The Express.
London, England, 1866-03-05 00:00:00

THE fX-lIMESE6:- MONDAY - EVENING, MARCH 5, 1866.

*parting Intelligence.
TURF DOINGS AND DIFFICULTIES.

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filir4Stir since the first of the wintry meet-
bagil4 Iditekiely styled " 'pries," was consummated at Lhi-
ds. busy clubs uf courses have base is fear of postpose-
ntendll, and on Wednesday last the season's farther pro-
OMB taw stopped by the frost in the most abrupt manner,
whim belt the Nottingham meats bad imen got through.
Fortunately, the events that have fallen to the ground
owing to the impossibility of bringing them off within the
week were sot of Say general import ; and the public have
little reason to oars whether the Liverpool racing is post-
poned even beyond Sehtsday sxt, for slither the Grand
National Steeplechase nor the We thereon will be " off,"
however long it may be deferred, so that loos oe the de-
funct ones have no poirdble means of amps How many
of these there are in the market I should sot like to have to
dimmer, the Mistake business, that caused such a hubbub at
Tattersall's on Monday last, telling us rather too plainly
how quietly things are =imaged when . the public are to be
"done." Bookers very naturally took a great Laney to Mis-
take when the weights appeared, and prevented his owner's
first eounniansCoec getting on at a satisfactory rate of odds,
when it was said and believed the horse had lamed himself
sod mold not run. Instantly the longest of priors were
offered, soon after which the horse suddenly came right,
and the owner found • mooed agent, but without dismissing
the first. This was all fair ramp ; end even if the lame-
ness wee 'avoided to rig the market no great harm was dope,
for it b only what some people, if not exactly gentlemen, do
in this country, end • young Belgian sportsman might
easily be mistakes as to what Ilea the correct thing. But
after setting his new commissioner to hack the bore*, he
told the old one to lay spinet it—how much, was the
point int dispute ; and it happens the two parties
meet and do business to an extant so Mauling
that both are anxious to report program, and Baron von
°maven receives ietimatlaa that one party has laid
22,5004 to 7001. against Mistake for him, and another ham
backed the horse to win more than that unmet. The
former trensectioo is repudiated, &dispute manes, and, the
Baron being in Londe., tbe:rl/4wtion is quickly " referred,"
when after some bard sw cm both sides the referees
decided that the 22,5001. to 7 . transaction was null and
void, en the ground that, both layer end taker having
" turned lethal bet to bias, it would be punishing no one to
match it. Even bad there been no mistake on
the layer's part, supposing he laboured under one, there
would have been no 22,5001. to 7001. bet M all, and the
mooed commissioner would have gone comfortably an
end barked the horse with the legitimate Wen of odds to
win • reasonable amount of money ; and its my opinion
the greatest mistake made over the whole matte" was in
bringing such dirty bigness into notoriety. It seems to be
understood that the horse is to run on his merits at the
Uverpool Grand National Steeplechase, for which he Le still
at a very nice price, aonsidering his party thought him
worth beekiag for twelve or thirteen hundred pounds, sad
be ran forward enough bet year, as a young horse, to be
entitled to great respect. Still. there are many better per-
formers in the rens, and the friends of L'AfrWiin, Alai-
birds Gortelvin, Laura, Ibex, Creole, Meninx" Garotter,
the Emma gelding, King of Hearts, and Real Jam seem as
sesdident of sumer as possible. Nor are we without a lot
of outsiders in whom soon faith is put, the German Bam-
berg, Hall Court, Reporter, Frank, Glenosire, Sir Wil-
liam, stella, nilosophar and the Doctor all going
the offahanoe ; and the field is expected to master nearly
thirty strong, in despite of " desirous." In this category,
either from natural or other sums there are many, without
reckoning the scratched Emblem, Agog, and lonelier; who,
like the rapeseed defunct Magenta, Lightheart, Thomas.
Sown, HOBO* Accident, Old Oewastry, Balder, Heurlys,
and Ace of Besets, turn. sew 20 to lor Les before any
particular favourite was mad*. Ace of Hearts is in the Setae
pa& as Reporter and Gortolvia, and Heurlys in the
L'Afriasla inbred—hems they are not thought of, though
I should sot be astonished to see Hotly" help the Hornet
(a real good horse when his heed is loose) to sting those
who are so ready to get money out of suspicious candidates.
The latter won his two nom last &atoms in gaud style, and
none of the favourites van claim any advantage over
him, either as regards racing or jam ping capa-
bilities. Like Merrimac, Real Jam, and King of
Hearts, he was am a fair horse on the flat, and
when Emidsmatio sod Aleibiade, who were of little use
for racing , could perform so brilliantly la former
Grand Na=s,seg there must be • chance for them all, se
they have been so well schooled to get across country. No
better Jumper than Real Jam was ever seen at Epeom ; she
eaa also stay, the only objection to her being her temper,
whisk her party, b owner, do sot seem to fear mush, for
attarvery misdat e of sumer. Garotter and the Emma
have bad no public maim and must accomplish
wonders to beat the old hands, of whom Oreole, Real Jam,
Merrimac, Mistake, Ibex, the Hornet, and King of Hews,
ere decidedly the " best is." Suppadog these are all " genuine
artistes" I can hardly believe in L'AfriesLs, or Aleibiads,
giving them the weight, as the pass is likely to be snook
than Own the latter won, tad if so it will dead,
better

him, sad must also tell more es the 13.1 Mb hero thaLriatat
thin else in the saws Garbler is of ekes
non tee pa,Aney, to IS, 10007, and it
is not beg odds against his long-priced stable.
companion, Reporter, beating him. Laura has plenty to
Gerry fora 9ee.feacold ; but she can go any pace, is • ese-
Min jumper, and carries "good money," notwistanding
would-be knowing people go so far se to include her among
the defunct ones, with Creole into the bargain! No horses
have bees so steady as this pair from the time they were in-
troduoed into the market, and if Creole's party do not
mean basins= this time they do not deserve to get • good
bone so nicely in 'gale. Merrimac is another one %oder
101111101014 hie owner having lead some money agsbieb sad
backed Mesoairs to best him, is he did once before ; but
this cirenmstanoe Is so argument is his favour in thee*
dsve of double deaths', and I anticipate seeing bferrimao
help Beal Jam to fight well for Sarre, at Aintree. Ibex
hoe about as good a chance as Almbiade and King of
Heart, is bound to be very dame to Creole ; but there seems
to be nothing in the race so good as Laura end Real Jam,
if they only T' stand up," and such as Creole sad Merrimac
may beat all the other&
As »surds trinities events of the Liverpool meeting,
I can only remark that Clairvoyants, Skiff, sod Queen of
Trumps, must take prominent parts in the two hurdle
noes ; r meat also Cedric, Plying Jib, sad Gordian Knot,
in the Plying Handicap ; Marksman, is the Hunters' Cup;
The Clown and Duloimer, in the Mersey Cop ; sod L'Afri-
ado, in the fdolyneux Cop • sod that Wandering Minstrel,
Fantail, sad Bradarosnte, ought to finish in front for the
Spring pup,—l, am, din, METEOR.

SPRING Hamra.
TIYIEDIT.

Till °Lim HAM/AL ilumlimg COPOII6O eon.. for hunters ;
4-yr-olds, list 21b; five, 12st lib; six and aged. 12st 71b ; curtain
penaliies and 'Bowsaws. Two Miles on the flag
Ale Ms Ars'
Marksman
Lily of the Hest
Ilia—Tad . —Lorn .... 6 Brighton (h 1). ... a
IlTse Dobson (b 2 Owstwiek 6 King Alfred 6'
TM ANIMAL HURD= 11•6210 AP of 5 eon. each, 1 ft (to the
fund), with 60 added ; winner of any race after February 10, at
11 a.m., 101 b extra.
Age T'we miles. ever six hurdles. (116 subs.)
et lb Rio mg 11,
Bennet
Bate 6 11 10 Real Jam
The Roaster Hawkshaw 6 911
Shropshire) (h.b).. a 11 1 Antoinette 5 911
Accident 6 11 0 Love Letts*
Plover 6 10 111 Caller a 910
Incette
darns (late Bowman) a 10 7 Bprbig Daisy 6 9 9
Ace of Hearts
Wont-End a 10 6 Hampton Csitzt4c... 6 9 9
Hearty.
Balder
Sinkingland a 10 4 Skiff (late No Name) 5 9 6
Turkoa
Hornet 6 19 4 Church =Dant .... paid
Sandford
_ ... F°44

Andly 5
lIM II Intral
94id
AcoWte
Columbia
CYnk
nil MllBBl7 CCP (Headlamp) of 100 son. in specie, added to
• Sweepstakes of 10 soya. each, 5 ft, and 2 only (to the fund) if
declared ; winner of any handiosp after January 30, et eleven
a.m., 101.6 mks. Ong (121 subs, 14 declare& )
Alb Age at lb
Terillghl • 312 Double Stout a 0
The Clown 6 8 7 Dulcimer
Paean 4 7 if John of the 151e5.... I 10
Signalman 5 711 Miamian! 5 10
Ztho (Inc. 101.6 ex) .. 6 711 Malvern 4 6
Convent
Cuts
Titswaccso Sumo of 6 son. each, with 100 added, for -7r-
olds; colt', Bst 10th; Mies, Bst lilb ; winners, tab extra; mai ens
ba darted twice, allowed 410. T.Y.C. subs.) Captain,
The =Mak, Pneumatic, M Bracken,
Miss de Fey (bred in Franc/CI Thermometer, TlCored ess.
in
Prance), floes, c by Lord of the Isles—Lady larewell, Walton,
' Llttisport, Verdian, P . Premier, Feeder, Politician, Iby
Lord of the Isles— Knightsbridge, Knight of Midas],
Trickster.
T/11 fipinei Fichm Brills (Handicap) of 5 sova. each, 2 ft
(to the fund), with 100 added, for ilyr-olds and upwards ; winner
of any bandioap after Feb. 120, re 11 a.m., 10lb extra. T.Y.C.
(88 mbil4
Ag• sl lb Age at lb
Donnybrook I 13 p . ... ....... . 4 6
Merry Nora g 5 g Pan Whi 6
4
Arbutus g g Venturesome 8 2
Gordlas Knot 5 8 Plying Jib 5 2
(labium 5 71 Virtuous 4 0
Master George II
0
.... • If iipokssmci 0
Skylark
Mace 4 7 Lift Wilke I 11
Persuasion 5 7 Indueose, by Sabre=
Goldylocks 3 7 cc iffs&thand—
Skirmish 4 7 Prelude
Cedric ....... .... 4 7 Harty in the Morning a 610
otestg !, e 4 7 e_ by Grammar-
-7 Palm La .. .... 2 6 10
Munchen= 4 61 Cass* • 3 510
Arabia 4 01 Duckess of Neweedle 5 6 7
Indkn akar OR 11146 Vexatious 6 7
e
Ono) 3 6ti QU0142 of Trammel .. 5 paid
Radcliffe
Loughrea
slioecat=
6 pai
paid
Mild of Mk 3 6
• HANDIO•P of 40 move, for 2-yr-olds and upwards ; winners
this day, 10Ib extra. T.Y.C.
A Matuao IMAxas of 2 eon Nob, with 20 added : 2.yr-old•
Tat I.olb ; three, get 1016 : four, lost ill . Ova, 10st 1116 ; six and
aged, Mat lib ; selling eta., allowances; T. P.C.

*Ado Intelligence.

who wee staying with Mn. Oases at het house. I
He swore that the will produced was signed by
the countess, by Anne Came, and by Esther Simmons,
in his preemie, and that be was about to gigs his nem'
as another witness, when the countess said it would not
be required, but be had better pat his mark somewhere
(m he could not write) so that he might at a future time
know the document. Ile Snit swore that he pat his name
at the end of the other names, and then after a quarter of
an hour he contradicted himself sad said it was in • copper_ .
He knew it because Mrs. Came wrote the "J. V.", and he
made the cross in a particular spot. The evi&nro he
would produce on a inters occasion would prove that the
will was a forgery, and that being so prisoner bad been
guilty of penury, but he would now only offer some abort
evidence, and then ask for the remand of the prisoner till
Tuesday, when he and Mrs. Came could be examined to-
gether.
Laura Schmidt, one of the witnesses examined on the
trial, on Friday, said she was lady's-maid to Mies Bellew,
and was present at the trial. (The witness then promeded
to detail the prisoner's evid(me which was assigned as
In orces-examination by Mr. Smyth she acknowledged
that she was 14 or 15 yards away from the prisoner at the
' time be wee examined, yet she could read the document he
held in his hand because it was the will. _ _ _

iir7SZyth, for the deierie,eo;tirded, at some length,
upon the bability of a jury ever convicting this man
for perjury, and asked for hie reuses, from custody. The
Countess Bellew and Mrs. :Hannon's, one of the wirer.' to
the deed, were dead, and there were only two persons left,
the prisoner and Mrs. Caine, to speak to its anthentitity
how then Gould two witnesses be found to rove the
perjury ? The stake at issue was 26,0001., and
what the prosecution wanted was to get rid of this man,
sod Mrs. Carr in the event of a new trial being
granted, so that the mart material evidence against Mir
Bellew would be lost. While twenty witnesses could be
brought to say on the one side "We don't believe this to
be the countess's signature,* on the other twenty could
be brought to be as equally prides in their belief that it
was. He commented farther upon the primmer being an
illiterate man, and liable oonsequeetly to err more than
other people, perhaps, but he had stated his honest roe-
victim, and he (Mr. Smyth) concluded by earnestly request-
ing the magistrate to discharge him.
Mr. Elliot said the jury found that the will was • for-
gery, and it was not a case he could stop at the present
stage. He should remand the accused till Tuesday.
Bail in 1001. was tendered and accepted.

INPRINGEMEN'I' OF CATTLE PLAGUE ORDER&
At the Horunastle Petty Sessions on Saturday
last, Mr. Jas. Banks Stanhope, 11P., who did not appear. was
charged on the information of Superintendent Thorieby, el
the Lindsey constabulary stationed at flornosetia, with
having, on the 29th of January, unlawfully removed two
cows and sixteen bullocks from Revesby to Tattenhall,
along • public highway, such cattle not being fat cattle re-
moved for the purpose of slaughter with the lianas of a
justice of the peace, nor cattle removed from one part of a
farm to another part of the same farm with the bosom of
a justice. •
It appears that on Saturday, the 27th day of January,
Mr. Stanhope sat on the Bormastle bench, oMeslaMiss In his
capacity as a magistrate. With him on that occasion on
the bench, beside. others, was Mr. Moses Elmbirst, of
West tabby. The magistrates sat late on that day. Mr.
Betts, a breast of Mr. Stanbps's, residing about horn 700
to 900 yards from Bemeby Abbey, Mr. Stanhope's rid-
dance, had some blade taken ill on the Saturday, and be
called upon the vet/diary surgeon at Horecastle, and got
some "drinks" for them, sa be supposed that the animal.
were 'offering from eating too mach chaff. but the impeder
told Mr. Betts that if the baste were suffering from
the cattle plague, he might m well throw his medicine
into the canal as administer It to them, se it would do no
good. On the Sunday Mr. Betts found his beasts nobetter.
and administered a drink. In mildly paring Mr. Ball's,
Mr. Stanhope'. bailiff, ha sod found that one of hie
animals was off its peck" After this Mr. Bell and Mr.
Betts went up to the Abbey and saw Mr. Stanhope, and
they rommersoded that the besets should be sent off at
ono, for slaughter, "bemuse," as Mr. Bette mid, "they
would get no fatter, and would not pay for keeping." Mr-
Beats suggested that they should be sent to Breton for
Loudon, sad Mr. Bell suggested the Manoheder market.
Mr. Stanhope at ant declined tohead than away, but ulti-
mately he despatched the following letter to Mr. lamhirst :
" &grabby Abbey, Sunday, Jan. 28.
" Dear Klahiret,—Mr. Bell has become rather frightened
at the plague being in Mamba= ha Fee (two miles from ray
farm), and my toadies beasts being nearly fat, he wishes to
send them at awe to Tattershall (Boston erased) to Greet
Northern station. to be sent to London to-day, and sold and
killed there tomorrow morning. There are 10 (7 erased)
short-horn steers, two cows, and seven Scotch steers. Mr.
Bell erode a note to the Hormones inspector to gin a
warranty of their health,' without which it mast be under-
stood that your order is not to be used. I aim want a cm-
tilicate for the removal of my animals across the road ' with
the impeder's permission.'—Yours, sincerely,
"J. BURS Braman.

" Moses Elmhirst, Esq."
Upon the receipt of this letter a Bosses was boned for
the transit c 4 Mr. Stanhope's esqls, and the inspector, by
the aid of two eadedlea, aceesieed Mr. Stenbope's besets
us Sunday night, and mortified that ►},ey wore lualtby.
A =manger had been despatched to Mr. Wood, of the
Great Northern Boston elation, asking for cattle trucks
to be attached to the mail train on Sunday night. That
gentleman at first refused, but consented in coesecinesee of
an impression made ea hie mind that the cattle plague
was in the neighbourhood, and that it woe important
to get them away. A message was also sent to
Tattershall. On the Monday, at seven o'clock in the
morning, the beasts were all removed to Tattershall sad
sent to Manchester. On the Monday the inspector called
and saw Mr. Bette's besets, and pronounced them to be
suffering from the plague, and some were shot the seem
af Sermon. SOON days after the plague broke out on Mr.
Staahope's own premises. By the third clause of the
quarter sessions orders of the 16th of January it was Deese-
eery for every applicant to give evidence, that the cattle
plague did not exist within one mile of his premiessbefore he
could remove them. The asegiitestee held that Mr. Sten-
hope's letter did not show that it was not within that dis-
tance, and fazed him 201. and costs.