The Sun.
London, England, 1864-08-22 00:00:00

CITY B ETTING -SATURDAY.

The recent movements in the Turf market upon certain
horses in the Great Ebor Handicap have been somewhat
perplexing, and, as the day for the decision of the race
approaches, the industrious ones do not let the grass grow
under their heels in the "game of speculation." First and
foremost of those animals whose gyrations in the list of
quotations have been the moat eccentric is Caller-Ou, and
since her last victory at Egham her "up-and-down" posi•
tion is still more inexplicable. At Oxford, on Friday, as
much as 200 to 15 was laid, while at the same time any
thing over 8 to 1 would have been snatched up eagerly in
town. This afternoon, at tho Victoria Club, there was a
slight skirmish in the way of betting; but no harm was
done on either aide, and all the business actually done as
well as proposed will be found in the subjoined list of
closing prices :

THE GREAT EBOR HANDICAP.
100 to 30 agst East Lancashire (taken and offered)
sto 1 agst Welcome (offered; take 5± to 1)
6to 1 agst Raglan (offered)
7to 1 agst Highflyer dam colt (off. ; Bto 1. taken)
100 to 7 agst Caller On (taken)
100 to 7 agst Donnybrook (taken and offered)
20 to 1 agst Clown (offered)
100 to 80 on East Lancashire, Welcome, and Raglan (take)
35 to 20 agst East Lanchire and Welcome—wanted
25 to agst East Lancashire being first, second, or third (t)

THE ST. LEGEII.
5 2 agst Blair Athol (taken and offered)
55 to 20 agst General Peel (offered)
81 to 1 agst Baragah (offered)
100 to 8 agst Claremont (offered)
5 to 4 on Blair Athol being first, second, or third (taken)
500 even offered on Blair Athol and Gen. Peel agst the field

ABDUCTIGY.—At the Leeds Assizes on Thursday
Hudson Brook, labourer, was charged with unlaw-
fully taking Mary Bradshaw out of the possession and
against the will of 11en.7 Ward, her employer, who had the
lawful charge of her, and b.lso against the will of her father
and mother. Mr. West was for the prosecution, and Mr.
Wheelhouse for the defence. 'he prisoner had lived some
time in the house of the girl's fa: her at Bramhope, near
Otley, and previous to his leaving his lodgings, the
young woman had gone to the service of Mr. Ward,
of Woodhouse Carr, near Leeds. The acquaintance,
therefore, between the prisoner, who is 35 years
of age, and the girl, whose age at the time was
only 15, must have commenced in her father's house. On
the 22d April, the girl suddenly left her master's house,
and she and the prisoner had subsequently been living to-
gether as man and wife at Bradford. The girl, on WI::
examined, stated that she met the prisoner by appointment
at Apperley Bridge, on the 22d of April, and they went to-
gether to the Waterloo Inn, at Bradford, where they lodged
together as man and wife. In cross-examination the girl
admitted that when she met the prisoner at first he told her
she had taken a foolish step, and tried to induce her to go
back home. The jury found a verdict of guilty, and the
prisoner wassentcuced to 3 mouths' imprisonment with hard
Leamiegton&War.Hunt 22 I labour.

THE WATERLOO 'BRIDGE MYSTERY.—By the
mail which left England for Tasmania on the 17th instant
the police have forwarded to the widow of the supposed
victim who was alluded to in the correspondence referring
to this subject, which has been recently published in the
Daily Telegraph, carefully-taken and coloured photogriphs
of the coat and waistcoat, and the carpet bag in which,
with certain human remains, they were found when the
bag was found on one of the buttresses of Waterloo Bridge.
The articles in question ware thus copied by direction of
Sir Richard Mayne on Monday last.
NEWSPAPERS BY RAILWAY.—The Caledonian
Railway has just adopted a plan for the transmis-
sion of single copies of newspapers by rail which is likely
to prove of great use to newspaper readers on that line over
the localit es it traverses. The system is simply an issue
of farthing stamps, prepared after the fashion of postage
stamps; perforated and gumed like these, they are sold
in sheets containing a dozen, the price of the sheet
being of course threepence. The stamp bears the
impress :—" Caledonian Railway. No. (say) 206.
For one newspaper only. To be called fur by con-
signee at the station en the Caledonian Railway to which
it is addressed." To all subscribers who can conveniently
send for their newspapers at any station on the Caledonian
line we are now enabled by this system to transmit the
paper by the first morning train at a cost of id. per day for
carriage—that is, at a fourth of the cost of postage. Besides
residents on the line, gentlemen in business who may de-
sire to read the paper in the train on their way to town. in
the morning may thus arrange to have it waiting them at
the station from which they start. It to be hoped that
other lines will not be slow in following the Caledonian in
the adoption of this simple and convenient plan.—See s.

man,
CURIOUS CASE OF CONTEMPT OF COURT.—The
daughter of a furniture broker, a good-looking girl of about
20, was fined £lO for contempt of Court on Saturday by M
J. B. Aspinall, the Recorder of Liverpool. A writ was
served upon the girl's mother in a wrong name. The
daughter, altnough she had nothing to do with the action,
appeared at the Court of passage as the defendant, and
Bought to obtain a verdict on the technical point that the
writ had been served on the wrong person. The Recorder
said the girl knew perfectly well that the writ was intended
for her mother, and she had rported to this trick to mislead
the Court ; the correctness of the name was immaterial, and
a verdict was entered for the plaintiff.