The Sun. — London, England, 1866-04-10 00:00:00

Dinner at the Mansion-house. The civic State banquet which is usually given on Easter Monday, but which this year was for special reasons postponed, was held last evening, when the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress enter tained a distinguished company at the Mansion house. The banquet was served in the Egyptian-hall, where covers were laid for 300 guests. The fine hall having been recently redecorated, and the table, being tastefully ornamented with plants and cut flowers in vases, the effect was brilliant. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge ar rived at a quarter to seven, and was received by a guard of honour of the Ist City of London Rifle Volunteers, who were stationed in the Grand Cor ridor, the band playing the National Anthem. Dinner was shortly after announced, when his Royal Highness led the Lady Mayoress to her seat on the left of the chair. The Lord Mayor presided. Among the guests were :—His Excellency the United States' Minister, Lord G. G. Lennox, M.P., Viscount Amberley, Right Hon. G. J. Goschen, M.P., General Sir J. F. Burgoyne, G.C.8., General Sir J. 11. Grant, G.C.8., Vice-Admiral Sir S. C. Dacres, K.C.8., Sir F. Kelly, M.P., Mr. G. L. Gower, M.P., Mr. A. J. Beresford-Hope, M.P., and Lady Beresford-Hope, Mr. R. C. Hanbury, M.P., Mr. G. G. Glyn, M.P., and Mrs. Glyn, Mr. C. Gilpin, M.P., Mr. Ayrton, M.P., Sir Walter and Lady Caroline Stirling, the Governor of the Bank of England, the Master of the Mercers' Company, the Prime Warden of the Fishmongers' Company, the Master of the Salters' Company, the Master of the Clothworkers' Company, the Master of the Saddlers Company, the Treasurer of St. Thomas's Hospital, the Treasurer of Bridewell Hospital, and Lieut.-Colonel and Lady Harriet Warde, 84c. &c. The band of the Coldstream Guards, under the direction of Mr. A. F. Godfrey, performed a selec tion of favourite airs during dinner. " The Loving Cup" was given by Mr. Harper, jun., with great eclat. The LORD MAYOR, in giving the first toast, i 4 The Health of the Queen," said—May her Majesty's life be without alloy, and may her reign be long, happy, and prosperous. (Loud cheers, followed by the National Anthem.) The LORD MAYOR—I have now the honour to propose " The Health of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales." I have had within the last few months this agreeable pleasure so very frequently that I was struggling just now to discover some new feature, when happily I took up the book which con tains the song which is to succeed the toast, and the verse is so applicable and so beautiful that I propose to give it in preference to anything I could say— " Health to the Prince, Old England's future King ; May he to England's throne all honour bring ; May those examples set him in his youth, Dwell in his heart and be maintained with truth !" (Cheers.) I have great pleasure in giving the health of his Royal Highness the Prince of \Vales, the Prin cess of Wales, and the rest of the royal family. (Loud cheers, followed by " Health to the Prince.") The LORD MAYOR—I have now the honour to pro pose the health of those two distinguished services— the Army and Navy. lam sure I only express the sentiments of my countrymen when I say that they are deeply grateful to those services for the eminent and distinguished manner in which they have inva riably performed their duties. We are honoured to night with the presence of his Royal Highness the Commander-in-Chief—(cheers) —and it is to me, representing as I do the citizens of London, a source of great pleasure to have the opportunity of coupling with the toast the name of his royal highness. His • royal highness has by his blameless life won the re spect and admiration of his fellow-countrymen and his fellow-citizens. (Cheers.) We rejoice to see him here to-night. (Cheers.) He has won a title -which nobility cannot confer. He is not only the sol dier, but the soldier's friend. (Cheers.) Long and proudly may he bear bear that title for his own glory and for the honour of his country ! I have great pleasure in proposing the Army (coupled with the name of his Royal Highness the Duke of Cam bridge), the Navy (coupled with the name of Sir Sydney Dacres), and the "Volunteers" (coupled with the name of Lieut.-Col. Warde). (Cheers.) The Duke of CAMBRIDGE, who was loudly cheered, said—My Lord Mayor, myLords, Ladies and Gentle men—ln rising to respond to the toast which hasbeen so kindly given me by my friend the Lord Mayor, I really find some difficulty in expressing the senti ments I entertain towards him for the very flatter ing manner in which he has proposed my name to this large assemblage of my fellow citizens, because • although his lordship in giving this toast, as he had a right to do, has coupled me with it as the head of the army, I always feel when I come into the city that I am quite as much a citizen of London as any other gentleman who sits in this room, if not in any other respect, certainly so far as regards my own sentiments and feelings. (Cheers.) But as on this occasion, at all events, I appear here in my military capacity, and as his lordship has done me the honour of giving my name in connection with the army, I am bound to make those observations which it is my intention to make, more especially with regard to the honourable, and I may say the glorious, profes sion with which I have the advantage to be so inti mately connected. My Lord Mayor, we have heard a great deal of the feeling of the army, and it has been suggested from various quarters that this feel ing has not always been so loyal and so devoted as it ought to be. I hope and trust, and lam glad to have this opportunity of stating, that anybody who has entertained the slightest doubts as to the feeling of the army has been very grossly and seriouslymis taken. (Cheers.) I believe that though, no doubt— and I say it with the deepest sorrow and regret— there may be, and are, I know, individual cases of misconduct as regards the feeling of the army, those casesnumber, are so limited, so few in that really but for the fact th a t so muc h h as b een made of it, the question would hardly have been worthy of the observations made on it. That these cares should have occurred I deeply and sincerely et lrent, but I believe—l have the strong es t con perfect persuasion—that nine-tenth s of the most Ti the cases of indiscretion which have occurred on the part of the t ro ops would have been entirely forgotten when the call of duty was made, and the soldiers wouldhave done their duty, as they always have done their duty with loyalty and devotion. (Cheers.) At the same time this is not, perhaps, an inappropriate occasion for me frankly to state that attempts have been made on the feeling o f the army which are most de plorable; and not only on the feeling of the army, but on the feeling of a ver y large portion of our countrymen. I have had the advantage of serving in Ireland. with the I have been trea ted in that country greatest goodwill, with the gr eatest cordi ality and goo d feeling. I have the greatest affec tion for the People of Ireland ; but I must say, if there is one thi ng I deplore the efforts --the the tun m i sera ble efforts — ate, the rmo re than anothe r it is which have been made t and ought to be, a to make that which might, ha ppy_people disloyal. (Cheers . ) I believe the people of theirilr,eylaalntdy are p in reality most loyal. I have seen over again in the highest feelings ressed over and Sovereign ; but I am sorry t o ~ of devotion to the there efforts have been made to induce the population to forget their affection towards their relative s and friends, say in this country, and to make them thn I may would be happier if it were their destiny l to be they r ated from us. I believe that of all the folelisees in pa the world there are none greater than that. (Cheers.) And though there are questions, no doubt, , w hi c i, require consideration and amendment in order to bring that country into the happy state in which we are already ourselves, I don't think these ques tions, though important, are such as to justify what we have seen but recently occur. (Cheers.) I trust that the measures taken may put a stop to these proceedings, and if they are put a stop to, believe me, there is nobody to whom it would be a greater benefit than to the people of Ireland them selves, who have unfortunately been led astray for a moment. (Cheers.) It is but for a moment, and I am sure in the heat of danger and of need Greatßritain and Ireland would stand forward united, as they formerly did, to brave any foe or support a nd encourage everything that is liberal, that is national, and that is really a benefit to the country. ______......„._ (Cheers.) With reference to that portion of the toast which is connected with the Volunteers, I can not help stating how much gratified I was at the recent review at Brighton to see the force turn out so well both ss regards numbers and efficiency, and although I do not wish to mention names which might be invidious, I must say, whether it was the Royal Artillery Company, which is the oldest body, whether it was the youngest City of London Rifles —all the various corps showed to the greatest ad vantage. This, I can assure you, is no mere formal compliment. I have always most conscientiously and thoroughly supported the Volunteer movement. It is an admirable force, and a most fortunate thing it was for the country that it had been organised when it was. It has done an enormous deal of good, in making us feel the security in which we live, but it would be a great mistake to suppose that the vo lunteer force ever can supersede the regular army. (Cheers.) Their very organisation forbids it. The army, as I formerly stated, is thankful for the as sistance they have derived from the Volunteers, and the Volunteers, I am sure, must feel happy in being so intimately and constantly associated, especially on these festive occasions, with the army, (Cheers.) I hope these observations will not be felt to be out of place. I beg again to thank you, my Lord Mayor, my lords, ladies, and gentlemen, for the kind manner in which you have received my health. (Cheers.) Sir SYDNEY D .3, cREs returned thanksfortheNavy, and Lieut.-Col. WARDE for the Volunteers. The Low) MAYOR—We are honoured to-night with the presence of a distinguished American citizen and statesman, the representative of the United States in this country. (Cheers.) His Excellency Mr. Adams has for some years resided among us, and has by his urbanity and courtesy won our esteem and respect. (Cheers.) I had hoped and expected that another distinguished citizen of those States—my revered and honoured friend Mr. Peabody—(cheers)—would have honoured us upon this occasion ; but that modesty which always ac companies real merit rather deterredhim from meet ing what, I may take the liberty to call, his fellow citizens in this ancient and honoured hall. Thename of Mr. Geo. Peabody will always live in the affec tionate remembrance of the people of England. (Cheers.) His life can never be forgotten, for it is sublime in its simplicity, in its energy, in its honour, and in its affections. (Cheers.) We were all, lam sure to a man, touched with that graceful and elo quent letter which her most gracious Majesty con descended to write to him, expressing, as it did, the sentiments and feelings of the people. (Cheers.) Mr. Peabody assured me that letter was dearer to him than all the titles of nobility—that he should treasure it to the latest hour of his life, and that he should leave it as a proud and priceless inheritance to his noble countrymen. (Cheers.) Passing from illustrious men to the great American Republic, I need scarcely say in the presence of its distinguished representative how deeply and with what emotion the people of England watched the struggles of the past, and how they hailed with joy and gladness the glorious return of peace and happiness. (Cheers.) We deplored, not alone in this country, but in the civilised world, the lamented death of that able and distinguished statesman, Mr. Lincoln ; but I believe Providence watches over the Government of America, for in his place there has been raised up one whose moral worth, whose courage, whose for bearance, and whose honesty must be the means of restoring to his country and his countrymen the blessings of peace, of prosperity, and of happiness. (Cheers.) No one could have read the history of the past without feeling a deep regard for the President of the United States—without seeing in him the man of all others suited to the moment, and blessed with powers of mind, with a spirit of conciliation, with a love of justice, with an admiration for truth—that combination of mercy, of charity, and of the truest philanthropy which a statesman can show, namely, an earnest love and desire to promote the prosperity, to secure the happiness, and to consolidate allthose true principles which give security to a State and happiness to a people. (Cheers.) Let us hope that the happiness and prosperity of the United States may continue unimpaired, and that the friendly feeling, the cor diality that has ever existed between the States of America and this country may be preserved unin terruptedly, to improve our commerce, to strengthen our friendships, to bless us with peace and prospe rity, and shed the lustre of hope throughout the civilised world. I have great pleasure in giving you "The health of his Excellency the American Minister." The toast was drunk with great cordiality. His Excellency the AMERICAN MINISTER said, — My Lord Mayor, my Lords, Ladies, and Gentlemen, —lt has been somewhere said by an author in regard to a person in my situation that it is his duty to keep his eyes open and his ears open, but his mouth shut. I should desire to do so if it were possible under the very kind and eloquent and feeling mani festations of goodwill, as well to myself as to my country, which have been made by my Lord Mayor. (Cheers.) I desire to thank you and to thank him most earnestly for the complimentary manner in which he has alluded to myself, but still more for the manner in which he has done what seems to me justice to my country and to the person whom I represent. (Cheers.) I have also to thank him and thank you for the meed which has been paid to an individual who, though he is an American by birth, I think may now be claimed as common pro perty by Englishmen. (Cheers.) Mr. Peabody is a gentleman of whom, if he were present, as my Lord Mayor expected he would be, I should not venture to say what I propose to say of him now— he is an individual who has the whole of the repub lican spirit of his own country, and yet he feels honoured by the flattering notice that he has received from the Sovereign of this country. (Cheers.) He is a man of remarkable character, being, I might almost say, a species by himself ; for he has a large ambition, and yet it is an ambition which, in all my acquaintance with the history of man in the past, I have never known to be enter tained by anybody but him. The common custom with regard to persons who have passed their lives in accumulating property is to hold on to it to the end, and when it is no more of any service to them they are very willing to give it to those they choose. But Mr. Peabody, having passed his life in accumulating money, being a man of the utmost simplicity of character himself, has no sort of feeling or affection for all the ordinary toys which please and tickle most f who or t u a n r r e i , v i e t i at s n o w w e alt the h ; soleh a Laving n accumulated n a men n ge end of his life to see that it is properly distributed to others. (Cheers.) In this distribution, also, his iswpheecreuli he r e . h as lie r d e is si t d r e ib d u distributes wherelarge sum h ' ambition London, ehas n made a considerable portion of his fortune, and he reserves to himself to dist r ibut e an equally large sum on the other side of the Atl an ti c , w h ere h e ws born and spent the earlier part of his life ; and thus he proposes to himself to obtain that fame which comes from the tribute of gratitude of millions of the human race equally on both sides of the Atlantic to the latest end of time. (Cheers.) As an Ame rican, I will say that it has given me the utmost possible pleasure to see the magnificent tribute which has been paid to him by her Majesty—a t o a tes. tr ib u te which it was as becoming in her to pay on was e United shlhim t e as a republican citizen the part of her subjects asit of the (Cheers.) And her e, sir, I beg leave to close. Without going into any further examination of the expressing question which you have o p ened in regard to the condition of the United Stat es. I will end by merely resent will sp ee dil y reassume th a t position of a p eaceful a hope that the country which I rep and prosperous nation that it has had for so many years, and that it w ill be ready to meet in its m arch in the spi r i t of perfect reciprocity every kind and generou s manifestation o (L n o t t h id e p eh ar ee t rs of .) tlie people of the United Kingdom, The next t oast Was which was coup l ed « The House of Commons," with the name of M r . Goschen. it was proverbially difliceu thanks.connected fore with ; and Mr. GOSCHEN returned n a mllaenobtosersvpeedakthoaft what he was himself eted sur rounded as he was by oth er members of the House of Commons, he felt somewh a t nervous in speaking in their presence. It was al ways a difficult matter to speak for others, and especially much a with tthatmomn it was somewhat delicate to saye regard i' THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 10, 1866 to the House of Commons. The Easter recess was now over, and how the various parties in the House of Commons had been engaged during that recess he would not pause to inquire. It might be that weapons had been sharpened during that time, and batteries armed, but, fortunately, these batteries were not masked. In thanking them for drinking the health of the House of Commons, he believed there was but one feeling in that hall, and all over England, and it was this, that, happen what might, the House of Commons should not lose that charac ter which it had maintained during so many centu ries. Opinions might be divided in the House of Commons as to the best course to be pursued. There were some who thought that the House of Com mons might be improved by a Reform Bill; there were others who thought that its character might be deteriorated. He would say let that side win which was really right. (Cheers.) The fate of the Ministry was as nothing to the character of the House of Commons ; and he repeated he hoped that House would continue to maintain the high character which it had always sustained. Every individual was entitled to hold his own opinion, whatever it might be. Let every one stand to his opinion, and let them all look to the result of the struggle in the firm confidence that the House of Commons will emerge from the contest without suffering any injury, and continue to deserve the good wishes and sympathy of the country at large. (Chee rs. ) Having said thus much for the House of Commons he would not further trespass on their attention ; he only hoped that no member present would think it necessary to disavow any one of the sentiments to which he had given utterance. (Cheers.) The next toast, proposed by his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, was the health of the Lord Mayor, which the Lord Mayor briefly and appro priately acknowledged. After several other toasts the company separated. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. THE RACES IN PARIS. PARIS, April B.—The following are the results of the races which took place here to-day :—The Prix de Bou logne was won by Melimelo ; the Prix de LongchamPs by Victorieuse, Stilton second; and tho Prix de la Seine by Sultan, Tourmalet•second, Mandarin not placed. Gladia teur won the Prix do l'lmperatrice by 15 lengths, Fumee being second, and Vertugadin last. The Prix des Acacias was won by Fleurette, Etoilo second. The Cheltenham Grand Annual Steeplechases take place on Friday and Saturday next. Penarth was scratched for the Surrey Open Steeplechase at Croydon. The forfeits of Mountain Doe and Garus have been paid. Artesia, the two-yr-old bay filly by Stockwell out of Artless, broke down whilst exercising at Mallon. last Tues day. Archimedes, who ran muzzled in the Queen's Plato on Friday, at Newmarket, is about to be added to the list of geldings. After Custanco had piloted Bertio to victory in the 50 sovs Sweepstakes at Newmarket, on Tuesday, Mr. Chap lin presented that clever jockey with the stakes, "because,' said he, "it was you who won the race, and not the horse." Aldcroft, who has latterly been at Harrowgate, is still unable to "waste" sufficiently to enable him to resume his professional duties. Fordham's sprained wrist still prevents him from ap pearing in the saddle, and he was not present at New market. Owing to his continued indisposition, he has vexa tiously missed riding John Davis at Northampton, and Ceylon in the Biennial at Newmarket. An accident happened to Mr. Ten Broeck opposite " the Rooms" on Wednesday. Having dismounted from his hack, he gave it in charge of a boy ; he had scarcely done so when the horse jumped round, knocked Mr. Ten Broeck down, and trod upon. Fortunately he was not seriously hurt. CROSS-COUNTRY RACE, PETERBOROUGH.—Mr. Bell's Pugilist and Mr. Johnson's Discord ran two miles across country, near Peterborough, each carrying lOst 71b, last week. The betting was 2 to 1 on Discord, who was ridden by Mr. Laxton, Frank Lotan steering Pugilist. After going over two fields Discord took a clear lead, made the rest of the running, and won in a canter. GLADIATEUR AND GENERAL PEEL.—It was currently reported during the Craven Meeting, at Newmarket, that it was not unlikely a match would bo arranged be tween these celebrities. We, however, entertain strong doubts about their meeting, except, possibly, in a weight for-age race. AUGUSTE.—This French candidate for the Derby held a levee in his box at Newmarket, on Wednesday evening, several prominent speculators and turfites being invited to inspect Count Lagrange's establishment. Auguste, judging from recent market operations, does not seem to have benefited by the interview. EGLINTON HUNT MEETING.—It will be seen that this once popular meeting has been resuscitated, and will take place at Bogside, near Eglinton Castle, on May 10. The course, as laid out, forms part of the old race-course, where the grand stand still remains. Mr. William Adkins, better known as "Bill Adkins," croupier, aged 53, died at Newmarket, on Thursday. De ceased left London on Monday, and narrowly escaping a railway accident at Cambridge on his way to Newmarket, his nerves were so shaken, that ho could not got over it, and, gradually sinking, expired as above stated. We have the authority of Mr. llodgman for stating that Valiant was not officially struck out of the Doncaster Han dicap. Tho circumstances are these—Mr. Hodgman met Mr. Johnson on the day before the handicap, and, in the course of a conversation with that gentleman, said "he would not run his horse," but as he, for certain purposes, did not wish Valiant to be struck out, ho gave Mr. John son no authority to that effect, and could, therefore, had he chosen, have started the horse. At a meeting of the stewards of the Jockey Club, held at Newmarket on Thursday evening, James Grimshaw was suspended until the Derby day in consequence of his re fusal to ride the Marquis of Hastings's colt Prodigal at the last Warwick Meeting. As it has been reported that the jockey's suspension extension extends over the Derby week, we beg to state that such is not the case ; he will be at liberty to ride in the Derby. Anntun EDWARDS.— Mr. Merry, it seems, was dissatis fied with the manner in which Arthur Edwards rode Marksman, in the Althorp Park Stakes, at Northampton, and this coming to the knowledge of the jockey he at once resigned the " yellow jacket and black cap." We believe the only exception Mr. Merry took to Edwards' riding of Marksman was that he got off badly at the starting-post, and no imputation of any kind was intended by his em ployer against the jockey. Lord Stamford is now Ed wards's first master, on dit at a retaining salary of £5OO per annum. GRAND NATIONAL HUNT COMMITTEE.-At a meeting held at Newmarket on Tuesday, April 3, the Duke of Beau fort and Viscount Andover were added to the committee, and it was resolved that " the Naval and Military Club be added to the list of those whose members are qualified as gentlemen riders. The following gentlemen were elected as qualified to ride :—Captain Dakin, Messrs. R. J. Bankes, George Bonner, J. Perkins, A. W. Powles, T. A. Quin, T. F. Rolt, Norman K. Wentworth, W. H. White, and A. S. Yates. A meeting of the committee will be held on the course at Crewkerne, before the races on the first day, when a ballot for gentlemen riders will take place. Mr. Charles Davis, the celebrated huntsrhan, whose recent accident was by no means serious, has resigned his post, and was succeeded on Easter Mon day by Harry King, who has been his most efficient first whip for several seasons. Mr. Davis completed his 78th year on the 15th of January last, and has spent 65 smsons in the service of Royalty. In 1801, he began as whip to his father, who was then "hare huntsman" to George 111., and the first hare he ever saw killed was near Virginia Water. After a few seasons he joined the Royal Stag hounds (which were then hunted by his future father-in law, Mr. Sharpe), but only in the capacity of pistol-boy. In those troubled times, when every hand was against England., and spies and traitors were on the look-out from dusk to dawn, it was not deemed safe for " Farmer George" to ride home alone after hunting. Hence Mr. Davis and another youth carried a brace of horse-pistols, and as soon as the chase was done, they handed them over, in ex change for their horns to two yeoman pricker; who rode home on each side of the King. Promotion came pretty rapidly, and after acting as whip for a few seasons,. Mr. Davis was gazetted as huntsman in 1822, and he has cer tainly left a name to point a " moral or adorn a tale," as long as brilliant horsemanship, thorough knowledge of hunting, and fine tact and temper on the field are loved and prized by Englishmen. The Hermit and Columbine in earlier days, and Sepoy and Pioneer in later, are the horses on which he went best. We are glad to hear, Jhat ho will retain his old house near the kennels, and we can only trust that we shall still see him wear the scarlet and gold, by the side of Harry King, in an Ascot Cup Day proces sion.—Sporting Life. PEDESTRIANISM. I3ROMPTON. On Saturday there was a large muster at the West Lon don Cricket Ground, to witness the concluding heats of Messrs. Rogers and Jones's 100 Yards' Handicap, and also a Half-mile Handicap, for two splendid massive cups. The first that was decided was the Handicap of 100 Yards.—First Heat.—This was :won by Harrison, with six. yards start, who, being first to leave the mark, ',won a good race by three yards and a half ; Darby, 10, second. Second Heat.—Bartholomew, 9, was the winner by two yards ; Perkins, 7, a good second. L Third Seat.— Barrington, 4, wo a qicadid race by half Tho annual meeting of the Huntingdonshire County Club was held on Wednesday. The accounts for the past year year showed that a small balance remained in hand. The Earl of Sandwich was re-elected president ; the Rev. F. G. Vesey, vice-president; Mr. W. Foreman, treasurer; and Mr. W. Scotnoy, secretary. The only change in the ground bowlers at Lord's from last season will, wo believe, be Scottoun, the Notts colt, vice J. Oscroft. The celebrated brass band of the 3d Essex Artillery will play during the sports. The match of Cambridge University v. The Players is to bo played at Cambridge on the 27th inst., &c., for the benefit of J. Muncey, the empire. J. C. Straw.—This successful left-arm Notts bowler (who woke up one morning last season and found himself famous) will, we believe, play as an All-England Eleven man this season. W. MLDIE.—We are informed that this player's engage ment as ground bowler at The Oval has, by mutual agree ment, been cancelled, and that Mudie will be open to engagements to umpire throughout the season. Lonn's GROUND.—Tho improvement effected in the ap pearance of the turf at this old cricket battle field by recent alterations, must be seen to be believed. The hill at the top is reduced a foot at least ; ruts are things of the past ; and the careful practical form in which the general levelling of the whole has been done (doubtless materially aided by one of the most favourable seasons for cricket-ground culturing ever known) has made the old turf look quite another affair altogether. The herbage has never before been so thick all over at Lord's, and when it has been judi ciously and thoroughly rolled—as it will be—he must be a sour-hearted critic indeed that will find fault with either the wicket or the fielding portion of Lord's Ground. NEWCASTLE. On Saturday, at the Fenham Park Grounds, W. Cook, of Gosforth, and T. Copporthwaito, ran 70 yards, for £lO. After a splendid race Cook wou by a fuot. Betting-5 to 4 on Cook. J. Soulsby and J. Forster (both of Jarrow) ran 100 yards, for £3O. Soulsby won by two yards, although 5 and 6 to 4 was laid on Forstor. LEEDS. At the St. Thomas's Ground, Stanningloy, on Saturday, A. Emmett, of Bradford, and J. Walton, of Shipley, ran 440 yards, for £2O. Emmett won easily by 10 yards. Bet ting-7 to 4on Emmett. MANCHESTER. On Saturday, at the Royal Oak Grounds, there was a limited attendance (not more than 300 persons), to witness the preliminary heats of Messrs. Cooper and Only's All England, once round, or 651 Yards Handicap, for prizes amounting to £35. The following men won their heats : Richards, Andrews, Albison, Hughes, and Rogers. Albison and Richards are most fancied. GLASGOW. On Saturday, at the Stonefield Recreation Grounds, there were about 700 spectators to witness the race of 200 yards for £5O, between G. Nelson and J. Clark, both of Glasgow. Nelson was the favourite, but there was little or no bet ting. A magnificent race resulted in the victory of Clark by half a yard. VICTORIA UNITED CLUB AT BOW. On Saturday last the Prince of Wales Grounds, Bow was well attended by the members and the friends of the above club, who held their athletic meeting— another so ciety founded upon the excellent establishment of the Satur day half-holiday movement. The programme was a lengthy one, but all was got through in admirable style. Mr. Preston was the judge, Mr. Matthews the starter, who were aided most efficiently by John Goulding, the manager of the ground. The following is a brief return: — Race of 100 Yards.—F. Bishop, jun., won very easily before J. G. Le Grys, who was second. One Mile Race.—There were seven competitors for this contest, and up to half the distance the struggle was well maintained. After this time, however, the race was left to the three placed, C. E. Rainsford winning easily at last, and coming in first by 30 yards, F. Richards second, and R. Hardy third. High Jump.—For this there wore three competitors, each being allowed three "tries." E. Matthews won by clearing 4ft gin; J. Le Grys was second, with 4ft Gin. Throwing the Cricket Ball.—The competitors were con fined to two throws each, and much excitement was caused, the Bow Grounds being well adapted for witnessing such displays. Jeffcoate won by throw in g 83 yards 1 foot ; Hardy second, 82 yards 1 foot, only a yard behind. Quarter of a Milo Race.--Fivo started, when an excel lent contest ended in F. Richards breasting the tape first, F. Bishop being second. Race of 200 Yards.—This also fell to F. Richards, who came in first ; F. Bishop again securing second honours ; C. Johnson beaten off. Walking Match of Three Miles.—This affair, which had been expected would prove a first-rate contest, ended in an easy victory for W. W. Rainsford; R. Smith was second, and E. Ryder was third. John Goulding, by special desire, acted as referee. Open Race of 250 Yards.—This proved one of the best races ever witnessed, for T. Wade came in first by a foot between T. Tilbury, who was second, and only half a yard behind was R. Shepherd for third ; not a yard divid ing the first three. The latter race most appropriately wound up a good afternoon's sport, and the company retired highly grati fied at the whole of the proceedings. CRICKE TING. A TERRIBLE BOAR. The sportsmen of the old forest of La ;Forte, in France, had an exciting affair the other day with a magnificent wild boar, five years old, that had made short work of several dogs who had the effrontery to cross his path. At the dawn of day, the piqueurs, under the lead of Claude Bouchan, the oldest and, at the same time, the most wary and the most robust in the neighbourhood, began to draw the woods of La Fontaine ChanEn; the sanglier was soon found, the dogs uncoupled, and the bristly brute attacked in his lair. The boar wanted little rousing ; he charged the dogs with fury, and having wounded two or three of them went away like a thunderbolt in the direction of the woods of Saint Ambreuil, tearing down the small trees and under wood that stood in his way as if they were reeds, the hounds made after him, open-mouthed, and the tramp of the horses echoed like thunder beneath the old forest trees. The river Grosne, swollen and rapid, lay across the boar's path, but, nothing daunted, _ he dashed into the foaming waters and gained the opposite bank, with the pack close at his heels ; here he found himself in a network of deep ditches filled by the overflowing of the river, and coming suddenly upon a number of fishermen he turned round and nearly retraced his route. But the river was becoming more swollen and rapid every minute, and the instant the boar's pace slackened, he received the first ball, which penetrated below the ear and entered his head. It was a sporting doctor of Chalon who administered this disagreeable pill ; an unpleasant sample of the medical gentleman's boluses. The wounded boar now made for the woods, losing much blood, and the dogs, more excited than ever, pressed him so hard that he attempted to hide himself in an almost impenetrable thicket ; but at this moment the old piqueur lodged two more balls in the carcase of the boar, who disappeared. The piqueur called on the dogs, made his way into the thicket, and, getting sight of the sanglier, gave him a third ball, which also lodged] in the creature's skull. The boar fell, but while Claude Bouchan was taking aim for a fourth shot, the animal rose to his feet, charged furiously at the piper, killed the two best dogs of the pack, threw the old man down, rather seriously wounded in the legs, and took re fuge in a ditch, around which the now terrified hounds fretted and howled. H e aring the cries of the wounded piqueur, the shouts of the huntsmen, and the howling of the dogs, the master of the hunt rode up to the ditch, dismounted from his horse, and with his rifled carbine lodged another ball beneath the animal's eye. The boar charged out of the ditch at his new enemy, who would have fared badly had he not had the presence of mind to empty the second barrel of his piece in the region of the heart of the creature, who fell dead at his feet. The hunt lasted from seven o'clock in the morning till three in the afternoon. When the boar was cut up he was found to have five balls in his head, and his carcase weighed more than 650 pound:3. The victorious party paid somewhat dearly for its con quest. The unfortunate piqueur will not be on his legs again for a month, at the least ; the pack has lost its two best dogs, valued at 1,500 francs, and has five others wounded, and, for the present, hors de combat. It is not child's play this hunting the sanalier. SPIRIT OP a foot; Atkinson, 7, second. Half a yard behind the latter came Roberts, 12, who was third. Final Heat.—Harrison landed himself a winner by one yard and a half ; Bartholomew second. Half-Mile Handicap.—There were 18 competitors who started for this race. Hudson, of Holloway, with a start of 25 yards, was the first to get off the mark, and suc ceeded in passing all the others, so that he came in a winner by one yard and a half ; Carter's Novice, of Brompton, 70, second ; and Andrews, of Holborn, 80, good third ; the time being 2 min. 1 sec. THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. TIMES.—As far as words go, nothing can be more bitter than the quarrel between Prussia and Austria. If such correspondence passed between any other two States, the world might resign itself to witness ing an appeal to arms. It is plain that of the two Governments one is incensed against the other in the highest degree, while the latter in its turn has not scrupled to provoke and irritate its adversary. The Austrian Court, and to a great extent the Au istrian people, are' indignant at what they con sider with reason the arrogance and duplicity of the Prussian Minister. In spite of debt, in spite of the discontent of a great province, in spite of menaces on the side of Italy and political troubles on the Lower Danube, Austria has assumed a warlike atti tude. Count Bismark probably did not expect to meet so resolute an antagonist. The easy and some what sluggish nature of Austrian statesmanship, and the remoteness of the matters in dispute from Austrian territorial interests, may naturally have led the Prussian Minister to expect that he would have no difficulty in carrying out his purpose. Schleswig and Holstein are far beyond the limits of Austrian ambition. Though German, they be long to that part of Germany which Prussia must always influence, and over which she may at any time extend her sway. The traditional division of North and South, by 'which the younger and more active Power has been totally permitted to lead the little States in the neighbourhood of the ocean, might well inspire the Prussians with a belief that they would be allowed to have their own way in the Duchies, provided they were equally complai sant to Austria on some future occasion. But they must not be fully undeceived. Whatever may be the result of these negotiations and disputes, it is clear that Prussia will not annex the Duchies without something more than strong remonstrances on the part of the other States. Austrian dignity has been wounded by the coolness with which Count Bis mark affected to consider as belonging to his master provinces in which an Austrian army corps is sta tioned. The other States are angry at what they think an outrage upon the rights of a pdople whom they have just liberated from Danish rule, and an insult to the Federal authority and their own. Though a large part of their citizens de sire neutrality, their rulers do not conceal that their sympathies so incline towards Austria that in case of a war they might possibly drift into it on the side of the Power which defends the rights of the Con federation and the Duchies. On the other hand, the Prussian Minister, though probably not less anxious to attain his end, and indifferent to the opinions of his adversaries or the world, is likely to see the wisdom of not pressing matters too far. Of the power of Prussia to obtain military posses sion of the Duchies, all parties to the dispute are well aware. The Austrian corps of occupation is isolated, and the facility with which it might be overcome and the Duchies reduced to a Prussian province must have been before the eyes of the Minister, and has, perhaps, tempted him to take so bold an attitude. In a country where so much may be done by the show of audacity it might well enter into the calculations of an ambitious statesman that a demonstration of force might induce the Austrians to retire, in order to escape a humiliation they could not resist. The preparations of Austria have shown her adversary that this hope is vain. Undoubtedly, the Austrian corps is at the mercy of their enemy ; but Count Bismark now knows that any breach of faith in the Duchies would be followed by a war on the opposite frontier. If he is to gain his end with out paying too high a price, it must be by a present policy of artifiee and delay. The consciousness that the question is serious, and that the Vienna Government is more in earnest than was expected, shows itself in every paragraph of the Prussian reply. There is the desire to stand well with the world, to appear as not the wronger, but the wronged, as the victim of unfounded jealousies and impatient pre parations. The advance of the Austrian troops gives their opponents a pretext of complaint, and they will, no doubt, take full advantage of it. It is de clared that no danger of war existed before the Prussian frontier was threatened, and that no danger would remain if the menace were 'withdrawn. Prussia only desires to defend itself, and did not, indeed, move its own troops until " the safety. of the Prussian territory became dependent on the resolution of the Austrian Cabinet." The emphatic declaration that Prussia has no intention to violate the peace, and that nothing is further from the King's intentions than an attack on Austria, may be only diplomatic language; but, undoubtedly, the tone and purport of the note are to indicate that Prussia will not plunge into war, and desires at least to place the enemy in the wrong. By the tele graphic summary of the Austrian reply we find that Austria inclines to press her advantage, and to fol low up her receding rival with fresh demands. On the evening of Saturday last Austria sent a despatch to Berlin, in which Count Bismark is charged with having declared war with Austria to be inevitable, and it is affirmed that the Austrian armaments have been caused by this declaration. So far, therefore, the two Powers would be only on an equality. Prussia says that she armed because Austria menaced her by her movements, and Austria says that she moved because Prussia menaced her by her words. But Austria is not content with this recri mination. It is actually demanded that Prussia shall " demobilize" her army ; that is, while Aus trian troops are pouring into Bohemia, and may at any time be forced on to the frontier , Prussia is to desist from counter preparations. These prepara tions Count Bismark would, of course, call strictly defensive. The Austrian Government, on the other hand, considers, or affects to consider, them as in tended to carry out some scheme of aggrandisement. It is unfortunate that so stringent a demand should have been made, for it will be difficult for Prussia, however desirous to keep the peace, to yield to what seems like the dictation of her antagonist. A threatening demand and a grave accusation are hard things even for a mild-spirited statesman to bear, and we may well imagine what effect they will pro duce upon the man who has so long governed Prussia at his will. The • action of the two adver saries in the Federal Diet seems hardly more intel ligible than their diplomatic bickerings. Prussia is said to be about to propose the establishment of a German Parliament, with universal suffrage and direct elections, for a reform of the Band. This from a Government which so strenuously opposes Parliamentary liberty at home is strange enough ; but it is fair to see in it a bid for popularity, and an effort to embarrass the Governments which have always had the power of the Diet in their hands. The latest phase of the dispute is certainly the most unpromising that we have yet witnessed. If the antagonists were not German Powers, war would seem inevitable, but, as it is, we do not yet de spair of peace. SATURDAY REVIEW.--We were rather too early in addressing our congratulations to Mr. Gladstone on his powers of parliamentary self-restraint. The very day which introduced to our readers our pre mature felicitations also published that remarkable outbreak of temper and puerility with which the Chancellor of the Exchequer closed the first page 'of the annals of his leadership of the House of Commons. You may expellhuman nature with all unnatural violence, saps the old poet, but carac ter will break out at last. Impelled by princi h ple or policy, a man may take the temperance pledge, but if he does run riot and return to his old courses, he does it in earnest. ribose seven dull weeks of sullen and difficult self-repression were atoned for in one compensating shriek. of bad taste and bad temper. The famous " flesh and blood" and " fellow-Chris tian" inarticulate burst convinced the House of Com mons what dependence could be placed on the cour tesy and judgment of its foremost man. " Who but must laugh, if such man there be? Who would not weep, if Atticus were he 2" The very phrase which has already azquired an ugly sort of immortality, the kind of adhesiveness which belongs a to a nickname, was but a small echo of an old-cant, "Am I not man and a brother ?" But the deplorable indiscretion in the House of Commons into which Mr. Gladstone was betrayed by the poor provocation of Lord Robe rt Montagu has, like many other trifles, been productive of serious consequences —serious perhaps rather to the speaker than to any other or greater interest. It committed him. If these things can be said and done in the green tree, what about the dry? If this is the language for the uninfiammable senators, w h a t becoming words are right for the touchwood s usceptibilities of the ignorant ? The consequence of the appeal for one's own flesh and blood and fellow-Christians—as though the franchise were a matter of animal phy siology and the three creeds—was an appeal (in an other sense) to the flesh and blood of the orator's hearers. To talk of flesh and blood savours strongly of animal passions and physical force. If a man has a right to the franchise by virtue of his flesh and blood, it must be his flesh and blood that must assert his right. Very likely Mr. Gladstone did not mean this ; he only meant to scream, more or less articu lately. Ire did not intend to threaten ; he only meant to show that he was in a passion, and that he was tired to death of being courteous and stupid. So 'much the worse for the leader of the House of Commons. It is quite possible that his enemies were on the look-out for this, or something like this, though not, perhaps, something quiteso bad. For it must be the policy of the Opposition to taunt and goad and irritate their high-spirited antagonist. In the economy of party there is always room for the playful stimulants of the banderilleros and picadores especially if the noble toro affects stupidity. The way in which Mr. Gladstone's speech was received by the Opposition showed that somebody at least was satisfied. Mr. Gladstone's stump visit to Liver pool is the logical result of his speech delivered on the eve of the parliamentary recess. He could not influence,we must postulate some influence. Mr. Glad stone on the stump is so utterly beyond conception, so out of keeping and harmony with all anticipation, so extravagantly and abnormally wild and strange, that we are driven at once to the incredible to ac count for the fact. And this whether we look to the man or to his office. For, of all professions, that of demagogue is about the last for a man to take up when the shades of life are beginning to settle upon him. With most of us character somehow or other is pretty well consolidated by the time we are fifty. A fool at forty is a fool indeed, and to be great on the stump you must mount it before tastes, habits, associations, and principles are formed. Of course we speak of men such as men are, as Mr Gladstone's old friend Homer would say. We do not speak of the human paradox. There mayhave been instances in which youthful and mature saints have turned out septuagenarian sinners, and in which burning and shining lights have gone out with a twang not so melodious as that which accompanied the disappear ance of Aubrey's Ghost. But Mr. Gladstone is not old enough for the apology of imbecility. He knows what he is about in doing Mr. Bright's behests. We believe that he is quite in earnest when he says that a tremendous moral wrong is inflicted, and that a righteous cry ascends to the highest heaven for jus tice from the gentlemen who, for instance, were to be seen about London streets in a certain stage of elevation, perhaps moral, perhaps corporeal, on Easter Monday, towards 12 o'clock. But what is alarming is that Mr. Gladstone is always in earnest and that his earnestness is so very many-sided. As to his sincerity it would be folly to question it. But then he is so kaleidoscopically sincere. He was quite sincere when he detected the doctrine of the Trinity in the " Iliad ;" quite sincere when he saw in Church and State but two aspects of one eternal embodi ment of truth ; quite sincere when five years ago he stood up forpocket boroughs ; quite sincere when he said that all men, being equal, have the same rights, that of voting included • quite sincere when he unsaid this; quite sincere When he deduced the necessity of passing the present Reform Bill from the identity of the blood globules of Jack and My Lord ; and quite sincere when, at Liverpool, he re-asserts his latest paradox while varying his figure, and concludes the necessity of Reform because the non-enfranchised have the same breathing apparatus as electors have. And he may be quite sincere if at the Amphitheatre he explain away his doctrine of the Philharmonic Hall. For no one can ever exactly tell, until the time comes, what Mr. Gladstone 'may or may not say. Before Thursday night's " grand banquet" came off it was all uncertain, and before last night's sports in the Amphitheatre were concluded his line was not to be predicted. But whether he goes to the north to lash his clients into fury, or to still the small tempest which has been got up, there can be but one opinion either as to the discretion or the decency of his move. It is at the best but a sorry reproduction of an Ame rican notion. Presidents elected by the stump take to the stump naturally. The stump does not suit Mr. Gladstone. In his way he is unapproachable ; but his way is not the way of the greatest demago gues. Cleon was twice the man in his line that Pericles was ; and, as far as we remember, Fox left the stump business to Wilkes. Bright, and Odgers, and Potter, after all, tell most with the audiences which Mr. Gladstone is just now saluting. Even Miss Emma Hardinge, the " inspirational" speaker, would do it better. O'Connell always kneig that just a trifling touch of the tongue in the cheek, and at least one sly wink, to show that he and his audi ence perfectly understood each other, was necessary to a triumph at the Rotundo. Mr. Gladstone must be longer at his new trade before he can snatch this new grace. At present his undoubted earnestness and sincerity are against him. There must be a spice of blarney and humbug in the most successful de magogue ; and, to do him justice, Mr. Gladstone has not yet acquired the popular qualification of being insincere. He is, and always will be, too tremend ously real to tell thoroughly with his own flesh and blood. One can hardly fancy Bishop Andrewes preaching Latimer's buffoonery. We are writing, of course, in ignorance of what deliverance it may have pleased Mr. Gladstone to make to his less select audi ence at the Amphitheatre. As both he and his great model, Mr. Bright, affect to be as variable as the weather, storm one day and sunshine another, it will not be surprising if Friday night's intemperance makes up for Thursday's continence.. There are some peoplewhom it is safest to estimate by contra ries, and who, if they are dull at a grand banquet, may be safely reckoned to run a muck at a sober soiree. The Liverpool banquet seems t• - ) have been an extremely unimpassioned affair. It is the sort of thing which might come off on Easter Monday at the Mansion-house, with a difference—the difference being a matter of taste to the students of post prandial eloquence, whether they prefer the hard and reluctant oratory of Earl Russell to the easy and unctuous flow and sesquipedalian sentences of his Chancellor of the Exchequer. THE " ANGLO-AMERICAN TIMES."—In reply to some visitors from Maryland, Kentucky, and Louisiana, the President lately remarked that he " would adhere unfalteringly to the principles laid down in the several speeches he had made. He added that he was guided in his course by certain fixed principles, and that he had always some fun damental idea regarding the nature of the Union. It may be useful, as he thus refers to previous speeches, to examine these a little closely, to see what the President's " fundamental ideas regard ing the Union" and the principles to which he means to " adhere unfalteringly" are. In the first place, we find him expressing on many occasions his feeling that treason against the Union is the sum of all crimes, and must be punished. IV hile he would deal mercifully and kindly with the mass of the Southern people, as deluded and helpless, he has always insisted on punishment for the leaders. " The American people must be taught that treason is% crime, and must be punished. The people must understand that it is the blackest of crimes, and will be surely punished ;" thus he spoke to a public delegation on the 18th of April, and he has repeated the same sentiment on numerous occasions since. The pardoning power should be exercised with caution," he said to a delegation of loyal Southern men on the 3d of May ; the mass of the people had been punished sufficiently, in his opinion, for in the amnesty proclamation, issued May 29, he granted " pardon, with restoration of all rights of property, except as to slaves," on their taking a prescribed oath of fealty to the Union, to the great body of the Southern people. He held that consistent Union men only should be appointed to Federal offices in the South. In his reconstruction proclamation, issued May 29, he in structed the Secretary of the Treasury and the Post master-General that in making appointments the preference should be given to qualified loyal persons residing within the districts where their respective duties are to be performed; but if suitable residents of the districts shall not be found, then persons re siding in other States or districts shall be appointed." On the 29th of January, of this year, he gave utterance to his dislike of constitutional amend ments. He doubted the propriety of making further amendments to the Constitution, as tending to bring that instrument into contempt. One great amend ment, that extirpating slavery, seemed to him sufficient. But if another was to be made, he 4 , knew of none better than a simple proposition, embraced in a few lines, making in each State the number of qualified voters the basis of representa tion, and . the value of property the basis of direct taxation." In the same conversation he expressed the opinion that "the negro franchise question in the district of Columbia at this time was the mere enter ing wedge to the agitation of the question through out the States, and was ill-timed, uncalled for, and calculated to do great harm. He believed that it would engender enmity, contention, and strife be tween the two races, and lead to a war between them, which would result in great injury to both, and the certain extermination of the negro popula tion." This fear of bringing on a " conflict of races " turns up repeately in Mr. Johnson's speeches and conversations. Furthermore, he has at different times expressed himself as opposed to immediate suffrage for the freed men, anxious that loyal representatives from Sou thern districts should be at once admitted to Con gress ; opposed to the payment of any part of the rebel debt, State or Confederate ; jealously on guard to oppose what appear to him measures tending towards the centralisation of power in the Federal Government -- therefore his veto of the Freedmen's Bureau Bill, and his oppo sition to any permanent measure of that kind. If, now, after reading all his speeches and other public documents since he became President, we were asked what are the, chief motives of Mr. John son's mind, the seeds, so to speak, of his policy, we but pander to the passions he had stimulated. There was absolutely no choice. It was as in the old rationale of possession. Faust had sold himself, and was no longer a free agent. The compact with the master of his doom was made when from the Trea sury Bench he suggested, however vaguely, the necessity of agitating. And though we are by no means ready to acquiesce in the moral account which is given of possession, yet we recognise in modern men and things the old facts. Men were of old thought to be given over to the Evil One, only because there was no reasonable explanation to be given of their actions. Something of this sort seems to have happened to Mr. Gladstone. There is no accounting for him. It may be inspiration, of course, as well as possession. Perhaps it is only because it suits our natural hardness of heart that we most readily assume in Mr. Gladstone's case the agency of the goblin damned than of the spirit of 1-leaven. Mr Bright is more suggestive, it may be, I in one direction than in the other. But whatever, the should say—lie has a great aversion to war mea sures or war legislation in peace time ; he believes there is vast and irresistible power in free and full discussion ; he loves peace, and all its ways ; he thinks that by extirpating slavery the American people have flung out the- only seed of discord, and that now, when armed resistance to the Government has been crushed, they should fall at once into the old ways. It is as though he had said to himself—Once more we may advance by argument, discus sion, votes ; once more we can appeal to the people • at the ballot-box. Before the war, we were steadily but surely advancing towards full, and broad, and universal liberty by peaceable discussion. The war interrupted this grand march of the nation ; now let us resume it. There may be evils, but they will be corrected in time by our old and wise methods ; there may be suffering, and wrong, and prejudice, but all this is only temporary, and will be cured by discussion, by appeals to the common sense of the people, by experience. This is, we believe, the fundamental idea or principle underlying and shaping Mr. Johnson's policy. He believes that in the Union, with the Constitu tion, with peace and free discussion, there is no limit to the possible progress of America as a nation ; no wrong that will not be righted ; no inhuman prejudice or hatred that will not be rooted out ; no class so low but it will be raised up ; no condition, however deplorable, that will not certainly and speedily be improved. And believing this, he is not only anxious at once to recommence the peaceful march, which was interrupted by the rebellion ; he is not only confident from the past that the American people will be true to right and liberty in peace as they were in war ; but he has a jealous reverence for the instruments of his pro gress, the Union and the Constitution. The one he would seek by all means to strengthen in the minds and hearts of all the people ; the other he would not rashly amend, and he will strictly construe. "'While "we hold fast to these we are safe," he cries; let us have patience, for with them all good things will come to us in time. Now this idea is not merely grand—it is true ; it is philosophically correct ; it is such a fundamental principle as bears up a just and beneficent policy. It represents, withal, the feeling which lies deep in the nation's heart. But while we approve the principle we see that the President, from different causes, of birth and training, sometimes errs in details of policy. It is, for instance, in our opinion, the right and the duty of Congress to declare equal suffrage at once in the district of Columbia. That is national territory, and the President mistakes when he compares it with a State. And while we give our hearty assent bathe great idea which shapes his policy, we trust that Congress will at once pass an equal suffrage bill for the district. Its hesita tion is less excusable than that of Mr. Johnson. Nor do we sympathise with his dislike of the agita tion of any question. Agitation means discussion, and discussion is to the political life of the nation what the waves are to the ocean—the means of purification. Let the American people agitate, by all means ; let them expose every wrong, every hateful prejudice, every ingenious sophistry. In that way they bring to light the truth ; in that way public opinion is informed and enlightened ; in that way the truth, whatever it may be, is sure to pre vail. COUNTRY MARKETS. NORTIIAMPTON-Arßu, 7. Only a limited supply of wheat ; the demand has fin proved at the top prices recently quoted. Barley in mo derate supply : the demand,.howeyor, was slow. The trade in oats was good at recent currencies. Beans in mo derate request. New white wheat, 43s to 48s ; new red, 39s to 47s ; old white, 48s to 535; old red, 43s to 48s per 36 stone. Barley for malting, 40s to 44s per qr. ; grinding, 38s to 41s per 30 stone. Oats, old, 30s to 34s ' • new, 28s to 32s per 24 stone. Beans, old, 46s to 50s ; new, 40s to 44s per 38 stone. Peas , 36s to 40s per 36 stone. CHELMSF Oil D--APRIL G. of wheat commanded Into I fully as dear. Peas, Partridge 36s 399 White ..298 34s 378 419 Dun.... 36s 40s ditto, new --s -3 Beans, Tick, old 35s 40s new 3.5 s 39s Barrow ficks 3tss 423 new 36s 408 Mazagan. 34s ;88 Hero to-day a fair supply rates. Barley was scare° ane Wheat, old white....46s 50s new .43s 518 old red 42s 46s new. 36a 45s Barley.... 2ss 33s Chevalier Ms 42s Grind ng 2Rs 31$ Malt 53s 60.3 Chevalier Ws 62i Oats GRANTHAM-ABRIL 7. A middling supply of wheat, and high prices were ob tained. The barley trade was slow. Oats in moderate request, at late:rates. Beans wero in good demand. Peas same as heretofore. Old white wheat, 52s to 545; old red, 48s to 50s; new white, 49s to bls ; new red, 445,t0 47s per 36 stone. Bar ley for malting, 34s to 40s per qr. ; grinding, 30s to 33s per 30 stone. Oats, old, 30s to 32s ; new, 25s to 30s per 21 stone. Beans, old, 48s to 50s; new, 43s to 46s per 38 stone. Peas, 36s to 40s per 36 stone. ABERDEEN-APRIL 6. There is no change in the tone of the market, and prices continue much the same. White wheat 40s Od to 48s Od t. 62115 V bushel. Red wheat 40s Od to 45s Odj Potato oats 24s 6d to 25s 6dl . 401 iii bushel. Common oats 24s Od to 24s Gd Bere 3os Od to 31s 01 . B ar l ey 31s 6d to 32s Od 531 b 30 bushel. Oatmeal 17s 6d to 18s 6d Ift boll of 28016. Flour, fine 37s Od to 38s Od Isack of 2801. KIRKCALDY—Arum 7. Small supplies of all kinds of grain. Sales quick. Wheat and oats 6d to is per qr. up. Barley no change. Wheat. Barley. Oats. 42s Od 1 353 Od Od econd 43s 6d 343 Od 27s Od Third 4 43 6d —3 Od 283 Oct COAL MARKET. Price por ton at the close of the market. si d. s. d. Brancepeth Cannel ... 18 0 Hartlepool N.Staffordshire 17 0 Kelloe Walls End Haswell... 19 0 East Hartlepool Walls End Hetton ... 19 0 Tees 18 9 Iletton Lyons ... ... 16 3 Ships at market, 28 ; sold, 19, [ADVERTISEMENT.] Dyspepsia (indigestion), constipa tion, debility, consumption, and all nervous, bilious, stomach, and liver complaints in every stage. are only aggravated and acceleraced by drugs of every description, but perfectly cur able by Du Barry's health-restoring Revalenta Arabian , Food, as proved by thousands of cases which had been con sidered hopeless, such as— cough, asthma, also diarrheas, hmtnorrhoids, liver complaints, flatulency, nervousness, biliousness, fevers, sore throats, diphtheria, catarrhs, colds, influenza, noses in the head and ears, rheumatism, gout, im purities, eruptions, hysteria, neuralgia, irritability, sleepless ness, acidity, palpitation, heartburn, headache, debility, dropsy, cramps, spasms, nausea and sickness, even in preg nancy or at sea, sinking fits, bronchitis, scrofula, tightness of the chest, pains in the pit of the stomach and between the shoulders, &o. We quote a few :—Cure No. 46,276. Mr James Roberts, timber merchant, of Frimley, Surrey, of 30 years' diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver derangement, andpar tial deatness.—Cure No. 47,121. Miss Elizabeth Jacobs, of ex treme nervousness, indigestion, gatherings; low spirits, and nervous fancies. —Cure No. 1,771. Lord Stuart de Decies, lord lieut. of Waterford, of many years' dyspepsia.—No. 49,832. Fifty years' indescribable agony from dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, spasms, sickness, and vomiting—Maria Joly.—Cure No. 54,816. The Rev. Jame; T. Campbell, Fakenham, Norfolk, of indigestion and torpid ity of the liver, which had resisted all medical treatment , — In tins, 11b, 2s 9d; 21b, 4s 6d ; 51b, Its; 121 b, 22s ; 241 b, 108.—Barry Du Barry and Co., No. 77, Regent-street, London; also Phillips, tea dealers, 8, King William-street ; likewise at 61, Gracechurch-street ; 4, Cheapside ; 49, Bishopsgate street Within ; 63, 150, and 298, Oxford-street ; 330, Strand ; 54, Upper Baker-street ; 103, Tottenham-court-road ; 96, Upper-street, Islington, N.; llarvey, Notting-hill; Close Brothers, 65, High-street; and Stubbs, Queen's-terrace, St. John's-wood, London; and all respectable grocers and che mists.—Beware of sourious imitations. Births. BRUCE—On the 7th inst., at 1, Queen's-gate, Kensington, the wife of the Right Hon. H. A. B ruce , .P., of a son. DONNE—On the 9th inst., the wife of the Rev. Charles V. Donne, of a son. MoNTAGu—On the 9th inst., at 53, Cleveland-square, Hyde . ; park, the wife of S. Montagu, Esq., of a daughter.- WISE—On the Bth inst., at Woodeote, the wife of H. C. Wise, Esq., M.P., of a daughter, stillborn. Marriages. RUSSELL—Dommix—On the sth inst., at St. John's Church, Worcester Henry S. 0. Russell, only surviving son of the late Sir W. 0. Russell, to Frances Mary, only daughter of the late Henry B. Domville, Esq. SCHMIDTHALS —WAIINEIt —On the 7th inst., at the parish church of Hove, Essex, the Baron Von Schmidthale, First Secretary to the Prussian Legation at Stockholm, to Eleanor Anne, only daughter of Edward Warner, Esq., M.P. Deaths. ATKINSON—On the 7th inst., at 3, Pevensey-terrace, East bourne, Wm. Atkinson, Esq. BOLDERO—On the 7th inst., at the Rectory, Grittleton , Wilts, Mary E. Boldero, wife of Col. Boldero, late M. for Chippenham. BARINGTON— On the Bth inst„ at 31, George-street, Han over-square, B. G. Barington, M.D., F.R.S., aged 73. Cumum—On the 7th inst., at 22, George-street, Perth, D• Craigie, Esq., cashier of the Union Bank of. Scotland/ Perth, agod 56, FINGALL —On the 7th inst., at Brighton, the Countess of Fingal], aged 70. HARLAND—O n the 6th inst., at Scarborough, Yorkshire/ Wm. Harland, Esq., M.D., aged 79. SWANSON—On the Bth inst., at 31, Porchester-square , Major-General Swanson, H.M. Bombay Army. WAKEPIELD—On the Bth inst., John Wakefield, Esq., of Sodgwick House, near Kendal, aged 72. London : Printed and Published by WILLIAM ANDREW S ' of No. 112, Strand, Ptiater, at Trua SUN °ince, No. 112 Str a nd, in the Precinct of the Savoy .in the Countl middiefeA—Tuesday, blay 10,1866. •