The Sun. — London, England, 1852-05-20 00:00:00

AMERICAN NEWS. ARRIVAL OF THE FRANKLIN. SOUTHAMPTON, MAY 20, 4.30 A M. The Franklin steam-ship, front New Y.ork, arrived is Cowes Roads soon after midnight, and her mails were landed at Southampton about four o'clock this morning. She brings advices from New York to th.e Bth, and has 400,000 dolls. on board. The Frank conveys 160 passengers, 143 of whom are for Havre. Cotton was in a very unsettled state, neither sellers nor buyers having anticipated such favourable news_ from Engl an d as th a t t a k en by th e Europa. ~[ l ]. y. 500 bales, four purchasers, at irregular prirzes. At N.,w Orleans it went up the fourth of cent cn rccipt of the Pacific's news. Bread- Auffs sold freely. Provisions favoured buyers. stocks fluctuated, but with an upward tendency. • Wiley plenty. Extra compensation was to be given 'to Collins' line of steamers, Late accounts from 111, !:xicn state that a new Minister has embarked for the United States with fall instructions to effect a Masi settlement of the Tehuantepec difficulty. The. Bank forgeries trial had commenced. Tire Boston Conarnon Council bad invited Secretary Webster to speak to; Faneuiel Hall with the view of electing him to the Presidency. The delegates of the New Jersey Democratic Convention are favourably disgosed to wards Commodore Stockton. Dr. Andrew Ploomer, of Brighton, England, had been arrested on the com— plaint of Colonel T. D. Howard, of the British army, on oa charge of absconding from the former place with one: thousand one hundred pounds, belongi ng to the Colonel. H enry Cl ay was getting worse. He has very strongly warned his countrymen against inter• - vention in Europe. Kossuth had met w ith a goo d reception in Lowell, and large subscriptions raised. ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. 11111,. Rise Cheri appeared in the Collier de Merles for the first time in this country last night. It is a comedy of smart, agr eea bl e dialogue, only to be found a u f t °4 the PrQuel i stage, and which, in the hands of such itsss EIS ROZ,O Cheri and Lafont, is so thoroughly satis- Eatofory and amusing. A rich American gentleman pre :fsents a young lady, the daughter of a banker—who chilavours his matrimonial pretensions as regards his peail necklace. To the young lady the marriage is distasteful, and she endeavours to effect a stdo of the gift in order to save the father of the youth for whom she entertains a preference from certain pecuniary embarrass ments in which he has become involved with the banker. The necklace is ev, - ntevally rebought by the American, 1111 ° amaios tenders it to tho lady, but only to be rjected for the banker, learning the secret of his daugeter's %cart, 3 ields in a spirit of parental fondness to her 'dearest wishes. The collisien between the commercial An d 110 sentimental nature of the several personages ""rds, it will readily b 3 understood, a g,'led surface for Shrewd and s ,, gzesive dialogue, and the author, M. Mazeres has turned it to excellent account. Mdlle. Rose Cheri played th e p ar t of the heroine with her usual delicate and winsvng piquancy; and Latent, as the e an etican, who can ill understand the sentinatntalities of Lila betrothed, manifested an appropriate air of plain and atz-.4igtitfar ward worldliness. YLEBONE THEATRE. Henry Marston is Dt present playing at this house a rcuud of melodramatic characters, together with an "d ocent and well-d r ill e d company. T he Ocean of Li fe, Brigand, and th e V amp ir e , are i n thi s wee k' s pro aclale• A grand military ballet, the Conscripts of _roarnag, as arr ange d some years s i nce , i n L iverpoo l, b y .51 • Cormack, is nightly performed with great spirit and effecto ~the principal p ar t b e i ng susta i ne d by t h e p ro d ucer tne bsilet, with that rematkable finish end brilliancy 3, styl e w hi ch is so familiar to the frequenters of the rincoss's Theatre, where Mr. Cormack has been the 11 atl!quin for th e l ast twos asons to the Columbine of ; fairest and must favourite artiste, Miss Carlotta Le -Ipl.etl• In sever a l pas , an d espec i ally i n a m i l i tary horn )e, last ev en i ng, he elicited enthuitastic applause. Mr. Olin° was superlative us the buffo of tho piece, and the principal danseuses, Widnes. Julie, Laine, and Massall, liequitted themselves with consideroblo éclat. Ms ma 1111flenuent oF the lesser, Mr. E. T. Smith, is well deserv ing of public patronage. MR JARRETT'S CONCERT. T he concert which took place last night at Exeter under the auspices of Mr. Jarrett, was one of the veritable " monster" species. There was a band of Orly 100, conducted by Signor Bottesini and led by which performed the overture to Oberon, the sche Wiley, arid Weddi ng M arc h f rom A Mid s um mer Ni g h t ' s earn, and a new overture, compose d express l y f or t h e ?cEl 3 ion, by Signor Buttesini. The last, a work of • !distinguished merit, will in all probability be afforded -More than one occasion of appealing to the .suffrages cf an English audience. The singers were— Mrs. Sims Reeves, Mdlle. Jetty Treffz, Madame Falconi,, Misses Dolby, Williams, Stabbach, Brougham, and E. trougham; Messrs. S.Reeves, Reichert, Tedder, 79411 " th, Staudigl, and Braham—enough to afford .monie idea of a miscellaneous entertainment, in which so .!:I,any and eminent tal e nts were ca ll e d i nto request. M r. prahana was encored in the " Death of Nelson," which Ile never sang with more energy—Mr. Sims Reeves ! ° rented a furore in " Adelaide "—and Jetty Treffz, in ilezart's s e ntim e nt a l " Addio," Panofka's sp a rkli ng Linden tr ee ," and the immortal " Trab, Crab," was * tatlausiastically applauded. In addition to these, we mast cite " Ocean, thou mighty monster," by Mrs. Sims Reeves, "Grand Dio " (Mercadante) by Miss Dolby, and Slaudigi's " Qui edegno," as among the most artistic and successful performances of the evening. A •inew song by Macferren, " She is not here," was so Veil sung by Herr Reichart as to elicit an encore; e nd Mendelssoian's plaintive duet, " How can • Alight and joyous be?" was charmingly given by the Misses Brougham. The instrumental department was e , c limily strong—solos on the violin by Sivori, on the uouble . cass by Bottesini, and on the violoncello by Piaui, besides a duet for clarionet and flute by Lazarus and Richardson, played in first-rate style, were received with the loudest applause. The feature of the whole % °ll eFrf, however, was the pianotortefenta s ia o f M a d ame leyel (Dohlet's Guillaume Tell), a performance of transcendent ability, which created a sensation not to be described. Iu addition to Signor Bottesini, MM. Ans ?hut z, Alexandre Billet, Schimon, Desanges, end Aguilar lent tht,ir valuable assistance as accompanyists at the P n innfeate. The hall was crowded. TtrE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH COMPANIES.—Yes: - er- Ilay the Co mm i ttee appo i nted by the House of Commons to nquire into the application of the British Electric Tele gralth Compa ny , f or power to provide duplicate or competing lines of telegraph between the principal towns throughout the kingdom, met for the first time in Committee-room No. The C omm i t t ee cons i sted of Lord C. Wellesley, Viscount I.:nfield, Mr. Edward Stanley, Mr. E. Henea ge , an d M r. F . R West. Mr. Sert. Wrangham, Q.C., Mr. Keating, Q.C. and 11r. Hod g Bodges appeared for the British C ompany ; and Mr. 'Talbot, Q.C., Mr. Hope, Q.C., Mr. Roe, and other Learned 'Gentlemen for the Electric Telegraph Company, and the various railway companies uniting to oppose the Bill. Mr. Sergeant Wren the gliem opened the case of the promot ers o f Bill in a lengthy address. He stated that the object of the measure proposed by the British Telegraph Company was to enable the public to derive the advantage of a more 'extensive and economical use of electric telegraphic com munication, and that in order to do this it was indispensable that the company should be empowered by Parliament to construct telegraphs on railways, and along canals, from - which they were at present, from certain clauses, excluded. It was sought for this purpose to increase the capital of the company from 100,0001. to 300,000/., with one-third bor rowing powers, to re-incorporate the company with limited liability, and with controlling powers, to the Board of Trade. Mr. E. Ilightan, engineer of the British Telegraph Company, and Mr. Denison, M.P., chairman of the Great Norther 11Alway, were examined, after which the Committee adjournee. 'PLYMOUTH GREAT WESTERN Docits.---The re commencement of these works, which have for some time past been abandoned, was celebrated at Plymouth on Tues day by a general holiday. The completion of the docks is considered of great importance to the prosperity of the port. A procession was formed, which started from the hoe, and tifter traversing the princif al streets, returned to the site of the docks, at Mill Bay, where the usual ce remon i es were per formed. The company then partook of a dqeuner at the Royal Hotel. The day was closed by a concert, followed by a display of Are-works at the Botanical-gardens. CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAILWAY.—WO learn that the nephew of Admiral Moorsom, one of the directors of the Chester and Holyhead Company, and who, as resident - director, enjoyed a salary of 1,0001. per annum, with free occupation of the magnificent estate of Gorph Wysfa, pur chased by the company, has been appointed secretary of the above company, at a salary beyond that received by the late secretary or his predecessor. Mr. Delasaux held an inquest at Goodnestone on I V , edn esday, on the body of Mark Page (coachman to Sir nridges), who com mitted suicide in a closet ad j oining his bedroom,had where he was f oun d b y some o f the household. He hi, suspended himself to a peg, and when discovered was on himself whi le in : ~, quite dead. Verdict " That he destroyed Tns Stncins - a state of insanity."--- 1 Canterbury Journal. day Mr. Bedford he r TH E HORSE GUARDS.—Yester day Barton, the soldier who an inquest upon the body of John morning in the guard-room destroyed himself on Tuesday , who had of the Horse Guards. It ap Tieared that Barton Grenadiers. 19 years, w as and been in the first battalion of habitual drunkard, and that the act of self-murder was following a season of indulge c peirip:trated in a fit o f depression sanity." . Verdict--" T em p orar y i n - THE LATE MURDER AT TOLLESDURY.—Ever since uittal at the assizes his liberation from prison, after his ~the man tried for at Chelmsford in March last, Harrinactq the wilful murder of Mrs. Cobb, at Alien ccident wandering and until last an outcast, and has only been seen b y a "? '7, has become about the fields to avoid public observation; neighbourhood for week has not been seen or heard of in the ne a ug in labourer's th e a considerable time, when he was discovered gb dog lying under a hedge in the parish of Wigbeyir last stage of exhaustion, his frame being reduced byiva tion from a state of corpulency to that of a living skeleton, and scarcely able to walk. When observed by the o of the dog he begged that some one would shoot him, wne o r one would notice him except with the utmost derisi nand • contempt wherever he went; and his lodgings had been the • outhouses of the different farmers by night, the hedgerows his place of concea l ment b y d ay, an d hi s f oo d such vege t ables as he could procure in his travels. He is now in the Lexden and Winstree Union-house at Stanway, as a pauper of the pariah of Salcot. —lpswich Express. PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY.—The second conver sazione of the s imam was held last evening by this society, at 17, Bloo ms b u ry-squ are and visitors were , when a large number of members present. Th e su it e o f apartments was furnished with a considerable number of chemical and mi neralogiCal specimens 'nd various objects of interest in other branches of scien ce . of which wer e A mongst these the s t e r e oscope, several distributedtehrough the rooms, attracted a large share of attentio n . Th 9 tigi company separated at an early rr 3I .1,, THE BOOKSELLING TRADE. The repr,sentatives of the Booksellers' Association,4 together with a numbar of the non-eunlorming retell booksellers and publishers, met yesterday at Stratheden House, for the purpose of hearing the decision of Lord Campbell, Dr. Milman, and Mr. Grote, en t'•;e queStiiiiij which had been submitted to them respecting the exist ing regulation of the booksk - Alieg trade, Prod their en forcement by means of the Booksellers' Association. Lord CAMPELL, with whom were his colleagues, Dr. Milman and Mr. Grote, then delivered the decision of the referees as follows: " At a raeeting of the Booksellers' Association held in London the Bth of April last, the follewice. resolu tion was unanimously agreed to:- 6" That a conference be invited between Lord Camp:" hell, in corjunction with a few of our principal authors, and certain of fn decidingmb members of the booleseliing trade, fur the p whether the B oo k se ll ers ' 'Associa tion shall be carried on under its present regulations or not—it beieg understood that the decision of Lord. Campbell eed the other liter=ary gentlemen sla.tl he bind ing on the committee, who agree, if the decision be ad. verse. to convene the trede, and resign their functions.' " We bevirg been solicited to act es referees in this matter, have not hesitated to do so, ie the hope .of rea de. leg sena° service to the cause of literature. No ques tion is put to us of law or morality. We are merely re(1 11 ( seed to say what, in our opinion, is reasonable and expediena We must begin by warmly applauding the fairness wi , h which the members of the association have con dtleted themselves throughout this controversy. These gently: men are no doubt sincerely convinced that the retett!ations under which the bookselling trade is now carried can by them, are equitable and conducive to the public good. Nevertheless they are ready . to abandon these regulations, if certain individuals , who were named by others, should, after hearing all that might be urged on both sides, come to a contrary conclusion. " The substance of the regulations submitted to us we understand to be, that ill booksellers keeping a shop in London, or within twelve miles of the General I)..st office, are to . become members of the association, and are to receive a ticket entitling them to buy new hoeles from the publishers; that the publishers of new books specify a retail price for eech copy; that they sell copies to the retell booksellers at about 30 per cent. under that price; that they require stn engagement from the reteil booksellers not to allow to their customers a larger die- . ccunt than 10 pc a. cent. from the retail price; that with out this engagement, the retail dealers cannot be sup plied with copies of new books; and that for a breach of this evg,geruent they forfeit their tickets, and are cut off from any further dealings in new books with the publishers. " flaying listened to very able arguments, having read everything which has come within our roach on either side. and having considered the subject very deliberately, we have unanimously citne to the conclusion that these regulations ere unreasonable and inexpedient. " We will now briefly state the grounds of our opinion. "Such regulations seem prima facie to be indefensi ble, and contrary to the freedom which ought to prevail in commercial transactions. Although the owner of pro perty may put what price he pleases upon it when sell ing it, the condition that the purchaser, after the pro perty has been transferred to him, and he has paid the purchase-money, shall not resell it uuder a certain price, derogates from Ihe ris s hts of ownership, which, as purchaser, he has acqured. " It is obvious, likewise, that these regulations must, in pnvice, lead to vexatious in quiries and to fraudulent evasions. The alleged necessity for them supposes that there exists a strong inducement for the retail dealer to sell at a lower price than a minimum permitted by the publish , r. Without a rigorous police in the trade, while the condition annexed to the sale is observed by the strictly honourable retailer to the serious detriment of his business, it will be disregarded by the less scrupu lous. Instances occur of; retailers, detected in under selling, having been expelled from the association in a manner which must be very painful to their feelings and injurious to their interests; and there is reason to be li‘ve that, notwithstanding a necessary system of espionage, others continue with impunity to dispose of new books on any terms which they consider remu nerative. " The arrangements between tl:e publishers and the retail boekseilers is, indeed, said to be voluntary. We have been pressed by the fact that a vast majority of the retail booksellers have given in their adhesion to the association, and have expressed a willingues to re main under its rule. But although there be no employ ment of physical force, or threats, which the law forbids, we doubt much whether this acquiescence may no', in a considerable degree, be ascribed to coercion. Without the ticket' testifying that a retail bookseller is qualified to deal with the publishers, he cannot carry on his bu siness as a vendor of new publications; and the means by which he lives are taken from him. From many re tail booksellers, now submitting to the• association, we have had intimations that they would be happy to be released from it, and to carry on their business like tradesmen in other branches of industry. But oven the entire unanimity of the retail booksellers would not be conclusive of the question; for they may dread to be deprived of an artificial protection to which they have been long accustomed, although this be net essential to their permanent interests, and although it may lull them into habits of listlessness, and may be detrimental to the community. " - Mr. William Loegman. Ir. Murray, and other gen tlemen, who, with so much ingenui'y have advocated the ' Regulations,' admit that the burden of proof is upon them, and that they are bound to make out the bock trade to be an exception to the rule that com merce is to be free. They have mentioned other trades carried on at Manchester, Derby, and elsewhere, in which, for peculiar reasons, gentlemen of eminence and respectability are said to have prescribed similar regu lations. As to these supposed parallel cases we have not obtained any sufficiently authentic information to enable us to pronource upon them, although we suspeot that they would resolve themselves into a control exer cised over agents, on a very reasonable refusal to deal with an individual who was making an unfair use of the article purchased. But when the supporters of the asso ciation go on to rely (as they have done very confi dently) upon the etiquette of the bar, which fixes a minimum fee, less than which a barrister may not re ceive, we know that they p are under a delusion. The remuneration of an English barrister is not matter of contract. The client presents to him a voluntary ho norarium for which the law gives no remedy. A mini mum is fixed, otherwise the Attornoy-General might be offered 24. 6d. or 6d. But that minimum is one guinea; and if the plaintiff sues in final pauperis, he may, without paying any fee whatever, have the zealous assistance of the most distinguished leader in West minster-hall. ' " The first peculiarity pointed out to us in the book trade is copyright; and it has been argued that as authors have protection, so ought those who circulate their works. The only protection given to authors is the protection which the law gives to property of every description. It has been decided by the most eminent judges that an author has at common law, and accord ing to the eternal rules of justice, a property in what he writer, so that no one can print it or reprint it without his permission. The statutes which have been passed upon this subject, from the reign of Queen Anne to the reign of Queen Victoria, have been an abridgment of the rights of authors, giving them, by way of compensa tion, improved remedies when their property is invaded. " The next peculiarity pointed out in the book trade is that the article asked for by a purchaser must be genuine, and must always be of the same quality. But although there be no competition as to the quality of this article, we do not perceive why there nay not be a competition as to the price at which it may be sold. And here the competition is less dangerous to the pur chaeer, for ho is in no danger of having spurious wares palmed upon him when attracted by lowness of price. " Then we are reminded of the peculiarity that the publisher names the price at which the book is to be sold to the customer (which may be considered the maximum price), whereas the manufacturer in other trades entirely leaves the price to be paid by the customer to he fixed by the retail dealer. Some complain of this proceeding of the publisher as a grievance. But, admitting the expediency of the publisher continuing to name a retail price at which the book is said to be published, this can only be us a guide, and cannot hinder the making of a fair bargain between the retail dealer and the custo mer. At present, by the rules of the association, the actual retail price may vary from the publishing price, so that it is not more than 10 per cent. less. " The consideration that has weighed most with us is the peculiar mode in which in the book trade the wares to be disposed of are distributed. There is no doubt a great advantage to literature in the existence of re zenoronble book se ll ers ' shops.at reasonable distances in , Edinburgh, and Dublin, and all provincial towns. By the exertions of these gentle men a new w ork is made known more efficiently than by advertisements; and the opportunity of • Inspecting a copy of it on the counter no doubt often produces thought flt;pourchase which might not We cannot but appre hend that, if the regulatigonst question are done away with, and unlimited corepetitilonpermitted, the number of retail establishrnent a in the United Kingdom may be considerably diminished. But the tistence of a larger neerciesAary to sup number of retail establishments than ply the commodity to the public hasenand, according to to raise the price to the consumer; to all experience, the demand will increase as the price is di minished, though not perhaps to the ext ent contemplated by some of the more ardent opponent s of the s Regula tions. On the removal of an artificial protection in any department of industry some distress imm e di ately follows; but the wholesome principles of commerce, when acted upon, ere long bring a remedy. And it may and qu ick hoped that competition and low prices, largo le quick returns ( perhaps the activity which the greater energy and which may be enforced) , d , may eventually add to the pro, perty of t , , a book trade, increase and the profits of alt concerned in it. " Lastly, it has been contended before us, that thr ugh the works of celebrated writers might be, advantageously circulated, and sold without the Regulations, , and the sale of such works be rather impeded by them, yet the works of unknown and second • rate writers, however useful and mentorioua, could not r ithout a law against underselli ng , b e ushered i nto th e w orld. if Even this wore so, we should still deny the justice of aiding dull men at the expense of men of genius; and, with a view to public improve ment, we should doubt the exp edienc y of checki ng t h e circulation of that which is most excel lent, to .eecourage that which gives less valuable infor mation, and less exqu'site pleasure. Moreover, we have reason to think that in many cases the Regulations' cramp tho circulation ef works which have merit, with out being popular . Th e d emand being small, the price would naturally decline, and at the reduced price here might still be a con s id era bl e numberf t publisher pnrcbasers. But as the minim um p r i ce fi xed by themust be rigidly insisted upon, the sa l e is steppe,i_ and the great bulk of the edition, after caus i ng a large expense for warehouse rum, goes to the trunkmakers. U tiN "Fortheie reasons we think that the attempt to eata bl all the ~Iloged excEptional nature of the coLcinere , in ho,)ks has.faitt cl, aud that it ought to be no longer car ried" un'der tho p.resnt rigulatilni. We neither in to affirm, ku.}wever, that eacessii.e profits are re rivatin'atty-litcinch of the baokselling trade, nor do we impae'blitne to any class or individuate, although we c uisider thel the system is faulty, ftnd that the commit pity would he sufferers by its continuance. We likewise wish it to be distinctly understood that our disapproval of the 'Regulations' extends only to the pretension of the publishets'to dietate -the terms on wllioh the - retail book s‹-lier shall deal in his own shop, and to the means em ployed for enforcing the prescribed minimum price which he is ordercd to demand from his customers. t' These being abandoned, it seems, from the language 'of thdreiniution tinder whiCh we act, that the associa tion must be dissolved. _ _ " Ono gentleman mho addressed us asked us, in cam we should. condemn the existing regulations, to frame new ones under which the hookselliug trade should be conducted. " This we must wholly decline, es being beyond our undertAieg, and beyond the powers conferred upon us. Perlsapa the bookeelling trade will have the best chance cf ficnrishing Without - any special regulations of any sort. Let there In entire freeet)m in the transactions between the publishers and the retail bookseller, the pub lishers asking prides and making or refining allowances as they please.. Lot them deal with every one (although unticketed) who brings money. in his purse, or whose responsibility is undoubted, taking care not to encourage tho long and renewed credits which aro said under the existing system to have produced so much mischief. The publishers are not bound to trust any one whom they believe to be sacrificing his wares by reckless under selin,g, or to be carrying on business without a profit sufficient for maintaining solvency. But let them not re quire any pledgo from the retail dealer to whom they sell their books as to the price which he shall demand iu reselliog them, Thus, freedom of action, we hope, may tend to harmony and prosperity. We feel the most sinc , ro reap et end regard for the highly intellectual and honourable body of men who are engaged in the book selling trade. As authors, we are eeply indebted to them for theit' valuable service.% " And we ehsil be amply rewarded for our labour and anxiety in this inquiry if we can cAltribute in any de gree to their permanent welfare, upon which, we are convinced, that the cause of literature in this country dust essentially depend." At the conclusion of the judgment, Mr. W. LONGMAN said—Allow me, my Lord, on be half of the gentßmen with whom lam connected as re ore.,euting the association, to express our thanks for the very courteous . manner in which we have been received, the attention with -which the whole of the arguments have been listened to, end for the extremely able deci sion which your .Lordship has jest delivered. There is rmis , otto point to which I should be anxious to state few words in reply. Lord CAMPBELL—No, no, we cannot admit of any reply to the Court. Mr. CHAPMAN, on behalf of the opposition, tendered his hest thanks for the courteous attention which its members had received. Lord CAMPBELL —My colleagues, as well as myself, reel that the whole affair has been Conducted in manner-which reflects the highest honour and credit upon all parties concerned. Mr. GROTE—Peimit me to say that there is no part of the decisiOn just read in which I more heartily con cur, than in the paragraph having reference to the mode in which the easo has been conducted. Dr. MILMAN—And I fully concur in that opinion. The deputation, which consisted mainly of the came ;entlemen who had attended on previous oenssions, then withdrew. ROYAL ORTHOPXDIC HOSPITAL. The twelfih anniversary of this excellent charity, w hi c h was established in Bloomebury-square, in the year 1838, for the cure of club-foot, lateral curvature of the spine, and all other contractions and deformities, VrCS celebrated at the Albion Tavern, Aldersgate•street, last evening, une!er the presidency of the Earl of Shaftes bury, chairman of the hospital, supported by Mr. John Ilacgregor, M.P., Mr. Jacob Bell, M.P., Mr. \V. F. A. Delane, and many other friends of the institution. A party of ladies occupied the gallery after the dinner, and appeared to teke a lively interest in the proceedings. The general condition of the charity is peculiarly grati fying and encouraging to its benevolent promoters, the total receipts for the past year having been 2,418/, 103. 80., being st , ponsiderable increase over the proceeds of the previous. year. The actual working expenditure for the year was little more than 2,0001.; for which out lay 'maintenance of the most substantial kind has been provided for 73 in-patents, the cost of all the expensive apparatus for the treatment of these and of all the out patient?, and every other expense of the establishment defrayed, being at the rate of less then 80s. per head. rhe total number of in and out-patients admitted dur ing the year was 1,433, and since the original opening of the charity no fewer than 12,003. Grace having been said, and the usual loyal toasts duly honoured, The Noble CHAIRMAN rose to propose the toast of the evening—" Prosperity to the Royal Qrthoreedie Hos pital." Having explained the origin and objects of the charity, ho steted that it was founded on the modern principal of the sub-division of labour, and like other institutions of this metropolis—such as the Cancer Hos pital, the Fever Hospital, and the Small-pox Hospital—devoted itself exclusively to one de partment of medical science; and experience proved the great wisdom of that division, both as regarded the interests of the patients and the progress of science itself. This institution in a peculiar degree stood in need of publicity and contributions; for it was not among the easy and comfortable classes, but among the poor and friendless that those awful instances of malformation of every shape which the mind could conceive, and far more terrible than he could venture to describe, presented themselves to claim their succour. Therefore, if they .wished to know the whole extent of the evil, and the manner in which it pressed on a vast portion of the people , they m ust dive into the lowest depths of misery and disease w hich festered in the filthy and uninviting dens and alleys of that vest Metropolis. But if there were those who had neither the time nor the taste for such minute and painful re searches, let them give but one hour's attendance at the Orthopaedic Hospital , a nd witness the ap plications that were constantly ma de for admittance, and he would undertake to say that they would be too ampl. ) convinced of the necessity for such an institution. —(flear, hear.) Now the position of the charity was this—they had a building fitted up only for a temporary purpose, where they were enabled to receive some 36 inmates, but there were at that moment on the books no less that 325 applicants, all of them most distressing cases, all netting worse and worse day by day, and many of them would have to languish for three long years before they could bo received within the precincts of the hospital. It was said that Nero fiddled while Rome burned; and there they were, waiting for the influx of pounds, shillings, and pence, while hundr eds and thou sands of their wretched fellow• creatures w ere fast pass ing into a state that would utterly defy the efforts of human skill. 101. to-day was worth 1001. to-morrow, Be giving their silver and g old to-day, under the pro vidence of God the crooked might be reeds straight, but to-morrow it would require the intervention of a mira culous power to.cure them. If any part of the institu tion was more interesting to him than another it was to observe the enormous number of children brought to it demanding relief—children in that position in life that if they were not admitted to receive the benefits of scien tific treatment they would be left, when deprived of the care of their parents—as many of them probably wou ld be at an early age—to languish forlorn and neglect ed in their dismal homes, uncheered by the light of the sun, shut out from the breath of the fresh breeze, and never visited, in many instances, by the voice of comfort or consolation. Thus miserably situated, they must either become the' inmates of the union, where their unsightly condition would expose them to cruel taunts and heart less mockery, or crawl about the streets and public thoroughfares exciting the mingled disgust and compas sion of the by-passers. To his mind there was something so distressing in the case of these wretched children, that if no other consideration would influence them, he believed this would induce them alt to come forward and assist in rescuing a large portion of their fellow creatures, and placing them, as they most undoubtedly could, in .a : -condition in which they could walk erect, and obtain for themselves an honest livelihood.—(Hear.) They would observe that these hospitals stood in re lation to the body precisely as schools did to the mind (Hear,- hear) --- and their most certain and Most beneficial effects were to be produced by taking the patients at the tenderest ages. 'Thus is became a preventive system. They heard a great dell said about education, and the necessity of preventing rather than punishing crime. They might depend upon it it was in their power to establish a most admirable preventive system in this case also; and as by education they could anticipate the hulks and the hangman, so by. taking children at their most plastic age they might an ticipate a vast amount of human suffering, degradation, end disease.—(Hear, hear.) The proposition of the committee, therefore, was that they should contribute to the extent of their power for the erection of a building large enough to admit, not all—he prayed God to grant teem the means—but a very increased number of these unhappy objects. - They had already diffused the results ottheir system to hundreds and thousands; and from what they had done hundreds and thousands inferred what they were still able to do. The crooked, the halt, m A%fithieir o wealth and Gl m r, the maim e d,sand the withered were in myriads expect jilt; yeah ,eagter anxiety the issue of their efforts that night, and l oo ki ng earnes tly for the descent of that angel t t who, u n d er t h e bl ess i ng O f t h e Al m i g h ty , would stir ßethesda the nextben benevolence.—(Cheers.) LT the (h (lr health s. , mr. of. *Noble Chairmanll whose services on behalf of this end "other 6 1 . zrPrceated.- institutions could nut be too highly , . e (lJear, hear He bad known the Noble Lard for years, and tied the devotion_whic ah watched with pleasurable feel ingsto the cau se o f suffering _the Nobl e L or d h a d ever p a id o , f L hunsanity.—(H ea r, h ear .) T o this hoSpital th e i s T obl attached, and both his purse and frequently plaCed - at its -dis "disposal.—(Hear, elo quence h a d b een was therefore fully satisfied )a that s the company would du (Hear, h ear .) H o ample justice to the to as t h e had and drink the health of th e i r Noblethpropose to t h em, bun: pers.—(Cheers.) Chairman i n The toast was drank with enthu • br4fly acknowledged.slastra and aft erwar d s 'Among tbe remainieg toasts were, " The Archbishops of CanterLuty_and York" "'rho Committee of Steward s " The Medical Officers" and " The Ladi es ." , The CHAIRMAN, in the course of the evening proposed " the boAth of - Mr. Macgregor, M.P., and the Com mite., at Stewarde" Mr. MACGREGOR briefly ackeowledged the ccmpli . Met.., a ed urged upon the gentlemen aroued him not to relitklts their efforts to place the institution at the head of the many noble charities that adorn this great metro. T LI ti KS ii A V 1 --t.;‘ palis.—(Hear, hoar.) For his part, he could promise them that what little aid .he could render the hospital should at all times bo most cheerfully given, and he should look IT no other re ward but the conviction that he was hdpir:g others to mitigate, if' not e,ntireiy to re move, the suff , ringl of a large number of his fellow" creatures,—(Cbeers.) In the course of the evening the secretary announced ander Al. Kenzie, a late gnvrrnor. aggregate amount the receipt of a legacy o f 5004, bequeathsd by Mr. Alex- The of ~übJeriptione, already rai se d fatthe current year iNLS declasvd to be 1,5301. 'fhe vucul sus envg6d 0 enli ven th e fostiv4l eJaTris" l Messrs. Luckey, 144nd, Whitworth, and . Yiiiliips, and Mrs. Endersoa and Alia Eyles. Mr. Toole ,offieisted as toast-master. TIII AUSTRALIAN DIGGINGS. The following; is an (ixtract from u letter dated Mel bourne, Jan. having had ocoa i i on t o v i s i t the " I have been for th e l ast two mont h s -f r om home, Peint Fairy and Portland districts, situate about 100 and 220 miles hence respec tively, all of which h as been done on horseback. I re turn by the steam er t o S y d ney next - wee k , w h e ro, in all probability, I shall have ans wers to mine. written to you M last ay and June, announc i ng the di scover y cf . gold in the Bathurst district. " Long ere this you will have learnt the opening of the Victoria Mines of Baehurst and Mount Alexander. To these regions, i a n l u t s a t ro n u o n w a btheeaVinflt ridded In pointparentlyi of fact, inexhaustibly the 1, yield is actually incredible, and daily increasing. The pursuit of gold-digging absorbi i,ll other voca tions; nothing is thought of, spoken Of; or written about, except gold. Business . contracts of all kinds,—the social compact, domestic content, the relation of master and servant, and all other ties, either civil or religious, tire in a state of disruption beyond the power cf language to describe. Six weeks, a muuth, a fertnight, nay, even a week's labour, produces occasionally podigioas sums.. I saw four men lifting a seaman' s chest into a dray indf an hour ago, a l most too heavy f or their united strength. Thi s c h est contained t h e product of six weeks' labour, and contained at least 2001te3.1 of gold. The banks 'and the post-office are work ing double hours ; all other public departments are crippled for want of hands •; ma l e servants are not to be had, even et extravagant rates ; wo men are not much better. Marriages . are now in high favour; almost all the single men arrive from the diggings with gold enough to maintain a wife. So far the abstraction of yoting women from service is desirable, be the inconvenience what it may; but there are other channels for expenditure where pv,.ili g ,;oy rtud,lioonti ,, .. - ness are exhibited on a fearf u l scale, amid the riot of waste end reckless prodigality. E normous eums a re squandered by the diggers and their families. Every Jack has hid Gill, and Jack .ha s more money b es id es than his roaster of the preceding month. "I asked the waiter, and then the chambermaid of the inn where I stop, to send me out a small bundle of linen to the laundress; they, however, stated that they could not find any person willing to wash--under these circumstances, I went to the haberdasher for a sup• ply. I notice this as an instance of the state of things here, which aro fast assuming a Cali fornian character, with respect to the rate of high prices, equally for the necessaries and luxuries of life. Do you want a pair of boots the price ie 21. 103.; a pair of strong shoes, '2os. Then there is such a consump tion of bottle beer, champagne, and other wines, spirits, and tobacco as would astonish a new-corner. An order Came to town yesterday from a publican on the M, ant Alexander road for 1,200 dczens of battled beer. This man, I am told actually sold 70 dozses in one day to the coming and going diggers, hundreds of whom call as his house every day. I think the community of Victoria, taking them all in all, ere now the wealthiest in the world, and poss.:ss, besides, a beentiful country and healthy • climate in the mein—though I must say I do not like the site of Mel bourne as a metropolis; it is singularly hot, dusty, without sev,e - rs or drainage, and will by-and-by become very unhealthy. • The country between Belfort end Wamambhool is extremely fine (close to the coast) fur agricultural purposes, and the climate much milder than in the neighbouring district. I think Geelong ought to have been the site of the capital. I am convinced in a few years it will rival this city. It stands much higher, on the margin of a floe open bay, and commands a tine back country. The wheat crops on the liarrabul hills, close to Geelong, are magnificent; I calculate them to yield 50 bushels an acre. There, however, will be great difficulty in getting them in for want of labourers, though 10s. and 12s. 6d. per diem, with rations, is freely offered. _ _ _ " The total quantity of gold shipped to this date from Victoria is 102,4790 z, since, the 24th ult., and pro ceding 117,825 0 z., or , in round numbers, 220,3000 z., . which, taken at 3/. p e r ounce only, gives 660,9001. , or hive shipped as mu c h a s the Sydney people shipped since the discovery, in May last. The effect of of wool and tallow has been a most extens i ve o r extended issue of . such an imm ense a dditi o n of exportable commodity to the cust omary trans port principles—f or w hi c h, indeed, there was no help. In banks may tact, the whol e c i rcu l at i on -of the three _ bank notes, far bey on d t h e or dinary regulations of banking be said to be o u t, i n proo f o f which I obtained with some difficulty 4001. on Wednesday last from one of the Anglo banks, and on another occasion I have known a bank in Sydney quite cleared out. All our banks stand so high in the public estimation that little can be apprehended from their expanded circulation; still, large addition to their coin is necessary in the absence of an assay of ee, making our gold in b i ers a legal tender under a Government st ump , or a , branch m i n t, w hi c h would be still better, though I f oresee a difficulty in obtaining from the home Govern men t a branch mint. An assay-office, however, in the hands of Govern ment, issuing.gold bars of certain fineness and weight, will, I think, be necessary. Under such an arrange• ment, our gold would speed i ly assume a conver tible form for remittanc es to any part of the wor ld. Situated as we no w are, wo must transm it our gold sixteen thousand mi l es, trammelled w i t h h e avy transit charges, to o b ta i n a currency va l ue , a nd then bring it back again, thus losing at least six months' interest. I think eve ought to have a Go vernment assay establishment at Sydney or Melbourne, or both, the expense of which would be defrayed by a small charge on the gold, each ingot receiving the stamp of Great Britain t o d etermine one uniform f i neness' 'rho earth in certai n parts of these colon i es teems with the precious metal. Conceive the astoun di ng quantity of about 9f tons of pure gold being taken in tour months from Victoria elone, and this, too, in the most slovenly way i -sieginable! It is well known that a great deal more of ti ne go ld , i n d us t a nd scales, has been left (as too t rou b lesome) by the golc b di ggers unwashed, the sear c h b eing confined principally to nug gets or small lumps o f metal, ranging from the s i ze o f a pinhead to a hors e b ean. The price to-day of gold i s 60s. to 61s. per on. Th e Brilliant sails tomorrow with 55,100 ez , of which one house alone ships B,oooa. The Statesman will t a k e, I believe, a st i ll l arger quantity. " You will doubtle ta have noticed the se paration of the colonies. One ot the first fruits has been the eateb lishment of differential d ut i es, in some casts almost pro hibitory, against each other,--a moat insane project , realizing the filet° of " th e members warring against t h e belly." Only conc e i ve the South Wales, maize, O r d., e ptoduced there), firing ,addled with duty here ; and wh ea t, the product ot or an d e man exhibitingP i tthe Victoria or Van i)i emen'scharged in reciprocation at Sydney. Such is the effect of petty Land 'coals si a :i d lar i l e y dar of New colonial jealousy, or rather discord, as I presume no one will deny Nature and Providence iutended us to be one fam " il it . is wonderful to reflect upon the facts included oafnd Providence. Had our auti (crone wealth been apparentlydenoted these colonies were one vast prison house, and fifteen tweutieths have been our condition? Wisely has it i b n e benevolent 1 ent gold intentions discovery, of thefi fi fteen ynd years r s B elo: gedn, inwhen the would ordained that these countries thould become pos sessedral abundance, average amount of order and virtue abounding a t and people- a i e ls h o e f a e o i l tr o i I : i n w been h th at e vast flocks and herds, earth' disclosed its riches —to attract the hundrede of before the thousands that will find th e i r wa y during the present year, to this our land of o m witho th e r a a c g o t u i p a n o u t p r l t u y a l , phir and glittering nuggets! Conceiie a boundless country teem ing with abundance of food, a fine climate, and gold by the ton! If these are not subjects of attraction—if these fail to produce spontaneous and self- sustaining emigra tion to our colonies from all parts of the world, then the materials of man's composition are changed. " Van Diemen's Land must cease to b e a penal colony. Let Swan River enjoy all the benefit she has peti tioned for in a large Goeernment expenditure for the support of imperial convicts and improvement of her lo- Van Diemen's L cality. Be assured . _ and must be re lieved from all further stain, she is far too near the regions of gold, and has borne long enough the miseries of penal infliction. " I fear South Australia, once the most promising of the Australian group, is on the eve of great suffering and disaster.. The accounts are alarmiug; land has ceased almost to possess a value. The people are coming hither in thousands. Without gold fields she will be lost. Even Sydney begins to feel the emigration of her population for the superior diggings of Victoria. No person c an , h owever, may bo before the tables tura. The free how long it ~ , , „ e of Van Diemen s Land free populationare fast coming over to All Melbourne. the Sydney people California and are returning from but I the Polyne sian group of' islande, the trust Yankee we may not be favoured with any . of . least of that portion rejoicingb i t n era thea and bowie of vigilance committees, six's than eo I ever . knives. I have now written more uch as I could intended, yet certainly not half slny,touchd atshein wonderful things ing and concerning place. seeand hear in this extraordinary Nell-regulated the stns.!) CiS of ass minds -are bewildered by . gen . p . t ing events; sobr ie ty of thought and tee ancient slow s are upset; and how can it be operations of business men, after an absen ce o f a month or so, return each witotherwise when young h 1001. to Lord kno ws h ow much more a piece, and prepare for a rig out on a mor e ex tensive and approved scale for the mines? "All below the standard of this is true, and infinitely. s ite again from ydacy shortly fact. Purpesing to W r after my arrival. * " I have sines tiscertained at the Barak of AllE tralasiA (where this go !d was deposited) that the weight was 2501 h, fer fivo m oo in six week:4" The-vacant office of Solicitor -General for St.totland has been conferred upon Mr. Charles Neale-es, who has to re sign the sheriffship of Orkney, which has, it is said, b een River' tq Mr. W. E. Aytoun. EVEN j_" Ai A Y SPORTING NOTES. No. CCXXX. TIIE PROBABLE FATE OFTIJE CANDIDATES FOR THE SEVENTY-T[IIRD DERBY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sits,—ls is now quite titne that I gave my opinion on the probable issue of the great race of next week. Having already sent nut a list of absentees and probable starters, i 4 will be-potfeetly superfluous to do so again. Commocing with the horses in preprltion at head quarter q Newmarket s'rtrige to say, this year turns out the alaiost unprecedented number, or thorn, of probnbly half-a-dozen starters. Lord Orford's br c LCORAete by Theon out of Adelgued, by Bay Middleton, being the ono most fooled in the betting' out of this lot, I shall begin my comments with him. He never appeared as a two years old; and his chance was thoiveht to be so re mote in December last, that 100 to 1 was absolutely refased about him ; some good judges, however, Who saw him eerly in the epriug, raid he wept,' turn out a clip par, and becl , ed him eccordinely at long shots. He has, to some extent, jusetied their prediction, by heathr; Stockwell for the 100 Soya. Stakes in the Craven Meeting very cleverly, giving him three pounds. This horse; it seems, is possessed of a re markably vicious temper, and, at his debut jest men• tinned, satietied his had propensities by flying at Stockwell immediettly before stsrting; which, some people ray, so cowed the latter that he wes riot likely to attempt to pass his adversary; this Hen, in my opinion, is all stuff and nonsense. In the First Spring Meeting at Newmarket ho made his second and last appearance previous to the achy, dis posing of those wretched animas Wingenund and Hou lakiu with the most consummate ease imaginable. Stockwell also figured among the entries, but as ho would in this Instance hive had to concede slbs to Aleeran, of course he stopped at home in his stable. Everything in the way of traioieg tint Beresford can accomplish has been dello for Alcoran, who is in as fine coadition as it is possible for hone to bo, Be will finish in front next Wednesday. Turning newt to Lord Exater's lot, two, I perceive, are already disposed of; thus leaving the other two to do battle for the blue and white stripe. STOCKWELL. by the Baron, out of Pocohontas, ran twice last year: in the fleet race, at the Second October Meeting, finishing close in the :car of Maidstone; and in the other, runainges - queer fourth. for the Criterion Stakes to Red Hind, Ambrcse being_ second, and the Knight of the Shire third: the filly carried 41bs more than Stockwell. This year . he made his first appear ance for the 100 Save. Stakes in the Craven meeting, (or which h. was beaten by Altioran. His second ap pearance was for the Two Thousand Guineas Stakes. which, with 12 to 1 against him, he won very cleverly from end to end, but beating a very inferior lot, Home brewed and Maid: tone being perhaps the best. It must be observed however, that in condition, to all appear ance, he was four or five pounds at the least on this occasion superior to his Craven form. His next engage. ment was for the 50 Save. Stakes, which he declined contesting; and did the same for the 100 Soya. Stakes, coming out on the Friday and winning the Newmarket Stakes by a bead, which could have been two lengths but for Norman—who must have been going to sleep— taking it eery easy, fancying he had the race in hand, enabling Butler on Maidstone to get to his head. This horse's chance has been very much deteriorated by the little work he has - done for the last fortnight; he is, however, once more looking up and taking his exercise freely. I cannot however, all things considered, imagine he has any chance of. obtaining a place. AMBROSE by Tom:theme, out of Annette, by Priam, considered last summer to be much better than Stock well, has been one of the unluckiest horses the' ever trod the turf, having, as a two years old, appeared in public a dozen times, and in every instance having run ' well up. He was second no less than four times, and third seven times, thus having been only fairly out of the race in one instance, when ho ran nowhere to Red Hind. He ha's been doing very good work, but I can not for an instant suppose he has any chance of carrying off the Derby. He will, iu ell probability, fiatsh in the leading portion of the ruck. Out of Cooper's string of five, Kingston and the Nabob will be the couple selected to represent the stable. Lard Ribbesclale'e b c KINGSTON, by Venison, out of Queen Anne, by Shine, is their great gun. As a two years old he appeared in public four times, making his debtit at Ascot, where he ran a moderate third to Bobbie Noble, Grey Tommy occupying the second place. This performance is not very satisfactory, as the winner had the race in band all the way. In his second essay he ran a couple of dead heats, with Chief Boron Nicholson, at Stockbridge—another very equivocal performance. Then he took a long rest, and came out at the Newmarket First October Meeting, where, carrying Bst 10Ib for the Hopeful, he beat. Ambrose, Bst 71b, and Flirt, Bst Sib, but only had half a length the advantage of Ambrose, who in his turn beat Flirt by a neck. In the Second October Meeting he accomplished his best performances, carrying Bst 131 b, he won the Clearwell Stakes, beating Harbinger, at 61b less, by a neck, Am brose and Elcot also being among the defeated. He has as yet not run this year. He has been doing good work for a long time past; looks as well as any horse can look; has satisfied his owner and trainer of his capabilities, and will probably finish in the fourth or fifth position, perhaps nearer, his blood being undeniable on both sides. He is descended through Garcia by Octa vian, dam by Shuttle, out of Catherine, one of the best daughters of Delpini. IHE NABOB, by The Nob oat of Hester, by Camel out of Monimia, by Muley, did not appear as a two years old, but made his debit at the Newmarket Craven Meeting by winning the Tuesday's Riddlesworth with great ease trom Weathergage and Magnes. On Friday in the acme meeting he won the 100 Sove. Stakes easily from Sackbut second, and • Ambrose third—the last named beaten several lengths, finishing his per formancss, so far as this year is yet concerned, by giving a dollop of weight away to Hugo and beating him out of hand. This animal is a remarkably leggy brute, and, if I mistake not, will. be completely out 91 his element at Epsom, so I cannot award - him a respectable place; besides, he may be entrusted with cutting not the work for his stable companion, Kingston. The betting has undergone a slight alteration since ' yesterday, Hobble's advance to 5 to 1 being the prin cipal feature. Kingston is very steady at 15 to 1. Stockwell has re-appeared again at his old price, 20 to 1; and the King of Trumps has advanced three points since yesterday, and is now quoted at 15 to 1. I am, Sir, yours, &e , THE SPIRIT OF THE TURF. May 20, 1852. (To bn continued.) SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. BATH RACES—WEDNESDAY. The City Cup of 100 soya. in specie ' added to a Sweep stakes of 10 BC,VJ. each; the sevnd to save his stake; for three yrs old and upwards. Two miles arid a half. (19 Subs) Mr. J. M. Stanley's Storyteller, Bst 51b...(Charlton) 1 Mr. Woolcot's Kate, 3 yrs, 6st 1016 ..(Cowley) 2 Mr. Parr's Clothworkt , r, 6 yrs, 9st l llb (Owner) Mr. B. Austin's Miss Talbot, Bst 1116...(Ctornento 0 lir. W. Rei ves's Norm,Lnton, 7st 1116 ...(J. Sharp) 0 Mr. Hewitt's Mademe Wharton, Bst 51b (Ocrillr) 0 Betting-5 to 4 zgat Kite, 9to 1 aget Storyteller, and sto 1 agst Clothworker. Won by three pirts of a Vegth; Clothworker a bad third. Ran in 1 mie. 9 sec.. The Weston Stakes of 10 soy% each ; and 50 added; for two yrs old colts, 83t gib; and fillies, Bst 416, &o. T.Y.C. (14 Subs.) Mr. Howard's Vaultress, 84t 41b (A. Day) 1 Lord W. Puwlett's Libel f, Bst 416 (b. 1 - I.(lers) 2 Mr. Armstreog's Placid, Bst 416 (Charlton) 3 Mr. Treen na Dexterous be, Bst 916...(Treen, jun.) 4 Mr. Osbaldt-ston's c.by Cotherstone, Bst 91b...(Iliett) 5 Betting-2 to lon Vaultress, Bto 4 agst Placid. Won by three lengths, the same between second and third. Run in 55 arcs. The Aristocratic Handicap of 10 sow. each, 5 ft, and 20 added. Gentlemen riders ; professionals to carry 61b extra. Once round. (7 Subs.) Mr. Tarr's Welthergage, 3 yrs, 9st tilb (Owner) 1 Mr. Stevens's Vesta, aged, lOst 2lb (Mr. Elwes) 2 Captain Little's Bullfinch, 5 yrs, lOst 71b ...(Owner) 3 Mr. Isaac Day's Justice, aged, 9st 61b .........(Cook) 4 Mr. Cooper's Montague, 6 yrs, llst 21b (Wakefield) 5 Betting-2 to 1 agst Justice, and sto 2 agst Weather gage. Won by three lengths. Run in 3 mins. 11 secs. The Dyrbam Handicap of 100 sm., for all ages. Once round, about one mile and a half. Duke of Bedford's Hugo, 3 yrs, sst (S. Steggles) 2 1 Mr. H. Hill's Pitsford , 5 y rs, Bst 131 b (A• Day) The following also ran, but were not plrced : Sir R. Pigott's Runnymede, 4 yrs, Bst (Maton) 0 Mr. H. Waring's Manifold, 5 yrs,7stl3lt(T Carlisle) 0 Mr. S. Darling's Sir Robert, 5 yrs, 7st 10!b (J. Sharp) 0 0 Mr. Waller's Ephe sus, 4 y rs, 7st 41b (Wakefield) Mr. Whitehouse's Scapulary, Est 91b ... (R. Archer) 0 Mr. Winch's The Brahmin, 3 yrs, Est (Hayward) 0 Mr. B. Austin's M adeline, 3 yrs, 53t 101 b (Clements) 0 0 Mr. B. Tomb's Nizza, b g , 3 y rs, sst 41b ...(G. Bren) Mr. G. Higgins's Apostate, 3 yrs, sst ......(Kendall) Captain H.B. Powell's Freetrader, 3 yrs, s st (Salter) 00 Mr. Southby's APpleton, 3 yrs, 4st 121 b (Oliv er, j un.) Mr. H. Drewe's Ballet Girl, 5 yrs, 7st (Charlton) 0 Betting- 4 to 1 agst Freetrader, sto 1 agst Hugo, 5 to 1 agst Pitsford, and 7 to 1 agst Appleton. Won by half a length , Madeline a bad third, and Ballet Girl fourth. Run in 3 mins. 5 secs. The Selling Stakes of 5 soya. each and 20 , added, for 2 yrs old and upwards, half-a-mile (10 subs.), were won in four beats, by Sir C. Rushout's Flounce, 3 yrs (400, 63t 61b, beating M aid of the West, 3 yrs (2001.), Bst 31b, and several others. - • ROYAL ASYLUM OF ST. ANN'S SOCIETY.—The annual meeting of the girls who have bat een the Royal Asylum on Brixton -hill. The friends of this institution, maintenance not con tented with affording a home, clothing,. and , and a most excellent and useful education to the children under their more immediate care, take every on theop of of encourag i n g and rewarding good conduct part those who hav6 left the school. For this purpose these an nual meetings were instituted, and the success of which it was stated had been highly satisfactory. The Bis aid, thhopat of Norwich presided , and in opening the proceedings, s from the good testimonials which had been presented that day, there ought to be no difficulty in providing for the girls on leaving the institution. His Lordship then presented the prizes which had been awarded, and addressed the whole of the former pupils in an able and impressive exhortation. A vote of thanks was given to the Bishop of Norwich by accla mation, and the assembly broke up, after hearing an address from one of the boys. A dramatic festival, which will extend from the 7th to the 12th June, is about to be given, under the patron age of the Queen and Prince Albert, in aid of the local cha rities of Manchester. Letters have been addressed to the principal actors and actresses who have been in the habit of visiting Manchester, stating the object of the festival, and may severally see fit to give express ing a hope that they their gratuitous services, .20 It-52 RACING FIXTURES FOR 1852. NAY. HarrPtiden ...... 2l I Wye 3l Ep so m 25 6luth Shi4ll9 ...... 81 JUNE. Brigh►on 1 Lumberton Epping Town 1 Hampton . l6 Eritb Lenham Manchester ... Cogged] all South well Det,n Ulverstone Ascot . . ' 8 Knighton Beverley Maidstone Leith JULY. 1 St9r , ford ... 20 6 Knutsford 6 Nottingham 7 Abingdon 14 Goodwood Salisbury Newmarket .. War:l34,6r Lancaster , ......... Liverpool A _North Staffordshi re UG 3 Brighten 4 Edgware Welyetharupton Reading Lynn . l2 York RadCliffe 23 25 , ‘tourbridge 3O Lincoln SEPTEMBER. Warwick 7 Leicester 22 Whitehavvn ...... 7 Manchester Antaean 23 Doncaster Egiinton Club 2l Chesterfi:+l I Bedford OCTOBER. Chester . Royal Caledonian Hunt flolywell Hunt pnd Edinburgh Cluh. 6 Richmond .. Yorkshire Union Hunt 6 Newmarket Houghton 25 Wrexham NOVEMBER. Worcester Autumn IRISH RACES TO COME. MAY. Kilcock JUNE Ourrggh 2 2 -1 Afonksovin JULY. 5 I Bellewstown Heath . AUGUST. Down Royal Corp 3 'foam Phoenix Park lO 13Allinrobe. ROSCO:I3n:un SEPTEMBER. Curragh Limerick OCTOBER. Carragh l2 I Carlow Donn Ito) al Corr— 2O 26 AQU.4 TICS. HENLEY ROYAL REGATTA. The great aquatic meeting at Henley-on-Thames, in which the University gentlemen and members of the leading aquatic clubs of London ordinarily engage, is fixed for the 25th aid 26th of June. The following are the prizes for competition : Grand Challenge Cup (with medals), for eight-oared boats; now held by the University Boat Club, Oxford. The WS fold Challenge Cup, tor the winners of the trial heat for the Grand Challenge Cup, now held by the University Boat Club, Cambridge. The LAies' Challenge Plate (with medals), for eight oared boats; now held by the Brasenose Club, Oxford. The Stewarda' Challenge Cup (with 'medals), for four-oared boats; now held by the Cambridge Univer sity Club. s s ss The Viiitors' Challenge Cup (with medals), for four oared boats ; now held by the Christchurch Club, Oxford. The Town Challenge Cup (with medal:), for four oared boats. The Silver Gublots (Presentation Priz-), for pair oared boats. The Diamond Challenge Szulls and Presentation Cup, for miller." the former now held by Mr. Peacock, of Loddon. The entries close on the 18th of June. CHAMPIONSHIP OF THE THAMES. The exciting race between Robert Coombes, of Mort lako, and T. Cole, of Chelsea, for the Chamionship of the Thames and 400/., will come off on Monday next, fr,.m Putney to Mcrtlake. Both men are in capital con dition, and a first-rate contest is expected. Coombes is slightly the favourite. The Lalla Rookh has been char tered to accompany the match, for the benefit of the losing man, and for the use of the umpires and referee. CRICKET. ENGLAND v. FOURTEEN OF YORKSHIRE. May 17th, 18th, and 19th. YORKIIIIIRE. First Innings. Second Innings. Ellison, Esq., b Clarke ... Crossland, s Box, b Clarke 2B a Box, b Clarke ... 1 J. Berry, b Clarke 8 b Bickley 9 Anderson, c Bickley, b Mynn... 30 a Box, b Clarke Chatterton, c Parr, b Mynn 0 c Felix, b Clarke... 0 Sampson, c Guy, b Bickley 24 not oat 4O G. Berry, s Box, b Clarke ..... 40 b Martingell Armitage, c Box, b Clarke ...... 0 c Caffyn, b Clarke l2 Wright, b Bickley... 3 c Box, b Bickley 2 Coates, not out Skelton, Eeq , s Box, b Clarke 3 c Bickley, b Clarke 0 Dakin, c Caz4ar, b Clarke 0 b Clarke Barber, ruu out ..... ....... .. ...... 0 clSlartingell,bClarke 3 Hodgson, _c Caffyn, b Clarke ... S c and b Martingell 11 Byes 2 Byes Total .............. 162 Total 150 ENGLAND. N. Felix, Esq, cßerry, b Crossland 30 A. Mynn, Esq , b Crossland..... 0 Bickley, b Wright ..... . ..... 1 Box, c Sampson, b Crossland ... 0 cJ.Berry,b Wright 3 J. Cresar, cJ. Berry, b Skelton.. 9 b Wright 25 W. Caff j n, b Wright. ......... 2 c Armitage, b Crossland Parr, c Armitage, b Crossland... 8 not out ... A. Clarke, b Wright ............. 0 W. Clarke, b J. Berry ... Guy, not out . ................ 9 b Wright l9 Martingell, c Chatterton, b Wright ... 4 not out 8 Byes 3,1 b 3,w 2 ...... 8 80, lb o,w 1 1 Total. ' 78 Total ...... ... 68 ANEW AND MAGNIFICENT ENTERPRISE. Private intelligence from New York, by the Europa. enables us to state confidently that arracgeuients are in progress for connecting New York and S!. Joh n ', (N ew _ foundisnd) by means of the eleciric telegraph, and St. John's and Galway (or some other convenient port nn the west coast of Ireland) by a line of powerful and fleet steamers. The lino of telegraph has already been sur vey ci . from St. Joha'a to a point, opposite C a pe Breton (N - ov ,-,, s. w ria), a distance of ;.loc.ut 350 miles; thence the Gulf of Lam eye° is to be er..), sod by a submarine wire 48 miles in length; therice 100 miles Viand to Sydney. Cape Breton, to which place the wires are now ex tended fro.a. the' capitals of Nova Scotia, New Biunswick, the Csnadas, and the United States. Telegraphic dilatolp:s are sow readily trans milled from New York to Halifax, a distance of nearly 1,000 miles, in a few moments, bat 11w new line will extend some air hundred miles farther east, Bud it is confidently anticipated will enable London to COra- 1 municCe with New York in about six days. The Government of Newfoundland have given the entrap ilty who, have this enterprise in hand a most liberal charter, in which it is provided 'bat the province shall take stock to the amount of thirty thousand pounds; and they also grant to the company, as a gratuity, laud to the extent of thirty square miles, which the company have a right to select wherever they please along the route of the telegraph line. As that section of New foundland is known to be ric h in its mineral resou rce!, it is believed that the lend itself is worth far more than the whole expense of buildin g the tele g ra p h. At all even ts, certain it is the, every shilling of the capital ' stock of the company (amounting to about two hundred this e an d fifty thousand dollars) was taken in two days by s even of tho principal capitalists of New York, and t h e agent of the company is already on his way to country for the purchase of the materials to construct under a diff erent . tlElThteelesgarmaephanlidneoaths e b i ef p or a e d rtie e s s , cri b be ut d. organization, are about contracting for two or more ocean steamers of the first class to run between N ew York, St. John's, and Ir e l an d , and there is the v er y b es t reason to believe that withi n one year these two en terpriseso ls p wreipllabriengin to connect successful t e h p e o r Irishat i nn. line of steam ers Other partie s at St. John's with are a ifax, Boston, &n, steamers from Montreal, Quebec, The telegraph company will employ at Cepe Race for the purp ose of interceptinga small s t eamer to and from Ameri ca an d Europe, all of whichall steamers pass very near t o th a t p l ace, and thu • usually a news by the Cun ar d an d C o lli ns it is expected th a t steamers through to New York some four or five days in a d vance may b e sea t of their arrival i n th e United Staters. A final dividend of about id. in the pound will be shortly declared under the estate of Ross and Ogilvie, army agents, who were made bankrupts in March, 1804. This, with the previous dividends, will constitute an entire distri bution of 13s. 4id. upon debts proved to the extent of 177,8071., of which 7s. 4d. was paid by the parties appointed on the issue of the commission, and the remainder by Mr* Geoom, the ofeial assig nee , s i nce the estate has pass ed to his management. ROYAL FREEMASONS' SCHOOL FOR FEMALE CRIL IIREN.—The anniversary of this most excellent institution was held yesterday evening at the Freemasons'-hall, under.e the presidency of the Right Hon. the Earl of Zetland,tn Grand Master of the Masonic body. Nearly 400 membersen of the craft sat down to dinner. In the course of the and e a ing the children went in procession round the room'be wit more beautiful or interesting scene could, . r hard&l ew) nested. The secretary of the institution (Mr• be 1,400/. an nounced the amount subscribed in the room nu m t° and other Miss Birch, Miss E. Birch, Miss M. Williams, The vocalista enlivened the company during the c baracter, and dinner and accompaniments were of the fret Mr. Harker was himself as toastmaster. Tun JENNINGS' ESTATE.—.--- e Court of Chancery. has, 1 w e -earn, been this week settled by th lies, we believe, prin cipally property connected with the estate and at one period was cipally in the county of Suffolk, Phis long litigated case nalf of that amount has esti mated at 7,000,0001., but only about this end other been divided in the late decisi,re-Twn this town and others are scatteredone living in this district claimants reside in counties ; ' but the only fortunate i own, in the employ of is a journeyman painter named_ l ' n divided into seven portions, and hlr. Howard, of Maldon. under stand that the property is will be 500,0001.—Chelmsford By the recent decision we that Longhorn's shar e atronicle. TO THE EDITOR 0.17 THE SUN. rr•fe*ence to a cormspoildenc e w hi c h h as 11 , te!y mi. - eered io your valuable journal, on the eubj ec t ci the British North Ani?riem Rai!trap, snore partica o;ncerning the Great Truettl4e, from Halifax to Queix.e, I may, perhaps, be enabled, if you can afford me the spice, to offtr it few rettarka ' to enable your readers the more, clearly to understand the whole subject in questioe. First, let us saiiify ourselves, how ever, that nll parties are agreed as to the important ob jects sought for by the preposed trunk line from Hali fax -to Quebec, or rather, as Earl Grey says, to Montreal. We believe the object to be gained is this— the connecting all the British provinces with themselves, and also with the nearest to Europe, and most available port that is open at all seasons of the year, for com mercial purposes ; and further, we believe, that in order to obtain this object, it will be necesscry to have re course to British capital, under the guarantee of the Im perial Parliament, as well as that of the local legiala tdrea. It appears then, Sir, to me," that the duty of the Colonial SOCI4 Lary is c'early to obtain tho j)ei pwsibie inf,:oaation he eau, not vs to what this or that c:,lony has done, car is willing to do for its own iramecilato interest; taut as to which is the prver route for a trunk line that would connect the several Nurth Americau cuienies with each other and with Europe, and will confer, either by itaelf - or by braeclr;cs froir. it, the greatest amount of advantage to the '`bole America, and be the hest for the traffic of goods, mail:, and passengere, to and from Great Britain or Europe. Now, Sir, this is not the proper - place, perhsps, to discuss ;,Il these points. One observation, however, I may 63 alluald to make, as it will serve to show the volt impottacee of a searching inquiry into the matter before the British Parliament is suited to grant its aid or cOuntenanee to any final plan. One of your correspondents would take the Windsor and Annapolis lane as a part of the gigantic undertaking proposed to ii :Elf by the St. Andrew and Quelace line, with the view of reaching the Pacific. Now, Sir, elne glance st the app will show that such a line of route would oblige the crossing of the Bay of Fundy, which would be fatal in the opinion of any Parliamentary Committee; for it would occasion a transhipmtnt of goods Toe Scotia, as has cessary„should the grand route follow the line, perfectly num riovE:igg-ted.to pass wholly through the province ot in the Colonies" —but There area variety of other objections to the route ita proposed by your correspondent—" One much interested been suggested by able engineers. in England, who have been ern the Secretary of the the Colonies to adopt is, in my humble opinion, to summon before • only safe and proper plan for him such persons as are now British North:American the advantage of the info rmation Provinces; and then having also are in this cowir - -euutd liut it trill I L nii o c e wY s s re a ox r n y Pgr :l w i i bunitY clplayed on surveys in our of the delegates who matters,. he " o l a min ta g il t w o a a y final decision. idways, that If England is not'e ca b i ti e o c rd - bear in milid part of the expense, she can hardly have upon to pay any right to dic tate a line for the outlay on th 3 constr a the colonists alone are to be in the end h ti el e c t i ion of which actually spon4ible. Let, however, all matt ers be fully 0 inquiredre into, and I am sure it will be found th at B , o oo ' o be required, and can be most beneficially ex A will pt.tde., to the great advant=age both of the mother country, to her labour and her capital, as well es to her most thriving, loyal, and valuable North American provinces. Depend upon it, vre have arrived at s crisis, and all friends of England and her colonies should be rip and stirring. It is not yet " too late;" but we know not what a they may bring forth.—l am, Sir, &c., May 9. A CONSTANT READER, RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS. THE GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY.— (Miles in work, 223 i) Return of Traffic for the Week ending May 9, 1852: Passengers, parcels, carriages, horses, dogs, and mails —. £5,575 88. Merchandise and minerals ... .5,842 17 6 Cattle ... ... 245 7 2 Total .. £11,663 12 I t Corresponding week, 1851 (236 miles): Passengers, parcels, &e. ... £5,360 10 7 Merchandise, Cattle, &c. 4,152 6 6 Total ... . £9,512 17 1 LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE RAILWAY. (260 miles open.)—Traffic for week ending May 16 £16,190 4 11 Corresponding week in last year (260 miles open) ....£16,443 7 2 CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAILWAY.TraffiC for the week ending May 16 : MAIN LM. Passengers ... Parcels, H. C. and D. Goods, cattle, &c. Mails Total £1,345 9 4 ... 77 4 6 ... 577 17 6 ... 575 0 0 MOLD. Passengers ... ... Parcels, H. C. and D. ... Goods, cattle, &c. ... Total ... £2,575 11 4 ~. £5O 7 10 ... 1 14 3 ... 91 18 6 ... ... ... £144 0 7 STEAM-BOATS. Passengers Parcels, H. C. and D. ... £238 8 2 Scorrisa CENTRAL RAlLWAT.—Traffic for the Week ending May 16, 1852 Passengers (9,973), parcels, horses, and carriages ... .£1,054 1 6 Goods, cattle, &c. ... 916 8 11 £209 12 8 28 15 6 Total Total .. ... .. 1,970 10 5 Corresponding week in last year... 1,834 8 6 Perth, May 18, 1852. YACHTS AND YACHTING IN LIVERPOOL..—The establishment of the Royal Mersey Yacht Club has at last induced several gentlemen in Liverpool to commence yacht building. Mr. Nevins, Messrs. Holme, Slater, and Crook, and Mr. Wilson, are all busily engaged i in the construction of yachts of various sizes. Mr. Geinuell, of the firm of Bowman, Grinnell, and Co., has. imported per the New World, from America, a small yacht of about ten tons burden, which is expected to prove a very fast sailer. She is furnished with every late improvement, including a moveable keel, by the elevation of which the craft will be enabled to glide safely , through narrow and shallow channels as well as to ride se curely in rough weather. On Monday lost, as a horse was landing from one of the steam-boats at the landing-stage, by some mis chance the rails were broken, and the horse was thrown on the broken rail, which pierced its bowels so deeply that they protruded, and it was put to death in a few minutes. Yesterday another accident occurred at the same place. A well-known stallion called Bay Middleton, belonging to Mr. Reyes, of Preston, was landing from the Rock Ferry, w h en the horse slipped through the smoothness of the plank caused by the rain, and it was thrown down into the water, and got under the paddles of the steamer. Some time elapsed before the animal could be got ashore, which it reached alive, but it died immediately after it was landed. Accieents to horses at the landing stage are now of every-day occurrence. —Liverpool Courier. C OMM ERCIAL AND NAVIGATION TREATIES.— The ef 71 , le of Bolivia, Gazette of Tuesday publishes the following list poten tates with which commercial treaties have been otty, , et Britein ; —llis Majeety the Emperor f trade by Majesty the King of the Belgisus, Ili II l of _ Austria, his Equator, the tl-te Senate of the Free Hanseatic city public of Costa Rica, his Msjesty the r• full ''' the Be- French Republic. the Free City of Frankfurt,of Be the Dominican Republic, the Republic bang of Denmark, the the Ki n g of Greece, the Repel:Ale of Guatemala, his Majesty of the Free Hanseatic city of the Senate liamb King of Hanover, the Republic of Liberia, his MajestY the Free Hanseatic city of Lub • iberia, the Senate of the Grand Duke of Alec] 1 b Lubeck, his Serene 'erl urg Schwerin, Highness the the Grand Duke of Meek' his Serene Highness public, his Majesty the liburg Stralitz, the Mexican Re lic of New Grenads, his King of the Netherlands, the Repub- Oldenburg, his highness Royal Highness the Grand Duke of the Republic of Peru, her the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, his Majesty the King ( f Majesty the Queen of Portugal; the German Conans ) Prussia and the other States forming Wurtemburg, ercial Union, viz. :—Bavaria, Sa"nY' Duchy of Hesse, Baden, the Electorate of Hesse, the Grand Union of Thuringia, the States forming the Customs and Com mercial United Provinces of 111Pugia, Nassau, and Frankfort; the Rio de la Plata, his 11114esty the Empe ror of All the Russian Majesty the King' his Majesty the King of Sardinia, his the king of Sweden and No of the Two Sicilies, M a j est yhis, i.o 4 the Grand Duke rway, his Imperial . ana_ y Highness of Tuscany, the United States of America, the Oriental _ Republic of the Uruguay , the Re p ublic of Venezuela. ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY, MAT 10.—Sir Roderick Murchison, the president, in the chair. Messrs. S. R. Bl ec k, ( 1 .7 . a B. Beaumont , an d C. Tagart, were officially introduced upon their election. Colonel Edward Sabine, R.A., F.R.S., Lieutenant J. Lyons WLeod, R.N., and M r . Henry Edwards were elected Fellows. The papers read were :-1. Captain Win. Allen, R.N., " Observations taken with the Aneroid in Syria and Palestine ;" 2. Mr. John Crawford, F.R.S., " Sketch of the Geography o f B orneo 3. Lieutenant Leicester , R.N., on the Volcanic Group of Milo." The president announced that the catalogue of the books and pamphlets in the library had been published since the last meeting, and that the anniversary meeting would be held at the Society's apartments on Monday, the 24th inst., when the royal medal for the ear would be delivered to Dr. John Rae and to Captain Henry Strachey, and the annual address on the progress of geographical science and discovery would be delivered. Tun DUNFERMLINE MURDER.--The men Fancoat, who was sentenced a few weeks ago, at the Perth Circuit Court, to be executed at Dunfermline on the 25th inet., for the murder of a fellow-workman in the streets of that town, by stabbing him with a knife, has received a respite. The letter containing the information to that effect reached Mr- Gillespie, the governor of the gaol in Dunfermline, on Friday evening. The result was brought about, we believe, chiefly through the exertions of the Rev. Dr. ISPMichael and other influential inhabitants of Dunfermline, who deeply commiserated the fate of Fancoat. who had pre viously borne a good character, but had unfortunately, in a state of drunken frenzy, been led to commit the rash act of taking away the life of a fellow creature—Glasgoui Herald. PROPOSED EMIGRATION 'OF ENGINEERS. The emigration committee of the Amalgamated Society to the trades in general have issued an address to their fellow. work men, in which, after detailing the well-known facts an d_ sequel of the engineers' s t r ike, they call for pecuni ary cont . -i -butions to enable the ir unem p lo y ed member s and theirrfa milies to emigrate, if desirous of doing so foss.--Mr. Henry Vincent has 1 tas week been visiting the electors, waiting upon them er the day, and addressing l arge , en t busiest; e P son ally duringectable mee ti n gs in their various localities in '_ , and respectable r esult has proved that his success the evening. The at garded as certain. the poll must be re- POISONING FISH --I) • urilig tie past week thou sands of freshwater fish e Caine, at Colchester, an ' immense tank of gas tar having been emptied into the river ' from the premises of the old gas works. A great number of busily engaged persons • . . them selves in capturing fish ofweight, which several pounds in were floating intsxic' sted upon the water, and many were the siegular expeuients resorted to for that purpose. We hear that after feasting themselves to their hearts' content upon the carcases of the thane delicacies, the gas tar pro duced an effect upon those who partook of them similar to 1 that it had upon the fish.—lpswich Express. L,TST.