The Sun. — London, England, 1862-05-02 00:00:00

CAPE OF GOOD HOPE—AFRIC'S LIGHT (HOUSE) OF ALL NATIONS ! To the Tribute-tax-pay ers.—' Vell-Edele-Heer's— The ' Een schip Need. lot' title to command your treasury, emanates from my 1814-18 hoer-gragt visit, when Staad M o ntague-younkor and consequent lit.-rider-schaP, Stadt - bolder of Holland's Brazil Portuguese, by the De Haven Commissis' of Review election by Mello Barbacena, Ad miral Hamond, and Sir Charles Stuart de Rothsay, 29th August, 1825, on the holy alliance abolition of the Kings of Gallic, Spanish, and British Germany. Whence, as Flag-Lieutenant signing officer to the 6th July quadruple 3ty, and 22d May convention, for a new chief intermediate' of Navarino's Codrington and Egypt's Turk-pasha A li, in VacouN r u s t by the O•range-river, Hoogedel' rod Landmetcr-general, yet unregistered to the Standard cwt. of 1835 act, under my oath—disclosed to ye by the ' ti hed-jew Voltentaires' de 'l4 of GREY'S Orange man Van der Byl K. of Portugal's Pretorius toast ' God bless him' as a stamp v illegality by the Minder U brothers.' Notice! concerning the Cape' chartographe title of your Cabo', San Sebastian, Esperanza, and pacca, expli cative of the past generation of Gubernatorial succession in office as to Earl of Leicester's Lutheran-executive, 1521-72 reformatif , f or his Dutch-Bay, Struys, Vleesch, Hoet's, and Mossel Bays, whereby the present generation are enabled to note "the power marks" of historical no menclature. Hence this Forest District of George' edict, in accordance with state utility by letter received as touch ing the total commercial disregard in relation to the anchorage protection of timber-trade vessels in Mossel Bay—as based on a " Breakwater want of safety" through a prolonging of its Rocky-naze—" two points of the com pass, of more easterly bearing so as to protect the shipping from the south-east winds. Therefore as the sea conquers the land, as night in man the day. We hereby order that all public salaries beyond £2OO per annum be reduced one half from the let of May, 1861—for its application—to an instant construction of a Breakwater and temporary ' Light House'—since in this Colonie," under the British-regulus, " Cum mitre pre positus" is not in Dutch Jury-lingo to common law,§ as "Neighbour to the fact" being controuled by the Justinian Inst. coda, lib. 1 tit. 1 § 64. not of Parliamentary enactment, whence I the old adage " What's every man's business is nobod..v's" in order to Breakwater control of the disastrous Zodiacal-gales of August. Appui I qui fis donner cet'ce id‘e si grande Ala civique § fait() avec forte , Ou fort voit que jamais I'ExoLAND ne rcarchande Quand, it Taut par le sens gagner sa Liberte I • • CHARLES ' ACKERLEY, . . 1-2 Will. Iv., No. 54. Chamberlayne' sworn. • Prima BASQUET • Income Tax Chief, 1842. • China Wall circuit horizon of , - , London, May 2, 1862. See Cali Sol—The Sun of 19th and 28th. TtIEATRE-R0 A I HAYMARKET. Lessee Mr. J B. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, JOHN JONES. Alter which, at half-past 7, will be pertormed (112th B time) OUR AMERlcANTrenchard, Mr. uck stone ; Lord Dundreary, M r. Sothern. Followed by the Spanish Ballet entitted THE STAR OF ,ANDA LUS A. Senora Perea ,Nena, Senor Ricardo, and the Corps de Ballet. To conclude with 311" HUSBAND'S GHOST. Commence a 7 ..). 0Y AL LYCEUM T HEATRE. At Sole Lessee and Manager--Mr. Edmund Falconer. 145th Night of the ontinuons run of "Peep O'Day." THIS .14.:VEND G, PEEP 0' DAY ; or, Savoumeen Deelifth. Messrs. Walter Lacy, Addison, Charles Selby, Geo. Melville, and Edmund Falcone , : Mrs. D. P. Bowers, Miss Clara Weston, and Miss M. Hudson. After whi , th, a new musical, pictorial, poetical, and ballet interlude', en titled KILLARNEY. Miss Anna Whitty and Miss Lydia Thomson. To conclude with the new farce entitled I COULDN'T BEI.F IT. CharactHs by Mr. Addison, Mr. Warlow, and %has LydLa Thompson. ACting Manager—Mr. F. B. Chatterton. PriceP at UM:I. Doors ope hall-past 6, to commence at liox-ofnee nom, daily from tat ill 5. R OYAL PRIN CESS'S THEATRE. Loppee, %Tr A. H *rri THIS EVENING, THE LITTLE TREASURE. To be tollowed by, at a quarter to Eight o'clock, a new and original drama, in five acts, entitled THE GULDEN DAGGERS. Principal characters by Mr. Fecht(r, H.Widdi comb, Mr. G. Jordan, Mr. Potter, Mr. J. G. Shore, r. Cie-h -i:tart, Mr. Moreland ; M es dames Elsworthy and Carlotta Le alercq. Nr. A. Harris is happy to state that he has succeeded i n %du ing that eminent artist, Mr. W. Telbin, to give the aid of his unrivalled talent in the clncluding tableau of the drama. NENV TFIFATRE-RO YAL, ADELPHI.- Sole Proprietor and .ITanazer, Mr. B. Webster. THIS EVENING, the new don:estic drama, entitled DOT : Messrs. J. L. Toole, Emery, Billinzton. Stephenson ; Miss "Woolgar, Miss Louise Keeley, Miss H. Simms, Ste. fter which (ithtime), THE PHANTOM. Ruthyen, Mr Dion Boucicault. Messrs. 4. L. Took., Emery, Billington. Paul Vtdford, Stephenson, Sefton; Kelly, K. Bland, Laidlaw, and Mrs. Billingten. Commence at 7. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.- Sole Proprletor and Mana,c,rer, Mr. W. Batty. WonderfulPertormazice of Mr. Bell's trained Eleptants. THIS EVENING. the Grand Eastern Spectacle of THE RAJAH OF NAGPORE, tiltrodueing two colossal Asiatic Elephants, pronounced by all to be the cleverest animals ever exhibited. To be followed by brilliant and daring feats by the un rivalled Troupe 01 Equestrians. Concluding with a laughable Farce. Stage blanager, Mr. W. Searle. AND FINE NTERBURY HALL A WI'S GALLERY. The miraculous STECKEL at Ten O'clo:k. UNSWOR ru, any other man " (the original), and EUGENE, late principal comedians ot the Rumsey and Newcomb Minstrels, at a quarter-past ten o'clock. Grand Selections from "La Sonnambula," by Miss Rus sell, with Band and full Chorus, conducted by Mr. Jongh mans. Comic by Messrs. Unsworth and-Eugene, Mr. Randall, Mr. J. G. Forde, Mr. Hollingsworth, and Miss Caroline Parkes. r I HE OXFORD. 6, OXFORD-STREET.— ' d The architectural beauty, elegance of decoration, and brilliancy of lighting of this noble building render it one of the sights of London. A Musical and Miscellaneo a Enter tainment every evening.--numaey and New :ornb' a Minstrels in their "0110 of Etta - pian Oddities."—Burns' celebrated Jolty Beggars," vc-th character' tic Music c ,mposed ex pressly for Vie establishment by (aeoree "Il Trovatcre." nrsnd Selmtions from "Un Ballo in M schera , " a Norma," " Simon Boc , anegra," Arc ezo : principal vocalise is• — Mi ss Russell, Mdme. Enderssohn, Messrs. Morley, ac, and Albert. Full Band and Chorus.—musical Director, Mr. le. Jonghmsns.—A host of comic taleut, including Harvey awl French (the Nerves), and W Randa ll.--it EN RI and PFAU, whose Double Feats on the Flying Trapeze are un surpassed for daring, skill, and grace. 11 11. Rd.; Balcony and Stalls, ls. ; Private Boxes, 10s. (id. Shortly will be produced, G. A. Macfarren's " May Day," and (for the first time in England) Donizetti's "Don. Seb : Mien." • SIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tuts DAY. —Morning, 3h. 48m.—Afternoon, 4h. 5m TO.MORROw.-Morning, 4b. 23m.—Afternoon, 4h. 38m. NOTICE. All remiitances are, henceforth, to be made to Mr. JOHN CIiAPLIN, at The Sun office, 112, strand, who has been appointed, by the Lord Chancellor, Receiver and Manager of The Sun newspaper, and the outstanding debts due in respect thereof. • . .00 '` 4!? Z... \ A ~,,,- . 2, ~,-• iII: I ' ~ 4- . • i./....:•t'1,..; '!' . r.."-^- -4. " •.- '. '-- •t- - -,".";"`.:-.;;;;;; ':.'!`. 173.t-'-""i',,,z,,,..... THE SUN. LONDON, FRIDAY, MAY 2, 1862. ---o-- -- Beyond even our most sanguine expectations the opening of the Great Industrial Exhibition yester day passed off magnificently. A superb sun-bright day, to begin with, was the Ist of May, 1862. Late though the season had been but a fortnight pre ♦iously—threatening to find yet awhile "Winter lingering on the lap of May"—all through the London squares and suburban gardens yesterday the lilace were in full blossom, the laburnums budding I and the chestnut-trees thick in leaf. The largest, the busiest, the wealthiest, perhaps, in many re spects, the ugliest, certainly the most populous city in the wide world, was for once in full gala trim, and holding high holiday. Any foreigner among the multitudes now absorbed into the vast aggregate of our London population, any untravelled French man especially, who has hitherto been labouring under the impression perhaps that the atmosphere habitually breathed by the English, is a stifling yellow fog, of the consistency of very rich and nutritious pea-soup, must have had those no tions of his delightfully dissipated yesterday down at South Kensington. At intervals during the afternoon it was weather worthy of—what shall we say ? Well, of—the Elysian Fields ! That is of the Parisian's Elysian Fields, not of those of the old Greek mythole3iste. Our Reporters have already given a rapidly pencilled description in our impres sion of yesterday of thecrowding and crushing of the shoals of sight seers pouring from early daybreak to the World's Great Pair ! For once not Vanity Fair, but a Fairy Fair of all the Arts, and all the Sciences, and all the Industries brought together there (into that one huge unsightly Glass and Iron Casket) from the uttermost ends of the earth, from all the Climates, peopled by all the Races of Man — Europeans of every nation, Asiatics of every tawny shade of complexion, woolly headed Africans and fair skinned natives of the Marquesas, copper coloured aborigines of America, and darked hued specimens of humanity from our Australian Anti- podes—the Norwegian and the Mexican, the Japanese and the New Zealander jostling each other in that motley throng. There, within the precincts of that Palace of the Great International Exhibi tion, any observant visitor might, without quitting the walls of Captain FOWKES'S giant structure — an edifice incongruously remarkable for its execra- ble architecture, and its admirable engineering— anyone, we say, might there, within the course of an afternoon's stroll yesterday, realise Dr. JOHN sox's Puck-like fancy, a fancy " putting a girdle round the earth" in a single line—where the author of " London" writes— " Survey mankind from China to Peru!" There—at South Kensington, on the May day of 1862, more completely even than eleven years previously on the May day of 1851—the visitors to the Great International Exhibition could, with the utmost facility, at one central point in London, survey mankind as aforesaid, and not only be hold representatives of the whole human family of every tribe, and every creed, and every complexion, but all the products of nature brought by them from every diversity of climate, and all the products of art and manufactures collected from all the scattered emporiums of commerce. It will necessarily and, as a matter of course, take some time yet to enable us fully to realise the value, or even the general scope and character of the wonderful treasures of all kinds now emu= lated upon that one favoured spot of earth. As yet we can think seriously in its regard of little else than of the mere fact of the inauguration of our new Palace of Art and Industry. Shorn as the inaugural ceremonies necessarily were of that crowning splendour which would have been imparted to them by the attendance of royalty, an attendance rendered impossible by the irrepar. able calamity which has so recently befallen us all —the Opening of the Exhibition 'yesterday was nevertheless conducted with a pomp and ceremonial truly regal in its character, a pomp and ceremonial worthy, by their magnificence, at once of the Occa sion, of the Nation, of the Age, of the loyalty due to the absent QUEEN, of the grateful thanks " wept," according to the Poet Laureate's exquisite phrase, to the memory of the departed PRINCE, the grateful thanks " wept" to his memory by the choral chaunt of a thousand voices, and by the clang of innumerable instruments, in the pathetic harmonies of STERNDALE BENNETT. It is calculated that altogether not fewer than thirty thousand persons of both sexes, and of all ages—the pick of the " upper ten thousand" of course amongst them, in far more than their due proportion, as compared with those known familiarly amongst us as the homelier "million" assisted inside the building as spectators at the gorgeous ceremony of inaugura tion. The procession itself, of course, constitu ting the chief part of that same inaugural cere mony. The Royal Commissioners, having at their head the stalwart form and princely pres ence of his Royal Highness the Commander-in- Chief, who acted, in fact, upon the occasion as peculiarly and expressly the representative of the SOVEREIGN. For it was the Duke of CAMBRIDGE who responded briefly to the elaborate introductory or inaugural address read by the Earl GRANVILLE —the Earl's address by a curious but not ungraceful casualty being rendered partially inaudible by the distant intonation of the National Hymn of " GOD Save the QUEEN" at another part of the vast and straggling edifice. And it was the voice of H.R.H. the Duke of CAMBRIDGE that announced in high pitched accents(immediatelythe ceremonial was over) to the whole of the enormous assemblage that the Ex hibition was formally opened ! Before these ceremo nials,however. were over, before that announcement could be made by his Royal Highness, the concourse there collected together hfid hearkened in breathless silence to the prayers addressed to Heaven by the Bishop of LONDON, prayers beseeching the blessing of Heaven upon the whole of this great peaceful en terprise—an enterprise, the meaning of which, by reason of its reverential end lenignant significance, might not only ivart:y b. b . , the ‘6lcotial chorus, Gloria in excelsis DVO, ET IN TERRA FAX HOMINIBUS ! Besides the religious portion of yesterday's proceedings, the portion immediately presided over by the Bishop of LONLON, there was conspicuously heard among the musical per formances, that lent their perfecting charm to the day's events, the adoring sounds of the su blime " Hallelujah Chorus" of Handel. The Chorale of our own gifted countryman, Professor STEAN DALE BENNETT, we have already particularised— the eminently beautiful and appropriate words of that Chorale having been written expressly for the occasion by the master hand of ALFRED 'TEN NYSON. But before and after that "music, mar ried to immortal verse," had charmed the ears of the assemblage, there were performed, at the beginning and at the close of the day's proceedings, under the rhythmic baton of Mr. COSTA, two other grand original compositions, also written expressly for this memorable occasion by two of the most gifted and renowned among the Great Composers now living—an " Overture" by M. MEYERBEER, and a " March" by M. AUBER—a March worthy of the author of the Cheval Bronze and Alasaniello, and an Overture worthy of the author of the Prophete and the _Huguenots. The confusion of enjoyment that followed immediately upon the breaking up of the more formal part of the official ceremony of inauguration, perhaps, was not the least picturesque, it was certainly not the least agreeable portion of the day's incidents. The extempore picnics, with champagne and lobster salads, got up, on the spur of the moment, in the most unexpected localities—here (conveniently enough, it seemed, for any carving that might have to be done) among the cutlery of Sheffield—yonder, in the cool recess of a model railway carriage—now among the hard ware of Birmingham—now within pleasant view of the already fast-flowering gardens of the Horticultural Society. It was interesting, more over, to notice among the celebrities present the gallant Sir THOMAS TROUBRIDGE, that wreck of a hero, the sig'it of whose muti lated form wheeled up to the dais at the distribution of the Victoria Crosses drew tears from the eyes of her Majesty the QUEEN but a very few years back—it was interesting, we say, to note Sir THOMAS TROUBRIDGE yesterday hobbling on his way through the throng, with the aid merely of a stick to lean upon, placed again afoot among his fellows, thanks to the blended agency of surgical and mechanical ingenuity. Numerous other incidents might be particularized as having tended yesterday to diversify the interest attached to yesterday's celebration. Enough, however, will surely have been remarked if we but add that thanks to the Morning Post, we are enabled to present to our readers, this evening, an admirably clever and complete eutline of the ground plan of the Exhibition Building—by the aid of which plan the visitor to the Exhibition may readily and confi dently thread his way through all the mazes of that apparent labyrinth. Will Yorktown be a Sebastopol for M'CLELLAN There is some reason to think so. It is well situated for defence. The place in Lord CORNWAL• LIS' time was but a 'village, and was garrisoned with only about 6 , 000 men, of whom scarcely above 4,000 were found effective at the close of the siege; yet they held ob., hasten rather nrgenti, that relief might come, Sho, fight as resolutely, M'CLELLAN'S tae_ long one; CORNWALLIS, after nearly three siege, had but a hundred shot and shell when he surrendered, and it would have been mere cruelty to require his men, sickly and wounded so many of them, to bear a longer bombardment to which they could not reply, or to fight in assaults and sorties with a force, at least, more than three times their number, If MAGRUDER holds out till his 100,000 are in the same condition as CORNWALLIS' garrison, M'CLELLAN has his summer's work before him. It will be seen that if, as has been suggested, the American Secretary of War is beginning a canvass for the Presidency by showing as much rudeness to Englishmen as he can without being amenable to Lord LYONS' remonstrances, he is taking the right course to do it. Not only a newspaper correspond ent of the highest position, but an English Colonel of the Royal Artillery, is handled in the same pro voking manner ; and without the shadow of a pre text. Another correspondent from America ex pressed the general regret that Mr. RUSSELL did not apply for the hospitalities of her MAJESTY'S ship Rinaldo, which lies :in Hampton Roads, to watch the next engagment between the Monitor and the Merrimac; Mr. RUSSELL replies to-day, I wished to go but was refused permission ! He could not go by the usual conveyance without a permit. Permission was refused. He then wished to charter a small schooner, but was told she would not be permitted to pass Fort M'Henry. Colonel ROWAN, an officer in her MAJESTY'S service, with Mr. RUSSELL, was equally refused any means of visiting Captain HEWITT, of the Rinaldo, to whom they were both personally known. Some gentleman, " with Southern proclivities," offered to what may be termed smuggle them quite safely on board; but, we were going to say, unfortunately Mr. STANTON had to do with gentlemen, and they declined the tempting kindness. We wonder what "'cute Yankee," in a similar position , would not have gloried in " dodging" a British Secretary for War. There can be no kind of comparison between either the power of the artillery of the present day, or the numbers now engaged, and those which CORN WALLIS had ; but the attack does not appear to surpass the defence in this case, as it did when WASHINGTON, ROCHAMBEAU, LA FAYETTE, and a Large French fleet under DE GRASSE, combined their forces against the British general. Had in- deed the fleet promised by CLINTON arrived from New York, or had the French been absent, Lord CORNWALLIS would have soon scattered a much larger American force. It was in truth not an American but a French victory. It seems to U 3 to augur ill, when the best Mr. STANTON can say—for we must remamber the press writes to the dictation of the Washington War Office—is that " the siege of Yorktown makes no progress." The Confederates doubtless well understand the importance to them of the post. It is much the narrowest and mos defensible part of the peninsula which leads up to Richmond. A kind of wicket-gate to the capital for an army advancing from Fort Monroe, as M'CLEL• LAN'S now does. The river too, narrows, as well as the peninsula, so that Gloucester point, across it, was used by CORNWALLIS as an outwork to York town, and to this we observe the Confederates are fully alive. JEFFERSON DAVIS, who has more than any living man to gain by the success of the rebel lion, and who is its soul, is said to have arrived at Yorktown himself—he believes himself to be an able general, and certainly in other matters he has shown ability worthy of a better cause. Rich mond, the capital of Virginia, is not a place, indeed, in itself of military importance. If M'CLELLAN can reach and capture it, the military strength of Secession will be hardly affected. The whole north of Virginia will then be in the hands of the Federals, that is all, and the strength of the Confederates will be brought to bear on the defence of a smaller circle of operations. It is the adventitious circumstance of the rank of Virginia—the mother of Presidents—among the States ; of the Confederates having made her the grand object of contention ; of her capital having been adopted as the capital of Secession ; of the loss of prestige therefore which must be incurred by its fall, which makes the North so eager to secure, the South so earnest to defend, the prize. We now learn that what turned the Merrimac back in her late reappearance was not the bursting of a shell merely, but of the gun itself. It is astonishing what an effect the fear of her has on the Federals. It must be owing to this that we hear nothing of the presence of a fleet even of gunboats at the siege of Yorktown; the Merrimac, if she could pass Fort Monroe and the Rip Raps as easily as it seems likely she could, and steam round to York river, could then run down the whole besieging fleet, and send some compli mentary shell, too, into the Federal camp. We strongly suspect, however, that the Merrimac, after all, is afraid to trust herself far from Norfolk navy yard. She has been hastily refitted and equipped by the Confederates with very imperfect means. She did not quite relish her first engagement with the little Monitor, which coolly lies on the watch for her, in a favourable situation, aided this time by another iron-plated gunboat, the Naugatuck, and it may be that the famous huge gun at the Rip Raps, and the two small opponents, are together a gauntlet she does not wish to run. To Fort Monroe itaclf cl2o occtnecl laiat times to pay littla s►tton tion. The Potomac flotilla do not appear to have been altogther idle. If it takes no part in the siege of Yorktown, it has made a move up the nearest river to the Potomac, one which runs parallel to it, and behind which the Confederates attempted to form their first line of defence after they left Manassas—the Rappahannock. It took possession of Tappahan nock, on its banks, a considerable way from its mouth, without opposition, the Confederates being doubtless withdrawn from the whole district for the defence of Yorktown. In the West, now the seat of such furious war, the Federals do not advance on the Mississippi. Commodore FooTE is still busy with Fort Pillow, below which we may see in the maps at least four other forts to be reduced before be can lay his gun boats abreast of Memphis, and summon the great river port of Tennessee, and the left wing of BEAU REGARD'S defence, to surrender. No information seems to have been yet received of any movement by either BEAUREGARD or BUELL; probably both have suffered too much to be ready for action again so soon. General BANKS turns up again, however, on the north-western side of Rich mond. He is reported to have taken Mount Jack son, and a great battle is said to be daily expected between him and the Confederates opposed to him. Somehow, at every point the Confederates appear to be strong enough to bid the Federals to halt ; and, if they are often beaten, yet, as in the old revolu• tionary war with England, their comparatively ill-provided armies seem to spring out of the ground again in sufficient strength to make the Federal advance hazardous or impossible. Hitherto the Federals have had the great advantage of the heavy artillery of their gunboats in all their operations. These will aid them less in future, and the result The husband of our young PRINCESS ROYAL is receiving one of those practical lessons in Consti tutional Government, which we believt he is not disinclined to learn, and which, if thoroughly learned, may fit him to become the Le&der of the German States—a post for which his rather has quite disqualified himself. The young ?rince has seen his father refuse to his Parlitment the very reasonable demand for an itemised budget—such a one as every Chaneelor of the Exchequer in England presents as a matter of course—has seen him dissolve his Parlitment and break up his Ministry rather than concele it—has seen him humble himself to offering .eductions of taxation to purchase votes in the new Parliament—and now, as the result of all, he sees a Parliament returned more literal than the old one ! The Constitutional, or moderate party, is in a considerable minority, the Fmdalists, the KING'S favourites, nowhere ; the Radicals triumphant. The primary electors, wilt are to elect the representatives everywhere, hive been chosen, and the " pragressists" have a large majority. They have even in the capital, and in its most aristocratic quarter ; and thtreturns are of such a cast as this—at Konigsberg tlere are 344 primitive electors ; of these 287 are fol " pro gress ;" 27 Constitutional, and 13 Consevative. Prussia, we are happy to see, has some rolitical life in her people. DANGEROUS POSITION OF THE KING CF WUR TEMBERG.— A letter from Stuttgardt of the 28ti says : " The King of \Vurtemberg was last evening in a situation of some danger. He had just passed in his cariage the railway bridge near the tunnel of Rosenstein, whoa another carriage, the horses of which had bolted oft, dashd passed him at a furious pace. The King's horses, alarned at the noise, shied, and went very close to the edge of the bank leading down to the Neckar Canal. Fortunately the coach man was able to pull them up in time to prevent the carriage going over the bank. The King then alighted and walked for some little distance, and afterwards re-entering the carriage returned to the paßre." Um. M niESTY'S Tist F.Anct.—Last night the sisters Barbara and Carlotta Marchisio made a most suc cessful debut in Rossini's long dormant " Semiramide," the former as the Assyrian Queen, the latter as Prince Arsace. The leading pieces were followed by calls. The rich, powerful, and round contralto of Carlotta, the brilliant and resonant soprano of Barbara Marchisio drew down the house, which would take no bows, courtesies, or acknow ledgments in place of a repetitio n of the duo "Giorno d'orror," at the close of which cam ) another call. The duo in the second act was followed by a floral shower ; and every method of demonstrating delight and approval in vogue among opera audiences greeted the triumph of the sisters Marchisio. Mr. George Linnaeus Banks, known as & lyric poet, journalist, and public lecturer, has been places on the recommendation of Lord Palmerston, on the Civil service List for £5O, in acknowledgment of his literary and public usefulness for many years past. After a strike of 12 weeks, the colliers is the Morley, Gildersonse, and Adwalton districts have resumed work, at the old terms of 4s. 6d. for a day of eight hours. It is stated that a total cessation of the strike funds has been instrumental in bringing about the present seftlemen and, to add to the misery which such a statement mplies, the employers will not be able to take on mere, tian half their old hands. THE TERRTBLE EXPLOSION AT BUSTON.-- Yesterday the inquest was resumed at Bilston ipon the bodies of the unfortunate deceased killed by the toiler ex • losion at Millfields, near Bilston (who number 28}, before Mr. T. M. Phillips. Mr. hose, the employer of ihe de ceased, was present, and also his counsel and solicitor, with Mr. E. T. Wright, the endneer, who made the official examination ; and Mr. A. Bourne, the travelling agent of the Steam-boiler Assurance Company, of Manchester, who produced, for the assistance of the jury, some phctographs of the riven boiler. No additional evidence of inipottance was given. The Coroner, in summing up the case, said that the jury could not return a verdict of mantlaughter against the engineer, because of the ruling of Baron Chan nel at the last assizes at Stafford, to the effect tha: an en gineer who had left his engine could not be found guilty of that offence, unless it could be shown that his boiler which exploded was short of water. The jury, after a lengthened deliberation returned the following verdict :•—•' That the boiler exploded from an over pressure of steam, bow how caused there was no opinion to show." The *ors ex pressed a strong opinion that boilers of this size and de scription should not he made or used for high-pressure steam. may be accordingly. The Federalists are not quite free from political anxiety. The late Secretary, Mr. CAMERON, whom the Emperor of RUSSIA did not wish for, has been arrested at the suit of a Mr. PIERCe BUTLER, for illegal imprisonment in Fort La Fayette. If, however, the law courts decide against these imprisonments, the PRESIDENT, and not auy of his subordinates ought to be the victim. It will be a curious result indeed, if the PRESIDENT should be proved to have done what his own courts cannot sustain, and it is very likely they cannot. .He will then have to cut the Gordian knot in the old fashion. But what puzzles the Washington politicians most of all, is the reported visit of the French Ambassador there, to Richmond. M. MERCIER, from the beginning, has disliked the war, and been strongly opposed to the blockade interfering as it did with the industry of France as well as of other countries. He is known to have held it to be, morally, unjustifiable, however it must be politically endured, and hence the Northerns are in a perfect fever respecting his visit to the Southern capital. It seems all our own own operatives are not quite such believers in the doctors ou International Law, as those of Man chester, to which we adverted yesterday. Some of their neighbours, unemployed also, at Ashton-under- Lyne, had their open air meeting too. But they did not think our Government ought to take things so quietly. A resolution was carried that the Govern ment ought to recognise the Southern Confederacy, ARMY SCHOOLS.--The report of the Council of Military Education for 1861 has been published. It appears that for more than 38 per cent. of the men in the ranks the most elementary education is required ; 19 per cent. can neither read nor write, and abovo 19 per cent. can only read and not write; 7.44 per cent, have a superior degree of edu cation; the remaining 54 per cent, can read and write, The great hindrance is in irregularity of attendance Attendance of soldiers at school is no part of military discipline, and can not be legally required. The Council submit tkat there would be no hardship it its being made obligatory upon every recruit to learn to read and write before lie is dis missed to duty, and becomes less able to give regular at tendance at school. School fees for adults have been already abolished, except for the more advanced classes; lut to re tain fees for these is a tax upon progress, and as it is found that the men generally leave school as soon as they are called upon to pay, and only return in order to qualify for promotion, the amount received is not considerable, and the council are of opinion that the sacrifice of the fees would be more than compensated by the advantage which the ser vice would derive from having in its ranks a large number of men possessed of a respectable degree of education. In the Royal Artillery and the Foot Guards education has re ceived due attention of late, and the result has been that the proportion of men unable to read and write has been reduced nearly one-half since 1858—in the artillery from4oper cent. to 25, and in the Foot Guards from 20 per cent. to 11. Where the officer in command affords to the school his coun tenance and support, the result is that the educational sys tem attains its full development, non-commissioned officers and men alike profit by it, and a taste is acquired for other pleasures than those of the public-house. The Council report that the machinery for education is good and ample and they are confident that the extension of elementary education among the men will be carried far beyond its present unsatisfactory limits, as soon as the one great im pediment which now exists, namely the irregularity of the attendance, shall be wholly or even partially removed. This report, the first since the transfer of the supervision of the schools of the army from an inspector-general to the COllll - is signed by Liiute-Gen. linollys, Major-Gen, Port lock; Canon Moseley, and Cols, Elwyn, and Addison, - * 4 till WASHINGTON was obliged to 1 but an amendment wasmoved, and largely supported AT E LT N 1,, the negotiations, fearing I th at we ou g ht to aid the north, crush the rebellion, S E WS -'ild the Confederates and so open the ports. Slow l y as cotton arrives A must .be a from other sources, it is by no means impossible that weeks' the Governments of France a nd En g land ma y 1e I compelled to adopt measures from Which, at present, —.ld 511 of us shrink. Mr. COBDEN'S theories b e c , o : . I: 3: r o t n e d t h , e n p n a d r e t r 0 t f h o e u r p r p e e s o s p u l r e e , we shin. on blockade may of this fra of unendurable privat. and sacrifice of national revenue, into facts. This would be indeed an unlooked for reiZ. l 4 `xicidal war. PARIS, MAT 2. The dloniteur of this morning publisl7 .:s a letter from Mexico, commenting upon f le intolerable con duct of the Mexican G'..rernment, and the proba bility that tb French troops will not delay march i3g on the c'4iy of Mexico. The journal L' Esprit Public of to-day says— " There 14 a question of sending Marshal Niel to Rome, with military and diplomatic powers. It is said that he will be charged to conciliate, if pos sible, the protection which France owes to the Holy See with the rights of the Italian nation." LISBON, MAY 1. The King has officially announced his approach ing marriage. The new Ministry is finally consolidated. BREST, MAY 1. Further reinforcements of troops and supplies of war materiel are to be despatched to Mexico. TURIN, MAY 1. The Turin papers state that the conspiracy at Milan is exaggerated. NAPLES, MAY 1. The King continues to be enthusiastically re ceived. His Majesty will proceed next week to Palermo. ROME, MAY 1. The whole Neapolitan Royal family have gone to Porto Anzio. They have dined with the Pope. His Holiness will return to Rome on Saturday next. BERNE, MAY 1. According to the favourable declaration of the Japanese Government, the Federal Council has given orders that a Swiss Embassy shall be de spatched to Japan as early as possible. PARIS, MAY 1. The Paris evening papers publish news from Vera Cruz, stating that the Spaniards had executed the same movement towards the city of Mexico as the French. The Mexican troops had re-occupied the mountain gorges on the road to Mexico. The greater part of the foreigners engaged in trade were leaving the country. ST. PETERSBURG, MAY 1. The journal de St. Petersbourg of to-day doubts the probability of the Western Powers intervening in America. The same paper contains the appointment of Prince Gortschakoff as Vice-Chancellor of the Em pire, and states that Baron Goltz, the Prussian Ambassador, has been received by the Emperor, to whom he delivered his credentials. ATHENS, APRIL 26. The blockade of the Gulf of Argos has been raised by the Government. The soldiers who received amnesty have been re-drafted into the Royal army. The corps d'armee employed in the siege of Nauplia has returned. VIENNA, MAY 1. A communication was made by the Government to the Lower House of the Council of the Empire to day, stating that a bill on Ministerial responsi bility was to be discussed by the Chambers accord ing to Constitutional rule. FRANCE. BOURSE, May I.—Prices have remained firm at the closing rates of yesterday, but with only a limited amount of business doing, speculators being still almost exclusively mr.vitra for the settlement. Threes are now 70f. 45c. The Railway Share Market has been animated, and some of the lines show a slight improvement. The market improved towards the close, and left off as follows: It per per Cents 97 75 Do end month 3 per Cents Do. end month 7O 45 New 3 per Cents Do. end month 69 55 Credit Mobilier 845 Do. end month — Bank Shares 3145 Credit lonelier 1520 Belgian 41 Piedmontest Fives .69 Italian Loan 69 Austrian Spanish Threes 52 Home Debt .. 49 TAYS. BAIL' Cash. Account. Orleans l3Ol 25 .. 1305 Northern .... New ditto . 980 -- .. -- Lyons and Mediterranean 1148 75 .. 1147 50 Geneva.. 370 -- .. 370 -- Southern 835 -- .. 838 75 Western .. Eastern .... ,.. 587 50 .. 585 Sardinian Austrian Lowbard 590 .. 588 67 THE CAPE OF GOOD BOPE. PLYMOUTH, MAY 1, EVENING. The Royal Mail steamer Date arrived here this evening with the above mail and 35 passengers. Among her cargo are several chests, cases, and packages for the International Exhibition. The Dane left the Cape on the 23d March, St. Helena on the Ist ult., and Ascension on the 4th ult. She has been delayed by contrary winds. At the Cape the military head-quarters had been advanced from Graham's Town to King William's Town. The frontier was quiet. Sir Waller Currie was beyond the Kie, in No Man's Land, and was making arrangements for an hexing part of that territory to the colony. Adam Kok, the Grimana. Chief, had sold his land to the Orange Free State, and removed with all his people. Territory had been granted to him in No Man's Land. Parliament was to meet on the 24th April. Rail way bills would be the great subject of discussion The Paarl vintage had finished. The yield had been diminished by the drought. The Constantia vintage was not large, but very good. The application of sulphur had saved all the vines in the Constantia and most other wine districts. A great deal of opposition had been made by the extreme partisans of the Evangelical Society against the running of Sunday trains. The Go vernor and railway directors had been memorialised on the subject, but refused to take the memorial into consideration. A separation meeting had been held at Port Eli zabeth, about two hundred persons being present. The hopes of the Separationists had been greatly revived by the Governor promising to introduce measures into Parliament which he trusted would satisfy both parties. Very little improvement had tak(n place in trade. The demand for money was great, and the rates of discount had been raised. Three, if not:more, were expected to be passed, guaranteeing extensions or branch lines. The Go vernor was about to start from Cape Town on a tour through the Western Province before the meet ing of Parliament. The keystone of the masonry of Mossel Harbour Works had been laid by the Treasurer-General amidst great rejoicings on the 3d March. The headquarters of the Commander-in-Chief and the Lieutenant-Governor were in future to be at Cape Town. _ _ The drought still continued in the Western Pro vince. Many farmers had moved to the Free State. The Western Province Agricultural Society had held a meeting at St. George on Feb. 26th, 27th, and 28th. Notwithstanding the prevailing drought, it was in every respect a complete success• WIN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING,_ MAY 2, 180. • AMERICA. NEW YORK, APRIL 18, EVENING. PER CITY OF BALTIMORE VIA QUEENSTOWN. Southern accounts state that the Federals have attacked Forts Jackson and Philip, which guard the approaches to New Orleans. The .Richmond _Despatch publishes a telegram from General Beauregard stating that he was en trenched at Corinth, prepared to defy the Federals, whatever numbers they might bring against him. President Davis is reported to be in Command at Yorktown. The Confederates had made a sortie in strong force, with the object of turning the left flank of the Federal army. General M'Clellan telegraphs to the Federal Government that the Confederates were repulsed by General Smith. The Federal gunboats have shelled Yorktown without effect. General Banks has advanced to Newmarket. Federal accounts confirm the capture of Fort Pulaski with 47 guns and a quantity of ammuni tion, after 30 hours' bombardment. The loss on both sides was only one man killed and three wounded. The _Norfolk Day Book thinks that the French Minister's visit to Richmond is fraught with grave significance, and adds, " The South will not tolerate any diplomacy which places the Confederates be yond the pale of public law, and attempts in their waters their very nationality." This observation is supposed to refer to the Confederate flag not being saluted. The Boston Despatch states that the American consul at Tangiers and the purser of the Sumter arrived in the Harvest Home. The Despatch says they were in irons, but Marshal Keys ordered the irons to be removed. They are reported free in Boston on their parole, waiting the decision of the Government. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, April 18, Evonius.—Money easier. Gold, 11. Exchange tending downward, 111.1 to 1121. Stocks dull—New York Central, 821 ; Illi nois, 61/ ; Erie, 361. Cotton very firm. Sales to-day, 1,000 bales. Middling Upland, 29. Flour heavy, and 10c. lower. Wheat tending downward. Corn heavy. Provisions quiet. Coffee dull. Sugar unchanged. Molasses steady. THE BAITLE OF PIT2SBLRG. The official despatch relating to the battle of Pitts burg —or, as some of the American papers insist it ought to be called, Shiloh—have been published, General Grant writes : " Head-quarters, District of Western Tennessee, Pittsburg, April 9, 1862. " Captain,—lt becomes my duty again to reporl another battle fought between two great armies one contending for the maintenance of the best government ever devised, and the other for its destruction. It is pleasant to record the success of the army contending for the former principle. On Sunday morning our pickets were attacked and driven in by the enemy. Immediately the five divi sions stationed at this place were drawn up in line of battle to meet them, The battle soon waxed warm on the left and centre, varying at times to all parts of the line. There was the most continuous firing of musketry and artillery ever heard on this continent kept up until nightfall. The enemy, having forced the entire line to fall back nearly half way from their camps to the landing, at a late hour in the afternoon a desperate effort was made by the enemy to turn our left and get possession of the landing, transports, &c. This point was guarded by the gunboats Tyler and Lexington, Captains Gwin and Shirk command ing, with four 24 pounder Parrott guns and a bat tery of rifled guns. As there is a deep and impas sable ravine for artillery or cavalry, and very difficult for infantry, at this point, no troops were stationed here, except the necessary artillerists and a small infantry force for their support. Just at this moment the advance of Major-Gen. Buell's column and a part of the division of General Nelson arrived. The two Generals named both being present, an advance was immediately made upon the point of attack, and the enemy was soon driven back. In this repulse much is due to the presence of the gunboats Tyler and Lexington, and their able commanders Captain Gwin tad Shirk. night we uivisions LIUGGL Crittenden and Mc Cook arrived. General Low. Wallace, at Camp Landing, six miles below, was ordered, at an early hour in the morning, to hold his division in readi ness to move in any direction it might be ordered. At 11 o'clock the order was delivered to move it up to Pittsburg ; but, owing to its being led by a cir cuitous route, it did not arrive in time to take part in Sunday's action. During the night all was quiet, and, feeling that great advantage would be gained by becoming the attacking party, an advance was ordered as soon as day dawned. The result' was that the gradual repulse of the enemy at all points of the line, from 9 until probably 5 o'clock in the afternoon, when it became evident the enemy was retreating. Before the close of the action the advance of General T. J. Wood's division arrived in time to take part in the action. My force was too much fatigued from two days' hard fighting, and exposure in the open air to a drenching rain during the intervening night, to pur sue immediately. Night closed in with heavy rain making the roads impracticable for artillery by the next morning. General Sherman, however, fol lowed the enemy, finding that the main part of their army had retreated in good order. The country will have to mourn the loss of many brave men who fell at the battle of Pittsburg, or Shiloh more properly. The exact loss in killed and wounded will be known in a day or two. At present I can only give it approximately at 1,500 killed and 3,500 wounded. The loss of artillery was great, many pieces being disabled by the enemy's shots, and some losing all their horses and many men. There were probably not less than 200 horses killed. The loss of the enemy in killed end left upon the field was greater than ours. In the wounded an estimate cannot be made, as many of them must have been sent to Corinth and other points. The enemy suffered terribly from demora lisation and desertion. A flag of truce was sent in to-day from General Beauregard. I enclose here with a copy of the correspondence,—l am, respect fully, your obedient servant, " U. S. GRANT,Major-General Commanding. " Capt. N. H. M‘Lean, Assistant-Adjutant General Department of Mississippi, St. Louis." STAFFORD .HOUSE. The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland gave a magnificent banquet to an illustrious and distinguished circle, compris ing many of the foreigners gathered together by the opening of the Exhibition, yesterday evening at Stafford House, St. James's. The duchess, through the Earl Granville, chair man of her Majesty's Commissioners for the International Exhibition, invited 'he whole of the foreign acting Commis sioners to participate in her hospitalities. For the b a nquet covers were laid for 50 persons,and it was served in a princely style in the noble banqueting room, Hi s R o y a l Highness the Crown Prince of Prussia arrived shortly before 8 o'clock, attended by Count Puckler. Their Royal Hi g hnesses the Duchess of Cambridge, the Grand Duchess of M ecklenber g Strelitz, and the Princess Mary, attended by Lady Geral dine Somerset, Lady Caroline Cust, and Colonel H. Purves, came just before the hour appointed for dinner. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, and his Royal Highness Prince Oscar of Sweden arrived at 8 o'clock. The Duke of Sutherland received his illustrious guests in the vestibule, and they were conducted b y his grace to the saloon, where the duchess and her company congregated previous to dinner. The distinguished party invited to meet the royal visitors included his Excellency the Russian Ambassador and the Baroness Brunnow, his Excellency the Austrian Ambassao or and the Countess d'Apponyi, the Duke and Duchess of Wellington, the Duchess of Manches .f Hartingt on, t h e M arc hi oness o f El y, ter, the Marqu is the Earl Granville, the Earl and Countess of Derby the Earl and Lady Constance Grosvenor, the Earl of Sefton, C o unt Pahlen, Count Szechenyi, Count Brandenburg (the Prussian Charge d'Affaires), Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston, Viscount and Viscountess Clifden, Viscount Canterbury, Lord Dufferin, Lady Blanche Egerton, Lady Dufferin, Dr. Quin, the ladies in attendance on the Duchess of Cambridge, and the noblemen and gentlemen in waiting on the Crown Prince of Prussia, Prince Oscar of Sweden, and the Duke of Cambridge. Her grace had afterwards an assembly, which was numerously and fashionably attended , SPORTING 11V7BLLIGRNCB. TATTERSALL'S, YESTERDAY. The opening of the International Exhibition appeared to possess greater attractions for the members this afternoon than speculating upon the Two Thousand Guineas. The room presented but a poor appearance, and the business transacted upon the principal event in the next week's pro gramme was extremely " fiat, stale, and unprofitable." In. fact, the equivocal character of the betting upon The Guineas throughout has thrown such a shade of doubt and uncertainty around it that the public have in a great Irma sure refrained from following their fancies, which "will ac. count for the paucity of our return. The only feature that presented itself during the after noon was the anxiety evinced by a ;;lever division t o ge t o n Alvediston ; his opening price waving been qui e tly t a k en, h e speedily was made as good a favourite as anythin g , an d a t the close we should sa , -- f he had the call of The Marqui s f or money, sto 1 Ining taken about each. Caterer was ex • tremely firm , and anything over his quoted price would have fcir...nd a ready customer in the si able representatives. No",:ingham, who has been sadly knocked about in the market, appeared this afternoon in a little better odour, 9 to 1 being his highest price offered, and a point more would have found plenty of backers, at which price the Baron's ' colt was supported. Old Calabar has rapidly fallen from his high estate, and become - one of the outside division, 100 to 8 being repeatedly tendered, without one of his old admirers having the courage to invest. The only other mentioned sc , Mr. Gratwicks colt Instructor, about whom 25 to 1 was taken in small amounts. TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS. sto 1 agst Alvediston (taken) sto 1 agst Marquis (taken) 6to 1 agst Caterer (taken) 9to 1 agst Nottingham (offered) 10 to 1 agst . S I V ingrave (taken) 100 to 8 agst Old Calabar (offered) THE DERBY. 20 to 1 agst St. Alexis (taken) 20 to 1 agst Zetland (taken) 50 to 1 agst Clarissa colt (taken) 50 to 1 agst Hubert (taken and offered) 1000 to 10 agst Brazenose (taken) BETTING AT MANCHESTER, THURSDAY. The Two Thousand Guinea Stakes is once more in the ascendant, and The Marquis was very firm. There were plenty of offers to take 5 to 1, and towards the close an offer of 9 to 2 was not responded to. 12 to 1 was the 0. 8 .1.0 k QLI ralahar. hut we heard no taking price named. For the Derby, 20 to 1 was asked for against Zetland. The only change that we have to remark in the speculation on the Chester Cup was the ad% ante of Simla to 100 to 8 (taken), and the apparent retirement of Carac tacus, 500 to 5 being laid and offered. Closing prices : TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS. 4to 1 agst The Marquis (offered) 6to 1 agst Caterer (offered) 6to 1 agst Alvediston (offered) 10 to 1 agst Wingrave (offered) 11 to 1 agst Nottingham (offered) 12 to 1 agst Old Calabar (offered) 20 to 1 agst Clarissa colt (offered) 30 to 1 agst Ace of Clubs (offered) 30 to 1 agst Carisbrook (oftere,i) 33 to 1 agst Buckenham (taken) 33 to 1 agst Hubert (taken) THE DERBY. 15 to 1 agst Caterer (offered) 20 to 1 agst Zetland (wanted) 66 to 1 agst Argonaut (taken) CHESTER CUP. 6to lon the field (offered) • 100 to 8 apt Simla (taken) 20 to 1 agst Stampedo (taken) 25 to 1 agst Brighton (taken) 33 to 1 agst Prince of Denmark (taken freely) 33 to 1 apt Dalesman (offered) 33 to 1 agst Caller Ou (offered) 100 to 1 agst Caractacus (taken and offered) BATH AND SOMERS: Weights for the Bath Handic Glared ty 8 o'clock the even added. One mile. 30 sub! ET COUNTY RACES. cap of 10 soya each, sft, if de aing before running, with 100 )s. Yrs st 113 Man at Arms 6 9 5 Vancouver Weatherbound 5 8 12 Voltella Lava Sherborne 5 8 5 Confectioner 5 7 7 Canary Highflyer 4 7 4 Rosedale Costa Nativity Allez-y-rondement 3 6 12 Entrement Grey Hen colt Yrs st lb Reprieve Mayflower 3 6 4 Express Draghound .. 3 6 2 Whisk 3 Commander 3 6 2 Scorpion Earl of Westmorel' d 3 6 2 Hartington Pellucid 3 6 0 Avongrove Arab ....... ~.. Whitend ale Sister to Man atArmi 3 5 7 Whitenap YORK SPRING MEETING. Weights for the Flying Dutchman's handicap of 100 sovs, added to a Sweepstakes of 15 sovs each, 10 ft, and only 5 if declared by Tuesday, May 6. One mile and a quarter. 38 subs. Yrs st lb The Wizard Cape Flyaway 5 8 10 The Lawyer (h b) 4 8 6 Lady Ripon The Monk 5 8 0 Croagh Patrick 4 7 12 Silverhair Virgilius Finlande Nightingale Jingling Johnny.. 4 7 8 Doefoot Vol tella 4 7 6 A • o Tattoo Lava .. 4 7 5 East Stanley 4 7 4 Paste Interest Springwell .. 5 7 2 Gardener Yrs et lb Colossus 4 6 10 Br. to Schiedam The Pilot Br. h. by Voltigeur —Rosebud 6 6 9 Astarte Tim Whiffler Leonora Beverley .. Shipwreck 4 6 2 Fairy King (late Lucky Lad, late Fajrysrt) 3 8 i. .. _..,,,.. ~". Flytrap Lord of Lynne 3 5 10 Tisiphone .. 3 5 9 Earl of Westmore- land Black Prince 6 paid Garrison Beauty HORSES STRUCK OUT OF THEIR ENGAGE- MENTS. April 23, at 11 a.m., Nutbush, out of All-aged Stakes, Newmarket Houghton. April 24, at 5.50 p.m., Rubicon and Umpire, out of Chester engagements. April 24, at 10.6 p.m., Cosmopolite, out of All-aged Stakes, Newmarket Houghton. April 25, at 12.15 p.m., Yarra, out of all engagements. April 25, at 5 p.m., Carbineer, out of Great Northern Handicap, York. April 26, at 9 am., Phantom, o'at of Wynnetay Handi• cap, Chester. April 26, at 4 p.m., Garibaldi:, out of Newmarket Stakes. April 28, at 9 a.m., May Qosling and Interducit, out of Sowerby Plate, Thirsk. April 28, at 9 a.m., Flytrap, out of Hambleton Plate, and Thirsk Handicap, ane, Members' Plate, Malton, April 28, at 9 a.m., King of Kars and Ruby, out of Members' Plate, Malton. April 28, at 9 a.m., Precursor and Faultless, out of Chester engagements. April 29, at 11 a.m., Black Prince, out of all engage ments. April 30, at 4.10 p.m., Santa Claus and Watcbfire, out of the Two Thousand Guineas. Lord Chesterfield's filly by Stockwell, out of Babette, 4 yrs, has been named Bathilde. MEETING OF THE JOCKEY CLUB. A general meeting of the Jockey Club will be held at the New Rooms, Newmarket, after the races, on Wednesday next, for a ballot and for other business. The following notices of motion have been given : By Mr. Greville—" That the resolutions passed at the last meeting as to the signing of an agreement to abide by the decision of the stewards be reconsidered, with a view to their being rescinded, on account of the great difficulty, if not impossibility, of carrying them out; and because the prineipal object sought to be attained by them is, in fact, attained by the present laws and practice of racing." By Admiral Rous :—" Whereas rule 41 defeats the object it was intended to remedy by dictating certain mechanical punishments in the shape of fines for the first, second, and third offences committed by jockeys at the starting-post, without any reference to their gravity, of the extent of which the stewards can alone form a correct estimate ; and as the fines are seldom paid from the pockets of the offenders, the sa d rule becomes a tacit encouragement for jockeys to set the starter at defiance. It is virtually a dead letter, and seldom attended to, but it remains a pul lic nuisance, the only effectual remedy being suspension from riding at the discretion of the stewards of the Jockey Club. I there fore to the Jockey Club to substitute a rule which shall en able the stewards of the Jockey Club to correct such enor mous a buses as we saw at Goodwood and Northampton, w here the riders of the winners of the Stewards' Cup and the Spencer Plate started their hen es ton lengths in advance of the starting post in defiance of the starter, for which rule 41 prescribes only a £5 penalty; and I further submit to the Jockey Club whether it would not be advisable to disqualify a horse from winning under the above circum stances when the jockey absolutely refuses to obey the orders of the starter." The stewards will call the attention of the meeting to the question of compromises, and the present unsettled state of the law on this subject. In the case of a compromise after a dead heat the liability of both horses to carry extra weight is fixed by rule 47, but the effect of compromises without a race is not regulated by any existing rule. The points to be settled are— 1. Is the horse that walks over, dividing the forfeits with one or more of the horses engaged against him, in equal or unequal proportions, to be considered the winner of the whole amount of the prize, according to rule 61 ? 2. Does a horse that receives a portion, which is sometimes the larger portion of the prize, by way of compromise from the horse that walks over, incur any penalty of extra weight as a winner ? ENCLOSING or LANGTON- WOLD.—Owing • to the death of Major-General N. Norcliffe, late of Langton-ball, Melton, the famous Yorkshire training ground, Langton-wold, passes into other hands, and it is proposed to enclose it. If carried out, the whole of the Melton training establishment will probably have to remove elsewhere, and the splendid shooting ground of the Ist North York Volunteers will likewise be lost. A strenuous effort is being made in racing circles to secure the wold in its present state, certain noble lords taking a warm interest in the "natter.