The Sun.
London, England, 1861-10-30 00:00:00

Ten ran.

Birdhill
Miss Livingstone
Twelve ran.
SWEEPSTAKES OF 100 SOVS.

Pupil
Queen Elizabeth

Seven ran.
MATCHES.
Amy beat Lady Blanche.
Jacintha beat Birdcatcher.
Archeress beat filly by Stockwell.
Farfalla beat Cantiniere.

Fnt
Acceptances for the First-cl
handicap) of 25 sovs each,

DAY.
lass Nursery Stakes (a free
, for two year olds. D.M.

st lb
Coulon 7 13
Fen de Joie
Victrix 7 11
Donna del Lago 7 11
Carisbrook ...... 7 10
Melek
Clementi
Acceptances for the Second-
handicap) of 25 sovs. each,

st lb
Hadji Stavros . 7 5
Mayflower
Keane
Flutter colt 6 10
Real Jam
Spark
Dioncea
class Nursery Stakes (a free
, for two-year-olds. D.M.

st.lb.
Farfalla
Alerte
Blackeock
Brahmin 8 4
Zetland
Tim!Whifller
Knight of St. Michael 7 4

st. lb.
Pigeon
Buckenham 6 13
Constantine
Gorse
Calli 6 5
pyge
Sappho
Tube Rose
6 0

LAW IN2ELLIGENCE—rThis Day.)

SHERIFFS' COURT.
(Before Mr. Sergeant Wheeler.)
BREAKING DOWN A SET-OFF.--VERDENIALVEN Y.

PREGGEN.

This was an action to recover £lO, the balance of an I 0 U
for £2O.

Mr. Beard, for the plaintiff, said his client was a licenced
victualler, and had lent defendant (the son of a licensed
victualler) the sum of £2O. £lO had been repaid, and de-
fendant had pleaded a set-off as to the remainder.
Mr. Buchanan, for the defendant, said he would admit
the I 0 U, and proceed to prove the set-off.

Defendant was then called, and deposed to having trans-
acted business on account of plaintiff. He had tried to ob-
tain loans from various brewers and distillers for plaintiff,
and he (defendant) was to have so much commission for
doing so. The defendant was subjected to a most searching
cross-examination by Mr. Beard, the result of which was
that his Honour summarily found for the plaintiff with
costs.

IMPORTANT TO ROUSE AGENTS..--IVILLIA.MS V. NORMAN,

•
This was an action to recover a sum of money paid as
deposit for a house, the business not having been completed.
Defendant (the house and estate agent, of Little Britain,)
admitted receiving the deposit, but he received it on account
of Mr. Hill (a client), and plaintiff well knew it. Defen-
dant Was willing to pay back the money, but must habe the
authority of his client.

His Honour observed that it was perfectly clear defen-
dant had received the deposit on behalf of Hill. Defendant
was responsible to Hill for this money, and could not rid
himself of it without Hill's authority. If plaintiff had any
cause of action it was against Hill. In this case there would
be a verdict for defentlitnt.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—(T7is Day.)

MAR LBORO UGH-STREET.

STEAL/NGIA HORSE AND CART—WELL KNOWN THIEVES.
William Ryan, of 3, Pear-street, Westminster, and his wife,
Elizabeth Ryan, and Mary Kennedy, of 16, Pye-street,
Westminster, were charged ith stealing a horse and cart,
the property of Mr. Frederick Isaac, traveller, of Pleasant-
row, Deptford.

Sergeant Cole, 23 C, said that on the previous evening
he saw a horse and cart standing in front of Mr. Norman's
toy warehouse, at the corner of Greek-street, Soho,
the male prisoner being near it, and the females on
the opposite side of the way. The male prisoner
and Kennedy afterwards jumped into the cart and
drove off as fast as they could. He (Cole) pursued them,
and when near them Kennedy said " Here's the slop."
Kennedy then jumped out, and he (Cole) seized the pri-
soner Ryan and held him down on the ground till assist-
ance came; Ryan's wife striking him about the face in a
violent manner. The male prisoner then said the cart and
horse were his own property, but on his telling him that
he would go and see, he said they were not, and asked him
to let him go. Kennedy had only just come out of prison
for stealing a watch, and the male prisoner Ryan was a
thief.

Sheen and Oliver, of the B division, attended and said
that Kennedy had been convicted of stealing a watch, and
had nine months, and was only just out, and the man had
three months for being found in enclosed premises. They
were both very bad characters.
_ _ _

Mr. Frederick Isaacs identified the horse and cart as
his property, and said they were of the value of £lO.
Mr. Beadon said he should discharge the female pri-
soner Ryan, as far as stealing the horse and cart were con-
cerned, as no jury would convict her, but he should sen-
tence her to one month for the assault, bat the others
would be committed for trial.
During the time the depositions were being taken Ken-
nedy kept up a dismal whining.

TRAM ES.
ROBBERY AT A PUNCH AND JUDY SHOW.—Wm. Hall,
a notorious thief, aged 20, of 38, Dunk-street, Mile-end
Old-town, was brought before Mr. Woolrych charged with
stealing a purse containing two half-crowns from the per-
son of a young lady named Clara Bridge, of Fisher-street,
Barking.

Yesterday evening the prosecutrix was looking at a
Punch and Judy exhibition at the corner of Arbour-square,
Commercial. read, and the prisoner managed to relieve her
of her purse and money. She was so diverted with the
antics of the arch rogue Punch that she neither suspected
or knew of her loss until a man named Wm. Hall touched
her on the shoulder, and said " Have you lost anything Miss?"
She immediately missed her purse and money. The prisoner
was then talking to and handing something to a confed-
erate, and Hall seized him and said " You are my prisoner."
The prisoner put himself in a fighting attitude, on which
Hall threw him on his back and kept him down until a
police-constable arrived. In answers to questions by Mr.
Woolrych, Hall said that ho was a coal-whipper and
labourer, dwelling at No. 5, Hill-place-street, Upper North-
street, Poplar, that ho mixed with the crowd looking at
Punch and Judy, and saw the prisoner try the pockets of
half •a-dozen females, and at last dip his hand into the
pocket of Miss Bridge and take something out.
Miss Bridge said she recollected the prisoner standing
by her side and touching her dress.
Allway, a police-constable, No. 386 R, said he searched
the prisoner and found upon him a half-crown piece, two
shillings and twopence. The purse was not recovered.
The uncle of the prosecutor said if the money taken from
the prisoner was not given up to•him, he should like it to
bo presented to the witness Hall, who had behaved re-
markably well.
Several police constables said the prisoner had been sum-
marily convicted three times for picking pockets, and was
once in custody for stealing a watch in Whitechapel, and
discharged. The prisoner was the worst thief in the dis-
trict.

The prisoner—lt is very hard to be punished for such
paltry things, a handkerchief on one occasion, and now a
purse and 55.

Mr. Woolrych7Do you plead guilty or not guilty ?

The prisoner—l am guilty, settle it hero.

Mr. Woolrych sentenced the prisoner to be imprisoned
for six months and kept to hard labour. The money taken
from the prisoner was not of the same description as that
in the purse, and it would be given up to him. He awarded
ss. from the poor-box fund to the witness Hall, whose con-
duct was highly creditable to him.

Reports are in circulation in Paris about the
President of the United States having sounded Russia as
to the willingness of that Power to mediate between the
North and the South ; but nothing is known in official
()kola to tills effect.