The Sun.
London, England, 1861-02-23 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 23, 1861.

LAW INTELLIGENCE—(This Day.)

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF CHANCERY. •
APPEAL-RIDGIWAY V. NEWSTEAD.
Mr. Elmsley, Q.C., resumed and concluded his arguments
for the respondents.

Mr. Wikens followed on the same side.
This was an appeal from a decree of Vice-Chancellor Sir
John Stuart, dismissing the plaintiff's bill.
Mr. Selwyn, Q.C., was heard in support of the decree.

LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE.
Bto 1 agst Franc Picard (taken and offered)
10 to 1 agst Anatis (taken)
10 to 1 agst Emperor (take 100 to 9)
11 to 1 agst Jealousy (taken)
14 to 1 agst Old Ben Roe (taken)
20 to 1 agst Xanthus (taken)
THE TWO THOUSAND GVINEAS.
Bto 1 agst Klarikoff (taken)
10 to 1 agst Russley (taken freely)

The plaintiff, mortgagee on plant and machinery in a
leasehold brewery, filed his bill for restitution of a portion
of £2,000 legacy to Mary Ann Moore, who died in 1854,
and to her children on attaining the ago of 21.
Mr. Greenside followed on the same side, and contended
that the plaintiff was barred from claiming restitution by
lapse of time and acquiescence.
Mr. Beacon, Q.C., was heard in reply, and mentioned
that the £2,000 was part of the assets of the testator, and
that the plaintiff. was entitled to claim restitution under his
mortgage.

The Lord Chancellor reserved judgment.
(Before Vice-Chancellor Sir Richard J. Kindersley, Mr.
Justice Willis, and Mr. Baron Channell.)

HUGHES V. THE CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAILWAY
COMPANY-MOTION FOR DECREE.

The plaintiff filed his bill for the purpose of establishing
his right to make a railway on his lands on the seaboard
side of the defendants' railway for general traffic purposes.
The Vice-Chancellor refused an injunction to restrain inter-
ference with the plaintiff's works, and that decision was in
effect reversed by the Lords Justices.

Age st lb
Master Bagot a 8 7
Lovett
Weatherbound 4 8 0
Bucephalus
Ben Webster 4 7 10
M. Philippe
Oxford ...
Royal Sovereign
Eskdale 5 7 6
Petra
Golden Pippin
Mistake (late Earl
of Essex): 4 7 6
Desmond
Willie Wright 5 7 4
Miss Stewart
General Hess 4 7 4
Springwell
Rosamond
Maid of Chesterfield 4 7 4
Killigrew
Ariadne 5 7 2
Parmesan 4 7 2
Forager 4 7 2
Birmingham 5 6 12
N. Lancashire
Feodorowna 4 6 12
Lawyer (h b) 3 6 12
Rara Avis 5 6 10

The plaintiff's private railway has been completed, and
the question now is, whether, in law or in equity, he is
entitled to use it for general railway purposes.
Mr. Glasse, Q.C., for the plaintiff, contended that, being
the owner of the lands, the plaintiff was entitled to make a
railway on them and use it for traffic and general purposes,
and asked for a declaration to that effect.

Ihe case was proceeding when we went to press.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Fonblanque.)

THE RECENT ALLEGED TALLOW FRAUDS-IN RE NICHOLL

AND NORTH.

Another private meeting was held to-day in this matter.
It will be remembered that Mr. North is in custody upon a
charge of having obtained a quantity of tallow by alleged
false pretences. The meeting was strictly private, for
what reason has not at present transpired.

POLICE IN7ELLIIE'NCE—(TMs Day).

MENTS.

MARLBOROUGH STREET.

ROBBERIES AT COFFEE-ROUSES.—Peter Kimple, a Ger-
man tailor, of 15, POrtugal-street, Lincoln's-inn-fields, was
charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with stealing a, coat, the pro-
perty of a German professor named Edward Funkenstein,
at a coffee-house, No. 2, Old Compton-street.
The prosecutor said he was at a coffee-house in Old Comp-
ton-street, and had laid his coat down, and shortly after
missed the prisoner mad also his coat, which was of the
value of £2 10s. He went in pursuit of the prisoner, and
saw him going along with his coat on his back. Having
given the alarm, two firemen took the prisoner into custody.
Henry Spendilow, engine keeper of St. Ann's parish,
proved hearing a cry of " Stop thief," and pursuing the pri-
soner in King-street, on his return from a fire. The pri-
soner ran into a passage, and when he entered he found
him lying down. With assistance he took him into custody.
Sergeant Silverton, acting inspector, said that about 20
duplicates were found on the prisoner, and as several um-
brellas and teats had been stolen from coffee-houses, and
prisoner answering the description of the man, he thought

AQUATICS.

OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE EIGHT-OARED

RACE.

if he was remanded that other cases might be proved against
him.

The prisoner entered into a rambling statement in his
defence, stating that his brother had given him a coat.
Mr. Tyrwhitt said after the cock-and-bull statement
about his brother, he should remand him, and ho had better
have him in attendance.

THAMES.
REFUSAL TO REMOVE A PREGNANT WOMAN TO IRE-
LAND.—Mr. Coningham, one of the parochial officers of
St. Anne's, Limehouse, introduced to the magistrate, Mr.
Selfe, a poor woman named Mary Owens, for the purpose of
baking her examination upon oath and obtaining the magis-
trate's sanction for her removal to her native place, Cork.
Mary 0 wens said, in answer to questions put by Mr.
Selfe, that she had been four years in England and was far
advanced in pregnancy. She did not want to go to Ire-
land, and was afraid of encountering the perils of the voyage
in the state she was in.
Mr. Selfe—When do you expect to give birth to a child ?
The woman replied, " Yer Honour, I don't know one day
from the other.
Mr. Selfe—And who is the father of your child, young
woman ?
The woman, in answer to this question, said, " Well, yer
worship, it's a young man that made love to me. (A. laugh.)
Mr. Selfe—And you are not married ?
The woman held down her head, and replied that she
was not married.
Coningham said the Board of Guardians of the Stepney
union had ordered the removal of the woman to Ireland,
and Mr. J. B. Ross, jun., one of their medical officers, had
certified there would be no danger in her undertaking a
voyage to Ireland if she was sent away immediately.
Mr. Selfe said it was a great hardship on English rate-
payers to have to support the woman and her bastard child,
but he could not thinleof sanctioning her removal t. Ire-
land at present. The woman, to use her own words, did
not know one day from the other when her accouchement
would take place. Under these circumstances it would be
most improper to send her to Ireland at present, and the
Union must take charge of her and maintain her in
Wapping poorhouse.
NOVEL APPLICATION—REFUSAL OF A UNION OFFICER
TO BURY TIIE CORPSE or A CIIILD.—A woman named
Barry, the wife of a dock labourer, of No. 12, George-
court, Harris's-court, Ratcliff, complained to Mr. Selfe
that the body of her infant child, which was found dead in
its bed, and upon which a coroner's inquest was held a
fortnight ago, was still unburied, and that she and her hus-
band were in great poverty, and had not the means of bury-
ing it.

OXFORD.

CA.MBIIMGE.

st lb
IW. Champneys, Bras.ll 0
2E. B. Merriman, Ex 10 3
3H. E. Medlicott, Wad 12 9
4T. F. Halsey, Ch Ch 12 0
SG. Morrison, Balliol 13 4
6 H. G. Hopkins, Corp 10 13
7 S. French, Ch Ch 9 12
8 W. M. Hoare 10 11
S. 0. B. Ridsdale,
Wadham (cox) 9 0

Mr. Edward Searle is build]
and Messrs. Salter for Oxfori

CO)II\IONERS.

FOUNDATIONERS.

et lb

1 H. F. B. Portman.. 9 2
2 S. J. Crawhall ....10 4
3 H. Norsworthy ....10 10
4 A. N. Arnould ....10 1
R. Bateman (cox) .. 9 5
Both crews rowed in new
S. Salter, of Oxford.

Mr. Selfe—Have you applied to the relieving.officer.
The applicant said she had applied to Lowen, the reliev-
ing officer of Ratcliff, in the Stepney Union, and he refused
to give her a coffin.
Mr. Selfe—l suppose you have undertaken to pay the
expense of the funeral except the coffin. The Union will
not do anything unless everything is provided at the ex-
pense of the ratepayers. That is the rule, I believe.
Mr. Livingston, the chief usher—Yes, sir, that is so.
The applicant here said—Your worship, we have only
one room to live in, myself and husband, and two chil-
dren, and the body is in the same room, and has been there
for a fortnight. I produced the coroner's warrant fur the
burial of the body, and Mr. Lowen will not give me a
coffin to put the body in, and I can't afford to buy one.
Mr. Selfe said if the woman's statement was correct,
there was gross neglect in some quarter or other. The body
ought to have been buried long since. The magistrate
then ordered the chief usher to give the woman 6s. from
the poor-box fund, and wrote a note, which he directed
the applicant to convey to Lowen, and if he did not take
the necessary measures for the immediate interment of the
body, ho (Mr. Selfe) would interfere in another way.

BANK OF ENGLAND RETURNS.

BETTING AT MANCHESTER—YESTERDAY.
The Waterloo Coursing meeting had the effect of taking:
away almost all the influential members of the rooms, and
with those present the most interest seemed to be talking
over the probable result of the Waterloo Cup ; however, we
were, from what took place during the afternoon, enabled
to make up the following scanty list of quotations :

LIVERPOOL SPRING MEETING, 1861.
The Liverpool Spring Cup (Handicap) of 100 sous (in
specie) by subscription of 10 soya each, h ft, with 60
added ; winners of any handicap after Feb. 19 71b extra;
about a mile and a half, starting opposite the stables.
57 subs.

Age st lb
Norton . .
The Prophet .... 4 6 10
Industrious
Edmund Kean 4 6 10
Jenny Longlegs 4 6 10
Furious
Lucknow
Trothplight
Lancaster
The Palaiseau
Vancouver
Black Diamond
Mousetrap
Jacintha .. 3 6 0
Col. Crockett 8 6 0
Miss Dunstable
Wombat
Whitewall
Isthmian
Pounce ..
Mantrap
Bandit
Princess Royal
Croagh Patrick 3 5 7
Pixie
Rose
Shepherdess 3 5 7
Calpe 3 5 7
.Duchess

HORSES STRUCK OUT OF THEIR ENGAGE-

On the 11th inst., at 9 a.m., Keepsake out of the Lin-
coln engagements,

On the 11th inst., at 1.30 p.m., Bramble out of the
Brocklesbury Stakes at Lincoln.

On the 11th inst., at 1.30 p.m., Griffin out of the Hurdle
Race at Lincoln.
On the 12th inst., at 9 a.m., Misty Morn out of the Lin-
colnshire Handicap.

Harry and Marmion out of the Liverpool Hurdle Race.
Norton out of the Liverpool Spring Cup.
Comet and Queen Bess out of their Birmingham engage-
ments.

Comet and Evelyn out of the Liverpool Hurdle Race.
Comet and Evelyn out of the Shrewsbury Hurdle Race.

The exact day for this great event has:not yet been finally
settled by the authorities, as it may in some measure de-
pend upon the Trinity examinations at Cambridge; but in
all probability Saturday, March 23, will be fixed upon, and
on that day the tides will allow of a start at a more reason-
able hour than has of late been usual. We give the names
and weights of the rival crews as they have been rowing
during the past week, but it is possible that alterations may
take place in the former, and very certain that on the day
the latter will be considerably changed, when severe train-
ing and long rows shall have told their invariable tale.
Let the good wishes of all oarsmen cheer both crews through
those unseen labours which are at last to reap their reward
in the general approval axed praise of the practised critic on
the Putney waters.

st lb
IG. H. Richards, Trin.lo 6
2 H. J. Chaytor, Jesus.lo 13
3H. S. Wright, Trin.. 11 0
4H. H. Collings, Trin.ll 3
5 J. Mason, S. Cath... 12 12
6M. Coventry, Tr H ..13 5
7R. P. Fitzgerald, T Hll 9
BJ. Hall, Magdalen...lo 4
T. K. Gaskell, Trin.
(cox)
ing a new boat for Cambridge,

MAGDALEN COLLEGE FOUR-OARED RACE.
The third annual four-oared race, for Mr. G. Nors-
worthy's challenge cup and the silver medals, between the
rounetationers (holders of the cup), and the Commoners,
was rowed over the Nuneham course on Friday, Feb. lb.
The Commoners winning the toss, took the Berkshire side.
A. good start was effected by Mr. Hopkins, and for the first
50 yards neither boat appeared to gain ; after this the Com-
moners began to show in front, but at the railway bridge
the bows of the two boats were again level. From this
point the Commoners resumed the lead, and a very plucky
and exciting race ended in their victory. Time 11 min 30
sec. The steering of both boats, especially that of the
victors, was very good, and the rowing of Mr. Arnould was
much admired. The following are the names and weights
of the crews :

at lb
1 E. V. Westmaeott.lo 51
2 L. S. Tuckwell.... 10 121
3 F, M. Somerset ..11 61
4 H. B. Middleton ..11
J. F. Payne (o°lo.. 8 9
loats built by Messrs. J. and

FRIDAY EVENING.
The Bank return of this evening amply demon•
strates the absence of any cause for the advance in
the rate of discount adopted last week, the increase
both in the bullion and the reserve being very
large. A reference to past experience constitutes
the only means for estimating at any time the pro-
bable course of the Bank, and no one guided simply
by that light could have been prepared for a move-
ment to 8 per cent. The measure being without
any apparent justification, those who defended it
had no argument except that there might be great
apprehensions of a drain from causes of which the
general public were unaware. Such a ground of
action, however, is wholly opposed to the spirit of
the Bank Charter Act, and substitutes the mere
fancies of the directors in place of that inexorable
and automatic movement which should follow the
changes in the stock of bullion. The public
throughout the whole of the past ten days have
been kept in alarm from the assumption that, as
the rate had been put to a point entirely unwar-
ranted by a comparison of the figures of the
last return with those of any former return,
there must be some hidden danger im-
pending, which in due time would be revealed.
The idea was ridiculous, because all persons
should be aware that the Bank Court can have no
information regarding the foreign exchanges and
the flow of money beyond such as is accessible to
the whole world ; but it nevertheless prevailed
extensively, and has wrought considerable alarm
and inconvenience. • The return now published
should effectually dispel this feeling, but it may be
useful also to point out that there has rarely been a
time when there was less reason to fear the possibi-
lity of unsoundness in the financial condition of the
country. The exportation of bullion for the last
three months has been almost entirely in exchange
for foreign produce. We have therefore something
to show for it. Cotton and grain are as good as
gold in their way, and if the same cannot be said of
American securities, there is, at all events, no reason
to doubt that those which we have purchased lately
in such extraordinary quantities can, in case of need,
be realised in the New York market without any
ruinous depreciation. As regards foreign loans, we
are actually without a single commitment—an
almost unprecedented occurrence ; and for foreign
undertakings generally our liabilities are smaller
than at any period within recent memory. Never,
therefore, could a " precautionary" movement have
been taken at a moment when it was less directly
needed. It would, however, have been harmless,
and have led to no result, except that of lessening
the business of the Bank, but for the fact that the
currency is being absorbed by that establishment,
not merely through the regular influx of the re-
venue, but also from the payment into its coffers of
£700,000 or £BOO,OOO on account of the India loan.
Under such circumstances the public have but a
very limited remedy, and must, after a few weeks'
resistance, pay whatever is demanded. That the
Bank do not seek to take advantage of events to
grasp extortionate rates is fully understood, and
their whole course of late years has been such as to
show that, whatever disgraces may attend some of
our public concerns, this at least is managed with a
sincere sense of, responsibility. But a mistake is a
mistake, whatever its cause, and, looking at the
vague anxieties with which the commercial public
have been oppressed during the past few weeks
by the crisis in the Levant trade and the aommtehr;
cial confusion in America, there are few among the
mercantile public who have not felt that_
last
timidity and inconsistency of the policy
ofof I
exercise of
dis-
quietude which called rather for the
week operated as a needless aggravation a dis-
q 011
every legitimate means for its ppression.—limes'
City Article.