The Sun.
London, England, 1848-03-15 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
WARWICK AND LEAMINGTON SPRING
RACES.—TunsDAY.

The

Scurry Stakes of 5 son. cach,aud 20 added. Gen.
tlernen riders ; 12st each. T.Y.C. Five subs.
Skerratt's Bruce, 4 yrs (Mr. Rowland) 1

Clifton's Elimett

Colonel Shirley's The Diamond
Sir John Gerard's Helena ...

~, 4

5 to 4 agst Khondooz-7 to 4 eget Elimea—and 2 to
agst Bruce.—Woi easy. Lord Strathmore weighed for
Khondoos, but did not get to the post in time to start.
The Trial Stakes of 10 sous. each, and 50 added. Mile

course. Eleven subs.
Mr. Thomas Parr's The Sponge, 3 yrs, 7st 1
Mr. Lillie's The Great Western, 3 yrs, 7st ... 2
Mr. Dawson's Liston, 3 yrs, 7st 3
The following also ran :—Lord Warwick's Lahore, 3
yrs, 7st (Oates) ; Llrd Strathmore's Sweetsauce, 3 yrs.
6st 121 b (Crunch) ; Mr. W. Gulliver's ch m, by Coro-
nation, dam by Middleton, 3 yrs, Est 121 b (Brookes) ;
and Mr. Ilargreaves's Sunnyside, 3 yrs, 6st 121 b (J.
Sharpe).
2 to 1 agst Liston-3 to 1 agst Sunnyside-5 to 1
agst Great Western-5 to 1 agst Sweetsauce—and 6to 1
ugst Sponge. Won by a head; Liston biaten a length.
The Woodcote Stakes of 25 sovs. each, loft. for tyro-
year old colts, Bst 71b; and fillies, Bst 41b. Half a

mile. Three subs.
Mr. B. Green's Lammermoor

(Wintrini;ham) 1
2

Sir J. Gerard's Betty Billings ..,
4tol on Lammermoor. Won in a canter,
The Willoughby Handicap of 20 soya. each, 1011, &c.,
with 50 added. Two miles. Twenty-two subs., 13
of whom declared.
Count Bathyany's Master Stepney, 6 yrs, 9st 121 b 1
Lord llowth's Icicle, 5 yrs, 9st 121 b ... 2
Mr. Waller's Columbus, 6 yrs, lOst 31b ... 8
Kesheng, list (owner)—Cavendish, lOst 121 b (Mr.
Davenport)—Cast-off, 9st 6lb (Mr. Clifton)—and Cora-
me-il-faut, 9st 61b (Capt. Little), also ran. Won by a
neck.
The Free Handicap of 10 sovs. each, h ft, and 26 added.
One mile. Six subs.
Mr. W. Smith's Master Downes, 6 yrs, (Brookes) 1
Mr. Parr's Marietta, 5 yrs, 6st
The following also started:—Wanota, 4 yrs, 7st 91b
—John Harris, 6 yrs, 7st 21b and Lady Lurewell,
4 yrs, 6st 81b.
to 4 agst Lady Lurewell, S to 1 agst Master
Downes, and 4to 1 agst Marietta. Woe by three parts
of a length. The winner is objected to.
The Mariners' Plate of 501., two miles, was won, in two
heats, by Mr. Cowper's The Morsel, I Ist, boating Logic,
list, and four others.
The four matches for 200 sovs. each, h ft, between
Captain Alleyne's The Nigger and Mr. Clifton's
Mahmoud are compromised ; Mr. Clifton paying forfeit.
BETTING ON THE COURSE.

CIIZSTBR CUP.
95 to 1 nit Swallow--t fr 50 to 1 apt Cossack—t
25 to 1 art Blase—taken 1000 to 15agstMendicant—t
30 to 1 agst Jonathan Wild 1000 to 15 agst Sutlej—t
40 to 1 agst H Platoff c—t 1000 to 10 sgst Whitstone
The weather was remarkably fine, the sport excellent,
and the attendance numerous, embracing many of the
leading supporters of the turf. The ground was hea►y.

CARLISLE ELECTION.
The nomination took place on Monday, at twelve
o'clock, at the hustings erected in front of the Town
Hall, and the number of persons present was upwards
of 15,000, a concourse more vast than Carlisle had ever
exhibited on any public occasion within recollection.
The candidates were four in number, John Dixon,
Esq., of Knells, who was unseated for having had a
share in a colliery which had undertaken a Government
contract ; P. H. Howard, Esq., of Corby Castle, who
had represented Carlisle for seventeen years prior to
the dissolution of the last Parliament, and was unsuc-
cessful at the last general election ; W. H. Hodgson,
Esq., of Mushroom Hall, who was recently unseated ;
and Dr. M'Douall, the Chartist orator.
The parties reached the hustings a few minutes before
twelve o'clock, each accompanied by a band of music and
several flags, and at twelve precisely the Mayor arrived,
and the proceedings commenced by going through the
usual formula.
The candidates were then successively proposed by
their respective friends, and after they had themselves
addressed the electors, a show of hands was taken.
There were very few held up for Dixon, for Howard and
Hodgson about an equal number, and for the Doctor a
whole forest.
The MAYOR declared the election to have fallen on
Hodgson and M'Douull.
A poll was then demanded.
(From the Carlisle Journal Extra.)
The polling commenced at eight o'clock yesterday
morning, and for two hours went on slowly. It was
evident, almost from the first, that in consequence of the
lamentable division in the Liberal camp, that Mr. Hodg-
son's return at the head of the poll was almost certain.
A considerable number of the Liberal party. in the early
part of the day, divided their votes between Mr. Dixon
and Mr. lloward, and this course of proceeding con-
tinued, with cc mparatieely trifling exceptions, until past
one o'clock --many Loping, even against hope, that there
was a chance for securing the two seats. But the
" split" had done its work ; and it then became a strug-
gle between the Liberals for securing their respective
favourites the seat. Many proceeded to "plump" for
Dixon or for Howard, as the case might be. At this
period Mr. Howard was 51 ahead of Mr. Dixon, and
the further progress of'the struggle is watched with in-
tense interest.
Bands of music and banners were paraded about all
parts of the town, and the streets were much thronged
by canvassers. and lookers-on ; but all went on in ex-
treme good humour.
STATE OF THE POLL.
TRIMS O'CLOCK.

Howard ... ••• •••
•••
Dixon ... •• ••• —• .
Hodgson ... ..•
Iti'Douil ••• ...
Howard's return is quite sire.

... 364
... 279
... 447
... 44

... 476
... 414
... 318

CLOSE OF TILE POLL, FOUR O'CLOCK.
Hodgson ...
Howard ... -

Dixon ..•
Millouall ...

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In our report of the case tried in the Secondaries
Court on Friday, a mistake was made in the name ; it
should have been "Whitaker," and not " Whitmarsh."

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
i'VORFOLK ClRCUlT.—Bedford, March 14.

CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Justice COLTMAN.)
Luey Norris was indicted for the murder of her
illegitimate female child on the 2d of July last.
Mr. Worledge and Mr. Tozer conducted the prosecu-
tion; Mr. O'Malley was counsel for the prisoner.
From the evidence it appeared that the prisoner, who
is 22 years of age, and manages her grandfather's
hou.tehold, at Hawns, in this county, had been keeping
company with one John Geary, and that fact, coupled
with suspicions occasioned by personal observations, in-
duced in elderly friend, one Mrs. Dunham, to put
questions to the prisoner, in the month of April last,
which she answered by admitting that she was about to
become a mother. Her younger sister, with whom she
was accustomed to sleep, was also aware of her situation,
and that she had made up a small wardrobe for the
expected infant. On the 2d of July it was observed that
her figure had resumed, of a sudden, its former shape,
but neither her sister nor any one else knew that,
in fact, delivery had taken place. One of the guard-
ians of the poor, to whom these facts were com-
municated, thought it right to institute an inquiry into
the matter, and Mrs. Dunham then again questioned the
prisoner, who stated at once that she had been suddenly
delivered of a living female child in the night precedine,
the 2d of July, which had fallen on the floor, and died
soon afterwards; that she had put a cap and petticoat on
the body, and, after wrapping it in a cloth, had placed
it in her box, whence on the next night she had removed
it, and thrown it into the basin in Lord Carteret's park;
and that she would have caused it to be buried in the
churchyard, had she not been afraid that her father would
hear of it. This conversation was subsequently reported
to the constable at Hawns, who thereupon went to the
prisoner, and drove her over to Lord Carteret's park,
where she pointed out the part of the basin into which she
had thrown the infant's body. It was removed, and
examined by Dr. Hedley, a physician of eminence in
this town, and Mr. Gay, a surgeon, since dead. Those
gentlemen saw sufficient to convince them that the child
had been born alive, and had died from a fracture of the
skull : the present charge was thereupon preferred. The de-
position of Mr. Gray before the committing magistrates
was read, and his opinion was that there were two frac-
tures of the skull, one on each side; that delivery in an
erect position, or in any position that might cause an
infant to fall eighteen inches, was impossible; and there-
fore that the fractures must have been occasioned by
blows. Dr. Hedley, however, who was called for the
prosecution, stated that there had been but one fracture
of the skull, though it extended from one side of the
head to the other; that delivery might take place in a
position that rendered a fall of two feet or eighteen
inches quite possible; and that if the prisoner had been
suddenly delivered while in an erect position in her
bedroom, the fall of the infant on the hard and rough
bricks which formed the floor of that apartment might
have caused the fracture of which it died.
At the conclusion of Dr. liedley's examination in
chief,
Mr. Justice COLTMAN said that the charge of murder
must be abandoned. It would be impossible to convict
of such a crime after the evidence of Dr. Hedley. The
jury must now inquire, according to the provisions of
the statute, whether the prisoner had been gailty of an
endeavour to conceal the birth of the child, by secretly
burying or otherwise disposing of its dead body.
Mr. O'MALLEY then addressed the jury, and pointed
their attention to the evidence furnished by this case of
the extreme importance of not convicting a prisoner on
any testimony, whether of persons dead or absent, which
had not been tested by cross-examination. But for the
fortunate circumstance that Dr. Hedley had attended the
post mortem examination, they would have been asked to
convict on the deposition of Mr. Gay, who could not
have been cross.examined, yet who, if cross-examination
had been possible, would,:in all probability have assented
to the opinion propounded by Dr. Hedley. With regard
to t he charge of endeavouring to conceal the birth, such an
endeavour was inconsistent with the previous confession
of the prisoner, whose case ought to be treated by them,
not as that of one who had had a lucky escape on a
capital indictment, but as that of one indicted for an
offence against a law which, however necessary, was
both cruel and unnatural.
Mr. Justice COLTMAN, in summing up, said that the
question for the jury was, whether the prisoner, when
she deposited the body of the child in the basin, had
intended to conceal its birth from the world generally.
It was no answer to this charge to say that she had
made a confidante of Mrs. Dunham; but, on tke other
hand, she would not be liable to conviction if her object
had been to conceal the birth from one person only.
Here the evidence was, that she had made preparation
for the birth of the baby, and that she had said the
person from whom she wished to conceal the birth of the
child was her own father. If that was her only object
in depositing the body in the basin, she ought to be
acquitted.
The jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty.
The business of the Imlays for this county was brought
to an end at twelve o'clock.

MIDLAND CRUX IT.—Nottiptsautm, March 13.
CRIMINAL COURT.—(Before Mr. Justice MAuLs.)
Joseph Palma , aged 24, was placed at the bar,
charged with having, on the night of the 17th of January
last, broke into the house of the Rev. Charles Walter
Hudson, at Saundby.
Mr. Wilmore conducted the ease on the part of the
prosecution. The prisoner was undefended.
The prosecutor is the clergyman at Sanndby. On the
night of Monday, the 17th of January, he had been sit-
ting up somewhat later than his ordinary hour, engaged
in reading, when he heard a noise at one of the windows,
and looking through he saw a man, though at the same
time he must himself have remained unobserved. The
prosecutor went round stealthily to the front door, and
there saw three men in all. They were engaged in ex-
tracting a pane of glass. The reverend gentleman im-
mediately armed himself with a poker, and the moment
one of the men had made an entry he knocked him down.
Tho prisoner (for it turned out to be him) immediately
rose, and attempted to make his escape by the window,
in which attempt he was assisted by the men outside,
who laid hold of him and attempted to drag him through
the window. The prosecutor, however, clung to hit man,
and was actually dragged through the window along with
Palmer. The two men then commenced an attack upon
him, beating him about the head, face, and arms, but all
would not do, and they were obliged to quit the field,
leaving their companion in the grasp of the enemy.
The Learned JuDos was loud in praise of the intre-
pidity and courage displayed by Mr. Hudson, and in tes-
timony of his approval of his conduct, ordered the sum of
101. to be paid him over and above the expenses allowed
him in the character of prosecutor.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
LAMB E TH.
William Barrett, henry Rowe, Robert Archer, Thomas
Walker, Henry Brown, Samuel Money, James Taylor,
Anthony Finnaley, George Lewis, George Payne, Henry
Davis, Thomas Howlett, William Nogdon, William
Mile, and Samuel Morgan, the majority of whom were
youths, were placed at the bar before Mr. Elliott, on a
charge of having, with others, feloniously broken and
entered the dwelling-house of Mr. Thomas Gray, a
pawnbroker in Southampton-street, Camberwell, and
stealing therefrom property to the amount of I,OOOL The
prisoners were also charged with breaking into and rob-
bing other shops in the neighbourhood.
I rein the evidence, which was taken at considerable
length, it appeared that, between ten and eleven o'clock
on the day before, the ship of Mr. Gray was attacked
by a mob of 300 or 400 persons, many of whom were
armed with formidable weapons formed from oaken
palings, and others with hammers, he. They succeeded
in forcing open the door and shutters, smashed the
windows, and carried away property estimated at one
thousand pounds. The prisoners, Maney, Taylor,
Archer, Brown, and Payne, were particularly spoken to by
many of the witnesses, as being armed ringleaders of the
mob, and as taking an active part in breaking into the
house and the robbery; and the whole of the prisoners,
with the exeeption of Maney, had upon them a portion
of stolen property in their possession.
Mr. Benjamin Alfield, a tailor and draper, No. I and
2, Southampton-street, deposed that seeing the mob ad-
vancing towards his shop, he endeavoured to put up his
shntters, but before he had time to do so, the people
came up to him, pulled down the two shutters he had
put up, and demolished his shop windows, frames and
all. They also carried away with them a great variety
of property from the shop, and destroyed more. One of
the party, who was armed with a bludgeon, demanded
his money and his watch, and instantly forcing his hand
into his pocket, took out the contents, which consisted of
six or seven shillings. The person who so robbed
him was not in custody, but Taylor, one of the pri-
soners in the dock, stood close to him at the time, and
he also recognised Maney and Payne as being also
present.
Mrs. Sarah Shaw, a chandler's;shopkeeper, deposed that
the mob broke 17 squares of glass, robbed her shop of all
the bread, cheese, and other things which it contained,
and in the most wanton manner broke upwards of 100
eggs, and scattered a quantity of flour about thed
several o plf
the
ace.
This witness identified 'Taylor, Mangy, an
other prisoners as having taken an active part in the
outrage. grooer and cheesemonger, in
Mr. John Kent, a
Wyndham-street, Camberwell, said that about twelve
o'clock on the day before a lawless mob attacked his
house, dashed in its windows, and rushed into his shop.
The prisoner Maney helped himself to the contents of
the till, which consisted of about 111., and the others
carried away a quantity of butter, bread, cheese, and
other property; and not content with this, they destroyed
a ivantity of fruit. Mr. Kent pointed out several of the
prisoners as those who were amongst the crowd, and who
took an active part in the robbery.
Mrs. Elizabeth Guildford, the keeper of a chandler's
shop, whose house had been broken into and plundered.
idenified three or four of the prisoners who, she said,
were the ringleaders, and took an active part in the
robbery.
Mr. Cressy and Mrs. Jameisen, whose shops had been
broken into and plundered of a vast quantity of boots
• and shoes, identified a portion of the property found
upon the prisoners as theirs ; and the prisoners, after a
lengthened investigation, were remanded for a week.

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We are happy to learn that Mr. Tait, Head-
Master of Rugby School, is muck better, and that he is
now in a fair way of recovery.
CIIIESEMOWGIRe 131111111VOLENT
meeting of the friends and subscribers of the above-
named charitable institution was held yesterday evening,
at the London Tavern ; Edward Corderoy, Esq., in the
chair. The report lamented the depression caused in
the funds of the institution by the death of several
valuable subscribers, and the unprecedented state of trade
during the put year. The balance-sheet showed the
receipts to amount, on the whole, with the balance in
band from the preceding year, to Mi. 16s. 9d., and the
expenditure only left a balance of 21. is. ad. The funded
L property of the institution is 7,0104