The Sun.
London, England, 1868-01-27 00:00:00

RACING FIXT

FEBR
Lincoln Spring
AI infield
liarro w 2O

L'verpool Spring M 3
C..clinsford Spring M 10
Shrewsbury Spring lO
West Drayton l2
Warwick Spring

!AP.
Bromley Spring 6
Durham
Hendon l3
Newmarket Craven
Knighton l4
Abergavenny . , 16

Chester 5
Winchester
York Spring
Doncaster Spring
Salisbury

West Drayton 1
Croydon 2d Summer 3
Manchester 3
Ascot Summer 9
Beverley, Hull, and
East Riding lO
Windsor Summer

Chelmsford
Worcester Summer
Carlisle 7
Newmarket July 7
Pontefract'
Reading
Down Royal Corp. l5
Liverpool July M.

AUG
Brighton
Brighton Club
Lewes Summer
Wolverhampton ll7 i
Stockton
Plymouth
Windsor August l3
Egliam lB
Hastings
York August

Dover
Oxford
Scarborough 24
Canterbury
Derby Summer
Weymouth
Lichfield
Tunbridge
Margate 3l

THE IRISHMAN AND THE DAILY
TELEGRAPH.

At the Court of Queen's Bench, this day, Mr.
C 4mpbell Foster applied on behalf of Mr. Richard
Pigott, proprietor of the Irishman newspaper, pub-
lished in Dublin, for a rule nisi for a criminal in-
formation against Mr. Joseph Ellis, publisher of
the Daily Telegraph, for an alleged libel which ap-
peared in that journal on the 11th of January last
severely commenting on certain articles in the
columns of the Irishman with reference to Feni-
anism and the conduct of the English Government
in instituting criminal proceedings against Mr.
Pigott. The applicant contended that the tendency
of the article in question was such as to prevent his
having a fair trial.

The Court, after hearing the article read, and
also those forming the basis of the prosecution
against Mr. Pigott, unanimously refused the ap•
plication.

A PLOT TO ASSASSINATE THE KING OF

PRUSSIA.

Gustave Victor and Maxim Fordore were placed
at the bar before Mr. Flower charged with conspir-
ing together for the purpose of obtaining money
from his Excellency Barom, the Prussian Ambas-
sa,lor in London.

Mr. Abrams appeared for the Prussian Embassy

to prosecute.

Herman Reek said, I am clerk in the office of
the Prussian Embassy. On the Bth of Januasy the
prisoner Victor came to the Embassy and said ho
had a secret to tell but that he was in a destitute
ondition. I communicated with Baron Schmithals
and when the prisoner called again: on the 10th of
January he said that a conspiracy was in progress,
and that a - man named---Emeriek was going to
Berlin to assault the King of Prussia, and that he
had Orsini bombs in his possession. He said that
Emeriek was the head of a conspiracy. As Victor
repeated he was much in need I gave him money
for the information he had communicated,
certainly not as charity. Every time Victor came
he asked for money, as he could not be expected to
come without being paid, or could he go to the dif-
ferent gentlemen from whom ho could procure in-
formation without remuneration. I told Victor that
if his information was correct he would receive
He lead me to believe that he
wasan adequate
enabledreward.
togive
such information os would lead
to the apprehension of Emerick before the plot was
put into formation.

The prisoner Victor said the money he got from
the witness was not for what he had stated, but that
in fact it was as charitable relief, and that the wit.
ness never gave him any money without his asking
for it.

Witness continued— I recollect the prisoner
Victor coming on the evening of the Bth January.

We shall continue the report in a later edition.

STEEL FROM CLEVELAND IRON.—The occurrence
of sulphur and phosphorus in Cleveland pig • iron has
hitherto prevented its being used for conversion into Bes-
semer steel. For the latter purpose only- the pig iron ob-
tained from the purest spathic and hematite ores has been
employed; and the increasing demand for steel has led to
• some apprehension lest the iron trade of Cleveland should
eventually suffer from the competition of the Bessemer
steel manufacturers, unless somo practical and economical
method could be discovered whereby the north country
pig iron could be converted into steel. During the past
year a considerable number of experimenters have been
attempting to solve this important problem, and at length
it would seem there is a fair prospect of success. At the
last meeting of the Middlesborough iron trade samples o
steel made from Cleveland iron were exhibited by Messrs.
Pox, dead, and Co. These appeared of superior quality,
and excited great interest, as it was stated that by the new
process steel rails could be manufactured at from £9 t
£l9 per ton, or at about £3 per ton under the price
Bessemer steel rails. Should these anticipations be w
founded it is certain that a great impetus will be given
the iron trade of tide locality.