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I Od 1"- EA NINGVI, ruing at i' e ( it the en" 7GGE S ' tg INT AN D ian JA W vi" g bankerg;'' iittee foro4 mud° F able to— Strand. ...963 I° 41 ... 1 0 ; it's 1 10 0 Igs 1 0 rk- .. 3 1 5 : 0 3 0 •• .. 0 18 6 ... 0 2 ;he 9 ••• 0 0 5 3 3 o u ••• 6 0 2 2 2 ° • 2 0 .. 0 0 ... 2 2 2 2 2 ▪• • 2 2 2 0 2 • ▪ 2 2 0 ler ... 2 2 9 by e Lie 0 10 0 ... 0 10 o 5 ... 0 5 .. 0 10 0 .. 0 6 (,), 0 6 " .. 0 5 .. 0 5 n 0 6 0 5 " ... , n u .0 5 " -d 25 1 10 15 8 u :: 0 10 0 r.. , 6 ~ 1 0 1, o ~ 0 15 5 1 ~ : 5 0 0 2 0 0 5 1 0 2 4 ,047 10 91 Assis ts ti 6 t ,at Ace nt j, dispos'" - ye y £0 P r ? o p leXt 6° lo regal° THE CHOLERA. RETURN OF CASES, SEPT, 12. THE METROPOLIS. SIIYERINTENDING REGISTRARS DISTRICT. DQfttlis. Diarrh Attae:s, WEST DISTRICTS. Ilemington ••• St. George, Hanover-square ... Westminster ... St. Martin in the-Fields St. James, Westminster ... - NORTH DISTRICTS • • • ."" ••• ""'" • • • "-' .. • .."-. Marylebone Hampstead St, Pancras Islington Hackney ... --' ••• ..... ..• --- CENTRAL DISTRICTS. St. Giles Strand .. • llolborn Union Clerkenwell St. Luke . East London West London City of London • • • .. -- ••• '''''' • • • .. ••• ''''' .• • --' ..• - EAST DISTRICTS. Shoreditch I 3 ethnal•green ... Whiteehapel ... ... St. George-in-the• East Stepney ... ... Poplar ... ... ... ••• '''''' • • • ''-'' • • • ''.... ••• • • • ''' SOUTH DISTRICTS. St. Saviour, Southwark St. Olave ... ... Bermondsey ... ••• St. George, Southwark Newington, Surrey ... Lambeth Wandsworth Camberwell Rotherhithe Greenwich Lewisham •• • ....." ••• "''' ••• ...'. • • • '-'-' • • • '''''' ••• ''''' ••• ''''' ••• ""' ••• '''... • • • .."'" • • • ."...... Total ••• ... ••• , • • ''''' THE COUNTRY. Attacks. Liverpool —•—• - Merthyr Tydvil Clifton • • Cardiff Carmarthen ... Portsea ••• ••• Salisbury ••• Warrington •• Newcastle-under-Lyne Tynemouth ••• Lancaster ••• Brighton ••• • Nea,th West Ham —• Bradford and North Bierley Sculcoates ••• Bristol ". Gravesend and Milton Maidstone St. Germans ... ••• Bochford Boston... *** Prescot Derby ••• Leeds ••• ••• Pfunalet Beatings ••• Wolverhampton and Siesdon Bridgwater ••• *— Barnstaple ••• East Stonehouse Ralifax ..• South Shields ... lull ••• ** Devizes... ." * ••• Salford... ••• ••• Penkridge Bolt on • Burnley Pontypool ••• Bury Worcester • ••• Preston •„. Madeley Vi r olstanton Manchester ... Gainaborough ••• Ashton-under.Lyne Abingdon Alverstoke ••• Atherstone ••• Great Broughton (Cheater) ... Birmingham - Bedminster Billericay Bedale ••• Basford Barnard Castle Battle .•• Berwick upon-Tweed... Barnet ... ••• Bosmere and Claydon tteith ••• Coventry Chorlton Crickhowell ..• ••• Cheltenham ••• —• Clitheroe ••• —* Croydon and Mitcham Chippenham ••• *" Colch(.ster ••• Cockermouth ••• ••• Dudl e y Darl,ngton ••• Dorki n •• ••• Dorchester and • Cerne Droitwich ••• ••• Driffield Eccleshall ••• Edmonton ... Falmouth ••• • Fareham ••• • Goole ••• Gateshead Glanford Brigg Gloucester Beadington ..• Fluddersfield Bitchin 06* /jai 'Shan). ••• liaslingden Ilexham Ipswich Ramsgate ••• Margate lieynsham Liakeard Llandillo Fawr Lampeter ••• Llanelly Mailin g . ( Kent ) Melton ••• ... ••• .".. ••• ."'' ••• ... • •• '''''' • • • '''' ••• ''''' • • • '''''' • • • '''''' • •• ... 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Ilawick Rerriemuir Arbroath --- Auchmithe (Arbroath) Rilrenny ••• "' Aberdeen ... ••` Dunfermline ••• ••• Edinburgh (April Ito Aug. 1) „ (Aug. 1 to Sept. 1) (Sept. Ito Sept. 8) ••• .""" .• • "-' ••• ..". ••• •'!". ••• ..... ••• ^." ••• •"' •6.• '''' Total ... • • • -"'"' General total: — Metropolis ... Country ... Scotland ... ••• .'m" 316 582 159 ••• ''.. ••• ''." General total ... 1,057 127 Note.—The number of attacks reported by the union officers are—for the metropolis 422, and for the country 729; but their returns do not, in general, comprehend the cases that are treated by medical men in private practice. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sin.,—You, with other:journalists, are alive to the shocking state of the Thames through " flushing ;" but I see it still continued, and nothi n g said of filling up cesspools, which should be done wherever possible, without first flushing them out, by pumping, &c. Lime-loose rubbish is very absorbent , a nd I have in two or three instances induced persons to fill up their cesspool of privies, and running the soil off into the sewer by means of a water-closet on the spot where stood privies, by which means a solid mass is for med, instead of the old contagious stuff being pumped up and driven into the river, spreading contagion in its course. Filling up ought to be practised more with cesspools and less flushing than it is. I am, Sir, &c., A CONSTANT READER. EXTRAORDINARY STORY. -- A month ago a, bull two Years old, the property of a farmer named Barker, at Hurling, near Thetford, which had been apparently un. Well for some time, became so ill that the veterinary surgeon was sent for. He administered a strong purga tive medicine, not long after which the bull was relieved of five snakes, two of which are each about 6 feet 3 inches long, and the other three are about 3 feet long each. The medicine had killed them before they came away. Our correspondent did not hear of this strange occurrence until a few days since, but adds, " To-day I called on the veterinary surgeon and saw the five snakes in bottles. I could not see their heads, which seemed to have been destroyed; but I should s ay the y were un doubtedly snakes. They are now shrivelled and unnatural looking, but they are as thick as one's finger; and I have no doubt the length is as the surgeon stated. He says that he never met with anything like them in his prac tice, nor heard of such a thing. His conjecture is, that they were swallowed by the bull in the egg. They are In the possession of Mr. Rush, veterinary surgeon, The Courrier de Lyon states that the vintage this Year will be much below that of last year. The crop of grape s is abundant, but the fruit is small. The vintage 13 expected to begin in the COMO of n Bnt week. 3otia. ": 10 ••• i ::: 2-0 ..• 152 316 45 Deaths. Cholera. Diarrh 17 2 5 1 7 0 2 0 4 0 9 1 O 1 1 0 4 0 27 1 3 0 2 0 15 1 1 1 24 3 25 2 6 0 1 1 1 5 1 2 0 1 0 1 0 O 2 61 5 17 2 4 1 97 8 1 0 4 0 2 0 1 1 2 2 59 9 1 0 6 2 1 0 1 0 1 0 3 0 1 1 3 0 O 2 2 0 O 1 34 15 6 2 1 0 1 1 1 0 O 1 2 2 1 5 13 0 1 0 1 0 O 1 1 0 2 0 2 0 1 2 0 1 1 0 14 2 11 4 1 0 O 1 1 0 3 2 1 0 O 1 1 0 4 2 O 1 582 12 12 62 40 -- 159 THURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 18, 1849. II 04 910 14, LONDON. COURT-MARTIAL on CO3l iIIANDER After that, Mr. G rah am so .ert quently committed PITMAN. himself, that he was obliged at last to nvdse a fo7rnal TUESDAY—EL - EV 1'.1. , ; TII DAY. report to the commander-in chief; in which he charged PLYMOUTLI, SEPT. 11 ---"i he Court a.a,t shied this him with several distinct breaches of the articles of morning ut nine o'clock, on board her Alajesty's ship war. 1. he defence then Nw nt, on to comment en toe impregnable, 104, in liaincaa: far the purpose of testimony adduced in support of the p:osecut ion, and I caring the prisoner go into his'def, lice. The court alleged that that evidence showed, upon the face of „as sore crov.dcd to-day than on any former ccea- it, glaring inconsistench - s, contialictiona, and false shin, most of the naval men rc , iding in the port and statements. It complained that a good deal of irre irs neighbourhood, and many military efficars being f levant matter had been introduced, and reminded the also present. 'The marines and sailors also showed i Court that its attention must be confined strictly to an unusual interest in the trial the specific charges which were before it. While On the application of the prisoner the Court con- saying this, he did not shrink from the minutest in seated to his defence being read by his professional vestigation of every part of his conduct, and it was in friend ; and his power to give a full and satisfactory refutation to Mr. J. E. Elworthy accordingly read it. It was the calumny that he was addicted to intemperance, a very elaborate and carefully drawn up document, and to show that it was equally groundless with the which occupied the learned gentleman upwards of other charges. He reminded the Court also, that an hour in reading. After referring to the length of " opinions" were not evidence, and that it was not to time over which the investigation had extended, and be expected that witnesses who had been punished by a to the anxiety with which he now proceeded to ad- i competent tribunal, as most of these witnesses had been, dress the Court in his defence, the prisoner remarked would come forward to support that punishment or to that he had maintained in her Majesty's service, for a vindicate the decision of those who had been their period of 23 years, a character which he had hoped had judges. The witness Bailey vt as an important placed him above the reach of calumny. It had been left to exception to this observation ; for he, though he had t wo individualsconvictedofheinouseifencesto mark that been disrated, acquitted him of the charge of character. He could not express the mingled feelings cruelty. His words were, " I should say strict, but of surprise, and, if he might be allowed to say-so, of I cannot say there was any act of cruelty." The indifference, with which he had first heard of these prisoner's defence then went on to deal with the wit charges against him; of surprise, because he had nesses in detail. It alleged there was no proof that never before heard such gross conduct imputed to the letter mentioned by Lieut. Carter in his evidence him ; of indifference—nay, if he might be permitted had its cri b in in a general mutinous spirit on the part to say it, of contempt—not only for the source front of the crew, and it adduced in support of that allega w hich the charges emanated, but also for the charges tion the fact, that when an inquiry had been instituted themselves, feeling assured that they could not he at Chatham, by direction of the Admiralty, after the proved. He was not singular in this feeling of sur- , ship's return to England, the men had unanimously prise. Those who had best known him had been declared to Captain Peter Richards and Captain imbued with a similar impression, when they had Elliott, who conducted the inquiry, that they had no heard of the aspersions so profusely, recklessly, and 1 cause of complaint. It cited at length the report falsely cast upon him.—(ln corroboration of this which these two officers had made to the Admiralty statement, extracts were read from several letters on the conduct O e Lieutenant Graham and Mr. Elliott, recently addressed to Commander Pitman, by officers 1 and it remarked that although Lieutenant Carter had of high rank and standing in the service, who one i stated generally that the commander's conduct had and all expressed astonishment at the position in t been inconsistent and severe, it alleged no specific which he was placed, as they had never heard the I instances, and the book which was upon the table slightest complaint, during the time he had served twould show the Court that Lieut. Carter himself was with them or under them, for severe or unofficerlike J frequently the complaining officer, and awarded the conduct, and had never seen anything themselves to lead punishment. The case of Haigh was dealt with in the them to suppose that he could be guilty of such conduct. 1 defence at considerable length the commander The letters also bore strong and favourable testimony I denied that he was either severely or unnecessarily to the prisoner's general character.) This then was punished, or that the commanding officer could be the impression which had been made on those whose held responsible for the consequences of a punish opinions were most valuable and valued. With this cha- merit properly awarded, and inflicted in the presence acter he appeared before that Honourable Court, and of the medical officers of the ship, even though it the charges on which he had been arrainged, alleged resulted in death. He did not wish to avoid responsi conduct of the deepest moral turpitude—cruelty in bility, but the particular responsibility of deciding the exercise of a duty where cruelty was expressly whether the offender was able to bear the punish. forbidden—falsehood in the record of facts where he meat was committed to the medical officers of the bad no earthly interest but to be true and correct— • ship. The man was not punished for one offence but and, if this were not enough—as if one single act, if it for an accumulation of offences; and he had been could be proved, would not justify all the trouble detected in stealing many articles belonging to his that had been taken, and its result amply satisfy the messmates. He respectfully submitted what trans revengeful feelings which had dictated this prosecu- pired afterwards was a part of the punishment tion, it was further alleged that it was through his awarded by him. That had reference to offences unskilfulness as a seaman—through his inability to committed subsequently to the flogging. It was navigate the ship—that she had struck upon the necessary to keep a man who was a notorious thief, Prates shoal. The defence then referred to the and who was becoming mutinous, as this man was, charges, which the prisoner observed had been framed apart from the rest of the crew in order that he "with forensic strategy ;" and with a view, as he might not contaminate the rest. It was true he was believed, to enable one of the prosecutors to be kept night and day on deck ; but he slept under the present while the other was being examined, so as to forecastle, a place frequently appropriated to the sick, avoid, if possible, the inconvenience of contradictions and which the best men in the ship considered it a and cross-swearing. lie was confirmed in this privilege to occupy. If he suffered from the wind belief by the fact that (in consequence, as he consi- or the rain, a word to the surgeon, or to him dered of the prosecutors not having been both present (the commander), would have ensured a remedy, at the same time), Mr. Graham had not been called at though he frequently sent the watch there when all. When he commissioned the Childers, in February, no other part of the ship afforded shelter. Soon 1846, it unfortunately happened that the detachmeutof as ever he learned that the man had had an accident Marines of the Portsmouth Division was on duty in which was believed to have affected his head, he di- Ireland ; and the detachment which was sent on rectly ordered him to be released from all further hoard contained in consequence many men of bad punishment and duty. While in confinement he character. Thus at the beginning he was deprived showed a sullen and obstinate silence. He was left of the support of this most valuable arm of the ser- on shore at Hobart Town, and he understood that he vice ; for many of these men were amongst the worst was now serving afloat, and that he boasted of having in the ship; and they who should have been examples cheated the medical officers of the Childers. With of good became promoters of evil. Had it been respect to White, the commander denied that he had otherwise, his ship would have been nearly without said he would give him "four dozen" after he was punishment—at all events, without severe punish- " scrubbed." If he had intended to flog him, he ment. Nothing but the recklessness of the prose- should, in compliance with the rules of the service, cutors could have induced them to refer to the officers have proceeded in a different manner. He denied who had left the ship: it would be for the Court to also that he had ever heard that White had threatened say, whether even one officer had left her in conse- to jump overboard, or that in point of fact there was quence of a misunderstanding with himself. And any evidence he bad jumped overboard at all. The who were they by whom these charges were made ? man was seen to struggle and to swim, and when an He approached this part of the ca se with anxiet y , inquiry was held, immediately after the occurrence, because the parties of whom be must speak were at nobody on board could tell whether he came into the present under sentence for their offences; he would water accidentally or by design. With respect most willingly have avoided referring to those events, to the "scrubbing" of the boys, it was proved and to that conduct which had proved so fatal to their that it was not different from the practice of own prospects, so highly prejudicial to the comfort the service, and as to the statement that Sanger had and discipline of the ship, and out of which had become insensible under the operation, and had been originated all the present proceedings. He was laid before the galley fire by Mr. Brake, to restore ani compelled to lay before the Court the character of mation, the whole of it was a positive fabrication. Mr. ' the prosecutors ; it was essential to his defence ; and Brake had positively contradicted it, and the only first he would inquire in what position Mr. Elliott boy who had ever become inanimate, and had been came before the Court, at the opening of the present laid before the galley fire by that gentleman to re case ? He was then under sentence of a court-martial, store him, was a boy named Blake, who had fallen and if this were not enough, it had bee n shown, overboard, and narrowly escaped drowning. The : proved on oath before this Honourable Court, that he commander denied h a ving called Lieutenant Graham had seriously and frequently committed himself by a liar, though he admitted having stated to him he drunkenness. If he had not behaved to this man in had told many untruths, a statement which was ser a manner more considerate and forbearing than he tified by the evidence of Mr. Chevalier himself. He deserved, he would not, he could not, have remained had done all in his power to promote the comfort and in the ship. He must refer to one scene, as indicative happiness of his crew ; of those who left England of the feeling which actuated his conduct towards him. with him, 52 had returned-16 invalided, 13 had The Court would recollect that it was in evidence died, 14 deserted, and 11 had been appointed to other that Mr. Elliott was drunk when on the Prates shoals; ships; of the 52 who had returned 13 were petty in consequence of the seriousness of the offence, officers. Why had not the boy Cleverdon been pro which was only a repetition of that which had oc- duced ? Because the prosecutors knew he would not curred before, he determined to represent his conduct have supported their case. The boy was his servant. to the Commander-in-Chief. On that day he came He had taken him from school, but he was negligent, on deck in a state of intoxication, and was found idle, and given to falsehood. On one occasion he directed drunk by the boatswain, Mr. Hely ; he was taken him to clean a new pair of shoes; he roasted them below, and the same day prisoner saw him sitting so, that the first of them burst when he attempted aft with a hatchet in his hand, chopping the quart®r to put it on. In the heat of the moment he head-;ad gallery. The hatchet was taken from him by Mr. mitted that he threw the shoe, and grazed his Storey, the carpenter, and he (the commander) asked he was extremely sorry for it afterwards. He Dr. Rogers and Mr. Brake to endeavour to get frequently corrected the boy, who would make a him below, which they did. Subsequently Mr. great noise without sufficient cause ; but when he Elliott expressed his regret, and promised that there left him it was with feelings of the deepest gratitude should be no recurrence of the scene; and, in con- When the ship was paid off he had called to take his sideration of this and of his family, he consented to leave of himself and Mrs. Pitman. The man to whose look it over. This was his conduct to the prose- care he had then committed him would be here, and cutor, Mr. Elliott, on an occasion when, perhaps, he when the Court had heard his statement it would should have better performed his duty had he been less judge whether the allegations which had been made " inconsistent" and more " severe." Mr. Elliott was with respect to his treatment of that boy were true totally unknown to him before he joined the Childers, or false. The defence went on to submit that two or so was Mr. Graham ; but he must state what had three isolated instances, if the Court should hold them come to his knowledge of him since. If he had to be proved, would not support a charge of ge known it earlier he should certainly have prevented neral cruelty, and that the mode in which Mr. him from joining the ship at all, and thereby pre- Elliott had given his evidence plainly showed served Mr. Elliott from the contaminating influence the feelings by which he was actuated. In of his character, and have saved both him and him- commenting upon the testimony of the other wit self much anxiety. He had much to inform the Court nesses the commander said he did not know until of with respect to Mr. Graham's character, but before the ship was paid off that words " with disgrace" he did so he would respectfully submit that, in order were inserted in t he lo g -book in reference to Mr. to ascertain whether or not his character had been Smith's discharge, that he was in point of fact dis cruel, they must first inquire who were the persons charged for misconduct, but after his discharge,s and 1 over whom he had the control, because that which particularly after the prosecutors lef , his ) would be cruelty on the part of an officer placed in conduct was all that could be wished ; and it would ) command of a crew of good characters, would be very have given him great pleasure to have been instru ) tar from cruel if the character of the crew were bad. mental in restoring him to the service. Having ) Mr. Graham had entered the service about fifteen adverted shortly to the other charges of false ) years ago, and, when serving in the Belvidere, Capt. entry and of false expenditure, and made some ) the Honourable George Grey, he had been corn- further strong remarks upon the nature of 3 pelted to apply for his discharge to the shore, for the prosecution and the character of the prose having, while caterer of the mess, purloined the cutors , the defence concluded with a statement _ mess money; he had no certificate given to of Commander Pitman's services, and with a mass of , him, and was therefore unable to produce it. testimonials commendatory of those services, and of In 1843, while serving in the Satellite, he was his general character as an officer and a gentleman. again turned out of the mess, and remained out for After the examination of several witnesses for the some months, taking his meals during that time in defence, the court was ordered to be closed, when the carpenter's cabin. At Monte Video he was tried the prisoner said he would decline calling any more by court-martial and reprimanded ; and he worked witnesses, and would leave it to the Court to call his way home from Rio to England as a foremast- whom they thought proper. man in a merchant vessel. In 1846 he was appointed The Court then adjourned until to-morrow. to the President, but his character having preceded WEDNESDAY—TWELFTH DAY. him, the midshipmen of that ship represented to the 1 P ... LYMOUTII, WEDNESDAY. — The Court again Commander-in-Chief that they would not receive him assembled this morning at nine o'clock, and after into the ship, and he then obtained an acting order as ,being formally opened, was cleared by order o f S ir lieutenant of the Childers. After he had bee n on board for some time, and when he was directed to John Louis, Bart., for deliberation. It re mained join the President, he expressed a desire to continue in I closed till 25 minutes to three, P.m., when it was the Childers; and as his conduct up to that time had I re-opened, and all the witnesses were called in ,after been good, and as Lieutenant Carter was desirous of ! which the public were admitted. joining his patron, Admiral Dacres, at the Cape, he I The Judge-Advocate then read the decisio n of the applied to the Commander-in-Chief, at Mr. Graham's o wn request, to sanction an exchange, which was i Court. Having stated the constitution of t he court, acceded to. He could not help remarking that this it set forth the charges, which were as follows : request was made after the alleged acts of cruelty to- " General cruelty, from or about the 4th Septem wards White, Haigh, and Sanger, which were now ber, 1846, until the 20th of May, 1849 ; and for false sought to be brought forward to substantiate the charge , statements in the log of her Majesty's ship C hilders against him self. After Mr. Graham had been on , or about the 9th day of October, 1 848 . thus permitted to remain , he was in the habit of associating with the ship's company, giving them " General cruelty and oppression during the period s pirits and c' drinking with them. It was stated, , commencing on or about the 4th of September, 1846, on oath, before this Honourable Court, that on one and ending on the 20th of May, 1849. occasion the officer o f the watch, Mr. Berkeley, found " False expenditure of stores, viz., a ha mmock him cloth represented to have been washed away on or pfroorveceadsttlhea,taandmoarndenraeldnehdimneoeudt: 1 I h t i m had drinking already i n been ie about the 14th of October, 1846; and a maintop sail to have been lost on or about the 9 th of caambianr2inaen,dhtandatbaefetenr fhoeu(ncdorndr.urniktraiann)llhlard. e G x r p a r h es a s m ed 's , i by order, that Reed should no longer act as Mr. 1 October, 1848, Graham's servant, or go into the gun room. Reed " False statements in the log-book of her Majesty's was confined for 14 days in the na val p rison at ship Childers, from September, 1846, to the 20 th of Shanghai, and during that time Mr. Graham sent a May, 1849." letter to him (th e c o mmander), in which he ack now- The Learned Gentleman proceeded to state— ledged that it was his fault that Reed had been sent " The Court having heard the evidence in support of to prison. At Woosung he came on board so drunk , the charges, as well as what the prisoner has offered that he (Corn. Pitman) was about to report him to ! in his and behalf, and very maturely . and. opinion that deliberately weighedcharge of considered the same, is of the Commander. in -chief, when he produced a letter , 1 which he said announced to him the death of his the father, occasioned by the death of his sister, who had 1 general cruelty and oppression has i been in part proved against the prisoner, Commande r fallen from a horse and been killed; he added that his J. C, Pitman ; and the Court is further of opinion father's house had been burnt down, and that his that the of false of false . expenditure h of stores, h and m the remaining sisters were entirely dependent upon him for support. This letter, coupled with deep mourn- charge o statements in h t e log-book of against th a e jesty s ship Childers, have een . proved again ing, in which he appeared at the time, left no doubt prisoner,. Commander .J. C. Pitman; and the Court upon his (Commander Pitman's) mind that his state- :loth in consequence adjudge the said Commander ment was true, and he accordingly did not report him, p• i A J. C. men to be d i sm i ssed from hex Majesty's but he subsequently met Commodore Plumridge, who. service." told him that the whole story was a fabrication. The Court then broke up. SPORTING IN TELLIGENCE. DONCASTER, RACES. DONCASTER, ..fi'ESDAY NIGHT.—The following were the general pricei at the elosft cl the room:— ST. 1.110 5t02 on Flfing Dote' roan 20 to 1 egit, nyl;i:k 10 to 1 agt Old ain Tucker 20 to 1 agst Vatic (t) t 8 to 1 ag,t Thringarth 30 to 1 agst (t) Large sums wer:! be:wecn the favourites end the field, nod several hundreds on Thringarth, at 16, 18, 20, and 25 to 1. Lord Eglinton after observing that, he had nut a bet on the race, offered to take 1,300 to 100 that his horses were first and second. Lennox's Borneo, 3 yrs, 7st 101b—Mr. Osbaldsston's Fugleinau, 4 yrs, 7st 101b—Mr. Franklyn's The Sheriff, 4 yrs, 7st 10111—Mr. Batson's bl c Bssuolere, 4 yrs, ist I 81)—Mr. Pe3ley's Old Dan Tucker, 3 yrs, ist 7th — Colonel Peel's Dacia, 4 yrs, 7st 71b—Mr. cl. Nieliult's Nunnykirk, 3 yrs, 7st 71b--Mr. John's New Forest Deer, aged, 7st 715—Mr. Nolan's Blucher, 4 yrs, 7st 71b—Mr. Ps dley '3 Chatterer, 3 yrs, ist 71b—Mr. Lawson's Keleshes, 5 yrs, 7st 71b — Mr. Paync's Saucy Dick, 3 yrs, 7st 711:—Duke of Bed ford's Bon-mot, 3 yrs, 7st 41b—Mr. Herbert's b g Ra dulyhus, 6 yrs, 7st 41b—Mr. H. Stebbing's Maton, 4 yrs, 7st 21b—Captain Gar:shell's br c Volcano, 3 yrs, ist 21l.;—Mr. Bows's Thringarth, 3 yrs, 7st 21b—Mr. Merry's Miss Ann, 3 yrs, ist 21b—Mr. Payee's Glasses, 3 yrs, 7st lib—Mr. Bastard's ch c Telegraph, 4 yrs, 7st—Mr. B. Giles's chg Gaffer Green, aged, 7st—Col. Peel's Sesostris, 4 yrs, 75t—Lord Clifden's Honeycomb, 3 yrs, Gst 121 b Mr. Nieholl's Woolwich, 3 yrs, Gst 121b—Mr. Pedley's Cr ckermouth, 4 yrs, 6st 1015—Mr. Verity's Whitstone, 4 yrs, Get 101b—Mr. Wigram's Keraun, 4 yrs, Get 101 b Mr. Lillie's The Iron Duke, 3 yrs, Get 101 b —Mr. Jaques's Chantrey, 3 yrs, Gst 10Ib —Sir C. Mosck's Vanguard, 3 yrs, 6st 1015—Mr. Fowler's Ribalry, 4 yrs, Gst 1015 Mr. Osbsldeston's Joe o'Sot, 5 yrs, Get 101b—Sir J. Hasvley's Sponge, 4 rs, 6st 815—Mr. Drinkald's Amazement, aged, 6st 81b— Mr. Farrance's The Old Fox, 3 3 rs, 6st B:b—Mr. B. Green's Lady Superior, 3 yrs, Est 715 Mr. Cowley's Second Sight, 3 yrs, 6st 715—Lord Clifden's Rathraines, 5 yrs, GA 715—Duke of Bedford's St. Rosalia, 3 yrs, Gst 71b—Colonel Anson's Backbiter, 4 yrs, Gst 7 lb—Mr. Bateman's Strychnine, 3 yrs, Get 61b—Duke of Rich mond's Highland Fang, 3 3 rs, Get 51b—Mr. Nicoll na Comet, 4 yrs, Est 41b—Colonel Anson's Bingham, 5 yrs, 6st 41b— Colonel Peel's Vasa, 3 yrs, 6st 41b — Mr. Nevill's Sidney, 3 yrs, Gst 41b—Col. Peel's Indus, 3 yrs, Est 41b—Sir J. Hawley's Bacchanalian. 4 y rs, 6st 31b—Mr. Walters's Maid of Team Valley, 3 yra, 6st 31b —Mr. Drinkald's Thornhill, 3 yrs, Est 31b—Lord En field's The Seraph, 3 yra, Est 21b—Lord Glasgow's b by Don John, Impertinence, 4 yrs, 6st 11b—Lord Exe ter's Glenalvon, 3 yrs, Est—Mr. G. H. Moore's b e by Verulam, The Bride, 3 yrs, 6st—Mr. hemp's General Sale, 3 yrs, 6st—Mr. Greville's Rosslyn, 4 yrs, sst 121b — Mr. 11. Stebbing's Present, 3 yrs, sst 121b—Mr. Payne's Crucible, 3 yrs, sst 121b—Lord Exeter's Slashing Alice,3 yrs, sst 1215—C01. Peel's Quinine, 3 yrs, sst 1215—Mr. Copeland's b f Aldgate, 3 yrs, sst 121b—Mr. Driukald's Susan Lovell, 3 yrs, sst 121b—Mr. Meiklam's Wensley dale, 3 yrs, sst 121b—Mr. Spilabury's Grasshopper, 3 yrs, sst 101b—Mr. Burgess's Trap, 4 yrs, sst 101b—Mr. W. Sutton's b m Crocodile (h b), cged, sst 101 b Lord Strathmore's Sir Launcelot, 3 yrs, sst 101b—Mr. Shepherd's Alp, 3 yrs, sst 101 b Mr. Campbell's Robert de Brus, 3 y rs, sst 1015—Mr. Shelley's Sylvia, 3 yrs, sst 101b—Mr. Drinkald's Over fork-over, 3 yrs, sst 101b—Captain Archdall's Rhesus, 3 yrs, sst 101b—Mr. Meiklam's Raby, 3 yrs, sst 101 b Mr. T. B. Charlton's hiss :way, 3 yrs, sst 81b—Mr. Whitwurth's Lady Jersey, 3 yrs, sst 81b—Lord H. Loftus naCoronet,3 yrs, sst 71b—Sir J. Gs rard's Fitzpat rick, 3 yrs, sst 71b—Mr. Wigram's b f by Harkaway, Cor raua' dam, 3 yrs, sst 7 lb—Mr. Robert's Rienzi, 3 ys, sst 71b —Colonel Peels's lone, 3 yrs, sst 51b—Sir J. Hawley's Whitley, 3 yrs, sst 51b—Lord Stanley's Legerdemain, 3 yrs, sst 51b—Lord Glasgow's eh by the Provost, dam by Actmon, grandam by Ardrossan, 3 yrs, sst Mr. Dawson's Cocktail, 3 3 rs, Set—Duke of Bedford's Minto, 4 yrs, sst—Mr. J. Osborne's ch c Carthaginian, by Y. Priam, 3 yrs, 4st 101b—Mr. Drew na Minimum, 3 yrs, 4st 101b—Lord Exeter's Cone 6. 3 yrs, 4st 10Ib. The following having declared ft, pay 5 sovs. each : Lord Stanley's Canezuu, 4 yrs, 9st 51b—Captain liar court's Ellerdale, 5 yrs, 9,t—Mr. B. Green's Flatcatcher, 4 yrs, Bst 10Ib—Colonel Westenra's Trounur, 5 yrs, Bst 1015—Mr. M. Blake's Ballinafad, 5 yrs, Bst 71b— Duke of Richmond's Halo, 5 yrs, Bst 41b—Duke of Rich mond's Vampyre, 5 yrs, Bst 41b—Col. Peel's Taclmor, 3 yrs, Sat 21b—Mr. Savage's b c kington, 4 yrs, Bst—Lord Clifden's Wanota, 5 yrs, Bst—Lord Clifden's Loadstone, 4 yrs, Bst Mr. Carew's Philosopher, 5 yrs, Bst—Mr. Wrather s Maid of Masbam, 4 yrs, 7st 1015—Lord Eglinton's Elthiron, 3 yrs, 7st 101b—Sir J. Hawh y's Montpensier, 5 yrs, 7st 915—Lord Chesterfield's Lscly Evelyn, 3 yrs, 7s - t 81b—Mr. Crawfurd's Glutton, 4 yrs, 7st 71b—Mr. Drinkald's Mongrel, aged, 7st 71b—Mr. Crawford's br g' Iron Rail, 5 yrs, 75t 71b—Mr. Morris's Young Ireland, 4 yrs, 7st 71b—Mr. B. Green's Swiss Boy, 4 yrs, 7st 61b—Capt. Pettat's Newcourt, aged, 7st 615-- Sir J. B. Mill's Cymba, 4 yrs, 7st 51b—Lord Chester field's Mrs. Taft, 4 yrs, 7st 51b—Mr. Gannon's Decep tive, 4 yrs, 7st 31b—Mr. Payne's Blackcock, 5 yrs, 7st 21b—Mr. Payne's Landlord, 3 yrs, 7st—Sir R. Pigot's Essedarius, 3 yrs, 7st—Lord Exeter's Tisiphone, 4 yrs, 7st—Lord Eglinton's Belus, 3 yrs, 6st 131b—Mr. Gully's Osterley, 3 yrs, 6st 131 b Mr. Salt's The Highwayman, 6 yrs, 6st 121b—Sir F. Peacocke's Repletion, 3 yrs, Gst 121b—Lord Clifden's Sagacity, 5 yrs, 6st 1215—Lord Exeter's Tophana, 4 yrs, Est 101b—Lord Stanley's Strongbow, 3 yrs, 6st 101b — Mr. Davis's Chorister, 4 yrs, 6st 101b—Duke of Rut land's br f Nina, 3 yrs, Get 91b—Mr. Drinkald's Grief, 3 yrs, Est 91b—Mr. St. George's gr c by Verulam, out of Whim, 3 yrs, 6st 7 lb—Mr. Hunt's Chicaneur, 4 yrs, Est 515—Mr. Coape's bl c Pius IX, 4 yrs, Est 51b—Mr. St. George's ch f by Magpie, out of Spray, 3 yrs, 6st 51b— Lord Exeter's Grace, 3 yrs, 6st 315—Lord Clifden's Cotton Lord, 3 yrs, Est 21b—Lord Exeter's Midis, 3 yrs, Est 21b—Duke of Bedford's Newport, 3 yrs, 6st—Lord Clilden's Tiresome, 3 yrs, 6st—Lord Strathmore's CELlipus, 3 yrs, sst 131b—Sir R. W. Bulkeley's bl f by Picaroon, out of Bonny Bonnet, 3 yrs, sst 121b—Mr. Payne's Glenlyon, 3 yrs, sst 101b—Mr. W. Sutton's chesnut horse Sobersides, aged, sst 101 b Mr. Dennett's g by Epirus, 3 yrs, Sat 101b—Lord Ches terfield's Penthesilea, 3 yrs, sst 815—Mr. Banks's The Swift, 3 yrs, sst 415—Colonel Anson's Oddity, 3 yrs, sst 415—Colonel Anson's Irish Jig, 3 yrs, Set 41b—Lord Clifden's Wallflower, 3 yrs, sst 415—Mr. E. R. Clark's Sir Tattoo Sykes, 6 yrs, pays ft. G civil, is a personal enemy of Pius ]X., and a perseeu• for of his family when legate at Pesar)? Therefore the letter of the President is g 0 0 ,3, but your deeds are bud. " Thercfore your Dig is trampled under foot; there fore . • . _ talak your own etnelanion, and •-• if you w ill not remedy all this, give u liberty of action. " Down with priestly goverment!" it is believed that amour,; the concessions obtained from the Pope by M. de ayneval are the creation of municipalities on a large basis—of a consultative council elected by the municipalitics—of provincial councils, and a board of finance—and that ha has further promised administrative ameliorations in all the branches, particularly in that of justice. STATE OF TRADE. (From the Mane/ester Guardiu 71 ) MANCHESTER, Tunsney.—The unfavourable bent of the mat ket, noticed in our last report, has received a further development today. The buyers of yarns, whether for shipment or home consumption, have shown more disinclination for business than before, and have consequently been more difficult to deal with, '_Chis has arisen in some degree, no doubt, from the want of animation in cotton, but much more from the condition of the markets with which the several classes of buyers are connected. The home makers of such goods as have been most in re quest, finding that th e i r f a b r i cs are somewhat receding in value, or where this is not the cese that appearances are becoming less favourable to the maintenance of present rates, have not been inclined .to add to their already fair supplies of twist and weft. Merchants connected with India, the Levant, and the Mediterranean, are held back by the state of things in their own markets. And although recent differences have slightly diminished in Germany, prices are still so much lower there than in Manches ter, as to restrict operations for that quarter within exceedingly narrow limits. Under these circum stances, spinners have manifested an increased desire to sell, so a s t o i mpar t more or l ess o f an a dverse bias to prices. It must be said, however, that the offers have been far t oo f ew t o t es t pr i ces , an d that the different degrees in which producers have been affected by the causes alluded to, have occasioned not a little irregularity among sellers. In export mule yarns, there has been more firmness than in water. We stated in our last, that after the market of this day week, some considerable transactions took place in madapollams, and light 40-inch shirtings, at rather lower prices. Today no further giving ;way has taken place in those articles ; the better kinds of the latter have, however, been easier to buy. In 36? inch, also, the purchaser has an advantage; as also, in some degree, in long cloths and domestics. Rather more has been done in 'l' cloths, the extremely de pressed prices of which hold cut more inducement to anticipatory purchases than perhaps any other de scription of cloth. The prices of jacconets are well sustained by the contracts in hand. Printing cloths, for which there has been so active a demand, are now becoming rather easier in price, in consequence of a somewhat diminishing call for them. In this de partment, as well as in that of yarns, the business of the day has been of very limited extent, and for the most part at some reduction in prices, though here again a good deal of irregularity has been found. Itocnnenn, MONDAY.—We have not had quite so brisk a market to-day as we had on the two previous Mondays, yet there has been a fair amount of business transacted at former prices. The wool market con tinues inactive, with little or no change in price. MACCLESFIELD, TUESDAY.—The throwing depart ment is going on smoothly, and all the principal mills are working full legal time. The manufacturing de partment has still a gloomy aspect, and manufacturers have had a bad week in the vs ay of selling, owing, no doubt, to the unsettled state of the weather. The fancy trimming trade is brisk, but the power-loom trade is very slack, and has been so for some length of time. lIUDDERSFIELD, TUESDAY.—Business continues healthy throughout the whole of this district. Every piece of a saleable quality was early disposed if in the Cloth Hall. Not many buyers have visited the warehouse to-day, but orders continue to come in steadily. HALIFAX, SATURDAY.—There has not been a very large attendance of buyers in our Piece Hall to-day, and the demand for worsted goods is scarcely so ac tive as it was ; but there is a pretty fair business do ing to order, and prices are, for some descriptions, rather better. The yarn trade is exceedingly brisk, the spinners being very full of orders, at somewhat im proved prices. Long wools are held more firmly for a slight advance, and considerable quantities are changing hands. Short wools go off rather sluggishly. The supply is now more than equal to the wants of the trade, and prices are, consequently, lower, in pro portion, than those of long wools. LEEDS, TUESDAY.—There has been little business done to-day at the Cloth Halls, but on the whole the woollen trade continues pretty brisk. No change in prices. BLINDFOLD CHESS-PLAYING. MATCH BETWEEN HERR HARRWITZ AND FOUR MEMBERS OF THE GLASGOW CHESS CLUB.—The con- ditions of this match were, that Mr. Harrwitz would play two games simultaneously, and without seeing either of the chess-boards, against four members of the Glasgow Chess Club—two in consultation at each chess-board. From the extraordinary nature of the conditions on the part of Herr Harrwitz, the match has created great interest among the chess players of Glasgow. In accordance with the previous announcements, the match was played in the splendid club-room of the Glasgow Chess Club, Regent Hotel, Buchanan-street, on Thursday even ing. The company, amounting to about 100 gentle men, having, at seven o'clock, nearly all arrived and taken their seats, and secured for themselvess chess men and boards, a service of tea and coffee was handed round ; and while the company were thus occupied, the secretary was busily engaged in making arrangements for the accommodation of the onlookers, as well as the gentlemen to be engaged in the contest. The preliminaries being adjusted, Mr. Harrwitz was then introduced to the company, and after a short con versation with a few of the gentlemen present, whose acquaintance he made on his former visit to the club, took his seat in a corner of the room, where he sat with his back to the company, and totally excluded from the sight of the chess-boards. Mr. Harrwitz having . to lead off in both games, called out the move he in tended to be played for him on board No. 1, and immediately followed his move on board No. 2 ; the players at the first board made and communicated their move in answer, and the players at the other board did the same ; and thus the games proceeded, Mr. Harrwitz giving his two moves simultaneously, and not moving again till he had received moves in reply from both boards. The games lasted from shcrtly after seven o'clock till half-past eleven, and the result was that Mr. Harrwitz won one game and lost the other. We can hardly attempt to convey to the minds of our readers the difficulties of such a marvellous per formance on the part of Mr. Harrwitz. To play a single game well, with the board before you, is of itself a difficult task, and cannot be exaggerated. To play two games at a time over the boards must be more than proportionately difficult; but how much greater must the difficulty be to play two. games simultaneously, and wit hout seeing either of the boards—when the mechanical objects of the chessmen and chessboards are abstracted, and no longer exist save in the p owers of the mind ; when the windows of the brain are closed down, and the faculties of sight hermetically sealed ; when all that is left of chess-board and men is in their vague and timid shadow, wandering spectre like across the mental chamber; and when memory and the percep tive faculties of the brain must be taxed unaided to name the position of every piece and pawn, and square of the chequer ! The most wonderful part of this extraordinary effort of the mind is, that while the blindfold player's whole thought and attention is re quired to consider the best mode of play to parry an attack of his adversaries at one board, he is of neces sity obliged to banish from his mind the position of the game on the other board, and yet to have them so placed before his mind's eye as to recall either of them at pleasure. At the conclusion of the games, Mr. Sheriff Bell made a few remarks on the highly intellectual feat which the company had just witnessed. He said he was sure the members of the Chess Club, and the strangers present, would join with him in expressing their sincerelthanks to Mr. Harrwitz for the very astonishing performances which he had gone through that evening. When it was considered that the powers of memory, concentration of thought, and great intellectual ability were required for such a task, he doubted if there was another person in the w orld-- he was sure there was not another in Great Britain— cap ableof performing it. All wolheo the possible chess knew well that at ever e y ab m ie va riations of play we re inn rt u r and that the ic m ular changed the rela operation o f castling . tive position of the pieicnesp,aand the whole as the game comple tel y . i ect of Now, n these two games which had just been played, and conducted by four of the strongest players in the west of Scotland, the opponents o f Mr. Harrwitz both castled about the same time, the one on the king's side and the other on the queen's side, thereby in creasing the difficulty of the task grea tly, an d rendering the avoidance of error on the part of Mr. Harrwitz scarcely possible. It would be re marked also, that on one side of the board the players altogether ceased for some time ; there was a com plete cessation of hostilities for upwards of an hour ; the battle going on in another quarter, and yet, when it afterwards reverted, as it neceesarily did, to the former point, Mr. H. had such a perfect percep tion and remembrance of the relative position of all the pieces, as to play apparently as easily as if he had all along had the boards open before him. The whole performance he repeated, kept up as it was for more than three hours and a half, showed such a concen tration of mental power, and such intellectual re- GREAT YORKSHIRE HANDICAP. 4to 1 agst Thringarth I7to 1 agst Mrs. Taft 6 to 1 agst Fsalnahingpr 7 to 1 agst Fernhill 12 to 1 17 to 1 20 to 1 33 to 1 33 to 1 33 to 1 CESAREWITCH. agst Essedarius 33 to 1 agst Glen Saddel agLt Glenulvon 40 to 1 agst Rathtnines agst St. Itosalia 40 to I agst Black Eagle agst Puffy 40 to 1 agst OldDanTucker agst Raby c 41 to 1 agst Tophangt agst Fire-eater CAMBRIDGESTIIRE. 25 to 1 agst Woolwich 14 to I agst Rienzi 20 to 1 agst Ribaldry DERBY. 5 to 1 agst Italianl 40 to 1 agst Windhound 7 to 1 agst Bru to Epirote I 40 to 1 agst Clincher 40 to 1 agst Sweetheart (t) No others mentioned. WEDNESDAY'S RACES. Those who remembered Doncaster in its palmy days must have been struck with the contrast between the excitement which then prevailed on the St. Leger day — almost from daybreak, and the quietude of the town this morning. Until between 9 and 10 o'clock, the sound of wheels was scarcely heard, and, as the day advanced, the arrivals per coach were so few that one would almost have imagined that it was one of the " off" days of the meeting, instead of the "grand" day. The falling off, however, in this respect is easily accounted for. Don caster now has railway communication with all the ma nufacturing districts, from which the mass of the visitors come, and the Companies having afforded every possible facility in the shape of special trains from Manchester, Leeds, Liverpool, Sheffield, Wakefield, &c., the number present did not exhibit so great a deficiency as might have been expected from the moderate character of the racing. The special train from London held out an op portunity, for the first time, of seeing the St. Leger run for, and returning the same night, and as the directors, with more consideration for the public than for the shareholders, were content to take one fare for the double journey, a considerable number—less, however, than had been anticipated—availed themselves of it. It reached Doncaster nearly an hour after time, owing to a detention of half an hour at Retford, the engine and tender having got off the line, in consequence of the man at the point having turned it the wrong way; no mis chief was done, and the passengers arrived at their des tination in ample time for the races. Irrespective of this, the only drawback was the early hour at which it was necessary to start, an objection which will be obvi ated next year, by the completion of the Great Northern main line from London to Peterborough. By one o'clock all the " special" visitors were safely delivered, and the crowd in the streets reminded us, faintly, how ever, of better times; the falling off, nevertheless, was palpable, and it was still more conspicuous on the course. The Grand Stand, although crowded to the roof, con ta ned few of the titled and fashionable personages, whose patronage for so long a period made Doncaster the most popular racing town in the kingdom. Time, however, will not permit us to dwell on these matters; suffice it, that there was a great numerical attendance, and that the racing, with the St. Leger as its feature, went off with tolerable spirit; the weather, unfortunately, was unfavourable. The Doncaster Plate of 100 Sovs., added to a handicap of 15 sovs. each, 10 ft. Redhouse in. (8 Subs.) Mr. Payne's Farthingale, 3 yrs, Bst (Flatman) 1 Lord Chesterfield's Penthesilea, 3 yrs, 7st (G. Oates) 2 Lord Glasgow's m, out of Miss Whip, 5 yrs, 7st 71b 3 Mr. Nolan's Blucher, 4 yrs, Bst 71b (Butler) 4 Mr. Bank's Surfe, 3 yrs, Est Sib (W. Sharp) 5 Mr. Lawson's Kelcshea, 5 yrs, Bst 51b (Noble) 6 Betting-2 to 1 agst Penthesilea-3 to 1 agst Far thingale-4 to 1 agst Keleshea—and 6to 1 agst Miss Whip. Penthesilea made the running until within 300 yards of home, when she was passed by Fertl ingale, who won cleverly by a length; Miss Whip a good third. Run in 1 min. 14 sec. The Queen's Plate of 100 guineas. Cup course. Captain Harcourt's Ellerdale, 5 yrs. (Marson) 1 Mr. B. Green's Swiss Boy, 4 yrs (Wintringham) 2 Betting-6 to 4on Ellerdale, who waited to the dis tance and won in a canter by half a length. Run in 5 min. 1 sec. St. Leger Stakes of 50 Sovs. each, h ft; colts, Bst 71b; fillies, Bst 21b. The second to receive 300 soya. out of the stakes, and the third 100 sovs. The winner to pay 100 soya. towards the expenses. (140 Subs.) Lord Eglinton's Flying Dutchman (Marlow) 1 Mr. Nichol's Nunnykirk (A. Day) 2 Sir J. Hawley's Vatican Lord Clifden's Honeycomb (Robinson) 4 Mr. Bowes's Thringarth (Butler) 0 Lord Eglinton's Elthiron (Cartwright) 0 Mr. Green's Westow... (Wintringham) 0 Mr. Payne's Saucy Dick ..., (Fla s tann) 0 Mr. R. H. Nevill's Herbert Mr. Pedley's Old Dan Tucker (Ten;pleinan) 0 Volcano was scratched at half-past ten this morning. Betting at starting-9 to 4on the Flying Dutchman —l6 to 1 agst Old Dan Tucker-16 to 1 agat Vatican —l5, to 1 agst Nunnykirk-20 to 1 ags t Thringarth —4O to 1 agst Honeycomb—and 50 to 1 agst Saucy Dick. Won by two lengths, the same between second and third; Honeycomb a bad fourth, and Elthiron fifth. Run in 3 min. 20 secs. The Municipal Stakes of 200 sous. each, lt ft; the second to save his stake; fur two yrs old colts, Bst 71b; and fillies, Bst 41b. Red House in. (6 Subs.) Lord Eglinton's Knight of Avenal.... ..... (Marlow) 1 Lord Glasgow's c by Bay Middleton, out of Canada 2 Colonel Anson's Sister to Sweatmeat (F. Butler) 3 Ur. B. Green's Gleam (Winrringham) 4 6 to 4 agst Knight of Avenal, 5 to 2 agst Gleam, and sto 1 agst Canada colt. Won easy by a length; the same between second and third. Run in 1 min. 16 sec. Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each, h ft, the second to save his stake, with 50 sovs. added, for two yrs old, 7st, and three yra, 9st; fillies and geldings allowed albs. Red House in. (9 Subs.) Mr. G. Hobson's Rhedycina, 2 yra (Rodney) 1 51r. H. Jones's Steppingstone, 2 yrs ..........(Fenn) 2 Col. Anson's bf by Touchstone, 2 yrs, (Charlton) 3 lir. Verner's The Recluse, 2 yrs (W. Sharpe) 4 The following also started but were not placed: — Mr. Pedley's Lady Bountiful, 2 yrs (Day) 0 Lord Chesterfield's Humphrey, 2 yrs (G. Oates) 0 6 to 4 agst Rhedycina, 2 to 1 agst Recluse, and 5 to 2 agst Steppingstone. Won by two lengths; the second beating the third by a neck, and the same between third and fourth. Run in 1 min. 17 sec. DONCASTER, THURSDAY MORNING. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) . _ LATEST BETTING ON THE GREAT YORKSHIRE HAI4DICAP , 7 to 2 agst Mrs. Taft. 9to 2 Fernhili. sto 1 Psalmsinger. sto 1 Thringarth. NEWMARKET.—INTELLIGENCE EXTRA. SECOND OCTOBER MEETING, 1849. Acceptances for the Cesarewitch Stakes. Lord Clifden's Surplice, 4 yrs, 9st 51b—Sir J. Raw , ley's Fernhill, 4 yrs, Bst 41b—Mr. Drinkald's Dulcet, aged, Bst—Mr. H. Stebbing's Mahon, 4 yrs, 7st 71b— Mr. J. Harris's Prior of St. Margaret's, 6 yrs, 7st 711 s Mr. Salt's The Highwayman, 6 yrs, 7st 71b— Lord 11. Lennox's Borneo, 3 yrs, 7st 716 Lord Chesterfield's Lady Evelyn, 3 yrs, 7st 71b — Duke of Bedford's Bon-mot, 3 yrs, 7st 31b— Captain Pettatt's Eagle's Plume, 4 yrs, 7st 31b— Lord Clitden's Rathmiues, 5 yrs, 7st 21b—Mr. E. R. Clark's Giselle, 6 yrs, 7st 21b—Mr. Pedley's Old Dan Tucker,3 yrs, 7st 21b--Mr. G. Barton's Smuggler Bill, 6 yrs, 7st—Sir R. Pigot's Essedarius, 3 yrs, 75t—Count Furstenberg's Bonny Robin, by Rambler, out of Kings ton Robin's dam, aged, 7st—Mr. F. %V. Moss's ch en The Bride of Lammermoor, by the Stddler, out of The Abbess, 5 yrs, 7st Capt. Gambeli's Volcano, 3 yrs, 7st Mr. .Lowther's Watchdog, 5 yrs, 7st—Mr. Merry's Miss Ann, 3 yrs, 7st— Sir J. Hawley's Vatican, 2 yrs, Est 131b—Sir F. Pea cocke's Repletion, 3 yrs, 6st 131b—Mr. Stephenson's Doctrine, 5 yrs, 6st 121b—Mr. Gregory's Loup-garou, 3 yrs, Est 121b—Mr. Bowes's Thringarth, 3 yrs, 6st 121 b —Mr. Jaques's Chantrey, 3 yrs, Est 101b—Mr. Drink ald's Amazement, aged, 6st 91b—Lord Eglinton's Glen Saddel, 4 yrs, 6st 81b Lord Exeter's Tophana, 4 yrs, 6st 81b—Mr. B. Green's Pelham, 3 yrs, 63t 71b — Col. Peel's Dacia, 4 yrs, 7st 41b—Col. Anson's Back biter, 4 yrs, Est 71b—Sir C. Monck's Vanguard, 3 yrs, Est 71b—Lord Warwick's Grief, 3 yrs, Est 71b—Mr. Pedley's Cockermouth, 4 yrs, 6st 71b—Mr. B. Green's Westow, 3 yrs,6st 61b—Mr. B. Green's Lady Superior, 3 yrs, Est 61b—Sir J. Hawley's Van Diemen, 3 yrs, Est 61b—Mr. Sloan Stanley, Fire-eater, 3 yrs, Est 51b—Mr. Wigram's Keraun, 4 yrs, 6st 51b—Lord Clifden's St. Antonio, 4 yrs, fist 51b—Mr. Cowley's Second Sight, 3 yrs, Est 41b— Duke of Bedford's St. Rosalie, 3 yrs, 6st 31b—Lord Exeter's Glenalvon, 3 yrs, Est 21b —Sir J. Hawley's Bacchanalian, 4 yrs, 6st—Mr. Meiklam's Snowstorm, 3 yrs, 6st—Mr. Isaac Day's Colocynthis, 4 yrs, 6st—Dulte of Bedford's Quasimodo, 3 yrs, sst 131b—Mr. Drink ald's Susan Lovell, 3 yrs, sst 121b—Colonel Peel's Indus, 3 yrs, sst 111b —Captain Archdall's Rhesus, 3 yrs, sst 101b—Mr. Burgess's Trap, 4 yrs, sst 101b—Mr. J. T. Phillip's Pity the Blind, 3 yrs, sst 101b—Mr. E. R. Clark's Rodney, 3 yrs, sst 91b—Mr. Meynell's Nautila, 5 yrs, sst 71b—Mr. Meiklam's Raby,3 yrs, sst 7 lb—Lord Stanley's Legerdermain, 3 yrs, sst 7 lb—Mr. Stebbin g 's Present, 3 yrs, sst 71b — Mr. Spilsbury's Grasshopper, 3 yrs, sst 41b—Lord Chesterfield's Chicot, 3 yrs, sst 31b— Mr. Critchley's Sir Henry Harding% 3 yrs, sst 31b— Mr. Drinkald's Sauter-la coupe, 3 yrs, sst—Mr. Bowes's The Flapper, 3 yrs, sst—Mr. T. B. Charlton's Kissaway, 3 yrs, sst—Mr. J. Osborne's Carthaginian, by Y. Priam, 3 yrs, 4st 131b—Mr. S. G. Lane Fox's Plebeia, 3 yrs, 4st 101 b. HOUGHTON MEETING.—TUESDAY. Acceptances for the Cambridgeshire Stakes. Mr. Merry's Chanticleer, 6 yrs, 9st 71b—Mr. Roles b h Collingwood, 6 yrs, 9st 41b—Lord H owt h' s P e ep o'-Day Boy, 5 yrs, 9st—Sir R. Pigot's Conyngham, 5 yrs, 9st—Lord Clifden's Surplice, 4 yrs, Bst 131 b Lord Clifden's Planet, 5 yrs, Bst 101b—Mr. Verity's Diplomatist, 5 yrs, Bst 81b—Mr. P. Colgan's oh b The Horn of Chase, 5 yrs, Bst 71b—Mr. B. Green's Shylock, 4 yrs, Bst—Duke of Rutland's in c The Fiddler, 4 yrs, Bst—Mr. Drinkald's Dulcet, aged, Bst—Mr. Payne's Glen dower, 4 yrs, Bst—Maj. Mattyn's The Moor, 4 yrs, 7st 121 b Mr. Lillie's Spithead, 6 yrs,. 7st Mb—Lord Ferrar's an Prior of St. Margaret's, 6 yrs, 7at 101b—Lord S. G. FRANCE. A superb sword is being manufactured to be pre. sented by the defenders of order to General Changer. nier. The blade is a Damascus, the hilt is of mas• sive gold, a masterpiece of art, and gemmed with diamonds, valued at 25,000 francs. The Journal du Cher announces that M. Louricn, the representative of that department, who is impli cated in the affair of June 13, has written to M Baroche, declaring his intention to surrender himsel to take his trial before the High Court of Justice at Versailles. Much unexpected labour will be thrown upon this same High Court of Justice through the following circumstance : The police made a most important seizure on Monday, at the residence of a person named Merle, former chief of section of the Society of the Rights of Man. The seizure is in fact of such importance as in the opinion of some to warrant,a postponement of the meeting of the High Court of Justice for the trial of the offenders of the 13th of June last ; if, indeed, that postponement can take place consistently with the decree of the President fixing the 9th of October for the constitution of the Court. The po lice discovered in the possession of the person above mentioned documents of the highest importance, which throw additional light on the events of the 13th of June, and clearly demonstrate that a com plete and radical social revolution was to have been effected all over France. Among the papers are the minutes of the most secret proceedings of the Com mittee of the Rights of Man on the 9th, 10th, 11th 12th, 13th, 14th, and 15th of June last; proclama tions, drafts of decrees with the places in blank for the signature of the new Dictator, formidable lists of proscription, programmes of the most sweeping kind, and all the terrible machinery of the new . state of • society which was to be established on the ruins of • the old social world. RUSSIA. The Emperor Nicholas has sent General Hunan the insignia of the Order of St. Andrew in diamonds, which are accompanied by the following autograph letter : " We, Nicholas, &c., to General Haynau, Scc.:— " The great services you have rendered during the war which has been waged against the Hungarian rebels in c upport of the just rights of your Monarch, our illus trious ally and friend, have given you an especial title to our esteem. After having assumed the chief command of the Austrian army you accomplished successful and decisive deeds, and gait.ed great victories over the rebels of Comorn, Szegedin and Temesvar always giving an example of courage and intrepidity. It was agreeable to us that part of our troops which was placed under your command distinguished itself, and proved so worthy of so great a commander. As a jdst acknowledgment of your merits and distinguished military honours, we create you a Knight of our Order of the first called Holy Apostle Andrew, in brilliants, the insignia of which accompany this. NICLIOLAS. " Warsaw, August. 25 1849." HUNGARY. The following paragraph occurs in the communi cation of one writing from Vienna :—" The garrison of Comorn appears to have definitively decided on trying the fortune of war once more ; for, although Klapka and a great number of his officers have left the fortress, and are now in the imperialists camp, it is known that the garrison is leading a jovial life, eating, drinking, dancing, and gambling. It is evident that the common soldiers either do not know or do not believe what has been reported, for the ' Eljen Kossuth' is louder than ever. The prime mover of the prolonged resistance is Count Pau- Esterhazy:' It is clear from the foregoing tha the famous letter written by Kossuth, proclaiming Georgey a traitor to the country, was addressed to Count Paul Esterhazy, and not to Count Cassimir Esterhazy. ROME. A grand demonstration of the Anti-Clerical Go vernment party seems to have been prevented by the vigour and vigilance of General Rostolan. Baulked in their intentio ns at a display, the crowd issued the following document, addressed to the French Commander-in -Chief : " We have read the letter of the President to Colonel i assist in re-establishing the Ney—it is a good letter; but whatare the facts ? " Do you, or do yo u not, Vicariate, the Sacra Consults,' and other exceptional tribunals? "Do you, or do you not, assist a Government made for priests, opposed to all ideas of progression, to liberty, and civilization? " Do you not lend a strong hand to a Gregorian po lice, to a commission of Cardinals, one of whom, Dela S '_,~ i ( es, tf ,„.....,,,,„,„,,,,,,,,...„, , „,,.....-. , V 441" 01 f sources, vs wcro 'truly Wollatsthil. CI a& ‘spayes . . , alone could properly appreciate it, and %to thep.dis - - '..,5,. i.vas undoubtedly a ment.ii treat of the highest - „,, Tile sheriff again expressed the thank s o f tholcdpithy_lSAkfilv to Mr. ilarrivitz. - Alr. Harr witz, in a few words, thanked the sheriff and the company for their kindness, and the satisfac tion expressed at his performance. He said he hal of late practised this mode of play—viz., without seeing the board, very seldom, as he found it was at tended with too much mental exertion. He did not mean by this, however, to detract at t.ll from the merits of the gentlemen opposed to him ; on the con trary, he considered the defence in both games highly instructive.—North British Mail. SOUTH LONDON FLORICULTU- RAL SOCIETY. The last flower show of this society was held yester day, at the Surrey Zoological Gardens. The day, un fortunately, was but ill-adapted for a fete of the kind, for the rain which fell at intervals prevented the arrival of visitors, and but few were present at any one Lime. The military bands, however, were in attendance, and communicated as much cheerfulness by their instrumen tal strains as circumsaances would admit of. The show in itself was a very tine one, and had there not been the drag back alluded to, would have been well worth exa mining. The dahlias were in great profusion, and in cluded several beautiful and distinguished varieties. There a as also a noble array of hollyhocks, besides some excellent and attractive specimens of fuchsias and ver benas. The fruit section consisted chiefly of grapes and pine-apples, several baskets of each being exhibited. The following were the successful competitors:— Class I.—Private Growers.—For the best collection of miscellaneous plants, not exceeding 15 pots (orchideous plants excluded)—Messrs. Cole, Bruce, Hemp, and Young, For the best collection of fuchsias (8 varieties in pots)—Mr. Vickiry. ,For the best 24 dahlias (dis similar blooms)—Messrs. Prockter, Howard, Hopkins, and Cook. For the best 12 dahlias (dissi milar blooms)—Messrs. Robinson, Rowden, Black, Batts, and Pope. Fur the best 6 fancy dahlias (dissimilar blooms)—Messrs. Bowden, Pope, and Prockter. For tho best 12 hollyhocks (single blooms, dissimilar)—Messrs. Parsons, Holder, Betteridge, and J. Bennett. For the best collection of cut flowers—Messrs. N. Cole, A. Parsons, and J. Bruce. For the best 12 verbenas (distinct varieties, of 3 trusses each)—Messrs. C. Lockner and Wyness. For the best collection of ripe fruit, 6 sorts (pines and grapes excluded)—Messrs. J. Parker and P. Young. For the best basket of grapes (6 lbs.)—Messrs. Collier and Argent. Class ll.—Nurserymen—For the best collection of fuchsias (12 varieties, in pots)—Messrs. Bromley, M. Shuckford, Robinson, and Hoek. For the best collect tion of roses, in bunches (8 boxes)—Messrs. Paul and Son and E Francis. For the best 24 dahlias (dissimilar blooms)—Messrs. C. Turner, Drummond, Hunt, and Gaines. For the best 12 fancy dahlias (dissimilar blooms)—Messrs. Turner, Harrison, and Hunt. For the best 12 hollyhocks (12 to 15 inches in height)—Messrs. W. Chater and R. Birchin. For the best 24 verbenas distinct varieties, of 3 trusses each)—Messrs. P. Smith and C. A. Harrison. For the best collection of cut flowers—Messrs. E. Francis and Fowle. For the best basket of grapes—Mr. H. Chapman. Open to both classes—For the best single specimen plant (of any genus)—Messrs. Fairburn, W. Cole, and W. Cole. For the best pine-apple—Messrs. Payne and Jackson. For the best specimen of honey (in the comb, in glass)—Messrs. Wells and R. W. Dalton. Extra Prizes offered by Alcmbers to Private Growers. —By Mr. John Keynes, of 'Salisbury, fur the best six blooms from the following nine dahlias, viz..—Keyne's Purple Standard, Lilac Perfection, Miss Chaplin, Sunset, Victoria Regina, Miss Ma:kr:Dore, Rainbow, Miss Stevens, and Sunbeam—Messrs. Black, Hunt, Pope, Cook, and Edmonds. By John Bushell, Esq., of Slough, for the best 3 blooms of J. Bushell's Duchess (white dahlia)—Messrs. Robinson, Hunt, and Nukes. By Mr. Charles Turner, of Slough, for the Lest six dahlias (dis similar blooms)—Messrs. Robinson and Howard. By John Edwards, Esq., for the best bloom of C. Turner's dahlia, named Mr. Seldon—Messrs. Robinson and Bur gess. By Mr. E. Hunt, of Paddington, for the best 3 blooms of E. Hunt's General Cavaignac (fancy dahlia) —Mr. Hatchman. By John Chapman, Esq., for the best single bloom of J. Bushell's Duchess (white dahlia) —Mr. Nokes. By John Howard, Esq., for the best 2 blooms of J. Howard's fancy dahlia, Miss Jane— Mr. Powell. Open to both classes.—By H. Harms, Esq., for the best 2 blooms of any one white dahlia—Mr. Keynes. By Mr. W. Hamilton, of Cheapside, for the best fancy dahlia—Mr. Turner. By Mr. R. Hook, of Brixton, for the best single truss of any seedling verbena—Mr. George Smith. By an amateur, for the best 3 seedling petunias—Mr. Young. First class certificates for seedling dahlias to Keynes. crimson; Keynes, mottled rose; Veney, white - tipped purple; Legg, crimson purple; Bragg, rose and white (fancy); Liddiard, scarlet and white (fancy), &e. COURT CIRCULAR. BALMORAL, SEPT. 10. Her Majesty and the Prince walked out this morn ing in the grounds of Balmoral. The Princesses and Prince Alfred, attended by Miss Hillyard, also walked out. Mr. Sheriff Allison took his departure to-day. The Marquis of Lansdowne (Lord President of the Council) has left his seat, Bowood Park, Wilts, for Brougham Hall, on his way to Hamilton Palace, Lanark shire, on a visit to the Duke of Hamilton. A ROYAL BlRTH.—Yesterday morning (Wednes day), at four o'clock, her Imperial Highness Beatrice Archduchess of Austria, consort of his Royal Highness Prince John, Infant of Spain, was saf e ly d e li vere d o f a prince, at her residence in the R egen t' s p ar k. The royalinfant was baptised in the afternoon by the Rev. Harding() Ivers, incumbent of St. Alexis, Kentish-town, and received the names of Alphonsus Charles Joseph Anthony. Both the august mother and infant are doing well. THE ROYAL EXCHANGE.—The Gresham Com mittee have just caused the iron gates at the east and west entrance to the Royal Exchange to be lined with plate-glass, to protect the merchants on Change from the bleak currents of air to which they have hitherto been exposed; ornamental iron wickets are also being con structed between the pillars of the west portico, to pre- vent the ingress of improper persons. The cholera having broken out in the barracks at Hyde-park, we understand the Royal Regiment of Horse Guards have marched to Canterbury, where they will be stationed until it is deemed expedient to occupy ,heir former station. CHOLERA AT BICESTER.—We are authorised to state that the account published in The Sun of yester day, of a death from cholera having occurred at Bicester is incorrect. The town and district is in a remarkably healthy state, so much so that one death only, and that from the decay of nature at 76 years of age, has been registered within the last seven days in that district. ROYAL PATRIOTIC SOCIETY OF SCOTLAND.—A. public meeting was held recently at Dingwall, in Ross shire, for the purpose of forming an auxilliary branch of the above excellent society. James Matheson, Esq., M.P., of the Lews, the second annual President of the parent society, occupied the chair, being supported by D. Davidson, Esq., of Tulloch, the Rev. Mr. Kennedy, J. M‘Kenzie, Esq., Eileanacb, the Hon. Secretary, Mr. Sheriff Cameron, Bailie Rose, &c. &c. Resolutions ex pressing approbation of the objects of the parent institu tion, and for the formation of a Dingwall auxiliary to it, having been proposed and carried, in order to enable the committee immediately to enter upon the first in its series of measures for ameliorating the condition of the poor through their own instrumentality, the Presi dent very kindly offered, at a moderate rent, some land to be occupied by the labouring classes in Dingwall, as industrial gardens. The land in question was selected by the secretary some months previously as being admirably adapted for the purpose, and was thankfully accepted by the committee, who are actively engaged in carrying out this useful object. Mr. Davidson, of Tulloch, intimated to the secretary the previous November that ho would be most happy, on the formation of a Dingwall branch of the Boyal Patriotic Society, to place any of his land con tiguous to the residences of the poor at the command of the society; and, from the extension of the system at Inverness, a demand for gardens may be anticipated. We understand that invitations from numerous districts in Scotland to form branches of the Patriotic Society, are pressing upon it, but that the chief anxiety of the directors is to push its industrial improvements into the destitute Highland districts, where the prospects of the poor are more than ever alarming, even should cholera not visit them. VISIT OF THE DUKE AND DUCHESS OF CAMBRIDGE AND FAMILY TO PENRHYN CAS TLE. u--ch Testis Royal Highnesses the Duke an d c o s t Z last their Cambridge, a ry , Duchess attended t m he e i c r ue S n e b re u n rg e . St r High eli t n z e , s saensd the he Duke e s and s m Lady Louisa Pennant by Baron Kn esebec n k t , w l i i t o h n otuhreeidr company Colonel t Douglas olunch e a o n n d , e Lord Bishop and Miss Bethe h ll, illpustrious v isitors d t uon which cc casio h n there were present, to meet te Lady Bulkeley an th e Misses Williams, Colonel and Mrs. Cartwright, Rev. John Hamer and Miss Hamer, Mr. and Mrs. Wyatt, Rev. Mr. Woodword, ,Master P e nnant and Ma ster Archibald Pennant, &c. Same afternoon the honourable host and Lady Louisa Pen nant accompanied their distinguished guests to the s l a te quarries, an object of attraction to all visitors. On issuing through the principal entrance gate an agreeable surprise awaited the company (which occupied three car riages and four, and two or three carriages and pair), the whole juvenile population of Llandegai schools, male and female, and which are supp or t e d w h o lly b y t h e Pen nant family, having been drawn up in parallel lines by the master and mistress with their assistants. The, children were in their best, each with a nosegay, and presented an uncommonly neat appearance. At the quarry,however, a grand reception awaited them, gotup on short notice. The union-jack was hoisted on the top of the high pillar in the centre of the works called Talcen Maw, and another flag on the quarry's topmost height. As the carriages drove in the Pont Twr brass band, in full uniform, struck up the National Anthem, which being concluded, a royal salute of twenty.ono guns was given from the rock batteries. The illustrious visitors were received by Mr. Francis, manager of the works, and by him conducted through the quarry, ex plaining as they went the different modes of chiselling and forming the slates out of the rocky stratum. They were next drawn up the incline in a small railway car riage, and made themselves acquainted with the various operations in the rock, and thence to the most advanta geous spot for witnessing the blasting operations. The sig nal was given by Mr. Francis, and in less than two minutes the stupendous chasm was in commotion, up heaving huge masses of rock, resembling more some great convulsion of nature than the work of human art. A.