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

DEATH OF ANOTHER BETTING MAN. —" Hotspur," writing on Thursday to the Telegraph, says: " 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 straightfol ward sportsman on the Turf, and an intrepid and skilful rider to hounds. The sport afforded by his 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 l3eeswing in 1867. The illness which caused his death was gastric fever, and only yesterday the disease took that sanguine hopes were enter aleed that 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 his throat." . FOREIGN HAlM—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 16s. 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 museular fibres have . A glistening, fresh, carneeus look, their transparency strongly contrasting with thinly-scattered fat masses, with temlimal and aponeurotic 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 breaking imp the slice, contain each of them a larva of the well-known pork tapeworm; better understood as the Cysticercus cellutosa,. On microscopic inspection the latter were found to be alive, theif characteristic hooklets, suckers, and corpuc,eln being all well formed. As we have-probably not removed more than half the number of measle vesicles present in this precious morsel, it would be safe to say that the '' mouthful, "if swallowed in the condition in which we received it, Woula give rise to the forination-iof mere ostn thirty tapeworms in the intestinal canal the perso who ate it. That such meat should ever i.e sold in 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 ra!aales. Medical Journal.