The Sun.
London, England, 1845-02-10 00:00:00

845.

SIX o'CLocK.

CHESTER CUP.
11 to 1 agst Semiseria
15 to 1 agst Obscurity
18 to 1 agst Era
20 to 1 agst Cataract
30 to 1 agst Pug
30 to 1 agst Celeste
30 to 1 agst Zanoni
30 to 1 agst The Pride of Kildare
33 to 1 agst NVinebour
33 to 1 agst St. Lawrence
40 to 1 agst Foig-a-ballagh.
DERBY.

11 to 1 agst
12 to 1 agst Cobweb colt
15 to 1 agst Idas
15 to 1 agst Kedger
33 to 1 agst Newsmonger
33 to 1 agst Miss Whip colt
40 to 1 agst Laird o' Cockpen
4N to 1 agst Ironmaster

INSOL VENT DEBTORS' COURT, Feb. S.
THE HIPPODROME RACE COURSE.
Mr. Commissioner PoLLocK held a court on Friday,
at Reading, when Jacob Connop, the lessee of the Hip-
podrome Race-ground, appeared for hearing.
Mr. Woodruffe opposed on the part of Mr. Reuben
Laurence, a builder, and Mr. Cooke supported the ap-
plication.

The case was ordered to be adjourned to the nex
circuit.

A question then arose whether the insolent could not
be liberated on bail. The judgment debts were between
3,0001. and 4,0001, and according to the usual practice
of the Court the double amount would be required.
Mr. CooKE asked whether the Court would not accept
bail for 1,000 ?

Mr. WOODRUFFE resisted the application.
Mr. ConimissionerToLLocK thought that bail could be
accepted fur 3,0001., and adjourned the case to the next
circuit.

Some intimation was given that the insolvent would
be removed to a London prison, and his case heard in
town.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

(SATURDAY.)

BO W-87'REE T.
A tall young man, who gave the name of Edward
Smith, but who refused to give his address, was placed
at the bar before Mr. Twyfurd, charged with having
stolen a number of books from the library of the Uni-
versity College, in Gower-street.
Mr. James Goody, the home steward, stated that on
Monday and Wednesday last there were missed from the
general library of the College the three books produced,
of which circumstance he gave information to the police,
and from some circumstances that had subsequently
transpired, there was reason to suspect that the prisoner
had stolen them. Witness did not know the prisoner,• but recollected seeing him in the library on Thursday
last, when " Wilson's French and English Dictionary,"
and " Grant's Outlines of Comparative Anatomy," were
stolen. All the pupils had access to the library, and
when a book was required by any one of them, the prac-
tice was to write the title on a slip of paper, and then to
present it to the librarian, by whom he was furnished
with the volume he required. All the cases containing
the books were kept locked.
Mr. W. J. Chapman, the librarian, stated that, having
seen the prisoner in the library, his impression wa he
was one of the students of the college, but since his
apprehension he had discovered such was not the case.
He missed the works above named when he was locking
up the book-cases, from the table of the library, on
Monday, but was not certain whether he saw the pri-
soner there on that day. On Wednesday, on which day
he recollec.ed the prisoner conversing with him in a very
familiar manner, he also missed a book from the library
table.

In answer to questions from the prisoner, the witness
said that strangers could easily gain admts to the
library of the college, and had opportunities of taking
away books unnoticed by any of the officers of the.
institution.
Mr. Nock, a bookseller in Tottenharn•court-road,
stated that he had seen the prh:oner on several occasions;
that lie bought the dictionary of him on Monday last for
10s., believing it to be his own, and, though a portion
of the flyleaf was torn off, be thought that the prisoner
ha,d perhaps written his name there and torn it off before
he offered it for sale, as was the usual practice with stu-
dents when they offered books for sale. On the last
occasion he had a suspicion of the prisoner's honesty,
and gave information to the police, by whom he was taken
into custody.
The Inspector stated he thought it his duty to inform
the Court that the last witness bad afforded every assist-
ance to the police to enable them to make the necessary
inquiries.
The prisoner, who declined saying anything in his de-
fence, was remanded for a week.
LAMBETH.
Henry &rill: and Henry Foulks, omnibus drivers, were
charged with wanton and furious driving on the night of
Sunday, the 26th of last month.
Mr. HENRY, after hearing a number of witnesses pro
and con, convicted Foulks in the penalty of 40s. and costs,
and Smith in a similar amount. He also expressed his
determination to repress and put down the shameful
irregularities at present and fur some time practised in
this part of the Metropolis, by which the public are put
to very considerable inconvenience.

HAMMERSMITH.
Cho)les Mott, a police-constable of the T diva
sion, was brought up for final examination before
Mr. G. Clive, on a charge of having stolen three bushels
of oats, the property of Mr. Wray, the Police Receiver..
General, and William Jackson, a respectable florist and
gardener, in Earle-street, Kensington, was charged with
receiving the same, knowing them to have been stolen.
Mr. Charnock, the barrister, with Mr. Jennings, soli-
citor, of Notting-hill, attended for the prisoner Jackson.
John Hogan deposed that he was a sergeant of the
metropolitan police, T 25. On Tuesday morning last
he watched at the station-house, in Gore-lane, Kensing-
ton-gore, and about six o'clock saw the prisoner Jackson
drive into the front yard with his cart to fetch dung.
The prisoner Mott came out of the house with a sack
upon his shoulder, and Jackson helped him to put it
into the cart. Mott brought the sack out of the forat e-
room. They then put three barrows or four full of
dung upon the sack, which contained three bushels of
corn, arid then went away together to the Hand and
Fl,,wers public-house, at the corner of Gore lane; and
after remaining there about ten minutes came out again.
Witness then went up to them, and ordered the prisoner
Mott to the station-house. While speaking to Mott,
the prisoner Jacksin jumped into the cart and drove off
at a trot, and witness had to follow him 150 yards before
he stopped. Witness then said to Jackson, " Ycu have
something besides dung in your cart—you've got some .
corn." Jackson appeared surprised, and stud—" What '
—corn," when witness told him he must go to the
station-house. The prisoner Mutt said they were some

so. He trusted that, in future, Bilis of such im-
portance as those he had adverted to would not
be hurried through the House, because the re-
sult was, that their Lordships had not the
opportunity of fully considering them. The Noble
Lord concluded by moving for thc- papers for xi hieh
notie,
The Duke of Wi.:I4i.INGTON- said that i'•
could not be expected that he would be pre-
pared to answer the speech of the Noble Lord.
With respect to the papers, there could be no ob-
jection to the production of them ; and the Noble
Lord might rely upon it that it was cer-
tainly the desire and wish of the Government to give
to that House all the information upon all these ques-
tions, in order that the.) might have an opportunity
of discussing them all. At the present momont, he
had already stated, it was impossible for him to follow
the Noble Lord through the discussion of those
questions. Her Majesty's servants it must be ex-
pected would wait till the financial statement was
made in another place before they interfered in these
matters.

The production of the papers were then ordered,
and the House then adjourned.

TAVEERSALL'S.-THIS EVENING

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
SHERIFFS' COURT, F(b. 8.
(Sittings at Guildhall.)
THE LAST ST. LEGER.-NEWRALL r. WARD.
In this case the plaintiff, Thomas Newhall, sought to
recover the sum of 20/. from the defendant, James Ward,
being the balance of a bet on Foig-a-ballagh, the winner
of the last St. Leger.
Mr Iluddlestone appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr.
Russell Gurney for the defendant.
Mr. HUDDLESTONE stated that the debt arose out of
the following circumstances :—There was a person of
the name of Beate who owed the plaintiff 20/. The de-
fendant being indebted to Beate in the like sum, the
latter indhidual entered into an arrangement with the
plaintiff; by which he agreed that the debt of Ward due
to Beate should be transferred to h m, the plaintiff.
Now, the only knowledge that the plaintiff had of the
money owing by the defendant to Beate being the effect
of a bet, was in consequence of some words in the ord, r
drawn by Beate on the defendant to pay the 201. to the
plaintiff; and which was to ihe effect to request him " to
nay the balance of 201. on the Leger." The question the
jury would have to decide was as to the 1-gality of 'the
debt; and whether the plaintiff had any knowledge that
the debt arose out of any gambling transaction; and,
he were aware of that circumstance, whether, at V
same time, he was cognisant that the bet was to tha,
amount as to render it illegal. It was true that the law
had rendered all bets above 101. illegal. But the amout.t
owing by the defendant might be the amount of a num-
ber of small debts under 10/. Thus there might have
been a variety of bets ot 7 to 3, or of 5 to 2, the whole of
which would amount to 201., and they were, therefore,
not illegal. The jury must be satisfied before they re-
turned a verdict for the defendant that the plaintiff had
unequivocal notice that the money owing was the effect
of a bet which rendered the debt illegal. If that fact
was not proved, then his client was entitled to a verdict.
Mr. Beate and another witness were then examined
for the plaintiff, ar.d some letters were put in.
Mr. G URNEY, for the defendant, said—lt would be for
the jury to form their opinion upon the evidence pro-
duced, and he thought that the impression in their mind
must be that the plaintiff was aware of the debt being a
betting transaction.
The jury, after half an hour's consultation, returned a
verdict for the plaintiff; 20/i

The opposition was directed to the incorrect state-
ments made in the schedule, and after an examination of
some length, Mr. Commissioner Poi.'melt held that a
very different document must be presented before the
case could be heard.