The Express. — London, England, 1860-05-24 00:00:00

THE DERBY DAY. Then. war probably never a finer or more sue ceed ul Derby Day than that from which a quarter of a million .1 people retuned, tired, but plumed, to the metro polis yesterday evening. Some said there had been as peat • c:dicouree on the Downs at the Derby of the Exhibition year, but the police andiontice, who are the beet judges, gave yesterday the eslm;andlpronotinced it to be the fullert Derby day within their official remembrance. It seemed me if all the most modern means of ttaxtrat, added to all the o ld t rio ne ioni d modes 41 conveyance, and these latter further &muted by the pedeetnan power of all the racing anoionn of limited pecuniary resources, had conspired to pour out upon Epsom Doinuosneh an ocean of human life— happy, no:ocular, variously clad, hungry, thirsty. orderly and disorderly, human life—ea could only be spared from the greatest city in the world without • complete drying up of it. ordinary meat of population. It may be trite, but a hundred years hence it will be historical, and deeply interesting to note, that on the 7.3 rd of May, ittO, the peat movement of the Isthmian pilgrim. comuseund at about four O'clock in the morning, at which early hew' all the pathways leading out of town wen marked by Week movies; lines of padaninsne laden with the most extraordi eery variety of burtheas, and that the roadways wen equally populous with patient donkeys, who only required a little more time to get over a. much pound as the meet agile of the Derby racers—the moving lines and the donkeys AM the peelers, and the moveables, all belonging to the great costennongering population, who were determined to absorb the 'luting treffic of the Downa, and to mean those admirable phone at the ropes, which at a later period of the day made them the envy 44 the guinea ticket holders of the Grand *and The annual meeting of superannuated meal conches at the LivPh..ot and Castle wee this year much more numerously atm-slat than ousel, and the appeals on their behalf by the iodinduels who led had the moral courage to dog those unhappy relics of a bygone age once more into the public pee were extnordinudy eloquent and vociferous. But for any one who in a mistaken fit of cadmium foe the wan 44 this olden time had ever tried " the road" before, the isot tempting offers of frost seats, oe the most libels' suggestion. in the way of pseaniery arrangement, offered no cal xemeot to counterbalance the comfort, speed, and certainty .1 the rail. People could remember the first break down at Kennington turupike, the giving way of the traces at the Swan. the constantly Incurring thirst of the coachman at every roadside public-houn, the imminent risk of peel is the manes road leading to the Down, and the not locemmon eudingency of aniving in the course just a. the erowd was cheering for the winner, and the polio. were dragging off the pickpockets who bed bees taking dean*" of that moment of peculiar excitement. The rail suite everybody, and Ms. Slight has now brought his arrangements to such perfection that nobody i left behisl By reeeining the ordinary fares down to haM-past suer is the swain the looser gab of the Derby mignakm ar- draughted of early, and later in the day the ism. ant ino:emion of fad trains finds every one who OM pay .veu-acilaespeace for the socommodation • melt A anew and siipenoy crowd must always be is a 0011111, dopes ...last, and therefore the moat timid of people may eddy senior, to the Derby by mil, certain to meet so tbiag sons than murer. of parliament, select teen:here of the prise nog, intelligent foreigners, studying the masters of the English, and those well trussed, well braced, well dressed, unmistakeable personages who come to the Derby as • matter of business, and who under a amities exterior, perhaps, conceal considerable doubts SA is whether the evening will see them millimmiree or paupers What used to he confusion and chaos at the Loudon-bridge platform is sow nothing but order and regularity. The uncials are never put out of their way, but politely call ant " Forward " as you hurry along, until at last you begin le have ..roe vague notion that you will catch a glimpse of the grand Stand before you find your railway caning,; and then, wien you have found it, you further discover that having taken • first-class ticket you should be very well satisfied yt finding yourself seated in • third-class pen, wish for fellow pueengen two retired members of the P.R., and three geutlernes of colour, who, if they do not belong to i the mime profnesiou, thoukl be recommended to go into training with as little delay as seeilile. It will no doubt be a source of considerable satisfaction to our noble Premier to learn, the% with the whole of pugilistic Roomed some of hi. lordship's recent speeches have obtained for loin the most uhou ullol popularity. The retired pugilist with the &premed 'lean! ridge to whom we had the honour to be tia-d-vie pro n.:weed his lordship to he a " Crick " in the meet emphatie tones. and the gentlemen of colour, with • fore* of ewer aien which one would not like to contradict, were dimly of opie on that if Sayers and Heenan chose to have smother meeting, Lord Palmerston would shut up all the "'mks" In Er-gland for the day, rather then that the decision of the great international question should be &pin interrupted. We are free to confess that this strictly prolusions' circle mole very purist travelling companion, and seemed to be fully :make to their mission 44 physical regeneration. Their whole tone of thought and onivereation had olerionaly been eyed by recent events, and they eeerned quite ready to take a prominent part in all the great reformatory move ments of the age. T: o. trot thing that istrikos you when you arrive at Epsom is that the proviso( that thriving town have not the slightest notion that a great race is to conic off, and • querterof a million 41 people to congrepte in their immediate vicinity. The tradesmen stead behind their solitary counters. and weigh small parcels fur iniagioary custanews, just as if it were no Derby day at all, and the single la.liea tap at the windows of the poet-office and ask for the letters, which sedan' not the slightest allusion to the +tat.. of the odd., or the business of the clay. EPove, suni, iu fact to be ignored, put on one aide, to be stolidly indifferent to hone-racing, and contemptuously to look down on people who pan OCI to the rameoune and—more impurtaut take all their speoding-nioney alonewith them. The pest print that oocun to person of a reflective two in that, so far as fatigue and real &work is siacersel, you are sessiderably further from the Downs at Epsom than when you took train at London-bridge. You follow a streaming preceesiou of eager pedestrians down • bosky green lane, sad you heoonie perfectly charmed with the delicate blown of the lilac, the faint, exquisite perfume of the hawthoth, the merry singing of the birds, the indescribably rich, lustensti, health•giving, eye-gladdening yellow and green of the gra. and the buttercup., and the pictureeque attitudee of the little toys astride upon the stiles. What a charming thing ei a walk in the real genuine country, and then you take your first two or throe ail., and your first half-dozen little hills like a Flying Childers on Lie lust • legs. list sous the pace begins to tell. The little hills get longer, and that delusive Greed *duel. the mirage of the racecourse, keeps maliciously slipping away, and you roomeos wiping your forehead and mentally asking your. self, whet can Mr. Slight mean by promising t o ki te you to the firths, and back to town for the moderate charge of seven and stepson.? It is all 11.. Qua lover of rural scenery who has legs two yanb hiog pointing mit to you the deli cola Sells .4 young wheat wilich bound. the at.ny dreary steppe a your pilgrimage ors either nide, or th e furtive donkey who, taking advantage of the :lay when reibnly has time to put him in the pound, ho. beeu pinnendising nu lb. tend, corset until his aides are blown oat like • lalluoin. You: b 0.. of the beautiful dies within you, You are hot, • dusty, and impatient. and the only clear satisfec. bay oor-Issimi to which you can roan is that the di.tence frees epeoni to the Downs is considerally more than the deices-, f lsulon to Epsom, and that all the railway termini in the kingdom are nothing but a niwkery, a delu. eioe. and • sure. Nut at last the 101 l no nested, the stead is reached, and you tap your hand upon the railing to ii.ake sue that than n not another two Mitre up II:II sti:l W he done. le it an lardien army resting at non, or a amp meeting, or a scauslic astioa, M the midst of which you suddetly And your...lf! There are certainly in. camels, but there are plenty of her.* that are exceedingly like them, and the temporary little teats that have been ;etched anyhow look exceedingly like so many elepLatita at reek If you have nay 4.14 a. to • hst the Latham-a games teeny are, yea have than all cl....red up at nere, and Peal them to he played principally with three 'ticks, ti.thrb I , .ratir number i e politely tendered to yo u the moment yo u a ' ve- Thi io nl e rig muse to have departed. . w e 4inl not w • single table us the course, and es ria the percents! *cruise must at last have descended fron: his unions psi. tins at the top of • poly, as we could sat sin his penile bead and leap cuttiug the liminoo is any direction. There is a iso.r.o. pay,. a t the ad. titaad. through which the whole of the quarter .4 a million of people must pass if thee wish t o mss the cosine, sad in that peemee it is that esters, one first feel. the iallseace el the genies of the place. No matter what y o u may have bees lame. the Remand you plusp is here and revive your Ant breath, you hammy • spirting man u "ace. You an asked what odd.,, you will give, sad 1111111111110 THE EXPRESS your opinion of as bones, and the last sews of the braking, sad • host of other questions, which preenpposo you as adept—and who will decline being thought an adept, so long as he inn get a discriminating public to swept him in the character We verily believe that if the Bishop of Loudon or the Fad of Shaftesbury were once to plunge into that narrow strait, they would come to know all about the Wizard, and Beexaneer, and the odds, las if by instinct, would take sornatking out of their pockets to look like • betting book, and would push and strive on far the open with as much eagerness and anticipation of saloyeaset ae any of the rest of the crowd. What • sight, what sounds, what sensations, as you have overcome the Let policeman, foiled the last pickpocket, declined the last offer of the most tempting odds, sad planted yourselflou the sacred lawn of the Grand Stand, looking out at merry England making holiday. A profound reflection occurs to you, and you sagaciously remark to your neighbour, " What a lovely day to which he, struck by the uovelty of the observation, replies, " Yes it is, but I hope we shan't have rain." Yes, the Lords may usurp our taxing privileges. but so long as they leave us our weather a,d our umbrellas, Englishmen meeting in • crowd will never want for topics of conversation. Where is the course .! The place where it used to be ia black sad surging like the ocean in a gale. Here and there a stray policeman surges up and down hie • stormy petrel, a soldier of the Guards is borne helplessly along on the billows, or a parasol Amite past lake some tiny memorial of a wreck. There is a Babel of discordant sounds. The shrill voices of the ladies who sell the cards, the sharp crack of the tin gems dries for ante, bells ringing everywhere apropos of nothing, NE.Der• ling himself riding frantically up and down, and every one pushing, swearing, making futile attempts to smoke, an. looking oat for some friend to admire the extraordinary paletot which has been got tip regardless of expense for this special suasion. Baise your head a little and look amiss towards the hill. There is another nation there, surrounded by and entrenched behind all the vehicles in the world. Fifty thesemad ifejessrsers in the open air are eissullammously going as, and you hear the distant report of the eberepagne mike, which, alas! do not fly for you. There is a wilderness of parasols, pink and blue, and deli cate white, a prevailing voraciousness which you abhor, beaus* it is so ter ea, and in the immediate foreground all the travelling *glean have congregated to amuse the people oe the hill, who sera to be thinking of hempen , sad madwichse, end Amperes, sod Fortnum sad Massa, sad everythieg, la het, but the great buainme of the day. There is one race before, sad two or three after the Derby, but we could never inset say one who either looked at the foot, or thought it worth while to wait for the last. Our theory about the Ant is that its only use is to enable Mr. Walker and his inspectors to rehearse their grand operation of clearing the course, which has to be done in reality for the great event of the day. The quantity of pushing sad driving about that freeborn Englishmen take with the lust perfeetgood humour deringthistrying openttioa isaensibig that shoat sorpesese bat They are swept up lied dew., and everywhere, by the Owens " Bless," and ia sheet in Paiute* a treed green me sweep majestically rood when jut Wove all bed by bum hoes and henna velem. The it tor the pregroatery osier, for which afa the wee. baton prepare by oremencing an intense study of the "correct card," the said card being, next to an Assyrian mannecript, a page of Bradshaw, or a railway balanceokeet, probably the most difficult document iu the world. You beer the approaching tramp of the horses you see the colours, white, yellow, pink and green—you endeavour to ideality them by • reference, but by the time you have lewd them out in the card, both hone and rider are far away et the other end of the course, and you put your cor red card le your pocket in despair. Perimpathere is set is the whole circle of human feelings a more exciting ammont than that which elapses between the Goal announeemett of the start for the Derby and the dropping of the embers at the winning post. At first there is a distant INIUTTOUZ, which seems to run along the air, then the straining eyes see a mountain of distant objects flitting along the edge of the hill, then there is • tramp, tramp— the ground begins to quiver, the shouting grows louder and nearer, everyone calls frantically to everybody else to take off his hat, the horses sweep by like a tornado, the jockies are seen plying their whip with desperation, the " ruck " breaks, the failing horses drop off in despair, and at last with one wild bound the winner springs away, and shoots past the post amid the universal shout with which strained expec tation at length relieves, itself. Then the horses are all ' brought down to the Grand Stand, the crowd breaks into ' the ring, and if all the crowned heads in Europe were suddenly to appear upon the scene, they would not obtain one tithe of the admiration of which TLIWINANBY was the object at that particular moment THE RACING. Tug Ernog Town PLATS, of 50 Dors. (handicap), for all ages ; winners extra, ku. One mile. Mr. Marie's larsnman, by Sweetmeat, 3 yrs, Oat 10Ib A blwerdsl I 11r. Drummond's Tracks, 3yn, Ist W. Bottom) Mr. Nkbors Bel lisrassasa, gym est . Bullock, 3 The following also ma: Ssrege The . Greek, Estella, Merry Monk, 31 , f by Teddington out of the Abbess of St. Mary, end La Betting : 7 to 4 apt Parmesan, 7to 2 agst Yoicks, sto 1 apt Bel Everson', Sto 1 apt The Greek. They got away at the Host attempt, Bel F.uperanza leading for about • hundred yards. On settling down to their work Parmesan took up the maniac and held • long lead round Tattoo horn turner, Bel Espenussa going second ; after crow ing the read Yoicks joined the first, Eel Bops masa dropping away, beaten at the distance. He mode • good eff.rt to Wed Parmesan, but never quite got in front, and we. beaten by half • length ; a yory hod third ; Estella, Han gs , Abbess of At. Mary filly, and La Bear were next, puWng up. THE Doxiir 9rooso of 50 sovs. each, h ft, for 3-yr-eide; colts, Pat 7lb ; Bat 21b ; the second to reedy* 100 soya out of the stiles. Last mile and • MM. (224 subs.) Mr. Merry's Ileortesaby by Melamine. or Wlndhomed oat *tabor liswthorse, SilW enemies) I Mr. Slcbol's les Wlsard. by Welt Anstralian, dui by tie Caro oat of m. let a (A. Frost* I Captain CI:10W* reor. yAid D 4 7 l • ll mg of SOY, tat Tlb llauser) Coast Y. ,k Lagneases Omega by FtlaGiadlator, elia Set car tat en. This following also ram :—Malartone, enemata, no Droop, Ntithourno, Sutton, Bentirick • Leprochaise, air William ' Reece, Cape Flyaway, The Hap Wallace, Tile Tiger, Maa.itt• trms, Buccaneer, Toni Bowline, Laschaster, Vests, Umpire, Iwo to Rainbow, Loiterer, lenges**, ton, The Rising Bum, Ebony, High Treason. BErn NG. 5 to 2 apt The Wizard (off) 5 to 1 Thormanhy (I freely) 5 to I Umpire 7 to 1 Nntbourne (t) 100 to 6 Buccaneer (t) 20 to 1 Horror 25 to 1 High Immo 30 to 1 The Drone 33 to 1 Usk. 40 to 1 Ormond 40 to 1 MINI air Ul 10 1 Wallace 50 to 1 Lanchnter 66 to 1 Button THI RACE. At exaetl twenty-five inimetas prior to the time .4 start lag the nuelhert of the Shirty seepetitor. were depl..yed on the telegraph heard. The bones amembled at the poet with the utmost punctuality, and walked i. 13 a body towards the starter. Just before washing him, however, Le pro. haun, Bre. to Rainbow, llgar, Umpire, The Rap, and two or three others looks away, and the rank had to be re formol. Thu promed.ing ware coon accomplished, and the ringing .1 the hell antrouncal the start, liven before • large majonty ..f the spectaton were prepared for it, and the clamour tu the Grand Skald enclosure suddenly crowd. The rear of excitement which was sent up as moo as the bones quitted the post became hushed in an Merin, and, whilst every tongue was silent, every eye was strained to discover the positions of the favourites. Bootjack was • the Ant to elbow promineatly is the nos, awl he took • clear lewd as the bones mounded the hill ; following directly in hie track were Illao-at-Arne, Nutbourne, Rising Ban, and Rester. In the extreme rear were Sutton, Lorpose, and Loiterer. Bootjack lammed his lead half -a-donee us going up the hill, but before reaching the mile 2 111 1 t disappearvd from the front, and Healy, who had been head ing the ru.-k, took up the running, with Nuthourne, Horror, Ruing son, ,Ilan-st-Arno, Buccaneer, Bre. to Haim bow, Thormanby, The Wimird, Dania, and Umpire taking their *ma at the head of the ruck. flu coming naiad Tittes ham Corner the front lot were in close company, Not bourne next the rails, having, perhaps, a slight lead, with Renee, The Who'd. Umpire, Bnemieer , Thormanby, Bre to Raiola.w, lad MOM well up is hi stride. On croesiog the road, Melbourne broke down and was pulled up, and woo alter Betas wee brim The Wizard then came to the hoot, and runs* le the middle of the coarse took • Aar hod, followed by Thremeaby, • aid Horror. At the diatom, The pmeendllar Monad, without an effort, and Harrsrlinek third lire UN sop up. From the sionwit that Thoemsby'• whim were seen M adverts, however, the Was a/ the nee wee net in doubt.; he seen horn as wen winger by a lentilh end a half, four leusthe separated the wind hem the Obi& and four lengths tie thin! (ran the fimeds. The " -op" hones were Illr I'm ere, Illawarse, !Memel-Arms, Caps Pl= aiel Restos. who purl the pall sterly in t order leaterer and WaOre were the last two. Thormanby we. twin, wady keoebed on hie bred, awl Wallace bad a sat mw swaps of Whiglke berbuit the flag was dropped. Thu value of the stolen, esdosting the mussy to be paid THUESDAY EVENING, ' MAY 24, to the second hares,l the judge, and towards expenses, is 6AIIIOI. The defeat of Umpire warn a gnat dimmungesseat to the American party, who had ailed with moth madam vas being enabled to carry the . chaanpica's bah and the Mae Asa of the turf to America. Prier to the rem, the owner of Nutbourne lodged an objection against Umpire, on the ground that the horse was not of the age described. Kr. Merry was warmly congratulated on the moors of his hane, sad it is said that be wins in bete alone upwards of 70,0001. Nutbourne broke down when running very pro minently. Ten kauon PLATE, of 50 son. ; 3-yr-olda, 7.t 41b; four, Iht 10lb ; fire, Pet 21b ; six and aged, 31b ; certain allowarns. The winner to be sold far 200 sore., if de- Yr. T. Parr's Nerlo, S yrs, Tet llb (Clement) 1 • Brsyley's Peseatore, I pa, TA lib (Prior) 2 • AngeU s Watervliet*, $ /TS, SA 1111) (am OA UM) The following also ma f by Z ar b r ob I —Old B Rowley's dam, Coatmet, Lady Emily, Gambill, sad Nada. Betting : 5 to 4 apt Contract, 4 to 1 ept aay otbsr (ar). Wetenprite made the running to the half distance, whoa Gormhill showed in front. Opposite the Stand 'Nue muse with a rush, and won easily by • length ; half a length be twee the second and third ; the filly by Nabob was fourth, °retract and Lady Emily next, Apollo and Candy the two Let. Teti SZNTINCIE PLATS of 50 soya. (handicap) ; winners extra. Three-quarters of • mile. Kr. Drummond's YoWks by Windhound llyys, let .m) Mr. Saxon's White Rose S let 5ib..... (W. - 41dgley) . Awards) • r. rule nose. 3 pa. 2 Lord Stamford's lava. pa, Ost Rb (A. &leant') 3 The following also ran : Berke, Lord Paimerston, Dapple, Joyease, Vitals, The Rock, The Fawn. G. Ford ham weighed for Brandy Ball. The horse, however, did act go to the poet. Belting: 6 to 4 apt Lava, sto 1 &gat Yoicks, 6 to 1 seek apt The Fawn and White Rose. Lava made the =wig to the dleinnee, when Yoicks took it ap ; the three placed thee had the ace to themselves, Yoicks winning by a bad; two lengths between the second and third. Tni Bernal 'Ulna, of 5 soya. each, with 30 added. ° V il lierry asa s i ll i enittcts e eS, out of a Vett ire (*V SA Sib (ear ) (Daisy) 1 Mr. G. Hard's ka•atJars, t yes (4111), let Sib (oar let 916) (J. Adams) Mr. Newland@ Chamois*, 4 yrs (401.), 7st 11ID (0. Fordhara) S The following also raa :—Viaes, Little Nat, Tar, Biddy Nutta, Wee Polly, Macbeth, Bin to Remedy, Rokeby, Thd• worth, Quarantine, and Foretop Betting : 2 to 1 scat the Vest lily, 4 to 1 apt Chanoine. 6 to 1 each apt Biddy Matta, Wes Polly, and Quarantine. The Vest filly made all the runs*, and woe by three lengths, same between the second sad Qhd. PROGRAMME OF TO-MORROW. Tax Omr.a Braun of . 50 sows. sick h ft, for 3-yr-old lies, Ast nh ; the owner of the awed 11/1y to !weave 100 move. out of the stakes. The winner to pay 100 soft. towards the police and regulations of the cow's, and 90 soya. to the judge. The hurt mile and a half of the New Course. __ THE Hcantrr Symms of 50 son. each, h ft, for 2-yr olds ; colts, Bst 716 ; and fillies, Pet 31b.: maidens at start ing, if they have run enoe, allowed 31b ; twice or more, 1511 i. Three quitters of a mile.—Calcutta, Lava, Arrogant. nu Dunne= Orem, of 5 OM. 0•011, with 100 added, for 3-yrolds, 7st ; four, Art 10lb ; five, 9st 31b ; six aid aged, yet 51b ; mares and geldings allowed 3lb ; horses that have never woo above the value of 501., or received 101. for running second previous to the time of s , to bo allowed weight in the following proportions :—ta olda, 31b ; four, 81b ; five, 10lb ; six and aged, 141 b (mate not to be reckoned as winnings) ; the winner of the Derby, Oaks, or St. Leger in any year, to carry 10lb extra; th e second for either of those races, or the winner of the Ascot, Goodwood, or Doncaster Cups, or any sweepstakes of the value of 50W. clear (matches and handicaps excepted) in any year, to carry 61b extra ; the winner to be sold for 50W. if demanded, but if exemption is claimed at the time of entrance, to carry 71b extra. Derby Course.—To close and name to the clerk of the coarse by nine o'clock this evening. TEE BETIJITH GREAT EVEMY FOAL STAKES, of 10 sous. each, with 100 added, for foals of 1857 ; colt*, fiat 716; Miles Pet 41b ; the winner of the Derby to carry 121 b ; the second in that race, or the winner of the Oaks or Two Thou sand Guineas Stakes, 81b extra. To he run after the Oaks, and fillies having started in that race without being placed, allowed 31b. The last mile of the Derby Course. (20 subs.) —The Graf, Niger, Aliptes, Vicar of Bray, General Hems, Fanny, Ebony, Error, Bab at the Bowater, Merryman, Tre vatore, LadyFalooner, South Australian, Thai° Professor, Mixture, EQuiptose, Quatro Brea, f by Wert iustralian— Boarding_ Schoo l M The Lady of the Lake, THE GLASGOW PLATE of 50 SOYS. (handicap), for all ages ; say winner after publication of the weights to carry Sib extra. Any number of hones the property of the same owner may run for this plate. Entrance, 2 son. (Half a mile.)—Tthe weights to be published this evening. THE DERBY AND OAKS &AIM of 5 son. each, with 30 added; two-yr-olds, fat 121 b; three, Bst 101 b; four, get nb six, and aged, 9st Alb ; mares and geldings allowed 31b ; hoses having started once at this meeting sad been beaten, allowed 31b ; twice, 51b. The winner to be sold for 120 soya., but if entered to be sold for 80, allowed 71b ; 80, 141 6 ; 5,211 b over and above other allowances ; the winner to be sold by auction immediately after the race, and any surplus over the selling price to go to the fund. (Half a mile.) To close and name to the clerk of the course by nine o'clock this evening. THE EWELL PLATE of 50 WIS. (handicap), for all Agee: any winner after the publication of the weight. (matches excepted) to carry 51b extra. Any number of horses the property of the UMe owner may run for this plata. Entrance, 2 son. (One mile.)—The weights to be published this evening. Wasrmurernt New BRIM/E.—Mr. Page the engineer to her Majority's Commissioners of Worlu and Buildiap, under whose immediate superintendence the new bridg i iii r being constructed, has devised a plan by which the old may be pulled down without Inconvenience to the pis lc traffic, to effect which • large body of workmen are engaged in ooruitructing a temporary wooden bridge for foot passengers only, to the eastward of the old bridge. The centre portion has already been completed, and the piles fur its extension to the Lambeth side are being driven. Thin foot-bridge will be approached from the re. cease. on the Surrey and Middlesex side, and when com pleted the demolition of the old bridge will be pemoeeded with rapidly. The site of the extended to the Dew bridge from the Middlesex side is being cleared by the purchasers of the materials of those houses in Bridge-street recently sold, it being the intention of the oommusioners to alletthe approach with the lout possible delay. e wirruen Ausar.—We believe we have already announced that a sale of this property will take place at the Auction Mart in London on the 13th of June. On the me of its transfer to strange hands we would call the attention of all who take an interest in the matter to an able sketch of the abbey ruins, demean., and pleasure pentads- and particularly of the numerous objects in the noble mansion associated with the memory of Lord boon which appears it the Nottinghamshire Guar dian of Thursday last, under the title of a "pity-image to Homestead Abbey," and which occupies a page al that journal. In taking leave of the old abbey, the writer con cludes by givingthe following facto gleaned from the part& culius of isle :—" The abbey, park, gardens, pleasure grounds, shrubberies, and offices, cover an area of 836 a. 3r. Ilp. ; woods and plantations within the park, 196 a. 3r. lip. ' • lakes and ponds within the perk, 47a. 3r. 13p. ; woods and plantations without the peek, 628 a. Or. Bp. ; cottages, yards, gardens, and keepers' houses, Ba. Ir. 15p. ; twelve farms and a quarry, 1,709 a. Or. 27p.—otal, 3,22t5 3r. Ip. The total annual outtoings, for land-tax and other charges, amount to only 5 91 . Os. 10d. Among the undeveloped resources of this great property, it niay be mentioned that, within • line co south of one of the farms called "The Hays," which, proceed i lig northward, describes a half circle, terminating on the cast side of the river Leen, beyond the Wear Mille Farm, there le said to be valuable coal at the depth of about 112 yard; the quantity being about 700 acres. A statement like thin, which holds out the prospect of a " black diamond" El Drado, I. well worthy the attention of the capitalist. With respect to the tenants—some of whom can refer to the occupancy of the farms by their families for many generations-- it may be truly said that they are substantial, intelligent, and im proving aviculturists, who seem determined to keep abreast et these goes-had times. The sale • 111 the 13th of June will only dispose of the abbey, illusion, and estate, with possibly certain articles in the mansion at a valuation. We understand it ham not yet been determined what course is to he pursued with reference to the great majority of the contents of the building." ALLZORD KIDNAPPING OF • SAILOR. —At the Liverpool Police Court yesterday (Wednesday) Captain Seevey, of the American ship Wernouth,jwas charged with kidnapping one of the sailors of her 1,64.4?• ship Majestic. The sailor said that while on shore, re Wye, be became intoxicated, and remembered nothiag until he found himself on board the Weymouth in • bath. He told thecaptain that be belonged to the Majestic, but the captain took no notice. Captain Scevey, in his defence, said that he shipped the 311&11 in the ordinary way, and that he an entire day upon the ship without making any remark. This was oorrohurated by the pilot on beard. The mins was dismissed. Honnis 04x;t: nainwz. —A shocking &Mile oc curred in the neighbourhood of Ifizirgowris, on the fora. noes of Thursday last. A man Harnett John Heron, • baker, last his two children, a boy mid girl, on the bridge, proceed bg to school, and induced them to walk up the river side with him to • place where the waters are confined by rocks Ina narrow channel. On reaching the spot, he seised the hey, . threw him into the torrent, and then =ho t. % Ilk arms, sprang after him. The boy w thrown up by the water on • ruck in the middle of the diegai, where biz cries attracted the attention of several pinces in the neighbourhond, who promired 'elders, and I sitar wwwidermble difficulty rescued him. The father and eweghter, however, were drowned. The bodies have not rot him found. The boy states that when his father ti floating past be trial to pull him off the rock into the . - The system of " hocussing" sailors end then plutot pm.lial them oo board ship ": al Ord muse Virrh ' is enN week be the subject of megisterial ineeengstiom FINE ARTS. PICTURES BY ROSA BONREUR. Five &turas, by the painter of the famous "Horse Fair," have been thought sufficient attrac tion to form a separate exhibition at the "German Gallery," New Bond-street, in a room adjoining the exhibition of Holman Hunt's great picture of the " Finding the Saviour in the Temple." They are en titled "Soenes in Scotland Spain, andFranee." The first is " A Scottish Raid . 4 A herd of our savage looking hardy northern cattle and a drove of sheep (or rather rams principally), the spoils of a night foray, are being goaded in hot haste over a .!..ed unfrequented tract of moorla n d. Thep uzaW in quiring look of a bull in the foreground sniffing the , morning air with his wet nose, and drawn up as if to dispute the liberties taken with him, is • fine study of animal character. The other foaming and exhausted animals are almost equally well charac terised, and the rough textures of their coats perfectly rendered. There is a regrettable want of finish, however, in the Highlanders, and some other portions. " Spanish Bouricairos," or asses, cross ing the Pyrenees, is the beet painting in the present exhibition. The pack-laden asses pick their way over the wretched primitive road with the quiet surefootednees of these humblebut useful creatures; their sly, wily, patient eyes twinkle ; their bells jingle ; and their quaint tasselled trappings add to the native drollery of their appearance. Their lazy drivers, or rather leaders, beguile the long journey with a song, and it is pretty plain which is and which tenor. The snow-capped Pyrenees rise in the background, a moor lies on the right, and a few patches of sparse, scrubby, bri stl ing vegetation diversify the foreground. The fore shortening of the donkeys is singularly success ful. There is an unusual sunniness, without much forcing of the shadows, in this picture. " Denizens of the Highlands " is an effective re presentation of three Ryloes, with startled look and fierce eyes, looming out of a Scotch mist. "A Highland Shepherd is a little picture of a shepherd leading his flock through a pleasant pasturage. The great charm of all these works is their perfect naturalness and entire freedom from any taint of conventionalism. The last picture is a French huntsman on a spirited hack, superin tending the oonveyance, in a sort of cart or "trap," of the hounds to cover. This a well-finished picture —the different actions of the horses, according to their breed, very skilfully discriminated. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. OXFORD, MAT 23. WADHAM COLLEOL —This morning the following gentlemen were elected scholars and exhibitioners of this society, viz.—Scholars : Frederick Charles Embents, from Feldesd Grammar School; Charles Ridley Carr, from Durham School ; George Candy, from Islington School. Proxima Accoieit : Arthur Henry Harington, of this so ciety. flomenwale Exhibitioner: Arthur Henry Harington, of this society. Goodridge Exhibitioner : Edward John Turner, of this society. The number of candidates was twenty.six. NAVAL AND MILITARY. CHATHAM, MAT 23. The following officers at this garrison have been selected to embark for India with the reinforcements 19th Regiment: Lieutenant C. J. Bockats, Ensigns C. C. B. Tribe sad H. Stokes ; 20th Regiment: Lieutenant' C. H. Web ster and C. Faye, and Ensigns T. A. Davies and Z. Ma outlay ; 23rd Royal Welsh Fusiliers: Ensigns A. P. Hutch inson sod W. H. Adams ; 24th Regiment:Lieutenant H. C. Ma/sack, Ensigns W. Blander and H. T. Bronnekar 35th Regiment: Ensigns W. Poste and W. Talon ; 43rd Light Infantry: Lieutenant H. C. Gorton, Ensigns L Hillier' end R. M. Tod; 52nd Light Infantry: Ensigns L Pakenham, V. E. Knox, E. S. Ker, H. F. Barker, and F. E. Dowler ; 73rd Regiment: Lieutenant W. Clarke, Ensigns B. J. A. Monsen, H. Synge, and W. H. Richardson ; 75th Regiment : Ensigns H. P. Dawson and A. S. Leathern; 77th Regiment : Captain W. J. Cnlen, Lieutenant A. T. Butts, Ensigns 0. H. Blount, and E. N. Mosley ; 81st Regi ment : Captain K J. Lowe, Eaaips H. Matunn and R. J. Msalonnell ; 91st Regiment: Ensign R. B. Wesley. ADMIRALTY, MAY 22. —APPOINTRIART. —SeCOIId Claw. Assistant Engineer G. T. Gibbs, to the Bacchante. The examivation of candidateKi for admission to the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, by the Council of Military Education, takes place in the Royal Hospital, Chelsea ; commences on Monday, J une 4, and will extend over the five following days. The next examination of candidates for admission to the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, is to be held before the Council of Military Education, at the Royal Hospital, Chelsea, on Saturday, the 30th proximo, and will terminate on the 14th of that month. The exami nation of candidates for direct commissions by the Council of Military Education is appointed to commence at the Royal Hospital, Chelsea, on Wednesday, the 20th proximo, and will occupy six days. The Adjutant-Gemara], Sir James Yorke Scarlett, has issued a circular memorandum to the army at home and abroad, dated the 14th instant, wherein it is stated that the General Conuranding-in-Chief desires it may be unienitood " that no soldier who has been sentenced to the forfeiture of all advantages from future service is to be restored to the first class, until after the expiration of one year from the date of his being relieved from the con sequences of such sentence." Screen or • LirgarOOL Bicogrg. —Mr. Frede rick liobitoson, metal booker, of Liverpool, committed sui cide at the Scariabrick Arms Hotel, Southport, on Tuesday morning, whilst in a state of mental derangement. The deceased was found suspended by a strap to the curtain rail of his bed about half-past ten in the morning. Two doctors were immediately sent for, but their sermon proved of no avail, as the unfortunate gentleman had been dead some hours. The sum of 191. Its. tai. was found in his pocket, together with the following memorandum :—" Sairi•briek Arms Hotel, May 21.—Brain fearfully congested. Take me home to LiverpooL Chah in pocket, 191. As. Gil." SHUCKINO OCCUILILINCE.—A few weeks ago a sad occurrence happened to a poor fellow, a pilot, who fell overboard from a pilot•bosit engaged with the British mail steamer Karnak, coming out of Nassau harbour; and although assistance was speedily' rendered by throwing over board an oar, to which he laid hold, he, after piteously watiout to his mates, " For hod's sake save me !" was lilhe oar carried down by an enormous shark and never seen again. A few days after the fatal accident a shark was e r atured in Kaman harbour, and, on being opened, the I • 's right hand and wrist, with a portion of his shirt by which the hand was identified), a goat's heed with horns nine inches long, and a turtle's head, were found in the belly. The hand, he., have been given to the poor fellow's relatives.—es NI 'preload Parquet. ALLOTMENT Or FREEHOLD LAND AND GROUND Riegle—The allotment of the Conservative Land Society's estate at Oxford took place yesterday at the society's offices in Norfolk-street. The property is about a mile from the city, and is laid out into about sixty building lots, for villas and other houses. Early rights were sold to secure plots on this agate. Several freehold ground rents on the Battersea estate, let on building lease of 99 years, were also offered to the inembers,and taken by early right* of choice. GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY. —The adjourned extraordinary meeting of this company was held on Tues day at the railway station, King's-cnsei ; Mr. G. H. Parke, M.P., in the chair. The Chairman stated that the extra ordinary meeting held • fortnight ago had been adjourned to that day for the consideration of the remaining bills on their list, in compliance with the standing orders of the House of Lords. The only bill he had to submit for their appro,el was • bill for establishing railway communication between Bedford and Cambridge, and for other purposes. The bill was promoted by an independent company for power to oonstruct • railway from the London and North-Western line at Bedford to Cambridge, end to form • junction with the Great Northern Emil way at Sandy ; also to authorise contracts to be entered into between the proposed °emptily and the Great Northern and other companies for working the traffic, and for the interchange and forwarding of traffic, and the divi sion and apportionment of the receipts arising therefrom. It was a railway in which they were in no way intereated, except as to its pulsing across their line at Sandy, and form ing a junction with it. Mr. Leech, the solicitor, read the heads of the bill mid the clauses relating to the Great North. ern, Loudon and North Western, and Eastern Counties Railway Companies. The company were to have power to purchare a short railway made by the late Captain Peel, and to use the Redford station a the London and North Western Company, and the Cambridge station of the Eastern Comtism Railway Company. A formal resolution approving the bill was carried unanimously, and the meet ing separated. CRYSTAL PALACE.--ONE SHILLING DAT.—WED , NISDAY, MAY 21.—Admissions on payment, 2,580; ditto by mason tickets, 689 ; total visitors, 3369. [Advertisement. I—ON THR Una or TER= AND SoLoose Term, and as DOW restored by the new patent system of self.adheslon without springs, wires or ligatures, sad also without extracting any teeth or mote. or any painful operation, by means of a soft and flexible gum, thus ensuring the most per fect self.asihesion. the result of 20 yearn' practice by Thomas Howard, surgeon-dentist to his Orace the Archbishop of Canter. bury. The invenUon is of importance to many persons, and those interested in it should reed this treatise. Just published. fly Ahtipklst and !Unbolt. the Math edition, prior Is.. and sold by all booksetlers. or sent peek Nee by Mr. Howard, IT. George street. Hanoterwsuare, London. We think it would be as act of kindness to present this book to any friend who may require the aid of • dentist."--Cheltenhern Journal. " Thla useful t rs .u e we can st r ongly recommend . the remarks on artificial Meth are especially deserving attention."—Brighton Gaseße. 1860. ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH CABLE. TO THZ EDITOR OW THE EXPRESS, &imam to those whose money and Labour have been so freely amd, in aped to the interests of science, so effectually expesda in solving the problem of telegraphic communication begwees Ireland and America, I trust you will permit me to make a few remarks upon some etatements injunously affecting the Atlantic T Company, winch have appeared recently in the com e s le ire ft e: report of an interview of certain persona with Lord Palmer. ston on the subject of a proposed survey of the coast. of Greenland and Iceland. Those statements were as follows _ . . . I. That the Atlantic Telegraph ham been a failure. 2. That the supposed failure hie considerably shaken the eonfidenoe of scientific electricians in the possibility of • direct line between England and America. 3. That the cable of the Atlantic Telegraph Company is 3,000 miles in length. 4. That the recent discoveries in electrical science show that it is almost impracticable to work through that cable or any cable, of similar length at • commercial profit. There is no foundation whatever for any of these asser tions ; and, with your permission, I desire to say a few words respecting each of them. The Atlantic 'Telegraph is not a failure. Its success will ever be eminentas the great scientific triumph of the pre. sent day, especially when it is considered what was the state of telegraphic knowledge at the time it originated. Its value was amply demonstrated by the important massages it conveyed while in wo rking order, and its ceasing to work was neither caused by "long sea routes," "stormy and deep oceans," nor any other came which a Greenlend line or any shorter sea circuit would remedy, but simply because a fault, unperceived before submersion, has subserjuently developed to such an extent that , until rt can be need and repaired, the current is unable to pass along the conductor. But there is no intention to abandon the undertaking on that account ; on the contrary, the time that has been afforded for reflection and experiment has brought to light the fact that greater facilities than have been believed in by the most eanguine do actually exist for the safe and permanent establishment of telegraphic communication between Ire land and America. After careful and long consideration therefore, and after bringing to bear upon the subject all the results of past ex perience, it his been determined, in the first instance, to attempt to restore communication across the Atlantic by means of the original cable during the present summer, and an expedition bas already been sent out for that Pur Alrrtia good reason to hope that along all the deep sea portion of the routes the insulation will be found even more perfect than when the cable was laid, and recent expe rience in lifting shows that with judicious management cables can be recovered in anything like moderate depth. with much greater ease and safety thee heretofore wsa thought possible. It u equally inaccurate to state that the present state of tho Atlantic cable has shaken the confidence of any tele graphic electrician whose opinion would be of the least value as to the practicability of a direct line between Ireland and America. On the contrary, the laying of that cable and its success have given an extraordinary stimulus to electrical studies; and the laws of electrical conduction, ioduction,and retardation are now becoming so well and clearly developed that there would be no lack of electricians of the highest scientific position who would undertake to work the existing cable continuously at a very handsome and remunerative speed if it can be once again restored to order. The assertion that the Atlantic cable is 3,000 mike long is a gross misstatement. Its length from shore to shore, including slack, does not exceed 2,060 miles; and u the circulation of inaccuracies upon this point, in connexion with supposed advantages of the Danish mute, is calcu lated to deceive the public, I beg to annex for comparison the distances and advantages by the two mutes, irrespective of georraPhical and nautical considerations, between Lou dest and the telegraphic system of Amerim. BY TEI ATLANTIC COMPAIreB ROUTE. Miles. Land line all constructed and working, Len- --- don to Valentia, not exceeding GOO Sea line, including stick cable BY 11011 DANISH ROOM London to Inverness Inverness acmes the Sutherland mountains to Cape Wrath l9O Came Wrath to Faroes 3OO Faroe* to Iceland 3OO Across Iceland Iceland to South Gremdand 650 Acme Greenland lOO Greenland to Labrador Over the unexplored ecentry d Labrador by the nearest route to join the American system, at the least SOO 3478 Add 15 per cent. of slack to the sea portions --- - of the line 3773 To work this line of nearly four thousand miles at any remunerative speed would require relays at each broken point, in all not less than fourteen sets of relays, to be worked in synchronous connection each with each. These separate links, especially from their circuitous course, find south to north, then east to west, and lastly north to south, would, more than in any other quarter of the earth, be sub ject to the adverse influences of earth currents, magnetic storms, aurora borealis, accidents, and other disturbing causes, always more . incident to long and frequently broken circuit., and any one of which would destroy for days the synchronous working of the relay system, sod reduce the operation at least to one of slow and tedious repetition from station to station. The statement, therefore, that the mi. 'dream, or oven the avenge, speed through a circuit of such • character, would be anything like 20 words per minute, is, to ray the least, a very hold assertion. But by the Atlantic cable a massage would leap at one bound from the Old World to the New, and could be transmitted day by day at the rate of twenty words per minute if necessary, through • new cable, constructed in aceordance with that knowledge which the experience of the Atlantic Telegraph Company has brought to bear ou this subject, and would find at its terminus direct wires and special facilities for its further transmission to what ever part of the American continent it might be destined. In the instance, too, of the Ireland and Newfoundland route the message would pass throughout from one portion of her Majesty's dominions to another, and would only be repeated at Valentin ; while, by the Danish route, it would be imposaible to gwirantee either secrecy or despatch, espe cially as it is, I believe, a part of the scheme that a direct cable is ultimately to be taken from the Faroe. to Denmark, without communication with this country. Neither is there any foundation for the statement that the recent discoveries in electrical science have shown, or in the least tended to show, that the cable from Ireland to Newfoundland would be at all difficult to work at a largely remunerative rate, and it betrays great wont of scien tific knowledge, to say the least of it, that such a statement should be advanced by persons who profess to be so well acquainted with Atlantic telegraphs, when the well known fact remains that although previously to the actual submersion of the original cable there were sumo few who doubted its working capabilities, it is now admitted not only that that cable, if it be repaired, will become an ex ceedingly valuable poverty, but that as to future cables of the same length the application of a very simple and incon trovertible scientific law into their construction, and the use of suitable instruments for the reception of the electric sig nals through them, will enable the telegraphist to attain a weed so accelerated as to far outstrip in practical and con tinuous working the apparently plausible but really trouble some and expensive system of short and broken circuit.. The whole question of deep sea telegraphy has however during the past eight months been under earnest consider. tion and investigation by a committee appointed by the government for that purpose. Every gentleman whose position and experience in telegraphic matters enable him to afford information has been examined. Experiments upon all the important points requiring further examination have been made, and the result, verbatim, will, I expect, be shortly laid before parliament, and will illustrate the per fect practicability of deep and long sea telegraphs far better than anything I can say on the subject. In desiring of you the favour of inserting these remark+, I wish it to he understood that their only object is to place the Atlantic Telegraph Company in its fair position as an earnest labourer in a great and well-considered work, and to remove as far as possible the injurious effect of assertions sod imputations which wore uncalled for and inaccurate. I further desire it may be understood that what I have said is in Ito way dictated by any spirit of hostility to the proposed covey of the Northern Atlantic or any other telegraphic route. On the contrary, the Atlantic Telegraph Company itself some considerable time since applied to the government on this very subject of further ocean surveys, and it is only a feeling of deep interest in the ultimate con nexion of England and Americo by one or other, or both, of the routes, if practicable, which induces me to remark upon this point that if her Majesty's government does consent to incur the expense of making Arctic or other surveys, great care should be taken that these surveys are made in a per fectly independent and complete manner, and that the results should be accessible for the benefit of the whole world. I would further remark that any survey of the Greenland coast, with the view to ascertain its capabilities as a cable station, would not be is the least conclusive or satisfactory if it does not embrace at least eight or nice monde resident examination of the coast on loch sides ; as the practica bility of that route for telegraphic purposes will depend, not merely upon tko possibility of laying the cable, but upon the probability of its remaining intact, and the facili ties for repairing it when broken.-1 ani, GEO. SAWARI), Secretary of the Atlantic Telegraph Company. 22, Old Bread-street, London, May 19. COPPER DISCOVERIES IN CANA DA.—WO have favourable aeeounss of the copper mines et Acton. The Montreal Adrertiare states that Mr. Sleeper, the lessee, la terals to quarry and dress a block of copper We for the ex hibition of several tons weight, a specimen of the mineral riches of Canada which cannot he equalled by the whole srorlit He offsrs, also, to supply the government at • moderate price with blocks large enough to punish skin for the decoration of the interior of the parliament build ing. at Ottawa. Polished slabs of variegated ore would make • magnificent decoration, vastly rn,re beautiful than the Cud malachite.—Canaiton News. Rab; Intditgnict. INSOLVENT DEBTORS COURT.—MAY 23. (Before the Chief Commissioner.) The learned commissioner sat to-day and heard some bail eases. A surveyor, who had been connected with several railway projects. was allowed bail till the bearing. The court on its rising adjourned for the Whitsuntide recess. THE POLICE COURTS. GUILDHALL. The following extraordinary application was made to Alderman `Salomon in a matter which originated in this court some two or three months ago, on which occasion foreigner named Gutkind was charged with fraudulent bankruptcy. From the nature of the charge it was apple. handed that if the prisoner wars liberated on bail he would not surrender at the trial, and the magistrate, therefor e , was exceedingly particular in examining into the stability of the securities offered ; and a um.iber of persons who were tendered as bail were rejected. The most strenuous exertions were made to obtain the bankrupt's release, which, as is usual when application is made to a judge at chambers, was readily accomplished, the bail which were rejected at this court being accepted by the judge apps. rently without any inquiry ; and when the trial was called on at the Central Criminal Court, the bankrupt was accordingly non est inventus. A warrant for his apprehension was immediately placed in the hands of Bull, the detective officer, who has endea voured to retake him, but without @access. Mr. Isaacs cow applied on behalf of Mr. Batman and Mr. Abrahams, the two bail whose reoagnisancee have been estreated, for a warrant or a summons against a person named Benham, for conspiring with Outidnd to induce the present complainants lg n alse rar geteoces to become bail for the bankrupt t o , so i t afterwards enable him to escape from this coup. try, and so appeared, e sends of justice. Alderman Salomon, said it was a very singular apt cation to make, as it was the duty of the had to satisfy themelves by inquiry before becoming responsible for the aP rr ance a s:id m rl7a c t h a g : d lie i n n ta th shweurec offence.nUerirr,yte k. =tations of Benham, who, without being a solicitor, Gutkind's legal adviser in the matter, and under. took to give them an indemnity as a provision against the bankrupt's absconding. Alderman Salomon' said he presumed the only reme d y the bail would have against Benham under the peculiar circumstances Wes by civil action to obtain the indemnity. They became bail with their eyes open, and must take the consequences, for he really could not see how he could grant a summons. He would, however, read the information, which had been sworn to for the imposes of this applica tion, and give his decision on Thursday. WESTDUNSTEIi. A solicitor attended a .-- titiscOn;t)eSterday, on the sub iect of bail for William Robertson, described as a ship and insurance broker, 38, Cridched-friars, who stands charged with oonspirinwith Jana Denniatount, of 33, Great Tower-street, to defraud the assignees of Theodore Hyla Jennens, papier mache manufacturer, Halkin-etreet West, of goods to the value of 271. A summons bad been.oh. tamed against the defendants on the 3rd inst., made retura able on the Bth, when, however, the accused did not attend, and Knowland, the summoning officer, reported that he had seen Robertson ' s mother at the address in question, who said he was not there, and on to 33, Tower-street, Dennistoune's landlord informed him that Dennistoune had taken a room there for an office, but never used it, in conse quence of which representations Mr. Pander grunted war rants for the apprehension of the accused, and Robertson was captured in the City on Tuesday afternoon. The Solicitor said, that while he proffered Mts. Robert , son, the defendant's mother, as ball for his reappearance, he begged to say that there was no reluctance on the part of Mr. Robertson to meet this charge. He (the solicitor) had communicated with Mr. Turner (one of the solicitors to the assignees) on the subject of the defendant's attend. ' ing before the magistrate, when Mr. Turner urged that he had some business which would render it in2onvenient for him to make any appointment. He (the accused's solicitor) however made an appointment for three the next day, when his client did not attend ; but he must repeat that Mr. Robertson had no wish to avoid inquig. Mr. t'aynter thought the circumstance of his non-appear. ance did not show that. The Solicitor urged that that was attributable to the fact of the defendants not being made acquainted with the appointment in time. The business which Mr. Robertson carried on had been conducted at the house, 38, Crutched• friars, for the last 60 years, and his mother, who was pre. sent, was occupier of that and another house in the same neighbourhood. Mr. Paynter said the statement made by the summoning officer, Kuowland, certainly did not show a great desire on the part of the accused to meet the charge, for when Know. Led went to 38, Crutched-frian, he could not find him there, and had been in quest of him no leis than nine times. Mrs. Robertson, the mother, said her son only lived with her occasionally. The Solicitor having offered her as one surety in the double amount of 401., Mr. l'avnter refused to take her singly, observing that a man who represented a firm of 60 years' stending,jf he were respectable, could not have much difficulty in procuring the required sureties. In addition to Mrs. Robertson, he must have another bail, and notice must be given to the police in order that inquiries might be made. MARKETS. COTTON.—Lrviarooh, MAY 23.—Our market is ex tremely fiat to-day, ands very small business has been done without change in prices. The males are 5,000 bales—in cluding 3,500 American, at 41d- to 50.; 1,000 Surat, 3jd. to 44t1 ; 100 Eg3iian, 81d. to 9d. ; 320 Fermin, nth to 84d. ; 80 Rabin, 7}d .—of which 300 are for speculation and export. The we ek a import is 82,800 bales. CORN.-13oerros, MAT 23.—The supply of wheat MY fair at our market. Farmers asking 2.. advance, which checked the trade. Ultimately Is. advance was in most cases obtained, the market closing dull. Scarcely any spring cure on offer, and last week's rates supported. Red wheat, 53... to 56e. ; white, 565. to 59a. Srocsvotr-os-Tsita, MAY 23 —The arrivals of grain during the past week are large. At our market this morning we had a small supply of wheat, which sold at an advance of Is. to 2a. per quarter. Oats and barley in good demand at last week's prices. Flour ls. dearer. Imports during the past week :—Wheat, coastwise, 450 qrs. ; foreign, 1,270 qrs. Barley, foreign, 980 qrs. Oats, coast wise, 902 qrs. ; foreign, 5,280 qrs. LEATHER AND HIDES.—The supply of leather this week at Leadenhall has been limited, but the demand also being small the transactions have not been large, and merely for immediate wants, at previous prices. At the public sales bust week of raw hides a slight reduction in the prices of Australian took place. About 60,000 East India, out of the 84,000 offered, were sold at former rates. In all other articles there was no alteration in prices. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. VESSELS SPOKEN WITH. Anna Mary (brig', for Quebec, April U. Entitt!slaat, from Antigua for Loudon, May 20, lot 49 N, -7W - . Ern,hrir, of London, steering south, April 10, on the Line, lat Ye W. , - . . Harry Hammond, for Boston, May 7, lat 49 N, lon 9 W. Kyanite ,harquej, Handtord, of Plymouth, 14 days. from London, Sandi W SIPA. of North Shields, May 8. off the Azores. Sardinian ,ship), from Liverpool, May 17, lat 49 N, lou 8 W. BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS. BIRTHS ABDY.—May 19, at Ramsey, Middlesex, the wife of J. T. Alk ly, Veg., LLD., of a son. ATKINSON.—May 20, at Hollinwood Parsonage, Manchester, the Hon. Mrs. J. A. Atichwou, of a goo. BU RitoWl94.—May 21, at (Hamster-terrace, Hyde-park, the wife o P. Harmsen. Tao, of Win.. HARBWOOD.—May at at iIIIDOVIK-Sqllare, the Countess of Harewood, of a daughter. ERMP.—Nay ti), at Beachwood. Rochdale, the wife of 0. T. Kemp, Ly , of a daughter.. LOVELL-11,4y 21, at Carudeu.road.vUtas, the wife of G. Lovell. Ly of a sou. ROMB ILL .: .-11my 20, at Vletoria.pork, Manchester, the wife of ‘; ion. TAIT.—May 21, at Queen Aanewtreet, the wife of R. Tait, RN, of a daughter. VALIANT-CU MAIING.—May 20, at Percy Lodge, Canipden hill, the wile of Captain L M. Valtaut-Cumming, of a daughter. MARRIAGES. ELLERTON—IIART.—May 10, at the parish church. Brighton, hy the Rev. W. U. Rut, M.A., the ker. J. RlSerton, It A., Rector of Crowe-green, Cheshire, to Charlotte Alicia, daughter of W. Hart, Req., of Brighton. PRANICA—BARNARD.—May 10, at Trinity Church, Manic bone, by the Rev. J. Amos, J. J. Frank,. . of Uloucester. to suplibt Phipps, daughter of the late T. P. B.irtiaul. Vow of Padmigiek. LAMB—DOBSON.—SIay 20, at St. Martin's, Birmingham, by the Her. Y. S. Dale. Mr. J- Lamb, to Patience, daughter of Mr. J. Don, both of M olverliampton. 111:SSON—WAKEVIELD.—Ilay 19, at the parish church, Rt. Slarylubone, the Iter. Y. Mara on, of Halifax. Yorkshire, to Clara 141111084, daughter of the late K. Wakeneld, Seq.. of Ludlow, Salop. PKNDLEBUKY—HALL.—May 20, at the exthefind. Manchester. by the Kee. W. W. Johnston, M.A., Mr. J. Penfilehury, of Bury, to Martha, daughter of Mr. J. 11all, of Louggile. DEATHS. CASTLEY.—May 10. at the ltoctory, Cavendimh, Suffolk, the Rev. I'. Ciustley, A.M., sued 10. DICRHY. —May 21, at ffeerge-street, Portman-.quire,C. Derby, KN.. aged et. DWAlitglos. - slay 20, at Euelmton-stittam, Sir V. Pwarris, Knt., F aged 73. 11014.—Ilay 19, at Hastings. A. P. Hoe, Ilgea 41. WCALLAN. —Lay 20, At 'flour square, Brutupton, J. Weal. lan, aged W. at North Vll l 4, Itegent'.4park, MaJor-General et, M South perk, Ilfool, Wm. Itayment, thini son of the late James Rat ment, of Broken-wharf. Lon. don, aged 04. 8111110N8.—Ilayl 8 , at nekl-end, ilaalemere, Surrey, Charlotte, wife of J. sinuouns. lip., Med 81. Printed and Published b 7 WILLM lf,nlo UAL of Ifs $. Leuiberd Street, to the My therm Loudon, Muter. at the oflos. In Lerebsed Stow'. to ecimt of NS itlistriaa-• THU/Wei, KAT 24. tWO.