The Sun. — London, England, 1856-03-14 00:00:00

THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. Lessee. Mr. B. T. Smith. THIS FVENDTG, DELICATE GROUND. Followed by TRYING IF ON. le c3nclude with HEY DIDDLE DIDDLE or, Harlequin King Nonsense and the Seven Ages of Man. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYBIAREET. Under the Management of Mr. Bucket:me. THIS EVENING. THE BALANCE OF COMFORT. After which, THE EVIL GENIUS. Followed by A Ballet Divertissement. To conclude with ONLY A HALFPENNY. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. Under the Management of Mr. Camas KW% THIS EVENING, THE MERCHANT OF VENICE. To conclude with HARLEQUIN AND THE MAID AND THE MAGPIE ; or, the Fairy Paradisa and Hanky Panky, tke Enchanter. Harlequin, Mr. Cormack ; Clown, Mr. Mullin ; Pantaloon, Mr. Paulo ; and Columbine, Miss Caroline Adams. THEATRE ROYAL ADELPHI. Proprietor, Mr. 13. Webster.—Dtreetress, Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING. BETSY BARER. Te ke followed by TtELAT BLESSED BABY. To conclude with JACK AND THE BEAN STALK; or, Harlequin and Mother *ewe at Home Again. n which Means. J. Bland, P. Bedford, Madame Celeste, Miss Wyndham, and Miss B. Arden will appear. ROYAL OLYISPIC THEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. Alfred Wigan. THIS EVENING, STILL WATERS BUN DEEP. After which will be produced a New and doubly-moral, though excessively old, Meiodraaoatic Fairy Extravaganza, entitled THE DISCREET PRINCESS; sr, the Three Glass Distaffs. in which Messrs. Emery, F. Robson, H. Cooper, Miss Marston, and Miss Haskell will appear. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Lessees, Messrs. Shepherd and Creamlek. THIS EVAIII2fiIi JASPER LANGTON; or, A Duel to the Death. Followed by BROTHER 808. 'To conclude with PARIS IN 1792. ASTLErS ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Legs-as and Manager, Mr. Win. Ceoke. THIS EVENING, (The Last Week before Easter), TUE ARAB OF THE DESERT AND HIS FAITHFUL STEED. The home, whose wonderful performance has been the universal topic of conversation, traine 1 by Mr William Cooke. After which, the EQUESTRIAN SCENES in the CHICLE. Also, the miraculous and incredible ascent of the Elephant from the ring to the stage. T 3 conclude with a screaming Farce, called MR. AND MM. WHITE. Box-ogice open from EleTen till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. Equestrian Director. Mr. W. Cooke, jun. EMMA STANLEY'S SEVEN AGES OF WOMAN. Pr.Aounced by the unanimous vein of the press, and by increasing patronage, to be the greatest artistical triumph of the day. Evenings at 8, and on Saturdays at three precisely. Stalls Chairs, as.; Centre Seats, 2s. ; Rack Seats, Is. SAINT MARTIN'S HALL, Long-acre. EMMA STANLEY'S BENEFIT. PHIS (FIZID iY) EVENING, the 14th instant, Miss Emma nley's Benefit. SATURDAY, the lbtk, a Day Performance (the last of her t brilliant season). The Second Season of the fashionable and popular Lyric Entertain ment, THE SEVEN AGES OF WOMAN, will commence on MON DAY, the 24th Instant, at SAINT MARTIN'S HALL, Long-acre. No performance during Passim+. Week, Miss E. Stanley being engaged fbr foar nights at Sadler's Wells Theatre. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY—Morn. 7 min. aft. 7—Evening 36 min. aft. 7 .Tn-MoßßOw—Morn. 15 min. aft. B—Evening 4 min. aft. THE WEATHER—SUN OFFICE, MAaert 14. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE• 43—highest since noon yesterday. 39 —lowest this morning and during the night. 42 —this day at noon. BAROMETER, 30'19. WIND E. to E.S.E.—Fresh and squally, with plenty of scud a d sunshiny, bitter weather. `",7 - . ‘s) 4 § LONDON, FRIDAY, MARCH 14, 1856. Sir CHAS. NAPIER has at last had his innings, And, we regret to say, has not profited greatly thereby. He has undoubtedly cast •considerable dirt on "My Lords," and more particularly on Sir JAMES GRAHAM ; but he has not escaped without some of the fragments falling on, and adhering to, himself. He had even considerable difficulty in finding a seconder, and it was only the generosity of a distinguished Officer, who " would not see a brother admiral adrift without casting out a tow rope," that brought the matter legitimately before the House, and elicited the replies of the present and the late First Lord. None of the parties emerge creditably from the encounter. They seem to have been playing at cross purposes, ab initio—each desirous!of evading responsibility, and making the other side responsible for any short-comings or failure. A little more energy and decision would have been eminently beneficial to the nation. But the personal had manifestly a much greater interest for the per formers than the national side of the question, and between the First Lord and the Admiral the community fell to - the ground. With different instructions Sir CHARLES might have added fresh laurels to those which he had formerly obtained. With another Admiral the Board might have escaped the animadversions to which it has been justly exposed. We fear that the popular verdict will be something analogous to that of IlEncuno, and that " a plague of both your houses" will be the general exclamation. That Sir C. Nam= might have done more un der his actual powers is unquestionable ; but, un fortunately, he was from the very commencement of the attack discontented with the means placed at his disposal, and having started as a prophet of Evil, he was resolved not to cast discredit on his own prescience. Ho was too sharp in detect ing the red-tapisb " dodge." Had he, like NEL SON, placed his blind eye to the telescope, it would have been better for the national interests, and his own reputation. But, instead of turning the means at his disposal to the best advantage, he seemed chiefly intent on placing the Admiralty in the wrong ; and it is but simple justice to state that they rendered important assistance in the attempt. It is difficult to say which party has been most disfigured in the transaction ! The panto ramie encounters between sweeps and bakers, where the alternate marks of soot and flour give a magpie appearance to the performers, seems the only suitable comparison to the result. Sir CHARLES materially damaged Sir JAMES, who in return administered many hard hits to his assailant, while Sir CHARLES WOOD met the usual fate of mediators and emerged from the melee more seriously injured than either of the belligerents. Like PICKWICK betwen the valorous Porr and SLu he received the heaviest punishment, but it was self inflicted, and proceeded neither from the carpet-bag, or the fire-shovel. The Hon. and Gallant Member for Southwark did much for the Board, but with singular want f discretion, their advocates refused to avail themselves of the circumstance. Had there been no reply, they would have come out of it with flying colours. But they were not so easily satis fied. Like some counsel who are not contented with the failure of an accusation against their clients, they patched up the case for the prosecu tion and ensured a conviction. If Sir CHARLES Nerd, had so grossly ta;abehaved himself as the . _ Civil Lords attempted to prove, they committed a very serious offence in concurring in his nomination. They were bound to select the best man for the arduous and important duty, and in place of so doing, they yielded to popular clamour—(that is their own version of the case)—in choosing a person perfectly unsuit able. Sir CHARLES NAPIER has sustained great injury; but we fear that he has by no means helped his own reputation as a naval commander by the course he has thought proper to adopt. Ho has injured Sir JAMES GRAHAM and Admiral BERKELEY, but not served himself by his motion. Besides being, to our mind, incomparably and beyond all manner of doubt, the greatest humorist England has ever produced CHARLES DICKENS has proved himself to be, again and again, during the last twenty years, one of the most distinguished, practi cal, brave-hearted, out-spoken, and, let us add to all this, one of the most eminently succes ful of our Great Social Reformers. Our accuracy in this assertion is attested in shining characters upon one after another of his remarkable, and, happily by this time, somewhat numerous serial narratives. He has overturned, we don't know how many monster-abuses—bringing them down unerringly with the shafts of his matchless ridi cule. He has tumbled them over as effectually as ever was tumbled over in the days of the fairies, the famous Humpty Dumpty of the nursery-song. Regarded in the light of these very notable triumphs of his as a social reformer, the mere enumeration of his fietions may be con sidered as, in some way, tantamount to a catalogue of victories over the Dragons and Chimaeras of Every-DayLife—Social Errors, Social Evils, Social Abuses, Social Cruelties, Social Prejudices, and so forth. Without ever writing expressly and pre pense, " for a purpose "—he has, nevertheless, always so contrived simultaneously "to point a moral and adorn a tale," that with each one of his extraordinary works of imagination some noble object, some generous aim, some beneficent intention may at once on the instant be declared to be inextricably associated. It is thus from the " Pickwick Papers," in which he took occasion, in 1836, to insist upon the cruelty of protracted imprisonment for debt, as illustrated by his powerful delineation of the interior of the Fleet Prison, down to his current serial of " Little Dorrit," in which, in this present year of grace 1856, he is enforcing, if possible yet more earnestly, the same humane argument by his por traiture of the inner life of the now almost forgotten Marshalsea. Everybody remembers too, perfectly well, how effectually he destroyed the vil lanous Yorkshire Schools at one blow by his me morable account in "Nicholas Nickleby " of the rascally SQUEERS, and of that horrid and squalid den of crueltytheacadernyof Do-the-boys-Hall. Neither is it forgotten how exquisitely, with what a master hand, with what an adroit scalpel, he laid bare thr abominations of the Poor-Law System in hi: homely, but eminently tragic and poetic, romance of " Oliver Twist." Have we not still a vivid recollection, moreover, of the scornful and blight ing satire upon sectarian bigotry involved in his historical tale of " Barnaby Rudge"—as well as of the cumulative sarcasms upon the vice_ of gambling, making up the dark background of the wondrously beautiful picture of the " Old Curio sity Shop ?" Besides this—were there not more than merely casual hints thrown out, through "Martin Chuzzlewit," of the sore need felt, for years upon years, for Hospital Improvement: long before the gentle hand of FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE had smoothed the soldier's pillow at Scutari, or pointed nearer home to the gradual dawn of many a benign innovation ? SAIREY GA3ll' and hei " frequend pardner" BETSY PRIG, seem to us tc hiccup a reply—rather audibly—in the affirma tive ! And "David Copperfield"—wasnot that the deadliest arrow ever driven home to the heart's core of the evil system of the Ecclesiastical Courts, the Ghoul-like functionaries of which had been battening almost time out of mind upon generation after generation of victims in the snug recesses of Doctor's Commons, and within the congenial precincts of St. Paul's Churchyard ? And " Dombey and Son"—was not that, among other things, the vehicle for a scornful laugh at mercenary marriages? And " Bleak House"—it, too, in its turn, was it not the last and deadliest blow administered to the legal Moloch of Great Britain—the Court of Chancery ? From first to last it has been the same with CHARLES DICKENS. The most delightful of our great English Humor ists—he is, at the same time, one of the most illustrious and triumphant of our great Social Reformers. The latter, by the force of his great heart—the former, by that of his great genius. Recently his overwhelming ridicule has been dis tributed with a certain degree of impartiality— with the same unsparing energy, and the saw( unstinted prodigality—to three now (thanks to him) tolerably notorious abuses, those visible, strangely enough, in three of our well-known public charities : abuses, that is to say, conse quent upon their monstrous mismanagement. The " Literary Fund " for one—for another, the " Charter House "—the third in this singular group being GOD'S Gift, or " Dulwich College." Speaking of the preposterous mismanagement of the Literary Fund on Wednesday, Mr. DICKENS drolly avowed that he felt in its regard for all the world as though he were a Rip VAN WINKLE who had gone to sleep the Wrong way, and had suddenly 'woke up in the midst of all the boggle, darkness, and confusion of three or four hundred years ago ! Comment ing upon the odious misappropriation of the funds of the Charter House, in the course of a series of pungent articles in " Household Words," he has prepared the. way, we do believe, for the ultimate amelioration of the pains and sorrows of those poor Cistercian Brothers in whose behalf the death of one Colonel THOMAS NEWCOMB has for ever and ever enlisted our dearest sympathies. Recount ing only yesterday the history of the very exe crable mal-administration of the affairs of Dulwich College, Mr. DICKENS, in a speech of admirable ability, pronounced in manly terms the noblest and most touching panegyric upon the memory of EDWARD ALLEYNE, the munificent founder of "God's Gift," otherwise known as Dul wich College. And, in so doing, illustrated anew the social rights, the reasonable claims, and for that matter be it added, even the moral dignity of the theatrical profession generally. This latter incident occurring, let us remark, upon the occasion of a most interesting meeting convened in the Adelphi, by that ALLEYNE of our own day, at once as manager, as actor, and as gentleman, Mr. BENJAMIN WEBSTER, whose day-dream it has been now for more than a quar ter of a century that "GOD'S Gift" should become a "Godsend" to those who were obviouslyin tended to be benefitted by the noble-hearted founder of tbe, charity—in other words, that the enormous fund s of Dulwich College should no longer be in one sense most shamefully, and in another most shame lessly, misappropriated. That day-dream we have every confidence is just now upon the very eve of being most happily realised : and when our hope in its regard shall have actually been fulfilled— let it not then be forgotten that among the most THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EirENING, MARCH 14 1656. earnest and successful promoters of this long desired act of justice, was the great writer who closed his first tale of humour by leaving its amiable hero (tights, gaiters, spectacles, and all complete) sauntering about the green lanes, and strolling into the pleasant picture gallery at Dul wich—let Ili not forget another debt of gratitude due to the glorious humorist, who is at once the delight and the ameliorator of his generation. If the English farmer cannot, like OPHELIA, " turn all things into favour and to prettiness," he would seem to possess the secret of turning ruin into prosperity—a useful art as times go. How often he has been finally and irretrievably ruined within the range of our recollection we will not undertake to say at a moment's warning; but we are quite sure not seldomer than his pros perity has been placed on a better basis than before. The fact is he has suffered a good deal from hypochondriacism. Brought up in the unhealthy atmosphere of Protection, the very notion of ex posure to the rubs of this work-day world has operated as a shock to his nerves, and conjured up a host of apprehensions for which there was no real foundation. If his malady has not led his morbid fancy to the conclusion that he was literally made of glass, it certainly has repeatedly led him to believe he was in danger of becoming a broken man from the effect of changes really calculated to do him good. To what terrible ap prehensions did not the threatened repeal of the Corn Laws give rise in his perturbed mind ? apprehensions, it must be confessed, incessantly stimulated by his " natural protectors." It would afford considerable amusement to posterity if his notions of the corn-growing capacity of the tillers of the soil on the Danube and in America, pre vious to the repeal of the Corn Laws, were accu rately recorded. Never, it would be seen, had the world witnessed such a Titanic race of agri culturists, soil so fertile, and produce se plentiful. His little gleanings were doomed to be swept aside like chaff before the corn storm they would infallibly pour into the markets of this much misguided country. Competition with the foreigner was a thing impossible ; or, if possible fur a moment, must eventuate in utter ruin. No prospect loomed before him but that of extinction as a member of a class, or—expatriation. There was still that chance left him. To some more favoured country it was still open to him to transfer his little capital, and his overborne energies, leaving an ungrateful country to deplore his loss. So, in a minor degree, was it with the introduction of an improved mode of culture. Deep draining and shallow draining, economical hedging and ditching, were sufficiently bewilder ing ; but guano and chemical appliances were agencies fraught with mischief, if not with de struction. Poor timid creature, to his diseased imagination the assurance of the poet went for uothing—a breath could make or unmake him, while it was impossible ho could be replaced. The Cornlaws, notwithstanding, were repealed, and the resources of chemistry were brought to gear on the culture of the soil, and how little were his apprehensions justified by the result ! Once exposed to the bracing air of competition, his fine manly constitution had fair play, and with the renovation of his energies came the sharpen ing of his invigorated understanding. Ruined I Not a bit of it 1 In those stalwart arms, and that keen eye of his for the main chance, there was an everlasting bulwark against ruin. He set to with a will, took kindly before long to artificial composts, reaped as he had sown, and with healthier spirits and fuller barns and folds became a vastly better man than he ever was before. A further trial now awaits him. He is as good as booked to furnish agricultural statistics for the service of the State. Lord STANLEY of ALDERLEY has brought in a bill to compel him to send in an annual return of the number of acres he holds, and how much of them is devoted to wheat, bar ley, oats, and other descriptions of produce, and this the STANLEY whilome of Protection, to wit, Lord DERBY, declares to be just and necessary. Will our agricultural friend recognise in the act another impending ruin ? We would fain hope he is by this time too wise for that. As Lord DERBY remarked, " the farmer is not called on to disclose any of his private affairs ;" all he is asked to reveal is what his landlord's steward oould easily ascertain if he chose. The farmer need have no fear, therefore, of his rent being raised in consequence. It would be a diffi oult matter, impossible indeed, to get at the sum total of his profits through such returns. fn other respects it will be both to his profit and ,relit to make no bones about the matter. He will have to furnish such returns under penalty, whether he likes tho notion of it or not, and they will do him good, and not harm. A wealthy farmer may, to be sure, once on a time make a ucky hit under the present want of system, but tgaiust that hit must be set the misses of a hurl lred of his less fortunate brethren. The new •yste:n once in operation, farming will soon be ?laced on a healthy basis, and will cease to be dis urbed by rash speculation. Let him think the subject over and ask himself whether, with the 3marnple of Scotland and Ireland before him, where the farmer makes similar returns of his own accord for the general benefit, it would be come him to confess himself—as he would by op position—inferior in manliness, patriotism, and resource to either. If he does so, and we feel some degree of confidence he will, the result can not be doubtful. He will offer no opposition to the principle of the measure, but content himself with directing his attention to the best means to prevent his prosperity being endangered by the efforts of prying curiosity. It is for him to discover whether any improvement can be made in the form of the return, and any better or less offensive agency employed in the collection ; and, if he succeeds iu doing either, to suggest the result to his " natural leaders." LETTER. FOR THE BALTIC. Letters for the British Fleet in the Baltic, will, for the present, be forwarded daily, via Ostend and Kiel. Mails will also be made up on the departure of ships of war or vessels in the service of her Majesty. The hatters of commissioned, non-commissioned, or warrant officers, as well as those of soldiers and seamen, forwarded via Ostend and Kiel, will be liable to a com bined British and foreign rate of postage of -3.1. when not exceeding a quarter-of-an-ounce, 6d. when exceeding, a quarter and not exceeding half-an-ounce ; and so on, increasing threepence for everyiquarter-of-an. ounce. The same rate of threepence per quarter-of-an-ounce will be chargeable upon letters of commissioned or war rant officers, conveyed by Queen's ships or transports, but the letters of soldiers and seamen may be sent by those vessels at the reduced rate of one penny, when not exceeding half-an-ounce in weight. In all cases, the postage must be paid in advance, or the letters will not be forwarded. Newspapers cannot be soot by the route of Kiel, be cause the arrangements of the Danish Post-office do not allow of the foreign postage, to which those newspapers • would be liable, being collected in the United Kingdom. They would, therefore, be detained at Kiel until that; postage was paid. By vessels of war, however, or transports, newspape will be forwarded to the Baltic fleet at a charge of one penny each, which must be prepaid. The Lady Elizabeth Mope Vera and Mr , . Townsend Wit Ben have arrived in Dover, and occupy apartments at the Lod Warden Hotel. 1 LATEST NEWS. THE CONFERENCES AT PARIS. PARIS, FRIDAY MORNING, 8 A.M. The Moniteur announces that Prussia, who signed the treaty of the 13th of July, 1841, has been invited to send Plenipotentiaries to Paris. BERLIN, MARCH 13. Baron Manteuffel will leave Berlin to-morrow to join in the Conferences. M. de Hatzfeld, Prussian Minister at Paris, will bo the second Plenipotentiary. The invitation addressed to Prussia by the Congress is more particularly grounded on the motive that the Conference of Paris is about to commence the discussion of the treaty of the Dardanelles of 1841. The King and Royal Princes and most of the Ministers, together with soine generals, attended the funeral of the late President of Police this morning. All the civil authorities of the town and great multitudes followed him to the grave. Herr von Raumer shot himself yesterday. Count Canitz shot himself to-day. Count Orloff has made known at St. Petersburg that a definitive understanding has been come to on the fifth point, and that, thanks to the in structions brought by M. Schcewaloff, peace is assured. Some special deliberations, which are to take place between Russia and Turkey, have been reserved. Preparation.s are being made at Moscow for the coronation of the Emperor, which will take place after the conclusion of peace. A despatch from Constantinople, via Semliu, states that Hall Pacha, brother-in-law of the Sultan, is dead. FRANCE'. PARIS, TIIZIIRSDAY EVENING. A Council of Ministers assembled yesterday at the Tuileries, under the presidency of the Em peror. The Emperor yesterday :received a letter by which the Grand Duke of Of.denbourg notifies to his Majesty the marriage of his cousin ' the Prin cess cl'Oldenhourg, to the Grand Duke Nicholas of Russia. The following is the last bulletin issued relative to Prince Jerome : 13th, 9 a.m.—The situatfun of the Prince 'is nearly the same as it was yesterday evening ; the disease is following its ordinary 'course. BOURSE, March 10.—The following were the last quotations : Cash. fr. s. ti per Cents 94 3 per Cents 73 65 Now Loan 73 40 End of Month. —c. 73 25 Bank Shares 3,450 Ito 02 An Credit M.obilier 7,582 50 Au si rian Belgian Five 5......., 963 Sp: Ir ash Throes Piedmontest (5)...... 90 75 Ho uie Debt RAILWAYS-FOE; CASII. fr. c. fr. c. Orleans ... 1,280 W, ,a torn ' BBO Northern Lyons .....„. 1,258 75 Ne vr Ditto B2O Mediterranean 1,570 Gr mtd Central 650 Lyons Geneva 767 50 Teal a • Cott° RIISSI A letter from St. Petersbu mg, of the 4th, in the Constitutionnel, says :—" T he Invalide Russo an nounces that Katmin, the Ci nnmandant of the Co horts of Wladimir, is renaov ed from his functions, and placed at the [disposal General Paniutine, the Commander-in-Chief of t b e central army. This announcement signifies that. the militia are now incorporated in that army. METROPOLITAN BOA kaD OF WORKS. Meeting Them Day. The usual weekly meeting of the board was held this afternoon at the Council Chain:lber, Guildhall ; Mr. J Thwaites in the chair. The minutes of the previous meeting were read over and confirmed. #ITHS AND WASH', HOUSES. 1.. deputation from the conana.ittee for promoting the estAblishment of public baths amid wash•houses, consist ing of the Rev. Sir 11. R. Dunk;csfield, Bart., chairman, Mr. W. Hawes, deputy chairman), and Mr. J. Bullar, secretary, presented a isemorisel to the beard on the establishmeat of baths and waskelhouses. The memorial amongst other things stated th it during 1853 and 1854 there were upwards of 1,200,000 baths supplied at the different establishments already existing in the metro polis, and that 2,000,000 of persons had used them ler washing. It suggested that thiis board should apply to Parliament for permissive poweir s with reference to tine establishment of these places in 'the metropolis, the ex penses to be borne by a general. rate ma the metropolis . The existing establishments sho t:t.tdbe at liberty to eleot whether they should continue Render their present ma nagement, or come under that of this board. The Rev. Sir H. R. Durnms FIELD, Bart., in address. ing the board said that it was an admitted truth that baths and wash houses were as great a blessing to the poorer classes as hospitals or ether charitable institu tions. It was a modern inventiiem, but partook of that philanthropic progress which ri narked the present age. The committee considered that when it was recollected that the advantages of baths mil wash-houses were more of a general character than locfs?, the Board would see the necessity and propriety of t aking this question into consideration, and acceding to this prayer of the memo rial. It was feared that without baths and wash-I cues were established in the manner p roposed by the m.mo rialists, the poor would soon be d eprived of the blessing they derived from them. Unfbrtunately they only at present paid their working expenses, leaving nothing for the liquidation of the origisal outlay for their con strst Alen. In reply to questions from the Chairman, The Rev. Sir H. R. DuzuxrELD, Bart., paid that an estimhis of the expense had been made, and it was con sidered that a farthing in the pun ad on the rental would be bond sufficient for their ere , ion and support. The committee thought that one , establishinent centrally situated and easy of access mould be sufficient for a number of parishes. After soma further remarkac the memorial was re ceived and the deputation wither ew. RECEPTION OF DEF'JTAT/ONS. A deputation was in waiting from Brompton, to me morialise the Board relative to the formation of a new road connecting Brompton-road. - with Kensington-road ; but, as the deputation had not tionforined with the bye laws, in giving notice of their intention to present the memorial, it wat decided by the: Board that it could not be received. NEW MEMI IRE. The CHAIRMAN announced to the Board that Mr. J. Ledie had been elected a inkmber for St. George's, Hanover-square, in the room of Mr. Hunt, resigned, having received an appointment under the President of the B. and of Works. The Board wait occupied a considerable time in con sidering a report from the Committee on Bye-Laws, and also reports on the state of the' collections on distrier, rates, and the issuing of warrants against defaulti-rs : from the Corannttee on Claims for Compensation, from the Committee of Works and L - mprovements, from Mr. Bazalgette, and another report ion reference to the office of District Surveyor of Lewishz.m, neither of which pre sented any feattre of general interest calling for a de tailed report of tie various disc cessions thereon. Several other natters relative to the works connected with the Board were disposed of, and the meeting separated. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(This Day.) LOVDON, itiMeh 14.—Wind this day at noon, E. ; strong gale and flue clear weather. POWITIMOUTH, March 13.—W:bra E.N.E.—Arrived— Paul Hubert, from St. Domingo, for Dunkirk. Sailed— H.U.Str. Dragot, for the westward. PLYMOUTH, Larch 15.—Wind E. by N.—irrivod— Heroes of Alma from Whampoa ; Elton Douglas, Cal cutta. FALMOUTH, March 13.—Wind E., strong gales.—Arri Ted —Hastings and St. Louis, from Calcutta; Samuel Bod dington, Callao, for Cromarty„. on ELBOTRIO TELAIRAPH.) SOUTHAMPTON, Friday Morning. Arrived.—Evress and Atalanta, steamers, front Havre ; John Watson, Iwo Sisters, and Miriam, Sunderland. Sailed.—Sylpi, steamer, for Dublin ; Express, steamer, Havre ; Ann, Tewport. LIVERPOOL, Friday Morning. Wind E. Sailed.—Nennham, for Vora Cruz ; Transit, Halifax. DUBLIN, March 13. Wind S.E. Arrived.—Jane and Mary, from Marceira ; Freedom, Alexandria; larianne Walah Santander; Alchemist, Alexandria. - In the Inso'vent Court, on Wednesday, an application was made on the part of the Honourable Henry Stanley (brother of tha Earl of Derby) for further time to file his schedule, under a resting order obtained by a money leader, names Joseph Joel. His Honour granted the insolvent six vaeks.' fnrth.r t;m. h: -~ HONEY MARKET COMMT,CIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, Two o'CLom. The Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday closed with a dull appearance, but without change in prices. The sales were from 6,000 to 7,000 bales, 1,000 for export, comprising 300 Pernam and Ma ranham, 6,1 d. to bid. ; 300 Egyptian, 6d. to 7id.; 500 Surat, 4d. to 4.1 d. ; and 30 Sea Islands, ls. 2d. to ls. Bd. per lb. Business in the Railway Share Market was dull, and quotations were lower. There has been a limited inquiry this week for most kinds of Colonial produce, and the quotations for several articles have declined. Sugar receded 6d. per cwt. on Tuesday, but it has since ruled firmer. Coffee has been rather cheaper, and the demand has been limited. Tea has been dull, and common congou is 9d. per lb. Rico has been in improved request, and at fuller prices. Saltpetre has attracted more attention, and cochineal has been at full rates. Spices have ruled heavy. In tallow a very limited business has been done. The intelligence from New York, by the steamer Atlantic, states that the business season had com menced, and preparations for an active demand for all kinds of merchandise were being made. Specu lative securities had been rather fluctuating, but at the latest date an upward movement prevailed. By the Atlantic Stearn. packet from New York, intelligence from Sydney via Panama has come to hand 19 days later than previous dates by the or dinary. This proves the necessity of establishing without further delay a regular steam-packet ser vice between this country and over the Australian Colonies. The dates from Sydney are to the 15th Dec. Confidence was returning in commercial and financial circles, and the number of insolvencies had decreased to a few petty traders. The glut of merchandise in the market was being cleared off, and the neighbouring colony was among the largest purchasers. The.attention of the colonists having been given to the necessity of growing a sufficiency of grain for home consumption, there was a prospect of an unusually good harvest. This with the large arrivals of foreign breadstuffs had caused flour and grain to decline considerably in price. On all sides a more legitimate business was doing, and the colonists now saw that it was inju dicious to bolster up the trade of the colony, which had caused the imports during three years to ex ceed the exports. The former being 2,908,1221. and the latter 2,354,5301., against the following amounts in 1854:—Imports 5,981,0631., exports 4,040,1261, and in 1853 respectively, 6,342,3971., and 4,523,3461. The Funds have :not undergone any material change, but the quotations have been rather flat. After the recent activity and buoyancy, however, a lull might have been expected ; but with favour able advices from Paris the upward movement would continua. The limited business doing in consequence of the arrangement of the railway account is sufficient to produce a flatter tone. Consols for money have been 92 to 921-, and since 92 to 92k. For the account they opened at 923- to 921, and are now about 924 3, The Scrip is 2i premium. Exchequer Bills are ls. discount to is. premium, and the Bonds are 981. In Foreign Securities there have been several transactions at full values. Turkish 6 per Cants. have risen to 974 to 981 for money, and to 98/ to 981 for account. Th 2 Guaranteed are 1001 to 1008, and for the 31st inst. 1003-, /. Spanish Securities are buoyant, the Threes being 44i, and the De ferred 25. Russian 4i per Cents. are 92/. Bra zilian 5 per Cents. 101, and Chilian 6 per Cents. 103. Mexican Bonds have been 20k to 20k, Pe ruvian 44 per Cents. 79 to 791, and Dutch 4 per Cents. 951. The following are the nominal prices of Foreign Stocks :—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 61 71 ; Mexi can Bonds, 20i I; Peruvian, 79 81 ; ditto 3 per Cents., 56 8 ; Portuguese 4 per Cents., 48 50 ; Russian 5 per Cents., 101 3 ; ditto 41s per Cents., 92 4 ; Spanish 3 per Cents., 44} ; ditto De ferred, 241 5 ; ditto Certificates, 41 5 ; ditto Passive, 74 I. Railway Shares have further improved, but the dealings have been very limited. Great Northern are particularly buoyant. The Foreign and Colo nial are dull, but also firmer. Banking Shares are well supported. Canada Land have risen 1/. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY.—CLOSING PRICES Itrom the Ofigeial List. 3nsfile/4. done. 3 per Cent. Console Annoitie. 92. 2 i i Cone'lo for A ecouut - 1 s ii Ditto Scrip Exchequer Scrip Exchequer Bills, 24d. £lOOO •••• ••• O - £SOO Small Ditto Bonds, 1655, 3i per Cent. 9B} PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY, Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent. lOl Cuba Bonds, 6 per Cent — Ditto 7 per Cent. (Matanza and Sabanilla) 101 Chilieu Bonds, 6 per Cent lO3 4 Equador Bonds Grenada New Aetiye, 16 per Cent. Ditto Deferred 7 Hexleat 3 per Cent Ditto Account ... 2Ol $ h Peruvian Bonds 46 per Cent ... 791 4 x d Ditto Account 791 x d Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cont., Con. 1841 Ditto 4 per Cent 491 Russian Bonds, 5 per Cent., 11.22, £ St lO3 Ditto 46 per Cent Sardinian Bous, 5 per Cent. ... ...... 3peutsh Beeds, :i per Cent — Ditto Account 44/ 5 Ditto New Deferred, 3 per Cent. Ditto Account Ditto PasaiTe Turki..ti Bonds, 6 per c un t 9,1 34 7 8 i Ditto Account Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cont. Ditto Account Venezuela Bonds, 4/ por Cent Ditto Deferred, 11 per Cent. .. 123 i Dlvidonds on the above parable In London. Ceigian, 26 per C sot., ex . 25 f rames _ Ditto 4 per Cent.. ex. 25 franos 95 Dutch Exchauze, 26 per Cent., 12 Gail... Ditto 4 per Cent. Cortificatoe C mgolg, money._ ..... Ditto Account, April 10 THREE O'CLOCK. O 2 I ..... . 9211 ARTISTS' GENERAL BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION. The forty-first anniversary festival of this admirable institution for the relief of decayed artists. their widows and orphans, as may be seen in our advertising columns, will be celebrated in Freemasons' Hall, to-morrow, the 15th inst. Need we impress on the minds of such lovers of art among our readers as possess the power to further the objects of the institution the propriety of being in attendance, and otherwise contributing, to the best of their ability, towards its support ? During the past year no fewer than 68 cases of distress have been relieved, at an expenditure of 1,0111. ; and if it be taken into con sideration what refined pleasures all persons of taste owe to the ministers of art, we see no reason why the benefits of the institution should not be extended duriug the present year. The profession of an artist is pecu liarly precarious, and needs, as it deserves, as much en c ruragernent as can well be afforded. Lord Stanley, M.P., will take the chair on the occasion. Country Markets. DERBY SMITHFIELD.—IfAnon 11. The supply of beasts to-day was a good average one, and of excellent quality, the greater part from the north of England, and higher prices were asked, yet most were readily sold. Sheep plentiful, and better sold. There was a large supply of fat and store calves, in good request. Pigs were well sold. The fallowing were the quotations :—Beef, 6d to bid; mutton, 6Ad to 7d ; lamb, Od to Od ; veal, 7d tc lid per lb. ; pigs, lOs Od to 1016 d per score ; rough fat, Zs Od tc, Oe per 141 b. ; hides, aid to 4id per lb ; calf-skins, 3!cl to 5d per lb. EDINBURGH GRAlN.—M.utcii 12. Sales ready to-day, and prices bettor. Wheat, on the top, 4s down, and on the average 2s 8d up. Barley, on the top, 43 6,1 up—and on the Average, 3s 9d up. Oats on the top 2s up—on the average, lld up. Beans on the top 2s up—the average, is 9d tip. A.YERAG ES PER IMPERIAL QUARTER. Wheat Do. new -12ths. Barley -12ths. Oats 1 13 0 3-12ths. Beans -12ths. BOSTON-MAI ma 2. A fow samples of wheat, of the best quality, were dis posed of to needy millers for present use, at an improve. ment of about 4s per qr. ; but, generally speaking, both merchants and millers refused Co operate. All kinds of spring corn were a trifle dearer. Prices :--Wheat, red, 50s Od to 6cis Od, white, 68s Od to 73s Od : extra, 72s Od. Barley, 32s Od to 37s Od. Oats, 178 to 265. Beans, 36s Od to 45s O. Peas, 35 to 3Os Od. SHARE .TIARE:ETS. (THIS DAY.) RAILWAYS. RAILWAYS. 2kLer.ict.. liottng. Bost. and Rastn. Janet... Half: st rallymena. Wolverh Stour Valley ~, BirkeYod. Lanesk. Cheshire Junct Do. Che.,,1,. & Birk. L5O and .4-.;25 Cons Do., Xi 10... Myth kTynt origina ' £25 (isßd. at £45 _ _ !3ristol and Exeter... jalodonian. riarna. and Cardigaai Ohester t Holyhead. Oerk and Bandon... Irk, Black, & Pariß )rnwall Do. A . . Do. B Crie 1' Junction Debtin&BelfastJunc Dun. P. 8; Aber. Jnc East Aa:glian Eastern Counties.— ast. Ifni on, A. Oth e B. Stottt (:).-, New A...... :aisi, Kant :wit Lancashire clinturgh & Glugo ~, Rdinb. and Peebles... din. Prth & Dux dae orth Pz Clyde Juni. rurnees . )o. Extension lasgow & S. West ,r , great ( N. of Seotind. klreat Northern. 'Do., A. Stock ...... 0., B. Stock t. Sth. &West.are., Great Western Do. Stour 1 %1. Rai' Gua. Stk.. Irieh South-Eastern. Lancaster At Carlisle a., Tkirds o. Now Thirds Lancash.andYorksh ,120., Wst. Riding Un. ILii.Crsby.&Southpt London & Blackman Lond. Bright & S.Cst. nd. and N. Westn. o. Fifths Do.lol. Sta. ,11ik8... C Do. Eighths.. ndon and S. Wostn. j_3o., XSO °an.etr 4 e ii yas Col erain Lndndrm k Ennisk .1 Mauch.Shef.& Lineln 0., Man. & Lin. Un etropolitan 4 dland )o. Birmng. D orb; Widld.. a. West. (Ire, o. Half Shares oweastle 8t Carlisli /Iwpt.Aberg. Hr! Nowry & Nowry Warrenpoin and B,ostrevor Norfolk Northn.Connties Un Nortk Britisk Nth Devon Rail. St ➢eck Stook Do., A Steck Do., B Stook iE Guazailto ItT.iaiitern—Bertrie . Do. do. Exttnsion Do.do. G.N.E. 'lure Do. Leeds Do. York North L0nd0n..... N.kS.WEtrn. stead, and City Jo.. North Staffordshire.. North Wostorn & S. West rn. June Nuneaton, Hinckley , . . and. Leicester Ox, Wore., & Well, ,) oitgraonth. eottish Ceatrul SdottishMidland Shrop3ltire tit i South Devon 'South Eautern South Wedes S. Yrksh. & Riv. D • Do.. Staines, Wok &Wol , Stockton & Darli 'Stu ktou & Hartlop' , Taff Vale Do. Pref., No. 1 ITho.mos Hay. D.& R. illlverstone dc Lanus Vale of Ncath IWaterfd. & Kilkonn , WaterforcidtLinaorio; Post Cornwall Wept End of Londol and Crptal Do. A Do. I ...... IWest London.... WimbledriStcroydoi Antvicrpott rdJ In Do. 5 p.c. Oblgs. con. in Sh. at par till '53 Ardennes 'Belgian Eastn. June Boziers to Graiss.lesa , Bombay, Baroda, an Central Ind.ia,Serii Do. Demerara Dutch 11,11eni3h. East, - !rn of France Do. New East Indian, y. 5 p. c Do. E7Len6inn D0.43p.0.8ui5.,'57 Do. do. do., 'SP, it-. Gse'oug Molboutie guar. G per c at.. Do., Loa. allot., de. 'fk of Cavadai )3 'Do. Do. Ccrt. of Deben., con. into Stk. till Da.Comp. 6p. c., do. Gt. Central of Fran• Gt. Indian Pen.inrml Great Lnxnuabouri Congtitutod Sharer I Do. ObligatiourA... Do. re-is. forftd. Sh Gt. Western o f Canads shares Do. New Do. 13,1 payable's7, with option till '55., Do. do., '62, p. '56... Do. do., '76, p. '40... Do. do., '73, without option Hamilton & Torent- Do. 6 per cent. _ _ Lake j'aionst. k Baal Marro and Tnrnhoat Lucca kla nat. 5 p. Lyons and Geneva . Lyons la Moditerrat Madras, gra.% 4 p.• Do. Now c 0., 5 p. Le. 4i p. e. Hzteu Maria Antonia Do. do. Now INamur 4 Liege (wit) intermit) - Do. (ex intar;st) Northern of France D0.20/.Shs Do. 207. 3 p. e (fmy. B. & Arum. Sits. NorwegianTrankPre Paris and Lyons Ditto Bonde Paris and Orleans Route and Frascati Royal Dani2ll , Royal Swnd i ...... Do. Obligations Sambre and Meuse Do. 5 p. cent. Prt , f. Scindr, guar. 6 p. Do Southern of Francs •t. Andrew's sal Quebec (A), , West Flanders Do 64 per c. Pref W. dr N. W. of France West. of Switoorland Wiesbaolea Zealand Ciesiag Prices this day 4 - 41 ... ..... - 81 -- 8i 15i -- 14 14 -- 5 8 i -- 7:i Si - 601 - 611 12~ ~ 13~ 4 - 2 74 - 3.4 1:3 - 14 Pi - 9,1 as 35 23 - 25 72 - 74 56 - 58 25 - 26 84 - 86 - 7 93 - 94 78 - SO 120 - 122 104 - 106 631 -63 i 70 - 6 - 7 5} - 71 99 101 - 1 1001 —100 i par, id par 8 93 94 ... ..''' .., 2a 2a! i - id 71.1 —71. i 41 43 ''' .. • ev "'" • . 13 50 52 3. 3ld 3&... 74i -77 ei 4 li.y— )6 5G 57 SS 6 . i -- di,, ii : fe4 24. i - 2iii 104 106 '75 77 45 -- 47 12i —3 68 69 71 4 2r 1 id :4 36 18 -- 193 - 44 Gi - 7i 8 - 81 ld 1 p 3i 41, 9 4 1 i - I 31i -38 i 11 -13 211 - 22; 211 -2, Ili - 134 - ;4, 70 72 80 - 82 5 i - (3 il 21 - 211 64 63 3b 31 25 15. 21 2,1; 92 leo 11 120 116 121 10T • 109 '241 - f 43 113 - 120 ... - ... d 16 - -1 ironii 19i 20 — 1" - par 8 10 24 5(3 1 63 393 3 - 10 491 - 50? 51i i 9 - zo io - ioa = •... ... ... - pm .•• 31 - 4. 34 - 35 i?) -_-: i*6 JOINT-STOCK BANKS. 40 !ll Australasia 96 -- 100 50 Bank of London 40 all Sri. Col. Bk.&Ln. C 50 all British N. America" 25 5 Chartd.. Bank of Ash , ld par 20 4 Chrtd. Bolt. of India. Australia, & China - d 3 100 50 City 6O 62 100 25 Colon , al 100 20 Commercial of Low' 20 all Rng.Soot.&Ans.Cht 15i If 3 16 15i 164 20 all Loud. Chart. Bk. o' Australia l6 17 20 5 Ditto New 4 Sd 1 50 20 ,Landon and County. ... 34 3i 3 100 50 0 nn . &E. Bnkg. Corp. par 2p 50 10 radon Joint Stock. • _ . 100 10 .• °Lion aid Paris -2 -13 d 100 20 Liev.d. & Westmiustol 44 31 100 35 National Pro. of En: „.. 20 10 Do. New.. IBA .• 50 221 National of Irelara. 20 all - ow South Wales 37 39 25 all I leut;.l Bank of Corporation. 4l 43 42i 100 25 PrGvincial cf Ireland 10 all Do. New 5 1 R Aus 4,k001m C( 100 50 Royal British 25 all forth Australia 3B - 40 25 all Union of Australia 7l 73 72 2i Do. New ..ln 1i 8i Business done this day. 20 5 20 18 10 all 14 4! ZO 25 15 [CO 22t all 14 all 14 20 16 20 z 0 all An all alt 20 20 0 20 IVILERLIT NEW2,—(This Day.) CORN EXCHANGE. A very limited supply of English wheat was on sale in to-day's market, coastwise and by land carriage, For most kinds, we had a steady, though ❑oi to say brisk, demand, and, in some instances, Monday's quotations were exceeded by 35 to 4s per quarter. Foreign wheat—the imports of which are 6,620 quarter —was firm, at full quotations. The amount of businetS doing in it, however, was by no means extensive. We had a good demand for barley, at very full prices. Malt sold slowly, at tke late decline in value. We were well supplied with oats, and the trade for theta was heavy, at barely stationary prices. Beans, peas, and flour moved off steadily, at very ful currencies. ARRIVALS THIS WEEK. Wheat. 1 Barley. r,noish .. 1,020 ; 1 1,310 Irish .... Foreign 3 1 6,620 I I Malt. Oats. 1 In •n . .r. 4,560 50 k MU 3,190 ) 1 -- bei / 1 14,410 __ so i - METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET. To-day's market was moderately supplied with bogie , in which only a limited business was transacted, at Mon' day's advance in the quotatisns. The show of sheep sca ° but moderate. All breeds were unaltered in value, with a slow sale. In the value of lambs, no change took plao Calves were in short supply, and sluggish request. Pricest however, were supported. In pigs, very little was doing. Milch cows were dull, at from 141. to 181. 108 each, in' chiding their small calf. Per albs to sink the oak. s. d. s. d.! s. d. a. Inferior Beasts... 3 2to 3 4 l' i rimeSoithdown 4 8 5 Second quality.... 3 6 310 Large crse. calves 4 2 5 Prime large oxen 4 0 4 4 Prime small do 6 2 5 Prime Scots, dm. 4 6 4 8 Largo hogs Inferior Sheep ...3 4 3 8,9ma1l porkers 4 4 4 1 Second quality ...3 10 4 21Suckling calves-22 0 29 Prime crse.-wlled.4 4 4 61Quarter old pigs.2l 0 23 TOTAL SUPPLY. FOREIGN SUPPLE. Beasts . . itheop .•• ........ 3,3g0 !Sheep Calves •......• •... 110 Ca1vea............, pigs .. . 4/ NEWOATE AND About an average businel follows : pigg....... • •• •• • • . Per Sibs by s. d. s. d: Beef, interior 2 10 3 0 Do., middling 3 2 3 6 Do. prime large 3 8 3 10 De , do. small 4 0 4 2 l'Jrk, large , .3 2 3 10 LEADENHALL. Is was transacted today, 0 the carcase. Mutton, Inferior 2 10 3 A ; Do., middling 3 2 3 ; Do., prime 3 8 4 Veal 3 8 5 ° A Pork, small 4 0 4 " BOROUGH HOP. There is .a moderate inquiry for the finest hops, at 1 01 week's prices ; but other kinds aro very dull, at barely lat e rates. The imports, this week, amount to 6 bales froo Rotterdam, and 284 from Hamburg. Mid and East Kent pocket s , 310 s to 61 108 per cwt; Weald of Keuts, 3/ Os to 5/ Os. ; Sussex, 2/ 163 to 4110 x. COLONIAL. TEA. —A moderate business has been done in this articl e at about previous rates. Merchants and importers 110 11 for higher rates; good common congou brought 9P' per lb. SUGAR.—The West India market has been quiet, and fit grocery kinds the quotations are about Gd lower, very o'l purchases having been made. Foreign descriptions bay' been firm, and prices rule r a th er hi g h er . M aur iti us grog , grey to good mid grocery 38 s Gd t o 40 8 Gd, goo d an d strong brown 36s Gd to 38s 6d per cwt. The refined mar ket rules very dull, bro w n l um p s are 49 s Gd , an d Engli,.) crushed 32s to 32s 61 per cwt. The Dutch s a l e o f 56,2u i baskets of Java went off flatly at 1 florin under th e gene', valuations, and 8 to 9 fl or i ns un d er th e N ovem b er sa le' rates. COFFEE.—Th 3 market has had a steady appearance,; Plantation Ceylon low mid t o m id b o ld co l ory b roug ht 1),,' to G4s ; fine fine ord mixed 58 3 6:i to 59s ; peaberry 649; 643 (id ; and triage 52s 6d t o 56 s 6d. per cwt. Nati c ' Ceylon has been dull, good ord realised 50s to 51s per a t ; Singapore goad ord pale Jav a ki n d b roug ht 51 s 6J owt. COCOA.—This article has rather receded in valu e ' Trinidad mid to good dark red 46s to 488 ; ord dark 1 0 1 good grey 43s to 54s per cwt. Grenada mixed and go red 44s to 45s per evit. Ricit—There has been a better demand and prices 11 0 advanced 3d per cwt. Ben ga l b ro k en 8 s 6d, l ow m id t o In' 9s per cwt. Madras mid t o goo d 9 e t o 10 s 3d per co l ; Rum.—A large business has bean done in this article $ full rates supposed for the French Government. SPICES.—Popper has been in li m it e d d eman d an d r etb. l cheaper. Singapore good sifted, brought Sid to sid, uld rather dusty sid, damsged 4-N to 50. Malabar go° bright heavy brown sid per lb. NIITHFGS. Singapore mid bold 2s 9,1. Small mid t+ good good mid 2s 2d to 2s 6d, low lined is 4d per lb. Mace:, about 2d per lb cheaper, fine pale 2s to 2e ld, dull mid lid to 2s. Cloves—Zanzibar ord to fair 4Bil to 5d per IP . Pimento is cheaper. CocillNEAL.—There has been a better demand for 0 1 article, and prices have ruled firm ; in some descriptio l ; 4 au advance of ld per lb. leas taken place. Honduras 01 ' vers 3s ild to 4s 2d for ordinary foxy to good red. Tels e i rife silvers 3s 10d t o 3 s 11d, an d bl ac k s 3 s 10d to 4 s 6 per lb. SALTPETRE.—The market for this article is steady, 0 1 a good business has been done at higher rates. TALLow.—The market remains in a quiet state. P.Y. 57s to 57s 3d during the mouth. GREEN FRUIT.— Some arrivals of oranges are at bars' Two cargoes, via St. Michael, s old by K ee li ng and litls at public sale, sustained the high price obtained of lats;, The continued gales at th e Azores h ave h a d a serious elle' on the crop, which is diminished one-third in quantitii Lemons are without alteration. Sp an i s h nu t s 44 s p e r by Sporting Intelligence. TATTE R SA L L'S-YESTERDAT. A very thin attendance, many of the members havOi gone from Warwick to complete their round o f g por for the week at Salhbury. Only the following be t° were laid : TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS STAKES. 200 to 10 agst 'he Prince (taken) CHESTER CUP. 350 td 25 apt Yellow Jack (taken) 250 to 10 agst Warlock (taken) DERBY. 625 to 25 agst Bird in Hand (taken) SALISBURY RACES.-THURSDAY. The City Bowl, of 25 sovs value, and 25 given by V'' count Folkestone, added to a Sweepstakes of 5 9 01 ", each, for two-yr-olds and upwards. The winner % I be sold for 100 so y a . All owances i f entered to b sold for less. Five furlongs. 9 cubs. Mr. NV: Day's The Roman, by Pompey, 3 yrs (20/.), ist 41b (J. Goater) Mr. Sargent's Jane Shore, 3 yra (20/ ), 7st 11 6 (Faulkner) Mr. Treen's b fby Don John, out of Van Diemen's $ dam, 3 yrs (200, 7st 11b. (Harper) , • . . • The following also rao :—Coleshill, Gossip, A r abf Daughter, Tam o' Shanter, Mrs. M`Stinger, and Jobs o' Brugee. Betting-2 to 1 against Jane Shore, 4to 1 agst pon John's filly, 5 to 1 each apt The Roman and Tam ° Shanter. A very interesting race in was won on the post bf ° head. Tam o' Sbanter was a uood fourth. • _ The winner was afterwards put up to be sold, but 13° advance was made upon the stated selling price. The Trial Stakas et 10 sovs each, for three-yr-olds 04 upwards. Weight for age. One mile. 4 subs. Mr. It. E. Cooper's Lymington, by Bay Middletov) in, Bst 7;b (G. Whitehouse), walked over. The Wiltshire Stakes of 25 sovs each, 15 ft, and 5 ov ll , if declared ; with 100 add ld ; the second to save 13 ' stake. Two miles. 37 subs, 25 of whom declared. Mr. Elwes's May Boy, by Trueboy, 4 yrs, Get 91b (Bray) !, Mr. Steven's Elfrida, 3 yrs, sst 91b (Fordhan3) Sir J. Hawley's Smack, 3 yre, Set 21b. (Bundy) 4 Mr. J. B. Starkey's Topsy, 5 yrs, Set 131 b (Enocb) Betting-6 to 4 agst Smack-7 to 4 agst May Boys 3 to 1 agst Elfrida-5 to 1 agst Topsy. Won very easily by a length and a half. Elfril took second place wh en h a lf wa y up th e distance, o,o_, finished a length i n a d vance o f S mac k . T opsy W' beaten off. First year of the Third Biennial Stakes of 10 sous eac l ' with E 0 added for two•yr-olds ; colts, Bst 71b ; Oil Bst 3!b ; certain wi nners ex t ra . H al f a mile. 1 subs. Mr. Howard's Arsenal, by Robert de Gorham, Bst 711► (Wells) I Mr. W. Day's Tricolor, Bst 31b M. H. Hill's Hardwick, Bst 7lb (A. Day) The following also ran :—e. by Ingo, The Grey Dswil' Toffey, The Avenger, Annot Lyle. Betting-2 to 1 each agst Arsenal and Tricolor-9 to 2 agst Annot Lyle-5 to 1 agst lago filly. Won very cleverly by three-quarters of a length ; tor ° lengths between the second and third ; Toffey v; 35 ourth, The Avenger fifth, Annot Lyle sixth, and Greg Dawn seventh ; lago colt was beaten off. BIRTHS. OF A BOY. On the 13th inst., at 2, Gloster-place, Hyde-park-gar dens, the wife of Isaac Spooner, Esq. On the 11th inst., at Higber Ardwick, near Manchester , the wife of the Hon. Thomas Montagu Carrington Wilde, GI ♦ DA/MITER. On the 11th inst., at Foulmire Rectory, near Royatotir he Hon. Mrs. Arthur Saville. On the 12th ind., at 5, Compton•road, Canonbury, tie wife of Mr. George Henry Cole. MARRIED, On the 12th inst., at Camberwell Church, Joseph, eldest son of the late Joseph Dowson, Esq., of Dulwich' bill House, Surrey, to Ellen, daughter of the late Thonosi B. Burbidge, Esq., of Champion-hill, Surrey . On the 12th inst., at St. Paul's Episcopal Church, DWI' burgh, Eneas Wil iam Macintosh, Raigmore, Grace Ellen Augusta, youngest daughter of the late Si r Neil Menzies, of that Ilk, Bart. DIED. On the 13th inst., of bronchitis, after a few days' ill' ness, in his 66th year, Mr. Robert Cruikehank, brother of George Cruiksbank. On the 13th inst., at 16, the Grove, Hackney, Thurstso Dale, Esq., aged 64. On the 11th inst., at 13, Bloomfield-terrace, Harrow: road, James Beatty, Esq., Engineer•in-Chief of the Cry mean Railways, aged 30. On the 12th inst., at Glerlhow Mount, near Leeds, Job's Wilkinson, Esq., one of the Justices of the Peace for th e borough of Leeds, aged 57. Nmor: Printed and Published by 14. 4 1:111D0 YO l l l4O of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at 77 e Sun Office, Nn 11 %. 7 ' Straw, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the con% tY , 611 1 2 105 62i 3i i 83W looi 156 5 i 93i 3 71 i i 77 6i 7 24 61 41 12t 68 i I 19 i 181 4 111 381 22 .4 211 lli I i 82 i 19i 21i 6 i 6 iii 3i 4 yi a 25 R 8 in 24i I 6f I 10i 8f M -Mr. Mil MESS Mel, on Itme. Jea 'until the r and Mr.W, 600 Stalls perfor (Ni atody of west Galls o t •clock pre • rder of ar _ veniently vrith tke T 'Loyal Libr T. ME the dirndl Reeves, N Tick- ts, le M R. o'clock. al Stalls, 3g. ; ► I B Bre denco, in a the church. &c., and ne Very mcdei street, city, CONT: THE Lord and Trelane. the 20th in Much Person Into her MI or as shall fro Inonths cer Warning. Patterns O. 15, Dul o'clock. The cond office. No treaty, nor for the purl laid office. P.very ter and hear in and roust al ' THE w HIT IN COMPAN' oik Friday, GrowsMc THE FC TO THE REPORT 1 nese. 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