The Sun.
London, England, 1859-11-02 00:00:00

SPORTING IN2'ELLIGENCE.

mercial-road East, Nov. 11, at half-past one, and Dee. 9, a,
twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Samuel Russell, builder, West Hartlepool, Nov. 8, and
Dec. 22, at twelve, at the Royal Arcade, Newcastle-upon•

WORCESTER RACE S.-TUESDAY.

A Sweepstakes of .5 sovs each, with 25 added, for two and
three. yr..olds ; two-yr-olds, Gst 71b ; three, Bst 71b.
Winners estra. Mares and geldings allowed 31b. Ono
mile.

Tyne.
Esther Louisa Mayne, milliner, Exeter, Nov. 16 and
Dec. 14, at twelve, at the Exeter District Court.
George Kindersley Jackson, grocer, Elizabeth-street,
South Pimlico, Middlesex, Nov. 15, at half-past twelve,
and Dec. 13, at one, at the Court of 13ankruptcy.
James Barnard, jun., licensed victualler, Aldershott,
Nov. 11, at two, and Dec. 9, at one, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. ,
Thomas Simister, pastrycook, Liverpool, Nov. 11 'and
Dee. 2, at eleven, at the District Court of Bankruptcy.

Mr. J. Lowe's The Nun, by Confessor, Est 111 b
(Lambourn) 1
Mr. Gulliver's Contract, 3 yrs, Bst 41b (Keeler) 2
Captain Christie's Codicil, 2 yrs, 6st 111 b.... (Gardiner) 3
Mazzini, Weatherbound, and Peasant Girl colt also ran.
Betting-6 to 4 agst Weatherbound, 3to 1 agst Con-
tract, 4 to 1 agst The Nun, 5 to 1 agst Mazzini.
Won by a neck; a head between the second and third;
a good fourth.

SCOTCH BANKRUPTS.
James Carswell, grocer, Johnstone, Renfrewshire.
James Ferguson, slater, Wallacetown, Ayrshire.
John Muir Murdoch, merchant, Glasgow.
M'Nee and Co., printers, Bellfieldf Lanarkshire.
Nathaniel Overbury, solicitor, Old Jewry, London, pre-
;ently residing in Edinburgh.
Donald Grant, cattle-dealer, Clachbain, Elginshire.

PLYMOUTH.

Purmotuir,Tuesday Evening.—The weather con-
tinues very boisterous, and there is every prospect of
a wild night. Wind southerly. The barque Volante,
from Norway, with timber, broke her chain, and
ran on the mud in Stonehouse Pool. The sloop Twin
Brothers, from Poole with wheat, is stranded in
Deadman's-bay; cargo discharging. The schooner
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A Selling Stakes of 5 sovs each, with 25 added. Optional

selling weights. Five fur.

Mr. Blanton's Miss Eleanor, 3 yrs (X3O), Est 111 b
(A Edwards) 1
Mr. Stevens's Boundaway, 4 yrs (E3O), Bst ....(Keeler) 2
Mr. Williams's Timon, 3 yrs (£3O), Est 11lb (Grimshaw)' 3
The following also ran :—Marmalade, Mushroom, Bab-
bler and Thornhill.

Elizabeth continues on the rocks ici the Mount Bat-
ten ; most of her spars and rigging have been
landed. Avery large ship, with foremast only stand-
ing, was observed going up Channel at 10 this morn-
ing. Ali the steamships of war in the Sound have
their engines at work to ease the strain on their
cables.

Betting-5 to 2 agst Boundaway, 4to 1 agst Babbler, 4
to 1 agst Miss Eleanor, 5 to 1 agst Mushroom.
Won easily by a length and a half; a neck between tho
second and third.

The Nursery Plate Handicap of £5O, added to a Sweep-
stakes of £5 each, for two. yr-olds ; the second to save
his stake. Winners, after the weights were published,
51b extra. T.Y.C., straight half-mile. 24 subs.
Mr. Thornton's Curlew, 7st llb (including 51b extra)
(A. Ed wards) 1
Mr. Saxon's Little Dick, 6st 101 b (G ri mshaw) 2
Mr. Hall's Hartley Wintney, Bst 71b (French) 3
The following also ran :—Wallace, Ringlet, Zenobia,
Diamond, Chance Shot, Narcissus, King Edward, Ben
Webster, and Gwellyon.
Betting-5 to 2 agst Curlew, 7to 2 agst Ben Webster,
&to 1 agst Wallace, 8 to 1 agst Zenobia, 9 to 1 agst Nar-
cissus, 10 to 1 each agst Hartley Wintney and Little Dick.
Won easily by a length, four lengths between the second
and third; bad fourth.
The Worcester Autumn Handicap, a Sweepstakes of 10
sovs, h ft, and 3 only if declared, with 100 added. Win-
ners extra. Two miles. 31 subs, 15 of whom paid for-
feit.

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Sunday there had been a remarkable fall of the ba-
rometer the whole day, the night closing with rain,
and every prospect of a On the fol-
lowing morning the wir, and hazy from
east-south-east, but gra, ring, with min,
an eying round to the ,v,„ At sunset the
wind increased, and all night it blow exces-
sively hard. At 3 and 6 a.m. fierce squalls of wind
and rain passed over the town from the westward,
and again at 10 a.m. From this time until high-
water the gale increased in its force, wind, west,
sweeping over the waves in fierce gusts and carry-
ing away their tops in clouds of spray to leeward.
The Alwander, which had put back on Sunday
evening, together with another large ship, and a
screw steamer, could at times be discerned through
the mist at anchor in St. Helen's Roads. At Spit-
head the Himalaya, with topgallantmasts down,
and yards pointed to the wind, was riding at her
anchors securely, and apparently motionless ; but
abreast of her the bark Panope, which had put into
Spithead on Sunday last leaky, was dragging her
anchors, and by sunset had dragged astern of the
Amazon, New York liner, lying to the eastward of
the Himalaya. The gale, from 3 to 5 p m., ap-
peare N., h
d at times
weathermestolulb looked stillbutatsunse very wild,
sunset, viththewind
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clearer. The signal flag was hoisted all the day on
the semaphore in the dockyard- interdicting all
communication by men-of-war's boats between the
harbour and Spithead. The United Company s
steampackets were unable to make the usual pas-
sage between Ryde and Portsmouth. The packets
from Southampton and Cowes made no appearance
yesterday, with the exception of the first morning
passage. No news of any accidents along the coast
had been received up to the departure of the last
train at 7 p.m., with the exception of a small
coasting schooner which had run into harbour with
the loss of anchors and chains. The shipping in
harbour were riding securely at their moorings,
and no damage of any moment occurred. In the
dockyard all the damage known was the fracture
of one of the plates and a girder of a portion of the
shed from under which the Victoria, 121, three-
decker, is about to be launched. The barometer on
Monday morning had fallen four-tenths since the
preceding evening. Yesterday it stood at 29.0, but
at 4 p.m. began to make a slight upward move-
ment.

Mr. F. Higgins' Timandrn, 3 yrs, sst 101b..(Grimshaw) 1
Mr. Ilodgman's Mutineer, 3 yrs, sst 10113 .. (Dickinson) 2
Mr. Beeley's Charlotte, 3 yre, Gst 81b Suowden) 3
The following also ran :—Borderer, Blue Jacket, King
William, Vixen, Fly-by-Day, Eltham Beauty, and Whim-
sical. _ _ _

Betting-7 to 4 agst Blue Jacket, 7to 2 agst Mutineer,
4 to 1 agst Timandra.
Won, after a splendid race, by a head ; bad third.
The Visitors' Plate of 30 sovs, a Handicap for all ages.

Five furlongs.
Mr. Samuels' Maybell ally, 2 yrs, 4st 131 b (Buck) 1
Capt. Christie's Miss Julia, 5 yrs, 9st 41b (G. Fordham) 2
Mr. Devon's Queen of the Vale, 2 yrs, 4st 121 b
(Parsons) 3

The following also ran :—Maud, Vigo, Remunerator,
Ringlet, Salisbury, Bessie, Buttercup, and Lady Bird.
Won by a length ; a head between the second and third ;
good fourth.
The Severn Bank Steeplechase of 5 soya each, p.p., with2s
added for horses that have been regularly hunted, list
71b each. Winners extra. Thorough-bred horses 101 b

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extra. Gentlemen riders. Jockeys 71b extra. Three

miles. 14 subs.
Lord Coventry's Longford, aged, 12st (Mr. Ecard) 1
Mr. Clark's Black Doctor, aged, list 71b (Mr. Walker) 2
Mr. Henry's Paymaster, 11st 71b (Mr. Thomas) 3
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The following also ran :—The Giant, Linkboy, Venison!
The Malister, Odiham, and Clear-the-way.-

Betting-2 to 1 agst Odiham, sto 2 agst Longford, sto 1
agst Clear-the-way. Won by six lengths.

FROM TUE GAZETTE OF LAST NIGHT

BOROUGH OF WHITBY.
Notice has been given that, at the end of 14 days, a new
writ will be issued for the election of a Member to serve in
Parliament for the said borough, vacant by the death of
Robert Stephenson, Esq.
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BREACH OF PROMISE.

BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, Nov. 1.
The Right Hon. the Lords of the Committee of Privy
Council for Trade and Plantations have received, through
the Secretary of State for India a copy of a despatch from
her Majesty's Consul at Zanzibar, stating, with reference
to the notice published in the "London Gazette" of the 7th
June last, respecting the declaration of the Lisbon Board
of Health that the port of Zanzibar was considered to be
infected with yellow fever, that the disease in question has
never been known at that port.
The Right Hon. the Lords of the Committee of Privy
Council for Trade and Plantations have received, through
the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy of a d espatch
from her Majesty's Consul at Lisbon, reporting that the
Board of Health at that capital have issued a notice, da-
clai ing the ports of Alicante and Algesiras to be considered
infected with cholera morbus, and that all the other Spainish
ports in the Mediterranean are considered infected with the
same disease.
The Right Hon. the Lords of the Committee of Privy
Council for Trade and Plantations have received, through
the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy of a de-
spatch from her Majesty's Consul at Carthagena, in Spain,
reporting that by a Royal order that port has been declared
free from infection by cholera morbus, and that clean bills
of health will be issued accordingly.
Tho Right Hon. the Lords of the Committee of Privy
Council for Trade and Plantations have received, through
the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy of a de-
spatch from her Majesty's Consul at Rhodes, reporting that
all vessels coming to Rhodes with foul bills of health, as
also the goods and passengers on board, can no longer un-
dergo quarantine at that island, but must proceed for such
purpose to one of the following central quarantine stations,
namely, Candia, Cyprus, Dardanelles, Smyrna, Salonica,
Grevesa, and Tripoli in Barbary.
WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, Nov. 1
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At the Salford Hundred of Record, on Monday,
says the Manchester Guardian, before Mr. T. S.
Raffles, the judge, a writ of inquiry came on for
trial, in which Alice Henshaw sued John Ogden
for damages sustained by reason of a breach of pro-
mise to marry. The damages were laid at £5O.
Mr. Cobbett, for the plaintiff, said that the jury
would have to assess the damages which the plain-
tiff had sustained at the hands of the defendant.
There being no plea to the declaration, the breach
of contract was admitted, and all the jury had to
ascertain was the amount which the plaintiff was
entitled to receive. Alice Henshaw was a single
woman residing in Salford, and was about 35 years
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in Manchester. The parties had been acquainted
for three years and a half. They began to
keep company in March, 1856. The banns had
been published on two distinct occasions, and, alto-
gether, four separate times the defendant had made
promises to marry, which he had broken. The
plaintiff had obtained for herself a situation as nurse
in the Manchester Infirmary, where she was to re-
ceive 12 guineas per annum and her board and
lodgings. In Janurry, 1859, the parties were asked
in Eccles Church, and at the instance of the defen-
dant, Alice Henshaw was induced to give formal
notice to quit her situation at the infirmary, and
did leave accordingly, in anticipation of the mar-
riage immediately taking place. The plaintiff was
at length driven to seek for legal assistance, and
after the attor'ney's letter had been received by the
defendant, he showed the plaintiff a bar, full of
sovereigns, which he shook in her face, and taunt-
ingly said, "I suppose you would like some of
these." For the contumely she had suffered, and
the disappointments which the defendant had occa-
sioned her, the plaintiff now asked the jury to give
her adequate damages. Margaret Willoughby, wife
of Joseph Willoughby, had known, Alice Henshaw
about three years, and John Ogden for more than
20 years. She is about 35, and he about 49. He
has been married before, but he has not. They
began keeping company together about seven
weeks after he buried his wife, and they continued
up to the time when she left the infirmary. The
banns had been put up 12 months before that, and
he asked me to and be bridesmaid for her. After
the second putting up of banns he gave as a reason
why he did not marry the ;plaintiff, that he was
short of work. Last December witness and Alice
Henshaw were witnesses for him about a child in
an affiliation case ; and the summons was dismissed.
Ogden said that providing he got off paying for
that child, he would go that very morning to the
Old Church, and `get married `,.to the plaintiff by
license. In April last Ogden asked the plaintiff
whether she was going on with the law against
him, as he did not value the law or anything else.
The attorneys had then sent him notice. In Sep-
tember, at the Beehive, Ogden pulled out a
bag of sovereigns, and shook it in Henshaw's
face and mine, saying, " Wouldn't you like to have
some of these ? If thee wants a sovereign I'll give
thee one. Thee looks as if thee wanted one, for
thee looks very poorly." She had been very un-
wel: after leaving the infirmary. The defendant is
a dyer, and gets a guinea a-week. The plaintiff
is now in service, looking after a widower and his
family. She was to have Is. 6d. a-week ; but she
tells me that she had not been paid since she went
there Cross-examined by Mr. Cottenham (who
during Mr. Cobbett's opening of the case had been
instructed for the defence)—The defendant had
some ill-feeling against me, because happened to
let slip a word that the child was like him. I be-
lieve it is not usual for married women to be brides-
maids, but it did not matter much for people of their
age. (Laughter.) Thomas Gorse, parish clerk of
Eccles, proved that defendant caused the banns to
be put up in the church on two occasions—on
the 14th, 21st, and 28th of February, 1858, and
again on the 2d, 9th, and 16th January, 1859.
Maria Outram, matron of the Manchester Infirm
mary, spoke to the plaintiff having been ' engaged
there from October. Elizabeth Willoughby,
daughter of a former witness, proved a promise of
marriage. The letters written by Messrs. Cobbett
and Wheeler, threatening the defendant with legal
proceedings, were then put in and read, and Mr.
Cottenham addressed the jury for the defendant,
who, he said, did not earn 14s. a-week, and urged
that very small damages would satisfy the justice
of the case. Mr. Cottenham proposed to call the
defendant, but it was held that he could not be
examined. Jane Rigby was about to make a state-
ment about the plaintiff having been out with three
men drinking, but this evidence was stopped by the
judge. Mr. Cobbett replied, asking the fury to give
the plaintiff substantial damages. The judge said
he should not recommend the jury to give extrava-
gant damages,swhich the defendant might not be
able to pay. The jury assessed the damages
at
£2O.

HOSPITAL STAFF.—TO be Assistant :Surgeons to the
Forces—James Tulloch Tulloch, M.D. •, Arthur Charles
Gaye, Gent. ; Wm. Evelyn Alston, M.l). ; Joseph Sump-
Per Joyner, Gent. ; Colin Henderson, Gent. ; John Alex.
Scott, Gent. ; Arnold Royle, Gent. ; Wm. Dumville Smith,
Gent. ; Thomas Wood, M.D. ' • James Bell Jardine, Gent. ;
John Edmondstoune Stewart, M.D. ' • Henry C. Guinness,
Gent.; Alex. Oswald Cowan, M.D.; James Samuel C.
Collier, Gent.
COMMISSION SIGNED BY THE QUEEN.
West Essex Militia—Charles Hyder, Gent., to be Quar-
termaster.

COMMISSIONS BY LORDS-LIEUTENANT.
Worcestershire Rifle Volunteers—Frederick W. Knight,
Esq., to be Captain; Alfred John Hancocks, Esq., to be
Lieutenant ; Augustus Talbot Hancocks, Esq, to be En-
sign.
Royal North Lincoln Militia—Captain John Golden to
be Major, vice W. C. Amcotts, resigned.
Ist Lincolnshire Volunteers Rifles—W C. Amcotts, Esq.,
to be Captain ; Arthur Trollope, Esq.% to be Lieutenant ;
Joseph Shuttleworth, Esq., to be Ensign.
Royal North Lincoln Militia—Her Majesty has been
graciously pleased to accept the resignation by Captain
Godfrey Stapylton Smith of his commission in the Royal
North Lincoln Regiment of Militia.
Ist Subdivision of Shropshire Riflo Volunteers—The
Hon. Robert Charles Herbert to be Ensign.
Ist Subdivision of Berkshire Rifle Volunteers—The Hon.
Alex. Leslie Melville Here Ruthven to be Lieutenant.
2d Regiment of the Duke of Lancaster's Own Militia-

Henry Currey, Gout., to be Ensign, vice Edward Ernest
Bromilow, who, being absent without leave, has been struck
off the strength of the Regiment.
Artillery Regiment of Royal Lancashire Militia—Richard
Alison Johnson, Gent., to be Second Lieutenant, vice
Widenham Francis Fosbery, promoted.
Gloucestershire Rifle Volunteers-7th Company—Henry
Bromby, Gent., to be Lieutenant ; William Martin, Gent.,
to be Ensign.
The following appointment is substituted for that which
appeared in the " Gazette" of the 25th October last :
Glamorganshire Rifle Volunteers-4th Company—lltyd
Thomas, Esq., to be Lieutenant.

NOTICE Or INTENDED DISTRIBUTION OF NAVAL PRIZE

MONEY.
Department of the Accountant-General of the Navy,
Admiralty, Somerset-house, Oct. 28.
Notice is hereby given to the officers, seamen and marines,
and to all persons interested therein, that the distribution
of proceeds received and tonnage bounty awarded for the
Spanish barque Conchita, captured on the 27th August,
1857, by her Majesty's ship Firefly, will commence on
Monday the 7th November, 1859 ; and the Niagara, cap•
tured on the 7th December, 1857, by her Majesty's ship
Hecate, will commence on Monday, the 31st October, 1859,
in the Prize Branch of the Department of the "Accountant-
General of the Navy, Admiralty, Somerset-house."
Agents and other persons holding prize orders, or other
instruments, by virtue of which they may be legally entitled
to claim the share of any salvor, are requested to present
the same at this office.
Any officer, seaman, marine, or other person, who
may desire to receive his share from the Collector of
Customs or of Inland Revenue within the United King •
dom, is required to intimate the same by letter to
be addressed " On Prize Business, to the Secretary of the
Admiralty, London "—in which letter his own place of re-
sidence is to be precisely stated, as well as the place of the
nearest Collector of Customs, or of Inland Revenue, from
whom it would be convenient to receive such share of
prize money.
The following are the shares due to an individual in the
several classes :

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NEW NORTH-ROAD.—At an early hour yester-
day morning workmen were employed removi parliament toll.
houses and side-bars on this road, the Act of
establishing it as a turnpike having expired the previous
night, the3lst ult. The road is therefore now free from
toll-gates and other obstructions, and under parish control.

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The morning of Monday was fine, calm, and mild,
but towards evening rain fell copiously, and from
-......... eight or nine o'clock during the night a tremendous
• gale blew from the west. The rain was very heavy,
-n, and alternated with equally severe hailstorms, while
_ the lightning and thunder equalled any in the hot-
test
mouths. Several minor land mishaps occurred,
g'• 1 ut the only incident at present worth mention is ..
tie total destruction of the theatre, a large wooden
auiiding erected for the accommodation of about
2,000 persons, and which the violent hurricane
levelled with the,ground. In the river and the docks,
both of which are more than usually full, the ship-
ping lay pretty snugly, and no casualty of conse-
quence is reported; but it is feared that in the chan-
nel outside some serious accidents may have resulted.
At the time of writing, one o'clock on Tuesday, the
wind and rain continued unabated, though the liori.
zon is becoming considerably clearer.