The Sun.
London, England, 1864-04-15 00:00:00

SECOND EDITION.

SUN OFFICE, HALF-PAST 4 O'CLOCK.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

NEWMARKET RACES.—Tars DAY.
(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
QUEEN'S PLATE.

Wingrave
Harlequin
Tourist
.. 3

Six ran.
£5O HANDICAP PLATE.

Antoinette ................................... : 1
Chip of the Old Block
Both ............

Thirteen ran.
PORT STAKES.

Giraffa colt
1
Jarnicoton
Anfield
3
HANDICAP S WEE PSTAK ES.

Amber
Zouave Junior
Five ran.
BENNINGTON STAKES.

Tomato
Privateer

Crisis

£5O PLATE.

Harrah
Sister to Breeze
Eight ran.
SWEEPSTAKES OF 25 SOVS.

War Dance....

LATEST BETTING ON THE COURSE.
TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS.
3to 1 agst Fille de l'Air (taken)
9to 2 agst Lord Glasgow's lot (taken)
20 to 1 agst Paris (offered)
CHESTER CUP.
9to 1 agst Change (taken)
TUE DERBY.
14 to 1 agst Cananuscan (taken)
-11 to 1 agat Coastguard (t Alen)
9to 1 aget Lord Glasgow's lot (differed, take 10)
1000 to 30 aget Paris (offered)
40 to 1 agst Blair Athol (offered)
15 to 1 agat Blair Athol being Ist, 2d, or 3d

RACING FIXTURES FOR 1864.
APRIL.

Lewes Spring l9
Cardiff

Newmarket First Spring 25

Chester
York Spring
Salisbury l2
Blaydon
Radcliffe l6

Redditch l6
Bath
Manchester (Summer
Harpenden
Epsom .... 24

Wye
Maidstone 3
Ascot
Hampton l5
Newton
Odihatu
Bibury

rren
Beverley .... 22
Stockbridge
Chelmsford.. 2B
New Forest Hunt 2B
Newcastle-on-Tyne
Worcest‘r (Summer)
Ipswich

Newmarket July
Carlisle
Pontefract
Abingdon
Cambridge
Liverpool July
Stamford

r LT.
Nottingham . l9
Winchester l9
Southampton ..
IChesterfield
King's Lynn
Goodwood

Au
Bright on 2
Brighton Club
Lewes ls
Huntingdon .
Wolverhampton
Reading
Egham
Oxford lB
SEPT]
Weymouth 1
Warwick September 6
Leicester 8
Bridgwater
Doncaster

lIST.

Dover .. lB
York August
Yarmouth
Plymouth
Lichfield
Stocktcn
Devon and Exeter
Derby
'EMBER.

Brecon .. 19
Richmond
Monmouth
Manchester Autumn
NewmarketFirst October 27

OCTOZEI.
Bedford
Northallerton 6 Gloncester
Newmarket Second Oct. 10 Newmarket Houghton 24

Meeting of Middlesex Magistrates.
THIS DAY.

A portion of the fo'lowing appeared in our impression of
last night:—

A very full meeting of Middlesex magistrates
was held to-day at the deasions House, Clerkenwell..

green.

ADMISSION OF CATHOLIC MINISTERS TO PRISONS.
➢Zr. P. N. LAURIE moved the fallowing resolu-
tion :

" That it appearing from the returns presented by the
Visiting Justices of the three county prisons to the court,
on the 18th February, 1864, that, at the data of such re-
turns, the number of Roman Catholic prisoners in the House
of Correction was 391, in the Westminster Bridewell 223,
and in the House of Detention 35, matting an aggregate
number of 639, this court is of opinion that it is expedient
to provide for the regular ministration of a minister or
ministers of the Roman Catholic Church, or persuasion, for
the prisoners of that Church, or persuasion, who shall receive
a reasonable sum as recompence for his, or their services,
under the provisions of the ' Prison Ministers' Act, 1863.' "
He thought it was the moral duty of the magis-
trates to do that for the Catholics what the law
compelled them to do for the Protestants, and that
it was unjust to deprive a prisoner of that consola-
tion of which he stood so much in need. The
magistrates would do well to imitate the example
set mankind by the apostle Paul, and give to every
one that which is right and proper.

Viscount ENFIELD seconded the motion.

Mr. E. W. Cox moved, as an amendment, the
following :
"That the Visiting Justices of the Houses of Correction
at Coldbath-fields and Westminster be requested to carry
into Effect so much of the 2d section of the 26 and 27 Vic,,
cap. 79, as relates to permitting a minister of the Church or
persuasion to which prisoners belong, to visit such prisoners
at proper and reasonable times, under such regulations as
they deem to be necessary to the preservation of the discip-
line of the respective prisoners. That the salary of the
minister for Coldbath-fields Prison be £l5O per annum, and
the House of Correction £lOO per annum."

After some discussion,
Mr. Sergeant PAYNE moved a negative, both to
the motion and amendment, to the effect that, " To
allow Roman Catholic priests to attend at the
prisms on ail occasions, whether their ministrations
ire required or not, would be unnecessary and im.
proper." _ _

- - A division then took place on the amendment of
Mr. Cox, the members being—

For the amendment 7
Against it
This division left Mr. Laurie's still the original
motion, when a division was again taken on the
amendment of Mr. Payne, and the numbers were—
For Mr. Payne's amendment 7O
Against it ••• 00000 24
The result being that the motion of Mr. Laurie
was lost by a majority of 46.