The Sun.
London, England, 1855-12-28 00:00:00

Sporting Intelligence.

TATTERSALL'S—TIIURSDAT.
Tho only bet that came under our notice was 300 to
.s—taken—about Artillery for the Derby.

WESTBURY STEEPLECHASES.—TLEURSDA.Y.
The Wiltshire and Westbury Handicap of 5 sove each,
2 ft, with 50 added ; the second to save his stake.
Four miles. 12 subs.
Mr. B. Land's Odiham, aged, lOst 7lb (Boxall) 1
Mr. Cartwright's Maurice Daley, aged, lOst 51b (James) 2
Mr. Smith's The Nugget, aged, 9st 121 b (T. Burrows) 3
Betting-6 to 4on Odiharn and 7to 4 agat Maurice
Daley. The Nugget made the running the first time
round, when Odiharn went to the front, was not after
wards headed, and won by six lengths.
The Warminster Handicap Plate of 50 sovs.

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three miles.
Mr. Smith's The Nugget, aged, lOst 71b (T. Burrows)
Mr. B. Land's Goodlad, aged, 9st 71b (Boxall) 2
Greenfinch and Nimrod fell.
Betting-6 to 4on Goodlad. Won by two lengths.
Goodlad refused and lost much ground.

CASES DECIDED BY THE JOCKEY CLUB.
CANTERBURY CASE.—The Stewards of the Jockey
Club, to whom the Stewards of Canterbury Races al-
lowed an appeal in this case, have decided that Punc-
ture, having won only the second heat, could not be
deemed the winner according to the Laws of Racing, and
that Grey Chicken, who walked over for two heats, is
entitled to the prize.
LICIIVIELD CASE.—This case was referred to the
Stewards of the,Jockey Club, who decided that W.
Saunders, having made the entry of Cock of the North
as Mr. Merry's servant, was not entitled to scratch the
horse without Mr. Merry's coolant, and that Cock of
the North is entitled to the stakes.

A LONG RAIN.—.A gentleman who came home in the
Tagus, which has just arrived with the Peninsular mail,
stated that he was in Spain 26 days previous to the
packet leaving Cadiz on the 20th inst., and it rained
there 24 days out of the 26.
A ROMANCE OF REAL LIFE.—Some years ago a
banker, supposed to be wealthy, resided in a well-
known borough town, of considerable magnitude, in the
west of England. The bank, however, failed, and the
banker died, leaving behind him a lovelos and highly-
accomplished young lady, his daughter, penniless.
She at one time took to the stage, and, possessing a
charming voice, a beautiful person, together with
considerable talent, she was very successful. In or
near the same town there resided, at the same time, a
worthy gentleman upwards of 60 years of age, unmar-
ried, but having three daughters by his deceased wife. He
engaged the banker's daughter as a companion for them ;
but he himself became so enamoured of the banker's
daughter that he ultimately married her. Afterwards
they went abroad, and resided for some time in a town
on the coast of Spain ; but ultimately he returned to
England, and bought a villa on the banks of the Thames.
While residing here, a young clergymen of the Church
of England, belonging to the Low Church or Evan-
gelical party, was a frequent visitor to the house, and
accompanied them on visits or excursions. One day
while sailing on the Thames, the boat or yacht was
upset. The old gentleman caught his young wife in
his arms, and sustained her in the water as long as
possible, calling out to the young, clergyman to swim
towards them and "save her !' and he then sank
to rise no more ; but the clergyman had reached the lady,
and making desperate efforts he saved her from a watery
grave. Some months afterwards she gratefully presented
the preserver of her life with her hand, and an income loft
to her by her first husband of 2,000/. a year. Subse-
quently they came and resided in a small town on the sea
coast, not a thousand miles from Brighton. Here he was
rector of the parish, and built a most noble parsonage-
house, at a cost of 5,0001., on glebe land, where he re-
sided. He had, at the instance, it is said, of his wife,
abandoned the Low Church for the High Church
party, and gave great offence to some of the old
parishioners by the changes he introduced, being what
his termed a " Puseyite," or " Tractarian ;" but within
the last few days this gentleman has embraced
the tenets of the Roman Catholic Church, and re-
canted, it is said, what be now considers the errors of
Protestantism. He ceases, of course, to be a clergyman
of the Church of England. All his effects at the
parsonage-house are to be sold ; and he loses, we be-
lieve, all interest in the parsonage-house; and he
and his family, is is said, are about to proceed to
Italy. As a married man, he cannot be a priest in
the Catholic Church, and therefore cannot administer
at the altar ; but we believe that in some similar,_,
cases converts have been permitted to preach, and„ or,tua'
may be all he may desire. This " conversion,
as some will term it, " perversion," has made as grrestt
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a sensation in the Church as didlthe conversion of c•h
deacon Manning, who is the intimate friend e
o f the
,—B gentleman we have been speaking et, and who,
raigs it
said, was instrumental in his " conversion,
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