The Sun.
London, England, 1862-05-09 00:00:00

BETTING AT MANCHESTER—TnunsnIY.

For the Chester Cup Wild Rose who, a short time ago,
was reported under the doctor's hands, and went to any
price (offered), came with a rush, 100 to 5 being booked.
Chere Arnie, hitherto an outsider, was supported at 25 to 1.
100 to 3 was offered against Sappho prior to the return of
the One Thousand ; after which there were many offers to
back her, but there was no disposition to lay. There was
not much business done on the future, the day's events
occupying the attention of the members present. Closing
prices

CHESTER C'Up.
11 to 2 agst Zodiac (taken)
14 to 1 agst Brighton (taken and offered)
20 to 1 agst Wild Rose (taken)
25 to 1 agst Chere Arnie (taken)
33 to 1 agst Jung Frau (taken)

SCRATCHINGS.—On the 2d inst. at 12 30 p.m. Lustre out
of the Longleat Stakes, Salisbury; at 12 30 p.m. Chande-
leir out of all engagements. On the :3cl inst. at 11 a.m.
Abbess out of the 1,000 Guineas Stakes; at 4 p.m. all Mr.
James Smith's horses out of their Bath engagements ; after
6 p.m, all Captain Coates's horses out of their engagements
in the First Spring Meeting. On the 4th inst. at 5 p.m.
Bonnibelle, Roving Boy, Count Horn, Trincomalee, and
Big Ben out of all their engagements. On the sth inst. at
9 a,m. all Mr. Merry's horses out of their engagements in
the First Spring Meeting, except Costa in the Sweepstakes
of 100 sovs h ft on Thursday ; at 9 a,m. Earl of Westmor-
land out of his York engagements; at 11 52 a.m. Old Cala-
bar out of the 2,000 Guineas Stakes. On the 6th inst. at
12 50 p.m. Cashio out of the Prince of Wales's Stakes at
Newmarket First Spring Meeting.
THE WINNER OF THE ONE THOUSAND GUINEAS
STAKES OF 1862.—Mr. John Scott has realised a felicitous
union of circumstance in being the trainer of both The
Marquis and Hurricane ; and as we noticed the victories
of the former horse, we append a few particulars anent the
performances of Hurricane. The winner of the One Thou-
...na Guineas Stakes is the property of Mr. T. Valentine,
and is a bay fi'ly by Wild Dayrell, out of Midia. Her first
public performance was of a most unpromising character,
as, in the Chesterfield Stakes, run for at Newmarket July
Meeting, she did not even get placed. Her second ap-
pearance was at the Yolk August Meeting, where she car-
ried off a produce stakes from Piccador and Lord Albert.
The third time of her presenting herself was in connection
with the First October, when, in the Fourteenth
triennial Produce Stakes, she ran third to Old Cala-
bar, Lorelei being second, and five other horses taking
part in the race. Hurricane's final appearance as a two-
year-old was at the past Newmarket Houghton Meet-
ing, when she beat Emily de Lona in a sweepstakes of 50
soya, by a length. There remains only two other events
to record in connection with her for this year, the first of
which is when she succumbed to Buckenham in the Aske
Produce Stakes, at the late Newmarket Craven Meeting;
and the second her victory of yesterday, by which she
places £2,800 as stakes at the disposal of her owner. Her
nominations for this year include the Derby, the Oaks,
Great Northern St. Leger (Stockton), St. Leger and Park
Hill Stakes (Doneaster), the Prince of Wales's Stakes
(Ascot), and two other minor events. As we have men-
tioned the prohable value of the One Thousand Guineas
Stakes, it may not be out of place to state here, that Mr.
Hawke received as the value of the stakes, £1,150 by The
Marquis's performance last Tuesday.

YORK SPRING
Acceptances for the Flying
mile and

sIEETING—MAy 20.
Dutchman's Handicap. One
a quarter.

Age st lb
The Wizard .. 5 9 5
Cape Flyaway 5 8 10
Lady Ripon
Croagh Patrick..., 4 7 12
Silverhair
Virgilius
Finlande
Doefoot
Voltella
Lava
Paste
Springwoll 5 7 2
Weights for the Londesb
furl

Age at lb
Gardener
Brother to Schiedam 4 6 13
Colossus 4 6 10
Pilot
Astarte
Tim Whiffler .. 3 6 8
Beverley
Shipwreck 4 6 2
Dutch Sam 3 5 12
Flytrap
Lord of Linne
Tisiphone
lorough Cup. About five
longs.

Age st lb
Thunderbolt
Fravola
Lava
Silv erhair
Longshot
Dictator, 4 7 12
Spicebox
Virgilius
Sweetsauce
Voltella
Will o' the Wisp 4 7 7
Pancake
Juliet
Donner and Blitz 5 7 6
Phantom .. 5 7 5
Sacerdos
Pilot
Bernice
Recluse
Recovery
Ducat 4 6 7
Astarte
Allez-y •rondement 3 6 7
Leonora ...... . 3 6 6

Age st lb
Beverley
Paradox
Alchymist . .
Blood Royal 3 6 3
Pupil
Lachesis
Fairy King
Miss Emma 4 6 0
North Pole
Wallachia .. 3 6 0
Miss Livingstone.,, 3 6 0
Mayflower 3 6 0
Queen of Trumps 3 6 0
Dutch Sam
Staple Oak 3 5 13
Oberon
W2atherden
Lord of Linne
F by Weatherbit,
dam by Birdcatcher 3 5 12
Tisiphone
Curatrix 3 5 10
Bannerdale

TATTERSALL'S.—The Subscription-room will be opened
on Saturday for the purpose of comparing on the Chester
and the settlement of the Newmarket.

A DESCENT UPON LIVERPOOL BETTING MEN.
—Yesterday a number of betting men were apprehended
in Liverpool under the 3d section of the act, charged with
keeping betting lists, &c., and resorting to certain houses
for the purpose of gambling. The apprehensions were by
warrant, and the prisoners were brought before Mr.
Raffles, tho Liverpool stipendiary magistrate. For the
prosecution it was stated that the keeping of these betting
lists offered a great temptation to young men from offices,
shopkeepers' assistants, &c., and led to a good deal of dissi-
pation and fraud. The prisoners were each fined in the
full penalty of £lO9. Mr. Cobb, the solicitor for the de-
fence, pleaded that his clients had done neither less nor
more harm than the Earl of Derby and other sporting
noblemen, in whose houses similar lists and documents
might be procured if the police were sent to enter them.
QUEEN'S COLLEGE, OXFORD.—ELECTION OF A
rno-vosT.—ln consequence of the resignation of the Pro-
vost:hip of this college by the Right Rev. Dr. William
Thomson, now Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol, the Fel-
lows assembled yesterday morning for the purpose of electing
a successor. Their choice fell upon the Venerable William
Jackson, D.D., Archdeacon of Carlisle, who was educated
at Queen's College, and graduated in 1811, when he took a
second class in classics. He was afterwards fellow, tutor,
and bursar of Queen's. In 1827 he was appointed by the
Bishop of London to be one of her Majesty's preachers at
Whitehall. In 1828 he was appointed by the Earl of Lens-
dale, to whom he is domestic chaplain, to the rectory of
Lowther, near Penrith, and holds that benefice at the pre-
§eAt time,

The Civil Tribunal of the Seine gave judgment,
after five days' pleadings, in a suit respecting the
validity of a will made by a Madame Lemotte, dis-
posing of property to the amount of nearly
1,000,000 fr. In opening the case for the plaintiff,
Mme. Drouot, a cousin of the deceased, M. Leon
Duval stated that the testatrix, nee Mile. Morin,
was a native of St. Mards, in Champagne, where
her parents possessed considerable estates producing
together with property in Paris, a rental of above
30,000 fr. a-year. She was unfortunately of
weak mind, but well disposed. Her parents
dying soon after she attained her majority, the
young lady came to Paris, and took up Tier resi-
dence at a furnished hotel in the Passage des
Petits-Peres, kept by aM. Collinet. There she
became acquainted with M. Lamotte, the master of
a boarding-school, in which Collinet's sons were be-
ing educated, and was ultimately induced to marry
him, both parties before the ceremony having made
a will bequeathing all their property to the survivor
The plaintiff's counsel maintained that Mlle. Morin
was in a manner forced into this marriage to save
her honour, and that soon afterwards she bitterly
repented of it, and shut herself up in her own
rooms, refusing to see any one for more than
twenty years. All her intercourse with her hus-
band and her servants was from that time carried
on by means of letters which she thrust under the
door and received the answers in the same man-
ner. Her food and whatever articles she wanted
were placed upon a table in an antichamber which
she never entered till she was sure the servants had
withdrawn. Things went on in that way until
1851, when her husband died suddenly of apoplexy.
and the juge de pain was called in to put the seals
upon the property. All his efforts, however, to ob•
tain an interview with her were fruitless ; she would
not even see him to take the oath required by law
of the individual left in charge of a deceased per-
son's property. From that time her estates in the
country were managed by two notaries, M. Costel,
the father of Mlle. Aspasio Costel, one of the residu-
ary legatees, and M. Trouve, the nephe w of the latter.
The property in Paris was under the care of a M.
Peureau, the brother-in-law of her deceased hus-
band's brother, Alphonse Lamotte, to whom by an
holograph will, dated October, 1860, she bequeathed
her house in Paris, with 400,000 fr., and left all the
rest of her property to Mlle. Costel and a Able.
Laplagne, as residuary legatees, with the exception
of a legacy of 10,000 fr. to Mlle. Peureau. On the
22d April, 1861, Mme. Lamotte's servant found
that her mistress had not fetched her breakfast
from the antichamber as usual, and supposing
that something had happened, she apprised M.
Peureau of the fact. He hastened to the house, and
breaking open the door of Mme.Lamotte's chamber
found her lying on the floor still breathing, but
quite insensible, while on a table lay an empty
phial labelled " laudanum," and large enough to
hold about half an ounce. She died during the day
without being able to speak a single work. A paper
was found pinned to the wall, on which the de-
ceased had written, "Suffering under an incurable
disease, I have taken the resolution -," and on
another scrap were the words, " Let me be buried
in the sheet I have laid ready on the chair." The
room was in the utmost confusion, and the floor
covered with scraps of papers to the thickness
of a mattress, the deceased having, during her
twenty-seven years' voluntary confinement, torn
up all the letters she received, and left them lying
where they fell. How she obtained the poison is
not known, but it is supposed that she must have
had it in her possession for many years. The
learned counsel concluded with demanding that the
will should be declared invalid, as having been made
under undue pressure upon a person of weak intel-
lect by the parties directly or indirectly interested
in its provisions. M. Dufaure, counsel for the
legatees, maintained that the testatrix was a per-
son of sane mind with respect to things in general,
but that she was a hypochondriac, and fancied
herself so ugly as not to be fit to be seen. He read
a great number of letters addressed to her agents
and friends, of the most business-like character, and
proving that her judgment was sound on all the
matters therein treated, and concluded with assert-
ing that a person who could write such letters was
perfectly competent to dispose of her property as
she pleased. After hearing the Imperial Advocate,
who coincided in the views expressed by M. Du-
faure, the tribunal gave a judgment rejecting the
plaintiff's demand,and consequently confirming the