The Sun.
London, England, 1864-08-18 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

E G HAM R A.CE S-YESTERDAY.
A cooling breeze made a delightful change from the sultry
air of yesterday, and the attendance was larger than we
ever remember it on Runnymede. The racing, though,
showed a falling off from that of former years, and the
failure of what used to be the event of the day, the Surrey
and Middlesex Stakes, tended tomb the card of a great deal
of its interest.
The greatest blow the backers of favourites experienced
was in the defeat of Medicis, who had won the Ankerwyche
Stakes with such extraordinary ease the day before, and had
been purchased by Mr G. Angell for 230 guineas. They
laid 3 to 1 freely on her today, but it is to be supposed she
found her Gib penalty too much for her, for she was beaten
with extreme ease.
Much amusement was caused in tho race for the Surrey
and Middlesex by the cool way in which Fordham and young
Grimshaw rode it. When the flag fell the " waiting orders"
each had received were apparent, and, quietly walking to
the stand, where the pace was increased to a gentle trot,
they proceeded on their way in this fashion to within half a
mile of home, and there set to in earnest, the favourite,
Rappel, winning easily.
The Baron's Stakes (handicap) of 5 sovs, with 50 added ;
for 2-yr-olds. Three-quarters of a mile. 28 subs.
Mr Hodgman's King of Greece, sst lllb (J, Grimshaw) 1
Mr Beadman's Threadbare, GA fib . (11. Sharp) 2
Capt. W. H. Cooper's Czarina, 7st 81b (inc. bib extra)
(Perry) 3
Mr Fleming's Scylla, Gat 121 b (Loates) 4
Mr B. E. Dunbar's Advance, 7st 61b.. ..(Morris) 5
Betting-5 so 4 agst King of Greece, 3to 1 agst Thread.
bare, 4 to 1 agst Czarina.

King of Greece jumped off with the lead, with Thread-
bare and Czarina in attendance, to about half the distance,
where he resigned it to Threadbare, who took up the running
to the Stand, and Grimahaw coming again with Mr Hodg-
man's colt the two raced home together, King of Greece
defeating Threadbare by a neck, Czarina a bad third,

The Town Plate of 70 soya (handicap) for all ages.
Captain Christie's Prescription, 3 yrs, 7st 111 b
(J. Grimshaw) 1
Mr F. Santley's Balderdash, 3 yrs, 6st 91b (inclu 51b ex)
(J. Adams) 2
Mr Drewett's Colleen, 3 yrs, 6st 51b ... (J. Mordan) 3
The following also ran :—Dolphin, Land of the West,
Vision, Professor, Doe, Starbeam, Queen Bee, and Under
the Cloud.
Betting-9 to 4 agst the Doe, sto 2 agat Prescription, 7
to 1 each agst Starbeam and Balderdash, 8 to 1 agst Dol-
phin, and 10 to 1 agat any other.
Prescription jumped off with such a clear lead, followed
by the Doe and Colleen that the race was never in doubt as
far as she was concerned. Doe was soon beaten, and her
place was taken by Balderdash, but any attempt to reach
the leader was useless. She won in a co.nmon canter by
two lengths, the same distance separating Colleen from
Balderdash. Under the Cloud was fourth, Starbeam fifth,
Dolphin and Land of the West in next order, The rest
were beaten off.

The Railway Stakes of 3 cove each, with 25 added by the
South-Western Railway Company. For all ages. Sell-
ing allowances. Three-quarters of a mile,
Mr T. Golby's Change of Luck, 2 yrs (130), Set 101 b

Mr J. La Mert's Basquine, 2 yrs g 8 o), 6stClark) 21b

(J. Grimshaw) 2
Capt. Willecck's 'rho Drone. aged (LSO), Bst 'jib (Prior) 3
Mr Davison's Maid of Athens (late Florence) aged (£80),
Bst 71h (J. Perry) 4
13etting--5 to 4 on
_Change of Luck, 2 to 1 agst
Basquine.

Change of Luck took up the running directly the fl
was lowered, and with only the Drone near him, went on
with such a commanding lead that he was never Leaded,
and won in a canter by 10 lengths.
The winner was sold to Mr Payne for 93 guineas.
The Magna Charta Stakes of 5 soya each, with 50 added;
for 2-yr-olds, Tat; and 3-yr-olds, Sat. Selling allow-
ances. T.Y.C.
Mr J. Woolcott's Cacula, £l5O, 2 yrs, 6st 6113

or 1
Mr Angell's Medicis, 2 yrs, 6st 91b, £lOO , (W (Morin) 2
Mr R. Rafort's Duchess of Kent, 3 y rs, Bst 61b (£200)

(ForsCer) 3
Mr Golby's Resurgam, 2 yrs, Gst 31b, £lOO (H. Clark) 4
Betting-3 to lon Medicis.
The Duchess of Kent jumped off with the lead, the fa-
vourite and Cacula lying next, and ran in this order to the
distance, where the leader retiring, Cacula challenged
Medicis, and heading her at the stand, went in an easy
winner by two lengths. Duchess of Kent a bad third. The
winner was sold to Mr J. B. Morris for 300 guineas.
A Scurry Handicap Sweepstakes of 10 sous, 3 ft, with 25
added. Gentlemen riders. Three-quarters of a mile. ]2
subs.
Mr C. Alexander's Mirage, 3 yrs, Bst 81b(Mr Whiteside) 1
Mr W. w, Baker's Bolero, 5 yrs, lOst 21b(Mr W. Bavill) 2
Mr Payne's Merry Maid, 5 yrs, lOst 21b (Mr Edwards) 3
Mr F. Stanley's Balderdash, 3 yrs, 9st 61b (in. 121 b ex)
Po
Mr Cherry's Vindicta, 3 yrs, 9st 71b (inc. 71b ext(ra)rter) 4
(Fordham) 5
Betting-5 to 4 agst Bolero, 4to 1 each agst Mirage and
Merry Maid, and 7 to 1 agst any other.
Bolero made the running, followed by Mirage and Vin-
dicta, the leader maintaining his position to the Stand,
where Mirage drew up and challenged him, headed him in
a few strides, and won a good race by a neck. Merry Mad
a bad third.

The Surrey and Middlesex Stakes of 15 soya each, 10 ft,
and 5 only if declared by Tuesday, August 9, with 50
added. Two miles and a distance, 13 subs, 9of whom
Pay 5 Revs each.
Mr E. Brayley's Rappel, 3 yrs, sst 71b .. (J. Grimshaw) 1
Mr ThellusBon's Bally Edmond, 6 yrs, Oat (ino. 71b ex.)
(Fordhatn) 2

Betting-6 to scm Rappel.
Alternately walking, trotting, and cantering, the two pro-
ceeded on their course, till within half a mile from home,
where Fordham set Bally Edmond going, and, waited upon
by the favourite, came on with the lead b the Stand, where
he was caught and de eated very easily by two lengths.

LATEST BETTING.
GREAT EBOR
7 to 2 agst 1tP6"12 (taken)
100 to 1., -tot Welcome (taken)
Lo 1 agst Highflyer data (taken)
12 to 1 agst Caller Ou (taken)

AQUATICS.

ROYAL VICTORIA YACHT CLUB.
The ocean match of the Royal Victoria Yacht Club for
the Thellusson Cup took place on Tuesday and yesterday,
The course was from Ryde to Torquay.
The following were
the vessels:—The Osprey, yawl, 25 tons, Lord Burghley,
V.C.—the North Star, cutter, 27 tons, Mr Hyde Dendy—
the Emmet, cutter, 32 tons, Mr Stuart Lane—the Avoca,
schooner, 34 tons, Mr H. M. Goodwin—the Doris, cutter,
35 tons—the Emily, schooner, 36 tons, Mr H. Liebert•—the
Madcap, ecLooner) 71 tons, Mr A. Dunbar—the Blue Bell,
schooner, 71 tons, Mr Edwards—the Vestal, 74 tons, Sir
Bruce Chichester—the Columbine, SS tons, Mr L. Fort—
The Julia, yawl, 115 tons, Mr H. Fielder—the Phosphorus,
cutter, 49 tons, Captain R. W. Bulkeley, R. H. G.--the
Osprey, 50 tons, Lieut. H. Sloane Stainley, R.H.G.—
the Galatea, schooner, 131 tons, Mr Thomas Broadwood—
the Surge, cutter, 52 tons, Mr W. Hay—the Maritana, 58
tons, Lord Louth—the Volante, 60 tons—the Marina,
cutter, 60, Mr F. C, Morrie°.
This was a time race, double Acker's scale, time to be
given at starting, The Osprey yawl was, consequently, the
first vessel to pass between the Commodore's flagship and
the pier, and the Marina the last to take her departure—
the time between these two vessels, the longest which had
to be allowed, was 53nain. 40sec.—the shortest time given
was that received by the Madcap, from the Blue Bell, 45sec.
The wind at 9 a.m. was E.N.E. The start was satisfactory.
The only casualty was occasioned by the Julia, which ran
foul of and carried the jibboom out of the Leonora while
the latter lay at her moorings, The time observed through-
out is civil time. At 950 the Galatea overhauled the rhos •
phorus—at 10 5, oft East Cowes Castle, the same sehooner
passed the Osprey cutter, which lowered her foreeaiLset a jib,
in place of it, and boomed it out from both tack and sheet,
thereby putting herself out of the race. Between 10 15 and
10 20, the Osprey was gaining on the Phosphorus, and the
Galatea passed them both, and about the same time these
vessels left the Cowes Club-house on their port hands,turned
into the Western Channel, and sighted the leading vessels.
At 10 55 the Galatea overhauled the Osprey for the second
time, and at 11 7 the Julia and the Columbine were both
passed by Mr Broadwood's schooner. At 11 45, off Yar-
mouth, the Marina passed the Maritana. By half-past 12
o'clock all the racing yachts were clear of the Needles west
buoy—the Blue Bell being leading vessel, At 12 16 the 1

Ir. at. a.
Blue Bell.. 9 10 0 a.m.
Marina.... 9 15 0 a,m.
Phosphorus 9 40 0 a.m.
Madcap.... 9 45 0 a.m.
Galatea.... 9 46 0 a.m.

The Blue Bell became disq;
during the race, as previously
J. C. Morrice, wins the Thelll

H. M. S.
Julia .... 9 50 0 a.m,
Columbine 10 2 0 a.m,
Maritaua.. 10 21 30 a.m.
Emmet .. 10 21 45 a.m,

ualilled because she anchored
• stated ; thus the Marina, Mr
usson Cup of 1864.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

MIDLAND CIRCUIT.—LNEns, August 17.
CROWN COURT.
(Before Mr Justice Keating.)
MURDER NEAR ROTHERHAM,

James Sargisson, ago 20, labourer, was indicted for the
wilful murder of John Cooper, at Laughten-en-le-Morthen
(near Rotheram) on the 9th April last.

The deceased was a tall young man, 26 years old, and a
gardener, who for some time had been in the employment
of Messrs. Fisher and Holmes, nurserymen, at Hands-
worth, near Sheffield. His parents lived at Stone, 15 miles
from Handsworth, and on the day in question he started
from Handsworth to go home. Between 9 and 10 o'clock
that night he arrived at a place called Brook House and
repaired to a publichouse kept by a person named Mottranz.
In that publichouse was the prisoner and other persons
who were playing at dominoes. The prisoner then was
dressed in drab clothes, and the deceased in dark clothes.
The deceased had two bundles, one in a handkerchief and
the other in paper, and he had also a walking-stick. In the
conversation which passed among the company the time of
night was talked about, and the deceased showed his watch
in order to tell the company the Sheffield time. After get-
ting some refreshment he went away, and immediately be-
fore or after him the prisoner loft the publichouse. At that
time a boy in the road noticed a man in light clothes stand-
ing opposite the publichouse, as if watching out, and shortly
after a man in dark clothes, with two bundles with a walk-
ing-stick, was seen to walk down the read towards Abbey-
lane. The man in light clothes, who was a smaller man
than the other, was seen following on the opposite side of
the road, where there was no footpath. The deceased never
reached his friends' house, but on the following morning
William Greaves, of Woolley-tree Farm, found in Abbey-
lane the body of the deceased in a pool of blood, with a
great hedge-stake lying by his side, on which was human
blood and hair. Two hurdles and a walking-stick were also
found close by. His hat was off, waistcoat open, and every
pocket turned inside out with the exception of one, in which
were some small things. A past mortem examination made
by Mr Latimer, a surgeon, proved that death had resulted
from violence—from blows in front of the head and at the
back of the head, so that the head was almost reduced to a
state of pulp. There wore also injuries on the eyes and
hands. Suspicion attached to the prisoner, who made
two or three different statements, ending in a confession
that he was present when the murder was committed, but
that the blow was struck by another person. The property
of the deceased was found in prisoner's possession.
The jury, after two minutes' conference, pronounced a
verdict of Guilty, and

His lordship, in a most solemn and emphatic manner,
passed sentence of death.
The prisoner protested his innocence.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.---Aug. 17.

(Before Mr Justice Byles.)
CONVICTION FOR MURDER.

Mary Flartley, alias Annie Bowen, 29, a good-looking
young woman, was indicted for the wilful murder of Henry
Bowen.

The unhappy prisoner appeared to be in a most wretched
condition during the trial. When she was called upon to
plead, she sobbed violently, and it was with difficulty that
she could give utterance to the words Not Guilty. Sho was
allowed to be seated while the witnesses were giving their
evidence, and during the whole time she buried her face in
her hands and seemed to be crying bitterly.
Mr Slwit,la and Mr Williams conducted the prosecution.
The prisoner was defended by Mr Orridga through the
humanity of the sheriffs.
The learned counsel for the prosecution merely gave a
brief narrative of the facts of the case, and the following
evidence was then adduced.
Eliza Taylor deposed that she was nurse at the Clerken-
well workhouse, and the prisoner came there on the even-
ing of the 10th of July, in labour, and she was delivered
the same night of a male child. The prisoner behaved very
well to the child while she stayed in the workhouse, and she
left with it in the morning of the 30th of July. The child
was at this time perfectly healthy, and she afterwards saw
it dead at the Harrison's Arms public-house.
Cross-examined—The prisoner behaved as kindly to the
chill as any mother could do while she was in the work-
house. She wrote several letters on the day before she left
the workhouse, and witness took two down to the gate to be
posted. The prisoner read a portion of one of the letters to
her—and she remembered that she asked the person to
whom the letter was written to bring her some gin, and
stated that she should turn up her nose at anything com-
mon when she came home, after living on the fat of the
land in the workhouse.
Eliz j Scruby deposed that she was servant at the Harri-
son Army, Gray's-inn-road, on the 30th of July last. The
prisoner came into the house about half-past 10 o'clock, and
witness observed that she had a parcel with her. She went
into the parlour and called for some gin and water, and
witness took it to her and left her alone. In a short time
witness went back to the room, and the prisoner asked her
to shut the door, as she wished to arrange her drawers.
Witness then left the prisoner again, and in about five
minutes she left the house, and upon going into the room
a few minutes afterwards witness saw some soot in the
grate. This induced her to look up the chimney, and she
saw something which led her to speak to the potman, and
she saw a parcel taken from the chimney.
Henry Talbot deposed that on the day in question he was
in the Harrison Arms, and in consequence of something
that was said to him he looked up the chimney of the room
where the prisoner had been and saw a parcel which he took
down, It contained the dead body of a child partially
wrapped up in a piece of calico, but the head and shoulders
were exposed. The body was quite warm, and the legs of
the child were tied up close to the body. There was no
paper round the child, but witness saw some pieces of paper
in the stove.

White, a police-constable of the E division, proved that
from information he received he went in pursuit of the pri-
soner and overtook her in Hunter-street. He asked her if
she had been in the Harrison Arms, and she said she had,
and witness then turned to Hubbard, the pot-boy, who
accompanied him, and asked if the child was dead, and the
prisoner said that it was. As they were going to the police
station the prisoner said she was sorry she had done it, and
she wished she had taken it to the workhouse to have it
buried. When the charge was read over to the prisoner,
she said that she did not kill it.
Mr Orridge made a very able address to the jury on behalf
of the prisoner, and he argued that all the facts that had
been deposed to merely made out a case of strong suspicion,
and that there was an absence of anything like that positive
testimony which alone would justify them in returning a
verdict the effect of which would undoubtedly be to consign
the wretched young woman at the bar to an ignominious
death.

Mr Justice Byles then summed up the case with very
great care and minuteness,

The jury retired at ten minutes to 1 o'clock to deliberate
upon their verdict, and at three they returned into court,
and found the pi isoner guilty, but at the same time said that
they strongly recommended her to mercy, on the ground
that she had been a good mother to the child down to the
period of her leaving the workhouse.

The prisoner was then called upon in the usual form to
state whether she had anything to urge why sentence of
death should not be passed upon her.

She appeared to be almost unaware of what was passing,
but after a short interval she sobbed out, " I am not guilty."
Tho learned Judge then put on the black cap, and passed
sentence of death in the usual form, and the wretched pri-
soner was carded in as almost insensible state from the dock.

Galatea passed the Avoca---at 12 35 the Marina passed
Doris—and at 1 15 Mr Morrice's ship overhauled in suc-
cession the Avoca and North Star, dropping the Columbine
at 2 p.m. At 3 pan , when Durleston Head bore north-east
by north, the ebb tide was done, and there was a calm.
The nasty roll was seen to cause the Emily to cut her
maintopsail haulyerds. The Vestal, Phosphorus, and
Surge were together, with the Marina and the Mari-
tana astern of them, all vessels drifting idly during a
hot and hazy afternoon, with an easterly swell. At 4
p.m. the Blue 801 l was still the leading vessel, under St.
Alban's Head ; nearest to her were the Emmet and Madcap,
with Lord Burghley's yawl fourth vessel in the race. The
Galatea was filth, further away from the land ; inside of her
were Emily and the Julia; astern, again, of them came the
Phosphorus cutter, the Osprey, Marina, and Maritana, in
the order named, bringing up the rear of this tedious drift-
ing match. At about 5 o'clock the flood tide made, and the
tempers of owners and crews were subjected to still greater
provocation. All vessels drove back steadily with the tide
towards the Needles, except the Blue Bell, which anchored
near St. Alban's Head, as well as the Osprey, Maritana, and
Avoca. which let go their anchors at different places. The
rules of the Royal Victoria Yacht Club do not permit yachts
to anchor during a race, except to avoid danger to themselves
or others. In these cases the four vessels, as the sequel will
show, became disqualified, a misfortune which fell most
severely on the owner of the Blue Bell. At 8.30 some of the
yachts had the wind from W.N.W., others from W,S.W.
This latter wind was felt by the Phosphorus, Julia, and
Madcap, which were all to the north of the Marina, About
this time the Osprey cutter reached to windward of the
Marina. The Galatea reports that at 8.30 she had so drifted
with the We that the Needles' light bore N.N.E., only six
to eight miles distant. At midnight the Galatea sighted
Portland lights, bearing N.W. N., and the Marina's log
shows that at one o'clock on the morning of the 17th they
bore W.N.W. At daybreak the weather was calm and hazy.
At dawn the Phosphorus, the Marina, and the Madcap were
grouped together; the Galatea, slightly ahead of the Vestal,
the Emily, and the Julia formed another little fleet, but
neither squadron visible to the other. At S a.m. the Marina
sighted the Blue Bell, and eight vessels named above,
together with Mr Thellusson's Aline, not in the race, turned
into Torbay, and passed between the club-house and mark
boat at the following times