The Sun.
London, England, 1844-08-06 00:00:00

tised the horse for sale. I have understood
that it is a very common thing for sellers
to receive an additional sum if a horse wins a
particular race. I have not seen the colt from the time
I sent him to Jones's until this morning in Guildford,
an II am sure lie is the same colt. I farm the estate at
Walton on my own account. If the mare had gone away
to be covered by Liverpool, I must have known it.
Cross-examined—l have bought a few horses in my
time for the purposes of the farm, and for hunting a bit.
I have had a good many horses killed, sometimes two in
a week. I don't know who had the skin of this parti-
cular colt.

Mr. PLATT—No, nor nobody else, I believe.
Cross-examination continued—l sold the horse as a
two year old with all his engagements. He was in the
St. Leger, at Doncaster, 1845. He took to all his en-
gagements, which might be five or six races or more.
A race-horse is known in the Calendar by the descrip-
tion of its age. I don't know why I did not have Blood-
stone gelded. I never saw Beiram, the sire of the first colt.
Romaike is a very well bred mare, thorough bred, well
made, and like a race-horse, and fit to breed either a
race-horse or a hunter. I don't know whether Beiram,
the sire, was a thorough-bred horse, as I never saw him.
I won't swear that the letter (produced) is my writing.
Baron PARKE—What ! Not know your own hand-
writing ?
Mr. PLATT—(llanding several letters) Here are
plenty mor=. Now, upon your oath, are they not all
written by you ? Witness--I don't know. I cannot
swear whether they are not.

Mr. PLATT—WeII, now, what mare did you send with
those letters ? Witness—l sent no mare with them.
Mr. PLATT—You sent no mare to Mr. Gibson's in the
name of Mr. Crook—no thorough-bred mare as a half-
bred mare, to cheat the man whose horse was to cover
her ? Witness—No.

The witness, being pressed by Mr. Platt, said he had
no doubt a good many of the letters were written by
him, and at length said, perhaps they were all his.
Cross-examination continued—ln 1841, I had the riff
or mange in my stable. It is a catching complaint. I
had got rid of the disorder in 1842. I wrote the letters
in the name of Crook by his direction. The mare
Romaike never had the riff or mange since I have
known her. I never sent a mare to Mr. Gibson, the
horse called Liverpool.
Mr. PLITT then read a portion of one of the letters
written by the witness, in which he referred to a mare
having the surfeit, and being in foal, and also represented
that she was savage to her first foal and required care,
and he asked the witness what mare it referred to ?

The witness said he did not know. He supposed it
must be Crook's mare.
Cross-examination continued—Crook's mare was a
chesnut mare. Romaike had a white spot on her fore-
head, and some white marks about her legs. I don't re-
collect whether Crook's mare had the same marks
exactly.

.
Re-examined—l used frequently .to write letters for
Crook, and if I wrote these letters at all, they did not
refer to my own business. No other mare went with
Romaike to Hicks's, but I had another mare there that
same season. She was a fairish bred mare, but was not
thorough bred.
By the COURT—I have got the other mare's foal at
this time. I have not named it.

William Hierons—l am stud groom to Mr. Hicks at
Atherley, and I remember a mare with a foal by her
side being brought on the 4th of May, 1841, to Bu.
bastes. The colt she had with her was a very neat colt,
and I observed that it had a white spot on the face, and
I understood that it was a colt by Beiram. I saw the
Beiram colt again in November, at which time he was
nut more than sixteen months old. I saw a second foal
at Walton sucking the mare. This was a large fine foal,
and looked like a racer. The first colt looked more
cobbified.

Cross-examined—lt was not a bright chesnut-co-
loured foal that was at the mare's foot when she came. It
had a star on the forehead, but I did not observe that
he had any white on his hind feet. Ido not recollect
saying, at Ascot Races, " Here is a devil of a job—the
Bubastes colt has come in first., but they have proved
him to be a three-year old." I saw a gentlnman named
Horace, but I did not say to him that it was the Beiram
colt that had come with the mare to Hicks's, when she
was brought to Bubastes. I did not say that the Beiram
colt had a star, and a white heel behind, and that the
Bubastes colt had no white behind at all. I swear I
did not say that it was no more Bubastes's colt
Then it was old Defence's. Defence had covered the
mare Romaike. I did not say that John Newman owed
me for his mares, and if he did not come forward and
pay me I should toss him over the bridge.—(Laughter.)
I will swear I said nothing of the sort. I had some
conversation with the lawyer on this case, but I did not
tell him that the colt by Beiram had a star on his fore-
head and one white heel behind. I told him that I knew
the Bubastes colt, and that he had a star, but I did not
say he had no white about him. I did not tell the gen-
tleman that I did say, after the race, that Bloodstone
was a three yrs old. After I had been talking with the
lawyer, I had some conversation with Mr. John New-
man, but I did not walk away to a private place with
him upon hearing a rustling noise in the stablo close by
as though some one was listening. We were talking
about the chesnut mare, and I said they might make
some objection about the chesnut mare going to Liver-
pool. The lawyer took down what I said in writing,
but he did not read it over to me afterwards. I have
never said that I should not have said a word about
Bloodstone being three years old if John Newman had
paid me. I heard that Romaike was rather unkind to
her first colt, and I was sent for to reconcile her to the
colt, and I did so. . _

Re-examined—l did not go to Ascot races, but I
heard about them on the following Sunday, and that
there was a dispute about the stake. There is gene-
rally some little trouble with mares with their first colt.
I am sure the colt that won the race at Ascot, was not
the Beiram colt.

It being now seven o'clock, the further proceedings in
the Court were adjourned until this morning at nine
o'clock.

BRITISH and FOREIGN INSTITUTE
The first session of the British and Foreign Institute
was closed on Thursday evening by a very brilliant and
numerously-attended soiree.
As early as nine o'clock the drawing-rooms were filled
with elegantly-dressed company, including about
three hundred ladies and gentlemen, members and
visitors, who continued to increase in numbers till ten.
Amon..' the company present on this occasion were
many foreign gentlemen, some in costume, particu-
larly a young Syrian Greek, from the mountains of
Lebanon, and a very handsome New Zealand South, re-
cently brought over to England by a gentleman returning
from thence, and now educating at the British and Fo-
reign School for the purpose of being sent back to his
own country as a Christian missionary. The details of
the history of this young man, now about twenty-two
years of age, were given to the company, and interested
them very deeply, from its romantic character, while his
fine figure, handsome features, and picturesque costume,
increased that interest to a high degree. Mr. Catlin, who
has done so much to illustrate the character of the Ame-
rican Indians, and who was present on this occasion, en-
tered into conversation with him and was followed by
others, to all of whom he replied in very intelligible
English, though lie has been only six months under
tuition at the British and Foreign School.
What gave more than usual interest to the visit of the
Young New Zealander, was the fact of his being accom-
panied by such an exact representation of himself, in
a model purposely prepared for the occasion, that as he
stood motionless beside it, in the same attitude, wearing
the same kind of robe, and holding the same descrip-
tion of spear in his hand, it was very difficult to dis-
tinguish the living figure from its faithful transcript,
and many were deceived in this respect. It
appears that some gentlemen in London, at-
tached to ethnological investigations, have con-
ceived the idea of forming an Ethnographical
Society, which shall give form and body, " a local
habitation and a name," to the facts collected by travellers
respecting the different races of the human family. They
propose, in short, to do for all nations what Mr. Catlin
has done for the American Indians and Mr. Dunn
for the Chinese—namely, to prepare models from
the life of the inhabitants of different quarters of the
globe, array them in the actual robes of their own
country, surround them with the accessories of their
own weapons, utensils, and other appendages, and
form a museum that shall give to those whose pursuits
prevent their travelling an opportunity of seeing at
least faithful representations of the different races of
mankind. Their first example of the perfection to which
such modelling could be brought was in the production
of a figure of this New Zealand youth, which was so
faithful a copy of the original that for a few minutes it
was difficult to say, as they stood side by side, which
was the original and which the copy, or which the life-
less and which the living figure. As a triumph of art
it was admitted to be most successful.
Among the distinguished visitors to the Institute the
name of the Countess Morska was mentioned as having
examined the whole establishment with great interest,
and manifested her approbation of its plan, object, and
design, by a very unequivocal proof of her desire to con-
tribute to its attractions. The Countess, who is now in
her 84th year, with the possession of excellent health,and the enjoyment of all her faculties, is
on
visitv r of
pleasure to England, staying with her suiteat a s
Hotel, and making daily visits to the palaces, mansions,
gardens, and galleries of the Royal Family and prin-
cipal nobility of England. Her estates and domain
formed part of the ancient Poland,_ before the
partition of that ill fated country, but are now
included in Austrian Gallicia. The Countess pre-
sented to the library of the Institute, as a
souvenir of her visit, and a testimony of her approbation
and good-will, a splendid volume filled with views of her
palace, its gardens, grounds, and subordinate establish-
ments ; all from drawings made by her own hand, and
terminated by a series of floral groups of the principal
flowers of the country, tastefully arranged and coloured
after nature, accompanied by a " Treatise on Rural Archi-
tecture," from her own pen, and a catalogue in Polish
and Latin of the chief botanical productions of the region.
The volume was placed on the drawing room table, and.
was greatly admired.
In the course of the evening there were some admirable
musical performances. M. Muhlenfeldt on the piano,
and M. Selberberg, a pupil of Ernst, on the violin, played
with a charming duet of De Beriot's, great skill. Mr.
Moscheles gave one of his brilliant solos in the early part
of the evernng ; and M. Leopold de Meyer another
towards its close, and each :was perfect in its kind—
while the vocal music with which the intervals were
filled up was varied and agreeable.
The proceedings of the evening were terminated by an
address, in which a brief retrospect of the past session
was followed by a sketch of the proceedings contemplated
for the future ones, and from the enthusiasm with which
this was received, it was very evident that there was no
want of zeal or cordial co-operation on the part of the
members, to sustain the Institute in the full vigour with
which it has hitherto been carried on, and to make its
future sessions as agreeable and instructive as the put,