The Sun.
London, England, 1853-08-27 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

BETTING AT MANCHESTER-YESTERDAY.

There was a fair attendance at the rooms this morning,
though business was anything but brisk. There were a
few small investments made on the Leamington Stakes,
Great Yorkshire Handicap, Cesarewith, and Cambride-
shire. For the St. Leger the only horse backed was
West Australian. Closing prices :

LEAMINGTON STAKES.
Bto 1 agst Doubt (taken) •
10 to 1 agst Scarecrow (taken).
12 to 1 agst Lady Evelyn (taken).
15 to 1 agst Terpsichore (taken).
GREAT YORKSHIRE HANDICAP.
100 to 8 agst Grapeshot (taken).
100 to 8 agst Scarecrow (taken).
16 to 1 agst Florist (taken).
16 to 1 agst Heapy (taken).
16 to 1 agst Gossamer (taken).
20 to 1 agst Merry Bird (taken).

•
ST. LEGER.
250 to 200 on West Australian (taken).
5 to 1 any other offered.
CESAREWITCH STAKES.
50 to 1 agst Indipn Warrior (taken).
50 to 1 agst Newminster (taken),
50 to 1 agst Dick Turpin (taken).
50 to 1 agst Defiance (taken).
50 to 1 agst Contentment (taken).
50 to 1 agst Boarding School Miss (taken).
50 to 1 agst Friday (taken).

CAMBRIDGESHIRE STAKES.
500 to 7 agst Dick Turpin (taken).
500 to 7 agst Orestes (taken).
DERBY.
500 to 20 agst Itesse Cassel (taken).

HEREFORD RACES.—THURSDAY.
The AMATEUR SELLING STAKES were won in four
heats, by Mr. I. Day's g by Bubastes, 4 yrs (201.), 9st
91b (carried 9st 121 b), beating Mr. John's White Stock-
ing, aged (201.), lOst 91b (including 51b extra), Mr.
Davies's The Prior, aged (201.), lOst 91b (including 51b
extra), and two otliers.

HEREFORDSHIRE STAKES of 100 sovs., for horses of all
ages. Extra weight for winners. About two miles
and a quarter. (30 Subs.)
Mr. Stephens' Sleeping Partner, by Venison, 5 yrs,
' Bst 21b
Mr. Davies's Minerva, 3 yrs, 6st 6lb (Cliff) 2
Mr. Land's Miss Talbot, 5 yrs, Bst (May) 3
The following also ran :—Ethelwolf, Waterfall.
Betting-6 to 4 agst Waterfall, sto 2 agst Sleeping
Partner, 3to 1 agst Miss Talbot. Minerva started
slightly in advance, Sleeping Partner being second, Miss
Talbot and Waterfall next, Ethelwolf last. After making
the first turn, Sleeping Partner took up the running and
carried it on nearly once round, when Minerva again
went in advance and maintained the lead to the dis-
tance, where Sleeping Partner passed her, and in the
finishing effort won cleverly by half a length—half a
length between the second and third—Ethelwolf a bad
fourth—Waterfall in the rear.
FREE HANDICAP of 5 sovs. each, with 30 added. The
winner to be sold , &c. Once round.
Mr. Henderson's Crabbs b) by David or Arthur,
aged (601.), 7st 31b (Wilson) 1
Mr. Waller's Octavia, 4 yrs (601.), Bst 71b (Crouch) 2
Mr. Davies's Butterfly, 4 yrs (601.), 7st 71b ...(Cliff) 3
The following also ran :—b in by Counsellor—Miss
Lucy, and Exchange.
Betting-2 to 1 agst Octavia, 2to 1 agst Crabbs.
Octavia went away with a strong lead and made the
running to the turn for home, when Crabbs, who had
been lying second from the start, took first place, and
after a good set-to, won by a length. A head only be-
tween second and third. Exchange and Counsellor
mare were some lengths behind.
The Hunters' Stakes were won in two heats by Mr.
Dowdeswell's Massa Mungo, 5 yrs, lOst 71b, beating
Mr.T. Oliver s Friendless, 5 yrs, lOst 101 b (including
51b extra), Mr. Land's Miss Talbot, 5 yrs, lOst 71b, and
three others.

Wet weather, a thin attendance of company, poor
sport, and very little betting.

GUILDFORD RACES—FumAr.
COUNTY MEMBERS' PLATE, of 30 sovs., added to a
sweepstakes of 3 sovs. each, for three-yrs-old and up-
wards. Optional selling weights. One mile.
Mr. Howlett's Sophistry, 4 yrs, (301.), 7st 41b (car.
7st 71b)(E. Sharp) 1
Mr. Reeves's Jullien, 4 yrs, (301.), 7st 71b

- • (T: Sherwood) 2
The following also ran :—Grand Duchess, Thug,
Breba, Iresine, and La Malheureuse.
Betting-6 to 4 agst Jullien, 3to 1 agst La Malheu-
reuse. Breba made the running to half way up the dis-
tance, where Sophistry went a-head, and won by three-
parts of a length. Grand Duchess a bad third. The
others beaten off. The winner was afterwards sold for
100 guineas.

GUILDFORD PLATE of 100 RCM. (Handicap.) Winners
extra. One mile and a half.
Mr. Wood's Stamford, syrs, Bst 31b (carried Bst 71b

(Dockeray)
Mr. Formby's Lady Blanche, 4yrs, ist 81b (carried
7st 101 b) (Wakefield) 2
Mr. H. Smith's Locket, 3yrs, 6st 101 b (Riett) 3
The following also ran :—Lady Margaret, Spider, To-
bolski, The Siege.
Betting-2 to 1 agst Tobolski, 4to 1 agst Lady Mar-
garet, 5 to 1 agst Locket, Lady Blanche made most of
the running. When halfway up the distance Stamford
came out, and won by three parts of a length. A neck
between second and third.

Hornsby weighed for Mayday, but while cantering
down his stirrup leather broke, and the horses were
started before he got to the post. Application was made
for a fresh race, but it was refused.
The Surrey Plate was won in three heats by Sophistry,
4yrs (401.), Bst 41b, beating Mr. C. Liley's Prologue,
2yrs (401.), sst 81b, and two others. The winner was
afterwards sold for 115 guineas.
SCURRY STA,KES of 15 sous., added to a sweepstakes of
2 sovs, each, for 2-yr-olds and upwards. The second
horse to save his stake. Half a mile.
Mr. Reeve's Luxurious, 3 yrs, 7st 101 b (Hiett) /
Mr. Thomas's Grand Duchess, 4 yrs, Bst 51b (Sabin) 2
Mr. Formby's Lady Blanche, 4yrs, Bst 51b(Wakefield) 3
The following also ran—La Malheureuse, Lady Mar-
garet.

Betting-6 to 4 agst Lady Margaret. Luxurious
won easily by a length. 13ad third. An objection was
raised against the winner, on the ground of not having
been properly entered. The race was to have been run
in heats, but the parties agreed to alter it.

DIEPPE STEEPLE CHASES.
In addition to the two steeple chases recently an-
nounced, there will be a third chase for gentlemen
riders, with 3,000 francs added by the Emperor, entries
for which are to be made the day before running. Up-
wards of 530/. public money will be added to this meet•
ing, which is expected to be of the most brilliant cha-
racter.

RACING FIXTURES FOR 1353.
The figures within parenthesis denote the number o

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day's racing.
AUGUST.
Eccles (3) 29 I Chelmsford (2) 30
Lichfield (2) 29 I Plymouth 30
SEPTEMBER.
Lincoln (2)
Bridgnorth
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Folkestone,dae Hy th e, and
1133
Marlborough
2 1 Doncaster (4)
Cheadle (Staff.) (2)
Warwick (2) 6 Pontefract (2) ............19
ToLnes & Bridgetown (2) 7 Bedford (2) .............. 20
Weymouth
Morpeth (2)
Western Meeting 8 Manchester Autumn (2).22
Rochester &Chatham (2) 8 Canterbury (2) .......... 22
Western Zoyland and Newmarket F. 6. (3)...27
Bridgwater (1) l2 Walsall (2) .................. 28
Northallerton (2) ......... 29
'BER.

0 CTO
Chester Autumn (2)...... 4
Monmouth
............. 4
York shirelJnionHunt (1) 6
Wrexham (2) ............. 6
Newmarket S. 0. (5) ...10
NOVE:
Worcester ) ............ 1
Epsom Autumn (2) .... . . 3
Cowbridge Hunt (2) ...... 9
Liverpool Autumn (2)... 9

Warwick Autumn (2) lB
Caledonian Hunt and
Kelso 18
Richmond (2) 19
Newmarket (H.) (6) 24
FIBER.
Shrewsbury (2) 15
Newton Autumn (1) 24
Aberystwith (3) Last week

THE NEW LA,W FOR BRUTAL HUSBANDS.—A case was
brought before the magistrates at Manchester on Thurs-
day exactly such as was contemplated by the Legislature
in passing the new law. John Egan, a strong, active,
but dirty and dissolute shoemaker, living in Dyke-street:
was charged by the sanitary inspectors, Gifford and Wil
son, with brutally beating his wife and three childn.
They bad received information the night before h
after turning out his wife, he had beaten his children and
left two of them locked up without food, saying he
would starve them. The officers were induced
representations of the neighbours to breackhoirderen,
whom
found there, to the workhouse open the thbeydothore
of the house and take the two eldestse
eldest child, a boy 12 years old,
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emaciated and neglected.
The
had been placed in a basket
instead of a chair, until its spine hail grown shockingly
deformed. The wife said she had for a long tine lived a
life of hide-and-seek with the brute she called husband,
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l secondtiht the children
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girl,
being continually obliged to seek for shelter from h.@
violence in the houses of neighbours, and hide in entries
and round corners. One of the husband's modes of tor-
turing her was to twist some short instrument in her
hair and drag her about the house. The prisoner ad-
mitted that, when at work, he could earn from 20s. to
235. per week, but that he did not work because his
wife neglected her part, which was to bind the shoes.
The wife described him as seldom working more than
two hours at a time, spendinr, most of the day in drink-
ing, and said, the children had long been nearly starved,
but she had not dared to tell the police from a feat that
she would be worse beaten than before. Mr. Mande,
the chairman of the bench, said this was fairly a ease
which came within the new act of Parliament, and one
which called for the full penalty of the law. He should
sentence him to six months' hard labour, and his wife
and family must be taken into tho workbouge paean.
,t 13311.