The Express.
London, England, 1858-04-26 00:00:00

SPOR7ING.

AFTLYBIB OF THZ TOILL,_ZPOCOL, AND NEW.
ILARILIIT RUNNING.

TO TIP 11:DITOR OP TZT =PIM.
8134—We have at last arrived at that tumid.'
point in the hie ft Derby demerits which requires ewe
careful " reataing." sad, es is gueselly the env dist 'bib
Teo Thoessk mad of this I.Te airsdy received their
raster. nio at ma* brought oat • ant dimwits,
and Epsom est ono bb the .that at about the rase price
ea it did Adams last yes; bat Ide sot think this yeer's
hero (Wogs* will bur creeporkea with that ci last, and
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The York meeting =Si Bret motive attentios, sad the
second race decided there complery
_ems' the oleander of
the Kelpie division, far they boo ldd his agenda( Ph7oldwi
and Antiquary • " oersted,:" bet when they sew
him nes every ratios to catch Physician at the
drama, and fa their
on investments did
not look half so try ea they did on hie defeat of
Land at Northampton, and they could sot reserile thileaM
performasase, so totally different Is charecter, with each
othw. His Cheeks Cup three with fist bob
gone, SI Physicist is fa ths mos with fat 71b, sad=
'be Kelpie may have been • few poondi worn then be wee
at Cattevick, having dote bat little work in the interval, he
cannot expos to turn the tables on Physician till they meet
at level weights au liprm Doerr, am it is • meeetion if be
will ever be the mperfa her of the two by 71k. The m-
esh of the Great Northern Handicap be a /pipto the
backers of the HOPI for the Derby, me be bed given her a
sound besting at bore ; it was the general opinion, how-
ever, that another . carder," 11. Debar err le have
won, and if he had on kindly the Maid ;mid bre been
beaten very rally. Bashi-Break ea very well br an un-
prepared hoar sad bra re • better day Infers the stuneer
season le over ; but the Dupe /gond seer Tdo-
riously, ae anticipated by me, for such • or-
tsinty," and the second favourite, Turret, whom I
also diacered, was the Bret beaten. The Prime
of Denserk wee not wanted that day the party declaring
to win with Hamlet, who newer oho wed in the race. A very
moderate lot contested the Londeaborough Cup and
Dutchmen's Hendieep, and the two-year-olds who s=l
at the reseder wen set ot a very brilliant (milky, es b
mod the Mar ressWag of sr of the wrnies, Nag
DlErabs, et flpier. The spbg berm st the letier place
afforded the beet day's sport es yet of Ike messed essece,
and although heeled bat slight Were, eat the Mum there
were one or two Warr worthy of record. Kele. de Chan-
tilly won the City end Baberkan Member so rally that her
petty cruse bat regret the eerier Hest UN hr just
vine to pa-
bribel vi last yeses Cam se she err bre won
the ram with eoneething in seeing thee Odd Trick,
who then gave her 1511 e, carol new a winner, this year
with only • kw maids more the carried st Speer.
Blue Jacket wee made very "but" when the resbers west
up; bat after the numerous false starts he was cue of the
bet of, and mover could make op his ground in time.
A better day is undoubtedly in store for him. Telegram's
Metropolitsa era" removed ell doubts as to his staying
power, and nerved to mike the friends of Clydesdale " look
ap," r Eclipse had Mates Telegram cleverly enough st
Neennerket, and Clyde's:Ws, on 41, was 71b better than
Rapes. Polestar cutting tip so diegnecrully explained the
Dar udder, and Wrestle-, although be ran away with
bray la the early_ pert of the t.. proved that he would
not have bear ',Merman at Nampton, had the latter
barb waft like proper form. Of the 2-yr-olds who
rattled over the half mile, Enfield was decidedly the best
looking, the favourite, Fusee, turning out • rank " roarer"
cutting it half way up the distance, when he looked like the
winner.
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The Neweesehd meeting was opened by the Quesn's
Plata, for which Polestar cut up even worse than at Epsom,
and Melissa did not find many more friends than she had
previous to her viotory, some saying she had not grown,
stillorith her light weight stated/or, she nowt not be slighted,
and it the money that has gone on below to her own
party there Is nothing so god-looking in the race.
Tozephilite beat two fillies not worth • ahWing tar the 60
sore. Sweepetakes, and why he was made • favouriee kir the
Derby and scratched for the Two Thowand is • matter that
few can pretend to understand. I can only say that his
being in the market so long for the Two Thawed looks
quite as bad a case as those of Zuyder Zee and Misty Morn
at Northampton, and had the hone belonged to anybody but
the Premier there would hays been sa great a noise made
about it; but, mein bow Lord Derby expressed himself a
few months back, it is impossible be could have known aught
stout the manor in which the public" have been milked
through the home for the last two months. The D. I.
Swespetekse between Ignoramus, Commotion, and Someone
(when it was cortsth that the latter pair would oppose Blink
Bonny if she came to Newmarket, the order was given to
stop her), was truly • sporting affair, and the result
totally unexpected, for Ignoramus had easily succumbed
to Arsenal at the Craven Meeting, and it was
presumed that the big horse would not stay two miles.
Commotion played the old game, and would not make an
effort to win, while Saunterer did not mom to like the dis-
tance, and if so he bas no business at 33 to 1 for the Chester
Cup. Commotion ought to be the totter favourite of the two,
es he receives Mb from the handicap wonder," and he may
see as little u 16 to 1 yet.
The Two Thousand Guineas apparently settled the pre--
tensions of Brother to Bird-on-the-Wing, Schismatic, Ma-
=dello, Forerunner, Coxwold, Meatmore, Charles the
Second, and Wilton, for the Derby ; and why the latter was
• better &Towles sitar than before the race is something dif-
ficult to aderstead, and I still hold the opinion that he will
not like the Epsom mile and a half so well as the Newmarket
mile. The Peer cut up so badly that 1 cannot believe it wee
hie tree running, and many soy he looked very differently to
the horse he was at Melton only • week previous to the race.
The pace was • *lining one, Happy Land coming it
so strong at the commenosumat that the first three
parte of the mile were run a great deal faster
than the last, and everyone of the favourite*, Happy
Land and all, were deed beaten on entering the Abingdon
mils bottom. Fitz-Boland was the solitary competitor with
an effort In him when the lad hundred yards (had to be con-
tested, and having been nursed very kindly by Wells, he
struggled gamely on, but almost haggard, till Happy
Lend stopped to him, having shot his butt, and they went
reeling past the post like two drunken men, both being so
rat up that they, heel= rua wide apart, had domed sides •
few stride. after passing the peat. Clydesdale struggied on
into • third pleas, and Goiter said he would have got on
much better kid they been going another half a mile, as his
hose was getting " second wind," and had not got to his
grand stride till too late. He was not quite fit, and as • curb
was apparent on one of his hocks the recent opposition to him
te captained. But he has plenty of time to get fit by the
Derby day, and I anticipate a much better performance
then. Happy Lead will shafts» better on the extra half mile,
end it ought not to dismay Fite-Roland, seeing how gamely
be finished, while not quite fit, after such • severe lox. That
he is entitled to the politica of first favorite there is no
question ; for, in addition to his having beaten one of the
fevouritee for that rues, lee was backed before the Two Thou-
sand for • large tasks of money, at 68, 60, and 33 to 1,
and nearly all the "books" of those woo have at present done
burner* on the Derby are fall alpine him. He was one of
my early hooks for both noes, and I said quite sufficient
concerning him for your redoes to know my sentiments ; so
that the occident whit* caused my last Monday's letter to be
reegleeed till too tats for lessertion is not so unfortunate as
it might have been. In my " Early Hints," published In
January,.l remarked conoertilng him as follows :—" Fits-
Roland ought to do some good, but, se his forte is suppteed
to be speed, he most be closely watched first ter the Two
Thecae= Gulases," and on referring to the victory of Beads-
man at the Newmarket Craven mooting a fortnight back, I
went so far se to say :--" There Is =ether in hie stable eo
decidedly superior that he ought to have a good ' holds'
=mos for the Derby, although he is at an 'outside' price.
I allude to Fitz-Roland, who Is also in the Two Thouesod
Gotha m. for which I strongly recommended him in my
Early Hints; and must again do so now, for there does ant
Lepetr such a formidable lot In the race as there did at one
Being at that time at 50 to 1 for the Derby, he ham afforded
his backers splendid " hedging," as there is • profit of " 800
per oent." on all investments, and his chance of winning is
alto so good. Clydesdale has just as much chance of turning
the table* on him as Happy Lead, and if he cannot figure
Teepee's* in the Derby the mining of the prevent season
must he of a strange character, as Arsenal, who boo Ignore-
mua at the Craven, could not give Clydesdale &stone in the horns
trial, in which the latter gave Eclipse 7lb ; end Iguoramos's
defeat of Commotion and Saunterer makes him still better.
Beadsman figured in • most respectable character on Thane-
day, and canoed the idea to be held that Pitz-Roland might
not be much the better horse; at any rate, he found plenty of
backer, at 40 and 60 to 1 for the Derby. The One Thouond
Guineas saw the two /repartees again defeated; but
the winner, Governess, was backed for • let of money,
and the Bing had very little the best of it. He-
patica, had she 0012311 sooner, might hare woo, which would
have been still woe for them. Perfection wee not so well
as when she first got to Newmarket. and Mr. Howard's lack
does not seem to much in the asomdant as it has been
hitherto this season and the latter part of last. Botany did
not figure respectably enough to give her Cheater Cup
friends very strong hope., and she was sent to double the
price taken about her previous to the race. My pet keeeld
did net &Were the madden= I placed in him for the Two-
yr-old Plate, as he ran rood to one of the unknown whool,
North Lincoln, who displiqed powers which make his not
being in either the Derby or St. Leger meat year a matter to
regret. Th. Newmarket Stakes, on Friday, was fraught
with mar.) Import ace than ustiel,as Beadsman and E=
the stable compadoes of two Derby favourites, File-
-1
sad fiedy,
_had to contend against each other,
and the Badman, being the lead fit of the
two, was made the worst favourite at starting. The struggle
WY a long end wore coo, sad I doubt if Eclipse would
have saved being defeated had Beadsman been qutte_up to
the mark. If it be true that Clydesdale can give Eclipse
71b, Sir J. Hawley can get a correct measure of that horse
for Fitz-Robed, se I have no doubt, math as Beadsman may
improve, Pits will still be nearly as touch the best of the two
as be wee when the two were tried. There was a " flash"
trial and • pout= one a few days back ; if, however, be
can give the Ikadantea 7111 Mr. Howard must fall back ea
something better than Clydeadale to best Pite-Rolead.
ReDise's running settle. Telegram's pretensions to the
, as there am overal who appear to bold Mtn silo, sadsite,
the etropolltset Geld now begin to beer the camplexion of
a very teg
There will be little stirring thle wait, the Sellutury
meeting being of little awe than I. at Interest, and the mat
important beaters for • few days wW he the doilies ren-
ewed with the Chester Cup. METEOR.

Lab) Inttlltgnue.

METROPOLITAN COUNTY COURTS.
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CITT or Loney, Chilldldi-buOdlngo—Tootay. April V: Madam.
gaga II; flataidag. 111.

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 26, 1858.

a ;Lacked pared, the oompany would be liable !or en action at
the suit of the owner of each individual pared peaked in it.
Mr. Justice Williams did not agree that smolt wee the law,
but miming it to be so, he would leave it to the juarryy to say
whether there was such expense, trouble, or ieoonvdeaos In
respect of parked geode as would entitle the dahadante to
The
extra for
The jury found dm the plantiff.
The amount of the damages it was arranged should be
settled out of court, and leave wet reserved to the dehodents
to move for • noneuit.

nzintrwoarn et. LANOTOW.-17PSETTINO A LADDER.
The itaindif is a lamplighter in the employ of the Char-
' Wad Clam Company, and be claimed damages for injuries
mataissd by him la
defendant. consequence, as it was alleged, of the
of the
wlMr. Haawkins appeared for the plaintiff; and Mr. Ha-
-1 iffeelen, Q.C., for the defendant.
At twenty minutes past five p.m. on the 22nd November
last, the plaintiff was lighting a lamp in Cross-street, Rs-
gent-strest, and his ladder was placed against the 11:3
width projected from • public-hove. It was
at the thne, and the defendant was running along with his
collar turned up, so that he could not well see when he was
going. He ran against the ladder and upset it; and the
plaintiff fell to the ground and broke his wrist. The defen-
dant took him to a chemist's shop, and he also got him scene
brandy. Afterwards he took him to Middlesex Hospital,
where the fracture was reduced. The plaintiff was far sows
weeks an out-patient, and up to the present time he had re-
quired 'mists:me to his work, and for which assistance he had
Feld from 2a. to As. a week.
For the defendant it was °untended that he bad been guilty
of no negligence, and that the aocident !had been caused by
the plaintiff placing the ladder in the middle of the pave-
ment.
His lordship left it to the jury to say whether the defendant
bad been guilty of any negligence.
Verdict for Qs plaintiff for 101.

COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEAL—APRIL 24.
(Praia Lord Chief Baca halm ahttgas,
god Wirt sad Bares Begawan.) WIDs
THI QUINN V. WIT 103118 AND ANOTZII.—LAICINT.

The primmer was indicted before Mr. Baron Wateces, and
convicted c 4 stealing certain metal flied in land. The metal
which the primmer stole was a seal-dial of copper en the top
Ittoilt in a churchyard. The question wee whither the
the copper only was a larceny.
Mr. Watson reserved the point whetter this was
steal* anything Axed in lend.
The Court oonsidered that it was, and held the oaarlotion
Pod.
COSMIC:UM affirmed.
THE OVIEN V. CHARLES MOA.H.-7080£11T.

The prisoner was oonvieted of forging cartaM letters, by
mama of which he obtained • situation in the police form of
Cheshire.

The court, without dimension, affirmed the conviction.
Afilrmist sooortfingly.
TIC QUINN V. SAMITIL 111TH AND SARAN

ASSAULT BT A CLERGYMAN.
The ;rimers Swing Smith, clergyman, of Clifton, and
Sersh, his wife, were indicted at the late Gloucester assizes
ibr realkdously cutting and wounding John Leech, with
intent to mistier him, on the 3rd of February last. It will
he recollected that the motive fur the crime on the part of the
male primate. was jealousy of Leech, between whom and
Mrs. Smith an improper intimacy had existed before her mar-
s*" and which was subsequently canted cm. The pri-
soners were both found guilty of cutting and wounding with
intent to do grievous bodily harm, but the jury added that the
hustle prisoner had committed no act of violence, and had
acted undo. the coercion of her husband.

Mr. Baron Channel! sentenced the male prisoner to four
years penal servitude, and reserved the point in favour of the
female prisoner.
Counsel did not now appear on either side.
The Lord Chief Baron said the conviction of Sarah Smith
must be reversed. The jury have disposed of the ease by
finding that the female prisoner was married, that she acted
under the control of her husband, and that she herself com-
mitted no act of violence. _

The oon;ictio;.arr;;ganis Sarah Smith was accordingly
quashed.

THE QUEEN V. JOHN 8111714.-ALLIOED VOHOERY.

The prisoner war indicted at the Central Criminal Court
for forging and anteing certain documents. It appeared
that the prisoner had provided himself with a large quantity
of labels for wrappsa, in which he bold • spurious ankle as
" Borwick's Baking Powder ;" but the signature of " George
Barwick" inside the was omitted.
Be was found Gully, at the Recorder admitted him to
bail, reserving the point whether the offence amounted to
kericilntpe appeared on behalf of the prisoner, and Mr.
liudtUeskine (with whom was Mr. B. Poland) supported the
conviction.

The Lord Chief Baron said the court were unanimously of
opinion that the defendant had been guilty of obtaining
money by Was pretences ; but the tune of the wrapper with-
out the fielse stuff which it contained would be no offence. If
so, the man who printed the labels could be indicted for for-
gery. The real offence was the truing of them with the
stuff, and that was not forgery. The conviction, therefore,
wee
bad.

The other learned judges concurred, and the conviction was
quashed.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS COURT.—APRIL 24.
(Before Mr. Commission's Phillips.)
IN HE RICHARD TRONA) SMITH.

This insolvent was opposed by Mr. Bargood, for two
creditors named Foulkes and Philp; Mr. Reed supported.
In the year 1858 the insolvent, a barge builder, at Lam-
beth, paid a visit to Ipswich, where he yea arrested, and
discharged under the act before the county court judge. He
owed Mr. Kirby, a money lender, some money, and omitted
his debt from the schedule. He bad since increased the
debt, and Kirby had got judgment for 2001., and held the
property under a sheriff's bill of male.
The opposing creditors had demounted bills for the insol-
vent, and the insolvent said he bad been charged from " 80
to 80" per cent. on such transactions.
Mr. Commissioner Phillips raid he would never remand
on the opposition of parties who took such large interest,
unless for fraud. He considered a grew fraud had been com-
mitted by omitting Kirby from the former schedule, and
unless be disgorged the property at least the insolvent would
have twelve months. Before be gave judgment a communi-
cation would be made to the county court judge.
Adjourned to May 1.

IN RI RICHARD W. BURTON.

Mr. Dowse applied for • day. The insolvent, an auctioneer,
had been refused protection for a breach of trust.
The Court said no day would be named until live months
from the hearing in March.
Application refused.

I shop, selecting Mope which he could identify as his own.
These amounted to about 26 gross, which he valued at 61.
trade price. Witmer afterwards prosecuted the boys, who
were convicted at the Middlesex &salons before Mr. Csetary.
Crosenamined—lfy solicitor applied at this court to have
Mr. Jump plead at the bar on the chug* of receiving.
The boy Symons wee than ermined—He mid Imbed been
in the habit of steeling the bags, and hiding them under the
&Whole at the bottom of the beak dales. Pearce used to
take them away at night. It was understood that thattro
mods were to be shared between the three of them. mae:
don used to sal them, and gesemlly brought back is. or
Is. 6d., of which they had 4d. or 6d. each.
Pearce oorroborated—He used to take the ban from where
Symons left them, and give them to Mabledon, who took
them out at night sad sold them.
Mablebon further eorrobonded—He used to sell the bags
to defendant; always went at night. If there were any cus-
tomer, in the shop, used to wait till they were gone. Never
told defendant that his father wee a beg maker, or
that he was in distress Defendant asked no Teutons. He,
Mabledca, used to ask a price for what he brought. Knew
very wall they were worth more than he asked, but did not
know how much. Defendant sometimes gave him what he
asked, sometimes lees. The most defendant ever gave him
was ls. dd.

The deimdant was committed for
GREENWICH.
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William &Wm, 12 years of so, was brought up on re-
mand, charged with killing John Thomas Bolton, • boy
about the same age, while engaged fighting in Wellington-
street, Rotherhiths; and Henry John lisisbrook, a Thames
police-inspector, was charged with being connected with the

Wei Superintendent Evans attended to watch the case on
the part or the Thames police, and Mr. Solomon appeared
for Hambrook. The father of Saks was present for his son.
Mary Warren, of 8, Croes-street, Rotherhithe, rid that
on Saturday afternoon last, shortly after one o'clock, she
was passing through Cror-street, when she saw two boys
tdng. The prisoner was one of the boys. The other boy
was • little taller than the prisoner. They were fighting
about some buttons. There were three men standing round
them, one of whom said, " Hit him under the left ear; he'll
not want to fight you any more." It was Mr. Hambrook, a
Thames police inspector, who used those words. The prisoner
struck the other boy twice. The *spend timeewtfhreout screamed
as if he wee crying, and on falling to the he curled
his legs up. Two men picked him up took him to the
doctor's at the top of the street. Witness also went to the
doctor's, and was In the shop when the boy died. The man
Hambrook said nothing after the blow was struck. The pri-
soner screwed out, " Oh, mother. I have killed him." He
ran to fetch the doctor himself, and came screaming beck
The evidence having been confirmed by other witnesses,
Brown, 144 M, produced a medical certificate of the cause
of death as given before the Coroner, to the effect that • rup-
ture of a brodvessel at the base of the brain had been pro-
duced by violence, thereby causing death. The constable
than stated that on the day In question he saw the boy Bolton
lying on the floor dead at the doctor's, and afterwards took
t
body
home to deceased's mother. A quarter of an hour
afterwards he apprehended the prisoner, who began to cry
end say, " I've kilLd him, I shall be hung."
Both primers were committed for trial, 1011 ball was ac-
cepted for liambrooko in two sorties of 251. each.