The Sun.
London, England, 1865-01-14 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

BETTING AT MANCHESTER—FRIDAY.
WATERLOO (COURSING) CUP.
100 to 7 agst Lord Uffington's nomination (off )
16 to 1 agst Mr. J. Jardine's nomination (t)
22 to 1 agst Mr. Haywood's nomination (t)
33 to 1 agst Mr. Richardson's nomination (t)
33 to 1 agst Mr. Stocker's nomination (t)
33 to 1 agst Mr. Jones's nomination (t and off )
33 to 1 agst Mr. Hornby's nomination (off)
35 to 1 agst Mr. Bake's nomination (t)

TWO THOUSAND.
Bto 1 agst Chattanooga (taken)

THE DERBY.
11 to 2 agst Liddington (taken)
100 to 9 agst The Duke (offered)
40 to 1 agst The Buck (taken)

Now ready, G. SHELTON'S Derby Guide, I.s. G. R.
Glenie, Sporting Library, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park ;
Sunday Times Office, Fleet-street ; and all agents.

APPREHENSION OF THE SHREWSBURY " SHAM DE-
TECTIVE " IN LIVERPOOL—The man who, under the
name of John Morgan, executed an ingenious and novel
swindling operation at an hotel in Shrewsbury about ten
days ago, by representing- himself to be a detective from
Carmarthen, and obtaining the assistance of the Shrewsbury
police in apprehending, searching, and robbing a Manches-
ter gentleman named Ashworth, was yesterday appre-
hended in Liverpool. It appears that his real :name is
Thomas Ellis, and that he is the son of a butcher living in
Baker-street, Everton (Liverpool). His father was for
20 years a superintendent of police, and ho himself was for
some time assistant magistrate's clerk at Holyhead. He
was recently employed by Mr. W. Avis, shipwright,
Bridgewater-street, Liverpool, and since then has been
roaming about the country without any known means of
livelihood. It is stated that since his exploit at Shrewsbury
and within the past week, he attempted a similar feat at
Old Swan, near Liverpool. He went to the cattle market

there, and presented what appeared to be a warrant to a
cattle dealer, telling the latter he was authorised to appre-
hend him. Upon this pretence he took him to the police-
station at the Old Swan, but when he proposed to search
him there the local officers refused to allow it. He then
said he should have to telegraph to his superior, left the
station, and never returned. The cattle dealer was of course
set at liberty. Yesterday morning Ellis was brought to the
detectives' office, at Liverpool, by his father, at whose
house he had presented himself. A notice had previously
been issued offering 101. reward for his apprehension. He
expressed the utmost contempt for the Shrewsbury green-
horns, and said he could not for his life understand how
they came to believe he was a detective. A telegraphic
message was sent to Shrewsbury yesterday, and it was ex-
pected that an officer from that place would arrive in Liver-
pool last night, and take him to Shrewsbury for examina-
tion. The gold watch of which Ellis robbed Mr. Ashworth
he afterwards exchanged with Mr. Cohen, jeweller, of
Liverpool, for a silver lever and 255.
THE DISPUTE IN THE BUILDING TRADE.—Meet-
ings of operatives in the building trade continue to be held
in the provinces to express disapprobation of the " dis-
charge note," introduced by the masters, and both at Sh -

field and Stourport resolutions strongly condemnatory of
that document have been adopted—the men pledging them-
selves to resist to the utmost of their power.
THE YELVERTON CASE AGAIN.—The action of
libel brought by Miss Longworth against the pro-
prietors of the Saturday Review came before the Outer
House of the Court of Session on Thursday, for debate on
the question whether, by the arrestment of certain funds
in the hands of publishers in Edinburgh the defenders had
been made amenable to the jurisdiction of the Court of Ses-
sion. The Solicitor-General, for the defenders, proposed
that the record should be made up and closed before the
question of jurisdiction was discussed ; and the Lord Ordi-
nary accordingly appointed parties to revise their pleadings.
THE CASE OF TIMOTHY DALY.—Yesterday Mr
Farnall, the commissioner appointed by the Poor Law
Board, resumed his inquiry into the circumstances at-
tending the death of Timothy Daly. The investigation
took place in the board room of the Holborn Union
Workhouse. Mr. Shuter, hon. sec. of the Farringdon
Dispensary, was examined at great length, and detailed
his experience of the case and the action which he took
upon it. Mrs. Fitzgerald, the landlady of No. 2, Union-
court, where Daly died, described the circumstances of the
removal of deceased from the workhouse to lodge in he.

house. Mrs Daly, who was, the witness believed, a house-
maid at the Cross Keys, in Wood-street, had removed her
husband from the workhouse in conformity with his own
wish. She had told witness that the deceased was not
to want for anything, and during the nine days
Daly was in witness's house Mrs. Daly paid her 30s.
for wino and other things which she bought for the
sick man. Mr. Lowne, the surgeon, came to see him
every day excepting on the Sunday, and Mrs. Daly came
every afternoon excepting two. The deceased had eggs,
milk, arrowroot, and mutton chops every day, and she gave
him as well port wine, half-a-quartern at a time, in a tum-
bler ; the wine cost Bd. per quartern ; ho had the wine
sometimes once and sometimes more frequently every day,
and more than half a pint of beer daily. The inquiry was
adjourned.
ALFRED TENNYSON.—It is now more than thirty
years (says the Reader) since the Quarterly Review
attempted to extinguish a young poet who had then pub-
lished the second of two thin volumes. He was treated in
the loftiest tone of contempt, and not the slightest token of
appreciation was suffered to qualify the ironical praise and
total scorn ivhich breathed through the article. Since the
year 1833, more than the time allotted to a generation of
men has elapsed, and the poet whose first efforts were thus
received has lived to enjoy the highest literary distinction
which it is in the power of the Sovereign to bestow on a
subject—a distinction enhanced in value by its having been
borne by his two immediate predecessors in the post of
laureate—and to find himself the most popular poet among
all classes known in England since the days of Pope. From
a small circle of admirers, he has gained for his audience
all who speak the language of which he possesses such
mastery, and which has been ennobled by his employmen
of it.

AHOARD.—A New York paper states that a man
named Colley, who died recently at Lockport in that State-
kept his money in an old boiler buried in the cellars, and
among the deposits in this vault were found 50,000 three
cent pieces.