The Sun.
London, England, 1859-04-06 00:00:00

THIRSK.

racing presented no feature for comment, and
its character is fully indicated by the return which
is published in another column. The Ludlow
Meeting will be merely a counterpart of that at
Shrewsbury, and I shall not therefore longer dwell
on the events in Shropshire, but will endeavour to
anticipate the doings at Thirsk, where the best
meeting of the week will be celebrated to-morrow
and Friday. The majority of the animals entered
belong chiefly to the Northern stables, and the
Yorkshiremen will doubtleSs have all the fun to
themselves. 'With the exception of Butter-
cup, I know . very little of the two-year-
olds nominated for the Mowbray Stakes, and
as she is trained in the county she will, doubt-
less, eschew Ludlow for Thirsk.
Should the Lady Mary colt be sent from Shrews-
bury to Thirsk, and be none the worse for his
journey and his race with The Greek, I shall expect
him the best of Tom Dawson's to win the Borough
Handicap.

For the Hurdle Race, Übique is fancied ; at
least I stand the usual cigar with his owner.
The Lady Mary colt is also engaged for the
Sowerby Plate, and should he win to-morrow, he
will only have 3 lbs. extra to carry. The distance
is, however, short, and will suit the top weight,
Martlet.

Little Agnes will find the distance and the com-
pany for the Thirsk Handicap more to her liking
than she did at Northampton, and her success may
prove that her running with Delia was a mistake.

A FRESH MAN.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT--(This Day).

OLD COURT.
(Before Air. Justice Erle.)
WOUNDING WITH INTENT, ETC.
Robert Newman, 49, paper-maker, whose trial stood
over from the last session, was indicted with feloniously
wounding Jessie Newman, his wife, with intent to murder
her.

The facts of the case were fully reported in 17te Sun
when the prisoner was under examination before the Hon.
Mr. Norton at the Lambeth police-court.
It will be recollected that he was in the constant habit
of threatening and ill treating his wife, and his violence
rose to such a pitch, that, at last he procured a
chopper, and dealt her a violent blow, for which he was in-
dicted.

The offence was clearly proved, and the jury found him
guilty.

Sentence of death was ordered to be recorded.

NEW COURT.
(Before the Recorder.)
ALLEGED CONSPIRACY.
Ambrose Haynes, a solicitor, surrendered to an indict-
ment preferred against him for conspiracy.
The jury returned a verdict of not guilty.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.-(THIS DAY.)

COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE.
(Before Sir C. Cresswell.)
His Honour the Judge Ordinary disposed of several
motions for the appointment of administrators in the goods
and chattels of several persons deceased dying intestate, and
also granted probate of the wills of several persons deceased;
but no point of importance occurred requiring a detailed
report.

BAYLEY V. BAYLEY.
This was a motion for an order for payment ofXlOB, costs
of a Chancery jury trial, establishing the validity of a
will in favour of the defendant.

His Honour observed there was no affidavit produced of
the service of the order upon the plaintiff, and by whom
served. Moreover, the affidavits produced were not stamped,
and could not be received. The case stands over for affi-
davits.

OLICE INTELLIGENCE.-(211IS DAl'.

MARLBOROUGH• STREET.

THE FIGHT FOR THE CHAMPIONSHIP.—ATTEMPTING
TO STEAL WATCHES.—Edward Cain, 21, was charged
with attempting to steal watches, under the following cir-
cumstances :

Charles Cole, 317 A, said that on the previous night he
saw the prisoner with two well-known characters (King-
horn and Smallbones) in front of the house of Nat Lang-
ham, a large number of persons being there at the time
waiting to learn the result of the fight for the champion-
ship between Benjamin and Tom Sayers. He watched
the prisoner, and saw him go up to a young man, seem-
ingly a countryman, and say, " Who's won the fight, I
should like to know ?" and afterwards saw him put his
hand on his watch-guard. A rush of the crowd took place
in consequence of the police driving the persons back, and
he lost sight of the prisoner for a time. Shortly afterwards
saw him in St. Martin's-court, and there he also attempted
to steal a watch from a person he got into conversation
with. On taking him into custody he fought and kicked
liked a bull-dog, made use of the most disgusting language,
and it took four constables to get him to the station. On
being searched nine cards, used by cardsharpers—being
marked cards—were found on him ; also a brass guard-
chain and some money.

Police-constable 145 proved being assaulted while assist-
ing the last witness, a crowd of 400 or 500 persons being
assembled.

Mr. E. Lewis, of Great Marlborough-street, for the pri-
soner, said his instructions were that the prisoner had been
betting on the fight, and being interested in tbe result, had
gone to learn the winner ; add although he had touched a
person's guard, there was no proof of his having taken a
watch out of a person's pocket.

Inspector Holder said some watches were lost at the
same place on the previous evening.
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Committed for three. months.

THAMES.

ROBBERY IN A BROTHEL.—EIIen May, aged 16, Sarah
Paploe, 20, and Isaac Holmes,26---the first-named described
as a prostitute, of 5, Harris's-court, Ratcliff ; the others
as brothel-keepers, of 1 and 2, Ashley-place, Stepney—were
brought before Mr. Yardley, charged with stealing a silver
watch, value £2, and five sovereigns and a half-sovereign,
from the person of Thomas Jones, a carpenter, of 20,
Tracey-street. Two women who have (escaped were con-
cerned in the robbery.
It appeared that the prosecutor was inveigled into a
house in Ashley-place by a loose female, and while
there he was ill-used and robbed of his gold and his watch.
He was then kicked out of the house. He made his loss
known to the police, and he also charged a police-con,stable
with stealing his watch. Sergeant Cox, 45 K, made in-
quiries, and not only established the innocence of the con-
stable so improperly charged, but also traced the watch to
the possession of the man Holmes. It had been pawned,
and the duplicate relating to it sold, by the female prisoners
who joined in the outrage upon Jones. It was stated that
the prisoners had been engaged in many outrages and rob-
beries, and that Ashley-place had been the scene of many
robberies of a similar description.
Mr. Yardley remanded the prisoner until Friday.

By the arrival at Suez of the Salsette intelligence
is received of the departure for England of the Morning
Star, on the 7th of February, with 8,6.58 ounces of gold ;
Mermaid, 9th, 13,479 ounces; Sydenham, 10th, 15,216
ounces ; and Sussex, 11th, with 24,689 ounces, making a
total of nearly £250,000. Including the ships reported by
the last mail and still out, about £1,130,000 in Australian
gold is known to be on the way to this country, of which a
large proportion is either overdue or due within a week.

SOUTHAMPTON, Tuesday.—The screw steamer
Saxonia (belonging to the Hamburg-American Company),
Captain Ehlers, was despatched hence. this morning for
New York, en route for Hamburg. She takes out a large
number of passengers from Hamburg, 12 from France, and
26 from this port ; 85,000 francs in specie from France, and
a full cargo.
The London and North-Western Railway Com-
pany have notified that they are ready to renew their bonds
or to exchange them for debenture stock,
falling due on the 16th inst., at 4 per cent. for five, seven,
or ten years;
bearing interest at 4 per cent. in perpetuity.
The American ship Florence, of 1,000 tons, has
arrived in the London Docks, from Japan, with a cargo
con fisting chiefly of vegetable wax. This is the first cargo
from that country.

Mr. Frail's venture at Shrewsbury was not
attended with much success. The sport was insig-
nificant both with regard to quantity and quality,
and although the fine weather induced numerous
holiday folks to throng the course, yet there was a
marked falling off in the attendance of " enclosure
people." This latter fact, however, may be ex-
plained by the important proceedings in Parlia-
ment, which doubtless detained many of Mr.
Frail's principal supporters in London. The
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CHURCH RATES AT ST. CJEMENT

DANES.

The CHAIRMAN said the rate had been allow by
the surrogate, and duly made and signed. He re-
gretted as much as any one that, in any church
rate, these squabbles and such a waste of time
should take place ; but he, as an inhubitant of the
pariah, had paid the rate, and believed that it was
not only valid, but of a fair and equitable charac-
ter. When the rate was made all the parishioners
might have been present, but by absenting them-
selves they must be assumed to have legalised the
rate.

Mr. BRADLAUGH altid that for the reasons first
urged he still thought the justices then present
should not entertain the summonses. lie objected
that the chairman had prejudged the legality of
the rate ; and as to the signing of the rate by the
surrogate, that was purely a matter of form, granted
without the slightest inquiry into the estimates.
The CHAIRMAN said that that rate was carried
by a poll.

Mr
BRADLAUGH contended that that did not
legalise the rate.

-After some deliberation, the Chairman decided
that he should entertain the case.
Mr. BRADLAUGH then proceeded to state the case,
objecting to the rate on the above ground, announc-
ing his intention of appealing to the Ecclesiastical
Court should the decision of the justices be adverse.
Mr. NEX, one of the churchwardens, then an-
nounced that it was not his intention to ask for any
adjudication until they should have taken further
advice on the subject.
The hearing•of the other cases was made subject
to this intimation and deferred.

FROM THE GAZETTE OF LAST NIGHT.

FOREIGN-OFFICE„ APRIL 4

The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. John
Ogilvy Hay as Consul at Akyab for his Majesty the King
of Sweden and Norway.
The Queen has also been pleased to approve of Mr. Al-
fred Wise as Consul in the Island of Ceylon for his Majesty
the King of Prussia.

WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MA,LL.

Arta', 5.

Royal Artillery—Lieut.' John Lardtier Clarke to be Secend
Captain.
Royal Engineers—Captain and Brevet; Lieutenant-Colonel
Charles Duesbery Robertson to be Lieutenant-Colonel,
vice Brevet-Colonel James, placed upon the Supernu-
merary List ; Captain- and Brevet-Major Charles Fan-
shawe to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Brevet-Colonel
Yorke, placed upon the Supernumerary List ; Captain
and Jirevet-Colonel Frederick Edward Chapman, C. 8.,
to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Bainbrigge, placed on the
Supernumerary List ; Second Captain Edward Belfield
to be Captain, vice Robertson; Seeond Captain the Hon.
George Wrottesley to. be Captain, vice Fanshawe ;
Second Captain and Brevet-Major Edward Charles
Acheson Gordon, on the Retired List, to be Captain ;
Second Captain and Brevet-Major Whitworth Porter to
be Captain, vice Chapman ; Second Captain John Joshua
Wilson to be Captain, vice Brevet-Major Gibb, placed
upon the Supernumerary List ; Second Captain Joshua
Henry Smith to be Captain, vice Binney, placed
upon the Supernumerary List ; Second Captain Anthony
Reynolds Vyvyan Crease to be Captain, vice Bre-
vet-Major Crooke, placed upon the Supernumerary List;
Second Captain Edward Metcalfe Grain to be Captain,
vice Hutchinson, placed upon the Supernumerary List ;
Second Captain Augustus Meyer Lochner to be Captain,
vice J. G. Jervois, placed upon the Supernumerary
List; Second Captain and Brevet-Major Philip Raven-
hill to be Captain, vice Chesney, placed upon the Super-
numerary List ; Second Captain Herbert Taylor Siberne
to bo Captain, vice J. J. Wilson, placed upon the Super-
numerary Lis. ; Lieutenant Francis Edward Pratt to be
Second Captain, vice IVrottesley ; Lieutenant John
Mervin Cutliffe Drake to be Second Captain, vice Por-
ter; Lieutenant Edward Renouard Jamea to be Second
Captain, vice Wilson ; Lieutenant William Bailey to *be
Second Captain, vice Smith ; Lieutenant Frederick Ed-
'ward Blackett Beaumont to be Captain, vice Crease ;
Lieutenant Charles George Gordon to be Second Cap-
tain, vice Grain; Lieutenant Oliver Haldane Stokes to
be Second Captain, vice Lochner ; Lieutenant James
Bevan Edwards to be Second Captain, vice Ravenlull;
Lieutenant John Fretchville Dykes Donnelly to be
Second Captain, vice Sibome ; Lieutenant John Edwin
Comes to be Second Captain, vice Farrell, placed upon
the Supernumerary List; Lieutenant Alexander De
Courcy Scott to be Second Captain, vice Phillips, placed
upon the Supernumerary List.
Chaplain's Department—The Reverend George Winne
Langmead, M.A., Chaplain to the Forces, to be Chaplain
of the 3rd Class.

COMMISSION SIGNED BY THE QUEEN.
East Kent Regiment of Militia.—Robert Murphy
Nicolls, Esq., late a Captain in the 65th Regiment of Foot,
to be Paymaster, from the 3d February, 1859, vice Atkin-
son, appointed to the 21st Fusiliers.
COMMISSIONS BY' LORDS-LIEUTENANT.
Artillery Regiment of Royal Lancashire Militia.—First
Lieutenant James Sotheron to be Captain, vice Charles
Blayds Molyneux, resigned ; Second Lieutenant Daniel
George Atchison to be first Lieutenant, vice James Sothe-
ran, promoted ; Thomas Christie, Gent., to be Second
Lieutenant, vice George James Wilson, resigned.
Royal Aberdeenshire Highlanders.—Lieutenant Robert
Macfarlane to be Captain, vice Archibald Garden, removed
from the strength of the Regiment.

Durham Artillery Militia:-:—Octavius Pelly, Gent., to be
CaptainlGent., vice G. J: Scurfield, resigned ; Frederick Black-
lin to be Second Lieutenant.
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[The following appointment is substituted for that which
appeared in the Gazette of the 29th March last.]
Ayrshire Rifies.—James M-ontgomerie,
to be Surgeon.

- BANKRUPTCIES ANNULLED.
Robert Clayton, leather dealer, Deansgate, Manchester.
Thomas Swift, grocer, Sheffield.

BANKRUPTS.
John Henry Rawll, tailor, Leadenhall-street, to surren-
der April 15, at half-past twelve, and May 19, at twelve,
at the Court of Bankruptcy.
William Rushworth Sims and Arthur Rushworth Sims,
merchants, Fish-street-hill, April 15, at half-past one, and
May 17, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
John Cooper Newey, pork butcher, Wolverhampton,
April 18 and May 11, at eleven, at the Birmingham Dis-
trict Court.

George Howbeach Banaster, tailor and draper, Oldbury,
Worcestershire, April 15 and May 6, at eleven, at the Bir-
mingham District Court.
John Slorah, glass and lead merchant, Kidderminster,
April 18 and May 11, at eleven, at the Birmingham Dis-
trict Court.

Richard Day and Thomas Day, ship builders,. Goole,
York, April 16, and May 13, at eleven, at the Leeds Dis-
trict Court.

Joseph Deeley, beerseller, grinder, and polisher, Aston,
Warwickshire, April 18 and May 9, at eleven, at the Bir-
mingham District Court.
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Stephen Wrathall, cattle dealer, Linton, Yorkshire,
April 15 and May 13, at eleven, at the Leeds District
Court.

SCOTCH BANKRUPTS.
David Landale, junr., and Co., sometime the Dario Coal
Company, near Leven, Fife.
James Melven, clothier, Aberdeen.
John Dunsmuir and Sons, coalmasters, Barr Mill, Beith.
John Charles Sandell, Edinburgh, late army exchange
agent, Warw'ck-street Chariug-cross. •
George Middleton, wood merchant, Mansfield, Strath.
miglo, Fifeshire.

COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—YESTERDAY.
Amsterdam
Ditto
Rotterdam — 11 161 11 16
Antwerp
25 15
Brussels. . - 25 10 25 15
Hamburgh. -13 5 . 13 5 t
Paris Short. 25 2h• 25 10
Marseilles
DUO 3 Months. 25 27 25 32%
-- i
Frankfort on Maine — 25 27 25 32
1171 117!
Vienna
Trieste
Petersburgh
Madrid
Cadiz
Leghorn --
29 0 29 0
Genoa ............
Naples
Palermo — 121 121
Messina —121 f
Lisbon
-52 f 52,
Oporto
Rio Janeiro 6O days st. .. • •
New York — _
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E.I. Co's bls. House bid. eM.
Calcutta, Co.'s rupee 26 244-
Bombay ditto
Madras ditto — 26 24
East India Company s Bills drawn, from the 18th ult. to
the 25th ult.

Benbal £343 19 0
Madras 0 0 0
Bombay,

£343 19 0

Foreign Gold in Bars (Standard)....per oz. £3 17 9
Mexican Dollars'
PP 0 0 0
Silver in Ban (Standard) ...... .

Yesterday a batch of church rate summonses,
disputed on the ground of their validity, were heard
before Messrs. Bailey and Stillwell, two of her
Majesty's justices of the peace acting in and for the
1 2 Strand division of the county of Middlesex.
3 The first case was that of Mr. Truelove.
Mr. BRADLAUGH, from the office of Mr. T.
Ilarvey, who appeared for the defendant, said that
L as this case came equally within the jurisdiction of
the Bow-street police magistrates, would it not be
better that the case should go for decision there ?
Not that for one moment he would suppose that
that court would be influenced by any private feel-
ings, but from the fact that Mr. Isaacson, the vestry
clerk of St. Clement Danes, an interested party, and
who might in fact be called the plaintiff, was on all
points the legal adviser of the bench, it might
perhaps be advisable that they should decline to
hear the summons.
Mr. ISAACSON said it was solely on points of law
his opinion would be given. On any other he should
decline to offer any advice.
Mr. BRADLAUGH called attention to the case of
" The Queen v. Byron," Li., p. 134, in which it
was decided that on a church rate which was ad.
judged bad on the face of it, the justices were not
bound to enter. In this case the first item was
balance due to the late senior churchwarden,
£4B Bs. Id. A retrospective item has always been,
held bad. Again, " Chatity dispensed as per
churchwardens' account, £192 Bs. 1d,," was an
item which could not come within the scope of tt
church rate; and although it must be urged that a.
sum was set down as balance on the other side, yet
that was purely hypothetical. Then insurance for
vestry-house, alms-houses, &c., had no connection
whatever with the church, and could not be in-
cluded.