The Sun.
London, England, 1842-10-25 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. 1 THE PARISH OF ST. ANDREW, !
NEWMARKET HOUGHTON MEETING. HOLBORN.—TITHES.
RACE COURSE, MONDAY AFTERNOON, 4 O'CLOCK.: Last evening a numerous meeting of the inhabi-
The arrivals since our last dispatch have nearly filled i tants of this parish was held at the Mechanics' Insti-
tie town, and raised lodgings to a premium ; and the
tution Southanniton-buildin she Rev. An Travers
, Holborn to take into
weather having realized our worst anticipations, hacks, i ' - '
flys, post-chases, and every variety of waterproof and . consideration the conduct ofgt
winter clothing, have been in constant requisition. It is : Robinson, M.A., the-Rector, so far as regarded the
crectitable to the inhabitants that they have not adopted , proceedings which he has instituted in the Court of
the suicidal system pursued at many of the racing towns, ' Chancery, for the recovery of his tithes.
but have contented themselves with the customary scale The - chair.. was taken at six o'clock by Thomas
of prices. The events for decision this afternoon were six in I Wakley, Esq., M.P., who, upon his appearance on the
number,'enough for a moderate appetite under any circum- platform, was greeted with loud- cheering. On being
stances, but more than enough considering the wretched voted to the chair he said, that the object of the meet-
state of the ground and the weather. Before we make the ing was altogether separate from party considerations,
usual return, we should state that the Cambridgeshire being only to make the parishioners at large ac.-
Stakes was speculated upon yesterday evening to a large
quainted with the state of the case, as between the
amount, and with an important influence on the odds:—
Melior came at 25 to 1, and was so powerfully supported, Rector and those
that before the ring was broken up he was almost as good grieved by what they considered a vindictive persecu-
a favourite as anything, bar Florence. The Knight of, tion. - The 'mater in dispute, as he was informed,
the Whistle, whose sudden recovery from what proves to arose under These circumstances :—The rectory was
have been an imaginary lameness, we announced in our i in the gift of the Duke of Buccleuch, by whom the
last, re-appeared, and closed with backers, at 12 to 1. late Rector was presented to it, and by him claims
Bellissima rose to 14 to 1, and the Hawk to 15 to 1, taken were raised, with which the parishioners de-
freely ; Cabrera receded to 15 to 1 ; the Busk mare to clined to comply, offering only a passive re-
,2oto 1 ; and Billingham Lass went out of the betting. sistance, for the legal right of the Rector
Against the principal favourites the last offers were Bto 1 was admitted. Now, in consequence of the evils
against Florence, and 10 to 1 each against Melior and
Ralph ; 6to 4 was. offered against Cot.herstone for the which had sprung up over the country from the
Criterion, and 30 to 1 against him for the Derby. Busi- expansive and vexatious proceedings for the recovery
ness was resumed this morning, but as the prices corres- of tithes, there had been, at different times, no less
pond essentially with , those quoted below, we need not than three A cts of Parliament passed to facilitate the
go into details. recovery of these imposts in a summary and inexpen-
The ".card", of the day, the first ever seen at New- , sive manner. • The first of these was the Act of the
,market, gave. the .colours of the riders, as a matter 7th and Bth Will. 111., which limited the expenses to
of course' ;, we shall probably have the numbers tele- 10s., and took away all remedy, if: proceedings should
graphed • some two. or three years hence—(the Jockey not be taken within two years. The next was the
Club we must • say, are-very slow in adopting improve- 53d George 111., which provided that where the
ments). - Of the sport, to which the card proved a more amount of tithe did not exceed 305., process should be
convenient guide than the list, we subjoin such particu-
lars as time and the discomforts of a course like New- taken by_suminons before the Justice of the Peace,
market in stormy weather will permit.
who should have authority to isstie•warrant of distress
, .
Handicap Sweepstakes of, 25 sovs. each, for three year sth and 6th
for the amount. The next Act was the
olds. D. M. (8 Subs. ; three of whom paid 10 soya, of William IV., which raised the amount of tithe to
each.) be recovered in that cheap way. to 101. Under
Mr. Boyce's cby 'Hymen, dam by Perchance, 3 yrs, this Act the' Rector, Mr. - Robinson, applied
6st 9lb - Magistrates,' and in every - instance
'Mr. Etwall's Discord, 5 yrs, 9st 71b
'Mr. Goodman's The Shadow, 6 yrs, Bst' 131 b
Lord Exeter's-Bosphorus, 6 yrs, 7st 21b
' Colonel Peers Archy, 3 yrsy7st 5 ence of that 'Court he would say, that if a Rector
Betting-Two ,to .1 agst . Discord, 3 to 1 agst The . .
ShadOw,- arid 3to 1. agst . the winner. Bosphorus made wished to give his parisuoners.a foretaste of another
play to the new ground, Where . The Shadow displaced, Oleo that should be "nameless, he could not do it
and carried the running, in to the cords, .Discord and the better than by rutting them in Chancery.-(Hear,
Hymen colt following her ; they then challen,red, and a and latighter.) The very object of the Bill of 1835
splendid race with the two ended in favour of the Hy- was to prei•ent the vexatious proceedings to which
men cat by a head. The. Shadow was a very close the Rector had resorted. Ile (Mr. Waltley) did not
third ; the others were beaten off. state these facts from his own knowledge ; but the

Match, 50, h ft. T.Y.C.
Lord Rosslyn's Camelino, 6 yrs, 9st 71b (F. Butler) 0
Col Anson's Marquise, 2-yrs, 65t...(D. Darling,lun.) 0
• Even betting. A dead heat.
Mr. Osbaldeston's Devil-among-the-Tailors, 3 yrs, Bst
(F. Butler); beat Lord Albemarle's Buffalo, 4 yrs, Bst 71b.
T.Y.C. 100, h ft. 6to 5 on,Buffalo. Won by a length.
Duke of Bedford's Momeda, 6 yrs, Bst 41b (E. Ed-
wards), beat Mr..Payne,'s Johnny, 5 yrs, Bst 71b. D.M.
300, h ft.., 6 to 5 on Johnny, who was defeated by two
lengths. •
The Criterion Stakes of 30 sovs. each, 20 ft ; for two
yis old colts, Bst 71b ; fillies, Bst 51b,, &c. From the
turn of the Lands in. The second saves 'his stake.
(24 Subs.)
Lord G. Bentinck's Gaper (Rogers) 1
Mr. Watts' c by Yaxley, dam by Blacklock 2
Mr. I. Sadler's Testy
The following also started; but were not placed :
Lord Exeter's f by Jerry, out of Macremma—Lord
Oxford's f by Emilius, out of -Fidelity—Colonel Peel's
Canton (21bs. ,extra);-Mr. Bowes's Cotherstone, and
Mr. Goodman's Bother-'em (21bs. extra). •
Betting-5 to 2 agst Cotherstone, sto 2 agst • the
Yaxley colt, 3 to 1 agst Canton, and 8 to 1 agst Gaper.
Gaper jumped off with the lead, made all the running,
and won easy by a length; a fine 'race for second ; the
Maeremtaa filly about two lengths baind, Cotherstone
cloSe up with the latter, and the other's beaten off.
The Cambridgeshire Stakes of. 25 soya. each, 10 ft; and
only 5 ft if declared, with:loo/.1 added by the inhabi-
tants. Last mile and a dis of B.C. (88 Subs.,•34 dec.)
Lord Albemarle's Ralph, 4 yrs, Bst 71b .:.(Robinson) 1
Duke of Grafton's Florence, 4 yrs, 7st
.1113.
Lord Jersey's Lady Adele, 3 yrs, 7st.llb 3
The following also started, but were not placed :
' Mr. Holmes's Vulcan 5 yrs, 9st. 31b—Mr. Graydon's
Roscius, 6 yrs, Bst .5113L-Coi. Peel's Garry Owen, 5 yrs,
Bst 51b—Duke of Bedford's Monceda; 6`yrs, Bst 2113
' Mr. Sadler's Bellissima; aged, nt 101h----Lord Chester-
field's Knight of the Whistle, 4' yrs, 7st 81b— -Sir W.
Stanley's Forester, 4 yrs, 7st 71b—Mr. Ramsay's Ca-
brera, 3 yrs,' 7ct.7lb—Mr.-F. Walker's Billingham Lass,
7st 51b—Duke of Rutland's Genius, 5 yrs, 7st 51b
—Lord Eglinton's Melior,.3 yrs, Est 121b—Lord Orford's
c by Jerry, out of Petulance, 3 yrs, 6st 121b—Col. Peel's
I-am -not-aware, aged, Est 121b—Mr. Dixon's .lla
3 yrs, 6st 71b—Duke of Portland's The Gleaner,. 3 yrs,
Est 41b—Mr. J. Day's m by Nimrod, out of Bus*, 5 yrs, 6st.
Betting-4 to 1 agst Florence, 11 to 1 agst
11 to 1 agst Melior, 13't0.:1 agst Lady Adeli, 13 to 1
agst Cabrera, 13 to 1 agst Garry Owen, 17.' to 'l' agst
Hawk, 17 to 1 agst Knight 'of the Whistle; 17 to -1 agst
Roscius, 20 to 1 agst Vulcan, and 20 to 1 agst Busk m.
Won by a length.
• Lord Exeter's Albion received forfeit from Mr. Shel-
ley's Daddy Longlegs, Bt'7lb each, T.M.M., 100, h ft.
We reserve. our remarks on the Cambridgeshire
Stakes, and a list of the arrivals, for our next parcel.
The match between Garry Owen md Celia is post-
poned from Wednesday to Friday.
' Mr. Irby, a gentleman well known on the turf, died
this morning at eleAn 'o'crock.

We believe we can .now announce that Mr. Black-
burne is Master of the Rolls, Much to his own disap-
pointment and the annoyance of the Government,
inasmuch as the Right Hon. Gentleman, as well as
" the people at the Castle," had calculated, to a cer-
tainty, on Chief Justice Pennefather's acceptance of
the offer of a transfer to the Rolls. But Mr. Penne;
father, we have heard, has written over, announcing
that he prefers his present place, and dislikes the notion
of changing to a worse one.—Dublin Post.
The Directors of the Newcastle and. Darlington
Junction Railway are bringing compensation cases
before Juries in the. county of Durham, in which
county it.has hitherto been the practice to plunder.
Railway Companies, by: high prices and enormous
rents for way leaves. The first case tried before the
Under-Sheriff, Wooller, Esq.,: was for the price
of the Dean and _Chapter of Durham's interest in 50
acres of land, let on several leases. Their valuers
swore to 12,3191. as the value, and the Jury gave
3,500/.! Comment on this result would be super-
fluous.—Railway Times.
THE FAVOURED CHURCH.--A few weeks ago we
intimated to our readers,that, acting,under one of the
provisions of the new Local Act, which•gives him a
discretionary power, his Worship the Mayor had is-
sued a notice, prohibiting coaches and cars from,
passing St. George's church during the hours of Di-
vine service on Sundays. This regulation he seems
determined to enforce, for at the Police-office yester-
day two carmen named Thomas Hilton and John
Barnes, were fined 10s. and costs each, for infringing
the regulation. The public, doubtless, are aware that
the church in question is the one which his Worship
attends, and perhaps that is the reason why that one
alone is to be protected by the special interference of
the Mayor. There are other churches in the town,
to say nothing of chapels, the congregations of which
stand in as much need of being protected from the
din of coaches and cars, as do the congregation of
St. George's, and unless the same law be extended to
them, we think they will have much reason to com-
plain of the partiality of his IVorship., Were we
asked to give an opinion on the subject, however, we
should be inclined to say that devout and sincere wor-
shippers would be little disturbed by the occasional
passing of a coach.—Liverpool Mercury.
A dreadful accident occurred last week at Croydon.
A cat ter, named Stephen Standen, in the employ of
Mr. James Peters, of Merstham, was going to London
with a timber ceniage, and when the waggon was
passing down the hill, near the Crown corner, the ve-
hicle overpowered the shaft horse, and forced it upon
the pavement. In order to prevent mischief being
done to the, shop windows. Standen endekwoured to
seize the. wheel horse by the head, but in so doing he
slipped, and fell under the waggon, the fore and hind
wheel passing completely over his right side, breaking
his arm, nearly the whole of the ribs, and also crush-
ing the buttock of the rnfortunate man. Assistance
was promptly rendered, and he was conveyed to the
union-house, where Dr. Bottomley, was speedily in
attendance, but it is almost unnecessary to say that
the injuries were of such a character as to preclude
any chance of relief from human hands. The poor
sufferer lingered for four . days, and was perfectly
sensible to the last. An inquest was held by Mr..
Carter on Saturday, when the Jury returned a ver-
dict of " Accidental death," with a deodand of one
shilling on the waggon.
Early in the morning of Tuesday a considerable
fall of snow took place at Keswick, and the summits
of the mountains were covered. The snow has fallen
folly eight days previous to the first fall of snow last
year, and its early appearance is considered to be a
warning of. a severe winter. A great number of the
winter migratory birds have arrived in the neigh-
bourhood, and woodcocks in particular begin to be
plentiful.—Carlisle Patr-Sot.

meeting would hear them from the gentleman who
gave him the information, and then they would have
to say whether they would agree. to the reSolutions
to be subinitted to them. The persons who were re-
sisting the.•oppressiOn could not be expected to go
on sacrificing themselves finless they received the sup-
port 'of
.the friends Of , civil and:religion§ liberty.H.
(Ileal.,,hear..) • Those persons . did not deny, the legal
right Of the Rector, but they declined the payment on
conscientious grounds.--4A -laugh.) Oh,' some pee-
ple might laugh, for they thought conscientious .ob-
jectionS the most unreasonable of all.-(Cheers and
laughter.) But it appeared to him that such persons
were not very much burdened with conscience them-
selves—(Hear, hear)—and he thought that a teacher
of religion could not serve the interests of his religion.
better than by respecting the conscientious feelings of
his parishioners.—(l-lear, hear.) He (Mr.' Wakley)
did not come there to make an attack upon any One,.
but to hear the opinions of that large and respectable
body of his constituents, on a Matter which concerned
them and the rest of the country. so materially, and to
act upon those opinions in other places at another
time, should it be required of him to do so. .
PuanAy, of Holborn, music-seller, as one of
the objects of persecution in this case, thought it right,
before moving a resolution, to state something of the
history of the case.
.When the question had been
agitated for six or seven years, attempts. were made
by Mr. Bell, the solicitor of the late Rector, to
inveigle the recusants into an.acknowledgment of the,
claim, by the payment :of. any sum, however small ;
but they had resist-Aall those-attempts, and the con-
test went on, until; after the late Rector, Mr. Berea-
ford, was obliged to give up tlie hiring, in consequence
of an Act of Parliament which prevented him from
holding it with another of greater value in a distant
part of the Country. Then •a. contract was made
between Mr. Beresford arid his successor, by which
the latter, .W4s to follow .up the ;tithe Persecution.—
(Shame.) The consequence
.of this :was that the
present Rector, having obtained: warrants under the
Act of William the Fourth, did not choose to enforce
them, but commenced !a new series of operations in
the most vexatious andexpensive Court in the world—
the Court • of' Chancery.—(Hear,, hear,
,:and Shame.)
The manner,,in-which 'tithes were enforced rendered
the very name hateful allover - the country. .
-Mr. TURNER (solicitor to the Rector), said it was
the law of the land.H(Hisses and laughter)..
Mr. PURDAY said that the Rector would find it was
not the law of the land.—(Cheers:)', the fourteen
proceeded against in 'Chancery, ten had 'succumbed,
after having incurred 10/. and 12!. costs upon claims
of as many shillings.—(Hisses.) For his resistance
and holding out he had been denounced by name, from
the pulpit of the parish ;church, is• a non-conformist
and a radical. He was.both, and that.was the
„cause
of the vindictive feelings of which he had been the
object„—(Hear, hear.) He concluded by, moving a
resolution, condemnatory of the conduct of the Rector
in passing over the Act of William IV., which was
especially intended to. meet such cases. . .
The resolution was put and carried, with two dis-
sentients only, including 'Mr. Turner.
Mr. GRIFFITH, churchwarden, defended the con-
duct of the Rector, and said that as the tithe was
ad-
mitted to be legal, he would not thinkmuch of the
conscience of any man, who refused to' pay it. Mr.
Griffith was heard amidst unequivocal marks of dis-
. approbation. ,
WooLLEE, who was much applauded, and
expressed himself decidedly of opinion that the course
the Rector had taken 'was not only cruel and oppres-
sive but, illegal, moved a resolution; pledging the
meeting to render every possible assistance to the
defendants.
Mr. HAyNEs, in an eloquent speech, which elicited
the warmest applause, seconded the resohition.. It was
carried in the same manner as the preceding.
• Thanks having been voted to ,the Chairman, the
meeting
separated.

ENORMOUS FISH CAUGHT IN THE THAMES.---7011
Sunday afternoon, between four, and five o'clock, se-
veral watermen on duty at .Bell Water-gate, near the
Pier, observed a large dark substance projecting above
the surface ,of the river. The animal was moving
down the river between the Pier and the Dreadnought
Seamen's Hospital ship. Five men put off in 'their
boats, and one of them, armed with a large bearded
spear, commenced the attack upon; the monster, which
soon showed symptoms of weakness, and threw up
large quantities of water from the blowing apertures
on the hack. The other boats surrounded the animal
and pushed it along with their boats close under the
Pier, where they finally dispatched him, and with
strong cords and pullies raised him with much diffi-
culty upon the Pier. In a short time afterwards im-
mense numbers df persons congregated to gratify.
their curiosity, when Mr. John Taylor, the High
COnstable of DeptfOrd, was compelled to ask for the
aid of the R division of Police to keep order. The for-
tunate captors have measured him, and state that his
length is about twenty feet, girth about
.ten feet, and
weight nearly two tons.. At day-break yesterday
morning, a large timber carriage being procured, the
animal (a Fin-back) was, after great labour and time
removed,-and secured ,lay chains to it,•and conveyed
by means of several horses to the premises adjoining
, Mr. Williams, the Bull and Butcher, Old King.
street, and placed upon -a stand erected for the purpose.
As Washington may be called the head quarters of
'tobacco-tinctured saliva, the time is come when I must
confess, without any disguise, that the prevalenCe of
those two odious practices ofchewing and expectorating
began about this time to be anything but agreeable, and
soon became most offensive and sickening. In all the
public places of America this filthy custom is recog-
nised. In the Courts of Law the Judge has his spittoon,
the crier his, the witness his, and the prisoner
his, while the jurymen and • spectators are provided
for, as so many men who, in the course of nature,
must desire to spit incessantly. In the hospitals the
students of medicine are requested, by notices upon
the wall, to eject their tobacco juice into the
boxes provided for that purpose, and not to dis-
colour the stairs. In public buildings visitors are im
plored, through the same agency, to squirt the es-
sence of their quids, or ' plugs,' as I have heard them
called by gentlemen learned in this kind of sweet-
meat, into the national spittoons and not about the
base of the marble columns. But in some parts this
custom is inseparably mixed up with every meal and
morning call, and with all the transactions of social
life. The stranger who follows in the track I took
myself, will find it in its full bloom and glory, luxu-
riant in all its alarming recklessness, at Washington,
and let him not persuade himself (as I once did, to my
shame), that previous tourists have exaggerated its
extent. The thing itself is an exaggeration of 'nasti-
ness," which cannot be outdone.—Dickerd American
Notes.
FRENCH AND ENGLISH POSTAGE.—We are inun-
dated with letters expressing the highest satisfaction
at the prospect of the amelioration in the present
enormous rates of postage between this country and
England, and with inquiries as to at what period the
desirable alteration in contemplation may be expected
to take place ? To this question we can give no
raiswer fui ither than to state that we learn that the
Noble Postmaster-General, Lord Lowther, and the
Secretary, Colonel lliaberly, have warmly taken up
the subject, to which they are both highly favourable,
and that the efforts of these influential gentlemen is
greatly calculated to bring the negotiations to a speedy
ax:d gatisfactory terraination,—Galitnizni.

Yesterday the body of a respectably dressed female,
about 35, was taken out of the Grand Surrey Canal,
between Windmill-land and Blackhorse-bridge. She
is supposed not to have been long ;n the water. The
body was conveyed to the King's Head, Deptford.
Deceased wore white cotton stockings, cloth laced
boots, a black kid glove on one hand, muslin necker-
chief, marked J. L. No. 2, a green chali dress,
sprigged, and tuscan bonnet. In the deceased's pocket
was found a pawnbroker's duplicate for a pair of shoes
pledged for two shillings, in the name of Amy Thorn-
ton, Bromley.
SUDDEN DEATH.—An awful ;nst Ince of sudden
death occurred on Friday, to M. Elizabeth Cook,
the wife of a respectable tailor residing in Poland-
street, Oxford-street. She was in perfect health at
breakfast time, and before three o'clock in the after-
noon she was a corpse, having been suddenly seized
with paralysis.