The Sun.
London, England, 1867-11-18 00:00:00

sPoR,TENG tvOfES.

Oa Wednesday SLANDERER ought to be near winning
the Maiden Plate; but should Patrician start, he ought not
to be overlooked. I see nothing to beat KING or THE
FAIRIES for the Great Autumn Welter Cup, his forward
running in the Column Handicap at Shrewsbury for more
than a mile being quite good enough to give him a chance
second to none. The Handicap Plate of 50 soya is a gift
to QUEEN OF THE ISLES if she should start for it, and the
Guy Cup appears to me an equally good thing for THE
STAR. I have most faith in No'riu for the Second Nur-
sery Free Handicap, the acceptances for which, it is desir-
able to recollect, are not to be made until to-morrow..
The principal feature of Thursday's programme is the
Great Midland Counties Handicap, and although there
are no less than sixty-one subscribers, the race lays in a
small compass, as a good many of them can have uo
chance frcm the Liverpool and Shrewsbury running, and
others cannot stay the distance (two miles.) Sundeolah
and Caithness are best in of the top weights, Zenobia. and
Steamboat of the middle division, and of those under Gst
Rabbit Trap, Bandmaster, and New Guinea have nothing
to complain of. It is very uncertain whether Mr. Hobson's
horse will start, therwise I should give him the preference,
and with that proviso CAITHNESS and NEW GUINEA
must represent my interests. The latter filly beat Man-
drake in the Border Handicap at Kelso over the same
distance of ground, and although it was not a good per-
formance, as the Liverpool Cup winner was giving her
231 b, it is a proof she can stay. The acceptances for the
Third Nursery Free Handicap are not to be signified until
to-morrow, and should PATRICIAN be amongst them, I
think he would be worth backing. I do not kcow sufficient
of the recent form of the animals ongiged in tho Steeple-
chase to say anything about them.

A FRESH MAN.

NAVAL APPOINTMENTS.

The following appointments wore made at tho Admiralty
Lis afternoon :

Assistant Surgeons.—Dr. G. V. Wright to the Orontes,
John P. Way to the Medusa, Thomas H. Knott (acting)
t.) the Asia.

Midshipman-IJ. R. Johnstone (navigating), additional,
:o the Victory, for disposal.

CENTRAT., CitiMINAL COUR,

OLD COURT.

The November Sessions of this Court commenced
to-day before the Lord Mayor and Recirder, the
number of prisoners for trial being 52 males and 7
females.

The Recorder, in charging the jury, remarked
upo❑ the fact that there was only one case in which
human life had been sacrificed; one in which a
German, named Ernest Roder, accused of the murder
of the child of a woman with whom he cohabited
at Woolwich. The case of Edgeley, the city mer-
chant, charged with defrauding the Leeds Bank of
£lOO,OOO, was also adj ourned to these sessions. It will
be remembered that the trial was postponed from
the October sessions on account of the absence of
Mr. Greenland, the manager of the Leeds Bank,
through whose intrumentality the money was ad-
vanced to the defendant, and who is at present at
Geneva. It is doubtful whether he will be in attend-
ance at these sessions, and as the counsel for the
defence rely upon his evidence to show that there
was no fraud on the part of Mr. Elgeley in the
transaction, it is probable that, if he be still absent,
the trial may be again postponed. Another case of
considerable importance was the charge against Mr.
Robert Short Waters, the former steward to the Earl
of Shaftesbury, of having embezzled and applied
to his own use a large sum of money belonging
to the noble earl, and which he hal received
on his account in his capacity of steward. Thera
was a charge of a very serious nature against
a late police-constable named Richard S:nith, of
having, with another person, wilfully set fire to
premises that were on his beat while on duty, either

'or the purpose of showing his supposed diligence,
he having been the first parson who gave the alarm,
or with some other mischievous object. There was
also a charge of a similar character against a person
named Richard Morris, who kept a public-house
at the east end of the town, and who is accused
of having attempted to destroy his premises by
igniting a quantity of gunpowder in a tin-case by
means of a fuse attached to it. The powder ex-
ploded, but fortunately without doing any serious
mischief, and the offence imputed to the prisoner
was, that he wilfully caused the explosion, which
might have been attended with the most disastrous
results. There were several cases of forgery, and
among them was one of a very peculiar character
against a young man of fashionable appear-
ance, named Walter White, who was said to
ba very respectably connected, and who was
charged with having become associated with some,
of the stylish prostitutes living at the West-end,
and giving them cheques for different amounts, re.
ceiving money in change, the cheques turning out
to be utterly worthless. There are no less than four
charges of this description against the prisoner, and
he appears to have carried a a regular system
of fraud of the kind referred to upon " ladies" of
this particular class. The case of the fashionable
swindler calling herself the Hon. Geraldine Maurice
and Lady Maurice, which was postponed from the
previous sessions, will also come on at these sessions.
The grand jury having returned, the trials shortly
afterwards commenced, the first being the case of
Eustace and another, who stood charged with the
unlawful possession of a quantity of carpet.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge re-
turned to Gloucester House on Saturday evening. from a
visit to Lord and Lady Londesborough, at Grimston Park,
Yorkshire.

His Excellency the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
and the Marchioness of Abercorn have arrived at Chester-
field House from Shughorough, the E Lrl of Lichfield's seat
in Staffordshire.

The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland have ar-
rived at Stafford House, St. James's.

Mrs. Disraeli, the wife of the Chancellor of the
Exchequer, is suffering from an attack of conge.stion of
the lungs; arising from cold caught ou.her journey home
from Scotland. Dr. Cowell and Dr. Gull have been in
attendance. The medical report last night was rathor
more favourable.

MADAME MIRA3ION.—Aruong the passengers who
have just arrived at St. Nazaire by the Etoamer Louisiane
is Madame Miramon, widow of the Mexican general who
was shot with the Emperor Maximilian at Queretaro. She
intends to reside in France with her children.
i_SENTENCE UPON THE FENIAN PRISONERS IN IRE-
LAND.—DuBLIN, Saturday.—Warren and Halpin were sen-
tenced to-day to fifteen years' penal servitude each, Cos-
tello to twelve years. The latter called God to witness his
innocence; the others spoke in a defiant tone.

Tho Leamington and Warwickshire Hunt Meeting,
under the management of Mr. S. Merry, will monopolise
four days of the present 'week—commencing to-morrow
(Tuesday). Those animals which take my fancy most for
the Nursery Handicap aro Chivalry 7st 91b, Mariner Gst
101 b, Kettleholder Gst 71b, and Manton, sst 101 b ; and I
think whichever carries Mr. Brayley's coIours—MARINER
or lfAmoN—will win, especially if he selects the latter
and engages a jockey like Butler to ride him. The Selling
Nursery Handicap is also to be decided on the first day,
and for that event LADY GLENDORA looks well in. She is
a nice-looking filly, by St.Albans, and beat a large field for
the Innkeepers' Plate at Harrow a short time ago. There
are a large number of entries for the Handicap of 5 sovs
each, of which I give the preference to FREEM.:SON and
COLUMBINE. Of the thirty-three nominations for the Don-
nington Handicap Queen of Trumps and Jeannie Dean;
both in Wadlow's stable, are decidedly best in, but they
have not shown good form lately, and have several other
dangerous competitors to meet. Oecrops is not out of the
race, and there are a dozen others who look to have a
chance on paper; but as he has once or twice proved him-
self a good horse over a short course, my recommendation
must be WILD MOOR.