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

TI-TE SUN, MINI:3ON, FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 15, 1864.

COMMENCEMENT OF TERM---This Day,

To day being the commencement of Easter term, the
business of the superior courts of law at Westminster was

resumed.

As usual, her Majesty's Judges breakfasted with the
Lord Chancellor at his private residence, in company with
the leading members of the bar.
At the conclusion of the entertainment the Lord Chan-
cellor's visitors took their departure for their respective
courts in Westminster Hall, where a large body of persons
had assembled to view the arrival of the State procession of
the Judges.

CRIMINAL COURT.—(This Day.)

NEW COURT.
(Before the Common Sergeant.)
THE ALLEGED ABDUCTION.

Thomas Howard, the keeper of a refreshment house in
the Haymarket, was indicted for the abduction of a young
woman, named Wilson.
The facts of the case have already been fully reported.
The jury retired to consider their verdict, but had not
returned into court when we went to press.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

THAMES.

A STRANGE CASE—ATTEMPTING TO STRANGLE A
FATHER.—Margaret Fife, a masculine looking woman,
aged 30, was brought before Mr. Partridge charged with
being drunk and disorderly, and attempting to strangle
George Fife, her father, with a piece of rope.
The complainant, a respectable and venerable looking
man, who is well connected, is labouring under a defective
vision, and wears front and side glasses. He is dwelling at
5, Grove-place, Lady Lake's-grove, Stepney, and his prin-
cipal maintenance is derived from his eldest son, who allows
him £2 per month. Ihe prisoner is by profession a seam-
stress, dwelling with her father, and unfortunately is a
great drunkard. At 10 o'clock last night Mr. Fife was
seated by his fireside and began to smoke his pipe, when
his daughter, who was intoxicated, and very noisy, threw
a rope over his neck, and said " I'll strangle you." She
made the cord tight and twisted it. He struggled and was
choking when a woman who heard the noise came into the
room and released him.
In answer to the magistrate, Mr. Fife said he was choked
a little.
Mrs. Eliza Goldsworthy said the prisoner was choking
her father with the rope, and he was getting black in the
face. The prisoner was very drunk. Mr. Fife was really
in danger, he could not speak, and would have been strangled
if witness had not gone to his asssistance.
Mr. Fife was recalled and said his daughter had not ill-
used him before. It was the drink which caused all the
mischief.
A police constable produced a large dagger which he
found in a box under a bed.
Mr. Fife—That has been in my house ten years. It
belongs to my son.
Mr. Pyer, the chief clerk, asked why the dagger was
imported into the case.
The policeman—lt was in the house.
Mr, Partridge—Nothing was done with it. You might
as well produce all the knives and forks and the fireirons in
the house. _ _

The prisoner, in defence, said she threw the rope over
her father in joke, without intending to injure him, and she
was very sorry for what she had done.
Mr. Fife—lt was the strong drink which did it,
Mr. Partridge advised the prisoner to abstain from strong
drinks in future, and ordered her to enter into her own re-
cognisances in the sum of £lO to keep the peace and be of
good behaviour for the next twelve months.

MARKETS--This Day.

THE WAR IN DENMARK.

(From tlo Second Edition.)
ULKEBOL, April 10.
The Danish headquarters are at a little farm-
house at Ulkebol, and my letters bear date of the
spot from which they are written. I have chosen
my residence, however, not at that village, but at

Ladegaard. From the farm to the battered town

round which so much European interest has lately
been centered the distance is only a short quarter
of an English mile, the direct road striking across
the fields straight to the seashore, and following
it past the South Windmill Battery, till it enters
Sonderborg at the rear of the castle. At the time
when the bombardment of the town was at its
hottest, this maritime way was not free from some
stray shell flying over from the ruthless batteries
of Broagerland. Luckily for us, however, there is
another field-road, which goes somewhat round
about across country, and which leads to the nor•
them end of the town, by what the French would
call un chemin de circonrallation. By this detour
we are able to reach the Ulkebol road with very
little exposure to the enemy's fire ; little exposure
to such missiles as are not deliberately intended
for us, for, as 1 before stated, it is always in the
power of the Prussians not only to drive us
from the Ladegaard, but even to annoy us in our
flight from it, it they choose to avail themselves, to
its full extent, of the formidable range of their guns.
A gallant dragoon, who has been placed at my dis-
posal as an orderly, and does duty as my groom, ap-
peared the other day at the door of the farm-house
with a bloody nose, and told us a shell had burst
not far from the hoofs of the horses he was leading,
throwing the earth in his face, and hitting its most
prominent feature with no little detriment to its
fair proportions. A surgeon was on the spot,
luckily, who pronounced the bridge to be unbroken,
and the good fellow is now doing as well as can be
expected; not greatly the worse for the patch of black
sticking plaster under which his truly Roman wound
is rapidly healing.
After achieving the destruction of half &under•
borg, and deserting the other half, those noisy bat-
teries of Broagerland seem to have been ashamed
of their work, and the fury of the bombardment of
the town rapidly abated. A few shells are still
showered on the staring ruins from time to time,
nevertheless, but they add little or nothing to the
desolation which inhabits the lower end of the town.
The northern quarter is still unhurt, and not alto-
gether forsaken. The gipsy waitress is still in
charge of the Rejmuth's Hotel, and still hands
foaming flagons of beer to the thirsty souls that
frequent the smoky parlour. I visited the spot
yesterday, and found no perceptible change in
the outward look of the town from what it was two
days before. The place is certainly dead to all intents
and purposes ; but a few wanderers still linger
about the ruins, and there is no doubt that Sonder-
borg, which exists by right of its excellent position
at the narrowest part of the Allsund, will rise again
from its ashes, Phoenix-like, the moment the tide
of war has swept past.
There was a long lull—longer than we have ex-
perienced for several weeks—in the Prussian can-
nonade all yesterday, noon and evening, and
throughout the night. It was reasonably supposed
that the Prussians, reckoning on the havoc they
had made among the bastions of the Dybbol line,
were busy at the construction of new batteries, and
pushing forward their parallels. They recommenced
their noise with redoubled vigour this morning at
10, but the Ere has been languishing since, a prnof
that, however advanced, they do not consider them-
selves as quite ready.
The last two days have been dark and foggy, and
no one in the Danish camp, I believe, has any
notion of what the enemy may be meditating or
actually accomplishing. The idea that we are
approaching some kind of solution, or, at all events,
some general action, gains ground.
For the rest, the bombardment of Sonderborg
has had at least this advantage for us, that it has
procured us a change of air. It is pleasant to
ruralise for a few days, after two months' seelusio❑
in one of the most noisome towns in the D ►nish
dominions ; and the open fields have charms for ns
in spite of the wintry aspect that the land still
bears. Hardly any sign of spring is visible yet,
either in wood or meadow. This sluggish northern
nature is scarcely awaking from her five months'
deathlike slumber, and we cannot have an uncloudy
sky for a whole night without finding the ground
hard with frost in the morning.
APRIL 10, Evening.

The cannonade has been extremely loud this day,
from 11 o'clock in the morning till nightfall. The
fire raged especially on the right, the side of Rage-
bol. Several shells fell on Sonderborg. The Dybbol
windmill (le braves des braves) had its sails and roof
carried off by the enemy's fire, The discrownsd
stump is still standing,

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE,

NEWMARKET CRAVEN MEETING.
THURSDAY.

There was a betler, or, at all events, a fuller, programme
this morning, which, coupled with the same magnificent
weather, gave a rather more crowded appearance to the
Heath than on the three preceding days.
We may mention, apropos of racing matters, that at a
meeting of the Jockey Club held last night his Royal
Highness the Prince of Wales was proposed as a member
by Lord Coventry. and we need scarcely add :elected by
acclamation. This step, in all probability the forerunner
of a greater interest to be taken by the Heir Apparent in
the ;national sport, has been received with the warmest
satisfaction here.

Though the card was full, the fields were reduced to twos

and threes, and the several items possessed no particular
features of interest, if we except the Claret Stakes, fur
which Lord Clifden was to shop. There was a very mode-
rate lot for the Biennial, with the exception of Blue Mantle,
whose uncertain temper made him a hoz ►rdoug horse to
trust; but Sea King, with the best of the weights, being
elected the favourite, landed the Stakes for the Duke of St.
Albans, Blue Mantle declining it some yards from home.
Lord Coventry's promising 2-yr-old, Tennyson, had no
difficulty in disposing of the very moderate form behind
him, and Wicket, in the Maiden Plate, very cleverly

snatched the race from Sante Ruisseate_on the post. Rapid
Rhone and Woldga were the only competitors with Lord
Clifien in the Claret. The Leger winner looked magnifi-
cent—of a different mould from some we had been lately
seeing, recalling the days of the Flying Dutchman, West
Australian, and other heroes of past years. But the race
on this occasion was not to the swift. He was beaten
after mounting the hill, and Lord Glasgow's colours came
first past the chair, 10 lengths in c ivance of the favourite,
amid tremendous cheering and excitement.
Second year of the Fifth Newmarket Biennial Stakes of 10
sous each, with 100 added ; colts Bst 101 b, fillies Bst 61b,
Winners extra, with certain allowances. The owner of
the sec nd horse to receive a sum equal to 10 per cent. on

the whole stake, and the owner of the third horee a sum

equal to 5 per cent. D.I. 74 subs.
Duke of St. Albans' Sea King, Bst 61b (S. Rogers) 1
Ciptain D. Lane's Blue Mantle, Bst 101 b (Fordham) 2
Count F. de Lagrange's Jarnicoton, Bst 101 b
(A. Edwards) 3
Count Batthyany's Turcps, Bst 101 b (W. Boyce) 4
Sir 11. Des Vcaux's Warhorse, Bst 31b (Custance) b
Mr J. H. C. NVyndhara's The Flower Safety, Bst 61b
(J. (boater) 6
Mr Saxon's Sweet Willie, Bst 101 b (41idgley) 7
Betting-7 to 4 agst Sea King, sto 2 agst Blue Mantle,
4 to 1 agst Sweet Willie, and 5 to 1 agst Jarnicoton.
Sea King, in the centre, made play, followed by Blue
Mantle, Sweet Willie, and Jarnicoton across the flat, but
as they made the turn of the lands the lot closed up, and
ran nearly in a line to the Duke's Stand,wheria Blue Mantle
gave way to Sweet Willie, but who shortly after was beaten,
and his place was tk ken by Jarnicoton, who followed the
favourite to the brow of the hill, where Fordham brought up
Blue Mantle, and headed the Frenchman in the next few
strides, but was unable to reach Sea King, who won by six
lengths; bad third.
Handicap Plate of 50 sovs, for 3-yr-old and upwards.
A.F.

Mr H. L. Wigram's Melrose, 4 yrs, 6st 101 b.... (Loates) 1
Mr Naylor's Faretra, 3 yrs, sst bulb (sayers) 2
Mr Perry's Principal, 5 yrs, Bst 41b .. (W. Boyce) 3
Mr G. Angell's Dunkeld, 4 yrs, Bst • (Year) 4
Mr W. E. Jones's Zeloo, 4 yrs, 7st 21b....„,..(1ieate5) 5
Count Batthyany's Prince Plausibk, 5 yrs, Oat
(Custance) 6
Betting-2 to 1 agst Dunkeld, and 4to 1 each agst Prin-
cipal, Prince Plausible, and Melrose.
Melrose, on the lower side, jumped away with a clear
lead of Faretra and Principal, and made the running at a
strong pace into the Abingdon mile bottom, where the
three closed and ran together a few strides up the hill, when
Loates called upon Melrose, who quitted his horses without
an effort, and won in a canter Ey tour lengths, two lengths
between the second and third, a bad fourth; the others
beaten off.

Sweepstakes of 60 sous each, for 3-yr-olds; cllts Sat 101 b,
and fillies Bst 51b, winners extra; maidens at starting
allowed 51b. R.M. 7 subs.

Mr Gubelie's Bel Demonio (late Harvest Me 11), Bst 101 b
(T. French) 1
Mr Naylor's The Beaver, Bst 101 b (Challoner) 2
Lord Glasgow's Miss Whip filly, Bst (Fordham) 3
Sardinia also ran.
Betting—Even on Sardinia, 2 to 1 agst Bel Bemonie, and
4 to 1 agst the Miss Whip filly.
When in the act of starting the favourite jumped round
and struck in the heels of The Beaver, which sent her to
the ground with great violence, most seriously iejuring little
S. Adams. On settling into their places The Beaver took a
clear lead, which he retained to the Abingdon mile bottom,
where he was headed by Bel Demonio, who won cleverly by
a length; a bad third.

A. Sweepstakes of 20 sovereigns each, la ft; 4-yr-olds Bst
• bOlb, 5-yr-olds and upwards gat, mares and geldings al-
lowed 311); the winner to be sold for 200 sous. Bretby
Stakes Course. 4 subs.

Mr Ten Broeck's Peignoir, 5 yrs, Ost (Fordham) w.e.
Sweepstakes of 25 sovs each, for 2-yr-olds, colts Bst 71b,
fillies Bst Mb. Last half of It. M. 7 subs.

Lord Coventry's Tennyson, Bst 101 b (J. Adams) 1
Mr South's 'tattle fil!y, Bst olb (Brewtey) 2
Mr Perry's Cripplegate, Bst 101 b (W. Boyce) 3
Mr Mansfield's Princess Dagniar, Bst bib (Perry) 4

Betting-2 to lon Tennyson, 9to 4 agst the Rattle filly
and 12 to 1 agst Princess Dagmar.
The favourite, with Rattle in close attendance, made the
running into the bottom, where he drew in advance, and
won with hands down by ten lengths. A similar distance
separated the second and third.
Maiden Plate of £5O, for 2-yr-olds ; colts, Bst 101 b; fillies,

Bst 71b. Last half of Ab. M.
Lord Westmoreland's Wicket, Bst 71b .. (J. Goater) 1
Count F. de Lagrange's Sante Ruisseau, Bst 101 b
(A. Edwards) 2