The Sun. — London, England, 1852-05-27 00:00:00

LITERATURE. THE IRISH TO ILLUSTRATED HANDBOOK. If the admirable arrangements for the convenience of tour;sts to Ireland, by Chester and Holyhead, Which have been announced for the present summer, cannot fail to draw a numerous section of the travel ling community to the shores of our Sinter Island— bone of the visitors should set forth unprovided with this admirable pocket volume. It is the most service able Irish tour book that has yet appeared. It con tains a copious amount of information, excellently arranged and clearly and agreeably written, whilst the Pages are illustrated with some highly picturesque ' f lews. The maps are drawn with the utmost accuracy, one being devoted to each of the four tours, which embrace the most notable features of Irish scenery. These tours are—tbe first, from Dutslin to Cork, taking in Killarney, Glengariff, and Limerick ; the Second, the county of Wicklow, the pleasure-garden of Ireland ; the third, from Dublin to Galway and Connemara (the Irish Highlands) ; and, the fourth, to the r eg i ons o f Ulster, with its far-famed Giants' l ell useway, the beauties of the Mourne Mountains and 11 , •Js..,trevor, and the most flourishing town of isselfsist. Moreover, every possible information es to railway travelling, hotels, &c., is to be found in the pages of this volume, of the merits of : which we can safely speak from intimate acquaintance with the scenes and subjects of which it treats. " The design of its compilation," S ays the preface, " has been, in the first place, to show the rapid, convenient, and economic means that now exist for travelling between every part of the United Islands ; secondly, to point out, in brief terms, the 1:11 °re remarkable of the pi c t u r esque b eau ti es o f Ire -I_. nnd,'with passing allusions to the historical and other ( relations of each pl ace v i s i te d un d er t h e pr i vileges the tourist ticket ; and, lastly, to draw attention to th e vast field for enterprise now existing in various Parts of that country for the safe and profitable in vestment. of capital.' This design has been fully an d tliciently carried out in all its departments, and Mr. McGlashan may be congratulated on turning out so valuable and well got-up a work of national interest. THE VINNEI ~ Ole DERBY. So many of the prophets having been " out" re specting the winner of the great race yesterday, it is interesting to observe that one, at least, evinced upon this matter a very extraordinary degree of prescience. Without directly assuming to himself the power of vaticination, the writer of a pamphlet, noticed some months back in the columns of The San, and calling hi mself " The Wizard of the North," named the three first horses that actually passed the winning p_ost --Daniel O'Rourke, Barbarian, and Chief Baron icholson. The pamphlet in question was entitled Who's to Win the Derby ?" and was published by Tickers, as far back as January. Of the Chief %- /on the Wizard of the North said, " We come now to Chief Baron Nicholson, game to the back bone, as his two dead heats with Kingston prove. The heats are said to have been run remarkably quick, the dis tance being performed in 1 minute 29 seconds; but this cannot be so, as, in 1850, Payment won the S ame race in 1 minute 14 seconds, but then there was difference of 41bs. in her favour. The Chief Baron `r r,itto odwoo a very bad fig u r e i n the Malcombe Stak e s at d, bat he was so decidedly shin-sore that he could not raise a gallop, and ought not to have started at all • lie is wonderfully improved upon his best two year old form, and as he is undergoing a very careful P r eparation in first-rate hands, though per baps no t Bo great as your Day's or your Scott's, we Would soon er b ack him at 30 to 1, than the favourite lae 4 sa t i o d 1." Of the second horse at the winning post be " Barbarian is a big horse, but he is said to from u nstilted tll to the Derby course. He won his race stand' e Indian Warrior by accident; but, notwith doll mg that circumstance, he will have to carry a . op of specie for the Irish division, and a famous )(Ic keY has been secured for him in conse cillecce This jockey rode Hobble N o bl e . S t ill plore remarkable was . the writer's prediction 41 regard to th e actua l w i nner of the Derby Dan 1852, Daniel O'R ourke. In regard to •oan h e spoke as follows Daniel O'Rourke is a e ftlipact, though mean looking little horse, of the Eu clid build, and gifted with great speed for a short distance. We expect to see him retrieve his early defeats, if not in the Derby, at least in some other e qually good thing." It must be confessed that the Freod fortune of Mr. Bowes was owing not only to the excellence of the horse itself, but to the masterly 413el icYjag of Frank Butler, who may be said to have ie'l4lf uolutely lifted his horse in, at the critical m oment, a length beyond Barbarian ! " WHERE ARE THEY NO Th „ (b'rom Eliza Cook's Journal) r s came with fl o ods of golden gladness ti n ;`",,en . Childho o d dwelt upon our laughing lips ; has dimmed the dancing beams with sadness, ""' n u Manhood murmurs through the grey eclipse, " Where are they now?" What scented leaies and glowing buds were flinging Their f a i ry odours round our early day 4111 t Manhood looks while bloom and branch are _spri ng i ng, end sighs amid the brightest on its way, " Where are they now ?" What starry hopes illumed our dreaming spirits When Life and Love were beautiful and new ; &lilt Age, with all the wisdo m i t i n h er it s , Breathes o'er the molten gems of morning dew, " Where are they now ?” Oh. pensive words ! how blissful treasure serge to • man ° a • tr` • to as a leing.lost thing . &Low many heart that pours Life's richest measure Must learn thy plaintive notes, and faintly sing, " Where are they now?" Braze CG OK. 9 RAI .LWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS. SO UTH - EASTERN RAILWAY. Gross traffic receipts f or passengers 182 • t'd 'goods, week endi ng Ma y 22 , D itto, May 24: 1851 ••X13,242 19 6 ... ." 13,075 18 7 ... £167 011 Increase 1852 Lo ndon Terminus,in May 24, 1852. TI"'IINDON AND NORTFI-WESTERN RAILWAY.— , Return of ,-4amc for the week ending -6lay 23 : _assengers, parcels, mails, &c. £25,010 211 alerchandise 17,724 4 0 Catt.la 940 14 1 Total Z 1.4,575 1 0 Corresponding week last year 50,203 18 6 .„14 EN box AND S OUTR-WESTERN RAILW AY.—AMOIIIIt Of 're4fic for the week ending May 23 Passengers ... Goods -- ... £8,988 13 1 ..• :4581 13 4 •. - . ' Total ... •.. ... X 11,550 6 5 Corresponding week la.st year... 12,723 19 71 Trtz,Gx9ixr istenrualts RAILWAY.... ( Miles in work, 2231, --4et'ilin of Tr'affie for the Week ending May 16, 1852 : Paissenger, parcels, earriage3 librseB ;' ,lo gs • and mails - ' .£s 113 16 0 Merchandise and minerals ... ' 1 7 Cattle „. ... - ...5 , 7 35 227 4 11 miles) : Total .. ----- Corresponding week, 1851 (23 ••• 4 11,076 2 6 Passengers, parcels, &c, T . ...2.____,41.0 11.___O Merchandise, Cattle, & c . ••• 47,023 7 2 Total ... ... X l O 4 3 18 0 r , LANCASHIRE AND YORKSIIIR H R AF , ~,,' 3 . - P,.., B4 •)—Traffic for week ending May 23 - Z A L -- (260 mike -16,374 Corresponding week in last year (26 0 18 6 Miles open) - "' ''' •••X1 5,247 7 9 No i l . ark / S TAFFO RDSHIRE RAILWAY..., (mile -4 .nrn of traffic for the week ending m 2, , i 6 8 . °Pen,112.).. „ Railway and canal , 5,01'4 k 0 -,„ Co rrespon di n g week last year .., -,036 0 b.:MoteThe above is exclusive of the receipts 0 available ;`, l 'der the agreemen t with the London and North ,a ---- 4 a i i „_ Western waY Company. BUSTER AND HOLYHEAD RAILWAY.....Tram e for the e nding May 23 : m An.T LINE. Passengers •• Parcel s , H e C. and D. ..• Goods, cattle, &c. ••• Mails ..• ••• • £1,350 18 4 ••• 101 9 0 ••• 696 810 ▪ 575 0 0 Total ... ... £2,653 16 2 MOLD. passengers Parcels,H. C. and D. ••• Goods, cattle, &c. £3B 16 4 1 17 1 106 12 2 Total STEAM-BOATS. Passengers ••• -- Pa.reela, U .••. C. and D. .•• £147 5 7 ... £290 16 0 27 3 8 R., Total .. £317 19 8 —O ll , B ••• .•• elldin g play 23 e tur, tliT RAmwAr.—Traffic for the Wed Passe .1852:_ d b e n (11,214),pareels,horse 2 , Goods ca rriages ... ... ... £1,043 6 0 -; cattle, &e.... ... ... 921 4 1 Tot a l 1,964 10 1 . , May 25 Perth, 'week in last year... 1,780 5 b . 1 852. Col o , °F Tr 'AND BANDON RAILWAY.—(2O miles open)—Return aine for the week eadin ke reh May 22 •, , 1 :£104 ^ - Pmsengc7s,parcols, an dise, cattle ,c• ••5 9 45 14 3 Total —. £l5O 0 0 C orresp,,, •• ••• . ' - ""ing Week in 1851 (10 miles open) :- 30 6 0 Paasenger, parcel 4, &c. .. . tler chandis e , cattle, &c.... —. 06 1 Total . _ 30 12 1 r, v ALITABTA ~.‘,01.43tbp ' Henry Leeke, HINT FOR TUE ADMIRALTY AND ALL ‘-kalin 'll3-IN-Cf mm.—Commodore ir . be 4 ander-in coin eery Populard all - Chief of the Ealt Indian s _ avy, bids fair to man in Bombay. He has ordere n. vartandora of vessels of war On entering harbour, to f t t h - N t° the Blaster Attendant's office, for the use of d e kiln lc and reporters of thelist loai i3 11:1 Y of news; and all co l m ' tna ' nders of the Indian nay) of passengers an , pati ci lv h° may come across any ship conveying mails sand o. ab„._ which have met with any accident, are to v_ 4 l and Oiler to bring on the said mails and parcels; ~t hea . o.,,Qfnodore telling them that in acting thus they will 1 6,4i'elatt)elipee....rforttnst totr,duty and rendering an obligation to SPORTING NOTES. No. CCXXXIV. THE RACE FOR TGE DERSY. WITH A GLANCE AT THE OAKS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR,—Never in my experience have I witnessed a more disagreeable racing nay than was that on which the seventy-third Derby way decided. The rein .com menced early in the morning; and although it abated slightly towards mid-any, yet a drizzUng sort of light mist descended during the whole afternoon. A contem porarythat the course was by no eneann h eavy; quite auto the it was heavi er t h an i n t h e ho o v b e s r e , r f v e r i , Flying Dutchmen's . sear. At the road the ground was particularly sodden, some of the aniands having slipped in nearly a foot deep; end, altogether, from the beginning to the end the turf was very holding. The attendance, though very large, eves nothing to be compared with what it would have been had it been a fine day. .Ater a couple of false starts, the twenty-seven horses that congregated at the post get off beaudfully, and laid tolerably well together to Tattenhem-corner, where they begau to tail oft Shortly alter Robbie Notle took the lead, and maintained it fur some distance, when he was headed by Barbarian, who carried on the running to the ersd of the Stand, where Butler, on Daniel, made his final effort, coming with a tremendous rush, end winning on the post by half a length. Chief Baron Nicholson, who ran in front from the Road, was beaters three parts of a length for second place, and had a neck the advantege of ilobbie Noble, who was in difficulties at the dkaecia. Alcoran, in a good place from the be ginning of the race, never got into a better, but finished as he commenced, fifth; King of Trumps was sixth; and Stockwell, who was beaten at the distance, I believe ran in seventh. The pace was extremely slow—the slowest on record for the Derby, having been four seconds slower than in the Merry Monarch's year, seven worse than Pyrrhus the Firet's, nine and a half than Cossack's, fourteen seconds inferior to Surplice's (the fastest known), two to the Flying Dutchman's. twelve to Veld geur's, and eleven to Teddington's. I am inclined to think, that in very many material points the running of the horses yesterday during the remainder of the sea son will be reversed in most cases. For instance, I can not take it as Hobbie Noble's true running yesterday; neither can I consider it as any criterion of Harbinger or Stockwell's abilities, the latter being evidently not the thing; or the King of Trumps, who was by no means up to the nnsrk. In my final remarks on the Derby I spoke in a dis paraging manner of the winner's chance, notwithstand ing that in the columns of The Sun at the rather distant date of one and three-quarter years ago I gave him out as ono of the most promising foals for the Derby last past, and have since at intervals spoken considerably in his favour; and, despite his two beatings last year at Doncaster and Newmarket, both of which I set down as nil, have stuck to him throughout the winter, as the remarks I made about Mae in my analysis of the Derby, written in December and January last, will testify. It was to this effect:— "Mr. Bowes's Daniel O'Rourke, by Irish Birdcatcher, out of Forget me• not, was one of my earliest fancies • for this - race. He was one of the first foals of 1849, having been slipped on the 9th of January: asyet he has been extremely unlucky in the only races he has run. At Doncaster, when not quite the thing.' he ran secon d to Augur for the Champagne Stakes, beating Bay Rosalind and six others His last appearance at the Newmarket Houghton Meeting was a wretched affair, he there ran fifth to Red Hind for the Criterion Stakes. This, as I ooserved at the time, was not his true running, he being in about as good form as Newminster teas on the Del by-doy ; in other words, no form at all. lam inclined to look very favourably upon this horse's chance, and consider that he is the pick of Scott's stable ; and will yet, if he stands the preparation. convince the world that he is not to be' sneezed at: Be is well worth an investment at the present price." My good opinion of Daniel remained unshaken until his wretched performance in the race for the Two Thousand Guineas Stakes, for which I h a d selected him as the winner; his lunitieg here, however, knocked my calculations completely overboard; and, although i n t h e last week or ten days the Scott party have been talking • about having the winner in their stable, and with a full recollection of the Newaainster game last year, still I would not reinstate him to the position he formerly held in my estimation. Those who took my a d v i ce and got "on" at hundreds, sixty. sixes, fifties, &c., co u ld nave bad but little chance of getting out of their money, as no very favourable opportunity has offered of hedging profitably until within the lust few days, and so have beau obliged to become winners against their The field for the Oaks will, in all probability, consist of Songstress, Lady Awyott, Bird-on -the-Wing, Gos samer, Sally, Trossoau, Red Rind, Attack, Bay Rosa lied, Kate, Plumstead, Lady-in-Waiting, Bilberry, Gal realm, and perhaps two or three others. I shall say the race would lie entirely with TROSSEAtr, RED HIND, and boNasTnEss; but as to who will turn out the best I aus.afratd I cannot foreshadow;' probably the northern couple will beat the Goodwood nag. I are, Sir, yours, &e., THE SPIRIT OF THE TURF. May 27, 1852. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. EPS 0 M ACM—WEDNESDAY. Since the "Bloomsbury" year, when the Derby was won in a snow storm, there has not been so great a damp thrown over the gaiety of the greatest of our me tropolitan holidays as was produced by the incessant rain which, beginning at six o'clock yesterday morning, continued determinately until whhin a short time of the race. A fine Derby-day is a universal holiday—a wet Derby a day of disappointment to thousands. The glories of "the road" were yesterday totally destroyed, and although from a very early hour vehicles of every description were pouring along, there was an absence of spirit or enjoyment, and the sun, which for six succes sive weeks or drought had been smiling, now struggled faintly through a wet blanket of clouds that overhung the pleasure-seeking mnbitude, who, with a determina tion not to be disappointed, were working their way to the Downs. Tho Brighton Railway Company, which had anticipated and prepared for an immense traffic, must have found their receipts at least fifty per cent. 13.310 w their calculations ; thousands, it is true, were conveyed, but there was no fight , ing for seats, nor was there any difficulty in obtaining conveyance trom the Epsom terminus to the course. In spite, however, of the elements, there was a great crowd on the Downs. If the hill, one of the principal features of the Epsom panorama, showed an unmistakable fall- Mg-off in .the number of carriages, the Grand Stand', and the smaller ones on its right, showed little climb:in, Lion in the number of visitors. The devotees of the turf were not • likely to be deterred by rain from being present at a race in which their interests were so heavily involved, and it may be questioned if they ever mustered in greater numbers. The show of royal, titled, and fashionable company included his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, attended by Major the Hon. James Macdonald; the Duke of Richmond, the Marquises of Downehire, Clanricarde, Exeter, and Dregheda; the Earls of Besborough, Dur ham, Euston, Cnesterrield, Airlio, Uxbridge, Zetland, and March; Lords—Maidstone, Anson, Enfield, Lascel: les, Torrington, Exmouth, Henry Gordon Lennox; Alexander Lennox, Ribblesdale, G. Manners, Pagel, F. Fitzroy, and (1. Lennox; Sirs—R. P. Clinton, R., Peel, J. B. Mill, G. A rm it ege , R. Pi go t, C. Rushout,.H. Moux, W. W. Wynn, and IL Campbell. Honotirables— Admiral Panlett, General Anson, Colonel Stanley, S. Herbert, Colonel 13oyle, Major Pitt, Major Needham, T. Stoner, Captain Rous, H. Forester, Agar Ellis, F. Villiers, Colonel Peel, Colonel Newton. Messra.—Gre vine, Payne, Nevill, Balfour, Rush, Smythe, Mills, S. Graham, A. Heathcote, Milner, W. H. Williamson, iSleiklatre, Boa - es, Wigram, &c. There was a remark able falling off in the attendance of ladies, and their absence added materially to the- gloom and dulness of the day. The racing commenced with the Carew Stakes, to which little attention was paid either in or out of the ring, and which, from the same cause that delayed the starts on Tuesday, was much behind time. This having been decided, the preliminaries commenced for the Derby, for which twenty-seven starters were duly telegraphed —two less than were enumerated on the card. The only change of any moment in the jockeys, was the substitution of W. Sharpe for Whitehouse; and the only alteration in the betting deserving special re-' ference was in the two favourites, the Danebury nag obtaining an unequivocal lead as soon as the ring was formed i n t h e enclosures. The horses having taken their canters proceeded to the past, and at half•past three, after a couple of failure!, were anything Canoe, sattatted in good order. The race, which was run result but a great pace, was, from the ells= fftrtoomfour and terminated in the triumph of an thought in the ' lve were the , whose previous running a very different might been anticipated. It was at first ex _ e ta . nd that Barbarian had won, and loud Party, and vrhPenr ; t alons of triumph amongst the Irish had first eau tnusiastie— al. thewas ascertained that Daniel O'Rourke it betraying was scarcely l ess . e j n u s d .ge's eye, the delight expressed throwing up hi s e although by a:I" one Noble Marquis Hat and well to add that Daniel strained gratification, rish stallion, was bred in winnyerot a symptoms of note- O'Rourke, Englani; he i 3 the Property genthman who has to thsiiszr(r)tee was recovered bred two other Derby beactlock the sports ' stone. 8 , Mundig and Cother- The time that was lost up us to ac o c o ort of the . in those that succeeded, and by ps altogether absence e ate were concluded. We subjoin - the be attributed to the running that circumstances enabled eet—that detailed, wished, must or p perhaps so n i s e f accommodation for the reporters, who certainly have no o reason to look upon their work at Epsom as a " labour a it s is couldno so 0 e of love." sous. each, with 40 added; 'rho Gutty/ Strikes of 3 three 014, 74 6th; leer, Sit 7th; five and upwards, Bst vrs I 114; niates aliowet. -n beaten allowed rlb• started twice, cod ben , . J , having thrice or more, 71b, • the winner to be sold for 1501., in the usual way. - Three quarters of a mile. b (Kendall) 1 Mr. Gulliver's Lady Blanc he, 3 yrs, fist 51 ' Mr. Morris's Priam the Third, 3 yrs, 7st 61b (Basbam) 2 V 1 ) 3 Count Batthyany's Wee Itickey, , Bst 81b(i . Mila e Mr. Parr' s Little Bo•peeP, 3 Y", 7st 41b (Wakufield) 0 ... .../s ? ff,rt) 0 Mr. Ben s t ear e s Th e R og ue, 4 vre, 7st Ses .... . t) 0 Mr. Southby' e A pp l eton, 3 yrs, fits 101 h ... .... (b Di Captain Rowley' s Y e ll ow B o y, 3 yrs, 7';t•••(Gharlton) 0 Betting 6 to 4 egst Pr i am t h e Third, 5 to 2 apt Little 80-peep, 4 to-1 '2gst Lady Blanche. Won by a neck; a length and a hall between sec( , nd and third. Run in .1 min. 19 secs. rho Derby Stskes 01 7 50 Fors. each, h ft, for three yrs olds; colts, B.t 71b; fillies, Bst 21h; the owner of the second horse to receive 100 secs, out of the stakes, and the winner to pay 100 sore. towards the police, find 50 hovs, to the judge. Mile and a half on the Now Derby Course. (181 Subs.) Adr, Bow es's eh o Daniel O'Rourke ......... (F, Butler) I Mr. Bradshaw's,.l3 c Barbarian - (Ellett) :2 Mr. C. liarien'i Chief I.3).ron"Nicholson(Kitchener) 3 151 r. Merry's b c Flobbio'Noble The folloti'idg ti:lsó Starieil, ha: were not placed:-- Lord ZAlanil's eh c Augur (11..)gers) 0 Mr..Fiirrancr,'s b c Joe Milli r (Dockertiy) 0 Lord Enfield's br c Horcebrewed (Sly) 0 General Ausim's b e King Pepin . (Charlton) 0 Mr. Howard's b c Little Harry (A. Day) 0 Lord Ribblesdale's b e Kingston (G. Brown) 0 L Jrd Ribblesdale's hr c T,'lo Nabob . (Pettit) 0 Mr. P. Booth's b c (S. Mann) 0 Duke of Richm,,ud's Harbinger (Flatinan) 0 Lord Orford's br c•Alcoran (Birtholornew) 0 Major Martyn's b c Convulsion .........( W. Abdale) 0 Mr. W. Stebbing's ch c Alfred the Grest...(Butraby) 0 Mr. J. M. Stanley's b c (Pearl) Mr. Meiklarn's bc : Womersley ...... (Templeman) 0 Mr. G. Barton's bl c The Sarveyor (J. wlarson) 0 Lord Exeter's b c Stockwell (Norman) 0 Lord Exeter's al c Ambrose (B.)Ycz,) 0 Mr. J. Clark's b c Elect (h h) (Whitobocite) 0 Duke of Bedford's ch c llaicsti ne .........(Howlett) 0 Mr. R. S. Walker's br c_The Treasurer ...(Simpson) Lord Eglintora's b c Claverhouse (Marlow) 0 Mr. S. Davidson's br c Vortex (Maton) 0 Mr. R. Harriaon's ch c King of Trumps ..... (Lye) 0 BETTING AT STARTING. 7 to 2 agst Little Harry—taken 4 w 1 apt -Hubble Noble 11 to 1 sgst Iliabinger 11 to 1 aget Alcoran—taken 12 to 1 agst Claverhouse—taken 14 to 1 agst Kingston—taken 16 to 1 agst Stoclwell 20 to 1 sgst Alfred the Great—taken 20 to 1 agst Womersley 25 to 1 agst Daniel O'Rourke—taken 25 to 1 agst Joe Miller 25 to 1 .agst -A ugur 25 to 1 agst Orelio 40 to 1 sgst any other Lord Exeter declared to win with Stockwell. A good start was effected, after a couple of failures; Little Harry immediately after leaving the post, taking a slight lead, cleiely waited on by Stockwell, Hobbie Noble, King Pepin, and Harbinger, King of Trumps and Orelio next, and the whole lot, with the exception of Treasurer and Maidstone, lying up in very close order. With one or two changesrof no moment they ran to the bend, where Stock well and King Pepin gave way, and Harbinger took the second place, and Hobbie Noble the third, next to him, in a body, coming Womersley, Chief Baron Nichol son, King of Trumps, Barbarian, Daniel O'Rourke, Al coran, Augur, and Stockwell. Harbinger was beaten in making the turn, and at the road Little Harry showed symptoms of distress. A few strides farther he gave way, and Barbarian took a decided lead, Hobbie Noble and Chief Baron Nicholson lying second and third on the lower side, and Daniel O'Rourke fourth, on their right. The race from the half-distance was left to this lot, Daniel O'Rourke, who came with a rush a few strides from the chair, winning by half a length, Barba rian beating Chief Baron Nicholson a length for the second place, and the latter beating Hobble Noble by a head ; Alcoran was fifth, and King of Trumps sixth. The race was run in 3 min. 2 secs. The Epsom Town Plate of 50 soya. (handicap) for all ages; the winner .of any race after the publication of the weights to carry slb extra. One mile. Dalic of Bedford's Bordeaux, Bst 121 b ...(F. Butler) 1 Mr. Wotton's Marchioness, 6 yrs, 7st 81b (Charlton) 2 Mr. Pottinger's Juggler, 6 yrs, 7st 51b (G. E. Sharp) 3 Mr. Parker's Ventre-a-terre, 4 yrs, Est 101 b (Collins) 4 Betting--,-5 to 4 agst Bordeaux, and 3to 1 agst any other. 'The favourite made all the running, and won very cleverly by half-a-length, the Juggler a bad third. Run in 1 min. SO secs. The Great Exhibition Plato of 100 sous. (handicap) for all ages; the winner of any race subsequent to the puelieation. of the weights to carry 51bs extra. One mile and a quarter. Mr. Wilson's Ella, 4 yrs, sst (Kendall) 1 Mr. E. R. Clark's Plumstead, 3 yrs, Est 3ib (Garvey) 2 Mr. Barling's Harriett, 6 yrs, 6st . ....(We115) 3 Mr. Balchin's Bacchanalian, aged, 7st 41b (Kitchener) 0 Mr. S. Douglas's Don Pedro, 4 yrs, 7st (E. Ford) 0 Mr. Hodgson's Coral, 3 yrs, 6st 71b (Calmer) 0 Mr. Hayshain's Domino, 3 yrs, 64 41b ...(Rickards) 0 Mr. W. Hale's Bilberry, 3 yrs, 6 , S (Fordham) 0 Mr. Begbie's Aitchnone (car. sst 31b) (T Sherwood) 0 Betting-7 to 4 agst Ella, 3to 1 agst Plumstead, and 7 to 1 agst any other. Won easily by two lengths; three lengths, between second and third; Coral fourth. Run in 2 min. 25 sees. The Burgh Stakes of 3 ‘sovs. each, with 50 added; three yr3old, 7st 101 b; four, 83t 71b.; five and uwwards, Bst 81b; in , tres allowed 51b, and geldings 31b. The winner to be sold for 100 SOW., and allowances if to be sold for less. Halt a mile. Mr. Shrirnpton's Arlette, Est 12Ib k6O/.) (Barns) 1 Mr. C. Hornsby's Jock o' Sot, 7bt lllb (401.) (Hiett) 2 Mr. Goodwin's Julia. 4 yrs, 6st 91b (401.) (T. Smith) 3 Duke of Richmond's Buckhound, 7st (400 (Garvey) 0 Mr. Grevillo's Greengage, 3 yrs, 7st slb (Harding) 0 Mr. Payne's Cotton Lady, Est 51b (601.) (Rickards) 0 Mr. Edney's Incurable, bit 91b (401.) (C. Bradley) 0 Betting-5 to 4 agst Joe o' Sot, 4to I agst Julia, and 6to 1 agst Arlette. Won easily by a length, the same between second and third, Buekhound forth. Run in 50 sees. LATEST BETTING ON THE COURSE. OAKS. 7to 4 agst Songstress (2 to 1 Bto 1 agst Trousseau (10 1 taken freely), to 1 taken freely). 5 to 1 Red Rind I Bto 1 Gossamer. I 10 to 1 Attack. CRICKET. THE MARYLEBONE CLUB AND GROUND n. THE GENTLEMEN OF THE MANCHESTER CLUB, WITH THREE PLAYERS. This interesting match was resumed on Tuesday morn ing at Lord's, and brought to a conclusion on the same afternoon. t proved to be one of the best matches which have for many. years been witnessed at Maryle bone, and as it approached its termination there was great eXoiteraent manifested by all parties, especially at the moment—the Marylebone having three wickets to go down and 12 runs to obtain—when Hunt, who had pre viously made two beautiful catches, missed takitik Nixon in the slip. This would have been a most capital catch if made, for it was a long reach, and would have thrown additional odds in favour of the Manchester gentlemen. Nixon having been thus missed the two wickets in ran off the 12 rune, and so won the day by three wickets. The fielding on the part of Manchester was excellent throughout, whilst the bowling of Hunt and Wisden in the last innings was very fine. The play having been resumed by the appearance of Sir T. Moncrieffe and Mr. Bathurst at the wickets; the former was soon bowled by Wisden without an increase of the m thes r. coßrea,thaandrstw,ahwsosuecyceere,ded by the Earl of Winter to having presently contrived to run out, the Marylebone score only amounted to 126, an increase of two upon the total of the pre ceding day. Manchester then entered on their second hands, but only made 42, seven of the wickets owing their demolition to the fine bowling of Grundy. Hunt obtained 15 of this total, scoring two fours, a three, and four singles. Next to his number on this aide were those of ar. Belhouse, who made 9 by two threes, a e, fiveand a a,i s n i g n l g e l s of Mr. Armstead, 7 —namely, a two was composed of! a tw nd o, s amount ing les. of lch e 7 .one edfi five e f a l n V d i sad coupleen, total of this innings was only 42, and therefore the Marylebone embarked en their second bands to obtain 83 to tie, or 84 to win. The latter result they achieved, w o o s f e nut it is very questionable whether that success would have attended them had the " catch," to which allusion has been made, missed by Hunt, been effected. How ever, with three wickets remaining, the Marylebone Cricket Club won. All the scores in the innings were small, with the exception of Mr. Ilaygarth'd 20, b y a three, three twos, and a balance of ones; of Adam's 20, in three fours, three twos, and a couple of singles; and my Lord Winterton's 7, thus made up—a three, a two, and a brace of ones. The score, at its final close, pre sented the subjoined appearance:— - IiCANCHESTER. Hunt, b Nixon S. Taylor, Esq., -b Nixon G. F. Cooke, Esq., b Grundy.., 40 b Grundy Wisden, b Grundy Dakin, s NicbolPon, b Nixon... 35 b Grundy .... W. Armstead, Esq., b Nixon... 9 not out G. Howard, Esq., b Nixon . . 10 b Nixon .. 0 J. E. Rowley, Esq.,, c Adams, bGrundy ... . 0 .. ... 9 b Grundy ... ... 1 T. T. Belbouse, Esq., not out 11 cHaygarth,bGrundy 9 T. Smelt, Esq., b Nixon ...... 0 1b w Grundy .. ...... 0 R. A. Barlow, Evq , b Grundy 0 c Nicholson,bGrundy 0 Byes, 2 : leg, 5 ; wide, 1; no ball, 1 167 ~VIARYLEBONE CLUB. A. Haygarth, Esq., b Wisden... 5 c Hunt, b Wisden 2O W. Nicholson, Esq., b Wisden.. 22 b Wisden Nixon, b Wisden 4 not out . . 1 Grundy, c Armstead, b Hunt l2 c Hunt, b Wisden ... 4 Adams..c Smelt, b Wisden 3B b Hunt F. DI. Eden, Esq., b Wisden ... 3 not out Lord Guernsey, c Taylor, b Wisden l4 b Hunt R. Kynaston, Esq., b Rowley.. 10 c Hunt, b Rowley... 1 Sir T. Moncrieflo, b Wisden ... 4 k. Bathurst, Esq., run 0ut...,. 1 Earl of Winterton, not out 2 s Hunt, b Wisden ... 7 Byes, 5 ; leg, 1; wide, 2 ; no Byes, 6 ; leg,4 ; wide, balls, 3 126 Thus the Marylcbono Club won by three wickets. ROYAL MARINES. WOOLWIC#, MAY 26.—The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty have signified their pleasure that the standard height for recruits for the Royal Marine corps shall he 5 feet 7 inches until further orders. party consisting of one corporal and six privates fw0 , 1 1 : 06001 - rw m vil, b c. haorrioc)n3 r c id r e,d (i M , le e tai a nt t ie y 4 : y s n n :t lt ia tti, i o n nt - e ; i t h T i r n i t s ( nett, he Baltic st , after a run oefainl3"dayrse,P on, although, as in York, at her destination, ship: This vessel a • this head yesterday, Bosco of frtsth the Great re a a r t r ß iv; i i t l ai a n t st N ea e na ! than New York from Liver n is ! l aid! arrived at the same time as the Canada while the p w a e ddr s l t ee ated the article wader Liverpool, least one day's shorter suit has engines of Eoooo.hoadded to this, the screw pe l paddle-wheel : 7 1: ::b o w e eelr toursot enalyinetor register.propelha s 1 steam-ship 3,470 tons register, glues of 800-horse power to pro complete in favour of s zt h i i . r ib S o fatesman, must be admitted that thent.r_iuumep, place, Lenonf9rmer the screw•shijo Great Britai GOLD FROM AIISTRALIA..— T a b n e d arrived in the docks from Geelong Aus tralia, has brought '25 boxes of gold dust from Melbourne, boxes of gold dust from the latter of gold ti.4,l)ldcli6tlrent houses in the metropolis. Six bore s dust have been brought by the Stirlingshire, and three Launceston, V an ka pac ,ges 1 Divrads Land.ofgold by the Marmion, from I AMERICAN NEWS. LIVERPOOL, MAY 26. By the United States' moil steam ship Baltic, Captsia Comstock, which arrived in the Mersey shortly before 8 o'clock this morning, we have ad vices from New York to the 15th inst. She brings 75,000 dolls. on freight. The screw principle of propulsion has achieved a triumph in the case of the Great Britain. Tnis vessel left the Mersey on the Ist instant, and not withstanding very unfavourable weather, which ren dered her sails nearly useless, she accomplished the passage in 13 days 4 hours. On the 12th she ran a distance of 301 miles in 24 hours—a speed hitherto unattained by screw steamers. An apparently well informed correspondent of the New York Herald, writing from Washington on the 13.1), intimates that he had seen a letter from a dis tinguished gentleman in Mexico to a. friend in that airy, which contained important and interesting infor neetion as to the relations existingbetween the United States and Mexico. It was understood in the city of Mexico that President Arista had, on the 10th of April, after the rejection of the Tehuantepec treaty, addressed a letter to President Fillmore, stating all the facts of the difficulty as regards the position as sumed by Mr. Letcher, the American Minister, who was informed long before the treaty was rejected by the American Congress that it had no chance of being ratified—there being but one ' man in either House of Congress in favour of it. But it was intimated to him that the Government was willing to grant the right of way across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec to the New Orleans Com pany, if they would cease to press the Garay grant claim—a claim which the Mexican people were unani mously opposed to, on the ground not only of its ex piration, but that it was obtained' by bribery, and conveyed a vast quantity of land-10 leagues on both sides of the road—for the purpose of colonisation. Mr. Letcher wrote to Mr. Benjamin, the President of the Tehuantepec Company, requesting him to visit Mexico and try to arran ge th e matter, by a b an d on i ng the Garay grant, and accep ti ng a new grant f or th e right 'of way alone. But M r . B enjamin d i d no t go . The Tehuantepec treaty was rejected by the Mexican Congress with but two dissentient votes. Imme diately thereupon Mr. Letcher addressed to the Mexican Government the ultimatum of the Government of the United States, which declared that the Tehuantepec treaty, recognising the va lidity of the Garay grant, must be confirmed by the Mexican Government. No other arrangement would for a moment be listened to. It was under such circumstances that President Arista addressed himself directly to President Pillimore. lie ac knowledged the weakness of Mexico, and the great ness of the United States, and made a touching appeal to the magnanimity of a great nation not to force a wrong upon a weak people. Ho de clared there must be some mysterious influence which induced the United States to endeavour to force Mexico to ratify a treaty reviving a defunct grant. Tae Government and people of Mexico had every desire' to throw open the Tehuantepec com munication, and he instanced the fact that the day previous to his writing a Bill had been introduced into the Mexican Congress authorisin g th e Govern ment to offer the right of way across the Isthmu s t o any company which would build a road; but, as for the Garay grant, it would not be recognised, even if the United States forced upon Mexico the full extent of the threat contained in the ultimatum— war. The Herald's correspondent did not know whether Arista's letter had reached the President, but he supposed not, as the new Mexican Minister had not been presented. Further details had transpired O relati ve t o t h e con tents of Chevalier Hulsemann s note to the President, from which it appears that the letter is dated. April 28, and states that in November and December Mr. Hulseinann had remonstrated with the Secretary on account of his communications and interviews, and their subjects, being treated with ridicule and derision in certain public journals of New 'York and Phila delphia. The Secretary's treatment of the Koss u th affair, and particularly his speech at the K ossu th Congressional Banquet, bad made it the duty of Mr. Hulsemann to ascertain whether such sentiments as the Secretary had mad e expression of were th ose o f explanations eG en o a v t e ia rn h m a Government assurances Unitedtofthemade to him on these States. • The ver b a l occasions had been followed by no . change in the manner in which his transactions with this Government were treated by the pub lic press. That, particularly, some articles pub lished in New Orleans had recently been the oc casion of the Austrian Ministry suffering considerable unpleasantness and annoyance. Under these cir cumstances he considered it his duty to withdraw from any further relations with the Government, which could only be continued through the medium of one who was a promoter of Kossuth and un friendly to the Austrian Government ; and there fore that Mr. Belmont, Austrian Consul-General at New York, would hereafter, if occasion required, he the means of such communications as the Austrian Government might have to Make. The Chevalier then thanks the President for his kindness, urbanity, &c., and asks the secretary to accept assurance of his high consideration, &c. The letter is said to cover several psges of foolscap, and to be written in very ill-humour. The reply is by the acting Secretary of State, and is dated May 3d. It acknowledges the receipt of the Chevalier's letter very briefly, and merely says that such communications as the Austrian Government may have occasion to make through Mr. Belmont will be respectfully received. e. Among our miscellaneous items we find' that at Rochester the democrats had called a mass Meeting, relative to: the enlargement of the Erie Canal, to carry out which project a loan was pr o poied to be effected on the credit of the State. The Mount Morris dam on the Genessee Valley Canal. had given way and put a stop to the navi ga tion.' It would . take some' weeks, and a large amou n t of 'M on ey, to repair the break. A' bridge, built at Darien, Georg i a , for the Panama Railway, to span th e Oh ag res river, was a about to be shipped to its destination. Considerable inter e st had been created by a decision in the New York State Court of Appeals, bys w hich the Canal.; lawewleagsadteeca in laredfavtoaabreoufnEcioirnore for the Presidencynistitutional. D bad been elected in Tioga count y. s . The Anti-Slavery Society at Rochester had passed some very strung resolutions condemnatory of slavery. The Louisiana Legislature bed passed a law pro hibiting the emancipation of slave s in that State, ex cept on condition of their being sent out of the United States. A Bill recently reported in the Maryland Legislature has a similar provision. A very stringent Bill against free negroes h a d been reported in the Virginia Legislature, the enforcement of which would drive them out of the State. In the New York stock market there was an active demand for the various descriptions of securities, at firm prices. There was no in qu i ry e for specie for ship ment, the present rates of exchange, with the low price of bullion in England, n ot admitting of expor tation, unless at a loss to the shipper, Exchange on London was quoted at 110 to 1101 ; Paris, 5.161 to Amsterdam, 40i to 41 . , h 35 7 36 : Bremen, 78/ to 781. M on ' ey eeamourg , to abun dant than ever. The available- was more orhe bank s were on the increase, and ma c h difficultymeans o was t t ex e rienced in employing their hem,— balances. Among p the private bankers the same state of things existed, and lower rates of interest wer e t h e inevitable result. For strictly prime business paper there was no diffi culty in obtaining money at 41 t o 5 per cent., while loans had been effected as law as 3- • r'Or cotton there had been a good demand, and the Upward tendency in prices still continued. Flotir Was s till depressed. For corn there was a steady demand. For tobacco the demand was quiet, without change in prices. Iron l tle offering was firm. Freights were rather heav y, owing to the it. The following is from the New York The screw steam -ship Great Bri tain;Capt a i e Mat thews, has arrived from Liverpool. She left that port Saturday at half-past nine o'clock on morning, the Ist inst.,'and has, therefore, made the Passage in thir teen days and four hours--the shortest on record of a screw steamer. " The Great Britain brings one hundred and s i x ty was originally called t passengers. She ster," but she is no • larger than the Collins steamers. She is built of iron, and from a variety of circum stances, may be considered a famous vess e l. The following is an extract of THE Lou OF THE GREAT BRITAIN. May 1 —Ac 9.10 eon. left Wellington dock; do cK; at 10.40 stopped to put owners, friends, and pilot board steam tug; 8, Pete exchanged withsalutes_ R. M. ste am - s hi p Africa, passed barque Argyle and shi puntress. Fine pleasant weather; sails of no service. h May 2,—Wind northerly, lat. 51 25 long, 9 20, dis tance run 280 miles—Light, baffling 'winds throughout; sails of little service. lat. 51 17 May 3—Wind N.W. to N. E , long. 15 39, 232 miles—Light winds and calms throughout. May N.E. to lat , 50 45 - long 22 17, 252 miles—Most part light windy sad fi ne weather. May s—Wind S.S.W. to W.b.v. e lat. 50 12 l ong. 27 58, 216 miles—Strong breezes, increasing to heavy gales, and high cross s'a. May 6—Wind W.S.W. to W., lot 50 . 55. long. 32 25, 170 miles—First p ar t strong gales , latter part strong breezes and high seas. eve lot. 49 May 7—Wind W. to S.W. by • • 48, long. 3, 19, 191 miles—Moderate gales and squally ; latter part strong ;;al es.. May B—Wind W, to New., let. 48 53, long. 40 55, 150 miles—Fresh gales and heavy squalls ; very high seas. " The contract for the iron work and shipwright's alterations was ,signed on the 23d of February, 1851, and the vessel was placed in their hands on the following day, since which time the work has been proceeding with as great rapidity as it could safely progress. Oue of the first operations of the contractors was to get the vessel into the Sandun Graving Dock, where she was placed upon an even keel. As soon as the vessel was dry in the Graving Dock, the civil engineer struck a straight line through the entire length of the ship, which was duly marked, and from this line all the subsequent workings were carried on. This is mentioned not so much as to the fact, but as to the results arising from it, and the consequent accuracy of the work. This accuracy will be more apparent, when we state that the bed plates upon which the engines rest were found not to vary the, sixteenth of an inch from a true line. The contract em braoed the whole of the repairs of the iron work, and also the shipwright's work. Its magnitude may be judged of from the fact that thq erected a steam engine to aid the work, and employed 350 men during the time ' she lay in .the Graving Duck, " It is not, however, to be supposed that the Great Britain has undergone any altcration in her form; that is 'reels -1y as it was. before. The only alteration as re gards the hull is the removal of the rolling plates for merly attached to her sides, which were found insuffia cient for their object. And whereas she has had for merly nothing more than an iron plate about two inches deep fora keel, she has had an oak keel 17 inches deep added, and bolted through with • iron bolts, this is covered with ziao, to neutralize the effects of the water, and to make its surface smooth. The object of this keel is to prevent rolling, which it is believed it will ac complish. " We have already stated that the vessel. will be un usually strong, and we are.correct ia saying that at the present moment she is twice as strong as ever she was, an amount of skill having been bestowed upon her fasten ings such as we believe has never been known in a ship before. To give some ides of what has been done we may say that her bottom, amidships, for about 150 feet in length, is entirely new, and wherever there has' been any chafing, new plates of the best iron have been substituted. To increase the etreegth of the ship the floorings have been made of double 'instead of single angle iron, as formerly. The bows and stern of the vessel have been strengthened by the addition of double angle iron framing, and this has again been further secured by three tiers of iron stringers, two feet three inches wide and five-eights of an inch thick, riveted to the frame-work at right-epees., There have been ten new iron kelsons placed' n the sp9P, running the f ore and aft for the entire - length of t t o . h o z r p o , half as deep again as those formerly in her; and 13 are box kelsons to support the engines, made of one a nd a quarter inch plat e . iron, and three feet six inches d e ep. And not oral have the owners made the ve ssel stronger than she Was , be able of de tail in such a but they have arranged allPat'; superior manner that she will to carry a T ench larger cargo than before probably to the extent of 1,000 tons additional.' This capacity will be gained pa rtly through the spsCe s aved 13 e 'CPI's a by new boilers , 1 It h 300 i nc hes and partly throu g h th trtictioo of a 1. ee f ee t long, and 7 feet 6 high. The deck- house will be need for passengers, th us and make rgo. New bulwark.; have t h e lower cabin availablde flare c sh a i at an elevation of fou r er ected aroun d a l s o been • an these feet six in ches above those tlshe ship, had u - will be ef f ur ther use in protecting the deck - h ouse in W ea th e r whilst the roof of the house will fo rm a severe p - e nade 300 feet long, and perfectly protected f rom any s ruul se as the vessel ma y shi p . =The dimensions of the Great Britain nosy are as follow: - 3 30 feet. L en g th over all Beano 51 feet 6 i nc h es. 40 feet 10i inch es . &Tat from promenade deck, Capacity for cargo, about 3 , 000 tone. Ditto fur coals 1,200 ta w , 4 0 alteration has been made in the masts of the ship, the number being reduced to four instead of five, as she formerly had; but this in no wise aff ec t s h er sai l ing power, us Ow will be able to spread 6,00 u square yards of canvass. Two of her lower masts, we should say, are especially constructed with a view to giv iron cylinders , IL og them lightness and strength. Th e two centre masts May 9—Wind N.W. to N.N.W,, lat. 46 09 , l ong. 45 38, 254 miles—Strong winds and decreasing. Patty 10 —Wind S.W. to S.W. by W., lat 45 21, long. 51 29, 248 miles—Strong winds and hazy ; drizzling ruin. May 11 —Wind S.W. by W. to N.W., lat. 44 06, long. 57 04, 268 milea—Strong winds and hazy. May 12—Wind N.W by W., lac. 42 33, long. 62 55, aro rigged as in a ship, carrying sails as high as' royals,' 301 maps —Calm and clear ; ends moderate, with rain. and the first and last masts are rigged with fore and aft May 13—Wind S. to E., /at 41 01, long. 68 27, 264 snits, as in a schooner. miles—Fresh bre; zss and gloornY, with fogs ;at 3.45 '• The cabins of • the vessel are commodious and do took pilot on hoar). • ganr. The eabias of tho captain and chisf officer are May 14—Wind W. to N., lat. 40 28, long 74 02, 256 u p on d ec k, and Save besn so arranged that they entirely miles—Strong winds from the northward ; passed Sandy overlook the operations of the ship. Hook at 10 50 A M.—making the passage in.l3 days 5i , 4 Th e nex t, and one of the most important cons.dera hours. bons in the vessel, is her moti ve p ower. Th e o ld eng i nes This speaks well for the G. B. I t w i ll he scan that were nominally of' 1,000-horse power, bat it is a ques in one day she accomplished the distance of three hundred lion if they ever worked over 500 horse power; the new and one miles. The Canada, one of the Cunard line, I engines, on the other hand, are nominally of 500-horse which has made the shortest run on record to Halt- power, but there is every reason to hope that they will fax, sailed from Liverpool on the same day with the work up to 600-horse power. The Great Britain has Great Britain, and therefore must have bad pretty much been fitted with a pair of oscillating engines, by John the same weather; yet she only anticipated the G. B. Penn and SOD, engineers, Greenwich, and are o f t h e seventeen hours and thirty m i nu t es . collectivo power of 500 horses. The cylinders are 82} ANNEXED AnE TWO SUORT STATEMENTS OF TnE . VOYAGE, inches in diameter, and six feet length of strok e , an d, "Oa board the steam- s hip G reat B ritain, by May the interventioni of ca.' wheels, the scre w s h a f t "New York, makes th ree revo l ut i ons to one o f th e eng i ne . The "My dear Sir,—lt affords me great 14, 1852. pleasure to inform screw or fan has three arms or blades, and is fifteen you that I have been deputed by my fellow passengers feet six inches diameter and nineteen feet pitch. There to offer you their sincere congratulations on the very are six boilers, either of which can be used independ satisfactory result of the application of your patent screw ently of the other if necessary. About seven hundred propeller to the Great Britain steam-ship, on her re-up- tons of coal can be stowed in the baekers in the engine pearance on the broad waters of the Atlantic, room, and provision has been made to take about Our voyage of thirteen days has not only been accona- 500 tons in other parts of the vessel—in all more than plished in less time then might have been anticipated, enough to tak e th e s hi p to N ew Y ork an d b ac k. Th e when the small proportion of power (500 horse s ) t o th e ton- engines are of the most beautiful workinanship, and do nage of the ship (3,500 tons) is considered, but it has been credit to their constructors. To lessen the vibration performed both in rough add smooth sea with a comps- formerly experienced from the motion of the screw and rative degree of freedom from that disagreeable vibra- machinery, eight new wrought iron beams have been ton which is_so generallycomplained of in padole-wheel placed transversely through the vessel, which lock her steamers. sides firmly together. The bases on which the machi- Individual'y, I have been a close bat quiet observer nery rests are much stronger than formerly , and she has further been strengthened by the addition of your untiriug exertions in the cause of steam-screw of massive proprulsion, and most of the subscribers to this teatime- iron entablature beams to the engines , which again are have heard from your own lips something of buttressed by a framing of teakwood , ' each is' .e being the difficulties and prejudice that you have had to en- 20 inches deep and 3 feet wide , • le( ' • running on each side of into the counter in the and mercantile seor 'introduction of yur invaluable invention the e ng i nes , transversely and diagonally, to the sides of naval vices' of 'your country, the ship (the distance in which this solid timber extends which lam sure cannot fail to render, yoUr present suc- being 17 feet 6 inches on each side of the engines), and cess the more gratifying. the whole of this framing being bolted together, and In conclusion, lam to thank you for your ready and through the sides of the ship, by wrought iron bolts, so straightforward explanations its to the arrangementand as to form a solid mass of timber." working of the beautiful machinery with which the Great Britain has been fitted by the eminent firm which you represent on this occasion, and before we part, to wish you a continuance of the well merited gratification which you have experienced on this, your first trip to the United States. " EDWARD FRANKLIN, Commander, R.N. " Mr. F. P. Smith, &c., Sac. " On board steam-ship Great Britain, New York Harbour, May 14, 1852. " We, the undersigned passengers on board the Great Britain screw steam-ship, beg to offer our sincere con gratulations to you on the very successful termination of this your first trip, as commander of the largest steam ship afloat, and through you to the spirited proprietors, who have so efficiently restored to Atlantic navigation One of its finest ornaments. " Of the performances of the vessel, we feel we cannot speak too highly. They have been such as we believe must call for official inquiry from the highest naval authorities both of England and America, and that the great merits of its improved machinery will thereby be brought under the notice of the public in the most em phatic manner. " We have much pleasure in bearing testimony to your unceasing vigilance and ability in the command of your noble ship, and to the very satisfactory conduct of your officers and crew throughout our passage." Signed by the whole of the passengers. '" To Captain B. R. Mathews." HISTORY AND DESCRIPTION OF THE GREAT BRITAIN. • (Eros} the Liverpool Courier.) With regard to the Great Britain, it may be truly said that she made and lost a reputation; and that now, her under more favourable auspices, she is recovering character again. The early history of the Great ‘v Britain was not unmarked by features of interest. When o. servers; and she was building at Bristol, she was the observed of all h even then, in what might be called the in cipient state of the vessel, she was the theme of conver sation in this and every other civilized country. On Saturday, the 26th of July, 1845, the Great first Bri tain took her departure from this port on her voyage for New York, and with forty-five passengers, 520 tons of goods. The vessel took the north passage, and arrived at New York, on the 10th of August at noon. On her return voyage she left New York on the 30th of August, and arrived at Liverpool on the 15th of September, at 8 A.m. Tae Great Britain was gradually working up her way, and her reputation was established as a matchless vessel. The race, however, was short. On Tuesday, the 22d of September, 1846, the Groat Britain, under the command of Lieut. Hosken, R.N., left Liver pool at half-past eleven in the morning, with 185 pas sengers, and a crew of 90 hands. The vessel had been adapted to give her superior speed, and the circum stances under which she left this port were of the most auspicious character. The wind was fair and free, and, immediately after she discharged the pilot at the North west light-ship, the whole of her sails were set, and she ran at a speed of eleven knots per hour. In due time the Calf of Man was sighted, and the vessel continued her course without deviation, and -with a strange infatu ation, until half-past nine o'clock , at night, when she ran aground in Dumdrum Bay. The disaster was never suf ficiently explained. In Dundrum Bay she remained during a severe winter, and endured the buffetings of the ocean in a manner which bespoke her qualities. She was finally released from her awkward position, and was towed to Liverpool by steamboats, arriving here on the 25th of August, 1847. " The ill success which had attended the vessel dis pirited her owners from further proceedings, and the Great Britain lay in the north docks literally a sheer hulk.' Her dilapidated appearance was not calculated to lead to the hope that she was capable of anything more than being kept in port 89 a momento mori of herself. To the eye of the sailor, however, and the lover of a fine ship, there was much to admire under her unsightly exterior. Her beautiful lines and evident capabilities were so apparent to the practised eye, that it was felt to be a pity that she should lie a wreck in port; and with these views we have oft times urged that some capitalists should purchase her, and again place her in that position she ought to occupy. A peculiar purchaser was evidently required to do what seas necessary. Those who bought the vessel would requires in the first place to effect their purchase for much less , than,she eget originally, and.they would also require to be men of capital and enterprise, to plan and execute hew arrahgenients in the ship. For tunately Messrs. Gibbs, Bright, and Co., of this town, who had, formerly acted as agents for the company, coincided in the epinions just expressed, and became the owners of the vessel: As soon as the contract was com pleted, the new owners set to work with energy to carry out their views. Three large contracts were immediately entered into for the principal part of the work required, and the' contractors wrought at the same time with each other in their different contracts. EVENING ENTERTAINMENTS FOR THE PEOPLE. (From Eliza Cook's Journal ) An exceedingly praiseworthy scheme of public lectures for working men has recently been set on foot in con nexion with the Museum of Practical Geology, where the directors and professors of the Government School of Mines have undertaken to deliver a series of Penny Lectures on special subjects in science and art. We remember very well when Mr. Simpson, the Edinburgh advocate, got up a Working Man's Institu tion in that city, for the delivery of a course of lectures, the admission to which was a Penny, that a very loud guffaw of laughter was raised thereat. Such phrases as "penny wisdom," "a little l earn i ng is a dangerous thing," " penny philosophers," and such like, were very much in vogue then, as applied to Mr. Simpson and his lectures. It was certainly a startling innovation! The idea of bringing the lore of colleges, the wisdom of philosophers, the speculations of savans, the scientific knowledge of great practical thinkers, within th e reac h of working men, for the small price of a penny a lecture! But the laugh is now on the other side. We have now learned to smile at much that formerly went by the designation of " wisdom of our ancestors." There may have been "great giants in those days;" but we have advantages which they did not enjoy. The giants may have seen far; but we, who sit upon the giant's shoulders, see still further than they do. We have the advantage both of their knowledge and of our own too. The power of the Penny has only been discovered of late years. The Penny Magazine, and the Penny Cy cloriia, fairly inaugurated the discovery. Penny lec tures are the necessary corollary from it; and before long the Penny N ewspaper may fairly complete it. It is true, the special lectures on practical science, now being delivered at the Museum of Practical Geology, are not designated as Penny Lectures, though in reality they are so. Six lectures iu all are to be delivered— the first on Glass, by Dr. Lyon Playfair; the second, on " The reason why Fossils are collected and exhibited," by Professor Forbes; the third. on " Photography and its applications," by Robert Hunt; the fourth, " An Explanation of Geological Maps," by Professor Rain say; the fifth, on " The occurrence of Mstals in Na ture," by Professor Smythe; and the sixth and last, on "Iron," by D r . P erc y. I n announc i ng the lectures, a register was opened, in which the occupation of each artizan who applied for admission to the course of lec tures was enrolled; and he then paid sixpence for regis tration, which entitled him to admission to the six lec tures. It is gratifying to be a ble to state t h at the de meads of working men for admission to the course were far greater than it was possible to grant; and the disap pointment of those who were too late in their applica tion induced the professors to announce a repetition of the course for their accommedation. It will bo observed that these lectures are of a very special character, being calculated to impart accurate scientific instruction on several branches of trade in which a considerable number of artizans are more im mediately interested. In fact, the object is educational, practical, and definite. The lectures are such as might have been delivered from a professor's chair in any of the universities. The lecturers are all first-rate men of their class; and they havo no other end in view bat to improve the scientific culture of the artizan class. This object is very admirable, and the lectures, as a whole, are calculated to prove of great value to working men, not merely to the actual extent that they may impart knowledge, but by putting them into the way of work log out knowledge for themselves, and informing them as to the methods by which a true scientific culture is to be attained. There are, however, many large classes of artizans and operatives who have no such interest in special scientific subjects, but for whom the cheap lecture sys tem might be adopted with equally great advantage. The present lectures at Mechauics' Institutes are, fur the most part, of too cursory a character. Their object is rather to provide an • agreeable stimulus for an even ing than to direct a man's mind towards higher culture. Now, we do not see why evening lectures, of as high an order as those delivered at our colleges, should not be offered to the working people at a low rate. We can imagine how instructive a course of lectures—for exam ple, on E ng li sh History—eseight be made to suc h an audience. And to hold the attention of a thousand auditors or more, and send them away full of their sub ject, with t h e i r patr i ot i sm roused, their political views enlarged, and their knowledge extended, is really a worthy object of ambition for any public man. In the same manner, courses of lectures on English Literature might be deli ve red on a systematic plan, and in a man ner that would be calculated to rivet the attention of even the most unlettered audience. It might be objected that unlettered men have no de sire to cultivate letters, and would turn aside from such lectures. But this is a great mistake. Working men are every day becoming more and more disposed to re cognise and look up to the guidance of cultivated minds. Those who read newspapers and periodicals—and the number of such is daily increasing —unconsciously ad mire thinkers and writers, who are now almost their only recognised aristocracy. You also find that work look up to those o f th e i r own c l ass ing men especially who have acquired some degree of literary culture, and, in fact, the adelation of their fellows is, not unfrequernly, the bane of self-educated men, and precociously inflates them with a sense of their selaimportacce, which proves injurious to their further intellectual growth and deve lopment. As a sufficient proof that the taste of working men for literary culture is grotcing, we need only reier to the courses of lectures, on purely literary and historical sabjects, which encli men as Thomas Cooper and Henry Vincent hove recently been delivering, through:, out the country, to audiences of working gir t . a ir these have proved attractive, lectures of a eitnilar kind, delivered by For, depend depend highest culture, would prove still more s e o r . ceive superior upon it, the popular mind is quick to we doubt men the excellence in any of operatives and ar politics. We have seen audiences e demonstrative argument,' tizans follow a train of closebucck, form,—in literature, in history, or in w ith a sustained and delivered by such men as R stranum, break out into stratlon; the quod erat demon riveted attention; showed that they had fol such a tumult of applause a s . and when°ehe bad reached the demon prove lowed the argument, nchesion. public eii_eve e , v w en ou eo ld g and individually shared in the tri. uraph of its demonstrative co 0 _ There is still a enter tainments which might be ,offered believe, working men at a low price; the moat attractive, thr,tProb pu blic loly. not the most another Wseenfie.srmfyd t. o readings instructive, of all. We_ allu de from the best authors. w e have often wished that public and which, d of laying before l ecturers , iustea . us their own feeble should introduce to u s progeny. departed. The the undying wor k s of ~she grea t . ,_ ...t ebief gift wan t e d h e re, is that / se lect ion, . a nd a good utterance. Let a se can read well, e ho give us the best . Campbell's Poems, - the best of B , of poems, or 3 ron s, or the best of Tennyson's, and we venture to say that he will ' excite a greater plea sure in t h e minds of his audience than if . he wire to give us an entirely original " lecture" of his own on any of those poets. What can be more interesting, for instance, than Fanny Kemble's Re d• gent readine., merely. A /nYa? And they are intelli exhibition (lour best pros Apply the same power to the ' and equally writings, or our best poetry, produced. delightful effects would certainly be A series of lectures, or readings, of this c h aracter, was tried i n p• ens in 1850, the audi ence being entirely .composed of the labouring c l asses; and though they have, we believe, been since sup pressed by t h e iron rule of Napoleon Louis (who smelt something " socialism" or i else n them), their success was, on the whole, of an exceedingly gratifying character; and doubtlessthey will be revived • again when Peri •. s is at liberty to take its once active part in literary and social culture. These readings were delivered by Men of literary distinction, in different parts of the city; and the following are specimens of the entertainment which they offered to their respective audiences:—At the Charlemagne Lyceum, M. Just Olivier occupied one evening in reading several eloquent pages from J. J. , Rousseau, followed by two acts of MoU:re's School for I Husbands. He offered the l east poss ibl e cr i t i c i sm on the i 1 passages, but by reciting them with gusto, left them to i make their own impression. At the same time, suffi cient explanation was given to put the audience in a proper position for appreciating and understanding the true beauties of the extracts. Then, attain, ai the Pa lais Royal (in the lereinours Vestibule), Dr. Lemaout read, with fine emphasis, and amidst great applause, The Two Sons-in-law. But M. Emile Souvestre, cue of the most distinguished poets of France, was by far the ' most saeoe'sfill in his readings. Ono of these was The Battle of the Franks, from Chateaubriand'a " Martyrs;" ' previous to which he put his auditors in the proper point of view by a few brief and graphic explanations. ' The reading of the passage from Chateaubriaud spoke ', for itself; • The readings of Emile Sauvestre were chiefly given jat the Conservatoire de Mnsique, situated in the Faubourg Poissonere. The place is not far from the Clog Saint Liizare, where some of the harchist fighting i occurred during the late revolution ; and, doubtless, many of the shaggy, wild-locking fellows, who formed the bulk of his auelierrees ' had been com b atants during the strug g l e . Y et , by the softening influence ot literature, the poet was enabled, for the time, to tame, end wolli:y ; and huisOze these men. One of his readings was - frZ:tri . .the Memoirs of Madame de la • • •• Rocliejaquelin, descriptive of the horrors of civil war in La Veno6?, which he selected for the purpose of dis gusting his auditors with suchAnonatrous scen es . T he ct produced by this lecture was very great. But the extracts which he gtfterwards read trona Michelet, descriptive of the batfleS of Agincourt, Poictiers, dad Cressy, the patriotic feelings of the audience seemed to be frightfully shocked, and murmurs arose among them. At the reauiog which followed, he explained that he did not seek to probe the old wounds of his count; that the misfortunes of their common mother were not her shame ; tut he had not coma there to flatter patriotism, only to enlighten it. His explanation was received with great applause. The readings which excited the greatest interest were the historical and dreapatie. The reading of Michelet's chapters, descriptive of the history of Joan of Arc, produced an immense eff‘ct, and also the reading of Haire and Corneille's pieces. Several tales were also read, of which those extracted from Chateaubriand and Bernardin de Saint Pierre were most successful. Strange to say, the songs of Beranger fell comparatively flat on the audience—for those need to be sung. The refrain, or chorus, so happy whets chanted, becomes almost freezing when recited. Another wide field of entertainment for such evening audiences, is to be found in the biographids of cele brated mer, sprung from the people themselves, and who, by their industry and energy, have carved for themselves a name deep in the world's core. The life of Benjamin Franklin is a capital instance of this tort of subject. And we speak from experience when we say, that no.lectures, or readings, are listened so with deeper interest than those which deal with the strug gles and achievements, the fortunes and histories of dis tinguished men. There, of course, needs considerable compression in handling such subjects ; but by, giving the salient points in a great man's life, the lecturer or reader will rarely fail to produce a powerful effect. At the same time, biographies, if well managed, enable the lecturer to introduce a great deal of useful and interest ing information connected with the history of the times in which the men lived. Such are the evening entertainments we would re commend for the people. And there is nothing extra vagant in the plan. It can at once be tried in any town or district. ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. Mr. Mitchell's benefit last evening was patronised by one of the most fashionable and crowded houses ever collected within the walls of the theatre in King -street. This brilliant attendance was a tribute justly due to the extraordinary and successful exertions of Mr. Mitchell, in producing the elite of the modern French school, in a style never previously approached in this country. The performances,which were under the specisl patronage of ber Majesty the Queen, consisted of Scribe's Yeiva, and two new vaudevilles, Le Piano de Berthe, and Lin Ser. vice a Blanchard. A new artist, M. Tony Blonde', made his first appearance here last night, and must Be pronounced a meritorious acquisition. The Queen's box was occupied by her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge, the Princess Mary, attended by L a d y Suf field, Lady Fanny Howard, Colonel Seymour, and Sitrtg. Couper. There were also present the Belgian Minister and Madame Van de Weyer, the Duke tend Duchess of Beaufort, the Duchess of Sutherland, the Earl and Countess of Grovesnor, the Marchioness of Westmins ter,the Sardinian Minister. the Marquis and Mar chioness of Worcester, the Marquis of Aylesbury, the Marchioness of Downshire, the Marquis of Normanby, the Countess of Lichfield, the Countess of Waldegrave, the Esrl and Countess of Stamford and Warrington, the Earl and Countess of Shelburne, the Comtesse de Flahault, Earl Bruce, Countless of Buckinghamshire, • Lord Bolingbroke, Lady W. Russell, Viscount Cannittg, Lord Harry Vane, Lady Frederick Beauclerc, Lady Jodrell, Sir William Abdy, Mr. and Mrs. Montefiore, the Hon. E lward Ellice, Colo.iel Tiera...ey, Mr. Agar Ellis, Mr. Augustus Oom, Mr. Milner Gb.on, Mr. and Mrs. John Sanford, Mr. and Mrs. Augustus Craven, Mr. IL Villebois, Mrs. Garwood, Mr. Henry Barieg, Mr. and Mrs. Tunno, Mrs. Amer, Mr. W. Rose, Captain Sartoris, Mr. Kenneth Macaulay, Colonel Haygarth. LONDON SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY, ___ EXETER- HALL. This society gave an extra perfAmaance last night of Haydn's Creation, and notwithstanding the inclemency of the weather, the Derby, Vauxball-gardens, &c., the Hell was exceedingly well filled. The oratorio was given in the society's usual admirable manner, and al though we could particularise many passages of the music hich were really finely executed, it is almost unnees sary to do so, where all was so excellent. The solo artists were the same as on former occasions, viz.. Ma dames Birch and Fridel, and' Messrs. Lawler and Lockey, all of whom were in good voice. Mr. Snrtsan conducted, and was very warmly received on making his appearance in the orchestra. VAUXHALL -GARDENS. As an ancient and well recognised wind-'up to the sports of the D irby 11)s, the Royal Property e3na menced its season by a Bal Masque on the usual :male of splendour. In spite of the ungenial state of the weather, the company was unusually numerous , an d t h e proportion of masques as great us we ever remember having seen it. The crowd was of the usual description; crusaders, Choctaw Indians, Highland chie&, Spanish cavaliers, flower girls, court dames, tins! debardours, all mingled together on the most amicable tooting, and everything passed off with the greatest order and hila rity. Considerable additions and improvements have been made in the gardens since last year—the circus has been abolished, and the ring, floored over, furms a large and elegant ball-room, which fur the future will enable the dancers to set the weather at defiance two or three additional supper-rooms have been added, and the lights and the music—the two great ingredients in the attrac tions of such a place of amusement—are even on a more liberal scale than ever. We believe that, as consider able disappointment was anticipated from the wet r Al Fr r ida W y. ardli ' has an nwoeuanthceedr o a f s y e • c e o st n e d rd i y a , i tmheaslgesuseeefo, MAYNOOTH AND THE COUNT-OUT. As an impudent attempt has been made by the Go vernment journals to saddle the Opposition with the responsibility of the count-out on the Maynooth debate, it may be well to call attention to the facts of make a the case. In the first place, it was at Mr. Gladstone's instance that the debate was enabled to come on at all. Secondly, the debate being sojourned from six o'clock to eight, it was the business of the Government to make the House. Canning has defined the duties of memberll of, i th ie e ns ee k re e t e a p ry a of u th j e nse l it a n s d ury ch t e o er be to t mo ininer.„ . Now, not only did the "Protestant Govern ment" boned in the course of the &bate in the morn_ not make a House (though it was cvli ing that ;here was likely to be a difficulty on the subject),but it is a remarkable tact, that not a the Administration was present when the counted out. We leave Mr. Forbes M u , e .. House was business it was to make the House, tc , -L i el: /iet *whose M‘Neile at Liverpool why h e vizs ,:b " si cx Plairl to Dr. And no doubt Mr. Napier will have S r e n l : °II th ) e° " 4Bi°n. far mo ment,th e t : c r.: miss in the list of I\L,b e ,, i . . :°ll ' . ge, Dublin. We also Newdegatc. The mal k ed ",, Pre , -eoz tho name of Mr. Government which s.,sone2 of any member of the the obstinate refusal professedof that to court the inquiry, and DisrFscli, to give up a day f or eminent Protestant, Mr. °lent proof th..:t the , for the discussion, are a suffi cient 'Bench much a sham as antetheir _that 'their Protcstantism is as Protection.—Chronicle. Mr. Talbot w of as Y TII D HON. ne engagedesterday in E EATII or THE The death of this Pannounced i n The S uit on. and Learned Gentleman was J. C. TALBOT, sv•—• — h as is t tha t pro fessional duties, but it is feared that a too energetic applica tion to them superinduced the sudden event. On Friday It th e ‘' a 'a e s tiv o e n Wcu F t r io id n ay of l week the Learned Gentleman was occupied for several hoWe in addressing the Committee in one of his usually powetful appeals, in favour of the proposed line of the Oxford, Wor cester, and Wolverhampton Railway, from Oxford to Brent ford, from the effects of which he felt mud' prostrated, but rallied sufficiently to attend the Committees last week, though he had discontinued doing so for the last few days. The _Honourable Gentleman, who was in his forty-eighth year, died at Brighton on Tuesday evening, and since 1836 was one of the leading and most affluent members of the bar. The last brief he held, in the case above, was endorsed with 300 guineas. It is said to be the intention of the Parliamen tary bar to go into mourning for his memory. Th e can 99 of death was ascribed to water on the chest. Mr. Talbot, lie was called to the bar in 1829, and belonged to the Oxford circuit, was a bencher of the Middle Temple, Recorder of Windsor, and Attorney-General to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, as well as a member of the Council of the Duchy of Cornwall. He was a son of the late Earl Talbot, and brother to the present peer. He married a daughter of the late Lord Wharncliffe, and leaves an amiable young family to regret his loss. A CLoCS TOWER IN THE CITY.—A: very interest ing ceremony took place on Tuesday by laying the fottnrdina tion-stone of what is a complete novelty—a clock to e vri rm the city of London. The site is in the new street, r s London -bridge to St. Paul's, and the historical r . ecd l . n interesjang. of the place and its vicinity are unusually Martin's, The site is that on which the old church of St. church was St. Martin's-lane, formerly s t oo d. The an the to de stroyed during the Great Fire of London , i but pulled down was saved, and stood until it was rdent y . „,,, e i s pu From the in consequence of the City imP na • roye n c i a chapel was period at which the church was dest— i"::i, but Divine ser vice for the use of French Prot!lstani nearly i 40 years. vice has not been performed therein le the ashes of many The churchyard adjoining contains the havi! , g been covered eminent foreigners, but, the grave. numdetal record has over with plain flag stones, no too . „ St. Alartin Ungar having been preserved. The parish of , ,„,..„ Ena t cheap, the parishioners joined with that of St. 3'`"7 towe r , and determined on re -erecting the els e a rectory ,preserving the o ld clock and bell. The l a tt er bears house Th ~ bl a de by oteThomas Barton, 670 the Theirscription, h 8013, the rector l• - Rev. WiHiain Jo n in , cud the foundation the stone of the new tower, beneath j)resence of a great iesimber of the pensioners, and ~ the stone was placer a re cord foundation cord of the on, ion and subsequent demolition of the church. The remains of those interred were care fully preserved and re-interred in the burial-ground of St. Mary, Eastcheap. UNIVERsITY INTELL IGENCE. --OXFORD, MAT 26. — The Regius Professor of Divinity proposes to begin a course of public lectures on Thursday, the 3d of June, at one o'clock, at Christ Church. These lectures Acre intended for students of divinity Wh r k • o mai kuvau h itit Ws passed Oita • the doges) Of B.A. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 27, 1852.