The Sun.
London, England, 1863-08-31 00:00:00

BOROUGH AND SPITALFIELDS.

Fair average supplies of home-grown potatoes are on sale
at these markets. Generally speaking, the demand rules
steady, said last week's quotations are well supported.
Kent and Essex Regents 80s to 110 s per ton'.
Do. Shaws 6os to 858
WOOL.

Since the close of the public sales of colonial wool, a fair
amount of business has been transacted in home-grown
produce, and the value of all kinds has been well supported.
At The recent auctions, from 26,000 to 40,000 bales were
taken by foreign houses, and the following prices were paid
by home and foreign buyers :
AUSTRALIAN.—FIeeces, Is 4d to 2a 3d ; lambs, Is 3d to
2a; scoured and handwashed, Is 3d to 2s Gd; unwashed,
8d to is 2d; locks and pieces is to is 81.
PORT PHlLlP.—Fleeces, is 4d to 2s 3d ; lambs, is 3d to
2s 4d ; scoured and hendwashed, Is 41 to 287 d; unwashed,
8d to is 3d; locks and pieces, is to is
VAN DIENIEN'S LAND.—Fleeces, is 3d to 2s 2d; lambs,
Is 3d to 23 Gel : scoured, Is 3d to is 10d ; unwashed, 7d to
Is ld ; locks and pieces, is Id to is 7d.
SOUTH AUSTRALIAN—FIeeces, is Gd to is lid; lamb,

LAW INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

SHERIFFS' COURT.
ARE BILLIARDS A LAWFUL GAME?-CLAYTON V. GOLD-

INGS.

This was an action to recover 12s. 6d. for certain games
of billiards, plaintiff being an hotel keeper, and defendant a
commercial traveller.

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His Honour--I think you are out of court, Mr. Clayton,
on your own particulars.

Plaintiff—How so ?
His Honour—You say " Games of Billiards," and I am
not sure that it is a lawful game.
Plaintiff—We are obliged to have a license, and I believe
it has been laid down that a licensed ♦ictualler can recover
for his tables, but I have not brought the book with me.
His Honour called for the Act of Parliment 8 and 9 Viet.,
but it was not in court, and it was suggested that plaintiff
could recover for the use of the tables.

His Honour—But he calls it " Games of Billiards," and
I hold that it is an unlawful game.

Piaintiff.—The point was settled in this very court some
time ago, and then I recovered a verdict.
Mr. Buchanan—l was in that case, and the subject mat-
ter was of a very different kind; that action was for the
hire of a table by a marker.
His Honour—Yes, that is another thing altogether.
Plaintiff—But we are required to take out a license for
billiards, end it would be bard if we cannot recover.

His Honour—lt is a game of skill and chance, and may
bo called gambling, but defendant does not appear. How
long would ho have the tables before 12s. 6d. would be due ?
Plaintiff—Oh I 12s. 6d. could be run cff in two hours.

His Honour—Well, as defendant is not here, you will
recover for the use of the tables, but I do not decide that
billiards is a lawful game.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

BETTING AT MANCIIESTER--SATuRDAy.

There is very little doing on the Doncaster St. Leger.
Occasionally a bet is booked, and from the day's quota-
tions, the favourites do not appear to he very firm; but a
very little money brought into the market would make a
great difference with any of them, of course a few outsiders
excepted, Closing prices:—

DON CASTER ST. LEGER.
sto 1 agst Lord Clifden (offered)
11 to 2 agat Queen Bertha (taken)
13 to 2 agst Ranger (offered)
13 to 1 agat Golden Pledge (offered)
40 to 1 agat National Guard (offered)
40 to 1 agst Blue Mantle (offered)
40 to 1 agat Mogador (offered)
50 to 1 agst Saccharometer (offered)
50 to 1 agat Pratique (taken and offered)
500 to 7 agat Dr. Syntax (taken)
1000 to 10 agat \Volga (taken)
1000 to 5 agst Double X (taken)

SHIPPING—This Day.

Loxpos, Aug. 31.—Wind this day at noon—South-
Westerly; strong breeze, and cloudy weather, with
showers.

PLYMOUTH, Monday Morning.
His Prussian Majesty's gunboat Basilisk, Capt. Schan,
ft-on! Dantzic, last from Lowestoft, for the Mediterranean,
put Into the Sound this morning short of fuel.

(BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, Monday Morning.
D
Arrived, Aug. 30—Magnet, from antzic ; Der Ecluchs,
from Onega ; Leat, from Quebec ; Gem, from Antwerp ;
Gloriana, from Riga; Medkurring, from Tornea ; Newton,
Droback
from Gefle; Glen, from Ghent ; Rainbow, from Cronstadt;
Swan, ftom Dantzic • Adagio, from Colberg;
Elizabeth Mary, from Dantzic ; Caunder, from Dantzic ;
Passed Aug, 30 Esq, steamer,
from Guernsey,'
Arrived, Aug. 31—Diadem, from Cronstadt; Commo-
dore, from Calcutta ; Atalanta, from Quebec; Comet, from
; Harburgen, from Archangel.
DEAL, Monday Morning.
don, for Bordo ,• Adler, Prussian steamer, from Yarmouth,
Henry, from London, for St. JoAn's ; East,
for Plymouth ; Blitz, gunboat steamer, from Yarmouth, for
.i.,Plymouth; Carl 15th, from London, for Rio Janeiro;
—Ageneria, screw-steamer, from Lou.
for Bombay ; Caster of Scarborough, from west, for north.
Sailed.—Western Emperor and Amada, for Liverpool, in
tow; and all the outward bound on the 30th. from London,

Preparations are making for a grand choral
gathering at York Minster, on October 13, somewhat simi-
lar to that at Peterborough.
SUNDAY EXCURSION TO THE CRYSTAL PALACE.
—The second and last Sunday excursion this season of
members of the Crystal Palace Share Clubs took place yes •
terday to the Palace, and was attended by
and their families, . 7,000 artisans

THE AMERICAN MAILS, The extra Cunard
steamship Hecla, from
Now York on the 19th inst.,
passed the harbour of Queenstown yesterday afternoon.
She brings 83,200 dols. in specie,
and 90 passengers, four
of whom she landed. Her news had been anticipated by
the Arabia, via Halifax. The royal mail steamship Scotia
arrived at Queenstown at 6 a.m. yesterday. She embarked
mails, passengers, and the latest telegrams, and proceeded
for New York at 4 p.m. All well.
A twine spinnerin Devonport dockyard attempted
suicide by banging himself in the ropery on Friday. Ho
was, however, discovered, and cut down before life was ex-
tinct. The unfortunate man had just received intelligence
that his son, who was employed in the ropehouse, had been
detected stealing lead.

NARROW ESCAPE OF AN EXPRESS TRAIN.—John
Allbuary, a butcher, living at
Agnes-place, Plum-
stead, was summoned before Mr. Maude, at Woolwich, for
endangering the safety of the passengers on the North Kent
Railway. Mr. Stevens appeared for the prosecution, on be-
half of the South-Eastern Railway Company. Wm. Agate
said—l am a platelayer on the North Kent line, and live at
6G, Orchard-street, Plumstead. On the 12th jest., just be-
fore 2 o'clock, I was on the line, a quarter of a mile above
Abbeywood station, and saw the defendant in the lane, with
a horse and cart at the crossing. I Was a quarter of a mile
from him, and I could see a train coming up to the Abbey-
wood station. I saw the defendant open the gate and bring
the horse and cart on the line. He walked behind the cart,
and closed the downside gate after him. He then walked
across the lane, and opened the gate on the up side, leaving
the horse and cart standing on the railway. While he was
opening the gate, the horse, which appeared frightened,
turned round with his head towards Abbey-wood station.
Whilst bringing the horse round the gate blew to him, and
the defendant opened it a second time. The driver of the
approaching train blew his whistle and turned off the steam,
put on the break, and was only 90 yards off when the de-
fendant got his cart off the line. Joseph Bashford, foreman
of platelayers, living at East 'Wickham, said—l noticed the
horse and cart on the line. I held 1,
-P my hands to give
the driver of the train the "danger signal" and heard the
driver blow his whistle as the train passed through the sta -
tion. As Boon as the train had passed and the dust dis-
appeared, I proceeded to the spot and obtained defendant's
name. I said he ought not to have come on the line when a
train was in sight, and he said he could not see the train
because his sight was bad. At the crossing the line is straight
and a person can see a mile and a half. Predk. Wilton, engine-
driver, said it was an express from Dartford to Woolwich
Arsenal, and not appointed to call at Abbey-wood and other
intervening stations. On approaching the Abbeywood Sta-
tion within 200 yards, the train was going 33 miles an hour.
He observed a horse and cart on the line about a quarter of
a mile beyond the station, and immediately shut off the
steam, and the fireman put his break on. The speed was
reduced to 20 miles an hour, and when within 80 or 90 yards
of the accommodation crosing, defendant had gut his horse
and cart clear off the line. Ilad he not seen the platelayer's
signal and reduced the speed, the train would have been on
the cart before it was off the line. The defendant said, ". My
eyesight is bad, and I did not see the train or hear it coming
until I went to pull the horse's head round." Mr. Maude
said it was too serious a case for him to deal with. Ile would
adjourn the case till Wednesday, in order that the deposi-
tions might be laid before the railway company, and if they
insisted upon, it, he would commit thp defendant for trial,