The Sun.
London, England, 1828-01-04 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELtIGENCE.

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TATTERSALL'S.—JAN. 3.
The arrival of the Great St. Leger Nominations brought
all the attention upon that Stakes ; and some tolerably
heavy betting took place, throwing back both Velocipede
and Colonel, the change being attributable, perhaps, to
the field being remarkably strong. Ultimatum was backed
freely, and will, no doubt, become a rattling favourite.
The Subscribers to the Stakes are eighty-one ; but Bessy
Bedlam having been named by two parties, only eighty
horses are entered, and they are of extraordinary merit.

DERBY.
7 to 1 agst Mr. Thornhill's Merchant
10 to 1 agst Hon. E. Petre's The Colonel
12 to 1 agst Duke of Rutland's Sorcery colt
16 to 1 agst Duke of Grafton's Druid
20 to 1 agst Mr. Thornhill's Shoveller colt
20 to 1 agst Mr. Payne's Johanna Southcote colt
22 to 1 agst Lord Exeter's Folly colt
22 to 1 apt Sir J. :-3helley's Amy colt
23 to 1 agst Mr. Thornhill's Mai finer
25 to 1 agst any other.

ST. LEGER.
12 to 1 agst Colonel King's Bessy Bedlam
15 to 1 agst Mr. W. Scott's Velocipede
20 to 1 agst Mr. Petre's The Colonel
20 to 1 agst Mr. Watt's Coulon—Miss Cranfield
23 to 1 agst Mr. Thornhill's Merchant (taken)
25 to 1 agst Mr. Watt's Memphis, Sister to Memnon
30 to 1 agst Sir T. Mostyn's Ultimatum, by Fancy
30 to 1 agst Mr. Petre's Emmeline (taken)
33 to 1 agst Mr. Petre's Delphine
40 to 1 agst Mr. Petre's Stapleton (taken)
C.l to 1 agst Mr. Payne's Johanna Southcote colt

THE GREAT DONCASTER ST. LEGER.
The following is au official and complete List of the
Nominations for this Stakes, as received yesterday at Tat-
tersall's from York, Newmarket, &c.
Lord Queensberry's f. by Orville—Canvas
Mr. Nowell's b. c. by Walton, dam by Election
Mr. Coleman's b. c. Duke Humphrey, by Whalebone
Mr. Thornhill's Merchant, by Merlin
--- Mariner, by Merlin
Magnet, by Merlin—Shoveler
f. by Blacklock—Lunacy's dam
Mr. Udney's 1. by Reveller—Lisette
Lord Anson's f. by Filho—Elizabeth
Mr. B. Bond's b. c. Mercury, by Merlin-_Seamew
Mr. Theakstone's b. c. Jour de Noces, by Blacklock
Mr. Beardsworth's bl. f. Lestelle
Sir T. Mostyn's ch. c. Ultimatum, by Teniers
br. c. by Magistrate—Sister to Lusa
Mr. Clifton's b. c: Poorfellow, by Blacklock—Tramp's d.
Mr. Mytton's Holston, by Banker
Mr. Benson's br. c. Alcastou
Sir T. Stanley's ch. c. Herbert de Lacy, by Sir Oliver
Mr. Heathcote's b. c. Scipio, by Filho da Puta
Mr. Yates's h. c. Frederick, by Filho—Lady of the Lake
Lord Surrey's ch. c. by Blacklock—Finesse
Mr. Payne's ch. c. by Walton—Johanna Southcote
c. by Moses-.-Gramarie
Lord Grosvenor's b. c. Navarino, by Blacklock
Mr. Crompton's eh. c. by Whisker—Marion
Mr. Watts' b. c. Coulon, by Whisker—Miss Cranfield.
b. f. Memphis, Sister to Memnon
Major Yarburgh's b. f. Belinda—Sister to Laurel
Mr. Gascoigne's ch. c. by Blacklock—Louisa

b. f. by Tramp—Cora
F. Lumley's gr. f. by Macduff—Merlin's darn
Houldsworth's hr. c. Terror, by Magistrate—Torelli
Kay's b. c. by Whisker, darn by Trophonius
Clifton's Delightful, by Mozart, darn by Leopold
Wilson's b. c. Brother to the Juggler, by Comus
on. J. S. Wortley's b. c. by Whisker—Calypso
Sir M. W. Ridley's gr. c. Duncan Grey, by Grey Walton
Colonel King's br. f. Bessy Bedlam, by Filho da Puta
Mr. Horner 's ch. 1. Dairy Maid, byßlacklock—Scancataldi
Mr. Hill's br. c. by Young Filho da Puta—Jirm
Mr. Metcalfe's b. c. Economist, by Whisker—Floranthe
Mr. Peirse's f. Sarah, Sister to Swiss, by Whisker
Mr. Hopkinson's b. f. Eliza, by Filho da Puta—Vermin
Mr. Wetherill's ch. f. by Whisker—Sister to Duport
Mr. Armitage's b. f. The Nun, by Blacklock
Mr. Marson's b. c. by Filho da Puta, dam by Cervantes
Mr. Gully's
,ch. c. by Blacklock, darn by Timothy
b. c. by Sir Walton, dam by Prime Illeni•ter
Mr. Darnell's ch. c. Gains Boy, by Octavian
b. c. Billy Messenger, by Waverley
Lord Scarborough's b. c. by Catton, dam by Sir David
Captain Dowbiggin"s b. Navarino, by Whisker
Sir W. Wynne's ch. c. Stapeley, by Ambo
Duke of Leeds's br. c. Henry Aselby, by Blacklock
Lord Kelburne's b. c. by Reveller—Hell Cat
Lord Kennedy's hr. c. by Whisker—Castrella,
Mr. Fletcher's hr. c. by Blacklock_Arabella
Lord Milton's b. f. Ballad Singer, by Tramp
--- eh. f. Slut, by Tramp—M.oa
Lord Fitzwilliam's ch. f. Mariqueta, by Cervantes
c. by Amadis—Gouvernante
Mr. Claridge's b. c. by Berlin, darn by Bustard
Mr. Huraphlies's b. c. by Reveller—Ashton's dam
Hon. E. Petre's ch. c. the Colonel, by Whisker
br. f. Emmelina, by Blacklock
b. f. Delphine, by Whisker
ch. f. Esmeralda (named by Mr•. J. Scott)
b. c. Stapleton (named by Lord Morpeth)
Mr. G. Petre's gr. c. the Abbot, by Oiseau
Mr. Foulis's Philistine, by Filho, dam by Equator
Mr. W. Scott's ch. c. Velocipede, by Blacklock
b. c. Picturesque, by Dr. Syntax
b. c. Nimrod, by Phantom
Mr. Broadhead's gr•. c. by Viscount—dant by Haphazard
Mr. Bower's b. Lady Vane, by Reveller, darn by Waxy
Mr. Bradshaw's b. c. Splinter Bar, by Blacklock
Mr. Riddell's b. c. Rector, by Dr. Syntax • '
b. c. Ben Lomond, by Blacklock
Mr. Ridsdale's b. c. Master Burke, by Phantom—Oceana
----- ch. c. Harlequin, by Cervantes

Mr.
Mr.
Mr.

YORK SPRING ST. LEGER.
Lord Scarborough's b. c. by Calton, dam by Sir David
Mr. 13roadhead's gr. c. by Viscount, dam by Haphazard
Mr. Watt's b. c. Coulon
Mr. Metcalf's b. e. Economist
Mr. Crompton's ch. c. by Whisker, out of Marion
Mr. Armitage's ch. c. Velocipede, by Blacklock
Lord-Fitzwilliain's ch. c. Commandant, by Arnadis—..Gou-
vernante; all in the St. Leger
For the York August SOgs. Stakes, 11 horses are entered.
BETTING AT YORK .ON WEDNESDAY 111011.NING.-10 to
1 against Bessy Bedlam, and 11 to 1 against Velocipede.

At the Southport Coursing Meeting, last week, the
Silver Cup, value 50gs. was won by a greyhound belong-
ing to Mr. Robert Ashton, after a two days' contest.
CRANZOURNE CITAST.—A Mr. Grove has succeeded in
establishing a pack of Fox-hounds, to hunt Cranbourne
Chase. They have already had sonic excellent runs ; one
of them, a few days ago, lasted 2 hours 35 minutes, over
30 miles of ground, and every dog in at the death.
The Royal Caledonian Hunt have appointed their next
autumn Meeting to be held at Edinburgh, and voted a sum
of 410/. to be giVen in plates. They have also settled a
pension of 501. on that respectable musician Gow, now
sinking into the vale of years under circumstances offaccu-
mulated distress.

LIVERPOOL, JAN. 2.—There has been more
firmness in our Cotton Market to-day, and 1,500 bags have
been sold at an advance of ith per lb.

During the last war a poor fellow returned to
his native place, Hailsham, with the loss of a leg. From
the manner in which it had been found necessary to ampu-
tate it, the common construction of a wooden substitute
would not answer. and he could not discover any artizan
skilful enough to make the proper thing. At length one
night be beheld in his dream what he wanted; in the
morning be set to work, and up to this time he walks with
the thus made. Soon after his return to Hailsham he
apprenticed
ig
himself to a taylor, in which avocation he has
continued until a few days since, when, as he was shooting,
the gun burst, and shattered his hand in such a dreadful
manner, that it is supposed he never can again work with
the needle,.—Brighton Gazette.

The- wheat crops on the low lands of this
county, We hear, are experiencing much injury, from the
continued inundations. The whole of the country, for
many: miles round Langport, presents one unbroken lake;
the inhabitants of that town have, as usual during such
weather, suffered considerably from the incursions of the
flood. The quantity of rain fallen lately, has been unusually
great ;--so mild a season as that lately witnessed at this
period of the year, is of rare occurrence, even in this
westerly part of the kingdom. Yesterday, from sevep in
the morning until four p. in. the rain descended in torrents,
accompanied by violent squalls of wind. No snow has yet
descended in this part of the country during the winter,
except a slight fall a flw weeks ago, but which did notlast
more that half an hour : and frost has been an equally coy
visitor. We congratulate our Turnpike Commissioners
upon the successful result of their efforts in regard to the
amendment of the various roads in this district. The pre-
sent severe weather has fully put to the test the advantages
of their labours, the floods which formerly so much im-
peded travelling in the neighbourhood of this town, being
now materially finkdoed..,,,, Taunton Courier.

WINTER ASSIZES.

HOME CIRCUIT-MAIDSTONE, JAN. 3.

WARD V. GREEN.
This was an action of breach of promise of mar-
riage, in which the defendant bad suffered judgment
to go by default. A writ of inquisition having is-
sued to the Sheriff of Kent to assess the damages,
a Jury of farmers met to-day at the Bell. Inn, in
this towu, for the purpose. The case possessed
ti novelty of the defendant coining forward to plead
his own cause. Mr. ADOLPHUS was for the plaintiff.
The Jury having been sworn, Mr. ADOLPHUS
stated to them that he attended there at the
request of a much-injured young lady, to enforce,
as far as in him humbly lay, her claim to com-
pensation for an undeserved and aggravated insult
put by the defendant. Miss Ward
was upon
ofveryher
tender years, as yet in her minority, as
would be seen by her sueing by her next friend.
ScltiVaasoiolsf:easipldeCatambilaebeleOnponeercstioniall qualities. Hers, unimpeachable
associations,
so
station in life was not of the most brilliant, but it
was, at least, of a par with the defendant's, she
being the sister-in-law of a hair-dresser in this
town, he the eon of an affluent paper-mould-
maker, and himself practising that respectable
and profitable employment. There Was nothing,
therefore, inconsistent in an alliance between
these parties. It would be shown to the Jury,
that the defendant, who, at one time, boasted of
being the oldest friend of Miss Ward's brother-in.
law, in this town, was in the habit of frequenting
that person's shop, in which Miss Ward occasionally
assisted when her brother and sister were otherwise
engaged. In one of those meetings, a feeling of
preference was engendered in the defendant's bosom,
which, in the sequel, he disclosed to the plaintili,
and which he had influence enough upon her to
make her believe was of the most enduring as well
as most_ tender kind. She certainly possessed within
herself many attractions, which would warrant a fair
share of admiration from any man. But her beauty
was not all her recommendation; for, besides being
passing fair, she was withal candid with her lover.
She begged him to consider the important step he
was about to take, and entreated him to do nothing
rashly. He acquiesced so far as to take time to
consider, but mature reflection seemed only to con-
firm what his first impulses had suggested, and he
repeated his entreaties to her, with increased force,
to become his wife. It was not pretended that the
defendant was as yet insincere—for what man at the
age of 24 was insincere to a beautiful young women ?
He was then 21; she not 20—the very season for
love. The Jury, and he (Mr. A.) who had passed
the fiery ordeal of that impetuous epoch, when
reason holds but small sway over the passions,
might still imagine, how this defendant loved,
and how he was beloved. It happened that,
about April, 182 G, the defendant had occa-
sion to go to London. The parting from the
plaintiff was painful; but, in his absence, he
wrote her two letters. These epistles breathe an
odour of pure and ardent affection; they paint—
as letters ought to do—fairly and truly, the mise-
rable state to which the defendant was reduced
by absence; and the jury would judge of the strength
of the affection by the writer's stating that he could
not take a walk into the fields at Kingsland—a vil-
lage near Hackney—without sighing for the com-
pany of his best beloved. After some time the de-
fendant returned from town, and he then proposed
marriage in the following September.
The Defendant—No, Sir, it was in August.
Mr. Anoi,pitus—He was correct in saying Sep-
tember. The ceremony did not, however, then
take place, and the brother-in-law of the plaintiff
felt himself called upon to ask some explanation of
the defendant's conduct. The defendant repeated
his professions of attachment, and fixed the final
day for some day in the January following. He,
at the same time, avowed that an impediment had
somewhere subsisted to the match ; but that it was
then entirely removed. This impediment had since
turned out to be the opposition made by his mother,
who, it appears, was wicked enough to throw out
some insinuations against the plaintiff's character.—
January came, but no wedding. Another month
was then fixed; but eventually the defendant broke
off altogether, and thus entirely violated his solemn
engagement to the young woman. Then came the
action, the outline of which he had stated to the
Jury. It would be for them, under all the circum-
stances to say to what damages the plaintiff was en-
titled. Her character was unimpeached and unim-
peachable.
The following letters Were then read in evidence:
Kingland, April 1, 1826.
My dearest dear—l send these lines to you that I have
done according to your wish respecting of your birth day.
I have drink health and I wish you many happy return of
the day. I am glad to hear that you are quite well my
dear. I should have wrote before if things had went on
according to my wish therefore I hope you will excuse it.
Now doubt your sister thinks it strange that I have net
wrote before, but my dear my heart his still with you I
hope. My dear I am so far from you that I cant help
thinking of you when I due go for a walk. I should like
it much better if you where with me. Now my affec-
tionate love I hope they will be a time when you and I
will come together. If we due I hope we shall both be
has happy as the days is long but still I send my best love
to you. lam quite well at present. Now my dear if you
could send me your ring that I lefe behind neat time you
write to me you must putting inside the letter if you think
you can put it in safe.
.11.1 y lure when the time due come
when it will be I hope Mr. and Mrs. Green what a happy
happy day it will be I hope. Give respect to Mr. and
Mrs. Paine. I hope they are both well. remain still
your affectionate lover for ever, J. GREEN.
Kingsland, April 21, 1826.
My dear Ann,-1 have received your parcel my dear
very safe, which contain the ring, and your loving key of
your heart which I due admire it very much indeed. Now
my Dear Ann I plainly see you are in the same mind now
when I was with you last and I hope from my heart that I
shall allways continue to be in the same mind as you
are which I hope my Dear you will find my words to that
effect and upright towards you in every respect. Now my
Dear I shall he down at Maidstone very soon. I hope my
Love I shall find you in perfectly good health and then I
will explain to you the things which did not go to my
mind. I due not say when I shall come down, but I will
send you a letter in a day or two and then fixt the day that
I may have you my Love. I have being out to several
partys during the time that I have being hear. We will
my Love arrear talk when we both meet one another. I
conclude with my sincere Love to you and hope you are
quite as well as it leaves me at present. 1 remain, your
affectionate Lover, J. GREEN.
Your ring and key that you have use in remembrance of
you that I shall allways due as long as I live. Ido not
care what the xvorld.may say. I will allways speak in any
person as I find in them that for you my Love I like you
to my heart. I will never turn my back upon you as
long as I live. I hope you will be perfectly satisfy with
this letter.
Mrs. A. Green.
The plaintiff's case being closed,
The defendant, in an embarrassed manner began
addressing the Jury. His address was taken down
by the Sheriff, and was in these terms :—" Gentle-
men, what I have to say shall be very short, and it
is this. I appointed Miss Ward to marry her in
February ; the only reason which it did not take
place then, she told me, it should be put off alto-
gether. I told Miss Ward it is not my wish to put
it off altogether, not by any means. She said, Mr.
Green, do you intend to put it off for two monthi
longer, or do you not, and what am Ito do ? It is
not my wish, I said, that it be put off altogethefr
She said, I can plainly see it is your wish, and like-
wise your friends. I said, it is not."
One of the Jury—ls this evidence ?
Mr. ADOLPIMS-011, certainly not, betnow Can
a defendant be restrained from stating" `'"hat he
pleases ?
The defendant continued—" / told
I.;
utility is i and not going into a naked hoe, te ng to
put into it whatever ? She told me that Was no-
thing at all to do with it. Di You intend to put it
off for two months longer, or do you not ? I told
her Miss Ward, if you w;li answer me a question I
am going to put to you, I will be much obliged to
you—you and your brother and sister all three are
present—Now what difference can it make provided
it take place in February or in April ? She said,

Mr. Green, if it is put off for two months longer, I
shall put it off altogether. Miss Ward, it's not my
wish to put it off altogether. Then she asked me
whether I intended to put it off for two months or
not. In reply I said yes. She then said, Green,
if you put it off for two months longer, I shall pur
it off altogether, That is all, Gentlemen, I hare to
say."
Mr. SLlV,lFF—liave you any witnesses ?
Defendant—Yes, one; Miss Linder, whom r
wish to examine. -
Miss Linder sworn, said—in December, when
Miss Ward came to Mrs. Boyer, she asked if she
could see Mr. Green. I said, yes, if the would come
along with me, I would show her where he was.—
She went with me to the shop where he works, mid
I called him out, and she said, Mr. Green, it's of no
use your coining to our house agai:i, for my sister
and we have thoroughly made up our minds that - f
shall have no more to say to you. hesaid, non..
sense, I shall come up this evening. Says she, it's
of no use if you do—l shall have no more to say to
you.

Cross-examined by Mr. ADOLPHUS... 4 am not zing
thing, but live with my grandmother. The defend'•
ant is my cousin. This conversation took place in
the latter end of December, a little before Christ-
mas. I knew of my cousin's making his addresses
to Miss Ward. I never heard him say he would
marry her. It was she who broke off the match,
not he. He was in a mind to marry her. She said
she would let him know she could not marry him
unless he could keep her a servant. It is will his
grandmother that I live. It was to his father's shnp
that I took her. From that hour to this he has net
been to the house that I know of.
Mrs. Sarah Boyer, the grandmother, was called to
speak to R conversation with Mr. Paine, but, ad-
mitting that the plaintiff was not present, her evi.,
deuce could not be received.
Mrs. Sarah Green, the defendant's mother, was
the next witness. In December Miss Ward came
to my mother's, and sent my father to my house for
my son. I told him my son was gone to church.
He came three times before the defendant returned.
I told my son that he was want9d at his grand-
, mother's, but he said he would not go. I then went
myself. I saw Miss Ward, to whom I said, What
is the matter? She said, Oh, I want to see your
son—it is nothing to you. I said, I think it is to
rue. I told her I understood that she had put the
marriage off altogether, and I was very glad to hear
it, for it had been a great deal of trouble to me.
then began to abuse my daughter, who was but re-
cently married, of the name of Bates. I told her
my daughter was honourably married, and never
had a blemish to her character, to my knowledge.
She said, she did not know that, and she would not
have my son unless he would furnish her a house

handsome. I told her it was out of my son's power
to do that. I had promised him that. I would
furnish him three rooms, not a large house; that I
was sure she was not a fit person for a wife for my
soil. She told me I had never been a mother to
my son. I asked her, " how should she know any
thing about a mother, or a mother's feelings, young
person as she was. I said, pray, Miss, what have I
not been a mother in ? In charging- of him fourteen
shillings a-week for his board;,washing, lodging, and
mending, she said; and she said unless he kept her
a servant, she would not marry my 5011, she woulci.
not have him to do the dirty work. She had a pair
of gravy spoons in. her hand, which my son had given
her; I asked if she Would deliver up those,' as he
had not paid for them. She said that he should pay
for them, and she should use her own pleasure whe,
thee she delivered them up. During the time
that he paid his addresses to this young lady, be
behaved in a most boisterous cruel manner to his
poor father and me.

- Defendant—l have no more witnesses. I a^:
atisfied.

Mr. ADOLPHUS replied ; after which
The Jury retired for about a quarter of an, hour,
and then found for the plaintiff—Damages 4.(1.;
costs 40s.

The cause excited considerable local interest. The
plaintiff was not present.
The Judges are sitting in the New Courts for the
first time. They ai e sufficiently spacious arid eon.
venient, but are said to be liable to the same objec-
tion as all the ether New Courts, badly calculated
for hearing. Mr. Justice Bayley is one of the,
Judges. The business of the Criminal Court, up
to this momgnti has been entirely without interot.