The Sun.
London, England, 1866-01-13 00:00:00

TIM SUN, LONCON, SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 13, IFIG.

LAW INTELLIGENCE—This Bay.

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.

(Before Mr. Justices Mellor, Blackburn, and Lush.)

LLOYD V. LITTLE.

Mr. Sergeant Atkinson, for the defendant, moved
in this case for a new trial. The case was origi-
nally heard before Mr. Justice Blackburn at Guild-
hall, and resulted in a verdict being returned for
plaintiff, the defendant being absent when he was
called upon to give evidence. The learnedsergeant
said the defendant was absent from accieThnt, and
had he been examined a different version would
have been presented. The action was brought for
the recovery of the price of a quantity of gold quartz,
iron ore, and wine, which the plaintiff alleged he
sold to defendant quite as a matter of speculation.
The mineral, if it proved to be gold quartz, would
be worth twenty times the value paid for it ; but
if not, it would be comparatively worthless. This
latter circumstance turned out to be the case, but
the defendant said such was not the arrangement.
The money alleged to be due had been paid into
court, and, under all the circumstances of the case,
he submitted there ought to be a new trial.
The Court granted the application.
(Sittings at Guildhall.)
(Before the Lord Chief Justice and a Special Jury.)

SPORTING, INTELLIGENOE.

TURF NEWS FROM NEWMARKET.---P. Price has pur-
chased Kat for the foreign market, and she has left for
Germany. Flowery Land, by Promised Land out of Adu-
lation, who had been turned out of training for a few weeks,
is now at work again. At the Brick Kiln Paddocks, Mr.
W. Martin's Lucenia, by Lord of the Isles, slipped a foal
by Ace of Clubs. At Messrs. Barrow's Paddocks, on the
10th inst., Olitipa, a colt foal bySt. Albans. Several more
of Lord Glasgow's 2-yr-olds are shortly expected to join
Godding's string. A heavy fall of snow on Wednesday
night has put a stop to training operations for the present.

KIDDERMINSTER HUNT STEEPLECHASES.—This now
popular local meeting is fixed to come off on Monday, the
12th of March, under the stewardship of Walter do S.
Blount, Esq., Captain Foster, Alfred Grant, Esq., M.P. ; W.
C. Hemming, Esq.; the Hon. P. Lygon, M.P. ; the wor-
shipful the Mayor (Alfred Talbot, Esq.); J. Watson, Esq. ;
C. Wikstead, Esq., and Sir T. E. Winnington, Bait, M.P.
EGIIAM RACES.--The manufacture of the Prince Alfred
Cup, to be run for at the next meeting, has been entrusted
to the well-known firm of Garrard. As this piece of plate
is to be of the value of 200 gs., they will be able to produce
a work of art worth competing for.
THE LIVERPOOL HUNT CLUB. —The spring meeting of
this exclusive club is fixed for April 20 and 21.
Llangollen has changed hands, and is.now the property
of Mr. Blunt. Ho still remains in T. Roado's stable at
Lewes.

Blackheath and Woolwich Races will take place on
Easter Monday and Tuesday, April 2 and 3.
YORK SPRING MEETING.—Mr. MGeorge has been ap-
pointed starter for this meeting.
The five-year-old Sister to The Drake has been named
" Pintail."

No Name, five years, has been renamed " Skiff."

RACING FIXT

RES FOR 1866.
lARY.

FEBR"
Lincoln

Nottingham Spring 27
Cli.

MA.
Derby Spring 1
Liverpool Spring
Warwick Spring
Doncaster
Lewes Spring

Croxton Park l6
Northampton 2O
Windsor Spring
Newcastle Spring 2B

AP:
Newmarket Craven 2
Durham
Blackheath & Woolwich 2
Catterick Bridge
Abergavenny 5
Lichfield Spring
Chelmsford Spring

T hirsk lO
Epsom Spring
Newinarket Ist Spring l6
Liverpool Hunt Cup 2O
Chester
Curragh 24

MA
Ascot Spring'
31
Salisbury
Bath 8
Harpenden lO
York Spring

Epsom Summer l5
Uxbridge 2l
Manchester
Ascot Summer

JU
Windsor Summer 5
Newton
Hampton 7
Odiham
Bibury l3
Stockbridge
Chelmsford l9

Liverpool
Beverley 2O
Ipswich
Hungerford
Newcastle on-Tyne 26
Curragh 26
Worcester
.Y.
Stamford l9
Radcliffe 23
Winchester 24
Southampton 25
Huntingdon.
Goodwood 3l

JU
Carlisle
Newmarket July
Pontefract
Abingdon
Reading
Nottingham
Down Royal Corp lB
AUG

Brighton
Brighton Club
Lewes lO
Egham 14
Wolverhampton l4
Stockton l5
Oxford l6
Hastings 2l
_

SEPT]
Warwick September 4
CtuTagh
Leicester 6
Doncaster
Brecon l7
Canterbury lB

NOVE
Lincoln
Liverpool

York August 2l
Plymouth
Lichfield - 27
Devon and Exeter . ......
Tunbridge 2B
Derby Summer 29
Weymouth 3O

;MBER.
Richmond
Hendon
Monmouth
Manchester Autumn 21
Newmarket Ist October 25
Walsall
IBER.

Shrewsbury
Leamington Hunt l9

The arrangements for the appointment of Mr.
Giischen were completed on Thursday afternoon, and the
right hon. gentleman joins the Cabinet as the Chancellor
of the Duchy of Lancaster.
THE FIRST ALL ENGLAND PLOUGHING MATCH
of 1866.—The first match of this year took place on
Tuesday last at Turner's Hill, near East Grinstead, in
Sussex. Thole were nine competitors in the All England
Class, and the Champion and three other prizes in this
class were won with Ransoms and Simes's ploughs. This
firm had six ploughs competing at this match, every one
of which gained a prize.
MIDDLE-CLASS EDUCATION IN THE CITT.—A
meeting was held at the Mansion House yesterday,
in furtherance of the movement for establishing middle-
class schools in the City. The committee, appointed at
the meeting held for the same purpose some time ago, pre-
sented a report of what they had done. They think that
a school in which 800 or 1,000 children may receive edu-
cation at a rate of payment not exceeding £1 per annum,
should bo erected in Finsbury. For this £50,000 would be
required; but the committee resolved to raise a fund of
XlOO,OOO, and for that purpose asked the bankers, mer-
chants, and public bodies of London to subscribe sums of
Xl,OOO or X5OO each. In answer to their appeal 33 sub-
scriptions of £l,OOO each, and seven of £5OO each have
been promised, besides several smaller sums. The report
of the committee was adopted, and resolutions passed
urging the active prosecution of the work.
THE FUNERAL OF SIR CHARLES EASTLAKE.—On
the 47th of December we were at the beautiful
extramural Campo Santo, beyond Porta S. Gallo, to attend
an occasion when British residents had been invited, by
public notice, to show their respect for the illustrious dead
—the funeral of Sir Charles Eastlake, which took place at
noon, many English visitors being present besides the im-
mediate mourners, among whom Lady Eastlake had the
fortitude to take her honoured place. It was a clear, frosty,
and beautiful day ; the villa-studded heights of Fiesole rose
distinct in view beyond the cypress avenues and marble
tombs; no scene could have worn an aspect of more sooth-
ing and sunny loveliness, yet at the same time harmonious
in its bright repose, with the solemnity of death. On this
day we saw, for the first time, the monument of Mrs.
Browning, reminding us of her funeral, which took place
on a summer evening here.—Builder.

ROBBERY OF £875 FROM A MAIL TRAIN.—A
most extensive robbery has taken place in connection with
the postal delivery in the north of Scotland. The letter-
bags in the mail train, which leaves Aberdeen in the morn-
ing for the south, were on Thursday found to hare had
abstracted from them the sum of £875 in mixed notes.
We have been unable to learn at what part of the journey
the robbery took place. The police authorities in Edin-
burgh were apprised of the fact by telegram from Aber-
deen, and measures are being taken for the detection of the
thief.—Caledonian Mercury.
COURT-MARTIAL ON THE OFFICERS OF H.M.S.
BULLDOG.—The court-martial upon Captain Wake and the
officers late of H.M.S. Bulldog for the loss of that ship
will be opened on board the port admiral's ship, the Royal
Adelaide, at Devonport, on Monday next. The evidence
is to be strictly limited to the nautical circumstances con-
nected with the losing of the ship. An investigation into
the alleged breach of the orders of Admiral Sir James
Hope, G.C.8., that no hostile movement was to bo com-
menced without his express sanction, has not been ordered
by the Admiralty.

THE MURDER SEAR ABERDARE.—On Thursday
the coroner's jury proceeded with the inquest on the body
of the young man found dead in a wood near Aberdare a
few days ago. A verdict of wilful murder was returned
against the accused, Robert Coe.

ATTEMPT TO MURDER AT DERBY.—At the Derby
Borough Police-court yesterday, before Mr. R. Pegg, Wil-
liam Smith, joiner, Stockbrook-street, aged 30, a married
man with a family, was charged with stabbing, with intent
to murder, Mr. Thomas Winfield, corn-factor, Crompton-
street. Smith was removing some goods from a house the
property of Mr. Winfield, who put a bailiff in possession.
At the request of Smith tho bailiff called Mr. Winfield
back, when the prisoner ran at him with a large knife, and
said " Take that, you--." The instrument penetrated
two thicknesses of a top-coat, through the trousers, and
entered the lower part of the body.
THE ALLEGED POISONING AT BACUP.—On Wed-
nesday the adjourned inquest on tho body of Alice Tow, a
native of Stockport, who, it was supposed, had been
poisoned with white precipitate of mercury by a young
married man called Henry Heap, was held at Bacup before
Mr. Hargreaves. Dr. C. Calvert, of Manchester, analytical
chemist, said ho had examined the stomach, liver, and in-
testines sent to him, but had not been able to find the pre-
sence of any mercurial poison. The coroner hAving
summed up, a verdict of death from natural causes was re-
turned. Manchester Courier.

STRANGE VISITORS TO ALDERSHOT.—A peculiar
and unpleasant race has lately made its appearance
at Aldershot Camp, and in such force that its existence
and presence has had to be taken official military notice of.
The army there has been daringly invaded by immense
numbers of rats, and the depredations of those obnoxious
foragers have become so great that it has been considered
necessary to adopt stringent measures to ensure their de-
struction. On Monday and Tuesday, in no less than eight
battalions or lines of huts, poison was deposited, and a
cautionary notice to that effect issued by the assistant-ad-
jutant-general, Colonel Newdegate.

DEATH IN A RAILWAY CARRIAGE.--OH the arri-
val of a train at the Paris terminus of the Northern Rail-
way yesterday morning, a passenger was found in a crouch-
ing position in a third class carriage quite dead, apparently
from a :fit of apoplexy. He had taken the train at St.
Quentin, and on his person was found the sum of 6,000 f.,
as well as a letter addressed to M. Boncelina, pig dealer, at
Contesson, but no papers to prove his identity. The body
was removed to the Morgue, and an inquiry has been Corn-
meßced to discover his family.—Galignam.

Railwa_y,ftn!l other Companies.

NORTH LONDON.

In the account of the proceedings at a meeting of
this company which appeared in The Sun of Thurs-
day it was stated that Mr. Hartridge called the
attention of the directors to the delays that fre-
quently occurred in working the traffic on their
line between Broad-street and Bow, it should have
been between Camden-station and Bow. Travel-
lers between Camden and Bow stations and the
Great Eastern and Blackwall Railways now had to
make a detour to Dalston, there alight, pass over a
bridge, and proceed by the next train ; instead of
as formerly, travelling in one carriage throughout.
The working of the traffic as between Broad-street
and Bow was deemed satisfactory.