The Sun.
London, England, 1863-07-17 00:00:00

SPOR LING INTELLIGENOE..—ThiI Day.

PONTEFRACT RACES:—Tnis DAY.
ALEXANDRA PLATE.
Paddy O'Rourke
Cellarius
Globule
Stockman
• PARKHILL STAKES.

Vanessa

Tarlatan
Legra

Six ran.
CASTLE PLATE.
Baldoratone walked over and received halt the stakes.

PONTEFRACT HANDICAP.

Flytrap
Charles Fox
Rosebud

HUNGERFORD RACES—THIS DAY.
STAND PLATE.
Lord of the Manor....
Rest
2
Neilgherry
3

Fifteen ran.

STAMFORD RACES.—TH/s DAY.
KELTON STAKES.
Amelia beat Muffler.
CLIFDEN CUP.

Merry Trap ...........................
Hart ..... ................... 1
................................... 2
Bohemia ..........................................
Thirteen ran.
SELLING STAkES; Baron of Avon ..................... . . ............. 1
Folly ............................................
Ali Pasha ............................. . • •
Five ran. 3
STAMFORD CUP.

.........................
Millionaire
Grimeton
........... 2
Balham ..............
Five ran.

LAW INTELLIGENCE—This Day,

COURT OF DIVORCE.
SCOTT V. SCOTT.

This was a petition for restitution of conjugal rights by
Captain John Sowden Scott, late of the 31st Regiment of
Foot, praying that his wife might be compelled to return
to cohabitation. The respondent answered that she had not
left her husband without reasonable excuse; that the peti-
tioner had been guilty of divers acts of cruelty.
The case was opened yesterday by evidence of the wife,
who stated that her husband had been guilty of threatening
to shoot her, and had left her on several occasions without
money in a strange place.
The petitioner was examined at considerable length, to
show that nothing more than the usual quarrels that occur
when a mother-in-law is a resident in the house ever took
place. _ .

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A number of witnesses were examined this morning to
bear out the allegations of the petitioner.

:The jury found that the cruelty had not been established,
and therefore the verdict was in favour of the petitioner.

SECONDARIES' COURT.
(Before Mr. Potter and a Ccmmon Jury.)
SINGULAR ACTION UPON A PROMISSORY NOTE,-JACOBS

V. REES.

This was an action •ipon a promissory note, and defend-
ant had put no less than five pleas on the record.
Mr. Thos. Angell appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr.
Charles Robertson, of Crosby•hall Chambers, for de-
fendant.

Mr. Jacobs said he lent money, and he advanced defend-
ant money on the promissory note in question. De-
fendant paid many instalments, and failing at length to
keep up the payment was sued.
Mr. Robertson here asked if there was not an agreement
in writing ?

Plaintiff—Not relating to that promissory note. After
defendant was sued he called upon me and wanted to pay
the balance without costs.

Cross-examined-- Thenote was made by a person named
Herne. Ido not know if Herne made the payment. The
book produced comes from my office. No payments have
been made that are not entered there. I cannot swear there
was not an agreement made in reference to the amount ad-
vanced on the note. £l3 6s. was advanced en the note.
The note was for £l6.

Mr. Robertson said that his client was simply in the posi-
tion of surety, and that he ought not to be liable for any
sum further than that advanced.
Mr. Angell urged that plaintiff was not bound tolend his
money for nothing. A person was as much entitled to
charge a profit upon his money as a person who opened a
shop had to make profits on goods exposed for sale. Plain-
tiff had only charged £2 14s, for 12 months, and surely
that was not exorbitant.

The learned Secondary briefly summed up, and the
jury found for the plaintiff for the full amount:
The learned Secondary granted a certificate.

SMALL-BEER CHRONICLES.

1 All
(From the Year Round.)
In tho second column of the :Times advertisement-sheet
appeared, the other day, these mysterious words, "Audi,
vidi. tats"-coupled with the announcement that a trust-
worthy personage was just about to start for the Continent
with a view to certain " private inquiries." The advertise-
ment was inserted by one Messrs. Pollaky and Co.
Now, here is a new state of things. The organised spy
system has sprung into existence quite recently. By the
advertisements issued from this office of Mr. Pollaky's, and
from another similar establishment kept by retired Inspec-
tor Field, you are invited to place in the hands of these
gentlemen any affair you want cleared up, entrusting the
particulars to them, relying on their secresy, and on the
diligence they will show in serving you. But what sort of
inquiries are those in which the as-detectives are ready to
engage ? What sort of people are those who apply to
Messrs. Pollaky and Field for their secret services?
1 wonder to what extent the establishments of these pur •
veyors of useful information are patronised by the public ?
Of ono thing I am quite sure—there are more men to be
seen standing about at the corners of streets than
of strawanetthiwere o
rusaedre
to be. Are these men—they are generally seedy in their
chewingatti re,antdh
ein
stacksthe h a be
fi t
leaves
vsucking ebniilea I
al pieceswayh
these men the agents of Pollaky and Co., and for w...a. ), }
are
they on the look-out ? For more things, depend on it, than
are dreamed of in our philosophy. When Mrs. Drinkwater
Dreggs gives two dinuer-parties, ono following the other,
all the guests who are invited to one of those festivals are
the
instantly seized with a firm conviction that the dinner to
putting their acuities
which they are not asked is the distinguished one
meal at which they aro invited to figure is the second-rat
affair. Now, it is not too much to suppose that thesed. snap:
in theapp
rph
eea
gab
gri
appearance
n, o f
in the hands of Messrs Pollaky and Co. Away goes the
trustworthy emissary to Wilton-cresent. He plants himself
clone personages are
under the lamp-post, he observes ac'ehoatf
the
eoportion the cabs
s door bear to the private
carriagesiwngh isc 1 leh drive
whde individual, forms
usPt studies e thesMrs .
guests,e sa
tned , b e
their-
kin thein social ; or, if unable to do this, perhaps he
v
conversation with the waiter, who cornea to
to le
the door for a little air
h
whileget the gentlemen are over
their wine, and from him learnsw exactly what sort of com-
pany is being entertained within. 'With the information
he has gained, the trust
and next morning the s
trustworthy one returns to his employer,
eedymans, who were at the first
party, and who had the pleasure of meeting a society of
nobodies, who, for the most part, reached their destination
in cabs and flies, learn that, on the occasion of the second
festival, there was a " regular swell turnout, with only one
cab, and that a
Hansom;and that the company comprised,
among other distinguished a d persons, a baronet and his lady,
andowager-count
consorts ees, a genius, two members of parliament,
the SeedYman'saild then
a cabinet minister." This knowledge
take to their hearts, and batten thereon
to their souls' hurt,
but with a certain malignant pleasure,
nevertheless.

REPORTED SEIZURE OF A CALIFORNIA MAIL
STEAMER BY THE ALABAMA.—A telegram was
received yesterday at Liverpool, from Lloyd's, dated Bar-
badoes, June 25, to the effect that the steamship Moses
Taylor, with 1,000,000 dole of Californian gold, had been
seised by the Confederate cruiser Alabama, and that the
convoying vessel was sunk. This report is probably incor-
rect, as the Moses Taylor was in the Pacific and the Ala-
bama in the Gulf of Mexico, according to the latest advices.
Another telegram from Barbadoes states that the prize crew
of a vessel captured by the Florida, being pursued by a
Federal vessel, ran her ashore and fired her. The Federal
Consul claimed the wreck, but the Vice• Admiralty Court
took possession of it.
THE MISCREANT BUTLER.—Another Sketch of
him.—He seemed a spare matt, of middle height,
quick and nervous in his movements, and, at a glance, ver
y
much more like a lawyer than a soldier.' His face
dis-
tinguished by nothing more unusual than what boys'
cock eye, and with its thin compressed lips, livid col lexioxi call a
almost, if not entire absence of beard mousttitChe or
whisker, and thin grey hair thrown back Over his ears im-
pressed e simply as the face of a restless, earnest, decided
and possibly abrupt man, but with no special'
bia;towards
nor familiarity
. with evil, rather than as that of the cruel,'
cunning, unprincipled scoundrel, which by common con •
sent so many millions of people believe him to be.
CRICIiET.—We are informed that a club has been
founded at Paris by lovers of this fine game, and
that a piece of ground has been graciously granted for
practice by the Prefect of the Seine, in the Bois do Bou-
logne, near the gate of Madrid. The practice takes place
ou Monday and Friday evenings, from six to eight. The
rules are almost the same as those of the Marylebone Club.
Cricketers, either English or French, who desire to become
members, can apply to Mr. IL Hazleton, honorary Secre-
tary, 17, Rue de la Madeleine. A match between the clubs
of Paris and Boulogne-sur•Mer is spoken of fur the be-
ginning of next month.

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