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London, England, 1855-04-03 00:00:00

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SPORTING EXTRAORDINARY.

The Englishman is pre•eminently a horse-racing ani-
mal. Our kings, from Charles 11. to George IV., have
all had a penchant for the turf. Our statesmen, our
Foxes, Grahams, and Bentincks, have studied the mys-
teries of finance at Tattersall's and Newmarket. No
sooner is an English colony settled in a waste or bar-
barous land, than a race-course is laid out. Eve❑ Sierra
Leone, " the white man's grave," has its race-course.
Our officers while hemmed in in Affghanistan had their
trainings and matches under the walls of Jellalabad.
And now the Russian look-outs—watching, through
their glasses, the doings in our camp before Sebas-
topol—are perplexed by the movements of crowds
which would have no mystery for any clerk or coster-
monger who has witnessed a " Derby Day." We have
been favoured, by a friend in the camp, with a list
of the reces—though not with a " list of the running
horses"—that were fixed to come off in the rear of the
camp of the Fourth Division, " Russians and cannon
balls permitting." Here it is :
FOURTH DIVISION RACES.
By permission of the Major-General commanding it is
proposed that races should take place in rear of the
Fourth Division Encampment on the 17th instant, com-
mencing at 11 a. m.

Steward's.—Colonel Garrett, K.H. ; Major Somerset,
R.A. ; Captain Radcliffe, 20th Regiment ; Lieutenant-
Colonel Smyth, 68th Regiment; Captain Croker, 17th
Regiment.

The following stakes will be run for--
1. The Greenhill Stakes.—For horses bona fide the
property of officers of the Fourth Division, to be ridden
by officers of the division. Entrance 305., 51. added.
Catch weight. Distance three-fourths of a mile.
2. 9 Sweepstakes for Ponies of the Division under
fourteen hands two inches high. Entrance 10s., 31.
added. Catch weights. Distance half-a-mile.
3. An Open Sweepstakes for all Horses.—Entrance
21., 101. added. Catch weight. Distance one mile.
4. A Sweepstakes for Ponies under thirteen hands be-
longing to the Fourth Division.— Entrance Ls., 21.
added. Distance half-a-mile.

5. An Open Sweepstakes for all horses (English in-
cluded). Entrance 302., 51. added. Distance three-
fourths of a mile.

G. An Open Sweepstakes for all Ponies under fourteen
hands two inches high. Entrance 155., with 51. added,
Distance half-a-mile.

7. An open mule race. Entrance 55., 1/. 10s. added.
Distance half-a-mile.

8. A pony race, to be ridden by sailors of the naval
brigade. Entrance, 2s. 6d., N. added. Distanze half-

D. A hurdle race for all horses. Entrance 11., 51.
added. astances three-fourths of a mile, over a ditch,
hurdle, and wall.

(Sighed) Major HAMILTON, D.A.Q.M.General,
Clerk of the Course.
Mem.—ln case of necessity, the Stewards gave the
power of postponing the day for the races.
Camp, Fouith Division, March 15, 1855.

CRICKET.

THE FORTHCOMING SEASON. GRAND
CHAMPION CHALLENGE CUP, TO BE
CONTENDED FOR BY COUNTIES.
Notwithstanding the unsettled state of the weather
large preparations and arrangements have already been
made for the approaching season. Indeed there are not
a few places whereat occasional practice has commenced,
and it requires but a littledry weather to draw out many
others. With the month of April numerous clubs enter
upon their regular practice, and, considering the vast in-
crease in the number of matches that have of late years
been played, and the early period at which many of them
take place, it has become necessary for all parties to begin
their practice sooner in the spring than was formerly the
custom, except so far as regarded certain players. But it
was by means of the adoption of that early practice that
the latter were able to coma into the field in May in full
play. This hint, it is hoped, will not be thrown away upon
gentlemen who are anxious to take part in the May
matches.
The " Universities " are usually among the " early
birds," but as yet we have not beard of any particular
movement at Cambridge. At Oxford, on the contrary,
they are up and stirring with unusual energy, we learn.
Not only have the members of the colleges there, espe-
cially those of Magdalen and Christ Church, secured the
services of the players whose names we shall presently
introduce, but the former of these two clubs have raised
a subscription, amounting to something like 5001., for
the purpose of erecting a pavilion, and have already ad-
vertised for tenders, that sum being the maximum of the
proposed expenditure upon the building.
This spirited proceeding has infused a vigour into the
Oxford cricket world which that university bad long been
free from, and it is anticipated, therefore, that they will
put forth an eleven this year who, with respect of strength
in each branch of the game, will possess such powers as
have rarely been drawn from the banks of the Isis.
Among the professional bowlers who it is known ar-
rangements have been made with, some from Monday
next, may be named :—Armitage, Bickley, Carpenter,
Grundy, Hillyer, Hinkley, James Lillywhite, Martin-
gell, Nixon, Stephenson, Wells, &c. Dean goes, as
heretofore, to initiate the students at Marlborough
College ; Wisden resumes his duties at Harrow ;
Caffyn goes to Winchester ; and John Lillywhite, of
course, is to be found at Rugby. Moreover, the heights
in the vicinity of Sebastopol and Balaklava are about,
even if they have not already been so, to become
the scene of our great national pastime, for many of
the officers out there areTmembers, and not a few of them
playing members of the Marylebone and Surrey clubs.
Le one of the recent letters from the seat of war it was
stated that our officers had astonished the Cossacks by
some races they had got up, and that it was intended
still further to surprise that force by the introduction of
cricket. These people will thus have the opportunity of
gazing at two of England's most patronised and most
popular sports.
As we stated a short time since, the Marylebone Club,
as well as that of Surrey, has announced the arrange-
ment of its grand matches, whilst the Eleven of England
anti the United Eleven have snore offers for snatches in
different parts of the kingdom than either will be able
to undertake.
A feature of unusual novelty, furthermore, will this
season be introduced to the cricket lovers; a novelty it is,
too, which will create the most lively interestin those who
have the least regard for their respective county's reputa-
tion. It has been promulgated by the committee of
the Sheffield Cricket Club, that it is their intention to
put forth a silver cup, of the value of 501., to be
designated—" The Cricketers' County Champion Chal-
lenge Cup," for competition between four of the recog-
nised cricketing counties ; the three contests to take
place at Sheffield in the months of June, July, August,
or September. The counties who propose to enter the
lists, according to the arrangement of the committee,
are to send in their applications to M. J. Ellison, Esq.,
of Sheffield, on or before April the 15th, accompanied
by a remittance of the sum of 251., as a guarantee for
the due appearance of the respective elevens on the
day to be hereafter selected. This deposit will be re-
paid to each county upon the termination of each match
respectively, the remittance being required only as a
security fvr good faith. In case either of the counties
who, having entered the lists, should fail duly to send
its representatives to the battle-field in question,
this deposit will be forfeited to the Sheffield
Club. So soon as the four counties have signified their
wish to compete for the prize, the committee will pro-
ceed to a ballot, when the two first drawn counties will
be expected to play the match on the particular Monday
and following days, which the committee may appoint
subsequently, in the month of June. The other two
competing counties will be called upon to play their
match in July or August, and the two victorious coun-
ties in those contests will be summoned to play the
third and conquering match in the months of August
or September in the present year. Each losing county
in the two first matches will receive from the Sheffield
committee 501., in addition to the return of their own
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Surrey, Sussex, Nottingham, and York, and, loe'Ei g
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heard something said as to Julius Cnear having received
an engagement from the Earl of Stamford and Warring-
ton for the season, but the fact has not as yet reached us
in an official form. Challen, it is also said, leaves Sussex
f;se Steurbridge, by the club of which place he has been
engaged for the eueuing summer, with the understanding
that he shall be avallable, if his services should be rs-
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THE MUSEUM OF ORNAMENTAL ART, AT MARL-
BOROUGH 110 USE.—The numbers attending, &c., during
the month of March ult. were as follows :-4,760 per-
sons on the public days, and admitted free ; 530 persons
ponaytmheenst of G t each,tuder'dayst:islidde admitted
registered as
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the classes and schools.

NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—LivEarooL, APRIL 2
EVANS T. ROBINSON.

The Attorney-General, Mr. Serjeant Wilkins, and Mr.
Aspland appeared for the plaintiff; and Mr. Watson,
Q.C., Mr. Atherton, Q.C., Mr. Rew, and Mr. Quain for
the defendant.
This was an action for criminal conversation with the
plaintiff's wife.
TheAttorney-General, in addressing the jury, said that
he should not in this instance adopt the usual mode in
inquiries of this nature, by asking the jury to award his
client compensation for the loss of his wife's affections,
for those affections he must plainly tell them had been
anticipated even before the marriage by the defendant.
The defendant had most effectually supplanted the
plaintiff in the bosom of his wife both before and after
their marriage, and, being himself already a married
man, he had after the union with the plaintiff and his
wife resumed his influence to the dishonour and disgrace
of his client. The plaintiff, Mr. Evans, was a gentleman
of fortune, 37 years of age, and had been educated at
Eton and Oxford, and in the month of November, 1850,
he was married to Miss Carrington, one of four
laughters of a gentleman of that name residing at Chel-
enham ; in fact, the families of Mr. and Mrs. Evans
had resided since the year 1845 at that place, and had
continued on terms of intimate friendship. Upon the mar-
riage the plaintiff made a settlement upon hiswife of 5004.
a year, and had hoped for much happiness in the object
of his choice, who he should tell them was a lady of con-
siderable attractions. They first went to Paris, and
then to Leicester, the plaintiff being very partial to
hunting ; and towards the close of a short sojourn there
the lady began to manifest symptoms of indifference to-
wards her husband, urging as a reason a proposition on
the part of her husband that his aged and infirm mother
should be allowed to reside with them. Differences,
however, continued to arise, which ended in high
words upon the occasion of misconduct on the part of a
maid of Mrs. Every. The lady's father was appealed to,
and he at first endeavoured to persuade the lady to obey
her husband's wishes ; nevertheless, she was inexorable,
and insisted upon hafing an allowance from her hus-
band, which he granted, amounting to 2501. per an-
num, during his mother's life. This demand had been
made during a short visit at Sinclair-villa, which ended
in the lady's returning to her father's house, and there
it was that the defendant renewed his visits to her. He
(the Attorney-General) should show that he paid fre-
quent and daily visits to her father's house, and then it
was that the plaintiff began to be satisfied that he had
been duped as to this unfortunate marriage. Of course,
his wife's proceedings with the defendant soon
reached the plaintiff's ears, and in 1853 he ascertained
for the first time that the lady had left her father's house
for London, in company with the defendant. Application
was then made to the plaintiff's solicitor, who succeeded
in tracing the lady to some apartments at No. 15 in the
Edgeware-road, and afterwards in Bryanston-street,
which had been taken by the defendant, whose visits
were daily, and who had obtained a latch key for the
more easy access to the lady's apartments. It would be
proved that the blinds of the windows were always
drawn down after the gentleman's arrival for about half-
an-hour, and the plaintiff, having become satisfied of the
criminal conduct of his wife, employed Inspector Field
to take the necessary steps to detect her, and under his
direction holes were bored in the folding doors between
the drawing-room and bed-room, and three women, one
of whom was the landlady, would distinctly tell them
that they witnessed on two or three occasions distinct
criminal acts between Mrs. Evans and the defendant.
After hearing these witnesses, it would be for them to
say whether their testimony was entitled to credit. No
doubt the learned counsel on the ;other side would try
and persuade them not to believe their evidence ; but the
jury would remember that in all cases of adulterous in-
tercourse it was necessary to employ persons who would
watch and take especial means in discovering the miscon-
duct of the parties. The plaintiff in this instance did not
seek for any damages for the lost affections of his wife,
but lie sought to be relieved at their hands of a " tie" so
productive of dishonour to him, and this he should be
able to effect by applying afterwards to the House of
Lords, and if the defendant had in this case, as he be-
lieved he had, induced the plaintiff to marry tnis lady at
the very time that he knew he was in possession of her
affections, and had even exulted at the time of the wed-
ding that they had caught a shy fish at last—if he had
done this, he was sure they would agree with him in
thinking that human imagination could hardly conceive
conduct more disgraceful than that of the defendant in
this action.
William Edward Lawrence, examined by Mr. Ser-
jeant Wilkins, said--I am a justice of the peace for the
cour ty; of Glocester, residing at Cheltenham. I was
present at the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Evans, at St.
George's, Hanover-square. I am a trustee of the mar-
riage settlement. The plaintiff's income is about2,oool.
a-year. He was educated at Eton and Oxford. His
father was a magistrate for the county, and the defend-
ant is also a magistrate. He is separated from his wife.
I have seen the defendant in company with the plain-
tiff's wife, riding and walking. Sometimes they were
unattended and sometimes attended. I have seen them
sometimes; too, in a carriage unattended. They rode in
the defendant's carriage—a one-horse carriage. I have
seen them riding before the marriage and since then.
'Cross-examined by Mr. Watson.—l was examined
last summer. I then said I had seen them together in
public several times. Mr. Robinson has lived in Chel-
tenham 16 years. He is a magistrate and deputy-lieu-
tenant. I should say his age is probably 48. He has
a son grown up in the Treasury. Mr. Carrington has
three daughters and two sons. I was not on visiting
terms with the family before they came to Cheltenham.
Mr. Robinson has during a great portion •f that time
been a very intimate friend of the family, both before
and after the marriage. I may have seen Mrs. Evans's
father and mother walking with them when Mr. Robin-
son and Mrs. Evans were together. Mr. Robinson's
carriage was an open carriage.
Mrs. Taylor said—l am a widow and reside at Lei-
cester. I let furnished apartments to the plaintiff in
1850. Mr. Evans brought ES carriage and horse with
him. He used to hunt three days a week generally,
but occasionally took Mrs. Evans for a drive. On one
occasion he could not go when the carriage was at the
door. After hunting he returned home to dinner. Mr.
and Mrs. Evans used to visit various friends, and their
friends called upon them. Mr. Evans never left his
wife alone in the evening. I had persons of the highest
respectability lodging with me. While they were absent
from my apartments at Cheltenham there was a misun-
derstanding about their servant. Mr. Evans always
exhibited very kind condwtt towards his wife.
Cross-examined by Mr. Atherton—l do not remember
saying that Mr. Evans hunted five days in the week.
My servant used to wait upon Mr. and Mrs. Evans when
they were at my house. Mrs. Evans put herself ix a
violent passion -when Mr. Evans insisted upon dis-
charging her maid.
William, John Charlton,said—l reside at Cheltenham,
know the defendant, Mr. Robinson, and I know Mrs.
Evans very well. I have frequently seen them riding
together and walking, both before and since the mar-
riao ; 'they were always unattended. I have never
seen them riding with any one else.
Alfred Cooke said—l am a footman, in the service of
Mr. Carrington. I have been there two years and three
months. Mrs. Evans lives there, and Mr. Robinson
is there most days when he is in town. Sometimes he
is there twice a day. Mrs. Evans rides out on horse-
back, and walks with him. She rode Mr. Robinson's
horse. Mr. Robinson very frequently called when the
other members of the family were out. They were gene-
rally in the drawing-room an hour or more.
Cross-examined by Mr. Watson—l left Mr. Carring-
ton's service last Friday without giving any notice. I
did not tell Mr. Carrington I was going. I left upon re-
ceiving a subpoena. I have seen Mr. Field. I met him
the first time by accident in Lansdowne-terrace ; after-
wards I saw him by arrangement. I did not get my
wages before leaving ; Mr. Carrington owes rue three
months' wages. Ido not know who will pay me for
my loss of wages. I had not had any promise of
money from any one. I do expect my wages paid me
if a verdict is obtained. Mr. Melton, the solicitor,
served use with the subpoena, mad then I left without
seeing my roaster.
John Meyer said—l keep a chop at the Promenade,
Cheltenham. I know the defendant and Mrs. Evans.
I frequently go out in the afternoon to work at a piece
of land I have near Swindon-lane. I have seen the de-
endant and Mrs. Evans coming out that way in the
reler soon on horseback.
a Capt.- Richard Litchfield said—l am acquainted with
ttae Carrington limey, and know the defendant, Mr.
Robinson. I sus aware that the lady returned to her
father's house after her marriage. I have seen them
together.
John Griffith said— I hold a situation at the Board of
Ordnance in the Tower. I was formerly in the police,
and left it in 1853. I was employed by Mr. Duncan,
the solicitor, to watch Mrs. Evans, and I watched No.
15, Edgeware-road, London. This was in June of that
year. I know Mr. Robinson, and I saw him go there
three or four times a-day. On one occasion I saw him
knock at the door. This was his first visit. I saw him
there afterwards, and he used to go up td the first floor.
I was in a public-house opposite and could see the win-
dow. He generally appeared at the window with a lady
and sat down. Mr. Robinson then used to pull down
the blind. I saw this once a day. I still continued to
watch the house. The blind was generally dow❑ for
about 20 minutes to half-an-hour, and then Mr. Robin-
son used to draw it up. I saw them walk and ride out
daily from the 25th of June to the Bth of July, with the
exception of two days. I used to follow them when
they walked. The first day I followed them to the
National Gallery, and I have followed them of an even-
ing until a quarter past 0 in the park. Mr. Robinson
seemed always most attentive to Mrs. Evans.
Cross-examined by Mr. Watson—l was in the police
15 years, and then retired in February, 1853. I now
reside in Lambeth. It was Mr. Murphy introduced me
to Mr. Duncan, the solicitor, who employed me to watch.
I received 1/. 4s. a-week for watching, and my expenses
were allowed me for cab-hire. Some days this charge
amounted to 4•. a-day. I had to report the result of
my watching daily to Mr. Duncan.
Re-examined by Mr. Serjeant Wilkins—When I left
the police I had my pension and a first-class certificate
granted time.
- Mrs. Phillips—I am the wife of James Phillips, a
tailor, and reside at 15, Edgeware-road. The defendant
took my apartments. ' The morning after Mrs. Evan■
arrived he asked me for a latch-key, and one was given
to him. He let himself in by that key. Mrs. Evans
remained at our lodgings a fortnight. Defendant came
there two or three times a-day. , There is a sofa in the
drawing-room, near the window.
Cross-examined—I do not say it can be seen from the
road. Mrs. Evans had a servant who attended upon
Ler.

James Phillips—l live at 15, Edgeware•road. i rernem-
Ler "Sirs. Evans lodging there. I saw the defendant there.