The Sun.
London, England, 1855-04-07 00:00:00

FRIDAY.

Handicap Plate of 100 nova ; the winner of the New-
market Handicap to carry 71b extra ; of any other
handicap value 100 sous. Sib extra ; no horse to carry
more than 7lb extra. Audley End Course.

Yrs st lb
Weathercock 4 8 4
Humguffin 4 7 11
Mishap ' 4 7 9
Postulant
Testy 4 7 7
Legatee 4 7 5
Rodo-melt
Handicap Sweepstakes of
Sweepstakesages 0
. T.Y.U.10 sovs each, for 2-yr-olds, colt., Bst 71h
and fillies, Bst 41b. The winner to be sold fel. 1501. i,
demanded, &c. ; if entered t) be sold for 100/., allowed
61b ; if for 801 ,91b ; if for 50/., 121 b ; if for 251., 161 b.
Last half of Ab. M.
Sweepstakes of 50 soya each ; for colts, 84 91h, and fil-
lies, Bst 410, got by untried stallions or out of untried
mares ; if both untried, allowed 31b. A.F.
Grteoulus Esuriens I Minx (31b Joshua
Nutjobber Dame Partlet I
The Port Stakes, a sweepstakes of 100 sovs each, h ft.,
far 4-yr-olds ; colts, Bst 71b, and fillies, Bst 41b., not
named in the Claret. The owner of the second horse
to receive back his stake. T.M.M.
King Tom Autocrat I Champagne
Virago Miranda Omoo
I
Acrobat Weathercock Hesse-Cassel
Sweepstakes of 100 sove each, h ft., for 2-yr-olds ; colts,

Yrs st lb
Lincoln's-inn 4 6 7
Roseberry
Diminutive
Hazel 3 5 2
Homily
Hazlenut (paid) 5 8 7

sovs each, 10 ft ; for al

Bst 71b, and fillies, Bst 21b. D.-111

Antoinette J Conveyancer I Claret
A special train will leave the Bishopsgate station for
Newmarket on Monday afternoon at half-past-1 o'clock.

LOTHIANS RACING CLUB AND EDINBURGH
MEETING, 1855.

Nominations for the Lothians Handicap of 10 sovs each,
h ft, and only 3 if declared April 24, with 60 added
by the Lothians Racing Club ; weights to be pub-
lished on the 12th ; two miles ; 37 subs.
Yrs.
Vingt-et-un 4
Le Juif a
Auchinleck 5
Phoenix 4
Joanna Wagner 3
Motley 4
Blarney (h b) a
Waverley 6
Penitent
Alston
John Dory a
Pippin 3
Friar's Hall 5
La Belle 5
Freddy 3
Deerstealer 3
Rataplan 5
The Butter 3
Rotherham 3

Yrs.
Chisel
Tallyho 3
Cassio 5
Braxey 6
Jack the Giant-killer 5
Blooming Heather 3
Maid of Team Valley a
Cock of the North._ 3
Florida 3
Nelly Armstrong 3
Lancewood 3
Gamelad 4
Little Jack a
Mortimer 5
Jonathan Martin 4
Saucebox 3
Robgill 4
Neville
Bolton 3

THE "MISS MOWBRAY" AFFAIR.

The following opinion has been given by Mr. Edwin
James, Q.C., upon the documents and certiScates sub-
mitted to him :

"I have perused the certificates from Liverpool, and the
statement of the evidence which has been procured, and
am of opinion that they are not sufficient to sustain an in-
dictment with any hope of success against the parties sup-
posed to be implicated in this transaction.

" EDWIN " Home Circuit, Kingston, April 6,1855 JAMES, Q.C.

_ . .
We think it fair to Thomas Harrison, the party to
whom Mr. John Scott entrusted the mare, to publish
the subjoined declaration made by him on Monday
last :
"I, Thomas Harrison, of Norton, near Mallon, in the
county of York, groom, do solemnly and sincerely declare,
that on Monday morning, the sth of March last, Mr. John
Scott entrusted to my care Mr. Mason's steeple chase mare,
' Miss Mowbray,' and directed me to take her to Liverpool
by the railway; that I did so, and arrived at Dr. Wood's,
at Aintree, about four o'clock in the afternoon of that
day; that I never left the mere from that time until she
was mounted for the race, and that no person had access
to her whilst she was under my charge, except Mr. Mason
and the friends he brought with him, and that neither
directly nor indirectly do I know of any improper or un-
fair treatment being resorted to, to prevent the mare from
winning the race. And I make: this solemn declaration,
conscientiously believing the same to be true, and by virtue
of the provisions of an act made and passed in the fifth
and sixth years of the reign of his late Majesty, Willihm
the Fourth, intituled, 'An Act to repeal an Act of the
present Session of Parliament, intituled, " An Act for the
more effectual Abolition of Oaths and Affirmations taken

and infulq in varinna rinnarfninnta of tr
e, : e
entire Suppression of voluntary and ex4ra juid,:ial Oaths
and Affidavits;" and to make other provisions for the abo-
lition of unnecessary Oaths.'

"THOMAS HARRISON.
"Declared at the Police-court, Marlborough-street, this
2d day of April, 1855, before me, Hardwick, magistrate
for the Metropolitan Police District."

TURF DEFALCATION.—A paragraph has been going
the round of the daily papers stating that the son of a
sporting peer has decamped, leaving behind him liabi'i-
ties to the extent of nearly a hundred thousand pounds !
As the affair has become the general topic of conversa-
tion in racing circles, we consider it necessary, in justice
to many noblemen and gentlemen, upon whom the igno-
rant might innocently fix the stain, to state that the
party referred to is the Hon. F—s V--s, whose
absence from the country causes a vacancy in the list of
stewards of the Jockey Club, which, in all probability,
will be filled up during the approaching Craven Meet-
ing.—Bell's

RACING CONDITIONS.—We consider it our duty to
suggest to race committees and clerks of courses the ex-
pediency of revising, in the "conditions " of their meet-
ings, the clause referring to disputes, wherein it stipulates
that the decision of the stewards " shall be final." At
many meetings, especially in the provinces, stewards are
selected from gentlemen of interest and position in the
district, totally ignorant of the simplest rules of the
Turf—consequently, to allow such authorities (?) to de-
cide " fine points " in racing is as ridiculous as it is un-
just. Last year no fewer then ten wrong and illegal de-
cisions were given by country stewards, against which
the injurel parties, by—in many instances unwittingly
—subscribing to the condition in question, were deprived
of the power of appeal to the proper tribunal.—Bell's
Life.