The Sun.
London, England, 1852-12-25 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

BETTING MANCHESTER—YESTERDAY.
LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE.
100 to 6 agst Miss Mowbray (taken freely).
20 to 1 —. Rattrap (take 30 to 1).
Miss Modrbray has been in great demand since
Wednesday-1,000 to 60 was taken yesterday, the
taker offering to go on, the same price being freely taken
to-day.

30 to 1 agst Muscovite (taken).
100 to 3 Contentment (taken)
100 to 3 The Hatchet (takeen).
40 to 1 Pug Orrock (taken)
40 to 1 Tickton (taken)
40 to 1 Hobby Horse (taken).
40 to 1 Ireland's Eye (taken)
40 to 1 Galvanism (offered)
50 to 1 Ethelbert (taken)
50 to 1 Termagant (taken)
As low as 100 to 3 has been faken about Galvanism
since Tuesday, but to-day we could not say what his
taking price was, but 40 to 1 was currently offered.
Termagant also receded from 100 to 3to 50 to 1. The
business was extremely dull. Nothing at all was done
upon the Chester Cup or Derby.

SESSIONS COURT-DUBLIN.

THE QUEEN V. THE ANGLO CELT NEWSPAPER.

This trial was resumed on Thursday morning, when
Mr. Fitzgibbon, Q.C., addressed the jury for the de-
fendant in a lengthened and clever speech. After the
examination of a short-hand writer who reported the
proceedings of the inquest at Six-mile-bridge, the Solici-
tor-General replied for the Crown, and
The Chief-Justice proceeded to charge the jury. His
Lordship having laid down the law to the jury, they re-
tired to their room to consider their verdict, and in
about half an hour returned to their box, when
The foreman intimated to the court that the jury felt
a difficulty asregarded the word " malicious," which ap-
peared in the counts in the indictment, and wished to
know if it could be expunged.
The Chief-Justice replied that the word should be re-
tained, but whether the act of the accused was or was not
malicious was an inference of law to be drawn from the
circumstances of the case. If a man published a libel it
must be malicious, and signified the inflicting of a legal
injury.

A -juror—Can we find upon any one count ?
Chief-Justice—You can find upon one or all.
The jury again withdrew, and
Mr. Fitzgibbon, Q.C., and Mr. M9Donough respect-
fully objected to the manner in which his lordship had
left the case to the jury, submitting that malice did not
mean a legal injury, but an intent on the part of the
person charged to do a wrong, which intent was to be
deduced from his acts.

The Chief-Justice said that malice was a legal injury,
and legal injury was malice, and he had told the jury
that if they believed that the several things charged in
the indictment had been done by the defendant with the
intent ascribed to him, they should find him guilty.
Mr. Fitzgibbon—Then your lordship refuses to call
back the jury?
The Chief-Justice--I do ; but before the jury give their
verdict I will ask them if they conceive that in what I
last said to them I withdrew a word of my charge ; and
if what I have said be wrong, the defendant will have the
benefit of it on a motion for a new trial.
The jury shortly afterwards returned to their box,
when

The Chief-Justice asked! them if he had conveyed
anything to them which had altered the view of the case
which he had presented to them in his charge.
A juror replied in the negative. The only difficulty
they found was in consequence of the use of the word
" malicious."

The foreman then handed down the verdict, which
was to the effect that they found the defendant guilty
upon the second, third, and fourth counts. They also
found that the allegations in the special plea of justifica-
tion were not true, and that it was not for the public
good that the several matters mentioned in the indict-
ment should be published at the time. The jury could
not agree to all the first count ; it contained averments
about which they disagreed.
Mr. Hayes, Q.C., said that, on the part of the Crown,
he would consent to a nolle prosequi being entered upon
the first count, and thus they would get over the diffi-
culty.

A: juror—Eleven of the jury were for finding, the de-
fendant guilty upon all the counts, but one of them
would not agree to this, so to get quietly away we con-
sented to wave it. (A laugh.)
A juror said, that it was not right of a juror to state
that one differed from the rest.
The Chief-Justice said that no name had been men-
tioned, and he was sure that all the jury had done
their best to arrive at a correct conclusion.
The jury were then discharged.

SUDDEN DEATH OF A PENINSULAR OFFICER.—We
regret to learn the unexpected decease of a distinguished
army surgeon, Samuel Barwick Bruce, M.D., of Ripon,
Yorkshire, for many years surgeon to the forces, who died
in Victoria-square, Grosvenor-place, yesterday (Friday), in
his 67th year. Dr. Bruce was born on the Bth of January,
1786, the second son of Mr. Barwick Bruce, and the grand-
son of the Hon. J. 0. Bruce. of Gartlet, county of Clack-
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Bruce entered the medical department of the army in 1804,
but saw some of his earliest service afloat under Lord Nel-
son, in 1805 ; he was present at the capture of the Danish
islands of St. Thomas, St. John, and St. Croix, in 1807,
and he subsequently served at the siege of Fort Desaix,
Martinique (for which he had a medal and clasp) ; at the
capture of Les Saintes, near Guadeloupe, at the bombard-
ment and driving from their anchorage of the French fleet,
in 1809 ; at the capture of Guadeloupe (for which also he
received a medal and clasp), as well as at the capture of
the adjacent islands in 1810. Dr. Bruce served in the
Peninsula in 1813, in America in 1814 and 1815, and was
present at the severe actions before New Orleans in Jan.,
1815 ; at the capture of Fort Boyer, &c. He joined the
army in the Netherlands, under the Duke of Wellington,
in May, 1815 ; was present at Waterloo, and at the subse-
extent capture of Paris. He died suddenly, after an apo-
plectic seizure.
A CHANGE POR THE BETTER.—Two young men went
out to Australia in the Penisular Company's steamer Chusan
last May—one a Clerk in the South-Western Steam Packet
Company, and the other a letter-stamper, named Whetcher,
in the Southampton Post-office. The latter was a carpenter
THE MEDITERRANEAN.
—The Peninsular and Oriental by trade. His Post-office salary was 15s. a week, for which
Steam Navigation Company's ship Haddington
he worked nearly the whole of the night. Both these young
Kellock, arrived in Southampton, at six o'clock' Captain A.
yesterday men settled in Melbourne. A letter was received in South-
evening, bringing the heavy portion of the East India, ampton yesterday from the steam packet clerk, stating that
China, and Mediterranean mails, in charge of Lieutenant Whetcher had constant work in Melbourne as a carpenter
Latouche, R.N., Admiralty agent. Her dates are, Alex- at four guineas a week, and that he paid 30s a week for his
andria, Dec. 9 ; Malta, 13 ; Gibralter, 19. The freight- board and lodging. The packet clerk wrote word that he
light comprises 10 packages of specie, one of which is was just going to the gold diggings.
gold-dust direct from Australia 12 bundles of ele- THE CZAR AND N APoLEON lll.—The correspondent
phants' tusks, 126 cases of silk, 20 cases of tortoiseshell, of the Hamburger Nachrichten writes from St. Petersburg,
10 boxes of sponge, 13 boxes of vermillion' 574 bales of on the 13th :—" The note which M. Kisseleff carries with
silks, 13 bales of wool, 36 cases shawls, and 222 packages him to Louis Napoleon from the Czar is in substance as
of general merchandise. On her outward voyage the Had. follows. The Czar thanks Louis Napoleon for the service
dington experienced a succession of boisterous weather, which he has rendered to all Europe by the act of Decem-
with strong head-winds in the Mediterranean, but home- ber 2, 1851, praises the policy which he followed during
ward has met with generally fair weather, and ',cross the his presidr.ncy, and declares himself ready to accept the
bay strong N.W. winds with a heavy swell. The Had- new form of government under the condition that existing
dington passed a large quantity of shipping in the Chan- treaties arc to be recognised. The Czar concludes by ad-
nel, beating out, and 10 miles west of the Needles passed vising the new Emperor not to raise unnecessary contro-
a large ship, say 500 tons, with nothing standing but her versies about titles and questions of succession. The cabi-
mizenneast, in tow of a 'schooner, steering for the Needles nets of Vienna! Berlin, and London, have been informed
passage, , of thip prooloctint

The- jury, accompanied by Mr. McConnell and Mr.
Bedford, superintendent of the police of the line, then
proceeded to view the spot where the fatal occurrence
took place, which is t mile south of the station. For
about 350 yards the lallast on the inner side of the near
side is completely turned up caused, no doubt, by the
working of the off tiz, when' it became shifted from the
line by the snapping of the near tire. The locomotive
has not been remove! from the position it was found in
at the time of the acident, and remains embedded in the
earth to a depth of teveral feet. The van in which the
unfortunate guard,
artholomew, was at the time of the
occurrence, is competely shattered to splinters, with the
exception of the bottom portion, from under which the
remains of the poorfellow were with difficulty extricated.
Other carriages,
Incre or less damaged, are piled up on
the embankment, and for a considerable distance along
the line portions of the debris are scattered about.
The description given by Mr. Charles O'Callaghan,
surgeon, of
deceased when it arrived on the spot is appalling; the
Harrow, of the appearance of the body of
head and upper part of the body were frightfully muti-
lated, while the intestines and lower extremities were
scattered about at many yards distance.
The inquiry was then adjourned.