The Sun.
London, England, 1864-08-16 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGE.NCE,—This Day,

RADCLIFFE RACES—Tins DAY,
Or ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH,)
LATEST BETTING.
EBOR lIANDIC7AP.
4to 1 asst Lancashire (offered):
Hymettus scratched at 10 45 this morning.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE,

CITY BETTING—YESTERDAY,
EI3OR
5 to 2 agst East Lancashire (taken)
6to 1 agst Raglan (taken)
14 to 1 agst Caller Ou (offered)
13 to 1 agst Donnybrook (taken)
14 to 1 agst Clown (taken)
20 to 1 agst Ilightlyer's dam colt (offered)
30 to 1 agst Hymettus (off red)
40 to 1 apt Alabama (offered)
50 to 1 agst Welcome (offered)

ST. LEGEII.
7 to 4 agst Blair Athol (taken and offered)
3to 1 agst General Peel (offered)
10 to 1 agst Baragah (taken and offered)

TA.TTERSALLS'—htsr EVENING,

GREAT EBOR HANDICAP.
3to 1 agst East Lancashire (taken and offered)
4to 1 agst Raglan (offered, take sto 1)
10 to 1 apt Caller Ou (taken and offered)
o
33 to 1 agst Hymettus (offered)
33 to 1 agst Welcome (offered)
Sr:
3to 1 eget General Peel (taken freely)
Bto g
nßal
raio Lt(taken (offered)
2to agstst
freely)
h
20 to 1 aget
Knight of Snowdon (offered)
33 to 1 agst Breeze (offered)
RADCLIFFE RACES—MONDAY.
The Phillips Handicap of 5 SOS's each, 3 ft, with 30:added.
About one mile.
Mr T. Cliff's Wildman, 3 yrs, Bst 4lb
„(E. Taylor) 1
Mr J. Osborne 's Gaily, 4 yrs, Bst 101 b.
Mr Barber's The Cutler, 5 yrs, 7st 101 b
.... (Whiteley) 2
• ..
..... (Britton) 3
Betting-5 to 4on Gaily, sto 2 each agst the others',
Won by half a length; a neck between second and third.
The Bury Plate Handicap, of 40 soya, for all ages
win-
ners extra. About three-quarters of a
Mr Barber's Cutaway, 3 yrs, Bst 61b ..... (Britton) 1
Mr Handley's Ossian, 4 yrs, Sst Sib .... (11. Grialahav) 2
Mr T. Smith's Dermot Asthore, 3 yrs, 7et.. (Cranshaw) 3
Betting-5 to 4 agst Cutaway, 6to 4 agst Ossiazt.
Won by a neck ; three lengths between second a.nd third.
The Grey de Wilton Cup (Handicap) of 100 soya, added to
a Sweepstakes of 5 soya each, 3 ft ; second to save his
stake ; winners extra. About one mile and a half.
Mr T. Cliff's Wildman, 3 yrs, 6st 21b ..Kenyon) 1
Mr Barber's Macbeth, 3 yrs, sst 7ib (Carroll) 2
Mr Amberry's Nemo, 3 yrs, sst 71b .. (Sherrington) 0
Nemo did not pass the post.
Betting-5 to 2on 'Wildman, who won by five lengths.

The Selling Handicap of 3 soya each, with 25 :added.
About three-quarters of a mile.

Mr J. Osborne's Nelly Gray (h b), 2 yrs, sst 81b
(Carroll) 1
Mr C. Rich's Blondin, 3 yrs, Bst 51b.... (IL Grimshaw) 2
Mr Noble na, Raparation, 2 yrs, Gat 121 b ..(W. Noble) 3
Mr Buckhouse's David, 3 yre, Bst 101 b.... (Williamson) 4
Betting-6 to 4on Nelly Gray, 4to 1 agst Blondin, sto
1 agst David.
Won by two lengths; a bad third. The winner was not
sold.

The All-aged Handicap Plate of 3 sons each, with 25
added. About one mile.
Mr Handley's Ossian, 4 yrs, Bst 101 b (G. Grimahaw) 1
Mr Beaumont's Vanessa, 3 yrs, 7st 71b (Whiteley) 2
Mr W. Phiillips's Master Joe, 3 yrs, 7st (Carroll) 3
Mr BackhouEe's David, 3 yrs, 7st 51b (llaystead) 4
Betting-5 to 4on Vanessa, 6to 4 agst Ossian, 10 to 1
agst any other.
Won by a short head ; a bad third.
LATEST BETTING
EBOR HANDICAP.
100 to 1 agst Ilymettus (offered)
CRAVEN HANDICAP,
Terror scratched.

RACING FIXTURES FOR 1664.
AUGUST.

Egham
16
Dover
Oxford .. 18
Yarmouth .. 23
York August

Plymouth
Lichfield
Devon and Exeter ..., 30
Stockton
Derby

SEI"

Weymouth 1
Baden-Baden
Warwick September 6
Bridgwater 8
Leicester ......
Doncaster

O CT

Brecon .. 19
Richmond
Royal Caledonian Hunt 21
Monmouth 22
Manchester Autumn
Newmarket Firat October 27

Bedford
Edinburgh and Lothians
Club 5
Newmarket Second Oct lO

Lincoln SW 18
Kelso .. 19
Gloucester
Newmarket Houg on 24
:MBER.

NOTE:

Worcester Autumn .... 1
Shrewsbury Autumn .. 14

Leamington &War. Hunt 22

IRISH.

SEP TEISRER.

Curragh

OCTOBER.

Curragh

STEEPLECHASING FIXTURES FOR 1864.

NOVEMBER.
Leamington and Warwickshire Hunt 22

longworth and the " Saturday
Review."

(From the Scotsman.)

An action of damages, concluding for £3,000, has
been raised by Miss Longworth against the Satur-
day Review, for the article published in it on Satur-
day the 30th of July. The grounds of it can be
learnt from the " condescendence," which is as
follows :

" CONDESCENDENCE.

" Con. I.—The defenders in this action, are the
proprietors of the Saturday Review, a weekly jour.
nal, published in London. The articles in said
journal consist entirely of comments on current
events and reviews of books. For the most part
they are written with great ability, and in a style
indicating that their authors are educated gentle.
men. The said journal is much read by the more
intelligent classes, and has an extensive circulation
in Britain and the British colonies, and is read in
foreign countries also as a leading exponent of
British public opinion. _

Con. 2. The pursuer has for several years been
involved in a litigation in which she asserts her
right to be the declared wife of William Charles
Yelverton, major in her Majesty's Royal Artillery,
In 1861 a jury in Dublin affirmed that she is the
wife of Major Yelverton; and by Interlocutor of
the 19th December, 1862, the First Division of the
Court of Session in Scotland found the same fact to
be proved.

" Con. 3.—The said interlocutor of the Court of
Session was appealed to the House of Lords, and on
the 28th of July, 1864, the said House, in accord-
ance with the result of the opinions of Lords Wens-
leydale, Chelmsford, and Eingsdown, and in oppo-
sition to the opinions of the Lord Chancellor and
„Lord Brougham, recalled the said interlocutor. In
tale Saturday -Review, published by the defenders
ou Saturday, the 30th July, 1864, the judgment of
the House of Lords is commented on and approved
in an article headed The Yelverton Case.' The
conduct and letters of the pursuer are also com-
mented on unfavourably in said article. The num-
ber of the Retriew containing such article was,
sold extensively in Britain, and has been circulated
in various parts of the world. Moreover, the article
itself was quoted, in whole or in part, by many
newspapers in England, Scotland, and Ireland.
" Con. 4.—The article throughout abounds in di-
rect or cavert attacks upon the pursuer's character.
It suggests that, had she appeared personally, she
would have enlisted the feelings of the Judges in
the House of Lords in the same practical way, or by
some sirailar way to that adopted in the case of an
Athenian lady of doubtful fame,' referring, it is be-
ll to Phryne, the Athenian courtesan, and in-
sinuating, - and intending to insinuate, that the
pursuer is of profligate character or of doubtful
fame, or of both. It proceeds to state, falsely and
calumniously, that the pursuer's version of what
occurred in Ireland was absolutely untrue,' and in-
sinuates that because of her falsehood in this version
her word is not to be believed. And in dis-
cussing, and in part condemning, the character
of Major Yelverton, it states that he was much
more the pursued than the pursuer. A t any rate,
he gave the lady fair warning. He pointed out that
her ruin would be the result of a renewal of their
acquaintance, and he gave her the choice of renew-
ing it or not. That renewal was her act, not his.'
AU this is false in every particular, and it is espe-
cially false, and is besides calumnious, in respect
that it represents that her ruin was her own act, and
was chosen by her after warning, which is the
meaning and effect of the passage quoted,
" Con. s.—The concluding passage of the article
is as follows As to Miss Longworth, we would
now say as little as we can. When all the world
was on her side—when she wss the triumphant ob-
ject of what are called Irish ovations, when all Scot-
t nd made her virtues as much an article of faith as
Queen Mary's innocence, and when nearly the whole
of England echoed their salutations—we expressed
ourselves intelligibly on this lady's life and charac-
ter. The highest English tribunal has now fully
accepted that view which four years ago was both
uncommon and unpopular. It were ungenerous to
press heavily on anyone who is down I doubly un-
generous in the case of a woman of very remarkable
powers, great intellectual accomplishments, and now
labouring under the heavy burden of failure and hu-
miliation. To say that in our judgment she fully
deserves her fate may sound harsh ; but to say much
less were to compromise the interests of truth and
morality. She has a thorny bed to lie on, but she
has made it for herself. And if we express ourselves
strongly, it is chiefly because the Lord High Chan-
cellor of England has thought proper, in his judi-
cial capacity, not only to pronounce a high eulogium
on the intellectual capacity displayed in Miss Long-
worth's letters, but to declare that their tone is con-
sistent with " honourable courtship." The inte-
rests of morality would, we think, be seriously com-
promised were this judgment to rest on any higher
grounds than Lord Westbury's opinion of what
may be the proper style of correspondence between
unmarried—or, for the matter of that, between
married—persons. To right-thinking persons there
is much in these terrible letters which is simply
loathsome. We have no notion of making a hercine
of such a person as Miss Longworth. She is out of

keeping with society, both as it is and as it ought
to be. She is an adventuress, launched into the
world nobody knows how, with a previous history
which has never been told. She is a Scour de Cha.
rite. but she meets and courts adventures little in
keeping with semi-conventual dress and office. She
sinners it and saints it by turns or at once. She is
made up of passion and prudence, of hard intellec-
tual vigour and sensuous thoughts and feelings
She writes as no modest woman writes, and she
schemes as no modest woman would scheme. She
has religious scruples, but they do not restrain her
from provoking at least to sin. The best that can
be hoped for her is that she will abandon that world
which will act moat kindly by forgetting her, and
forgiving her offence against society.'
" Con. 6.—The said article, as a whole, and par•
ticularly in the passages aforesaid, is false and ca.
lumnious, and is calculated and intended to repre.
sent the pursuer as an immoral, disreputable, immo-
dest person, who was out of keeping with or unfit
for society, both as it is and as it ought to be; whose
conduct was inconsistent with hsr religious profes-
sion, and was such that she fully deserves failure
and humiliation' and ruin ; whose letters were in

their tone inconsistent with honourable courtship,
and were such as no modest woman would write,
and were of a style improper either for married or
unmarried parties, and were 'simply loathsome' to
right-thinking persons, from their immodesty
and immorality—or it makes one or more of

these false and calumnious repres,mtations or insin-

uations. Although the history of her whole life from
childhood was fully investigated, in order that her

character might be assailed, and was made the sub-
ject of lengthy evidence in the proof in the con-
joined actions upon which the House of Lords gave
it:OW:neat, the said article falsely asserts that she
is an adventuress, launched into the world nobody
knows how, with a previous history that has never
been told,' insinuating, and intending to insinuate,
by this false and calumnious assertion that her pre•
vious history had been of so disreputable a charac-
ter that it could not be told without shocking pub-
lic decency, or making some similar insinuation
prejudicial to the pursuer's moral character.
"Con, 7,--The said article, in whole or in part, is
of and concerning the pursuer, and is false and
calumnious, and contains statements for the making
of which there was and is no probable cause ; and
the said statements aro malicious, and are not jus-
tifiable as fair newspaper comments upon proceed.
ings taking place in a court of justice. By the said
slanderous statements the pursuer has been greatly
injured in her feelings and reputation, and this
action is necessary- to the vindication of her charac-
ter, and to res!oro her against patrimonial injury.
‘; Con. B,—Tao defenders do riot reside in Scot.
land, but sums of money due to them have been
pudenda cause, in the hands
arrested,juriscliction:s
of Mes Era. Adam and Charlea Black, booksellers and
publishers in Edinburgh; Messrs. Wm. Blackwood
and Sons, bon;;;;eners and publishers there ; Messrs.
Edmonston and Douglas, booksellers and publishers
there; and Mr William P. Niguel°, bookseller and
p u there."