At the Liverpool Assizes, Mr. Quin, editor of the Hull
Times, ob- tained a verdict, with 301. damages, against Mr. Browne, editor of the Packet, for a libel.
At the same Assizes, an action, which excited great interest in the sporting, world, was tried on Thursday. It will be remembered that at the last Ascot Races, Mr. Itidsdale's' colt, Bloomsbury, won the Ascot Derby Stakes ; but Mr. Ridsdale's right to the money was disputed by Lord Lichfield, whose horse came in second,—on the ground that
Bloomsbury was described as a colt by 3To/atto out of Scroggins's dam, instead of a colt by Tramp out of Scroggins's dam, also called the Arcot Lass. The whole case turned upon the question of right or wrong de- scription ; for, by the Newmarket rules, which are observed at Ascot, if a winning horse was misnamed, or his pedigree wrongly described, the stakes go to the second horse, and all bets are void. To settle the paternity of Bloomsbury, was the object of the trial. in which Mr. Ridsdale was plaintiff and Lord Lichfield defendant. Mr. Cresswell " led" for the plaintiff, and Sergeant Wilde for Lord Lichfield. A great deal of contradietory testimony was given ; but the dory decided for the phtintill: Mr. Ilidsdltle. The verdict was received whim loud ap- plause, in which even the counsel joined.
Another action, involving the same question, in which Mr. Ridsdale was plaintiff and the Earl of Craven defendant, was compromised on Friday.
Lord George Bentinck disputes a decision of the stewards at Brighton Races against the claim of his horse Ratsbane to the Brighton stakes. The decision was made on the ground that Ratsbane went on the wrong side of a post. But Lord George promises to prove in a court of law that this did not happen.
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