Sir J. Hawley's Siderolite, by Asteroid, 4 yrs. 9st. Mr. Savile's Champion, 3 yrs. 7st. 7lb. (Maidment) Mr. J. G. Hessey's Sabinus, 3 yrs. 7st. 10lb. 0 0 Sir J. Hawley's Morna, 4 yrs. 8st. 101b. (Morris) Mr. W. Nelson's Chawbacon, 3 yrs. 7st. 71b. (Jeffery) Betting:-55 to 50 on Sabinus, 9 to 4 agst Siderolite, 100 to 12 agst Pâté, and 20 to 1 agst Champion. Morna jumped away with a commanding lead for the purpose of serving Siderolite, who followed second, with Champion, Pâté, Chawbacon, and Sabinus lying off. They ran thus round the clump, but on reappearing in sight, Morna, having fulfilled her mission, was seen in the extreme rear, and Siderolite was seen in advance closely attended by Champion, Pâté, and Sabinus, the two latter being side by side to the turn for home, where Sabinus was seen in difficulties, and when fairly in the bottom he gave way amid loud cheers from the stand; at the same time Champion challenged Sir Joseph's colt, whom he headed a quarter of a mile from home, and appeared to have the best of the race to within a dozen strides from the chair, when Wells, who had been waiting for the one run, now came with a rush, and just snatched the judge's fiat by a head. Pâté finished a bad third. Chawbacon was stopped some distance from home, having broken down. AUGUST. 1. EXECUTION OF WALTER MILLER AT THE OLD BAILEY.-Walter Miller, convicted at the last sessions of the Central Criminal Court of the murder of the Rev. Elias Huelin, a clergyman, eighty-four years of age, residing at Chelsea, and of Ann Boss, his housekeeper (see Chronicle, ante), under circumstances of horrible and revolting atrocity, expiated the crime with his life within the precincts of the gaol at Newgate. The convict was a plasterer by trade, and about thirty years of age. From first to last, after his conviction, he treated the ministrations of the Ordinary with indifference, and there was reason to fear he died impenitent. He nevertheless attended the ordinary services in the chapel of the prison with the rest of the inmates, and on Sunday, the last day he was permitted to live, he was present there twice. To the last he denied he was guilty of the murders, and persisted that he had been confounded with another man. Some singular circumstances attended the execution. The Ordinary of Newgate (the Rev. Lloyd Jones) slept in the prison on Sunday night, and visited the convict early in the morning, with the view of preparing him for death; but he declined the pious offices which, as on previous occasions, were offered him, and therefore the Ordinary was at length constrained to abandon the attempt. For some reason there appeared all along to have been an impression among the officers of the prison that the convict might seek to anticipate the sentence by the commission of suicide, and hence more than the ordinary watch was kept over his movements. This surmise had some foundation, for as the time for his execution approached and he was about to be pinioned, eluding for a moment the vigilance of his keepers, he ran head foremost against a wall of the cell, inflicting a wound upon the forehead which stunned him for a moment, and he lay for some little time afterwards on a mattress on the floor. Refusing, when the time arrived, to submit himself to the executioner, he was pinioned in that prostrate condition, and then, declining or being unable to walk to the scaffold, he was borne thither on a chair, as the clock struck nine, by four warders, preceded by the Ordinary, and placed upon the drop, still seated on the chair, the prison bell tolling the while, and also that of St. Sepulchre's Church, hard by. Some of the officers of the prison believed that he was feigning illness at that time, the self-inflicted wound on the head being slight, or fainting from the apprehension of a violent death. The ordinary preparations were soon made, and the bolt having been drawn, the drop fell, and with it the convict, seated as before, the chair falling with him. After a brief struggle, during which there was more muscular action and writhing than usual, he ceased to live. A black flag was then hoisted on the roof of the prison in conformity with the recent practice on such occasions to denote to people outside that the capital sentence had been executed. For upwards of an hour before a considerable crowd had collected in front of the gaol, but there was no disorder, and on the appearance of the flag the people there quietly dispersed. Inside the prison walls, and within view of the scaffold, there were a few strangers, besides representatives of the Press. The sentence was inflicted in the presence of Mr. Sheriff Paterson and the Under-Sheriffs, Messrs. Baylis and Crossley. 2. FATAL ACCIDENT ON MONT BLANC.-A dreadful accident occurred to a party of English tourists, near the summit of Mont Blanc, by which a lady and a guide were killed. The party in question consisted of Mr. Marke, of Woodhill, Liskeard; Mrs. Marke, his wife; a young lady, her friend, and three guides. They left Chamounix on the 1st, about midday, with two guides, and arrived without accident at the Hotel de Grands Mulets at eight p.m. The route was remarkably easy and free from dangers, and the weather was splendid. Here they slept, and at 3.30 the next morning, having added to their party the third guide, they started on their upward journey. After having safely traversed the Great and Little Plateau, they gained the summit of Le Corridor about ten a.m. At this spot, as there was a considerable breeze, the ladies with one of the guides halted, while Mr. Marke, with the two other guides, went up higher to see if the weather would permit them to continue their ascent. They promised to return in ten or fifteen minutes. The ladies beginning to feel the cold, their guide, contrary to the injunctions of Mr. Marke and the express orders of his fellow guides, started off with them on their descent home. They were all three connected by a rope, Mrs. Marke, unfortunately, at the same time also leaning on the arm of the guide, her friend following a few steps behind. Scarcely had they gone 100 yards when Mrs. Marke and the guide suddenly disappeared into a crevasse, which was covered with a thin crust of frozen snow. Providentially for her friend the rope, being rotten, broke, and she remained half dead with fear, but in safety, close to the upper edge of the chasm. Mr. Marke and the two guides, hearing cries of distress, rushed down in all haste, and in less than five minutes had reached as near as they could with safety the edge of the crevasse. They looked down and shouted as loud as they could. The silence of the grave was their only answer; death had overtaken their companions, instantaneous, but, without doubt, painless. Nothing remained now for the survivors but to hurry back to the Grands Mulets and send down to Chamounix for assistance as quickly as possible. In a very short time a party of porters and guides, with every thing requisite for the search after the remains of the ill-fated travellers, arrived at the scene of the disaster. The search continued when the weather permitted during the remainder of the week. No pains and no labour were spared; a large reward was offered, but owing to the situation and formation of the crevasse all their efforts proved unsuccessful. A solemn and impressive funeral service was held in the English chapel at Chamounix on the 9th, at which a touching address was delivered by the Rev. M. Neligan, the chaplain. There was a crowded congregation, and all the guides of the neighbourhood attended. Mrs. Marke had only been married two months; she was the eldest daughter of the Rev. R. C. Maul, rector of Rickinghall, in the county of Suffolk. The names of the two surviving guides were Franz Bourgeuer and Jean Pierre Zimbougen, natives of Valais, and that of the poor young fellow who lost his life, and who had joined the party at the Grands Mulets, Gay Crozier Ozyme, aged twenty-three, a Savoyard. 8. EXECUTION OF THE DENHAM MURDERER.-John Owen, alias Jones, was executed in the yard of Aylesbury Gaol, for the murders of Emanuel Marshall, his wife, sister, mother, and three children at Denham, in May last. (See Remarkable Trials, post.) Since his apprehension the prisoner maintained a callous indifference to his situation, and refused all religious counsel. The Rev. Mr. Bumberry, the chaplain of the gaol, was unremitting in his solicitations to bring the prisoner to penitence for his terrible crime, but the prisoner only returned his kindness by curses and foul expressions. G At length he said he was a Catholic, and a Roman Catholic clergyman from Wolverton on being sent for visited him. He, however, only received similar treatment, and the prisoner eventually declared that he did not believe that there was either God or devil, heaven or hell. At one time he virtually confessed to the murders by saying, "I am only sorry that I did not shoot Superintendent Dunham and a Justice of the Peace that once sentenced me as well." He was visited by his father and wife, neither of whom he had seen for years, but he treated them coldly, and when they shed tears replied to their grief by saying, "What have you to snivel for?" At three minutes to eight the bell began to toll, and he was brought from his cell by two warders. Calcraft met him in the corridor, and the prisoner at once submitted to be pinioned. The procession was then formed, accompanied by Mr. Sheriff Tyndall, Mr. R. C. Ceely, surgeon, Superintendent Jervis, the warders, and the chaplain reading a part of the burial service. When the culprit came in sight of the gallows it seemed to absorb his whole curiosity, and after surveying it for a moment he attempted to go up two steps at a time, but at the request of the warders he walked up in a more orderly manner. Calcraft then placed him on the drop, put the rope round his neck, and the white cap over his face. The culprit asked to be allowed to make a statement. Calcraft permitted him. The prisoner, whose back was towards the people, then turned round, and Calcraft lifted the cap above his mouth. The culprit then said, "My friends, I am going to die for the murder of Charles-What's his name? I forget. Oh! Charles Marshall; but I am innocent." He then turned round again, and put his feet close together to be pinioned. Calcraft at once strapped them, immediately walked off, and drew the bolt. The prisoner fell two feet and a half. The body seemed to fall heavily; death was almost instantaneous, and only one moment's convulsion marked his end. After an hour the body was cut down, and an inquest held. 10. TRIAL OF THE EDITOR OF THE "SHEFFIELD DAILY TELEGRAPH" FOR A LIBEL ON LORD AND LADY SEFTON.-A criminal information against the editor of the Sheffield Daily Telegraph for a libel upon Lord and Lady Sefton, in which also the name of the Prince of Wales appeared, was tried at the Leeds Summer Assizes, before the Lord Chief Baron and a special jury. Sir John Karslake, counsel for the prosecution, said, "I appear on behalf of the Crown in a proceeding by way of criminal information against the defendant, Mr. Leng, who is the managing editor, printer, and publisher, and, I believe, a part proprietor of a paper called the Sheffield Daily Telegraph. The case consists in the publication of a libel which is complained of by Lord Sefton, to whom the conduct of this prosecution has been confided by the Court of Queen's Bench, and which was brought before the notice of the public in the defendant's paper on the 4th of April of this year. In this paper there appeared in large type, and under the heading Latest News,' the following statement : "Latest News. Press Association Telegrams. Startling Rumour. The Prince of Wales likely to appear in the Divorce Court again.It is stated in Westminster Hall that the Prince of Wales is likely to be again mentioned in the Divorce Court as a co-respondent in a case in which a Countess is the respondent. The case is said to be one by the Earl of Sefton against the Countess.' "This was published on the 4th of April, and shortly afterwards came to the ears of the Earl of Sefton. He applied to the Court of Queen's Bench upon the affidavits of himself, the Countess, and the Prince of Wales for a criminal information. The affidavits showed that there was no shadow of pretence for the accusation, and subsequently the papers stated that that was so. Lord Sefton simply comes into court now in a public capacity. He has no vindictive feeling against Mr. Leng. It is suggested that the defendant himself was not aware of the insertion or publication of the paragraph; but I shall show that copies of the paper were sold at the office as late as the 14th of April." Formal proof of the publication of the libel was then given. Mr. Seymour, Q.C., who appeared for the defendant, said that if the defendant were asked to express his regret, there were no words of sorrow and regret that he would not offer to Lord and Lady Sefton. An apology had been inserted in the paper, and the learned counsel could not help thinking that when it was no longer a question of character, and every one had been informed that there was not a shadow of a doubt that the rumour was unfounded, still to press for a conviction showed a degree of pressure which, consistently with public duty, might have been withheld. The rumour, with the exception of the concluding words as to the Earl and Countess, had appeared in the Echo on the 2nd of April. The Press Association (Limited) supplied country journals with information by telegraph. A telegram containing the rumour published in the Echo arrived at the office of the Sheffield Daily Telegraph on Saturday evening, and on Sunday the sub-editor, Mr. Peddie, and a Mr. Moss, a reporter, and another reporter being present, the telegram was read. Moss then said that he had received information from a wellknown reporter of the Divorce Court who had informed him of the name of the Countess of Sefton. Mr. Peddie then thoughtlessly added to the telegram the concluding words as to the Earl and Countess of Sefton. Mr. Leng was ill at the time and never saw the telegram, and he administered a severe reprimand to his subeditor, Mr. Peddie. The learned counsel then read from the Sheffield Daily Telegraph an announcement copied from the Echo denying the truth of any thing contained in the rumour which they had circulated. He next called attention to a paragraph in the same paper under the head "Domestic," which was as follows: "With great gladness the nation will hail the contradiction by the representatives of the Prince of Wales of the recent rumour as |