The Sun.
London, England, 1870-04-22 00:00:00

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.

Evening
P .. IirDAY.. . 43 Mominnpiansg.
past 6 .... .. 12 min past 7
SATURDAY... '4o min past 7 20 min past 8
SUNDAY 0 min past 9 45 min past 9
MONDAY 25 min past 10 5 min past 11
TUESDAY 40 min past li 0 min past 12

THIRD EDITION.

The Third Edition of The Sun of last Evening was published
in thn3 for delivery in town at 7.16 p.m.

SUN OFFICE, 7 o'CLocK.

SPORTING INTEL LIGENC F.

NE W M ARK ET CRAVEN.-THIS DAY.

Fusee
Myosotis
Columbine f

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QUEEN'S FLATE.

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2
a
HANDICAP PLATE.

Jersey
Lady Masham 2

Aftermath

Thirteen ran.
£5O PLATE.

Play..
1
Theodora c
Zee ina

Five ran.
BENNINGTON STAKES.

My-Lady
Carfax..... .

Gertrude .

SWEEPSTAKES OF 25 SOPS.

....W.O.

CATTERICK BRIDGE RACES.—Tuts DAY.

BAINESSE PLATE.

Star and Garter
Ralph Lambton
Saratoga
HUNTERS' . STEEPLECHASE.

Snowflake 1
Donau 2
BOROUGH HANDICAP.

Moscow
Maid of Mickley
Ware Hare

Ten ran. •
The above are tho only telegrams received up to the time
of going to press.

CUT BETIING.—Tnis DAY.

CHESTER CUP.
sto 1 agst Sabinus (offered)
Bto 1 agst Gleufallocli (offered)
100 to 12 agit Siderolite (t tkeu)
18 to 1 agst Muster (offered)
T T 110 US AND.
3to 1 agst Kingcraft (taken and offered)
100 to to agst Macgregor (taken)
7to 1 agst King o' Soots (offered)
15 to 2 agst Stanley (taken and offered)
9to 1 agst Prince of Wales (taken and offered)
10 to 1 agst Ist lot that ran in Biennial (taken)

HORSES STRUCK OUT OF THEIR ENGAGEMENTS.
April n, at 2.25 p.m., Cramondale and Challenger, out of
the Grand Prix de Paris, 1870.
April 15, at 9 a.m., Daylight, out of Newmarket engage-
ments.

Aprills, at 9 a.m., Fertullagh, out of Croydon engage-

'flouts.

April 15, at 9 a.m., Harbinger and c by Macaroni, out of
Glengowrie, out of all engagements, 1870.
April 15, at 9 a.m., Roberto it Diavoli, out of Abergavenny
onga,s,,vments.
April 15, at 9 a.m., Vital Spark: out of Hambledon Hunt
engagements.
April 16, at 0.5 p.m., Strathuairn, out of Bretby Plato, at
Newmarket.
April 16, at 1.20 p m., Whitehall, out of all engagements.
April 16, after 2 p.m., Charleville, out of Croydon engage-
ments.

April 18, at 9 a.m., Ada Penelope, out of Knighton Open
Hunt Steeple Chase.
April 18, at 9 a.m., Myosotis, Pistache, and Lady Hen-
riAto out of engagements at Newmarket Craven, 1870.
April 18, at 9 a.m., The Doctor, out of South Hampshire
Grand Steeplechase at Hambleden Hunt.
April 18, tt 9 a.m., Titulus, Captivator, and First Lord,
out of the Twelfth Biennial at Newmarket Craven Meeting.
April 18, at 9 a.m., Knoekany, out of the Grand Annual
Steepldchasa at Guildford.
April 18, at 3 p.m., all Captain Tulloch's horses, except
Lianca, out of Abergavenny engagements.
April 18, at 3.17 p.m., Royal George and Chassour, out of
Eglinton Hunt engagements.
April 19, at 9 a.m , King Richard, out of Aborgavenny and
Cardiff engagements.
April 19, at 9 a.m., Lady Stanley, out of Knighton and
Cardiff engagements.
April 19, at 9 a.m., Laird of Scotland, out of the Suburban
Plate at Surrey and Sussex Hunt.
.April 19, at 9 a.m., Lady Kew, out of the Welter Cup at
Surrey and Sussex Hunt.
April 19, at 9 n.m., South Hatch, out of the Metropolitan
Plato at Surrey and Sussex Hunt.
April 19, at 9 a.m., The Robber, out of the Grand Annual
Steeplechase at Guildford.
April 19, Crash (dead) out of all engagements.
April 18, at 0.22 p.m., Vestminster, out of Newmarket
Handicap and Four Years Old Biennial.
April 18, at 9.23 p.m., Brennus, out of the Newmarket
Handicap.
April" 19, at noon, Queen of Hearts and Douglas, out of
the Newmarket Handicap.
April 19, at 5.55 p.m., Falkland, out of the Newmarket
Handicap.
April 20, at 9 a.m., Two by Honours, out of Abergavenny
engagements.
April 20, at 9 a.m., Lady Superior, out of Chester Cup and
Chester Stakes at Chester.
April 21, at 9 a.m., Young Fenton and Crown Piece, out
of Guildford engagements.
April 22, at 10.10 n.m., all Mr W. Forbes's horses, out of
Eglinton Hunt engagements.

FLAT RACIN
AP]

.;r FIXTURES.
IL.

Abergavenny 21, 22
Eastbourne 22
M
Newmarket Ist S 2 to 6
Edinburgh 7
Chester lO to 13
Winchester 10, 11.
Salisbury 12, 13
Chelmsford 17, 18
York 17, 18

Cardiff 26, 27
Croydon 2B, 29
Y.

Wye . . 19
Doncaster l9, 20
Harpenden
Bath 24, 24
Stamford .... 26, 27
Croydon
Epsom 31 to Juno 3

LONDON GAZETTE—This Evening,

DOWNING-STREET, APRIL 21.

The Queen has been pleased to appoint John Warde
Straton, Esq., to be a Member of tho Privy Council, and
Soptimus Barrett, Esq., to be a Member of the Legislative
Council of the Island of Jamaica ; Samuel Baird, William
Haynes, and John Griffith, ENs., to he Members of the
Council c,f the Island of Barbadoes ; Augustus William
Harvey, and Robert Thornburn, Esqs., to be Members of
the Legislative Council of the Island of Newfoundland ;
and John Raw Howard, Esq., to be a Member of the Legis-
lative Council of the Island of Labuan.
ADMIRALTY, APRIL 19.
James Gibson Thompson Forbes, Esq., has this day
been promoted to the rank of Staff Surgeon in her Majesty's
Fleet, with seniority of the 7th April, 1870.

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET.-(THIS DAY.

Sales probably 12,000 bales. Market quiet.

HIGH BREEDING.—We pointed out some time since
that much of the success on the Turf, both of Sir Joseph
Hawley and Mr. Merr7, might be ascribed to their de-
votion to high breeding, As doubts are often thrown
upon the advantages of winning blood, it may be
interesting both to Darwinians and the general public to
take a glance at the breeding results exemplified
in the forthcoming, Derby., Of the 254 nominations 80 are
sons of undeniable racing "cracks cracks "—winners, that is to say,
of the Two Thonsan,d Guineas, Derby, or St. Leger ;
are of less celebrated but still distinguished parentage ;
and 97 are decided commoners in point of birth. It will
be seen that each class contributes about one-third to
the total—the mob having a slight preponderance in point
of numbers. Next we turn to the price current and
analyse the breeding of the eighteen animals, who, accord-
ing to the list we have selected, are supposed to have a fair
chance of carrying off the blue iiband-40 to 1 being the
odds at which we draw the line. There are ten of the Ist
class, six of the 2nd, and two of the 3rd. Nor do we ima-
gine that the two representatives of the democracy—
Stanley and Palinevston—would be considered specially
formidable. The Tim Whiffiers of the Turf are very rare;
as a rule, winners are the sires of winners ; but a
few conspicuous instances of failure on thcyart of high-
bred animals are apt to have more weight with the publis
than the gen.yal rule, In this, as in other matters, the
force of the " negative instance," as Bacon remarked, is
Out of I:roPortiou to its value."—Globe.

NOTICE TO QUIT TENANCY BY POST.

THURSDAY.

Ta-day in the Court of Queen's Bench, Mr. Cole,
Q.C., in moving for a new trial, raised the question
whether a notice to quit tenancy sent by post was a good
notice to quit. He said that the Rossa Grundy Gold
Mining Company were the tenants of the Gresham House
Company, who are the owners of large City buildings.
The latter sent to the Rossa Company notice to quit on
the evening of the day on which it ought to have been
pasted. 'Mr. Justice Blackburn (before whom the case was
tried at Guildhall, where the verdict was given for the
Gresham Company) said he had reserved the point on the
authority of a case in Roscoe, which he now found to be
wrong. His lordship considered that service by post was
insufficient unless evidence of receipt was given.
Mr. Cole contended that the posting of the letter was
not prima facie evidence of its having been delivered ;
and further, that the notice was posted too late. Tho
court held that the posting of a letter was prima facie
evidence of the determination of a tenancy, unless the
contrary were proved, and the jury not believing the rek.7. 4*-
ing evidence, the rule was refused.

ALLEGED ILLEGAL POSSESSION OF
PROPERTY BY THE CROWN.

THURSDAY.

In the Probate Court to-day, a case which does not
often occur occupied the attention of the Judge Ordinary.
The cause was that of " Griffin v. Greenwood," the
defendant beine, the Solicitor to the Treasury. The
plaintiff alleged that she was the next of kin to the late
Martha (or Sophia) Griffin. The case for the plaintiff
was that the testatrix, a governess in the house
of Lord Bandon was supposed to have died intestate, and
her property, owing to no next of kin appearing, went to
the Crown ; but that this supposition was erroneous, as
she had a next of kin in Fplaintiff's husband. The pro-
perty is worth £1,500, and the question resolves itself into
one of pedigree and identity. Many witnesses are sub-
poenaed both on behalf of the Crown and the plaintiff.
Sir Travers Twiss (Queen's Advocate), on behalf of the
Crown, contended that the identity had not been made
out, and that the person spoken of by the plaintiff and
her witnesses was not the intestate. Re called several
witnesses, but none could swear to her handwriting. The
learned counsel contended that the intestate's proper
Christian name was Sophia, and that she was a different
person from the Miss Griffin who the plaintiff alleged she
was the next of kin to. _ _ _

Lord Penzance in giving judgment, said the evidence
failed to establish the identity except by the evidence of
an interested witness, on whom the court could not rely.
The letters of administration would therefore again be de-
livered to the Crown,

THE NORWICH BRIBERY PROSECUTION.

THUESDAY.

To-day the question was raised in the Court of
Queen's Bench as to the validity of the certificate under
the Corrupt Practices, in the case of Mr. John Hughes
Hulme, who had been found guilty of bribery at the last
Norwich election. It will be remembered that a criminal
information was filed by the Attorney-General against
the defendant for bribery, and tried before Mr. Justice
Byles at the last Norwich Assizes.
Mr. Buller, Q.C., now moved to stay proceedings in
pursuance of leave reserved by the judge. He said the
commissioners sent down by her Majesty to inquire into cor-
rupt practices at Norwich summoned the defendent, and gave
him a certificate, which by the 7th sec., of the 26th and trdth
Vic., chap 29, indemnified the defendant from all penal
consequences on his answering. In obedience to that
summons the defendant tendered himself before the Com-
missioners, and he was required to answer questions which
criminated or tended to criminate him. Application was
made to the commissioners for a certificate in January on
defendant's behalf, but it was not given till February,
shortly before the Spring Assizes. The certificate
was granted according to the section ; but they added that
divers of the answers to the questions were unsatisfac-
tory to the Commissioners, and which they believed false,
and false to the knowledge of the defendant. Upon
the case coming on for trial, the learned counsel
applied to ,stay proceedings under the first section
which gave the defendant a full indemnity from all
penal consequences. An argument then took place be-
tween himself and the Attorney-General, on the validity
of the certificate. Mr. Justice Byles consulted Mr.
Justice Blackburn ; and the case was allowed to proceed.
Mr. Justice Blackburn : I thought if the certificate
was good you had applied to the wrong court.
Mr. Buller said the certificate having been
given after term, they could not apply to the Queen's
Bench.—The Lord Chiet Justice : Does the certificate
indemnify the defendant when he gives his evidence
honestly and truthfully only ; or is it intended to indem-
nify him supposing he tells lies throughout ?—Mr. Buller :
I shall contend as far as the latter alternative.—
The Lord Chief Justice : That is rather a startling propo-
sition.— Mr. Buller went on to say that the alleged perjury
was with regard to defendant having received eighty half -
sovereigns, and his having stated that he gave £5 to a
person name Houghton, and another £5 to some one
else, but they had not spent it in bribery,
and had kept it. Those two persons however
came. up, and one of them deposed that he had
only received £210x., and the other ss.—The Lord Chief
Justice, after consulting the other members of the court,
granted the rule to stay proceedings, remarking that it was
a case well worthy of argument. Rule granted
accordingly.

THE CASE OF SLANDER ON DISTINGUISHED

PERSONS.

The following are the affidavits filed in the Court of
Queen's Bench as grounds for the application for a rule
nisi for a criminal information against Mr. Leng, printer,
publisher, and part proprietor of the Sheffield Daily
Telegraph, for libel against the Prince of Wales and the
Earl and Countess of Sefton :
Affidavit of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, of Marl-
borough House, Middlesex, sworn on the 14th of April,
1870, states as follows :--
1. I have read the paragraph in the Sheffield Daily
Telegraph.
2. I was never guilty of the slightest impropriety with
the said Countess of Sefton, and there is not the slightest
foundation or pretext for the statement that I am likely
to be mentioned in the Divorce Court as a co-respondent
Jn a case by the Earl of Sefton against the Countess.
3. I know of nothing, and I cannot conceive of anything
which could have suggested or given rise to such a state-
ment.
The joint affidavit of the Earl and Countess of Sefton
stated :

1. We have read the paragraph in the Sheffield Daily
Telegraph.
2. We were married on the 18th of July, 1866.
3. We have lived together from the date of our marriage
down to the present time in perfect harmony and affection,
and we have three children.

4. There is not the slighest shadow of foundation or pre-
text for the statement above set forth, as contained in the
Sheffield Telegraph.

5. And I, the said Earl, for myself say I know of
nothing and I cannot conceive of anything which could
have suggested or given rise to such a statement.
6. And I, the said Countess, for myself say-that I.know
of nothing, and cannot conceive of anything which could
have suggested or given rise to such a statement.
7. There has never been the slightest impropriety of
any kind between his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales
paid myself.
8. And we, the said Earl and Countess, say that we
cannot look upon the said statement as anything but a
rigked falsehood and calumny.