The Sun.
London, England, 1858-07-22 00:00:00

T. Y. C.

Mr. Barber's Abron, 3 yri4, 6,t 71b ......(8u110ck) 1
Mr. Bildwinson's Lizzie, 3 yrs, ait 71b (Bray) 2
Mr. J. o.b rn,i's Alfred, 5 yra, 81t, 101 b (inc. bib ex.)
(Cbal!ouer) 3
The fol!owing also ran:—Bradley, 1E hoc, aud Sham-
rock-An-Green,

Betting--6 to 4 agit Abron, 3to 1 agst L:zzle, 4to
1 agst thon.

Won easily by ball a length ; a length between the
sec )nd and third ; two lengths between the third and
f
The Pcrtland Handicap Platecf 50 sous. Winners

extra. T.Y. U.
Capt. Vtrncr's Turret, 3 yre, 6it 12. b (Ducker) 1
Mr. J. o.4b)rnbra Gnatcatoher, 3 yre, sst 3.b

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(Challoner) 2
Mr. Cliff's The Jade, 4 yr 3, 6-;t 121 b (Snowden) 3
The following also ran :—Badsworth and Katherine
Logie.

Betting-6 to 4 agst Gnatcatcher, 5 to 2 agst The
Jade, 4 to 1 aget each of the others.
Woo by a neck ; a IPrigth between the second and
third ; Badsworth and Katherine I,,gie were well up.

The Chesterfield Handicap if 15 sove each, 10 ft, and 5
0n!37 if declared, with 50 added ; certain winners
__extra. One mile and a ball.

Mr. Copland's Thornhill, 3 yrs, bat 5.b (Bullock) 1
Mr. J. 0 borne's Tribuco, 3 yrR, 61t 31b (Challoner) 2
Mr. T. Daweon's Waterloo, 3 yrs, 64 (Madden) 3
Betting-6 to 4on Trabuc), and 7to 4 aget

Won by two lengths ; bad third.
The Grand Stand Stakes of 30 tiOs7F, added to a Sweep•
stakes of 5 soya each, for Lll ages. Optional selling
weights, T.Y C. 4 sub.i.

Mr. J. 0-borne's Princess of Orange, 4 yrs (301) 1
Mr. J. Thompson's Sans Culots-e, 4 yrs (80/.)
Her Maj-sty's P 1 to of 100 guineas ; three yr-olds, 7st
7U ; four, 9it ; five, 9st 61b ; bix and aged, 9.t 91b.
Two miles.

Mr. T. Parea Fi,berman, 5 yrs, gat Gib 1
Mr. Saxon's Princess Royal, 3 yrs, 7st 71b 2

THE CASE OF SIVINFEN v. STTINFEN.

As one or two inaccuracies appear in the para-
graph from the London papers, it may be interest-
ing, while correcting these, to give a resume of the
circumstances under which this cause celebre comes
on for trial once more at the present Stafford
assizes. Mr. Samuel Swinfen, of Swinfen
near Lichfield, died a few years ag e having, by a
will made shortly previous to his death, devised his
estates, worth 60,0001. or 80,e00/. to the widow
of his only KW. The son had died suddenly a
short time before the making of th;s will. After
the death of old Mr. Swinfen, the heir at-law,
Captain Swinfen (son of a half-brother, and per-
sonally unknown to the testator), claimed the
estates on the ground that the will was invalid.
The action to decide this wan to have been tried at
Stafford in the spring of 1856, Sir Frederick Thew-
ger (now Lord Chelmsford) being Mrs. Swinfen's
leading counsel. During its progress, Sir Frederick,
contrary to the expressed desire of his client, en-
tered into a compromise with the counsel of the
heir-at-law, according to which Mrs. Swinton was
to give up all claim to the estates, and receive
1,0001. a year for life (not 3,0001. a year, as
stated). Mrs. Swinfen repudiated the right of
her counsel to enter into a compromise without her
authority, and sought immediately to be relieved
from it. The arrangement, however, having been
made by a rule of court, application was in the next
term made to the Court of Common Pleas to commit
Mrs Swinfen to prison for net acceding to the terms
come to by Sir Frederick onher behalf. On thisocca-
sion his counsel made affidavits against her; but
sfter a very able and elaborate argument from Mr.
Kennedy, Mrs. S widen's counsel, the court refuse I
to make a rule absolute for her committal. A bill
for specific performance was afterwards filed in
Chancery, to compel her to accept ;he compromise.
This bill was dismissed by the Master of the Rolls,
and an appeal against the decision, entered before
the Lords Justices, met with a similar fate, the
court, after hearing Mr. Kennedy, confirming the
decision of the Master of the Rolls, and ordeeing
Cap ain Swinfen to pay all costs. Lord Justice
Knight Brace, in giving judgment, condemned
most strongly the course pursued by the defendant
in harassing Mrs. Swinfen by a suit in Chancery.
Mrs. Swinfen being thus completely freed from the
compromise of 1856, the proceedings to test the
validity of the will begin de novo, and the actions
of Swinfen v. Swinfen is to be tried during he
present Stafford assizes by special jury.
Mr. Ken-
r:the
edy will be the leading conn'el on part of
Mrs. Swinfen, and Mr. Edwin James is specially
retained for the other side. Mrs. Swinfen al-°
brings an action against the Lord Chancellor to
recover damages for having entered into the com•
promise. Mr. Kennedy will be her counsel in this
matter. Tee question is of importance to the legal
profession and the public, it having been too fre-
quently the practice of 1,-wiing coonsc-1 to e,.1111 to
terms without coesultieg their clients.—Beeming.
ham Daily Post.

THE NEW Fax CEor. —A floe specimen of new flax
has been left with us by Mr. John B en
of
48 to 50
inches long, grown from Etglidi seed, after a crop of
oats at Springyale, near Dung!).
THE GREAT COMET.—It is stated in leVers from Rah,
t' at the great comet, which was so touch talked of about
a year ago, but faded to appear, has been descried, just
bow the boric to, at the Piiris o.3servatory. The poit.t
of etoergonce is sa'd to bo identified with that indicate d
a mon h ado by Profess r Donati, cf Ficrence.
AUSTRIAN CLEMENCY.—The Corriere dlercxntile cf
Genoa, of the 741, states that the Archduke
in passing through Padua, ordered all the students Rho
had been arrested for jJining in a denions!ration to the
memory of Felice OrAit.i to be set at liberty ; but that,
as soon as he was gone, the military authorities caused
them to be again imprisoned.