The Sun.
London, England, 1842-01-07 00:00:00

SPORTING REVIEW.

The Curragh Summer Races at Kildare at-
tract the Editor in the sporting season, but his
disappointment betrays itself in the remark that
though in no country on earth sporting forms so
popular a conversation-subject as in Ireland, it is
nowhere less carried artistically into effect.
Two plates, a plain and coloured, represent
" Midsummer and Mosquito," the Earl of Strad-
broke's celebrated greyhounds, and the royal
paddock. In "Cambridge and Cambridge men,"
the various sporting characters and packs in that
vicinity of late years are noticed : the hounds are
accounted good, but the country is unfavourable
both to them and horses, being in many places
rotten, and abounding in awkward grips.

A NEW SCHEME.—A case of French toys was
landed at one of the " legal quays" a few days ago, and
imported as such, and was, therefore, destined to pay the
usual ad valorem duty of 20 per cent. The case appa-
rently contained those cheap toys, garden-pots, which
are hawked about our streets by Italians and others, at
the rate of one halfpenny each, but they are no sooner
out of the jurisdiction, or at least out of the sight of her
Majesty's revenue, than- these, by the removal of the
fancy red ochre with which they were externally deco-
rated, were transmogrified into chocolate, and reduced
into saleable packages, at an immense profit to the for-
tunate adventurers.

TREASURE LOST.—A box, containing up-
wards of 170/. in gold, together with a quantity of silver,
was lost from the Buckingham Shire outward-bound East
Indiaman, on Monday evening last. The vessel, which
is going out to Bombay, is lying off Gravesend, and the
money in question, the property of Messrs. Mangles,
Price, and Co., the ship-owners of Broad-street, was a
portion of the sum remitted to pay the seamen their cus-
tomary advance of wages before proceeding to sea. A
reward of 101. is promised to the finder.
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THE ANCIENT MINERAL SPRINGS OF ST.'
AGNES, HoxToN.—ln the course or the excavations
which are now in progress at the end of Pittfield-street,
Old-street, for the formation of a new sewer, when the
workmen reached that part of the road which is opposite
the St. Agnes mineral baths, they came against a Roman
brick gutter, at the depth of about twelve feet,which was
found to communicate with the site of the ancient baths
known by the above name. The effect was, that upon the
gutter being removed the baths were soon emptied, and
the supply was lost, as the water ran dawn the course of
the new sewer. At the time of the discovery a fall of
earth had taken place in the sewer, when the water
speedily rose to a height of ten feet. Previously it was
not known where the source of the spring was ; but
it is now ascertained to have run from the west. In the
title-deeds of the property no mention is made to that
effect. The bricks that formed the gutter are of the most
solid and compact structure, each is twelve inches
long, six inches wide, and the diameter of the bore
three inches and a half ; each weighs from twelve to
fourteen pounds. The baths were originally erected in
the year 1242, by Agnes, daughter of Sir John de Finn,
one of the knights who accompanied King John to the
Holy Land. After the sewer is formed, Mr. Moore, the
proprietor of the baths, is led to believe that the Com-
missioners of Sewers of the Holborn and Finsbury di-
vision will restore the communicatim between the
springs and the baths. Some gentlemen connected with
the Antiquarian Society have visited the spot.
EXPENSIVE AMUSEMENT.—On Thursday
night, some disciples of the Marquis of Waterford,
played off some of their pranks in this town, by break-
ing a number of lamp glasses, wrenching off a few door
knockers, and engaging in other innocent and aristocratic
pastimes. Fortunately they were but young hands at
the fun, for next morning one of them was so " jolly
green" as to confess the whole affair, and criminate his
accomplices, by which means they were all, four in number,
by the aid of warrants, prevailed on to attend at the Ma-
gistrate's office, where, after a lengthened investigation,
they were ordered to pay 26/. for damage done, and were
further fined in the sum of 11. each, being at the low
price of 41/. for the evbning's entertainment.—Cheltenhant
Elerminer.

Mr. Palmer, the Lord of the Manor where the
fatal accident on the Great Western line of Railway
took place, we have heard, will give 1001. to the 'rela.
fives of each of the persons killed, out of the 1,0001.
deodand to which he is entitled, and divide the re.
mainder among the sufferers who survived this dreadful
calamity.
THE IRON TRADE.—The state of the iron trade
as was expected, came under the consideration of the
iron-masters' meeting at Dudley, on Thursday last,
when, we are happy to state, it was determined to con-
tinue paying the men at theirpresent rate of wages. No
reduction, consequently, will, in,the present state of af-
fairs, take place. Thus, as hands have not been dis-
charged (nor are any that we know of under warning)
and the rate of wages remains the same, the discontinu-
ance of the working of the furnaces (for there will not
be a fourth of those recently at Work blown out) will not
prove so calamitous as apprehended. The surplus stock
of iron is understood to be chiefly pig iron, and it would
appear from the circumstances above stated, that em-
ployment had been found for the furnace men, and
others immediately connected with that manufacture, in
other departments of the business. The price of pig
iron in London, we see by the quotations, receded five
shillings per ton, last week ; other sorts remain the same.
—Staffordshire Chronicle.
Rather a serious disturbance took place a short
time ago at the Ecole Polytechnique. Last year the con-
duct of many of the elder pupils was so turbulent, and the
punishments inflicted were found so inadequate, that
Marshal Soult, a month ago, issued anew set of regula-
tions for the government of the school, •in which it was
stated, that in the event of any fresh acts of insubordina-
tion, the offenders of the last year, whether proved to
have taken a part in them or not, should be expelled, or
otherwise severely punished, as the old offenders were
considered to be the soul of all rebellion ; it was hoped
that, as they would not under these new regulations
be able to incite the junior members to revolt with-
out bearing themselves the penalty, they would
keep within boundS ; the result, howeter, was
very different from what the Marshal expected. The
school rose to nicts*e ; and some of the ringleaders having
been takeninto custody, a plan was formed for their for-
cible liberation. In vain did the great officers of the
establishment alternately menace and exhort ; the pupils
would listen to no arguments, and loudly demanded the
release of their comrades and the revocation of the regu-
lations. In this state of things the Marshal was waited
upon by the heads of the school, and, after a long confe
rence, it was resolved to withdraw the regulations and set
the prisoners at liberty. Since then the pupils have been
quiet, but it is not likely that their triumph over the old
warrior will make them mono tractable.- Paris Letter.
THE ANTI-CORN-LAW CONFERENCE.--The
feeling in Edinburgh is so strong in favour of the great
Anti-Corn-law meeting which is to take place next
week, that although several hundred
.nainisters and mem-
bers of dissenting churches from distant places have been
accommodated with free lodgings in the houses of private
friends, and by the exertions of the different Committees
who have taken charge of the matter, we understand
.daily_ offers of additional accommodation are being sent
in ; so that after supplying all the demands up to yes-
terday, there was a considerable surplus applicable to
to those who may.yet make applications.. NO stronger
/ proof than this could be given of the-meeting being on.
tirely in unison.with the feelings of the great bulk bf
DinSentin4body.—Scotonaw.