The Sun.
London, England, 1841-04-07 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLiciENCE

MANCHESTE RI:TUESDAY EVENING.
The attendance this morning was highly respectable
and numerous.

THE CHESTER CUP. —A very singular altercation pre-
sents itself to the reader's eye in Plover being first fa-
vourite. It may be doubted by some however. Accord-
ing to our own ear, and the best intelligence, the prices
lift off thus :-
11 to 1 agst Mr. Flintoff's The Plover-12 t freely
11 to 1 agst Mr. Orde's Queen Bee-12 to 1 t freely
15 to 1 agst Col. Cradock's Gallipot—offered.
100 to 7 agst Mr. Ridsdale's Bloomsbury—offered
100 to 6 agst Col. Peel's Gibraltar
100 to 6 apt Lord Miltown's Cruiskeen_taken
100 to 6 agst Mr. Price's Tuly—take 18 to 1
100 to 6 agst Mr. Hornbv's Champagne—take 22 to 1
100 to 6 agst Major Hay's Retriever—offered
100 to 5 agst Mr. St. Paul's Calypso—offered ,
100 to 6 agst Mr. Gocdman's Bedford—taken
100 to 4 agst Rough Robin—offered
13 to 1 agst Mr. Collett's Tubalcain_offered
50 to 1 agst Lord Eglinton's Be lona—offered five
times over.

1,000 to 100 was offered, by a Liverpool gentleman,
rgiinst The Plover; parties were open to take ir, throning
in " Robin." Bloomsbury, we believe, was backed yes-
terday at 500 to 42.

THE COLUMN STAKES.--7 to 4 offered on the field ;
offers were made at noon to take 20 to 10 on Cameleon.
There %as nothing done on the Oaks; 1,000 to 10 would
have been laid against naming the three u inners, say
Derby, Oaks, and St. Leeer.

HE ASHTON MULIDER.

TUNSDAY.
.Huline and Williams were placed at the bar this morning
on the Jury entering the Court.
Mr. Wlmuss then proceeded to address the Jury on
behalf of the prisoners. He came now to the consideration of
the case for the defence, and he could not conceal from him-
self, that he had an extremely arduous, complicated, and im-
portant duty to perform,—arduour, not so much on account
of the facts which had been brought to bear against the
prisoners or of any difficulty he felt in combating
those facts and the arguments raised upon them.—
but arduous on account of the consequences which
pressed themselves painfully upon his mind, and on ac-
count of the immense length of evidence that he had
to wade through, and the complicated facts he bad to
unravel. Th,t Learned Counsel then, in an able speech,
which occupied in its delivery about two hours and Wee-
quarterp, proceeded to analyse the testimony of each wit-
ness in succession, commencing with James Cooper, aiid
termina ing with Mr. Babe, the surveyor. He examined
the evidence of the three approvers with much closeness,
and pointed out the several matters in which their accounts
differed from each other, and strongly urged that the deed
was committed, not by the prisoners, but by Davis and the
two Hardwieks,

The JUDGE then summed up in favour of the prisoners,
and the Jury acquitted them.

CHARGE OF RAPE AGAINST A SURGEON.
Robert 'lector, surgeon, was then indicted for a rape
upon the person of Ann Tbistlcton, on Sunday, the 28th
of March.

Mr. Murphy was for the prosecution, and Mr. Wilkins
ror the defence.

The evidence was totagy unfit for publication. The
Jury found the prisoner guilty.
The Court adjourned at e'ght o'clock.—The prisoner
%lid be brought up for sentence this morning.

SPIRIT of the t ÜBLIC JOURNALS

FROM THE EVENING 'APER! OP THIS DAY.
(From the Globe.)
The rapidity with which Opposition has retraced its
course on the Education question, is as unexampled in.
the history of parties as it must prove gratifying to the
Government, ard satisfactory to all who desire to see
the poorer classes of the community supplied with
the means of intellectual and moral improvement.
STiarmßwoebrethrt Peel'saddreiss to the members of the
Institute, ant, more recently in the debate
on the Poor-law Continuance Bill, in which the ques-
tion cf pauper instructionorm,i
and
largely discussed, may
be regarded as a f
adoption, by the leader of the CspPcific recognition and
onservative party in the
,(I)lfmtallicen principle features in the
11-,il,reefof
National Education,
,inw which was assailed acrd
un,tlL:freligion and
denounced by the same part
by omitting
as prt gnaiit with danger io party in
and
•
designt.d to sap the touLdations otr(rlion
to enforce instruction in the creeds catechism
rs e a; whooa a ba mayo ef
of the Church on the children of s
placed beyao
members of other religious communeiotaifreeunnt
overwhelm
bel°ef
now, therefore, regard the Governmotso;t
National Education
wrath, which
opposition.
a t
one gast i The tempests
threatened
lainactle destroy it,; theyn
advantage
d
Pe e the
tended
prejudice,to i tl
vs pours which had coll,cted, and which prevailed for a
time to obscure the visual organs of many well-meaning
hehacvlocutdesn(dit?
persons, thus enabling them to discern clearly what they
had previously apprehended imperfectly. The annual
vote for educational purposes, which we hope to see
gradually but hugely extended, will henceforth be re=
inldd di dangers
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