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NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—YORK, March 14.
CROWN COURT.
(Before Mr. Justice Byles.)
Charles Franklin, aged 30, Thos. Johnson, aged
20, William Markham, aged 22, Woolthorpe Mar-
shall, aged 20, Samuel Stovens, aged 30, Joseph
Playforth, aged 21, and Michael M‘Grath, aged 23,
were charged with the wilful murder of John
Washington Jex, at the parish of Bishop Burton,
in the East Riding, on the 16th of November last.
Mr Bliss, Q.C., Mr Peronet Thompson, and Mr
Haworth appeared for the prosecution ; Mr. Price
defended Franklin, Johnson, and Markham ; Mr.
Seymour (with whom was Mr. Lewers) Marshall
and Stovens ' • and Mr. Shepherd the prisoners Play-
forth anti, M'Grath.

It appeared from the opening statement of the
learned counsel for the prosecution, and from the
evidence called in support of it, that the prosecutor
in this case is Mr. Richard Watt, a gentleman re-
siding in Lancashire, and having an estate at Bishop
Burton, in the East Riding of this county. The de-
ceased man, whose violent death was the subject of
this inquiry, John Washington Sex, was a man of
about 60 years of age, and the head gamekeeper of
Mr. Watt, of Bishop Burton, residing at the Old
Hall on the estate, and was described to be a very
bold and determined man. On the night of Tues-
day, the 16th of November last, Sex went out to
watch the game on the estate, and was attended by
William Geddes, the under gamekeeper, and by
Mark Robinson, a game watcher. The men were all
heavily armed, Jex and Geddes had each a double-
barrelled gun and a double-barrelled pistol. All
these weapons were loaded with No. 5 shot. Ro-
binson had a most formidable-looking bludgeon—a
knobbed stick, as thick as a man's wrist, and about
four feet long, and under his coat a bayonet. They
went out to watch the game a little before ten
o'clock at night, to a field on the estate called the
" Seeds field," on which the offence now being in-
quired into was committed. They went first to a
field called the " Little Gallops-field," and on
getting there they heard a dog bark and a hare
scream, and shortly after another bark of a dog and
the scream of a hare from the Seeds-field. They
all accordingly went to this field, and on getting
there they saw a man in the field, with a net be-
tween them and him, such as is used by poachers.
This man the underkeeper Geddes identified as the
prisoner M'Grath. There were six or seven men in
the field besides, and six or seven dogs. After a
short consultation what they were to do, Jex got
over the hedge, and led the way into the field. The
men in the field came towards the keepers, and one
of them was heard to call out, " Come on, you ;
you shall have it to-night, we are fettled for you."
The dogs were then set on the keepers, and Jex
cried out, " Call off your dogs, or we will shoot
them." The men said, "If you do, we will shoot
you." Sex fired and shot a dog, and immediately
after one of the poachers fired at the keepers, and
hit Geddes on the thigh and groin, and he fell on
his knee. He immediately got up and shot a dog
which was springing on the under-watcher Robin-
son, and then fired his second barrel in the
direction from which the shot came which had
struck him. Sex then fired another barrel, and one
of the poachers cried out, " He has got no more."
Sex said, " Have I not ?" and then drew his pistol
and fired both barrels at the poachers. Some stones
were then thrown at the keepers, and a rush was
made at them. Geddes drew his pistol and fired
both barrels as he retreated towards the hedge.
The men then left him and went towards where
Sex and Robinson where, and Geddes heard blows
struck as he was getting away over the hedge.
Robinson was knocked down twice and became in-
sensible, and the last that Geddes saw of Jex was
that he was down holding up his gun to defend
himself from blows. Geddes went and roused some
people in the neighbonrhood to go and look for
Sex, and on their way towards the field they met
Robinson coming away. He was bleeding on the
head and face, and reeling and staggering about
scarcely sensible, and could not recollect how he
got home. He was very badly cut and wounded
about the head. On arriving at the " Seeds Field"
Geddes and the men with him, Ellerker and others,
found Sex lying dead, his body still warm. He was
lying on his left cheek, bleeding and stretched out.
The back of his skull had been broken in, and an
indentation into the ground of the stubble-field was
made by his face. Ellerker procured a cart, and his
dead body was taken home. A surgical examina-
tion discovered his skull to be dreadfully fractured,
the brain was oozing out, he had several wounds
upon him, and appeared to have been beaten to
death. The wounds appeared to have been made
partly with a sharp instrument and partly with a
blunt one. On the field was found a broken turnip
digger stained with blood, the bludgeon which had
been carried by Robinson having marks of blood
and hair upon it, a gunlock, and the footsteps of
five men were traced to a hedge. Though it was
not known who struck the fatal blows, yet the
charge against the prisoners was that all were pre-
sent at the committal of this offence, and all were
equally responsible. Franklin was identified by
Geddes as the man who led the party on and
called out to the others to '6 come on.' Geddes
also identified Johnson and Marshall, Playforth
and M'Grath, although he was not so posi-
tive as to the last two men. Robinson - iden-
tified Johnson, Marshall, Franklin, and M'Grath
as being there. On that same afternoon the pri-
soner Franklin was seen at Hull, in company with
Johnson, Marshall, and Markham, about four
o'clock, at the Black Inn. The same evening Frank-
lin was seen going with Johnson and five or six
other men and dogs on the road from Hull to Bishop
Barton, about six o'clock in the evening, where he
was seen about half-way between the two places.
Next morning Franklin was arrested at Hull, along
with Johnson ; they were together with a party of
men and some dogs. On being arrested Franklin
was seen to take from the inside pocket of his coat
a gun, which he gave to another person, and John-
son took out of his pocket a powder flask and
handed it to one of the men. The gun was found to
be the property of Jex, the deceased man, who had
it with him on the night in question. Both Frank-
lin and Johnson had on them nets and hares. Mar-
shall was taken at Hull on the 18th, and made a
statement which, though not evidence against the
other prisoners, left no doubt that he was present
at the affray. Markham was not spoken to by the
keepers ; but when in prison he made a statement
to the governor of the gaol, which was taken down,
and from this it appeared that he first received a
shot in the face, which blinded him, that he was
horrified at the mess he found himself in, and called
out to his companions, "For God's sake do not fire."
He had his gun in his hand, and one of his compa-
nions got hold of it and cocked it, but he got it
away from him. He was again hit by a shot, and in
turning round the gun caught his coat and went off
in his hand, and that was the shot that hit Geddes.
The case against Stovens was that he was at the
Black Bull, and when in custody he made various
statements, exculpating himself from having struck
the deceased, but showing that he was there taking
a part. The prisoners Playforth and M'Grath both
lived at Market Weighton, and they were seen going
on the road to Bishop Burton in a cart, and this
cart had last been seen near the " Seed Field," and
both the keepers identified them as being present.
These two men set up an alibi in their defence.
Geddes had been confined to his bed many weeks
by the wounds he had received, being shot from the
lower part of his body down one thigh, and Robin-
son has scarcely yet recovered from his injuries.
The cross-examination of the various witnesses
elicited that no less than eight shots were fired at
the poachers at the distance of about five yards. It
was a beautiful clear moonlight night. Two dogs
were killed, and two of the poachers were carried
off the field badly wounded with gunshots, and one
of these men, named Raynes, is since believed to
have died of his wounds.

The proof of these facts occupied the day. On
the closing of the case for the prosecution,
His lordship adjourned the addresses of the
learned counsel for the prisoners and their defence
until to-morrow.

TUESDAY, MARCH 15.
His lordship took his seat at half-past 9 o'clock
this morning, and the case was resumed.
Mr. Price then proceeded to address the jury on
behalf of his clients. He forcibly contrasted the
respective preparations made by the poachers and
the keepers. The poachers were shown to have
gone out armed with but one single-barrelled gun
and some small stakes for the purpose of setting
nets; these were clearly taken out for poaching
purposes. The three keepers, on the contrary, had
gone out, two of them armed each with• a double-
barrelled gun and a double-barrelled pistol, and
the third with the most formidable bludgeon
that had ever been seen in a court of
justice, and with a bayonet with a wooden han-
dle fitted to it. For what purpose had they gone
out thus armed--for self-defence, or from a deter-
mination to have blood ? The deceased man Jes
had been engaged with poachers a month before
and they had escaped. His character as an active
keeper was at stake, and it was plain he had gone
out determined the next time not to be foiled. He
was a bold and determined man. It was he who
had first killed a dog of the poachers • he had fired '
four shots at the poachers before a shot was fired
in return, and that shot, fired by the prisoner Mark-
ham, the statement of Markham put in evidence
showed to have been accidentally discharged, after
he had been almost blinded by a shot in the face
from a pistol, and had again been struck in the
hand, making him start and accidentally discharge
the gun. This shot struck Geddes, the keeper,
above the knee and on the leg, and it wasplain had
not been aimed at him. On the other hand, the

shots of the keepers were aimed at the poachers
Franklin's waistcoat was riddled with shot, another
of them was shot through his watch, and it was
not till the keepers had blazed away at the poachers
eight several shots at a distance of five or six yards
that the poachers in that melee and in the heat of
such a contest had attacked the keepers. The de-
ceased man had received no shot, and it was clearly
proved that the weapon which had inflicted the
blow which caused his death was the bludgeon
carried by the watcher Robinson ; and there was
evidence that in the fight the watcher Robinson
was seen laying about him with the bludgeon, and
striking at a man who was down. On the evidence
the deceased man appeared to have been killed by
that blow. It seemed a strange retribution that
the head keeper should meet with his death from a
weapon which his own party had carried to the
field. But for his commencement of the attack this
unfortunate result could not have happened. The
poachers had been driven into a conflict in self-
defence. It was true that they were engaged in
an unlawful pursuit, and he could not contend that
the death of the deceased was not manslaughter in
those who were engaged in the affray with him,
and it was idle to contend that the men he defended
were not there. He left the case in the hands of
the jury, satisfied that they would acquit them of
the charge of murder.

Mr. Seymour and Mr. Shepherd then addressed
the jury for their respective clients.
His Lordship, in summing up, said it was to be
regretted that gentlemen, for the sake of protecting
their amusement, permitted their servants to go out
heavily armed, as the gamekeepers in this case had
been. He did not think the game laws had anything
to do with the matter. Gentlemen would protect
the gamy on their lands, and young men would go
out to defy or to elude the watchers. In the present
case one of the watchers had been left dead on the
field of battle, as he might call it, the other two had
been badly wounded ; several of the poachers' party
had been severely wounded, and one was said to
have died of his wounds. This had resulted from
the watchers being permitted to go out so heavily
armed for the protection of hares and pheasants.
He said it deliberately, and he felt it his duty to
say it, that great blame attached to both parties in
bringing about this lamentable result. This state-
ment, which was emphatically made, appeared to
excite much sensation in court. His lordship then
with great clearness and precision, went through
the evidence as affecting each prisoner. As to the
prisoners Playforth and M'Grath, their presence at
the affray depended upon the evidence of Geddes,
and as to them Geddes said he was less certain about
them than as to the other prisoners. The statement
of Franklin, made without motive, denied that those
two men were at the affray. Geddes had clearly
been mistaken as to two men not included in this
charge against whom he had sworn. As to Stovin,
the chief evidence was that he had been seen in com-
pany with Franklin and the others at the Black
Bull, at Hull, and had spoken of having been in a
poaching affray across the water. But this was not
across the water, and his being in the public house
with the men might be suspicious, but it was not
proof. As to Marshall, he was shown conclusively
by his own statement to have been at the affray,
but there was some evidence that he was stand-
ing aloof and going away when he was wounded
behind by a shot. As to the other three men
the evidence was conclusive that they were present
and taking part in the affray. There was no proof
which was the hand which had inflicted the blow
on the deceased man ; but if all or any of the men
were present aiding, abetting, and assisting, the
blow given was their blow. If the keepers, having
a right to apprehend the poachers assembled to the
number of three or more armed, on the lands of
their master, to take game, did no more than endea-
vour to apprehend them, which they lawfully might
do, then the killing of the head keeper was murder,
and all present aiding, abetting, and assisting in
that act were guilty of murder. But if the keepers
used more violence than was necessary in endea-
vouring to apprehend the poachers, and the death
of one of the keepers resulted from the resistance of
that violence by the poachers, then the killing was
manslaughter, and not murder.
The jury retired to consider their verdict, and,
after an absence of two hours, found a verdict of
not guilty as to Playforth, M'Grath, and Stovin,
and found the other four men guilty of manslaugh-
ter, with a recommendation to mercy in Marshall's
case.

His Lordship, in passing sentence, said the evi-
dence made it probable that Markham's was the
hand that struck the blow, and he therefore sen-
tenced him to penal servitude for eight years.
Franklin and Johnson to five years' penal servi-
tude, and Marshall to three years' penal servitude.
The case occupied till four o'clock to-day.

HOME CIRCUIT.—MAIDSTONE, March 15.

CIVIL SIDE.

(Before Mr. Justice Wightman and a Common
Jury.)
ODDEN V. CIIAPMAN.
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This was an action brought by the plaintiff to
recover damages from the defendant for the seduc-
tion of his daughter.
Mr. M. Chambers, Q.C., and Mr. G. Denman
were for the plaintiff; Mr. Prentis was counsel for
the defendant.
The plaintiff in this action was a person in humble
circumstances living at a place called Challock, in
the neighbourhood of Canterbury, and his daughter
Charlotte, who was the subject of the action, was
a young girl only 16 years old last January. The
defendant was a farm bailiff, and first cousin to the
plaintiff, and about 38 years of age. He lived about
half a mile from the plaintiff, and it appeared that on
the 21st of January last, at which time the plain-
tiff's daughter was only 15 years of age, there was
a raffle at the house of his brother, who carries on
the trade of a grocer and shoemaker at Challock,
to which the plaintiff and his wife and his daugh-
ter. Charlotte were invited. In the course of the
evening it appeared that the defendant sent the
daughter to fetch a pot of beer, and when she re-
turned he took herinto the back shop, locked the
door, and at one proceeded to commit the act that
had led to the present action, and the young woman
admitted that she had made no resistance, and did
not raise any outcry, although her father and seve-
ral other persons were in an adjoining room, and
could of course easily have come to her assistanceif
she had done. so. In the month of September fol-
lowing she was delivered prematurely of a child,
and proceedings were taken 'before a magistrate,
when an order was made for the defendant to pay
ls. 6d. per week for the support of the child.
Thrdeplaintiff's daughter, a good-looking young
girl, was called to prove the above facts, and she
declared positively that she had never had any in-
tercourse with another man besides the defendant,
and that it only occurred upon the one occasion
mentioned, and she said that the defendant never
afterwards attempted to take any liberties with
her. In cross-examination she said that she was
acquainted with a young man named Tompsett,
and a person named Tom Chambers, who worked
for her father, and who always wart by the name
of " Old Tom," but she declared that nothing im-
proper had ever taken place between her and
either of these persons. She stated, however, that
upon one occasion Tompsett had taxed her with
being in the familyway, and she admitted she was,
and said that neither he nor " Old Tom" was the
father, tad the man who was the father was better
off than either of them, and that it was the de-
fendant.

Mr. Prentis, in his address to the jury for the-de-
fendant, complained that such an action as this should
ever have been brought into a court of justice, and
he said that if they gave:damages againstthe defen-
dant it would be utterly impossible for him to pay
them. He then said that the defendant did not
deny that he had been intimate with the girl, but
his instructions were that she had been equally
intimate with other persons, and that there was no
foundation whatever for the allegation that he had
seduced her.

A young man n amed William Tompsett was called
as a witness for the defendant, and he stated that
he had known the
.plaintiff's daughter for 10 years,
and they were on intimate terms. They were out
for a walk on Sunday evening, the 26th of October,
1856, and went into a cart lodge, where an improper
intimacy took place between them.
Cross-examined—The plaintiff's daughter was
only about 131 years old at this time, and she had
only just come home from school. Nothing impro-
per took place between them except upon this 'one
occasion.

Thomas Chambers, the person referred to as
" Old Tom," was also called as a witness, but he
denied distinctly that anything improper had ever
taken place between him and the plaintiff's
daughter.
Mr. ChamVeri' in reply to this evidence, called'
the plaifftiff and his wife, and they stated that upon
discovering that their daughter was in the family'
way they spoke to Tompsett upon the subject, and
he denied that he had ever had anything improper
to do with their daughter.
Mr. Justice Wightman then summed up, and
The jury-returned a verdict for the plaintiff—
damages, £2O.

NORFOLK CIRCUIT.—BEDFORD, March 15.
CROWN COURT.
(Before the Lord Chief Baron.)
Francis William Crick was charged with the
manslaughter of William Hardwick, at Bedford, on
the Ist of November, 1858.
Mr. J. 11. Mills appeared for the prosecution ;
Mr. Douglas Brown defended the prisoner.
It appeared on the statement of the case that the
prisoner was a herbalist living in Bedford, and the
charge against him was that he caused the death of

the deceased, a child under two years of age, by '
administering a preparation of lobelia.
The case will be sufficiently explained by the
following summing up of the learned judge :
The Lord Chief Baron told the jury to bear in
mind that it was no crime for any one to adminis-
ter medicine, but that it was a crime to administer
it so rashly and carelessly as to produce death, and
in this respect there was no difference between the
most regular practitioners and the greatest quack.
But Mrs. Orpin's account was that she took the child
to the prisoner, and that, following his advice, the
child got so much better that she left off giving the
medicine which she had got from him, and she did
not consult the prisoner again before the child died.
All that the prisoner ought to be held responsible
for was what took place in the first week after he
saw the child. The prisoner had not seen the
child for three weeks before its death. The charge
against the prisoner was not that he carelessly al-
lowed Mrs. Orpin to be in the possession of a dan-
gerous medicine, but that he caused the death of
the child by administering the medicine ; but on the
evidence it appeared that the child got better while
the medicine was being given to it. If the
prisoner had been a medical man he should recom-
mend them to take the most favourable view of his
conduct, for it would be most fatal to the efficiency
of the medical profession if no one could administer
medicine without, as it were, a halter round his
neck ; and although he could not speak of a person
in the prisoner's position in language as strong,
still he ought not to be responsible unless the fact
of the careless use by him of a dangerous drug had
been proved with reasonable certainty.
The jury returned a verdict of not guilty.

SOUTH WALES.—SWANSEA, March 14.
(Before Mr. Justice Hill.)
William James Keast was indicted for obtaining
by false pretences a quantity of silk and woollen
scarfs and other articles, valued at £5O, the pro-
perty of Alfred Nevill and Co., of Narberth, in the
county of Pembroke.
Mr. Evans, Q,C., and Mr. Giffard conducted the
prosecution ; the prisoner was defended by Mr. T.
Allen.

It appeared from the evidence that the prisoner
had carried on business as a tailor and general shop-
keeper for 16 years in London. He subsequently
kept a public-house at Pembroke•dock, and after-
wards resided at Merthyr and Swansea. He had
been once insolvent at Pembroke, had been re-
manded for nine months also by the Insolvent
Debtors' Court, and had suffered a detention of seven
moths in Cardiff Gaol under the Absconding
Debtors Act. On the 18th of last January he gave
an order for goods to the amount in question to a
commercial traveller. This witness stated that he
told the prisoner that he was a stranger, and that
before his house would execute the order he must
explain his circumstances. Keast upon this told
him that he had never been in Wales more than
once when he married, that his stock was worth
£6OO, and that he had good and bad debts in Lon-
don to the amount of £6OO or £7OO more. The
actual value of his stock was only about £5O or
£6O. The prisoner pledged most of these goods,
and ultimately sold them all off by auction. He
had been advised by another commercial traveller
not to attempt business on his own account, but to
gain an honest livelihood as a journeyman.
The learned counsel having made an earnest
appeal on behalf of the accused, the jury at once
returned a verdict of guilty.
His Lordship, in passing sentence, observed that
this was an extensive fraud, and differed much from
small robberies and crimes committed by little de-
predators. Of the prisoner's guilt there could not
be the least possible doubt, and he should have
known that he could not live and trade at the ex-
pense of other people. He (the learned judge)
should be trifling with his duty if he sentenced him
to less than two years' imprisonment with hard
labour.

FEARFUL SCENE AT THE BAR OF TEE
TYNE.

A gale of great violence broke suddenly on the
Northumberland coast on Monday night. It blew
from the E. and E.S.E., and brought in with it the
most tremendous sea we have experienced this
season. A number of vessels were in the offing,
and as the gale came away with violence, the
smaller craft made for the Tyne, though it was dead
low water. About seven o'clock a schooner came to
the Bar, but getting too far to the leeward, she
drove towards the rocks on the north side, and un-
fortunately struck on the foundation of the new
north pier, and turned with her decks to the sea.
As soon as it was seen that a vessel was on shore
multitudes of people flocked down to the coast,
though it was pouring torrents of rail. The Coast-
guard officers got out Manby's apparatus, and tried
to fire rockets over the vessel from the pier works,
but from her position they were unable to do so.
Three lifeboats put out from Shields, and, fully
manned, pulled through the fearful sea to the rescue
of the drowning mariners, whose cries for assist-
ance could be heard through the roaring of the
tempest ; but upon approaching the vessel the life-
boat men found that if they attempted to go along-
side their boats would be smashed to pieces, and
they themselves swept to destruction. Under these
circumstances they had to hover about until, with
a wild cry from the crew, the schooner broke up,
and the wreck drifted away in fragments be-
fore the gale. The lifeboats pulled to the floating
wreck, but only succeeded in saving' one little
boy, named Hunter, whom they brought ashore
in a most exhausted state. The master, Mr. Reid,
and the crew, four in number, perished in sight of
the people on shore. The Sir William Carden, be-
longing to Yarmouth, and the Elizabeth, of Boston,
in taking the Bar, also got too far to the leeward,
and came on the rocks. One of them, the Eliza-
beth, was end on to the sea, and the cries of the
crew for help were very pitiable. The Coastguard
and volunteers of all sorts got the rocket apparatus
down among the rocks, and commenced to fire lines
at those vessels. But the poor fellows on board
seemed so benumbed with cold and exhaustion
that it was feared, even if they got the lines on
board, they would not be able to use them, and as
the tide was flowing it was thought that the
vessels would break up before they could be res-
cued. However, after immense exertion, lines were
got to the vessels, but from the circumstances men-
tioned they could not be so fastened as to get the
men on shore with comfort, and they had to be
dragged through the boiling surf, and were landed
more dead than alive. Numbers of men ran up to
their middle in the water to carry them out, and
they were conveyed to the Bath Hotel, where they
were carefully nursed, and have all recoyered.
Shortly after her crew were landed, the Sir Wil-
liam Carden broke up, and her wreck and that of
the George are scattered along the coast this
morning, bearing fearful evidence, broken up as
they are to matchwood, of the violence of the
storm. Lloyd's agents have a number of people
employed landing the cargo of the Elizabeth, and
the River Police and the coastguard have
effectually prevented any wrecking.

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been over-worked, or become weak from disease, or are
naturally of a feeble constitution. In cows its effects are
undoubted, indeed almost marvellous, nearly doubling the
yield of•milk and butter, whilst it at the same time enriches
the quality of both. In pigs its fattening qualities are still
more remarkable, displaying in a few weeks its manifest
superiority over every other kind of compound or manu-
factured food adopted in the feeding of swine. Such has
been its marked success, that at all our great cattle shows,
Royalty, noblemen, and others who have fed their cattle
on Thorley's Food, have invariably carried off the principal
prizes, whilst cards of commendation have been awarded.
The patronage of Royalty, of our principal nobility, the
clergy, and of our leading agriculturists, must prove a'
great incitement to this gentleman to pursue his onward
course ; and he may confidently rely, in producing so
highly-favoured a compound, on a continuation of such
high and distinguished Patronage.

SPORTING INTELLIGIWCE.

WARWICK SPRING MEETING— -TUESDAY.
Match-50 sous h ft. Two miles. 10t t 41b each.

Mr. Worthington's Telegram received; captain Price's
Royalty paid.

A Sweepstakes of 20 sovs each, h ft, for 2-yr-olds; colts,
Bst 71b, and fillies Bst 31b : certain allowances. Four subs.
Mr. T. Parr's Rattlebone, Bst 41b CWithington) 1
Count F. de Lagrange's Trump, Bst 21b ..•
... (Kendall) 2
Mr. T Bell's Sims Reevs, Bst 21b (W.. Grimmer) • 3
Betting-3 to lon Rattlebone, who won easily by a
length; three lengths between the second and third.

The Trial Stakes of 10 sous each, with 50 added ; 3-yr-olds,
7st ; four, Bst 91b. The mile course. Eight subs.
Mr. Alexander's King-at-Arms, by KingsWn, 3 yrs, 7st
(hallonel 1
Mr. Shelley's Sir Hercules, 3 yrs, 7st
... (11. Ducker 2
Lord Clifden's Fadladeen, 4 yrs, Bst 91b.... , . (A. Day 3
Indifference and Tiara also ran.

Betting-6 to 4 agst King-at-Arms, 2to 17 agst Fadla-
deen, 5 to 1 agst Indifference, and 6 to 1 agst Sir Hercules.
The favourite came away at the distance, and wen by three
lengths ; two lengths between the second and third ; about
the same distance between the third and fourth. Tiara
beaten off.

The Stand Handicap of 5 sovs each, 2 ft, with 20 added;
for 3-yr-olds and upwards. One mile. Eleven subs.

Mr. T. Stevens's Cynthia, 3 yrs, 6st 81b . . (Custa nce) 1
Mr. Brown's Oddfellow, 3 yrs, 554 71b (W. Bottom) 2
Viet. Talon's Cheval de Bronze, 3 yrs, sst 91b (Grimshesw) 3
The following also ran :—Rhisus, Kestrel, Dejr mira,
Castaside filly, Northampton, and Cock-a-Whoop.
Reeves weighed for The Poet (late Chaucer), but on pro-
ceeding to the post the horse threw him, got loose, and did
not start.

Betting-5 to 2 agst Cynthia, sto 1 each agst Oddfellow
and Rhisus, 7 to 1 agst Cheval de Bronze. Won by a neck;
same distance between the second and third, a head; be-
tween the third and fourth, Castaside filly was a bad fifth,
the others walked in; Northampton bolted soon after
starting.

The Willoughby Handicap of 15 sous each, and 5 only if
declared, with 30 added ; certain winners extra ; gentle-

men riders ; professionals 61b extra. Two miles.. 20
subs., 10 of whom pay 5 sovs each.
Vict. Talon's Greencastle, 6 yrs, 9st 121 b (Mr. W. Bevial)
Mr. Holman's Woodman, aged, 9st 121 b.. (Mr. Thom is) 2
Mr. Cameron's Mysterious Jack, 5 yrs, lOst 111 b (Own er) 3
The following also ran.—Verona, Lough Bawn,
Bcelle-
field, Northumberland Duchess, and Drapery.
Betting-6 to 4 agst Lough Bawn, 4to 1 agst Northum-
berland Duchess, 5 to 1 agst Greencastle, 8 to 1 each agst
Benefield and Verona. Greencastle made all the running,
and won by 20 lengths ; the others were pulled up.
A Sweepstakes of 5 sovs each, with 20 added ; optional
selling weights, &c. ; certain allowances. Five furlongs.

7 subs.
Mr. Gulliver's Macbeth, 2 yrs, sst 191 b (£5O) (Challoner) 1
Mr. Atkinson's Heloise, 2 yrs, sst 101 b (car. 6st 21b) (£5O)
(Custance) 2
Mr. Holland's Weatherwise, 3 yrs, 7st 51b (al))
(L. Snowden) 3
The following also ran :—Lady Eglinton, Skittles, Sprat-
ton, and Countess filly.
Betting-2 to 1 agst Lady Eglinton, 4to 1 agst Skittles,
9 to 2 agst Macbeth, 6 to 1 agst Weatherwise, 8 to 1 agst
Heloise ; won by a length and a half, a length between the
second and third ; Spratton was fourth. The winner was
bought in for 54 guineas.

The Farmers' Plate of 50 soya, for hunters, thorough-breds
extra ; weight for age ; certain allowances ; to be ridden

by farmers or their sons. Two miles.
Mr. E. Norman na Vertumnus, by Grecian (h b) 45 yrs,
12st 31b (T. Price) 1
Mr. Bawcutt's Wroxton, 4 yrs, list 51b (Owner) 2
Mr. F. Robins' The Countess, 4 yrs, list 121 b
(Mr. F. Robins' jun.) 3
The following also ran :—Helen, The Compton Nun, The
Radford Lass, and Doubtful.
Won by four lengths ; two lengths between second and
third. The winner was objected to.

BETTING ON THE COURSE.
NORTHAMPTONSHIRE STAKES.
7to 1 agst Gladiolus (taken)
9to 1 agst Mutineer (taker)
11 to 1 agst Little Agnes (taken)
20 to 1 agst Rio (taken)
20 to 1 agst Precious Stone (taken)
CHESTER CUP.
1000 to 15 agst Argosy
DERBY.
28 to 1 agst Rainbow (taken)

COUNTRY MARKETS.

LIVERPOOL--MARCH 15.

We had only a small attendance of country millers and
dealers at our corn exchange this morning, who bought
only to supply their immediate requirements, at previous
rates. We had, however, a better inquiry for our own
local trade, and one or two purchases in wheat were re-
ported at full prices. Flour attracted little attention, and
is unaltered in value. Indian corn was dull of sale, and the
turn cheaper. Oats and oatmeal little dealt in. Egyptian
beans have advanced ld to 2d per cental on the week.
Peas and barley remain without change.