The Press. — London, England, 1853-05-28 00:00:00

The Essex Towx PLATE of 50 sovs. ( Handicap.) Mr. Drinkald's Starry (Aldcroft) 1 Mr. Reeves' Abdallah Mr. Magennis's Sandhurst $ Won by a neck. The GMAT EXHIBITION PLATE of 100 AOVA. (Handicap.) Mr. Magennis's Clair de Lune (Oliver ) 1 Mr. Wiggins Forester 2 Mr. Y. King's Narcissus 3 The nUItDANS STAKES of 5 SOTS. each, with 50 added. Lon! Londeshorongh'a Bold Dust (E. Harrison) I Captain Little's nt. by Connsellor—M iss Luey 2 Mr. J. Dawson's Shipwreck 3 The following also ran : Otranto, Preslaw, Tilshead Lass, f. by Venison, Knavery, e. by Epirus--Empress. Betting : 3 to 1 agst Gold Dust, 5 to 1 agst Empress colt, 3 to 1 agst Venison filly, 5 to I agst Counsellor mere, and II to 1 apt any other. AVott by half a length. The winner was afterwards sold for Selguinetts, the fund thereby realising upwards of IHOi. THURSDAY. EPSOM FOIM-TEAR-01.11 STAKES of 50 sovs. each. Duke of Bedford's Hugo (F. Butler) w. o. TWO•YEAR-01.111 STAKES of 10 %DVS. each, with 541 added. Lord Derby's Dervinh (F. Butler) 1 Lord Bruce's f. by the Libel—Splitrote Mr. Drinkalits Jack Frost The following also ran:—Lady Audrey, Contander,f. by John o' (;aunt—Eviudon, Victorine, Mouser, Hermitage, Mirabean, and Diable Bofteux, Betting: oto 4 agst Dervish, sto agst Mouser, oto 1 agst Splitvote filly, 8 to 1 apt Lady Audrey. Won very easily by a length. The winner was bucked after the race for the Derby of 1854 at 20 to 1. URAND STAND PLATE of lOU %MS, molded to a Handicap Sweepstakes of 10 toms. each. Lord Glasgow's Doublethong (Carroll) 1 Mr. Delamere's Madame Landow Mr. Saxon's Calot 3 A good race in ended in favour of Doublethong by three quarters of a length. SEWED STAKES of s"sovs. each, with 50 added. air. Armstrong's Sabra (Charlton) 1 Mr. Hodgaon's Eccentricity 2 Mr. French's Ada :4 The following also ran :—Determination, Saville, Peach, e. by Epirus out of Empress. Betting : 41 to 4 agst Ilrtennination, 3 to 1 agst Ada, 4 to 1 apt Sabra. Won by n length. The winner was after wards bonght in for 150 guineas. Ilea Ms.iniery's PLATE of 100 guineas (for mares only). Mr. H. Coomlw's Nervous (S. Steggles) 1 Mr. (ireville's Arline Mr. Vickers's Psaltery 3 The following also ran :—Bloomer, Augusta, The Siege, Prevention, Lady-in-Waiting. Betting: IS to 4 egg Augusta. 5 to 2 agst Arline, 3 to 1 eget Nervous. Won by a bead. ConnAm Pt..vri: of 50 runs. ( Handicap.) Mr. Fiennes' Old Rowley (Flatman) 1 Mr. Powell's Arnie Page Mr. Reeves Alalallah Betting: Even on Anne Page, sto agst Old Rowley, Ito 1 agst Abdallah, 111 to 1 any other. A fine race from Talienhoun-conier with the first three, Old Rowley winning by a neat. FRIDAY. The Ottis STAKEtt of 40 sovs. each, for threelenvold fillies. The owner (if the second horse to receive 100 lums. out of the stakes. Catherine Hayes i 1 /me . .2 Miss Mandl 3 Seventeen ran. 'Won in a venter. fleeting: t; to 4 agst Misletoe, 1. to 1 egg Catherine Hayes, 5 to I apt any other. 111 Em n Ens' lit. tn. YOUllg Englallil Honesty Four lull. DERM AND OAKS STAKI3S4 • Vero ' it tl Leylkmite o.* Fifteen rm. R*tt.w.e>• PLATE. Ventre-a-Terre.. Heri•int• Fottrurs Vistrons* l'i.‘Ti:. - t Vnui V. . ! I, tiweetliettrt - Vrtit reqt-Tetiv. _ .. Eleven rail. Tut TAINTION CRICKET Wour.n hen been so busied dining the past week with its preparations for Epsom. that we have nothing to note save one day"si play at Lord's, On Monday last. between two picked sides of the members of the M arylebone Club. There praetice games are always useful in bringing out young players. The match for 114 Imlay next iw between the M.C.C. and Ground against the Surrey Club and tiround. The long-expected match between NN Poctwk, of Lambeth, and Henry Clasper, of N eweastk-upon - Tyne, Mine off on Tuesday, the distal ice being from Putney-bridge to Chiswick-ait, much sl cotter than the usual course. The match, which was for 1001., was won after a good race by Pocock, .by about eight seconds. THE PRESS. Xxiu an Volta. THE NON-LIABILITY OF A MARRIED WOMAN FOR DEBT was pleaded before the Court of Exchequer on Tuesday, in an action brought by a livery-stable keeper, named Shoubridge, against Mrs. Quick. The lady was separated from her husband, had passed by the name of Blackwood, and while residing in Jer myn-street, in the year 1851, had incurred a debt of 421. 1044. with the plaintiff for the hire of a brougham and horse. According to his own statement he had never known the defendant under any other name than that she had assumed. He had driven her sometimes to Richmond, but generally round the Park. A Mr. Walter Scott Lockhart had given him a bill for the debt, which, however, had never been honoured. The marriage which constituted the de fence to the action was an Irish one, and took place in Dublin, in the year 1842, at the house of a Rev. Mr. Maguire , who was stated to have been in the habit of performing the marriage ceremony for per sons desirous of being united in bonds of matrimony in a particularly private manner. Mr. Quick was at that time an ensign in the 14th Regiment, quartered near Dublin. The defendant had afterwards tra velled about with him until 1846, when he was con fined in the Queen's Bench. Since then they had lived apart. An attempt. was made on behalf of the plaintiff to invalidate the marriage on the ground that no ceremony was performed in a church, but Baron Parke overruled the objection, observing that no act of Parliament for the regulation of marriages in Ireland existed previously to 1845. The verdict was therefore given for the defendant. THE PUBLICATION of A PIECE OF MUSIC, called " The Lancer Quadrilles," by Mr. Davidson, had been made the ground of an action in the Queen's Bench, by Mr. Cocks, the well-known music pub lisher, who complained that his copyright therein was infringed. A cross rale was on Monday moved for on behalf of the defendant, who had filed affidavits setting forth the impossibility of any copyright. in the publication appertaining to Mr. Cocks. "The Qua drilles" were published in Dublin in 1817 by Isaac Willis, and the subsequent publication of Mr. Cocks in October, 1848, was substantially similar to the former one, the title, and the dedication to the Countess of Farnham, being precisely the same. The affidavits went on further to trace the history of the five airs composing the quadrilles. The composer of the first air was dead, and his son had made an entry at Stationers'-hall claiming the copy right, not as the representative of the author, but as the author himself. The second air, "Lodoiska," was first performed at Drury-lane Theatre on the 25th of April, 1794. The third air was "When the heart of a man is oppressed with care," out of The Beggar's Opera ; the fourth stir, " Les Graces," was published in 1815; and the fifth air, " Les Lanciers," was pub lished at Milan in 17112, and in England in 1800. Rule nisi granted. THE ROTHERHITHE ROCKET MANUFACTURERS, Hale and Boyle, had true bills found against them on Monday by the grand jury at. the Surrey sessions. A writ of certiorari was, however, presented on the same day, by which the case is transferred to the Queen's Bench, and the trial is not expected to come on until the summer assizes for the county, to he held at Croydon in August next. THE proprietor of the Denbigh, Ruthyn, and Vale of Chryd4l Advertiser has been lately sentenced to pay 251. damages for a libel on a superintendent of the Denbigh police. An attempt to set aside this sentence and obtain a new trial was made on his be half in the Queen's Bench on Wednesday. The defendant's paper appeared once a month in Denbigh. About two years ago the plaintiff came to Denbigh, and the parties became acquainted. The plaintiffs son went into the defendant's establishment to learn the printing trade. The defendant had been ap pointed ininter to the Denbigh divis' of the consta bulary force. The plaintiff; in December, 1852, made some complaint. to the heads of the police about the defendant's con d uct fin his printing for the force. The defendant. on the 341 of January, 1852, published in his paper a statement to the effect that the plain tiff was ft mischievous person, a wo rker o f evil," and that it was necessary to put the neighbours on their guard against him ; and set out a letter which he had received from the clerk to the chief constable of the Northampton police in support of his charge. In a snbsequent number of the defendant's paper ap peareti an article in which the plaintif f was referrel to as the " Northainptonshire bluebottle," and other observati tttt s were made upon him. The ground on which a new' trial was sought was that the verdict was against the weight of evidence. The Court, however, did not think the verdict so plainly er• roueous to call on them to disturb it. The motion was therefore refused. RICHARD tivrsoN, described as an aeronaut, and once in good eireumstanees, but now suffering from impaired intellect, was tried at the Middlesex Sessions, cm Tuesday, for stealing some pewter pots. The fact of the theft was proved, and the prisoner's counsel con- t SATURDAY, tended for an acquittal solely on the plea of insanity. Defendant had been nicknamed " Mad Gypson" by the boys in the street. He was generally under the impression that he was a great friend of Napo leon Bonaparte's, and spoke ie high terms of his uncle, and was fond of speaking of his battled. He had talked about having a new balloon and taking a trip to dine with the present Emperor. Mr. Berwick, a contractor for the tents on Chobham-cortmon, stated that he had known the prisoner six ce seven years ; his character was always unimpeachable. He now got his living by writing doggrel poetry, and by assistance from his friends. He knew right from wrong generally, but acted ender erroneous im pressions. He came to him a short time since and asked him to go up in a ballaon to see the present Emperor : Mr. Sergeant ADANIK said thiscear iuvolved a matter of serious importance, and one of the met difficult questions to be solved hi law—namely, that of ntwlness as e defence to a criminal charge. There was 1110 doubt us to the filets el the case, and the jury would here to say upon the evideuee whether the prisoner knew tight from anew, and was eoguisant of the nature of the act he was committing. They were not to acquit him on any fancifhl melon about July wrong hapreasion he was under, be cause (Wen' crime was cummitt<r iWider 11 wrong impression, and, if such a defence was to be made the means of escape from justice, every thief would make the same excuse. The jury found the prisoner guilty, with a strong re commendation to mercy, and his friends afterwards offering to take charge of him, he was sentenced to one hour's imprisonment, and then left the court under their care. Two FOOTMEN, named Sanders and Crape, were on Wednesday charged at Marlborough-street with having obstructed and assaulted the police during the progress of the fete given on Tuesday by the Marquis of Breadalbane, in Grosvenor-street. The police witnesses stated that the prisoners with other footmen were creating a great disturbance on the pavement outside the mansion, and, refusing to amend their behaviour, were taken int o custody. This, however, was not accomplished without violent re sistance, and one of the defendants struck a police man and knocked hint down. Inspector Mahony added that the servants at these parties were usually very disorderly, and it was necessary to have special regulations for them. In the present ease there had been fighting and tossing among the servants con • gregated on the pavement before the police interfered. The defendant Sanders said he had been ordered by his master, Lord Verulam, to bring up the carriage, and he therefore conceived he had a right to wait to take up : Mr. Bingham said, at. three ocloek in the morning, when this disterteutee took place, there would mot he many of the public in the street—the only persons for whom the street would require to be kept free from ehstructiou were the gentlemen leaving the parry. At. these parties there would always be a large number of servaitts present, who must he kept in order by the police, as, finding the tune hang heavy on their hands. they would no doubt fall to bickering and tossing among themselves. But he knew of no law which would prevent a servant from standing at a door ready to take up, if he wits mitered there by his to taster. However, ha should nwouunend the defendants, and other servants under similar circumstances, to state the rase to the police, and, if then moved away, to leave their musters and the police to settle courtt rt, Ile should o rder' Sanders to lw discharged, but on Crept'', having nsteudted the constable in the execution of his duty, he shoulid inflict a tine of 20s. A Rei.e. having been made absolute, last term, by which Mr. Sill was struck off the roll of attorneys, in consequence of his conduct in connection with the " Brighton card-cheating ease," he applied in person to the Queen's Bench on Tuesday for a rule calling upon the Incorporated Law Society to show cause why that rule should not be rescinded. The plea on e hick this application was founded was that of " surprise :" Lord CAMPBILLL was of opinion that there was no ground for the application. The whole of the tram otetiou had been brought before the Court, and Mr. hill had entered into and explained his conued ion with it to the best of his ability, and with great inge nuity. But the transaction spoke for itself, and the Court en tertained not the slightest doubt that Mr. Sill had acted in such a manner that he ought no longer to remain on the roll of attorneys. Mr. 3ustice CROMPTON concurred. There WAN no ground for saying that Mr. Sill had been taken by surprise by the introduc tion of fresh matter on the argument of the rule. Hide refused. GEORGE WARREN and SAmitei. Moirens, the two men who were ordered by the House of Conunons to be prosecuted on the charge of having been guilty of perjury in their evidence before the Southampton election committee, have been apprehended, and ordered by the local magistrate to take their trials the Nisi Prins sittings at Westminster after next term, at the suit of the Attorney-General. Two CHARGES nr PERSoNATION AND PERJURY were brought before Alderman Wire, at the Guildhall, on Thursday, arising out of the pending contest for the City Chamberlainship. Mr. J. F. Emmett, in ten dering his vote, had taken the usual oath to the effect that lie had been a liveryman for twelve calendar months. Evidence being given that his membership of a livery was much more recent, the defendant was ordered to give his own recognizances for his re appearance. In the other case one Lawrence Shaw, having reco a vote in the name of Matthew Cart wright, was rew ired to find bail before leaving custody on the remand. gm I6L