The Sun.
London, England, 1855-08-21 00:00:00

r°rD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.)

Qow
b . 20.—Wind this day at noon, W. ;
tee Aug.•
ottl ze, and cloudy at times.
Cttvi, koUTR, Aug. 23.—Wind W.S.W., blowing hard.
ell—Hatton (s.s. tpt. 152). from Constantinople.
0.1.--11,41'1 of Durham (a. tpt. 230), for Deptford.
uTR, Aug. 20.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrived—Lady
co 4142 Paraiba for Hamburg ; Sand ford and Onward,
idei:°; Lady Peel, Quebcc ; Lyme Regis, Balaklava ;
rkt,; London for Melbourne.
tittitePlTll, Aug. 20.—Wind W.S.W. fresh breezes.--
14, 6—Anna Elizabeth, from Rio 'Janeiro; Vivid
breezes.-
4, for Liverpool ; Lesn Racer, Matanzas.
5,4'4 tutiruOL, Aug. 33.—Th wreck of a large ship, with
ki,Prow.ll-t, OP-masts aloft, but all the riggi gone, with
Pitt Itft'ongside and several more at anchor near the
"ittli„sf, vras
Aug. 'A passed off Pnlo Leal on the 17th May.
L—Wind N.W.—Arrived—Lisbon and

THIS DAYS NEWS

BANKRUPTCY Ci)URT-(THIS DAY).

(Before Mr. Commislioner Elolroyd.)
IN RE SAMUEL HODGSON.

This was a meeting for audit and examination. The
bankrupt was a stationer, carrying on business in Great
Marylebone-street.
The balance-sheet extended from January, 1853, to
May, 1854, creditors, 4,1161. ; do. secured, 247/. ; pro-
fits, 9381. Good debts, 1,038/. ; doubtful, 119/. ; bad,
51 ; property, 1,052/. ; do. in the hands of creditors,
290/. ; excepted articles, 20/. ; losses, 4971. ; trade ex-
penses, 853/. ; domestic expenses, 1,154/. ; deficiency,
2791. ; bad debts to January, 1853, 1,085/.
No opposition was ~iffered, and the bankrupt passed.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS

DAY).

OLD COURT.
(Before the Recorder.)

James Jones, 26, labourer, and Henry Roberts, 42,
painter, were indicted for stealing a watch, the property
of William Edroff, from

.•
Mr. Clarkson prosecuted, and Mr. Sleigh and Mr.
Payne defended.
The prosecutor, who is the musical director at the
Grecian Saloon, stated that upon the night of the 2d of
July he was at the bar of that tavern, after the perfor-
mance, about to bare some refreshment, and upon put-
ting his hand into his wakt‘mat pocket he encountered
the clenched hand of the prisoner J ones, and immediately
found his Albert-guar hanging from his pocket, and
his watch gone. He instantly seized the prisoner, who
broke from him, and got over to the other side of the
bar, where he managed to pass something over to the
prisoner Roberts, who was standing there, surrounded
with several women. Jones struggled through the people
in front of the bar and gained the street, followed by
the prosecutor and others, calling "Stop, thief." The
prisoner tried to run towards the City road, but he was
stopped by the waterman upon the cab rank. The
prisoner Roberts was detained at the bar by a gentle-
roan named Rowland Hurst, who was in Mr. Edroft's
company at the time, and who saw something passed to
him. The watch had not been found.
The Recorder told Mr. Payne that lie need not
address the jury on the part of the prisoner Roberts.
Mr. Sleigh then addressed the jury for Jones.

ills Lordship hiving summed up, the jury acquitted

the prisoner.
Jones was then indicted for stealing ten sovereigns,
with violence, from the person of Frederick Lyall.

The prosecutor, a stationer, living in Huggin-lane,
Cheapside, said that on the 26th of March last, at about
11 in the morning, be was at the bar of a public-house
iu Southampton-street, Pintonville, and upon going out
into the yard he saw the prisoner and two others were
playing at skittles, when they challenged prosecutor to
play. He did so for some drink, and then fur some
money, which prosecutor lost to the amount of 3s. 6d.
He then wished to leave the skittle ground, when be
found the door of the skittle saloon locked. The pri-
soner then seized upon prosecutor and kicked him, and
the others knocked him about until he became quite in-
sensible, when they rifled his pockets and then made off
with the contents. Witness saw nothing of the prisoner
until the night of the 2d of July, when he happened to

be at the bar of the Eagle tavern, awl saw the prisoner
and recognised him as the man who lad robbed him ;
and he (witness) was waiting to find a p,licern3n to give
him in charge, when he ran away, and wa= brought back
in the charge of the polioe for rubbing him (Urfa).
The charge, which rested solely upon the testimony of
the man robbed, who gave a very loose account of the
affair, was stopped by the jury.

The prisoner, who is a well-known character, after re-
ceiving► a caution from his lordship, was ordkred to stand
down.

Mr Commissioner Gurney eat during the day in the
New Court disposing of the Mint caves, which were of
the uz,ual character.

POLICE INTETLIGENCE.-(THIS DAY.)

(Pla ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
lkSive SOUTHAMPTON, Tuesday Morning.
44,1; ll:ifCountess of Leven and Melville, from Requi-
tyf's ; 1.4" r, Newport ; Thomas and Margaret, Sunder-
,rilerick Lass, Newport ; Hannah, Swansea ; Ar-
(IN t'arentan.
' tr4---Plora, for Sunderland ; Alliance (s.) and Wonder
he ; Courier (s.), Jersey ; Brilliant (s.), Malta.
A 'Tito
LIVERPOOL, Tuesday Morning.
Ndttived •
ilk ;IN Gossypium, from Bombay ; Owen Glendower,
Not%4-xcelsior, New York ; Cromwell and Meteor,
%is ; Annie Reddin,.Prince Edward'alsland ;
Pictou ; Sandback, Grenada.
QUEENSTOWN, Aug. 19.

ki:lll!)ed."s7.
Pa Arthur Wellesley. from Akyab ; Otter, Itaf-
tilgia, Constantinople • Agerratcie, Smyrna ; Par-
lonica ' Lydia, Prince Edward's Island ; Water
-"Qttantinople.

1111 illnaliAßlNE AND BRITISH TELEGRAM)
404 GRAVESEND, Tuesday, 10.2 a.m.
W• ; tide, two and a-half hour's ebb ; weather
4h4
-crei
11. --Corsair, from Guernsey.
1?144 W DEAL, Tuesday, 9.52 a.m.
42.44 -.sm.; strong.
.00 (4 :,--trothers, from St. Vincent ; Sydney, Adelaide;
6,1,t the Nile, Pondicherry ; Gitania, Nassau ; Oran,
bltb'j-enice from Charente—all for London ; Magna
V. 44111 Constantino le for the north ; Asphalon, Con-
lit4lWitis'e. for Shields • Ann Falcon, Barbadoes, for
; Indian (s.s. tp' t. 197), London, for the Black

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tirt-OTP.I -----MAN.—On Saturday, Chown, E
~ app , RAVE
imtte "'Med in Holborn a young man, who gave. the
The prisoner
gii4 htlf johnson, for picking pockets.
1,44tri1" triad and convicted several times for felony
*Mk /411°1111 names, and is at present a ticket-of-leave
I kvi,,,, ,
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u correspondent
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1441 e r -41 l allude-I to the recent notice n . in a ling's
144414"18 °f a rabbit's leg being found
14°4't ,„.11' and adds of his own knowledge something
4 erl°ll(lerful, being nothinz less than the discovery of
4tr,
...ire
~, ~kitten not long
in the stomach of a cod, caught
et
4,bitel-,4-irkwall bay, These facts show h fish in
4411,,a,,re not particularly fastidious in the selection of
, k. °""•---J ohm 0' Groat Journal.
14q4`tr SoALDED TO DEATH AT WEsTHOUGHTON.—An
0114 er,Rt Waa held before Mr. George o,vnid Rutteare„pree:
INIlt „,7?ner for the Salford Hundred of Lanc
nbel
m.
ill'' -."Y* on the b d f William Smith, ama
vail Yeti 't Mr• Stottso o
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folio.of Weethoughton, who.
circumstances : On the even
hALI tile ad inst.twdoili:egaged and several other men werewire
.e" De f',. ehattl and it became necessary to move a
Ail ise-°tri the drum connected with the steam-engine.
°A water 111°'4, this rose th stood near a reservoir or tank
l'rerntk, Utied for tme e
purpose of condensing the steam
t
Ick,iliCga enine, and inti this, which was nearly at
l'° Pe heat, Smithslipped whil.t pulling the
. engine
tit • Ilie „ . ei inpaniong succeeded in rescuing him mime-
' c1t04j.4,1:1; to qt
he was so much scalded that it became noes:
iteik‘thyfhert:nthve him tr, the house of his mother a:d, L
he died on Friday. Verdict—"Acci ental

THE Sl3 LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING,
• •

SPORTING NOTES.

KNOWING FOR KNAVESMIRE.

Were I fond of new and apt quotations I should describe
the meeting about to be celebrated at York as being
" big with the fate of thousands." No "book learning'
is, however, required to excite expectation, or to indicate
the abundant prumise of spirit presented by the pro.
gramme. The leading encounters will possess an endur-
ing importance, inasmuch as they will bring into the field
in generous competition the " flower" of our turf celebri-
ties. The result of certain races will be regarded with
no little curiosity and anxiety on account of the vast
influence which it will exercise on the St. Leger betting.

If faith may be placed in the Squire's declaration at
Reading, the North and South Biennial Stakes may
again introduce us to Rifleman. Whether this horse be
again sound in limb I have had no opportunity of judg-
ing ; the desire, however, which has been evinced to
back him for the St. Leger would indicate that he is
all right. Should Combas start—and the eagerness
which was evinced at Tattersall's to bet against him
justifies some doubts on this subject—l shall, despite
the Gib. difference in their weights, be induced to place
greater confid-nce in him than in Rifleman, because, to
do battle for me over a long and severe course, I would
rather trust an animal whose understandings have not
been brought under suspicion. In the absence,, there-
fore, of Corcebus, Rifleman and Noisy may run first and

second.
Fanny Grey displayed so much racing ability when
she ran at Wolverhanipton, "merely to claim the allow-
ances," that lam induced to couple her-with La lyTatton
to represent my interest for the Yorkshire Oaks. The
100 Soya Sweepstakes is not likely to occasion a race.
To select the winner of the Convivial Stakes from 139
nominations is a somewhat puzzling task Fly-by-Noight
I am induced to number among the probable absentees,
and unless the Whitewall stable contain another " flyer"
at present " dark " the stake will perhaps be carried off
by either Aleppo, or the colt by Flying Dutchman out
of Ellerdele. Fur the Chesterfield Handicap I shall ex-
pect the foremost places to be occupied by Early Bird,
Vjndex, and Orson. Acrobat will doubtless be indulged
in a walk over for the Burgundy Stakes. The County
Plate will perhaps occasion a somewhat interesting race.
Early Bird, Dervish, and Rogerthorpe appear to be the
most attractive nominations.
The most important encounter of the meeting will
be between Oulston and Wild Dayrell fer the Ebor
St. Leger. Tee Derby winner will be called upon to
concede 61bs to Oulston, a task which he will find some-
what difficult to accomplish. I have always regarded
Oulston as the best horse of his year, and 1 shall expect
his performance on Thursday to establish the correctness
of my judgment. The only horse likely to interfere with
the success of either would be Fandango, of whose start-
ing, however, doubts are entertained.
Artillery is engaged is the Prince of Wales' Stakes,
but it is questionable whether he will be brought
cut to prove in public his title to the support which be
has already received in the Derby betting. In his ab-
sence I shall pin my faith to Brother to Orinoco and
Warlock. Should Corceou-; and Fandango start I may
be inclined to "stand one of them" for the Eglinton
Stakes, but should they be resolved for their other en-
gagements I shall look to Benhams and the intended
of John Osborne's—either Lady Tatton or Alfred—,o
pull me through successfully. The Aske Produce
Stakes I assign to Eglantine.
The field fur the Ebor Handicap will be numerically
insignificant. Vandal maintains his place steadily in
the betting, and the lightness of his iinpost, and the fact
of his being reported the best of John Scott's lot, cer-
tainly entitle him to the position to which he has been
advanced. His miserable exhibition on Knsvesmire at
the commencement of the season, and his subsequent
defeat by Pugnator at Newmarket, however, go far to
lessen whatever good opinion I may be inclined to en-
tertain of his chance on account of the skill and
judgment of his trainer. Saucebox is required to '
concede 16ils. to Vandal and 81bs. to Dame Judith, and
despite the assertion of his owner that the public hare
not yet seen Saucebox run in his best form, I am com-
pelled to hesitate before I place undivided confidence in
his chance. Escape has proved himself an animal of
some racing merit, but there are other three-yr-olds
more favourably weight id. A reference to the pages of
"The Guide to the Turf" will be sufficient to prove
Little Harry's claims upon consideration. His perform-
ances, indee 1, are suffieient to give strong encourage-
ment to his backers. Last year Little Harry, carrying
84 71b (51bs. under his present weight), won the Ascot
Stakes, beating Grapeshot, 4 yrs, 7st. 101 b., by a length,
Kingston, 5 yrs, got third, Little Jack, aged, 7st Bib,
fifth—sixteen ran. For the Eoor Handicap, last year,
carrying B,t. 811'. (6;bs. above his present weight), he
ran third, Grand Inquisitor, • yrs, sst. 91b., being first,
and Amalgamation, 3 yrs., sst. 61b., second. Subse-
quently, at Epsom, carrying Bst. 5111., (31bs. under his
present weight), he ran Mishap, srt. 61b., to a neck
for the Autumn Handicap. During the current
racing season he has only once been out. He ran for
the Somersetehire Stakes, but, meeting with an accident
in the race, he was stopped. The above btatements are
sufficient to prove the formidableness of his chance.
Homily has been little talked about within the last
fortnight. Should she go to the post and be intended I
shall be induced to place almost absolute trust in her.
She war yesterday backed for some small sums, but the
outlay was not sufficient to raise expectations of her
starting. Could I, however, calculate upon a fair start
and no favour, I should have no hesitation in selecting
kir my champions