The Sun.
London, England, 1844-04-29 00:00:00

UNION BALL.—(THIS DAY.)
Ann Taylor, a well-dressed young woman, was charged
with uttering a counterfeit shilling.
It appeared that the prisoner went into the shop of Mr.
Rathbone, druggist, of the Kent-road, on Saturday evening,
and asked for a small box of anti-bilious pills, in payment
for which she tendered a counterfeit shilling. The shopman,
seeing the coin was bad, mentioned the fact to the prisoner,
who, snatching it off the counter, attempted to convey it to
her mouth, with the intention of swallowing it, and by that
stratagem destroying identity. She was, however, pre-
vented from doing so, and the coin, being cut in halves by
the shopman, she was given into custody.
When questioned by Mr. TRAILL on the subject, tht
soner refused to give any account of her possession of the
counterfeit shilling; and as she is suspected to belong to A
gang of titterers of base money, a system of fraud which bes
been carried on to a great extent on the tradesmen of this'
district, 'she was remanded to give the solicitor of the
Mint an opportunity of attending and prosecuting her for
the offence.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
(RECEIVED THIS DAY.)
CHESTER RACES.
CHESTER, SUNDAY.—The following horses ha' arrived
Best Bower, Red Deer, Bramble, Adriana men General Pol-
lock, Master Stepney, Brunel, Lady Alice, Hemp, Coal Black
Rose, Alice Gray, Ithuriel, Freedom, Hampton colt, Psalm-
singer, Greenfinch, Faustus, Missy, Colin Clink, f by Dr.
Faustus, out of Active; Columbia colt, Alice Hawthorn►
Merry Andrew, The Curd, Bashaw, Nutwith, Marie, Jamie
Forest, Brevity, Celeste, Miss Miggs, Fair Charlotte, Tacits*
and Birdeen.

EGLINTON PARK RACES.
BETTING AT GLASGOW.—THE IRVINE CUP.
7 to 4 agst Shadow (taken) 3to 1 agst Whistle Binkia
4to 1 agst Aristides 16 to 1 agst William leGros(t)
4 to 1 agst Aristotle 10 to 1 agst Smike (taken)
STEWARDS' CUP.
3to 1 agst Lara (taken) 6to 1 agst Era (taken)
4 to 1 agst Shadow 10 to 1 agst Qnebec
6 to 1 agstWilliamleGros (t) 10 to 1
agst Christopher (t) LATEST BETTING T THE WEST END.
CHESTER CUP.
7to 2 agst Kent's lot (t) 15 to 1 agst Roscius (t)
6 to 1 agst Bramble 20 to I agst Alice Hawthorn(t,
7 to 1 agst Pagan 22 to 1 agst Freedom (taken)
10 to 1 agst Cattonite 25 to 1 agst Rowland
10 to 1 agst Red Deer 20 to 1 agst Nutwith
2 to 1 agst Ratan (t 5 to 2)1 Mande2ODERBY .
to 1 agst
4 to 1 agst Uglyßuck (take 20 to 1 agst Campanero
9 to 2)
No change in the other favourites.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, APRIL 29.—Fresh W.N.W. breeze, and fine.
DEAL, APRIL 27.—Wind. N.E. fresh. 28, A.m. N.W. to N.N.E., P.M. E. by N .—Sld. Maria Somes, Hobart Town ; Cam-
brian, Sierra Leone ; Thomas Harrison, Angra Pequina ; Lady
Katharine Barham, Jamaica; James, Bermuda; Cleopatra,
Demerara ; Dominica, Jamaica.
HASTINGS, APRIL 27.—The Waterman, No. 10, steamer
(on a pleasure trip) ran on the rocks off the Priory, this after-
noon, and is sunk on the sand.
PLYMOUTH, APRIL 28.—Wind E.—The sloop Louisa,
hence to Southampton sprang a leak on the 26th instant,
and sank, crew saved. Sld. St. Anne, Quebec.
FALMOUTH, APRIL 28.—Wind E. fresh.—Off, Lafayette,
Cortey, Macao for Havre; a brig, with "Denmark" on her
stern, out sixty days, from Brazil for Harnburgh.
JERSEY, APRIL 25.--Sld. Pelican, Canopues, Janus, Unity',
and Hopewell, Labrador.
MiddlOF eburg F PORTLAND, APRIL 24.—Middleburg, Baltimore, for
foun
WdIand.ATERFORD, APRIL 26.-81 d. Erin, Quebec; John, Neir''
CASTLETOWN, APRIL 24.—Sld. Wanderer, St. Jollies, NeW
Brunswick.
LIMERICK, APRIL 26.--Sld. Manly, Barbabea.
BELFAST, APRIL 26.—Arrd. Emulous, Mackey, Delac.e,rars.
Sld. Democrat, Quebec.
LIVERPOOL, APRIL 28.—Wind, variable. Sia. Eleanor
Russell, China; Ino, Angra Pequina; Virginian, and St.
George, New York ; Camo, Boston ; Schryd, Trebeatond ; John
Dugdale, China; Kingston, Ichoboe ; Jamea Dean, Align"
Pequina; Mediterranean, Africa; Reward, Jamaica; Arab,
Port au Prince ; Elsinore, Havannah ; Helen, Tampico ;
Henry Bliss, New York ; Highland Mary, Quebec. The
Pandora, at Cove, from St. John's, New Brunswick, fell in
with several icebergs 9th inst., lat. 46, lon. 48, and soon after-
wards became entangled in field ice, which she did not clear
till the 12th, after making 75 miles southing.
SOUTHAMPTON, APRIL 28.—Acrd. Paella (steamer), Gilt-
raltar, left 20th inst.
BRISTOL, APRIL 27.—Sld. Samuel, Africa.
COWES, APRIL 27.—Sld. E. Boutcher, St. Kitt's,
OFF THE START, APRIL 19.—Batticum, Pernambuco, for
Hamburgh ; Therese Sophie, Antwerp, for Buenos Ayres;
Johanna Nasmar, Rio, for Stockholm ; Boajol, Rotterdam,
for Batavia.
MUMBLES, APRIL 24.—Sld. Charles Clarke, Valparaiso.
SHIELDS, APRIL 27.-51 d, Baton, Calcutta; England's
Queen, Walker, Quebec,
SUNDERLAND, APRIL 26.—S1d, Wanderer, Miramichi
Aspasio and Bowes, St. John's, New Brunswick.
HARTLEPOOL, APRIL 27.--Sld. Itinerant, St. John's, N.B.

FLANDERS MAIL.
BRUSSELS, APRIL 26.—The Secret Committee was almost
entirely taken up with the communications which the
Minister of the Interior made to the Chamber. The Minister
referred to his remarks on the preceding day, especially with-
respect to the system of duties of customs and the commer-
cial policy of France and England, from which he inferred
the necessityy of proceeding to a reform in Belgium, begtlir
ning with the adoption of a moderate system of differential
duties.
The Chamber decided, by a majority of 57 to 16, that the
discussion on the principle of the system of differential dutiee
should take place in Secret Committee.
At the request of the burgomaster and aldermen of Liver
the Minister of Public Works has just appointed a Conruns-
sion to ascertain by what means the city of Liege ray be
preserved from inundation, and to prevent the injurr, to wiliCl4
it is exposed.
It seems by our accounts from London to be uncertain
when the King and Queen will return borne.

00UT11AMPTON, APRIL 28.—The Peninsular and
Oriental Company's steamer Pacha, Captain G. Wilson, ,ar-
rived this afternoon, at four o'clock, from Vigo, bringing the
following mails :—Gibraltar and Peninsular. Her dates of
departure are as follows :—From Gibraltar, April 20; Cadiz,
April 21 ; Lisbon, April 23 ; Gibraltar ril 24; and Vigo, April 25. Ships of War lying at—Her Majesty's ship
Scout and steamer Locust, and a Swedish corvette, name not
knorigwn. At Lisbon—Her Majesty's ship Albion, and FrenFrench:b Volage. Vessels passed off Cape St. Mary's (Portugal)
—Brig Traveller, Finlay-, from London for Cadiz, on the 21P,
inst. on the 27th inst., the Ushant, S.W. eight learaes,
passed the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Vona-
pany's ship Iberia, steering to the westward, She bring°
twelve passengers and one box and six bags of specie.
WILL OF LORD ADlNGER.—Administration the will annexed) of the late Lord Abinger, Chief Judge of
the Exchequer, has just passed the seal of the Prerogative
Court to his eldest:son, now Lord Abinger, to whom he hasbequeathed the whole of his personal estate. To his wife, Loll
Abinger, he give, " a certain sum settled on her on m mark:
nage," and di y
directs his executor to auent hat sum nY
sale of property and stock in the Bankg ;m but,t strange to al
in the will (which is in his Lordship's own handwriting, an extremely short), no executor is appointed. To his "esteemed
nni
friend, Mr. Parkinson, of the firm of Farrar and Co., Iv" ,rs
1
a token of my esteem, free of legacy duty." He states,
have given no legacies to servants, leaving. their reward:esw_
the consideration of my son." These are the only legan'
and the property is sworn under 18,000/.
By the will of Sir Charles Wentworth, who died
Suddenly at Cawsand, in Devonshire last week, universally beloved and respected, his cousin, Mrs. Gore, will succe_ CO
the family property, with the exception of the estate,,
'WHon.
Hills, near Halifax, bequeathed to the
Char;es Wentworth Fitzwilliam, and the family portrait,„_B.7
d
rings of the late Marquis of Rockingham, to his
Earl Fitzwilliam and Viscount Milton. The
extinct, Sir Charles having died unmarried.
'Tim LATE WOODSTOCK ELECTION.—.t
i'
state
to h that the Duke of Marlborough has given instructions
e_ for
solicitor to commence an action against Mr. Hun% for
Woodstock,
libelling him on the hustings at the recent flowing"
Woodstock, Baronetcy

nuisance, when the answer to the remonstrance was nothing
but. coarse abuse. A short time after, Mr. Northwood WM:
self went to Davis to remonstrate, when he said (the plaiutia
being within hearing), " It's all that f;;rernan of yours, be
is robbing you every day and every hour, and 1 can prove
it." The plaintiff, hearing this accusation, immediately
came down to where his master and the defendant were con:
versing, on which defendant said, " It is you, you are a thief
and a robber, and have been robbing your employer ever,'
day and every hour, and I can prove it." On the following
day the plaintiff went to an attorney, and instructed him to
write to the defendant, stating that proceedings at law would
be commenced against him. unless he retracted the charge
he had made the day previously, and gave an apology in
writing for his conduct. The Metter also stated that there
was no wish to put him (Davis) to expense, if he chose to
avail himself of the opportunity then offered, of retracting his
calumnious assertions. Of this letter no notice was t aken
for nearly a month, in consequence of which, on the 19th of
December, the plaintiff's lawyer wrote again to the defend-
ant, stating that unless the required apology was et
once made, and the sum of 11. 6s. Bd., the law expenses
paid, a writ would issue without any further delay. I"
notice was taken of this second application, and the plaintiff;
therefore sought in this Court for the justice which fvfle
denied to him out of it.

The slanderous words were proved by the plaintiff's
master, Mr. Northwood, and by another person who over'
heard the conversation.

Mr. Platt was opening the case for the defendant, whose
plea was a general one of Not Guilty, when our report vas
dispatched from the Court.

EXCHEQUER COURT-THIS -DAY'
The Court took the special paper to-day. In the cases
that came before thsir Lordships the arguments were pully
technical on points orlaw, as is usually the case on special
paper day. They therefore do not call for any particula
notice.

MARLB ORO UGH-STREET.
(THIS DAY.)
FASHIONABLE PICKPOCKET.—Michael Richardson, a very'
stylishly dressed young man, was placed at the bar on the
following charge. Mr. Robinson, the solicitor, attended on
the prisoner's behalf.

Mrs. Emily Peach, a married lady, residing near Liverpool.
but at present staying at the York Hotel, Albemarle-street,
Piccadilly, stated that between eight and nine o'clock on
Saturday evening last, as she was walking along New Bond-
street she felt a person's hand in her pocket, and on,turning
round found the prisoner close behind her, and she seized hold
of his hand, as it was still remaining in her pocket. He
then broke from her, and set off running up South
Molton-street, but was pursued by a police constable and
taken into custody. She directly afterwards missed her
pocket-handkerchief, which was a few minutes before safe in
the same pocket she had found the prisoner's hand in. There
were three other fashionably dressed young men, evidently id
company with the prisoner, and on the detection of the Pri-
soner they immediately separated, taking ditkrent directi°ll6.
Mr. MALTBY inquired if the prisoner was known?"-
Mr. Frowd, inspector of the C division, said that he bad
been informed that the prisoner had lately been seen in com-
pany with several well-known pickpockets.
Mr. Robinson said that was impossible, as the accused had
for several months been confined by illness to his chamber?
of which fact Dr. Curtiss, of Oxford-street, who had attended
him, had given a certificate.

Mr. MAITnv said that the facts were so clearly and fallY
stated by the prosecutrix, that no reasonable doubt of the
prisoner's guilt could be entertained. He should, however,.
remand him until Wednesday next, and in the meantime in-
quiries would be made about him.