The Sun.
London, England, 1867-10-19 00:00:00

PLACE BETTING.

6 to 4 agst Honesty (taken and offered)
5 to 2 agst Adam (taken and offered)
3to 1 agst Knight of the Garter (taken)
sto 1 agst Wroughton (taken)
7 to 1 agst Jeune Premiere (taken)
7to 1 agst Tormentor (taken)
10 to 1 agst Duke of York (taken)

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

VICTORIA CLUB BETTING—Tun DAT.

A large attendance and plenty of speculation.
Honesty, for the Cambridgeshire, was at one time in
strong request at 9 to 2, but, a reaction setting in,
he was driven to 100 to 15. Actfel fluctuated be-
tween 9 and 10 to 1, being supported for good
money. Knight of the Garter, in like manner, was
in good odour, and backed to win many thousands.
The leading features of the doings was the
rapid advance of Laneret, who, on many heav-y
outlays, steadily advanced till his backers were con-
tent to accept anything over 16 to 1 to win some
thousands. Lozenge was in good request, but both
Julius and Friponnier appeared quite out of favour.
Of the outsiders War met with strong advocacy at
his long price, being backed to win something like
£20,000. The subjoined is a list of the business
done :

CAMBRIDGE/NUM

100 to 15 agst Honesty (taken and offered)
9to 1 agat Aetsea (taken and offerod)
12 to 1 agst Knight of the Garter (taken)
100 to 6 agst Laneret (taken and offered)
100 to 6 agst Lozenge (taken and offered)
20 to 1 agat Friponnier (taken)
20 to 1 agst Julius (taken and offered)
25 to 1 agst Blinkhoolie (taken)
30 to 1 agst Attack colt (taken)
30 to 1 agst Tormentor (taken)
40 to 1 agst La Dauphine (taken)
40 to 1 agst Wulsey (taken)
40 to 1 agst Ammunition (taken)
66 to 1 agst Grey Stocking (offered)
66 to 1 agst Harry Brailsford (offered)
100 to 1 agst War (taken)

50 to 1 agst Lord Westmorland's lot (offered)

MEETING OF THE JOCKEY CLUB.

A general mooting of the Jockey Club will be hold at
Newmarket after the races on Wednesday in the Houghton
Meeting.
The dates of the Newmarket meetings, 1868, will be sub-
mitted for approval. According to the usual arrangements
they will fall as under:—

Craven Meeting
First Spring Meeting Monday, April 27. -
July Meeting
First October Meeting Tuesday, Sept. 22.
Second October Meeting Monday, Oct. 5.
Houghton Meeting Monday, Oct. 19.
If these datos are not altered Epsom Summer Meeting will
commence on Tuesday, May 26, and Ascot on Tuesday,
Juno 9.

JOAN STIRK,
25, WELLIXGTON-STILEET, STRIND,
Mtecutes Commiiiions en all tho racom to any amount.

The full market adds laid.
Price list daily.

CHARLES OSBORNE,
7, Ordnance-road, Regent's-park, London, N.W.

CAMBUIDGESIIIRE STAKES.

Extension of Time. All town commissions received by
the One o'clock post on the above important race will be
executed, and vouchers forwarded immediately.

The Cambridgeshire Sporting Predictions.

.13.311's Life.—lfonesty ; La Dauphine and Attack colt for
places.

Land and Water.—Ammunition, Actre, and La Dauphine.
Field.—Monarch of the Glen, Jenne Premiere, and Vale-
row.

AS porting Gazette.—Acta) and Tormentor.
Shorting Life.—Acta) and linight of the Garter.
Sp artan:tn.—Knight of thn Garter and IloneBty.

THE INVASION OF THE PAPAL STATES.

(REUTF.R'S TELEGRAMS.)
ROME, Oct. 19.
It is announced that, after a fierce engagement,
the Papal troops re-occupied Nerola last night.
The Garibaldians sustained heavy losses in killed,
wounded, and prisoners.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.—This Day.

(Before the Assistant-Judge.)

STEALING THE MARCHIONESS OF HASTINGS'S RINGS.

Johu Thomas Bell was placed at the bar charged
with stealing six valuable rings, the property of the
Marchioness of Hastings, from her ladyship's
boudoir at the St. George's Hotel, Albemarle-
street.

The prisoner pleaded not guilty.
Mr. Sleigh prosecuted and Mr. Ribton defended
the prisoner.
Miss Bradley was the first witness examined.
She stated that she was lady's maid to the Mar-
chioness of Hastings. The marquis and marchioness
were staying at the St. George's Hotel, Albe-
marle-street, in July last. Her ladyship had
a quantity of valuable jewellery, amongst
them a number of rings. They were
quite safe when her ladyship arrived at the hotel.
On the 21st of July six rings were stolen from her
ladyship's jewel case. The rings produced are those
taken away by some person.
Mr. Lampart, proprietor of the White Bear
Hotel, Piccadilly, said the prisoner in July was
staying at his house. On the 21st of July he saw
the prisoner between one and two o'clock ; he was
not then wearing rings. Between five and six the
same evening the prisoner was wearing six on his
fingers. The next morning prisoner asked him to
lend him some money on the rings, which he refused.
On the Monday following, the 29th, he asked if any
letters had arrived for Ithri, and being told in the
negative, he said it was very inconvenient, as he
should not be able to go to Goodwood. He then
asked whether he (witness) would advance him some
money on the two rings he had previously left in his
care. He (witness) told him he had better send them
to a pawnbroker's. He said he did not know one,
and he then asked witness if he would oblige him by
sending the rings to a shop of that description. He
(witness) got £5O on the rings from Mr. Brown's, in
Leicester-square, which he gave the prisoner. Pri-
soner then left town for Goodwood. On August 15
he saw an advertisement in the papers respecting
some stolen jewellery, and he then gave information
to the police, and a day or two after Inspector Sil-
verton came to his (witness's house) and took the
prisoner into custody. He never made any com-
munication to the prisoner before he gave informa-
tion to the police. Ile saw the prisoner in the
House of Detention. Ile (witness) said he was
sorry to see him there, and prisoner replied it was
the greatest lark in the world how he got the rings.
He was walking along Bond-street, and met a
lady, she took him to a street leading out of Bond-
, street, went through the hall, where there were
servants in livery, upstairs into the drawing-room,
and stayed there about three quarters of an hour,
after which the lady put the rings on his fingers,
and put two on her own hand at the same time out
of the case. He went on to say he had made an
appointment to meet her the next night, and, as he
had no money, he borrowed the money of me on the
ripp, De lady, 119 Pia, bad mad 9 Ala appintuant

' to meet him the following night, but she did not
keep it. Witness advised him to give all the infor-
mation he could in order that the property might
be recovered. - That was the only account that
prisoner gave of how he became possessed of the
rings.

Mr. Ribton—Then it is in consequence of the
information the prizoner gave that the rings have
been recovered.

Mr. Sleigh said it was not

Witness—lle gave inforznation With mpect to
two, but of the others ha sail he could not recollect
where they were. After the money had been ob-
tained he went abont a goo 1 deal. Oa leavin4
Goodwood prisoner went to Worthing, he said, to
meet the object of his heart.

The Assistant-Judge—The object of lii what?
Witne,3s—llis heart, tny lor.l.

Ie
mil.), to further questions from Mr. Ribton,
the witness said the prisoner did not make an.y
mystery about the rings ; he wore them publicly 1u
the coff,x-roozn. The first step he took .with
respect to putting the police on the tract was to go
to Messrs. Hancock, the Court jewellers, who had
an advertisement in the papers relative to the loss of
the rings.

In reply to Mr. Sleigh, witness said he had known
the prisoner for four or fire months, and always as
the lion. M. Bruce. Prisoner always seemed,
whilst lie was at witness's house, to hare plenty of
money.

The Assistant-Judge—Have you ever load any
betting transiction with prisoner ?
Witness—No, my lord.

Mr. Phillips, assistant to a pawnbroker at 35,
Brewer-street, said he bought one of the rings pro-
duced for .£25. Prisoner said they were family
jewels, and being pressed for money he was dis-
posing of them. He gave the name of the Hon.
Henry Bruce Stillwell, Royal Engineers, Chatham.
Mr. Crouch, of 203, Oxford-street, said on the
23d of July the prisoner entered his shop and asked
him to buy a diamond cluster ring. Ile said ho
wanted £35 for it. Witness eventually bought the
ring for £25. Prisoner gave the name of the Hon.
M. Stillwell, 3d Company, Royal Engineers, Chat-
ham. Witness saw the prisoner wearing two of the
other rings now in court.

Mr. James Webb, jeweller, Oxford-street, said
he purchased one of the rings now produced, from
the prisoner, on the 23d of July. Prisoner asked
£25 for the ring, but ho eventually gave £lB for it.
The prisoner gave the name of Bruce, and his
address at St. John's Wood.

Samuel Button, assistant to Mr. Attenborough,
of Piccadilly, said on the 26th of July the prisoner
brought in a ring for sale, •for which he wanted £3O.
He gave the name of Henry Bruce, 3d Company
Royal Engineers, Chatham. He gave the prisoner
the price he asked for the ring.
William Wilder, assistant to Mr. Brown, of Cran-
bourne-street, proved the pledging of the two rings
for £5O by Mr. Lampard.
Mr. Henry Dore, partner in the firm of Hancock
and Sons, jewellers, of Bruton-street, said the value
of the six rings was about £6OO.

Mr. Ribton—Were the rings purchased at your
house ?

Witness—Some of them. He advertised the
articles by direction of Lady Hastings.
The Marchioness of Hastings having identified
the rings as her property,

Inspector Silverton ,repeated his evidence with
respect to the apprehending of the prisoner, and
also the same version of the matter which the pri-
soner repeated to him as well as Mr. Lampert.
Mr. Sleigh then summed up the evidence which
he had adduced to prove the case.
Mr. Ribton addressed the jury for the prisoner.
He said the matter was of the most vital import-
ance, and a sensational character had been given to
the prosecution in consequence of the comments
that had been made upon it in some of the daily
newspapers. Tho learned caunsA for the prosecu-
tion contended that he had satisfactorily proved
the case, but h 3 did n)t think that

they would be of that opinion. His learned friend
had told them that the prisoner had stolen the
property, and that it could not have been given
to him. .But were they clear ou that matter. It
seemed to him (nr. Ribton) out of the question
that the prisoner should have been enabled
to obtain the property, because it was quite
impossiLle that he could have entered the
hotel, and proceeded to the Marchoness's bed-room,
and their rifled her jewel case without observation.
Then, again, if the prisoner had stolen the rings,
was it at all feasible he would have been found
attempting to dispose of the property without the
slightest attempt at concealment. The version of the
prisoner that the rings were given to him by a lady
was not so absurd as the counsel fur the prosecu-
tion wished them to believe. If the rings had been
stolen the thief would, without doubt, have
taken the jewel-case with its contents en-
tire, and not have left about twenty other rings.
remaining in it. There were a great many families
staying at St. George's Hotel, each of whom, of
course, had a lady's maid, and there was no know-
iug what some of these persons might not have done.
The prisoner might have been invited into the hotel
by some one, and that person might have been
liberal to the prisoner out of Lady Hastings' jewel-
case. The present was not a case of receiving—it
was for stealing ; and if they could not find the
prisoner guilty of stealing they must acquit him.
The Assistant-Judge summed up the case to the
jury, and remarked that everything that could be
said, and a great deal which it had been better should
never been said, had been addressed to them, but strip-
ping the case of the fringe that had been attachel
to it, it became one of the mist simple that
had been submitted to the jury. 'The prisoner was
found in the possession of stolen property, and it
was for him to satisfactorily account for it. With
respect to the observation of the learned
counsel, about selecting six rings instead of
taking the whole, it appeared to him that
had the thief done so he would have had to have
carried the case with the marchioness's crest about
with him for some time, the discovery of which
would have been proof positive on his
being captured, and another reason why ho
did not do so was, that if the box had been
carried off the robbery would have been very soon
discovered, instead of its being some time before
only some of its contents were discovered to
be missing. If the jury believed the story
the prisoner told with respect to the lady giving him
the rings then they would acquit him, but if not
they would find him guilty of the present charge.

The jury, after a short deliberation, returned a
verdict of guilty.

A former conviction of an hotel robbery at
Bishopwearmoutli during the present year was
proved against the prisoner.

Mr. Sleigh asked the Assistant - Judge
whether be would not respite the prisoner's
sentence until the next session, in order that
the prisoner might give any information as to
whether he had any accomplice in the robbery.
The Assistant-Judge said, the case being closed,
he could now state his opinion ; he did not think the
prisoner had an accomplice, but ha thought some
person had given him information as to the con-
struction of the building.
Mr. Sleigh sail it had been stated in the news-
papers that the present trial had been postponed
in order that the nirluis of Ilistings !night
be present at Newmarket races. Such was not the
fact ; the trial hal been postponed in order
that the former conviction might be pro-
curel from Sunderland. lle would take
that opportunity of informing the court that
the prisoner was an 3,lept at billiards, and by that
means he was enabled to get sufficient means to
lodge at hotels. Previous to the present charge
ho had been found in the upper apartments
of another west end hotel, near to a large quantity
of jewellery, but be was fortunately discovered, and
his excuse for being on the staircase was that he
had strayed a little too high for the billiard
room.

The Assistant-Judge said, under all the cirA-
stances he should sentence the prisoner to five years'
penal servitude.

'rue Countess Delawarr (Baroness Buckburst)
is very much indisposed at Kuole, her ladyship's s..at, near
Seveuoaks. 11cr illness occasions much alaziav to her