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

THE SUN, LONDON' SATURDAY Ev ENING, FEBRUARY 2, 1861.

LAW INTELLIGENCE—( This Day.)

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.

(Sittings at Nisi Prius, in Middlesex, before Mr. Justice

Byles and a Common Jury.)
BANFILL AND WIFE T. CROSS.

This was an action to recover damages for libel.
Mr. Edwin James, Q.C., and Mr. Honyman appeared
for the plaintiffs; and Mr. Hawkins, Q.C., and Mr. Francis
for the defendant.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
CITY STEEPLECHASE.

The case was arranged upon the terms of the defendant
signing a retractation and apology in the following terms :
" I hereby admit that there is no truth whatever in the
libels published by me which have given rise to this action,
and no foundation for any of the statements contained in
the plea of
,justification; and I hereby express my sincere
regret that I published the libels, and that the pleas were
pleaded. And I herebyfully retract and withdraw the state-
ments therein contained, and I consent to a verdict for the
plaintiffs. Damages, £5O. No further action for libel or
slander to be brought up to this day.
(Signed)

Topsy
St. Mark
Cheery Chap

Six ran.
TRIAL HANDICAP.

Six ran.
HANDICAP HURDLE RACE.

JAMES CROSS.

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Feb. 2, 1861.
Under the direction of the judge, the jury returned a
verdict for the plaintiffs, damages £5O, accordingly.
The libel also affected Mr. Alex. Cross, a brother of the
defendant, and ftretractation and undertaking in the follow-
ing terms was at the same time, and as part of the arrange-
ment, signed by the defendant and Mr. Alex. Cross :
" I hereby withdraw all imputations against my brother,
Alexander Cross, he on his part undertaking not to take
any legal proceedings against me in respect of any thing I
may have written or spoken of him. For such imputations
I apologise to him, and he accepts such apology as a final
end of all litigation in respect of any imputations, libels, or
statements I may have uttered or published.
(Signed) ALEX. CROSS.
(Signed) JAMES CROSS.

Five ran.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

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BETTING AT MANCHESTER-FRIDAY.

Feb. 2, 18G1.

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.
Before Mr. J ustice Blackburn and a Common Jury.)
PAIN V. HAYNES.

This was an action brought by the plaintiff, an attorney,
against a female client, on an agreement into which she
entered with him, and whereby she undertook to pay the
plaintiff four guineas a day and his expenses for going out
to Australia to recover some property into which she had
come by the death of a step-brother. The defence to the
action was that the plaintiff, being an attorney, was bound
to give the defendant, a poor illiterate woman, proper ad-
vice, and that he was well aware that it was not necessary
for the recovery of the property that he or any one else
should go out to Australia. The sum claimed by the plain-
tiff was £1,400.

GRAND NATIONAL STEEPLE CHASE.
100 to 7 agst Jealousy (offered)
15 to 1 agst Anatis (taken)
16 to 1 agst The Freshman (taken)
16 to 1 agst Cockatoo (taken)
16 to 1 agst Old Ben Roe (taken)
20 to 1 agst Goldsmith (taken and offered)
20 to 1 agst Emperor (taken and offered)
100 to 3 agst Conductor (taken)
100 to 3 agst Westminster (taken)
40 to 1 agst Irish Emigrant (taken)
40 to 1 agst The Unknown (taken)

The case was opened late yesterday afternoon, and ad-
journed at the close of the case for the plaintiff.
Mr. Huddlestone this morning replied on the part of the
defendant. He said his client's views had been raised on
certain representations that had been made to her that she
was entitled to a large fortune, but he was afraid her ex-
pectations would never become realized. The plaintiff had,
by glowing representations, induced the defendant to enter
into an agreement for him to go out to Australia, where
the property was situated, and make certain inquiries
about it. The plaintiff went out, but the inquiries he
made left the poor woman precisely where she was at
starting, and he contended that the plaintiff ought rather
to have persuaded his client against such a step
rather than lead her to incur a useless expense. He
thought the jury would be of opinion that the £250 he had
received were sufficient.

CHESTER CUP.
20 to 1 agst Man-at-Arms (taken,
20 to 1 agst Chere Arnie (taken)
25 to 1 agst Wallace (taken)
33 to 1 agst Horace (taken)
33 to 1 agst Killigrew (taken)
50 to 1 agst Light (taken)
50 to 1 agst Wild Rose (taken)

THE DERBY.
sto 1 agst Dundee (taken)
25 to 1 agst Dictator (taken)
25 to 1 agst Kettledrum (taken)
25 to 1 agst Klarikoff (taken)
50 to 1 agst The Drake (taken)
TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS.
15 to 2 agst Kettledrum (taken)
Bto 1 agst Preceptress
Bto 1 agst Klarikoff (offered)
10 to 1 agst Russley (offered)

Mr. Sergeant Piggott, for the plaintiff, said everything
was done in a fair and open manner. The agreement was
entered into and signed before witnesses, and it was not
fair, now that the inquiries had turned out comparatively
valueless, that the plaintiff was to be kept from a proper
remuneration for his trouble.

THIS DAY'S _MARKETS.

The learned Judge having summed up the evidence,
The jury retired to consider their verdict, and after an
absence of 25 minutes returned into Court and gave a ver-
dict for defendant.

POLICE IN7ELLIGENCE—(This Day).

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

BASE INGRATITUDE.—ROBBING AN EMPLOTER.—
Francis Wilkinson, 1, Mary-street, Regent's-park, brass
finisher, was charged, before Mr. Tyrwhitt, with robbing
his employer, Mr. James Slater, brass manufacturer, of
23, Denmark- street, Bloomsbury, of brass tubing.
Lambert, 68 E, said that on the previous (Friday) even-
ing he stopped the prisoner in Broad-street, and told him
he was a police-officer, and wanted him for robbing his
employer. He said, " Very well." On searching him he
found, in different pockets, pieces of brass tubing.
Mr. James Slater, gasfitter, &c., said the prisoner had
been in his employ about five years. Soon after the pri-
soner entered his service he received a letter stating that
prisoner had been convicted for robbing a previous
employer. He called the prisoner and told him the con-
tents of the letter, upon which prisoner said that if he em-
ployed him, although the letter was true, he would never
repent doing so, and that he would do his duty. He paid
the prisoner 275. a-week, and he hal never, during the
whole time he had been with him, been once out of employ.
The pio.ces of brass tubing were his property. He had for
for some time past been missing property, and had no
doubt prisoner had taken a large quantity.
The prisoner said all he had to say was, that he was
guilty.
Lambert said he should be able to prove a previous con-
viction against the prisoner.

Mr. Tyrwhitt said it was a case to be prosecuted not only
on the pfosecutor's account but on that of the public. He
would remand the prisoner for a week.

MYSTERIOUS DEATH O. A GIRL.

A shocking occurrence has taken place at the little
village of Hambrook, in Gloucestershire, five or six
miles from Bristol. A sergeant in the county police,
named Browning, was, early on Monday, returning
from duty, when he discovered the corpse of a
shoe-maker's daughter, named Reed. A quantity
of blood was oozing from the lips, and dripping on
the grass alongside, where about a pint had col-
lected. The field where the body was found is
a mile from Winterbourne Downe Church; and

it appears that on Sunday evening the young
woman attended service at that place of worship,
and afterwards met a young man, named John
Bowyer, with whom she kept company. The
lovers had some drink together in Fowler's
beerhouse, on Winterbourne Downe. Next
morning, when the discovery had been noised
about the neighbourhood, Bowyer went to the
police station at Hambrook and voluntarily
acknowledged that he returned home with the
young woman, Mary Reed, as far as the gate
leading into the field where the remains were
found. Subsequently, however, on Monday, the
police ascertained that at half-past eleven on Sun-
day night Bowyer was seen in company with the
poor girl, who was then sitting on the spot where
Sergeant Browning found her. The young man
Bowyer was then standing in front of her, and a
villager, named Alfred Coombs,who passed along
the path near that hour, noticing her being unwell,
asked " What was the matter ?' to which Bowyer
responded, " Oh, she's only a bit fainty, and ull
get better presently." Coombs consequently left
them. At half-past twelve, however, two young
men, brothers, named Holbrook, residing in the
village of Hambrook, crossed the field on their way
home ; and as they went along the path they saw
Bowyer and the girl seated side by side, resting
against the wall as before. The pair appeared to
be asleep, for both their heads were drooping. The
Holbrooks shouted out to the young man in order
to awaken him, as they thought. " Halloo ! we
do know how thee bist. 'Tis thee, Jack Bowyer."
The young man looked up and made some trifling
reply, and the Holbrooks then left him with the
young woman, who was soon afterwards found by
the policeman lifeless and alone. Mr. Day, sur-
geon, made a careful external examination of the
body on Monday, and failed, it is said, to find any
marks of violence or rough usage upon her person.
For some time past she has been suffering from pal-
pitation of the heart. One very prevalent rumour
was, that there were marks on her throat of having
been " throttled ;" but it is stated that the medical
man considers the partial discoloration of the throat
to result naturally from sudden death from palpi-
tation of the heart. In favour of the young man,
there is an explanation to the effect that after spend-
ing the evening with his ill-fated sweetheart he was
returning with her to her father's cottage, when,
from having walked quickly, it may be she was
suddenly seized in the field with an attack of her
complaint of the heart, and was obliged to sit down
to recover herself ; that he did not like to leave her
so helpless, and remained with her still hoping to
see her better, when the fearful fact was revealed
to him that she had breathed her last ; and that then,
dreading to make the announcement, he fled trem-
bling to his abode.

DERBY DAY AT CAMBRIDGE.—The rush of
rushes in the academic year is when at nine o'clock on the
last Friday in January the Proctors' men fix up the Hon-
our list, and throw back the Senate House portals. Town
and gown mingle quite harmoniously in that last fearful
quarter of an hour, and so far forget their fifth of Novem-
ber feuds as to lay peaceful bets. Moderators and examiners
flit about, conscious of the great secret which they alone
carry in their breasts, and fence smilingly with all leading
questions. Men who are certain to get high honours do
not think it delicate to linger in sight, but trust to some
swift-footed friend to bring them the news, and wait for it
in their rooms, or some handier trysting-place. Year after
year, as they have counted the minutes from nine, and at
last espied their messenger coming across the Quadrangle
at only a sullen foot's-pace, they have had to make up their
minds to prepare for adversity. Anxious wives, too, are
standing near with their husbands ; for ancient men who
have been in the army, or the Indies, often long for the
church, and instead of going to St. Bees, cast in their lot
here with younger and fresher rivals.—Onee a IVeck.

THIRD EDITION.

SUN OFFICE, Six o'clock.

MANCHESTER RelCES—(This Day.)

Sheffield
Pliny
Woodmite

Pactolus .
Mavourneen ..
Hawthorn

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The Manchester Steeplechase Meeting scarcely elicited
a passing notice ; and no great amount of business was done
on any other event. The animals in the front rank for the
Chester Cup appear to be the only ones there is any desire
to invest upon, and consequently speculation must be
limited. For the Two Thousand Guineas Stakes, Pre-
ceptress was supported at 8 to 1, and there were offers to
back her against anything else in that race. Closing
prices