The Sun.
London, England, 1839-06-10 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

THE BLOOMSBURY CASE.
The expectation so generally entertained that the inquiry
arising out of Lord Lichfield's objection to Bloomsbury would
have the effect of settling the two stakes at Ascot as well as
the Derby, has been disappointed. A court of law will have to
adjudicate on both objections. The following details of the
proceedings on Saturday last will account for this further, pro.
crastination. Pursuant to their appointment tha following no-
blemen and gentlemen met at Mr. Weatherby's office, in
Oxendon-street, between eleven and twelve o'clock :—Duke of
Beaufort, Earl Stradbroke, Earl of Errol, Hon. Captain ltous,
and C.C. Greville, Esq. There were also present the Earl of
Lichfield, Lord G. Beutinek, T. Thornhill, Esq., Mr. W. Rids-
dale, and his witnesses. The stewards having previously an-
nounced their determination not to suffer any legal gentlemen to
be present, Mr. Thornhill, as a member of the Jockey Club,
kindly consented to attend on the pal t of Mr. W. Ridsdale.
The proceedings
.commenced, not as we anticipated, with the
examination of witnesses in support of the pedigree, but with
the presentation of a protest from Lord Lichfield, which ren-
dered such an examination unnecessary. A copy of this docu-
ment is given below. As an additional reason for pursuing this
course, the Noble Earl produced a Newspaper of Avgust, 1831,
containing a report of the trial between the late Sir M. Wood
and the late Mr. Beardsworth, respecting the Guy Stakes at
Warwick, for which Birmingham came in first and Cctus se-
cond, and which Sir M. Wood claimed on the ground of arrears
due for Birmingham before starting; a reference to the Jockey
Club was agreed upon, and a decision given in favour of Sir M.
Wood. By. this decision Mr. Beardsworth refused to abide, and
the case was tried before Chief Justice Tindal.
After a long discussion on this protest, the Stewards came to
a resolution that there was no case before them, and the follow-
ing minute of their proceedings was drawn up and signed :
IlLoomsewer CASE.
"6 The Stewards having assembled at Mr. Weatherby's office,
in Oxendon-street, on Saturday, the Bth of Jene, to consider
the evidence then to be brought forward by the Earl cf Lich-
field, touching the qualification of Bloomsbury to receive the
Ascot Derby, and 200 sees, stakes, for which races he came in
first, and the parties for the defence being present,
" The Earl of Lichfield put in the following letter :
To the Stewards of Ascot Races.
"My Lords and Gentlemen,—ln makine inquiries into the
disq'talification of Bloomsbury far starting for the Derby
Stakes, and the Sweepstakes of 200 nova. at Ascot, I have
found the greatest difficulty in obtaining information from par-
ties who are fully capable of giving it, but. who are unwilling to
do so unless they arc compelled to come forward by virtue of an
authority which they dare not disobey. You are aware that
the point to be decided does not involve any nice distinction of
ratsing law, but is one purely of fact; and as neither you nor I
possess the means of enforcing the attendance of a single witutss,
and as the chain of evidence, though so strong as to convince any
reasonable mind, is yet of such a nature that the failure of a
single link would deStroy its effect, I feel convinced that it
would be doing the greatest injustice to my case to try it before
a tribunal so constituted. I ant bound, therefore, by what is
due to reyself, as welt as others, to object to your proceeding
any farther in this matter, which must necessarily be left to the
decision of a court of law, wfiere the attendance of such wit-
nesses as I shall require can only be enforced. I beg, there-
fore, to offer this to you as a formal renunciation of any autho-
rity supposed to be derisecl from my acquiescence in your pro-
ceedings; and I hereby revoke and declare null and void any
such act of mine; and I give you notice that, in consequence of
the difficulties to which I have in this statement referred, 1
shall not offer before you any evidence whatsoever, and that I
protest against your making any decision. I have the honour
to be, with the greatest respect, my Lords and Gentlemen
your obedient servant, ,

(Signed)
"St. James's-square, Jane 7, 1839.
" He produced the report of a charge by Chief Justice Tindal
in a similar case, tried at Warwick in 18:31. The Stewards
then proceeded to read the charge, in which it was di,tinetly
laid down by that Learned Judge, that either party migh
w;tlv!raw his consent to an a, bitration, and, in the event of sod
withdrawal, previous to the hearing of the case, that the arbi-
trators had no power to determine thereon. Under these cir-
cumstances the Stewards considered that no decision of their:
Would.be binding on the parties, and, therefore, that it was use-
less to proceed furtirr in the inquiry.
The Earl of Lichfield consented, on the recommendation o:
the Stewards, to pay all reasonable expenses incurred by Mr
Ridsdale in bringing his witnesses for the contemplated inves-
tigation.
(Signed)

" LICHFIELD.

" Errol
Beaufort 1- Stewards of Ascot.
H. I. Rous
Stradbroke / Appointed by the
C. C. Greville C Stewards to assist.
" At the close of the procedings it was
" Resolved—That the Stewards of the Jockey Club do recom-
mend the Stewards of Doncaster and Goodwood to adopt the
following resolution :
" That all bets depending upon Bloomsbury, for any stakes in
which he may be engaged, shall be paid and received, without.
any reference to his disputed pedigree, until the case has been
decided in a Court of Justice.
By this unlooked-for result Mr. W. Ridsdale is left with no
alternative bat law, and we understand steps have already been
taken for the purpose of bringing the cause on for trial at the
ensuing assizes at York, in which county all the witnesses live.
In the present state of the question, it is absolutely necessary
that the subscribers at Tattersall's should come to some muter-
standing as to the terms on which the St. Leger betting is to
be carried on; it will not do to wait for any resolution of the
Stewards of the Doncaster races—they must act for themselves.

NEWTON RACES.
FRIDAY.—The Shrighley Cup of 100 save., given by W.
Turner, Esq., M.P., added to a Handicap Sweepstakes of
15 sous. each, 10 ft., and 5 only, if declared, &a. The se-
cond to receive f 5 sovs, cut of the stakes. The winner of the
Manchester Cup, the Lord of the Manor's Cup, or the Bo-
rough Cup, 31b. extra. One, mile and a half. (33 Subs.,
9 of whom declared, and 15 paid 10 sore. each.)
Mr. llolker's cb. m. The Maid of Alonton ...(Templeman)
' Mr. Denham's ch. c. Compensation, 3 yrs, 7st. 10th.
Lord Miltown's ch. c. Leprechaun, 4 yrs, list. 71b.
The following also started, but were not placed :—Lord
Westminster's ch.- c. Sir Ralph, 4 yrs, 7st. ; Mr. Price's
br. g. Captain Pops, 4 yrs. 7st. nib. ; Lord Eglinton's b. f.
Bellona, 4 yrs, 7st. bib. ; Mr. G.; Ogden's b. c. Harpurhey,
4 yrs, 7st. ; Lord Miltown's ch. m. Cruiskeen, 5 yrs, fist. ;
and r. Bradley's b. h. Exorable, 6 yrs, 7st. 7Th.
Betting-6 to 4on the field, 7to 4 agst Compensation,
3 to 1 awst, 'Bellona, 5 to 1 agst Captain Pops, 6 to i agst Sir
Itaiph, 8 to,l agst Harpurhey, 10 to 1 agst the Maid; 10 to 1
agst Exorable, and 12 to 1 agst Lord Miltown's.
Won cleverly.
The St. Helen's Purse of 50 sovs., added to a Sweepstakes of
15 sove.',each, 10 ft. ; for two-yr-olds, 6st. 71b. and three-
- yr-olds Bst. 101 b. ; fillies allowed 31b.; the winner of the
Leger or polborne Stakes 51b. extra. The second to save
his stake. The Goulburn Cowrie. 10 subs.
-Mr. itleiklam's.bl. c. by The Mole, 2 yrs ... (Cotton) 1
Lord Stanley's b. c. Charlatan, by Physician, 2 yrs. ... 2
Mr. E.' 13uckley's ch. f. Lillie, by Ilkley, 3 yrs 3
The following also started, but were not placed:—Lord
Eglinton's br. c. Malvolio, by Liverpool, out of Comedy, 3 yrs ;
Lard Westminster's ch. c. The Recorder, by Langar, out of
Laura, 3 yrs ; Mr: Smith's br. f. Margaret, by Margrave,
sister to Memnon' 3 yrs; and Mr. R. Peel's b. g. Lepidus,
by Emiiins, out of Cotillon, 3 yrs.
Betting-6 to 4 agst. Malvolio, 3to 1 agst. Lepidus, 4to 1
agst. The Recorder, and 7 to 1 agst. The Mole colt.
Won by half a length.
The Warrington Purse of BO sovs., added to a Handicap Sweep-
stakes of 5 sus. each, p.p. One mile and a distance.
(10 subs.)
Mr. Vansittart's b. f. Sandbeek, out of Darioletta, 3 yrs.
6st 31b
Mr. Holker's ch. an. The Maid of Mouton, a yrs, 7st 121 b... 2
Lord Miltown's ch. c. Leprechaun, 3 yrs 5,,t. 71b 3
The following also started, but were not placed :—A Ir. F R.
Price's ch. f. Zillah, 4 yrs, Bst. 21b. ; Mr. Fowler's ch. c.
Gilbert Gurney, 4 yrs, Tat. 121 b., and Mr. Jones's oh. c. Sara
Slick, 3 yes, 6st. Betting, sto 4 agst. the Maid ;sto 2 agst.
Zillah, and 6to 1 agst. Gilbert Gurney. Won by a head,
after a fine race.
Plate of 60 guineas for 3 yrs olds, 6st. 71b. ; 4 yrs, B.t. 21b. ;
5 yrs, Bst. 101 b. ; 6 yrs, and aged, 9st. ; winners of a Plate
this year, 31b. extra, of two Plates, a Gold Cup, or Queen'.
Hundred, 51b. extra ; mares and gelding; allowed 31b. Two
mile heats.
Lord Eglintoun's b.g. the Potentate, aged (Lye) 1 1
Mr. Barrow's b.m. Catharina, aged 3 2
Mr. Dixon's b.h. Anvil, 5 yrs..,,
Betting.-2 to 1, and after the first heat 4tol on the Po-
tentate, who took the lead, was never headed, and won both
heats easily.

in Taunton marlitt on
Saturday
sN ier New.re sell' (----7'ln.
potatoesea);6adinpne Hall,r"l'be
.
Saturday, in consequence of :.n-express having arrived
%%ith an account of the sudden decease of his mother at
B.ighton.

The course pursued by the High Churchmen in
regard to education from the very fist, has been any thing
hut ingenuous. When the subject was agitated Mane
years by Joseph Lancaster, they represented enlighten-
ment and revolution as synonymous, and it was ouly is self-
defence that they founded schools upon the system of Dr.
Bell, which was borrowed, in its machinery of details, from
the first named philanthropic individual. A national se s-
tern is now proposed, national in the truest sense of the
word, a system to comprehend all c!asses and denomina-
tions, and in a similar spirit of annoyance, they step tee
ward and claim to have the sole management of it dale.
gated to them. This shows a want of earnestness in the
'cause, which justifies a presump:ion that they would not
fully and faithfully carry out what is required. They
offered eppo,ition in the first instance, and when that was
in vain, they arrogate, under the guise of friendship, the
working cut of the scheme. Is any confiicnce to be re-
posed in them, under such circumstances ? Are their pro-
fessions and pretensions worthy of regard ? Is the suspi-
cion unjust, that they are still as hostile to popular educa-
tion as ever, and that their chief object is to make it ino •
perative, by acquiring the so'.e controul over the mode in
hich it is imparted ?—Kendal Mercury.
THE HORSE " BLOOMSBURY."—On Saturday
the meeting of the Stewards who bad been appointed to arbi-
trate between the Earl of Lichfield and Mr. Ridsdale, op
the objection made by the Noble Lord to the payment of
the stakes won by the horse Bloomsbury, took place.
Prior to the investigation being entered upon, a letter was
read from the Noble Earl, in which his Lordship stated
that, in consequence of the difficulty be had met with in
the way of bringing up his witnesses, inasmuch " as some
of them refused to attend unless compelled," an authority
which he could not legally exercise over them, he had de-
termined to withdraw his consent to the arbitration. The
letter went on to say that his Lordship declined to offer any
evidence Wm* a tribunal of arbitrators, they not pos.
"Sir Mark Wood v.
accompanied with the report of a trial, "
Hissedsessing,
athned concluded with a protest against the in-
quiry being proceeded with. This communication was
power to enforce the attendance of wit.
Atkins," before Lord Chief Justice Tindal, in August, 1831,
in which the plaintiff sought to recover the " Guy Stakes,"
which bad been claimed of the defendant, the clerk of
the Warwick racecourse, by Mr. Beardswortb, as having
been won by " Birmingham," to which the plaintiff's
home " Cetue" ran second. The Learned Judge, in
leaving the case to the Jury, said ' that either party might
withdraw his consent to an arbitration agreed to under
the circumstances stated, and, in the event of such with-
drawal, previous to the hearing of the case, the arbitra-
tors had no power to determine thereon. Upon reading
his Lordship's letter, backed as it was by the charge just
given, the Stewards decided that it was useless to pro-
ceed with the inquiry. An official resolution was then
agreed to and signed by arbitrators, " That the Stewards
of the Jockey Club do recommend the Stewards of Done
caster and Goodwood to adopt the following resolution
" That all beta depending upon Bloomsbury, for any stakes
in which ho may be engaged, shall be paid and received,
without any reference to his disputed pedigree, until the
case has been decided in a Court of Justice.'"

THE PRINCES-STREET MURDER

It is considered that mere than one individual must
have been concerned in the committal of this murder
and robbery, as, from the short time nisi di, according to
the testimony of Elizabeth Pretty, the servant-girl, had
elapsed, bet veers seeing her unfortunate master sitting
by the fire in the parlour and the discovery of the tragi-
cal occurrence, no ene person could have accomphshed
both. It is therefore considered more than probable
that two or three were engaged in it—that one or a!1
must have obtained access' and secreted themselves be-
fore the house was closed for the right, and that while
his aeccmplice or accomplices were engaged in deadly
contest with Mr. W., one well acquainted with the
depository of the most valuable articles was actively
engaged in securing them in a I pocket under his
coat, smiler to the one found in the shop, and pro-
duced by Inspector Jarvis at the inquest.
Mr. Westwood, who was the inventor and patentee
of the celebrated eight-day watches, and watchmaker to
His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex, has been
most singularly unfortunate since his establishment in
business about 80 years since, for he had not been long in
business before, while sitting one evening in the parlour
of his then residence on the opposite side or Princes-
street, three men (we believe brothers) entered the
room, and having tied him securely to the post of a
bedstead, proceeded to remove a number of valuable
wetchee, with which they got clear off. Subsequently,
about the middle of the year 1822, while Mr. and
Mrs. Westwood were at church, the house was entered
on a Sunday evening by means of false keys, and
watches to the value of upwards of 8,00/., toge-
ther with 44 sovereigns, all marked in a manner pe-
culiar to Mr. 'Westwood, carried off. A young
man, between seventeen and eighteen years of age,
named Wil !him Redding, whose parents reside in Peter-
street, not 700 yards from the spot, was soon afterwards
apprehended on suspicion of having been cone erned in the
robbery, on whose person four of the marked sove-
reigns were found. I-le was tried at the Old Bailey
Sessions in September of that year (182.2) for the of-
fence, with a Jew, named 13enjamin Solomons, for re-
eelving a portion of the property, when the former was
convicted and subsequently executed, but the latter
got acquitted. The robbery on the present melan-
choly occasion has, however, been far more extensive
than either of the previous ones. From the printed
circulars, offering two hundred pounds reward, issued
on Wednesday, by Mr. Pcake, of No. 81, Princes-
,treet, a friend of the deceased Mr. Westwood, it ap-
pears that it consists of 45 gold eight.day, duplex,
lever, horizontal repeating, detached lever, and hunting-
watches, some valaed at between 40/. and 50/. each ;
37 ditto silver watches, and 5 metal watches ; 6 gold
guard chains ; 4 ditto Brcquet ditto, with seals at-
tached ; 8 silver guard-chains ; one gold swivel ; 5/. in
gold ; and 1/. in silver moueys, the whole being valued
by Mrs. Westwood at about 2,000/. Whether the five
sovereigns were marked, as at the previous robbery,
has nut appeared.
At the inquest Mrs. Westwood was asked whether
some anooymous letters of a threatening nature had not
been received by her unfortunate husband, of which she
pleaded her total ignorance. It appears, however, that
Mr. Westwood did receive an anonymous letter, about
the years since, in which he was threatened that some
time or ether he would inevitably be murdered. Mr.
\Vestwood has repeatedly spoken of the receipt of such
a letter to several persons of his acquaintance, and has
expressed a fear of the threats it contained.
Darius the time that the pubic were excluded from
the inquest-room en Friday, previous to the Jury re-
turning the verdict of " Wilful Murder against some
person or persons unknown," the Coroner read a letter
which had been forwarded to him from a Mr. Balderin,
of Parliament-street, to the effect-that one of the Jury had
formerly lived with the deceased in the capacity of fore-
man, but bad lately opposed him in business; that Mrs.
Westvtool had often called upon the writer, and on
,everal occasionshad said that the person in question had
threatened his (Mr. Westwood's) life, and that he (Mr.
Westwood) feared that some time or other he would
carry his threats into execution. The juryman in
question, who appeared much affected at the imputation,
most earnestly declared that he bad borne no malice
or ill-will whatever against the deceased, and that he
would willingly give 50/. out of his own pocket towards
the disco'. cry of the perpetrateres of the horrid deed.
Mr. Westwood, we understand, was a gentleman of
extremely irritable temper ; and, on one occasion, about
two years since, it is asserted the Captain of a mer-
chant vessel, who had purchased a watch at the shop of
the deceased, called oa him to make some complaints
respecting it, when Mr. Westwood flew into a violerit
passion, snatched the watch out of the hands of the
gentleman, threw it on the ground with force, and ulti-
mately stamped on it with great violence. The con=e-
, quence was that he was summoned before the magis-
Crates at Marlborough-street Police-office for the assault,
in snatching the watch, when the case having been
heard, the Bench allowed the deceased to go out and
settle the matter with the complainant, which he did by
paying the full value of the watch. About six months
subsequent to that, a young man, who had also purchased
a watch of the deceased, called on him to state that it did
trot answer his expectations, and requested to have the
i.oney returned, or another watch substituted for it ;
upon which Mr. IVestwood took a pistol from under
the counter, and threatened to blow out the young man's
brains if he did not instantly leave the place. For that
outrage he was again taken to Marlborough-street po-
lice-office, and fitted in the fall penalty for the offence.
He has also, on other occasions, been charged with
otter assaults at the sense office.
On Thursday, the body of the unfortunate deceased
was placed in a coffin, handsomely covered with black
cloth, and studded with black nails. On the lid was
the following inscription :-..." Mr. Robert Westwood,
died the 3d of June, 1839, aged 55 years."
Oa Friday evening large posting-bills to the following
effect were printed and extensis ely circulated through-
out the various divisions of the metropolitan police, and
also forwarded to the different seaport towns, &c.
MIIIIDER—X2OO REWARD,—Whereas, on Monday
night last, the 3d inst., Mr. Robert Westwood, watch-
maker, of 35, Princes-street, Leicester-square, was bar-
barously murdered in his bed-room by some person or
persons unknown, and his shop robbed of a great number
of gold and other watches—Whoever will give such in-
formation as may lead to the apprehension and convic-
tion of the murderer or murderers shall receive the
above reward, on application to Mr. Peake, coach-
maker, No. 11, Princes-street, Lcicester-square.—lnfor-
mation to be given to the Police-station, Vine-street,
Picadilly."

Ever since the conclusion of the Inquest, Inspector
Bercsford of the C division, and :Sergeant Otway, of
the A division, to whom the task of endeavouring to
unravel the mystery with which the circumstances con-
nected with the murder has been entrusted, have been
unremitting in their exertions to obtain some clue to the
murderers and the recovery of the property, but, we
regret to sat', up to a late hour last night their efforts
nad failed of success. During yesterday several anony-
mous letters were received by Mr. Superintendent
Baker, at the station-house of the C division, in Vine-
street, Piccadilly, professing to give important informa-
tion on the subject, but it is almost neeedless to say
that neither of them affords any clue..—Obscrver.