The Sun.
London, England, 1868-06-15 00:00:00

SPORTING NOTES.

Windsor, Newton, and Hampton aro the fixtures fop
this week. For the Royal Windsor Meeting, on Tuesday
and Wednesday, Mr. Frail has issued ono of his usual at-
tractive lists, in which eighteen races are found. Lengthy
entries have been secured for the closed stakes; and
everything has been done that experience could suggest
iu the way of watering and rolling the course, so as to
make the ground fit for horses to gallop over. On Tues.
day, iu the Eton Handicap(l twenty-one candidates
have accepter, and Vespasian, 9st 51b, has been honoured
with the top weight. Python, 7st 91b; Seville, Est 71b,
Contempt, Gst 31b; Alicia, Est ; Secrecy, sst 13Ib ;
and Skipjack, sst 111 b, are the best handicapped
horses in the rase. Of those I prefer Skip-
jack and Python, though Contempt .will be bad to
dispose of, if sent to Windsor• Fer the Royal Stakes
(about five furlongs) thirty-seveu two - year- olds
have been nominated, several of which have not yet
appeared iu public. !twill, however, tekea smart juvenile
to beat the two penalised horses—Masaniello and Bads-
worth—the former of whom has 51b, and the latter 71b
extra. The Two year-oil Plate (about foio furlongs)
should be secured by Gle:divat or Bmnie Katie, as 'Elec-
tricity, the best of the remaining candidates, puts up a
penalty of 101 b. In the Castle nursery (about four fur-.
longs) fifty-nine horses have been weighted, and the imposts
range from Martyr, Bet 121 b, to Male, Gst. Those that ap-
pear most favourably treated are the filly by Atherstone,
out of Overture's dam, 7st 121 b; King of the Rovers,
7st 81b; Grand Turk, 7et ; Sea Breeze (by Carnival),e7st ;
the colt by Neville out of Madam Stevely, 6st Blb ; Ur-
sula, 7st 41b; awl Mcia, 6st. Several of the horses,
however, that are entered have been performing
with an eye to future engagements; and shall,
therefore, merely admit a slight preference for
King of the Rovers and Melee There are lengthy entries
to the Rays Handicap (about 6 furlongs) and Thames
Plate (about 4 furlongs). In the Rays Lord Rsnald and
Sirocco have not been over weighted, neither has Pericles
nor Bliss in the Thames Handicap Plate. On Weduesday
there are several important races on the card. Twenty-
four horses have accepted fur the Windsor Handicap (about
1 mile and 5 furlongs). The Dean, Bst 81b; Seville, Bst ;
Lord Palmerston, 7st 41b; President Lincoln, 7st llb ; and
the colt by Ad elms out of Eva, 7st 11b, are the lot
as most likely to produce the winner. The Dean, I
believe, is a good horse over a distance of ground ; but on
this occasion I shall rely on Lord Palmerston and
Seville.' The Clamber Cup (about 6 furlongs) has secured
sixteen nominations ;
.but, as The Hermit, Van Ambers!),
and Bounceaway appear•to b out of form at present, the
race will rest with Knight of the Garter, Tenedos, the
Lady Lurewell filly, and the Dioinedia filly ; and the best
of these will be discovered in Knight of the Garair or the
Diomedia filly. In the 'Welter Cup (about one mile)
twenty-six horses have bean engaged. Lord R maid,
list 121 b, if he escapes a penalty, taus:, be formidable, and
after Mr. Morgan's horse 1 most esteem the chences of
Silenus and Violent, notwithstanding the fact that V era-
lam and Midwife are clever animals under heavy weights.
The Windsor Stakes (T.Y.C.) will be won by Maiaaielle
or Electricity, the latter of wheal has no penalty for
winning at Epsom.

The Newton Meeting will b 3 held on Wednesday,
Thursday, lull Friday, and Mr..Bake's programme of 18
races, which aro ovally spread over the three days. Ai
the same horses, however, aro engaged in several stakes,
I only purpose noticiug the principal events in the list.
For the Great Newton Cup (about 14 miles) 16 horses
have been handicapped; but, although the Helywell re-
presentative will be dangerons, 1 suspect the winner will
turn up in the electedof Wadlow's pair—the Attack colt or
Conundrum, the latter of whom knows the course. The
Golborne Park Stakes (about 4 furlongs) I award to H isa
Pauline or Disraeli ; and the Makerlield Handicap (straight
half mile) to Vulcan or Gordian Knot. On Thursday, for
the Manor Cup (1 mile), D linburgh and Deceit have not
been heavily weighted; neither have Vulcan and Tor,:h
in,the Garswood Handicap (about five furlongs) ; nor Ot-
toman and Ambition in the St. Helen's Purse (1 mile).
The Haydock Plata (five furlongs) should be secured by
Rosa Pauline ; and either she or Disraeli will win the
Lyme Park Stakes (about five furlongs) on Friday. The
remaining items will not permit of comment at this date.
The Hampton Meeting, which is notorious for fan and
frolic, will bo celebrated on Thursday and Friday; ant,
calculating by the immense entries that have been male
for the Claremont, Prince of Wales's, Flying, King Hal,
and Nursery Stakes, and the Wolsey, Visitors' and Manor
Plates, there should be uo lack of racing on Moulsey
Hurst. 'So many of the horses, however, that have been
nominated have prior engagements at Windsor that I
dare not attempt an analysetioa of the Hampton pro-
gramme. I may, however, remark that the Surrey and
Middlesex Stakes (two miles) is at the mercy of the Maid
of Mashatn mare, unless Tormentor is equal to the task of
boating Mr. Payne's representative.

A FRESH MAN.

LADY ELIZ.JBSTH.

A week has now passed since the paying and re-
ceiving on the Derby aecountat.lB6B was brought
to a close at Tattersall's, and it would appear that
the settlement has been effected with leas than the
usual number of defaulters. We can now, there
fore, look with calmness at the result Of the race
itself, and see if any light can be thrown on the ex-
traordinary performances of a mare considered to
be one of the first racers in England. Without
'going minutely into the steady advance iu
the betting since the mare's earliest perfor-
mances, we come to the fact that the day be-
fore the race (aad, indeed, on the day itself)
the odds against her were but a trifle more than 2
to 1; and this confidence appeared to be justified
by outward appearances. The mare was brought
to Epsom somewhat ostentatiously, in a van with
one or more of the Days, her trainers, seated on the
outside, and it was stated in all quarters that they
themselves were bent heart and soul on securing
her success. It is melancholy to recur to the miser-
able exhibition the poor animal made in the race ;
her unwillingness to start? her incapability of action,
and her sluggishness when her jockey attempted to
rouse her (all so contradictory of the mare's antece-
dents) strongly suggested to many competent ob-
servers that she had been poisoned, or, in turf phrase-
ology, had been " got at." Yet, with these staring
facts before the world, we hear of no indignation,
no inquiry even. The principal writer on
sporting matters, " Argus," just intimates that
the Days will doubtless institute a searching inves-
tigation into the affair, but, afterwards, ventures
to throw out the suggestion that the mare might
have been " over-trained." The Sporting Life, with
more audacity, mentions what Admiral ROll3 said
on the course, " that if he had taken as much lauda-
num as had been given to the mare he would have
been a dead man." Nevertheless, the whole matter
seems to be overlaid with apathy. Now, the cir-
cumstances of the original owner of the mare had
become matter of public notoriety, and it would pro-
bably not be difficult to show that had she won her
success would have gone far to retrieve the fortunes
of the Marquis, but at the same time the "Ring"
would have had to pay an enormous sum of
money. On the other hand, it is said, and pro-
bably with truth, that the "Ring" were considerable
losers by the success of Blue Gown, seeing that the
public had stuck to him in defiance of all rumours,
as well as of the public declaration of his owner;
but there is still the question by which of the two
the" Ring" would have lost most—Lady Elizabeth
or Blue Gown ; an 1 the true answer probably is
that had the mare wou the enormous sum for which
she had been backed it would have led to disastrous
consequences among the bookmaking fraternity.
Supposing this to be the case, it would seem to be for
the advantage of all concerned that the matter should
be allowed to drop. The Days appear to be satisfied,
for we do not hear that they are or have been mak-
ing any efforts to discover an explanation of a rather
surprising result. The public are satisfied, being
winners on Blue Gown, besides having had the op-
portunity of hedging their bets on the mare. The
Ring are satisfied to have lost on Blue Gown, seeing
that they are saved from a heavier loss on the mare;
and if it be true that the Marquis was able to se-
cure some winnings on Blue Gown we can under-
stand why he should be satisfied also. It would ap-
mpeoasrt, therefore, that
astha shet the pioor nevermareb
herselfe restored
suffersto
her former health or powers. To what quarter are
wo to look for an elucidation of the mystery ? Un-
questionably to the stable where the mare was
trained ; and we cannot doubt that the Marquis
and the Days will leave no stone unturned to bring
the whole of the circumstances clearly before the
public. The fact that their own character is above
suspicion gives us the greater reason to hope that
they will do so.—Pall-Mall Gazette.

POOR LAW CHANGES.—The Poor Law Board
having withdrawn the parish of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields
from the Central London School district, which comprises
the City of Loudon and East and West Landon Unions
and parish of St. Saviour, Southwark, have intimated their
intention, in order to make up the nu:uber of unions and
parishes within the district, of adding thereto the Holborn
Union, instead of, as originally c.Jutemplated, joking that
union with the Strand Union into a school district, with
their fickkool at Edmonton.

SPIRIT OP THE PIiBLIC JOURNALS, ITRIAL AND EXECUTION OF O'.FARBELL.

The Times declares that it is impossible that any Minis- The trial of O'Farrell for the attempted assassination of
ter could have been accredited to us whom we should re- the Duke of Edinburgh commenced on Monday, the 30th
ceive with more confidence as the honoured spokesman of March, and occupied two days. No attempt was made to
a great nation than Mr. Reverdy Johnson. The unani- dispute the facts of the case, and the defence set up by his
mous ratification by the Senate of his nomination by the counsel was that of insanity. The evidence which they
President as envoy to Great Britain is, under the special adduced, however, while shewing that the prisoner had
circumstances of the case, an unexampled testimonial. at former periods of his life suffered from temporary
When Mr. Adams intimated his desire to retire from aberration— attributed to severe drinking failed to
his post as the representative of the United prove that he was not in his senses at the time of
States at our Court, the question at once arose who committing the act. The rebutting evidence submitted
could possibly be his successor. One of the -cense. by the Crown shewed that the crime must have been
quences of the struggle between the President and planned with care and deliberation, and that the prisoner
the Congress was that the President could scarcely make While about it had notthewn any signs of insanity. None
a selection for any office which the Senate were ready to of the evidence tended to inculpate any other party, or to
approve. Yet Mr. Reverdy Johnson, a consistent Demo- shew that the crime was instigated by any organisation.
crat, the representative in the Upper Chamber of the The jury found the prisoner guilty, and he was sentenced
border State of Maryland, the senator who distinguished to death. An address from the prisoner's relatives was
himself by his vigorous maintenance of the judicial presented to his Excellency the Governor of New South
character of the impeachment trial during the whole of Wales, praying that his sentence might be respited, and the
its course, the judge who rebuked General Butler and case-referred to the decision of the Queen. His Excellency,
compelled that unscrupulous partisan to apologise and on the advice of the Executive Council, declined to accede to
withdraw his most injurious expressions as a manager of the petition, and the execution of the prisoner was fixed for
the impeachment, has been unanimously approved by the Tuesday, the 21st April. From the time of his conviction
Senate as the Minister for the United States to the United the prisoner maintained a quiet and reserved demeanour.
Eiugdom. Mr. Reverdy Johnson comes to us as one of A few days before Isis execution he was visited by his
whom allipen speak well, and whose career has been not sister, and daily received the ministratious of a Catholic
unfitly crowned by this signal mark of confidence paid clergyman. On Tuesday, April' 21, at nine o'clock, the
hint by his brother senators. Such a distinction does not, extreme penalty of the law was carried into effect in
indeed, even in America, argue young years, and we may Darlinghurst Gaol. The doomed man passed the night
be permitted to regret, for the sake of the new Minister as in his usual manner, and did not appear to suffer
well as for ourselves, that the honour conferred on him from any nervous excitability at his appioaching fate.
comes late ; but Englishmen respect old age, and will not He was attended at an early hour by a minister of
reproach Mr. Reverdy Johnson with the length of his the religious persuasion to which he belonged. Pre-
services. This consideration apart, it would not be easy cisely at nine o'clock the sheriff demanded his body,
to find a worthier successor to Mr. Adams. It is as a and O'Farrell appeared. at the cell door in obedience
lawyer that Mr. Johnson's reputation was established, to the summons. He submitted to the process of pinion-
and as a lawyer he has always remained distin. ing without a murmur, and walked unconcernedly to the
guislied. Mr. Reverdy Johnson has been throughout foot of the scaffold. Here he knelt with the priest, and
his life a worthy specimen of the class of jurists for which for a few moments was engaged in religious devotion.
tiic T:nited States were at one time celebrated, and the He then mounted the ladder with a firm step, and before
extinction of which, prematurely lamented some time taking his place under the drop looked up, apparently at
since, has been proved to be not yet realised by the argu- the nipe and the fatalbeamoverhead. He then took his place
meats addressed to the Senate in the recent trial. The directly under it, and looked up again in a very composed
appointment of Mr. Reverdy Johnson as Minister at our manner, but whether vacantly looking up at the dread
Court is in itself so satisfactory that it need not be con- engine of death, or making a last appeal to Heaven for
tra.sted with what might have been. It is, however, mercy, can only be conjectured. He, however, appeared
impossible wholly to forget that, if the impeachment had thoroughly resigned to his fate. The cap was then ad.
been successful and Mr. Wade had succeeded to the office justed over his face ;he shook hands with the priest ; the
of President, we might have been called upon to drop fell, and the last act of the Clontarf tragedy was over.
receive a Minister of a very different character. A single contraction of the leg was the only visible sign of
We have much • confidence, indeed, that, at the suffering, and death appeared to be instantaneous. After
worst, the United States Senate would refuse .to hanging the prescribed time, the body was taken down,
approve the nomination of a person unfit to up- and, not being claimed by Isis friends, was buried at
hold the dignity of the Union, or to conduct with ad- Haslem's Creek. Before his execution O'Farrell sent
vantage the negotiations intrusted to him. But, without a letter to Mr. Parkes, the Colonial Secretary, with
dwelling upon any violent supposition, it is evident that an injunction that it should not be opened till
serious embarrassments might have been provoked by an after his death. On the evening of the day of
unhappy selection. Mr. Reverdy Johnson, be his term execution Mr. Parkes was questioned in the
short or long, comes to us with the honours of a noble pro- Legislative Assembly with regard to the letter, but
fession, and the assurance that in a time of unparalleled declined- to make public the contents. On the
animosity he has won the approbation of both the contend- following day the letter was again asked for and refused,
ing parties of the Union. His practised intellect will be i whereupon a member of the House rose, and read the fol-
found trained to discuss the questions now pending or lowing copy of the letter, declining at the same time to
which may arise between the United States and ourselves state how he obtained it : " Being now about to appear
with judicial precision and .impartility ; and we do but before my Creator, I feel it my duty to give expression
express the concurrent testimony of all observers in adding to my heartfelt sorrow at the grievous crime I have corn-
that to dignity of character and breadth of learning are mitted. From the very bottom of fby heart do I grieve
allied a peculiar charm of manner. I for what I have done. I have hitherto said that I was one
The Post calls attention to the principles laid down by I of many who were proposed to do the deed had I not
the Internat'onal League of Peace and Liberty. In done it. I had not the slightest foundation for such
the first place, it is declared that religion must be abso- a statement, I was never connected with any man or any
. lutely excluded from politics and public education, in body of men who had for their object the taking of the
order to prevent the future interference of the Church life of the Duke of Edinburgh, neither was lin any other
with the free development of society. Secondly, • than in an indirect manner connected with any organisa-
all European States must be united in one gigantic tiou in Ireland or elsewhere, which is known by the name of
confederation, by means of an organisation based the Fenian organisation. I wish, moreover, distinctly to
on democratic institutions, with equal rights, . both I assert that there was not a single human being in existence
for individuals and communities. Thirdly, a con- who had the slightest idea of the object I had in view when I
lete alteration must be effected in the present social meditated on, and through the merciful providence of
system by an equal division of wealth, labour, prosperity, God failed in carrying into effect, the death of the Duke
and education, with a view to the abolition of proleta- of Edinburgh. I have written to the printers of two
rianism and the emancipation of the working classes. Now Irish periodicals an address to the people of Ireland.
we all remember the result of the last conference of the So certain was lof the death of the Duke of Edin-
League at Geneva. This year their meeting is to be held burgh that I stated therein that which I believed would
at Berne. Nothing, it must be admitted, can in the 'be the fact ; and I think I have snore than implied that I
abstract be more harmless than the topics to be submitted was but one of an organisation to carry the same into
for discussion, and if they should prove equally effect. I need but say that the truth of the latter portion
profitless, that is a matter which exclusively concerns rests upon a slighter foundation than the former; in fact,
those who take part in them. But when the questions to that, unless from mere hearsay, I bad no foundation for
besubmi ttel t, the congseas are viewed by the light thrown statiog, that there was a Fenian organisation in New
on them by t7ie three fimdamental pr:nciples which are to South Wales. From continually thinking and talking of
govern any diseursian to whiel these questions may give what I may still be allowed to call the wrongs of Ireland, I
rise, and m hen the events which marked the meeting of became excited and filled with enthusiasm on the subject,
the International Peace League last year are called to and it was when under the influence of those feelings that
mind, it bee,)mes a matter for serious consideration I attempted to perpetrate the deed for which lam now
whether the Swiss Federal Council would be justified in called town to suffer.—lf. J. O'FAuttELL."
permitting the proposed congress to bc held. The Swiss are
no doubt to be praissd for the desire which they manifest
to afford in their republic every opportunity to all
comers for the free and unrestricted discussion of all poli-
tical subjects, but still, when a frank intimation is given
that such discussion nil proceed on a basis subversive
of all existing rights, as well as of that sacred bond which
hells in communion men scattered over the broad
expanse of the globe, it is surely worth while to in.
quire whether any interest can be served by furnish.
big the means of promulgating sentiments which all
sane men must hold in aversion. If there are persons who
really believe that it would be for the advantage of man-
kind that revealed religion should share the fate of the
heathen mythology, and that it is possible to found a
United States' of Europe, let them, if they please, pro-
mulgate these opinions through the public press. This
latitude will be allowed to them in many parts of Europe
besides Switzerland, and with this they should rest
content.

Confiscation, says the Daily News, appears to be once
more the order of the day. The violence of the highway-
man levying his contribuans by the pistol has long
yielded to the gentlemanly swindler, who in the capacity
of a banker or financial agent contrives to rob the public
of twenty times more than his prototype. He has also
the belief that if det,xtion ensue he may receive the sup-
port and assistance of the most persistent advocates of
commercial morality. Modern Governments are not slow to
take note of this apparently strange alteration in public feel-
ing. The inference is inevitablydrawn, that if a railway does
not pay debts sancticn2d by Parliament, foreign Govern-
ments can hardly err in following so tempting an example.
To get the money at any cost, and leave the ultimate
reckoning frr other, is too often their aim. A worse or

less politic course could scarcely be adopted. Two
leading States of Europe—Austria and Italy—have
now decided to pursue it, unhappily for them.
Whatever the immediate gain, faith in the honour
of these Governments is seriously shaken. If a
Government security of 5 per cent. can be suddenly
reduced by legislative action to 4 and 2-10ths, why may it not
be lowered on a similar plea to 3 per cent.—perhaps
postponed indefinitely ? The promise that the measure
shall be final is about as trustworthy as the pledges of the
Emperor Napoleon, who with peace on his own and his
Ministers' lips raises a loan of some sixteen millions
to increase his military force nearly a third, and
hurriedly arms all his soldiers with Chassepot rifles.
Austria and Italy are both making rapid progress, not
towards the material prosperity to which their immease
though undeveloped resources entitle them, but towards
national bankruptcy. Those who have hail experience of
their straits and the measures to which they have been
driven to pay the dividends on their funded and unfunded
debts, can easily attest this assertion. It has not been of
late a question of 10 or 12 per cent. to obtain temporary
loans, but of getting them at any price, by means of
larger con missions, so as to save national credit. If a
nation is suicidal enough to sanction a large annual deficit
for excessive expenditure, either on military rivalry or
unproductive work at home, the end is very clear. It is a
mere question of time.
The Herald smartly criticises Mr. Vernon Harcourt's
speeches at Oxford. The would-be member for the univer-
aity city gives speeches which, it says, are Briglitand-
water, with a large preponderance of the latter. For
instance, he contends that Establishments are a hindrance
rather than :us assistance to Protestantism, and the
grandest achievements of the latter have been o.ecom-
'dished without their aitl. " Was it an Establishment,"
he asks, " which supported Luther at the Diet of Worms ?
'Was it an Establishment which gave strength to the I
Thignentits at the massacre of R. Bartholomew ? Was it
nu Establishment that conquered the Armada?"
Certainly not ; the Herald cheerfully concedes the point.
It goes further still, a id registers its frank admission that
Esisiblishments are equally guiltle3s of such cognate
achievements as the Thames Tumid, and the Duke of
York's column, and the invent on of the needle•gun and
the sowing machine, and (ruse and Blackwell 's pickles.
'"%er/rap.l had a very happy, harm-
Mr. Tootst says the I , ly
own sense of his own import-
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hissengaged
desk
from illustrious personages to himself, so thin h.
commencin
might generally be found covered with
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• " The -Duke of Wellington presents his con .
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end. this
and signed "Yours truly, Devonshire. "'S c.(1111-11
practice to Mr. Denis llearden, the irrepressihas .
ail
of Piccadilly. It would be a great inproecm?,
on his present practice of patting foolish questions in t
e
liano.e, and of pestering statesmen with long letters refer-
r:ng to a nutter so very small as .Mr. Reardeu's pont:cal
charaCter. This very que,r member for Athlone \Vas
referred to in East Worestershire as " follower of inc.
Gladstone's." The leader of the Liberal pat sy at once
repudiated the alliance ; and fir. Itearalen takes
pains to confirm the repudiation by writing to
Mr. Gladstone two long letters, full. of in..ult
and insinuations. He indicates pretty plainly that if
there are Liberals who follow the right honourable gentle-
man, Mr. Denis Rearden is not amongst them, mid that a
future Gladstone Administration cannot count on his con-
fidence and support. This a serious blow to the Liberal
party, which must bear up as best it-may. It is only
another proof of the diabolical ingenuity with which Mr.
Disraeli has woven his web, that while on the one hand he
has alienated from Liberalism the furious Protestant
4ecord I he has also seduced the fiery Papist of Piccadilly
from his straggling position as a kill(' of camp follower or
rattler in the Liberal ranks. "7-

LAW AND FOLICB.

ACTIONS FOR Linr.L.—ln the Court of Common Pleas,
Mr. Keen, a clerk in the War Office, brought an action
against Mr. Ilartnoll, the proprietor of the KeUti.3ll,
Mercury, for an alleged libeL The plaintiff with others
was associated in a co-operative store, and the
defendant stated that Mr. Keen and others were
receiving £5O per year for managing the con-
cern, and that the affair had been advertised as a
" limited company," when in fact it had never been regis-
tered under the Limited Liability Act. The case is still
proceeding.—ln the Court of Exchequer Mr. Maule, a
chemical manufacturer, was sued for libel by Mr. Spill,
a waterproof manufacturer. The defendant lent the
plaintiff several sums of money, and subsequently, on the
latter going ir.to partnership with a Mr. Briggs, lent
further amounts. The concern was ultimately a
failure, and the defendant said, in a letter to one
of the creditors, " The conduct of Mr. Spill
has been most disgraceful and dishonest, and the
result has been to diminish materially the avail-
able assets, of the estate." This was the libel
complained of, and Baron Martin, who presided, ruled
that there Was no case for the jury, as the missive in
question was a privileged communication.

ACTION FOR INJURIES SUSTAINED.—In the same court
Mr. Paddock, the proprietor of a panorama, brought an
action against the North-Eastern Railway Company for
damages. It seemed from big evidence that when at
Ripen he visited the 'station to see after the con-
veyance of his exhibition to Otley. The first person he
saw WWI a porter, who directed him to cross the
line and invire on the other side of the plat-
form. Whilst carrying out this suggestion the plaintiff
fell into a hole and received such injuries as to necessitate
his calling in a medical man, who attended him for eight
weeks. The jury found that there had been no negligence
on the part of the company, and returned a verdict in their
favour.

ACTION AGAINST A SHERIFF.—In the Bail Court the
case of Wood v. Watt has been tried. It was an action
to recover damages from a sheriff for a negligent escape.
It appeared that in 1865 the plaintiff had recovered a
judgment debt for £264 15s. against a person named
W. Jr. Painbrigge, and in September 1865 a ca. az. was
issued into Yorkshire to arrest Bainbridge. The sheriff's
officer accordingly arrested him at Doncaster during
the races, but, instead of taking and lodging him in prison,
he took him to his house at Doncaster, and while there
Bainbrigge made his escape. On the 4th October follow.
ing Bainbrigge was made bankrupt on his own petition,
his debts- appearing to be £17,000, and his assets £3O,
which latter amount was advanced by his friends. On
the part of the sheriff, the escape could not be denied, but
it was contended that the pecuniary loss of his body by
the escape was next to nothing, as he was in a position of
such indebtedness. The jury gave a shilling damages.
110313ERY OF A THOUSAND FOUNDS' WORTTI or
JEWELLERY.—At Marylebone Police-court, John Harris,
aged 35, of 17, Mend's row, Westminster-bridge-road,
clerk, and William Meads, butler in the service of Mr.
Freshfield, solicitor to the Bank of England, residing at
No. 6, Sussex-square, Hyde Park, were charged with
stealing jewellery, &c., to the value of £l,OOO. It appeared
that at four o'clock on the afternoon of Saturday, the 6th,
it was found that Mrs. Freshfield's bedroom had been broken
into, and that several jewel cases had been broken into
and emptied of their contents, the drawers having been
forced open as if by a " jemmy." A man had called in
in the afternoon, and remained some time with the
prisoner Meads. This man was interrogated as to who
his companion was, and gave an answer that was subse-
quently discovered to be untrue. This was found out,
and then he said that Harris bad called. Harris was
taken into custody, and on his room being searched
several articles that may be evidence against the accused
were found. The prisoners were remanded for a week.

TIU: MURDER Or A COMMERCIAL TRAVELLER IN SIIROP-
SIIIRE.—At the examination on Saturday, at Wellingtop
the prosecution offered no evidence a7ainst Hatt, who vas
consequently discharged. The case against Harris is
entirely circumstantial, but a large number of strongly
suspicious circumstances have been adduced. The case
occupied the whole (lay. Harris was remanded. He was
proved to have been the last seen with deceased, and sub-
sequently was seen in possession of two gold watches and
chains,- alleged to he a portion of tbe stock carried by
Zusman. The case for the prosecution is not yet closed,
and the further proceedings were adjourned till Thursday.

Mr. Sothern had an audience of the Prince of
Wales on Mon clay, when (says the Era) his Rnyal High-
ness presented him with a handsome cliamor4 ring,
reauestinr him to wear it as a so!ClenL:ri