The Sun. — London, England, 1860-09-13 00:00:00

TEE NAVY. On Tuesday morning his Grace the Duke of Somerset held a levee in the office of the Admiral- Superintendent at Devonport, which w as attended by three Admirals, seven Captains,-12 Commanders, and other officers, 40 in all—a lesser number than usual through the sudden arrival of the Osborne and the consequent short notice. During the morning the riggers of the yard ap pealed to the First Lord in reference to an altera tion of the scale of time for superannuation. By the present arrangement a term of service at sea counts disadvantageously by comparison with a term ashore. Their lordship promised to give the subject due consideration. Before leaving the yard the Duke inspected the screw steam gunvessel Penguin, 5, fitting for foreign service, and examined the new clock in course of enlargement. Shortly before 2 o'clock his Grace, accompanied by Vice-Admiral Sir 11. Dundas, Capt. Chas. Eden, R.N., Mr. Whitbread, M.P., Lord C. Paget, Capt. J. Moore, and Col, Green, landed at Stonehouse Hard, and went to the Marine Barracks and in spected the Plymouth division. Their stay was very short, and they could not find time to witness the evolutions of the Light Infantry with the Artil lery under Capt. Wright, the gun-room Captain. Their lordships at 3 o'clock proceeded to the Royal Naval Hospital, where they were received by Capt. Superintendent Lyster, Dr. Hilditch, Inspector- General, Dr. Dunn, Deputy Inspector-General, and all the officers of the establishment. The number of patients in the wards is 205. The attention of the board was directed chiefly to a recent proposal to erect improved receiving-rooms and baths for the sick. Shortly after 4 o'clock the Duke of Somerset, Admiral Eden, and Capt. Atoore joined the gun boat Redwing, tender to the gunner3--ship Cam bridge, off the Victualling-yard, where they were received by Capt. Jerningham, and were conveyed outside the Breakwater to witness the firing of the Armstrong guns from the tender. The Redwing, after lying a short time off Bovisand, proceeded along inside the Breakwater. On returning through the Sound she steamed round the screw steam gun vessel Espoir, Commander S. Douglas, boand to the Coast of Africa. While the First Lord was holding his levee Capt. Eden, superintending Lord of the Victualling Department, who was joined by the Controller of Victualling and Director of Works, went at half-past 10 o'clock to the Royal William victualling yard, where they were received by Capt. Superintendent Lyster, Commander Wheeler, the master attendant, Mr. S. Triscott, storekeeper, and the clerk of the works. Captain Eden inspected the different stores and manufac tories, and arranged with the officers respecting unimportant works proposed to be executed. He left shortly before 12 o'clock. The work people were not mustered. At noon Vice-Admiral the Hon. Sir R. S. Dun das, K.C.8., accompanied by Sir B. Walker, Con troller of the Navy, was conveyed by Rear-Admiral Sir T. Pasley, Bart., to his flagship, the Royal Ade laide, 104, Capt. W. I. Williams, the guardship of ordinary in Hamoaze, which they inspected. While his Grace the Duke of Somerset was in Hamoaze on Monday, and was attended by his pri vate secretary, Capt. J. Moore, C. 8., and accom panied by Capt. C. Eden, C. 13., he went on board the Implacable, 24, Commander J. W. Dorville, which has recently been established as a training ship for above 400 boys, some of whom, 2d-class boys, formed the guard for the First Lord's recep tion. Their performance of several evolutions with great guns, rifles, and cutlasses, and the general condition of the ship, gave much satisfaction, which WAS increased on the departure of the visitors when they saw the Implacable quickly and skilfully placed under full sail by her youthful crew. Lieut. J. 11. Hatchard has been on duty on board since April last. The Lords of the Admitalty dined on Tuesday evening at Moorshead's Royal Hotel, Devonport ; and yesterday (Wednesday morning) sailed in the Osborne from Plymouth for Portland. The following is a list of ships in commission at Plymouth :—ln the Sound, the screw steamship St. George, 90, Capt. the Hon. F. Egerton ; the Sans pareil, 70, Capt. A. P. E. Wilmot ; and the screw steam gunvessel Espoir, 5, Commander Sholto Douglas. In Hamoaze, the flagship Impregnable, 104, Capt. Lord F. Kerr; the training ship Royal Adelaide, 104, Capt. K. Hall; the guardship in or dinary Wellington, 72, Capt. A. C. Key; the Bos cawen, 70, Capt. R. A. Powell ; the Implacable, 24, Commander J. W. Dorville; the gunnery training ship Cambridge, Capt. Jerningham ; the brig Nau tilus, .6, Lieut. W. B. Grave ; the paddlewheel steam tender Avon, 3 ; and the gunboat Porpoise, tender to the Royal Albert, and the Redwing, ten der to the Cambridge. The following ships and gunboats in the first class steam reserve could be got ready for the pendant at a short notice :—The Windsor Castle, 100; the Revenge, 91; the Orlando, 50; the Forth, 12 ; the Seahorse, 12 ; the Merlin, 6; and the Hyena, the Gleaner, the Nightingale the Steady, the Spider, the Delight, the Goldfinch, the Charon, and the Lark; The following, in Keyham steam yard, are in a forward state :—The Howe, 121 ; the Gibraltar, 101 ; the Brunswick, 80 ; the Phoebe, 51 ; The Nar cissus, 51 ; the Jason, 21; and the Desperate, 8. • Pursuant to orders received on Sunday last, the Channel Fleet, consisting of the Royal Albert, 121, Capt. H. J. Lacon, flagship of Vice-Admiral Sir C. Fremantle, K.C. 8., commanding the Fleet; the Con queror, 101, Capt. E. S. Sotheby, C.B. ; the Done gal, 101, Ceipt. 11. Broadhead; the Edgar, 91, Capt. J. E. Baton, flagship of Rear-Admiral J. E. Erskine; the Mars, SO, Capt. J. F. Strange; the Trafalgar, 91 , Capt. E. G. Fanshawe ; the Algiers, 91, Capt. 6 . W. D. O'Callaghan; the Centurion, 80, Capt. H. D. Rogers, C.B. ; the Aboukir, 91, Capt. D. Curry; the Mersey, 40, Capt. H. Cald well, C.B. ; and the Di adem, 32, Capt. J. H. Cockburn, got steam up by daybreak on Tuesday last, and sailed from Milford Haven at about 10 a.m. They are bound for a cruise of three weeks or a month, and it is supposed will go round th e W utern Islands, after which they are to rendezvous at Torbay, previous to going into winter quarters. Mt. Ward is on board the Admiral's ship with his new system of ocean tele graphs, which are to be thoroughly tried during the cruise. The fleet has been in Milford Haven for more than three weeks, and the conduct of the men has been most exemplary. The civil authorities have not had to interfere except in one or two ex ceptional cases of drunkenness, together'with a f ew cases of the not very heinous crime of overstayi ng leave. Rumour has it that three or four vessel s o f the fleet are to winter at Milford. A more secure berth could not be found in any case. lier Majesty's steamer Fire Queen, Master-Coin mander Paul, arrived in Portsmouth harbour yes terday morning from Ryde, having on hoard their Ronal Highnesses the Due de Chartres and. the Count de Paris, accompanied by General Count "'nits. The barge of Vice-Admiral Bruce, corn . - manded by Commander L. Robinson, acting flag lieutenAnt, proceeded alongside the Fire Queen and disembarked the two Princes at the dockyard, when they waited upon V ice - Admiral Bruce at the Admi ralty-house, whence, after partaking of luncheon, they were escorted through the dockyard and over the shipping in the harbour by C omman d er Robinson. Their Royal Highnesses afterwards re embarked on board the Fir e Q ueen and returned to Ityde, where they are staying for a s h ort t i me with the e x Queen of the French, the beau tiful villa of Sir Augustus Clifford. The following appointments were made on Tues day at the Admiralty : Lieut. llathern to the Marlborough, additional, for disposal ; Tho mas L. Woods, midshipman, to the Curlew ; John H. Tirlly, second master, to the Edgar; Selwyn S. Sugri en , s s ec ond master, to th e L an d ra il ; Robert J. Barr e tt, et 'ma master, to the Rhadamanthus ; William Boss, s ec° nd class assist..engineer, to the Foxhound; George L. P , P- Keeling, second class assist.-engi neer, to th e Asie, for se rviCe in the Barrier; Mathew Lett, actin g second class assist-engineer, to the 'Tartar; Thom as j . Walters third class assistant engineer, to the Cumberlandla, for temporary charge of the Hasty; Philip t assist-engineer, to the Edgarch , acting thi r d c l a ss acting third class assist. -engine er, to the Fisgard , Edward T. Yo u ng, for temporary charge of the Lee ; and Geo rge K aye, engineer, to th e Fi sgard, acting third class assist. - for temporary charge of the naljett. The following appointments were also mace yesterday :—John FraiAlin, acting third class engineer, to the Cum berland, for service in the Wildfire ; Francis J. Palmer, master's assistant, to the Land! ail ; John Chambers, assistant paymaster, to the Spiteful; and Adolph Hunter, clerk, to the Trafal r. THE ARMY. The Megxra, screw troopship, Commander S. 11, Henderson, will embark today at Portsmouth, for conveyance to Devonport, the, City of Dublin Militia Artillery, comprising 2 field officers, .4 cap tains, 7 subalterns and 4 staff ; 25 sergeauts,7 drummers,' 353 rank and file, 29 w omen, 52 chil dren, and 5 horses. Yesterday the whole of the troops selected to proceed to St. Helena embarked at Gravesend on board the Akbar. They included 176 non-commis sioned officers and men of the St. Helena Regi ment, 51 n on-commissioned officers and men of the Royal Artillery, and 23 sappers of the Royal En gineers, together with a few women and children. Capt. S. H. Prenterville and Capt. E. C. Barnes, St. Helena Regiment, proceed in charge of the re inforcements. , The embarkations were effected under the superintendence of the officers of the staff from Chatham garrison. Some experiments were made yesterday on the fieldworks of the Royal Engineers, at Chatham, with the view of putting the description of battery known as Groves's to another test, id order to ascertain wherein that battery, used on a recent occasion at Cuxton, failed. The scene of the operations yesterday was the large waste of ground at the rear of the Brompton barracks. Here a two gun battery of earth had been thrown up, and hav ing been completed in all respects ready for mount ing the guns upon it, the necessary arrangements were commenced for blowing the whole up. The requisite excavations having been completed, ten charges of powder, each of about Glb weight, were deposited in the chambers. On the occasion of the grand explosion at Caxton, the voltaic current was exhausted before it reached the charges of gun powder, owing to the great distance—several heal dred yards—that the battery was removed from the charges. In the trials yesterday care was taken to place the batteries much nearer the forc7 to be acted upon, and the result was in every way satisfactory. Immediately the signal was given, the gunpowder in the mines exploded, the mass of earth being thrown high into the air with a dull roar, and the earthwork entirely destroyed. It should be stated that the gunpowder used in the explosions yesterday had only been placed in the mines a very short time, whereas in the operations at Cuxton the powder, which weighed nearly a ton weight, was of necessity placed in the galleries for several days prior to the ope rations, and thus, of course, became damp. This and the circumstance of the voltaic current having to travel through an extent of wire, whereby it was weakened,* will satisfactorily account for the partial failure of the operations carried out at the cliff at Cuxton. The Hampshire Artillery Militia have received letters of readiness to proceed to Portsmouth, there to be disembodied on or before the 15th of October. They will therefore leave Pembroke-dock (where they have been stationed for the last 16 months) on the Bth pro'. The regiment was em bodied in September, 1858, and has in the interim attained a high degree of discipline. Their effi ciency at shot and shell practice is best attested by the great number of targets destroyed, and has a!rcady called forth the highest eulogiums from Major-Gen. Bloomfield, Inipector-General of Artil lery. It seems a pity thus to throw away the ser vices of 400 fine, well set-up young men, on whose training so many thousands of pounds have been expended in ammunition alone. The Ist Stafford Militia left Portsmouth by spe cial train at 7 p.m. yesterday, for the northern dis trict, and will be quartered at Newcastle and Sun derland. This fine regiment consists of 2 field offi cers, 7 captains, 13 subalterns, and 5 staff ; 42 ser geants, 16 drummers, 757 rank and file, 57 women, and 20 children. THE VOLUNTEER MOVEMENT. The following is the nominal roll, according to sections, of rifle volunteers who attended the sth course of musketry instruction at Hythe on Aug. 21 :—Right wing, Ist section-4th Middlesex, Pre sident Lord Stratheden ; 26th, Capt.Wybrovv ; 20th, Capt. Barrow ; 22d, Capt. Oldershaw ; 23d, Corpo ral Hemming ;16th, Private Stontt ; 38th, Quarter master-Sergeant Palmer ; 31st, Ensign Kirby— Staff-SergeantPotter. 2d Section-30th Middlesex, Ensign G. Tyrrell ; South Middlesex, Lieut. E. J. Hawker; 14th Middlesex; Sergeant-Major T. Pratt; 26th, Sergeant H. Burton; 22d, Capt. J.W.Bushby; 23d, Corporal H. S. Drewry ; 4th, Corporal C. Pan tin; 2d Herts, Capt. Hon. R. Capel--Staff-Sergeant Bowring. 3d Section-3d Dorset, Capt. Kinders ley ; Ist Dorset, Lieut.-Col. W. Mansel ; 9th So merset, Ensign Blommant; 9th Berks, Mr. R. B. Reynolds ; '4th Dorset, Lieut. Cox ; 6th Somerset, Private G. Elwell; Ist Berks, Private IL Burr; 9th Cornwall, Capt. Tremayne—Staff-Sergeant Dillon. 4th Sectioa-12th Surrey, Sir H. Chamberlain ; 11th Shropshire, Capt. Wicksted ; 2d Oxford, Col. North ; 15th Surrey, Lieut. Murray ; 2d Oxford - , Lieut. Mallam ; 31 Oxford, Sergeant Tawney ; 2d, Oxford, Lieut. Thomson ; 7th Cornwall, Captain Tyacke--Staff-Sergt. Robertson. sth Section-2d London, Capt.Spottiswoode ; 11th Middlesex, Serg. Hodgkinson ; 11th Middlesex, Ensign Houghton ; Gth Cornwall, Ensign Dingley ; London Rifle Bri gade, Private Kelley ; 7th Herts, Lieut. Pearse ; Ist Carnbridgeihire; Ensign Claydon ; Ist Norfolk, Ensign Jolly—Staff-Sergeant Stanway. Left Wing —6th SeetiOn-3d Saffalk; Captain 'Brooke ; 9th Essex, Lieut, Crouch ; 19th Middlesex, Lieut. Shaen ; 6th Cinque Ports, Ensign karney ; Cam bridge University, Captain Hughes ; 4th Cinque Ports, Lieut. Makeson ; 35th: Kent; Lieut. Board ; 18th Middlesex I Harrow), Mr. O:; D. Hay—Staff- Sergeant Wilson. 7th Section,--21st Lancashire, Mr. J. Taylor; 31st Lancashire; Mr. J. W. Black hurtle; 12th Staffordshire, Captain I3agnall ; 3d North Yorkihire, Sergeant - Campbell ;. 4th Shrop ! shire; Sergeant Jay ; 2d Shropshire, Sergeant-Ma jor Wilkinson ; sth East Yorkshire,Capt. Prickett —Staff-Sergeant Moynagh. Bth Section-Bth Der byshire, Captain Okeover; 4th Lincoln, Ensign Gee; sth Hants, Sergeant Davey; sth Isle of Wight, Sergeant Deklabh ; sth 'Worcester, Lieut. 'Bury; sth Lincoln, Mr, Cautley ; 31 Bucks, ,lion. P. Bar rington—Staff-Sergeant Grittori. 9th Section -4th Flints-hire, Captain Lord Feilding ; 15th • Glamor- PEI, Captain Rowland; sth Sussex. 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Long as his Royal Highness may live, and many as are the fetes of the kind he will h6nour with his piesenee, he is not likely to attend any more brilliant, better arranged, or better car ried out to the last, than that which was given to him by the citizens of Montreal. I have seen many displays of this kind, but I must admit I have never seen anything to equal, either for taste or., splendour, the fete which terminated here so gaily , at near 6 o'clock on the morning of the 23th. When it was understood (and it is Low quite taken for granted) that his royal highness prefers balls to any other kind of entertainment that can be offered to him, the citizens of Montreal met in conclave and determined to give him one on a scale which not only could not be equalled in Canada, but which should leave even New York itself no chance of suc cessful competition. If the latter was the object of their ambition, as it appears to have been, I am confident they have succeeded, for the fete of Mon• day night was one of which any capital in Europe might well be proud, and which none could give without bestowing . the same care, money, and at tention to the whole affair which all Montreal has done from first to last. The Iron. J. Young was appointed president of the ball committee, and he, with his colleagues, at once determined that not only a ball-room, but extensive surroundings in the way of pleasure grounds, fountains, groves, and bowers, all lighted up like a second Vauxhall, should be specially constructed for the occasion. Costly and almost extravagant as such an idea might appear to many.for the sake of a single night's entertain ment, it was welcomed with acclamations by the citizens, who instead of any economical curtail ments, bent entirely in the other direction, and even enlarged upon the cost and proposed decorations of the first plan. The spot chosen for the intended edifice—for edifice, in the most permanent sense of the word, it may be fairly called—was on• the north side of Montreal, almost at the foot of Mont Royal, and in the centre of a large extent of meadows. Only five weeks from the present date the cattle were grazing over the gro7nd which on Monday night looked like a fairy land. Less than five weeks since, as I am told, the woodwork of the building was in the form of huge pine logs. The design for the whole construction was intrusted to Mr. Toft, who hit upon the happy idea of forming the interior of the ball-room in one immense circle, with an or chestra in the centre, beneath the lofty peaked roof. which gradually sloped down towards the outer walls so as to resen.ble in the design a circular pa- vilion tent—though, of course, of colossal dimen sions, as the diameter of the ball room was nearly 100 yards from side to side. In the midst the double orchestra was placed, reaching from the ground to the roof of the building. The design of this centre ornament, if it may be so called, was light and ex ceedingly beautiful, and its trellis of open columns was almost entirely concealed under garlands of flowers. Three circles of columns, similarly deco rated, supported the roof in the space between the orchestra and outer wall. The latter was about 25 feet high, and on this, raised some 12 feet from the ground, was a deep balcony, or rather gallery, of sloping seats, extending round the whole circum ference of the building, and in which those who preferred the brilliant scene beneath to dancing or flirting might survey it at their ease. Beneath this balcony, on one side, was a raised dais, and Royal alcove for the Prince. Round all the rest of the circle, except at the doors of the entrance, the sup per was to be served by unseen waiters, for whose hands there was just sufficient room left between the tiers of refreshments to enable them to minister per fectly to the wants of the guests without entering the ball room. This only gives the merest outline of the internal arrangements, and it would be quite impossible in a hurried notice to give much more. Every part of the room was decorated with such con summate taste and knowledge of effect that no por tion could be selected for particular admiration. The prevailing tone of the whole was pink, but of such a soft tint that it was only when one saw it in im mediate contact with white and gold that its actual colour could easily be distinguished. Even the floor of the ball room was stained of the same light, rosy hue. The roof of the pavilion was painted, not alone for mere night effect, but with a care and minute attention that is rarely seen in such ball-room adornments, especially when only wanted for one evening. So also with the front of the raised gallery and the walls beneath it. Every column was wreathed with garlands as round the orchestra, and three immense circles of lamps—one on the outer diameter, one over the centre, and one round the orchestra—nearly two thousand in all, lighted up every part of the circle beneath with the most perfect brilliancy. The interior, of course, was made the feature in the design, and when such a perfect suc cess had been achieved, and when only a night's entertainment was intended, the exterior might very reasonably have been passed over with small care. This, however, was not so. The committee deter mined to do the whole thing thoroughly from be ginning to end, and set to work to make the out side almost as good in its way as the grand ball room itself. Four handsome entrances were ac cordingly made into the building, flanked with bat tlemented towers with low walls and turrets connecting them, while the apex of the ball pavi lion was surrounded by a cupola and open lantern, not only to finish the effect, but to secure to the utmost a perfect ventilation. Ido not know how many acres of ground round the building were set apart for the bowers, promenades, &c., but there must have been very many—apparently not less in all than 50 or GO at the least. Every path over the whole of this extent was planted with small trees, and every branch was decorated with coloured lan terns. Near the building a little lake was actually formed, with a bridge across it hung with coloured lamps, for by this his Royal Highness was to enter the building. The whole surface of the lake, too, was covered with imitation water lilies, which were lighted up in the night, and shone over the smooth surface like little stars in the water. The Ball, here, in fact, was made the grand feature of the reception. All Montreal looked forward to it—all who had heard of' its intended splendours were to a certain-extent prepared for something good in a colonial way, though quite convinced in their own minds that it would be nothing after all at which travellers would need be excessively astonished. Those connected with the fete maintained a decorous reserve ; those not con nected with it were incredulous, and those indifferent or opposed to it (of which latter there were certainly some) rather hinted at the prospect of a crush, hot roams, dust, drunken waiters, and a general failure. For the garden portion of thefete—ontof the chief attractions---there Were no hopei even among the committee ; fcir the weather which has Caused his Royal Highness to be called " the reigning Prince , ' set In again on Monday with all the inclemency of an English Summer'. It was not so much downright heavy ride; which within certain limits a man can excise —for heavy showers alWays seem as if' they had something to do and did it—it was thick, " Muggy," wretched weather, damp and slippery in the streets, cloke arid depressing within doors, with a sloW, stupid, idle sort of rain that neither came down nor stayed up, but dropped with a sullen weak saunter through the air. Thii put an end to all hopes for the gardens round the hall and all the chances of moonlit walks and small flirtations which might have been based thereon. The hall itself, however, nothing in the way of rain could interfere with, so that on the whale it perhaps i t s h r o n y t a c i r Highness sit alwaysgr et arrives tre at ao l t o ntl " l o y.a 'c cil l te o ico e P k ne , n and, as it is not etiquette - to come later, some 4,000 or s,ooo'people seemed suddcmly smitten with a' desire to be on the spot 'at half-past 9 .pre cisely. ThiS desire (Which sufferers still believe was fostered 'and goaded to the utmost by the- carri age owners),'of courso had o n ly one restiltthat of rais ing the hire of vehicles to prices little short of the legitiMate value of the entire team. For once car i iagc s were not to be got at almost any price, and th?, Montreal hotel busses, having much the appear ance,' with' three fillies the length of an ordinary Euglish hearse, were at last called into requisition to transport whole crowds of city belles to their great scene of action. Tiank, dismal, avid uncom fortable as the evening was; it could not rob the gardens round the ballroom of all their bright of fect, - and the little lake, with its illuminated bridge and shining water-lilies, the rows of trees covered with variegated lamps in all directions, seemed the more festive in comparison with the Weather, and, like forbidden fruit, became most tempting in ap pearance when most out of reach; - Perhaps, if one could have walked among the trees and bowers of this extemporized Eden, much of its iOns would have disappeared ; but as it was, it was all couleur <le rose from a distance, and the lake, under the dim wood-covered eminence of Mont -Royale-looked like a lake,- and the little trees threw their arms abroad with plr - the dignity of nature, and made believe as if they grew there and the lamps were their natural fruit. The ballroom was, as I have intimated, an ex qui sitely brilliant s i g h t . I ts so f t pi n k tone, its bright ness, its rows of light, the fresh green leaves and flowers twining up the columns, its crowds of of:n filers of every service intermingled with ladies in all the glories of Parisian toilettes, long ord(-red, long arranged, and at last displayed, made one rch sud(len picture of luxuriant gaiety, which, though few who saw it can forget, none who saw it can de scribe. It left a vague impression of music,,flowers, rich uniforms, and splendid dresses; quiet, and yet festivity ; a sort of reserved enthusiasm of display • # T 14 Trita DAY EVENI t - THE . - Stasr; LO - ': - - - SNG whip!), seen under the spacious dome of that pavilion, male it-one of the most impre:ssive yet one. of the least describable-scenes which" have ever witnessed The, eye couldrest on nothing of itself rertarkabh beyond the general effect Everything harmonised so well, from the bright yet soft tones of the ceiling over the pillars of flowers, and round the spelcious gallery where laced uniforms ani rustling silks seemed natural accompaniments, down to the quiet. pink floor, promenaded by hundreds and hundreds of the great of Canada, all as natural, too, as if they had lived there all their lives. In fact, the ball here stands alone of its kind and marks an era in the his tory and general management of such entertain ments, which those who wish to thri've must copy entirely or fail to equal. New Yorkers—men espe• cially deputed to invite the Prince to similar dis plays—were there in plenty. and owned at once with frank dismay that the Empire city could do nothing to welcome his Royal Highness in a way that would at all bear comparison with the fete of Montreal. . This language is dreadful guide-book heresy I am aware, but the worst is yet to come. 'Cana dians tell you that if there is anything better worth seeing than the Rapids it is the thousand islands which dot the surface of the St: Law rence just where Lake Ontario ends -End the river commences. here,. you are told, the rich grandeur of the Hudson, the wild stern magnificence of Saguenay, and, for aught you hear to the con trary, the flowery beauty of the Euphrates in spring, may all be met with. It is a trying thing to have to contend against such notions, but, if an individual opinion is worth an 3 thing, I must unhesitatingly give mine that these thousand islands are in their way a monstrous delusion and a snare, and will as much bear com parison with the Hudson or the Saguenay as the Thames below Blackman. Take slips of the Isle of Dogs of all sizes, from an island as large as a foot stool up to 10 or 12 acres, plant the large ones with lean stunted firs, strew the little ones over with broken stones as if they were about to be macada• mised, put them near the surface of the water in a mechanical disarray, giving confusion without pic- turesqueness and number without variety, imagine these choking the highway of a broad noble river, and you can fancy yourself on the. St. Lawrence and in the middle of the far-famed Thousand Islands. The Prince went by rail to a place called Dickenson's Landing, where he had an opportunity of seeing some, though only a few of these unpic luresque obstructions, which, even seen, at their best, look like castaway boulders ; that disap pointment, as a disappointment it will surely be if he, like everyone else, has been informed that 'they are wonderfully beautiful, being reserved for him till Thursday, the 4th of September. At Dickenson's Landing a steamer was in waiting for the Royal party to take them down the Rapids, which are four in number—the Long Sault, Cas cades, Cedars, and Lochine. Long Sault, the first 'of all, is certainly the best. The current runs there :at some 16 or 18 miles an hour, and, as the water is very deep and the river makes a sharp bend, the :first glance of these tumbling waters as they fill the river with a foam-like snow is really very fine. Ile sight is finer still as you near them, and you see the whole river ploughed up by a series of wild dangerous breakers, which plunge and start up in a broken sea nearly 20ft. in the air. These waves are all quite fierce and dangerous enough to de stroy any small boat in a minute, and even give the steamer some heavy blows, which cover her decks with foam and spray. But the current is so strong • that, before you can well appreciate their turbu lence, the Rapid. is passed, for the Long Sault is scarcely , mor e th an a quarter of a m il e in l engt h . The and cCeratsaicah%e, worth. e and Csedeaig, especially rhsare both fine Rapids, the latter, which foams and rushes down :with tremendous velocity for same four or five miles. I am told that in thr ee m il es of i ts course the r i ver h ere f a ll s t ha SO or 90ft., and I can well believe it, for t h e b oat flies past th e b an k s l i ke an express tra i n. B ut 'of dange r , as I At h 'actually n o ne.e ve last s o ai fdallbefore, there is , !smie dangero us roc k s obstruct a very narrowpas !sage, some five or s i x m il es a b ove victoria-bridge, there very lik e l y Lochine, where may have been danger to the !boats at first; but the pilots are now so thoroughly !used to the channel that they laugh at the idea of ;risk, and run their craft through with perfect in difference. Through -this last Rapid, however,.the Prince did not pass, a s w h en the boat Arnyed If there was anything the entertainment lacked to make it perfectly satisfactory to those who looked beyond the mere show and glitter of the affair, it was the presence of the French Canadians. But, as at the Quebec ball, very few were present. His Royal Higness arrived at 10 o'clock, and was welcomed with the most profound salutation as he passed the dais, and in a few minutes afterwards the ball was opened, with some 30 or 40 sets of quadrilles, for all of which there was room and to spare in the spacious pavilion. This first set was of course ushered in by an air which may be regarded as almost the national song of Canada, as the maple leaf is its emblem. Its real name is "a la Claire Fontaine," though it is only known here by the burden of its refrain, " Longtemps que to j'aime, jamais je ne t'oublierai." It is a sweet, sparkling, little melody, which appropriately enough, is al ways played in honour of the Prince. Already the New York bands are getting it up to welcome him with it on his arrival in the real capital of the States. Unfortunately for some of the representa• tives of the American and colonial press the Prince neither slipped nor stumbled the whole evening and thus no thrilling narrative of princely humiliation ran through their recollections of the fete. Every thing passed off well, though I should not be doing my duty as an impartial chronicler of these events if I failed to state that throughout the whole night the Prince was mobbed by a crowd of sightseers. At no other ball that has yet been given have I seen any approach to crowding round him " for a good look." At Montreal lam sorry to say this was the rule all night. Apparently, however, the keen endless scrutiny to which he was exposed made but small impression on the Prince, who danced and laughed away the time with perfect enjoyment and unconcern. That he enjoyed the ball may he guessed from the fact that he danced every dance in the programme, except the last of all. Before the rather lively hilarity of " Sir Roger de •Coverley" he always re tires, but as it was rearly 5 o'clock before he quitted the saloon it cannot be said that he made any con siderable sacrifice on the score of leaving too soon. On Tuesday the 28th his Royal Highness was up again early, though he could scarcely have had more than two hours' sleep, and prepared to start for his trip down the rapids of the St. Lawrence. These great Rapids, which are formed by a series of declivities in the bed of the river between Lake Ontario and Montreal, and down which the stream rushes with a velocity varying from 17 to nearly 24 miles in the hour, are among the things which tourists who visit Canada never fail "to do," Until within the last few years they were considered as too dangerous for any vessel, and it was not with out great misgivings that a steamer at last at tempted to run them, the immediate and inevitable destruction of ship and all on board being, of course, foretold by everybody as a certainty. Contrary to this general expectation, and not a little, I believe, to the actual disappointment of those who relied upon the invincibily of the far-famed Rapids, and felt it as a positive indignity that they could be traversed in any vessel with safety, the steamer arrived at Montreal, all well. Since that date they have run regularly down the stream every day, re turning back to the head of Lake Ontario by means of a canal with almost innumerable lock-gates to prevent that becoming a Rapid as well as the rest. Every one who goes to Niagara comes down the Rapids to Montreal, and there are not a few who make a great noise about it afterwards, as if the feat was something perilous and wonderful. One might as well attempt to stem the Rapids themselves as assure the majority of tourists here that there is really nothing very tremendous in them after all. , You are sure to , be met on every side with the ques tions, " Suppose the steamer droke down, sprang a dangerous leak, or struck full upon a rock, where would the passengers be then ?"—queries which, if they have any weight at all, apply with equal force, to a trip across the Atlantic, which now, at least, is not thought such a wonderful achievement as it used to be. The fact is that the terror of these Rapids exists far more in appearance than in reality, for the channel they have worn is so deep that the steamer could not get out of it if it tried. To be sure, if the vessel went full tilt against a rock, turned over, and threw all the passengers into the torrent, I don't believe any would bc saved ; but, even taking this extreme view of the case, I can't think that there would be much difference in result between an upset on the St. Lawrence and on any other of the large, wild, and rapid streams of North America. How many,, for in stance, are saved when a Mississippi boat gets " snagged" in the night • and gdes down in the centre of that yelldw, turgid, desolate stream ? So; all go down the Rapids arc told they have accomplished a tremendous feat, and as none are incredulous of their own heroism the delusion is passed on from tourist to tourist, and the ra vening ferocity of the waters of the St. Lawrence maintained in as much dignity as if crowds of rafts, barges, and steamers did not come down them every day, and as if the steamers that have gone ashore had not quietly disembarked their passengers without trouble or danger. lam quite aware that if any one fell into the .ltapids it would be a thousand chances to one against his being saved, but I am equally sure that there would be nearly the same chance of his meeting the same fate in every other of the broad rapid rivers of America I have seen. EPTEMEER 13, 1861' there it was getting dark, when of course it could not be attempted. The party thereforedisenalliked at the Lochine station and noun - led by rail to 'Mon treal. in the evening there was a grand musical testi. val at the B a llro om , expressly in honour of the Prince. Yesterday, the 29th, his Royal Highness, after _inspecting some volunteers, went again to the Loehine Rapids, to the residence of Sir George Simpson, the Governor of the Hudson's Bay Com pany, and the head-quarters of that great corpora tion, whence, at the commencement of each year, large bodies of trained voyageurs set out in canoes with goods and packages for the various posts in the wilderness. On the waters here, near the Loehine Rapids, a number of large and splendid canoes were provided, manned by boatmen in the employ of the company, all dressed in scarlet mini forms, and many wearing the medal given for Arctic services. In these canoes his Royal Highness and the members of his suite skimmed up and down the rapid current, the boatmen sending their light t irch bark skiffs over the water with the speed of arrows. It was thought at one time the Prince would have ventured down Lochine itself in one of these quick, dancing little craft, in which you require to sit with as much care and quietness as in the caiques of the Bosphorus. I am quite sure that if the Hud son's Bay boatmen, who in their voyages through the various wilds of North America shoot Rapids far more dangerous than Lochine, saw they could take the Prince down there safely they would have done it. But the river was much swollen after the heavy rains of late, and the aspect of Lochine some two miles below, with its deluge of waters pouring down with irresistible velocity and force, was not inviting, and very prudently, therefore, no at tempt to run them was made by any of the party. So the Prince and his suite had lunch, and amused themselves on the water, and had for once a pleasant and strictly private day, far from the eager pen of Western reporters, though I fear that their knowing nothing of what took place will not fail to give a still wider range to their imagina tions, and that the most incredible paragraphs and most thrilling woodcuts of perilous escapes will result therefrom. On this evening there were firemen's processions all over the town, each man carrying torches and Roman candles, and ringing bells, so that a lively night was the result. AUGUST 31. The Prince went last night to the People's Ball, to the intense delight of every one present. Almost for the first time since his visit, the night was mild and splendid, with a full, clear moon, and soft, warm air. It was also the night chosen for the grand display of fireworks at the foot of the Mount. These pyrotechnics, like everything else that has been undertaken here, were really splendid, and thousands of persons of all classes assembled to wit ness them. The Prince of Wales's plumes in coloured rockets, and the Royal arms and motto in fires of every hue, were of course among the greatest attractions of such a night; and, though the illu minations of the arches were continued, as they have been ever since the Prince entered the city, they last evening, for the first time, "failed to draw." Every one went to the fireworks, and, once there, waited for another and another, and then "only one more," before they went to the ball ; so that as the time drew nigh when his Royal Highness was expected there were only some 2,000 present—a mere handful in a building of such size and space of floor. It was built to accommodate 8,000 people, and 2,000, therefore, made but a scanty morsel in its wide expanse. Of those present, too, such a considerable majority had collected round the Royal dais, and near the entrance where the Prince would enter, that at the first glance it seemed as if the room was almost empty. By and by, however, they began to drop in faster, and before ten o'clock some 3,000 or 3,500 were assem bled. The announcement of "no restriction as to dress" was taken advantage of on the most liberal scale, and the few who ventured into the arena in real evening dress became as much objects of curio• sity and interest as they would have been at an ordinary assembly in a suit of chain mail. White ties became unpleasantly conspicuous objects, and were, on the whole, rather tolerated than viewed with favour. The "no restrictions as to dress" was popularly interpreted to mean corduroys, brown or gray shooting-jacket, yellow vest, and scarlet neck tie, without gloves, or with thick leather ones, as the case might be; and those who attended in evening costume were regarded rather with dis favour than otherwise, and as having taken advan tage of the committee's leniency in point of toilet to an unwarrantable extent. The toilets of the ladies, of course, are never alluded to except in terms of praise, but it may be said that I would praise them more if there had not been rather a sameness in the matter of bonnets and shawls. Before the Prince came, the Mayor, still robed in municipal splendours, made an attempt to open the ball with a quadrille. It was not successful, however, as no one followed the example save four young men who danced, with a strange in dependence of time or tune, among themselves, and whose eccentric movements unfortunately rivetted the attention of the band to such an ex tent that when they stopped the music stopped ; and the Mayor's party—a little oasis of festivity in the great desert of floor—were left unsupported in the midst of their figure, and slunk back again with a disconcerted air, though trying to " make believe" that it was quite en regle, and that they rather liked the band stopping suddenly than other wise. Things in general were getting very flat, when, fortunately the Prince came with his suite, in evening dress, and entered a box in the gallery overlooking the circle. He was welcomed, of course, with tremendous cheering, but was not tempted thereby to descend and join the dancers. He starts for Ottawa in the course of an hour, and will arrive there at six o'clock this evening. OX THE USE AND ABUSE OF TOBACCO. Our attention is directed to this subject by a let ter from Sir Benjamin Brodie, in the Times, cha racterised by all the knowledge, candour, and good sense which belong to whatever emanates from this distinguished physician and philosopher. He had been asked, it would seem, his opinion of the utility of a Parliamentary inquiry into the growing evil of tobacco-smoking, and, like a man of sense, he is, of course, against it ; probably agreeing with us that a bluebook on such a subject would be as ineffectual and as ridiculous as King James's " Counterblast." " I am not," says Sir Benjamin, " prepared to submit to the opinion of those who hold that, under all circumstances, and to however moderate extent it be practised, the smoking of tobacco is prejudicial. The first effect of it is to soothe and tranquillize the nervous system. It allays the pangs of hunger, and re lieves the uneasy feelings produced by mental and bodily exertion. The general drift, however, of this letter is to condemn the practice, That habi tual tobacco-smoking proves yrojudicial to some constitutions is an established - fact, and that the excessive use of it will injure the very best consti tution is equally certain ; but it appears to us that this is all that can be safely affirmed, and it applies to any other stimulant whatsoever—to malt liquor, 'rom - London beer to Barton ale; to all alcoholic drinks, from brandy to blue ruin; to wines, from champagne to Cape Madeira; to hemp juice, to opium, even to tea and coffee. Some of these are more likely to be used to excess than others, but With the 'exceptions of tea and coffee, tobacco is perhaps the least likely of all. The consumption of tobacco with us has only kept pace with our in crease in population—a result not to be wondered at, considering that we are paying a yearly tax of £5,500,000 for our. indulgence. We never, in fact, should have heard one word about the abuse of smoking if our youths of the upper and middle classes had not of -late borrowed cigar smoking from the Spaniards, in the same way in which more recently they have borrowed beards from the Turks. Let us look then to our consumption of cigars, th e source of all this outcry. According to the most recent public returns, the whole quantity of cigars entered annually for consumption was 213,6391te N and their cost, withou t duty, in round numbers, was £120,000. The duty, in round numbers also, was £lOO,OOO, making the wholesale price £220,000.. This sum, however, is not the cost to the consumer, who, of course, pays the retail price, which we may compute will raise the whole cost of cigars to about £320,000. ,Besides the home tax, which is very nearly Os 6d. a pound, it is to be observed that cigars before their importation had been already loaded with a mono poly tax in the Spanish colonies which produce them, the weight of which may be judged when we state that the price at which Cuba cigars are valued at the Custom-house is 1 ls. Id., whereas the highest ordinary manufactured tobacco is no mere than 101 d. These facts sufficiently prove that the:7 l/ 4 1 A4ing.°f cigars is an expensive luxury whiCh few can in dulge in, but we may adduce some dettfils'in illus tration. A pound weight tsually contains about 120 cigars of medium size; and they are retailed at the average rate of 3d. each. If, then, the smoker consume but six cigars a day, or 2,100 per annum, he expends in his indulgence the sum of X 27 7s. 6d., about t he average wages ofa rural day labourer. If he be sot enough—and such sots there ate—as to consume double the number now named, then he expends in tobacco smoking a sum that would main tain 10 individuals of our rural population. But then, as to the number of cigar smokers, selves ing no smuggling, and there is not a great deal, the quantity of cigar tobacco consumed would, at the rate we have stated, yield 25,436,480 cigars ; and if the average- consumption of individuals be taken at six cigars a day, their whole number would be no more than 11,614, or about one ) smoker out of every 2,1.83 of our prec-ent computed population; and. riE to the cor;tribul - ien of the cigar syn..ykers to the tohac c revtyrae. i to; ins but it po ,r 55th part. of the whole amount. For our owo Fitt, our main obj , ction to tobacco stnoliing consists in the practice being somewhat unodorous and hard to reconcile with the niceties, difficulties which are considerably aggravated at present by beard and moustache, good absorbents of soot and empyreu matic oil. Even Sir Benjamin Brodie's moderate estimate of the ill effects of tobacco we fancy to le somewhat overcharged. A. drop of its essential oil on the tongue of a cat will, he says, destroy life in 10 minutes. No doubt ; but 100 drops distii buted over 365 days would hardly have any effect at all on the cat, which has not the vital powers of a child five years old. We dissent also from the applicability of the instances adduced by Sir Ben jamin Brodie of the pernicious effects of excess in tobacco smoking, and which he holds up to us as warnings —namely, the decline of the Red In dians of America and of the Turks. The Red Indians had been smoking for ages before we knew of their very existence ; indeed, it was from them we learnt the practice; and they might have smoked on to the latest posterity without diminution of their numbers, had not fire-water, gunpowder, and the encroachment of cultivation on their hunting-grounds prevented it. As to the Turks it is assuredly neither excess of tobacco smoking or of any other vicious indul gence that has changed their relative position to Europeans. They have not declined at all, for they at present as much courage and more know ledge and intelligence than they had under Soly man the Magnificent. It is not the Turks that have fallen off; but we that have advanced at a pace with which an Asiatic race, albeit planted for four centuries in the choicest regions of the gbbe, can not keep up.—Examiner. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. DONCASTER ItACES-WEDNESDAY. The Municipal Stakes of 200 soya each, h fr, for two-yr olds ; colts Bst 71b, fillies Bst 41b ; the second to save his stake. Red House in. 5 furlongs 152 yards. 7 subs. Mr. Henry's Klarikoff, Bst 71b .. (G. Fordham) 1 Sir J. Hawley's Vaga, Bst 41b... (Challoner) 2 Lord Glasgow's Physalis colt, Bst 71b . (Aldcroft) 3 Mr. W. S. Crawfurd's Wild Will, Bst 71b (Wells) 4 Betting-5 to 2 agst Klarikoff, sto 4 agst Vaga, 4to 1 agst the Physalis colt. Vaga, waited upon by Klarikoff, made play to the half distance, where the latter collared her, and the two ran a fine race h' me, Klarikoff winning by half a length ; a bad third ; Wild Will close up. The Corporation Plate of 100 soya in specie, added to a Handicap Stakes of 10 sovs each, 5 ft ; winners extra, &c. ; the second to receive 15 sovs out of the stakes. T.Y.C. (7 furlongs 214 yards). 51 subs. Lord Stamford's Emily, 3 yrs, 7st .. (A. Edwards) 1 Mr. S. Jacob's Amsterdam, 5 yrs, 9.st 41b .. (T. Aldcroft) 2 Lord Derby's Sagitta, 3 yrs, 7st 91b .. (G. Fordham) 3 The following also ran :—Napoleon, Glenbuck, Ripon, Horace, Viatka, Gardener, Captain Fortibus, Chirper, Ariadne, The Monk, and The Prophet. Betting-2 to 1 agst Emily, 9to 2 agst Amsterdam, 6to 1 agst Capt. Fortibus, 8 to 1 agst Sagitta, 10 to 1 agst Horace, 100 to 8 agst Ripon. After two or three false starts the lot got off, Capt. Fortibus making play, followed by The Prophet, Emily lying third. On rounding the Red House turn Emily went to the front, followed by Chirper, Capt. Fortibus, and Amsterdam. At the distance Gardener fell, throwing Bradley, who was unhurt, Emily going on with the running, and winning easily by two lengths; a head between the second and third, Chirper was fourth, Horace next. The St. Leger Stakes of 25 sovs each, for three-yr. olds; • colts Bst 71b, fillies Bst 21b ; the second to receive 100 soya out of the stakes. St Leger Course (about one - mile 6 furlongs and 132 yards). 168 subs. Lord Ailesbury's St. Albans, Bst 71b .... (L. Snowden) 1 Mr. Jaques's High Treason, 71b Mr. A. :N ichols's The Wizard, Bst 71b .. (Aldcroft) 3 Lord Zetland's Zabreur, Bst 71b The fo lowing also ran :—Sweetsauce, Stampedo,Winton, Umpire, Wallace, Cramond, Thormanby, Buccaneer, King of Diamonds, The Rap, and Cambondo. Betting-5 to 2 agst ThormanV, 100 to 30 agst Sabreur, 5 to 1 agst Tho Wizard, Bto 1 agst St. Albans, 10 to 1 agst Umpire, 100 to 7 agst Sweetsauce, 25 to 1 agst Winton, 1,000 to 30 each agst High Treason and Wallace, 50 to 1 agst Buccaneer, 100 to 1 each agst Cramond, The Rap, King of Diamonds, and Stampedo. THE RACE. With admirable punctuality the horses were got under order, the preliminary canters as usual exciting much atten tion, and a loud buzz was sent up by the spectators as the different favourites passed the Grand Stand. Mr. Marshall, of Northampton, the specially appointed starter, led the competitors past the enclosure in the following order:— Buccaneer, Stampedo, Cambondo, High Treason, Umpire, Sweetsauce, Cramond, King of Diamonds, Sabreur, Thor manby, St. Albans, Wallace, The Rap, Winton, and The Wizard. They were got in tolerably close order, when The Wizard broke away, and ran a short distance before being stopped. A second attempt to get them off was attended by no better result, for High Treason, King of Diamonds, and The Wizard threw the rank into disorder, and Stam pedo, standing some lengths in the rear, would not ap pro:ch his horses, when a man, stick in hand, led him into the ruck. In another attempt to get them away Umpire could not be prevailed upon to get on terms of equality. After these delays Lord Coventry, one of the stewards, went down to the starter, and ordered the horses to be brought to the end of the course, and, after one more attempt, the flag was finally lowered. Sabreur got off with a lead of at least a couple of lengths, with King of Diamonds second, Umpire third, and Buccaneer fourth, St. Albans fifth, heading the re mainder of the field, the two last being Stampedo and Cra mond. As they traversed the straight, before reaching the Bawtry turn, Sweetsauce rushed through his horses and took up his place next Sabreur, Umpire going on third, and St. Albans fourth, High Treason and Tbormanby's colours showing next ; close with them were Winton and the Wizard. Sabreur held his lead to the 2-yr-old post, with Buccaneer and Thormanby running side by side third and fourth ; St. Albans having been eased by Snowden, and pull ing into the fifth place. On coming past the Red-house the first lot took close order, Sabreur, Sweetsauce, Thormanby, St. Albans, Umpire, and High Treason being in the van, and next, in close pursuit, were The Wizard, The Rap, and Wallace, Stampedo and Cramond stil toiling on in the rear. As they rounded the bend into the straight Umpire went up to Sabreur, and loud shouts were raised of " The American wins," and the pair raced side by side to the distance, with Thormanby, The Wizard, St. Albans, and High Treason close together in pursuit. At the half distance Sabreur and Umpire were beaten, and St. Albans, High Treason, and The Wizard passed the pair, St. Albans having the best of it from this point, and coming in an easy winner by a length and a half; a neck between the second and third; two lengths between third and fourth ; Thormanby was fifth, Umpire sixth, Sweetsauce seventh, King of Diamonds eighth; The Rap, Wallace, Winton, and Cramond were next ; Cambondo and Stampedo bringing up the rear, the latter not leaving passed the post. A Sweepstakes of 10 soya each, h ft, with 50 added, for 2-yr-olds 7st, and three Sst 101 b ; fillies and geldings al lowed 31b ; the second to save his stake. Red House in. 14 subs. Captain Christie's Lady Clifden, 2 yrs, Gst I Ilb (H. Grinishaw) 1 Mr. Merry's Folkestone, 2 yrs, 7st (Sadler) 2 Baron Rothschild's Queen of the Vale, 2 yrs, 6:t 111 b (J. Daley) 3 Mr. Saxon's Brown Duchess, 2 yrs, Get 111 b (Midgeley) 4 The following also ran :—f by Barbatus, Cronstadt, and Lady Louisa. Betting-5 to 4 agst Brown Duchess, 3to 1 agst Lady Clifden, 5 to 1 agst Folkestone, 10 to 1 each. agst Queen of the Vale and Cronstadt. Lady Louisa made play, closely waited upon by Folkestone, Brown Duchess, and Lady Clifden. At the bend Lady Clifden went to the front, Folkestone sc curd, and the latter being beaten within the distance, the filly ran home an easy winner by a length; a bad third. Brown Duchess was fourth, Lady Louisa fifth, and Cronstadt next. Handicap Sweepstakes, of 10 sows each, h ft, with 50 added; for 2-yr-olds ; winners extra ; the second to save his stake. 11.3 d House in. 44 subs. Lord Derby's Ranee filly, 7st 21b Mr. Smith's Lioness colt, 7st (L. Snowden) 2 Mr. T. Cliff's Nutbush, 6st 131 b (Grimshaw) 3 The forowing also ran :—Nabob's Daughter, Rupert, Maid of Honour, Charing-cross, Weatherwitch, See-Saw, Nunnery, Tresillian, Miss Fanny, Medora, Rawcliffe, Corfu, Edendale, Hope filly. Betting-2 to 1 agst the Ranee filly, sto 2 agst Nutbush, 12 to 1 each agst Medora and Miss Fanny, 100 to 7 each agst Edendale and See-Saw. There were again several false starts, the third of which, we regret to say, resulted in a disaster to Bray, the rider of Nunnery, the mare jumping round and throwing him on his head; he was picked up stunned and severely shaken. The Ranee filly made the running, attended by Nutbush and the Lioness colt, the fir st-named s% inning by a length; half a length between the second and third, See-Saw fifth, Rawcliffe and Rupert the last two. The Stan*Plato Handicap of 5 sous each, with 50 added ; the second to savo his stake. Red House in. 25 subs, Mr. S. Jacobs's Von Strcom, 3 yrs, 6st 71b .... (Drewe) 1 Mr. Ten Broeck's Pomona, 3 yrs, 7st 21b., (A. Edwards) 2 Mr. Dixon's Neophyte, 4 yrs, Bst 10lb .. . ... (A. French) 3 The following also ran :—Brady Ball, Jack Spring, Tiara, Curlew, Newstead, Ticket of Leave, Sutherland, Miss Digby, Griffin, Atistodemus, Bella Donna, Incense g, Fenella, and Miss Sarah. Betting---5 to 2 agst Neophyte, 4to 1 agst Ilenella, 7to 1 agst Brandy Ball, Bto 1 agst Pomona, 10 to 1 each agst Bella Donna and Ticket of Leave, 12 to 1 agst Aristodemus. The three placed wore in front throughout ; a very excit ing race ensued between Von Stroom and Pomona, ending in favour of the former by a head, a neck between the secoyrd and third, Tiara a good fourth. Bella Donna and Griffin beaten off were the last two ; the latter did not pass the post. _ Her Majedy'a Plato of 100 guineas; 3-yr-elds, 7st i four, Bst 51b; five, Bst 1 9 Ib ; six and aged, est 21h. Cup canna (about two miles five ftulorgs). Mr. Lowe's , NV;id P.G . ,3e, 4 y rs.. - Sst :lb (L. 'Snowden)- 1 The following also ran :—Wantba, Vanquisher, 11:1.et,r. cock, Feodorowna, and PaSAirne. Petting-2 to 1 agst Pastime, sto 2 each agst Wild Rose and Vanquisher. 'Won by ten lengths. SCRATCHINGS. • The following horses have paid forfeit : Scarb. rough Stakes—Jason, Roesia, Paleface, Sparrow Hawk, and Andover colt. Portland Plate—Prelude, Montebello, Cynricus, New Brighton, Tiara, Fravola, Enfield, Flitch, Retreat, Doe foot, Jeddah, Jim, Ellerton, Ladybird, Whitewell, Black Diamond, Ruby, Lady Macdonald, and Richmond: • Sweepstakes of 10 sovs—Bird of Prey, Brownie,Viscount Brignall, The Nymph, Trapcage, Janus, Imaus, and Hawk's-eye. Eglinton St akes—Oldminater,Wynstay, Black Diamond, Pebble, Butterfly, Amain, Seclusion, Lancelin, Lady Ripen, Viscount Brignall, Isis, and Ellerton. Cleveland handicap—Wildman, Sagilta, Eremite, and Uralian. Zetland Stakes—Tirailleur and Roesia. LQUNTRY 111 A RR B TAS. LYNN—SEPP. 11. A limited supply of wheat to-day, which met a fair sale at 3s per qr under former rates for good fresh qualities. Spring corn at nominal prices. Old white 58s to 62s 1 Old red ..538 to 608 New white.. ..... 54 s t o 61s 1 New red... 508 to 565 SHEFFIELD—SETT. 12. At to-day's market the supply of wheat was moderate., The continuance of favourable weather caused a further reduction in the price of wheat of 6d to is per load and flour id per stone. Barley 2s higher. Old oats advanced is per qr. Red wheat, per load of 3 imperial bushels...22s 6d to 23s 6d White ff ff ...25s Od to 26s Od New red ,) ...—s Od to—sOd l New white „ f f ...—s Od to —8 Od Beans ,) ,t ... 19s 6d to 218 6el Peas, per qr. 48s Od to 52s Od G rinding barley, per qr 33 s Od t o 36 s Od Malting ditto, „ Oats ,9 2Bs Od to 34s Od Millers' prices for flour-2s 3d, 2s sd, and 2s 7d per 141 b. HULL—SEPT. 11. At our market to-day there was a thin attendance, with a moderate supply of English wheat, which met a slow sale, and prices were 2s to 3s lower. No business doing in. foreign wheat. Prime barley, as well as oats, beans, and peas met with a ready sale, at late rates. Wheat.... Old white.... per qr ... 63s Ott to' 65s Od Old red New white .. „ New red .... /T Dantzic, Konb , &c. old white 53s Od to 66s Od Dutch, Belgian, and French 533 Od to 54s Od Baltic and Hamburg red s3s Od to 54s Od St. Petersburg and Riga, old 458 Od to 49s Od Barley....Euglish malting 3Bs Oclto 43s Od Grinding 3ls Od to 37s Od Seal and Oderbruck Holstein and Danish .. 34s Od to Ms Od Grinding 32s Od to 34s Od. Oats English, old Archangel and Riga, per st Os 14d to 141 d Friesland and Dutch oBl4ld to oslsd Swedish and Danish Oslld to 08140 Beans ....English, old, per qr .. 48s Od to 50s Od New pigeon 44s Od to 45s Od New tick. 43s Od to 44s Od Egyptian 3Bs Od to 40s 00 Peas Foreign breakers Grinding Tares ....Spring . Indian Corn Linseed, feeding s2s Od to 54s Od crushing -9(1 cakc 'Hull' . £9 15 0 to £lO 0 ' _es (_...a11) Foreign BlO oto 9' 0 0 Rape cakes 5 5 oto 510 0 Bones 6 0 oto 5 7 6 Linsi COAL MAR. (Prices of Coal per Ton al JET-SE' T. 10. s. d. Tan&ld Moor 13 3 I'anfield Moor Butes l3 3 Howard's West Hart ley 16 0 Davison's West Hart ley ....16 0 Eden Main ... 18 6 West Hartley l6 0 Buddle'sWest Hartley 16 0 Bower's West Hartley.l7 0 Lambert's West Hart- the due of the market.) Walls End. __- ley _ 16 0 Craghead Hartley 14 9 Walker Primrose 13 9 Holywell 16 0 Walls End. Acorn Close ..18 6 Hatton Ships at marks N. 4. Heugh Hall 18 6 Kelloe South Hartlepool 19 0 West Hetton ..18 6 Whitworth 16 6 Cassop ..... l9 0 Haswell..... 2O, 0 Eden 18 Hunwick l6 6 Fratewsligate -18 $ Keiper Grange.... lB 9 Stowart's 20 0 Russel's Hetton ..18 9 Brs - ddyll's Hetton 19 0 Lambton 2O 0 Nixon's Mertliyr.:.: 21 0 Car. & DuffrynMalting22 6 G 2 ; sold, 55. THE MAILS. MAILS DUE. Australia, Ceylon, and Mauritius (via South ampton) Sept. 18. Do. (via Marseilles) Sept. 12. Brazil and Cape Verds Oct. 6. Buenos Ayres, Monte Video, &c. Oct. 5. Bahamas and Havana (via New York) .. Canada, &c. (via Galway) . • .. Sept.. 22. Cape of Good Hope, &c. Oct l. China, Penang, and Singapore (via S'ampton) Sept. 18. Do. (via Marseilles) Sept. 12. Gibraltar (via Southampton) .. .. Sept. 18. India (Calcutta), Ceylon, &c. (vi a Southampton) Sept. 18. Do. ' (via Marseilles) Sept. 12. India (Bombay), (via Southampton) .. Sept. 25. Do. (via Marseilles) .. .. Sept. 19. Lisbon .. Overdue. Cuba and Maxie) . • .. .. Sept. 13. 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