researches after tl►ee perpe•
trators of the crime, but until yesterday, ►hey
'had not been able to effect a discovery. On that
day a Spanish deserter, ►vho stated that he had
left his regiment on the. 7th instant, and had
walked from Figueras to Perthus, Was ar-
rested by the gendarmes. The 'Milli wore
the uniform of his regiment, and was armed
with a musket and a sit lire. On extuninitiehis
person, several severe bruises were discovered
on his arms and shoulders. lie said, that an his
rend to Perthus, he: had been attacked by a
robber, and that- in the scuffle the wounds
had been inflicted. No ►r+ortey or paper .be-
ing found upon hint, the Magistrates were out
the point of sending him hack to the depot
from ss hence he bad deserted, when a small pen.
knife, With an ivory handle, was found concealed
in his handkerchief; it bore. the mark, of " Lon-
don." lie could not give a satisfactory account
in what manner it, had come into his possession,
and on that circumstance alone he was fully coin-
witted to take his trial.

On NVednesdny night last, a respectable fe-
male, named Platt, the wife of one of the millers
at the steam oil-mill, in Brownlow-street, lost her
life by falling into the reservoir for cooling the
water, in the yard of the premises. Her bust:lend
usually left his work at nine o'clock. A little
before that hour she called in with another yeptig
woman to accompany him home, and while
in the yard, it is supposed she leaned,
against a tub, on the margin of the reservoir,
which rolled over, and, she Ml in. The female,
whose arm she had just quitted for a moment,
gave the alarm, and her husband ran in,tantly
to the spot, and plunged in to save her, at
the risk of his own iifN ; for tire
water, seven or eight feet in depth, and mixed
with slime, was in a scalding state, awl the steam
arising from it rendered it impossible to dis-
cover the unfortunate woman, whose sufferings,
as she was not afterwards heard, were probably
of short duration. The afflicted man was tin a
short time, end with great exertion, hoisted out,
when he was-in an exhausted and sinking state;
and he was with difficulty prevailed upon to relit).
quish a second attempt by the people who had now
collected on the spot. The water was then let
off as much as possible, and one of the engineers,
with the aid of a ladder, brought up the body,
after it had been three quarters of an hour ire.
mersed. It was instantly conveyed to the infir-
mary, where every exertion was made to restore
animation, but without avail.—Liverpool
On Tuesday last, a genteelly dressed wan
was observed to stagger as he, went .along the
pier, and soon after dropped down. Jig wati
mediately taken up and carried to ee how,e
the neighbourhood, where he soon afterwards r s"
he came
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•rit E 140 N DO N J 0 tJAN
,Rgiracttfiv», the Morning i apers,March 30,18Q6.

[tßotuarlND HERALD.]
The integrity of her merchants has hitherto
been the proud boast of England ;
,not that com-
mon honesty ought to be so much a matter of
exultation, us the want of it formi a subject both
of national and individual disgrace. If any one
description of persons are called upon to display
a more strict degree of integrity than others, it
`should be those in whom the greatest confidence
is necessarily placed—we mean Men who act In
the capacity of Bankers ; but we fear that the
lute ,failures among this description of people,
and: the disclosures which are now taking place
in 'consequence of them, are calculated to throw
a degree of discredit upon them, which carries
with it. a degree of degradation, which is cal-
'culated to shake confidence both at home and
abroad, in a way which has never occurred be-
fore. Accustomed as we are to call things by
their right names, and never to blink the truth,
however unfortunate or untoward it may appear,
We know of no other term but that of ac-
tual robbery which can be applied to the conduct
of persons, who, it is clear, have been spending
as income that which they must have known could
never constitute it, and who have been living in
audacious affluence upon deposits, which were a
sacred trust, which they were bound to possess
either in money or money's worth, every day
of their lives. We need not allude to particular
instanees,for unfortunately there are too many to
"render it necessary, Wherein persons of this des-
cription seem to have violated every principal of
common houesty,
.and have bolstered up a fie-
' titious credit, by acts which only differ from,
.by exalting in enormity, those for which. lesser
offenders crowd our gaols, while they show
the inequality of our Penal Code. We do
not wish to deal harshly with men who have
hitherto maintained respectable stations in life;
but truth compels us to declare, that the
higher the rank .and :station of any man who
uses it to impose upon and defraud others, the
stronger ought to be the public indignation
at his conduct, and the disgrace and punish-
ment which. ought to follow it. The trade of ,a
banker has hitherto, we know not why, been
considered one of the most honourable callings
in. the mercantile world. Money, even more
then knowledge, is considered power ; and to he
entrusted with-the stoney of others, bespeaks a
degree of conlidence,:and gives a degree of con»
sequence, not to be met with in any other de-
partment. lint when we see meni whose actions,
when dragged to light, show that they have only
possessed that confidence and power to abuse it,
and who, with their own ruin, draw down that
of the people whose confidence they have grossly
abused, we do blush for our country, and for the
apparent inequality of the laws, which seem to
employ net catches the Small fry, but
through which tlingresit Leviathans can escape.
Many of these persons ton were iyMulktibte,
we hear, . for their apparent sanctity—sop..
pressers of vies', no doubt, in the ilivtrOpollB—
Missionary leaders amid spokesmen in
the provinces. We have been told of
nee, whole firm, is ho would not so much as
open their letters on a Sunday, but who
robbed every person who confided them, and
have involved hundreds in ruin. These things,
we repeat, area scaedal to ou'r age and country.
They are a national disgrace, which nothing can
wipe out ; and to talk of our integrity and ho-
nour as. proverbial, while such arts of plunder
avid swiodling as these are every day developed,'
is a species of imposition and of humbug which
Cannot he too warmly execrated, or too generally
exposed, ‘Ve hear, toe, of no sorrow—of no
shame, or no contrition among these- people,—
but some of them actually retaining their places
in society, and acting us if common decency were
a quality wholly unknown to them. Really we
'know ,not of what the world is made when it
puts. up with such audacious bearing. And if
such doings are countenanced and submitted to,
instead of hying visited, as they ought to be, with
indignation and disgust, there is an end of thole
ties which hind men together in society, and in-
MOO of honest y. being a virtue, and its opposite
,i 3 disgrai'e, we may as well become a society of
~freebootcrs, mid, prey upon each other without
appreheosion or remorse..

AIr.•PI:EL' Bin for amending tlif. ndmi►►istrn

Oen or the criminal law has been printed, and
now appears with the amendments made in it lsy
the Corrotsittee. That the measure in question
is cairn lilted to promote the cadet, more impar-
tial, and more etrectuat administration of criminal
jogtice, only two things urn necessary to convince
the public—ist, to read the Bill ; and 2d, to
reroutes, or inquire into, the almost innumerable
imperfections of the old law and practice for
which the present one affords n decisive remedy.,
Tho preamble asserts only the expedieney of de—
fining under 44 what circumstances Pec4on3 may
" in, ndrOitte4l to ball in cat,es of felony, anti of
" making better provision for taking examhut.,
Hens, informations, bailments, and recogni-
" v,rinces, nod returning the same to the proper
64 tribunals." This ii, a modest and unpretend-
ing preface to a most extensive work. The pro.
%failing clot rarterioics of the measure are, science
and consistency, in place of the grossest incon.
gruity ; and practical simplieity, where every
thing before wa eiNtraekill. The result, we have
ttai beNita lion in saying, is likely to be a inure
eirectna I punishment of crinies,-and of course a
dialinotioo of their frequency. Otia of the goo,'

!tortoises announced in the early part of the bill,
is to relax, in favour of substantial justice, that
which has been so often regarded as, in the ex.
o..ss to which it hod been carried, a reproach to
our air/jolt (and Wr night add to our civil).
jurispiudenee,--tho technical pedantry of the
proceedings and ocitten instruments, whereby
; the guilty are saved, and the defence coon
aence is perhaps often almost as Much gged
as assisted. Among the chief provisions of the
wrcanire are, that %here, in the opiniim of on,
4"titel it strong presumption of felony shall

have been made out against a party, no bail
shall be takep,_but,the party shall be committed
to gaol. And Where, in the opinion of two
Justices, a strong presumption of felony shall not
have been raked, but still ground enough be es-
tablished for a judicial inquiry into the case, the
part; may be bailed, under a clause, which
amends the Ist and 2d Philip and Mary, c. 13,
and the '2d and 3d of the same reign, a. 10, that
before any two Justices shall bail, or any one
Justice imprison, all the examinations, informa-
tions, &c. shall be written down, certified, and
signed, the witnesses bound over, and the whole
of these preliminary proceedings returned into
Court at its opening.• The same in cases
of misdemeanor. Similar powers are given,
and duties prescribed, to Coroners as to Jus-
tices of the Peace; and both are subject to
a discretionary fine by the Court, for fail-
ing to observe the above regulations. Fe•
lollies without benefit of clergy; are ousted of
--`

that benefit under all circumstances consequen
on the indictment. Clergyable felonies shall be
punished in cases of confession, of malicious, re-
fusal to plead, of challenging peremptorily above
twenty of the jury, as if it verdict of guilty had
passed. Accessories may be tried in any 'Court
which has jurisdiction to try the principal, al-
though the act whereby they become necessaries
may have been committed beyond that jurisdiction.
An accessory may be tried where the principal has
been convicted, although he may not have been
attainted, or may have been pardoned, or allowed
his clergy. A large tribe of technical absurdities,
by which justice had been materially obstructed,
are swept away by the two last provisions. So,
offences committed on the boundaries of two
counties, may be tried in either. Offences com-
mitted in a stage coach, or on board a vessel em-
ployed in inland navigation, may be tried in any
county through which the coach or vessel passed.
The property of partners is better secured by its
being unnecessary to mention the name of more
than one of the firm. In trials for robberies of
public property of any sort, the property may be
laid in the inhabitants of counties, the overseers of
the poor, the surveyors of highways or turnpike
trustees, respectively, without specifying any indi-
vidual names. No technical defects of indictments
shall be allowed to revers• the judgment once
obtained. One most i opert int amelioration of
the law is, that prosecutors and witnesses shall
he allowed their expellees in all cases of felony.
So in most cases of misdemeanor; likewise in
prosecutions in the Court of Admiralty ; and,
what is of equal moment, all who have been ac-
tive in the pursuit and apprehension of offenders,
may be recompensed at the discretion of the
Court, without their claims to indemnification
in the separate character of prosecutors or
witnesses being thereby defeated. If men lose
their lives in the course of -ucl► endeavours to
promote the ends of public justice, their wives,
children, or patents, us the case rn►y be, nre en-
titled to adequate cnmpensatiur►. Et is difficult
to calculate the additional security given by such
a measure to the admic►inistration of justice, if due
cgre be exercised to preve►►t its becoming a tNtilp.
tation to conspiracy against innocent men. Such,
so fur as we have had time to look into them,are
the principal clause!i of this most important sim-
plification of our criminal law, which embraces
within 16 pages matter more effectual and valu-
able than was previously tiiiperscd through se-
veral hundred ; and substitutes one short and
consistent Aet of Parliament for about 30 bad
ones, which it repeals.

[MORNING rosr.J

The discussion which recently took place In

the French Chamber of Deputies on the subject
of the African Slave Trade, and the assiStance
supposed to have been afforded to the Turks, by
the authority or with the connivance of the
French Government, presents several features
worthy of remark. That two subjects so un-
connected anti dissimilar should have been dis-
cussed together, upon the occasion of presenting
a petition relating to only one of them, seems to
indicate that the course of deliberation amongst
our neighbours is more under the influence, of
4 lively •and somewhat irregular fancy, and
less strictly subject to the restraints of system
anti
.of forms, than is perhaps quite consonant to
the proper steadiness and gravity of a legislative
body. Whilst we lament that assistance should
have been rendered in any instance to the cause
of the Turks by Officers bearing the commission
of his Most Christian Majesty, we cannot with-
hold the acknowledgment that the explanations
afforded by the President of the Council fully
exonerated the French Government front either
participation or connivance with the offenders ;
nor can we refuse to admit, so long as neu-
trality is the avowed policy of the State, that
the efforts of individuals to aid the cause either
of Turkey or Greece ought to be equally unob-
structed. We cannot say, however, that the
defence made .hy M. de Villele fur the conduct
of France, in respect to the African Slave
Trade, was equally successful. If, as that
Minister, indeed allows, the existing laws are
not .efficacious for thu suppression of that
crime, we cannot subscribe to the force of his
argument, that the existing precautions to pre-
vent the Slave Trade are us great as the freedom
of commerce will allow. We rather think that
the freedom of commerce is as Well understood
and us zealously guarded in Englund us in any
country whatever ; and yet the precautions and
penalties which'England has adopted to prevent
that abominable trait', are the •ttictest anti the
heaviest known to her laws. The use of this
argument was therefore an egregious over sight
on the part of the French Minister.

[NEW TIMES.]
We are happy to see that the French Minister
has been able to clear himself effectually of a
charga which we own weighed heavily upon him
in our estimation. ft bad been stated broadly
in the French Papers, that the Government of
that country had itv.lf recruited troops for the
'l"ba of Egypt to tight against the Greeks.--"'
Whatever our whibis may 1 for the
ul
turtate success of the Greeks, we tnive not pre-
tiqied to say that the Great Powers of Europe
re bound to aim in their favour ; buts ou the other