The Sun. — London, England, 1863-06-03 00:00:00

IMPERIAL P . HOUSE OF LORDS•—Last Evening. The Lo CIiA.NCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack at five o'clock. Lord LY TT ELT ON presented some petitions against the Bale of intoxicating liquors on Sunday. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The Tranmere Docks—Cockermoutb, Keswick, and Penrith Railway—Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and Gateshead Equitable Gas—Southampton and Netley Railway—Lon don and South-Western and Andover and Redbridge Rail ways, and London and South-Western Railway bills were read a second time. THIRD READINGS. The Putney and Fulham New Bridge and Pier—West London Docks and Warehouses—lsle of Purbeck Railway and Rusthall Manor bills were read a third time and passed. SAVINGS BANKS MONEYS BILL. On the motion of Lord STANLEY of ALDERLEY this bill was read a third time and passed. Their lordships then adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS—Last Evening. The SPEAKER took the chair at the usual hour. NEW MEMBER—THE CITY OF LONDON. Mr. GOSCHEN took the oaths and his seat. TRAWL FISHING. The Sheriffs of London and Middlesex appeared at the bar in their robes, and presented a petition from the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council, against trawl fishing. THIRD RE ADINUS. The following bills were read a third time :—Fochabers and Garmouth Railway—Londonderry Railway (Seaham to Sunderland—and Potteries Junction Railway. PETITIONS. An immensely large number of petitions were presented in favour of the bill for closing public-houses on the Sab bath ; Mr. TURNER, from Manchester, one numerously signed, against ; Major PARKER, from Windsor, and Mr. F. PEEL, to the same effect. CLOSING OF PUBLICHOUSES ON SUNDAY. Mr. SOMES explained certain statistics with respect to & petition presented the other evening in favour of this bill from the licensed victuallers of Hull. KINGSTON AND HOLYHEAD MAILS. On the motion of Mr. LAIRD a return of the several occasions upon which the steamboats conveying the mails between Kingston and Holyhead have been delayed or in any way affected by the occurrence of fogs, either at or near Kingstown or at or near Holyhead, since Jane 30, 1861, to the present time, and specifying the amount of delay caused by the fog in each instance.— Ordered . PROPOSED RECOGNITION OF THE CONFEDE- RATE STATES. Mr. ROEBUCK intimated that he intended, on the 30th of June, to bring forward his motion with respect to the recognition of the Southern States of America. Mr. CONINGHAM gave notice that he intended to move a direct negative to the motion. DISTRIBUTION OF ARMY PRIZES. Colonel NORTH postponed his motion from the 23d to the 30th of June. THE COTTON DISTRICTS. Mr, FERRAND intimated that on Friday he should ask the President of the Poor Law Board when the return of unmarried women employed in the cotton factories would be laid on the table, and when the works proposed by the Government engineer and sanctioned by the Government would be commenced. THE ALEXANDRA. Mr. HOPWOOD asked the Attorney General when the case of the Alexandra is to be tried. The ATTORNEY GENERAL replied that he antici pated the case would be tried at the Middles,-,x sittings after the present term—namely, on Monday the 15th of the pre sent month. ELSWICK ORDNANCE COMPANY. Sir H. WILLOUGHBY asked the Under Secretary of State for War if any sum or sums of money were to be paid to the Elawick Ordnance Company under any indenture or agreement ; and, if any sum or sums of money were to be paid, out of what funds will the payment be made, and by what authority .? The Marquis of HARTINGTON replied that the Go vernment contract with the works was put an end to by the late Secretary of War, Sir G. Lewis. The company made a elaim of £85,500, £55,000 of which was disputed. The matter was referred to Mr. Fenton for arbitration, and the result had been that the disputed amount had been paid, and the Government had received stock to cover the balance, to liquidate which a sum would be asked in the votes this year. THE STRUCTURE OF THE GREAT INTERNA TIONAL EXHIBITION. Mr. GREGORY asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether a detailed estimate of the repairing and altering, and eventually completing the International Exhibition building would belaidbefore the house; whether any state ment would be made to the house of the object the Go vernment had . in view in purchasing the building, and to what purpose it was to be applied ; whether the two glass domes were to Le replaced by two permanent structures on the same design, and when the vote would be taken for this embellishment of London and its Ivicinity. (Hear, and laughter.) The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER replied that the estimate which had been prepared, and which would be submitted to the house, treated upon the cost of buying, altering, and maintaining the building. The ori ginal cost of the building was £300,000, with an addition of £130,000 to be paid to the contractors, making together £430,000. The price which the contractors had agreed to take, in addition to the payments already made to them, was £BO,OOO. The site, including the refreshment rooms, would cost £120,000-4200,000 in all, The value of the property for building purposes, including the re freshment departments, was £230,000, but £710,000 was the estimated value of the whole of the property in the market, so that the public would get the whole of it for £200,000. (Hear, hear.) Lord R. CECIL asked if any estimate had been prepared of the annual repairs The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER replied that the cost of the annual repairs were included in the estimate. Mr. D. SEYMOUR enquired if the estimate would in clude the cost of endowing the Exhibition with a decent appearance ? (Laughter.) The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER replied that the estimate would certainly include the cost of giving the building a" decent" appearance. (Laughter.) VOLUNTEER ENGINEER CORPS. Mr. PEACOCKE asked the Under Secretary of State for War if there was any objection for the Government to supply Volunteer Corps of Engineers with the implements necessary for their duties ? The Marquis of HARTINGTON replied that all the requisite implements—upwards of 24 in number for each man—had been readily furnished. THE ROYAL SOCIETY AND THE BOARD OF TRADE. Mr. A. SMITH asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he would lay upon the table of the house a copy of the correspondence which had lately taken place between the meteorological department of his office and the Royal Society ? Mr. M. GIBSON replied that he had no objections. BUOYS, &c. Mr. A. SMITH asked the President of the Board of Tra.de when the index to the report of the commission on lightr, buoys, an d beacons would be printed and presented to the house ? Mr. M. GIBSON replied that it would shortly be pre sented to the house. MAYNOOTH COLLEGE ACT. Mr. WILALLEY then proceeded to move " That this house will immediately resolve itself into a committee to consider the Act 8 and 9 Vic., for the endowment of the college of Maynootb, with a view to the repeal of the same, die regard being had to vested rights and i nterests." At the conclusion of the hon gentleman's address tbere were loud cries for a division. fir• BLACK laasi e opposed the motion, saying that he bad Ts % c aloalation, and found that the Ro man Catholics pent grant of only five farthings each, and iljr cz abih a le. (Hear, hear.) ....'Lleconded the motion amidst cries of Sir piatz. the hon. g eht j' l4l4 7 replied to some of le statements o, siderable impatience Z a Vart of the house. eu _Mneeed the motion amidst con very intolerant to deny It would be tholies Which other t of to the Roman Ca- State. "eciiNecl at the hands of the Mr. br i efl y r the Mr. WHALLEY repli ed • mo t ion . 4,, when there appeared— , the amnia divided, For the motion ............. Against it ............................ 100 Majority .................. 198 The motion was accordingly lost. SEA FISHERIES. h Mr. FENWIC K rose to m ove that an •sented to her M a j est y p ra y in g th at . rable address b e ll be graciousl y t pleased to issue a 'Royal commission to inquire t p h u . e blie into fisheries, wi ththeviewof increaking the sup our IS pl)? of b afavourit e Cft an d nutritious articl e of food for the benefit The hen, memb er said there could be no doubt of the im portance of the sea fi sheries, as they afforded a large supply of food for all cla sses of the public. There was no meand getting an exact account of the entire quantity of fish con sumed in this country; but be had been furnished with the returns of eight railway companies, from which it could be inferred what an enormous quantity was annually consumed. During the year 1862 the Sough-Eastern B.ailway brought up to London 3,218 tons; London and Brighton, 5,174 tons ; Great Western, 2,885 tons ; North British, 8,303 tons; Great Northern, 11,930 tons; North-Eastern, 27,896 tons; Great Eastern (Eastern Counties) 29,680 tons. He had also obtained a return of the fish sold in the Manchester market alone, which amounted to 380 tons per week. or 19,760 tons in the year. In the course of the year there were sold in London 500,000 cod fish, 25,000,000 mackerel, v 13 : 0 1° 00 ; , a6 o oo f soles, 35,000,000 plaice, 200,000,000 fresh her or sprats, there was no computing their number As to shell fish, there were 40,000 lobsters consumed every day all over England. Of oysters there were sold 500,000,000 yearly, cockles 70,000,000, and periwinkles 300,`100,000. He had made a calculation which went to show that a capital of £10,000,000 was invested in this industry, and that about half a million of persons were employed in it. (Hear.) He had been in communication with va.lous parts of the country, and the almost universal compl tint, was, that if something was not done the worst consequences might be apprehended, as the fish was falling off from year to year. He might be asked what was the cause. The cause was the same as that which had destroyed the salmon fishery, and a neglect of Nature's laws. They were not familiar with the habits of sea fish, which were beyond their ken; but it was believed that the natural home of sea-fish was deep water, and they approached shallow water for the pur pose of spawning. Whatever means raked up or carried into deep water the spawn of the fish, necessarily destroyed a large portion of fish. He had arrived at the conclusion, based upon the authority of the most competent persons in the fishing trade, that the two main causes of the destruction of fish were the trawl net and the seine net. Now, when he spoke of trawling as injurious to seafish, he wished it to be understood that the system he referred to was altogether distinct from the trawling for herrings which was adopted in Scotland. The trawl net had a large beam and chain attached to it, and the chain scraped up the whole of the mud, and with it the spawn; not only destroying a vast quantity of young and immature fish, but also rubbing off the scales of the larger fish and bruising or otherwise less ening it in value. He had himself seen in a northern city two cart loads of cod fish, the largest of which was not bigger than his hand—a fact which must convince every body that an enormous quantity of fish was destroyed in this way. The fishing by the seine net was equally injurious to fish. He had given so much attention to the matter that he could tell at once whether ;the fish exhibited for sale had been taken by trawling or by the seine ; but he did not rely upon his own testimony merely. In addition to his own observation, he had communicated with some of the most experienced men in the country, and they all without exception, condemned the practice of trawling. The hon. member then read the opinions of Mr. Jonathan Crouch, of Cornwall, w hom he characterised as the great. est fish naturalist in the country ; of Mr. Williams, one of the largest fish salesmen in London; of Mr. Wilcox and others, all of whom testified to the injurious effects of the trawling and seining systems of fishing. The hon. member also referred to different parts of the coast where fishing had at one time been a profitable industry, but where fishing had now ceased, or nearly so. He then re viewed the laws on the subject, which had become obsolete and ineffectual, and said the only remedy was the adoption of the means which had revived the salmon fishery. As he had taken part in the question of the salmon fishery, he might take the opportunity of informing the house of the satisfactory results which had attended ll the inquiry he had moved for. He might sta te, by way of iustration, that four young salmon had been taken in the Thames at the Nore on Saturday, which were in the stage between smolt and grills—hat in itself was a gratifying result. (Hear.) He had been tauntingly asked at the time why he had de voted his attention to the fish of the rich, and not done any thing for the fish of the poor. Well, his answer was that he was now doing something for the fish of the poor by the terms of the motion he had now the honour to move. 'Cheers.) Mr. CAVE seconded the motion. The hon. gentleman reviewed the laws which had been passed with reference to the regulations between French and English fishermen, and thought that due attention should be paid to the meshes of the nets. There were two kinds of oyster fishery—the deep sea and the shallow• sea ; and although May and June were the best months for fishing, any fishing vessel found with oysters after April 30 was liable to forfeiture and the owner to fine and imprisoment. The fence months were no pro tection to the fishery, for while the French and English fishermen observed the rule, the Dutch fishermen fished on the beds with impunity. The price of the small native oysters with which hon. members alone had any acquaintance was 445. the bushel ; while the price of the large, coarse oysters, which were so largely consumed by the poorer classes, was Bs. the bushel ; but there was no doubt that the supply of these was greatly diminished by the artificial re striction imposed upon the fisheries. He hoped that one of the results that would follow from the appointment of a commission would be the repeal of these fishing disabilities. Mr. CLAY said it was not to be denied that the greatest jealousy existed between the line and trawl fishers. The statements on either side, therefore, should be received with suspicion. At the same time, from the inquiries he had made, it appeared to him that the accounts given by the trawlers were infinitely nearer the truth. Sufficient allow ance was not made for the migratory character of fish, nor for the much more general consumption of fish owing to the great increase in the locomotive power of the country. He believed also that no increase had taken place in the number of the boats engaged in trawling. On the other hand, no allusion had been made to the 1,500,000 soles and the 29,000,000 of plaice which, according to Mayhew, were sold annually in the streets of London in barrows, But if they put an end to trawling, there would be an end to the take of sole, as it was well established that it was nearly impossible to take them with a line, He had had a good deal of experience in deep• sea fishing, more especially off the coast if Ireland, and he never remembered to have caught more than one or two soles in that way. It seemed to him that the proposed inquiry could do no good, and therefore that no case had been made out for disturbing an industry which employed a large amount of capital, as well as some of the hardiest of the population. Mr. BENTINCK had some 40 years' experience of the coast fisheries throughout the United Kingdom, and he had no hesitation in stating that his honourable friend opposite (Mr. Fenwick) had formed a most erroneous im pression as to the system of trawling. He certainly never saw a trawl net of the description referred to by his hon. friend. He never saw a trawl with a chain attached to it, and he would undertake to say that no trawl ever went over the ground at the rate of seven miles an hour. The rate of travelling was much slower than that, for the object of the fishermen could not be to fill their nets with mud. If the decrease in the quantity of fish taken was caused by trawling, how came it that at Dover and Brix ham, where admittedly the take of fish had alone increased, trawling was carried on to a greater extent than at any other places along the coast? He entirely concurred with his hon. friend the member for Hull (Mr. Clay), that it would be most dangerous to interfere with the operation of traw ling. Mr. COLLIER considered that a most unfounded attack had been made upon the trawlers. He had some know ledge of trawling, and he would affirm that no one ever saw a trawling net set such as had been spoken to by the hon. member (Mr. Fenwick), except the hon. mom• ber himself. He had been in the habit of closely inspect ing the fish market of Plymouth, from whence came the main supply of fish for the London market, and he could testify to the excellent condition of the fish taken by traw ling. It appeared to him that no sufficient case had been made out for the appointment of a Royal commission, which would be attended with a great deal of expense and a great deal of delay. Mr, LIDDELL supported the motion, and said that all its advocates wanted was to see the same laws which had worked so effectually for the preservation of fish in our rivers applied to the deep-sea fisheries. Mr. M. GIBSON must confess that the form and terms of the motion were extremely wide. A commission appointed to inquire into the whole of the fisheries of the United King dom, would have a task before it which would take a very long time to get through, and—which was by no means a matter to be lost sight of—would be attended with much expense. (Hear . .) A commission started upo n w h a t might be designated a fishing inquiry —(laughter) —with out any definite object—was not a very practical mode of dealing with a subject. The commission appointed last year, or the year before, to investigate the destruction of fish, had a definite object before it. There had been great quarrels, and even bloodshed, caused by the two modes in vogue of catching herrings, and it became absolutely ne cessary to ascertain what alterations in the practice were necessary in order to put an end to these hostilities. An hon. member opposite had called attention to the subject of the French fisheries. Now they had bound themselves by a variety of international obligations as regarded the Channel fisheries, but at the present moment they were upon the point of negotiating a joint inquiry, to be undertaken by the French and English Governments into the working of the laws now in force under that treaty; so that in that position of affairs it would not be advisable to start another and an independent commis sion of a roving character. Without, therefore, alleging that the hon. member had not brought forward a motion of much interest, he thought the house ought to pause before assenting to the appointment of a commi F ss r ion c , h andallow the negotiations now g oin g on with the Govern ment to proceed without interruption. At the same time he must candidly avow that he could not conceive any kind of restricti on which it would be adv isable to impose upon the trawl ers . Colonel DICKSON believed that the inquiry need neither of Trade tb.gt th e was Within three be tedious nor eensive ; and he argued that, to Ireland more• its results might be most particularly, valuable. with respect distance for e i Mr. It. reminded the Pre RODGSON Pre sident of the Board great injury done to the deep• sea fisheries gtv.in::les of the coast, and that within that via!, that th e „ ma . Z r le could . not come. What they wanted such adv antage in the umehoeriest with respect to the ca ecu ' tio narY measures should be taken Mr, m.m taioN tale river fisheries. adopt ed with t there should had refused to assent‘" 4* ve rY I ' o /Ty fiat enter into a surely it was desiragbaleg pendent inqui r y at be ch Government, new engagement to th e motion. tu the Government t The house divide h d7 e ; For the motion. e h n e t with the 1 ,:7 were about to Again5tt............... FA i ................ -- Majority for ti;; 420 .• ii..; ........ 27 The announcement of the n b ........-23 ura era was loud cheers by the Opposition. received via( numbers were_4l)"'"°lls inde- CHARITABLE PROPERTY (IRELAND). 1 Mr. lIASSARD begged leave to call the attention of the house to the state of the laws relating to charit a bl e dona tions and bequests in Ireland, preparatory to moving that, in the opinion of the house, the laws relating to charitable property in Ireland ought to be assimilated to those in force in England, as far as circumstances will permit. The hon. gentleman was stopped by the SPEAKER, who said that his attention was called to the fact that there were not 40 members in the house. _ _ _ The house was counted after the usual time had been allowed, and, there not being 40 members present, the house stood adjourned at a quarter past 8 o'clock. PARLIAMENTARY DIVISION. HOUSE OF COMMONS, JUNE 2. MAYNOOTH COLLEGE ACT. Motion made and question put, " That this house will immediately resolve itself into a committee to consider the Act 8 and 9 Vic., for the endowment of the College of Maynooth, with a view to the repeal of the same, due regard being had to vested rights and interests." The house divided—Ayes, 100 ; NoeP, 198. AYES-100. Adderley, C. B. Filmer, Sir E. bfure, David Arbuthnott, Gen.H. Finlay, A. S. Newdegate, C. Ayrton, A. S. Galway, Viscount Noel, G. J. Aytoun, ft. S. Gard, R. S. North, Col. Baines, E. Getty, S. G. O'Neill, E. Beach, W. W. Gore, J. K 0. Pakenham, Col. Bentinck, G. W. P. Griffith, C. D. Parker, Major W. Benyon, R. Hadfield, Geo. Peto, Sir M. Beresford, W. Hamilton, Major Pevensey, Viscount Blackburn, P. Hill, Hon. R. Pigott, Sergeant Bouverie, E. P. Holmesdale, Lord Scott, Sir W. Bramley-Moore, J. Hopwood, J. T. Shelley, Sir J. V. Bridges, Sir B. Hol stall, T. B. Smith, Abel Butler, C. S. Hotham, G en . L or d Smith S. G. Cairns, Sir H. Jolliffe, H. Spooner, R. Cave, S. Kennard, R. Stanhope, J. B. Close, M. C. Ker, D. S. Stewart, Sir M. R. Cole, Hon. H. Kinnaird, Hon. A. Stuart, Col. W. Cole, J. L. Knox, Major W. S. Tite, Wm. Collier, R. P. Langton, W. G. Torrens, R. Conin,gtham, Wm. Langton, W. H. G. Turner, C. Craufurd, E. H. J. Lawson, W. Vance, John Crossley, Sir F. Lefroy, A. Vansittart, Wm. Davie, Sir H. R. F. Long, R. P. Verner, Sir Wm. Doulton, F. Lowther, Col. H. C. Walcott, Adm. J. E. Du Cane, C. Mackie, J. Walker, J. R. B. Duke, Sir James Malins, R. Watlington, J. Dnndas, Frederick Matheson, A. White, Jas. Edwards, Col. Matheson, Sir J. Williams, W. Egerton, Sir P. Miller, William Yorke, Hon. E. Egerton, E. C. Mills, A. Ellice, E., jun. Montgomery, Sir G. TELLERS. Ewart, William Morris, D. Ewing, H. E. C. Mowbray, lit. Hn. J. Whalley, G. H. Fellowes, Edward Mundy, William Borneo, Joseph NOES —l9B. Acton, Sir J. Forster, W. E. O'Ferrall, M. Adair, H. E. Fortescue, Hon. F. Ogilvy, Sir J. Addington, Hon.W. Fortescue, C. S. O'Hagan , T. Angerstein, W. French, CoL O'Reilly, M. Antrobus, E. Gibson. T. M. Padmore, R. Atherton, Sir W. Gladstone, W. E. Paget, C. Bagwell, J. Glyn, G. C. Paget, Lord A. Bailey, C. Glyn, G. G. Pdngton, Sir J. S. Baring, H. B. Gower, G. W. L. Palmer, Sir R. Baring, Sir F. Greaves, Edward Patten, Col. W. Bass, M. T. Greene, J. Pease,, H. Bazley, Thomas Greenwood, J. Peel, Sir It. Beaumont,Somerset Gregory, W. H. Peel, F. Beecroft, G. S. Gregson, S. render, J. Bellew, R. M. Grenfell, C. P. Potter, E. Berkeley, C. Greville, CoL F. Price, R. G. Black, Adam Grey, Rt. Hn. Sir G. Pryse, Capt. E. L. Blencowe, J. G. Grosvenor, Earl Pritchard, John Bond, J. W. Grosvenor, Lord R. Puller, C. W. Botfield, Beriah Gurdon, B. Ramsden, Sir J. W. Bouverie, P. P. Hankey, Thomson Redmond, J. E. Briscoe, J. I. Hartopp, E. B. Ricardo, 0. Browne, Lord J. T. Hassird, M. D. Robertson, H. Bruce, H. A. Headlam, Thos. E. Russell, Hastings Buchanan, W. Henley, J. Russell, A. J. E. Buller, Sir A. Hennessy, J. P. St. Aubyn, J. Butt, Isaac Herbert, H. A. Salomone,Alderman Buxton, C. Hervey, LordA. Scholefieid, W. Cardwell, Rt. Hn. E. Hesketh, Sir T. Scourfield, J. H. Cavendish, Lord G. Hibbert, J. Scully, V. Cecil, Lord R. Hodgson, K. Seely, C. Chapman, J. Hodgson, IL Selwyn, C. J. Clay, James Holiord, R. S. Seymer, H. K. Clifford, C. C. Holland, E. Shafto, It. D. Clifford, Col. Horsim.c, E. Sheridan, H. B. Clifton, Sir R. Howard, Lord E. G. Smith, J. A. Cobden, R. Howes, E. Somerville, Sir W. Cochrane, A. D. Hutt, W. Stacpoole, W. Cogan. W. H. Jackson, W. Staniland, M. Colebrooke, Sir T.E. Jervoise, Sir J. Stanley, Lord Collins, T. Kekewich, S. Steel, John Corbally, M. E. King - lake, A. W. Stirling, Wm. Cowper, Hon. W.F. Kinglake, Serj. J. Sullivan, M. Cox, W. Kingscote, Col. Sykes, Col. W. H. Crawford, R. W.. Leader, N. Talbot, C. R. M. Cubitt, Ald. Leatham, E. Thornhill, W. P. Davey, R. Lennox, Lord G. G. Trelawny, Sir J. S: Davie, Col. F. Lever, John 0. Vane, Lord H. G. Dawson, R. P. Liddell, Hon. H. G. Verney, Sir Harry Dent, John Dent Long - field, Robert Vernon, H. Dering, Sir E. Lowe, Rt. Hon. R. Villiers, Rt. Hon. C. Dickson, Col. MacEvoy, E. Vivian, H. H. Dillwyn, Lewis L. Mackinnon,W. A. Waldron, L. Disraeli, Benjamin Mllahon, P. Walpole, S. H. Douglas, Sir C. Maguire, J. F. Watkins, Col. L. Duff, R. Manners, Lord J. Way, Arthur E. Dundas, Sir David Marshall, W. Western, S. Egerton, W. Martin, P. W. Westhead, J. Enfield, Viscount Martin, J. White, L. Ennis, John Massey, W. N. Wickham, H. W. Esmonde, J. Mitford, W. T. Winnington, Sir T. Evans, T. W. Moncreiff, J. Wood, Rt Hn. Sire. Ewart, J. C. M Fenwick, Henry Wyv - Morrison, Foley, Hon. H. W. North, F. TEL 3I LERS. Hn. rriseBlol, n , Rt. w H . . W. Wrightson , W. Foljambe, F. J. S. O'Conor Don, The Brand, H. B. Forster, Charles D. O'Donoghue, The Knatehbull-Hugess THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUNE 3, 1863. mediately passed by Capt. Crow, followed by Rubicon next the rails, with Investment, Oldminster, and Stanton in close attendance. At the distance Capt. Crow appeared in difficulties, and was, in a stride or two after, headed by Rubicon ; halfway up Midgley brought up Stanton, who won by a length. There was a length and a half between the second and third, Capt. Crow was fourth, Oldminster fifth, Investment sixth; Bandage and Canary next, Indo lence and Knutsford were the last two. Run in 4 minutes 37 seconds. Net value of the stakes, 725 soya. The First Year of the Sixth Ascot Biennial Stakes of 10 sous each, with 100 added ; for 2-yr-old colts, Bst 101 b ; and fillies, Bst 41b. The owner of the second horse to receive 25 sous out of the stakes. T.Y.C. 68 subs. Mr. Lincoln's Light ...... (G. Fordham) 1 Mr. T. Valentine's Goldylucks, Bst 61b (Aldcroft) 2 Baron Rothschild's Tomato, B s t 61b (Wells) 3 Duke of St. Albans's Coeur de Lion, Bst 10Ib (T Adams) 4 Lord Stemford's Alpheus, Bst 101 b (A. Edwards) 5 The following also ran :—Outlaw, Wilk Rake, Elmsdale, Farnhurst, Verdiere, Loose Fish, Dispute, Blair Hill, Chip of the Old Block, Mail Train, and Dilsten. Betting-3 to 1 agst Light, 4to 1 agst Tomato, sto 1 agst Alpheus, 6 to 1 agst Coeur do Lion, and 20 to 1 agst Loose Fish. Several f false starts octocugrertedavitahyr.ougThhathfleaigmwpaataieantcelasotf early in a line but widely spread. F arn h urst in the centre l o wered to an excellent start, th e h orses leaving the post n having a slight lead, closely attend e d b y D ispute, Tomato, Cour de Lion, and Alpheus on th e r i g h t, with the favourite, the rider several o t w h i e t h r o G a o d l d n y i l a o p c u k t s e a c t his am e o g i h r w th i s t , h o t n h e t he e n x u t i r n e g t n to 1 e t f h t e . d C i r s o t s a n s i c u a g , where he was headed by Tomato, who with Coeur de Lion and Alpheus came on together to'the enclosure, where Ford ham brought up the favourite, followed in a few strides fur ther by Goldylocks, the lot joining issue at the stand and finishing a close and exciting race home, Light winning by a length, a head separating the second and third, a like dis tance between the third and fourth, and a head fourth and fifth, Farnhurst was sixth, and Dispute seventh, Wild Rake was last. The Gold Vase, given by her Majesty, added to a sweep stakes of 20 sovs each, for 3- yr-olds, 7st 71b ; 4-yr-olds, Bst 101 b ; 5-yr-olds, 6-yr •olds, and aged, 9st 31b ; mares and geldings allowed 51b. Horses that have never won above the value of 50 sovs, or received 100 sovs for run ning second before the time of starting, to be allowed weight in the following proportions-3-yr-olds, 41b ; 4-yr olds, 71b; 5-yr-olds, 121 b; 6-yr-olds and aged, 181 b. Winners extra. Two miles ; 10 subs. Mr. G. Crook's Adventurer, 4 yrs, Bst 101 b .. (Clement) 1 Baron Rothschild 's Wingrave, 4 y rs , B st 101 b (Wells) 2 Mr. J. N. Astley's Atherstone, 5 yrs, 9st 31b (Ashman) 3 The following also ran—Anonyma, Marigold, Zetland, Buckingham, and Hurricane. Betting -7 to 4 agst Adventurer, sto 1 agst Zetland, 6 to 1 each agst Hurricane and Atherstone, and 8 to 1 each agst Marigold and Wingrave. Hurricane lying next the rails made play, followed by Anonyma, Zetland, Wingrave, and Marigold, in the order we have given them, Atherstone and the favourite bringing up thHeurrireareano gunding the Swinly turn, A nonyma rushed to the front and increased th e p ace as th ey descended the Buckenhamoing o a n t h s e e r co gi n r d t , hs M , a th ri e go o l th d e t r h s ir l d y , in wi g t u h p Z in e t t o • land , and the bottom, where the rear division got upon closer terms with the leader,. On entering the old course Buckenham, Lord Glasgow's in company with Hurricane, dropped into the rear, the favourite at the same time taking the fourth place, and came on in wai ting to the entrance into the straight, where ing Zetland with a slight lead, with Wingrave, Atherstone, where Zetland filly and Marigold were disposed of, leav and Adventurer lying in his track to the distance, dropped back and Wingrave took a slight lead, but half-way up he was headed by the favourite, th e pa i r running locked together to the Stand, where the Baron's colt got his head in front and appeared stride ei v dividing n i ttwh one but Adventurer coming again in the last on on the post by a head ; a couple of lengths gsicond and third. Zetland was a bad fourth, Buekenham fifth. Run in 3 min. 241 sec. The Prince of Wales's Stakes of 20 says each, h ft, with 500 added, for 3 yr-olds ; colts, Bst 101 b; fillies, Bst 51b ; winners extra, with maiden allowances. The owner of the second horse to receive 100 sovs, and the owner of the third horse 60 sovs out of the stakes. New course (about 1 mile 5 furlongs). 167 subs. Lord Stamford's Avenger, by Vindex, Sat 31b _ _ (A. E dward Mr. W. PAnson's Borealis, Bst 51b ............ (Doy 1 Dole s) ) 2 Mr. T. P arr ' s Jude; Bst 31b ............. . (Fordham) 3 Mr. R. T en Broeck's Vivid, Bst 31b (Cusiance) 4 The following also ran :—Splitvote, Syntax Fil, Weatherbow, Knave of Trumps, Blue Mantle, Lord , ant of the Isles, M eriden,lGratiude, brother to Morocco, and Igerna. Betting -7 to 4 agst Blue Mantle, sto 1 eget Jude; 6to 1 agst Vivid, 10 to 1 agst Brother to Morocco, 100 to 8 each agst Borealis, Avenger, and Dr. Syntax. On settlihg into their places Igerna went to the front, and made the running at a cracking pace, followed by Jude; Vivid, Blue Mantle, Knave of Trumps, and Brother to Morocco, the ethers lying close in their wake, Weather bow and the Splitvote colt bringing up the rear. Descend ing the :hill the leading horses closed up and rounded the brick-kiln turn in a body, Lord Ailesbury's colt breaking down immediately after. Half-way across the bottom Judea went to the front, and came on with the running, followed by Fantail, Borealis, Dr. Syntax, the favourite, Avenger, Vivid, and Igerna into the straight, where they joined issue and ran in company to the distance. Blue Mantle came up on the outside, and took his place at the girths of Avenger, who was followed by Borealts next the rails. At the Stand Judea was beaten, leaving the race with the two, Avenger winning very cleverly by three lengths. There was two lengths between the second and: third, and a length between the third and fourth. Brother to Morocco was fifth, the Weep colt sixth, Weatherbow seventh, with Meriden and Knave of Trumps next. Dr. Syntax and Gra titude were the last two. Net value of the stakes 2,150 SON'S. A Swweepstakes of 50 sovs each, h ft, for 2-yr-olds ; colts, Bst 71b, and fillies, Bst 31b, three-quarters of a mile, for which Mr. Payne's brother to Tuccio, Mr. Saxon's Anna, and Mr. John Wyatt's Boadicea were entered, was off by consent. A Maiden Plate of £lOO for 2-yr-olds ; colts, Bst 101 b fillies, Bst 71b. Half a mile. 40 entries. Lord Westmoreland's Birch Broom, Bst 101 b (Cnstance) 1 Lord Stamford's Leicester, Bst 101 b (A. E ( Mr. W a l e ' s Confederate, 8 3t 101 b es) 3 The following also ran :—Pixie, Aunt Judy, Algazelle, Dovedale, Alvedistaodna'smdeam colt, Hartleap, C ou p d'Et a t , Miss Whip filly, Quadrill e, I llusion, Rob Roy, Black Friar, m Fanny Seaton, Walton, Queen Christina filly, Lady Milton, Brother to Rubini, Flutter colt, Sheridan, Virginia, Naxos, Mystery, Duchess of Kent, Brother to Canace, Inverness, and Anglo-Saxon. The number of Mr. Savile's Rigolboche was put up by mistake, and immediately after taken down. Be tting-3 lactoklFargisatr.Bainr c d h i ß o rtooo 1 a s ch to a g l s t a g t h s t e L c e h i r ce is s t t i e n r a , filly and Brother to Canace. An admirable start was effected, the lot getting away in a body, the Queen Christina filly having a slight lead; Lady Milton, Brother to Canace, with Confederate and Birch Broom, lying at her girths to the distance, where Confederate obtained a slight advantage, which he held to half-way up, when h e was h ea d e d b y Bi rc h B room an d Leicester, the letter running wide on the left, the three finishing a fine race home, Lord Westmoreland's colt winning at last by half a length. A neck between the second and third ; Rob Roy was fourth, Black Friar fifth, Algazelle sixth, and the Queen Christina filly next; the others, who were pulling up as they passed the post, were widely spread, the last being Illusion. The Queen's Stand Plate, of 200 Rove, added to a sweep stakes of 10 soya each, for two-yr-olds and upwards; Betting— 3 weights for age ; winners extra, with maiden allowances ; foreign horses which have never won in England allowed 71b. T.Y.C. 18 subs. agst Knowsley. Ord Glasgow's Knowsley, 4 yrs, Bst 91b .... (Aldcroft) 1 C i oventry's Umpire, 6 yrs, Bst 121 b.... (J. Adams) 2 Count Henckel's Giles the First, 3 yrs, Bst 51b (E. Sharp) 3 1410Trcith: following also ran .—Clown, Zelle, Lady Clifden, Feu de Joie, Queen of Trumps, Hippolyta, Lightning, Brown Duchess, and Lizzie. the to 1 agst Lady Clifden, 4to 1 agst Queen of u qs, 5 to 1 each a st Umpire and Brown Duchess, and The _lot ran in close company to the road, where Knows- Aldcroft to g et tip ' lying Wide on the left, obtained a slight advantage, fol lowed by Umpire, - Queen of Trumps, and the favourite next rails, to the old stand, where Umpire assumed the com mend' but, cutting it in the centre of the stand, allowed three parts of a l engt h . Gil es th e Fi r st finished a b a d thi r d, a vance head in to and land his lordship's colours first by — of Hippolyta, who was fourth; Brown beatenss next, with Lady Clifden at her side; the others off some distance. Lightning walked in some time after the others had passed the post. London a fe w THE earl) to brin g . —GMONT PEERAGE CASE.—This case, which is somewhat romantic in its nature, and which we fully reported when it was before the Court of Chancery in tempoh Irish cou r t months since, is now occupying the attention , which is asked by the petition to remove rary bars to the rights of the petitioner (the present Tierney, deceased. the estates b an ejectment on the title for the recovery of equet.thed by the will of Henry Earl of Eg mont, dated the 11th of December, 1841, to Sir Edward the late earl, Henry, The petitioner is the heir-at-la w t o and the principal respondent is th e husband of the daughter of Sir Edward Tierney. The court was greatly crowded on Monday, and his Excellency the Lord Li eutenant occupied a seat on the bench during a c onsiderable p art of the day. The case is likely to last some days, [ADvEuTi stmENT.]—Holloway's Ointment and Pills counteract most aiseases. Causes which determine the health or si c k ness of large communities should be carefully inve stigated, , an d Where this 16 impracticable their baneful effects should be mitigated bY such well known purifiers and healers as Hol loway's nill. search when possible they should be removed. --- and ointment. They prove in the hands of all sufferers the greatest boon when health is the object of against continued indisposition. Holloway's remedies will impurities, strengthening succeed under the most unfavourable circumstances in cast ing out all i and when immediate restoration is the only safeguard e very weakness, and regulating any disordered functions. No medicine can equal them for advancing the public health and protecting delicate persons from unnecessary pain. Naval and Military Intelligence. - - - THE NAVY. Her Majesty's steam storeship Rhadamanthus, Master - Commander Raymond, yesterday returned to Woolwich under orders to load with steam gear for the West. On account of the basins in the dock yard being closed by a coffer-dam at the outer entrance for its enlargement preparatory to the re ception of the armour-cased ship Caledonia, all shipments are carried out from the wharf by means of temporary sheers erected for the purpose on the outside of the basin wail. The boilers of the Basi lisk, paddlewheel frigate, were yesterday hauled up by the same:sheers, and the vessel is ordered to be removed to Deptford to be repaired and fitted for service, for want of present accommodation at Wool wich. The Columbine, 4, screw steam corvette, 669 tons, 150 horse power, Commander T. Lo H. Ward, was inspected by Vice-Admiral Sir W. J. Hope Johnstone, K.C.8., and Staff, Commander-in-Chief at Sheerness, on Monday last, and sailed yesterday from Sheerness, for Portland, having been commis sioned for service in the Channel fleet. The \Vye, iron screw storeship, 100 horse power, Master-Commanding Valentine G. Roberts, has undergone a thorough overhauling in Sheerness dockyard, and was removed on Monday out of dock into basin, where she will befitted with new boilers and machinery. The Herring, gunboat, 60 horse power, Lieut.- Commander John R. D. Cooper, tender to the Ed;n burgh, 60, screw steam Coastguard ship at Queens ferry, has been extensively repaired and supplied with new boilers at Sheerness dockyard, and was on Saturday last removed into the harbour, where she has had her compasses adjusted. She will shortly leave for Queensferry,andresume her duties as tender. In accordance with directions received from the Admiralty, steam machinery is to be applied to the sheers used for masting the ships fitting at the Nore. It is now confidently stated that the Achilles will be ready to be floated out of the dock in which she is building during the approaching month of Sept., or some three or four months earlier than was ori ginally anticipated. Up to yesterday 150 of her armour plates, or nearly one half of the whole num ber, had been bolted to her sides. On the port and starboard quarters the plates are of an uniform thickness of 4Un., but in the less exposed portions plates varying from 4in. to 3in. will be used. The whole of the slabs of iron hitherto used have been prepared at the Paikgate Ironworks, Yorkshire, and are of rolled iron, which, besides being easier to work, is believed to possess several important advantages over the plates formed out of the ham mering process. Each plate is 15ft. in length by about 3ft. 3in. in width, but during the last few days several new kinds of plates have been received at the dockyard of a size mnch larger than any hitherto used at the establishment. These have all been subjected to the usual tests, which they have stood without showing any appreciable flaw. Up to within the last few days the steam sawing mills have been working extra hours to prepare the tim bers for the 18in. teak planking between the inner and outer plates of the frigate to which the armour plates will be bolted, but enough having been pre pared the saw mills have ceased working over time. Excepting a portion of the stem and stern ali the planking is fixed. Passing on board the frigate no less activity is perceptible than is to be witnessed on her exterior parts. The mechanics are just now busy in completing the watertight bulkheads or compartments, of which there will be no fewer than 18. By means of them the Achilles can be kept afloat even when partially disabled. Most of the iron-deck plating on the upper deck is all riveted to its place, and only awaits the ordinary wooden planking. A steam-engine has been erected on the upper deck to facilitate the raising of the heavy ma terials required. Although the Achilles is built after the model of the "Warrior she will be very , much superior to the latter in her general construc tion. Some very important teating of English and fo reign armour-plates of various dimensions will com mence at Portsmouth to-day, and will be continued over to-morrow and Friday. The Resistance, 16, screw iron frigate, Capt. W. C. Chamberlain, in No. 10 dock at Portsmouth, was yesterday officially examined and reported upon by the Master Shipwright and his staff relative to the condition of her bottom plates, which when the ship was last in dock were coated on opposite sides with the composition of Mr. Hay, the chemical assistant at Portsmouth dockyard, and that of Messrs. Pea cock and Buchan, as applied to the bottoms of the steamships of the Peninsular and Oriental Com pany. The ship has since then been afloat less than seven months, and, considering the time, both sides of her bottom are foul ; one, however, is much more so than the other, and is also more covered with barnacles. The starboard side has long grass in the wash of the water-way at the bow and quarter, and the remainder of that side of the bottom is studded with small tufts of grass averaging one inch in length, and from three or four inches apart, There are also a few patches of barnacles where the composition has been disturbed, bur, in very few other places; and there are very few spots of corrosion. The port side has the same description and length of grass at the bow and quarter, and the same description of short tufts of grass, studded at about the same intervals, but it has more adhesive matter altogether than the opposite side. The surface of the composition from the keel to the bilge plates amidships is thickly studded with barnacles. This having been the working anchor's side, there is the usual amount of corrosion to be seen on the bow from the abrasion of the com position by the chain cable, which must always at tend the use of copper anti-fouling compositions on the bottom of iron ships. The Emerald, 34, screw frigate, Capt. A. Cum ming, having completed her series (four) of experi mental screw trials at Portsmouth, yesterday, ship ped her own propeller, and this morning will go out of harbour and join the other ships at Spithead anchorage. The Duke of Wellington, 131, screw three-decker seamen's depot ship at Portsmouth, Capt. John Seccombe, yesterday commenced misting under the sheers of Portsmouth dockyard. She will be fully masted and rigged, and we trust to hear of her re ceiving orders to cruise in the Channel under can vass, where her men would be better employed in perfecting themselves in their duties as seamen than they ever can be learning to do duty as dockyard labourers. The Geyser, paddle steamer, arrived at Ports mouth yesterday with the military and naval super numeraries and invalids from China and St. Helena who arrived at Devonpoa on Sunday, on board her Majesty's ship Sanspareil. They consisted of seven men of the 67th Regiment, 20 men of the 99th, three men of the 31st, two men of the Royal Engineers, two men of the Commissary Depart ment, and eight women and children, under the command of Captain Townsend, of the 99th Regiment ; one military prisoner, under sen tence of penal servitude for life for killing a Chinese woman, and one for two years' imprisonment for striking his superior officer. The military in valids were forwarded to Netley Hospital, the naval to her Majesty's ship Victory, and the military time-expired men to their respective depots. The Geyser also brought from the Sanspareil 55 non commissioned officers and men of the Royal Artil lery, under Lieut. Lloyd, who arrived home in the ship from St. Helena. They were landed and sent into temporary quarters at Portsmouth. The following appointments were made yes. terday at the Admiralty : John A. Callingson, Master, to the Jackal. Chas. F. W. Edwards. Assisting-Clerk, to the Edgar. 11. S. Dobson, do,, to the Royal Adelaide, Supernu merary. F. P. C. Clements, Master's-Assist., to the Indus or Prince Consort. H. D. Garwood, Assistant-Engineer, to the Asia or En chantress. Frederick Moore, Assistant -Engineer, to the Asia or En chantress, T. D, Butters, to the Victory or Sprightly. D. Sampson, C hief -Engineer, to the Indus or Prince Consort. H. J. Hall, As sistant -Engineer, to the Indus or Prince Consort. The hired iron steam transport Samson, (apt. Gilley, yesterday went down to Woolwich Arsenal under orders to ship 868 tons of war stores, con sisting of guns, shot, shell, and light goods, for Cape Coast Castle, West Coast of Africa. War stores are also about to be shipped from Woolwich for Toronto, Halifax, Trincomalee, Simon's Tower, Auckland, the Cape of Good Hope, Corfu, Gibraltar, Malta, Hongkong, and other British colonies and possessions. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. ASCOT HEATH RACES.-TIIESDAY. A more lovely day cannot well be imagined than was the opening one of the Ascot meeting. The sun shone forth in all its splendour, enlivening the scene. The alterations that have been made, not only in the stands and enclosures, but in the immediate neighbourhood of the course, in so short a period as 12 months is perfectly marvellous. The footway from the station, instead of being, as formerly, rough and uneven, is now a very good road, fenced off on either side. The rough, scrubby woodland has also disap peared, and is now rife with cultivation. The Royal en closure has been railed off, so that only a select few can ob tain admittance, and all crush is obviated. There hav e a l so been erected a large number of private boxes. In fact, th e improvements generally are so numerous, and have been carried out with so much energy and liberality, as to call forth universal praise on those whose duty it has been to superintend the alterations. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales and their suite arriv e d at the station by a special train about one o'clock, and at once entered the carriages in waiting, and proceeded at a quick rate to the course, accompanied by his Royal High ness the Duke of Cambridge, their appearance at the Stand evoking loud and prolonged cheers from the spectators. The attendance was extremely large for the day on which the Ascot Stakes are run for, and there was also a goodly number of carriages lining the northern side of the course opposite to the stands. The racing commenced with the Trial Stakes, for which Tornado was made the favourite, but the race was cleverly won by the Duke of St. Alban s , horse Tippler. The Ascot Stakes followed, and Old_ minster and Rubicon were most fancied for it. Sta n t on _ however, proved himself the best horse by winni n g rather easily. For the Two-year-old Stake Light Was installed first favourite, and well did he repay those who placed confidence in his prowess, as he won very easily by a length. The finish between the next three horses was very fine, as there was only a heed separating them. For the Gold Vase, Adventurer just managed t o get first past the winning post, after a most magnifi cent struggle with Wiagrave, whom he only defeated by a head. The Prince of Wales's Stakes was won by Avenger, being his first appearance in public. He was not back e d for any large amount. The Maiden Plate produced the largest field of horses, 27 coming under the i•tarter's orders, The start was effected with ou t an y delay, and after a very ; fine race Birch Broom proved victorious by half a length. After the race was over their Royal Highnesses the P r i nce and Princess of Wales took their departure amid the entha. siastic cheers of the multitude. The ruuning-ground W as as might have been expected from the dryness of the season' extremely hard. Full details of the racing will be found below. The Trial Stakes of 5 soya each, with 100 added ; for 2.yr. olds and upwards. Weights for age. The winner to be sold for £6OO, and if for £2OO allowed 51b, unless exemp tion from being sold is claimed at the time of entrance,and horses for which this claim is made to carry 91b extra. The New Mile. 12 subs. Duke of St. Albans' Tippler, 3 yrs (£200) .. (F. Ada ms ) Marquis of Hastings's Red Cap, 2 yrs (£200), 6st 71b (Mordan) 2 Mr. Saxon's Imposition, 2 yrs (£200), sst 71b (Lightfoot) 3 The following also ran :—Muezzin, Aurelian, Coupon, Tornado, Flirtation, Attraction, and Bathilde. Betting-7 to 2 agst Tornado, sto 1 each agst Aurelian and Tippler, and 6 to 1 agst Bathilde. After two failures, they were despatched from the post in close order, Bathilde in the centre, having a slight lead, with Muezzin, Red Cap, and Imposition on her left, and the favourite, Tippler, and Flirtation on her extreme right. They ran thus to the Stand enclosure, where Bathilde gave way to Red Cap, who, with Tippler and Flirtation in at tendance, came with a alight lead to the centre of the Stand, when Tippler came out and won very cleverly by a neck, a length and a-half separating the second and third. Bathilde was fourth, close up, Flirtation was fifth, and Tornado next. Muezzin and Attraction were the two last. The Ascot Stakes of 25 soya each, 15ft, and 5 only if de clared, with 200 added; the second to receive 50 soya out of the stakes, and the third to save his stake. Winners extra. 2i miles. 54 subs, 33 of whom pay 5 soya each. The highest weight accepting being Bst 51b, it has been raised to Bst 121 b, and the others in proportion. Mr. Saxon's Stanton, 5 yrs, 7st 81b Mr. Fitzwilliam's Rubicon, 5 yrs, Tat 10Ib (in 71b extra) (Fordham) 2 Lord Westmoreland's Oakapple, 3 yrs, 6st 41b (Morgan) 3 The following also ran :—Bedouin, Investment, Canary, Knutsford, Gorse, Oldminster, Br to Rapid Rhone, Captain Crow, Vilette, Bandage, Alcestis, and Sea Nymph. Betting- 4 to 1 ags,; Oldminster, 6to 1 each agat Rubi con and Captain Crow, 8 to 1 agst Bandage, 11 to 1 agat Canary, and 100 to 6ea3h agat Stanton, linutsford, and Sea Nymph. Indolence was the first off, and came on with a clear lead, waited upon by Bedouin, followed next the rails by Sea Nymph, Bandage, Investment, and Oakapple, the two lat ter running side by side, the rear division being brought up by Captain Crow and the favourite. In these positions they came past the Stand, but on rounding the top turn Bandage rushed to the front, and was soon several lengths in advance of Indolence, whu was followed by Bedouin, Sea Nymph, Knutsford, Captain Crow, Investment, Alcestis, i ,Stanton, and Oldminster in a body to the foot of the hill, where Idolence dropped back; and at the brick-kilns Be vGiacea4hl l e as . disposed of, breaking do—n in his off foreleg, their fo r.vb. ul g taken by Investment, Sea Nymph, and Knuts \ tn. 1 7 4 : VI Oldminster, Capt. Crow, Rubicon, and Stan but, tmlidtt;:r on with the running along the bottom, bet::46l3Cart4l,43atutriLtutn the old mile . , Knutsford dropped ""nixt,,l l eaders in close company to the ore I3andage was boatcu, and iul THE ARMY. Capt. Coffin, R.N., C. 13., Director of Stores, War Department, visited the Tower of London and the Gun Wharf, Chatham, and powder magazines of Upnor during the last week, and inspected the military store establishments at these stations. The 92d (Gordon Highlanders) Regiment, Col, Lockhart, CM., recently arrived home from India, and temporarily stationed at Gosport, will remove from their present quarters to Edinburgh some time in July next. They are a remarkably fine body of men, and are in a most unexceptionable state of discipline. The 26th (Cameronians), recently arrived in gar rison at Portsmouth, have been quartered in one of the new advanced forts west of Gosport. The fort contains roomy quarters for officers and men, but has no hospital accommodation, and the sick from this, as indeed from the other adjacent forts, have to be conveyed at considerable inconvenience to the Military Hospital at Portsmouth. It would be a judicious step on the part of the authorities at the Horse Guards to establish, if not a hospital, sick quarters in each of the forts. _ It is expected that the vacant barracks at Chiches ter will shortly be occupied by a dismounted regi ment of cavalry, as a preliminary step to their embarcation at Portsmouth for India. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. TIMES.—If Paris held only the position of our own metropolis in the political scale, and if an elec tion there were as unimportant and unnoticed an affair as the election of Mr. Goschen to the vacant seat for the " City," then we might congratulate M. de Persigny on the result of his strenuous at tempts to dictate the representation of France. A long Order of the Day enumerates the men assumed to be dangerous, who have been beaten in the De partments, while it is only at Paris that the Oppo sition have gained a local victory. Such a sneer would be appreciated on this side the Channel, if we knew nothing more than what we see around us at home; but, unfortunately, it is one of the most familiar truths in the whole circle of our knowledge that Paris is the political centre, the focus, and the very key of France. That peculiarity never showed itself more strongly than in the fact of a crisis hardly feit in the departments ending in the return of most of the Opposition candidates at Paris by very large majorities. How are we to regard so portentous an event as the popular triumph of names regarded by the Government with execration and horror ? The bare announcement of their standing as candidates has driven the Cabinet absolutely beside itself; for nothing but the supposition of an absolute frenzy, approaching to despair, will excuse the extravagant. lengths of the Ministerial interference with the free dom of election. Here we are wholly unable to understand such a course. Whatever the less open means by which a certain portion of every British constituency may be undermined, there is nothing so much to be deprecated here as dictation from without, particularly from above. Were a Minister once to let it be known that he attached immense importance to the return of a candidate, he would not only entail defeat and make a hero of some inconsiderable person, but he would also inform the whole nation that his Government had lost its centre of gravity, and was tottering to its fall. As it is impossible to say what accident may affect this or that election, and only certain that tree citi zens do not like to be told whom to trust and whom to avoid, our Governments generally let popular constituencies take their own course, and if the re sult should chance to be adverse make light of the affair. Lord Palmerston's Government has had to suffer many disappointments, and that on ground where it might be supposed to be firm ; but it has survived them all, and occasionally gained a sup porter when it had lost a constituency. In France all is different, as we See to-day. We are driven to the alternatives of believing that the present Govern ment of France is in jeopardy, or of concluding that the Minister of the Interior is gratuitously doing it the greatest possible mischief. Was it necessary that he should denounce the men to whom his mas ter had recently offered the right hand, that he should proclaim them the insidious enemies of the constitution and dy nasty, and that he should put it to the loyalty of France to exclude them from the Chamber ? Was it necessary that he should post them on the walls and warn the inhabitants by house-row of the political burglars who were break ing into their social edifices ? Was it necessary that the Constitutionnel should be converted into a Hue and Cry for the detection and proscription of a small handful of dangerous men ? If it were neces sary, then what are we to think of the enormous fabric which, after the labours of ten years and a vast cost of treasure and blood, is ready to crumble to dust, and fall like a card-castle at the summons of a dozen good talkers and writers ? If it were not necessary, then the Emperor has com mitted a grave error in allowing so much to be staked on so small a game, and in provoking a contest where even victory would have been discreditable, much more defeat. Paris has now resumed its all but normal position of differing from the rest of France, and being content to differ, knowing well that France will eventually follow its lead. We had begun to suspect, or rather to hope, that this was no longer the case ; that immense material improve ments, a profuse expenditure, and a firm military grasp had reduced this volcano to a dormant con dition, and covered its hot lava with verdure. But thanks to M. de Persigny, we see the hollowness of this hope. Paris is the Paris it ever was, and ever will be. It feels a violent reaction from something to something —perhaps it does not quite know its own feelings, but it expresses them in the return of the men who it has just been told are most hatetul to the Emperor's servants and advisers. It was a very natural ambition that the Emperor should wish to rule a free people, and to found a constitu tional monarchy. Not only is it the best chance for the stability of a throne, but such a rule is a moral dignity, and not a mere caprice of fortune or predominance of power. Napoleon 111. wished to lay the early foundation of a free choice and a heartfelt loyalty. The first step was to open the representation and emancipate the Chamber. It was also whispered, somewhat diffidently, to the press, that it might try a little freedo m o f s tyl e . New-fledged liberty was to rise from the ground. and prove that it could fly—not too far or too high. In a gradual and measured concession of liberty it is important to observe who is the first to interrupt the experiment, and declare it a failure. In this case the Emperor has promised freedom, and his Ministers have undertaken to interpret the conces sion, and say precisely how freedom is to be used. The penitent and converted adherents of a ruined cause were to offer themselves to a perfectly free constituency, and be freely but summarily re jected. This would indeed be to govern a free people, and the representatives of the old dynasty would have been once more visited with a political ostracism. Such an experiment was ably designed, and only needed to be faithfully executed. Paris ought to have been left perfectly free; her Press ought to have been left unfettered, and both sides allowed to speak and be heard. But no sooner were there serious symptoms of an adverse result than the experiment was stopped, the Press was placed under orders, and the people of Paris were told wnom they were to return, unless they were traitors and conspira tors. They have been frst told they were free to choose, and then controlled in their choice, like the pa t o no y in and perpetual er and nd which t he i motion, forbiddingn sattempted by fi first t t o ti produceontwr oodr work, introducin g ne s sg p t o a n i tn should ho n to e i u o v l us ed. exhaust itself. In this case the motive-power broken usu t a o l more the fortunateebe eks w than were r ; e e i t t r a. h i o a has and hne its strength, and is doing its legitimate ate work, beenba throughnd by returning the men of its cho . attempt one r e t s o u i prevent t_ it the next thingthere can b e an t only that ee' development, will i stop the machine and perhaps throw it altogether out of gear. HERALD. —There can be no better proof of the position that the Emperor has made racing a French institution than the fact that on Sunday last the Parisions forgot the interest of their general elec tions in the greater attractions of the races at the Bois de Boulogne. Everybody vas there, says our correspondent, and the London newspapers of Mon day were so true in mirroring the French feeling, that while faithfully chronicling the success of the winning horses, not a word was said by them of how M. Thiers and his fellow candidates had been faring at the ballot-box. Even the Journal des Debats of yesterday—par excellence the journal of polities— seems engulfed in the vortex created by the Imperial hand, and while giving nearly two columns to th e fortunes of the horses can consecrate scarcely more than half-a-dozen lines to those of the statesmen. The Parisians, whatever other vanities they are blind to, have reached a very salutary conviction on the vanity of politics. To them all is vexation of spirit save seeing good in their d ays , and probablyth greatest service they ow e t o th e moat distinguished of their historians and statesmen for ri • sking the pains of a candidature was in the f 1' Icitous pun which, suggested by the letter of M, de Persigny, identified him with the public debt as the Thiers Consolidees. Paris has reached the conviction that there are nc, politics outside the Government, and philosophi cally resolves on amusing itself. The consolatory maxim, " Apres nous le deluge," has crept down from monarchs to the people ; and the best states man for France is he who, following the suggestio. n given by the acclimatisation of horse racing, ll invent for Paris a new pleasure. With every sixth man a Government agent why need the rest of the community fash its head about a business already too bountifully provided for ; and as to employing a special talent iu the service, the saying of the Roman Epicurean, " Why risk anything to save what is not worth saving is as good for our time as for the Imperial days when it was uttered. But though as against politics racing is the greater at traction—for the most ennuyee of the Parisian beauties who watched the course on Sunday would probably own that, however " triste" the turf, it is at all events as interesting as the tribune—it bus taken a long time to attract to it the likings of a French public. To be seen and admired by a bril liant entourage is one thing, but to form one of a brilliant entourage, occupied in admiring running horses, is another; and the instinct of a French public is not to interest itself much in performances in which they do not themselves play a principal part. Even among ourselves there are not a few who might own, to a friendly bosom, that when no stake depends on the event their p.easure in races consist in everything but the racing. The void not filled up by the rivalries of the horses is catered for by the fair; and the comforting materials that make the freedom of picnics something more than a privilege, Aunt Sally, the booths, stalls, gambling tables, fortune telling, and the ten thousand other humours of the greatest of our national festivals, comes in to leave us under a happy forgetfulness that we have been travelling a very long way to see little boys in parti-coloured clothing trying to out ride one another on some very long-limbed horses. The races of the Bois de Boulogne, if unenlivened by most of those accessories, were surrounded this year by the various attractions of an institution under prosperous development, and have probably had nothing to equal them in interest in the annals of French " sport." An Imperial pavilion received the Emperor and Empress, accompanied by an ex-King• two sons of the Kings of Holland and Belgium, and a suite becoming "le Grand ilionarque." The race course is said by our Paris correspondent to have been not unlike Epsom from the numbers present, and with the amount of the stake gave almost a na tional importance to the coming-off of the event. All the old rivalries between England and France renewed themselves in the harmless form of a con tention about horses ; and the interest which our countrymen took in Lord Clifden, Saccharometer, and some other horses, brought to redeem their failure at the Derby, was met by a corresponding zeal for the prove ess of a French mare La Toucques, which had been rivalling on French downs the per formance of our own Blink Bonny. The passion for la gloire Francaise found in this far-famed mare a worthy champion. The Paris Bourse turned, in the prospect of her success, into a Tattersall's, and betting operations, as our correspondent tells us, rivalled those of the Three per Cents. Unhappilif the expectation which had raised the French horse to equal odds in the betting was doomed to disap pointment by the superior running of the English horse Ranger, which, our readers will recall as thrown out of his running for the Derby by the falling of Saccharometer. The discomfiture cal only find adequate expression in a French journal in the old phrase of chivalry, " Everything is lost except honour." "As to La Toucques, that in comparable mare," continues the writer, " this pearl of all products, past, present, and future, the bril liant star placed by its late performances at Chan tilly at the zenith of the French Racing Calendar, how is all her glory departed, all her brilliant pro' tige vanished, and all our enthusiasm fallen." TO French mare, however, had the distinction of run: ning second—and though the success was qualified by the fact that the three placed with her wor e English horses, the f ac t t h at a F renc h h orse had been found to beat two of the favourite° for the Derby serves as a pl ace b o to a van ity which might be expected to yield us, if any' where, a precedence in turf matters. The union of the two countries in a common amuse' ment is, perhaps, not the least pleasing of the , proofs how rapidly is going on the assimilation e i nations. The Englishman found himself as ratlell et home on Longchamps on Sunday last, as he did •„ month ago at Epsom, and perhaps of all the. essrr milations we were led to expect from the uprise the railway system and the network of etrie telegraphs, th e r e are few which sho w h o w rapidly the peculiarities which hav e di v id e d o ne peoPl e , from another a re g i v i ng wa y b e f ore th e increase 01 these internatio na l commun i ca ti on s. If some of the symptoms accompanying the change indicate the old prejudices of traditional rivalry engaged in a new field, their manifestation does not t a k e a n un pleasant form ; and could we fancy that the transfe r of our own racing excitement would open a pel f field for the employ of our national rivalries, an d supply a safety valve for prejudices that have rare l y been engaged in a more innocent direction, the lee might congratulate ourselves on obtaining fra il ee Empire another welcome guarantee for that P ea to which, on a celebrated occasion, it was declared be identified with. COUNTRY MARKETS. v LEEDS—TUESDAX. g ood The weather is extremely fine, but the show of wheat being poor, millers are compelled to pay the full raters of Friday. Only select runs attracted notice. No otil e change. LIVERPOOL—TUESDAY. At our market to-day there was a fair attendance of millers and dealers, but a limited demand was experience; for wheat at gener a lly the prices of F r id ay l as t. Four had a good inquiry, at Friday's prices. Oats and oatmeal slog of sale. Indian corn was neglected, and 3d per qr cheaper* Beans declined 3d per qr. MARKET HARBOROUGH—TvEsDAY. A steau'y trade to-day, and full prices given for wheat. —White wheat, 48s to sis ; red, 43s to 47s per 36 stone , . Malting barley at 35s to 37s per qr.; grinding, 30s to 3 2 : per 30 st. O a t s , o ld, 26 s t o 29 5; ne w, 22 8 to 24s per 2 4 at. ; beans, 32e to 36s per qr. BRISTOL—TUESDAY. The transactions in the co r n mar k e t to-d a y we re, un- der , the influence of fine weather, very limited. Wh e at, 11 °‘; ever, firmly held. Spring corn of all descriptio ns a lso ve' firm. SHEFFIELD—TUESDAY. ful l y There has been a steady business done in wheat, at ; z xi last week's prices. A moderate show. Nothing d°d a l— to l p of 3 imperial bushels. malting barley ; grinding firm. Beans eeminancla prices. 1 os Od Red wheat, per load sOd to Od • .1 8 218 White /) .20s Od to 18s 06 ) New red 9 New white i to 39 18s Od oil Beans If ••• 15s Od to 19s Od )/ Peas per qr .. " •• • Od to 5 6 s u ....................... 4s sOta Grinding barley, pe 28s Od to 30s N I r qr 3s s u Malting ditto 348 Od to A 21s Od to 27s °'" ) 1) Oats Flour, is 7d to 2s 2d per stone. ...17s Od to i 0 .E—TIIESDAY. tet, and prices were slightly where ships required clearing' !ek's rates. Oats firm. I Old red wheat„ „as to 6u5 New do. 42s to 49 ,4 I Oats 22s to 4 0 B eans 37 s to 46° NEWCAST The trade in wheat was qui in favour of buyers in cases v Flour scarce, at fully last we , Old white wheat..s7s to 618 I New do. ~ 48s to 53s Malting barley....37s to 42s I Grinding d0.....29s to 32s I MELTON MOWBRAY—TUESDAY. Wheat came tolerably to hand, and sold at quite as 4 0 prices as last week. Barl e y nom i nal. Oats a poor —The following were the currencies :—New white Wile" 47s Od to 53s Od ; new red, 44s Od to 48s r 36 stone/of . ; beans, 36s to 40s for old ; new sorts, 34s to 39s per 3 8 s barley, 35s to 39s for malting, and 29s to 31s per clr• grinding; oats, 24s to 30s Od per 24 stone. London : Printed and Published by WILLIAM ANDREA i of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at THE SUN Office, No. lig Strand, in the Precinct of the f3avoy, in the county a Midttleaex.—Wednesclah June 4 1863. Births. DAYISo—On the Ist inst., at 7, Homer-terrace, Victor sl/e park, the wife of G. F. Davis, Esq., of a son. HATTER.—On the 31st ult., at 14, Harewood-square, Angelo C. Hayter, of a son. WILLOUGHBY.—On the 2d inst., at 35, Montagu-squ a f f the wife of Henry William Willoughby, E s q., ° daughter. Marriages. ADAMS—NEWTON—On the 2d inst., at St. John's „rellf Hampstead, James Scovell Adam s , , of 18, Stan s t gardens, W., and 75, Old Broact-street; to Jane, el"d, daughter of the late W. 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