The Sun.
London, England, 1870-11-23 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

LEAMINGTON AND WARWICK HUNT
MEETING—YESTERDAY•
HANDICAP HURDLE STASES.
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Ampleforth
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DONNINGTON HANDICAP.

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SELLING NURSERY.

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WELTER STAKES.
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HANDICAP OF 5 SOUS.

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RACING PLATE.

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MAIDEN WELTER.
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MATCH.

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The celebrated engraver, Professor Julius Thititer,
died at Munich on the 15th inst. _ _

M. Laurier has come to London to complete the
formalities in connection with the French War Loan,
Acting upon medical advice, the Archbishop of
Canterbury left England yesterday morning for Italy,
there to spend the winter.

The prospectus has appeared of a company to
carry out assisted emigrants to the diamond field of South
Africa. The capital Is to be £25,000, in shares of £1
each.

A boy has been sentenced by the Ilitchin magis-
trates to a short term of imprisonment and to be whipped
for throwing stones at the earthenware cups which hold
up the wires on the telegraph posts.
In the Roman Catholic Cathedral, Dublin, and in
all the parochial and regular Catholic churches in that
city, on Sunday, the annual collections in aid of the
Catholic University were held ; the amounts realised ex-
ceeded those of last year.
An influential Ulster committee has been formed
to erect a memorial to the late Rev. Dr. Drew, the Orange
champion. It is designed to snake provision, first of all,
for his unmarried daughters, and afterwards to establish
an academical distinction, sufficiently endowed, in honour
of his memory.
The New York papers report that on the 6th inst.
an express car on the Central Pacific Railway was robbed
near Reno, Nevada, at about one o'clock in the morning.
Masked men boarded the train at Verdi, and after intimi-
dating or overcoming the men in charge, secured 41,600
dollars in gold coin. They escaped with their plunder,
but a band has been organised to pursue them. The
train was again attacked by highway robbers at Indepen-
dence next day, and the express car still further plun-
dered.

THE N EWPORT ELECTION—THE NOMINATION
The nomination of candidates for parliamentary honours
took place yesterday morning, outside the Town Hall, New-
port. A heavy fall of rain during the greater part of the
Proceedings caused the crowd to be very quiet and orderly.
Mr. Martyn Kennard, the Conservative candidate, was
proposed by Alderman Francis Pittis, and seconded by
Alderman Mero. Mr. Charl es Cavell d ish Clifford, a Liberal,
and a former representative of the island, was proposed
by Mr. Pinnock, and seconded by Mr. Councillor Orchard.
Mr. Kennard addressing the electors, condemned the
policy of the broverninent as unsatisfactory, especially in
respect to its over-economy. Mr. Clifford defended the
Ministry, and announced himself a supporter of the ballot.
The show of hands was in favour of Mr. Clifford. A poll
was demanded for Mr. Kennard, and fixed to take place
to-day (Wednesday).
ACTION :von A LLEOED LIBEL,—The case of the Queen
v. Stanger was before the Court of Queen's Bench. In
this case a rule had been obtained on behalf of Canon
Greenwell, calling upon the defendant, the publisher of the
Newcastle Daily Chronicle, to show cause why a crimina
information should not be filed against him for a malicious
libel. The circumstances out of which the libel arose
were brought under the notice of Parliament in the
course of 'the last session, and had created great sensation
in the county of Durham. It appeared that a prisoner
named Maw, when undergoing a term of imprisonment
in Durham County Gaol, was guilty of repeated breaches
of prison discipline, and on one occasion he committed
a violent assault, It was alleged upon ono .of the
warders without provocation.
,The Rey. Canon
Greenwell, who was a magistrate for the
county, was called in by the governor, and asked to exer-
cise his powers under the prisoniregulations for enforcing
discipline. Ho heard the evidence, and on the statement
of the prison surgeon that Maw was in a fit state to
receive corporal punishment, he ordered that Maw should
receive twenty-four lashes, and the sentence was after-
wards carried into effect. The Newcastle Daily Chronicle
Published the circumstances, and commented on them in
strong terms, and this article contained the alleged libel com-
plained of. The Solicitor-General moved to make the rule
absolute. Mr. Digby Seymour, Q.C., with whom was Mr.
Udall, asked that the case might by postponed until the
Lord Chief Justice was able to be in Court. The case was
one of great importance, involving the liberty of the
press as well as the liberty of the subject, and from what
occurred when the rule was moved for, and when the
Lord Chief Justice was on the Bench, the defendant was
anxious not to have the case proceeded with in his Lordship's
absence.—lt was then arranged that the rule should be
enlarged until next term.—Rule enlarged accordingly,