The Sun.
London, England, 1870-10-05 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

BEDFORD RACES--YEsTEilDay.
SOUTHILL STAKES.

The Gift

54.0,

()USE NURSERY.

Chick •
Lizzie Cowl
Delusion

Six ran.
SCURRY STAKES.

Outpost
Lord of the Valley
Lady Palmerston
Eight ran.
BEDFORDSHIRE STAKES.

Little Fairy
Miss Hervine
The Boy
Five ran.
STRATTON PARK NURSERY.
Rose of Athol
Grace Darling
WOBURN PARK STAKES.

1

Balquidhar
Pens4e

QUEEN'S PLATE.

Don Carlos ..... .
Thunderstprm... ...

Three ran.
ELSTOW HANDICAP.

Outpost
Lizzie CON,
Conrad ......

.. 1
2

Four ran.
BETTING ON THE COURSE.
CESAREWITCH.
8 to 1 agst Wheatear (taken)
9to 1 ag.it Hawthorndeu (taken)
100 to 6 agst Ethus (taken)
20 to 1 agst Typhoeus (offered)
1000 to 30 agst Royal Rake (offered)
50 to 1 agst Bonny Swell (offered)
50 to 1 agst True Blue (taken and offered)
1000 to 15 agst Make Haste (offered)

CAMBRIDGESHIRE.
40 to 1 agst Barford (taken)
50 to 1 agst Not Out (taken)
1000 to 10 agst Tamarind (taken)

CITY BETTING—YESTERDAY.
CESAREWITCH.
9to 1 agst Hawthornden (offered—take 10 to 1)
100 to 7 agst Ethus (taken)
100 to 7 agst Typhoeus (offered—take 100 to 6)
'2O to 1 agst Adonis (taken and offered)
1000 to 45 agst Barford (offered-100 to 4 laid once)
200 to 9 agst Flibustier (offered-500 to 20 taken)
25 to 1 agst Royal Rake (offered—take 33 to 11
25 to 1 agst Cardinal York (offered)
30 to 1 agst Tabouret (offered—take 40 to 1)
40 to 1 agst Indian Ocean (offered)
50 to 1 agst Not Out (taken)
100 to 30 agst Wheatear 1,2, 3 (taken)
CAMBRIDGESHIRE.
20 to 1 agst Ethus (taken and offered)
1000 to 30 agst Pax (taken)
40 to 1 agst Barford (offered)
40 to 1 agst Not Out (taken)

GREAT FIRES IN SOHO AND STOCKWELL.

At a few minutes before 3 o'clock yesterday morning a
very serious fire, by which -the lives of a great number of
persons were jeopardised, took place on the premises of
Messrs. Duke, Waring, and Crisp, wholesale wire workers,
carrying on business at No. -95, Wardour Street, Soho.
The building was within a few feet of 30 yards long and
8Q feet wide; and extended into Edward Street, another
neuclus of carpenters, builders, &c. The discovery was
made by a police-constable of the C division, who at once
aroused the residents, but they were unable to effect their
escape until they were nearly suffocated. The flames
were not conquered until the first, second, and third
floors and. the contents were nearly destroyed, the roof
burned off, and the rest of the building and contents
severely damaged. The surrounding buildings were also
injured.
A very destructive conflagration, also nearly attended
with a serious loss of life, happened in the oil, colour, and
Italian warehouse belonging to Mr. 11. P. Bennett,
carrying on business at No. 1, Edmund Terrace, Stock-
well Green, Stockwell. This fire was caused by a cat
knocking down a pile of lucifer matches, which set the
shop and the contents in flames. With such fury did the
flames extend that- the night clothing of the persons
living in the house was nearly ignited as they were making
their escape. Mr. Bennett's premises were entirely
destroyed before the flames were extinguished.

LAW AND POLICE.

A MEDICAL STUDENT AND THE BEADLE •OF BURLING-
TON ARCADE.—JOIDI Edward Slaughter, described as a
medical student of Farninglaam Kent, was brought up at
the Marlborough Police-court,. before Mr. Tyrwhitt,
charged with assaulting John Fisher, the beadle of the
Burlington Arcade. The complainant said that on the
previous afternoon, the prisoner and two or three friends
came through the Arcade, all of them being in a state of
intoxication. They went away, and on their coming back
in about half an hour he refused to allow them to enter.
The prisoner wanted to know his reason for doing so,
and on his telling him that it was because they had been
drinking, he said he would knock him through the Arcade
if he attempted to ,stop him, and on his preventing him
from entering he struck him a severe blow in the face.
Police-constable Carpenter, 81 C, proved seeing the pri.
soner strike the complainant, and said that but for his hat
the complainant would have had a black eye: The pri-
soner, who made no defence, was fined 10s., or ever days.
JEWS AND THEIR HOLIDAYS.—Mr. Bittam, a member of
the Jewish persuasion, came before Mr. Paget, at the
Thames Police court, with his son, and other lads of the
Jewish religion, for a summons against Mr. Andrew
Mayers, cigar maker, of Wellclose-square,who had refused
to pay his apprentices more than one-half their wages
for the past week, which was kept as a holiday among the
Jews. Mr. Paget : Is your son an apprentice to Mr. Mayers?
Mr. Bittam : °He is, sir. Our religion forbids us working
during the holidays just passed, and Mr. Mayers has
stopped half the wages in violation of the indentures.
Mr. Paget advised Mr. Bittam to commence proceedings
in the Whitechapel County Court, where the judge had
power to try the case and apply the law. Mr. Bittam
thanked the magistrate and retired.
THE BANKRUPTCY OF THE DUKE OF NEWCASTLE.—III
the Chambers of Vice-Chancellor Bacon, the case
of the Duke of Newcastle was brought before Mr.
Bloxa.m, Chief Clerk, on a summons for the production
of evidence to enable him to prepare a certificate
authorising an application to be made to the Court
of Chancery, under the provisions of the Settled Estates'
Act, to grant a lease of the Duke of Newcastle's London
mansion, No. 18, Carlton House-terrace, for the benefit
of the creditors of the estate. The trustees, the Right
Hon. W. E. Gladstone and Lord de Talbot were repre-
sented, as were also the parties beneficially interested in
the estate, including Mr. Padwick. It was stated that
the summons would not in any way affect the question
before the court as to whether the trustees or the creditors
in the bankruptcy were, by the will of the late duke,
entitled to the proceeds of the mansion. It was also
conceded that it would, under any circumstances, be ad-
vantageous to let the Mansion, and that the interested
parties would unhesitatingly. agree to a contract for letting
it on lease, at a rental of £2,000 per annum. The Chief
Clerk held, however, that as the draft lease had not been
prodhced, he could not issue the necessary certificate,
and he would adjourn the summons for a week for the
production of the draft lease, and of the evidence shewing
the advisability of the proposed proceedings. •
AN EXEMPLARY LOVER.—At the London Guildhall
George Henry Chappell was summoned for threatening the
family of Mr. David Radford. Mr. E. P. Wood, for
the complainant, stated that the defendant had been
for some time paying his addresses to Miss Radford, but
one day, because something displeased him, he put the
young lady's head under a grate in which there was a fire.
`he struggled, and got free from him, and from
that time the family refused to let him have
anything to say to her. Shortly afterwards he met
her in Brixton, near her father's private residence,
and struck her a violent blow on the head with an um-
brella,
.which, but for a thick head-dress, might have
seriously, ini-ared her. For that he was summoned to the
Lambeth Police-court, upon which he wrote to the then
complainant the most pathetic letter, appealing to her
not to press the charge. Listening to his appeal, the
charge was not pressed severely against him, and he was
put under recognisances in £75 to keep the peace. On
Wednesday last, after dining at the Cheshire Cheese, he
came to complainant's shop, and challenged him to come
out, at the same time making use of abusive language.
He (Mr. Wood) applied for protection for the family.—
Mr. Wontner said the defendant, who was anxious to
renew his acquaintance with the family, went into the
shop with that intention. He was provoked when they
refused to serve him, and this led to his using language
which he regretted, but he denied having employed threats.
He requested that he might not be called upon to find
sureties.—After considerable discussion Sir David Salo-
mons agreed to adjourn the summons for a month.

In anticipation of a winter campaign, Major-Gen-
cral Freeman Murray, commanding in the eastern district,
has presented 100 blankets for use among the sick anti
wounded in the war.

SEIZURE OF ARMS AT COI K.—A Cork telegram
says two men named Robert O'Sullivan and John O'Reilly
were arrested on Monday, on a charge of Fenianism.
military uniform, a revolver, and a quantity of ammuni-
tion were found at O'Sullivan's lodgings.