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100 Wiled.

Mr. Tilbury's Tomboy (Crouch) 1
Mr. Goodwin's Musician 0
Duke of Richmond's Antigone
Betting : 7to 4 against Tomboy. Won by a short head
only. A dead heat for second.
BRIGHTON CUP Of 100 NOM, added to a sweepstakes of
10 ROM each.

Mr. Mare's Ariosto (S. Rogers) 1
Duke of Richmond's Harbinger 2
Betting : Even on Ariosto, 4 to 1 against Harbinger.
The winner was claimed.

FIRST YEAR OF THE SECOND BRIGHTON BIENNIAL STAKES

of 10 sovs. each, with 100 added, for two-year-olds.
Mr. Thelltutson's King Tom (IV. Day) 1
Duke of Bedford's Student '2
Lord Dorchester's Bracken

Betting : 2 to 1 on King Tom, 5 to 1 against Student.
PAVILION PLATE Of 50 sovs.
Mr. Delamere's Madame Landeau (J. Butler) 1
Count Batthvany's Hambletonian
betting : 2 to 1 on Hambletonian.

SUSSEX PLATE of 50 SOVN.
Lord A. G. Lennox's Nightshade (Charlton) 1
Mr. Jordan's Jessamine
Mr. Magennis's Janina

The setttement on the Goodwood events pretty well mo-
nopolised attention at Tattersall's on Monday. The at.
tembuice was exceedingly numerous, but the results, fur
the moment at all events, anything but satisfactory. Most
of the balance•sheets presented an extraordinary array of
figures, the betting having been to an extent seldom if
ever surpassed. That it had been a smiling meeting for
the fielders was very evident, but " the true joy is when
the money comes ;" and what with the late attendance of
some parties—the total absence of the accounts of others,
heavy betters too—and the disappointment caused by three
or four " hit and missing," one of whom used to be deep
in commissions, and whose locus daft& in future is likely
to be in that paradise of defaulters, Boulogne, there was a
fruitful source of vexation and complaint.

Aqtrsrics.—Doggett's coat and badge was rowed for on
Monday by six competitors, against the tide, from London-
bridge to the Swat► at Chelsea, After a very hard struggle,
the victory remained to James Richard Finnis, of the
Tower-stairs.

pin ad Voila.

CONSPIRACY TO MURDER THE EMPEROR
OF THE FRENCH.
An alleged conspirator, a French refugee, named
Edouard Ilaynaud, has been examined before, and
committed for trial by, the magistrate at Bow-street
Police-office during the week. The prisoner had ad-
dressed two letters to the Prince de Joinville, in the
first of which he proposed a scheme for the destruc-
tion of the Emperor's life, and requested the Prince's
co-operation and assistance. In the second letter he
offered to go over to France and accomplish the mur-
der of Louis Napoleon, unaided, if the Prince would
give him 20/. When his crime was first communi-
cated to the police, Raynand was residing in Sher-
rard's-place, Soho, but disappeared, and was not cap-
tured until the officers had traced him to Southampton,
where he was caught on the very point of embarking
for .lersey. His first appearanee at the Police-office
was on Tuesday, when he was merely remanded for
the attendance of the Prince de Joinville. On Wed-
nesday the Prince was present, and the prisoner being
again placed at the btu.,

Mr. llonstm, who was accompanied by Mr. Reynolds (the soli•
citor to 'freasury) anti Mr. Humphreys, said he appeared by
direction of the
offence of which the prisoner was accused was a misdemeanour.
He was charged with an attempt to conspire in this country to
assarainate the present reigning Emperor of the French. It was
not necessary to quote case* for the purpose of showing that this
was an offence against the laws of England. The circumstances
of the case were very short. The Prince de Joinville, who is a

SATURDAY,

resident in this country, received a letter from the prisoner two
Or three months ago, of which be took no notice at the time, his
Royal Highness having regarded it as sat idle and impertinent
effusion. That letter was destroyed. Shortly afterwards a se-
cond letter was received by the Princes secretary, in the same
handwriting and of similar purport, but going somewhat more
into detail. It was followed by a third letter, in which the
writer stated that he had been down to Claremont. His Royal
Highness now considered it his duty to send these letters to the
Home-otlice, and Lord Palmerston, on seeing them, determined
to take proceedings with a view to the discovery and apprehension
of the prisoner. The purport of the letters addressed to the
Prince wait, that his Royal Highness should combine with the
writer in au attempt to assassinate Louis Napoleon. or, by ad-
voicing a aunt of 201, enable the prisoner to do it himself, with-
out assistance. A detective omcer having been employed by the
Commissioners of Police to commence a search for the prisoner,
inquiry was made for hint at the house from which the letters
had been addressed to the I'rince. It was ascertained that the
prisoner was residing there; but, on suspecting, probably, the
object of the inquiry, he decamped ftom London. He was traced
and followed to Southampton, and apprehended just before his in-
tended departure for Jersey.
Feaui;ois Prince de Jolnville, who appeared to be a sufferer
from extreme deafness, then made the following statement in
English have been for some time residing at Claremont, in
Surrey. I have no personal knowledge of the prisoner at the bar.
Two or three months ago I received a letter front a person who
signed hitcaelf " Raynaud." The writer requested au interview
with me. I handed the letter to my secretary, with instructions
to reply that I did not grant au interview to any one with whom
I had no previous acquaintance. Some time after this I received
another letter from the saute person, and sub uently a third
(on the 23d ofJune). These letters were handed to nay secre-
tary, and the letters now produced, marked A and 11, are the
same. They are in the French language.
Auguste Trognon, the private secretary of his Royal Highness,
identified the letter as the same which was handed to hint by
the Trines.
Alexander Seminouve, a talk); who had resided in the same
house with the prisoner, proved that the letters produced were
in the handwriting of the prisoner, with which he was well as
Here the prisoner requested the interpreter to ask the witness
if he (prisoner) was not subject to periodical attacks iu the head,
which made him at times confused and deranged ?
The witness replied that he had heard him complain of attacks
of this description.
The original letters were handed to the prisoner for his in-
spection, and he did not deny having written them. The follow-
ing passages indicate their character. In the first letter, after
dwelling upon the interest which he took in the welfare and hap-
piness of the Prince's family, and the feeling of hatred which he
entertained, in common with his oppressed countrymen, towards
" Napoleon the Liule," who had deprived the Prince and his fa-
mily of their just rights to the throne of France, the writer pro-
ceeded to say
" I leave for Paris. My journey is for you, and for you alone.
I swear it on the grave of any mother and father. My life is a
burden to me. I cannot suffer it, my Prince. My wife, who Is
seventeen years of age, I wish to place under your protection.
I have found an excuse for my voyage, and she consents. But
the poor child will be the only victim of my project. I do nut
sleep. I must alone take charge of the infamous wretch. He
and his people must perish. It is a terrible thing for me to be
au assassin, but it must be, if I sell may last shirt. I ant now
writing in the absence of my poor wife. 1 must hasten to finish.
May you read in my heart the sentiments I have for you and
your dear family. Adieu, my Prince. All I desire is, that you
may soon be upon the throne, waking the people happier, and
all France loving you.
(Signed) " RATNACD DE QUKTTEVILLE."
In the second letter there is the following passage :
" I again take the liberty of writing to you these few Hues pre-
vious to my departure. I have collected the little money due to
me, but it will not suffice in carrying out my views. I alone un-
dertake aft blow up the tyrant and has accomplices, and all those
around him. I will give nay best guarantees for the advances
(tu might make me. I leave my furniture, I leave my wife, who
is possessed of the value of 12,000., besides her venue in a bu-
siness. I employ several workmen. Your Royal Highness, it in
money I require, but not a heavy sum—l must have All.; and I
give the right to any one to stab me anywhere, wherever I may
be, ifl do not change the French Government"
Mr. JARDINE directed the interpreter to administer the usual
caution required by the English law, and to ask if he then wished
to say anything in answer to the charge.
The prisoner said that he had been for a long time suffering
from ill-health, which occasionally affected his intellects. He bad
been an inmate of the hospital at Southampton, where his hair
was partly shaved off. Under these circumstances, and for the
sake of his wife, he implored the mercy and consideration of the
court.

Mr. Jardine committed him to New•gate for trial, offering to
take bail—himself in 1001., and two sureties in 501. each—if pro.
curable.

THE CHARGE OF MANSLAUGHTER directed by a
coroner's jury against the chairman of the South-
Western Railway Company, and the superintendent
of the locomotive department of that company, was
tried at Croydon, in the Home Circuit, on Monday.
The defendants, he Hon. F. Scott and Mr. J. Beattie,
surrendered for their trial, which was instituted solely
under the verdict ; an indictment presented upon the
same charge to the grand jury having been ignored.
The charge, as the prosecuting counsel confessed, in.,
volved no moral delinquency ; the sole question being,
whether, by any negligence or want of proper caution,
the defendants had been the means of causing the
death of the deceased :
The transaction in question occurred on a branch line of the
Guildford Railway, from Ash to Alton, between which stadium
there was only a single line of rails; and only one station, that of
Farnham, at which place the fatal accident occurred, intervened
between the two places. Under such circumstances, the utmost
caution was necessary to be observed by every person who used
this portion of the railway. The line was opened, with the sanc-
tion of the Government inspector, in 1850, at the same time the
inspector communicated with the railway authorities upon the
subject of there being only a single line, and it was understood
that only one engine should be used at a time upon the line, in
order to avoid the risk of danger. The defendants must be taken
as being fully aware of this understanding, and the question
upon the present occasion would be whether they had exercised
due caution upon the occasion of the fatal occurrence taking
place. The learned counsel then proceeded to state that on the
14th of May the defendants ordered a special train at Guiltlfor
to proceed to Alton, and there arrangements were made, and
orders given to the effect, that they should proceed direct to the
place of their destination. The ordinary passenger train was at
Guildford when the special train took its departure, and it was
detained, in order that it might be a sufficient distance ahead to

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pretreat any danger. The special train proceeded on its journey,
and the neglect charged against the defendants was that they
took no steps to give notice at the succeeding stations of Ash
and Faru ham of a special train being apes She Sae, and the con•
sequence was, that the deesaned, mho Inn I porter at the latter
station, believing it to be the ordinary ppwases ger train, rose to
meet it, believing it would stop at the tifltioa,nand was run over
and killed. He believed there was no distrie telegraph upon
the line by which a message could have bees transmitted to the
stations, giving them notice of the fact of a special train being
upon the line, but he submitted that under Ile circumstances
some means should have been takes in gke anodes of Use Ilase,
and that not doing so amounted to
The CHisr Banos inquired of Yr. Bodkin ins eotaddered
the notice ought to have beau given?
Mr. BODKIN was not prepared to say when the notice ought to
have been given, but contended that the chairman of a railway
ought to be well acquainted with all matters relating to the safety
of persons upon the line, and was In a different position to an
ordinary person.
The CHIKr BARON did not agree with the learned counsel in
this respect. In his opinion a railway chairman or director wbo
engaged a special train was in exactly the same position as au
ordinary traveller, who might reasonably suppose that all that
was necessary to be done would be done by the persons hi the
employ of the railway upon whom that duty devolved, and could
not be responsible unless it was shown that he bad done *onto
personal act or given 8011D1 direction which led to the accident.
Mr. BODKIN said that, as this was his lordship's opinion, there
was an end of the (nee.

The LORD CHIEr BARON wished, before the jury returned
their verdict, that they should distinctly understand the grounds
upon which he formed his conclusion. It might be very true
that one of the defendants was chairman of the board of directors
in London, and that the other was superintendent of trait'. in
London ; but when they were removed to a distance from what
might be called the scene of their Immediate activity or business,
and were at a considerable distance, he thought it would be
going a great deal too far to make it a matter of criminal negli-
gence on their parts that they should not he acquainted with all
the arraagementa of that portion of the railway where they hap-
pened to be, and that if an accident. occurred in consequence of
some want of notice being given they should be held responsible
under the criminal law. It appeared to him that when the
defendants engaged this special train at Guildford they were as
liWe responsible for the oonsequeuces of that journey as an
entire stranger would have been, and he thought it was rather
too much to say that the chairman or the superintendent upon
a railway was bound to be aware of the time of starting and
stopping of every train that travelled upon the line trom one end
to the ether.

The ATTORNZT-GENERA[., believing that • good deal of feeling
bad been shown with reference to the ease, begged to say • few
words in justification of the gentlemen for whom he appeared on
the present oecasion. It had been stated that this special train
had been engaged by the defendant for purposes of their own,
but there was no truth whatever in that statement. The train
was engaged entirely for the purposes of the railway, and the
object in going to Alton was to make a survey, and see that the
line was in a proper condition. There were no means by which
notice could be given that the special train was on the line ; but
it was due to the defendants to state that the proper signals
were exhibited at the stations, which it was the duty of the de-
ee•sed to have attended to; and if he had done so he would
have known that this was not the passenger train, and the acci-
dent would not have occurred.
The jury then returned a verdict of Not Guilty, and the defen-
dants left the court

ONE OF Two PARTNERS, foreigners, and desig-
nating themselves merchants, was examined at the
Guildhall on Wednesday, charged with obtaining a
quantity of French truffles, valued at 1201., by frau-
dulent representations. His name was Jean Auguste
Labat, and an order he gave in the name of Sange
and Co. for another consignment of the same article
from a house in the City led to inquiries which re-
sulted in the present charge, in which a merchant
of Carpentras, in France, was the real sufferer and
prosecutor. The place of business whence the soi•
divine firm dated their orders was 94, London-wall,
but on inquiring there Labat was found living in a
back parlour, for which he paid 7s. per week, and
there was no name up, or anything else to indicate
any business being carried on. When he was
searched, eighteen pawnbrokers' duplicates relating
to property pledged for small amounts of Is. and Is.
6d. each were found upon him. By way of proving
the truth and respectability of his alleged merchan-
dising, the defendant called his partner, Guillaume
Charles Theophile Sange, who declared that they
were actually engaged in a genuine business, having
commenced partnership in April last, and done busi-
ness with various wholesale houses in the city of
London. Labat conducted the whole of the trading,
but he visited the " office" occasionally. The witness
added that by their partnership agreement they were
to share between them 51. per week out of the pro-
fits, but admitted that he had brought no capital
into the concern:—

Cross-examined : I received 101. on account of the truffles from
I.argier, and the prisoner received 40L I paid 7s. for the rent of
the office in London-wall only once. I owe Moutin, a baker, up-
wards of 2L fur bread he has supplied to me and others. I occupy
the third-floor back room at 24, Deau-street, for which I pay
Ss. Ml. per week. I formerly lived at ot, West-street, Carnahy.
market, where I paid 4s. 6d. per week for a second-floor back
room, which I afterwards left, owing 13s. 6d. fir rent, but I paid
it within a week. Previous to that I lived at 16, King-street,
Soho, and occupied a third floor front room, fbnilahed, at be. per
week. I left that place owing the landlord N. rm., but I gave him
my acknowledgment for the amount, and he has never troubled
me since for the money. I receive no money as charity from any
society in London, hut I do receive 6.. per week subscribed by
my own political friends.

Mr. Parry, who appeared for the prosecution, con-
tended that it was evident the "firm" was not jus
tiled in holding themselves forth as respectable
merchants and men of capital, and that the orders
they issued under that designation were construc
tively fraudulent. The consequence of M. Sanger
evidence on behalf of his par.ner was therefore to
place himself in the same predicament, and both
were consigned to prison, in default of sureties for
their future appearance.

THE P

ES

THE ITNHAPPT CASE of THE BAHOWESS VON Baca
has resulted in another action, brought by Constant
Deers de Meroda against tour parties, at whose re-
quest, or under whose authority, the arrest of him-
self and the late baroness had been accomplished at
Birmingham. A similar action was tried last sum-
mer, when a verdict was given for the defendants ; but
a new trial being moved for, and granted, the plain-
tiff now returned to the charge better provided with
the technical evidence, the lack of which had been
the chief occasion of his failure before. The cause
was heard at Warwick, on the Midland Circuit, on
Wednesday last, and ended iu a verdict tor the plain-
tiff; the jury finding his allegation of false imprison-
ment established, and giving him 8001. damages.

IN THE ST. CROSS IitiSPITAI. CAME, which has been
the subject of such protracted litigation, judgment
was delivered by the Master of the Bolls ou Monday
last :

The eompland was'lliat the property of this charitable estal)•
lialunent had been misappropriated ; also, that the funds of the
charity in CO '4' C with ht. Cross Hospital, called the House
of Noble Poverty, established as early as 1446 by Cardinal Beau-
fort, had also been diverted h.oin the origiind purposes of the
charity. Disputes had taken place *OM time to time as to the
proper naude of ad AAA 11l tett.tillg the property of the charity, midi
it win (Mind necessary to draw up what was called a comment.
dinarium for the regulation of the charity. Notwithstanding
which, its fluids continued, as it was alleged, to be misappropri•
ated for 1541 years subsequently. Under these cirriunstances the
court had come to the determination to make an order that the
charity should be re-established so as to render it conformable
to the original trusts, as laid down by the f lens, as nearly as
the altered chre maces of the times would isennit ; for which
reason it would bum part of the judgment that the practice of
granting leases on lines, by which it appeared that the property—
and the income, more espMally--isf the charity was materially
Injured and diminished, should for the future be discontinued.
There should also be an inquiry as to the present state and eon-
dition of the charity, and an order that the present master of SL
Cross Hospital, the Karl of Guilford. al Id account for the re-
ceipt of the rents and profits of the hospital from the date of the
Ming of the present inkftination.