The Sun.
London, England, 1842-03-22 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
TATTERSALLS.—YESTERDAY.
In the course of the afternoon, the 2.000 Guinea g, akes,
hester Cup,-arnd Oaks, were touched upod• occasiondly; bat
he weight of the busine-s, vas very animated, turned
upon the Derby, and in some_ instances with marked tffect.
Atti a and Chatham were not in any request, and the prices
quoted against them must be received as purely nominal;
the latter, indeed, was so far from being in force,
that 500 to 400 was laid on Wiseacre against
him. The most prominent favourites were Auckland,
Wiseacre, The Lord of Holdernesse, Espartero, and
Palinurus :• the first of this lot was backed repeatedly at 17 to
I, 1,000 to 60, and I'6 to I ' • the second, at 25, 23, and in one
instance at 20 to 1; the third'freely at 33 and 30 to 1 ; and the
two next, in several quarters, at 1,000 to 25, and, in more than
one, at five points less. The Dirce colt, and Robert de Gorham
declined, and Canadian, the Acacia colt and Meteor, although
backed, were scarcely in such good odour as when we' last re-
ported the movements at the corner. Lasso and the Joanna
colt were supported with' considerable energy by three or four
townies, but left off pretty nearly as they opened.
beyond a bet of 500 to 200 against Wiseacre, for the 2,000
Guinea Stakes; 30 to l agst Dark Susan, and IS to I agst Sir
G. Heathcote's lot (both in fifties) for the Oaks, and a few ten
and twenty pound bets on the Chester Cup, there was nothing
else of importance. At a. later period than usual the odds
closed as under

TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS STAKES.
5 to 1 agst Mr. Wreford's Wiseacre—taken
7 to 1 agst Mr. F. Wood's Timoleon
8 to 1 agst Mr. Bowes' Meteor—taken
CHESTER CUP.
10 to 1 agst Mr. Holme's Vulcan—taken
12 to 1 agst Lord Westminster's Marshal Soult
12 to 1 agst Mr. Pluramer's Alice Hawthorn
20 to 1 agst Mr. St. George's Jolly Tar—taken
20 to 1 agst Col. Anson's tlhodanthe.
DERBY.
3 to 1 agst Scott's lot—taken
22 to 1 agst Forth's lot—taken
30 to 1 agst all the mares—taken
7 to I agst Col. Anson's Attila
16 to 1 agst Lord Westminster's Auckland—taken
20 to 1 agst Col. Peel's Chatham.
22 to I agst Mr. 1 Vreford's Wiseacre
23 to 1 agst Mr. Dixon's Ballinkeele—taken
30 to 1 agst Mr. (3. Clark's Lord Holdernesse—taken
35 to 1 agst Mr. 'ayne's Palinurus—taken
35 to 1 agst Mr. )Pettit's Espartero—taken
40 to I agst Lord Chesterfield's Diree colt—taken
40 to 1 agst Duke of Grafton's Canadian—taken
45 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Joanna colt—taken
50 to 1 agst Lord Verulam's Robert de Gorham—taken
50 to 1 agst Mr. Bowes' Meteor—taken
50 to 1 agst Mr. Batson's Acacia colt--taken
1000 to 15 agst Mr. Greenwsod's Lasso—taken
500 to 400 on Wiseacre agst Chatham—taken
OAKS.
8 to 1 agst Mr. Scott's Syren.
18 to 1 agst Mr. Etwell's Passion—taken.
25 to I agst Sir G. Heathcote's Dark Susan—taken.
18 to 1 agst Mares—taken
Epsom Spring Races take place on Wedr,esday week, the
30th inst. under the stewardship of Sir Gilbe-t Heatheote and
Baron de Tessier. The entries, we understand, close on
Monday afternoon next at Epsom.

INDIA.
A military Correspondent has obligingly favoured us with the
following

" EXTRACT OF A LETTER 'DATED CAMP HATRAP, JANUARY

'2l, 1842. •
" The overland (Englis'aman) will give you full details up
to the murder of Sir W. M,Naghten, Boyd, and Trevor, and
I have heard nothing since. Whatever happens afterwards,
and whatever policy Lord Ellenborough may adopt, it is quite
clear we must establish our supremacy in Affghan. There are
some 10,000 troops with two Queen's at Peshawar by this
time, only waiting for the winter to pass ; and if they can only
hold out at Cabool till the end of next mouth, I think those
gents. will get a lesson. No notice yet taken in general or-
ders of any one said to be killed, and there are some thirty at
least. No rumours of Burnes and M'Naghten's successors.
'ye are all quiet elsewhere."
Our correspondent, in sending this extract, writes—" I
call your attention to the above extract from a letter from an
old brother officer in Camp Hatrap, on his march to Delhi.
You will observe the date, and remember that the letter goes
straight to Bombay. You will doubtless think with me that
the report of the force having left Cabool and having been ex-
terminated, is not worth a straw. Hatrap is about 30 or 40
miles N. or N.B. of-Agra.
" Harrogate, March 18. 1842."
Sir,—Should the: following extracts of a letter from the
wife of my brotbe r, Brevet Major Bellew, Assistant-Quar-
ter-mastei-General with the force in Cabool be acceptable
for insertion in your paper, at this anxious moment, they
are much at your service. I cannot help auguring well
from them, and that the accounts of the massacre of our troops
in the Khoord 'C'Abool Pass, stated to have been eonveyed by Dr.
Bryden to Jells 'abaci, are without foundation. Mrs. Bellew's
letter is under date the 15th of January, from Mupoorie. Lady
Sale says nothing of an immediate attack having been
made on the troops on their leaving the cantonments, as stated
in Dr. Brydent's supposed account.
March 16, 1 842.

W. BELLEW.

EXTRA CTS.
" On the 18th of October he (Major Bellew) having been
engaged in tt ie first action of the passes, returned from
General Sale's. force to Cabool, and stayed there with the
apparent intention of accompan) inn General Elphinstone,
also sick, to India; the sudden insurrection will have de-
tained him at 'Cabool. On the 19th of November, he wrote
on a slip of paper a note for the Secretary to the Military Fund,
Calcutta, &c. &c., and footed it with a Yew lines to me, to the
following effet.:t ;—' We lost Cabebea the 2d instant, and have
been besieged in cantonments ever since. Unless a split take
place among the rebel chiefs within a month, the position of
our force will.be very critical.' This strip of paper was for-
warded to Jellalahatl, and thence to me, by Colonel Monteith,
on the 18th of December, with the friendly assurance that he
ad every just reason to believe that Bellew was well on the
/th of December, the date of General Elphinstone's last des-
patch. lice. &c."

" On the 13th of December another most decisive action in
our fav our took place, butt no particulars have reached us beyond
that the suffering among the rebel chiefs has been so heavy,
th they are willing to, surrender at our terms. From all ac-
c, nits it appears that peace is for the time established, and
that both parties are :negotiating. The latest news from
Kurnaul says that our troops are still in the Cabool can •
tonmont, and that having eigned a peace, effected
through our prisoner, Dost Mahommed's son, Akhbar
Khan, they are well sv.plied with food and necessaries. A
previous report stated that they were reduced to the necessity
of eating their horses. ; and before that a letter from Lady
Sale, dated two mar ches• on this. side of Cabool, communi-
cated to Mrs. E__, at Simlat, that the troops a ere en route
to Jellalabad, under 'lle escort of the Dost's son and brother,
having capitulated to the following terms That Sujah be
acknowledged and s:etained as their King, and the Dost be
sent up as their Vi!iier, and the British troops evacuate Aff-
ghanistan.' "

ELECT -10NCoNIMITTEES.
WIGAN.
The Committee m et at eleven o'clock in' Room No. 4, Mr
Hawes in the chair. •
The scrutiny on t he part of the petitioners was proceeded
with, and the first vi rte objected to was that of Henry Alaudes-
ley, No. 302 on the . register, house in Scholes.
It was proved that the voter had removed prior to the elec-
tion, and the vote wa s struck off.
William Corless, I Jo. 120 on the registry, house in Millgate,
was next objected to on the part of the petitioners on the same
round.
.Mr. Wardle, an t Luctioneer in Wigan, • proved that he dis-
grained the premises prior to the election fee 18/. due to Mr.
Woodcock, the.lan tilord, and that the voter's daughter became
tenant to Mr. Wortticoek.
Catherine Corless. proved that she succeeded her father in
the tenancy in January, 1841. Mr. Wardle threatened that if
her father voted for the sitting Members, Mr. Potter, one of his
creditors would come and destiain him. She nays'her father
nothing out of the be;siness. She lent him money, but she sti-
pulated that she sho' old he paid by her father. She paid 18/.
a-year rent.
The CHAIRMAN said the Committee would desire to hear
the vote supported.
Mr. TALBOT, for the sitting Members, contended that the
case was one of joint tenancy, and though the rent paid was
only 18/., and, therelfore, not sufficient amount to establ.sh
a vote in a case of je int tenancy, that abjection should have
been taken before re gistration.
The witness, Catherine • Corless, was called back, and, in
answer to Mr. KEMB LE, said, that Mr. Potter threatened her
father, because her father owed him money. Mr. Potter did
no: put his threat into execution after he voted. She paid the
rates herself since she became tenant.
The vote was struck off. This placed Mr. Cross and M—r.
Standish equal on the p ull.
John Stringfellow 'xi is next objected 0, on the part of the
petitioners.
-The vote of John Stringfellow was struck off.
This I laced M. Stan.dish in a majority of one over Mr.
Cross, one of the sitting _Members, and in a minority of four
under Mr. Greenall, the second sitting Member.
Wm. Sizer Barker, house and shop,
,in Hallgate, was then
objected to on the part of the sitting Members.
James Hainsough, assie tant overseer of poor's-rate in Wigan,
proved that Barker was rated in Mareli, 1840, for his house in
Hallgate. A different person .was rated in October, Ib4o.
The house was empty in 3 larch, 1841. ,
The vote was struck of f.
William Pearson was th e next vote objected to on the part of
the sitting Members. The evidence was similar to that in the
last case. . .
Mr. Cross being restored to his position on the poll,
Thomas Worthington vas objected to on behalf of the peti-
tioners.
John Green the landlo-..d proved the determination of the
voter's tenancy prior to ti e election.
Counsel for the sitting Members contended there was not
sufficient evidence to idea zify the voter.
The room was cleaied. The vote was struck off.
Peter Moon was the next voter objected to on the part of
the petitioners.
The vote was struA off.
It was now the turn of the Counsel for the sitting Member to
object, Mr. Standish being placed above Mr. Cross on the poll.
Joseph Harrison was accordingly objected to.
The assistant overseer a poor's-rate proved the change of
the tenant's occultation.
The vote was struck off.
Wm. Le, house in Hallgate, was next put forward by the
Counsel for the sitting MI anbers.
The overseer of poor 8-74-ate proved that Le was rated up to
October, 1841.
William Atkinson prove -d that he succeeded Le in occupation
of his premises on the 3d o f June, 1841. Le had a small room
in the house ; it was by w i tnesses permission that he kept the
room. It was not worth IQ/.
Vote struck off. '
The next vote, that of R, sbt. Wall, was objected to on.the part
of the petitioners, Mr. Cross being again placed at the head of
the poll.
Edward Wardle rroved that the voter had changed his occu-
pation.
The vote was struck off..
John Perrino:Mil •Nas next objected to by Mr. Slade on the
part of
thenetir,ers, but the Committee did not pronounce
any decin tf.te case, having adjourned till 11 o'clock to-
morrow mornir.g.
This leaves Stir. Cross and Mr. Standish equal on the poll,
and a majori'iy of five in favour of Mr. Greenall.

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WEYAIOUTH AND MELCOMBE REGIS.
The Committee were Occupied the whole morning with the
case of a voter named Jacobs, objected to on the part of the
pet itionerson the ground of disqualification.
The vote of Jacobs was struck 'nut, as was also that of
Richard Watson, on the same ground.
Tile Counsel for the sitting Alembens now objected to the
vote of Richard Ludlow, deceased, for the petitioners; and
' ttey proposed to call IVlrs. Ludlow, to prove the invalidi,ty (if
her husband's vdte ; but the Counsel -on the other side
con-
tended that she could not be called to give evidence againsthe
husband's interest, This was the rule of the Courts ut Law.
After some argument, the Committee decided or, hearing
Mrs. Ludlow, if ber evidence were voluntary.
Ludlow -then came forward and gave voluntary evi-
dence,