The Sun. — London, England, 1866-02-14 00:00:00

r01e..1..... Am0...,.....br....v......••••••••••• Archbishop Manning's Pastoral. The following is the Pastoral given in extenso, precisely as it was read at all the Catholic churches of the metropolis on Sunday morning last : HENRY EDWARD, by the Grace of God and the Favour of the Apostolic See, Archbishop of Westminster, to the Clergy, Secular and Regular, and the Faithful of the said Diocese, Health and Benediction in the Lord. Reverend and Dear Brethren, and Dear Children I in Jesus Christ,—The season of Lent calls us home to our own hearts. It is the time in which the Church takes account with its children, and bids them examine their state befo re God. All the year round we are busy and abroad, each one in his calling, worldly or sacred. Our hearts are full of it, and we are drawn off from ourselves. Lent is a time of grace, not only to you who are serving the world, but to us also who are serving at the altar. If the dust of earthly things settles upon your hearts, the handling of holy things has its higher danger for us. Pastor and flock, we have all alike need to enter into ourselves, and year by year to renew our peace and union with God. Lent then is a kind of retreat for all. The Church preaches to us, and lays on us the precept of Con fession and Communion. There is a wise fore sight and a delicate precaution in this obligation. As the Sacrament of Penance is necessary to sal vation for all those who have sinned morally after Baptism, and as the Church cannot know who are or who are not in the state of Baptismal Grace, it lays upon all its children the obligation of confes sion once a year. To those who are in union and peace with God it is a precept not light only but sweet : to those who are out of grace it is a precept of absolute necessity. By this means the Church provides that all its children shall pass, year by year, through the sacrament of reconciliation, and so abide in or be restored to the peace of God. And in order that this may be done, not in word or in name only, but in deed and in truth, the Church has instituted these sacred forty days as a preparation for our Easter duties, and for the commemoration of our Lord's Passion. In the season of Lent the Church calls us to the three evangelical good works—Fasting, Alms, and Prayer. But it is not necessary that we should now dwell upon these primary truths of religion. We will, therefore, make three applications of these precepts, very needful at this moment. We would urge upon you to learn, from the precept of Fasting, the duty of a habitual restraint upon all forms of needless indulgence : from Alms, the duty of giv ing your own personal service to our Lord and His poor : and from Prayer, the worthy use of the infinite gifts of the Blessed Sacrament, by which the presence of Jesus abides always with us. I. The precept of Fasting, then, is of divine in stitution. Jesus fasted as our example, and His example is our law. He had no need of the dis cipline of Penance ; nor in His deified humanity were there passions or affections needing to be subdued. They were in perfect measure and har mony with His deified will, and with the Divine law. In us they are in perpetual conflict, both with our inferior will and with the will of God. The rebellions of the body break in upon the soul. Pride, anger, sloth, and the like, are fed by the pampering of the body. Delicacy, softness, indul gence of appetite and palate by meat and drink, fastidious taste and carefulness in seeking its gratification, as well as excess in quantity—all these things deaden the soul, and subject it to the body. We are not now speaking of gluttons or of drunkards, of whom it is written they " shall not possess the kingdom of God." Fasting is not intended only for them, but for all ; for those also who by refined indulgence of themselves make the spiritual power of the soul heavy, or feeble. The Holy Scrip tures describe the Christian as a " spiritual man ;" that is, one in whom the spiritual life, intelligence, powers, affections, faculties, instincts, activity sopre dominate over the body, its senses and its impulses, that the body obeys him as a servant and an instru ment. Such have been always the state and cha racter of the disciples of Jesus Christ ; especially of those whom we recognise as saints. It is not difficult from this to understand what is the un spiritual man. It is a man in whom the body pre- i dominates over the soul—sometimes grossly, some times with refinement. The civilisation of our age is too fastidious to be gross, but it is subtle enough to be intensely unspiritual. The action of material civilisation over the mind is to hold its faculties I down in the closest contact with the merely natural operations of the intellect and the will. As an ex ample of unspiritual man, we may take the whole multitude of men of the world who treat the super natural as visionary and fanatical ; or, again, the men of intellect, who place the perfection of man in the use and enjoyment of his natural powers ; or who construct for themselves a Christianity of com mon sense, with self-confidence as its motive, and contemplation of its own heroism as its reward ; a kind of Christian Paganism, formed on the model of the Greek magnanimity, and the Roman endur ance of danger and enterprise. To all such men the precept of Fasting appears to be a wrong done to nature. They would con demn excess as a degradation ; but to deprive the body of its food for a time, or to deny its palate, or to mortify its delicacy, is, to them, a violation of the rights of nature, which claims its full satisfac tion in every faculty and appetite. The Church, in the precept of fasting, exercises a vigilant care that a sufficiency of food shall be taken to sustain not only life, but health. So great is its consideration and care in this respect, that before Lent in every year it mitigates by Dispensation the rigour of the Forty Days' Fast. On four of the seven days, in order to sustain health and strength, it permits, even to those who are bound to fast, the use of meat, and on all days, with few exceptions, it gives certain relaxations which, as they are con tained in the usual Indult attached to its Pastoral, we need not specify. It may, however, clear some doubts which have at times been raised to add a few words. 1. All persons, from the age of reason to twenty one years, or who are over sixty years of age, or who can earn their bread by labour, are bound by the law of the Church to abstain, but not bound to fast. 2. All persons, from the age of twenty-one years to sixty, except those who earn their bread by labour, are bound to fast. 3. All persons not bound to fast are bound, on Fasting Days, to follow the quality of the food allowed on those days as the chief meal of those who are bound to fast, but they are not limited as to the quantity nor as to the time or frequency of their me a l s. 4. All persons bound by the law as above to fast, borutduisnpaebnlseedb by reason of health, may be exempted deen:diet XIV. expresses it ob legiti mam causa m et Confessor medici consilio : that is to say, their heaithobr.has power to dispense them, the reason of The latter clause ha s certified by a Physician. confessor a li c f louble value, i n asmuch o as it relieves both the ) by and the penitent from doubt and hesitation, proper remitting the judg ment of the cause to the vonefboth authority, whose that the decision may assure the conscience d i spensa tion is neither granted outoof too t f ac ility nor asked from self-indulgence.great It is, therefore, a contradiction of the mind and intention of the Ch urch to endan g er e ither life health by fasting. N evertheless, the Chur ch would d have us learn that the quantity and quality o f food necessary for life and health is far less and far simpler than the world pretends. It trains its chil dren to use food wisely, for the end designed by the Creator, that is to sustain healthy and vigorous life; it teaches us that lle created all things with their qualities of sustenance or of sweetness, to be used not sourly and sadly, but with gladness, and with singleness of heart, because " Every creature of God is good, and nothing to be rejected that is received with thanksgiving, for it is sanctioned by the word of God and prayer." Nevertheless, it trains us to be indifferent as to what is set before us; not to be in bondage to the palate, Or to niceties of choice ; to be masters over ourselves, able to deny ourselves in little things ; and, in the midst o f an a b un d ance, t o se t a p ar t something for those who hunger and thirst. ------' We read in the lives of the Servants of God of a beautiful custom, that they daily set aside at table a portion of everything, as if for the Invisible Pre sence of Him whose blessing multiplies our food, to be They who did these things had the instincts which fast in g kee p s ali ve. given to the poor. Now, in such an age as this, when material com fort and material luxury have reached a height never known, at least in the Christian world, and when not the worldly only, but even those of a higher and more Christian life, are drawn in by the stream to live like the world, indulging themselves to the full, in more than abundance, and more than deli cacy, it is wholesome and necessary that the Church, year by year, should break in upon their softness and indulgence by the words and the laws of the Sermon on the Mount. When the members of Christ all around us are in poverty, when the poor are hungry, thirsty, and naked, and souls are dying without Pastors, and children by thousands are caught away and perish by evil and by igno rance of God, is it a time to squander the main tenance of whole families in one profuse repast, or the nurture of many orphans in dress and baubles ? Many never give in a whole year as much as they epend on ostentatious clothes, or an armlet, or a necklace, or some useless work of fancy. The spirit of self-command, however, would make these things impossible. A higher spiritual insight, opened in the heart by the mortification of our selves, would restore among us the grand simplicity which still survives in Catholic countries, the living tradition of the dignity of self-denial of those to whom the Apostle wrote, " Godliness with content ment is great gain : for we brought nothing into this world, and certainly we can carry nothing out. But having food and wherewith to be covered, with these we are content." And, again, speaking of Christian women :—" Whose adorning let it not be the outward plaiting of the hair, or the wearing of gold, or the putting on of apparel, but the hidden man of the heart in the incorruptibility of a quiet and meek spirit, which is rich in the sight of God." And again, "In like manner women also in decent apparel, adorning themselves with modesty and sobriety, not with plaited hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly attire, but as it becomes women professing godliness with good works." 11. Next, as to the precept of Almsgiving. Our purpose now is to ask, as the Apostle did of the Corinthians, not for yours, but for yourselves : that is, for your activity, co-operation in works of cha rity to the poor, and, above all, for souls. If we have in us the Spirit of Christ, we shall ! have a desire to do some personal work for those that are in need. We do not read that the rich man refused his alms to Lazarus, or that be drove him from his gate. He was simply unconscious of the misery upon his threshold. Insensibility to the sufferings of others is a sin against the grace of charity. To go to our grave without giving alms to the needy, all men see would endanger our sal vation. How is it, then, that men can go to their graves without an act of personal charity or service to their brethren ? It is a cheap thing to give money. Often it is given to redeem ourselves from the trouble or the disgust of serving our neighbour. But we owe to our Lord not alms only, but every form of service we can render to Him. Ile is wait ing to receive it at our hands. " The poor ye have always with you. Me ye have not always." And yet in them He accepts all we do. The world is divided into those who work for their bread and those who eat of the labour of others. Upon those who work our Lord has be stowed a special honour. He worked Himself. He ate the bread earned by S. Joseph, or given in alms by others. This has consecrated the state of the poor man and of the working man ; and the per petual round of daily work brings with it many graces to preserve the soul from the danger of the world. The work of a Christian is the salt of the soul. When our Lord said, " How hardly shall a rich man enter into the kingdom of heaven," He did not only mean how easily do the men corrupt them selves by excess and surfeiting, or how great is their danger of loving the world and living for it. lie implied also how surely and dangerously the possession of riches breeds all kinds of spiritual temptations. Every state has its proper spirit which is produced by it. Poverty, if rightly used, makes the poor in spirit; riches pro duce the unconsciousness of heart which our Lord describes in the Apocalypse, " Because thou sayest, I am rich and made wealthy, and have need of nothing, and kno•Arest not that thou art wretched and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked, I counsel thee to buy of me gold fire-tried, and that thou mayest be made rich, and mayest be clothed in white garments, and that the shame of thy naked ness may not appear; and anoint thy eyes with eye salve, that thou mayest see." Even in those who are free from grosser sin, the possession of abun dance without earning it, the command of money and time, the unlimited freedom of disposing of themselves, produce a softness, refinement and deli cacy of mind which breed many faults : such as in dulgence of our own choices, fastidious and curious indulgence of our own ease, comfort and taste, waste of money and time, inconsiderateness of others, a subtil selfishness, an insensibility to the needs and sufferings of the poor, whom they never see, a heart less shrinking from their squalor and sufferings, and a still more dangerous insensibility to the spiritual diseases and the spiritual death of souls. Now it is not only a luxurious but a well-pro vided, comfortable life which produces this insensi bility. And one effect of the Fast of Lent is to break through it by awaking a due sense of the value of our souls, and by the exercise of voluntary self-denials. We would therefore pray you, dear children in Jesus Christ, for the love of God, to begin in this Lent some work for the good of souls. As we have already specified, with as much exact ness as we can, some twenty kinds of work for the benefit of the poor children in London, we will now only specify two with somewhat more of usefulness. The first is the teaching in Confraternities of Chris tian Doctrine, or in classes, gathered on Sundays, or in the evenings. To give alms is good, but to give the knowledge of Jesus Christ is far better. To illuminate and transform the mind of one poor child into the likeness of our Lord is to do a work for eternity. It is strange that with the power and opportunity of doing such works, and of laying up souls and infinite joys in the kingdom of God always within our reach, we should spend days, months, years, a whole life, without making even an attempt. If we had the same power of acquiring lands, money, titles, pleasures, we should toil day and night for them. There is a profound apathy and a practical unbelief in our hearts, and our daily ife bears witness to it. The first service we would ask of you, then, is to place yourselves at the disposal of your Pastors to teach with your own lips. An hour or two in the Sunday afternoon spent among poor children will bring unknown blessings to you. You that live the busiest lives have most need of the graces which such acts of charity bring down. For a busy life draws the heart outward upon the things of this world, and it is hard for such minds to enter into themselves and to realise the objects of faith. The depth and vividness of our own spiritual faculties is sustained and enlarged by teaching others. The other service we would ask of you is to em ploy your time in working such things as may be sold for the poor. God has given to you various gifts; and all the natural facilities, both of inven tion and of execution, come from Him. The keen ness of the eye, the fineness of the ear, the firmness of the hand, the fertility of the mind, are all gifts of God. H e gave th em ne i t h er t o b e squan d ere d nor abused,abused, but to be used wisely, for His sake, and with a consciousness of the account we must give. You, who are free from the necessity of earning your bread, have titue up on your hands. Some of h ' o you have th e entire control of your days. Is, ow our Lord wills th at you should o s e use u your o N u v h r gifts at y you u and a n y d o o ur ; time for His sake. Choose and make a rule to spend a proportion, and no small one, of your free tim e i n working such ' things as m ay be sold for the service of the poor. The bless ings this will bring to you are many fi rs t, it will preserve you from idleness. Empty hands make vacant hearts ; and none are so full of temptation as those who leave the doors and windows wide. Unoccupied minds are open through all their senses. The prophet says, " Mors intrat per fenestras" " Death is come up through our windows." Busy minds are preoccupied with good. " The Prince of this world cometh and hath nothing in them." If the hours which are spent in personal talk, or poring over pernicious books, or in mere emptiness of mind, or innocent but useless society, were spent in working for charity, you would be sevenfold happier, and nearer to the presence of God. Again, this would make your time fruitful. In stead of wasting away, and leaving behind nothing but emptiness or bitterness, your hours would bear a lasting fruit. A multitude of poor would bless you ; numberless little ones, whom you may never see, would be praying for you ; and there would be written a record before the Angels of God in your behalf. Your days would be the seedtime of a plen teous harvest, and not a seed would be lost by the wayside—not a moment spent for the love of God would be fruitless. Once more, it would sanctify your time. To work for our Divine Lord is to do Him a personal service. Martha ministered to Him. The apostle says, " Whether you eat or drink, or whatsoever else ye do, do all to the glory of God." The con sciousness of this personal relation elevates our com mon life. The least act done for this great motive is in His sight of great price. In this way all our every-day life may be changed into acts of faith and love to Him. If we renew the intention every morning it will virtually pervade the whole day. And, from time to time, one inward act or inspira tion, or glance upward to the Heavenly Court, will renew its purity and sweetness. Moreover, to give your time for these works of charity would be a reparation for the time that is past. There is no one, it is to be feared, who has not squandered hours, which would make up years, sometimes in idleness, sometimes in less innocent waste of God's good gifts. Begin then now to re deem what remains. Let your life from henceforth —your last years it may be—bear a better fruit to God. Happy they who begin at the third hour ; happy they who begin even at the eleventh ; for the evening is coming on, and the reward is sure. Hope less only those who stand all the day idle, " till the night cometh in which no work can be done." We therefore call on you to give your names to your Pastors, who will make them known to us ; and we trust hereafter to form them into a general and permanent organisation for promoting both work for charity and the sale of the work which has been made : of which full details shall be given to you in due time. 111. Lastly, the precept of Prayer is one of the tokens of the love of God. He has no need of our prayers, nor that we should tell Him what we need ; but He has bestowed upon us the unspeakable gift of access to His presence, and of permitting us to speak with Him face - to face. We may converse with Him as He permitted Abraham, with whom God " spoke as a man to his friend." To speak with God elevates, sanctifies, and ennobles the soul. A life of prayer assimilates the soul to God ; and they who live in prayer are perceptibly different from others. In this is the unspeakable gift of the Incarnation, whereby God has entered within the sphere of our intelligence and affections, and has willed that His Incarnate presence should be al ways with us in the Blessed Sacrament of the Altar. If the season of Lent brings us the auste rity of fasting, it brings also the inexhaustible con solation of the perpetual exposition and adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, kept up in succession, day and night, throughout the Churches of the Diocese. We need not exhort you to make full use of this great gift. Your own faith and love make words from us unnecessary. But there are great causes why in this Lent we should be more instant and earnest in prayer. Signs of evil are everywhere. The words spoken on the first day of this year by the Sovereign Pontiff warn us of the perils which hover about his sacred presence. No two nations in the world are in amity. Between almost all a secret and intense animosity exists. Mutual resent ments and defiance keeps old wounds open. Sedi tion is undermining every people. The modern spirit of Nationality is bearing its own fruit. It has been used as a lever to wrench fragments from the unity of the Church, and to overthrow the Go vernment of the Vicar of Christ : it must now be extinguished within our own borders. All the States of the old world and the new seem to be sick at heart, and there is little wisdom in Rulers and little confidence in the power and stability of Govern ments. Besides all this the hand of God is visible in shadow. A murrain wastes our herds, destroying and tainting the food of man, and a pestilence which walketh in darkness, for no man can discern or control it, hangs over us, suspended for a moment, to descend upon us, unless God avert, when winter is gone. Add to all this the sins of this land, past and pre sent, against the Faith and the Church of Jesits Christ, against His precepts and the honour of His blessed Mother ; the multitudes who are dying every day out of the Fold of salvation, without Sacrament or Pastor ; the millions who lie in the unconsciousness of spiritual death, corrupt and cor rupting one another ; the monsters and portents of crime committed day by day among us ; and, lastly, our own unworthiness of all great graces, " For it is time that judgment should begin at the house of God." The sins of Catholics are darker than the sins of other men, for their light is greater, and the grace they have received is enough to make them Saints : Here, then, are motives enough for prayer, contrite, fervent, and persevering. To the utmost of your po fiver, then, in this season of Lent, be on your knees before our Divine Re deemer. Where He is day by day be you also. In every Church through the Diocese He will await you, as He visits them one by one. Pray for your own needs ; pray for those who never pray for themselves. Make reparation to the Sacred Heart of our dear Lord for the sins, wrongs, and slights that He endures in this land, and especially for the wounds He receives in the house of them that love Him, from us who ought to glorify Him by every power and affection of the soul. Pray, too, that He will send labourers into His harvest, for the fields are white for the reaping, but the hands are few ; pray that the whole Flock in the Diocese may be Christian and Catholic in all the sense of these great names, anointed by the Holy Ghost, and full of the love of God and of all mankind. Finally, dear Brethren and Children in Jesus Christ, the offerings of to-day will be, as you already know, for the Orphanages of North Hyde and Nor wood. No more vital or blessed work is to be found than the nurture of Children in the love of God and His blessed Mother ; and of all children none have greater claim upon us than Orphans. Giv,e, there fore, for the love of God, and He will bruen,reward your generosity. He will not abundantly dantl generously r ew be outdone by you. The more you offer to Him the more He will pour out upon you of the riches of His grace in this life, and in the world to come He will give you life eternal. That this Holy Season may shed abroad upon all the Flock, Pastors and People committed to our charge, the riches of His benediction, is our daily prayer. The Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the Charity of God, and the communication of the Holy Ghost be with you all. Amen. HENRY EDWARD, Archbishop of Westminster. A LIVING INSECT IN THE HUMAN EYE.—A living hyatid, of the species Cysticercus cellalosa, belonging to the entozoa, a series of insects inhabiting the internal parts of animals, WAS last week extracted from the eye of a female by Mr. Woolcott, the oculist, and late surgeon of the Kent County Ophthalmic Hospital, Maidstone. The animal had been perceived for some time floating unattached in the anterior chamber of the eye, and sight was almost entirely lost by frequent attacks of inflammation. The occurrence of the entozoon in the human eye is very rare.—Maidstone Journal. [ADVERTISEMENT. j—llolloway's Pills.—Winterly Draw backs.—Whence fogs spring or whither they retire it is not our present purpose to explain; wo desire to point out how their ill effects on the human frame can be neutralised. The blood must be freed from superfluous carbon and mephitic taints by some purifying medicine like Holloway's pills, which not only thoroughly cleanse the circulation, but adjust in every organ the defects imposed upon it by that fluid when it has become foul or sluggish. These pills prevent stagnation, congestion, and are the best re gulators and preservatives against internal inflammations, irritations, and ulcerations; while expelling morbid matters from the system they cool it by their gently aperient ac tion and strengthen it by their tonic virtues. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 14, 1866 SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. BIRMINGHAM STEEPLECHASES-TUESDAY. These:chases were continued yesterday amid fine weather, though a fall of snow overnight caused some doubts about the morning whether it would be found practicable to run over the ground, which was still at noon covered with snow, despite the sun which shone brightly during the morning. One o'clock was the time set for the commence ment of the sport, but the stewards, after duo consultation, resolved that the first race should be delayed one hour later. Full particulars of the sport aro appended. The Licensed Victuallers' Plate of 5 sovs each, with 20 added ; winners extra. About two miles and' a half. Lord Poulett's Benazet, 6 yrs, 11st Mb, inc 71b extra (J. Page) 1 Banbury and Oscar also ran. Betting-4 to lon Benazet. Oscar took a strong lead soon after starting, Banbary and the favourite going on in close company ; the former, however, refused at the second fence, and dropped far astern. Oscar retained the lead for the first mile and a half, when he bolted out of the course, and Benazet was left to canter home alone. The Farmers' Steeplechase of 3 sovs each, with 24 added ; for 4-yr-olds and upwards ; weight for age ; gentlemen riders ; those who have ridden a winner, 71b ex. Three miles. Mr. Yates's Spiteful, 5 yrs, 12st 21b, inc 71b extra (Capt. Tempest) 1 Mr. Audinwood's Soda Water, aged, 12st 101 b (Owner) 2 Mr. Bancroft's King Tom, 5 yrs, 12st (Mr. Calcraft) 3 Mr. Arthur's Black-eyed Susan, 5 yrs, list 91b (O wner ) 4 Betting-11 to 8 agst Spiteful, sto 2 each agst King Tom and Soda Water. Spiteful led for the first 200 yards, when he was pulled back, and Black-eyed Susan went on in advance. At the second fence King Tom ovorjumped himself and fell, un seating Mr. Calcraft, who, however soon righted himself, and went on in pursuit and again took close order. For the next mile and a half each alternatively led till after entering the park enclosure, when Black-eyed Susan dropped some distance astern, and the other three remained in close company to the second fence from home, which they charged simultaneously, and raced head and head to the next obstacle, after clearing which Captain Tem pest got his horse's head in front, and after an exciting race, won a fine finish by a length; a similar distance sepa rated the second and third ; Black-eyed Susan a bad fourth. The Craven Cup, value 100 sovs, by subscription of 10 sovs each, 5 ft; for four-yr-olds and upwards; weights for ago, with penalties and allowances. About three miles and a half. Mr. W. Sanders's Turnham Green, 5 yrs, 10st 51b (Knott) 1 Lord Poulett's Reporter, 6 yrs, 12st (Mt. Edwards) 2 Jack and Plover also ran. Betting-3 to lOn Reporter, sto 1 bar 1. Jack cut out the work, followed by Reporter, and the other two at wide intervals till proceeding up the hill, when the favourite assumed the command, but soon after wards, upon coming out of the Park, ran the wrong side of the post, and thereby lost his advantage. Jack now took a lead of at least a dozen lengths of Turnham Green, who, at a wider interval, was succeeded by Reporter. The latter, however, got on terms with his horses, and showed the way when half amile from home. Turnham Green, how ever, went on in close pursuit till within two fences of the winning field, when Reporter hung out signals of distress, and Turnham Green at once joined him, had the lead at the last fence, and, retaining it to the end, won a good -.lice by a length. Nothing else passed the post. The Birmingham Annual S teoplechase Handicap of 15 SOU each, 5 ft, with 100 added ; certain penalties ; the second horse to save his stake ; gentlemen riders allowed 511. About four miles. Mr. T. Wadlow's Roadster, aged, list 111b...(W. White) 1 Lord Poulett's Ace of Hearts, 6 yrs, lOst 91b ...(J. Page) 2 Mr. George's Sprite, aged, 10st 11Ib (Mr. Thomas) 3 The following also ran:—Church Militant, Jerry, Lord Gt. orge, Ivanhoff, and The Scrub. Betting-6 to 4 agst Ace of Hearts, 3to 1 agst Church Militant, 5 to 1 agst Roadster, 10 to 1 agst Jerry, 100 to 8 agst Sprite. Lord George showed the way, his followers being Sprite, Church Militant, and Ivanhoff, clear of whom came The Scrub with the favourite on his right, Roadster bringing up the rear. They ran past the stand with no material change. Ascending the hill Ivanhoff took second place, but at the next fence was headed by Church Militant. Proceeding through the park Sprite, who had been pulled back again, went up to Lord George, who, in the next quarter of a mile, retired from the front, leaving Sprite with the command, Church Militant second, Ivauhoff third, Jerry fourth, Ace of Hearts fifth, and Roadster next. These positions were retained as the lot ran past the stand the second time, Lord George having dropped some fifty lengths in rear of Roadster. Ivanhoff now went to the fore, but in a few strides was passed again by Sprite, tho pair, when about a mile from home, being closely followed by the favourite, Church Militant, Roadster, and Jerry. The latter, however, broke down after entering the park, and was at once pulled up. Half a mile from the winning field Roadster took up the winning, and Ivanhoff giving way, Lord Poulett's horse took close order with the leader, Sprite at his heels. Before reaching tho last fence Page commenced to move on Ace of Hearts, whose defeat was at once vociferously announced in the ring ; and, despite the horse's gamely struggling on, Roadster retained his advantage and won cleverly by two lengths; four lengths separated the second and third ; two lengths from Sprite, Church Militant was placed fourth ; Ivanhoff, beaten about half a length, being next. Nothing else passed the post. The Scurry Handicap of 25 s°vs each; winners extra. Two miles. Mr. W. Saunderson's Jacob, aged, lOst 5th... (J. Knott: Mr. George Reynold's Corsica, 5 yrs, lOst 71b (J. rage, Mr. Drax's Red Wing, aged, list 41b Mr. Summer's Bunbury, aged, lOst 10Ib Betting-5 to 4on Corsica-2 to 1 agst Jacob. The race was reduced to a match between the two placed, who ran in close company to the last hurdle, when Jacob took the lead and won easily by two lengths ; the others beaten off. The Hunters' Plate of 25 sovs; weight for age, with certain penalties. About three miles. Mr. Wilson's Tiger, aged, 13 st 71 b ...(Mr. E. B. Wilson) 1 Mr. Rowell's First Flight, aged, 12st 31b ... (M r. H a lf ord) 2 Tho following also ran :—Soda Water, Little Lady, Humphrey, Ely, and King Tom. Betting--2 to 1 agst King Tom, 3to 1 a gs t Ti ger , 4t o 1 agst Little Lady. After about half the distance the race lay between Tiger and King Tom, but the latter coming to grief about half a mile from home, Tiger cantered in alone. First Flight, who walked in, was placed second. BETTING AT MANCHESTEB.-TUESDA.Y. LINCOLN HANDICAP. 11 to 2 agst Copenhagen (offered, take 6 to 1) 12 to 1 agst Saccharometer (taken) 100 to 6 agst Treasure Trove (taken and offered) • 20 to 1 agst East Lynn (taken) 20 to 1 agst Pantaloon (offered) 25 to 1 agst Caithness (taken) LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE. 14 to 1 agst Laura (taken, to £5O) 14 to 1 agst Cortolvin (taken) 25 to 1 agst Innellan (offered) 33 to 1 agst Balder (taken) 33 to 1 agst Old Oswestry (offered) 33 to 1 agst Agag (offered) 33 to 1 agst Hornet (offered) 33 to 1 agst Ace of Hearts (offered) 40 to 1 agst Reporter (offered) WATERLOO (COURSING) CUP. 100 to 4 agst Mr. J. Jardine's nomination (taken) 100 to 3 agst Mr. J. Johnstone's nomination (taken) 100 to 3 agst Mr. W. IL Massey's nomination (taken) RES FOR 1866. ARY. Nottingham Spring 27 C 11. Crox ton Park l6 Northampton 2O Windsor Spring Nowcastlo Spring 2B Thirsk lO Epsom Spring Newmarket Ist Spring l6 Liverpool Hunt Cup 2O Chester Curragh 24 X. lEpsom Summer l5 Uxbridge 2l Manchester Ascot Summer 29 E. Liverpool Bevorley 2O Ipswich Hungerford Newcastle on-Tyne 26 Curragh 26 Worcester :4Y. Stamford l9 Radcliffe 23 Winchester 24 Southampton 25 Huntingdon Goodwood 3l UST. York August 2l Plymouth Lichfield Devon and Exeter 2B Tunbridge 2B Derby Summer 29 Weymouth 3O :MBER. + llichmond Hendon Monmouth Manchester Autumn 2l Newmarket Ist October 25 tiValsall BER. - - - Newmarket Houghton 22 Worcester COURSING. THE GREAT WATERLOO MEETING. LivERPooL, Taesday Night. THE DRAW. Stewards :—Lord Lugan and Messrs. A. Graham, T. D. Hornby, W. Long, and 4 Mallaby. Flag Steward : Mr. N. Slater. Judge : Mr. Warwick. Slipper :T. Raper. The Waterloo Cup, value £1,600 in specie, by subscription of 25 each : 64 subs ; the winner to receive £5OO ; the runner-up, £2OO ; two dogs, £5O ; four dogs, £3O ; eight dogs, £2O; and 16 dogs, £lO each. The winner to give three dozen of claret to the dinner. Mr G. Gregson ns (Mr. Clark's) bk b Curiosity, by Bugle —Banter agst Mr. LF. Armistead ns wbd Little Grey, by Belligerent--Veritas. Mr W. S. Garnett ns f by Golden Hair, by David— Racketty Hoppicker agst Col. Bathurst ns (Lord Garlies's) w b Godiva, by Canaradzo—Good Omen. Mr W. H. Clark ns (Mr Spinks's) bd w b Sea Fly, by Sea Foam—Sea Girl agst Mr Struchan's bk d Marquis, by Monarch—Breach of Promise. Mr T. Brocklebank's bk d Isaac, by Sea Foam or Derry —Java agst Mr F. Bartholomew ns r d Bonus, by Terrona —Fanny Fickle. Mr W. Long's r d Lagrange, by David—Sophia agst Lord Lurgan's bk d Master Burleigh, by Regan— Gertrude. Mr Mallaby ns (Mr Blanshard's) bk b Becca, by Sky scraper—Babbs agst Mr H. Haywood ns (Mr Racster's) bk b Revelry, by Patrician—Romping Girl. Mr W. G. Borron ns (Mr W. Walker's) be w d Bell's Bank (late Tom), by Canaradzo—Cricket agst Mr B. H. Jones's w be d Jem Mace, by Pugilist—Happy Lass. Mr E. Croft ns be w Whitehall late Brush, by Coming Sir—Hannah agst Mr. D. Bateman ns (Mr. Racster's) bk b Rebe, by Regan—Lady. Mr Williams ns f w b Good Gracious, by Gilbert—. Trudge agst Mr J. Russell ns bd d Stockwell, by David— Henrietta. Lord Eglinton's bk d Waterloo, by Greenwood— Heather Bell agst Mr. J. Johnstone ns (Mr F. Johnston's) bd w b Fieldfare, by Dalzig—Woodpigeon. Mr D. Cloudesdale's be d Wide-awake., by Smoker— Rachel agst Mr Bland's ns (Mr Goodlake's) b Gaudy Poll, by Brewer—Glimpse at Glory. Mr T. D. Hornby ns (Mr Robinson's) bk d Rower, by Seacombo—Juana agst Mr Barden us bk d Dick, by Roth sea —S ly Boots. Mr J. Gibson ns (Mr Ewing's) bk d Liddington, by Lookout—Effie Sunshine agst Mr J. F. Callander ns (Mr Ewing's) bk b Love Bird, by Lookout—Effie Sunshine. Mr R. Jardine'. bk b Constance, by Owersby—Jessica agst Mr J. Bake ns (Mr Punchard's) r d Prime Minister, by Tipsy Cake—Glowworm. Lord Grey do Wilton's bd w d Glendower, by David— Gauzowing agst Mr G. Blanshard's f b Go Bye, by Picton —Baffle. Lord Bective's be w b p Lady Alexandra, by Banjo— Lady Bell agst Mr W. H. Dean's r d Desperate, by Brewer —Sprite. Mr J. Jardine ns (Ur R. Jardine's) f w b Annabella, by David—Goneril agst Mr Knowles's w bd King Tom, by Canaradzo—Kitty Nicholson. Hon. Captain Molyneux ns (Lord Sefton's) r d Saturn, by David - Stella agst Mr T. Green ns r b Queen Mary, by Danger (dam unknown). Mr W. Massey ns (Mr W. Forrester's) r td d Cauld K ail, by Union Jack—Scotia Thistle agst Mr C. J. Chesshyro ns (Mr Shittler's) bk w d Simon Pure, by Locus Standi —Fly. Mr J. Cunningham's w b Bess, by Smilax—Gip agst Mr J. S. Savage ns (Mr Bouverie's) w be d Blue Eye, by Ca naradzo—Brindled Bonnet. Mr. C. Rand°ll ns (Mr Marfleet's) bk b Monkshood, by Monk of Thorny—Manganese agst Mr J. H. Blundell ns bk b Gipsy Girl, by Joshua—lmogene. Mr D. Lloyd ns (Mr Evans's) bk d Eyes Right, by Sea gull—Chore Arnie agst Mr Deighton ns (Mr Evans's) bk d En Route, by Seagull— Chere Arnie. Mr. J. Hyslop ns (Mr Dunlop's) r w d De Morny, by Dunoon—Bessie agst Mr T. L. Reed us (Mr Morgan's) bk d Marcus, by Wild Buck—Klaphonia. Mr G. Thomson's w b Theatre Royal, by Cardinal York —Meg o' the Mill agst Dr Richardson ns (Mr Jamieson's) w bk'd Johnny Cope, by Canara,dzo —Annoyance. Mr N. Saxton's bk d Samuel, by Dadid—Patch agst Mr H. Hodson's ns bk b p Hydra, by Boy in Blue—Blue Bell. Lord Binning's bk t d Basil, by Shooting Star—Dark ness agst Lord Sefton's f w b Scapegrace, by Brewer— Scandal. Lord Stair ns (Mr Harrison's) bk d Black Boyd, by Car dinal York —Hurrara, agst Mr Blackstock ns (Mr Holmes's) f b Belle of the Cottage, by Bridegroom—Lady Solway. Mr T. C. Lister ns (Mr T. Smith's) bk td b Cassiope, by David—Riotous agst Mr J. Spinks's bk w d Sea Ranger, by Beacon—Barkcatcher. Mr Mather ns (Mr. Carruthers's) r b Meg, by Torrona— Fanny Fickle agst Mr A. Graham ns bk b Sixty-two, by Seagull— Sourocks. Mr J. Brundritt's bk b Black Topsy, by Gabriel—Sister to Wild Wavo agst Mr Wise's bk w d Woo Bob, by Sea Foam—Wanton. Mr J. Dunlop's bir d Marshall Forward, by Pieton— Coquette agst Mr Stocker us r d Heroic, by Drum Major —bitch by David. Mr I. Campbell ns (Mr Hyslop's) bk d Naworth, by Car dinal York—High Idea agst Mr G. E. Gorton ns (Mr Foulke's) bk w d Brigadier, by Boreas—Wee Nell. The Waterloo Purse, for thirty-two dogs beaten in the first course for the Waterloo Cup, amounting to £260, to be divided as under;;—The winner, £100; runner-up, £5O; two dogs, £l5 ; four dogs, £lO ; and eight dogs, £5 each. The winner to give one dozen of ehaanpar . ,ne to the dinner. The Waterloo Plate, for sixteen. dogs beaten in the second ties for the Cup, amounting to £lOO, to he dirided as under:—Tho winner, £45 ; second, £2O ; two dogs, £7 10s. ; and four dogs, £5 each. • Aquatics. UNIVERSITY BOAT RACE. We are glad to find that two crews—although in the rough—equalling those of last year, are about to commence active training for this great aquatic contest, and we are also glad to see that one of the best of Cambridge oarsmen (Mr. D. F. Steavenson, Trinity Hall) has, to the great great gratification of all Cambridge supporters, taken his last year's seat, No. 6, where he will doubtless continue up to the day of the race. From Oxford accounts of the crew are most satisfactory ; spite of the raw weather and heaviness of the stream, the men are all well, and, under the care of Mr. C. R. Carr (Wadham) and G. Morrison, two of last year's crew, they improve vastly, so that they give the greatest amount of satisfaction to their fellow-collegians and the Oxford public who witness their daily trips. They are alternately stroked by Messrs. Brown and Senhouse, and both will probably row on that day. The crew, by the latest advices, were :—R. T. Raikes Merton ; F. Crowder, Brasenose ; G. H. Morrell, Exeter F. Willan, Exeter ; W. L. Freeman, Merton ; W. W. Wood, University ; G. F. Henley, Oriel ; M. Brown, Trinity. They will almost immediately go into active training, and should any train off or go amiss there are plenty of good men to put in their places. From Cambridge the news is good. Mr. Kinglake's task is by no means a thankful one. He has lost the ser vices of four or five tried men through "private," or, per chance, "parental" reasons, and is, therefore, confined to selection from a limited number. Mr. Steavenson has joined him, and when one of the men retires for Mr. King lake shortly, there will be five of the old crew in the boat. They have a splendid eight, newly b u ilt by Mat Taylor, of Newcastle, and will shortly use her. The wind is very high, and the labour home excessive ; but the men are cheerful and promise to be a very fine crew. The following aro the names of the crew that rowed from Searle's to Baitebite and back on Monday, and there will probably be but one other change :—T. F. Jerwood, Trinity Hall ; J. R. Selwyn, Trinity ;J. W. Bourke, Trinity ; Fortescue, Magdalen ; D. F. Steavenson, Trinity Hall ; J. Still, Caius ; H. Watney, St. John's ; W. R. Griffiths, Trinity. EARLY SPRING.—The severe storm of wind and rain have been succeeded in Devonshire by weather as mild and spring -like as any that can be expected in April. Every thing is in keeping with the weather, the birds are singing blithely, the buds are unfolding rapidly, and the primrose, and other spring flowers are already very for ward.—Tiverton Gazette. 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Measured by the degree of alarm which they produce, a few crimes like that of Muller, or the agrarian murders peculiar to Ireland, amount to an evil which it is difficult to over-estimate. Any proposal which might tend to double their number or to reduce it by half deserves the most careful ex amination on that ground alone, apart from all the moral and philanthropical sentiments which may attach to it. Not that we can or ought to exclude altogether the influence of sentimental considera tions. The actual state of public sentiment is here a material element in such a case, since upon this depends to a great extent the efficiency of all penal laws. We cannot but regret that after collecting such ample materials on this branch of the inquiry the Commissioners should have foreborne to enter into what they call " the abstract question of the expediency of abolishing or maintaining Capital Punishment." That question was fairly within the scope of their instructions, and, if not ripe for a final solution, at least called for some deliberate ex pression of their opinion. Instead of this, a declara tion, signed by four members only of the Com mission, is appended to the general Report, now published in full, with the evidence and some valuable statistical tables. It is to the effect that, in the opinion of the undersigned, Capital Punish ment might safely, and with advantage to the com munity, be at once abolished. The subscribers are Dr. Lushington, Mr. Bright, Mr. Neate, and Mr. Ewart, all of hom, if we mistake not, were already pledged to a total abolition of the death penalty. Mr. Justice O'Hagan declined to add his name, doubting whether public opinion is yet ad vanced enough to make such a change desirable, but he has recorded his conviction that the weight of evidence and reason is in its favour. Now, the weight of reason hardly admits of being tested by any objective standard, but the weight of evidence may be ascertained by an ordinary process of ba lancing. Happily, the commissioners have prefixed to their report a compendious and well-digested summary of the evidence taken before them, by the aid of which our readers may form their own con clusions on this point. The first witnesses examined were the Lord Chancellor, Lord Wensleydale, Baron Bramwell, and Baron Martin. All testified in the most emphatic way to the deterrent effects of capital punishment, and deprecated its abolition in cases of murder. Turning to the written answers of eleven other English and Irish Judges contained in the Appendix, we find that all, with the qualified exception of Mr. Justice Shee, concurred in the same view, and that Mr. Justice Slice based his opinion, not on his own experience at the bar or on the bench, but on the arguments adduced in the work of Mittermaier. Though no one can have a stronger motive than a Home Secretary for dis pensing with capital punishment, Sir George Grey and Mr. Walpole declared themselves unable to recommend the substitution of any secondary punish ment for "real" murders. Mr. Davis, the chaplain of Newgate ; Colonel Henderson, who has been in the West Australian convict service for the last fifteen years; two Inspectors of Police, Messrs. Kittle and Tanner ; Mr. Avory, the Clerk of Arraigns at the Central Criminal Court; Mr. Fitzjames Stephen, and Sir Mordaunt Wells, were all ranged on the same side, though differing, of course, on many collateral questions. The opposite theory was maintained by Sir Fitzroy Kelly, Mr. Denman, Sergeant Parry the Attorney-General for Ireland, Lord Hobart, Lord S. G. Osborne, Mr. Tallack (Secretary to the Society for the Abolition of Capi tal Punishment), Mr. Nissen, Professor Levi, the Rev. J. Jessop, r. Beggs, apt. Cartwright, and the Rev. W. C. Osborn. Without, for a moment, intending to disparage the cogency of the reasoning employed by these gentlemen, many of whom are known to have devoted much time and thought to the subject, we are not prepared to allow that the " weight of evidence" preponderates in their scale. Indeed, if we add to the judicial opinions above mentioned those elicited by a Select Committee of the Home of Lords in 1847, and recorded on pages 640-43 of this Report, we cannot help marvelling how so many great authorities can ever have arrived at the same conclusion, inevitable though it may be. The example of foreign countries, to which the Abolitionists appeal, does not appear to throw much light on the matter. The truth is that few experiments have as yet been registered, and these have been tried but for a short time in coun tries of limited population. We do not gather from Mr. Tallack's statements and the volumi nous papers contained in the Appendix that im prisonment or penal servitude for life has any vlere proved more deterrent than death. The utmost that can be said is that as few throats are cut under that system as under our own, but, as the yearly rate of murders fluctuates very much under any system, this result, unless obtained by a much broader induction, can be worth very little. For a similar reason the alleged increase of murders in some years preceded by numerous executions proves no more, even after the application of the proper correction for growth of population, than a casual rise in the rate of mortality after a period of sanitary improvement. As for the presumption that because the penalty of death failed to check sheep-stealing it is ineffectual in checking murder, we can only say that it is quite as absurd as the contrary presump tion on which our old criminal law was founded. There are, we freely admit, many a priori and some a posteriori arguments for the abolition of capital punishment ; but there is one argument for its main tenance which, until, confuted, will outweigh them all in the judgment of most men. That argument is that as death is known to be the greatest of terrors, it must surely be the most powerful of deterrents. To deny the former proposition is to contradict the universal experience of mankind in all ages and countries. To deny the inference is, to say the least, a startling paradox, throwing an over whelming onus probandi on those who advance it. Not the least among the inconsistencies into which these so often fall is that of attributing to juries an intense horror of inflicting death, while they assert that criminals have no great horror of suffering it. This fatal inconsistency betrays itself frequently in the pages before us, if it be not inseparable from the abolitionist doctrine. We have adverted on a former occasion to the main recommendation of the report —the division of murders into two classes, the one capital, the other not capital. Such a distinction is far preferable to the French plan of leaving to the jury a power of finding a verdict of " Murder under extenuating circumstances." The unanimity of the witnesses against leaving this discretion to a jury is very remarkable, but tho reasons which they assign are almost equally applicable to the alterna tive adopted by the Commissioners. It is proposed that no murder, unless committed in connexion with some other atrocious crime or" with express malice aforethought," shall hereafter be punish able with death, but in the latter case " such malice is to be found as a fact by the jury." Will juries be less reluctant to find express malice as a fact than to abstain from finding extenuat ing] circumstances ? If they are too prone to go out of their way in favorenz vita, will they reso lutely go out of their way to condemn a fellow-crea ture to death ? This is a question which Sir G. Grey must answer if the Government Bill is to embody the suggestion of the Commisaion. Very serious objections are also likely to be urged against the paragraphs recommending that the power of re cording sentences of death should be restored, and that executions should take place before select wit nesses within the prison walls. At the same time, many are naturally disappointed that several prob lems of great practical interest, and legitimately arising out of that immediately before them, should have been shelved by the Commissioners. It is quite true that the policy of establishing a Court of Criminal Appeal, of leaving the Reyal prorogative of mercy in the hands of the Home Secretary, or of amending the legal definition of insanity, affects the whole administration of our criminal law. Still these subjects, though intrinsically independent, are intimately connected, for purposes of legislation, with that of capital punishment. It does seem a pity that, having taken copious evidence upon them, and having obtained on the two former a very deci sive, if not unanimous, expression of opinion, they should have shrunk from the responsibility of giving a verdict. No commission of inquiry need be afraid of exceeding its functions, and no greater service can be rendered to the public than to relieve us, if possible, from the necessity of " further investiga tion." lIEIiALD.—After a stormy and perilious passage across the Atlantic, the Atrato reached Jamaica at the close of the third week of January. We have received by the return mail the first impressions of a correspondent,who endeavours, and will endeavour, to transmit to us from time to time a faithful ac count of the progress of events and the state of feeling in the island at this critical period. Our correspondent was startled on landing in Kingston by the luxurious manner affected by the black popu lation and the showy dresses in which they disported themselves in the streets. He had been told that the negroes were starving, and that very few had a rag left to cover them. His experience corrected this, as well as other false impressions derived from preju diced reports. He had heard in England that the people in the island were inclined to make light of the Morant Bay affair as a mere local riot. " If Kingston represents the prevailing sentiment on this point, the statement in question is wholly and utterly without foundation." Every white ARC coloured person there believed at the time, and still believes, that the so-called riot was no more nor less than a formidable rebellion, which would have involved the whole island had it been allowed to gather head. As it was it extended over 60 miles of ground, involving the destruction of a large number of lives and of all the houses in the district. Our informant tells us further that the whole white community, while not averse to the Government inquiry, is unanimous in approving the conduct of Governor Eyre. The negroes, on their part, have assumed of late a triumphant and insolent attitude which augurs ill for the future. Large numbers of them have struck work, and are crowding up to Kingston with the intention, as they say, of giving evidence before the commission. The office of the " Jamaica Committee" is besieged day and night by would-be witnesses. We trust Messrs. Gorrie and Payne will exercise their discretion in taking down their information separately, as probably every fresh witness will contradict the last one on some material point, and it will be advisable to avoid a scandal of this sort before the Royal commission. Meanwhile that commission has been opened, the Jamaica Parlia ment having readily granted it the right to compel witnesses and examine them on oath ; and Sir Henry Storks promising that the inquiry shall be " full, searching, and impartial," Mr. Eyre has retired to his country-house to await the event and take his turn to give evidence. Addresses of sympathy and support are being voted to him from all quarters. One, which is signed by a number of Dissenting ministers, including two Baptists, seems to have a peculiar significance at thepresent juncture. " With out expressing any opinion," they say, " on isolated acts, and regretting the great loss of life that has occurred, involving, we fear, to some extent, the innocent with the guilty, we would nevertheless cordially express our conviction that the general policy pursued - by your excellency was absolutely necessary to meet the exigencies of the case, and was dictated simply by a sense of duty and of the responsibility which rested on you at a period of such alarm and extreme danger." The Gale of Sunday. HAYLING ISLAND (HANTS), Monday Night. Yesterday we had the fiercest tempest ever re membered. At half-past four the Olive Leaf, life boat of the National Lifeboat Institution, was launched, but on arriving at the other side of the ferry the coast-guard officers informed the crew that their services were unavailing, as the unfor tunate vessel had literally gone to pieces. She was the brig Joanna Elizabeth, of Hamburg. As soon as she struck, the crew (from seven to nine in number), as well as could be made out through the thick gloom of the tempest, took to the rigging. In a quarter of an hour or twenty minutes the masts went by the board. The ship broke up into fragmentg, and every soul perished. It is supposed that the captain's wife and family were on board, women and children's clothing having come ashore. KINGSDOWN (KENT), Monday Night. A brig was observed yesterday afternoon with a signal of distress. The wind fearfully violent, and the sea so rough that no ordinary boat could be launched from shore. The Sabrina, new lifeboat of the National Lifeboat Institution, was launched, and made at once for the brig, but before the boat could reach her a cruising boat from Deal got to her and took her in hand, and apparently worked her towards Ramsgate Harbour. Great credit is due to the crew for their daring in launching the boat during such wind and weather. They are de lighted with their new life-boat, in which they are ready to venture out in any weather. POOLE (DonsET), Monday Night. It blew a terrific gale from the S.E. yesterday, and several vessels got ashore. The lifeboat belonging to the National Lifeboat Institution was launched, and taken out in tow of the steam-tug Royal Albert into the bay, but was not able to ren-: der any service in saving life, which was doge by the steamer. After being afloat 10 hours informa tion was received that the Elizabeth, of Exeter, was ashore on Christchurch bar, and the assistance of the lifeboat was asked for, as the rocket apparatus could not reach the vessel. The boat was accord ingly taken on her carriage overland, but on reach ing the scene of the wreck the crew had been taken off, although throe out of, seven had perished. WORTHING, Monday Night. During a very heavy gale from S.S.W. yesterday afternoon, the lifeboat of the National Lifeboat In stitution was taken along the coast and launched to the assistance of a brig which was ashore at King ston Cove. On arriving alongside, however, the vessel was found to be abandoned, and the lifeboat therefore returned to the station after an absence of 12 hours. COUNTRY MARKETS. --r---- BRISTOL-TUESDAY. At our market to-day there was a thin attendance, but rather more business passing in wheat. Prices about the same as last week. Barley and oats more inquired for. Beans and peas inactive. NEWCASTLE-TUESDAY. Wheat trade steady. Both old and dry parcels of new command fully Saturday's rates; damp samples meet little attention. Barley, beans, peas, and oats firm. Flour in retail demand at late quotations. LEEDS-TUESDAY. More doing in wheat at advancing prices. Heavy bar leys again rather dearer ; light qualities unchanged. Beans, oats, and other articles steady. The average prices for the week ending,Feb. 12 were : Wheat, 47s sid per qr.; barley, 88s 7id ; and oats, 26s Bd. MELTON MOWBRAY.—TUESDAY. White wheat, 52s to 56s ; red, 45s to 52s per 36 stone. Barley for malting, 33s to 37s per qr; feed, 28s to 30s per , 30 stone. Oats. 22s to 395. Beans, old, 48s to 52s ; new 408 to 44s per qr. LIVERPOOL-TUESDAY. To-day's market was fairly attended by buyers, and the general tone was more cheerful than for some time past. Wheat was in good demand at the full rates of this day' week. Flour inactive, and steadier than on Friday. In dian corn 3d per qr. advance. Oatmeal, beans, and peas all unchanged. Oats steady. MARKET HAR,BOROUGH.—TvEspAr. Scarcely so much wheat as usual ; best sorts made late rates, but runs were rather lower. Barley sold at advanced rates. Oats maintained their value. Old white wheat, 50s to 55s ; new red. 44s to 50s per 36 stone. Barley, fine, 38s ; other kinds, 29s to 32s per 30 st. Oats, new, 22s to 27s ; old, 28s to 34s per qr. Beans, old, 49s to 525; new, 42s to 45s per qr. GAINSBOROUGH-TUESDAY. A tolerable supply of wheat and good qualities were fully as dear. Barley a small show and the trade firm at more money for fine qualities. A SHAM PASSENGER OF THE LONDON.-A man calling himself George Main has been imposing on the in habitants of Glasgow by stating that he is a surviving pas senger of the London, and he has in consequence received a considerable sum of money. His accounts of the disaster are represented to be of the most minute and harrowing description. The impostor, no doubt, seeks to represent Mr. David Gavin Main, one of the three surviving passen gers. Births. Antsm.—Ozi the 12th inst., at 4, Heron Court, Richmond , Surrey, the wife of Wm. G. Ainslie, Esq., of a son. Connzrr.—On the. 12th inst., at Aston Hall, Newport, Shropshire, the wife of H. Corbett, Esq., of a daughter. NicHou..—On the.9th inst., at Lyme Regis, Dorset, the wife of Captain Nicholl, RN., of a son. TINLEY.—On the 11th inst., at Parkside, Princes-park , Liverpool, the wife of R. J. Tinley, Esq., of a son. Marriages. BUNBITRY—D'EYNCOURT.—On the 13 th inst., at St. George% Hanover-square, Henry Mill Bunbury, Esq., of Marlston House, Berkshire, to Ellen Elizabeth, youngest daugh ter of the late Right Hon. C. Tennyson d'Eyncourt, Rayons Manor, Lincolnshire. FANSHAWE—HOPE-JOHNSTONE.— On the 10th inst., at Alderstoke, Colonel Charles Fanshawe,RoyalEngin eerl ' to Anne Williamina, eldest daughter of the late Captain Charles Hope-Johnstone, R.N. Deaths. BRANDE.—On tho 11th inst., at Tunbridge-wells, Thomaslrtndo 7 Esq., D•CL • 1 F• . 7 PS Scc . 7 of the Roy', Mint, aged 81. HAnnrsoN.—On the 12th inst., at Worthing, C. garrison, of 39, Sackville-street, London, aged 68. SPILLER.—On the 11th inst., Wm. Henry Spiller sq., ° f .. Grosvenor House, Highbury New-park, formerly of Cot lege House, Upper Holloway, aged 65. SIMPSON.—On the 10th inst., at 11, Henrietta Villas, Bath, John Simpson, Esq., aged 80. TATHAM.—OR the 10th inst., at Highgate, Thos. Tatharch Esq., of 11, Staple-inn, aged 87. Lo o n t d y on o. : l P l2 r , in s te t d ra an nd d , Punter, at TIU SUN Ut % e+ Strand, in the. Precinct of the Savoy. in the County of Aliddle.aex.--Wednesday, February 14, 1866. t