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ertirb laiition SUN OFFICE, Seven o'Clock. TATTERSALLS'—(This Evening.) SODIERSETSHIRE STAKES. 5 to 2 apt East Langton sto 1 agst York Bto 1 agst Childrey DEBBY. 9 to 2 agst Fitz• Roland sto 1 apt Toxepholite 10 to 1 apt Longrange 14 to 1 agst Happy Land 15 to 1 agst The Hadji 20 to 1 agat Ancient Briton 20 to 1 agst Sedbnry 20 to 1 agst Eclipse (offered) 23 to 1 agst Beadsman 25 to 1 agat Physician 25 to 1 agat Wilton (offered) 25 to 1 agat Ditto 33 to 1 agat Deceiver (taken) 50 to 1 apt Kelpie 50 to 1 apt Ethiopian 66 to 1 agat Mentmore OAS& 100 t 4 30 agst Governess (offered) 10 to 1 agst Target (take 12 to 1) 4to 1 agst Mr. Merry's two coupled ARRIVALS AT BATH. New Brighton, -King of the Forest, Raven, Panic, oby Cotherstone out of Black Bess, Gin, Compromise, Accurate, Sinnereley, The Elk, Melissa, Lifeboat, Phantasm, c. by Newminster out of Prioress, Courier, Trumpeter, Villaret, f. by Verulam out of Fleur de Weire, Stockham, Merryman, Poodle, Hop Merchant, Fadladeen, York, Haymaker, Childrey, Amorous Bey, Linda, Cotswold, Theory, Salonica, Alaric, Blue Bell, and Arcanum. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS.---(This Evening.) The LORD CHANCHLLOR took his seat on the woolsack it five o'clock. Lord WENSLEYDALE moved for certain returns connected with the Encumbered Estates Court in Ire land.—Agreed to. PRIVATE BUSINESS. On the motion of Lord REDKSDALE, the following bills were read a second time, viz.—the Liverpool Exchange, London Book Company, Knighton Railway ; Renni stone, Thtuletone, and Ospring Gas ; and Barnstaple Waterworks Mlle. LORD CANNING'S PROCLAMATION. The Earl of SHAFTESBURY gave notice that on the 14th May he should move a resolution condemnatory of the publication of the despatch of the Governor-General. (Ironical cheers from the Ministerial side of the house.) The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH said it perhaps might be for the convenience of the noble earl if he was now to lay on the table a copy, in extenso, of the des patch. (Cheers.) He would take that opportunity of correcting a mistake which existed with respect to that document. It was quite by accident that the house only received a part of it on a former occa sion, while the whole of the despatch bad been produced in the House of Commons. The fact was that it was in tended that the Secretary of the Board of Control should present extracts to both houses, but from some mistake the perfect document was accidentally transmitted to the House of Commons, and a compressed copy was laid upon their lordship's table. Lord CLANRICARDE asked whether there was any other document in the possession of the Government t which the omitted paragraphs in the proclamation referred to, and if there was any objection to its produc tion. The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH said, notice of the question ought to have been given. He should prefer answering the question to-morrow. Earl GREY—Perhaps the noble earl will say for the information of the house, whether the Government had any further explanation of Lord Canning's views with respect to the publication of the proclamation, in addi tion to that now in possession of the house. The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH said not a word bad been received from the Governor-General. The only letter received was that of the 4th of March. In fact a month has elapsed during which time Lord Can ning had been completely silent. Earl GREY—Then he understood that the Govern ment had only received the draft of the despatch. They had no information that the production had ever been presents el at all. The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH said he had no direct information at all whether the proclamation had ever been published. Earl GRANVILLE believed that Mr. Vernon Smith had received a private letter from Lord Canning, which implied that a note accompanied the draft proclamation, intimating the Governor-General's intention of explain ing his views in a subsequent despatch. The Earl of MALMESBURY said the conduct of Mr. V. Smith differed widely from that of the noble earl (Clarendon) opposite. That letter ought not to have been withheld from the Government. The Earl of DERBY asked whether the noble mar quis(Lansdowne) could say when the letter was received ? The Marquis of LANSDOVVNE said the letter to which allanion had been made was not received until after the answer had been given in the other house by the Chancellor of the Exchequer on Thursday last. (Hear, bear, from the Opposition.) The subject then dropped. ANNEXATION IN INDIA. The Earl of ALBEMARLE postponed the motion of which he had given notice, as he believed it was in some degree oinneeted with the subject alluded to in Lord Canning's proclamation. (LEFT SITTINe.) HOUSE OF COMMONS—(This Evening.) The SPELLER took the chair at four o'clock. LIMERICK ELECTION. Mr. DUNLOP, Chairman of the Limerick Election Committee, reported to the house that the late election for the city of Limerick was a void election. That Major Gavin, the sitting member, had been guilty of several acts of bribery by his agents, but without hie knowledge. PRIVATE BUSINESS: _ . The following bills were read a third time and passed : —Linton Gas ; St. Addrew's and Quebec Railroad Com pany (Class A Shareholders) and New Brunswick and Canada Railway and Land Company. The order for the third reading of the Horsham Tarn• pike Trust bill was discharged. Tile following bills were then considered and ordered to be read a third time :—Banbridge, Lisburn, and Bel fast Railway (changed from Banbridge, Lisburn, and Belfast Janction Railwai ) ; Besselsleigh Road ; lilyth Harbour and Dock ; Exeter and Exmouth Railway ; Fromartine and Buchan Railway ; In- Yerury and Old Meldrum Junction Railway ; Liver pool Improvement ; Manchester, Hyde, and Mott . am Road ; Metropolitan Board of Works (Victoria -park Approach); and Norwich Gar. VICTORIA. STATION AND PIMLICO RAILWAY BILL. Lord J. MANNERS moved that copies of the in structions to Thomas Page, Rig., C.E. far the Commis sioners of her Majesty's Works and Public Buildings, on the subject of the Victoria Station and Pimlico Rail way Bill ; of Mr. Page's report in reply, dated May 3, 1858 ; and a letter from the secretary of the Board of Works to the solicitors for the bill, dated May 4, 1858, be referred to the committee on the bill.—Agreed to. INDIA.—VOTE OF CENSURE ON THE GOTERNMENT. Mr. CARD WELL gave notice that he should on Thursday next move a resolution in the following terms: " That the hones, whilst it abstains from expressing an opinion as to the policy of any proclamation by the Governor General in India in relation to Oade, has seen with re gret and serious apprehension that her Majesty's Go vernment has addressed to the Governor-General of Judie., through the secret committee of the strong terms the conduct of the Governor-General of India, and that they are of opinion such a course, on the part of her Majesty's Government, must tend, under the present circumstances in India, to pro duce a most prejudicial effect in that country, by weakening the authority of the Governor-General, and encouraging the further resistance of those still in arms against us." (Loud cheers.) NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL MODEL SCHOOL AT BELVOIR. Mr. CALCUTT asked the Chief Secretary for Ireland if the National Agricultural Made' School at Belvoir , i n the county of Clare, was closed 7 and, if so, how long it had been closed, and if there was any objection to the Production of the correspondence between the Board of Xducation and the patron d the school ? Lord n A. NA.S said the school was closed in June, 1855, .0 oo I "queries of the expense. He had no object'ons to the returns proposed. BRIDGE OVER THE REGENT'S CANAL. Mr. WYLD asked the First Commissioner of Works, if it was intend e d to wid en arid enlarge the bridge over (near t the Regent's Can a l he Gloucester Gate), in corn • p i l i t e aninch inhabitants htthe of erequest c ontained ene in th e memor i a l o f the oodi t h e U g s-park and it s neighbour . Lord J. MANNERS said he bad looked carefully int o the. whole of this question since a dep utati o n him in reference to it, and he was of o pinion called upon that if the bridge was widened it must be done at the expense r. f those in the locality, and not by the Government. T h e question had th erefore be better addressed to the rep - re ! aen t a tives of the Vest r y in the parish in whi c h t i e bridge is situated. i INDIAN TREASURE. Mr. LAURIE asked the President of the Boardiof Control how the valuable treasure and other propety wind in Luoknow, and elsewhere in Onde, was to e THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENFNG, MAY 10, 1858. disposed of ; and whether any portion was to be subject to prize money for the army. Mr. EL BAIL LIE said that at present her Majesty's Government had net received any information whether any prize money or plunder bad been found in Luck now. Until her Majesty's Government had received tbat information, it was impossible to answer that question. MAIN DRAINAGE OF THE METROPOLIS. Mr. BUTLER asked the First Commissioner of Works whether, having regard to the various reports of the referees and commissioners upon the subject of the main drainage of the metropolis and the purification of the Thames, it was his intention, before acceding to any scheme for carrying out the 135th section of the act for the better local management of the metropo lig, to cause any further investigation to be made other a reference to the committe e recently appointed or ot wise ; and whether it was in contemplation to amend or modify such act, with a view to the adoption of any scheme that may not be in accordance therewith. Lord J. MANNER S said the only power possessed by the Government in reference to this sunow b bject was ore a power of veto only. No scheme ef the Government, and all he could now say was, that should the Metropolitan Board of Works I submit any further scheme for the purification of the river Tnames, he should withhold hie sanction to it until the committee referred to had reported on their labours. He was not aware that the Board of Works I wished for the amendment of the act referred to. ORDNANCE SURVEY. Viscount DUNCAN asked the Secretary for War whether the Royal Commissioners, appointed last year on the subject of the ordnance survey of Great Britain, had made their report, and, if so, at what period a copy of it would be presented to this house ? General PEEL said the report had not yet been pre• Booted to her Majesty's Government. The Chairman had informed him it would be ready in a few days. As soon as it had been laid before her Majesty no time would be lost to lay a oopy of it on the table of that house. CRIMINAL COURT,—(This Day.) The May sessions of the Central Criminal Court corn• menced this morning before the Lord Mayor, the Sheriffs, and Aldermen Salomons and Lawrence. The Recorder, in charging the Grand Jury, said it I was a source 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 slaughter. 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 fight. 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 against 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 the only fact they would have to deal with wag, whether the evidence bore out the charge. The remaining charges were of the ordinary description, and required no special observation. If, however, in the course of their investigation any point of law or difficulty arose on application, the court would readily render them every assistance. The Grand Jury then returned to their room, and in a short time, true bills having been returned, the trials proceeded. _ CONFISCATION OF OUDE.-CENSURP, OF LORD 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, Esq., Se cre t ar y t o th e Government of India with the Governor-Gene ral, to G. Cooper, Esq., Secretary to the Chief Commissioner of Oude. ALLAIIIBAD, March 3. Sir,—l am directed by the Right 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 Luck now 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 WI 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 Lueknow, 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 au exemption almost general, from the penalties of death, transportation, and imprison ment, such as is now ab:iut 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 forbear ante. 5. Translations of the proclamation into Hindee and Persian accompany this despatch. 6. It will be for the Chief Commissioner, in com munication 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 ; as also the mode in which those who surrender themselves under it shall be immediately and for the present dealt with. 7. This last question, considering that we shall not be in firm possession of any large portion 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 theGoverument, and have shown inveterate opposition to the I.st, but who are free from the suspicion of having put to death or injured Europeans who fell in their way. O. Tu these men their lives are guaranteed and their hono ur ; that is, in native acceptation, they will neith er be transported across the sea nor placed in prison. 10. Probably the most easy and effectual way of disposing of them, in the first instance, will he to require that they shall reside in Lucknovr under surveillance and in charge of an officer appointed for that purpose. 11. Their ultimata 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 require. 13. One obvious security will be, that of mak ing it clearly understood by 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 b 3 a third class, less compromised by acts of past hostility to the Go vernmeut, 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 dars 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 any disturbance of the peace or resistance of autho rity which m a y 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 Gove rnor -G ener al wishes the Chi e f 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 b 3 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 th e l a t ter t h e G overnor -G enera l d oes no t 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 any 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. V o l un t ary su b m i ss i on w ill b e coun t e d in mitigation o f pun i s h men t, b ut no thi ng mus t be said to these 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, &c. (Signed) G. F. EDMONSTONE. LORD ELLENBOROUGH'S REPLY TO LORD CANNING'S PROCLAMATION. The Secret Committee of the Court of Directors of the Eat India Company to the Governor- General of India in Council. Ap r il 19, 1858. Our letter of the 24th of March, 1858, wil l have put y ou i n possession of our genera l views with re s p ec t to the treatment of the people in the event of the evacuation of Lucknow by the enemy. 2 . On the 12th hut. 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 Commissioner as so )n as the British t r oo p s should of the Proclamation to be issued b y the Chief have command of the city of Lucknow, and con veyed 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-General. 3. Th e people of Oude will see only the Pro clamation. 4. That authoritative expression of the will of the Government informs the people that six persons, who are named as having been steadfast in their allegiance, ate henceforward the sole here ditary proprietors of the lands they held when Oude cAme under British rule, subject only to such moderate assessment as may be imposed upon them ; that others in whose favour like claims may be established will have conferred upon them a pro portionate measure of reward and honour ; and . that with these exceptions the propri e t ar y right in the soil of the province is confiscated to the British Government. 5. We cannot but express to you our apprehen sion that this decree, pronouncing the disinberison of a people, will throw difficulties almost insur mountable in the way of the re-establishment of peice. 6. We are under the impression that the war in Oude has derived much of its popular character from the rigorous manner in which, without regard to what the chief landholders had become accus tomed to consider as their rights, the summary settlement had, in a large portion of the province, been carried out by your officers. 7. The landholders of India are as much at tached to the soil occupied by their ancestors, and are as sensitive with respect to the rights in the soil they deem themselves to possess, as the occupiers of land in any country of which we have a know ledge. 8. 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 for 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. 10. We dethroned the King of Oude, and took possession of his kingdom by virtue of a treaty which had 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, had not been previously made known to the King of Oade. 11. That sovereign and his ancestors had 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 most 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_legitima , e 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 de-erving of puillsbuient, 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 Oude. 19.1 We cl-sire to see British authority in India upon the willing obedience of a contented people. There cannot be contentment where there is general confiscation. 2J. 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 strongholds, 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 D ,rby 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 waive sovereign had been Utjustly dethroned, and who rose as an armed nation against those whom they conceived to be usurpers and oppressors." Lord Canning might have made cunfisca ion the exceoli,n ; he certainly was not justified in making it the rule, Had the Governor-Gene• ral threatened to deprive of their lands and possessions all thee' who did not at once tender their allegiance, and throw themselves on the clemency of their Sovereign, none would have °Nee - el to his 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 men-tires against the population. Members of the late Government in both houses of Parlia ment gave expression to this view, which was advocated in the °dumps of their organs. According to their notions the people, from one 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 I 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, abandon 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 chastisement, 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 contradiction 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 us, 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 th e y really mean l In spite of evidence the most con clusive they have persevered in denying the complicity of any section 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 t he fol lowing paragraph from Lord Canning s proclamation : "The Governor-General further proclaims to the p e ople of Oude that, with the above -mentioned excep tions, 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 t o it may seem fitting. The effect produced in Oude by this proclamation cannot be disguised. On this point the evidence of the corre .pondent of the Times is °inclusive, and it en tirely demolishes the arguments put forth tip 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 glass will be lirge and ltheral aed in his rendering the severity of the text will be mollified so far that the Oude talookdars may read and run to and not from. us. So it is understood, and steps will be taken to diffuse the knowledge . f this great change among the natives." The italics in t e above extract are our own. There would have I o o little need fu- modifications, and "this great change" if the original terms of the proclamation had been suited to the emergency. In another portion of the game 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 measures as these to which we have re ferred will only increase our difficulties and heighten our perplexities, nor i an 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 just and poli• 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, of conquerors, and of mighty empires, and which pos terity admires more than the valour by which oppor tunity for its exrcise was won." In such a spirit has the noble remonstrance sent by Ministers to the Go vernor-General been framed, and every true Englishman will admit with pride and honest emotion that this patriotic document contains sentiments that-do honour to our statesmen. Of Lord Canning we have always spoken with respect. We censured the vacillation which be displayed at the commencement of the mutiny, nor have we failed to render justice to his merits. The Governor-General was certainly not the kind of legislator required for such a cri , •is. In fact, Lord Canning has, as we sail before, reversed the natural order of things. He temporised when he ought to have acted energetically, and now that he might be lenient he is needlessly severe. At the first signs of revolt the Governor-General should have struck terror into the hearts of the mutineers. By his unwillingness to make an example he actually favoured h the desi gns o f th e consp i ra t o rs, and a movem ent might have been crushed in the bud assomedthewcha racter of a wid e ly-spread rebellion. At th at time sev erity would have' deterred the bold, now i t will aliena te the loyal. The people of Oude have been oppressed and tyrannised over•by the sepoys, and a lenient policy on the part of the British authoritie s w ould have won their 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. ARMY MEDICAL OFFICERS. Colonel KINGSCOTE asked the Secretary for War, whether it was intended to carry out the recommenda tions of the committee appointed to inquire into the Army Medical Department, of which Mr. Stafford was chairman in 1856, or any of the recommendations of the Sanitary Commissioners, of which the right hon. the member for South Wiltshire was president, which related to the pay, rank, and organisation of the army medical officers, or whether it was intended to continue the system now prevalent under the present director general. Gen. PEEL, said it was not intended to continue the present system under the present director-general. Upon the report of the sanitary commissioners Lord Panmurc appointed a committee, with Mr. G. Herbert at its head, and, in accordance with their report, a war rant had been drawn up for the sanction of the Treasury, and as soon as it was approved of it would be carried out. WESTMINSTER HALL. Sir A. AGNEW asked the First Commissioner of Works whether there was any immediate intention of removing all temporary erections in Westminster Hall, and of substituting a permanent and ornamental door way in place of that by which the public at present had access to the building Lord J. MANNERS said he proposed immediately to have the erection referred to removed. He did not in tend this session to ask for a vote of money to improve the entrance to that house, but he hoped next year to do it, and make arrangements for the removal of the unsightly notice boards near the entrance to the law courts. NE N WRIT. Colonel FRENCH moved the issue of a new writ for the city of Limerick in the room of Major Gavin. , Mr. BOUVERIE objacted to the issue of the writ that night. It was usual under such circumstances to give a week's notice of the issue of a writ. After some remarks from Mr. COLLINS, Col. FRENCH postponed his moticu till Thursday OATHS BILL. On the motion that the Lords' amendments to this bill be agreed to on clause 5. , Lord J. RUSSELL moved that they should not be agreed to by that house. Mr. NEWDEGATE supported the amendments. Sir R. BETHELL urged that it was the duty of the House of Lords to have attended to the feelings of the people of this country, and to have agreed to the bill in the form in which it was sent up to their lordships' house. The House of Commons had on repeated occaions passed such a bill as this, and with increasing numbers and in various Parliaments. He hoped the house of Lords would not drive the House of Commons into collision with them, and compel this house to seat Baron Rothschild by resolution. If it was necessary he would move such a resolution. After some remarks from Sir J. PAKINSTON in expla nation, Mr. S. WARREN, amidst cries of "divide," ad dresssed the house in favour of their lordships' amend ments. If the learned gentleman (Sir R. Beth-11) thought the House of Lords would yield to his threao, he would find he had never committed a greater blunder in his life. Only two Jews had been elected to serve in Parliament, and no petition had been presented to that house from members of the Jewish persuasion in favour of the bill. The people of England, as a body, were opposed to the introduction of Jews into Parliament. (" Hear, hear," and " divide"). After some retnaiks from Mr. T. DuNcomsz and Sir J. PAKINGTON, The house divided, when the numbers were— For disagreeing with the Lords' amend ments to clause 5, inserting the words " on the true faith of a Cnrimtian " 263 Fur the Lords' amendments l5O Majority . 113 The other amendments were also disagreed to. Lord J. RUSSELL moved the appointment of a com mittee for drawing up the reasons of the Commons dis agreeing to their Lordships' amendments, with a vie w to a conference with their brdships, viz., Lord John Russell, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir J. Pakington, Lord Stanley, Sir F. Kelly, Lord Palmer. ston, Sir G. Lewis, Sir G. Grey, Mr. Labouchere, Sir J. Graham, Mr. Gladstone, Mr. Car4well, Sir R. Bethell, Mr. Bright, Mr. M. Gibson, Mr. florsman, Mr. Dillwyn, Mr. T. Duncombe, Mr. Headlam, Mr. Roebuck, Mr. Moncreiff, Mr. J. D. Fitzgerald, Mr. Deasy, and Mr. J. A. Smith. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE in accordance with precedent of a person returned to that house who had not taken the oaths, moved that Baron Rothschild be one of the commit ee, in order that he might state his reasons and opinions at the conference. Mr. NEWDEGATE rose and was LEFT 9PEAKIN4. NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE. The troops attached to the East India depots, comprising the Ist batt a li o n 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 corl , poral bad been sent to Manchester to receive a de ' serter and conduct him to Chatham. The deserter, according to his statement, made some excuse 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 intoxication, 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.B. , the guardship of ordinary at Chatham, being paid off a few days since, the whole of the pensioners were discharged. On Satur day an re f Admiraltyorder was received to re-enter 40 of them for furtherihetervice. d The following shipsook dockyard rd f e nowor the taking in war sto'es at Ch a th am naval establishments—viz., the Hope, for Sheerness ; the Sinbad, for Deptford afinttdedthweitMhasncrceeuwvnirear. ma chinery and converted , fur Woolwich dockya r d. The For, 42- gun frigate,to a transport, has bey taken down Portsmouth harbour di a d nd placed along side the dockyard to besmantle Captain Eyre, b o o r The Duke of Wellington, 131, C. 8., flag of R ear-Admiral the Hon ° will leave the steam -basin for Plrtsmouthll.a Grey,r moorings at the end of this week The Pacific steam-vessel will embark the Ros common Militia this day at Portsmouth for Irel an d to be disembodied. The wages of the dockyard artificers at Ports mouth are to be forthwith increase I is. per week. The Goliath, screw steamship, 80 guns, at Sheer ness is crdered to b e immediately brought forward and 'fitted for the second-Class steam reserve at that port. Mr. Peter M. K. Godfrey, l a te lieutenant on board the Formidable at Sheerness, has by Admi ralty order ben 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 has been received at Wool wich directing that from this day henceforth a l a b ourers of por thr,.. tion of the mitted to wo r k according to task and job ; and all per week and under shall receive an o i s n e c earnin g us ' l ' " i s. per week. BIIROLARY. Henry Huckle, a young man, was indicted for bur glariously entering and robbing the premises of Henry Ash Israel, 66, Aldgate High-street. Mr. Giffard prosecuted, and Mr. Cooper 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 lie 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 always 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=ecutor'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 beard Huckle say to the other man, "Ash has been counting 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 prosecutor, 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. This 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 Huckle, 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 retained a verdict of guilty against Huckle, and acquitted Allen. A former conviction baying been proved against Huckle for fel iny, The Recorder sentenced him to 12 months' imprison ment with hard labour. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—(This Day MARLBOROUGH-STREET. ATTEMPTED 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 door, and as she looked very wildly about, he went up to her and found her with her hands up to her Caveat, 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 prisoner resisted desperately, making several attempts to bite him. Seeing two cabmen pass, he called to them, but they would not stop. At length he sent for a con stable, and sbe 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 bad 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 p r isoner merely shook her head, but gave no answer as to the cause. Mr. A tchison, the girl's master, said be was willing to take ber 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 given up to him. pub lished specifying the hour and mi nute of the arrival at TEE IRISH MAIL SERVICE - A return has been and departure from the piers at Holyhead and Kings town of the Irish mail contract vessels daring the year 1857. On the let of January two passages from Holyhead to Ireland were performed between lh 42m. a.m. and Oh. 27m. a.m. and._ b e t w een sh. 14m. a.m. and 9h. 47m. a.m., while the passages from Kingstown to Holyhead were performed between -2b. 35m. min p.m. and 7b. 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 4h. 59m. a.m., and 9b. 54m. a.m.. and the passage home between Bb. 7m. p.m. aad lb. 12m. a.m. On the 21st of June the pas sage out was performed between sb. a.m. and 9h. 50w. 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 611 a.m., and the passage home between 2b. 37m. p.m. and 7h. 17 m. p.m. Mr. Corry, M.P., moved for th;s 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 novel manner. A youthful Etonian, under 12 years of age. son of Capta'n Sir W. Joddrel], 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 hook. Just at this time a trout, which bad made many a Piscator's heart leap with desire this spring time, rushed at the minnow so ravenously that the book 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. 6)a., and length 27 inches. The fish, which was sent as a present to Lady Bowyer Smija , , 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-ball, about a fortnight since , by Roger Eykyn, Etl., of the Willows. 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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 light —appear to be briefly these : Lord Canning, with laudaole providencP, prepared the draft of a Proclamation, to be issued as soon as Lneknow should be taken, and forwarded the draft to the Com missioner in Oude, with permission to modify it as cir cumstances might require. At the same time, Lord 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 ; and 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 Proclamation 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 sprech ought to have been published. For our own part, believing that Lord Canning's seemingly unquali fied announcement that, with the exception of the lands 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. Bat 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 Hindostanee and Persian translations of the document, and as there is no reason to doubt that Lord Canning will have con formed to the views 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. But it is not easy to say in the present state of our information, who is to blame for its having been published It was na oral that Mr. Disraeli, when asked whether it was the intention of Government to sanction the confis cation of all the lands in Ou.ie should discl a i m any such intention. The language of his disclaimer, in so far as it referred to Lord Canning's Proclamation, was perhaps stronger than it needed to be; but any harm which might have resulted from this has been aggravated by the passionate precipitancy with which the ques tion was taken up in the Upper House by Lord Gran ville. It is his lori:ship'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 to publish the despatch in lull, that is in reality a matter of little importance. The withholding of the paragraphs which 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 be left out—and the simultaneous appearance of a complete copy of the deepate:i in one favoured journal and an incomplete one in another, is an allowable ground for conjectures, and imputations, and recrimioatiAss among partisans and political quidnuneB ; but the only consideration that really concerns the public is that the conduct of the English Government towards the people of Oude 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 since Warren Hastings and hie Council were at dagger drawing in a moment of extreme peril ; and yet the course of English aggrandisement 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 THE HOP DUTY. The following letter has been received by Vis count Pev , 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. " My Lord,—l have received your lordship's letter of the 24th ultimo, in which you call my at tention to the circumstances recently brought to my knowledge by a deputation of hop-growers, and press upon her Majesty's Government the necessity of allowing the payment of that instalmert of the duty, which falls due in the course of the present mouth, to be postponed ; and I shall now state the arrangement which her Majesty's Government, after a careful consideration of the question, are prepared to sanction, with a view of mitigating the 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 am willing to propose that if a moiety of the duty be paid on the 16th May, the payment of the re mainder should be postponed to the 16th August next. " I propose also to allow a corresponding delay in respect to the payment of the second instalment, so that the moiety of it would ba required on 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 cannot hold out any hope of any further concession being sanctioned by her Majesty's Government.—l am, my lord, your lordship's obedient servant, _ _ " B. DISRAELI." AN INCIDENT IN THE LATE t4LASO TY T.RI AL .4. At the Circuit Court of Justiciary at Glasgow, on 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 aed 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, they 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 M'Cartney, 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 returned with their verdict agreed upon, and the foreman had 0 ,, 1y got the length of stating that, "by a majority, they found M`Cartney guilty as lib-lled," when he was interrupted by the Lord Justice-Clerk, who stated that he understood they had agreed with him as to the incompleteness of the case against M'Carc ney, in consequence of which his counsel had not addressed them on his behalf. •Mr. Thomson was sent for, but as ho 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 iu this anomalous posi tion—that the Judge h a d summed u p ; 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 be detained for a night that they might after wards listen to a speech which, according to a rule which has never been 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 a g ainst him was found by a majority of one t o be not proved. The ordi nary deduction from this would be that Mr. Thom son's speech was one of wondrous power, for he converted certain members of a jury who the night before had voted for convicting his client, and this they did after hearing all the evidence and the final address of the presiding Judge. Whether or not they might be somewhat influenced by a desire to get the C out out of what seemed to be an awkward tix we have no right to inquire. The other pri-. boners were convicted, and seat need to severe punishment. There is something very loose in the concluding stages of this case. It is likely to be recorded in future books of criminal procedure rather as a precedent to be avoided than as one to be followed. And we must say that had the Lord Justice-Clerk allowed things to go on in the usual way, no such unseemly event would have happened. —Glasgow Herald CALEDONIAN BALL,--.This grand annual festival has been appointed to take place at Willis's Rooms on Fri , day the 11th of June, under the highest patronage. SPORTING NOTES. THE BATH MEETING. Tfme 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 dud' merely limit my notes to the Bath meeting. Tha 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 assemble 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 decided eaoh day, and the field will be satisfactory enough as to number, if not as to quality. I-aac Day may win the Lansdowne Stakes with either Jesuit or Sing Cob. If Ancient Briton go to the poet 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 Somer setshire Stakes. For the Free Handicap I shall select Forget-me-not and Polly Johnson, and the Members' Plate I assign to Shirah. To-morrow, Wednesday's racing, and the coming Derby shall be fully discussed by A FRESH MAN. Weights for the Northern Age st lb Warlock 5 8 12 Gunboat. El Hakim 4 7 12 Riseber Vanity Pantomime Mongrel 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-Hind 4 6 7 Longrange 3 6 6 The tladji Worcester 3 6 2 Knight of the Shire Telegram ' Gorsehill Sunbeam Lifeboat.. 3 6 0 General Bosquet 4 5 13 Hamlet Ducrow 4 5 9 Weights published I lerland Plate. Two mile'. Ago g lb Gammon Herne 3 5 Night Ranger Meta Lady Alice.. 3 5 7 Rio (late Cara Fatima) .... 4 5 7 Blackthorn The Alderman Satinstone 3 5 5 Pensioner Waterloo ... 8 5 3 Medallion Lady Dot Howtowdie Sally Conductor Honey tree 3 4 13 Bellefield Garnish 3 412 Bradley Prince et Denmark 3 4 11 Peeress Happy Prince Julia Deed Brown Bonnet Sobieski 3 4 7 Captivator 3 4 7 Br. to Farthingale 3 4 7 Clara Seyton 3 4 4 last Friday at 6 p.m. s for 1858. Bath ll Harpenden l4 JIJ Anot 1 Hampton Newton 9 Beverley Summer 16 Bibury Club l6 Stockbridge l7 JU Hereford Ipswich 1 Pontefract Odihaw 2 Newmarket July 6 Worcestet. Summer 8 AUG Ripon. Belford North Staffordshire Brighton Brighton Club Lewes Wolverhampton Reading ll Epsom lB Manchester 2l rE. Winchester lt Chelmsford 22 Newcastle-on-Tyne 22 Abingdon 24 Carlisle 29 Shrewsbury 29 ,Y. Liverpool l4 Nottingham 20 Stamford .... 22 Marlborough 2B Goodwood 27 .UST. I York 11 Radcliffe 23 Egbam 24 Hereford 26 Stockton 26 I Lichfield 3O I Groat Yarmouth 31 Country Markets. LEICESTER-DiAt 8. A moderate show of wheat to-day, which sold slowly at last week's rates. Barley firm, at extreme prices. BOSIIO in improved guppy, but dull of sale, and prices unaltered. Oats in good request, and unchanged in value. Wheat, 46s to 50s. NORWICH—Met 8. The supply of wheat was good and there was a fait attendance. The wheat trade ruled active. and quota• tions about is per qr. lower. YORK -MAT 8. There was a good attendance this morning, and this demand for wheat and flour was slow, at a reduction Of la per qr. In barley there was no change. For oats and beans full prices were readily obtained. CHELMSFORD-MAT 8. There was rather a slow sale, and in some instances • decline was submitted to. Wheat, white, old, per S. 8 . I III• s• qr. 43 48 1 Oats, per qr .....24 3 4 new.... 43 48 1 Peas, Partridge • 41 46 red, old 40 44 White 40 43 new.... 39 4 t Boiling 4O 4 6 Barley 34 40 Dun 41 48 Chevalier 38 44 Beans, Tick . 36 3 Grinding 28 32 Harrow ticks 36 r . Halt 70 73 M azagan 33 3 '' Chevalier 72 73 Ditto, new... 33 36 NOTTINGHAM—MST 8. There was a tolerable supply of wheat, sad all desorir tions met a ready sale at is per qr below last week's prices. The highest quotations for fine white samples were bos•► red 46, per 36 stone. Barley a slow sale, superior sort* 425, grinding 33s per 30 stone. _ In oats there was an ad• vance of is per qr, but a small supply. Beans in tolerable request, and is dearer. OXFORD—Max 8. Trade slow to-day, with about an average supply of 111 , descriptions of grain. For fine samples of English whea t there was a slight decrease on last week. Barley a good supply, from 30s to 40s. A dull trade in seeds. Pan fausaTsa. Paz A&T~s Wheat, red (old) 47s to —a Barley, grinding —Quit% Ditto (new) Ditto, white —s to —s Peas Ditto (old) Barley; malting 301 to 34E Flour, per sack ROCHESTER-MAY 1. The farmers demanded higher rates for wheat to-dsr. Buyers, however, refused to accede to the terms asked' and consequently the trade was dull. In a few instance. some excellent samples succeeded in obtaining an salonce of is. In oats there was a slight improvement. DALKEITH GRAIN MARKET-MAT 7. Qrs. Best. Current. 230 Wheat 478 Oa 39s 9ed 787 Oats 3lB 6d 278 4a 126 Barley 36s 6d 32s 3i cl 50 Peas & beans 42s Od _. 408 2d Intel(); 32• 6 ' 253 Od 28' Is' 38s 01 TI ADDINGTON GRAIN MARKET—MAY 6. BAELSY OATS* 11111A2.110:1 First 410 0 50, Od 381 9d 33s ()d 451 lig Second 4os 10d 35e 7d 30 4 ld j 1 Third 358 Od 31 8 Od 27 8 Od I 38 , 5 Total quantity of wheat i n mar k et, 662 qrs., 50i „ „ barley „ 231 gm 186 sold 2 65 oats ,) 270 qrs-. 67 so ld ID /1 beans 86 qrS.. AVERAGS PER IMPERIA QUATSB gauthg Wheat, 21. 0 10 , , 3-12ths I Barley L , R .0 144201 Oats, ... le. 10 1 9 . l2ths Beans, 21. 111 DUBLIN—MAY 7. White wheat, 27s Od to 29s Od ; red ditto, 24s Od to 26' 6d; ditto new, e Od ; barley, malting, 14s to 18s Od; grind. ing, —s to —0 ; oats, old, 13s 6d to 15s; ditto, new, -- 4 to —s Od ; oatmeal, 13s 6d to 15s 6d; here, new, to Od ; rapeset d, —s Od to —8 Od per brl ; bakers' flour, 14' 6d to 198 Od per cwt ; Indian corn, 15s 01 t o 37 g Od Per 480 lbs BIRTHS. CAMPBELL—On the 4th inst., at the Bank, Thames, Oxon't Mrs. Patrick Campbell, of a son. M'NIEL—On the Bth inst., at Tyrolese Cottage, Hornr road, the wife o f David M'Niel, Esq., of the Stock Ng' change, of a son . 1 TWINING—On the Bth inst., at 215, Strand, Mrs. SIM I Harvey Twining, of a daughter. MARRIAGES. C LAYTON—BRISTO—On the Ist inst., at St. Dunstanll Fleet-street, Wm. Clayton, late of Watling-street, 131 ; now of the S wan - w ith-T wo -N ec k s , Doctors'-comill i. "„" to Rebecc a , y ounges t d aug ht er o f th e l a t e Wm. Bri" - ' Esq., of Ipswich. GARDINER—HUNTER—On the Bth inst., at St. Georgot Bloomsbury, Douglas Charles, eldest son of D. C. eik r , l4 ner, Esq., of Tottenham-park, to Frances Charlotte , bl only daughter of Wm. Hunter, Esq., of 16, Hart•strse Bloomsbury. DEATHS. • DRAYTON---On the 4th inst., at Shalfleet, Isle of Va l " Mrs. Sophia Drayton, aged 92. GADBURY— On the 6th inst., Jemima, wife of Mr. W - Gadbury, broker of the Court of Bankruptcy, "" /30/ aged 50. HoßnousE—On the 7th inst., at Bournemouth, liar ri t ti widow of the late Right Hon. Henry Hobhouse , - Hadspen, Somersetsbire, aged 73. d• JONES—On the 7th inst., Hub er t, youngest child of P I ., Chester Jones, Esq., of Li nco l n ' s •i nn , barristerat-11^' aged 6 years. PAYNE—On the 24th ult., at his residence, near Plyt General Charles Payne, Bombay Army. STABLES—On the sth inst., at 100, Park-street, Gro.•- -- square, Miss Stables, aged 92. 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