The Sun. — London, England, 1866-03-10 00:00:00

INPERIAL PARLIAMENT HOUSE OF LORDS.—LAST EVENING. The Lord Chancellor _took his seat on the woolsack at Eve o'clock. INNOVATIONS IN THE RUBRIC. The Bishop of PETERBOROUGH presented a petition from the parish of Christchurch, Warmington, Essex, ogainst any alterations in the Rubric. GRIEVANCES OF INDIAN OFFICERS. The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH drew the attention of the house to this subject, and asked the Government for information with reference to the same. Earl DE GREY and RIPON said that he had not yet !made up his mind as to the conclusion at which he would arrive in regard to this matter. He was aware that it was desirable there should be no unnecessary delay, but the rubject required consideration. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The Cork Harbour and Curraghbinncy Extension Rail opf ay Bill was read a second time. THE ABYSSINIAN CAPTIVES. In reply to Lord CHELMSFORD, The Earl of CLARENDON said that ha had received a telegram, from which it appeared that M . r. Bassein Abyssinia and from the result of that intervie ego ppeared that t . here was every prospect of the speedy re of the Abyssinian captives. PRINCESS HELENA'S ANNUITY BILL. Earl GRANVILLE moved the second reading of this bill, in the absence of Earl Russell, who was still unabl e to attend ' from i n disposition. He referred to the exc e ll en t spanner in which the royal family had been ed uca t e d , an d to the domestic happiness that result e d f rom t h e royal marriag es which had already taken place There was every prospect that the Princess Helena's ap proaching marriage would be equally fortunate, and the h a ppiness of her Majesty would be increased by the resi dence of the royal couple in this country. The noble earl also adverted to the admirable qualities exhibited by the Prince Alice, and her devotion to her Majesty on the occa sion of the death of the Prince Consort. The bill was then read a second time. PRINCE ALFRED'S ANNUITY BILL. On the motion of Earl GRANVILLE, this bill, provid ing his Royal Highness with an annuity of £15,000, was also read a second time; and both bills were ordered to be committed. CONSOLIDATED FUND (.£1,137,772) BILL. On the motion of Lord STANLEY of ALDERLEY this bill was read the second time. Cashel's Divorce Bill was read a third time and passed. On the motion of the LORD CHANCELLOR, the Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Bill was read a third time and passed. The house then adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS—LAsT EVENING. Mr. DonsoN,:owing to the indisposition of the SPEAKER, took the chair at four o'clock. ___ ---- --- --- -- - METROPOLITAN RAILWAY AND THE INDUS- TRIOUS CLASSES. Mr. T. HUGHES moved the resolutions whiCh stood on the paper in his name to compensate the labouring classes for the inconvenience and losses they might sustain in con sequence of their houses or residences being required for the purposes of a railway. He said the subject had assumed a very serious aspect, and it was to alleviate the inconvenience that he took the liberty of bringing the matter under the attention of the house. By his resolutions tenants at will were made entitled to compensation as much as the rich landowners, and he could not see that any great objection could be entertained to his proposal, because it was only a matter of justice that the labouring classes should be considered in the wholesale destruction of houses which was threatened by the railway projects now before the Parliament. He proposed that railway companies should, prior to the demolition of small houses, construct dwellings of a similar description to those destroyed, that all tenants at will and lodgers should be compensated just as much as the rich man,because the loss occasioned to them by being driven from their homes was much more serious than the same inconvenience was to those who had ample means at their command. If something was not done they might as well give up the metropolis to the promoters of railway schemes, and convert it entirely into one large and general railway terminus. Mr. PATTEN said it was not a fact to say that the affairs of the labouring classes were not cared for in that, house. He thought the session was now too far advanced to alter the standing orders for the present year. He sug gested that the hon. membershould withdraw his resolution, and that a committee should be appointed to consider the whole matter. He thought the resolutions were not at all calculated to effect the object he desired. The right hon. gentleman the President of the Board of Trade had a bill which he had brought forward, and perhaps he could in duce him to adopt the principlo of compensation he had in view. Sir F. GOLDSMID said without something was done, and that very speedily, the greatest suffering would be entailed, as there were two railway projects which would unhouse and turn adrift a large body of poor persons, whose loss by such a proceeding would be absolutely ruinous. Mr. M. GIBSON said he could not give the hon. mem ber for Lambeth any hope that he could embody the principle he had in viow in his bill. The hon. momber proposed that the railway companies should build large model lodging houses, but then some one would have to be removed to clear the site for such a building, and somebody would be sure to be inconvenienced. He said that every person who could show a loss should be compensated, but he could not go the length of saying that the whole of the law of the land should be altered by making such extensive alterations in the standing orders of Parliament. Mr. HENLEY said he was quite convinced something ought to be done to protect those Rho could not protect,- themselves. Mr. SCOURFIELD said he should like to know, taking the right hon. g en tl eman, t h e P res i dent of the Board of Trade's view of the matter, what was the good of being entitled to compensation if you could not get it ? (hear, hear.) The poor were told they should be amply compensated for loss and inconvenience, yet when the matter was put into practice the theory was all that was found to exist. . Lord STANLEY said ho sympathised very much with the hon. member for Lambeth, but he thought the resolu tions embodied a dangerous principle in a one-sided and incomplete manner. He thought, however, that the matter was one that should be thoroughly investigated in COM rnittee. Mr. HUGHES said he could not agree with his noble friend in the view he had taken of the matter; and as for the right hon. gentleman the President of the Board of Trade saying he would not give him any countenance, ho begged to say he did not want it, because he had the coun tenance and support of six or seven of the largest railway companies in existence, that they were perfectly willing to take upon their shoulders the burdens he was desirous of imposing. lie hoped the house would not now say there was no necessity of their doing so. He felt that the sub ject was one of the greatest importance, and as he could not induce the house to agree to the resolution, he would accept the suggestion of the hon. and gallant gentleman opposite, and introduce his resolutions on the understand ing that the matter should be considered in committee. THE NEW REFORM BILL. The CHANCELLCR of the EXCHEQUER brought up the papers relative to the election returns for boroughs and counties. ELECTION PETITIONS. Mr. DODSON intimated that letters had been received stating that it was not their intention to persevere with the petition against the return for Sandwich. The re cognisances of the Galway petition had been found suffi cient. RIFLED GUNS. In reply to Lord ELCHO, The Marquis of HARTINGTON said he had no objec tion to produce the papers referred to in the first portion of the noble lord's question, but he could not give him tho other, as the matter was still unsettled. WESTMINSTER SCHOOL. In reply to Mr. MOWBRAY, Sir G. GREY said the arrangement was still under con sideration but no scheme, as he stated the other evening, had Yet been completed. When the arrangement was com pleted, the sanction of Parliament would be required, so that a measure house. Thee would have to be introduced in that perfected, a would be no objection, when the scheme was L°l 7 aopy of it on the table of the house. Colonel NORTriROOPS IN CHINA. mi red . the Segretary of State for War whether, in confo z a zith the reiterated recommenda tions of the Army therities, the Govern m „ t a 7 ad ePartrnont and Military au r determined upon the employment of native troop s in The Marquis of HARTINGTo i r a ? tion of the Government to send a Was the inten tion Regiment to Hong KongP^rt of the Ceylon placeof the British troops. THE CUSTOMS CLERKS. Mr. TOBBENS asked the Finance Secretary Treasury, whether it was the fact that the clerk s of the Inspector General of Imp orts and Exports had apiZiathe the Board of Customs for lib:rty to forward petition to the Lords Commissioners of her Aiajesty' s Treasury, praying for a reconsideration of a petition presented in May last, with a view to giving them a more substantial benefit than is afforded by the recent Treasury minute upon Customs salaries; and whether such permis sion had been refused ? Mr. CHILDERS said the Treasury was at that time en gaged in a very difficult operation in considering the sa laries of the clerks in the Customs. Fart of the scheme had been completed, which directly benefited about 1,000 clerks, and indirectly b ene fit e d a great many more. Every change in the salari e s of o ne class affected t hose whose salaries were not interfered with, and he though t it Was a somewhata fternoon hasty step to raise a question at 4 o'cloc k in the on a matter which had only been made known at 1 o'clock the same day, as had been done in , THE SON, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 10, 1866. this motion. It was quite true that the clerks, he beNevedy 'The following also ran : —The [Unknown,: Doubtful, of ,the Inspector-General of Imports and Exports had ap- reiploma, Cossack, Tambour Major, and Lot 84. pliedto the Customs' authorities to forward a petition to ti®: Betting-3 to 1 agst Tambour Major, 4to 1 each agst Treasury, asking for a reconsideration of the scheme, ana . Aggravator and Lot 84, sto 1 ags t Old Wi n d sor, 6t o 1 it was perfectly true that the C ustoms' autho r ities refused,, each agst Woodpigeon and C ossac k. D ou b t f u l j umpe d off stating that they were not at p resent disposed to do so, but.. with the lead, followed by Lot 84, and they ran thus for those clerks were perfectly free to forward their petition_ two miles, when Aggravator, who had been lying well up, to the Treasury directly from themselves, and he believe& took :tie lead, followed by Woodpigeon, but the latter that such had actually taken place. The whole subject.. could never reach Aggravator, who won easily by four was an extremely difficult one, and required much consi— lengths ; three lengths between second and third ; Lot 84 was fourth. Unknown refused at the brook, Diploma fell deration. he: wily at the post rails, Cossack and T a mbour Major also PARLIAMENTARY OATHS BILL. Sir H. W. BARRON asked the right hon. the member car ae to grief. There was no advance on the selling price for Buckinghamshire, when ho proposed laying his -the winner. amendment on the Parliamentary Oaths Bill on the table. Mr. DISRAELI said on Monday next. In answer to Mr. CHAMBERS, The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said he should bring in a Bankruptcy Bill immediately after Easter. Sir It. PEEL called attention to the nuisances arising from the smoke of furnaces in towns and country districts. After referring to the increased consumption and export of coal, and the importance of economising our supplies, he drew an alarming picture of the deleterious effect of the poisoned atmosphere of large manufacturing towns on the health and comfort of the labouring classes. He showed that great saving might be effected by manufacturers by the use of efficient smoke-consuming apparatus, and that legislation by private bills for particular towns had for the most part failed, and he asked Sir G. Grey whether he intended to bring in a general bill on the subject this session. MANCHESTER BETTING—FRIDAY. NORTHAMPTONSHIRE STAKES. 6to 1 agst Mail Train (taken freely) CHESTER CUP. 100 to 6 agst Gong (taken freely) 22 to 1 agst Dalby (taken) 100 to 3 agst Surney (taken) • Very little Mang. DONCASTER SPRING MEETING—MAncx 13. Weights for the Londesborough Plate. 5 fur. 152 yds. Age st lbl Age st lb Twilight Dawdle 5 8 7 Carnizette 3 6 4 Lytham 5 8 4 Gundredo Skylark 5 7 13 ' Warwick Reindeer Roderickßandom... 4 7 101 Vigorous Confederate La Mechante 4 7 5 I Inheritress The Count 5 7 0 i Mrs. Wallett 3 5 7 Weights for the Grand Handicap Hurdle Race. About a mile and three quarters. Ago st lb Charming Woman a 10 11 Lucette ' 6 10 7 Sandford Mr. HENDERSON made some remarks on the injurious effects of coke-burning and iron furnaces. Mr. HANBURY mentioned that his firm saved £2,000 a year by the use of an efficient smoke-consuming ap paratus. After some observations from Mr. A. EGERTON and Sir M. PETO, Sir G. GREY expressed his readiness to concur in any general measure for putting down this nuisance, but pointed out that the Local Government Act, which had been adopted in hundreds of towns, contained powers quite adequate for the purpose, and that the real difficulty wits to get the local authorities to put the law into execu tion. He mentioned that the success of Lord Palmerston's Act for the metropolis was owing to active supervision of the police under the directions of the Home Secretary, and suggested that if the local authorities would give the same instructions to the police the existing law would be found equally effective. Mr. WATKIN called attention to the importance of adopting breech-loading rifles in the British Army, and gavo some details of the great success of tho Spencer and Henry rifles in the late campaigns in America. THE DOG TAX. Age st lb Betsy Copeland 6 9 12 Clairvoyan to 5 9 12 John Gully ... Rosins Skiff Foxholes a 10 0 Turcos Elsham Greenland 5 10 0 _ _ Emma g 6 9 131 Weights for the Chesterfield Handicap. One mile. Age st lb Age st lb Twilight Lytham 5 8 5 Lady of the Tees... 3 6 0 Charming Woman a 7 12 Ceramique 3 5 13 Skylark 5 7 10 Vigorous Success Roderick Random—. 4 7 6 Kingfisher 3 5 11 Arkansas Minnotte Musician Miss Williams Scarf Gundrede Mr. ELLICE called attention to the ravages committed by the ownerless dogs allowed to roam about the country, which on the sheep farms of Scotland amounted to a loss of 10 per cent. of the whole value of the stock. He com plained that the Revenue Department did not take suffi cient pains to enforce the payment of the dog tax, which practically, he said, was a voluntary tax, and he pointed out the additional damage these dogs might do during the prevalence of the rinderpest. He mentioned that acts had been passed within the last year or two to put down this nuisance in England and Ireland. After a few words from Major WALKER, in corrobora tion of Mr. Ellice's statement. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said the dog tax, in which were mixed up considerations both of revenue and police, had for many years been a standing difficulty of the Revenue Department, but he claimed for the department a fair amount of success in dealing with it, inasmuch as the tax was paid on 300,000 dogs. He ad mitted that the tax was too largo to be universally levied, and sketched out a plan for changing the system of levy ing it—involving the abolition of all exemptions, its re duction to 4s. or 55., and an alteration in its character— making it a licence .duty instead of an assessed tax. To do this, however, he said, he should require the assistance of Parliament, and suggested that the subject should be considered by a select committee. Mr. BAXTER was of opinion that the changes men tionod by Mr. Gladstone would be generally satisfactory, and that a select committee was necessary. Weights for the Selling Handicap Hurdle Rate. Age st lb Age st lb Sandford ' 6 10 7 The Bean Veluti 5 10 3 Umballah Jacob 6 10 1 Foxholes Betsy Copeland 6 9 13 Arbitration Weights for the Great North of England Steeplechase. About three miles and a half. --- Age st lb 1 Age st lb Penarth a 12 7 I Meanwood a 10 9 Alcibiado Pigeon Doubloon Creole a 11 9 The Czar Elsham Tho Hornet 6 11 6 L. S. D. 5 10 5 Laura 5 11 3 Montrose _ _ - i Church Militant ... a 11 0 Skiff Accident The Rogue Globule a 10 10-' Foresight 6 10 0 Emma gelding 6lO 9 1 Sutton Weights published March 8, at six p.m. CROXTON PARK MEETING. FRIDAY, March 16. Weights for the Croxton Park Plate. Three-quarters of a mile. Age st lb Age st lb Historian Pantaloon 4 8 4 Professor Anderson 3 6 12 Clairvoyante 5 7 6 Caustic Vespasian 3 7 3 Panacea 3 6 10 Miss Harriette Weights published March 8, at six p.m After some observations from Mr. BLARE, to which Mr. LAWSON replied, on the sea fisheries of Ireland, Sir E. DERING made a statement as to the position of the engineers of the navy. BOSTON STEEPLECHASE MEETING. Weights for the Boston' Steeplechase. Age st lbl Age st lb Vienna. . Luck's All. a 10 6 Foresight Harrington a 10 0 [arch 8, at six p.m. Bridegroom, by Pompey 3 12 5 Creole a 11 7 Eltham Weights published Lord C. PAGET intimated that their case was under the consideration of the Admiralty. The subject was continued by Mr. Otway and Mr. Ser geant Gaselee, who complained of the dilatoriness of the Admiralty in coming to a decision, and the house then went into committee of supply on the navy estimates. £173,655 was voted for the Admiralty-office. On the vote of .£1,368,971 for dockyards and naval yards, a long and at times rather warm discussion arose on the grievances of the dockyard labourers in regard to their pay and allowances ; and, ultimately, the vote was agreed to. In committee on the Mutiny Bill, Mr. Taylor renewed his attempt to strike out the clauses relating to flogging and branding, but was again defeated by divisions of 56 to 17 and 53 to 15. WINNERS OF THE GREAT ST. LEGER. The Marine Mutiny Bill was read a third time and passed. The Pensions Bill was read a third time and passed. Mr. M. Gibson obtained leave to bring in a bill for con solidating in ono act provisions applicable to metropolitan and other railways ; and another to make bettor provision for the security of reservoirs, and otherwise to amend the law relating to waterworks. The house adjourned at five minutes past two o'clock. Yr. Owner. Winner. Rider. 1776 Ld. Rockingham Allabaculia J. Singleton 1777 Mr. Sotheron Bourbon Cade 1778 Mr. T. Gascoigne Hollandaise llearon 1779 Mr Stapleton Tommy G. Lowry, sen. 1780 Mr Bethel! Ruler Mangle 1781 Col. Radcliffe Serina Foster 1782 Mr Goodricke ... Imperatrix Searle 1783 Sir J. K. Kaye ... Phenomenon Hall 1784 Mr Coate 1785 Mr Hill 1786 Ld A. Hamilton Paragono Mangle 1787 Ld A. Hamilton Spadille Mangle 1788 Ld A. Hamilton Young Flora Mangle 1789 Ld Fitzwilliam Pewett Singleton 1790 Mr Goodricke Ambidexter Searle 1791 Mr Hutchinson Y. Traveller Jackson 1792 Ld A. Hamilton Tartar Mangle 1793 Mr Clifton 1794 Mr Hutchinson... Beningbrough Jackson 1795 Sir C. Turner Hambletonian ... Boyes 1796 Mr Cookson Ambrosio Jackson 1797 Mr Goodricke ... Lounger Shepherd 1798 Sir T. Gascoigne Symmetry Jackson 1799 Sir H. T: Vane... Cockfighter Field 1800 Mr Wilson Champion Buckle 1801 Mr Goodricke ... Quiz Shepherd 1802 Ld Fitz william ... Orville Singleton, jun. 1803 Ld Strathmore ... Remembrancer Smith 1804 Mr Mellish Sancho Buckle 1805 Mr Mellish Staveley Jackson 1806 Mr Clifton Fyldener Carr 1807 Ld Fitzwilliam ... Pauline Clift 1808 Dof Hamilton ... Petronius ...... Smith 1809 D of Hamilton ... Ashton Smith 1810 D of Leeds Octavian Clift 1811 Mr Gascoigne .... Soothsayer Smith 1812 Mr Rob 1813 Mr Watt Altisidora Jackson 1814 D of Hamilton ... William Shepherd 1815 Sir W. Maxwell Filho da Puta Jackson 1816 Sir B. R. Graham The Duchess Smith 1817 Mr Peirse 1818 Mr Peirse 1819 Mr. Ferguson ... Antonio Nicholson 1820 Sir E. Smith St. Patrick Johnson 1821 Mr T. 0. Powlett Jack Spigot Scott 1822 Mr Petre Theodore Jackson 1823 Mr. Watt 1824 Mr Gascoigne ... Jerry Smith 1825 Mr Watt Memnon Scott 1826 Ld Scarborough Tarrare Nelson 1827 Air Petro Matilda s... Robinson 1828 Mr Petre The Colonel Scott 182 9 Mr Petro Rowton Scott 1830 Mr Beardsworth Birmingham Conolly 1831 Ld Cleveland Chorister J. B. Day 1832 Mr Gully 1833 Mr Watt Rockingham ...... Darling 1834 Ld Westminster Touchstone Calloway 183 5 Mr Mostyn Qn. of Trumps ... Lye 1836 Ld Lichfield 1837 Mr Greville 1838 Ld Chesterfield... Don John Scott 1839 Major Yarburgh Charles XII. Scott 1840 Ld Westminster Launcelot Scott 1841 Ld Westminster Satirist 1842 Ld Eglinton 1843 Mr S. Wrather ... Nutwith J. Marson 184 4 Mr E. J. Irwin ... Faugh-n-ballagh 11. Bell 1845 Mr Watts 1846 Mr W. Scott Sir Tatton Sykes Scott 1847 Ld Eglinton Van Tromp J. Marson 1848 Ld Clifden Surplice Flatman 1849 Ld Eglinton 1850 Ld Zetland Voltigeur J. Marson 1151 Mr A. Nichol Newminster Templeman 1852 Ld Exeter Stockwell Norman 1853 Mr Bowes . W. Australian' F. Butler 1854 Mr Morris Kt. of St. George Basham 1855 Mr T Parr Saucebox Wells 1856 Mr A. Nichol Warlock Flatman 1857 Mr J. Scott lmperieuse Flatman 1858 Mr J. Merry Sunbeam L Snowden 1859 Sir C. Houck Gamester Aldcroft 1860 Ld Ailesbury St. Albans L. Snowden 1861 Mr W. I'Anson... Caller Ou 1862 Mr S. Hawko The Marquis Challoner 1863 Ld St. Vincent... Lord Clifden Osborne 1864 Mr W. I'Anson... Blair Athol J. Snowden 1865 Count Lagrange Gladiateur H. Grimshaw Lieutenant-Governor Bross, of Illinois, thinks that it will not cost so much to build the Pacific Railroad as was expended in constructing the Pennsylvania Central or the Erie. 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Campbell, Fakenham, Norfolk, of indigestion and torpidity of the liver, which had resisted all medical treatment.— In tins, Ilb, 2s 9d; 21b, 4s ; 51b, Ils ; 121 b, 225; 241 b, 40s.—Barry Du Barry and Co., No. 77, Regent-street, London; also Phillips, tea dealers, 8, King William-street ; likewise at 6!, Gracechurch-street ; 4, Cheapside ; 40, Bishopsgate street Within ; 63, 150, and 298, Oxford-street ; 330, Strand ; 54, Upper Baker-street ; 103, Tottenham-court-road ; 96, Upper-street, Islington, N.; Harvey, Notting-hill; Close Brothers, 65, Ebgh-street ; and St u bb s , Queen's-terrace, St. 's -wood, London; and all respectable grocers and cite , mists.—Beware of spurious imitations. THE UNIVERSITY BOAT RACE In a few weeks the great aquatic contest of the year will be decided at Putney. The Oxford and Cambridge eight-oared match has become a national institution, and even the non-academic public would feel great regret were anything to prevent its oc currence. At one time, hewever, the dispute pro voked by Cambridge, in raising the question whether students of more than a ce.tain standing should be allowed to row, threatened to prevent the match, at least for the year. Into the merits of the controversy we need not now enter. There was much to be said on both sides ; but, even assuming as a matter of hypothesis that the pretensions put forward by Cambridge could be justified on abstract grounds, it is clear that her representatives would have acthd most unwisely in insisting upon rights which, if recognised, must prove fatal to the possi bility of an aquatic meeting between the two Uni versities. They were not in a position to dictate terms. Had they persisted in their original de mands, and declined to compete with their former victors, unless certain rowers were virtually ex cluded from the Oxford crew, they would have ex posed themselves to unpleasant and unanswerable comments. The step would have been taken as a confession of inferiority. Everybody would have said that they raised the objection because they knew they must fail ; and the most loyal of Cam bridge men would certainly rather se e th e " light blue" beaten hallow year after year, than have it asserted that the modern representatives of the grand old rowing club were afraid to meet their hereditary antagonists. Happily this danger has been avoided. Whatever may be the issue, we are sure to have a gallant contest, in which, as usual, each side will do its - best to win. Pro bably there is no other competition in which the best man so invariably gains the day as in an University boat race ; and impartial spectators will no doubt decide with truth that the victors de serve their honours. Already the banks of the Isis and the Cam are crowded daily by youthful spec tators, each concourse anxiously watching the pro gress of those who have been picked out to represent their University on the. Thames. No doubt the same eager discussions, and the same surprises and disappointment, attend the selection of the Univer sity Eight, as Cambridge used to witness when she carried all before her. We may safely assume, too, that the interminable controversy about the respec tive advantages of a long stroke and a quick stroke, is now carried on at college dinners and boating suppers, with quite as little chance of settlement as when it was first started years and years ago. And we may still more safely assert, that—in order to qualify themselves for a task of intense physical exertion and painful endurance, involving no other reward than honour—some score of young men in the very prime and flower of youth are now under going a course of discipline and training from which many a soldier or sailor would shrink in disgust. But our object in referring to the subject is, not to celebrate the glories of racing, or the prowess of our aquatic athletes; what we want is, to put in a word for the non-rowing and non-muscular portion of the community. Those chiefly interested in the match intend, it is said, that it should take place at some unearthly hour of the morning. Now, on be half of the public, we protest against such an arrangement. It ia all very well for boys of seven teen to get up before daybreak, take a hasty breakfast, and then rush down to Putney, at the time when common people are beginning to think of getting up ; but to nine -tenths of the vast crowds who, of late years, have gone to see the contest, the necessity of rising at an untimely hour, with the consequent sacrifice of rest and breakfast, is a serious matter. Moreover, even if they could nerve themselves to the effort, they know very well they would not be repaid for the trouble. A boat race in the middle of the day, while the river's banks are lined with gaily-dressed ladies, with lunching looming in the future, pre sents a delightful prospect ; but a race in the chill of the early morning is a different affair. Prac tically, if the managers should fix upon the hour, the non-professional public will stop away. The ardent devotees of boating may answer that the absentees will not be missed ; but their opinion will scarcely be shared by men of common sense. The University crews, indeed, do not row to please the crowds along the river side ; but their members must be different from ordinary lads if the presence of a crowd of spectators is not a powerful incentive to exertion. The juvenile aristocrats of the Uni versities may sneer about the " mob," but, as a matter of fact, they would be sorry if the mob were not there to see them. Last year the occasion of the Oxford and Cambridge race was made a holiday throughout London ; and while the muster w-..s never before so numerous, probably no contest between the light and the dark blue ever won such favourable reports, or provoked so few objections. The " Derby day" of the river is becoming one of thenational and it would be a mis fortune consideration for the public if anyan niversaries, deprived the race of its chief attraction. Indeed, the advantages of havi n g the co n t es t a t a want of reasonable hour are so obvious, that an inconvenient selection would be impossible, were it not for two considerations. In the first place, it is thought that in the fresh of the morning the boats are not so likely to be impeded by the over-crowded steamers. If such were the case, we should at once admit the cogency .of the argument; but we doubt the correctness of the belief. The steam boats are chiefly filled with persons who take a pe cuniary or professional interest in the matter, and they would certainly be present under any circum stances. That the nuisance urgently calls for in terference no one will question. Some day or other, if the present system continue, we are likely to wit ness a terrible catastrophe. Indeed, it is difficult to believe that no authority exists to prevent river steamboats from taking too many passengers on board, or following too closely upon the rowers. If nobody has the power or the will to make such re gulations as arc essential for the safety of the pub lic, then somebody should forthwith be invested with the requisite authority. The advocates of an early race will probably add, however, that time and tide wait for no man ; and to the fact thus urged con siderable weight must be allowed. We cannot for get the difference in point of date between the Ox ford and Cambridge vacations, or the objections entertained in many quarters to the occurrence of the race in Passion Week. The number of days during which the match can take place, therefore, is extremely circumscribed. The crews are natur ally anxious to have as much practice as possible ; and the hours during which the tide is just upon the turn are naturally preferred to any others. Leaving aside all question of the extra labour in volved when the stream is running strongly, the effect of a powerful current either way is to give an undue advantage to that party which has the choice of sides.. Yet, in spite of all these considerations, the force of which we should be the last to deny, we believe that the convenience of the public need not necessarily be sacrificed to that of the " eights.' After all, the event may be fixed for any one of some seven days ; and as each day shows a dif ference of about an hour in the rise and fall of the tide, it seems incredible that the time chosen should not be such as to let the Londoners witness the con flict. In making this appeal, we are speaking in the interest both of the Universities and of the public. Anything which tends to render Oxford and Cambridge more and more part and parcel of our national life, is an advantage to the country ; and the character of a national festivalis not a thing to be despised. Mere idlers may think of nothing but their own comfort ; still more naturally may the crews think of nothing but the manner in which they can get through their task with the least strain upon themselves and the best chance of success: But persons who have at heart the social interests represented by the party of sightseers must express a wish that the two objects may be found compa tible ; and it is for the promoters and managers of the contest to consider how far a reconcilement may be practicable.— Telegraph. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. TIMES.—We are entering upon a question of a kind which will occasionally recur, and, though sometimes entailed as the consequence of error, is seldom invited. It is the comparison of impossibi lities. If universal consent is worth anything, not to speak of public self-respect, it is impossible to get on without a reform bill, at least it is quite im possible for the present Ministers to get on without it. On the other hand, it is no secret that it is also impossible to bring in a bill that has a good chance of passing. A double-barrelled bill, it is alleged, will be certainly beaten by the representatives of the doomed boroughs, who must either be so few as to make the measure ridiculous, or so many as to com mand the division. We do not hesitate ourselves to declare a single-barrelled bill also impossible, be cause it is itself palpably incomplete, and because it involves the discharge of the second and more im portant barrel under much more perilous circum stances, and when, instead of its being in the hands of the resent bearer, he will most likely be looking into its muzzle. So here are three impossibilities, all we believe utterly impossible—no bill, a double bill, and a single bill. Our case looks as bad as that of a man who, pursued by a bear, finds himself on the edge of a precipice, or has to choose between run ing in to the jaws of a tiger or a crocodile. In ordi nary circumstances, and with ordinary people, life is full of impossibilities, which some surmount or break through. 'There are, however, those who, like Napoleon, have erased the word from their vocabu laries, and they sometimes make great failures, sometimes great successes. The failures, of course, are natural, and according to programme. The suc cesses are often plainly ascribable to lucky chance or special interposition. Caesar himself, whose talents were such that it was said he could not fight a battle without winning it, nevertheless held that luck had a great deal to do with military affairs. Discounting the luck, which might be on one side or the other, he took care that the balance of skill, audacity, and determination should be on his side. But the truth is, such people do a little gentle violence to the con ditions of the problem. It is really impossible to make an egg stand on its end ; so Columbus crushed in the impossible basis, and made it stand, though with some damage to the refractory shell. Lord Grey found it impossible to get his bill through the existing Parliament, so he crushed in the shell ; that is, he changed one house, added to his own side in the other, and let it be understood that he would do anything else that he found necessary. The eggshell of our protective system was crushed in by the Irish famine. Butif several courses are equally impossible, how are we to decide between them ? There are seve ral considerations that are valuable, and applicable, even in extremity. It is better to be beaten in agood cause than in a bad one. It is better to be defeated in the attempt to carry a really good measure than for the sake of a measure which is only politic or plausible. In the one case you fall in a cause • in the other you are beaten in a game. I n th e latter case your enemy trips you up when you are trying to trip him up ; and he can laugh at you without re morse, as he certainly will without stint. A measure confessedly incomplete is intrinsically bad, and is either a folly or a fraud. It must have a tricky and disreputable look. The proposal is like the scheme of the importer who sent 5,000 dozen right-hand gloves by one ship, and their fellows by another, thus escaping, or hoping to escape, the duty charge able on complete pairs. A revolutionist may think any break-up of our political system good as far as it goes ; but. the Cabinet cannot possibly think a mere extension of the franchise good as far as it goes, for it will evidently aggravate all the ano malies, and hand over many seats to a class less settled, less respectable, less educated, less honest, and less constitutional iu their opinions. Many good. Reformers, anxious as they may be to have some thing done, will certainly feel it their duty to vote against a half measure. There is a dignity in these matters, and if people are to victimise themselves and go back to the country, not to speak of the part they have to act in the eyes of all the world, they would much prefer to fall decently, and with as much of the heroic as is possible. The conductors of a cause are bound to consider not only what best suits their game, but also what suites the consciences of their supporters, many of whom will refuse to be dragged through the mire, even with the possibility of good coming out of it. The bill should not only be conscientious, and addressed to the conscience, but also of a sort to command the conscience. There are Reformers with a game of their own, Reformers who wish to be independent, Reformers who can afford to be critical, Reformers who are so rather by party ties than by private choice, and Reformers who have a good deal to lose, more, perhaps, than the much-dreaded boroughmongers. All these will look at the bill, and, if they don't like it, will be able at once to except to the bill its gross one-sidedness and its manifold imperfections. Thus, if the bill is not complete, it will not only be unable to resist oppo sition, but will create opposition for itself. But that leads to the worst objection of all. The bill will have no momentum. It will not be able to force its way. There will be neither the intrinsic gravity nor the external impulse to send it crashing on through all difficulties, as a great political change can only advance. It ought to overbear opposition by a sort of brute force, as well as by reasons of a higher order ; and neither of these can such a bill ever possess. By brute force, of course, we do not mean violence, which is about the last thing to be either desired or apprehended in this instance, but that momentum and weight which excellence of charac ter, design, and performance always obtains. The proprietors and conveniences of society require great things to be done out of hand, once for all. Medio crity—mediocrity of enterprise, as well as of talent —always wishes for less rigorous conditions. It would like to try and try again ; to try so that failure shall not be without retrieval ; to make sure of some thing and leave the rest to luck ; to get a footing in the business and hold on ; in fact, to do things by halves, so as not to exhaust the chances. History is full of such attempts, neither successful nor glorious, which are only known to students, and have to be extricated from Annual Registers or older records. There are reforms, indeed, that may be shoved on an inch at a time for thirty or a hundred years, such as reforms in our administra tive practice and in matters of local or departmental management. But even these suffer by never being settled, never completed, and never let alone, The statesmen concerned also suffer. We might instance Sir James Graham, whose greatpersonal powers and high respectability never obtained for him propor tionate achievement, position, or renown, from a fatal want of moral courage. Even a revised Budget is held to be a reproach to its author, still more a second or a third. This once-for-all way of doing things is almost a national maxim with us. It is in the essence of our trial by jury. " Show your case," the country says ; "tell your story, prod uce your witnesses, state your argument, and g i ve your view of the law; fight it out now, abide by the verdict, and let's hear of you and your complaints no more, if possible." This, if not ideal justice, is practical mercy, for it is far better than that foolish or wrong-headed people should spend their whole lives and fortunes in litigation to their own misery, and the misery of all around them, by perpetual attempts to repair the supposed injustice of Courts. But if anything can be worse than a life of litigation it is a life of revolutions, in which one change is only made to necessitate another. At present we all feel something like terra firma under our feet. We are aware that the public convenience may require it to be newly levelled or undermined at long inter vals. But we would rather not feel that the ground was always ready to heave, and as if, in fact, there was no firm ground at all. We can get accustomed to it, no doubt; but we shall have to renounce some of our comforts, unlearn some of our tastes, dis card some of our ideas, and be prepared to sink not a little in the general scale, if we take to this sort of life. If the pavement must be taken up, and our houses underpinned, pray let it be done effectually once for all in our lifetime it least. POST. — Demands for money, whether they are made by a son at Oxford, or in a crack Hussar re giment, upon the governor who has outlived the pleasures of either or both, or whether they are pre ferred by the head of a public department to a House of Commons many of the component parts of which owe their seats to the practice of that kind of cor ruption which is begotten out of theoretical economy and loud-tongued parsimony, are always received with no welcome ; and even on each recurrent oc casion their presentation provokes an onslaught which is more distinguished by discursive vehemence than by accurate or laborious knowledge. Army and navy estimates afford the most convenientoc casion for loose objections to expend iture ; and they are, and have been for many years, the pet peg on which to hang harangues upon economy generally, and upon the enormity of expending money wrung from the hand of the hard-working honest man upon aristocrats clothed in scarlet and gold. We are now going through the annual performance, and demands for sweeping reforms and wholesale reduc tions in the house are backed by strongly-drawn illu s trations of the evil system in articles out of doors. In tha house w e are told that the soldier of Continental Governments costs a large per centage less than the soldier of Great Britain and out of the house we are assured that th e officer who commands the comparatively over-paid English pri vate lives in scarlet and fine linen, at a luxurious mess, at the cost of the overwhelmed taxpayer. It is quite right, quite just, quite wise that a due economy should be enforced in all branches of public expenditure, and that care should be taken that the nation gets value for its money laid out. It is most desirable that the House of Com mons should carefully watch the estimates and bring under discussion every item which demands The largest crowd ever assembled in Pittsburg to witness any amusement were gathered at the Central Skating Park on Thursday, Feb. 19, to witness Miss Carrie W. Moore's skating; it is estimated there were from 10,000 to 15,000 peaces present, including many of the clergy. discussion, but the house, whose time is occupied, and the country, whose attention and support is demanded, have a right to require that those who originate discussion and initiate objections should take pains to previously master the subject. Now, first, with regard to the officer. What is his real pecuniary position in relation to the Exchequer ; what is his cost to himself and what is his cost to his country? He buys at various times, as he rises from one grade to another, a very inadequate annuity, technically called his pay. This pay in a cavalry regiment would, in the case of suppose we say a captain in a Hussar regiment, just about cover his mess bills, and he has, besides meeting this demand, to buy his chargers, his saddlery, and his uniforms—the latter enormously costly in the first instance, and rendered much more so by the frequent alterations introduced in the shape or materials of caps, busbies, sabretaches, and other paraphernalia, by authorities who busy themselves with such things. Who then stands the larger part of the cost of the Hussar officer—the officer or the tax payer ? Let any representative of the economi cal school go on parade when the Inspecting-Gene ral looks over a cavalry regiment, let him take a captain as he sits on his charger—let him analyse him and pick out of him the items of his purely regimental expenditure—let him make a debtor and creditor account, items on one side and pay on the other, and then say which is in debt to the other— the country to the officer, or the officer to the coun try. But then it will be said, with a look of incre dulity, why does a man accept such a position if it is pecuniarily such an indifferent, not to say such a bad one ? For this reason : The officer does not look at his profession, as the Parliame n tary and newspaper complainer does, from a purely money point of view; and for the country it is fortunate that he does not, or we should have to make a very different bargain with him. Pecuniarily the position of the officer is not a good one, not even an equit able one, but socially it is better than that afforded by almost any other profession. And there is the real secret of the willingness with which gentlemen enter the service. Whenever that state of things ceases, or is changed, our army will cost us a good deal more than it does now, when Mr. White and some news papers raise together a voice of complaint. Then as to the private soldier. He costs more, it is complained, than the French soldier. This is true to some extent, but not to the full extent of the allegation. It is not, however, worth while to go into any calculation of degree, for there is really no parallel between the two. The circumstances under which the English and French soldier enter into and remain in the armies of either country are so essentially different that the comparison is worth less ; there is little to be learnt from it, and no practical result can be evolved from its institution. Complain as they may, calculate as they may, the White school will find that the cost per man of the privates of our army will increase instead of de crease, unless we can be induced, which is not pro bable, to substitute compulsory service for volun tary enlistment. That it should be so is no more a circumstance to be lamented than the fact that the produce of the customs revenue has increased, not withstanding the large reductions which we have yearly been making in various important duties. It shows that employment is more accessible, that labour commands a higher price, and that the working man has more resources independent of the State and in his own hand. That the soldier, however, may be made more generally useful, that he may be relieved from that ennui which is the bane and destruction of the private in the English army, and that he may be made thus to contribute to the diminution of the general expenditure, we are far from denying. We believe that many reforms might, with great benefit to the army and to society, be introduced into barrack life to the great improvement of the men, both as soldiers and citi zens ; and we should be heartily glad to see many of the vaguely active members of Parliament turning their attention to the reality of reform in detail. We believe that something, perhaps something considerable, may be saved by the institution of an improved organisation of the civil departments charged with the conduct of the business of the army, although the Committee of the Treasury did report that they saw no prospect of reducing the establishment without impairing the efficiency of the service. 'We believe that the Treasury Committee are so far right that it would be difficult and unwise to make reductions in the force of clerks employed so long as the existing organisation of offices is maintained, and so long as Parliament and its members are permitted as their own fancy, or any statistic-collecting constituent, may suggest, to em ploy clerks in departments in the construction of returns which can serve no purpose but thatf of enabling patriots who have a passion for the acquisi tion of vicarious knowledge to write pamphlets and compose social science congress speeches at the public expense. In truth, a reform of our admi nistration is much more required than electoral changes, and very much more money might be saved by it. THE " ANGLO-AMERICAN TIMES" ON AN Ex- Co NrEDERATE ON THE Ex-CONFEDERACY. Ex-United States Senator Henry S. Foote, lately Confederate Senator at Richmond, has given to the world his history of the Xebellion. Being a participant in the crime against the Union, he is probably as good an author on that side as we could expect to hear from on the question of treason, its phases while it existed, and the finale which over took it so suddenly last April. Mr. FOOTE is an erratic genius, and altogether egotistical. While in the national Congress he gave unequivocal proof of this at divers times. He possesses a restless dispo sition, and can never brook restraint. Dissatisfied with the National Government he went over to the rebels, and had not been in their ranks but a short time before he began to find fault with the whole rebel establishment at Richmond. Nothing could or did please him, and in this book he does not hesitate to say so. Of course he has not a word to utter against slavery. He appears unable to see that it was the sole cause which led the South into Secession. On the contrary, he lays the blame upon the Northern Abolitionists and the ultra Secessionists of the South, and calls them section alists, just as if there was no cause which produced a feeling of hostility between the two sections. Any schoolboy, of ten years of age, can enlighten Mr. Foote in this matter. Had not slavery existed there could have been no grounds for this ani mosity. Yet Mr. Foote wholly i g nores a fact patent to the world, and illustrated to its entire satisfaction by the bloody war of the Rebellion. But there are some things in his book which will be perused with interest. The author never seemed to have a very highly exalted opinion of Jeffer son Davis, and this opinion was not changed dur ing his observations of Davis's administration as President of the so-called Confederacy. He says that—" Mr. Davis and his official associates had no correct conception of the true character and dimensions of the war into which they had so hastily plunged, as was afterwards frankly con fessed in many a lugubrious harangue, and in more than one solemn official document. They did not believe at first that the conflict would endure for a twelvemonth, and were even weak enough to calculate most confidently upon strong Northern aid, which it is now well known there never was the least probability of [their receiving ; albeit ex-President Pierce and several others, w hose letters to Mr. Davis have recently seen the light, had plied this confiding personage with secret promises of support, upon which he built in part his hopes of one day wielding an im perial sceptre. . . . Mr. Davis vetoed more bills during the short provisional regime than all the Presidents of the United States put together, from Washington to Lincoln inclusive, and no at tempt to pass a single bill over his head was ever made." Of Davis's Cabinet Mr. Foote speaks in the most contemptuous terms, and intimates that there were only two of these functionaries whose official qualifications were even respectable—the Attorney-General, Mr. Watts, and the Post master-General, Mr. Reagan." Of Mr. Benja min, the Confederate Secretary of - War, he remarks that—" Besides his inability to meet the military exigencies which he had] been encountering, :as well as the more serious ones in prospect, he was subject to other objections as the incumbent of a high Cabinet position of the greatest and most vital character. His reputation for integrity had never been- good, and of late years it had become deeply tarnished by his known participancy in schemes of notorious corruption, both in the State of Louisiana and in Washington city. The offensive moral odour arising from the celebrated Houmas fraud (one of the most unblushing and profligate legislative transactions that had ever disgraced the annals of a free people) had affixed such a stigma upon the reputation both of Mr. Benjamin and his friend and patron, Mr. John A. Slidell, as it was not possible that any lapseof time would entirely efface." This is severe on Benjamin, and will not assist him much in his endeavours to attain position at the London bar. For Mr. Seddon, who was also at one time Secre tary of 'War, Mr. Foote has not a single eulogistic word, and says of him, that " it may be safely as serted that he [did not possess one of the qualities needful to a creditable and -useful performance of the duties which were now devolved on him. He was never able to learn even the ordinary routine of official business, and often scornfully declined attendance to matters of the most urgent import ance. He was as arrogant and insulting to those who approached him in his official sanctum, as he was notoriously servile and fawning to his own executive chief. He evinced, from his very en trance into office, an utter disregard of all con stitutional obligations ; and in the exercise of the authority committed to him, he proved himself to ir..."" be the most heartless and ruffianly tyrant whom I ever yet saw in the possession of official power." Hindman, of Arkansas, the Gessler of the South, was a pet of both Davis and Seddon, and notwith standing his cruelties to the people of Arkansas and Texas, he was kept in position, and used to boast that when sentence of death was pronounced on his victims he always took care to be present and witness their execution. In proof of Seddon's inhumanity, Mr. Foote relates the fact of there being confined in the Richmond prison house, under the orders of the War Department, several hundred men, " not one of whom was charged with anythi n g but suspected political infidelity, and this too, not upon oath in a single instance. Many of these prisoners died in their dungeons and the remainder dragged along their miserable lives until released by the Union army when it e n t ere d Richmond." But we have neither time nor space to comment further on Mr. Foote's revelations. One thing 15 certain ; they prove beyond cavil the weakness of the men who undertook to destroy the Government, and their wanton heartlessness, not only as dis played toward the Union prisoners who fell into their power, but also to the poor white people who were in very deed their subjects. Thus it is that gradually the world is getting an insight into the ambitions, the workings and the wickedness of th e leaders in the great Rebellion, and out of the mouths of their own dupes are they convicted be fore the bar of public opinion, if not before the bar of justice. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE• • CHERTSEY STEEPLECHASES.—FnmAY. This meeting, after being postponed by the flooding of the course, was commenced under very favourable circum stances. The attendance was very good, a number of carriages, intermixed with a drag or two, being on the course. The racing was particularly interesting, and there was some spirited speculation on the results, generally in favour of the backers. The course was excellent going, and the fallowing is a return of the running:—, The South Western Stakes (handicap) of 5 sovs each, 1 ft, with 25 added. Winners extra. About two miles and a half. Mr. J. Dolby's Banker, aged, 12st Mr. B. Land's Strike, aged, lOst 121 b (Mr. Mumford) 2 Mr. Woodson's John Gully, 5 yrs, lCst 121 b ...(T. Clay) 3 Goshawk and Sporting Irishman also ran. Betting-6 to 4 agst Baker, 2to 1 agst John Gully, 5 to 1 agst Strike. Goshawk jumped off in front, but carried on the running for a short distance only, when Sporting Irishman went to the front, and led (past elm stand the second time, followed by Banker, John Gully, and Strike, Goshawk several lengths in the rear. The threo placed cleared the last fence, slightly in advance of Sporting Irish man, Strike and Banker drawing away as they neared the stand, but the latter came out and won by a length and a half. A similar distance separated the secnd and third. Sporting Irishman, close .up, was fourth. Goshawk fell at the brook. A Local Hunters' Race of 2 sovs each, with 20 added ; list 71b each; professionals or gentlemen; who have rid den a winner of a public steeplechase, 71b extra. About three miles. Mr. B. B. Harvey's Firebrand, aged, 12st, inc 71b extra (Mr. Baring) 1 Hon S. Montgomery's Queen Mary, aged, list 81b (Lord C. Kerr) 2 Sir Peter and King Arthur also ran. Betting-6 to 4on Sir Peter, 3to I:agst any other. After getting over the brook below the stand the favourite took a clear lead, followed by King Arthur, Queen Mary several lengths in the rear of Firebrand. They ran in this order all round, and Sir Peter came down two fences from the brook, and was not persevered with. King Arthur held a clear lead till approaching the last fence, when he delibe rately stopped and kicked, allowing Firebrand and Queen Mary b pass him ; Firebrand winning easily by two lengths. The Woburn Park Plato (Handicap of 50 sovs ; winners extra. About two miles and a half. Mr. Belham's Acolyte, 5 yrs, lOst 41b (H. States) 1 Mr. Steele's Rapture, aged, 14st (B. Land) 2 Mr. 11. W. Peyton's Almeric, aged, lOst (Mr. C.Goddard) 3 The following also ran : Sir Bobby, Goshawk, Tam bour Major, and White Stockings. Betting-2 to 1 (at first sto 4) agst Acolyte, 4to 1 agst Rapture, 5 to 1 each agst Tambour Major and Goshawk, 6to 1 agst Almeric, 7to 1 agst Sir Bobby. Acolyte made play, followed by Rapture, Tambour Major, and Goshawk to the stand brook, where Tambour Major came down, rolling over Captain Shaw, and Goshawk took second place, White Stockings going in third, Rapture close up next. On passing the stand the second time the favourite was still leading, but Almeric, who had been lying off, fol lowed him, Rapture lying next, White Stockings bringing up the rear. Goshawk rushed to the front after clearing the brook, followed by White Stockings, Almeric, Rapture, and Acolyte. About a mile from home Goshawk broke down, and Almeric took a clear lead, followed by the favourite and Rapture, and thus they cleared the last fence, but Almeric when several lengths in front ran very un genirously, and swerving right across the course Acolyte shoti past him, and won by two lengths. A neck separated the second and third. White Stockings was fourth, and Sir Bobby fifth. Captain Shaw was carried into the weigh ing room insensible, but soon recovered, and although shake n was fortunately not hurt seriously. A Selling Steeplechase of 3 sovs each, with 25 added ; for 4 _ yr-olds and upwards. Selling allowances. About two miles. Mr. gay' s te ti , l i e w t i to, 5 to 2 Mr. L a , ad , s Redwing (.£5O), aged, 7st 71b (Owner) 1 Stiletto (XSO), 5 yrs, 12st (Mr. Mumford) 2 Bettina—zven on synard also ran. to 1 agst Reynard. ito n y g na m rd ad d e i all the running, and won by two lengths. not pass the post. agst Redwing, and 3 1 2 e 0 e of the winner. There was no advance on the sellinwgidtphr added : selling 1 A Hunters' Satallkoeweafnc3e!evAsbeoaueth,three mile's. Mr. Morley ns The Aggravator (£100), aged, 12st 71b (Colonel Knox) 1 Mr. M. Henry's Woodpigeon (.£4O), aged, list 91b (Mr. Mumford) 2 Mr. Calcraft's Old Windsor (X 10), 6 yrs, list 211) (Owner) 3 COUNTRY MARKETS. L IVERP OL.—FRMAY. To-day's market was only moderately attended by buyers, but for wheat there was a moderately good con sumptive sale at the figures of Tuesday. Flour also Wok a tolerably good demand at unchanged rates. Oats slow . of sale, but unaltered. Oatmeal quiet and unchanged . Beans dull. Indian corn dull, and 6d per qr down. DERBY-FRIDAY. There was a fair supply of wheat, and the demand Was slow at late rates. Barley has an improved supply ; t he trade ruled firm at extreme quotations. Oats and beans were a steady trade at full prices. 36 New white wheat . , 43s to 48s ; old red, 49s to 52s per stone. Barley for malting, 38s to 40s per qr. ; grinding' 27s to 28s per 30 stone. Oats, new, 22s to 28s; old, 285 to 32s per 24 stone. Beans, old, 47s to 50s; new, 440 to 46s per 38 stone. WAKEFIELD.-FRIDAY. Wheat trade dull. Prices still have a downward ten dency. Barley rather cheaper. Other articles unaltered• Averages, March 3—Wheat, 1,590 qrs, at 45s 8 1' 15 barley, 320 at 39s 6d ; oats, 29, at 27s 6d. STAMP ORD.—FRIDAY. To-day wheat was about an average supply, and met a quiet sale at last Iv eek's terms. Barley was a scanty show , and fully maintained its value. Other kinds of grain wer e in moderate supply, and sold at former quotations. New white wheat, 48s to 50s ; red do., 46s to 48s per 3 6 stone. Barley, malting, 38s to 43s ' • grinding, 34s to 375 per qr. Oats, new, 24s to 28s ; old, 25s to 27s per 24 stone. Beans, 44s to 50s per 38 stone. Peas as of late. LINCOLN.—FRAY. Our market was tolerably supplied with wheat. Trade steady at the currencies of last week. Best sorts of barley were in good request at advancing prices, other sorts wei: e unchanged in value. Oats and beans sold at last iveoli prices. New white wheat, 51s to 565"; new red, 43s to 47$ per 36 stone. Barley for malting, 36s to 44s per qr ; grinding , 32s to 34s per 30 stone. Oats, 24s to 325. Beans, 43s to 51s per 38 stone. BRISTOL SUGAR.—FRIDAY. The demand has been steady during the week, and moderate business has been done at fully former rate Refined sells freely at full prices. Rum—No sales to re port. COAL MARKET. Price per ton at the close of the market. S. d. g. ~ Holywell Main l6 0 Hartlepool Walls End Gosforth 15 9 Heugh Hall lB 2 Eden Main 8 9 Braddyell's Hetton.... 17 9 East Hartlepool Walls End Haswell... 19 0 South Kelloe Walls 0 Walls End Hatton ... 15 9 Tees Hetton lB 6 18 9 Shaw's Hartley ......... 0 Cassop Ships at market, 61; sold, 40. Foreign Mail Packet List MAILS DUE. Australia and New Zealand. via Southampton Mar. 21 Ditto, via Marseilles Mar. 16 Brazil and Cape Verde, by British packet April 0 Ditto, by French packet Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena M.ir. !.4 China, Penang. and Singapore, via Son:hampton Mar. 22. Ditto, via Marseilles Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton Mar. 16 ' India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Mar. 21. Ditto, via Marseilles • ....Mar. 16 India (Bombay), via Southampton Mar. 16. Ditto, via Marseilles Mauritius, via Southampton Mar. ; 0 Ditto, via Marseil'e3 Mar 1 0 . Newfoundland .., , Mar. I+ Portugal . ..... April 6. Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon... United States and British North America, by Bri tish packet Ditto, by United States packet, via Southamp ton Ditto, via Cork Ditto, by Canadian packet, via Londonderry—Mar . 9 ' West Indies and Pacific (except Bahamas, Cuba, , s 0 and Mexico F, b. 28 Cuba and Mexico Feb. 28 ' Bahamas, via New York. April e• Bermuda, ditto mar . 4 West Coast of Africa. Madeira, and Teueri fie Mar. 12' THE QUESTION STATED. The New York Times, discussing the divergence of opinion be' tween the President and the majority in G.t gress with reference to the freedmen, th in that, after all, the complete restoration of a ll the States to their normal relations in the Unio n to-day the paramount question. The destinies o f the freedmen, like those of every class of the pe°l3le't are bound up in the destinies of the nation. W rlifi t freed the negroes ? The war which crushed ° li d the rebellion. What will best secure to them an d their posterity the blessings of liberty ? Not fir so surely as the security of the Republic itself. if Lincoln said, "This country cannot continue 113 slave and half free," while at the same time be 110ce,_ contemplated a division in the house. H e trustedt° . _ time and to the institutions of the Republic, both ,t,490 save the Union against traitors and to displace sill labour by free labour. Mr. Johnson stands essentially the same ground. He says, nesto, the States with their present local laws, altered t 0 suit the actual results of the war, and insisting e ll ( 1 1 on the loyalty of their representatives. Tiale 513 our institutions will accomplish the rest." A FLOCK OF SHEEP DROWNED.—A serious nu'- hap occurred a few days ago near Barnstaple. A fl° ei of nearly 60 sheep were grazing on a marsh, when, by one is, those unaccountable freaks th a t some times possessa aira es they strayed on to the beach and gained a spot wheue°' ti the tide came up, there was no retreat, and they we re sequently surrounded by water and drowned before a assistance could be rendered. [ - ADVERTISEMENT. J —Holloway's Pills.— The tryiaLeb ther of the last few months has laid many in LI° iliPg yard who might still have been a blessing to thei r far° ills, if they had, by some such means as these famous kept the blood pure, the stomach sound, the liver act..'ess and the bowels regular. Mild, wet winters always F:on. with heavy hand on the aged and the infirm,v lb ° pills stantly require some balsamic tonic like Holloway " to sharpen their appetites and to maintain the ir strealv. The pills cannot work wrongly nor weaken unnecessaisl;;', The invalid, under all circumstances and in ever/ 6011 tion, should get a box of these noted pills , alts l.niself read the directions wrapped round it, and release hr from his malady. Births. ..,0 th e DEITEZE—On the Bth inst., at 18, Brunswick - E 4 l ll--- ' wife of Louis Deveze, Esq., of a son. , the RonEnTs—On the Bth inst., at South Norwood, Surre•" wife of Chris On topher Roberts, Esq., of a son. 'WS' STE . WART— the 7th nst at Rockf Cheshir°, Andrew Stewart, a son: eiTY' ..., m eltli TITCKER—On the 7th f inst., at Wharton Grang e, -r ra " the wife of Major-General Tucker, C. 8., of a son' Marriages. . Vark 'fil Torquay, the Rev. Roger kl . POCKLINGTON— CAMPBELL —On the Bth inst., at pt. - , s by, • rof 117 1 the oger oc tngton, vica • Nottinghamshire, to Anne Amelia, third daughter o , _ n a late Alex. Campboll, Esq., of Bossil, L a nark - sh ire 'i Torosay, in the county of Argyle. I , s , Tol - Witruttow—Aimum—On the Bth inst., at St. 3 1 , 3 , r rs ' ' s od s , lington, Walter Whybrow, Esq , of Gipsy- 11111, -,a °' to Katherine, second daughter Of John Al'ulu --- -1 Cayonbury-park. 0 Deaths. DANIELL —On the Bth inst., at Boulogne-sur-ger, l'ii°34 K Daniell, Esq., late of Trelissick, Cornwall. n o te', Y I i N a A I IS: Shropshire.O — O n the 7th inst., at the Great Wester n •clo , Padding,ton, Sir John R. Kynaston, Bart of liardW' ICARDO —On the 7th inst., .7 fn elier" R road, Brighton, Moses Ricardo, Esq., in his 90th Ye - iitc , Surros— On the Bth inst., at his residence, Sorr' 3 Z -P ic ol Rotherhithe, Mr. Charles Sutton, late of the -O r ' England, aged 79. at his residence, lifoo.r .T. 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