The Sun.
London, England, 1859-04-11 00:00:00

SPORTING 217 0 TES.

'A WHY AND BECAUSE.
Why was the report of Sir Charles Monck's
death so industriously put about, and why was it
so tardily denied?
Because racing men are, as a class, the most
credulous, because in their calculations they deem
nothing improbable, and doubtless because it was
to the interest of certain parties to spread a rumour
which would materially alter several large Derby-
and other books. Sir Charles, although at a very
advanced age, bears his years bravely, and is, I am
informed, well and hearty.
Why was Newcastle disqualified at Northamp-
ton ? and why is he to be " re-qualified" for his
other engagments ?

Because o blunder arose in old Burlington-street ;
because Mr. Craven's name was, it is alleged,
erroneously included in the forfeit list ; and because
stewards and referees prefer taking the evidence of
racing officials to that of owners of horses.
Why would a greater confusion have been occa-
sioned if Mr. Dawson had followed out his first
intention, and, in defiance of the stewards' decision,
started his horse for the Northamptonshire Stake P
Because if Newcastle had won he would, accord-
ing to the decision at present promulgated, have
been entitled to the stakes, and because the matter
would, and may yet, serve to fill the pockets of the
lawyers.

Why is it doubtful whether the ruling of the
authorities at Northampton can be set aside ?
Because Mr. Craven's name was published in the
forfeit list, because his forfeit was due, and because
the amount was only paid at Northampton.
Why is it probable, whether the decision be just
or not, that Newcastle is really disqualified for the
engagements for which he is nominated by " Mr.
Craven ?"

Because law is law, and precedent precedent, and
because, to my thinking, Newcastle was disqualified
from the first, and because Mr. Craven's nomina-
tion ought never to have been received.
Why is this opinion given ?

Because Rule 31 expressly states that "No per-
son whose name shall appear in the published
forfeit list shall be entitled to enter or run a horse
for any plate, sweepstakes, or subscription, either
in his own name or in the name of any other per-
son, until he shall have paid up all the forfeits in
respect of which his name appears in the list."
And because, according to this law, Newcastle was
never qualified to be entered for the Great Northern
or any other race for which he was nominated sub
sequent to the publication of the forfeit list, and
until after the forfeits were paid.
Why shall I now let this subject drop ? Because
I am tired and disgusted with injustice and bad
management.

Dismissing the categorical vein, I will now
brieflly direct., attention to the York programme,
which presents many features of interest, but which
suggests very few subjects for discussion.
Should Cavendish be brought out for the St.
Leger, his running will excite much interest, and
as the Life states that Shafto is " off," I shall, to
use an old joke, expect Cavendish to be good to
back on.
Really the race for the Great Northern seems
on paper certain to result in favour of Harraton,
and the money market indicates that this opinion
is pretty wisely entertained. Still, if Newcastle
be allowed to start, I fancy that he will take much
beating ; but I really cannot believe that he will
be permitted take part in the encounter. I have
received good reports of Harefoot, and I shall
couple him with Harraton to represent my interest.
From the three-year-olds nominated for the
Knavesmire Plate I shall select Marsellaise ; of
the two-year-olds I know little or nothing.
Thormanby ran so satisfactorily at Northampton
that I shall select him for the Biennial Stakes.
Mr. Merry, however, may confide his interest to one
of his other nominations.

For the Londesborough Cup my choice will rest
on Volta, Hesperithusa, and. Coxwold.
_ _

The Flying Dutchman's Handicap I shall assign
• .
to Harraton.

The Malton Meeting wilt not attract much atten-
tion from Southern turfites, albeit it will be a suc-
cess. I shall reserve my notes on the Metropolitan
and the City and Suburban until Thursday, when
every fact and scrap connected with the Epsom
Meeting shall be placed-before the reader.
The police have been at their dirty work again
and haue descended upon " Betting men" in all the
violence of their wrath. After employing spies,
after watching, and much dodging, they procured
sufficient evidence to obtain a conviction against
Mr. Butt, the landlord of. the King's Arms, Duke-
street, Grosvenor-square, for " wilfully permitting"
betting on horse racing in his house. The magi-
strate, of course, supported the police, and even
ruled that Mr. Butt was more culpable than a pro-
prietor of a notorious rr betting office," and insinu-
ated, or rather broadly stated that Mr. Butt en-
couraged " gentlemen's servants" and others to
bet, and " not, as might be supposed, to drink Never
was a more arbitrary interpretation of a law than
that enunciated by Mr. Beadon and never
did the police more abuse their power
and pervert their authority than they did
on Monday last, when they entered Mr. Butt's
house, and treated like vagabonds and pickpockets
the persons assembled there—persons who were
congregated together in defiance of no law, per-
sons who met in all peace to diseUss a popular
pastime, and to amuse or employ themselves after
their own bent. Had the persons taken into cus-
tody been engaged in assisting at the celebration of
a prize-fight, or in any other occupation contrary to
the law, the police could not have treated them
with more indignity or with more unjustifiable
severity. How does the case, really stand ?
Many individuals were assembled in a publichouse,
some of them betting—no offence against the
law—some merely listening to the conversa-
tion, and others simply taking refreshments,
The police having been forewarned by their con-
federate-spies, obtained a warrant duly signed by Sir
R. MAYNE, entered the house, took all persons found
therein into custody, searched their pockets as if
they were chargedwith theft, and conveyed them be-
fore a Magistrate. Mr. BEADON is the Rhadamanthus
at whose nod policemen tremble, and who holds
the scales of justice, which are over-balanced by the
weight of a policeman's truncahaevoins.ediMy_anfyouonfdthine
gentlemen use the
,term
Mr. Bat's house were no more infringing the law
than would be a person who was merely witnessing
and not talking about a horse raee.
If Mr. Beadon's judgment be in accordance with
the law, what is to beco
Victoria Club, or man me of Tattersall's, the
y of the' West-end public-
houses in which sporting
In most do congregate?
In the two first-mentlioned establishments betting
on horse racing is
not only allowed, but "wil-
fully permitted ;" yet the frequenters of those
houses are not interfered with. On the con-
trary, at " The Corner," police are on duty
to preserve the approaches to the room clear, and
to see that "honourable members" are not mo-
lested in their passage down the yard. Mr.
Butt is a member of Tattersall's, and when he
approaches the subscription-rooth at Hyde-park-
corner, police precede him, and he is escorted into
the room by our blue-coated guardians of the peace,
who put aside roughly less privileged persons in
their eagerness to clear the way. If Mr. Butt,
however, makes a bet in his own house, 'he and his
customers are pounced upon by the jealous guar-
dians of our morality, and dragged ignominiously
before' a magistrate. Where is the difference

between my Lord Tom Noddy making a bet under
the cover of the police at Tattersall's, and Jack
Nokes or Tom Stiles betting his sovereign in
a subscription-room of a public-house ? The
assertion that Mr. Butt's house was kept for
the purposes of betting is all bosh ; it is about
as true as stating that a theatre in which a rcbbery
may occasionally be committed is kept in order to
facilitate the operations of pickpockets. On this
subject the Sunday Times has well remarked that
Mr. Beadon characterised Mr. Butt's house "as
worse than a common betting office, because ser-
vants visited it, and might be supposed to drink,
whereas it was to bet;" and, straining the most
arbitrary law ever passed to its most arbitrary
limits, he fined Mr. Butt £5O for wilfully per-
mitting his house to be used for the purposes of
" betting on horse-racing," whereas to us it ap-
peared that Mr. Beadon, according to his own ar-
gument, fined Mr. Butt £5O for keeping a public-
house which servants visited, " it might be supposed
to drink." What other supposition could Mr.
Beadon entertain ? Does he fancy that Mr. Butt's
barrels are dry, that his taps are locked up, and
that the "King's Arms" merely means the " Black-
legs," and that the wine and spirits he deals in are
the whine of deluded victims and the spirits of
evil ? The flagrant injustice of the magisterial
decision is patent in the very fact of the persons
brought before Mr. Beadon being all respectable
men, against whom nothing could be urged by the
police more than that they were students of .Rurs
Guide, and that they were in the habit of betting
on horse-racing.

I understand that one of the gentlemen so shame-
fully taken into custody is about to appeal to a
high tribunal for redress, and one of our most
eminent lawyers and statesmen has expressed his
opinion on the gross illegality of the proceedings
of the police. This is a case which in-
terests all sporting men, who will, I trust,
use every effort to bring the disgraceful
conduct of the police, and the unwarrantable deci-
sion of Mr. Beadon before a proper tribunal.
On this subject I have received a letter, from
which I gladly extract the following appropriate
remarks :

" I wish to draw your attention to the disgraceful appre-
hension of about 30 gentlemen last week at Mr. Butt's,
Grosvenor-square. Mr. Butt, as you know, is a member of
Tattersall s, and a highly respectable gentleman; and his
house is frequented by the first gentry of the land, About
half of those taken to the police-station and searched were
gentlemen who never made a bet in their lives. It is a
most disgraceful state of things to think that gentlemen are
to be taken to a police-station and searched as if they were
a parcel of pickpockets and thieves. 'What right have the
police to apprehend and take to the station any person who
may go into a public-house and call for a glass of ale ?
Such a state of affairs might do very well in Naples or
Russia, but it ought never to be permitted in England.
It is stated that the opinion of eminent counsel has been
taken, and that law proceedings will soon be commenced to
test the right of the police to apprehend any cost ,mer at
the bar when a descent on any betting-place is made."
The persons aggrieved should lose no time in
endeavouring to remove from their character the
stigma which has been placed on it by the proceed-
ings in Marlborough-street,

En route to Fork.
MONDAY.

A FRESH MAN.

A Q UATICS.

UNIVERY BOAT ACE.
Both the crews selected I
toT contend forß the aquatic
of the 'Universities of Oxford and Cambridg i
e rehonour
now at
Putney, where they will remain until the event s decided
on Friday next. he Oxonians came to town on Thursday,
and lost no time in having a row over the course which is,
as usual, from Putney to Mortlake. The Cantat's left their
university on Saturday for the Star and Garter, at Putney,
and had their last pull on the Cam shortly before, as their
boat will not arrive in London till this morning, when they
are expected to take an early turn over the course. The
Oxonians have worked very hard, as heretofore, since they
have been in Putney ; but although they row in good form,
the general opinion of competent Judges is that their work
lacks that liveliness of action for which university eights
have generally been distinguished. The Cambridge crew
is said to be as fine a one as ever left that seat of learning ;
and metropolitan observers will from day to day have art
opportunity of forming their opinion upon the rival per-
formances. The following are the crews :
OXFORD. Mr. H. F. Baxter, Brasenose College .... 10st. 21b.
Mr. R. F. Clarke, St. John's
..
..... 11 13
Mr. C. G. Lane, Christ Church ............. 1
Hon. V. Lawless, Bailie]. ................. 12 3
Mr. G. Morrison, Balliol ................ 13 1
MrMr. R. W. Risley, Exeter ........................... 11 2
.G. Thomas, Banjo' .. " .......... 11 4
Mr. J. Arkell (stroke), Pear.oke .......... 10 12
We understand it is not known for certain who will steer
the above on the eventful day, although at present Mr. A.
j, Robarts,. Christ Church College, 9st. lib., is the cox-
swain.

M _ 111111tIDGE.
Mr.
u. R
H.
j.ocydsht; :l'olnA.izsuCsollege ............ 10st. 61b.
,krinity
.................. 10 13
Mr.l‘l‘firr: D.
DLWaillirrBn:acimilth's St. JolL;' ..............................
'Trinity
1121 116
.. ............... 12 4
Mr. H. L. Lloyd:Magdale; ............... 11
Mr. G. A. Paley, St. tilaghi!.d' •
len..
.............. 11 7
Mr. J. Hall (stroke),
:t. ........ 10 4
Mr. J. Moreland (coxswain), T • y ..... 9
Mr. C. Searle has, as usual, chartered fast: steamboats for
the conveyance of gentlemen to witness the match, which
creates very considerable interest.

SIR JOHN LAWRENCE.---This distinguished man,
accompanied by his family, arrived at Doridam's
Pavilion Hotel, Folkestone, on Saturday last, en
route from Marseilles.
We have reason to believe that Sir Henry Raw-
linson, K.C.8., will succeed the Hon. Charles Mur-
ray as Minister at the Court of Teheran. No better
field could be chosen on which the deep knowledge
of Oriental character and customs possessed by the
new Minister may be usefully employed for the
advantage of the country..
The Mediterranean Extension Telegraph Com-
pany are about to send a steamer to the Mediter-
ranean, with a view to commencing the repairs
of the cable between Malta and Cagliari.
CHRISTY'S MINSTRELS.—This renowned troupe
of singers and performers will make their reappearance In
London, at the St. James's Hall, this evening, April 11,
after a most successful tournee in the provinces, and a visit
to Paris, where they had the honour of performing at the
Tuileries.
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willTlibeE
will be .
cLaobnYldeCuEctlioeMdreun—sumdWeereatit Easter his duties as manager,
actors. for a few nights. It is doubtful that Mr. Falconer
Experience justifies us in adding, the rent of
rwehlinicalintihahe.difficulties of his position have compelled him to
the theatreaeewa itsiosno enormousforanymanagertha to nn
that it becomes so h
sr doublytza-
reuss pponsibility. What renders matters worse is, that the
landlord secures his rent by taking it every night out of the
money received at the doors, leaving the too frequently
miserable balance to pay actors and all other contingent ex-
penses of the theatre. The consequence is that the unfor-
tunate lessee, after exhausting his own funds, is speedily
plunged into embarrassments, and—hoping against -hope—
vrolves himself still deeper by his desperate struggles to
retrieve what he has lost.—Sunday Times. A SCENE AT SADLER'S WELLS THEATRE.—OH
Saturday night a disgraceful scene occurred at the above
popular theatre, under the following circumstances :—lt ap-
pears that a fortnight ago Mr. Phelps and his company,
being on the continent, the theatre was let for the perform-
ance of English opera. On Saturday evening the opera of
" Martha" was announced Saturday
the benefit of Miss Fanny
Huddart and .
was well filled in
with J. H. Tully, the conductor, and the house
great successevery
The part. Two acts of the opera went off
. curtain not rising after the lapse
of the usual time, some calls were made for the orchestra,
who, after great delay, made their appearance, and played
the overture to the third act, but the curtain not rising after
another long delay the overture was repeated. At the con-
clusion, the opera not being proceeded with, loud calls, hisses,
that ae
ht
otos operauwore
prew a
..s
and othernoises, arose from every part of the house, when Mr
nToutlly said tha.fhi
gone on with ,
and said that none of the parties whose names appeared on
pared to do their duty. Mr.Rosentha Ithen came forward,
thebills had received any money fora fortnight, but althoug
tfowrashe and the boanf hd
lasn
they were prepared to do their duty, they could not get the curtain drawn up. The_ company., howevey, vuld go on
with
the opera in front of the curtain. Mr. Rosenthal then ,it some of the chorus, came in front of the curtain, but the noise behind was so great that his voice could not be heard. The ladies then came on, but a disturbance behind
ensued between A
mob of thosesuwho wished to go on and those who
did not. ernmer came in front the
curtain, and a scene of great riotaries was the consequence.of The
audience showered halfpdhce upon the stage, and in the
scramble to pick them up the handsome drop scene was
broken at the bottom. This uproar continued for some
time, and it was only with great difficulty that the house
was eventually cleared.—Sunday Times.
THE FORTHCOMING EASTER TERM.--On Satur-
day the lists of rules in the common law courts for the en-
suing term, commencing on Friday next, were issued. They
exhibit an aggregate in the three courts of 122 rules, &c.,
for judgment and argument, of which 37 are in the Queen's
Bench, O 3 in the Common Pleas, and 32 in the Exchequer.
In the Queen's Bench there are only 9 rules for new rules,
1 case in the special paper for judgment, and 20 for argu-
ment, and of enlarged rules there are 7. In the Common
Pleas there are 11 enlarged rules, 17 rules for new trials,
and 4 rules for the decision of the court (cur. ad. cult), be-
sides which 21 demurrers, &c., have
been entered. In the
Court of Exchequer of errors and appeals there are 1 for
judgment and 8 for argument. The peremptory paper con-
tains 3 rules, and of new trials 1
rule is for judgment and
11 for argument, besides 2 rules in the special per for
judgment and 6 for arginnent of which several areademur-
rers, and the remainder special cases. Being Easter term
the Lord Chancellor will receive the judges at his residsnce
in Eaton-place, and then proceed to open several courts at
Westminster. There is a good deal of business before the
Divorce and Probate Court, which court will sit do the
second day of term in the Lord Chancellor's Court, West-
minster, whey his lordship will sit in 1/Woolles-hut.