The Sun. — 1869-03-19 (London, England)

ANOTHER BETTING MAN.— " Hotspur," writing on Thursday to the Tax L-raph, sn.ys: " The condition of Squire Heathcote became worse suddenly this afternoon, and I regret that I have now to add that this fine sportsman died at ten minutes past nine this evening, at Epsom. Mr. Heathcote, who was only 40 years of age, has long occupied a distinguished position as a straightfo.-w -crd sportsman on the Turf, and an intrepid and skilful rider to hounds. The sport afforded by Ifs celebrated staghounds will long be remembered by those who participated in the many good runs that came off under the judicious management of the Squire. On the Turf he was generally successful, his most notable coup being the Chester Cup victory with Beeswing in 1867. The illness which caused his death was gastric fever, and only yesterday the disease took such a favourable turn that sanguine hopes were eutertalned tLat he would recover. As above stated, however, a sudden change for the worst proved fatal. Following so soon after the deaths of Lord Glasgow and Mr. Stephenson, the decease of Mr. Heathcote is likely to cast great gloom on the followers of racing. His is not the only item of bad news to be quoted to-day, as much excitement prevails at Epsom in consequence of its becoming known that Timothy Barnard, jun., had committed suicide by cutting hls throat."  FOREIGN HA3lS.—Through the kindness of a correspondent well known in botanical circles, we have had an opportunity of examining a remarkable specimen of prepared meat, stated to be a "portion of a Westphalian ham," sold in London for Hs. as an article of food. The slice is about one inch square and one-third of an inch in thickness, weighing considerably less than half an ounce. It could readily be swallowed as a single mouthful. from its odour and appearance, we should say that the only " smoking" it has undergone is such as would be imparted by a few hours' immersion in a solution of creosote. At all events the muscular fibres hare a glistening, fresh, carneous look, their transparency strongly contrasting with thinly-scattered fat messes, with tendineu3 and aponeuz-otic fibres, and more especially with a number of small cysts, most of which lay beneath the cut surface. These cysts, of which we have removed no less than 20 without brealein,g up the slice, contain each of them a larva of the well-known pork tapeworm, better understood as the Cysticeretts caltdoare. On microscopic inspection the latter were found to be alive, their characteristic booklets, suckers stud corpuscles being all well formed. As e-e have probably not removed more than half the nurnhe.rof measle ve:inles present in this precious morsel, it would be safe to say-thc.t '`mouthful," if swallowed in the condition in which we received it, would give rise to the formation of more than thirty tapeworms in the intestinal' canal of the perso who ate it. 'flint such meat should ever he sold ln any shape is simply disgusting. Fortunately our English hams are free from these parasites. The small white chalky deposits which one often sees in them are formed during the salting and smoking of the flesh. Their irregular form, with a size varying from that of a mere speck to one, two, or more lines in length, at once reveals their true character. Nevertheless, these soft secretions are often mistaken either for trichina capsules, or, more commonly, for degenerated and calcified measles. —Brim Medical Journal.