The Sun.
London, England, 1860-05-04 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 4, 1860.!

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

CHESTER RACES.—WEDNESDAY.—(CONCLUDED.)
Helter Skelter Handicap of 5 sovs each, with 30 added, the

second to save his stake. Half a mile. 9 subs.
Mr. Hughes's Fractious, by Orlando, 5 yrs, 7st 41b
(Custance) 1
Captain Archdall's Niger, 3 yrs, 6st .. (Sadler) 2
Mr. Newland's Buttercup, 3 yrs, Gst Sib (Bottom) 3
The following also ran :—Fusee, Miss Julia, Layton,
Swale, Brocketina, and Pretty Rosa.
Betting-2 to 1 agst Fractious; 4to 1 agst Pretty Rosa,
5 to 1 each agst Miss Julia and Layton.

Won by a length ; half a length between the second and
third—good fourth.
The Scramble Handicap, of 5 sovs each, with 30 added.
The winner to be sold for SO sovs, &c. Three-quarters
of a mile. Six subs.

Mr. Hughes's Spiteful Dick, by Bryan O'Lynn, G yrs,
7st 101 b (Custanca) 1
Mr. Hardy's Emerald, 4 yrs, 7st 21b (Entwistle) 2
Mr. Dawson's Si: Joseph, 4 yrs, Bst 41b.. (Bullock) 3
The following also ran : —Miss Eleanor, Rattlesnake, and
Miss Fisher.

Betting-5 to 4on Spiteful Dick ;2to 1 agst Rattle
snake.

Won by six lengths; a length between the second and
third ; Miss Eleanor and Rattlesnake close up ; Miss
Fisher beaten off.

Her Majesty's Plate of 100 guineas, for three-yr-olds, 7st
21b ; four, 9st 21b ; five, 9st 121 b ; six and aged, lOst 21b.
Twice round.
Mr. T. Parr's Avalanche, by Wild Dayrell, 3 yrs, 7st 21b _

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(Clements) 1
Mr. C. Peck's Crim Tartar, 3 yrs, 7st 21b (H. Robertson) 2
Mr. Edwards's Jack Spring, 6 yrs, lOst 21b
(J. Osborne) 3

II Gardenia filly and Ploughboy

Barlow weighed for Mr. Brandreth's Music, 3 yrs, but
was thrown on his way to the post, and the filly did not
start.

Betting-6 to 4on Avalanche, 2to 1 agst Jack Spring.
Won by a length, the same between the second and third ;
bad fourth. Ploughboy tailed off.

THURSDAY'S RACING.

The Scurry Handicap of 5 sous each, with 30 added.
Three-quarters of a mile. 6 subs.
Capt. Christie's Brandy Ball, 4 yrs, Bst 71b (G. Fordham) 1
Mr. Brown's The Norman, 2 yrs, sst 101 b (Woodhouse) 2
Mr. W. Sharp's Layton, 4 yrs, 7st 71b (Charlton) 3
The following also ran :—Buttercup and Sheffield.

Betting-5 to 4 agst Brandy Ball, 6to 4 agst Norman.

Layton made play to the turn into the straight, where lie
was beaten, and the favourite took up the running, closely
pursued by Norman, who never got up, and was beaten by
half a length ; bad third ; Sheffield, last throughout, was
beaten off.

Marquis of Westminster's Plate, value 100 in specie, added
to a Handicap Sweepstake of 10 soya each ; extra weight
for winners ; the second to receive 20 sous out of the

stakes. Grosvenor Course. 18 subs.
Mr. Hargreaves's Horace, 3 yrs, sst 101 b (W. Buck) 1
Mr. Gibbs's Golden Pippin, 3 yrs, 6st 21b..(Grlinshaw) 2
Mr. Merry's Apollyon, 3 yrs, 7st (Custanee) 3

The following also ran :—Master Bagot and Homeward
Bound.

Betting—Even on Golden Pippin, 3 to 1 agst Apollyon,
6 to 1 agst Horace and Master Bagot.
Apollyon, Horace, and Master Bagot ran in front to the
stand, where Horace took up the running. The favourite
lay last until half way up the Dee side, where she took
second place, but never caught Horace, who won by half a
length; a length between second and third ; bad fourth,
The Cheshire Welter Cup of 100 sovs, by subscription of 20

sovs each, 10 ft, with 50 added. Grosvenor Course. 16

subs, 9 of whom declared, and pay 5 soya each.
Mr. Pearce's Irish Emigrant, 4 yrs, lOst 71b (inc. 51b ex.)
(Thorpe) 1
Mr. Eastwood's Tommy Noble (h b), 3 yrs, 1 Ist 61b)
(Mr. Blake) 3
Mr. Whitworth's Lady Mary gelding, 4 yrs, 1 Ist 131 b
(inc. 51b extra)
Mr. C.Reynard's Cherry Cb.ap,s yrs, 1 Ist 91b (Mr. Boynton) 4
Betting—Even on the Lady Mary gelding, 7 to 4 agst
Irish Emigrant, 6 to 1 agst each of the others offered.
Irish Emigrant made all the running, and won by half a
length ; a neck between the second and third, Cherry Chap
close up.
The Dee Stakes of 10 sons each, with 200 added, forth i-77-
yr-olds ; colts, Bst 71b ; fillies, Bst 21b ; second to receive

20 sovs out of the stakes. 47 subs.
Mr. Merry's gr c Brother to Rainbow, Bst 71b(Custance) 1
Mr. T. Dawson's Sir William, Bst 71b (Bullock) 2
Mr. Parker's Common Sense colt, Bst 71b....(Fordham) 3
The following also ran :—Upperhand, Man-at-Arms,
Grand Master, Error, South Australian, and Sparrow
Hawk.

Botting-7 to 4 agst Upporhand, 4 to 1 agst Sir William,
5 to
.1 oast Bvher to Rainbow, 100 to 15 agst Sparrow
hawk, 8 to 1 agst the Common Sono° oolt, 9 to 1 agst Man-
at-Arms.

The favourite got away first, but on passing the Stand
Sparrow Hawk showed in advance, Error, Brother to Rain-
bow, Man-at-Arms, and Common Sense colt being next.
Midway up the Dee side of the course Brother to Rainbow
took the lead, and was followed into the straight by Sir
William and Common Sense colt ; the grey, however,
maintained his advantage to the end, and won by a length,
the second beating the third by half a length, good fourth,
Man-at •Arms fifth several lengths off, and Grand ;Master
last.

Immediately after the race 1,000 to 15 each was taken
Brother to Raini3ow and Sir William, and 1,000 to 10 ten
times about Upperhand, for the Derby.
Match, £lOO, h ft.—Aquamarine beat Schoolmaster.
The Stand Cup.
Brandy Ball
Golden Pippin
Black Cloud
Won by three-quarters of a length.
The Biennial.

Big Ben ..Walked over.

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, THURSDAY MORNING.

THE MORTARA CASES.
Yesterday Mr. Denis O'Connor, one of the prin-
cipal parties charged with the abduction of the Sher-
wood children, presented himself before the Court
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yh ewwe
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ionrceurs.
rogated by the Chief Justice, Mr. O'Connor ex-
pressed his regret that it was not in his power to
produce the minors, as it was another person who
removed them. One of the other Judges then in-
formed him he was in custody for contempt, and he
was finally ordered, being of a respectable class of
life, to find securities himself in £lOO, and two
sureties of £5O each, to answer certain interroga-
tories which were to be exhibited to him. O'Connor
was finally removed in custody. In the same case
an'absolute order for a writ of habeas corpus, to be
directed to the Rev. Jeffrey Lynch, P.P. of West-
laud-row Chapel, and also to the grandmother of
the infants, and Catherine Davis, was obtained on
Monday last, from the Lord Chief Justice, in
chamber, and the writ, returnable to-day, issued,
directing them to bring up the bodies of the four
infants, by whatsoever name they might now be
called or known. The affidavit on which the order
was obtained stated grounds for believing that the
ehildren were in the custody, power, or procure-
ment of the parties named. A return was handed
in by the Rev. Jeffrey Lynch, in which he states
that he has not the children, and had them not, and
that he does not know where they. are, and there-
fore cannot comply with the mandate of the writ.

THE BANKRUPTCY BILL

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The Bankruptcy Bill of the Attorney-General, in
its amended form, has just been printed. Among
the principal alterations are the following :—The
Assistant-Judge is to, sit in Basinghall-street (in-
stead of Portugal-street), so that all the bank-
ruptcy business in London will be transacted in one
' building. The proceedings in any bankruptcy may
be removed into a County Court on the resolution of
a majority of creditors, without reference to the
amount of liabilitks or assets (instead of the juris-
diction of the Court, or the action of creditors being
limited to estates with assets not exceeding £1,000).
The claus-es relating to acts of bankruptcy for non-
payment of bills of exchange and promissory notes
are ;,truck out. The clauses as to seizure and
sale under an execution by the sheriff being an
act of bankruptcy are amended by compelling the
sheriff in all cases to sell the goods by public
auction, and to advertise such sale three days be-
fore it takes place. The execution creditor is to be
paid the amount due to him at the expiration of
seven days from sale, unless the sheriff has notice
of a petition for adjudication ; but if a petition
shall be presented within sixty days after such
sale the assignees may recover back the amount
from the execution creditor • after sixty days the
sale is not to be an act of bankruptcy. Clauses have
been added to enable the Court to issue a summons
returnable in four days, calling upon a debtor to
show cause why he should not be adjudged bank-
rupt upon the creditor filing an affidavit deposing
to the following facts :—That a debt sufficient to
support a petition for adjudication is due, that he
has ell •• • •40nzentrzlthe verily...believes •his
•- • Or sin insolvent circumstances, and setting
forth his reasons for entertaining that belief. On
the hearing of the summons, if the Court shall be
satisfied that the debtor is insolvent, it shall adjudge
him bankrupt. If after the issuing of the sum-
mons, and before the debtor shall have satisfied the
Court of his solvency, he shall pay the creditor
any money on account of such debt, and the
debtor shall be adjudged bankrupt upon his
own petition, or on the application of any other
creditor, within sixty days after the issuing of the
summons, the assignees shall recover back all money
so paid. The Court is to have full power to award
costs to either party on the hearing of the summons.
Creditors' assignees are not to be paid remuneration,
but shall be selected from the body of creditors, and
allowed to appoint a manager (not being an official
assignee or solicitor), to wind up the estate under
their direction and responsibility, and such manager
is to be paid out of the assets realised. (In the
original bill official assignees might be appointed
creditors' assignees, and allowed remuneration.) The
stamp-duty payable upon petitions for adjudication
in the chief court or county district court to be £5,
half of which sum is to be returned if the assets do
not exceed £3OO. Petitions in the London District
Court or a County Court are to have a stamp of £l.
(In the bill all petitions for adjudication were to
pay a £lO stamp duty, half of which was to be re-
turned where assets did not exceed £300.) It will
be noticed that these various modifications do not
include the introduction of any penal inflictions on
insolvents setting up vexatious defences. Some
provision of the kind will, however, it is believed,
be found absolutely essential, and the Mercantile
Law Amendment Society will doubtless continue
their vigilance on that point.—Times' City Article.

UNITED STATES AND CANADA.

LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY.
The screw steamship Anglo Saxon, Captain
Ballantyne, which sailed from Portland on the 21st
ult., and touched at Queenstown yesterday morn-
ing, arrived here to-clay.
The approaching Democratic National Conven-
tion at Charleston monopolised. the attention of
politicians. The Convention was to assemble on
the 23d ult., and the latest despatches state that
Charleston was already crowded with visitors.
President Buchanan had written a letter posi-
tively and peremptorily declining the use of his
name for re-nomination.
The proceedings in Congress had been of slight
importance.
The Legislature of the State of New York bad
adjourned sine die.

The Washington correspondent of the New York
Times says it was understood that the republican
senators would support the Mexican treaty, if
amended.

A Washington telegram of the 20th says :
" The question involved in the protest of the
Spanish ministers against the capture of Marin's
steamers is, as to their legal transfer from the
Spanish owners to General Miramon, previous to
that occurrence.

"There is reason to believe that the House
Committee on Foreign Affairs will report a bill
for providing a first class mission to Sardinia,
in accordance with Mr. Burlingame's resolu-
tion, adopted to-day. It was prefaced by a
Preamble,,which, however, was withdrawn at the
request "of several gentlemen. The -preamble sets
forth that the kingdom of Sardinia, by recent ac-
cessions, has been raised to a first-class power, ex-
tending from the Alps to the Adriatic, and em-
bracing within its limits the richest and most popu-
lous portion of Italy, over which extensive dominion
constitutional representative government has been
established, order maintained, and freedom of the
press and religion secured.
The treaty which Minister Preston has concluded
with Spain provides for the ascertainment and set-
tlement of the pending claims.
The New York .Herald says :—"We are informed
that no less than six vessels have left this port for
the African coast within the past fortnight, all of
which expect to have negroes for their return
cargoes."
The United States steamer Powhattan sailed on
the 7th for Panama, with the Japanese embassy on
board. The Japanese steamer Candinmarrah will
remain at San Francisco till advices are received of
the arrival of the embassy at Washington, and then
return to Japan, to announce to the Emperor the
news of their reception at the federal capital.