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

FRIDAY.

Handicap Plate of 100 soya ; the winner of the New-
market Handicap to carry 71b extra; of any other
handicap value 100 soya, 3•h extra ; no horse to carry
more than 71b extra. Audley End Course.

Yrs at lb
Weathercock 4 8 4
Humguffiu 4 7 11
Mishap
Postulant
Testy 4 7 7
Legatee ' 4 7 5
Rodo-meli
Handicap Sweepstakes of 15 sous each, 10 ft; for all
Swaegeepss.tale o
T.Y.U.
.110 spvs each, for 2-yr-olda, 83t 71b ;
and fillies, Bst 41b. The winner to be sold for 150/. if
demanded, &c. ; if entared to be sold for 1001., allowed
61b ; if for 801.,91b ; if for 50/., 121 b ; if for 251., 161 b.
Last half of Ab. M.

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

Sweepstakes of 50 soya each ; for colts, Bit 91b, and fil-
lies, Bst 41h, got by untried stallions or out of untried
marei ; if both untried, allowed 31b. A.F.
G-Imnilus Esuriens I Minx (31b Joshua
I
Nutjobber I Dame Partlet
The Port Stakes, a sweepstakes of 100 sous each, h ft.,
for 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 1 Champag
Ine
Virago Miranda Ornoo
Acrobat Weathercock Hesse-Cassel
'Sweepstakes of 100 sove each, h ft., for 2-yr-olds ; colts,

Bst 71b, and fillies, Bst 21b. D.M.

Antoinette Conveyancer 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 Hanrlicap of 10 sovs each,
h It, 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 sub 3.
Y 4.
Vingt-et-un ' ri
Le Juif a
Auchinleek
Placenix 4
Joanna Wagner 3
Motley 4
Blarney (h b) a
Waverley
Penitent

Yrs.
Chisel
Tallyho 3
Cas-io 5
Braxey • 6
Jack the Giant-killer 5
Blooming. Heather 3
Maid of Team Valley a
Cock of the North
Florida 3
Nally Armstrong 3
Lance,,vood 3
Gamelad 4
Little Jack a
Mortimer
Jonathan Martin 4
..'aucebox 3
Robgill 4
Neville
Bolten 3

A lston
John Dory a
Pippin
3
Friar's Hall 5
La B,lle 5
Freddy 3
Deerstealer 3
Rataplan 5
The Butler 3
R.Alitrhani

, THE "MISS MOWBRAY" AFFAIR.
The following opinion Las been given by Mr. Edwin
James, Q C., upon the documents and certificates 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 iu this transaction. -
"
"EDWIN JAMES, Q.C.
Home Circuit, Kingston, April 6, 1355."
We think it fair to ThOtgias 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 Malton, in the
minty 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 arriked at Dr. Wood's,
at Aintree, about four o'clock in the afternoon of that
day; that I never left the mare 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
Fourth,intituled, 'An Act to repeal an Act of the
present
Session of Parliament, intituled, "An Act for the
LION effectual Abolition of Oaths and Affirmations taken'
the
ed sixth years of the reign of his late Majesty, William

and made in various departments of the State, and to
substitute Declarations in lieu thereof, and or the more
entiro Suppression of voluntary and ox'ra j :1•21, 0ut.11,,
arid AtEdavits;" and to make other provisions for the abo-
lition of unnecessary Oaths.'

" TIIOSEAS HARRISON.
"Declared at the Police-court, Marlborough-street, this
2d day of April, 1855, before rae, 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 liabili-
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 probabi:ity,
will be filled up during the approaching Craven Meet-
ing.—Bell's Life.

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 injured 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.