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F OR TOURIATS AND EXCURSIONISTS. E. MOSES and SON have made preparations, on an unusually large scale, in every depart ment of their business. For trades and ad dresses. see following advertisement. 1 RARE COMBINATION. LThe RARE COMBINATION of EXCEL LENCE with CHEAPNESS will be found in every &rticle sold by E. MOSES and SON. Every description of Clothing ready made, or made to measure, for all ages, and all :lasses. Commodious apartments for measuring tad fitting in the spacious and elegant Show eoorns, which contain a very large and diver sified stock of materials. For the convenience of Ladies accompany ing their Sons there is a distinct department for Young Gentlemen's Clothing. Orders by Post are attended to with care and punctuality, and the easy and accurate system of self-measure introduced by E. MOSES and SON enables them to guarantee a faultless fit. Orders from persons who are not known to the firm should accompanied by a remit tance, or a London reference. Any article not worn or injured will he theerfully exchanged, or, if desired, the noney will bo returned. All Goods are marked in Plain Figures, from which no abatement can be made. The Stock of Hosiery and Drapery, Hats and Caps. and Boots and Shoes, is un equalled for magnitude, variety, and cheap ness. Complete Outfits for all Climates, with every requisite for the voyage. Lists of Prices, with Rules for Self-men sure, Patterns, and Fashion-sheet, gratis and post-free. E. MOSES and SON'S Estahlishmonts are closed every Friday evening at sunset till Saturday evening at sunset, when business is resumed until eleven o'clock. E. MOSES and SON, Ready-made and Be spoke Tailors, Habitmakers, Woollendrapers, Hatters, Hosiers, Boot and Shoe Manufac turers, and General Outfitters for all Classes. The following are the only addresses of E. MOSES tncl SON : LONDON. CITY ESTABLISHMENT. 155, MINORIES 186, MINORIES 157, MINORIES 81, ALDGATE 84, ALDGATE 8.5. ALDGATE' 86, ALDGATI 87. ALDGATE 83, ALDGATE 99, ALDGATE OXFORD-STREET BRANCH. 606, NEW OXFORD-STREET SOT, NEW OXFORD-STREET *lB, NEW OXFORD-STREET 1, HART-STREET 2, HART-STREET • 3, HART-STREET TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD BRANCH. 137, TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD 139, TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD 283, EUSTON-ROAD. Country Branch: 19, BRIDGE-STREET, BRADFORD, YORKS. 20, BRIDGE-STREET, BRADFORD, YORKS. B RITANNIA FIRE ASSOCIATION Heal Offices, 429, Strand, London. The distinguishing features of this Association are ' Equitable Rates, Undoubted Security. Prompt settlement of claims. JOHN MESSENT, Manager. EAGLE INSURANCE COMPANY, LONDON. REPORT OF THE DIRECTORS, For the Year ending 30th June, 1869, read at the Annual General Meeting of Proprietors, 13th August, 1869, WILLIAM FREDERICK DE LA RUE, ESQ., Deputy- Chairman of the Company, in the Chair. The'Report which the directors have now to submit to the proprietor differs in its tenor but little save in one or two particular from that laid before them in 1868. the income of the year, it will be seen, amounts t £540,499 18s., and the total charge to £145,077 10s. 9d The difference, £95,422 7s. 3d., added to the balance of the surplus fund at the commencement of the financial year, raised that item to .£1,002,974 15s. 9d., its present amount. 550,499 18 0 436,187 6 9 SURPLUS FUND ACCOUNT, JUNE 30, 1869. INCOME OF THE YEAR. s. d. Da. Balance of account, 30th June, 1868 907,E52 8 6 Premiums on new assur- £ s. d ances Ditto on old ditto 357,988 7 0 371,548 12 1 Interest from investments 120,959 12 10 492,508 4 11 Profit and loss, balance of account 47,991 13 1 Total income £1,4-P 1 ,052 6 6 Examined and approved. T lIONT AS AT.T.EN,t Auditors. IIENRY ROSE, j CHARGE OF THE SEAR. s. d. CR. Dividend to proprietors Claims on decoaso of lives assured Additions to those under X s. d. 8,880 4 0 participating policies 24,304 6 Policies surrendered Re-assurances —new Ditto old 51,009 4 1 405,561 12 1 Commission Medical fees Income tax 3,017 15 8 Expenses of management 16,238 9 10 Total charge Balance of account, June 30, 1869, as per balanco-sheet £1,448,052 6 6 The total of premiums received is £371,548 12s. 14., of which sum £13,560 ss. Id. is for new assurances effected in the year. The interest from investments is £120,959 12s. 104., or £4 2s. per cent. on the net amount of the company's realised assets existing in June, 1868 ; and in connection with this important feature of the company's affairs the directors have the satisfaction of reporting that the profit and lass account again exhibits a considerable profit, amounting this year within a trifle to the sum of £lB,OOO. It may be remembered that a profit of nearly equal amount was announced in last year's report. Turning to the items constituting the charge of the year, it will be noticed that the sum payable in satisfac tion of claims on decease of lives assured is larger than usual. This circumstance, however, is not very material; as was observed oa a previous occasion, the proper quin quennial avera g e is generally p re tty sure t o obtain, and the fact that the average for the past two years barely ex ceeds £309,000 tends to confirm that statement. The expenses of management are greater by nearly £BOO than they were last year. They would have been materially less but for the unavoidable cost of transferring the company's securities into the names of additional trus tees. Taken as they are, however, these expenses must be regarded as very moderate. It will be observed that they are only three per cent. of the total income. BALANCE-SHEET, JUNE 30, 1869. DR. LIABILITIES. Interest due to proprietors Claims on decease of lives assured, and additions thereto unpaid 108,940 6 7 Sundry accounts Liability under sums assured, drc. (1867) 6,336,626 8 2 Proprietors' fund urplus fund £6,757 17 0 £7,675,813 0 10 Examined and approved. THOMAS ALLEN,} Auditors. HENRY ROSE, ASSETS. Amount invested in fixed mortgages X 1,661,699 9 2 Ditto ditto decreasing ditto 162,770 15 2 Ditto ditto Reversions 278,557 16 6 Ditto ditto Funded securities 491,303 4 2 Ditto ditto Temporary secu rities 198,207 17 0 Current interest on the above investments 30,934 4 6 Cash and bills 12,256 15 10 Advanced on security of the company's policies 165,387 1 8 A gents' balances Sundry accounts Value of premiums (1867) ..... 4,506,167 18 0 Value of re-assurances 85,706 14 5 £7,675,813 0 10 The balance-sheet does not appear to call for any re mark. The assets are, of course, increased by the sum of £95,422 7s. 3d. already mentioned, as i s s h own b y the aug mentation to that extent in the balance of the surplus fund. The Direction of the Company is now constituted as follows: WILLIAM FREDERICK DE LA RUE, EsQ., Chairm an . ROBERT ALEXANDER GRAY, ESQ., Deputy-Chairman. Charles Bischoff, Esq. James Murray, Esq. Thom 's Boddington, Esq. Philip Rose, Uhnrles 'llatfield, Esq. George Russell, Esq. SirJ. BullerEast, Bt., D.C.L. Looms Godfrey Satubrooke, Wm. Augustus Guy, M.D., Esq. dmind Tindal. CuariesThos.llqlcombe,Esq. Right Iron. Sir John Young Joshua Lockwo.,d, Esq. I Bart., K.C.B. LICENSED VICTUALLERS' GUARDIAN. ri R. GLENIE, of the Sporaixa LIBRARY, kir• 4, Connaught-terrace, Hyde park, London, W., begs to inform his customers, and the Licensed Victuallers in genera that that he has been appointed Agent to the above-named paper ta addition to his agency for the Sporting Edition of"Ti! 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Prospectuses of these concerts may be obtained by visibrs at the ticket stalls this day, after the opera. CRYSTAL PALACE. MONDAY. Great Combined Day. ARRANGEMENTS for MONDAY next, 13th Sept.: Palace open at ... 10. 0 Fountains .., ... 2. 0 Opera—" Lucia di Lammermoor" ... ... 2.45 Great Velocipede and Bycyle Competition in Centre Transept ... Fireworks and 111-nninated Fountains ... Pa'ace lighted up till ... 5.45 ... 7.30 ... 9.30 AdmissiOn, as Usual, ONE SHILLING. Stalls and Reserved Seats at the Palace ; Season Tickets at each entrance. CRYSTAL PALACE.-MONDAY.-GREAT VELOCIPEDE CONTEST and COMPETITION in Centre Transept at a quarter before Six o'clock. CRYSTAL PALA - - CE.MONDAY NEXT. The next magnificent DISPLAY of FIREWORKS and Grand Illumination of the Great Fountain Jets and Terrace Fountains will take place on MONDAY NEXT, Sept. 13, when the Pyrotechnic Programme will include the great Cascade of Fire, Illumination of the Lawns, Cedars, Shrubberies, &c., Descant of Fiery Comet, special set pieces, &c.; and, notwithstanding its great cost, the Arc de Triomphe set piece, which on the occasions of the last two displays has called forth the most unanimous and enthusiastic expressions of delight. The display will be made by Mes3rs. Brock and Co., Nunhead. During the afternoon Donizetti's admired opera, " Lucia di Lammer moor," will be performed. Edgar Ravenswood, Mr. George Perren ; Lucy Ashton, Mdlle. Florence Lancia (her first appearance in that character). VELOCIPEDE TRIALS. After the opera a display of velocipede riding by the English and Continental champions, and other gentlemen and manufacturers' riders iu the centre transept. No extra charge to this popular combined fote. Ad mission ls. only, or by guinea season tickets, which, ad mitting until 31st August, 1870, may now bo had at all entrances and all agents. Palace open at 9.0, opera at 3.0, fireworks at 7.30. Pa lace brilliantly illuminated for promenade until 9 o'c!eck. A military band will perform during the fireworks and beforehand. FIRE WORKS and GRAND ILLUMINATION of FOUNTAINS, NEXT NIONDAY, at 7.30. Arc do Triomphe, and other Sot Pieces. Extra trains from all stations. CRYSTAL PALACE.—GRAND POPULAR CONCERT, WEDNESDAY NEXT.—Mdlle. Chris tine Nilsson, Madame Trebelli-Bettini, Mdlle. Gilardoui, Signor Bettini, and Signor I'oli. Solo pianoforte, Mr. James M. Wehli. Crystal Palace Saturday Band. Con ductor, Mr. Manus. The directors have great pleasure in announcing that they have secured the services of Mdlle. Nilsson for the above occasion. Although the expenses of such engage ments as the above must necessarily b • very great, yet it is believed that the opportunity to hear the Diva, supported by such an excellent company, will be gratefully seized by thousands, and will thus prove remunerative to the com pany. The concert will take place at three o'clock on the Great Handel Orchestra, the company's Saturday Land accompanying. To render it really a great popular con cert available to all, the charge for admisAm will not be increased beyond the usual ono shilling, or by guinea season tickets. Stalls, half-a-crown, at the Crystal Palace and Exeter Hall. Mdlle. Nilsson will sing, air, " Angels ever bright and fair," Handel ; recit. and aria, " A h ! non giungu" (" Son nambula "), Bellini ; Swedish melodies ; scena, "Spargi d'anioro" (" Lucia "), Donizetti. Also in duet, " Ebben per mia " (" Gazza Ladra "), Rossini ; and in quartet, "L'invito el mare," Arditi. Reserved numbered stalls now ready at the Palace, and at 6, Exeter Hall. They should be applied for forthwith. CIRAND POPULAR CONCERT, with Mdlle. IA NILSSON, and other artistes, NEXT WEDNES DAY, at 3.0. Tffo only Shilling Day. Stalls uow ready at Palace and Exeter Hall. mrDLLE. NILSSON, NEXT WEDNESDAY, 1,1 at the CRYSTAL PALACE. The only Shilling Day. Trains from all parts. Palace open at 10.0. Concert on Handel Orchestra at 3.0. THE GREAT MUSICAL JUBILEE of the 1 - TONIC SOL-FA REPEATED on WEDNES DAY, 22d Sept. Reserved stalls on Monday next. CLERICAL, AIEDICAL, AND GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY. Established 1824. The ANNUAL INCOME, steadily increasing, exceeds £227,000 The ASSURANCE FUND, safely invested, is over £1,649,000 Forms of Proposal, and every information, can be ob tained of GEORGE CUTCLIFFE, Actuary and Secretary, 13, St. James's-square, London. S.W. 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LORD WENTWORTH, the grandson of the great poet, writes to the Pall Mall Gazette—and a correspondent of the Times adduces the testimony of a venerable lady " the Dowager Lady S—," whom he describes as " a lady of great natural abilities and keen ob servation, unimpaired by advanced age (82), and whose knowledge of the world—fashionable, political, and literary—both of days long past and of these is, perhaps, unsurpassed." Already we have had remarkable communications from the hand of Mr. WILLIAM liowrrr, and from the hand of Lord LINDSAY, the son and heir of the Premier Earl of Scotland. The latter, it will not soon be forgotten, adduced the testimony of Lady ANNE BARNARD, the Times correspondent of to-day (writing under the initials " E. M. U.") adduces, as we have said, the testimony of the Dowager Lady S—, a venerable witness now more than au octagenarian. This itn. portant witness as to the charge so recently and so atrociously directed against her own personal friend in the old days, the Hon. AUGUSTA LEIGH, writes as follows : ' We have a great subject of interest in Mrs. STOWE'S account of Lord BYRON. 1 want to know the truth. I have seen a great deal of Mrs. LEIGH (AUGUSTA), having passed some days with her and Colonel LEIGH, for my hus band's shooting near Newmarket, when Lord BYRON was in the house, and, as she told me, was writing The Corsair,' to my great astonishment, for it was a wretched small house, full of her ill-trained children, who were always running up and down stairs and going into ' uncle's' bedroom, where he remained all the morning. Mrs. LEIGH was like a mother to BYRON, being so much older, and not at all an attractive person. I afterwards went with her, at her request, to pay a wedding visit to Lady BYRON when she returned to town, and she (Mrs. LEIGH) expressed the greatest anxiety that his marriage should reform him. He opened the drawing room door himself, and received my congratulations as savagely as I expected, looking (lemonlike, as he often did. But my astonishment at the present accusation is unbounded. She, a Dowdy-Goody, I being then, I sup pose, a fine young lady. SCROPE DAVIs used to come to dinner, and talked to me a great deal about BYRON afterwards, when he resided In the country, and I never remember a hint at this unnatural and improbable liaison when all London was at BYRON'S fest. I have hoard from Lady A.- I-, relative to -, and to Mrs. LEIGH, that my recollection of her was perfectly correct. She says she was an amiable and devoted wife and mother of seven children. tier husband was vary fond of her, and had a high opinion of her. She must have been married (in 1807) when BYRON was quite a boy (ho was 19). Sho had no taste for poetry. She Lad sad tnis`ortunes in her later years. Her excellent and only surviving daughter nursed her with the tenderest affection in her last illness. How any ono could have been so wicked as to write so horrible a story of one too long dead to have friends left who could refute the story seems I), , yond 1).1E0E2 " The Times correspondent, who is the medium of con veying this important and most acc3ptable evidence to us, speaks of it as negative in its character. To ourselves, on the contrary, it appears positive to the last degree, and certainly quite con clusive. And now, as materially affecting the horrible question supposed to be in dispute, it will be worth while giving here, in Lord WENTWORTH'S own words, the emphatic contradiction of Mrs. STOWE'S Un true Story," as that contradiction has been most cogently and succinctly set forth, thus, in the state ment of Lord BYRGW'S grandson :-- " About three years ago a manuscript in Lady Noel Byron's handwriting was found among her papers, giving an account of some circumstances connected with her marriage, and apparently intended for publication after her death, but as this seemed not quite certain, no decision as to its publication was come to. In the event of a memoir being written, this manuscript might, perhaps, be included, but hitherto it has not been proposed to publish any other matter about her separation. This statement in Lady Byron's own handwriting does not contain any accusation of so grave a nature as that which Mrs. Stowe asserts was told her, and Mrs. Stowe's story of the separation is inconsistent with what I have seen in various letters, &c., of Lady Byron's. Lady Byron says in her own statement that before being published it ought to be submitted to some person who had read through the consumed Byron memoirs, so as to secure the correction of any misstatements. I cannot see that Messrs. Wharton and Fords make no charge of material inaccuracy against Mrs. Stowe ; I believe they meant to assert the inaccuracy of the whole article. I, fur one, cannot allow that Mrs. Stowe's state. ment is substantially correct (according to your inference and that of one or two other newspapers)." Against the testimony of Lady ANNE BARNARD, as given by Lord LINDSAY, of Mr. Howirr in hie own person, of Lady as conveyed to us by E. M. U., and of the poet's grandson, Lord WENTWORTH, to say nothing of the letter penned by Lady BYRON'S solicitors, the Messrs. WHARTON and FORDS, and of which communication Lord WENTWORTH'S note is a sort of postscript by way of emphatic endorsement— against all this, what is there which has to be op posed? Merely Mrs. STOWE'S muddled recollections of a conversation which, she says, took place thirteen years ago, in regard to statements made to her in confidence—a confidence which she [this unimpeach able witness, thisiperson of the noblest principles] has, according to her own showing, thus monstrously violated. Affairs in Italy have of late ceased to attract much attention ; but the politics of the eountry are not the less surely tending to a crisis. That the Italian Government has of late years lost its hold on the affections of the people has long been sufficiently obvious ; that its unpopularity is on the increase many indications unite in confirming. A remarkable defeat of the Government at an election for the Chamber of Deputies is one of these signs. The contest took place in the little district of Corte Olona and Belgiojoso, in the north of the country. At the . . first ballot the Opposition candidate polled a large majority-320 against the 121 given to the repre sentative of the Government. These numbers did not amount to the proportion of the constituency which is required for the election of a deputy—for in Italy no return can be valid unless at least one third of the voters record their suffrages. A s-cond ballot accordingly took place with a result still more unfavourable to the Government, The numbers were 100 for the Ministerialist and M 4 for his opponent. True, this is only one contest ; but certain circumstances give it an ereeptional impor tance. The district is very quiet and secluded, far removed, one would third; from the in fluence of revolutionary passions. The franchise in Italy is on very Conservative terms : no citizen can be a voter unless he pay at least £1 12s. a year in taxes, and thus the poorer population are entirely shut out. Each party put forth its utmost strength. The contest was one of a strictly party character. At the last election a sup porter of the Govenment was returned ; but now the successful candidate is a political prisoner in the fortress of Alessandria. It is impossible to ignore the significance of such an issue. The truth is that the influence of the Italian Government has declined, partly through its mis deeds, but mainly, perhaps, through a negative cause —the lack of ability and integrity of purpose amongst the Italian statesmen. The Government of VICTOR EMAMNUEL has in many respects done ill ; but its greatest offence is that it has failed to do well. The political situation of the country has, ever since the events of 1859, been one of extreme difficulty, and the master mind which might have been equal to the occasion is no more. CAVOUR, whatever his faults may have been, was undeniably the greatest Italian statesman of modern times ; indeed, oneof the first men of the present cen tury; and he is gone. The KING himself is an excellent huntsman ; but his capacity as a ruler falls grievously short of his people's need. Behind him there is only a series of statesmen who differ considerably in degrees of mediocrity—but none of whom possess any conspicuous ability—and a Parliament which has hitherto distinguished itself chiefly for its matchless laziness. During a most critical period there has been no man and no policy equal to the occasion. The Government has not had the courage to take any definite course. It is afraid to break with the people and afraid to break with NAPOLEON—the one or the other being indispensable. It has humiliated the former without gaining anything from the latter. The events of October and November 1867, the vacillation of the Government, its secret encouragement of the Garibaldian invasion, and its terrified disavowal of the Caprera hero are a speci men of Italian policy ever since the kingdom was founded. Some allowance must no doubt be made for the connection with France. It was difficult, indeed, to act with a potentate who first set up the Italian kingdom and then endeavoured to prevent its completion. But this was a difficulty to overcome, not to be overcome by. In addition to the great failure of its general policy, the Government has recently signalised itself by various acts of small oppression : intervention with the press, the arbitrary arrest of private individuals, and the dismissal of judges—always the most dan gerous deed a Government can perpetrate. These acts of injustice seem to have completed the work which has been so long in progress; the Govern ment of VICTOR EMMANUEL is at war with the nation. The united kingdom of Italy was the joint work of NAPOLEON, GARIBALDI and CAVOUR; the persons who are reaping the fruit of these three men's achievements have distinguished themselves only by indifferent government at home and bad policy abroad. LATEST INTELL EGENCE (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) AMERICA. NEW YORK, Sept. 9. (Per French Atlantic Cable.) A severe storm raged yesterday evening in the New England States, severely injuring the tele graph lines and destroying and unroofing numerous churches and other buildings in Boston, where the damage is estimated at over $1,000,000. Several towns of Massachusetts, Maine, and New Hampshire have suffered much damage. General Canby has ordered the Virginian Legis lature to be assembled on the sth of October. Mr, Walker will be installed Governor on the 21st inst. The American Press comment at great length on Canadian affairs, and generally predict an early separation of the British American co!ouies fro n the mother country. The Europa (of the Anchor line) arrived out to-day. Sept. 10. Mr. Nicholls, Democrat, has been elected Con gressional delegate for the Voyoming territory. Mr. Rawlins, the late Secretary for War, was buried to-day with imposing ceremonies. The Erie shares registered to-day amount to $70,000,000 common, and $8,500,000 preferred. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CLOSING PRICES. Gold closed at 135 i ; the highest quotation dur ing the day was 1351 ; the lowest, 1341. Sterling Exchange on London lOBl. 5-20 U. S. Bonds, 1882 121.1 cc " 1885 l2oi. 44 " 1867 ll9l. 10-40 Illinois l3B. Erie 34k. Cotton—Mid. upland 34le. Petroleum—Standard White 32lc. Flour, extra state, $6.45e. to $7.5c. Corn, old mixed, $1.20c. According to Mr. Adam Moffatt's report the week's receipts of cotton have been 12,000 bales ; since the Ist September, and taken by American spinners direct, 16,000 bales ; shipments to Eng land, 1,700 bales ; to France, none ; to the Continent, 400 bales ; and since the Ist of Sept., 4,000 bales. Stock, 13,000 bales. Market flat and drooping. QUEENSTOWN, Sept. 10. The National Steamship Company's steamer Pennsylvania, from Liverpool, arrived here to-day, and having embarked passengers she proceeded for New York ; all well. SPAIN. MADRID, Sept. 11. 16,000 soldiers are about to be sent to Cuba. A small band of Carlists has appeared in Cata lonia, and were followed by the troops. General Prim is about to return to Madrid. FRANCE. PARIS, Sept. 11. The official journal of this morning confirms the statement that the Emperor and Empress drove into Paris yesterday afternoon. Having passed through the Bois de Boulogne, the Champs Elysees, and Boulevards de la Madeleine and de Capucins, they returned through the Rues de la Paix and Rivoli to St. Cloud, arriving there about six p.m. Rentes were quoted on the Boulevards 70.70, the highest quotation being 70.97, and finally closed at 70.75. Bo URSE, Sept. 10.—Three o'clock—The market closed as follows : 41 per Cent. Eud of month... —•— ItaFan Fives 5l 40 3 per Cent - End of month 7l) 15 Ottoman Loan ... 307 50 Credit Mobilier Transatlautiel 267 50 . Spanish Threes ... 26 75 Credit Foneier _1630 Home Debt...—. Paris Gas 1145 . 1 Deferred — RAILWAYS. Cash Orleans ... •40 Western Northern ... lO6O Strasburg • • Lyons and Mediterranean Southern..... 598! Sardinian Austrian Lombard 4B7k North of Spain — Saragossa Roman 5O The sum of £B,OOO in gold was taken from the Bank yesterday, LOSSES AT S.A. Intelligence has been received at Lloyds of the. to loss of the brig William, belonging to Shields. She . ft , on a voyage from Blyth to Copenhagen, and when the North Sea encountered severe weather. On Satur day last she sprang a leak, and the crew were oblige d to take to the boats, shortly after which she foundered, The Hugh Fortescue, which has arrived in the river reports having passed, on her voyage from Adelaide, ir lat. 43 N., long. 22 W., a waterlogged ship with painted boards, and totally dismasted. The Emma and Robert from Odessa to Falmouth, was blown on to her beam ends in a sudden gale on the 10th ult., and has lost topmast. head of mainmast, sails, spars, rigging, kc., which were cut away to right her again. A letter from Lagos says that the English ship Gem, bound from Liverpool, ir being towed over the bar at Lagos, struck the ground, god among the breakers, and is a total wreck THE ALBERT LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY. An application was made on Friday by the Chin Clerk in Vice-Chancellor James's Court, on the part of Mr. M`Laughlin, who is the first petitioner, that Mr. Kirby, one of the provisional liqui. dators, be permitted to resign, and that Mr. Price be appointed sole provisional liquidator. Mr. Musgrove, who appeared for Messrs. Lewis, Munns, and Co., in support of the application, stated that the policy. holders had shown considerable feeling as far as the position of Mr. Kirby was concerned, and in deference to the wishes expressed by them at the last meeting he thought it better to retire. The object of the present application was that his Honour should make a note of the application and refer it to the judge.—Mr. Merriman, whc appeared on the part of several of the contributories, objected to the adjournment to the judge, and asked that the Chief Clerk order the retirement of Mr. Kirby, and at once appoint Mr. White, a petitioner, provisional liqui• dator with Mr. Price. After some discussion, the Chief Clerk adjourned the matter, to be heard by the judge with the petition. M essrs. Brandon also applied to the Chief Clerk, on the part of certain policy-holders, for leave to inspect the books of the company. After hearing the various argu ments of the solicitors, the Chief Clerk adjourned the application to the judge. An application to appoint Messrs. Chatteris and others to represent the policy-holders was also relegated to the Vice- Chancellor. LAW AND POLICE. A SINGULAR Casr.—At the Middlesex Sessions, a man was tried for stealing 30ft. of zinc. A curious feature in the case was that the thief offered it for sale to the owner himself unknowingly. lie was sentenced to four months' hard labour. THE VACCINATION QUESTION.—At Bow-street Police Court, on Friday, a poor woman, the mother of six children, applied to the magistrate for advice. She had taken her youngest child to the public vaccinator for the district, and it had since been very ill, being, it was said, poisoned by the vaccine matter. The child was produced in court, nad presented a miserable appearance. The magistrate directed that the vaccinator should be sent for, and an inquiry instituted. Dr. Bennett the public vaccinator, said the child had been vaccinated in his absence by his assistant. Owing to the recent discussions in the papers, mothers new attributed every ailment to the vaccination. Mr. Vaughan said that if the condition of the child in court was caused by that, there was no wonder at the reluctance of mothers to have the operation performed, and magistrates could hardly punish them for it. Dr. Bennett undertook to attend to the child, SHAM PLATE INSURANCE COMPANIES.—The managers of the sham plate glass insurance companies were on Friday brought up at Marlborough street Police station for further examination. Several witnesses were called, who gave evidence of the ingenuity with which the prisoners had defraudel them, and they were again remanded. Mr. Knox advised the parties who had charges against them to meet and engage a solicitor to take up the matter, as it could not be expected that he should undertake the duties of a public prosecutor, and each of the prisoners had a solicitor. DECISION UNDER TIII NEW BEERLIOUSE ACT.—At Clerkenwell, on Friday, William Roy, who keeps a beer house in Clerkenwell, was summoned for opening his house before 5 a.m. The defendant was prosecuted under the old Act for unlawfully opening his house before 5 a.m., but it seemed that he should have been proceeded against under the new Act for suffering beer to be drunk in his house within prohibited hours. The magistrate said he could not allow the police to amend the summons, but they ought now to be careful under which Act they proceeded. lie must dimiss this summons, but if it had I ben taken under the new Act, the result might hare been different. SERIOUS CIT A ROE AGAINST THE BEPICSIIIRE POLICE. The cross-summonses against Inspector Mansell. Police-constable Gould, and a man named Wellman, in which Police constable Webb was complainant, has been proceeded with before the Wallingford borough bench. The proceedings caused great excitement, and lasted from eleven o'clock in the morning till eight in the evening. Jane Webb, who gave the most graphic description of the assault, said she heard a scuffle and recognised her husband's voice, and went down to see what was going on. She saw her husband lying on the ground, near Messrs. Pettitt's private door. Mansell was on his chest, Gould on his stomach, and Wellman on his legs. She saw Mansell get hold of his head, and strike it against the pave ment as violently as he could. Then they carried him into the guard-room, laid him on the ground, and searched him, and afterwards carried him into the cell. She then heard Mansell send Gould for a cord, and she followed Gould in, and saw them tie her husband's legs. She also saw Mansell kneel on him and strike him, and she called him either a rascal or a brute. They left him in the cell with his legs tied, weltering in his blood. Between four and five in the morning she got up, and called out to know whether he was alive or dead. When she took him something to eat she saw two large pools of blood on the floor, two patches on the walls, and one on the mattress. The collar of his coat was covered with blood, his hair was matted, he had two black eyes, and his nose was swollen to a terrible size. There were bruises on his throat. He had two large marks on the thick of his arm, and his shoulders were bruised. Ho had also been kicked on the bottom of his back. Her husband was locked up early on Friday morning, and liberated on Saturday after noon. Inspector Mansell's solicitor declined to cross examine this witness, and the facts were substantiated by other testimony. The same evidence was given against Gould and Wellman, and Mr. Smith made a short speech in defence. The court was then cleared and the magistrates were in deliberation for upwards of an hour. During this time the ball became filled with persons anxiously awaiting the verdict, and the excitement rose to such apitch that, upon the council chamber door being thrown open, a cheer was raised in anticipation of the popular decision. The council chamber was filled almost instantly, when the Mayor stated that they found Webb guilty of drunken ness, and fined him 10s„ and lls. Q. costs. The summons brought against him by Wellman they dismissed. It gave them very great pain to inflict the highest penalty in their power upon Inspector Mansell, who would be fined £5, ;ncludiug costs. The summonses against Gould and Wellman were dismissed. Loud cheers were then raised, which NTere renewed as Mr. Merriman left the hall; and an adverse reception was given to Inspector Mansell, Gould, and particularly Wellman, who was followed by a crowd of 200 people, and hooted through the streets. The mob also made an attack upon Wellman's cottage, in Leonard's-lane, smashed the windows, charged the door with brickbats, and made a breach in it some inches in width. The greatest excitement prevailed, but fortunately no personal damage was inflicted. A report from the Select Committee cn the Scotch Poor Law has just been published in a Blue-book of GOC pages, and the committee recommend that they should be re-appointed next session "to continuo the inquiry." Sir E. W. Watkin, the Liberal candidate for the representation of East Cheshire, addressed a meeting on Thursday in the town-hall, Macclesfield. He said that the Irish land question ought to be carefully inquired into, and, so far as need bo, it ought to be dealt with. lie admitted that the question was a very delicate one, because, in whatever wo did, wo must not interfere unjustly with the rights of property. If they once touched the f un danwntal rights w Melt protected that which belonged to man, they would in the end do more injury to the weak than to the strong. No predicted, from all he saw and 'now, that the time was not far ditAant when there would bo at much l eaco and contentment in Ireland as there was in Cheshire. The DirmiityLam Gazette publishes a statement to the effcct that Mr. Sheridan's connection with the Albert Life Oflico is the cause of a strong feeling in Dudley. A section of the public desire that a public meeting should be at once called, and Mr. Sheridan requested to resign. Another section think that Mr. Sheridan should be beard before any action is taken, and a third section are willing to wait until matters aro further de veloped. It was stated last night, but upon uncertain authority, that the member had been communicated with, and that ho would attend any meeting which the town may call, to considor his share in the transactions of the coupaoy. , AN UIVEXPECTED GUEST. vrespondent of the Field writes :—" One 6/ Ilk most reearkable instances of `getting up stairs,' 011 far thl equi ne r ace is concerned, occurred at Jones's , -ea ilwaY Hotel, at Oxford, on Thursday night, Sep i2ber 7. A string of yearlings, belonging to Mr. J. city :.Atn, arrived by train at the above-named in chat:Ye" led t o the railway Hotel by the people certainly One of the most valuable of the lot—and was told, abe that does not belie her pedigree, if, as I ghter of Rambling Katie—escaped from the hands el : Yu groom, and, attracted by the lights from the h i e stud whose room she ultin?r wishing to consult the lawyer, down a narrow passage ‘ly succeeded in reaching, galloped hotel—after dashing her "ft. in length, into the hall of the , d through the window of the bar parlour, much to the cot. , rnation of the inmatea,who were quietly enjoying their 0 N . t then through the ball up the first flight oiTF 'lr " . s (twenty in number) into the corridor or passage of th hotel upon which the doors of the bed chambers opened. being (eleven o'clock) only one bed room d, 4 . was late at night unfastened, and this happened to be the one of our• r i„ d the lawyer —No. 7—into which the excited animai rus h ed, j umpe d on the huge old-fashioned bedstead, tearif4 . th e b ed furni ture to ribbons, and then contriv e d to g e t I te7 l eg through a cane-bottomed chair, and in h er efforts to tree he rse lf of this incumbrance, demolished nearly all 'he lu-niture in the room. In the meantime the stud groom rahup stairs, caught hold of her by the tail, and got her down, when she was held by three or four other people who had been attracted by the noise. The question then arose how to get her downstairs. This was accomplished in the fol lowing manner: The whole of the shutters belonging to the hotel were laid on the stairs and fastened, her legs were tied tightly together, some rugs and mats were placed under her back, and by main force she was dragged down the stair- case, and safely landed in the hall, then taken out of the front door into the street, where sha was released from her bondage, and led to a loose box to enjoy a straw instead of a feather bed. Strange to say, no damage was done to the animal, except twenty or thirty skin deep wounds, the principal of which were caused by the glass broken in the bar parlour window. One curious circumstance, however. remains to be told. No. 6 bedroom was occupied by an Irishman, who, being a martyr to rheumatic gout, had been compelled to crawl upstairs by means of a stick in on hand, and holding on to the balustrade with the other. Such, however was the terror excited by the unearthly row in the next apartment that with three bounds he sprang down the staircase into the hall. From that moment the rheumatic gout left him ; he is now perfectly sound, and can be called on to vouch for the fact. AURORA BOREALIS. The Daily IVcirs remarks that astronomers promise several fine displays of the Aurora Borealis this autumn. It may seem strange to many that a phenomenon of ■o capricious and wayward a nature should thus be in a sense predicted—though the exact days on which we are tolook for auroras are not named. Still more surprising does it seem that astronomers should have formed any anticipa tions respecting a phenomenon which appears to have no connection at all with the motions or positions of the celestial bodies. The explanation of the fact is even more surprising than the fact itself. For the reason why astro nomers look for fine auroral displays this autumn is founded on the fact that the sun's face is marked with an unusual number of spots. Nothing at first sight could appear more inconceivable than that the aspect of the sun's face should be in any way associated with the appearance of the northern streamers. Yet, in reality, few physical relations have been snore conclusively esta blished than the one on which the predictions of astron omers respecting the aurora borealis have been founded. That auroras are intimately associated with the earth's magnetism Las now for many years been au established fact. It was suspected long since by Arago that the appearance of an aurora is invariably accompanied by a disturbance of the magnetic needle. But the singular fact that the converse proposition seemed in no way true was at first perplexing to him. The mcst violent action of the mag netic needle often took place when there was no sign of auroral action in the sky. At last, however, the strange discovery was made that it is not merely where an aurora is in progress that the magnetic needle is disturbed, but over a widely-extended region of the earth's surface -nay, in sunny instances (if not in all) over the whole earth at the same moment of time. This being so, it be came obvious that the association between auroras and magnetic disturbances is one that may exist even though no aurora may be visible when magnetic disturbance is in progress. A certain state of the ky is necessary for the appearance of an aurora ; certain forms of cloud—the mare's tail clouds of the sailor—must exist in the upper regions of air, or no aurora will be seen, though the action on which the appearance of an aurora depends may be in full progress. Now, between the earth's magnetism and the solar spots a close connection has been found to exist. Two lines of evidence have established the fact. First, the regular ircref.se and diminution of the magnetic action in a cycle of about eleven years has been found to accord in the closest manner with the regular increase and diminution in the number of the solar spots. This evidence, now confirmed by nearly half a century's experience, is almost conclusive as it stands. But the second line of evidence is even more to the point. It has been found that the occurence of any abnormal (or, at least, unusual) disturbance of the solar surface is accompanied by the immediate occurence of a magnetic disturbance thrilling in a moment through the whole frame of the earth. In 18.59, Messrs. Carrington and Hodgeon happened to be simultaneously observing the sun at different observatories, when on a sudden each observer noticed the appearance of a bright spot of light, which traversed a part of the sun's surface (travelling with enormous real velocity, though slowly in appearance), and then vanished. At the same instant (it was found subsequently) the self-registering magnetic instruments of the Kew Observatory had been subjected to a violent jerking motion. A magnetic storm immediately began to rage throughout the whole earth. In America and Norway telegraphic communication was interfered with, and in seve ral instances telegraphic offices were set on fire by the electric fluid. Auroras appeared on the night immediately following, and these auroras not only illuminated the Northern skies, but were equally brilliant in the Southern hernia— Phere. Signs were apparent on every hand in fact, that the disturbance of the solar surface had given rise to an intense disturbance which had thrilled at once through the whole frame of the earth. The first of the promised auroras was seen on the night of September 5. It was not a brilliant one ; but those who care to watch for a phenomenon of exceeding interest and beauty, may feel assured that during the next two or three months many notable auroral dis plays will be visible. It is to be hoped that our physicists will have favourable opportunities for bringing the auroral light under the wondrous powers of the spectroscope. Already Mr. Huggins has obtained valuable information in this way ; but systematic observation specially directed to this end could not fail to be rewarded by interesting I;.coveries. One of the highest tides ever known is prophesied .o take place on the Bth of next month. INGENIOUS DEVICE.—A widow, occupying a large house in a fashionable quarter in London, lately sent for a wealthy solicitor to make her will, by which she disposed of between fifty and sixty thousand pounds. He proposed soon after, was accepted, and found himself the happy husband of a penniless adventurer. A diocesan church choral festival was celebrated in Chester Cathedral on T hmsday. The numbes of choirs repro sented was forty-five, comprising about 800 voices. The Dean of Chichester preached the sermon, in which he pointed out impressively the importance of havieg good music in tho sot vice of the sttnctuary. A collection of upwards of £5O, in aid of the Church Festival Fuud, was subsequently made from the congregation. SAD SUICIDE.—A melancholy suicide has just taken place. A German watchmaker, and his wife, living rt, Camberwell, being Lard pressed for money, took council bow to cut down their expenses, and it was agreed to drown the dog, the keep of which cost 7d. per week. It was a great pet, but the wife threw it off Southwark Bridge. The loss of the dog seems to hare preyed upon ner mind,•and a few days afterwards it is supposed that she drowned herself, as her body was found in the Thames at Iforselydown. At the inquest on Friday a verdict of Temporary Insanity was returned. A cuIDENT TO AN M.P,—lrish correspondents report an accident of a very serious character which has happened to Mr. Richard Joseph Devereux, M.P. for Wexford, from the effects of which he stilt lies in a very weakly condition. lie was stepping into his croydon in George-street, Dublin, to drive home in company with his wife, when he found that the reins were not held by Mrs. Devereux, as he suppos , ..d, but were hanging down. lie was about to return for Up reins when the pony ran away and threw him upon his head violently against the ground. lie was so much stunned from the effects of the fall that he remained in a state of unconsciousness for nearly a quarter of an hour, There was an ugly gash in the back of his head, and his leg was dreadfully lacerated by the steps of the vehicle. The pony continued to run until Mrs. Devereux . .. screams attracted the attention of a man, who picked up the reins and stopped him. Mr. Devereux was taken into a house where he was visited by Dr. Crean and the Rev. Walter Lambert, Having recovered sufficiently, he was removed to his residence, Summer-hill. He is exceedingly week from the effects of the wounds on his head and leg, and the dreadful conclusion °eel ifoued by the fall. ET , zz Topa el/um/a. HER MAJESTY. INVERTROSSACIIS, Sept. 9. 1 Her Majesty, accompanied by Princess Louise and Printers Beatrice, drove up the Pass of LenY in the direction of Loch Lubnaig. in the afternoon the royal party drove to Loeb Katrine, whe the steamer Rob Roy was in waiting , and her M,ij,!sty enjoyed another sail upon that beautiful sheet of water. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—Mis Day. MARLBOROUGH- STREET. SINGULAR CASE OF ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.—Mary POitra4. an elderly woman, described as having no home, WS charged before Mr. Knox with attempting to commit suicide by walking into the Serpentine. Police-constable Worley, 101 A, said that ho was on duty yesterday afternoon when his attention was called to the prisoner, who was struggling in the water of the Ser pentine about three yards from the shore. He took the prisoner out and to tho Royal Humane Society's receiving hox , ae, and afterwards to the station. The prisoner told him tlukt she did not intend to commit suicide, but th at the wind blew her into the water; the wind, however, which was rather boisterous, was blowing from the opP('' site bank. The prisoner said she was very blind, and slipped int ° the water, and she then called out, and the constable VI A kindly took her by the ha n d and l e d her out. She ha d had losses, and was a clergyman's daughter. The constable said he believed it was quite true th at she was the daughter of a clergyman, and that site WI the widow of a surgeon, and from what he could learn ° her it appeared that dissipation had brought her to her present condition. Mr. Knox said that at five o'clock in the afternoon, with if a number of persons about the spot, for a person to s' ol ' a yard or two into the Serpentine, it was too great 5 stretch to call it an attempt to commit suicide. IloWolll he w.ild remand the prisoner for further inquiries. THAMES. Two WICKED BOYS.—Alfred Arthur Meggs, aged 12 years, and son of Thomas Meggs, traveller, in the service of Mr. Meredith, licensed victuallers' biscuit baker, vr BB brought up on remand for the last time, before Mr.l3elv son, charged with robbing his father of £lO. He bed also borrowed, on various pretences, small sums of mo ney publicans, under false pretences, and one of his coefe A: ca rte ' which had stolen £lO from ono of Mr. M e r e dith's cer" which the prosecutor will have to pay by instalments. Mr. Benson said there was room for the boy in the F ll ham Industrial School, and ordered that ho should be ae tained there until ho was 10 years of age, and that bi° father should pay ss. per week towards his maiutenattee' The father said ho could not pay os. per week. Mr. Benson said that Mr. Pelham, the solicitor for .; Meredeth, admitted the father's earnings to be £1 159. P a week, and he surely could afford to pay ss. per week. Tho Father—l really cannot pay it. I have to rePl the money my son h as b orrowe d o f respecta bl e licens e victuallers and £lO stolen by a confederate. an d Mr. Benson—You could no t k ee p th a t b oy a t h o me un 84d. per day, and educate him as well. That is all l ( ? i i will have to pay for him at P e ltha m . Th e co llector W I call upon you for ss. per week, and no less. WESTMIIsTSTEII. STRANGE CHARGE OF UTTERING BASE COlN.—Wi llii t Elliott, a waiter at the Crystal Palace, was placed at ; bar charged with uttering a counterfeit half-crown at Osborne's, the Rose and Crown, White Lion-Str ee ' Chelsea. Mr. Osborne said that last night the prisoner came t a o , the bar and tendered a b a d h a lf- crown t o th e bartu il f On her detectin g it h o h urr i e d away, l eav i ng his gl's s , lo ° . ale unfinished. P rosecu t or f o ll owe d hi m i n t o Sit i o street, and made him come back, when 13 sbillit 4s found upon him in small mone y, and a spurious shill% The half-crown was the only large money he had' never stopped for his change. The barmaid proved that she went to the detector 9- tried the money, and on returning found the prisoner ing. She believed him to be the man who had put off bad florin some time ago. When she saw prisoner's 1 0° 1 produced after he was brought back to the house ab° a bad shilling and broke it. A policeman proved that the prisoner last night the name of James. Mr. Smyth, solicitor, said that the accused 30u-ii re able on a future day to show that he was a higt il i ,; spectable man, having been em pl oye d a t th e C r ystal 111 ", - ,, s t and at the Westminster Palace Hotel. lie had been " so night imprudently playing at cards at a public-11°11)ft when ho had had the bad i ncne y g i ven hi m, a nd he 4' the house hastily to look f or th e man w h o h a d' given it to him. He was remanded till Monday. SPOIZTLV G PROPHECIES. DONCASTER MEETING. " BELL'S LIFE." Tidg" Champagne Stakes—Sunshine. Climber Plate---, ter. Glasgow Stakes—The Swift. Filly Stakes volity. Groat Yorkshire Handicap—Formosa or Great St. Leger—Pretender. M un i c ip a l Stakes--'" o r manby. Corporation Stakes—Normanby, Tom i i‘ e ' r°l inj or Sister to Polly Perkins. Badmint on H a ndicap- 113 '; or Nine Elms. Eglinton Stakes—M an tilla. Tw °4 ( l -4 0 ) cia Sweepstakes—Sunlight. Scarborough Stakes Hope. Zetland Stakes—De Vere. Park Hill SO °. Toison d'Or or Crocus. Don Stakes—Morna. " SPORTING GAZETTE." Champagne Stakes—Sunshine. Filly Stakes —l 4 r isrtiliti t bo Glasgow Stakes—The Swift. Clumber Plate- 0° ;p absence of Rosicrucian) Hester or Whit e Slave. 1 ",, 13 : ter Plate—Joseph Dawson's rep r ese n t a ti v e. Great t shire Handicap—Geant des Batailles or Formosa. St. Leger—Pretender. Municipal Stakes —Norra3l/- Zetland Stakes—De Vero. Scarborough Stakes -4 ' til l a Two-yr-old Sweepstakes—Gertrude or Sunlight ton Stakes—Morna or White Slave. Badminton cap—Spider. Don St a kes—Al orna . P ar k Hill St" - Crocus. " THE FIEL: Champagne Stakes—Sunshine. Great Yorksli ir _, e i'tP dicap—Morna or Vespasian. Filly Stakes—Frio-100 Glasgow Stakes..-The Swift. Clumber Plato -- " - . 1 0 0 Slave. Groat St. Leger—Pero Gomez. C °ll) ,lr tl e Stakes—Torreador or High Church. Municipal Sl -e dfr cap — e ß r o o s r ie L ru ad cianor Thor. Badmintoo:;,of Lady Highthorn. SweePs „ r iot° 10 sous—Gertrude. Eglinton Stakes-31orna or Slave. Scarborou g h St a k es —R uper t . Z e tland st°e s." De Vero. Do n St a k es —M orna . P ar k giu St a° Tolson d'Or. g _E ERA." deg plat Or Great Yorkshire Handicap—For mo sa or Geant tallies. Champagne Stakes—Sun s hi ne . Clamb er a . • —(in the absence of Blue Gown) White Slave. gow Stakes—The Swift. Filly Stak Cestus volity. Doncaster Plate—Joseph Da wso7representstis Municipal Stakes—Normanby. Corporation tl ' l P ° B l.° St.Leonards and High Church. Great St. Leger Hand Gomez, 1; Pretender, 2 ; Duke of Beaufort, 3 . 1 1 41 0 1 00 3 0 Plate—Rosicrucian, Fichu, or Tibthorp. Eglintoo 0 —Morna or White Slave. Scarborough Stake°-,rifo" Hope. Zetland Stakes—De Vere or Th 2EO. "intotl yr-old Sweepstakes—Sunk - ght or Gertrude. --,4,0,05- Handicap—The Palmer or Vagabond. D° l2 P dt.lgeS ." Morns. Park Hill Stakes—Crocus. Doncaster P'" Pretender or Pero Gomez. ‘‘SPOnTINGLI FE." n rO4 1 The apieri! Great Yorkshire Handicap—Formosa th or ... - 0 A Laird for a place . Champagne 41 S takes—S an- Plat ° Mantilla, 2; Madame Eglentine f, 3. Clamber - t4°' White Slave or Honesty. Filly Stakes—Frivolity or. Ge°orl 0 0 Glasgow Stakes—The Swift. Great St. Leger--re- t ender' 1; Pero Gomez, 2; The Drummer, 3. CorporatieLl,A'" eS" —Mount Pleasant or Indian Ocean. Municipal PI Normanby. Doncaster Cup—Restitution. "THE SPORTSMAN." f ,ir''‘' Champagne Stakes—Sunshine. Doncaster Fleci-eifogoll pasian or Sir Joseph Hawley's representative• ule-00 ol Stakes—The Swift. Filly Stakes—Cestus or Fr" a icAP lbor Plato—White Slave. Great Yorkshire 11411 0 0* go a —Formosa or The Palmer. Great St. Leger—P°ro s S — P O s n u T n l s N h ta i n T e TIMES." E 7 5 0 .: 0 Fil 1 y .., _ mu , 4 1; Pretender, 2 : The Drummer, 3. Champagne Stakes—Sunshine Frivolity. Clamber Plato—Whiteot keg'‘ Slave. _,,_,,,_iv —The Swift. Great 0 013 ' Formosa, or P 1% yr-old S weepstakes —Gertrude. Paul Jones. Great St. Legor--rero lo op Starter foraplace.Nor we ... vo _ The Municipal Stakes— Z .Ha t u l z d t n i e d a p ta D k e o 4 . Glasgov( w'yier White Slave or Lorna. Scarborough Stokes -- -- "1 tot' 1711-Dt:relloerr" 1 0 , h r 0 T.:lletiXe,r6.,:anini.noti:p,,,ll 31:.;:1130:,,t. Parkluill Stakes—Crocus. " SUNDAY TIMES." T ° Champagne Stakes—Sunshine. Glasgow Stalces;ve, Swift. Clumbor Plate—Blue Gown or Whit° - Ilan Filly Stakes--Privolity. Great Yorkshire Formosa or The Palmer. Doncaster Plate— .Pe ref') poration Stakes —0 ha wba con. Great St. riov r rpow ob Gomez, 1; Pretender, 2; The Drummer, 3; Dak- e ()" fort, Scarborough 4. Two-yr-o:d Sweepstakes—Gertrude or S uil wi toli Stakes—Good Hope or Rupert. p."" Stakes—Basquine for Costus. Badminton Sao :t, •••' Nine Elms. Zetland Stakes—Do Yore. Portland i'pos Lady Zetland, Rosicrucian, Historian, or Adelide. Stakes—Morna. Park HillStakes—'poison d'Or•