The Sun.
London, England, 1854-05-03 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 3, 1854.

ther, and some heavy showers which came down with a
drenching effect, the attendance on the heath comprised
many of the leading patrons of the turf, a strong assem-
blage of members of the ring, and a large display of
general company.
As tha race for the Two Thousand drew near, great
anxiety was manifested to ascertain the number of start•
ers, and to catch a glimpse of them as they proceeded,
"saddled and mounted," from the Ditch Stables.
Horsemen rode hither and thither, and business in the
ring was carried on with increased activity. The result
of the race was a fortunate coup for the "Fielders ;"
Hermit, at 12 to 1 at starting, achieved success ; whilst
Middlesex, also at 12 to 1, succeeded in saving his stake,
by defeating Champagne for second place ; the latter,
against whom 30 to 1 was laid overnight, finishing a head
in advance of Boiardo, the leading favourite, on whom
sto 4 was laid freely. Ruby, the second favourite, was
beaten off early. Just before the race was run the
weather cleared up, and the remainder of the afternoon
was tolerably bright and pleasant.
In the course of the afternoon 1,000 to 20 was taken
about The Trapper for the Derby.

boardman. It was thought, however, so far to concern
the public that a public apology was called for. There
was no vindictive feeling against the defendant, and if he
now made a similar apology to the one contained in the
letter, his (Mr. Hewitt's) instructions were to withdraw
from the prosecution.
The defendant said he was prepared to do so. In a
moment of intemperance he had supplied the eggs to the
boys, and he hoped the case would be allowed to drop.
Mr. Broderip—The case is at an end, and I can only
say that I hope no more of such unseemly scenes will
take place.
The pa► ties then withdrew.

M ARLBOROUGII-STREET.— Walter Pigeon, cab-
driver, was summoned before Mr. Bingham, charged
with having damaged, by negligent driving, a horse and
brougham, the property of Lord .Adolphus Vane.
John Sheldrake, groom to Lord A. Vane, said on
Monday week, about 11 o'clock at night, he was driving
a horse and brougham. when he turned out of Brick-
lane into Park-lane at a walking pace. Defendant was
driving a Hansom cab, and coming along on his right
side at the rate of nine or ten miles an hour. Com-
plainant called out to the defendant to stop, but the
defendent paid no heed to the request, and the conse-
quence was that his horse ran against the horse in the
brougham, knocked the animal down, and injured it in
various ways. One of the shafts of the brougham was
cracked, and the other bent. The damage to the
brougham could be repaired for 12s. 6d., and half-a-
guinea had been paid for advice for the horse.
In reply to questions, complainant said the defendant
was not more than about five yards from him when he
turned into Park-lane. It would have been difficult to
pull up, but he thought the defendant might have drawn
on one side, and thus avoidedicontact.
Mr. Bingham was of opinion that a driver coming out
of a bye-street into a well-frequented thoroughfare was
bound to use even more than ordinary caution. It ap-
peared to him there was a want of due caution on the
part of the complainant, on turning into Park-lane,
when the defendant was not more than five yards off,
and therefore he must dismiss the summons.

SOUTHWARK.—Ann Jacobs and Ann Morris were
brought before Mr. A'Beckett, charged with stealing a
gold watch and key, a purse containing two sovereigns
and some silver, from the person of Henry William
Craghler, captain of the Elizabeth, an Ostend trader
lying off Mill-stairs, Tooley-street.
Prosecutor said he met a female in the borough last
night, and accompanied her to a house in the Mint. He
there met with the prisoners, and after treating them
and leaving the place, he missed his watch and money.
He gave information immediately to the police.
Police constable 53 M, said he took Jacobs into cus-
tody, and found the purse and two sovereigns concealed
under her arm.

Police constable 48 M, said he was standing near the
house in the Mint, watching, when a female named
Corby came running to him and handed him prosecutor's
watch, which she said she received from the prisoner
Morris.

The female searcher said she found on the latter a gold
key, which was identified by the prosecutor.
The girl Corhy was admitted as a witness, and she
said she met with the prcsecutor first, and he went
home with her. He had his watch safe when he left
her and we'ht with the prisoners. Witness met the latter
in the Borough, when Morris gave her the watch, and
she ran home with it to hand it to the police.
Mr. A'Beckett committed them for trial.

LAMBETH.—Jokia .Rovan, alias Irish. Jack, was
placed at the bar before Mr. Elliott, for final examina-
tion, on two distinct charges of uttering forged notes—
the first with passing a 51. note at the shop of Mrs.
Wrighton, at Brixton, and the second with uttering a
101. note at the Bee Hive public-house, in Carter-street,
Walworth. In the former case it appeared from the
evidence that some weeks ago the prisoner called at the
shop of the prosecutrix, and said he had been sent by
Mr. Mallet, his employer, for a quantity of screws, and
tendered a 51. note in payment. Mr. Mallet being a
highly respectable builder in the neighbourhood, and the
prisoner having all the appearawe of a builder's labourer,
change was at once given to him, but at the same time
the prisoner was requested by Mrs. Wrighton to stop for
a few minutes, while she took the opinion of a neighbour
on the genuineness of the note. He managed to
slip off with the change and screws, and it was subse-
quently found that the note was a forgery, and that the
prisoner's representation about being sent by Mr. Mallet
was totally untrue. In the second case, Mr. Dockeree,
the landlord of the Beehive, deposed that, on that day
month the prisoner came to his house, and said he had
been sent by his master, Mr. Cook, the builder, for two
bottles of wine, and change for a ten pound note. Be-
lieving his representation, and Mr. Cook, who is a
highly respectable man, being a customer of his, he gave
the prisoner the wine and change, but having some sus-
picion as to the goodness of the note, he sent his ser-
vant to look after the prisoner, but she lost sight of him.
Jane Baker, a servant to the last witness, said she had
been sent by her master to watch the prisoner, and saw
that he went in a different direction to that leading to
the residence of Mr. Cook, but she soon lost sight of
him.

In reply to a question from the magistrate, Mr. Dock.
eree said that he wrote the name of Mr. Cook on /the
note at the time he received it from the prisoner, and
subsequently paid it to his distiller's collectir, and some
days after it came back with the word "forgery" stamped
on it.

The examiner of bank notes at the Bank of England
pronounced both the notes produced to be forgeries, and
the prisoner was fully committed for trial on both
charges.

THE FRENCII EXHIBITION OF 1855.

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We find the following in the Moniteur on the
subject of the Great Exhibition of 1855 :

"The war in the East will neither prevent nor delay
the pacific manifestation to which the Emperor has in-
vited all the nations of the world. The progress of in-
telligence no longer permits one State, whatever it may
be, to stop the others in the accomplishment of their
destinies. All civilised nations have understood this ;
France, therefore, notwithstanding the preoccupations
of this war, has not for a moment ceased to prepare her-
self for the universal competition of 1855, any more than
she has interrupted her national works. At the same time
that she completes her railways, her canals, and her ports
while she improves and renders more healthy her ca-
pital and her large cities, and constructs dwellings for
her working classes, she is making every arrangement
to give a proper welcome to the nations who will next
year come to visit her from every part of the globe.
These nations have not only responded to her call, but
their declarations and their preparations announce that,
with one exception, they will all be faithful to the ap-
pointment. The Imperial decree instituting the Univer-
sal Exhibition is dated the Bth March, 1853. On the
26th March the Minister of Foreign Affairs notified it
to all the governments, and on the 31st of the same
month the Ministers of War and Marine made it known
to French Africa and to our colonies. On the Bth
April a circular of the Minister of Commerce requested
the prefects to invite the efficacious co-operation of all
the Chambers of Commerce, and in the latter end of May
the Ilioniteur published the replies and the adhesions of
the departments and of foreign governments. In order
to complete the 'idea of the Emperor, a fresh decree
of the 22d June connected the Universal Exhibition of
the Fine Arts to that of agricultural and manufactured
productions, and the decree of the 24th December
instituted a commission, composed of the most com-
petent men, and charged, under the presidency
of Prince Napoleon. to regulate the ensemble and
the details of the Universa Exhibition. The ex-
perience of our previous national exhibitions, and the
documents relative to the Universal Exhibitions of Lon-
don, Dublin, and New York, have furnished to the Im-
perial Commission some valuable information, of which
it has known how to take advantage. Penetrated with
the importance of his mission, and with the responsibility
which it imposed on him, the Prince formed a sub-com-
mission, with which he could prepare all the measures
necessary to secure the success of this great enterprise.
Organisation of the central administration, internal and
general regulations, constitution of native and foreign
committees, general and special instructions for France,
for the colonies, and for other nations, appropriation of
the space which is to be filled by the different pro-
ductions of agriculture, industry, and the arts—all
these preparatory labours the Prince was desirous to
bring to a termination before be started for the East,
to share in the dangers and in the glory of our sol-
diers. The decrees, regulations, and instructions rela-
tive to the Universal Exhibition are now circulated in
all parts of France and of the world ; and already com-
mittees have been organised, or are on the point of be-
ing so, in the greater number of our departments. The
first marks of sympathy which the announcement of this
measure obtained abroad are every day confirmed by
fresh acts of adhesion. Among these acts there are
none more significant than the local exhibitions, which
are, as it were, so many preparations for the universal
one. The Grand Duke of Tuscany has anticipated by
one year the Exhibition of Industry which was to have
taken place in his States in 1855, in order that it might
not clash with that of France. Spain has done the
same for her quinquennial exhibition. The King
Regent of Portugal has just organised commissions
of industry and of the fine arts, as well as auxiliary
committees in the provinces, islands, and colonies
of his kingdom ; he has wade the most pressing
appeal to manufactures and to artists, and has or-
dered that an exhibition shall take place at Lis-
bon, preparatory to that in Paris. All Germany
has sent her productions to the semi-universal exhibi-
tion which is to open in Munich on Ist May. From 4,000
to 5,000 exhibitors are reckoned on ; the most liberal
measures have been adopted by the German govern-
' ments for the success of this Exhibition, the most re-
markable articles in which will doubtless figure in the
Great French Exhibition. It is known that Belgium is
also preparing an exhibition of the fine arts for the same
object. The co-operation of Holland, as well as that of
the United States, is assured to us. Lastly, England is
preparing to return with eclat our visit of 1851. Two
delegates of the English Government have just arrived in
Paris to come to an understanding with the Imperial
Commission on all points connected with the productions
which Great Britain is to send to the Universal Exhibi-
tion. In this immense competition of all nations, the
Governmant relies with confidence on the zeal and skill
of our manufacturers and of our artists to support wor-
thily their reputation and the glory of the country."

The Louth Advertiser claims the French admiral in the
Black Sea for an Irishman. It states that "Admiral
Hamelin, commander-in-chief of the French expeditionary
fleet engaged in the Eastern war, is an Irishman by
birth, and a native of the county Louth. His immediate
relatives reside in the neighbourhood of Channonrock,
near Dundalk."

LONDON GAZETTE OF LAST NIGHT.

DOWNING-STREET, APRIL 30.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint William Ogle
Carr, Esq., to be Chief Justice of the Island of Ceylon.
The Queen has also been pleased to appoint Hugh Cull-
ing Eardley Childers, Edward Grimes, and Charles Mac-
Mahon, Esqrs., to be non-elective members of the Legisla-
tive Council of the Colony of Victoria.
WHITEHALL, MAY 2.

ThO Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to
be passed under the Great Seal, appointing Lieutenant-
General Sir Hew Dalrymple Ross, K.C.8., to be Lieute-
nant-General of the Ordnance of the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland.