The Sun. — London, England, 1866-04-09 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. GREAT NORTH OF SCOTLAND. The half-yearly general meeting of this company wa s held on .say a t Aberdeen—Sir J. D. H. Elphinstone, the chairman, presided. The report, an abstract of which has appeared in The Sun, was taken as read. The CUAIIIMAN, in moving the adoption of the report, expressed his regret that they were not able to pay more than half per cent. on the B preference shares, being the same amount as that paid in the preceding half year. The high rates of interest avid other matters had been the cause of the very sn utll dividend referred to. There had been an in crease in the receipts for goods traffic of £193 ,8, and a decrease o f £ l6 in the p assenger traffic, leav ing the net increase of £1,877. The extreme rate is s o f interest bad absorbed a very large portion of th increase in the revenue. The reduction of fares which the company had made last year in April had operated against the company in respect to receipts, but the number of passengers in consequence of the reduction in fares had increased 15 per cent., the total number carried having been 340,313 in the past half -year, against 294,198 in the corresponding half of the preceding year, showing an increase of 46,115. ( n ear .) The effect of the cattle plague had also been injurious to their traffic. They were promot ing a permissive Bill in Parliament for the purpose of authorising an amalgamation of the branch undertakings with their own. They hoped to come to a mutual understanding with those companies so as to facilitate the operation and reduce working expenses. The most important feature of the Bill was that it provided for the amalgamation of the Strathspey and of the Keith and Dufftown Railways with the main line, which would give them through communication with the western portion of the ter ritory and with Perth by the Highland line. It wou ld also accelerate the traffic from the Western Highlands by the junction line which they expected would be opened by the month of May. The Scot tish North-Eastern Railway Company were op posed to the proposed amalgamation, which was merely for the purpose of dealing with the internal affairs of the company. The Scottish North-East ern Railway Company had a Bill in Parliament to authorise the amalgamation of their undertaking with that of the Caledonian, which, of course, would be opposed by the Great North of Scotland Company as being detrimental to their interests. Mr. J. DUNCAN, deputy chairman, seconded the motion for the adoption of the report, which was agreed to, and the proceedings terminated. MELLIS AND EYE. The contract for the construction of this line has been let to Mr. S. C. Ridley. The works have been commenced, and are to be completed within seven months. NOVO:IERN OF FRANCE. The traffic receipts on this company's lines amounted for the week ending March 25, on 764 miles, to £58,643, and for the corresponding week last year, on 728 miles, to £ 55,065, showing an increase of £3,578. The traffic receipts on the company's old lines from Jan. 1 to the above date amounted, on 662 miles, to £677,748, and for the corresponding period last year, on 658 miles, to £623,094, showing an increase of £54,654, or 8.77 per cent. The traffic receipts on the company's new lines during the same time amounted on 102 miles to £31,392, and for the corresponding period last year to £20,906, showing an increase of £10,486, or 5016 per cent. SMYRNA AND CASSABA. The traffic receipts on this company's line, 61 miles open, amounted for the week ending March 18 to £873, including £199 for merchandise and live stock ; and for the week ending March 25 to £1,022, including £l9B for merchandise and live stock. Miscellaneous American News. Governor Brownlovr, of Tennessee, in his pro clamation for a new election to supply the vacan cies recently made by the resignations of factious members of the Legislature, says that " a small minority of twenty-one members of the House of Representatives, by factious and revolutionary proceedings, have succeeded in breaking up the Legislature and paralysed the State Govern ment." He characterises the formal announce ment made by these members as a " document that will not fail to remind its readers of the Legislature of 1861, who transferred the State to the Confederacy." The pretext for their ac tion was in opposition to the discharge of the duty imposed on the Legislature by the clause of the Constitution providing for the exclusion of rebel voters by the Legislature. He urges strongly the ill effects of the revolutionary action of the minority. Emigration will shun a State in such confusion and discredit. The securities of the State will depreciate, and the prospects of the admission of Tennessee will be imperilled. The San Francisco Bulletin contends that that city can compete on advantageous terms with St. Louis for the vast trade of Idaho, Montana, Utah, and Arizona. It speaks of a project to form a com pany for the shipment of goods to Collville, on the Colorado River, some four hundred miles from Salt Lake, where it is proposed to establish an agency. It adds that during the previous week there had been an arrival at Montana by way of Los Angeles. Several other trains were expected by the same route, and it is said that the amount of goods to be despatched in that direction this spring will not fall short of three hundred thou sand dollars. The teams are left at Los Angeles, and the goods despatched to that point by steamer. The time occupied in making the trip from Mon tana was less than 60 days forage was reported plenty, and no hostile Indians were encountered. Secretary M'Culloch has been asked the question whether British vessels sold under a decree in Ad miralty, for seamen's wages and like causes, over which Ndmiralty courts have jurisdiction, if pur chased by a citi zen o f the United States, are entitled to an American reg i ster . The Secretary has replied to the effect that foreign vesselssold and pur chased are not thereby entitl e d to so toregist registry. The French troops in the north ernna d western Mexican States have been driven ignominiously to ionslyto to the coast, and are hemmed in in a few Mazatlan is bes ie g ed, its streets barrica ded ; towns. the Liberals under Corona pressing close upo n i t in the rear. Fighting has occurred, in which the Liberals, aided by Americans recently enlisted, have b een victorious. The Jackson (Miss.) News says :—" The beauti ful plantation of Mrs. Johnston, in Madison county, has been sold to J. B. Richardson, of Boston, Mass., who intends to make it his family residence. The price paid was fifty thousand dol lars in greenbacks. Before the E MIGRATION war this plantation wa s considered worth three hundred thousand dollars. FROM THE SOUTH.—It is said that as many as fifty thousand young men fro m the Southern Stat es h ave settl e d themselves i n New York city to seek their fortunes. Many have gon e to Baltimore, and we presume that there is scarcely a northern city of any num ber such representatives:j stagnation de that does not i the South among it s population. The univ para lysis of business that succeeded the and c ity of money, the impossibility of gwartt mg : the scar y- m ent, and the, gloomy future, all conspired to induce emplo man y of our active and energetic :Gun remov e to places where money was g men to plentiful an d employment attainable. There also arose two for midable schemes that threatened , and still threat to drain the South of her population—not only o i ac tive and enterprising young men, but of wh o l e families—almost of communities. We refer to the Brazilian and Mexican Emigration schemes.— Richmond Whig. The Cincinnati Times describes the stupendous bridge, now nearly completed, between that city and the Kentucky shore of the Ohio. It is two thousand feet long, and has a span of nearly eleven hundred feet, which is said to be the longest in the world. TIIE PROPOSED TAX ON ALIENS. The bill re ported to the United States Senate by the Finance Committee, provides among other things, for the taxationof income from all United States prop ert y held by foreigners. With reference to its necessity, C • ommApsionex Rollins, in a note to Senator Sherman, of that committee, wrote as follows: " The income acquired under the protection of our laws should pay 10s. appropriate distributive share for that protection, whether the persons to whom it accrues are citizens or aliens, residents or non-resi dents. It is practicable to secure that share from stockholders in these well-recognised and established companies and corporations. Whether or not it is practicable to secure it when derived from other sources has always been a doubtful question. It is un d ers t o od that England deducts her tax from the interest she pays upon her securities, as well to the foreigner as to the citizen." Mr. Conger, chief of the Immigration Bureau, reports that the total number of passengers who arrived in the United States during the year 1865 was 287,397, of which 225,939 landed in New York and 3,330 in California. All countries are repre sented. One hundred and twelve thousand were from Great Britain, and nearly eighty-four thou- sand from Germany. The Richmond Republic asserts that " the times demand a strong Union party at the South." " The recollection," it writes, " that the great common wealth of Virginia, infatuated by the fascination of cotton, should have separated from the Union of which she was bound always to be a leading state, and consented to b ecom e the appendage of a cotton state confederacy, is the most mortifying one con nected with her whole history. How would she not have pined away, and withered, and decayed under the domination, and taunts, and injustice of un appreciating, self-sufficient, and conceited cotton growers 1" The St. Louis Republican announces the return to that city of the president and vice-president of the Pacific Railroad, after an absence of two weeks on business connected with the road they represented. The conference of leading railroad men in Philadel phia was entirely harmonious. It promises to give us the Union Pacific Railroad to Fort Riley early in the ensuing month of August ; while the pros pects are flattering that the great overland mail will be transported over the Pacific. The Boston Transcript gives a few extreme in stances of the rise in rent, and in the price of real estate in that city. In one case the rent of a store in Washington-street had :recently advanced from one thousand three hundred to three thousand two hundred dollars. Small houses in desirable locali ties have advanced in price from twenty-five to forty per cent. The Charleston Courier chronicles the arrival there of one hundred and sixty-five German emi- grants, men, women, and children. They will form a settlement on the plantations in Christ Church parish, and raise cotton and vegetables. The Boston Journal advocates the passage of the bill recently introduced into Congress, to secure the speedy construction of the Northern Pacific Rail road and Telegraph. It urges that this route has as strong claims on the Government as the Central route ; that the two routes, being five hundred miles apart, cannot, by any possibility, interfere with each other, and that the North em route should be completed as soon as possible, in order to afford immediate and direct means of communication with Montana and Idaho, so that the wonderfully rich mines of these rapidly growing territories may be made available without delay, and be laid under contribution to the national finances. The Miscellaneous Appropriation Bill, passed by the House of Representatives, contains an appro priation of $lOO,OOO for the purchase of Ford's Theatre for the deposit and safe keeping of docu ments and papers relating to soldiers of the army of the United States, and of the museum of the medical and surgical department of the army. The Oil Springs Chronicle, of Canada West, says that an extraordinary oil well has just been dis covered in Canada. It yielded on the 21st of February 2,259 gallons of oil in one hour, which was at the rate of 1,692 barrels of thirty-two gal lons each a-day. The Boston Traveller says that by the recently published returns Massachusetts stands second only to New York in the amount of internal revenue paid into the United States treasury. It states that the aggregate of the other five New England States does not approach in amount that from Massachusetts. The valuation also is nearly equal to all the others combined. The city of Boston alone has more than double the valuation of the entire state of Maine. In Missouri the planters are exhibiting great fair ness in their labour contracts. The St. Louis Republican says that in the counties of Howard and Randolph negro factory hands (men) are getting from $2O to $35 per month and board ; small boys and girls (stemmers) are getting from $5 to $lO per month and board ; field hands (men) $2O to $25 per month and board. As a consequence the blacks are well disposed, there is less poverty, and the profits on capital largely increased. MR. PHILIP NICEILIN DALLAS, the only son of the late Mr. George M. Dallas, died on March 17 in Philadelphia, in the 41st year of his age. He was a member of the bar, and while his father was the American Minister to England, he was Secretary of Legation. Mr. Dallas was a very estimable gentleman, and his loss is much regretted. GENERAL SHERMAN.—The people of St. Louis have furnished General Sherman with an elegant residence in that city. The house was selected by himself, and was completely furnished by the gene rous donors, the whole costing $30,000. The Galena (Ill.) Gazette says :—" Many of the people of Warren and other towns in the eastern part of the county are using corn for fuel. We had a conversation with an intelligent gentleman who has been burning it, and who considers it much cheaper than wood." The Virginia Legislature has adjourned. Lieu tenant Governor Cowper, in his parting speech, declared that the people of the South were now more thoroughly loyal to the Union than the citi zens of other parts of the Republic. Jared Sparks, the American author and historian, died on March 15, in the 77th year of his age. He was born at Wilmington, Connecticut, on May 10, 1789. In 1815 he graduated at Harvard College, of which he was the president when he died. Mr. Sparks was the author of many works on history and general literature, the chief being " The Life and Writings of Washington," which was published in successive volumes from 1834 to 1857. Mr. Sparks's labours have contributed 66 standard volumes to the libraries of the country. In Eng land he was well-known from the Mahon-Sparks controversy (with the present Earl Stanhope) about the authenticity of parts of several letters of Gene ral re During aiifs W e a d shi n fromt h g e t on. last sales two o f e y o e ; T s c a t h t e e d G a o n v el e r naband o nedhas cotton, sugar, &c., in the State of Mississippi, over C fr o om nfed Fo e rt rate La Se ay cre ette ta o ry n six million dollars. a ß vy .ll:lal has loj en , of A t ir he . N . fo r rm elea e s r e l d y parole. _ The United States war steamship Canandaigua arrived at Falmouth on the 2d inst. from Swansea. She will proceed to Southampton. [AD v'Elins EmENT.]—Con a umption, and all nervous, bil ions stomach, and liver complaints, in every stage, are only ag . gravatederated by drugs of every description. b u t perfectly allt aale curable b y l Du Barry's health restoring Revalent a Aracica proved by thousands of cases which had ._, __ Food, as Cough, asthma, consumption, haemorrhoids, liver been considered hophhaabaitintiadligceosntsiotinpa(tdioynspedipsiriar)., licea, all gastric derangements, influenza, noises in the catarrhs, co lds, throats, diphther ia, gout, impurities. eruptions, com plaints, flatulency, nervousness, biliousness' fevers, sore head and ears, rheuma tism,biiity, sleeplessness, acidity, pal hysteria, neuralgia, in pregnancy or at sea, pitation, heartburn, spasms, nausea and sickness even scrofula, tightness of the chest, debility, dropsy, cramps, sinking fits, bronchitis, d between the shoulders, irritability, headache, Pains in the pit of the stomach an timber merchant, of Fernley Surrey, of t hirty y d partial de ' a f. sec. We quote a few.—Cure, No. 46.270. Dlr. lungs, spitting of blood, liver derangement , news.—Cure, No. nervous nervousness, indigestion, gatherings, low spirits, an d n jaemaerss' Roberts, 47,121. Miss Elizabeth Jacobs, aii ianmes.--Cure, No. 1,771. Lord Stuart de Decies, Lor tenant of Waren d asthma, cough, const ind e scriba ble patiZ on fta y t f u r l o c in neY d3 : N 0.49,832. Fifty years' er , of many years' dyspepsia. — o f extreme d.Lieu . vomiting—Maria Jolly.- Cure No. 54,816. The Rev. James T. Campbell, Fakenham, Norfolk, of indigestion and torpidity seppeapsinsisa:snieerknvoeusssn, anessd, of the liver, which had resisted all medical treatment. In tins, 11b, 2. 9d ; 21b, 4s 33 ; 51b, lls ; 121 b, 22s ; 211 b. 10s.—Barry Du Barry and C0.,N0. 77, Regent-street, London ; also Phillips, tea d2alers, 8, King William-street ; likewise at 61, Gracechurch-street ; 4, Cheapside ; 49, Bishopagate street Within ; 63, 150, and 298, Oxford -street ; 330, Strand ; 54, Upper Baker-street ; 103, Tott enham -court-road ; 96, Upper-street, Islington, N. ; Harvey, Notting-hill; Close Brothers, 65, High-street ; and Stubbs, Queen's-terrace, St. John's-wood. London ; and all respectable grocers and ohs . misto.7Beware of widows imitations. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 9, 18661 a compound fracture of the left arm through his horse canoning against Dido at the first fence past the Stand. The Islington Horse Show.—At the meeting of the directors of the Agricultural Hall on Tuesday, it was re solved to confine the show of hunter stallions to thorough bred horses. The Scottish National Hunt Meeting.—The entries for the Scottish National Hunt Sweepstakes close to Mr. J. Turner, the clerk of the course, on Thursday next. Professor Dick, the well-known veterinarian, died in Edinburgh last Wednesday. TATTERSITALL.—This meeting will take place on Octo ber 31 and following days. The promoters anticipate a large entry for the stakes, all of which are unlimited. The dog and bitch puppies stakes close on August 1, and the two all-aged stakes the night before running. The same beral additions to the stakes will be made as heretofore. Weather Prophets. (From Land and Water.) We would first say a few words in passing upon that deep-rooted superstition, which connects the changes of weather with the phases of the moon. It is curious to note how strongly this notion still retains its hold upon the popular mind, though the closest and most careful labours of scientific observers result in showing, as might have been reasoned beforehand, that no appreciable connection of the slightest kind can be traced between them. So firm and wide-spread a belief can only be paralleled with that in the power of the stars over the destinies of men, which till a century ago it was generally thought impiety to doubt. Nay, the astrologer is not yet extinct among us. Not only does the " wise woman" still haunt our country cottages, and our city areas, but in Westminster to this hour a " wise man of the planets" draws horoscopes for young ladies, with store of husbands, children, and for tunes, at a guinea and upwards a-piece. Now, it is an odd thing, that no two persons are found to agree as to what effect the moon is to have at any particular change. But some effect they all concur in anticipating. One old gentleman will say, " Ah, sure to be fine to-morrow, the moon changed this morning." Another will have it, " Change of moon to-day, look out for rain to-morrow.'' An old lady we know of tells us she has remarked for 50 years that whenever there is a new moon on Saturday after noon Sunday is sure to be fine. Some mysterious effect is assigned by another class of elderly folks to what they call the moon "being on her back," which is really nothing more than a regular aspect belonging to our satellite in her third phase. It never occurs to these good people that if the moon had really anything to do with the weather, we should have something very like a monthly weather cycle as regular as that of the tides. Rain and fine, wind and calm, would come round in an order following pretty nearly that of the lunations. Do they never think, again, that the four divisions of a lunation are simply arbitrary ; that the moon's apparent changes are always going on being, in fact, nothing more than what is due to a circular convex reflector, showing more or less of luminous area, as the sun lights it up in its revolutions ? Moreover, there exists but one moon for the whole earth ; her changes con sequently should be felt equally in turn by every spot in succession over which her spell is cast in her daily circuit of our globe. For it cannot be supposed that so potent a luminary exists for the special and exclusive behoof of the British Isles. Even in our own climate nothing is more common than to have the same run of weather—rain, drought, frost, or what not—for say a couple of months, the moon overhead waxing and waning like clockwork at the time. To pretend, then, any connexion by way of cause and effect between the two is, in plain language, moonshine. Some faint relation of the kind is, indeed, to be traced in theory. The air around us, being a ponderable fluid, is, of course, worked upon like the ocean, by the joint action of sun and moon. There must then be diurnal tides in the atmosphere analogous to those we behold in the water, varying in rise and fall, and conse quent pressure, in proportion to the respective density of the two fluids. But then there is this mighty difference. We are at the surface of the ocean of water. We are at the bottom of the ocean of air. Could the surface of our aerial envelope, probably 50 or 60 miles above our heads, be made in any way visible to us, we should, no doubt, perceive a daily rise and fall of prodigious extent, in addition to gigan tic billows and displacements due to the action of storms. But to what extent are these likely to bo felt at the lower depths of the atmospheric ocean? Of what fluctuation in their tremendous pressure, or what other hydrostatic changes can we suppose the diatoms or star-fish to be sen sible, who are found to drag on a dark submarine exist ence, five or six miles below the daylight ? It is true that observations of extreme delicacy have. been thought to prove that such a minute diurnal tide can be detected in our atmosphere. But as we have intimated before, such a fact, so far from contributing in any way towards explaining the changes of weather, would but introduce an additional difficulty. If it had any effect at all, it would tend to equalise rather than to vary the phenomena. There remains one particular, in which an influence of a more positive kind has been attributed to the moon. This relates not to its mass, but to its actinic powers. It has been constantly observed, and Sir John Herschel has given the weight of his authority to the fact that the sky at the period of full moon is more than usually clear from the clouds and mists. It would seem that radiation from the lunar disc had the effect of dispersing watery vapours : But no sensible amount of heat is found to reach us, whether Luna displays the whole or the most modest portion of her charms. In the tropics we know that the power of her rays is more strongly felt. Blindness and madness are the frequent effect of exposure to them; meat and vegetables putrefy. But we are as far off as ever from being able to incorporate this mysterious and little-known phenomenon with the general laws of meteorology. At all events there is nothing here to serve the turn of our weather prophets. Nor, in point of fact, do these gentlemen even pretend to base their supposed calculations upon any large philosophi cal views of cosmical phenomena at all. Their horizon is limited, as we shall presently see, in petty detail to our own small insulated portion of the globe ; and their method, such as it is, may be described as purely em pirical, not making even the slightest approach towards connecting together cause and effect. From the way in which they talk we might suppose that the code of weather management for the entire earth was drawn up for the ex clusive benefit of the British Isles. Instead of being a mere speck on the globe—standing, in point of longitude, on the confines of almost a hemisphere of land and a hemisphere of water, and, in point of latitude, exposed to the alternate buffetings of polar and equatorial currents—it might be thought that Britannia held the point of central import ance in the office of the clerk of the weather, and that her interests governed the winds and rains as her trident has been mythically supposed to rule the waves. The Englsh Press on the Queen's Letter to Mr. Peabody. The Lim:pool Post regrets that, although charity is the noblest of the virtues, occasions are so rife for its exercise that even when ostentatious, it has its use ; but when it is so thoroughly pure and dis interested that no honours which the Sovereign has it in her power to bestow on the donor—at once a foreigner and a cosmopolitan—when he repudiates alike a baronetcy, the Graud Cross of the Bath, and hardly deigns to accept as an acknowledg ment of his philanthropy a miniature portrait of the excellent lady who fills the throne of Britain—the question arises whether Mr. Peabody in handing over to trustees a quarter of a million of money to to be invested in improved dwellings for the hum bler classes is not a gigantic satirist, setting an example which the Queen, the nobility, and all our affluent classes cannot afford to follow. Is it not possible that this large-hearted American, con stantly engaged in the contemplation of the misery and destitution which pervade the richest city on the globe, meant something more than parting with £250,000 than providing healthy homes for some hundreds of poor people—intended, in short, to convey his abiding impression that an indifference to the condition of the poor is one of the character istics of an aristocratic country? Our Liverpool contemporary does not say that the noble gift should not have been accepted ; but it does say that, unless it be followed up by many supple mentary acts on the part of the titled and wealthy in England, it will remain a permanent memento that while we are the richest and the poorest peo ple on the face of creation, the indifference of one class to the condition of the other compelled a Yankee to enter against the system this costly and significant form of protest. The Morning Star says the Queen's letter to Mr. Peabody is a reality, and will be accepted as such. It speaks exactly the feelings which were in the heart of the Royal writer. It expresses the thanks alike of the first lady and the chief magistrate of the land ; the representative of English womanhood and of English nationality. It may be taken. as written ou behalf and in the name of England. It will be regarded in America as a touching and a trusty evidence of the feeling of brotherhood which, after all the hard words that foolish or designing people have said on either side of the ocean, does still subsist between Great Britain and the United States. Mr. Peabody will return to his own coun try an ambassador of good-will, bearing his kindly credentials from the Sovereign of the nation he has benefited so much. He will tell his people there that in all the ranks of society, from the English throne to the English cottage, there are now few in deed—there never were numerically many— who en tertain aught but genial, fraternal feeling towards the great American nation. The gift he has given is, indeed, of great material value to us--perhaps we SPORT' :GENCE. CROYDON STEEPLECHASES.-SATIMAY. A Selling Handicap Steeplechase of 3 sovs each, with 20 added. Tho winner to be sold for 30 sovs. About two miles. 8 subs. Ur. 'WI. Riley's White Stockings, aged, lOst 10Ib (Mr. Grant) 1 rue following also ran—Lot 84, Rochester, Light of attrer Days, Bravo, and The Prior. 'Betting-3 to 1 agst The Prior, 4to 1 agst Lot 84, sto 1 each agst Rochester and Bravo, and G to 1 agst White S tockings. A Hunters' Stakes of 3 sots each, with 20 added ; 12st each ; winners and professionals 71b extra ; selling allow ances. About two miles and a half. 9 subs. 3lr. Steele's Rapture, aged, 12st 71b (in. 71b ex.) (£5O) (Mr. Barry) 1 Captain Vibait's Übique, aged, 12st 71b (.£SO(M) r. Edwards) 2 Mr. J. Nowsome's Dido, G yrs, 12st 71b (in. 71b ex.) £5O) (A. Sadler) 3 Pauline also ran. Betting-6 to 4 agst Übique, sto 2 agst Rapture, sto 1 agst Dido. The Surrey Open Handicap Steeplechase of 20 sous each, 10 ff, 2 only if declared, with 200 added ; winners 7113 extra. About three miles and a half. 31 subs., 11 of whom pay 2 soya each.) Mr. E. Brayley's Ibex, 6 yrs, 1 0 st 131 b (J Page) 1 Mr. Halford's Hornet, 6 yrs, list 71 b (Griffiths) 2 Lord Poulett's Reporter, aged list 51 b (Mr. Edwards) 3 The following also ran :—Hall Court, Elsham, Knave of Trumps, Bridegroom, Globule, and Marengo. Betting— 3 to 1 agst Ibex, 4 to 1 agst Globule, 5 to 1 each agst Reporter and Hornet, 6 to 1 agst Knave of Trumps, 8 to 1 agst Hall Court, 10 to 1 agst Elsham, 12 to 1 agst Bridegroom, 100 to 6 agst Marengo. A Selling Steeplechase of 3 sous each, with 20 added, for 4-yr-olds and upwards. Certain allowances; the winner to be sold for 30 soya. About two miles and a half. (5 subs). Mr. C. J. Tattersall's Simpleton, aged, list 91b (J. New) 1 Mr. Burbidge, jun.'s Bravo, aged, list 91b (States) 2 Mr. B. Land's Lot 84, aged, list 91b (J. Land) 3 Comet and Sporting Irishman also ran. Betting-2 to 1 agst Comet and Lot 84, and 7to 2 agst Simpleton. The Stand Plate (Handicap) of 40 sovs. About 3 miles. Mr F. G. Hobson's Patience, hb, aged, lOst 121 b (Owner) 1 Mr. J. G. G. Shaw's Merrimac, 6 yrs, 6st 121 b (Mr. Yates) 2 Mr. J. H. Last's Oscar, 6 yrs, list 41b (Ellison) 3 Betting-5 to 2on Merrimac. TURF NEWS, &c., FROM NEWMARKET. Count Lagrange has presented 10 sous. to the Vicar of Exniag, for coals, to be distributed amongst the poor, being the parish in which Gladiateur is trained. J. Godding has sold Black Prince, but continues to train him. Mr. R. Sherwood purchased Crossbow of T. Jennings after her race on Wednesday. Claxton and another have arrived at W. Smith's to be trained. Jewel, by Stockwell out of July, has arrived at J. Ged ding's, to be trained. Bacchus has been turned out of training, and will cover at Messrs. Barro ws' Paddocks, at lOgs a mare. At Messrs. Barrows' Paddocks :—Bargain has arrived to Thunderbolt, Telegram and Asphodel to Oulston, Fanny Grey and Adeline to Stampede, and Arbutus to Bacchus. At the Palace, Sister to homily, a filly by Newcastle. Thirsk Races.—There is an excellent prospect of a very successful meeting, as the aggregate number of horses en tered in the different stakes which have closed exceels that of any previous year. The Hunt Cup and Silver Cup are expected to produce interesting contests. Kettledrum's subscription is full. _ _ Newmarket, 6 yrs, has been named Goxhill. Lady Horn has arrived safe in Germany. Whalebone was struck out of the Newmarket Handicap at 12.30, noon, on the day of the race. The three-year-old colt by Knight of Kars, out of Sally (Horror's dam), has been named War Cloud. Maid of Lorn (3 yrs) and Sir Roger (5 yrs) have arrived at Hamburgh. _ _ . Onesand; (6 yrs) has arrived at John Hickman's stables to be trained. The filly by Newcastle out of Lady Augusta died a few days since at Bushbury Paddocks, near Wolverhampton. Barometer (2 yrs), by Weatherbit, out of Crystal, will in future be trained by John Perrin, at Newmarket. Old Warden changed hands, after running at Aberga venny on Thursday, and goes into F. Bates's stable. A. D. Wagner, 4 yrs, and Banleaf, 3 yrs, have arrived at C. Blanton's atables, Newmarket. Redditch Races will take place on Whit Monday and Tuesday, May 21 and 22. Scheldt, 4 yrs, was claimed out of the Craven Stakes al , • Newmarket by Mr. Chaplin, and has joined G. Bloss's string. The objection to the winner of the Borough Members' Plate at Windsor has been decided in favour of Banker. Count F. de Lagrange claimed Reindeer on Wednesday last at Newmarket, and in future he will be trained by T. Jennings. • The Duke of Beaufort is now a steward of the Jockey Club, in the place of C. Alexander, Esq., who retires by rotation. Le Jockey states that Kitchener has fully recovered from his recent illness, but he will not be able to ride again for a month. The Earl of Cork, Master of the Royal Buckhounds, was on Wednesday last unanimously elected a member of the Jockey Club. Mr. Thomas Lye, the Lambourne trainer, whose sudden death we recorded a few days since, was buried on Sunday last, at Lambourne. Newton Summer Races—Several Stakes at this meeting close on Tuesday next. Mr. G. Angell has purchased Black Prince, by Knight of Kars, and the colt by Young Melbourne out of Latona, 2 years. Stockinger, Flora, and Garus were struck out of their Cardiff engagements immediately the weights appeared ; also Dick Turpin out of the flat races. Gladiateur left Newmarket on Thurday evening, in charge of T. Jennings, en route for Paris, and he will run on Sunday next at Longchamps, in the Grand Prix de l'lmperatrice. Harpenden Races—The Harpenden Handicap, with 100 added, and the Handicap Plate of 100 sovs for all ages close on Tuesday next. Leybourne, 3 yrs (the winner of the Column), has left Findon, and is now under the charge of W. Gilbert, at whose stables the two-year-old by Parmesan out of Clair- voyant's dam has arrived from Lewes. Worcester Summer Meeting.—To the list of stewards announced in our last, namely, the Earl of Coventry, Hon. F. C. Morgan, and W. G. Craven, the names of Sir Charles Rushout, Bart., and R. Sutton, Esq., have since been added. Upton-on Severn Steeplechases.—The Cup and the Severn Bank Steeplechases not having filled, two or three local races for hunters, &c., have been substituted. Sir G. Cholmley's bay gelding (late Prospect) by Cod rington— Susanna, 3 yrs, has been named Star ; and Mr. T. Ramsay's bay yearling colt by Itaby—Miss Hampton, Dr. Syntax. Married, on February 2, at Holy Trinity Church, beth, Anthony Deacon, jockey, of Lewes, to Eliza Hyde, niece of Mr. Richard Drewitt, trainer, Lewes, and cousin to Mrs. George Fordham. Lord Vivian, who claimed the two-year-old colt by Pro mised Land, out of Goldfinder's dam, after winning a Sweepstakes of 10 sovs on Monday, at Newmarket, has named his new purchase The Assineboine. William Smith, recently trainer to Lord Stamford, has commenced on his own account at Newmarket. Claxtcn (6 yrs) and Confession (2 yrs) have arrived at his stables this week to be trained for their engagements. GOODFELLOW.—This colt, one of the first of Kettledrum's get, was claimed yesterday by Captain Macho'', for 500 sovs. He only changed hands the evening previous,Mr. Pardoe giving £650 for him from Mr. Ten Broeck. DUNBELD.-It will be seen that this horse, whose career on the turf has been so varied, was sold at Newmarket, on Wednesday last, for £25, and thus terminates the racing existence of the " potab-eater." DELIGHT.—This horse was tried with Saccharometer and Troublesome yesterday, at Newmarket, and was backed for an immense sum, as little as 4 to 1 being taken in the bet ting-ring. On the Cambridge platform en route for London, he created a perfect furore, and the following bets were accepted in our presence : - £3OO to £lOO, £l5O to £5O, £l,OOO to £4OO, £5OO to £2OO (three times), £lOO to £4O (twice), £250 to £lOO, and, finally, 9 to 4 was the highest offer against the " pot."—Sporting Life. The house and premises built by the late Sam Chifney, at Newmarket, and recently bought by Count Batthyany, were again offered for sale on Wednesday, by Messrs. Tattersall. The highest bid was £1,950, at which sum it was bought in. " COMPULSORY RETIREMENT."—ID accordance with the provisions of an order in Council, issued from the Admi ralty, on Monday, April 2, Admiral the Hon. Henry John Rous has been placed on the retired list, he having com pleted his seventieth year. Chelmsford Spring Races.—This spring gathering will take place on Tuesday and Wednesday next. The entries are very satisfactory, the ground in good order, and as the arrangements are perfect, a more than average meeting may be expected. James Adams, the well-known jockey, was married a few days since to Miss K. Stone, of Stockbridge. His address will in future be Blockley, Worcestershire. Grand National Hunt Steeplechases.—Gaylad having been entered without the knowledge of his owner, is struck out of the Haselbury Handcap. Ealing Autumn Steeple Chase Meeting will take place on Nov. 1 and 2, being the two days following the Wor cester Autumn Meeting. The immediate cause of Mr. T. Lye's death, we hear, was a rupture, for which he underwent an operation, but died on the following day. Mr. Robert Johnson, of the Monument Hotel, Liverpool, who was seized with fits at the beginning of the week at Newmarket, arrived home on Wednesday, and is pro gressing favourably. Southdown Hunt Steeplechases. —We regret to say that Mr. Griffiths, who rode Blue Bell in the last race, sustained cannot remember how great its value is 'without a sense of humiliation that England, with all her - wealth and power, should need the hand of a stranger to help her in providing for her poor. But we say in all sincerity that we think far less of its material worth than of its value as a timely token of brotherhood, appealing to all that is in us of generosity and gratitude, and calling forth from us a reciprocation of sentiment to the nation which Mr. Peabody represents. So, too, we prize the let ter of the Queen, not as an act of regal condescen sion to an untitled stranger, but as the happiest and most impressive assurance which could be given on behalf of England to our kinsmen across the Atlantic. The Times comments on the fact that it is to an American that we are indebted for the greatest boon ever given to the poor of London, and it is to a citizen of the United States that the Queen has thought it right to address this personal ex pression of gratitude. It cannot but believe that such an occurrence will have no little influence in augmenting the good feeling which should pre vail between the two countries. There is no surer means of conciliation between nations than the sense of benefits mutually received and acknow ledged. Mr. Peabody has done more to foster among us a kindly feeling for his countrymen than could have been effected by a generation of states men, and her Majesty's letter will, our contem porary trusts, be received by the Americans as a conspicuous evidence of the friendly regard towards them which such acts have called forth on our part. The occasion aptly illustrates what ought to be the mutual relations of States. There is no State that has it not in its power to confer benefits on another, and these common benefits should be an swered by mutual good-will. Between no two countries, however, are such relations more natural than between England and America, and we trust that this story of munificence and of gratitude may long be remembered in both nations as a pledge of peace and friendship. FENIANISM. The Times congratulates the country on a quiet St. Patrick's-day in Canada. It does not regard the danger as past, however. It has much confi dence in the existing rulers of the United States, and cannot think it possible that such men as the President and his friends would use a set of rebels and conspirators as a cat's paw to make mischief and create complications favourable to the interest or designs of the Union. But no country in the world, certainly neither the United States nor our selves, can answer for the men that may be in power five years hence. We know not what prin ciples, what policy, or what designs may find favour in Westminster in the year 1870 ; and we certainly have as little means of forecasting the dominant politics of Washington at that date. So the British Americans would be simply indulging in a Fool's Paradise if they were to proceed on the hypothesis of perpetual peace and quiet. It is not the hypothesis of their fellow-subjects at home. Our contemporary therefore congratulates them most heartily on their present more martial attitude, and thanks the Fenians for having stirred them up to it. That these latter are in earnest may well be doubted, for they have shown no signs of earnest ness yet. They have only vapoured, harangued, exchanged horrid oaths, filled their cellars with arms, collected subscriptions, had a newspaper, paid agents, and done everything that could be done without either drawing blood or having much of it in their own veins. But where there is all this smoke there may be fire. When thousands are flinging about brands in all directions, a spark may light up a general conflagration. The New York Herald says there is nothing in the spirit of this Government to lead us into oppo sition to the efforts of any people desiring to obtain their freedom, when they regard the Government under which they live as an insupportable oppres sion. Therefore it is that we are willing to let the Fenians carry out their designs in behalf of the freedom of Ireland, so long as they do not commit any overt act which transgresses the law or may complicate our Government with any foreign power. We have plenty of affairs on hand to attend to in connection with our foreign relations without being involved in any new question. It was generally reported that a movement was to have been made on Canada by General Sweeney on St. Patrick's-day, and Canada was apparently ready for the assault ; but St. Patrick's-day has come and gone without any revolutionary demonstration on either side of the line. Whether there was ever any intention on the part of the Fenians to show their hand in Canada on that day of course we do not know. Probably they only raised the cry of " wolf " in order to put the watch-dogs of the flock off their guard, and they may introduce the wolf when the dogs are not prepared. At all events, up to this time Fenianism has done nothing demanding the interference of the authorities. It has fitted out no armies, set on foot no military expedition, char tered no privateers, nor molested anybody. But when any overt acts are committed, such as those defined in the neutrality law of 1818 as misde meanours, and punishable with fine and imprison ment, it will be the proper time for the Government to interpose its authority in defence of that proud and magnanimous position which it has always assumed, of strict neutrality towards nations at peace with the United States. The New York Times remarks what would any-one have had our Government do ? It could unques tionably have got up a real sensation, and pro bably have precipitated a heavy quarrel, by making a tremendous show of counteracting Fenian projects. Had it issued proclamations prohibiting Fenian raids—had it called out the militia to enforce our public obligations—had it stationed a heavy mili tary force along the border, we have no doubt that amid the prevailing excitement that would have been aroused, and in the divided sentiment of the people, the Fenians would have been sharp enough to get a few hundred men through the lines somewhere, who would have pitched into the first place they could find in genuine Irish style, and then, when once the rumpus had opened, who can tell what would have been its developments and termination ? There is no question that under these circumstances the public excitement would have become general and deep, and Fenianism would quickly have gone forth in practical action, had our Government gone furiously to work to crush its shadow, as some desired. It was far the most sensible thing for the Government to act pre cisely as it did. It saw no signs of any violation of our neutrality, and it certainly could not be ex pected to believe or act upon the windy nonsense published by newspaper reporters. The same journal, speaking of St. Patrick's -day says this anniversary was celebrated in the usual manner by parades, dinners, and speeches. Owing to the reckless lying of two New York daily papers, which have been for months working up a factitious excitement, some nervous people apprehended that the Fenians would make a demonstration upon Canada. Nothing of the kind occurred, nor was there any undue disturbance either in the States or the Province& In Montreal, where there was really serious apprehension, caused by the persistent falsehoods of the journals we have alluded to, there was a great but perfectly orderly turn out of Irish men, who called upon the Governor-General and heard a speech from him, and were afterwards ad dressed by the Hon. D'Arcy M'Gee. Not a man in the vast crowd hesitated to express his loyalty to the British Government, and his willingness to fight in its support. In Vermont and in Michigan, where the mischief-makers had located their mythi cal armies, all was quiet, even to dullness. And so it was all along the border. From New Brunswick to Lake Superior there was not the slightest sign of Fenian invasion, and it will take much better evi dence than the lying despatches printed in sensa tional papers to make any sensible man believe that f any considerable raid was ever seriously eontern dated. TIIE SPEAKER OF TILE HOUSE OF COMMONS. — The right hon. gentleman, though somewhat improved in health, by the advice of his medical attendants has not yet left his official residence at Westminster for the seaside. It is therefore thought that a further cessation from his official duties will be considered necessary at all events till after the Whitsuntide recess. The Mutin The following is the substance of the official re port of the inquiry into the conduct of Captain Campbell : " The charges against the master are for gross miscon duct, tyranny, and drunkenness, and aro preferred against him under the following circumstances. The Scotland left London for Calcutta on Dec. 1, 18G4. During that voyage the. master, for some cause not explained, seems to hate taken up a hostile feeling against the officers of the ship, particularly the first mate, Joseph Singleton, who makes the following entry in the ship's log of tho date Jan. 25, 1865 :—"The master turned me away from the tea-table, calling me a wretch, a brute, and thief, &T., and told the steward to serve out my allowance the same as the men ' About three or four weeks after this the mas ter's animosity against the first mate, Singleton, bi oke forth in an act of great and illegal violence, which is thus de scribed by one of the witnesses, Alexander Sangster, the sailmaker, the substance of whose evidence is briefly as follows : —lle says that Singleton was ordered by the mas ter to go over the ship's side and scrape barnacles off the ship; that on his refusal to do so the master ordered him to be put in irons, and he was handcuffed and placed in a water-closet off the cabin, where he remained from 4 p.m. till midnight, when he contrived to release himself, and was found lying in the cabin, when the master took a piece of rattlin and rove it round the mate's arms, and gripped both elbows behind him, put the iron handcuffs on again, and tied the line to a staple in the stanchion, and lashed him up with his hands flush with his shoulders, and his toes just touching the deck ; that the first mate was cry ing all the time, and in this state he was left for several hours in the water-closet, the master saying he would tame him there,' and that ' be would not refuse him again in a hurry.' No entry of the alleged offences or of the punishment appears in the official log, nor is there any notice of the fact in the ship's log, nor indeed any notice whatever either of misconduct by the crew, or ill-treatment by the master on the outward voyage. On the arrival of the ship, however, at Calcutta, charges and counter-charges seem to have been made, and several appearances before magistrates, but nothing decided by them until the dis putes ended in an assualt upon the master by some of the crew, for NN hich several of them were sentenced to various terms of imprisonment. Eventually the officers and all the crew, with the exception of four, were paid off, and the Scotland, having taken in her cargo and obtained a fresh crew, commenced her homeward voyage on the 21st of July, 1865. Before the ship got out of the River Hooghly the master seems to have given way to his irritable humour, ' behaving,' as the first mate, Peterson, says, more like a madman than a Christian, calling the pilot a name of the most offensive kind, and running about the deck to get the men to work, but I answered it was interrupting the work.' In one of these fits of excitement he obstinately put himself in the way of the hawser, which being strained flew up and broke his leg. This injury no doubt increased the irritability of his temper, and caused him to use the threatening expressions and behave in such a manner as, coupled with what they hal heard of his conduct on the previous voyage, to excite the apprehensions or resentment of the crew, and led to their committing an act of insubor dination by taking possession of the ship, and insisting upon going to Madras or back to Calcutta. No violence, however, was offered or threatened by them, and by the inference of the officers and one or two of the crew the matter was arranged, the crew agreeing to abandon their intention of returning to Calcutta on condition that the master signed a paper exculpating them, and destroyed the entries against them in the official log. This was agreed to, and the pages of the official log con taining those entries were torn out by the master, and the ship proceeded on her voyage. No further outbreak oc curred, though a feeling of dissatisfaction existed, and the master's threats and irritating behaviour were occasionally repeated. On the arrival of the ship at the Island of Ascen sion a formal charge of insubordination was preferred by the master against six of the seamen, and a naval court was held to investigate the charge, who advised that the persons accused should be sent to England for trial, 'the Court con- sidering the offence so grave that no punishment they could an ard would be sufficient.' The six prisoners were accord ingly sent to England, and indicted at the last February sessions of the Central Criminal Court for piratically and feloniously making a revolt on board the ship,' when evi dence to the effect hereinbefore mentioned as to the conduct of the master towards his crew, and particularly in refer encd to his treatment of the first mate, Singleton, on the outward voyage, was produced, and a verdict of acquittal was returned as to two of the prisoners, and a formal con viction of the other four, one of whom was discharged on recognisances to appear to receive judgment when called upon ; and the other three were sentenced t) one week's imprisonment each. So slight, a punishment for an offence so grave as that charged was virtually an acquittal, and an inquiry was, in consequence, ordered to be held, under the Merchant Shipping Act, upon the charge of gross miscon duct, tyranny, and drunkenness on the part of the master. On this inquiry, the witnesses whose evidence accom panies this report have been examined, and upon their testimony we have come to the following conclusions : First, that though the habitual drunkenness has not been proved, the free use of spirituous liquors by a man of such an excitable and violent temper is to be condemned. Secondly, that the putting the first mate, Joseph Singleton, in irons in the manner and for the reasons alleged was illegal and tyrannical, and that the master shows his consciousness that it was so by his not making an entry of the fact in the official log. Thirdly, that the irri tating language and behaviour of the master towards the crew on the homeward -voyage were acts of gross miscon duct, and calculated to produco a mutiny in his ship. Fur these reasons we have suspended his certificate for two years from this date, and transmit the same to your lord ships." ScotlaLd. OTTER HUNTING. Not one of the numerous field sports of Great Britain has fallen into more general decay and dis repute than that of otter-hunting. Yet the sport existed in great popularity in very early times, and he pursuit of the animal was an attraction as much on account of the excitement it afforded as for the prize the otter offered to the pursuer from the value of its fur. The beaver •tribe, too, though by no means so common, was hunted on a similar account ; but the scarcity of this race appears to have been remarkable from an even earlier period, and these animals could never in consequence have been popular among primitive sportsmen. Of the beaver Mr. Daniels says—" The latest ac count of the beaver is A.D. 1188, at which timeit was only to be found at the river Teivi ; but it is pre sumed beavers were very scarce in much earlier periods as by the laws of Howel Dha, about the year 942, the price of a beaver's skin was fixed at 120 penc e , in those days a very large sum." The annually de creasing number of otter-hunters is, however, at tributable to other causes. And this appears all the more extraordinary when the excitement and inte rest that attach to the sport, are duly considered. Commencing, too, as it does, at the end of the legi timate hunting season, one would have imagined that it might have acquired universal popularity, as bridging over the dulness of the time that intervenes between the close and re-opening of the fox and hare-hunting campaign. But, on the contrary, into so great decay has it been suffered to fall as a generally recognised branch of sport, that the old original otterhound has grown or is growing gradually extinct. Of the scarcity of the breed of the otter itself, no doubt can exist ; and it is a fact that many of the younger sportsmen of the present day, have never seen one except as a stuffed specimen in a preserver's shop window. How dif ferent from former times when the ardent admirers of otter -hunting donned a regular and fitting cos tume, and sallied forth upon their favourite diver sion. 4 , The otter-hunter's vest or green dress was either bordered or turned up with red. A cap of fur, with a gold band was worn, and by a few it was surmounted with a small dyed ostrich feather. Waterproof boots, which reached to the fork, were then frequent and are still used, but were then graced by the exquisites of that day with gold or red tassels. Occasionally a whole village, or even town ship united, with weapon in hand of every kind. Dogs of every variety were also employed, and the whole rather resembled a conspiracy than a hunt." Such was the ancient order of things, when the sport was at the zenith of its popularity. It can scarcely be urged that the true reason of the de crease of the otter tribe has arisen from the fact that his voracity, and destruction of fish have led to his well nigh extinction. The sport, wherever we have witnessed it, has had its promptings from no such considerations, and it has for the most part been in localities, where the preservation of fish has _ _ been of the most utter importance. In Devonshire and Cornwall the sport is pursued with considerable vigour; and during the past season, Mr. Trelawny has had some capital days on the rivers that inters sperse his country. In the neighbourhood of Ply mouth especially, and on the "SylvanPlyin" has the sport been on several occasions excellent ; so much so, indeed, that it presents a favourable contrast to the qualified success that has attended the fox hunting campaign. Mr. Newton, of Bridestowe, is another enthusi astic otter-hunter, and his performances with the " long pole" over Dartmoor have often caused de light to all who have been sufficiently interested to rise at cock-crow, and follow him throughout the day. Certainly the object in these excursions has not exactly been the destruction of the extirpator of fish. The Cornish rivers, and indeed most of the De vonshire ones, have become of late years so impreg nated with matter destructive to animal, and too often also to vegetable life, that the otter has been compelled to seek " fresh fields and pastures new." In Cornwall the very best river in former times, in the whole country for trout, and therefore for otter hunting, has, from the increase of mines in the dis trict, been utterly ruined for all purposes of sport. The copper mines are the real enemies, for they contribute the destructive matter ; but the tin and silver mines are not entirely blameless ; for by their deposit, although harmless in itself, they cause the overflowing of the obnoxious matter, and the conse quence is that not only are the fish utterly annihi lated, but the vegetation all around the bank of a meandering stream destroyed. The Seaton river, which is one of the most circuitous in the county of Cornwall, and was once distinguished for its mul titudes of trout, and certainly as a " find" for an otter, affords an exemplification of this fact. After receiving the " washings," or rather " dressings" of the great Caradon copper mines, and consequently becoming poisoned with the horrid mundic and re fuse, she has now to carry with her to the sea the additional cargo of the lead and silver mines " washings" of Menheniot. A more wretched or miserable looking vale can scarcely be imagined than this, as far as the course of the river is concerned ; and it looks verily as if an army of Turks had devastated the plain, and verified the old Eastern boast that " the grass never grows where the Turk has once trod." This used to be one of the very best meets, and so lovely was the vale, and the scenery on either side, that the con templation of its beauty was almost of itself suffi cient compensation when sport was bad. One can hardly fail to be reminded here of the peculiar ap propriateness of Bryant's lines (a translation by the way from the German)— "Stay, rivulet, nor haste to leave, The lovely vale that lies around thee; Why would'st thou be a sea at eve, When but a fount the morning found thee 2" In the north of Devon the preservation of fish is of vastly more importance, and is observed with much more vigour. The dogs for the most part used now a-days are used-up foxhounds, who in their old years take to otter-hunting with surprising alacrity and gusto; but the appearance of the in-and-in bred old-fashioned otter-hound is veryrare. The mephitic nature of the otter is doubtless a great inducement to the old foxhound (when in due time he has learnt that his business is future is not on " land and water" as before, but mainly and almost entirely in the latter element), to take so readily to the new sport. The scent of the otter is unquestionably more powerful than that of the fox, and the manner in which hounds will wind him from afar is extraor dinary. In the North, and especially in Cumberland, is the sport still followed with much eagerness; and here we find the old otter-hound race yet in tolerable force. It was only lately, at the Waterloo Coursing Meeting, that an enthusiastic sportsman, who has in his time enjoyed almost every class of sport, and who now keeps a pack of genuine otter-hounds in the North, assured us that he had experienced no such excitement in any other branch of sport. Of the method of pursuit, and of some good days in this time-honoured British sport, both past and to come, we shall trust to give, as occasion may offer and space permit, short accounts. We feel per suaded that many a gentleman, now falling into the " sere and yellow leaf," will be delighted to hear and to read particulars of that sport in which they, in their more youthful dap, so much delighted, and to the ardent pursuit of which they have to attribute certain admonitory twinges. Sic transit gloria undi.nz—Land and TVater. COUNTRY MARKETS. NORWICH- SATURDAY. The supply of wheat was only limited at this market to day, and the demand being rather more animated last Sa turday's rates were fully maintained. The few samples of barley which were offered met with buyers on late terms, both for malting and grinding descriptions. The weather during the past week has been variable, with occasional heavy rains, which have somewhat interfered with barley sowing. White wheat (weighing G4lb), 50s to 54s ; old red ditto (weighing 651 b), 48s to 50s ; new red ditto (weighing 40lb to 631 b), 42s to 47s ; best malting barley (weighing 521 b to 531 b), 36s to 38s ; runs ditto (weighing 511 b to 521 b), 34s to 365; distilling ditto (weighing 501 b to 521 b), 30s to 32s ; oats, 24s to 26s ; beans, bis to 39s ; peas (maple), 36s to 38s per qr. Flour, 31s per sack. LEICESTER-SATURDAY. At to-day's corn market the show of wheat from tho growers was fair. The demand was firm, and prices were the turn iu favour of the seller. There was a better supply of barley. Buyers operated slowly, and rates were the same as last week. Oats met a ready sale, and prices un derwent no important alteration. Beans were in short supply, and the inquiry was firm at recent prices. New white wheat, 50s to 52s ; new red, 47s to 49s ; old. white, 54s to 56s ; old red, 48s to 51s per 36 stone. Bar ley, for malting, 36s to 40s per qr.; grinding, 27s to 30s per 30 stone. Oats, old, 30s to 33s ; new, 27s to 32s per 24 stone. Beans, old, 50s to 54s ; new, 42s to 46s per 38 stone. YORK-SATURDAY. Our market was pretty well supplied with wheat for the time of year. The barley trade was by no means active. For the best qualities recent rates wore about supported. A scanty show of oats, which were held for as much money as last week. The demand for beans was steady, and late currencies were well supported. New white wheat, 46s to 52s ; new red, 45s to 48s per 36 stone. Barley, for malting, 38s to 40s. per qr. ; grinding, 32s to 34s per 30 stone. Oats, new, 26s to 28s per 24 stone. Beans, new, 42s to 44s per 40 stone. NOT TIN G HAM—S ATURDAY. There was a moderate supply of wheat to-day, and sales were made at extreme prices. The supply of barley was tolerable. Tho inquiry was less buoyant, and prices were about the same as heretofore. There was a fair demand for oats at previous rates. Beans came sparingly to hand, and commanded full rates. Old white wheat, 56s to 59s ; old red, 49s to 52s ; new white, 53s to 57s ; new red, 46s to 50s per 3G stone. Oats, old, 30s to 355; new, 27s to 32s per 24 stone. Beans, old, 50s to 53s ; new, 42s to 47s per 38 stone. Foreign Mail Packet List MAILS DUE. Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton April 19. Ditto, via Marseilles April 13. Brazil and Cape Verde, by British packet ...... 4. Ditto, by French packet Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena April 23 China, Penang. and Singapore. via Southampton April 19. Ditto, via Marseilles April 13. Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton.... April 19 Ditto, via Marseilles India (Bombay), via Southampton. April 13. Ditto, via Marseilles Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton April 13. Ditto, via Marseilles April 13. Mauritius, via Southampton April 13. Ditto, via Marseilles May 8 Newfoundland .. ..•, April 11. Portugal ... ... May 4. Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon. United States and British North America, by Bri tish packet April 11. Births. ROBERTSON—On the 6th inst., at Mildsmay-park the wife of Capt. John Robertson, of a daughter. TOLLEMACILE— On the sth inst., at 15, Warwick-square, Lady Emma Tollemache, of a son. VIVANTI—On the 7th inst., at Park House, Lower Nor wood, Mrs. A. Vivanti, of a daughter. WYVT—On the 6th inst., at 45, Kensington-park-gardeu4 the wife of James M. G. Wyatt, Esq., of a daughter. Marriages. SIMPSON—BENEDICT—On the 7th inst., at St. Thomas's, Portman-square, Reginald P. Simpson, of Weymouth, second sou of G. E. Simpson, Esq., of Norwich, to Maria Georgina, second daughter of Jules Benedict, Esq., of Manchester-square, London. SLOANE—RmirroN—On the sth inst., at the parish church, Sonning, John S. Sloane, of Ladbroke-gardens, W., to Caroline Frances, daughter of Mr. Righton, of Sandford, Berks. Deaths. BROOMAN—On the sth inst., at Novillo House, Twicken ham, R. A. Brooman, aged 43. DOBINSON—On the sth inst., at Clifton, J. Dobinson, Esq.) J.P. for the coun t y of Surrey, aged 76. JEsrox—On the 3d inst. at Grey's Hill, Henley - on - Thames , Oxon, Capt a i n H. J' es t on , C o mmander Royal Navy, aged 72, MARSHALL—On the Gth inst., at 28th Abercromby-place, Edinburgh, W. Marshall, Esq. WHITE—On the 4th inst., at Jersey, T. White, Esq., late Lt.-Col. of H.3,1.'s 49th Regiment Foot. WHITING—On the Gth inst., at 15, Cottage-grove, Peck ham, Lieut. Whiting, R.M., late of Herne Bay. London : Printed and Published by WILLIAM AN of No. 112, Strand, Pi later, at Tnz Surr Otlloe, No. 112, Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy .in the County of Middlesea.—Monday, May 9, 1866.