The Sun.
London, England, 1865-11-14 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 14, 180.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.--This Day.

SHERIFFS' COURT,
(Before Mr. Commissioner Kerr.)

BETTING ADVERTISEMENTS.-EXTRAORDINARY CASE AND

IMPORTANT DECISION.

RICHARDSON AND ANOTHEiR V. READ.

This was an action to recover a sum of money for ad-
Tertisements in the Court Circular, Mr. F. H. Lewis being
counsel for the plaintiff, Mr. Montague Williams repre-
senting the defendant, who had pleaded a set-off for £24
for reports of sporting matters.

Mr. Lewis said he should prove that defendant had given
tho order for the advertisements, which had been duly
inserted in the court Circular.

His Honour—ls thero anything in the sot-off, Mr. Wi:
?

Mr. Williams—Certainly ; but when the proper time
comes I shall be prepared to meet the plaintiff's case upon
a point of law.

His Honour—What is it ?

Mr. Williams—l wish to call your Honour's attention to
the character of the defendant's advertisement, and then I
refer you to the Act of Parliament. It is quite clear that
the advertisement was ono relating to betting. I beg to
bring it under your notice. _ _ _

The newspaper was handed up to the court, and the ad-
vertisement ran as follows :—" Mr. John Read, of London
(Member of Tattersall's), the most experienced and largest
backer of horses, executes commissions on all the principal
races throughout the year, but does not issue price lists, as
from the repeated fluctuations in the market it only en
genders discontent and confusion."
Mr. Williams—Now, your Honour will just look at the
Act of Parliament, the 16th and 17th Victoria, cap. 119,
sec. 7, and you will find the following words :
" Any person exhibiting or publishing, or causing to be
exhibited or published, any placard, handbill, card,
writing, sign, or advertisement, whereby it shall be made
to appear that any house, office, room, or place is opened,
kept, or used for the purpose of making bets or wagers in
manner aforesaid, or for the purpose of exhibiting lists for
betting, or with intent to induce any person to resort to
such house, room, or place for tho purpose of making bets
or wagers in manner aforesaid, &c., shall be liable to con-
viction, &c." Now, defendant's advertisement clearly
came within the provisions of the act, and, as such, was
illegal. There could be no doubt that defendant kept a
betting-office, and advertised it in the columns of the
Court Circular contrary to the law.

Mr. Lewis called his Honour's attention to the wording
of defendant's advertisement, and did not think it camo
within the provisions 01 the act.

His Honour—l have seen it, and lam of opinion that it
is. It is quite clear that this is a betting advertisement.
Mr. Williams—And the words of the act are quite plain.
Mr. Lewis—The act may be plain, but I do not see how
the advertisement is touched by it.

His Honour—Suppose that the advertisement had run
as follows :—' Mr. Read is not a member of Tattersall's,
is not the most experienced and largest backer of horses,
and does not execute commissions on all the principal
races," would that have been within the provisions of the
7th section of the act ?
Mr. Lewis—l should say not.

His Honour I should say it did, as it would be clear
that the intention was to evade the act. Looking, how-
ever, at the defendant's advertisement as it stands, it is to
me quite clear that it is a betting advertisement, and I
think that the proprietor of the Court Circular ought to be
indicted for inserting it. I know that the fluctuations of the
market not only lead to confusion and discontent, but also
to the appearance of many young men at the bar of the
Old Bailey.

Mr. Lewis—That is between Mr. Richardson and the

His Honour—lt may be so, but plaintiff cannot recover
this money.

Mr. Lewis—Cau we appeal ?
His Honour—No ; the amount is under £2O, and I have
no doubt upon the point. You will be nonsuited.
Plaintiff nonsuited, with costs.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE,—This Day,

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

SKELETON KEY ROBBERY. James Watson, address and
occupation refused, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with
stealing a counterpane and other articles, the property of
Mr. John Whitcomb°, 4, Bateman's-buildings, Soho.
Police-constable Francis Moss, 63 C, said that between
5 and 6 yesterday evening he saw the prisoner and another
man in Bateman's- buildings, apparently trying the diffe-
rent doors with keys. He stood in a doorway a short time,
and then walked down the buildings, when the other man
went away and the prisoner came out of a house with a
bundle. Ho stopped the prisoner, and asked him if he lived
in the house, and lie said he did. He then told the prisoner
that he was not quite satisfied with his statement, and he
would take him back to the house to see whether he had
told the truth. On the way back the prisoner dropped the
bundle and made off and tried to escape, but he secured
him and took him to the station.

Mr. Tyrwhitt said the constable had acted very well in
ho matter.

The constable said that on the way to tho station the
prisoner became very violent, and tried to throw him.
3lrs.Whitcombe identified a counterpane and;two sheets
produced as the property of her husband, and said they
were taken off a bed in a room on the second floor.

In answer to Mr. Tyrwhitt, the witness stated that she
was not aware. the house had been entered till she was in-
formed by the police. She thought the prisoner might
have entered the house at the same time that some children
entered.

The constable saw no children near the place, and it is
the belief of the police that the house was entered by
means of a skeleton key.

Inspector Harrison asked for a remand, as there was
some reason to believe the prisoner was known.
. _ _

The prisoner said the articles were given to him by a
man standing at the door, who told him to wait till he
came back.

Mr. Tyrwhitt remanded the prisoner.

THAMES.

GREASE AND BUTTER.—John Nilewold, a Dutchman,
aged 41, of No. 4, Elphick-terrace, Devon's-road, Bromley,
a commission agent, was brought before Mr. Paget on a
warrant, charged with obtaining money by false pretences.
Mr. Robert Harris, a grocer and cheesemonger, of No. 52,
Sussex-street, Poplar, said that on the 29th of September
last the prisoner and another man came into his shop with
a tub of butter, which they offered to sell. The prisoner,
who carried the keg, said the butter was first class. He
tried it with a taster about six inches down. The butter
was very nice on the top, and he agreed to purchase it for
.£1 17s. 3d. He was indebted to the other man, Mr. Cooper,
as. 9d., and he paid the prisoner £2 ls. He afterwards
found the keg of butter with the exception of six or seven
inches at the top to be nothing but cart grease.

Mr. Paget asked the witness if he was brought up to
the trade of a cheesemonger and butterman.
Mr. Harris said he was not, he was by trade a shipwright.
Mr. Paget—You should have tested the butter through-
out the whcle bulk, and tasted it as well.
The prisoner, in broken English, said that the butter
was adulterated in Holland, and that when the fraud was
discovered, "Mr. Harris makes up von row about the
grease and the butter, which he offered to change for
Mynheer."

The prosecutor said the stuff had been made up here ;
more than two-thirds of the cask was stinking grease—it
was veneered butter, a little good butter at the top, and
grease under it.

A sample of the grease was produced. The odour was
very offensive, and Mr. Paget wisely motioned with his
hand to keep it away from the bench.

The prosecutor was recalled, and said the prisoner agreed
to take back the butter and grease and give him other
butter, but, as ho had not kept his word, he obtained a
warrant against him. . _

Mr. Paget said tho prosecutor treated the matter as a
civil contract, nothing more, until he found he could not
obtain payment for the rubbish, and then asked for a war-
rant. He could not treat this as a criminal offence. Ho
discharged the prisoner.
___

CHARGE OF MANSLAUGHTER.—Thomas Ford, jun., pipe-
maker, White Horse-street, Stepney, was brought before
Mr. Paget, charged with killing a boy named Noah Wye,
aged 13 years, iu Forry-road, Isle of Dogs, Poplar.

George Pullen, a police sergeant, 10 K, stated that yes_
terday afternoon the prisoner came to him and said he had
unfortunately run down a boy with his horse and cart in
the Westferry-road, Millwall, and that he wished to sur-
render himself and have a proper inquiry made. He asked
the prisoner how the affair happened, and ho said ho was
driving his horse and cart along the Westferry-road at a
moderate pace, and the boy came into the road, walking
backwards with his hands extended like a man rowing a
boat, and he fell under the cart-wheel on his back. He
believed the occurrence was purely accidental, and that the
prisoner was drivin,g carefully and at a moderate pace.
Mr. Paget asked if information had been forwarded to
the coroner of the district ?
Pullen said that had been done.

Mr. Paget said he would tako bail for tho prisoner's
appearance a week hence.

13ai1 was immediately tendered for tho prisoner, whose
family are highly respectable. The bail was accepted and
ho was liberated.

WESTMINSTER.

UNSLPPORTED CHARGE OF FELONY.—CharIOttO Breeze,
a decently dressed woman, was charged with stealing £1.5
in gold and silver, and a box, from Keppel-street, Chelsea.

Joseph Butt, proprietor of the beer-house, 17, Koppel-
street, Chelsea, said that the prisoner and her husband
lodged in his house for eight months. On Monday after-
noon his brewer came with some boor at two o'clock. At
half-past one o'clock the money in question was safe in a
box in his bedroom, and the door of the room was locked.
At a little before two the prisoner left the house, and in
half an hour prosecutor went up stairs to look for his
brewer's book, and found the door broken open ;
the box and all the money was gone. From in-
formation he received from his son, who saw
prisoner leave tho house with a large box uudor her arm,

he waited for her, and when she came home, at 3 o'clock,
he gave her into custody. Nothing relating to the charge
was found, and prisoner did not say one word one way or
the other with reference to the charge.
A witness was called, who said that on the way to the
station a man told him he had got the right party, and that
the prop2rty was fenced ; also, that the prisoner and her
husband meant to leave the house by stealth that night.
A constable was called, but did not further carry the
case.

Mr. Arnold said there was not the slightest possible
tittlo of evidence against the woman, and ordered her to be
immediately discharged.

MARKETS—This Day.

HAY.

SMITHFIELD.—Meadow hay, .C 4 lOs to £5 15s; clover,
£5 Os to £6 15s Od ; and straw,. £1 15s to £2 Os per load.
Trade firm.

CUMBERLAND.—Meadow hay, £4 lOs to £5 15s; clover,
£5 Os to £6 15s Od ; and straw, £1 16s to £2 2s per load.
A steady demand.

WHITECITAPEL.—Meadow hay £4 lOs to £5 15s ; clover,
£5 Os to £6 15s Od ; and straw, £1 165 to £2 Os per load.
A steady trade.

COLONIAL.

TEA.—A fair amount of dealings has been done at
steady prices. To-day a small quantity of Assam will be
offered at public sales, and full rates axe expected to be
obtained.

SUGAR.—The dealings hare not been very extensive,
but good grocery descriptions are at slightly enhanced
rates. In the refined market there is no material altera-
tion.

COFFEE.—There has been a steady inquiry for both
plantation and native Ceylon, and late prices are well
supplied.

RICE.—A large business has been done in soft grain de-
scriptions, and in seyeral instances at slightly enhanced
rates.

TALLOW.—The market has shown a slight recovery
from the late depression. P.Y.C. on the spot is quoted
50s. Gd., December 50x. 3d., and January to March de-
livery 51s. por cwt.

Archbishop Manning in Salford.

On Saturday afternoon the Most. Rev. Dr. Man-
ning, Archbishop of Westminster, laid the corner
stone of a new Catholic institute and school in
course of erection near St. John's Cathedral, Sal-
ford. The erection of this building has been con-
templated for years, and it is upon the urgent re-
. commendation of one of her Majesty's school inspec-
tors that active efforts have been made to meet the
want of additional school accommodation, and an
institution for the instruction of young men in
science and religion. The teachers of St. John's
school were among the first young men to point out
the necessity and desirableness of erecting the In-
stitute. The clergy of St. John's, to whom the
question was submitted, gave to it considerate at-
tention, and eventually decided to second the efforts
of the school teachers. The receipts of subscrip-
tions warranted the commencement of the work. In
the Gothic style, the structure will be of the best
brick, with stone facings. It will have a play-
ground for children on the first floor ; an infants'
schoolroom, reading and class rooms will occupy
the second story ; and a lecture hall, 86ft. long by
40ft. wide, will occupy the whole of the third floor.
Ornamental tiles will cover a pointed roof. The
whole building is estimated to cost about £2,000.
Mr. J. Finnigan, Queen's Park, Manchester, is the
builder, and ho, with the Rev. Canon Benoit, has
drawn the designs.
The ceremony on Saturday was witnessed by a
number of ladies and gentlemen, who occupied seats
in front of the platform which was erected near the
corner of the building on the second floor. The
band of the 56th Lancashire Rifle Volunteers was
present. On the arrival of the Archbishop, with 111
Bishop Turner, of Salford, the Mayor of Salford
(W. Turner, Esq.), and clergy, Mr. J. Stores
Smith, chairman of the committee with whom ori-
ginated the scheme for the erection of the Institute,
explained the object of it. The germ of the under-
taking, he said, was necessity. Some time ago the
schoolrooms connected with the cathedral were found
to be inadequate to the increasing number of
scholars, and extended accommodation could not be
provided in consequence of a lack of funds. A few

months ago one of her Majesty's inspectors of
schools suggested the provision of increased school-
room, and as the suggestion was accompanied by
an intimation that if more accommodation were not
obtained, sooner or later he would have to recom-
mend the withdrawal of a considerable Govern-
ment grant, the suggestion partook somewhat
of the character of a command. The clergy
thought of building an infants' schoolroom
only, until they were seen by several young men,
members of the congregation, some of them Sunday
school teachers, and all of them desirous to spend
their evenings in rational, social, and intellectual re-
creation, and to spread education among the Catho-
lics of Salford. These young men had long felt
certain objections to the secular instruction deriv-
able from existing mechanics' institutions, and they
suggested to the clergy that a Catholic institution,
with the proposed infants' school, might occupy one
building, the erection of which would cost two-
thirds, or only one-half, of two separate structures.
This recommendation was adopted. The large hall
occupying the third story of the building would be
devoted to public meetings, concerts, social gather-
ings, and to any purpose that was not anti-Catholic
in its nature or subversive of social order. The hall
would exceed the size of the large room at the Town

Hall. The twofold character of the institute, science
and religion, would afford to Catholic young men
an increased knowledge of science, without weaken-
ing their attachment to the faith of the Catholic
Church. (Applause.) To those who had con-
tributed towards the cost of the institute and school
building, he was bound, on behalf of the Committee,
to tender many thanks. It was a very great thing
to give money, but, after all, it was far greater to
give personal service. To the Archbishop of West-
minster the Catholics of Salford were indebted for
his personal attendance on that occasion.

Archbishop MANNING received from Mr. Smith a
trowel, and with it prepared for the reception of the
corner stone. The ceremony concluded, he delivered
an address. Ile said for the invitation, and, he
might say also, the permission, to lay the corner
stone of a Catholic Institute in Salford, he thanked
the gentlemen who composed the committee. The
act he had just performed was one in which all his
sympathies concurred. The objects for which the
structure was to be built—the education of children
and the sanctification of the intellect of adult per-
sons—commanded not only his sympathy, but his
most heartfelt interest. A few words of the address
by the chairman of the committee had supplied him
(Dr. Manning) with a stronger motive for being
present on that occasion. Mr. Smith had said it
was an easy thing to make an offer of money, but
a much more valuable thing to offer personal
service. That principle, being of great value,
would apply to Mr. Smith, to the committee of
which he was chairman, and to that body of young
men in accordance with whose petition the en-
largement of the institution had been undertaken.
(Cheers.) These young men, 30 in number, devoted
their time on Sundays to the instruction of scholars,
an humble work, which men engaged in worldly
affairs might perhaps count to be a very heavy and
uninteresting occupation, but a work which he be-
lieved to be one of the noblest occupations in which
a matt could spend his time. (Hear.) He believed
that if the young Catholics of Salford, Manchester,
and London would spend the spare hours of their
Sundays in seeking out poor children, and in in-
structing them when they were gathered together,
they would be exercising the faculties and the affec-
tions which God had given them upon the highest
objects they could find. (Cheers.) He hoped the ex-
ample would tend to increase their number of 30 to
3,000 in Salford and Manchester. But in saying that
his sympathies were with an institution of that char-
acter he meant this—we lived in a century when
there was an inverted process of instruction in which
the young taught the old--(a laugh)—in defiance
of the traditions of consanguinity, those who
were entering into life conceived themselves to
be the instructors of their elders ; in the nine-
teenth century, the chief virtue of children was
to bring up their parents in the way they should go.
(Laughter.) This inverted process of instruction
was verified in the most superlative form—the in-
tellectual 19th century was teaching the Catholic
Church how to think. (Applause.) This inverted
order of consanguinity and instruction could not
be exemplified in a more superlative form than that.
He believed that truth to be in these three short
propositions—That reason rightly cultivated leads
to faith ; that reason, illuminated by faith, is deve-
loped, elevated, and perfected in its highest degree,
and can only so be made perfect ; and that reason,
whensoever it leads away from faith, is enfeebled.
Without giving lengthened proof of these proposi-
tions, he would say, in confirmation of what he had
affirmed, that the greatest intellectsthe
and
dththene
world ever knew, the one in speculation
other in practice, were Plato and Aristotle ; and he
would call any scholar to answer him whether . the
whole history of the human intellect, before the illu-
mination of faith, there could be found any two who
approached more nearly to a pure knowledge of the
Divine nature. (Applause.) Of the second proposi-
tion, he affirmed that the scholastic philosophy and
scholastic theology which were eminently and in-
tensely Catholic were denounced in this age, because
they were identical with Romanism ; and he asked
whether there was to be found an exhibition of the
human intellect more enlarged, subtle, and mature
than was seen in the scholastic philosophy and theo-
logy of the Catholic Church ? (Applause.) As to
the third proposition, he would affirm this--We
had entered into that age when reason and faith
were no longer united, but parting asunder. In
speaking of reason, he meant reason under its
modern cultWation. But was it not a violation of
our reason, with the external world about us and
the dictates of reason and conscience within, not to
believe in the existence of God ? Would any man
say that his reason was elevated and perfected by his
becoming an atheist ? Was his reason not in its normal
state by believing in his Maker, in whose image he
had been created, in the likeness of whom, and in
virtue of which likeness, he possessed that very rea-
son ? (Applause.) God had made us in His own
likeness, bestowed upon us intelligence and will,

made us capable of loving him, and made our hap-
piness dependent upon the knowledge and love of
Himself. Then, was it not a violation of moral rea-
son, of the conscience, of the greatest gifts of God
to the human soul, to believe that God should not
have given us the means whereby to know this—
that He should have created us with a capacity of
knowing him, and have placed us in a state where
we could not know him ? This privation of the
means of knowing God would be a privation of the
end for which he made us. What were the means
of knowing God ? His own revelation. There-
fore it was a violation of moral reason to believe
that God had not made Himself known to man
sufficiently for his perfection and happiness.
In the third place, if there was a revelation of God
in the world, he would ask where, in the whole
history of mankind, was to be found a pure doctrine
respecting the being and perfections of God, except
in the Christian religion? Was there to be found a
pure doctrine or delineation of the nature of a man,
except in the incarnation ? Was there to be found
a pure morality anywhere, except in the Gospels?
Therefore he was bound to affirm, as dictated by
reason acting upon the evidence which human his-
tory afforded him, that if there was a revelation of
God in the world that revelation was Christianity ;
that, if Christianity was a revelation of God, that
Christianity was Catholicism ; and that every other
form of the Christian religion was fragmentary.
(Applause.) He did not say this controversially,
though as had been said with great prudence and
moderation by Mr. Smith, who had preceded him,
their adhering to a Catholic form of science and
literature was not controversy, but the simple dic-
tate of their reason and faith. (Hear, hear.) Mr.
Smith had also said that the mind of a man who
was educated in science or literature, apart from his
faith, was so far fragmentarily and not perfectly.
developed ; and it was absolutely true for this rea-
son—Almighty God in the revelation of His truth,
by the laws of nature or by the laws of revelation,
properly so-called, had built a whole system of
truth which was perfect, uniform, and symmetrical
from its foundation to its completion. But the laws
of nature passed into the laws of revelation ; the
foundation which God laid in the intellect of man
in ancient days was the basis upon which the truths
of this revelation were placed afterwards. We could
not take human science, human history, or human
philosophy apart from the revelation of God in his
truth. (Hear, hear.) It was ono structure, one
perfect tower, rising a pyramid from its foundation
to its apex ; and, therefore, it was in the name of
reason that the Catholics refused to be made frag-
mentary either in science or in literature, and that
they believed all must be studied in the light of the
revelation of God, and in union with him. There-
fore, he said, that these four great truths, which he
might call the four corners of that pyramid—the
existence of God, the revelation of God, the revela-
tion of Christianity, and the identity of Christianity
with Catholicism—were the dictates of reason. Ha
believed the more reason was cultivated, the more
would those truths prevail. He had no fear in the
world of the cultivation of reason. He was not one
of those who believed that religion was promoted by
darkness. (Hear, hear.) The Germans had divided
the Catholics of the present day into the friends of
darkness and the friends of twilight. The friends 9f
twilight were those who believed and did not believe
—a certain mixture of rationalism and faith ; the
friends of midnight were those who believed in the
whole revelation of God and the whole light of the
Day of Pentecost. He (Dr. Manning) professed
himself to be a friend of midnight in the profoundest
sense of that definition; and he believed the more
reason was cultivated, the more certainly would a
man believe in the revelation of God. Why ? Al-
mighty God was not a bad logician. We were bad
logicians, intolerably bad reasoners, in the 19th cen-
tury. This was shown perpetually by the newspapers
that touched upon the Catholic Church and Catholic
preachers. The writers also of this century were all
intolerably bad logicians, but there was one who was
not a bad logician. He was the eternal truth. He
(Dr. Manning) was perfectly convinced that if any
man in the cultivation of his reason fell from the path
of faith, it was because he had fallen from the true
line of the cultivation of reason itself. On;this ground
alone he (Dr. Manning) felt that to the young Ca-
tholics of Salford and Manchester should be given
the means of studying science and literature, which
would enable them to comprehend more largely and
adequately the truths of revelation, and thereby the
truths of their faith. Everybody who became more
illuminated and penetrated with the light of his
faith would become more capable intellectually
to comprehend both science and literature.
And he must say that, in all the sys-
tem of instruction, from the lowest elemen-
tary infants' school to the highest form of intellec-
tual cultivation, he saw great reason why the Catho-
lics of England should not beg or borrow from any
existing institution any participation in the crumbs
or fragments of science or literature possessed by
others, broken to them, and cast as it were from the
table; and he saw great'reason why the Catholics I
should form for themselves from a foundation, sym-
metrically, solidly, and without compromise, a sys-
tem of true Catholic education for the infant of the
poor and the son of the highest and the richest in
the land. (Applause.) This principle was at the
root of the work which had been commenced that
day—an infants' school in Salford. He hoped it
was but the prelude of the day when the corner stone
would be laid of a Catholic University of England.
(Continued applause.)
On the motion of Mr. D. LEE, seconded by Mr.
G. RICHARDSON, thanks were passed with acclama-
tion to the Archbishop ; and this concluded the pro-
ceedings.
On Sunday morning Archbishop Manning
preached at the Cathedral in behalf of the funds of
Mount St. Bernard's Reformatory.

IMPUDENT SwiNDLE.---The police authorities at
Burton-on-Trent have recently come in possession
of the particulars of a most impudent and clever swindle,
which was perpetrated at the late cattle and cheese fair at
Burton-on-Trent. The unfortunate dupe was a farmer
residing at Fisherwick-grove, of the name of Woolley. It
appears that Woolley, who had brought two horses to the
Barton fair, and disposed of one of them for £25, was met
in the fair about half-past one o'clock by two respectably-
attired persons, one apparently the master and the other a
servant or judge. They saluted him, and the elder
sharper asked the farmer how muoh he wanted for the
mare his servant had in the fair. Woolley, who
gave them to understand that he knew nothing of
them, asked where they came from, and they replied
Rugeley. Upon this he told them that he had a
brother residing at Old Wood Farm, Rugeloy, and with
whom the sharpers declared themselves to be on most in-
timate and friendly terms. They then adjourned to the
Talbot Inn and bargained for the mare. The elder swindler
aud pretended purchaser handed to the farmer a document
to the effect that if the mare suited he would pay £26 for
her on the Thursday following ; but if not he would return
her on the said Thursday, with £1 as expenses. The docu-
ment was signed " Thomas Robinson, with which the
farmer expressed his approval. After some further conver-
sation the farmer left his fresh acquaintances at the inn, and
went to cash a cheque for £25 which he received as payment
for the horse he had sold in the morning
after-
wards he returned to the inn, againand joined.
the Soon
h having drawn at the bank three £5-notes and twelsvearprs
sove-
reigns. An accomplice put in an appearance in the room
about this time, and, in a very polite manner, begged to be
excused if ho was intruding upon private company. He
was frankly asked to join them, and did so. Knowing
that Woolley had been to the bank, he asked him if ho had
got his money all right, as ho had had some money left
him, and on going to the bank to draw it had some trouble
in getting it correct. Woolley then counted his money, and
found it to be right, whereupon the accomplice very kindly
presented the farmer and his companions with a purse
each, stating that persons could not be too careful with
their money now-a-days. His kindness was gratefully ac-
cepted, and each one proceeded to put his money into the
purse which had been so very kindly given to him. Onv
of the sharpers then artfully passed his own bag, and "rang
changes" with the farmer, which was not perceived by
him. Some two hours passed away after this in conver-
sation, and the sharpers finally accompanied their foolish
dupe to the railway station, and bid him adieu as he left
by the 5.20 p.m. train for Lichfield. On the following
morning the farmer looked into his purse, and. lo ! to
his great surprise and grief, he found a piece of the
Gardener's Chronicle, of October last, and twelve flash
sovereigns, instead of three five-pound notes and twelve
good gold coins. Ho reported the circumstance to Mr.
Superintendent Keith and Sergeant Kelly, having by his
own folly and stupidity lost his mare, £25, the value of
the other horse, and £2 which he had in his pocket pre-
viously. A description of two of the swindlers and the
mare has been issued ; and a reward of £5 will be given
to any person who shall give such information to any
police authority in Staffordshire as shall lead to the
recovery of the mare and apprehension of the offenders.—
Western Press.

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THIRD EDITION.

SUN OFFICE, 7 o'CLocK.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE —This Day.

SHREWSBURY' RACES—Tuts
BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.
SWEEPSTAKES.

Convent
1
Vulture
Black Prince
3

Five ran.
HANDICAP.

Blue Bell filly 1
Carnizette
Eight ran.
BATTLEFIELD HANDICAP.

Overture
Confederate 1
2
Eight ran.
SALOPIAN.

Tormentor ....................................... 1
Miss Harriet ..........................................
2
SHREWSBURY CUP.

Raglan
Sidewind 1
2
Gomera . 3
Eleven ran.
COUNTY MEMBERS' PLATE.

Thalassius 1
Catalogue 2
Troublesome 3

Seven ran.
ENVILLE HALL STAKES.

Ulphug 1
Galnara
Hop Tine 3