The Sun.
London, England, 1849-04-05 00:00:00

S I' 0 It T I N G.

" Were such things done as we do speak about?
Or have we eaten of the insane root,
That takes the reason prisoner?"
Macbe, Act
" That which to us seems but mereth
accidentl., Scene 3.
Springs from the deepest sources of deign."
" In these indexes, although small pricks
LLENSTEIN.
To their subsequent volumes, the e is seen
The baby filgure of the giant mass
Of things to come."
" I'll issue otes,
Which may on Fortune'sn 'change be barter'd
For much money."
WALLyNGE.

SBA KSPERE.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
NOTE H.
SIR,--" The earth hath bubbles," as the past week can
testify, for it has witnessed the bursting of the largest
and most enduring of sporting bubbles ever recorded in
the annals of the turf; the Tartar or Stockbridge bubble
will go down to posterity, at least to the racing portion
of it, as a fair specimen of the gullibility of the " cutest"
division of John Bull's speculative children. This bubble,
unlike Mr. Day's nag, was gifted with lasting qualities
of the first order, this being the fifth time, I believe,
that it has been played .off upon the unsuspecting public
as a " crack thing."
I naturally enough,:ilike many others, thought that
young John, at last, was in this Tartar about to pro-
duce a flyer, especially as the stab.c was "on" him;
and, in consequence, in my last letter placed him first
fur the Great Northamptonshire Stakes, and Fernhill
(he winner) "well up;" but time has told another talc
—the bubble's burst, and left a vast wreck of hopes
behind.

Quiver, after winning the Guineas, and " polishing "
off The Hero of Stockbridge, and seven others, in a canter!
was sold to the Duke of Richmond fur 600 guineas, and
I have no hesitation in declaring that his Grace has the
best of the bargain.
In my first note bartered on " Fortune's 'change," o❑
the Northampton meeting, I was right in four instances
out of seven, and in two of the remaining three I
named the second horse, to wit—Cadger for the Althorpe
Park Stakes, and Miss Burns for the 10 sovs. Sti,kes; if
the like success attend me through the season, my notes
will be a profitable speculation to your numerous sport-
ing readers. I will now attempt through the double lens
of my judgment to peer into the future, and bring to
your view " the baby figure of the giant mass of things
to come," or in other words to select such horses as have
first rate chances, and are intended, for die leading stakes
of the present year; those asterisked I consider to have
the best chance.

NEWMARKET CRAVEN.
Hinchinbrook—Colonel Peel.
Riddlesworth—*Sister to Arkwright or Indus.
Newmarket Haudicap—Cenezou, Bst 7 b—Sir Peter
Laurie, 7st 81b—Sylvan, 7st 31b—*Sagacity, 7st 21b—
*Tisiphone, Est 1 11b—Fernbill, Est 101 b.
Column—*Tadroor, The Knout, Sister to Arkw•right.
Port—e Springy Jack, Flatcatcher.
BATH.
Weston—*Officious, Remnant, Dactyl.
Somersetshire—*l3randyface, 7st 71b—Sylvan, 7st 21b
—King Hal, 6st 1 11b—Glenalvon, sst—*.Loupgarou, sst
—Fernhill, 7st 21b, not likely to start.
EPSOM SPRING.
Great Metropolitan—Canezou, Bst lib—Mogador,
Bst—Sylvan, 7st—*Dacia, 6st 111b--Fernhill. 6st 131 b
Loupgarou, sst 21b—Do-the. Eoys, s;t—Lugar, 4st 101 b.
NEWMARKET FIRST SPRING.
Two Thousand Guineas—*Nunny kirk, Honeycomb,
Mr. Milner.
One Thousand Guineas—Escalade, Sis. to Ark wright.
Newmarket—*Berngdotte,llighiligher, Bro. to Evenus.
CHESTER.
Chester Cup—lnheritress, Bst 61b—Blucher, 7st 81b—
Clermont, 7st 61b—Dacia, 7st 21b—John Cosser, 7st 21b
—Joe o' Sot, Est 1 llb—Rathmines, Est 101b—Farewell,
6st 101b—Ada Mary, sst 61b—Lugar, 4st 101b—Loup-
garou, 4st 10Ib.
Dee—*Elthiron, Garrick.
Cestrian—Honeycomb.
(To be continued.)
1 am, Sir, yours, &e.,
THE SPIRIT OF THE TURF.

March 31.

UNDER-SHERIFF'S COURT, LIVERPOOL,
March 31.
(Before Mr. WATSON, Q.C., Acting Assessor.)
CRIM. CON.—HARTLEY V. THOMPSON.
This day a jury was empanelled before the Under-
Sheriff of Lancashire, at Liverpool, to assess the da-
mages in a case of trim. con., in which the defendant,
had allowed judgment to go by default.
The plaintiff, Mr. J. B. Hartley, is a surveyor in
Liverpool, and is in partnership with his father, who
holds the office of surveyor to the Liverpool Dock Estate.
The defendant, Mr. Thompson, is a civil engineer, and
for the last year or two has been residing in the
neighbourhood of Liverpool, having been employed by
the Lincolnshire and Yorkshire Railway company as
their acting engineer during the construction of the
Liverpool and Bury portion of their line. In construct-
ing a part of the line of railway which comes near the
Liverpool docks the defendant had frequent interviews
with the plaintiff of a business nature, and these re-
peated interviews laid the foundation of a close inti-
macy which subsequently sprang up between the parties.
This led to the defendant being received as guest at the house of the
plaintiff a frequent
was introduced, and . to whose family he
, the friendship beCiveen the parties
increasing, the defendant was in the habit of paying
complimentary visits to the plaintiff 's house, and wa:,
there during the absence of the plaintiff from home.
It was during the time the defendant was so pri-
vileged to visit the house as the friend of the plain-
tiff that the unfortunate intimacy between Mrs.
Hartley and the defendant was contracted, and in conse-
quence of which the present action had been instituted.
Mr. Martin, Q.C., and Mr. Crompton, appeared for
the plaintiff and Sir Frederick Thesiger and Mr. James
for the defendant.
The damages were laid at 10,000/.
The jury having been sworn,
Mr. Ai AIiTIN rose to address them for the plaintiff:
He said he was happy to state that they would be
spared the hearing of a very painful investigation. Rhe (the Learned Counsel) were merely to consult the
feelings of Mr. Hartley, they would have such a detail
of circumstances laid before them in connexion with
the case us were probably never before proved in a
court of justice. From certain communications which hao
been made to Mr. Hartley, referring lo a false allegation
of unkindness towards his wife, he had been exceedingly
desirous that this matter should have been fully anti pub-
licly investigated; but there were other parties to bo
considered besides the plaintiff's wife—ths re were the
feelings of the relatives of the lady, the feelings of er
aunt and an unmarried sister, to be consid gered, h
and,
under these circumstances, n
the Plaintiff had consented
to submit, not withstanding bis strong desire to have
his counsel
Ibis matter
ad to fully investigated, to the advice of
his own good feelings, and
was content to take
hands. It was a verdict for 4,0001. at their
better on all occasions that such matters
agation. Hs these should not be made a subject of public inves-
had beenactuated by the feelings he had mentioned—
by a strong desire to spare the feelins of e woman
who for five years had been his wife, and alsoth the feel-
ings of her family.
Sir F. THEsisaezt then rose, and said, that when he
undertook the conduct of that defence his desire ix as
that Mr. Hartley should obtain the fullest reparation for
the deep injury which had been inflicted on him by the
defendant, but that such reparation should be
made by sparing, as much as possible, the
feelings of the parties who were connected' with
the case. He (Sir F. Thesiger) felt it his duty, on the
part of the defendant, to make the only atonement now
at the last moment, late as it was, which it was in his
power to make. He acknowledged that Mr. Hartley had
been deeply injured, and, if any imputations had been
placed upon him, they were entirely unfounded and com-
pletely untrue.
A verdict was then returned for the plaintiff, damages
4,0001., and the proceedings terminated, not having occu-
pied more than ten minutes.

SEIZURES AT TUE e
entered y
the CUSTOM-110U SE.—T
value of the silks, lace, and ribbons detained b h
Cus-
tom-house officers from January to August la“, tn the
plea of under-valuation, amounted to 4,148/., and value at which they were delivered at 5,233/, the