The Sun. — London, England, 1858-05-10 00:00:00

CRIMINAL COURT.—(This Day.) The May sessions of the Central Criminal Court COM menced t'ois morning before the Lord Mayor, the Sheriffs, and Aldermen Salomons and Lawrence. The Recorder, in charging the Grand Jury, said it was a. Fource of gratification that the present calendar, although it contained the names of upwards of a hundred prisoners, it did not embrace a single charge of murder, but there was an unusual number of charges of man shughter. One of these was that of a boy named Sellers, aged twelve, who was charged with killing another lad about his own age. The death of the unfortunate lad arose during a pugilistic com bat, and an inspector of the police force was charged with being accessory to the fact by encouraging the lad to Sght. He need not detain them by explain ing the law with respect to manslaughter, but if it was 'proved in evidence that death was occasioned by the 'blow, then it would be their duty to return a true bill ',ping both persons. Another case of rather a singular description was that preferred against a captain, viz., for feloniously and wilfully sinking his ship at sea with intent to defraud the insurance company. The prisoner was indicted under an act of George 111., and ttile only fact they would have to deal with wag, whether the evidence bore out the charge. The remaining charges were of the ion ordinary O e scription, and req uired no special observal . If, h o wever, in the course of their investigation any point of law or difficulty arose on be the court would readily re :lder them every assistance. Th e Grano' Jury then re turned to their room, and in a bill s baying been returned, the tria ls short time , t rue proceeded. IIIRGLARY. 11enry Huckle, a you:_'s man, was indicted for bur glariously entering and robbin' the premises of Henry AA Israel, 66, Aldgate High-street. Mr. Giffard prosecuted , an d Mr. Coop,r defended the prisoner. Louis Ash Israel said on the morning of the 9th of March he got up as usual, and on going down stairs he discovered the house had been entered by thieves, and a large quantity of valuable property stolen. The tills in the shop had been opened with the keys which had been taken from his pocket. He also missed his purse containing twelve sovereigns and some silver, his gold watch and chain, and other things. He al ways slept with the door open. The key of the house by which the premises had been entered was kept at a public house called the Turk's Head, in order that the workmen when they came to work in the morning should not disturb the family. The prisoner had formerly been in the pro , ecntor's service. There were three or four persons employed on the premises, and they all knew where the key was kept. Thomas Walker, a lad, said he was in the Turk's Head on the Bth of March. He saw the prisoner and another person there. He heard Huckle say to the other man, „Ash has been coun tin g some money, and I know the way into his house." The other man said something about a dog which Israel kept in the yard, but Heckle said the dog would not hurt him. Mr. Ash Israel , son of the proseoutor, said he re ceived some money the evening before the robbery, together with a 20 dollar piece he lost from his pocket on the night of the Bth of March. Tnis was the evidence for the prosecution. The jury returned a verdict of not guilty. The prisoner was then again indicted for bulgariously entering and robbing the dwelling-house of Mr. Gar dener. A female named Sarah Allen surrendered to her bail, charged with having been concerned with the prisoner in the robbery. From the evidence it appeared that Allen lived in the house as servant to Suckle, and that a coat which formed part of the property stolen was pledged by her. There was no evidence to prove Allen knew the pro perty was stolen. The jury returned a verdict of guilty against Heckle, and acquitted Allen. A former conviction having been proved against Huckle for fel )ny, The Recorder sentenced him to 12 months' imprison meat with hard labour. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.--(This Day, MARLBOROUGH-STREET. ATIEUTTED SUICIDE. —Jane Hudson, a young girl, living as servant at 78, Norton-street, Fitzroy-square, was charged with attempting to commit suicide under . the following circumstances. The prisoner seemed in a state of great nervous ex citement. Henry Raymond said that about one o'clock that morning he was going along Hemming's-row, when he observed the prisoner sitting on the step of a dour, auti as she looked very wildly about, he went up to her and fou❑d her with her hands tep to her Eiroat, and her eyes nearly starting out of her head. On close examination, he found she had a piece of ribbon tied so tightly round her neck as almost to choke her. He tried to break it, but the peisoner resisted desperately, making several attempts to bite him, Seeing two cabmen pa , s, he called to them, but they would not stop. At length he sent for a con stable, and she was taken into custody. The prisoner, while he was trying to get the ribbon off, said, " Let me alone ; if I don't do it now, I will at another time." Inspector Combo said she had not been drinking, and at the station-house, finding that she made another attempt, he took off all articles he thought she might make use of. The prisoner's sister came forward and said she cou'd not account for her conduct. In answer to Mr. Bingham, the prisoner merely shook her head, but gave no answer t 3 to the cause. __ Mr. Atchison, the girl's master, said he was willing to take her home if she would go. Mr. Bingham said it was very kind, and he thought it would be the best course. He had no doubt if a medical man saw her, she would soon be quite recovered. The girl having consented to go back to her employer was give❑ up to him. THE IRISH MAIL SERVICE-A. return has been pub lished specifying the hour and minute of the arrival at and departure from the piers at Holyhead and Kings town of the Irish mail contract vessels during the year 1857. On the Ist of January two passages from Holyhead to Ireland were performed between lb 42m. a.m. and 6h. 27m. a.m., and between sh. 14m. a.m. and 9h. 47m. a.m., while the passages from Kingstown to Holyhead were performed between 2h. 35m. min. p.m. and 713. 25m. p.m.. and between Bb. 4m. p.m. and 12h. 27m. a.m. On the 31st of Decemer the passage cut to Ireland was performed between 4b. 59m. a.m., and 9'a. 54m. a.m.. and the passage home between Bh. 7m. p.m. and lb. 12w. a.m. On the 21st of June the pas sage our was performed between sb. a.m, and 9h. 50m. a.m., and the passage home between Bb. 7m. p.m. and lb. 20 m. a.m. On the 23d of September the passage out was performed between lb. 36m. a.m. and 6h a.m., and the passage home between 2h. 37m. p.m. and 7h. 17 in. p.m. Mr. Corry, M.P., moved for this return. LARGE THAMES TROUT.-A large trout was taken a few days since in the Thames, off the Rev. W. Elliott's orchard, Eton College, in a somewhat nove l manner . A youthful Etonian, under 12 years of age, son of Captain Sir W. Joddrell, and grandson of Lady Bowyer Smijth, caught a minnow on a small perch-hook, and was amusing himself by letting it trail about attached to the book. Just at this time a trout, which had made many a Piscator's heart leap with desire this spring time, rushed at the minnow so ravenously that the hook was down its maw in a moment. With the assistance of an Etonian named Street, who divested himself of his nether garments and plunged into the stream, the fish was safely landed and borne to the tutor's house in triumph, where, upon being put to the scale, its we;ght was found to be 91b. 6us., and length 27 inches. The fish, which was sent as a present to Lady Bowyer was a male, and the largest trout as yet captured this season in the same waters. The next in importance was one of 81b., caught spinning near Surly-hall, about a fortnight since, by Roger Eykyn, EQq., of the Willows. 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Whatever may be your ultimate and undis closed intentions, your Proclamation will appear to deprive the great body of the people of all hope upon the subject most dear to them as individuals, while the substitution of our rule fur that of their native Sovereign has naturally excited against us whatever they may have of national feeling. 9. [We cannot but in justice consider that those who resist our authority in Oude are under very different circumstances from those who have acted against us in provinces which have been long under our government. a We dethroned the King of Oude, and took possession of his kingdom by virtue of a treaty winch bad been subsequently modified by another treaty, under which, had it been held to be in force, the course we adopted could not have been lawfully pursued ; but we held that it was not in force, al though the fact of its not having been ratified in England, as regarded the provision on which we rely for our justification, bad not been previously made known to the King of Oude. 11. That sovereign and his ancestors bad been uniformly faithful to their treaty engagements with us, however ill they may have governed their subjects. 12. They had more than once assisted us in our difficulties, and not a suspicion had ever been en tertained of any hostile disposition on their part towards our Government. 13. Suddenly the people saw their King taken from amongst them, and our Administration sub stituted for his, which, however bad, was at least native, and this sudden change of Government was immediately followed by a summary settlement of the revenue, which, in a very considerable portion of the province, deprived the meet influential land holders of what they deemed to be their property of what certainly had long given wealth, and dis tinction, and power to their families.] 14. We must admit that, under these circum stances, the hostilities which have been carried on in Oude have rather the character of.legitimate war than that of rebellion, and that the people of Oude should rather be regarded with indulgent conside ration than be made the objects of a penalty ex ceeding in extent and in severity almost any which has been recorded in history as inflicted upon a subdued nation. 15. Other conquerors, when they have suc ceeded in overcoming resistance, have excepted a few persons as still deserving of punishment, but have, with a generous policy, extended their cle mency to the great body of the people. 16. You have acted upon a different principle. You have reserved a few as deserving of special favour, and you have struck with what they will feel as the severest of punishment the mass of the inhabitants of the country. 17. We cannot but think that the precedents from which you have departed will appear to have been conceived in a spirit of wisdom superior to that which appears in the precedent you have made. 18. We desire that you will mitigate in prac tice the stringent severity of the decree of confisca tion you have issued against the landholders of Onde. 19.1 We desire to see British authority in India upon the willing obedience of a contented people. There cannot be contentment where there is general confiscation. 20. Government cannot long be maintained by any force in a country where the people are rendered hostile by a sense of wrong ; and if it were possible to maintain it, it would not be a consummation to be desired. LORD CANNING'S PROCLAMATION. (Prom the Morning herald,) Lord Granville and his friends allow their antagonism to the Government to stand forth with too great promi nence. They not only object to everything which is done, but by their conduct show that they are determined to cavil and oppose. Not many months ago they applauded Lord Canning for his leniency ; but circumstances have changed, and they become the advocates of undue seve rity. Yet, in this case, the natural order of things has been entirely reversed. Lord Canning hesitated and con nived at the moment that he ought to have been stern and unbending, and when he might with advantage dis play moderation he actually strikes a blow that will alienate many loyal hearts from our cause. The whole sale confiscation of Oude cannot, under any pretence whatever, be justified. The rebel sepoys, driven from Delhi and other strongholls, concentrated around Luck now, compelling the population, the unwilling as well as the willing, to embark in the struggle against our rule. As far as the inhabitants of Oude were concerned it was not, as Lord Darby stated on Friday night, " a mutiny of those who had eaten our salt, and sworn allegiance to us, but the revolt of a people who thought—l am not saying whether rightly or wrongly—that their costive sovereign had been unjustly dethroned, and who rose as an armed nation against those whom they c meeived to be usurpers and oppressors." Lord Canning might have made confiscation the exception ; he certainly was not justified in making it the rule. Had the Governor-Gene ral threatened to deprive of their lands and possessions all tho • who did not at onci3 tender their allegiance, i ad thro v themselves on the clemency of their Sovereign, none would hive ()Nee' e I to hie policy. It is rather remarkable that those authorities who from the first contended that the rebellion in India was purely a military revolt, confined solely to the sepoys, now urge the adoption of severe measures against the population. Mraabers of the late Government in both houses of Perlin inent gave expression to this view, which was advocated in the c )lumns of their org,ane. According to their notions the people, from ono extremity of India to the other, are innocent of anything like part'cipation in the revolt. Yet upon their heads they would now pour out the vials of wrath ! Ex-ministers and our contemporary the Times obtained a strange notoriety by the pertinacity with which, in the teeth of incontrovertible evidence, they clung to this erroneous view, and, to the general surprise of all, they rush to the defence of Lord Can ning, abanCen the cause of the persecuted people of Oude, and advocate severe measures against those whom they have over and over again proclaimed as being inno cent of any actual offence. The sepoys mutinied, but the peaceful cultivators of the soil aro to be visited with condign ohastieement, is the doctrine set forth with such earnestness, and in order to throw a shield over Lord Canning even the ex-President of the Council seems to forget all that he has previously stated upon this ques tion. We would ask, with due humility and respect, how these politicians explain this startling contradict:on in their conduct I If, as they have over and over again stated, this outbreak is nothing more nor less than a mutiny of the army, if none but the sepoys have plotted and rebelled against ue, why is the great axe of justice to fall upon other heads In the name of humanity let these politicians stand forth and tell the nation what they really mean ! In spits of evidence the most con clusive they bare persevered in denying the complicity of any sec'ion of the non-military classes of India in this foul revolt, yet they now declare that those persons whose innocence they have over and over again asserted deserve no better doom than that contained in , he fol lowing paragraph from Lord Canning 's proclamation : "The Governor-General further proclaims to the people of Oude that, with the above-mentioned excep Lions, the proprietary right in the soil of the province is confiscated to the British Government, which will die pose of that right in such a manner as to it may seed fitting." The effect produced in Oude by this proclimatioe cannot be disguised. On this point the evidence of the corre , pondent of the Times is o mclusive, and it en tirely demolishes the arguments put forth by our con temporary. In the last letter from the seat of war Mr. Russell states :—" The terms of the proclamation are to be interpreted by Sir James Outram. The ghss will to I.rge and lii,eritl. and in his rendering the severity of tote text will be mollilled so far that the Owle taloolcdars elegy read and run to and not front us. So it is understood, and steps will be taken to diffuse the knowledge f this great change among the native.." The italics in tie above extract are our own. There a ould have i e n little need for rneilifications, and "tide (el wet change" if the original terms of the proclamation Lad been suited to the emergency. In another portion cf the same communication the writer speaks of the "present tem per of the people," and adds—" If this temper becomes permanent and ex ensively prevalent we may be called upon to solve the tremendous problem whether Eng land is strong enough, provided she accepts the ta• k, to govern by force of military despotism the 150,000,000 or 160,000,000 of human beings committed to her charge," Such eueaeures as these to which we have re ferred will only inerease our difficulties and heighten our perplexities, nor can we wonder that the correspondent at the seat of the war is in favour of a lenient policy. We find him stating, "No mawkish sentiments of cle mency should guide our conduct ; let us be jest and 1)(1- ' tic, and if clemency be compatible with justice and p licy too,let us not be ashamed of being animated by a quality which is one of the grandest characteristics of heroes, cf conquerors, and of mighty empires, and which pos terity admires more than the valour by which oppor tunity for its exercise was won." In such a spirit has the noble remonstrance sent by Ministers to the Go vernor-General been framed, and every true Englishman .111 admit with pride and honest emotion that thin Patriotic d ocumen t con t a i ns se n timents that do honour W B O f c eLtiosrudr eCanningthe a vacillationto certainlyrenderjusticethehise which h ys h s o p o d k i e , n pi w iy it e h d re a s t pe th et e . commencement of th e m u ti n y, n or have we failed to G fo e r ne s r o t sa:i t legislator rrh e Gve r o e cri-is: In f a ct, L or d Canningqurinreodr has, as we sai I before, reversed the natural order of things. He temperieed when he ought to have acted energetically,and now hat he might be lenient he is needlessly sev e re, At the first signs of revolt the Governor-General ehoull have s truck terror into the heart s o f the mutineer,. By h*: unwillingness to make an example h e actually foaoured the designs of the conspirators, and a movemett which might have been crushed in the bud assumed the elia ratter of a widely-spread rebellion. At that time severity would have deterred the bold, now it wi alienate the loyal. The people of Oude have been oppressed and yrannised over by the sepoys, and a lenient policy on he part of the Britieh authorities would have won their CONFISCATION OT OUDB.-CENSURE OF LOAD CANNING'S PROCLAMATION. On Friday were printed, in compliance with an order of the House of Commons, a letter from the secretary to the government of India with the Go vernor-General, to the secretary to the Chief Com missioner of Oude, dated March 3, 1858 ' • accom panying Lord Canning's proclamation, which we published on Friday ; together with the letter from the Secret Committee of the Court of Directors of the East India Company to the Governor-General of India in Council, dated April 19 last, relating to that proclamation. From G. F. Edmonstone, E. q., Secretary to the Government of India with the Governor-Gene ral, to G. Couper, Esq., Secretary to the Chief Commissioner of Oude. ALLAHABID, March 3. q* lam directed by the R i ght Hon . the Go vernor-General to enclose to you a copy of a pro clamation which is to be issued by the Chief Com missioner at Lucknow so soon as the British troops, under his Excellency the Commander-in-Chief, shall have possession or command of the city. 2. This proclamation is addressed to the chiefs and inhabitants of Oude only, and not tol the sepoys. 3. The Governor-General has not considered it desirable that this proclamation should appear until the capital is either actually in our hands, or lying at our mercy. He believes that any proclamation put forth in Oude in a liberal and forgiving spirit would be open to misconstruction, and capable of perversion, if not preceded by a manifestation of our power ; and that this would be especially the case at Lucknow, which, although it his recently been the scene of unparalleled heroism and daring, and one of the most brilliant and successful feats of arms which British India has ever.witnessed, is still sedulously represented by the rebels as being beyond our power to take or to hold. 4. If an exemption almost general, from the penalties of death, transportation, and imprison ment, such as is now about to be offered to men who have been in rebellion, bad been publicly pro claimed before a heavy blow had been struck, it is at least as likely that resistance would have been encouraged by the seeming exhibition of weakness, as that it would have been disarmed by a generous forbearance. 5. Traunlationa of thu pivaimation into Hindeo and Persian accompany this despatch. 6. It will be for the Chief Commissioner, in coni nianication with his Excellency the Commander in-Chief, to determine the moment at which the proclamation shall be published, and the manner of disseminating it through the province ; at also the node in which those who surrender themselves under it shall be immediately and for the present dealt with. considering that we shall 7. This last question, not be in firm possession of any large portien of the province when the proclamation begins to take effect, and that the bulk of our troops, Native as well as European, will be needed for other pur poses than to keep guard through its districts, is one of some difficulty. It is clear, too, that the same treatment will not be applicable to all who may present themselves. 8. Amongst these there may be some who have been continuously in arms against the Government, and have shown inveterate opposition to the l'st, but who are free from the suspicion of haVing put to death or injured Europeans who fell in their way. 1. To these men their lives are guaranteed and their honour • that is, in native acceptati o n, they will neither be transported across the sea nr placed in prison. 10. Probably the most easy and effectual way of disposing of them, in the first instance, Will be to require that they shall reside in Lucknow under surveillance and in charge of an officer appointed for that purpose. 11. Their ultimate condition and place, of resi dence may remain to be determined hereafter, when the Chief Commissioner shall be able to report fully to the Governor-General upon the individual cha racter and past conduct of each. 12. There will be others who, although they have taken up arms against the Government, have done so less heartily, and upon whom, for other causes, the Chief Commissioner may not see reason to put restraint. These, after surrendering their arms, might be allowed to go to their homes, with such security for their peaceable conduct as the Chief Commissioner may think proper to iequire. 13. One obvious security will be, that of mak ing it clearly understood ley them, that the amount of favour which they shall hereafter receive, and the condition in which they shall be re-established, will be in part dependant upon their conduct after dismissal. 14. The permission to return to their homes must not be considered as a reinstatement of them in the possessions of their lands, for the deliberate disposal of which the Government will preserve itself unfettered, 15. There will probably be a third class, less compromised by acts of past hostility to the Go vernment, in whom the Chief Commissioner may see reason to repose enough of confidence to justify their services being at once enlisted on the side of order, towards the maintenance of which, in their respective districts, they might be called upon to organise a temporary police. 16. The foregoing remarks apply to the talook dare and chiefs of the province. As regards their followers who may make submission with them, these, from their numbers, must of necessity be dismissed to their homes. But before this is done, their names and places of residence should be re gistered, and they should receive a warning that auy disturbance of the peace or resistance of autho rity which may occur in their neighbourhood, will be visited, not upon any individual offenders alone but by heavy fines upon the villages. , 17. I am to observe that the Governor-General wishes the Chief Commissioner to consider what has been above written as suggestions rather than instructions, and as indicating generally the spirit in which his lordship desires that the proclamation shall be followed up, without tying down the action of the Chief Commissioner in matters which may have to lea judged under circumstances which can not be foreseen. 18. There remains one more point for notice. 19. The proclamation is addressed to the chiefs and inhabitants of Oude, not to mutineers. 20. To the latter the Governor-General does not intend that any overtures should be made at present. 21. But it is possible that some may surrender themselves, or seek terms, and it is necessary that the Chief Commissioner should be prepared to meet auy advances from them. 22. The sole promise which can be given to any mutineer is that his life shall be spared • and this promise must not be made if the man belongs to a regiment which has murdered its officers, or if there be other prima facie reason to suppose that he has been implicated in any specially atrocious crime. Beyond the guarantee of life to those who, not coming within the above stated exception, shall surrender themselves, the Governor-General cannot sanction the giving of any specific pledge. 23. Voluntary submission will be counted in mitigation of punishment, but nothing must be said to those who so submit themselves which shall bar the Government from awarding to each such measure of secondary punishment as in its justice it may deem fitting.—l have, In. (Signed) G. F. EDMONSTONE. LORD ELLENBOROT_TGH'S REPLY TO LORD CANNING'S PROCLAMATION. The Secret Committee of the Court of Directors of the East India Company t) the Governor- General of India in Council. ri, 185 8. will Our letter of th e 24th of Mar Ap ch, l 19 have put y ou i n possession of our genera l v i ews with respect t o th e treatment of the peop l e i n the 1858 , event of the evacuation of Lucknow by the enemy. 2. On the 12th inst. we received from you a copy of the letter, dated the 3d March, addressed by your Secretary to the Secretary to the Chief Commissioner in Oude, which letter enclosed a copy of the Proclamation to be issued by the Chief Commissioner as Flom as the British troops E, h. mild have command of the city of Lucknow, and con voyed instructions as to the manner in which he was to act with respect to different classes of persons, in execution of the views of the Governor-Geueral. 3. The people of Oude w;11 see only the Pro clamation. _ thatthe wills;x 4. That authoritative expressione e ?f of the Government informs the pep persons, who are named as having been steadfast in their allegianc e, are henceforward the so le here ditary proprietors o f the lands the y iv ld when Oude came unde r British rule, subject only to such moderate assessment as ma y be imposed upon th em ; that others in whose favour like claims may h e established will have conferred upon them a pro. po ' rtionate measure of reward and honour ; and that with these exceptions the proprietary right in the soil of the province is confiscated to the British Government. 5. We cannot but exnress to you our apprehen sion that this decree, pronouncing the disitibelison of a people, will throw difficulties almost insur mountable in the way of the re-establishment of peace. 6. We are under the impression that t he war in Oude has derived much of its popular charactet from the rigorous manner in which, without regard to what tile chief landholders had become accus tomed to consider as their rights, the summary settlement had, in a large portion of the province, been carried anieldout by your officers. dh landholders of India are as much at- MONDAY EVENI hearts. This fact is indisputable. In the despatch to Lord Canning Ministers have endeavoured to direct the Governor General's attention to this matter, and it would have been impossible far them to have done this in more temperate, dignified, and patriotic terms. (Front _he Daily New. 3.) The great squabble about Lord Canning's Proclama tion and Lord Ellenborough's Despatch is " a very pretty quarrel as it stands." We feel no call to take any part in the fray, except to note and record its pro gress. The facts of the case—as far as they have yet been brought to liebt—appear to be briefly these : Lord Canning, with laudable providence, prepared the draft of a Proclamation, to be issued as soon as Lueknow should be taken, and forwarded the draft to the Com missioner in Oude, with permission to modify it as cir cumstances might require. At th e same ti me , L or d Canning, as in duty bound, communicated the draft of this Proclamation to the Home Government. Its tenor was not approved of by the Home Government ; arid accordingly a secret Despatch was transmitted to the Governor-General, stating the objections to it, and in structing him to " mitigate in practice the stringent se• verity of the decree of confiscation issued against the landholders of Oude." So far both parties acted in their right. The Governor-General had a right to get his Proclarnaeion ready beforehand ; the Home Government had a right to criticise its provisions, and to urge him, in the event of its having been issued before the criti. cisms could reach him, to be lenient in enforcing his harsh decrees. Our Opinion of Lord Canning's Procla mation has already been stated ; further consideration of the subject has led to no change of the views we ex pressed on Saturday. As to Lord Ellenborough's Despatch, though we demur to the accuracy of some of the statements in its historical retrospect, and justice of some of its censures on past transactions, we concur entirely in the practical recommendation with which it concludes. But then comes the question whether, as a matter of policy, or in justice to Lord Canning, the de spatch ought to have been published. For our own part, believing that Lord Canning's seemingly unquali fied announcement that, with the exception of the lauds of six great landholders, all the lands in Oude were to be confiscated, was likely to have caused the flame of war to break out again in that province with increased fury, we believe that it was necessary to explain, or retract, the alarming expression in Lord Canning's Proclamation. But it is impossible to decide with certainty on the pos sible effects of the Proclamation until we know the exact import of the expressions used in the Hiudostanee and Persian translations of the document, and as there is no reason to doubt that Lord Canning will have con formed to the viewer of the Home Government, it would seem to have been advisable to leave him free to adopt' his own mode of averting disagreeable consequences, and therefore to keep the despatch a secret in the meantime. Bet it is not easy to say in the present state of our information, who is to blame for its having been published It was me ural that Mr. Disraeli, when asked whether it was the intention of Government to sanction the confis cation of all the jande in Ou 'e, should di-cleirn any such intention. The linguage of his disclaimer, in so far as it referred to Lord Canning's Proclatna , ion, was perhaps stronger than it needed to be ; but any harm which might have resulted from this has been aggravated by the pa,eionate precipitancy with which the q tian was taken up in the upper House by Lord Gran ville. It is his lordship's importunity that Lord Can ning and the public have to thank for the publication of the despatch. As to the question whether it was the intention publish the despatch in full, that is in reality a matter of little irnpertauce. The withholding of the paragraphs w hick Lord Ellenborough was under stood to say would be omitted, could have done but little to diminish the danger—if there were any—of the publication. The appearance of these paragraphs in the sessional paper after it had been announced that they were to he left out . —and the simultaneous appearance of a comi lets copy of the despatc in one favoured journal and an incomplete one in another, is an allowable ground for conjectures, and imputations, and recriminati ins among partisans and political quidnuncs ; but the only consideration that really concerns the public is that the conduct of the English Government towards the people of Gude shall be such as is sanctioned by justice, hu manity, and sound policy. As for Lord Canning, all the antecedents of that nobleman forbid us to entertain any serious apprehensions that he will inconsiderately throw up a lucrative appointment. As for the knowledge ob tained by the natives of India that there is discord among their rulers, they have been aware of that ever Rim, Warren Hastings and his Council were at dagger drawing in a moment of extreme peril ; and yet the course of English a ggrandisement has never been mate rially impeded. The only real source of danger will be in the perpetuation of this personal dispute with a view to make political capital out of it for the one or the other party. POSTPONEMENT OF Tllll HOP DUTY. The following letter has been received by Vis count Pevc nsey, M.P., in reply to the noble lord's application to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in reference to the postponement of the May instal ment of the hop duty solicited by the planters : " Downing-street, May 3d, 1858. at tention to the circumitances recently brought to let'terMoyf Lord,--I the jor d 24 — t ultimo, h a " received which y y o . u u r lordship's al l m ya t_ my knowledge by a deputation of hop•growers, and press upon her Majesty's Government the necessity of allowiirg the payment of that instalment of the duty, which falls due in the course of 'he present mouth, to be postponed ; and I shall now state the arrangement which her 11Nesty's Government, after a careful consideration of the question, are prepared to sanction, with a view of miti ga ti ng th e inconvenience to which the hop-growing interest would, at this moment, be subjected by a rigid ob servance of the excise regulations. " The first moiety of the duty (200,0001.) on last year's growth falls due on the 16th inst., and the second moiety on the 16th November. "With regard to the first of these instalments I em willing to propose that if a moiety of the duty be paid on the 10th May, the payment of the re mainder should be postponed to the 16th August next. " I prcpose also to allow a corresponding delay in respect to the payment of the second instalment, so that the moiety of it would be required ou the 15th of November, and the remainder on the 16th February, 1859. " I trust that this arrangement will prove satis factory to the hop growers, as I can no t h o ld out any hope o f an y tut titer concession being sanctioned by her Mijesty's Government.—l am, my lord, your lordship's obedient servant,_ B. DISRAELI." AN INCIDENT IN THE LATE GLAs ,o TRIAL At the Circuit Court of Justiciary at Glasgow, ea Thursday evening, four prisoners, three men and a woman, were placed at the bar, charged with an audacious street robbery, committed by means of garotting. " Three of these people, including the woman, were habit and repute Glasgow thieves, and had been previously convicted. The evidence tended to prove that two of the prisoners followed , Mr. Newstead, a clerk into a recess, where, by violence, th e y robbed him of his watch, while the female, and another male prisoner named M'Cart neY (a previously convicted thief), remained out side. After the outrage had been committed, the watch was handed to the woman, a fact which she admitted in her declaration. On the conclusion of the evidence, Mr. Thomson, the counsel for 11 {`Carney, was about to address the jury for his client, when the Lord Justice-Clerk intimated that he did not think the case had been made out against M'Cartney, in consequence of which the counsel resumed his seat, naturally conceiving that the man for whom he was about to appear was out of all jeopardy. Two gentlemen then addressed the jury for the other prisoners, the Lord Justice-Clerk summed up, and the jury retired to deliberate upon their verdict. They returnA with verdict - agreedtheir upon, and the foramen had only got the length of stating that, they found M'C a rtn e y g uilty as at wh ha was interrupted by the Lord Justice -Clerk, who had agreed with him stated that he understood they "by a majority, as to the incompleteness of the case against M'Carc- PeY, in consequence of which his counsel had not addressed them on his behalf. Mr. T homson was sent for, but as he had good reason to believe that his work was over, he had left the Court. The consequence was that the jury was enclosed for the night. The case was now in this anomalous posi tion—that the Judge had summed up ; the jury had deliberated upon their verdict ; they had com pleted it, and put it into the mouth of their fore man, who was in the act of proclaiming it, when 'the procedure was stopped, and they were ordered to b e detained for a night that they might after wards listen to a speech which, according to a rule which has never bean infringed, so far as we know, should have been delivered at another time. Mr. Thomson did deliver his speech next day, and the result was that the verdict as against him was found lea a majority of one to be riot proved. The ordi nary deduction from this would be that Mr. Thom son's speech was one of wondrous power, for he converted ce,rtitira members of a jury. who the night before had voted for convicting his client, and this they did aft hearing all the evidence and the final address of the presiding Judge. Whether or not I, they might be stenewhat influenced by a d es i re t o ' get the C .net out of what seemed to Le an awkward tix we have no right to inquire. The other pri- roners were convicted, and sentenced to severe punishment. There is something very loose iu the concluding stages of this case. It is likely to Le reJorded in future books of criminal procedure rather as a precedent to be avoided than as one to be followed. Anti we must say that had the Lr,rcl Jueticc-Clerk allowed things to go on in the usual way, no such unseemly event would have happened. —Glasgow Herald MAY 10, 1858. )11 G, NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE. The troops attached to the East India depots, comprising the lst battalion of infantry at Chatham garrison, were assembled on Saturday on the gene ral parade-ground, Chatham barracks, for the pur pose of witnessing the execution of the sentence of a district court-martial passed on Corporal John Driver, 7th Fusiliers, who was adjudged to be re duced to the rank and pay of private of an escort, for having permitted a prisoner to escape. The cor poral bad been sent to Manchester to receive a de serter and conduct him to Chatham. The deserter, according to his statement, made some excise to leave the room, which the corporal allowed him to do, when the door was suddenly slammed in his face, and the prisoner escaped. The sentence of the court-martial having been read by the adjutant, the corporal was marched to the front of the bat talion, and his stripes cut off from his arms by the sergeant-major. The accused has been 20 years in the service, and is decorated with the Crimean medal. A district court-martial, of which Col. H. Jervis, commandant of the Ist battalion, was the presi dent, concluded its sitting at Chatham garrison on Saturday, having assembled for the trial of private John Haye, of the Chatham division of Royal Ma rine Light Infantry, who was arraigned on a charge of having, while in a state of int aication, struck with his clenched fist Sergeant J. M‘Gee, his supe rior officer. The court found the prisoner guilty, and the sentence was forwarded to the proper au thorities for approval before it was made known. On the occasion of the Wellesley, 72, Capt. G. Goldsmith, C. 8., the guardship of ordinary at Chatham, being paid off a few days since, the whole of the pensioners were discharged. On Satur day an Admiralty order was received to re-enter 40 of them for further service. The following freight ships are now taking in war stores at Chatham dockyard for the naval establishments—viz., the Hope, for Sheerness ; the Sinbad, for Deptford ; and the Manceuvrer, for Woolwich dockyard. A fine pad lie steamship named the Princeza de Joinville, for the Brazilian Government, built by Messrs. John and Robert White, of West Cowes, ' was launched on Friday. She is intended for the conveyance of mails, specie, ar,c., between Rio de Janeiro and Rio Grande. To admit of her entering bar harbours this vessel has been built on a very peculiar plan, her floors being excessively long and her draught of water very light. The builders gua rantee a speed of not less than 12 knots per hour. She will draw, when laden, an average of 7ft. 4in., her launching draught being but 4ft, which, for her dimensions, seems almost incredible :—Length bo r . tween the perpendiculars, 198 ft.; breadth, 31 ft. ; depth, 18ft. 9in.; tonnage, 927. Her engines are by Messrs. Maudslay. The For, 42-gun frigate, fitted with screw ma chinery and converted to a transport, has boen tsken down Portsmouth harbour and placed along side the dockyard to be dismantled. The Duke of Wellington, 131, Ciptain Eyres, C. 8., flag of Rear-Admiral the Hon. GOO. Grey, will leave the steam-basin for Pc rtsmouth harbour moorings at the end of this week The Pacific steam-vessel will embark the Ros common Militia this day at Portsmouth for Ireland to be disembodied. The wages of the dockyard artificers at Ports mouth are to be forthwi h increase ls. per week. All the artificers at Sheerness are to be hence forth, until further orders, put on what is termed job and task work on unlimited earnings, and all labourers now employed, whether on the establish- ment or temporarily - hired, whose weekly wages do not amount to 14s. per week, are to have their pay raised to that sum. All extra time to be paid for. Provisions and stores of every description are ordered to be fottiwith taken on board the screw steam guardship of ordinary Royal George, 102 guns, Capt. Superintendent J. C. Fitzgerald, and the screw steam guardship of steam reserve Cressy, 80 guns, Capt. E. P. Halsted, dm If required fer immediate service they are ordered to be manned from the different Coastguard stations attached to their districts. The ships now under fitment at Sheerness, in the fitting basin and in dry dock, are the Majestic screw steamship, 80 guile ; the Colossus screw steamship, 80 guns ; the new screw steamship Hero, 9/' guns ; the Ter rible paddle-wheel steam frigate, 21 guns ; the new screw steam frigate Emerald, 51 guns, and sundry gunboats. The Goliath, screw steamship, 80 guns, at Sheer ness, is ordered to be immediately brought forward and fitted for the second-class steam reserve at that port. Mr. Peter M. K. Godfrey, late lieutenant on board the Formidable at Sheerness, has by Admi ralty order been struck off the Navy List, in con sequence of his having deserted from his ship while under arrest in his cabin, pending a court-martial ordered upon him. Her Majesty's screw steamship Archer, 10 guns, in Woolwich basin, has been ordered to be pre pared for service with all possible .despatch. An Admiralty order bas been received at Wool wich directing that from this clay henceforth a por tion of the labourers of the dockyard shall be per mitted to work according to task and job ; and all those earning 345. per week and under shall receive an increase of is. per week. Col. Teesdale, senior-officer of Woolwich garri son, has assumed the temporary command in the absence of Col. Bloomfield on the Continent. In the Times of Monday last it was stated that Lieut. C. W. Sergison, of her Majesty's 93d High landers, who fell fighting so gallantly in forcing a door in the inner works of the Begum's Palace, Lucknow, on Thursday afternoon, March 10, was the son of Mr. William Sergison, of Leamingtou. We are requested to state that Lieut. Sergisou was the eldest son of the Rev. William Sergison, rector of Slaugham, id the county of Sussex. The average number of recruits arriving at Chatham garrison for all corps is about 1,000 per month. IRELAND. TEE FINANCES OF THE CORPORATION OF LONDON. The following is the report on the subject of the revenues of the corporation. They have, it appears, incurred prodigious liabilities. Within the last 10 years they have expended upwards of 915,0001. over and above their income, 550,0001. having been expended iu the Cannon-street improvements, 450,0001. on the new market, and 270,0001. in the Clerkenwell improvements, the entire returns from which do not now amount to upwards of 9,0001. a year, including the ground rents and the tolls of the old Smithfield market. It i 3 understood that all the ground rents of the Cannon street improve ments now remaining unsold will be disposed of and upon the sale of the surplus ground in Clerkenwell ' being completed sums will be realised in diminu tion of the aggregate debt, so as to leave the defi ciency of the whole improvements upwards of 900,0001., the sum for which the debts have been contracted. "We whose names are hereunto subscribed of your Special Revenue Committee, to whom, on the 15th day of October, 1857, it was referred to prepare and submit for the consideration of your hon. Court such plan as we might recommend for regulating the financial affairs and accounts of the Corporation in conformity with the suggestions con tained in our report of the 24th day of Sept. last, and also to suggest any plan we might deem advisable to improve the revenues of the Corporation and reduce its expendi ture, do certify that we have proceeded therein and have bestowed our anxious attention to the subject, for the pur pose of preparing and submitting a practio' 1 scheme for effecting the views set forth in our report before referred to. " In dealing with a question of such importance we felt that too much caution could not be exercised, and we have therefore carefully deliberated upon each of these sugges tions which we now submit for the consideration of the Court. _ _ Some of our propositions contemplate material altera tions in the mode which has been hitherto adopted of ap plying the resources of the Corporation and dealing with the funds at its command and under its control. We have not agreed upon any ono change without tho firm convic tion that tho adoption of it will tend to produce most bene ficial results. " In our former report we endeavoured to clear away the doubt and mystery which seemed to surround, at least in the opinion of many members of your hon. Court, the state and condition of the corporate finances. " We now lay before the Court suggestions which, if perseveringly carried into execution, will, we are persuaded produce a far more satisfactory feeling than has existed and greater confidence in the future prosperity of the reve nues of the Corporation. In some of the cases dealt with by your committee the figures may represent no great va lue, but we attach more importance to the principles in volved than to the amounts which at present are capable of being applied in exemplifying them. " Although there remains before your committee a wide field for investigation in examining the expenses incurred in the various departments of the Corporation, we were of opinion that as a long period must elapse before the in quiry would be completed, it was desirable that our pro eudings' so far as they have at present extend e d, s h ou l d b e reported to this hon. Court. " We now invite the special attention of this hon. Court to the following suggestions " FINSBURY ESTATE FUND.' " The fund accumulated under au act of Common Coun cil, arising from the investment of a proportionate part of the produce of the Finsbury Estate, the lease of which ex pires at Christmas, 1867, now amounts to about 140,0001. This fund has been accumulated to provide against the loss of income on the falling iu of the said lease. We recom mend that authority should be given to your committee to confer with her Majesty's Government with a view of ob taining the necessary powers to invest this accumulated fund in the purchase of freehold property, in conformity with th 3 said Act of Common Council. No. 2.- BALANCES IN THE HANDS OF THE CHAMBERLAIN. From a statement furnished by the Chamberlain we find there were balances in his hands on the olst day of December, 1357, upon various accounts as follow : New House of Correction at Holloway— Building Account £1,152 9 4 Lodging-houses for the labouring poor : . Poor Account.. 2,235 12 4 Criminal Prosecutions Account Maintenance of Prisoners Account 16,952 10 1 Londou-bridge Approaches Account, 2d and 3d Vic., c. 103 (also ground rents un disposed of, amounting to 37/. 2s. per annum, and rent charge of 3/. per annum to purchase) Ditto, sth and 6th Vic., c. 101 (life annuity _ of 40/. per annum to provide for persons • aged 68) Royal Exchange, Improvement. of Site Ac count, Ist and 2d Vic. and sth and 6th Vic. (rent charge to purchase 4/. Us, per annum, and taxes for vacant ground to provide for) St. Martin-le Grand Improvement Fund (vacant ground and houses to sell, one third belongs to the Corporation, two thirds to her Majesty's Postmaster -Gene ral on freehold of the Crown, balance 1,993/. 12s. 10/d., one-third say) DUBLIN, SATURDAY MORNING. THE MAYNOOTH COMPROMISE.' The Tablet of this day, after a week's further considera tion pronounces a decidedly favourable opinion of the compromise suggested by L ,rd Derby, This organ con • siders that nothing could be better for all parties than that the annual grant to Maynooth under the Act, of 1845 should be commuted for a fixed sum —say 800,000/. This would give 200,0001. to the Archbishop an d Bishops of each of the four ecclesiastical provinces, to help them to provide for the education of the Irish priest hood on a plan proposed by the Irish episcopacy, and, of course, subject to the approval of the Holy See. Although such a settlement of the Maynooth difficulty might prove very acceptable to the bulk of the Roman Cathoclic body, it is by no means certain that it would b e quite so agreeable even to those Protestants who are indisposed to follow Mr. Spooner in his wild crusade against the endowment of the college. Without mean ing to disturb a solemnly ratified compaw , , such as the Act of 1845, it would, perhaps be just as well that the disbursement of the fund for the education of the Ro man Catholic clergy should be left in the hands of the House of Commons. The getting rid of the annual di, cutieion is, no doubt a great temptation; but to let we'l alone is a safe maxim. THE lELYAST TEA TRAUDB. The Banner of Ulster is instructed that the Customs' authorities have this week served notices of civil action right and left, not in Belfast alone, but in other northern towns, upon almost every person whose name as a buyer stood in the books of John James Moore. It is further added that,— "To each of these notices an appearance' in the Court of Revenue Exchequ-r must be entered ; the tea merchants will be put to heavy expen,e in defending themselves, sic part of which can be recovered from the Crown in the event of its defeat ; which is all but cer tain. A rumour prevails that a warrant has been ob tained, or is abont to be applied for, to arreAt , re in America ou a charge of forgery, which would Wing him witqin the scope of the international treaty. It i 4 also sttted that a former clerk to Moore, who left Bel aRt be fore the discovery of the fraod., has returned to town from New York, v hether to give evidence for the pr, - secution or not is left to conj ‘cture." tAhtetrian o4ttehn i inias: The Wiener Zeitang, the official organ of the " T P ° hn l the n P ip a Government, published the following ar ticleris Monitettr recently announced that Austria, France, Great Britain, P russ i a, Russia, Sariiiiia, and Turkey had met in conference at the hotel of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, to take cognisance of the final act signed at Constantinople on the sth Dec., with a view t sanction the result of the labours of the Commission instituted by the 30th article of the Treaty of Paris, for the settlement of the frontier line of Russia and Turkey iu Asia. "There is not much importance to be attached to this fact. By presenting that convention to the Conference, Russia and the Porte have done, in fact, what they were not bound to do. The Treaty of Paris does not prescribe that the conven tion to be conclude I between those two States for the settlement of their Asia•ic frontier should be communicated to the Conference, nor does- that treaty contain either among the articles relating to the Danube, any clue bearing that the act of pavigatiou of the Danube shall form an integral part of the general treaty, and, to be valid, require the sanction of the Conference. Russia and the Porte could take this step withou , endangering their sovereign rights ; bUt suah a s Ep does not make a precedent." From the above article of the official organ it would-appear:that the Austrian G ivernment pe T _ sista in its opinion that the act of navigation, coil _ CALEDONIAN BALL.- - This grand annual featiral hue e l uded and rat ifie d b y , the Riverain Statesof the b_een appoint e d t o ta k e pl ace at Willis's Rooms on Fri. Da9ube, does not require the sanction of the Con the 11th of June, under the highest patronage. •ferdnce. 128 15 2 661 10 11 Less the balance o ver d rawn on the 31st of 41,357 11 6 December, 1852, upon the Fleet-market Removil Fund . 1,465 10 0 39892 1 6i " Your committee are o f op i n i on t h at i t is highly desir able the above amount, together with the interest and ac cumulations thereon, should be carried to the credit of an account of a sinking fund, to be applied from time to time as circumstances may appear to render most advantageous in tho reduction of the liabilities of tho Corporation as this Hon. Court may think fit to order and direct, and that such sinking fund should be augmented as opportunities occur. " Your committee are of opinion that the Chamberlain should be authorised to pay out of the city cash the small charges, annuities, &c., to which several of the funds ar, liable as abovementioned. " Your committee attach much importance to these pro ceedings, as establishing a system the results of which we have every reason to believe will prove highly efficacious, by the steady and gradual reduction of existing incum bran ces. " CHAMBERLAIN'S EMOLUMENT FEND. "Your committee beg to recommend that the Chamber lain should be directed to suspend receiving sundry ancient fees and allowances to him, amounting to 5441. 14s. per annum, and the like to him for kis clerks, amounting to 6931. Bs. per annum, making together the sum o f 1,237/. 14s. Bd. per annum (at present payable out of this city's cash to the Emolument Fund of the Chamberlain and hie establishment), so long as the profits of his office are suffi cient to meet the sums allowed for the remuneration of himself and his clerks and the office expenses, which it is understood they will be amply sufficient to do, should the balance of the chamber be kept up to the average amount of the last 10 years. By these means the city's cash would be relieved from this annual payment of the amounts stated. " No 4 .—PURCHASE MONEY ON PROPERTY SOLD. "We beg to submit, in all cases where any freehold or other property belonging to the Corporation is sold, that the purchase-money, instead of being expended as part. of the ordinary revenue of the Corporation, together with the dividends arising therefrom, should be invested to form a fund to be applied under the direction of your hon. Court in the purchase of freehold or other property, as is provided by the Act of Common Council in respect of the Finsbury Estate Fund before referred to "No. S.—FINES ON RENEWAL OF LEASES. "According to the mode now adopted the fines on the renewal of leases, including those on the Conduit Mead Estate, amounting on an average of 14 years, to about 3,8001. per annum, are paid into the chamber to the gene ral account of the Corporation, and applied in the same manner as any other part of an ordinary income. Your committee beg to submit that a more baneficial appropria tion of the fines upon these leases might be made by carry ing the amount to the credit of the before-mentioned ac cumulated fund, to be applied for the purposes stated, as eligible opportunities may arise. No. 6.—LORD MAYOR'S HOUSEEIOLD. " Your committee have arrived at tke conclusion that upon the offices of swordbearer and common-crier becoming vacant, by the resignation or dacease of the present holders of those offices, the Salary for performing the duties should be 2001. per annum for each office, the same to include all fees and emoluments. " That one marshal is sufficient for the proper discharge of the duties of the office, and that upon the resignation or decease of the senior marshal his office be not filled up, but that the duties be performed by one marshal, at a salary of 2501. per annnni, for horse-hire, kc. " Your committee are also of opinion that the office of train-bearer to the Lord Mayor should be abolished. " No. 7.—APPLICATION FOR GRANTS OF MONEY, &C. "Taking into consideration the present unsatisfactory condition of the corporate finances, and the heavy liabili ties to meet which the funds of the city have become charge able, your committee feel it their duty strongly to urge upon the Court not to entertain for the present any appli cation for a grant of money, or any proposition involving extraordinary expenditure, but to confine its expenges to the payment of such charges as are necessary and requisite for the general management of municipal affairs. " No. 8. SUMMER EXCURSIONS. " Your committee cannot refrain from expressing their conviction that under existing circumstances it would be highly judicious for the Court to suspend their orders al lowing the sum of 7501. per annum for payment of the ex penses incurred on the occasion of the summer excursions on board the Thames Navigation barge, made by the seve ral sections of this Court. X" We have directed the Chamberlatn to prepare a state ment of the receipts and expenditure of the Corporation fur thelBs7, and to invert the sam e i n a dectn i .ia table, similar in to the appendix B to our re p or t o f Sep temberpear last, omitting from each table the columns for the year 1817, and the same, together with an abstract thereof, is annexed. " From this statement it appears that the actual defi ciency in the account of the past year was 4,9471. 4s. 2§d., and your committee consider that such account, and the fact that the deficiency on the previous year amounted to the sum of 7,5931., fully justify the recommendations made iu their report. —We f urther recommend f or th e f uture in all cave of tt investment of funds the name of the corporation, by its pr , per style and title, should be aided to the names of the trustees hitherto usually appointed in . that resp ec t. "The foregoing are th e conclusions at which your com mittee have arri%ed in the course of their inquiry up to the present period. We purpose to continue our investigation, and from time to time lay before this hon. Court such fur ther suggestions as rosy conduce to effect to objects con , templated by the references to your committee. •We therefore recommend the above propositions for the adoption of the Court. " All which we submit to the judgment of this hon. Court: " J. H. PRY. " BENJAMIN POWER, " THOMAS DAKIN. " H. DE JERSEY. "JOSEPH PERKINS. " BLOM. BURNELL. "11. LOWMAN TAYLOR. " WILLIAM CUDITT." " EDWARD HARRISON. CAMBRIDGE ASYLUM —A. grand hall will be given at Rooms on the 21st of Jane, in aid of the funds ,f this admirable charity. Htr R yal Higkiness the Duchess of Cambridge has signified her intention of honouring the reunion with her presence, and a long list of ladies patronesses is.ahout to be anuouced. SPORTING NOTES. THE BATH MEETING. Time will not permit me to place before the reader my remarks on the recent Chester Meeting, or to point out the influence which the running on the Roodee exercised over the Derby betting. On those particulars I purpose to touch to-morrow, and at present I shall merely limit my notes to the Bath meeting. Tba attrac tions of the programme, and the quiet businesslike regu larity with which the proceedings are conducted, are not the only inducement for racing men to a , semble in the city of King Bladrid, for there is the possibility of many important changes being made in the Derby price current. Should those changes occur I. shall take an early opportunity of referring to them at length. Six races will be deci led each day, and the field will be satisfactory enough as to number, if not aito quality. I-aac Day may win the Lansdowne Stakes with either Jesuit or King Cob. If Ancient Briton go to the post for the Biennial Stakes,. he must win easily to sustain his Derby reputation. Should his party, however, deem discretion the better part of valour, Sunbeam will, per haps carry Mr. Merry's colours first pass the post. East Langton showed in such improved form at Chester that I am induced to tru,t him for the Sower setshire Stakes. For the Free Handicap I shall select Forget-me-not and Polly Johnson, and the Members' Plate I assign to Shirai'. To-morrow, Wednesday's racing, and the coming Derby shall be fully discussed by A FRESH. MAN. --- Weights for the Northumberland Plate. Two miles. Age st lb Warlock 5 8 12 Gunboat 4 8 , 6 El Hakim ....., 4 7 12 Itiseber Vanity Pantomime Mo, grel 4 7 10 Special License 4 7 9 Underhand Bashi Bazouk Florence Maid of Derwent 5 7 0 Breeze Artillery Gaudy Hobgoblin 4 6 10 The Dupe 4 6 9 Minnie Bird-in-H ,nd 4 6 7 Longrange 3 6 6 The LI adji Worcester Knight of the Age at lb Gammon Herne 3: 5 8 Night Ranger Meta Lady Alice.. 3 5 7 Rio (late Cara Fatima) ... 4 5 7 Blackthorn The Alderman Satinstone 3 5 6 Pensioner Waterloo . 8 5 3 Medallion Lady Dot' Howtoesdie Sally Conductor Honeytree 3 4 13 Benefield Garnish 3 4 12 Bradley 3 4 12 Princeet Denmark 3 4 1 1 Peeress Happy Prince Julia Dred Brown Bonnet Sobieski 3' 4 ~ Captivator 3 4 i „ Br. to Farthi nga l e 3 4 1 Clara Seyto n 3 4 , last Friday at 6 p.m. Shire - a 6 2 Telegram Gorsebill Sunbeam Lifeboat 3 6 0 General Bosquet 4 5 13 Hamlet Ducrow 4 5 9 Weights published 1 Racing Fixt. res for 1858. :y. Epsom l9 • Manchester 1 9 E. Winchester l 9O Chelmsford N e wcastle-on-Ty ne 22 2 4 Abingdon Carlisle l9 • Shrewsbury 91 LT. Liverpool - I Nottingh am I ' . . Stamford • Marlborough ........... Goodwood Bath ...... Harpenden................. 11 ...............14 ARcot 1 Hampton Newton 9 Beverley Summer 16 Bibary Club l6 Stockbridge l7 Hereford Ipswich 1 Pontefract . . 1 Odihaui 2 Newmarket July 6 Worcester Summer 8 Ripon. 2 Belford North Staffordshire Brighton Brighton Club Lewes Wolverhampton ..... 9 l-Reading l- UST. I York — ... - .1! I YLa►dcliff ~ ................... 20 lEghadP **** ': *** : **** 2 4 Hereford * 3 6 Stockton ************ ** 11 0 6 I Lichfield ****** : ******** * *** . S; Great Yarmouth ************ .6' Country Markets. LEICESTER—Ma.y 8: • it A moderate show of wheat to-day, w hi c h so ld s l o w./ last week's rates. Barley firm, at extreme prices. Be ° J, in improv e i sappy, b u t d e ll o f sa l e, and prices unalter:i Oats in good request, and u nc h a n ge d in value. Virbe -46s to 50s. , . • _ NOILWICEt--AlaT 8. &it The supply a wheat was good an d there was 1 .- i, attendance. The wheat trad e ru l e d active, and- qu °—. tions abort is per qr. lower. • YORK—MAY 8. There wag a good attendance this morning, and tb demand for wheat and flour was slow, at a reduction Is per qr. In barley there was no change: For oats 0 beans full prices were readily obtained. There was rather CHELMSFORD—MAY a slow sale, and in some in' steno. ° decline was submitted to. Wheat, white, old,per s. a. qr. 43 48 • new 43 48 red, old 40 44 new 39 41 Barley 34 40 Chevalier 38 41 Grinding . 2B 32 &fait 70 73 Chevalier 72 73 e. Oats, per qr 24 46 Peas, Partridge .... . 4 / White...— ...... .. 4 ° 46 Boiling ......... 40 43 Dun 41 so Beans, Tick ..... ..... > 36 46 Harrow tick! 3 v, 36 Mazagan 36 • Ditto,' new:- 33 NOTTINGHAM —MAY 8. trip' There was a t o l era bl e supp l y of wheat, and all der . y ep tioos met a ready sale at is per qr b e l ow l as t week's Prgtopr The highest qu o t a ti ons f or E no w hit e samples were ''„fto red 46, per 36 stone. B ar l e y a s l ow sa l e, superior 1;"01. 425, grinding'33s per 30 stone. In oats there was sn Of vance of is per qr, but a small supply. Beans in tole ° request, and is dearer. OXFORD-MAT 8. Trade slow to-day, with about an average supply ° l , f e ri descriptions of grain. For fine samples of English Wi, 0 04 there was a slight decrease on last wee k. B a rley * ° supply, from 30s to 40s. A dull trade in seeds. .10 PER QUARTER. no o' l os Wheat, red (old) 47e to —s Barley, grinding ... -- 0 , t 0 4 ° 9 Ditto (Low) Ditto, white —s to —s Peas tom / Ditto (old) Barley, malting ... 309 to 34E Flour, per sack ROCHESTER—MAT 1. ael The farmers demand e d hi g h er ra t es 'f or w heat tcr xe d, Buyers, however, r e fus e d to a c ce d e t o th e terms 69 0 00 and consequently the trade was dull. In a- fete ina i t y s oo some excellent samples succeeded in obtaining an ad of is. In oats there was a slight improtement: DALKEITH GRAIN' MARKET—MAY 7 1 0 ' Qrs. Be s t. C urren t. .10 0; g I 230 Wheat 47s rOd 393 6a „„ d 3 2, 0,1 787 Oats 126 Barley 363 6d 32s 3il, L", 0 50 Peas A beans 42a Od .. 403 2d .... ; ..... 38 9 HADDINGTON GRAIN MARKET—ILLi 6. 0• 1 sio r 'ni WITIAY. BARLEY I OATS. 1 63 - I First sos Od 38a 9d I 33s oa ,4„ il l 3 4 5 0 s s I 0 0 d d 3 35 1 as Od 7 d 1 : 2 9 : 3 01 ai l . A s. : 4 1. ~:,4 , 2 ,6g 1 5; 0000 1 1;1 ,' Second Third Total quantity of wheat in market, 662 qrs., Uti i g . 6 0 01 A ' 9 9 9 t barley „ 1 , oats ,3 ~ 270 qrs., -„, 0 I ~ ~ beans ~ 86 qrs., 6i tIO AVERAGES PER IMPERIAL QUARTER. 9.1.2 Wheat, 10 3-12ths I Barley, —V- 1 6 '10.0 4 Oats, ... 11. 10 1 9-12ths I Beans, ....,21. 111 a- DUBLIN—MAT 7. O g White wheat, 27s Od to 29s Od ; red ditto , 24e Oa ° d' 6d; ditto new, a Od ; barley, malting, 148 to 182 Od; g r i p ing, —s to —s ; oaLs, old, 132 6d to 158; ditto, xt°' ° ' to —s ; oatmeal, 132 6d to 15 8 6d ; b ere, new, ,„ 1. 46 0,1; rapese , d, —s Od to s Od per brl ; balure floor' pet 6d to 19s Od per owt ; Indian corn, 158. 01 to 37d 4SO Ihs 4th l l a ß st T , m C A , t it( f isE ß . L Patrick Lo— a O t ahe+ehe Atoll' 48rathpleienlslt,.o, of a t T h ; ll ;oleseCtts 0 risigl ' 2 gor-p• a li t t B h . e B an k , Thames, ‘"-- road, the wife of David M`Niel Esq., of the 'Stock , change, of a son. nit s° I TWINING—On the Bth i ns t - , at 215, Strand, M r s ' - g' Harvey T w i n i ng, o f a da ughter. MARRIAGES. Du na e ; CLAYTON—BRISTO —On the Ist inst.. at St. t , - ti Fleet-street, Wm. Clayton, late of Watling-str ee oo o, now of the Swan-witn-Two -Necks, Doctors'-olyist s4 to Rebecca, youngest daughter of the late Virol• Eeq., of Ipswich, ore. GARDINER—HUNTER— On the Bth inst., at St. —e Glibt - h i , Bloomsbury, Douglas Charles, eldest eon of P. C' .... nor, Esq., of Tottenham-park, to Frances Cherlo.t.rtr'dtett only daughter of Win. Hunter, Esq., of 16, 11614 Moomsbury. - DEATHS. ' Wigh t, DRAYrorr---On the 4th inat., at Shalieet, Isle of Mrs. Sophia Drayton, aged 92. 13' Vi r • GADBURY— On the 6th inst., J em i ma , w ife of grt r iet° l ' Gadbury, broker of the Cou r t o f B an krupt cy , "-- ~ aged 50. oarr z .ov, of HOBHOUSE—On the 7th inst., at Bournemouth , s e, - widow of the l a t e Ri g ht H on. H enr y gobhou Hadspen, Somerset , ,hire, aged 73. f JONES—On the 7th inst., Hubert, youngast obild O - t ,lo l ' Chester Jon es , E sq ., o f Li nco l t e s •i nt i, barris t f ri aged 6 years. , s ofi t ' iu PAYNE—On the 24th nit., at his residence, near Pl - of G9leral Charles Payne, Bombay Army- r , fen STABLES—On the ,- "qh inst at 100, Park-street, txr°9 ~ square, Miss Stables, aged 92 -.••••••••••i - - LONDON : Printed and Published by MIIRDO IJ of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at Ott Sun Otg ° :' 112, Strand, in the P ree i ne t o f the Savoy. in ill. ° of aiddlesex, Monday, May 10, 1858* AUG 1% )31:11 Wel< A.dn arc idm lntri bR. 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