The Sun.
London, England, 1857-08-22 00:00:00

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The Fifteenth Year of the Great -Yorkshire Stakes of
10 soya each, with 100 added for the second horse, for
3-yr-olds ; colts, Bst 71b ; fillies, Bst 21b. Certain
winners extra. The third to receive 50 sove out of
the stakes. One mile and three-quarters. 104 subs.
Lord ZA!and's Vedette, by Voltigeur, Bst 7lb
(Ashmall) 1
Lord ZAland's Skirmisher, Set 71b (Templeman) 2
Mr. Jackson's Saunterer, B.it 7lb -(J. Osborne) 3
Mr. C. Harrison's Strathnaver, B,t 71h (Bumpy) 4
Baron Rothschild's Sydney, Sit 71b (D. Hughes) 0
Betting-5 to 2on Vedette, 7to 1 atest any other.
Skirmisher made play with Strathnaver second,
Vedette third, Sydney fourtb, and Saunterer lass. In
this order they ran to the mile-post, where Vedette
passed Strathnaver, waited upon Skirmisher, until they
were about half way up the distance, when he came
away and won by three lengths ; about the same digs
tance between the second and third, and third and fourth.
Sydney was pulled up and did not pass the post.
Lird Zetland declared to win with Vedette.
The Nursery Handicap Plate of 100 sous for 2.yr•olds.
T.Y. C.

Mr. J. Osborne's Lady Alice, 7st 121 b ...(Challoner) 1
Mr. Dawson's Julia, 6 t 121 b (Bullock) 2
Mr. Jones's Saxony, 7st 71b (Withington) 3
The folio wing also ran : —Soothsayer, Herne, Scaur
dale, Dred, Conductor, Blackthorn, Early Bud, Arca-
num, and Speedwell colt.
Betting-6 to 4 asst Julia, 3to 1 agst Lady Alice, 7
to 1 agst Saxony, 10 to 1 each agst Speedwell colt and
Arcanum, 100 to 8 agst Conductor.
Julia and Lady Alice got off in advance, and kept in
front throughout. A fine race in, ended in favour of
Lady Alice by a neck ; Saxony was beaten by two lengths
from Julia ; bad fourth ; Speedwell colt was fifth.
The Cult Sapling Stakes, of 50 soya each, 30 ft, for 2-yr-
olds, Bst 7113 each. T.Y.C. 4 subs.
Mr. Howard's Sedbilry, 84t 71b (J. Goater) w. o.
The Members' Plate of 50 sov. for 3-yr-olds and up-
wards. Optional selling weights, Bte. One mile and
a half. 4 subs.
Mr. Marsons' Thames Darrell, 3 yrs (30/.), sst 101 b
(Challciner) 1
Mr. G. Barnes's Nailer (late Experiment), 4 yrs (301.)
Est
Betting... 3 to 1 on Thames Darrell, who won by

three lengths.
The Fourth Year of the Aske ProduceSts,kes of 50 sovs
each, h ft ; colte, 83t 71b ; fliies, 83t 41b. Certain
allowances. T.Y C 3 subs.
Mr. E. R. Clark's Mountain Nymph, Bst 41b
(Kendalll 1
Won. by six lengths.

LATEST BETTING.
ST. LEGER.
to 4 agst Rink Barmy
5 to 2 agst Ignoramus
9to 1 agst Tournament
20 to 1 agst Anton
40 to 1 agst Bashi Bazauk
• DERBY.
1000 to 30 agst Toxopholite.

ABINGDON RACES.-FRIDAY.

Town Plate.

Theory
Crown Pige m

ilarrie

Two-year-old Sweepstakes.

Mim05a.......................................................
Ap0110.........................................................
Childrey
Eight ran. Won by three-quarters of a length.
Marcham Park Stakes.

Barbarity
King.naker
Theory

Seven ran.
Stand Plate.

Sivertail
Jack Sheppard
Babble

Handicap Sweepstakes.

Barbarity
Eight rah Won by
Sister to a.
Prac:tico ....
...
six lengths.

HORSES STRUCK OUT OF THEIR ENS

M ENTS.
On the 14th inst„ nt 12 15 p.m., Bacon and M.D. out
of the Great North of E gland Biennialk at York.
On the 14th inst., at 12.15 p.m., Jessie out of the
Yorkshire Oaks.
On the 14th inst , at 12.15 p.m , Goldfinch out of the
Ebor St. Luger and Eglinton Stakes, York.
On the 14•11 inst., at 12.15 p.m ,
Glimpse out of the

Gimcrack Stakes.
On the 14th inst., at 12.15 p.m , Chutnee out of the
Rawclitre Produce Stakes, York.
On the 14 h inst., atter 6 p.m., Pledge out of the Two
Year o.d Stakes at Eghatn.
On the 17th inst., at 9 a.m., The find out of all her
engag,eaunts.
On the 17th inst., at 9 a m., Accurate and L ,rd Stately
out of the Great North of England Biennial Stakes at

York.
Ou the 17th inst., at 9 a.m., Cassock out of all h

engagements for this year.
On the 17th hist., at 9 a.m., Aleppo out of the Great
Ebor Handicap.
Ou the 17th inst., at 9 a.m., Good Friday out of all
rnen at York.
engagornents for which he now handicapped.
OR the 17th inst., at 11.40 a.m., Hartley Buck oat of
Peregrine
r in
all his engagements.
Or
en
theelo7u o t ht
i nf
stth their at
On the 17th inst., at 4.20 p.m., •Geuista and Sagitta
out of the Yorkshire Oaks.
On the 18th, at 9 a.m, Signal out of all her engage.
ments.
elnlg4a
e am"
ts Childrey, Kelpie, and
g
Ou the 18th inst., at 9 a.m., Batfieur out of all en-
gagements for which he is now handicapped.
On the 18th inst., at 9 a.m., Kingfisher out of the
Hunters' Stakes, Hereford.
On the 18th inst., at 2.15 p.m., Mysterious Jack out
of his Warwick engagements.
On ihs 18th instant, at 2.15 p.m., Katherine Logic
out of her Ipswich engagements.
On the 18th instant, at. 4.15 p.m., Polish out of his
Ipswich engagements.
On the 18th instant, at 6,45 p.m.; Tyre out of his
Warwick engagements.
On the 18th instant, at 8.15 p.m., King John and
King James oat of their Ipswich and Warwick engage-
ments.
On the 18th instant, at 8.15 p.m., Bonnets-o'-Blue out
of her Ipswich engagements.
On the 19th instant, at 4.40 p.m., Volatore out of his
engagements at York.
On the 19th instant, at 4.40 p.m., Unexpected out of
the Corporation Plate, Hereford.
On the 191 instant, at 4.40 p.m., Ilebe out of The
Ea ,t Kent Handicap, Canterbury.
On the 19th, at Yorlr, Prioress out of the Hereford-
' shire Stakes.
,he I MMI•••••••••••=m1.1.1•M

ALLEGED APPREHENSION OF JONATHAN GETDON.—
YesterdAy morning great sensation was created in the
metropolis in consequence of the apprehension of a man,
answering the description of Jonathan Geydon, charged
with the murder of Mrs. Mary White, at Chingford
Hatch, Eisex. It appears Qat Sergeant Smith, of the
fifth City division of police, took a man into custody
near Tower-hill, answering the description of the sus.
peoted murderer, who refused to give any account of
I himself. He appeared to be in a moat thßititUtO COW
dition,

Col. Bruce is appointed to the command of the
2d Battalion of the Ist Royals, and is to join the
depot forthwith.
Major F. R. Forster (4th Dragoon Guards) has
been appointed extra aide-de-camp to his Excellency
the Earl of Carlisle, Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland.
Yesterday the general court-martial for the trial
of Lieut.-Col. J. Clarke, Ist West India Regiment,
reassembled at Chatham Garrison. The Court hav-
ing concluded the re-examination of Capt. J. D.
Mends proceeded to examine Capt. J. Macaulay,
Lieut. G. Thorne, and Lieut. W. Hartrick, Ist
West India Regiment, in support of the prosecu
tion, although the whole of those witnesses were
about being called by the prisoner to support his
defence. The result of the examination of those
witnesses was that Lieut. Thorne and Lieut. Har-
trick disproved the first charge against the prisoner
—that of refusing to embark on board the Perse-
verance in [command of troops, although it was
alleged that he was detailed in general orders to do
so ; and each of the three witnesses also disproved
the fifth charge, that the prisoner had commenced
a mutiny by advising Captain Macaulay and Cap-
tain Pearson not to obey the commands of Colonel
S. J. Hill. This closed the case for the prosecu-
tion, and the prisoner then read a lengthened de-
fence, in which he informed the Court that imme-
diately he ascertained that he was to be tried by
court-martial he hurried home from Africa ; arid,
although he obtained an interview with the Adju-
tant-General, he failed in obtaining a hearing, the
Adjutant-Genoral etatiog that it was no use lite riv-
ing anything. He submitted to the Court that he
bad been entrapped into making use of certain tex-
pressions in a conversation with Colonel Hill al to
what his opinions would be on a certain event
(which bad not taken place) on which a disobe-
dience of orders was assumed, and.by an extra-
ordinary hallucination a mutiny was improvised.
He distinctly disavowed to Colonel Hill all inten-
tions of claiming the command of the detachments
when the troops of the 2d West India Regiment
were expecting to embark. His appointment to
the Gambia arose out of a wanton aggression on
the part of Colonel Hill in removing him from the
command of the six companies of the regiment—
the command of the left wing having been held by
him for three years by general orders—and placing
him in a subordinate_ position by procuring his
being sent to Gambia on the untrue pretext of a
disturbance there, and although there were at that
time two field-officers in that colony. He sub-
mitted to the Court that Colonel Hill was actually
prohibited from exercising any military jurisdiction
in the Gambia, and referred to the letter of the
commanding officer of his regiment, in which ho
(the prisoner) was considered the chief military
authority in Africa. He wished to call the atten-
tion of the Court to the fact that he had written to
the Horse Guards to ascertain his exact position,
but the Court would not fail to be impressed with
the fact that the answer to his letter was not
received by him until afterethe date mentioned in
the charges, when it was handed to him by Col.
Hill. Toe prisoner then proceeded to comment on
the circumstance that the original charges preferred
against him had been altered a few days before the
assembling of the court, and fresh charges substi-
tuted; a'so, on the important fact that Col. Hill, the
prosecutor, had not been called as a witness by
the prosecution, although his name was given him
as the principal witness. On his first arrival at
Sierra Leone he found Col. Hill absent from the
station employed making a king of one of the coun-
tries. The command at that time was hold by Capt.
Pearson, notwithstanding the witness Capt. Mends
had sworn ho had the command. As soon as Col.
Hill returned he order the prisoner to quit his go-
vernment, but no general order was issued. At a
subsequent interview with Col. Hill he informed pri-
soner he had no intention to entrap him, as he was
not "do tricky." Col. Clarke then referred to the letter
he had written to Col. Hill disavowing any inten-
tion of claiming the command of the 2d West In-
dia Regt., and remarked on the fact that the Port
Adjutant had stated that Col. Hill would be glad,
to be out of it. Unfortunately, owing to the melan-
choly death of the Brigade Adjutant Watson and.
Capt. Pearson, he was unable to call those officers
as witnesses. He would, however, humbly submit
for the consideration of the Court that he did em-
bark on the first opportunity after the order was
given liim—namely, on the Bth March, in the same
8413eUts, j-
lost. He had spent nearly the whole of a long life
in the service of her Majesty and her predecessors,
and he left his case with confidence in the hands of
the Cow t. On the conclusion of the prisoner's ad-
dress the Court adjourned until Monday, at twelve
o'clock, when the examination of the numerous
witnesses for the defence, among whom is Major-
General Sir G. A. Wetherell, K.C.8., Adjutant-
General, who will be one of the first witnesses
called, will be commenced. The trial excites the
greatest interest through Chatham Garrison, and
the court martial room has been crowded, chiefly
with officers on each day.
Yesterday Capt. C. T. Du Plat's (the G) battery
of Royal Artillery, numbering 170 horses and men,
with six guns, and battery complete, left Chatham
for Shornclifft', where they are to be stationed.
The following officers left with the battery :—Capt.
G. A. Wilkinson, Lieut. W. Carey, Lieut. J. C.
Elton, and Lieut. Dodson.
The troops who have been formed irate a corps
for the purpose of proceeding to the Falkland
Islands have been fully organised at Chatham Gar-
rison, and are daily expecting the order for their
embarkation. The corps is under the command
of Lieutenant C. C. Abbott, 75th Regiment, and
each man takes 'his wife and children with him,
for the purpose of assisting him in the cultivation
of the land which will be allotted him in the
colony. None but married men are :Mewed
to join the corps. During their stay in this
country the troops receive an allowance in lieu of
free rations for themselves and families.
The following officers have joined their Indian
depots at the Provisional Battalion, Chatham :
Capt. G. B. Macqueen, 60th Royal Rifles ; and
Lieut. S. T. Sargent., 43d Light Wei& y.
The Chesapeake, 51, screw-frigate, Commodore
R. B. Watson, C.B , fitting for the East Indies,
having completed her repairs at Chatham, was
hauled out of dock, and yesterday proceeded as far
as Folly Point, who; e she lies at anchor, for the
purpose of taking in her powder and shell. She
has nearly completed her complement of seamen,
numbering 500 men.
The A troop of the Royal Horse Artillery,
under orders for India, quitted the Ipswich Bar-
racks on Thursday morning in the presence of a
considerable concourse of people for Woolwich,
where they will probably be detained for a month
for refitment, and then proceed to the seat of in-
surrection under the command of Major Ward,
who has superseded Col. Henry, now connected
with the Riding School at Woolwich.
500 men of the King's Dragoon Guards will em-
bark this afternoon (Saturday) at Gravesend for
Caleutte in the screw steamer City of Manchester.
The following officers also embark :—Col. Fester,
Major Sayer, Captains Paynter, Bridge, Bradbury,
and Mitchell ; Lieuts. Crewe, Marten, Wingfield,
Sidney, and Cunningham ; Cornets Maryland,
Hubback, and Lovett ; Dr. Jepheon, Dr. David-
son and Assrstent Surgeon M'Sheedry, Paymaster
Smith, Adjutant Wale and Qatrtormaster Brad-
bury.
The undermentioned additional steam transports
have been surveyed and chartered by the East India
Board for the conveyance of troops from England The Lord Bishop of Salisbury has licensed the Rev.
—namely, the Queen of the South, 300-horse Augustus Kemp, M.A., to the curacy of Corfe-Mtennd
power, in the Victoria Docks. This vessel has un- Dootrhset ; and the Rev. Jhohnh.Eed ward. Colville
dergoue a course of effective alterations and repairs GeacburriaelcycohfaWlhiitoecthue
same nooonoioctorm, withe stauenton-
of engines and boilers, and is expected to sail 6tA ,
0110111 Heel, in
On Monday morning last
to-day (Saturday) for Portsmouth. The Kherso-
tbe detachment of Royal Marines about to erabarkthlst
nese at Liverpool has been closely surveyed and Plymouth for service in China were paid a month's
re-
pronounced "all right." The Scotia, at Greenock, wages in advance. A private named ISl'Etnryet
before
of 120-horse power, is ordered to proceed to Ports- ceiving his money, asked going under
mouth. The Bombay Castle, at Newcastle-upon- embarking. This request was grante ,
alleges:l to
Tyne, has been rejected, as too smell. Her Majesty's escort of a non-comrai The-ceremony hay-
screw steam vessel Snake, 4, is ordered to be sup- proceed to church with his
happy pair were .permitted ten
permileio3 tsondrn
plied with new boilers from the factory at Wool- ing been conclad.etd,et
, bma
rakdeed awni ltobte-
wich. The paddlewheel steam frigate Firebrand has minutes to sp d beesoienyemdb roi°doffi:,"r at b theew was
3expiration of
th
nislmperador screw
been ordered down from Woolwich to Dep,ford toto
on
laude
bh
oe
ardahr
er
thea cek
have her shafts and paddlewheels removed to en- wont whichtofi
ottihmf
the
evdoheueteranrcoehft
mu
hreinns et
wd
able her to enter the Deptford dock, where she is
rsetesaaner.
to undergo shipwright'a repairs. The suspension was announced yesterday of the Isle
of Mao Bank, conducted byathaetfirorm of Dumbell, Son, and
Lieut.-Col. Strange's C troop of Royal Horse
Artillery commenced their march yesterday from Howard, with
(Bameouglas and Castletown.
the encampment at Aldershot for Ireland.
only to about 12,000/. to 13,000/., the whole of which
It has a note circulation believed to amount at present
The officers of the Civil Service Department at
may be assumed to be safe, as according to the laws of
Woolwich are about to hold a meeting for the pur-
the Isle of Man all persons issuing notes are obliged to
pose of adopting a resolution to present a suitable
apple- give security for them. In the present case the guaran-
memorial to the Right Hon. Lord Naat
inhis lord- tee is understood to be real estate. With regard to the
cietiou of the signal services rendered amount of the general liabilities of the bank or the pros-
shippects of liquidation nothing positive has transpired.
to the civil service body during the r).e.cent.co. n- '
The existing difficulties are believed to have been brought
on the sub-
test in Parliament on the superannuation claim.
about by imprudent advances, but in some quarters an
Various proposals have been introduced
intention with the dignity
jest of the individual amount of subscription neees- •
impression is entertained that the creditors may escape
sary for carrying out the without any ultimate loss. The bank was const titat ace
recently as 1853, the year in which the failure too pia
becoming the establishment affected ; one of which
is to hand over the first
.quarterly sum formerly de. of the Isle of Man Bank of Meagre. liolmes ap.clCo.
atnOn Alone b Govern. with liabilities for 100,0004
4g anperaxinu, Y
doducted as

DEATH OF REAR-ADMIRAL ELIOT.
We regret to announce the demise of Rear-Ad-
miral Henry Algernon Eliot, which mournful
event occurred at 28, Porchester-terrace, Bays-
water, on. he 17th inst., in the 69th year of hia
age. He entered the navy Dec. 28, 1802, as first-
class volunteer, on board the Belleisle, 74, as mid-
shipman of which ship he accompanied Lord Nelson
in pursuit of the combined squadrons of France
and Spain to the West Indies in .the summer of
1805. He then successively joined the Quebec,
32, and Euryalus, 36, on the Mediterranean sta-
tion, where ho appears to have been frequently
employed in cutting out vessels from under the
enemy's batteries, After a further servitude in the
Royal William, Christian VII., 80, Prince of
Orange 74, and Thisbe, 28, all on the home sta-
tion, Mr. Eliot was confirmed, June 8, 1810, to a
lieutenancy in the Ferret, sloop, then off the coast
of North America. Until November, 1816, we
next find him employed on the Lisbon, Mediter-
ranean, and home stations, on board the Ton
:ant, 80, Pylades, sloop, Cornwall, 74, Scylla, 16,
Phoenix, 36, Boyne, 98, and Bombay, 74. Dur-
ing that period he commanded the Tonnant's boats
up the River Tagus, in co-operation, in 1810, with
the British troops occupying the lines of Torres
Vedras, and while so employed, he was constantly
engaged wish the advanced guard near Villa Franca,
and one occasion fell into the hands of the enemy,
by whom he was led captive for several weeks.
Mr. Riot also, -in the Pylades and Boyne, wit-
nessed an attack upon Ciotat, and was present at
the surrender of Naples in 1812-15. After serving
for about 12 months in the Creole, . 42, on the
Brazilian station, he was promoted to the com-
mand, Sept. 2, 1819, of the Icarus sloop, in which
he continued until June, 1831. He obtained, his
post commission July 22, 1830, and was promoted
to Rear-Admiral, Sept. 27, 1855.

DEATH OF LIEUT. MURRAY.
Lieut. George Don Murray,(lB47) died recently
at Rosseanna, .near Athlone. This officer, while
serving as midshipman of the North Star, 26, Capt.
Sir James Everard Home, commanded a sub-div.-
sion of seamen, and was severely wounded, in an
attack made in January, 1846, on a pah belonging
to a-rebel chief named Kawiti, at Ruapikapika, in
New Zealand, which was assaulted and carried in
a most gailauk manner after a severe action of four
hours. As a reward for his conduct he was pre-
sented, as soon as he passed his examination, with
a commission, dated Nov. 9, 1847, - He has been
employed since the 10th. of the following Dece?nber
in the Prince Regent, 90 ; Neptune, 120 ; and the
Vengeance, 84.

ATTEMPTED AfORDER IN MILLBANK
PRISON.

One of the sub-warders of this prison narrowly
escaped assassination yesterday, at the hands of a
penal class convict named James Gorman, who
has already, in other prisons, made two attempts
to murder officers under whose charge he has been

The convicts at Millbank attena divine servide
in classes, at the prison chapel every morning.
Only a limited number of penal class prisoners are
permitted to be present at one time, owing to the
known desperate character of these individuals.
Yesterday four men of this class—out of the total
of acme twenty prisoners—were conducted to the
chapel in charge of Warder Wilkie and Assistant-
warder Bevington. On leaving the chapel, and
while passing down an angle of the pentagon stair-
case, one of their number, James Gorman, made
a desperate attack on Bevington with an open
metal weapon, felling him to the ground, and in-
flicting injuries which, in all probability, if they do
not prove fatal, will seriously injure the unfor-
tunate man for life.
Gorman was third in the rank, and just as he was
turning the angle of the staircase leading from the
chapel iso rushed forward and dealt a desperate blow
at the upper part of Bevington's person. The mis-
creant had a sharp weapon in his hand, which ca-
tered nu warder's face over the c'ieek bone, and,
traversing the fleshy part of the face, came out
through the mouth, under the upper lip.
The convict was seized by Wilkie and o her offi-
cers while the weapon was still in his band, and
having been secured was presently placed iu a strong

ce.....
The resident surgeon of the prison, Mr. Savory
was immediately summoned to the wounded man,
and the tro,t approved means were adopted to
stanch the bleeding arteries. The poor fellow suf-
fered agonising pain from the severity of his wound,
and is still lying in a precarious sta.).
There seems to have been an absence of all rea-
sonable motive for the attack, inasmuch as Beving-
ton had only taken charge of the penal class siuce
Tuesday last. It is generally supposed the attar:k
was intended for his co-warder, Wilkie, who, al-
though an excellent officer, has obtained the
of the convicts by a determination to carry out the
discipline of the prison.
The weapon used by the assassin was a piece of
iron hoip, worked into something like the blade of
a knife, and strongly bound by waxen thread into
a wooden handle.
The penal class convicts are the worst description
of prisoners, and are received at Millbank as incor-
rigibles from all parts of the country. Gorman is
one of the worst c.l this degraded body. He was
originally convicted in a midland county, and sen-
tenced to some light punishment, while undergoing
which he attempted to stab an officer of the prison,
and on trial for this offence was sentenced to four-
teen years' transportation. In due course he came
to the Model Prison at Pent onville, where he again
attacked and brutally assaulted one of the officers.
For this offence he was transf, rred to the penal
class of prisoners, and sent to Milbank about four
months ago. His conduct has been desperately
bad since his admission, and it is understood that
his latest crime has not excited much surprise
among the aithorities of the prison, the wretched
man having only a few days since assured the re
vereud chaplain that "he would do for some of
;hem before long."