The Sun.
London, England, 1857-07-11 00:00:00

rilEfisulN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, JULY 11, 1857

Naval and Military intelligence.

The Royal Sovereign, 131, hauled out of the
steardbasin dock, at Portsmouth, yesterday, and
the Diadem, 32, screw, hauled in.
The President, 50, Capt. C. Frederick, at Cha-
tham, has been dismantled, and will be paid off
into ordinary on Monday.
The Terror, floating battery, has made her trial
trap preparatory to her leaving . Sheerness. She
steers remarkably well and answers h er helm quickly.
She is under orders to leave for Bermuda. The
Cuckoo, steam vessel, Lieut.-Commander Augustus
G. E. Murray, is ordered to accompany her from
Sheerness.
Thy Flying Fish, 6, screw gun dispatch vessel,
went out of Portsmouth Harbour yesterday morn-
ing, for another trial at the measured mile, but
with tie Admiralty screw, and realised 111, knots
an hour • showing a clear gain of half a knot over
the Bretagne' screw. Griffith's screw is nearly half
a knot superior to the Admirnity screw, and with-
out that tearful vibratory motion. The Admiralty
have been desirous to arrive at the best results.
The illysFes, chartered sailing trawort, with
the first division of the 88th (Connaught Rangers),
left Spithead yesterday morning for India.
The Dockyat d lumps were engaged yesterday, at
Portsmouth, shifting the moorings of the old con-
vict hulks in Block-house Hole, and have sent one
of the hulks up the harbour. The Defence and
Britannia wilt also be removed, so that the Illus-
trious training ship, Captain Harris, may have her
full swing.
Rear-Admiral of the White Robert Lambert
Baire4, C. 8., &c., at 1.30 p.m. yesterday hoisted
flag (while at le mizen) on board the Ganges,
84, at Sheerness. The following officers have now
taken no their commissions and appointments and
joined the Ganges viz.—Rear-Admiral Robert

Lambert Baynes6,-8. 8., Captain John Fulford,
Lieutenants Henry B. Phillimore, G. Parker, and
J. A. R. Dunlop ; Mr. RA.y.bert B. Batt, and Mr.
Percy V. James, second masters; Mr. Jesse Dixon,
master's aisistint ; Mr. C. G. Fane, mate ; Mr.
A. B. C. Booth, midshipman ; Mr. W. H. Nor-
man, paymaster ; and Mr. W. K. Horne, clerk.
The 3 battalion of the Rifle Brigade will embark

this day at Gravesend f‘,r India, -with 30 men be-
nging to the Bth (the King's) Regiment, from the
Provisional Battalion at Chatham.
Yesterday morning the Prince of Hohenzollern
went to Wuolwich and inspected the arsenal.
A c turt-martial assembled on Thursday morning
on board the Impreguable, flag-ship at Devonport,
Rear-Admiral Superintendent Sir James H. Plum-
ridge, KC.B., plesident, to try Alex. Farmer,
pt mats Marine of the Royal William, 120, ordinary
guard ship, for insubordination and using insulting
I,ngliage to Captain Williams, of that-ship ; the
charge being fully proved, he was sentenced to re-
ceive four dozen lashes, and to be imprisoned in
Exeter Gaol for 12 mouths, wilt hard labour, and
then. to be discharged the service with disgrace.
In pursuance of the sentence of a garrison court-
martial held at Woolwich, a gunner of the Royal
Artillery named Davis has been condemned to un-
dergo the ponisbment of 42 days' imprisonment
and to receive 50 • lashes for having wilfully
destroyed his uniform when ordered to be confined
in the cells. The judgment is to be carried into
effect at Fort Clarence, Chatham, whither the pri-
soner was conveyed on Thursday last.

for 25 years, or 4i per cent. for 50 years, on the
above amount.

"The responsibility incurred by Government in
eranting this assistance would only accrue in the
event of two contingencies—the railway not pay-
ing a moderate dividend, and the Turkish Govern-
ment failing to fulfil its part of the contract.
"Major-General Chesney and Sir J ohn
foe engineer-in-chief to the Euphrates Valley Rail-
way Compnny, in their reports, published after
their return from Syria, estimate that the existing
traffic of that portion of the route of the proposed
railway is sufficient to yield a dividend of 7 or 8
per cent. on the capital required.
"Whatever the news may be from India by next
mail more European troops must be stationed in
that country, and the rapid extension of railroads
must follow to make them available, and the con-
struction of the Euphrates Railway must become
more and more necessary.
"Ninety millions have been spent on the Cri-
mean war. Let us now prevent future wars, and
virtually annex India to England.
" I am, sir your most obedient servant,
" London July 10, " W. P. ANDREW."

THE EMPEROR AND THE ELECTIONS.

(From the Times.)

According to the opinion of those &stute persons
who have a gift for seeing further in`o a millstone
that their neighbours, the check which the Empe-
ror has apparently suffered at Paris was a check of
his own seeking. As in chess-playing, a pawn has
been sacrificed to secure a better opening and a
clearer board. Now, in the game of politics we
believe to a certain extent in the p)wer of finesse,
but in this instance the present loss, however the
Moniteur may endeavour to disguise it, is so capital
—the future and hypothetical gain 30 remote, that
we cannot without great difficulty admit this expla-
nation as the true one. The idea is that the Bour-

geoisietof Paris had waxed insolent with prosperity,
and that they had already forgotten the severe
schooling of Februaty and June, 1848. It had be-
come necessary to remind them that the volcano was
still bubbling and seething beneath their feet, and
might once more at any moment overflow and scatter
ruin all around. Louis Napoleon—so it is asserted
—tried and hardened as he has been in the rough
school of early privation—of exile—of captivity—is
not a man to throw away a crown without a strug-
gle, nor to drift down upon the cold shores of ca-
lamity without exhausting every effort to hold what
he has gained. Royalty in his person will not
flicker out over a game of whist at St. Cloud, nor
slink away from the Tuileries in the presence of a
shouting mob. What he has won that will he re-
tain. Proud of the position he bas earned, of the
dynasty he represents, of the energy he has dis-
played, be will not trifle with France, nor shall
France trifle with one who bears his name. Before
having recourse, however, to extreme measures, he
deemed it right to give a solemn warning to those
who are coquetting with their own destruction as
well as with his ruin. The citizens of Paris must be
reminded that the spirit of anarchy has been scotched,
riot killed, and. that the sunshine of popular fa-
v, ur can in brief space recall it upon the scene in all
the awful fulness of its portentous shape. There-
fore it was that Lo uis Napoleon allowed the electoral
urns of Paris for once to overflow with the waters
of bitterness. The Parisians may be averse to his
person, they may dislike h;s rule, but what will
the alternative be when Medea's caldron is placed
once more upon the smouldering ashes, and the
old forms of society are cast in, with the expecta-
tion—so often disappointed—that out of the per-
turbation and hubbub France will come forth again
vigorous and refreshed in all the graceful majesty
of second youth ?

Therefore, his friends say, it is that the stern
showman has for a brief space invited attention to
the drama which has been played out in Paris and
in France during the last ten years. But ten years
back—in the last days of Louis Philippe—the dis-
play of magnificence, of wealth, of luxury which
might have been seen in Paris could not have been
equalled in any other city in the world. The long
avenues of shops were resplendent with all the ele-
gant and costly devices upon which the Parisian
artisan could expend his ingenuity. The brilliancy
of the equipages and the general luxury of dress, of
houses, of furnitu-e, was beyond all precedent.
Visitors from all corners of Europe flocked to Paris,
and, nomatter from what source their revenues were
derived, at Paris they were spent. If in the Paris
of 1.847 there was to be found the extreme of po-
verty as well as the extreme of wealth, the
one was but the natural consequence of the other.
A. pistol-shot fired one evening in February, 1848,
on the Boulevards, from opposite the Rue des Ca-
pucines, dispelled that dream. All that wealth, all
that magnificence, all that luxury faded away, and
in a brief space, in the place of these were seen on
every sid-, terror, I) xnkruptcy, and ruin. The
pals dion of civil life was stopped ; the heart of
France, for the time, had ceased to beat ; but soon
came the hot summer-tide of June, when from
their garrets and cellars in damp and distant quar-
ters of tho city came forth combatants of whose
existence society in its ordinary condition is not
aware, to do battle against the first elements of
tradition. The houses on the Boulevards and in
the principal quarters were riddled with bullets—
at various points the cannon had involved the city
in more complete destruction—the chief spots
where the deadliest grapples had taken place were
red with blood and reeking like shambles. Through-
out the short nights of that burning season the
troops bivouacked on the Boulevards and in the
public places—their camp-fires alight, their guns
with light d matches in the midst of them. Paris
had been conquered from enemies, but the enemies
were Parisians, and the conqueror was General
Cavaignac, the candidate who has just defeated M.
Thibaut, and thus won a more peaceful victory,
but th s time not from the people, but from the
Coln t.
Louis Napoleon, we are told, has thought it
right that the Parisians should be reminded of
these things as well as of that unquiet time which
intervened het ween the barricades of June and his
own seizure of supreme power. Few Parisians wi:o
lived through that period, and whose fortunes
were involved in the maintenance of order, will
forget the daily fears and nightly alarms which agi-
tated Paris while the contest was pending between
the candidates for the Presidency, and then between
the President and the Chamber. So violent was
the exasperation of extreme terror that the Presi-
dent could venture in the dead hour of the night to
seize the principal statesmen and generals of France,
and spirit them away like children who had mis-
behaved themselves, and to confine them in various
places of reclusion unt 1 time had brought reflec-
tion, and reflection repentance. Again French
troops fired upon the French people with an
animosity as fierce as any they could have disp'ayed
in the presence of their country's deadliest foes. So
things went on for awhile, until at last it was found
that, however unjustifiable were the means by
by which the strong man had possessed himself of
power, he knew how to use it when gained.
It is now said—although we believe it not—that
Louis Napoleon has courted, or at least connived at
his own recent defeat, in order to remind the Pari-
sians of what they must look for if they cast a
shadow of doubt upon the stability of his power.
The friends of rash experiment and disorder count
for so many in Paris ;—shall that experiment be
tried ?—shall that disorder be courted ? The parti-
sans for change show no contemptible minority of
the middling classes of Paris,—shall the Bourgeoisie
ever the first to provoke the contest, ever the first
to fly from the contest they have provoked, be suf-
fered to plunge France once more into anarchy
that their discontent may find expression ? Such is
the thought attributed totbeFrenehEmpez or ; but
in that interpretation of the recent electoral votes
at Paris we do not agree. We believe th it the
Emperor is now engaged in a contest precisely
similar to the one which his uncle waged through-
out his tenure of power with the Republican and
Dynastic sections of the French Bourgeoisie.. As
long as he can retain his hold upon the feelings of
the general population and can secure the obedi-
ence of the army, a check like the present is but a
momentary vexation, which will be soon forgotten
by the nation, or cancelled by himself. Let Louis
Napoleon, however, meet with any serious reverse,
either in his domestic policy or his military enter-
prises, and he will feel the want of a more healthy
support than his Legislature affords him. One of
the most pitiable chapters in the history of the
Great Emperor is the one which recites his dealings
after Waterloo with that Assembly which, in the
fulness of his power, had never approached his
throne but with bated breath and base adulation.

DESTRUCTION OF RAILWAY GATES BY A LUGGAGE
TRAIN.—On Tuesday night a luggage train, on the War-
rington and Stockport Railway, coming from Manche-
ter, smashed the road gate on the lice crossing tho
Knutsford-road, in 'Mt:llford. The gates had been left
so as to leave tha road alien, and the person whose duty
it was to take care of the gates, we understand, bad gone
to sleep without giving the signal that the gates on the
line were shut. No accident beyond breaking the gates
occurred.

How TO CHECKMATE MUTINY.—The events whin'.
have recently-occurred in the East more than
math
good all the arguments we have used fr:.,at time to
time for the introduction and "..de of the Colt
revolver. Hid officers and En.v.,peans in India been
armed with a brace of Colt's six- shooters, confidence
would have been inspire,,l and deeds of valour
more numerous. We "would strongly urge upon
officers now going out,
...nd the authorities at home, the
advantages which wog
-.41d accrue from arming artillery,
iefan ry, and aavairY, not only for personal defence, but
to ta e the adv
which every antage of an arm without drawback,'
other description of weapon. possesses in
comparison
Qazffie. ' .;
pith the efficient Colt.—United Service

ASSIZE lATELLIGEKCE.

OXFORD CIRCUIT.—ABINGDON, JULY 10.
Mr. Baron Martin arrived in this town yesterday,
and having opened the commission for the county
of Berks at' ended divine service.
. .

Mr. Baron Bramwell arrived this morni9g.
The business of the assizes commenced this day
at 10 o'clock, Mr. Baron Martin presiding in the
civil court, and Mr. Baron Bramwell in the crimi-
nal court.

The cause list contains an entry of four causes.
The calendar is extremely light and contains a

list of Only 12 prisoners. One is charged with mur-
der, but, being insane, he has been removed by a
Secretary of State's order to the Littlemore Lunatic
Asylum. The other offences charged are of the
ordinary description.
CIVIL SIDE.

(Before Mr. Baron Martin and Common Juries.)
SWEENEY (ADMINISTRATOR) V. FAIRCLOUGH. •
Mr. Sergeant Thomas and Mr. Griffiths appeared
for the plaintiff ; Mr. Phipson and Mr. Scotland
for the defendant.
The plaintiff in this action, Cornelius Sweeney,
as administrator of his deceased son, Timothy
Sweeney, sued the defendant, Thomas Fairclough,
a carman, carrying on his business in the east end
of London, to recover damages for the death of the
plaintiff's son, who was killed by the alleged negli-
gence of the defendant's servant. It appeared from
the plaintiff's evidence that, on the 20th of June
last, one of the defendant's men had beerl to the
West India Dock to fetch several hog=heads of
sugar. On his way to the defendant's premises he
had to pass along a narrow street, named Queen-
street, by the Regent's Canal. The sugar was in
a four-wheeled truck drawn by two horses, and the
driver was sitting in the front of the truck, driving
the horses with reins. Having crossed the Queen-
street Bridge the truck was driven close to the
kerb, and knocked down the little
boy,rb, on th
whow
the
soffstasnidedfog against a post on the kerb.
The poor boy was picked up and taken to the Lon-
don Hospital, but he died in a few hours. It ap-
peared that the boy was 15 years of age, and was
in the habit occasionally of assisting the plaintiff,
his father, in his business, as a journeyman tailor.
Mr. Phipson, for the defendant, said, he should
prove that the accident wde occasioned entirely by
the boy's own negligence in attempting to take
sugar from the truck while it was in motion. - The
learned counsel called several witnesses, who stated

that the defendant's man took the truck from the
West India Docks, along the Commercial-road, till
he got to the Limehouse toll-gate, and then drove
down the Florieferry-road and entered Queen-
street. When the truck got to' the corner and
turned into Queen-street, the boy went up to the
truck, between the wheels, to get sugar out of it,
and in that way followed the truck for several
yards, till l.e got to the post. The driver found it
necessary to keep close to the kerb, to let another
waggon pass, and at this juncture the boy was
caught against the post and thrown under the
wheels. The defendant's witnesses proved that
the truck was going towards the Queen-street
Bridge, and not coming from it, as the plaintiff's
witnesses had stated.
Mr. Baron Martin, in summing up, left it to the
jury to-say whether the accident was caused entirely
by the negligence of the defendant's servants.
The defendant's witnesses had directly contradicted
those called by the plaintiff, and it would be for the
jury to say which side they believed.
The jury, without hesitation, found for the de-
fendant.

Mr. Baron Martin said, be had a doubt whether
the plaintiff's *messes could say anything of the
accident.

CR[MINAL COURT.
(Before Mr. Baron Bramwell.)
The grand jury
came into court in the course of
the day, and found a true bill against John Black-
well, for the murder of Thomas Rance, at
Wokingharn, on the 14th of May, 1857.
The governor of the gaol stated to the Court that
the prisoner was insane, and that he bad been re-
ID ()red under an order of the Secretary of State, to
the lunatic asylum. at Littlemore. Under these
cit cums tan ces,
Mr. Baron Bramwell directed that the recogni-
zances of the witnesses should be respited sine die.
William Appleton, 37, George. Holmes, 46, and
Richard Case, 42, were charged with the man•
slaughter of Joseph Laurance, at Reading, on the
25th of June,..1857. _ _ _

Mr. J. 0. Orrititha appeared for the prosecution ;
Mr. J. J. Williams defended the prisoners.
It appeared that the prisoners were employed in
mowing a part of a large meadow near Reading,
and the deceaset and some other men were em-
ployed in mowing in the same meadow. The parts
of the meadow belonged to different owners, and,
some dispute hating ari,en as to the boundary of
the properties, a quarrel e nsued between the two
sets of mowers. The prisoner Appleton wished to
fight the deceased, but he refused, and while the
deceased was leaving with his scythe the prisoner
Holmes incited Appleton to fight, and, thereupon
Appleton ran upon the deceased and struck him
two blows right and left towards the back part of
the head. The deceased fell and was taken up
dead. As soon as Appleton found what he had
done he knelt down by the side of the" deceased,
and appeared much distressed at the event. There
was no evidence against Case, except that he was
very abusive to the master of the deceased, who in-
terfered to prevent a quarrel.
Mr. Williams, for the prisoners, said, he could not
resist a verdict so far as Appleton was concerned,
but he contended that the other two prisoners
ought to be acquitted.
Bramwell directed the jury to acquit
CaMse,r. Baron
but,iftbey believed the evidence, to find the
other prisoners guilty.
Bramwell, alter making some in-
Thequire jury found accordingly.
the prisoners, sentenced Apple-
ton to be imprisoned for three weeks, and Holmes
Mir.s
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oen cting.
for three days.

NORTHERN
learned_ CIRCUIT.—Yon, JULY 9.TCIRCUIT.—YORK,dges of this circuit arrived here
ieTil
yesterday afternoon, and after bearing service at
the Minster, immediately opened the commission
at Vie Castle.
This morning their lordships breakfasted, accord-
ing to ancient custom, with the Lord Mayor. After
breakfast Mr. Baron Watson went to the Guildhall
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in less less than half an hour.
Mr. BaronChannell charged the grand jury at
12 at the 04?tle, C‘nd Mr. Baron Watson soon after
took his seat in the Civil Court.
The calendar contains the names of 70 prisoners,
10 of whom are on bail. Both in number and cha-
racter of crime this is a very light calendar.
The entry of civil causes is of a character un-
known' in the recollection of any member of the
Northern C;rcuit. For the North and East Ridings
there is an entry of seven cause, and for the West
Riding up to 5 o'clock only three causes were en-
tered. For the latter list, however, causes may be
entered up to 12 o'clock to-morrow.
On taking his seat Mr. Baron Watson inquired
of the officer of the court the state of the cause list ?
Mr. Bell having informed his lordship,
Mr. Baron Watson (to the Bar).—This is a ter-
ribly44.o.—" To see the nakedness of
bad cause list.
Mr. Warren,
the land have ye come .?”
Mr. Baron Watson—This is very bad, very bad.
An undefended cause was then called on, and-
disposed of, and the cause of
HESP V. COOK

Mr. Temple, Q. C.
appeared for the plaintiff, and
was next called on.
Mr. Overend, '
Q.C., for the defendant.
This was an action for breach of promise of mar-
riage, brought by the plaintiff, a farmer's daughter.
The learned counsel for tho defendant agreed to
a verdict for 2501. damages, on the terms that no
action for seduction should be brought, the plain-
tiff having had a child by the defendant.
Verdict accordingly.
His lordship then tried criminal cases, and d;s-
posed of several street robberies at Leeds.
THE PROPOSED DIVISION OF THE CIRCUIT.
A considerable amount of discussion has taken
place among the members of the bar on the pro-
posed annexation of Yorkshire to the Midland Cir-
cuit, which is understood to be recommended by
the commissioners appointed to consider the re-ar
rangement of the circuits. So far as thEnnsimbers of
this circuit attending the York assizvs are concerned
it appears to have met wi'h a most unqualified dis-
approval. The reasons stated are these—that the
members of the circuit attending York assizes for
the most part go round the circuit to all the
Northern counties, and to compel them to elect to
go the Midland
v" tine Northern Circuit is in fact,
to take the bar bodil
away from the Northern
counties.e counter proposition was understood
to b- t) add Lancashire to the Cheshire Circuit,
the Northern Circuit being found by the judges to
be too long and laborious. With regard to this
proposition the general opinion seems to be that
about one-half of the members of the circuit attend
Liverpool assizes, and go nowhere aloe on the circuit,
and to these gentlemen it can make no difference
whether Lancashire belongs to the Cheshire and
Welsh Circuit or to the Northern Circuit, for except-
ing to Liverpool they do not go the Northern Circuit;
and to the other half, with few exceptions, they
are quite indifferent about Lancashire, as tho,:e
who have business in Yorkshire, and in the north-
ern. counties are not the men in business in Lan- I
eashire. To put the .Flifferent Om tersely, the

proposed addition of Yorkshire to the Midland
Circuit will in all proliabitity mater'ally, injure 100
members of the c'rcuit wha ha.ve husinesain York-
shire and the northern counties ; while the counter
project of adding Lancashire to the Welsh and
Cheshire Circuits would not in all probability in-
jure the business of 10 men on the circuit, and
would in other'respects be of public convenience,
the great manufacturing districts of Lancashire and
Cheshire being intimately interwoven. A third
strong opinion is against all change of the circuit,
and for sending down three judges instead of two
to dispose of the increased business of this circuit,
two judges sitting on the_criminal or civil side, as
required by circumstances. One thing is certain,
that the proposed change gives unqualified dissa-
tisfaction, and appears to be made quite irrespec-
tive of the interests and practice and state of busi-
ness of the circuit.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.

ASSAULT IN MARYLEBONE WORKHOUSE.

Etnma Borchelt, 20, Elizabeth Edwards, 20, and
Elizabeth Mann, 19, were indicted for assaulting
Ebenezer Bower, Richard T. Tubbs, Henry Shep-
pard, and Hannah Jallings, officers of Marylebone
Workhouse.

Mr. Poland (for Mr. Bodkin) conducted the pro-
secution.

It appeared that on the 224 of June Mrs. Jal-
- of Marylebone Workhouse, was walking
round the yard, when she found the prisoners skip-
ping with a rope. She told them it was against the
rules, and desired them very kindly to desist, but
they refused. She afterwards told the superintend-
ent to give them oakum to pick, which seemed to
have exasperated them to such a degree, that on
meeting the matron in the pam,ge, Edwards and
Burchell flew at her, tore her bonnet and collar to
pieces, scratched her face, and did her considerable
violence.

The prisoners all pleaded guilty.
The Court sentenced Burcuell to nine months,
Elwards to six, and Mann to four months.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE-July 10.

CLERKENWELL.—Sarah Davis, a marine-
store dealer, residing at 55, St. John-street, Clerk-
enwell, was charged with having in her possession
a quantity of lead pipe and solder, of which she
could not give a satisfactory account.
From the statement of police-constable Henry
Greathurst, 209 G, who has been very active in ap-
prehending thieves and marine-store dealers, it ap-
peared that yesterday he met the prisoner, wbo
has been suspected for some time as being a regular
"fence," carrying a quantity of lead pipe and
solder, and upon asking her where she obtained it
from and not receiving a satisfactory account he
locked her up. Upon searching her residence he
found a valuable silver 'watch, maker's name
" Henry Jones, London. No. 960 ;" a gold
Geneva watch, maker's name "Raffia, 30,037,"
a lady's gold chain, a gold signet ring, a large num-
ber of valuable prints, two publican's pots, a very
large quantity of boots and shoes in an unfinished
state, and numerous other valuable articles.
The prisoner, who said nothing in her defence,
was remanded until Thursday next, when other
charges will be gone into against her.

WORSHIP-STREET.—James Lawrence, land-
lord of the "Duke of York" public-house, Grove-
street, Spit%Melds, was charged with unlawfully
serving spirituous and fermented liquors before one
o'clock on Sunday afternoon by me ns of an inter-
nal communication between his own house and the
adjoining prem'ses.
Inspector Griffin went to the house about 12
o'clock, and heard such a murmur of voices that he
asked "if there was a chapel in the neighbour-
hood 7" He then. proceeded to the lumber room,
where be discovered a door concealed- behind a
board. On knocking at the door he heard a voice
say, "That's not the governor's signal," and
another, "No, you fool, we have not drunk
all the beer yet." On forcing the door, he found
about 100 people drinking, who, on his appearance,
made their escape by en outlet leading to a private
house next the tavern.

The defendant's solicitor urged a legal objection,
viz., that the communication was external and
apart from the dwelling house.
The magistrate dismissed the summons, trustin g
that proper measures would be instituted by the
Excise officers for the suppression of such practices.
Henry Seymour, charged nearly a month past
with attempting to steal from the person of a lady
in a carriage on the Eastern Counti,s Railway, and
being in the possession of a -valuable jewelled ring,
which he endeavoured to c0nc.:931 when tiken into
custody, was a third time brought before Mr.
Hammill.
It will bo recolleCted that the lady, who, from
ill-health and pressing engagements, was unable to
attend at this court, bail taken the precaution to
secure her purse to a steel chain passed round her
waist, which consequently prevented the thief from
retaining possession of it. The magistrate re-
manded the prisoner on the other charge, and Mr.
Wontner, who defended him, now asked for his
discharge.
Mr. Hammill—l want some explanation about
this ring.
Mr. Wontner—He claims it as his own, sir.
Prisoner—My grandfather, who was a diamond-
setter at Plymouth, made it for my father in 1846,
and he gave it to me. lam a native of Brighton.
Mr. Hammill—Where does your father live, and
what is he?

Prisoner—He is a draper in Church-street, Glas-
gow.
Mr. Hammill—Very well. The police can in-
stitute inquiry. I shall endeavour by every means
to ascertain the owner of the ring, and the truth of
the prisoner's statements.
Mr. Wontner—The police detectives and others
have seen hit n, sir, and he is unknown—be has
been remanded three times.
Prisoner (passionately)—Why not give me what
I'm to have at once—do something with me, and
not remand me again.
Mr. Hammill—That will do ; remove him.
The accused was again locked up, but subse-
quently made a desperate effort to escape, striking
Police-sergeant Brown, 15 G, blacking his eyes,
and severely lacerating his hand with his t3etb.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

MEETING OF THE JOCKEY CLUB.

The annual general meeting of the Jockey Club
was held at Newmarket on Wednesday last, July 8.
Present—Lord Zetland and Lord W. Powlett,
stewards ; the Duke of Beaufort, Mr. S. R. Bat-
son, Lord Clifden, Mr. Greville, Mr. Lowther,
Mr. Nevill, Mr. Payne, and Admiral Roue.
The stewards acquainted the meeting that they
had received a letter from the Earl of Derby, in the
object of which they fully concurred, but as a
general meeting of the club was so soon to take
place they had thought it better to submit the
matter to the meeting before taking any further
steps. The letter was then read :
"St. James-square, June 30.
"My Lords,—lt has become a subject of general obser-
vation and regret that the number of men of station and
fortune who support the turf is gradually diminishing,
and that an increasing proportion of horses in training is
in the hands of persons in an inferior position, who keen
them, not for the purposes of sport, but as mere instru-
ments of gambling. lam aware that it is not in your
lordships'- power to apply a remedy to this acknowledged
evil, but I conceive that there are occasions in which it is
within your poater, and, if so, I venture to think that it
is your duty, as stewards of the Jockey Club, to exercise
a wholesome influence upon the character and respectabi-
lity of the turf. You cannot debar any man, whatever
his position in society, from keeping racehorses; nor do I
recommend a vexatious end inquisitori .1 scrutiny info the
character and conduct of those who do so. But when
among their number are found those against whom flagrant
cases of disgraceful fraud and dishonesty have been legally
established it appears to me clearly within your province
to stamp them with your reprobation, and to exclude them
from association on an equal footing with the more honour-
able supporters of the turf. Such a case for your interven-
tion has, I think, arisen out of the late trial of Sidebot-
torn v. Adkins,' in which a sum of above 6,0001. has been
recovered from the defendant on the avowed ground that
it had been won by cheating with loaded dice. I cannot
but think that this is a case which concerns the honour of
the Jockey Club not to pass over in silence, and it would
afford me great satisfaction to learn that you had taken it
up in your official capacity ; but, in the event of your de-
clining to do so, I have to request that you will lay this
letter before the Jockey Club at their next meeting ; and,
as I am doubtful whether I maybe able to attend the July
meetiog, and certain that I cannot do so on Wednesday, I
will thank you to give notice, on my behalf, of the follow-
ing resolution :
" That the Jockey Club, having taken into their consi-
deration the facts proved in evidence in the late case of
" Sidebottom v. Adkins," direct that Mr. Adkins bewarned
off the Heath at Newmarket; and that no horses of which
he may be in whole or in part owner, be allowed to ran on
any ground over which the Jockey Club exercise jurisdic-
tion."
" I have the, honour to be, my Lords, your obedient
servant, " DERBY.
" To the Stewaids of the Jockey Club."
It was unauitnously agreed.
That the resolution contained in Lord Derby's letter
be adopted, and thathis lordship's letter be published with
the minutes of this meeting."
" Resolved,- - That notice be given to Ignatius Francis
Coyle not to come upon the racecourse or exercise ground
at Newmarket."
The accounts of the last year, approved by the
stewards, were presented and passed.
His Grace the Duke of Beaufort was appointed
a steward of the Jockey Club, in the place of the
Earl of Zetland, who retires by rotation.
" Resolved,—That rules Nos. 42, 43,. 44, and 45, on the
subject-of trials at Newmarket., be rescinded."
Resolved,—That in Sweepstakes and Plates where it is
condition that winners shall carry extra weight, or that
beeten -horses, shall be allowed weight, horses shall not be
nor be entitledbablq to the penalty for winning a match,

to the allowance for having been beaten in a match, whe-
ther matches are specially excepted by the published con-
ditioni of the race or not "

--"'ltesolve(l,—rhat in rule 69 th 3 words It is expected
,hat' be omitted."

On the motion of the Duke of BEAUFORT it was
re-solved—
" That a Handicap Stake, with money added by the
Jockey Club, should be established for Wednesday in the
July Meeting, the conditions to be settled by the
stewards." _ _ _

The Earl of Zeland was appointed a member of
the Bentinek Fund Committee, in the place of Lord
H. G. Lennox, who retires by rotnaion.
The committee for the ensuing year consists of

the Marquis of Auglesey, Lord PowleA, the
Duke of Beaufort—stew:ircls of the Jockey Club ;
Mr. Gratwicke, ;Ir. J. M. Stanley, Lord Glasgow,
and Lord Zetland.

BETTING AT MANCHESTER—FRIDAY.
LIVERPOOL CUP.
8 to 1 agat Bashi Bazouk (taken)
8 to 1 agst Prizefighter (taken)
100 to 8 agst Newton-le-Willows (taken)
14 to 1 apt Grey Pyrrhus (taken)
14 to 1 agat Lima (taken)
20 to 1 awst Gilliver (taken several times) °
GOODWOOD STAKES.
10 to 1 ag-t Rosati (taken)
12 to 1 agst Martinet (taken)
100 to 7 agst Rehvpse (taken)
100 to 7 agst Fisherman and Van Dunck c)uplcd
(taken)
20 to 1 agst Somerset (taken)
25 to 1 ag-t Hobgoblin (taken)
500 to 20 agst Aleppo (taken)
GOODWOOD CUP.
6to 1 agst Anton (taken freely)
9to 1 agst Florin (taken freely)
12 to 1 agst Fisherman (taken)
15 to 1 agst Fazzoletto (taken)
ST. LEGER.
3to 1 agst Blink Bonny (taken)
3to 1 agst Ignoramus (taken)
20 to 1 agst Sydney (taken)
40 to 1 agst,Oakhall (offers to take)