The Sun.
London, England, 1866-05-09 00:00:00

NOTTINGHAM, Bth.—There was a moderate a'

tendance at our Exchange-hall to-day. There was a
limited demand for lace yarns, and where business
was pressed prices were in favour of the buyer.
The demand for hosiery yarns continues dull, prices
tending downwards. The inquiry for brown nets
was very inactive, and prices were easier.
ROCHDALE, 7th.—The flannel market is still de-

pressed, and even a little more so than last week.
Few buyers have been calling at the warehouses
since our last report, and to-day the attendance was
miserably thin. Some limited transactions took place
in fancy goods, but otherdepartmeuts are more than
ever neglected. Notwithstanding the slow consump-
tion, the industry of the manufacturing population
is well engaged, and in one branch the hands have
obtained a substantial advance in their wages.
There is no change for the better in the Yorkshire
trade, and wool is quiet, with every prospect of it
remaining so until after the approaching sales.

Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day.

The market is very much depressed. Sales pro
bably 5,000 bales.

STEEPLECHASINC.—At the Lewes Petty Sessions
yesterday, Mr. J. G. Blencowe, chairman, Allen
Sadler, jockey; Mr. Edmund Duke, owner of several
racehorses; and Mr. William Wyatt were summoned by
the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals, for having, on the 4th of April, at Ringmer,
unlawfully beaten and ill-treated a horse. Mr. Lang-
ham, of Uckfield, appeared for the society ; and Mr.
Lamb, of Brighton, defended. Mr. Lamb, to save trouble,
consented to plead guilty if the facts were not brought out,
but the magistrates said they must hear the circumstances,
and accordingly the case proceeded, the defendants plead-
ing not guilty. The circumstances were these :—On
the 4th of April the annual steeplechases were hold at
Ringiner. The weather had beon very wet; consequently
the ground was heavy. In one race a horse called Barabas
ran, and was ridden by the defendant Sadler. Before

it arrived at the last fence it was observed to be exceedingly
exhausted and swerved to and fro. When it reached the final
leap it refused to take it, whereupon the defendant Wyatt
struck it violently with a whip on its haunches, and the
jockey used his whip freely. Ultimately Barabas attempted
to clear the fence, but failed, and fell on to the bank with
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,s legs and head doubled under its body. In this position
Sadler stood over it and inflicted 10 or 12 severe blows with
an ash plant. So violent was he that a universal cry of
"Shame " was raised, and the mob called on the police to
take the jockey into custody. Instead of doing so, however,
they thrust him aside and endeaveured to protect the animal
from further injury. Mr. Duke then presented himself,
very excited, and, swearing, said he was the owner of the
horse, and endeavoured to resist the police. The horse being
unable move itself was lifted up by several persons, and
supported for a short distance, when it walked very slowly
away, bleeding and much exhausted. It was then covered
with mud; in this condition it was taken for some miles
to Mr. Duke's stables, which it reached at 11 o'clock at
night. It was left there unwashed till 7 o'clock the next
morning. When the horse was being ridden towards the
last leap several persons on horseback, seeing the sad condi-
tion it was in, rode across it in order to prevent its jump-
ing tho fence, but they were driven back by the jockey
with the ash plant which he carried ; and when it first re-
fused the leap Mr. Wyatt gave it two or three hard knocks
with a whip. Mr. Duke also struck the animal. These facts
were spoken to by Mr. A. Donovan (a magistrate), Mr.
Langridge (clerk of the peace), Mr. T. Chatfield (son of
the High Constable of Lewes), Superintendent Jennel, and
others. Mr. Langridge was cross-examined to show that he
was interested in the result of the race, and that he rode
across Barabas to prevent its getting a second place. He
denied, however, that he had any bets on the race, and
said he rode across the horse because it would have been
great cruelty to make it take the fence. He was himself a
sporting man, but the treatment that Barabas received was
to his mind excessively cruel, and worse than he had seen
any other horse treated that day, although they were all
more or less ill-used. Mr. Donovan, who was one of the
stewards, said ho himself felt rather conscience-stricken
upon the matter. The course was very heavy, and all the
horses had to be hardly treated to make them get along.
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THE
return printed for the information of Parliament relative
to the redistribution of seats was published yesterday. It
consists of seven pages. The chief details were given in
our yesterday's parliamentary report. In the case of bo-
roughs with two members which are to return one only in
future, the population is given, and the net number of £lO
and other electors, and the same kind of statistics are sup-
plied as to the boroughs proposed to be grouped and the
boroughs which are to have additional members. The
population is given, too, of the boroughs which are to be
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