The Sun.
London, England, 1868-05-20 00:00:00

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THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY -20, 1868.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

BATH AND SOMERSET COUNTY MEETING.

TUESDAY.

The reunion on the Lansdowne heights is ever a popu-
lar as well as an important meeting, preceding so imme-
diately as it does the great event on Epsom Downs; but
this year, however, it may be said to have become extra-
ordinarily attractive from the meeting of so many of the
cracks, especially Achievement and Julius for the Bean-
fort Cup. With respect to the two latter, the colt having
proved himself the best of his year by his two defeats of
Hermit when conceding weight to the Derby winner, the
Duke of Newcastle was naturally anxious to still further
test the accuracy of Julius's form in the summer months,
and so endeavour to prove him not only the best four year
old colt, but the best animal of his year. Though the card
appeared meagre as to the quantity of sport provided; it was
fully made up for in quality, the unexpected appearance of
Speculum in the Biennial, to meet Me. cartwright's greatly
improved colt Tympanum, possessing uu additional at-
traction for the followers of Derby form. Besides this, it
was anticipated that Bath would be true to its traditions
with re,,pect, to " knockings out." The weather all day
wss beautifully fine, the sun being almost tropically
powerful, and the attendance both on the course and
ulithin the enclosure was very great. The Lltisilown
Trial Stakes opened the proceedings, and of the four sub-
scribers three went to the post, although the whole were
weighed for. Any odds almost might have been obtained
on Sir Charles Legard's horse, but a few were content
with 10 to 1, and the result proved the soundness of the
opinion entertained by the talent. Vosp:tsian was hardly,

however, so much fancied later in the afternoon, when he
again carried the top weight in the Bath Handicap. It
appeared to require all Custauce's horsemanship to shake
off Naivete, and Lord Westmorland's Ganyruede, as the
son of Nowminster won by a head, and the other pair
finished by a dead heat for second honours. The great
turn up, however, in the early part of the day, was the
clever defeat of Speculum by the speedy Grimston, as few
thought the latter could stay a mile and a half. From
first to last the pace seemed to suit him, and it may be said

that ho won easily. The flying Miss Foote just got in
front of Joseph Dawson's clipper Do Yore in the Two
Year 014 Biennial. The meeting of Julius and Achieve-

meat, which had been so much looked for, resulted in per.

haps the hollowest victory on record for the former, the
Duke of Newcastle's splendid colt fairly gambolling away
from the hitherto almost invincible filly Achievement,
showing what great improvement some horses can make
in a short time, and how others may fall off in form. The
Cot.nty Memters' Plate fell to the uncertain Sister to
Vedette, who took it into her head to make all the run-
ning, and won by a length and a half easily, landing for

once in a way the money entrusted to her. Details of the
day's racing and betting will be found appended :
The Lansdowne Trial Sakes, of 10 sous each, with 25
added ; weight for age ; selling allowances ; I mile.
Sir C. Legard's Vespasian, by Newminster—Vesta, 5
yrs (not to be sold), 9st 71b (inc. 71b ex.)...(Castance) 1
Mr Hughes's Paris, aged (£100), Bst (Prior) 2
Mr I. Woolcott'e Cork Jacket, 3 yrs, (£200), 6st 31b
(Butler) 3
Kenyon weighed for Ganymede, 4 yrs (£100), 7st 71b,
but the number was not hoisted, the colt being with-

drawn.
Betting-10 to 1 on Vespasian.
Immediately after starting Vespasian assumed a clear
lead of his opponents, which he maintained throughout,
winning in a common canter by four lengths, Cork Jacket
being not more than a neck in rear of the second, after
the pair had run a good race home together.
The Second Year of the Sixteenth Biennial Stakes of 10
sovs each, with 50 added, for three year olds ; colts, Bst
101 b; fillies and geldings, Bst 71b; untried horses or
mares allowed 31b; the second to save stake ; ono mile
and a half ; 63 subs.
Mr Pryor's Grimston, by St. Albans—Theodora, Bst 101 b
(T. French)
Duke of Newcastle's Speculum, Bst 101 b (J. Daley) 2
Mr W. S. Cartwright's Tympanum, Bst 71b...(Custance) 3
Mr John Day's Cock of the Walk, Bst 101 b (H. Day) 0
Mr. J. Powney's Lady Raglan, Bst 71b (Cannon) 0
Mr E. Brayley's c by Sycophant—Codicil, by The Cos-
sack,
Bst 41b (Hibberd) 0
Mr Merry's Phoebus, Bst 71b (Parry) 0
Mr J. B. Morris's Birdseeker, Bst 101 b (Ferdham) 0
Betting-3 to lon Speculum, 10 to 1 each agst Grimston
and Tympanum.
Directly the flag was lowered Grimston obtained a slight
advantage, but when a few strides had been taken Lady
Raglan took up the running, and soon improved her lead
by three or four lengths of her horses, of whom Phoebus
Grimston, and Tympanum were toi,ether, Speculum and
Birdseeker bringing up the rear, for a hundred yards,
when the second position was taken by Tympanum, who
was pulling double over Phoebus, Grimston having dropped
back slightly. Traversing the far side Tympanum de-
prived Lady Raglan of the command, running down the
back stretch with a clear lead of Mr. Powney's mare, the
Codicil colt and Speculum lying side by side, fallowing
these being Birdseeker and Cock of the Walk, Grimston
bringing up the rear. No change occurred till reaching
the mile post, when the extreme rear was brought up by
Cock of the Walk, Grimstou being left in attendance with
Birdseeker and the Codicil colt. They ran thus until
fairly iu the straight, when Grimston, next the rails, ran
through his horses and took a slight lead of Tympanum
at the distance, and Speculum almost simultaneously drew
out. From this point the race was confined to the fa-
vourite and Grimston, but the latter having always slightly
the best of it, won very cleverly by a neck; a bad third ;
Cock of the Walk, passing Phcchus on tho post, was
fourth, Birdseeker was sixth, the Codic 1 cost next, and
Lady Raglan last, the layer five pulling up.
The Selling Stakes of 3 sovs each, with 25 added; weight

for age ; straight half mile.

Lord Vivian's Lord Falmouth, by Lambton—Parvati, 2
yrs (L3O), Est (Crickniere) 1
Mr Saxon's Nickhoolie, 2 yrs (£3O), sst 111 b (Lyuham) 0
Betting-11 to 8 on Lord Fahnouth.
Shortly after the flag fell Nickhoolio bolted, and Lord
Fahnouth came in alone.
The winner was not offered for sale.
The Bath Handicap of 10 soya each, 5 ft (if declared by 8
o'clock the evening before running, to Mr. Reynolds
only, at the Castle Hotel, Bath), with 100 added ; th,
winner of any handicap after May 14, at ten a.m., 51b ;
of two or more handicaps, 101 h extra. Ono mile. 26
subs.
Sir C. Legard's Vespasian, 5 yrs, gat 121 b (in. Sib ex.)
(Custence) 1
Mr. Padwick's Naivete, 3 yrs, 7st 51b (inc. Sib extra)
(Butler) t
Lord Westmorland's Ganymede, 4 yrs, Est 81U(Keuyou) t
Mr. G. Payne's Tremble, 4 yrs, Est 81b (lelordan)
Mr. R. Dick's Defiance, 4 yrs, 7st 2lb (ilittberd) 0.
Mr. E. Brayley's Cromwell, 4 yrs, Est 131h...(11. Covey) 3
Mr. J. Dover's Ligurian, 3 yrs, 6st lib (Crickmere) 0
Butting-2 to 1 agst Vespasian, sto 2 eget Naiveta, 6
to 1 agst Ligurian, 100 to 15 agst Ganymede, 7 to 1 agst
Defiance. Ganymede jumped away with a slight lead of
Ligurian, and next, abreast, were Vespasian, D, Hanes,
Cromwell, Naivete, Tremble being slightly in their rear..
On rounding the lower turn Defiance took up the renting
ou the inside, followed by Cromwell, a length in advance
of Ganymede, then came Vespasian and Naivete, Tremble
being still last. Coming into the straight Vespasian im-
proved his position in the centre of the c,urse, having
Ganymede on his left and Naivete on the right, Ligurian
drawing up next the rails, but when fairly in the line for
home he dropped back (after canoning against Ganytnede)
slightly at the distance, and Vespasian, with Ganymede
on his left and Naivete on the whip hand, cern() away. An
exciting race ended in favour of Vespasian by a head;
Naivete, who stumbled in the last stride or two, finished
a dead-head with Ganymede for second pace, Ligurian
was fourth, Tremble fifth, Defiance sixth, and Cromwell
last, the latter three being several lengths in the rear.
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allowed 31b ; second to save stake ; straight half-mile.
64 subs.
Mr J. Day's Miss Foote, by Orlando—Gossamer, Bst 71b
(Cannon) 1
Mr J. Dawson's Do Vere, Bst 101 b (T. Aldcrolt) 2
Mr W. S. Crawfurd's Juanits, Bst 71tt Challoner) 3
Lord Vivian's Lord rale oath, Bst ;lb
Count Legrange's Atnazone, Bst 71b (J. Mann)
t Mr Astley's June f, Bst 41b ••• (Fordham) 0
Mr G. Jones's Reynard, Bst 101 h (C. 1 age) 0
Bettiug-6 to 4 agst Miss Foote, 5 to 2 De Vere, 9 to 2
Juanita, 10 t, 1 lone filly.
Reynard-, after three ineffectual attempts, got away with
a slight lead of the favourite and Juanita for about 300
yards, when he retired, and the lead was taken by Miss
Foote, who came on with the running to tiro cl stance,
where Juanita and De Vere got level with the favourite,
Juanita slightly heading her, but the Dauebury filly suc-
ceeded in getting the best of her opponents at the com-
mencement of the Stand, and won after a fine race by a
head from De Vero, who was a short head iu advance of
Juanita. The Juno filly was fourth, Atuazono fifth, Lord
Falmouth sixth, and Reynard last.
The Beaufort Cup, value 300 sows, by subscription of 10
Boys each, the rest in specie ;tree year olds, 7st ; four,
Bst 101 b ; five, 9st 41b ; six and aged, 9st 61b ; mares and
geldings allowed 41b; to start at the Mile-post and go
once round (about two miles and a half).
Duke of Newcastle's Julius, by St. Albans--Julie, 4 yrs,
Bst 101 b
Col. Pearson's Achievement, 4 yrs, bat 210 (inc Mb ex)
(T. Challuner) 2
Duke of Newcastle's Gomera, 6 yrs, 9st lib ...(Aldcroft) :3
Mr. Proctor's Goodwood, 4 yrs, Bst 101 b (Parry)
Betting--6 to 5 agst achievement, 11 to 8 agst
6to 1 agst Goodwood-50 to 1 agst Gomera.
Gomera started for the purpose of serving her stable
companion Julius, cut out the work at a good pace, Good_
wood going on second, Julius third, and Achievement last,
intervals of a length and a half selarating them. After
going about a quarter of smile Gomera took a lead of fully
a dozen lengths, improving the pace as they came into the
straight. No change in the positions indicated occurred,
however, until a mile and a half from home, when Good-
wood decreased Gomera's lead considerably, and Achieve-
ment drew up to the quarters of Julius, the pair raciug
in company to the utile post, whore Gomera shot out
from Goodwood, who was headed as they made
the bend on the far side by Julius, but Parry
before reaching the entrance to the ititight again
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got his head in front of the Duke of Newcastle's
horse. Directly they were in the line for home Gomera
retired, and Julius passing Goodwood at once took up the
running, Mr. Proctor's colt dropping away into tie rear.
Julius next the rails was joined by Achievement at the
moment the Cesarewitch vrinner took up the running, tut
Daley gradually drew away, and Challoner, finding further
perseverance with Achievement was hopeless, eased her at
the distance, after taking one feeler with her, and Julius
passed the post 15 lengths in :advance of Colonel Pearson's
filly. Gemara was a bad third, and Goodwood did not
pass the post.
The County Members' Plate (Handicap) of 50 sous ;
winners of any handicap after May 14, at ten a.m., 51b
extra. 1 mile. _ .

Si; F. Johnstone's Sister to Vedette, by Voltigeur—
dam by Birdcatcher, yrs, Est 71b (Butler) 1
Mr E. Green's Pest, 3 Tzs, 6st (Wyatt) 2
Mt E. Elwyn's Needle Gun, 6 yrs, ist 41b Sopp) 3
Sir G. Rushout's Moon aeum, 4 yrs, Bst 811.4..(J. Adams) 0
Mr E. Edwyu's Englishman, 3 yrs, tist 71b (U. Sopp) 0
Mr E. Brayley's Lily, 3 yrs, Est 21b (Borrow) 0
Mr W. Treeu's ailvio, 3 yrs, 53t 101 b (Crickmere) 0
Mr J. Taylor's Tribum-, ;) yrs, 7st 11b (Vinell) 0
Betting-100 to 60 v.gst Sister to Vedeit 9 to 4 agst
Moonbeam, 100 to 30 agt.t Pest.
Sister to Vedette made nearly all the running, and won
easily by a length and a half from Pest, who was a head
only in front of Needle Gun; 3looula.am, who came
through her horses when fairly in the straight, but fell
bock at the distmace, was fourth, Balvie fifth, Englishman
sixth, Lily next, and Tlibuno last.

`MIRD EDITIOA •

SUN OFFICE, 7 o'CLocK.

question whether he ought to commit for trial.
should maintain that this was a res judicata.

was well aware that this was not an estopper

in law, but he should think that was a =Liter
to be considered by the magistrate in relation to
the question of committal. He contended that
though the decision of another magistrate was I.lQt
binding upon Mr. Vaughan as a question of law,
yet it was a matter which ought to be taken into
consideration at that stage.

Mr. Vaughan said that was upon a different
charge and under a different statute.
Mr. Giffard said he contended that it was the
same case, or indeed an a fortiori case. If Mr.
Eyre was guilty of illegality in the matters now
alleged against him, he was guilty of murder.

Sir It. I'. Collier said th 4 they were relieved, and
were glad to be relieved, of the nece&ity of
prosecuting on the graver charge. He was much
obliged to them. But how were they relieved?
Was it by the pressure of any scruple of conscience?
No. It was simply because they could not do it.
They did not find themselves relieved until Sir
Thomas henry refused to commit Mc. Eyre for
trial on the charge of murder. Aud now they
wished to make capital out of their own defeat.
He contended that they were now attempting to
separatJ the charge into parts, and proceed upon
each of them separately. Would it have been com-

petent for the Crown, after prosecuting certain
persons for murder, on the ground of their alleged
complicity in the explosion at Clerkeuwell, and,
after their acquittal on that charge, to try them
again for the injury done to some individual who
had been wounded by the fragments of the barrel,
and, failing in that, to proceed against the n for
creating au obstruction by placing the barrel on
the footway.
Mr. Vaughan said the charge which Sir Thomas

Henry declined to entertain was that of the murder
of Mr. Gordon, which was only a part of the gene-
ral question. This proceeding related to other
matters, and he could not refuse to entertain them,
because the charge failed as to Gordon's case. Many
of these matters arose after Gordou's case, and had
not been shown to have any connection with it.
Sir R. P. Collier—l did not charge the imprison-
ment of Levier, or of Phillips, or of Viueu as
murder.

Mr. Vaughan said there was involved in this
case a great deal besides what came out then. For
instance, it would be one of the important questions
to be considered by a jury, whether Mr. Lyre was
justified in maintaining the proclamation and con-
tinuing to execute martial law, not only down to
the time of the amnesty, on the 30th October, bat
down to the 24th of November ; and if the case
rested on no other point, he should, on that point
alone, think it his duty to send the case further.
He should be of that opinion if this were the only
charge against him.
Mr. Giffard said he was not anxious to go on
speaking for the mere sake of hearing his own
voice. If the magistrate had made up his mind he
should not pursue the argument any further.
Mr. Vaughan was bound to say that unless Mr.
Giffard could address to him arguments of such
cogency as to make him entirely reverse the view
he had formed so far, it would be his duty to send
the case before a jury.
Mr. Giffard felt that it was a great discourage-
ment to know that the learned magistrate had
already formed an opinion adverse to his case, but
he was bound to give any tribunal before which he
appeared credit for haring an open mind to receive
and duly consider any arguments he had in his duty
to submit on behalf of his client. _

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Mr. Giffard then went on to contend that this
was not the offence Mr. Eyre was charged with.
There was nothing about it in the summons, nor
had it been urged by Sir R. P. Collier.
Mr. Vaughan said there were two charges—that
of issuing an illegal proclamation, and that of com-
mitting oppressive acts under that proclamation.
Now it appeared to his mind that if Mr. Eyre did
not put an eud to that state of martial law at the
time when he might have done so, then he was
guilty of oppression.
Sir R. P. Collier said that when he Mae the
application for the summons he did enter into that
question.
Mr. Giffard said he could not enter into what
was said at the application for the suurnons. 11.;
had only to do with what had taken place during
the actual proceedings. As to the nec3:ssity of
the proclamation, it appeared to
.hint that 0°33
who complain of the alleged oppression of certain
inhabitants of the colony treated the colony itself
with contempt. It ought to be borne in mind, and
he hoped the magistrate would consider it as a
definite means of coating to a conclusion, what
ought to be done in disposing of this case.
COMMITTAL OF GOVERNOR EYRE FOR
TRIAL.

At the conclusion of the - learned counsel's
address, Mr. Vaughan said - he should have been
very glad if it had beau consistent with his duty to
let the case end here, but he felt that it was a
case which he was bound to send to a higher
tribunal.

Mr. Eyre, on being called upon to make any
statement in defence, addressed the court in impas-
sioned language, and with much emotion complained
of the persecution to which he had been exposed,
but declaring hia confidence in the judgment of
the court above and of public opinion being in his
favour.

Mr. Vaughan committed him for trial at the next
Court of Oyer and Terminer at the Court of
Queen's Bench, and bound him over to appear in
the sum of £l,OOO.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-THIS 1):11'.

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THAMES.
„,
IIIIEVES IN THE DARK.—Jane Smith, aged 30,
a low and desperate woman, who has been for some
time a frequenter after sunset of the secluded
streets in the rear of the Landon Hospital, was
brought before Mr. Benson, charged with stealing
a bag, containing £2 14$. in cash, from the person
of Abraham Baruch, of 52, Turner-street, Stepney,
tobacconist.
The prosecutor, a very respectable, steady man,
was on his way home, and was accosted at a late
hour at the back of the London Hospital, and
within a few yards of his own house, by the pri-
soner, who made very monstrous proposals to him,
couched in the most infamous language, and on his
telling her to leave him and go about her business,
she called him most horrible names, clung to him,
and then accused him of improper familiarities
He pushed ber away and she left him. She rushed
across the road, and tie then put his hand in his
pocket and missed a small bag containing £2 14s. Ile
ran back with another man, named Carl Klaustein,
to avhout he made known his loss, and they soon
secured the 'prisoner. She was given into the
custody of John Kleiber, a police-constable, No. 312,
wbo now produced the bag with the money in
it except ls. 6d., which is supposed to have
dropped, out.
Karl Klaustein, a foreigner, saw the struggle
between the prisoner and the 'prosecutor, and saw
the woman take the bag and money from her
pocket and run away with it. She was about to
drop it, and he snatched it from' her.
The prisoner said the very man who came up as
a witnis3 put her up to rob the prosecutor.
Mr. Benson did not believe it. The man behaved
very well, and saved the prosecutor's money.
Kleiber said the prisoner was one of a gang of
most abandoned women and thieves, whose con-
duct after sunset was really horrible. They
were guilty of theft and other crimes at
the back of the London Hospital, the end
of York-road, Ratcliff, and the immediate vicinity
of the Stepney railway station, Commercial-road,
and other places in that road. They prowled about
and laid hand upon and plundered every man they
could meet with in the dark.
The prisoner said she was guilty.
Mr. Benson said the prisoner, was one of the
wretched class who prowled about in the dark at
the back of the London Hospital, near the Stepney
railway station, the end of York-place, and other
places, and they must be routed out by the police,
and by all honest and decent people. He sentenced
the prisoner to four mouths' imprisonment and
hard labour.

81 'ORTING INTEL LIGENCE —This Day.

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

BATH AND SOMZRSET RACES—Tins DAY.

DONNINGTON STAKES.

The Donnington Stakes (Handicap) of 5 sova each, with

50 added; T.Y.C.

Eau de Vie 1
,Betlow Lass
cCromwell ..

KELSTON STAKES.
TL 0 Kelston Stakes of 5 sous each with 40 added ; straight
half-mile.

Siste,' to Veda
Paris .
Hags ,

Eight ran.
SOMERSETSHIRE S TAKES.
The Somersetshire Stakes of 25 sovs each. Two miles

and a distance..

VorLigern

V:mea g
Ploughboy
NV ES ['ON STAKES.
The Weston Stakes of U) sovs each, with 50 added, fur
two year olds; colts 8s:, Plb; fillies Hal geldings, Bst-
; the proluce Of untried horses or Uses allowed 31h;
if both, ; winners of any ono stako (.f 2.)0 soya value
before etartiu,:, 31b; 4JU, s:b extra. Straight half mile.
vu subs.

BadsworCi
ght hag
Sister to hermit

T vulva ran.
DYRHANI PARK HANDICAP.

The Dyrhain Park handicap of 100 soya ; winners of any
handicap after May 11, at ten a.m., 71b extra; once
round and a distance.

Ailiiico
Demonstration .

Defiance

Five rau.
WELTER STAKES.

Tho Welter Stakes (handicap) of 5 sous each, with 50
added; gentlemen riders; jockeys, Gib extra; winners
of any race after May 14th, at ten a.m., 31b ; of any
handicap race, 71b extra. Once round and a distance.
9 subs.

Douro ......

Balvio .

'Mexico —..

Five ran.
BADMIN TON STAKES.

The Badminton Stakes of 10 BOYS each, 5 ft, with 100
added; two year olds, Get 101 b ; three, Bst 51b ; four,
Bst 121 b ; live and upwards, 9st 21b ; mares and gelding,
allowed 31h; the winner of any stake amounting to 100
soya in 1867 or 1868 31b, if 300 51b, if 60U 121 b extra ;
maiden three year olds at the time of starting to be
allowed 61b, four and upwards 111 b; (straight
half mile); 18 subs.
Athena 1
Liddinglon • 2

LATEST BETTING.
DERBY.
2 to 1 agst Lady Elizabeth (taken)
13 to '2 agst Blue Gown (taken)
10 to 1 agst Paul Jones (taken)
1000 to 50 agst Suffolk (taken)
30 to 1 agst Torn Bowline (taken)
2000 to 25 agst Forest King (taken)