The Sun.
London, England, 1845-08-27 00:00:00

POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION.

This admirable exhibition of scientific models is now
enriched with numerous works of art, and among others
(a recent addition) a portrait of his Grace the Duke of
Wellington, painted by Mr. Solomons, from the
daguerrotype process of M. Claudet, engraved by Mr.
H. T. Ityall„ engraver to the Queen. It is a curious
fact that, notwithstanding the length of time that has
elapsed since the daguerrotype portraits were intro-
duced, no attempt has been made, until this portrait of

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SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
EGHAM RACES—YEsyEaDA Y.
Irrespective of the Cup, the racing yesterday possessed very
little interest, owing, we suspect, to the Committee, in their
anxiety to make sport, having divided their race .fund into such
small sums as to put good or full e- tries out of the question,
and make the stakes, after deducting travelling expenses, and
the fees fur riding, weighing, entering, &c., scarce worth the
winning. There was racing enough, it is true, but it is beyond
a doubt that the interests of the meeting would have beets
quite as effectually served had the public money been divided
into larger amounts. This would probably have lessened the
numbcr of heats—and we confess to no predilection for them—
but the stakes would have filled better, and there would have
been a sufficiency of sport to satisfy any reasonable appetite.
The returns appended will show that the running was not of a
very exciting character ; but we give the officials credit for
having done all in their power to bring it to a close in good
time. The attendance was fair enough for a first day, then
weather all that could be desired, and the ground in very good
order.
Match of 30 sovs. each, p p, catch weights, both aged, with
a whip added by Sir Felix Booth, Bart., two miles. Mr.
Greville's Trump received from Mr. Whitchurst's Eleanor.
The New and Old Windsor Stakes of 5 soya each, with 20
added. The winner to be sold fur SO toys., if demanded,
&c. Heats three quarters of a mile. (5 Subs.)
Lord Rosslyn's ch g Elemi, 4 yrs, 3st 4lb (Mann) 1 1
Mr. Thompson's Anna Perenna, 4 yrs, Bst 41b ...... ... 5 2
Mr. Ramsbottom's br cby Mug, out of Belvidere, Bst 411) 4 3
Mr. Bainbridge's Black Stockings, 4 yrs, 7st 111 b .., 2 4
Sir. S. Smith's b g Five-times-five, 5 yrs, Bst I llb ... 3 5
First Heat—Betting-5 to 2 agst Mus colt (taken); 5 tot
agst Black Stockings (taken); and 7 to 2 agst Elemi—won bye
a length. Second Heat—Even on Mus colt—won by a length..
The winner was claimed.
The Gold Cup of 130 sovs., by subscription of 10 soya. each,
three years old, 7st; four, Bst 71b; eve, 9st; six and aged,
9st 31b ; mares and geldings allowed 31bs. The second to
;gave his stake, and the winner to be sold for 400 soya. if de-
mantled. Two miles. (13 Subs. )
Lord G. Bentinck's John o'Gaunt, aged ... ...... (H. Bell) I
Lord Exeter's Wee Pet, 5 yrs .. 2
Duke of Richmond's Pic Nic, 3 yrs 3
Mr. Death's /Viisdeal, 6 yrs
Sir G. Heathcote's ch f Campanile 5
Betting.—Even ot: John o'Gaunt, and 2 to I against Pic
Nic. Nothing else backed. Pic Nic made play at a steady
pace, followed for the first three parts of a mile by Campanile,
sod afterwards by Wee Pet and Misdeal, John o'Gaunt lying
off. This ort'er was observed to the T.Y.C. post, where Wee
Pet and the favourite went in advance, and had the race to
themselves. The favourite ran in waiting to the stand, caught,
and quitted the mare without an effort, and won with great
ease oy a length. Pic Nic was a bad third.
The Plate of 50 sovt., given by the Members for the Western
Division of the County of Surrey, added to a Sweepstakes of
5 sovs. each ; three-yr-olds, 6st 121 b; four, Bst 71b; five, 9st;
six and aged 9st 31b ; mares and geldings allowed 31bs. The
winner to he sold for 00 SGVS. if demanded, &c. Heats„
two miles. (4 Sobs.)
Lord Glamis's Satyr, 4 yrs
Sir S. Spry's Subduer, 5 yrs
Mr. Coleman's Devil-amnng-the-Tailurs, 6 yrs
First heat won by a neck, and the second by two lengths;
Subduer not having brought his weight home, was distanced.
The Runnymede Stakes of 5 ..ovs. each, with 25 added;
three yrs old, 7st 61b; four, Set 41b; five, Bst 111 b ; six
and aged, 9st ; mares and geldings allowed 31b. The winner
to be sold for 150 sews. if demanded, &e, Heats one mile.
(3 Subs.)
Mr. S. Scott's Flatfish, 3 yrs ..
Mr. Woodfield's b c Velox, 3 yrs ..
Betting- -5 to 2 on Flatfish, who won the first heat in a
canter, and walked over for the second.
HUNTINGDON RACES—TUESDAY.
The Hinchinbrook Plate of 50 sers., for three yrs old and
upwards. The winner to be sold for 1501. if demanded, &c.
Heats, once round.
Mr. A. R. Onslow's b c Ruff (Petit) 3 1 I
Hon. l.i. Ongley's br m Fama, aged
Earl Sandwich's br f Tawney, 3 yrs
The Huntingdonshire Stakes of 20 sovs. each, 10 ft, with 50
added. Two miles.
Lord Sandwich's br f by Jerry, out of Legend, 3 yrs..
Colonel Peel's Hersey, 3 yrs
Mr. G. Ongley's Queen of the Gipsies, 5 yrs
Mr. Webber's Event, 3 yrs ..
Colonel Peel's fby Slane, out of Mary Ann, 3 yrs ......
A Sweepstakes of 5 sovs. each, with 20 added, for three yrs
old. The winner to be sold for 300 soya. if demanded, &c.
Heats, one mile.
Lord Exeter's ch c Lyons... (Bartholomew) 3 1 1
Mr. G. Ongley's b f Mystery
Mr. S. Stanley's b c Keppe1...
CHESTER AUTUMN MEETING.—MONDAY, OCT. 20.
A Handicap of 5 sovs. each, with 20 added, has been sub-
stituted for the Trial Stakes, which did not fill.
TUESDAY, OCT. 21
Acceptances for the Chester Handicap.
Dean Swift, 3 yrs—Milton, 4 yrs—Beaumont, 4 yrs—Als
vanley, 4 yrs—Wasp, 4 yrs—Mickey Free, 4 yrs—lronmould,
3 yTS—Coranna, 6 yrs—Vaudeville, 3 yrs— Everton, 5 yrs—
LancaNre Witch, 3 yrs—April Noddy, 4 yrs—Sinbad, 5
yrs—
Intrepid, 4 37,5-What,
Nobbler, 4 yrs—Cataract, 5 yrs—My Mary, 3 yrs
,5-What, 5 yrs—Teetotaller, 6 yrs—Maria, 3
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yrs—Lightening, 4 yrs—Poussin, 5 yrs—Godfrey, 4 yrs—
Inheritess, 5 yrs—Extem
pore, 5 yrs—The Magnet, 3 yrs—
Lady Sarah, 4 yrs—
Narian Ramsay, 3 yrs—Winesour, 5 yrs
—Salopian, 3 yrs—lroniZ'
aster, 3 yrs—T'Auld Squire, 4 yrs—
Fair Rosamond, 4 yrs—Het 'mate, aged.
LATEST BETTING AT I:IANCHESTER—T UESDA
ST. LEGER. —5 to I agst Mi.... 5 Sarah (taken), 11 to 2
Mentor (9 to 1 taken),
agst Weatt.erbit (taken), 8 to 1 ags:
Id England, 13 to 1
10 to I agst Merry Monarch, 12 to 1 agst
20 to 1 agst
agst Red Robin (taken), 16 to agst Pant:tgas
Ould Ireland, 25 to 1 agst Worthless, 25 to I egg The
Pacha, 25 to 1 agst The Baron (taken), 33 to 1 agst Ides
(taken).
Do N C ASTE R. —We are authorised to state that Lord Meter's
Wood Pigeon will not go to Doncaster.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

,VORTII ERN ClRCUlT.—Liverpool, Aug. 25.
'Robert "'leasley was indicted for robbing James O'Brien,
at Manchester, using, at the time of the robbery, personal
violence towards him.
Mr. 11. Baxter conducted the prosecution; the prisoner was
defended by Mr. Wilkins.
It appeared that on the night in question Mr. O'Brien, the
prosecutor, who is a turner, was proceeding along Jersey-street,
_Manchester, when he was met by several men running. One
•of them pushed against him and thrust him against the rails of
Mr. Beevor's cotton-mill. He tried to recover himself, but
one of the men hit him on the hand and on the chin with some
instrument which projected an inch or so from the heel of his
hand, and the prosecutor finally became insensible. He had,
however, recollection sufficient to feel one of the men opening
his waistcoat and taking away his watch. The guard was
broken or cut, and at the moment it gave way he heard some-
thing click like a pair of pincers. He must have lain there some
'tale time entil he was roused by a woman, who shook him and
bade him get up. He partially recovered his senses and got
home. The prisoner at the bar was in appearance similar to
one of the men that robbed him.
It appeared that the next morning the prisoner offered a
watch in peen to a pawnbroker at Ashton under-Lyne. He
was awned some questions about it, in answer to which he
pasted that he had had it for several years. The pawnbroker
was not sat istiiii with the answers, and the prisoner said he
,coiiiii bring a dozen men who knew it to be his. He went
out, arid came back with a man who said it belonged to the
prisoner. He then went out a second time and brought an-
other, who also said he knew the prisoner, and that the
watch was his. While this was going on the constable, who
had been secretly sent for, arrived, and the prisoner then
endeavoured to make his escape. The man who was with him
was a resident in Ashton, and said the prisoner had come to
him in the street and asked him to vouch for his lawful pos-
session of the watch, promising, as a reward, should he ( the
prisoner) succeed in pawning it, to let the other have a day's
fuddle out of the proceeds.
The prisoner was found Guilty. To be transported for I 5
years.
Joseph Moran and George Murray were indicted fora bur-
g'ary its the house of George Webster, at Manchester.
Mr. Monk conducted the prosecution ; the prisoners were
not defended by counsel.
Moran, who was but 17 years of age, pleaded " Guilty."
The prosecutor, it appeared, kept a clothier's shop in
Hanging-ditch, in Manchester. On the night of the 18th of
July last the policeman on duty passing the shop, observed
that the door was open, and on going in and procuring a light,
fownd Moran secreted under the counter, and a quantity of
clothes at the door ready to be taken away. He pretended to
have been sleeping, and expressed great displeasure at being
diaturbed,by the policeman. Be was taken into custody and
removed to the police-office. The officer then went in search
of-Murray, whom he had lately seen in Moran's company, and
found• him coming out of an entry about ten yards off the shop:
He apprehended him, and on examination it proved that he
h Id on him a new coat under a Taglioni, which did not fit him,
and had on it the private mark of Mr. Webster. Another coat
was found concealed in a dungheap at a little distance.—Verdict,
Guilty.
Morin was sentenced to eighteen months' imprisonment,
and Murray, as an old offender, to be transported for ten years.
Peter Robertson was indicted for a burglary in the house of
Thomas Harris, at Liverpool, on the Bth of May last.
The prosecutor, it appeared, kepkepta public-house, and about
three o'clock oil the night in question, the police-officer on the
beat, perceiving a light in the cellar kitchen, laid himself down
on the flags to reconnoitre. He saw the prisoner with a candle
in his hand stealthily moving about the kitchen and examining
the drawers and cupboards. The officer called for further as-
sistance, and, having sent a man to the rear of the house, who
got over the wall into the yard, rapped at the door. The
0f.9.-er in the yard saw the back door open, but the person who
opened it seeing the yard was guarded, retreated immediately
into the house and closed and bolted the door. The officer
then heard a noise as if some one was trying to get up the
chimney. In the mean time the other officer had got access at
the front, and having procured a light, went down into the
kitchen. As they entered they heard a crash of breaking glass,
and it proved that the intruder had dashed through a window
which was unguarded, and made his escape. The prisoner was
apprehended shortly after. There were traces of soot on his
clothes and a lacerated wound on his hand.
Verdict Guilty. To be transported for ten years.
Patrick Farrell was indicted for cutting and wounding
Bridget Bowes.
Mr. Paget conducted the prosecution. The prisoner was
defended by Mr. Atkinson.
It appeared that the prisoner, who is a shoemaker, lived in
Addison-street, in this town. This street is inhabited by a
great many Irish, and it would appear that a feud of some
standing hart existed between the Farrell' and the O'Flahertys.
The prisoner had, it would seem, at last obtained a warrant
against Mrs. O'Flaherty's daughter, for some delinquenev to
respect of the prisoner's wife ; and in consequence, on the
in question, there was an angry war of words, which finally
proceeded to blows, among the female portion of the Addison-
street community. The prisoner was coming down the street
at the time, going towards his own house, and found his wife
and some of her supporters engaged in a quarrel with the
O'Flahertys, on the subject of the warrant. Mrs. Bowes's
daughter-in-law pulled off her cap and tore it in pieces. The
prisoner endeavoured to get her out of the crowd, and said, if
any of them would come out and fight his wife single-handed,
he would w ithdraw his complaint. The elder Mrs. O'Fla-
herty then assailed and threw mud at him. Mrs. Bowes's
daughter-in-law struck him on the back of the neck, and Mrs.
Bowes herself came up and threatened that it would be worse
for him if he did not go home. The prisoner drew a shoe-
maker's knife from his breast, and struck Mrs. Bowes and one
Patrick O'Flaherty with it, inflicting on Mrs. Bowes a wound
in the back, near the spine, about two inches long, and half an
inch deep. He then ran away down Scotland road.
Verdict—Guilty. To be imprisoned one year.
William Jones and James M'Donald were indicted for
stealing a purse and money from Mary Fryer on the high
seas.

Mr. Paget conducted the prosecution. The prisoner Jones
was defended by Mr. Green, the prisoner M'Donald by Mr.
Wilkins.
The case against the prisoners was a very short one. A
steam-boat called the Ayrshire Lassie had taken a great num-
ber of persona to meet the Great Britain on her arrival at this
port, and among others two of the detective police in plain
clothes. Their attention was attracted by the conduct of the
two prisoners, and they accordingly kept a close watch on their
conduct. When the Great Britain came near the greater
number of persons on board went on deck, leaving in the saloon
below a few persons who were sick, and Mrs. Fryer, who had
been officiating as stewardess. One of the officers remained in
the Saloon pretending to be asleep. Mrs. Fryer was looking
through one of the windows at the approaching vessel, when
the prisoners rather pressed upon her, and the officer saw Jones
try ht-ir pockets, while M'Donald stood behind, stretching out
the skirts of his coat, with his hands in his pockets, apparently
for the purpose of concealment. Mrs. Fryer, finding she
could not see with sufficient distinctness through the window,
went up the companion ladder on the deck, and while M'Donald
stood behind in the same way, the officer, who was close upon
them, saw Jones take a purse out of Mrs. Fryer's pocket, and
he was in the act of transferring it to his own, when the officer
tripped him up, and the purse flew from his hand. It con-
tained half-a-sovereign and Bs. in silver.
At the close of the case for the prosecution, it was objected
the indictment was bad, inasmuch as it did not aver that the
offence took place within the jurisdiction of the Admiralty of
England. The late Act directine, offences on the high seas to
be tried before Justices of Oyer and Terminer in the ordinary
way, directs that the venue in the margin is to be the county
in which the trial takes place, and every material fact which
would in ordinary cases be stated to have been committed
within the county is to be alleged to have taken place " on the
high sea'." It was contended, however, that it was still ne-
cessary. to show the jurisdiction of the Court, to aver it was
within the .urisdiction of the Admiralty of England.
His LORDgHIP said the objection was one in arrest of judg-
ment, and would more properly be taken after verdict.
The prisoners were Enally convicted.
His Lr•anssulP said he would consult with Mr. Justice
",ress,sell, and would hear the argument to-morrow morning.
CIVIL SIDE.--(Before Mr. Justice CaEsswitu. and a
Special Jury.)
TOULMIN AND ANOTHER V. HEDLEY.
Thi; was an action for the amount of a cargo of guano sold
by the plaintiffs to the defendant.
Mr. Watson and Mr. Cowling were for the plaintiffs ; and
Mr. Martin, Mr. Sergeant Murphy, and Mr. Addison for the
defe it dant.

The defendant had, it appeared, in January last, contracted
for the purchase from the plaintiffs, merchants in London, of
four hundred tens of Ichaboe guano, by the ship Sarah, at 71.
10s. per ton, the guano to be of average quality, and in good
merchantable condition.
The Sarah arrived first at Falmouth, and the defendant was
asked by the plaintiffs for orders, and inquiries were 'wade
whether he would wish to inspect the cargo. He declined
doing so, however, and the ship was ordered round to the
Clyde. The guano was there sampled by the Messrs. Clint,
of Liverpool, and proving, as was alleged, not to be of fair
average quality, the defendant refused to complete his bargain.
It was admitted, on the face of the evidence for the plaintiff,
that thero was considerable variety in the quality of the guano
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composing this cargo, some of it being admitted to be of an
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feri,T kind. It was contended, however, that it was a fair
average on the whole. For the defendant it was said, that of
the 6,"00 bogs of which the.cargu consisted, 4,700 were good,
1,128 inferior, and 236 very inferior, one of the witnesses
saying Rome of the latter was the worst he had ever seen.
Air. MARTIN contended that though no doubt a great part
of the corgo was of good quality, a large portion of it was
made up of the refuse which had been taken from the surface
by the first adventurers, and was composed of rubbish, fea-
thers, shells, awl bones. It was monstrous to suppose that a
man who had contracted for a fair average cargo was to pay
71. 10s. per ton fur such an article as that.
After a good deal of evidence had been adduced to show
the quality of the guano,

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Mr. WATSON replied, contending that the cargo was repu-
diated by the defendant, not because it was of less than the
average quality, but because it had arrived in a falling time,
and was likely to turn out a less profitable speculation than the
defendant had anticipated.
A verdict was finally returned for the plaintiffs—Damages,
3,0861. 55.