The Sun. — London, England, 1863-03-23 00:00:00

THE THIRD EDITION Containing "THE SUN," the Latest SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, can be had Every Evening of G. R. GLENIE, NEWS AGENT, 4, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park. THE ATR E-R OYA L, DRURY-LANE.- Lessee and Manager, Mr. Edmund Falconer. THIS EVENING,, EXTREMES ; or, !den of the Day Messrs. Henry Lorraine, H. Sinclair, S. Calhaem, J Robins ; Mrs. D. P. Bowers, Miss Clara Weston, and Mrs. Ed mund Falconer. To conclude with THE SPANISH DANCERS. Mr. J. Robins and Miss Lydia Thompson. Commence at 7. TH.EAT RE-ROY A 1„ HAY MARKET. Lessee. arr. J. B. finckatone. THIS EVENING, at Seven o'clock, will be performed uR AMERICAN COUSIN. Asa Trennhard, Mr. Buck et one ; Lord llumireary, Mr. Sothern. Followed by THE LITTLE TREASURE. Messrs. Howe, Sothern, Mrs. Fltzwilliam, Miss E. Terry, &c. To conclude with THE GALICIAN FETE. Miss Fanny 'Wright. THEATRE -ROYAL LYCEUM OPEN, under the Sole Management ot Mr. PEHTER. THIS EVENING, Mar ch 23, to commence C with an Original Sketch, entitled A SUDDEN ATTACK. Messrs. Shore, Uarden, H. Widdicomb, Miss Henrade, and Mrs. Lee. After which, at a Quarter to Eight, a New Romantic Drama, in Three Acts, and Pr)logue, entitled THE DUKE'S MOTTO, by Paul Feval and John Brougham. The principal character will be sustained by Mr. Pechter, supported by Messrs. G. Vining, J. Brougham, H. W iddi cumbe, W. M'lntyre, F. Charles, Garden, Raymond, H. Butler, Dawson ; Misses Carlotta Leclercq, Kate Terry, B. Lavenue, and Elsworthy. Barnet Stage- . Manager, Mr. G. Vining. Acting-Manager, Mr. H. t R OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE Lessee and Manager, Mr Lindua. PHIS EVENING, THE LoirftY TICKET. Messrs. Belmore, Fitzjames, and Cathcart ; Miss Hudspeth and Mil. 11. Marston. To b 3 followed by the drama of AURORA FLOYD. Miss Amy Setlgwielc, Miss Ilenderson, and Mrs. Simpson ; Messrs. oxby, H. Vezin, G. Belmore, C. Seyton, Wallace, aid Collett. _ - To Conclude with THE TIONEYSTOO N. Messrs. Roxby, Veen, Belmore, Stephens, and Cathcart ; Miss Constance Aylmer, Miss M. Oliver, and Miss M. Jones. NTHR ATRE-R VAL, ADELPHI.- Sole Proprietor and Menai:ter. Mr. B. Webster. THIS EVENING (sth time) AURORA FLOYD. Miss Avonia Jones, Miss H. Simms, Mrs. Billington ; Mr. Benj. Webster, Mr. Paul Bedford, Mr. R. Phillips, Mr. Billington, Mr. Stuart, Mr. Sefton, Mr. Romer, Mr. C. J. Smith. Atter which, A VALENTINE : Messrs. J. L. Toole, Paul Bedford, Miss Kate Kelly, and Miss Seaman. Commence at 7. ANOTHER LARGE ISSUE OF THE WEDDING SUN Is now Publishing. THIS DAY. —Morning,... 4h. 22m. —Afternoon, 4b. 40m. TO-IKORROW.—Morning, 4h. 59m.—Afternoon sh. 16m. The Weather—Sun Office, March 22, 1863. THEUMOSIETER. Highest since Noon yesterday. 4B Lowest during the night This day at N00n..... Wind—N.-W. ; fresh, with fine weather, MARCH 23. THERMOMETER, Highest since Noon yesterday .. 50 Lowest during the night Thia day at Noon Wind—Westerly ; light, with fine weather. t• ---, •:''.-...', tilt j p.-.. --4- Ir . ta r o3l" a `"'• :It 4 1 40`" 11 4 1 .,4- 1 ,s-P i k, mw--\- *34.4 LONDON, MONDAY, MARCH 23, 1863. The Africa has just brought to us news from America. The intelligence dating down to the 11th inst., at New York, arrived, it will be seen, on the 22d at Queenstown. It is precisely of the old lamentable character: Several exploits attempted, some of them partially accomplished, but nothing done on either side calculated in any way to bring this hideous contention to a close. Like the little scientific Marionettes in the obsolete toy barometer, in and out, alternately appearing and disappearing with bewildering uncertainty, move the Federal' and Confederates. But that the results are so frightful the events would be simply contempti ble. As it is, iy becomes to the last de gree wearisome to reiterate continually the same, precisely the same, kind of inconclusive occur rences. Assured all the while that ruin and blood sbed increase, as the time advances with the multi plication of these events, one reflects at the same moment that nothing all the while comes of it — nothing, that is to say, in any even the faintest appreciable manner calculated to lead towards the conclusion of this chaotic epoch of disasters. Tbvo enterprises stand forth in our latest budget of news from the opposite shores of the Atlantic as constituting the incidents of the civil war since the receipt of our former despatches. On the seventh the Federal cavalry appear to have obtained a certain advantage over the Con federates at Unionville, in Tennessee, about ten miles from Murfreesboro. A sudden attack adven tured upon by the former enabled them to bear off at its termination the camp equipage of the Southerns at linionvill?, together with a number of prisoners. There was tit for tat, however, at as early a date afterwards as the morning of the ninth, when the Confederates resolved upon and successfully accom plished a bold raid into Fairfax Court House. At two o'clock in the morning this rush into Fairfax Court House was effceted—Brigadier General STOUGHTON, with head-quarters, guard, and fifty five horses, being the captured trophies of the day. Gathering their prisoners together and stowing away their booty—" boot, saddle, to horse, and away went the Confederates afterwards on the 1 road to Warrenton. It mattered nothing that they had to pass the outposts at Centreville. 7 hat, to keen-witted warriors, like the Southerners, of an impedi men t. I n t h e proved to be nothing captured order-books of the Court House at Fairfax, tise c o untersign being looked for, was there duly found, was thereupon duly used, and this was won a clear passage through the obstructive outposts at Centreville ! To indulge in as choice a specimen of elegant latinity as any of those charming fragments from the classics adorning the conversation of Capt. WRAGGE, one might imagine the leader of this audacious raid upon Fairfax Court _House muttering to himself sardonically as he turned the leaves of the captured order book in search of the counter- sign— Fas sst ab hosts doceri. No wonder when all was done thus adroitly, no wonder at all, that nothing came of it, when the Federal cavalry were sent in pursuit. According to the accounts now brought to us by the Afriea,VAN Dous appears to have had under him fully 10,000 men during the recent contest at Spring ville. And, if we are to credit the assertion on the other side that the Federals mustered there no more than 3,000 in all, it cannot be any longer matter of surprise that with hi s much 10,000 menVAN DORN was enabled to take from among th e opposing 3,000 as many as 2,000 prisoners. As to the maritime movements both among the Northerns and Southerna, there are two or three now reported that are not unworthy of being par _ ticalarised. First of all the statement as to th e destruction of the Nashville at Savannah is, by these advice, fully confirmed. Then rumours were afloat on the 10th at New York to the of=-et that several gunboats had contrived to pass at length through the channel formed from the Mississippi into Lake Providence. There were flying state ments at New Yorkevedadding that already those said gunboats were dealing about them consider able destruction. One account went so far as to assert distinctly that, among the gunboats of the Federals, one more adventurous than the rest had advanced through Yazoo Pass as far as, Yazoo City. The expectation awakened by these rumours—and certainly it is one not much to be wondered at under the circumstances—was to the leffect that, in all human likelihood, th e Confederate transports, in retaliation, would forthwith emerge from the White River for the express purpose of offering battle without further delay to the gun boats of the North. Perhaps the oddest morsel of news among all this motley jumble of intelligence brought to us by the Africa is that declaring as imminent a collision between the military and the Mormonites at Utah. The redoubtable prophet, BRIGHAM YOUNG, together with Councillor KIMBALL and Councillor WELLS, were, when the advices left, threatened with immediate seizure by the military under peremptory orders from the Governor of Utah and his associate justices. Against this in tended arrest of their loaders, the Mormon citizens were rising in arms with every evidence of having come to a fixed determination to offer the most resolute resistance. Whether the impending storm will eventually blow over there at Utah it would be difficult even to conjecture. Bat supposing the Prophet to be worsted—as he is tolerably certain to be, should events bring his followers into serious collision with the military authorities—it were idle even then to anticipate as a probable consequence the collapse of Mormonism. Did not the original Prophet of the Mormons, the veritable founder of Mormonism, BRIGHAM YOUNG'S predecessor and master, Josue' SMITH— did not Toseru SMITH retain unmarred his influence over his all-believing followers, even when Josern SMITH had undergone the double ordeal of a dip in a capacious tar barrel and a roll in a ripped up bed of feathers ? Even when smeared from head to foot with pitch, and fledged abundantly with those symbolical pluckings from the geese of America, the Prophet SMITH was still to the Mor mons—the Prophet SMITH ! There is a wonderful tenacity of reverence, or affection, or admiration, or by whatever name it may be called, among the Free Citizens of America. Take, as among the latest proofs of this, the mention made towards the close of these last advices from New York, to the effect that a movement is actually afoot on the part of the Federal Government, with a view to make General BUTLER Provost Marshal under the Conscription Act ! In no other country but America could BARNUM so long have survived as among the recognised institutions of the land. General Tom THUMB no where else than in America could have found his way in the midst of the miseries of a disastrous civil war, to a sort of official audience with the Chief of the State. A little later on and BRIGHAM YOUNG may be shown off at the White House as a sort of Mormonite CARACTACUS, borne onward in Mr. LINCOLN'S state procession ! That—anything but triumphal procession now going fast down hill, without even the pretence of a ski& upon the President's chariot wheels, but with the pace of those wheels perpetually accelerated. went treasury. offering any resistance. abase. RUSSIA. It is very distressing to notice the accounts re ceived from Staleybridge. It is evident that the relief committee have been much in fault in their arrangements lately. It is at such times as these that peculiar and particular measures should be taken to prevent the least annoyance or suspicion gaining ground among the ranks of the sufferers from such a cruel calamity. Even if the new plans for giving tickets instead of wages were desirable in themselves, it should have been ascertained what were the wishes of the recipients before putting those measures into execution. Besides this notion the committee also proposed to have a day in hand with the wages, and to reduce these by the sum of fourpence a week. It is really not at all surpris ing that these comprehensive charges should have proved too much for the much-tried operatives, who are alike irritated and enfeebled by long pri vation and great suffering, as well as disheartened by the want of hope, that might encourage them to hold on for better days. "While censuring their conduct in its mistaken ideas and misguided vio fence, and deeply deploring that any blot should be fixed on the hitherto admirable demeanour of the working classes of the community through the whole of these dreadful trials, we cannot but feel grieved and disappointed at the want of discretion that has prevailed in the counsels, and influenced the judg ments of those in such a responsible post. It is evident that causes of irritation must have pre vailed for some time previously to this outbreak, or it would never have assumed on the sudden such a determined character. A meeting of discon tented spirits might have been annoying, but a mob of rioters, to quell whom the military had to be called in is a very different affair. Such an event assumes a serious aspect in the present state of things, and the details that are given do not tend to allay the alarm that is naturally caused by such FRANCE. proceedings. We learn that sixty of the chief rioters have been captured, and the magistrates committed twenty, nine of them on Saturday for trial at the Chester assizes. It is given as one of the many causes of the angry feelings long dormant in this place, that Ashton has been very differently treated in the way of relief, and that Staleybridge, only four miles dis tant, has had but one relief committee, while at Ashton several committees of different tendencies, have ministered to the wants of the distressed. Be this as it may, the result of the riotous proceedings of Friday are most deplorable alike in a political and a moral sense. There is one consolation that the ill feeling does not seem to have spread to other places, and therefore let us hope that this warning may be of 1 service to all parties, The committees should re member that their object i s t o ma i n t a i n peace, an d ' that they should make all possible concessions to attain that end. The operatives should recollect that they injure their own cause by such unseemly con duct, and, instead of calling forth the sympathies of their countrymen as the subscriptions that have flowed from all parts of the land ha ve t est ifi ed they have hitherto done, they will change s y mpat h y to suspicion. Let them not lose the grand opportunity they have had of showing to the world, how the English working classes can meet adversity. Great forbearance will now be required in the treatment of these excited men, and any harshness and un necessary strictness on the part of the authorities may occasion the most deplorable results. There is no feeling so difficult to allay as the sense of injury, and none so deadly when it is roused. Let, those who have the power sink all petty prejudices, and lay aside all sectarian motives, making it their endeavour and object to meet the emergency, that so far as rests on their endeavours, if, un happily, suffering must prevail for a while longer in their dwellings, still the voice of complaining may be hushed in our streets, and the S t rong arm of the law shall not have to be called in to p ut down those whose cruel sufferings want no more addition. All suc h v i ctor i es are defeats in the end to the cause of order, and the spread of ri g ht feelin g among the various classes of the community. It is a 3 dreadful thing to reflect upon that mistaken zeal o n one side a n d m i sgu id e d vio lence on the other often lead to results that ar c quite beyond the control of the original movers in the affair. Then too late they discover that (Per Africa.) " The hand that kindled cannot quench the fiatlac." It is to be trusted that this first sad disturban ce of the public peace may be the last that occurs before the final disparition of the causes that have led to this unfortunate and unnatural state of things among the working classes of the community. LATEST INTELLIGENCE (RETJTER'S TELEGRAMS.) THE POLISH INSURRECTION. CRACOW, MARCH 22, Midnight. greszow, in the Palatinate of Lublin, was occu pied by the insurgent chief Czechowski on the 20th inst. The insurgents took possession of the Govern- The Russians withdrew from the town without CRACOW MARCH 23. A proclamation, dated 21st inst., of the former Central Revolutionary Committee of Warsaw, has been published, announcing that the committee re sumes its functions on account of Langiewicz having been taken prisoner. The proclamation concludes by making an appeal to the people to take up arms against the enemy. It says, " When our brothers are fighting in such numbers the place of every Pole is in the ranks of the national army." ST. PETERSBURG, MARCH 23. An imperial ukase has been published to-day, abolishing, for certain local reasons, all relations of an obligatory character existing between the pea santry and the landed proprietors in the Govern ments of Wilna, Grodno, and Minsk, and four dis tricts of Witebsk. The emancipation of the peasants is to be completely effected. The ukase further orders that from the Ist of May next the peasants are no longer to pay their rent to the landed proprietors but to the Government, which will itself pay to the proprietors the price of emancipation. Full details on this head are contained in the TURIN, MARCH 23. The Opintone of to-day says :—" Rumours were current yesterday that the President of the Council would tender his resignation on account of the state of his health, and that other Ministerial modifica tions might be expected. We believe that this news is at least premature." LISBON, MARCH 23. The law passed by the Cortes, modifying the restrictions on entailed estates, has given general satisfaction. The Government have a majority on the question of the Indian Bishoprics. The marriage of the Prince of Wales has been well feted in Lisbon, there having been no less than three public dinners of different classes of the British residents, and two balls in the evening. The Count de Redendo, a leading member of the Miguelite party, is dead. The weather continues wet and stormy. The Opinione Nationale states that it gives a letter from the Emperor to M. Billault, which com pliments him upon his speech in the Senate. The Constitutionnel affirms that the letter of the Emperor to M. Billault is not only a striking tes timonial of satisfaction for the illustrious statesman to whom it is addressed, but it is a solemn declara tion which sanctions on all points the exposition of the policy of the Government by M. Billault, and the vote of confidence expressed by the Senate. The Emperor's letter is a solemn ratification, which gives room for no equivocation, and which will be perfectly understood both in France and also abroad. The Siecle animadverts upon the language of the Constitattonnel, in its postcript concerning the defeat of Langiewicz, where it says, " that it is amnesty which completes such victories, end the wcrld will applaud Alexander 11. if, after having put down the insurrection by force, he can disarm it by his magnanimity." Such words, says the Steele, ought not to be found written by the pen of a Frenchman. It is doubtful if they would be toler able in the official journal of St. Petersburg. The writer speaks of the magnanimity of the Emperor of Russia, and the plaudits the world will give to his conduct if he accords an amnesty to Poland. But how can the right cause ask or receive a pardon ? Even after her defeat will not Poland still be living ? She knows how to trust to the magnanimity of Alexan der. Poland wants no amnesty. One day, when she has regained her independence, it will be her part to give an amnesty to her executioners, and the French writers who invoke the generosity of the Russian Emperor at the very moment when blood flows in Poland, and when, according to the un nappy expression of the Constitutionnel, the Czar has put down the insurrection by force. If, which God forbid, these noble martyrs have been crushed by treason or overpowered by numbers, there ought to be no place in any journal of our country for such revolting plaudits. Every one ought to groan at a victory which will leave the Polish nation at the mercy of its oppressors. Every one ought to appeal to the French Government to obtain a striking reparation for such long and cruel suf ferings. AMERICA. (REUTER'S TELEGRAM,) QUEENSTOWN, March 22. The Royal Mail steamship Afric 1, from New York on the 11th inst., arrived here at 12,14 aan to-day, with 40 passengers, and 1,315,264 dols. in specie. She landed the mails, &c,, and proceeded at 1.15 a.m. for Liverpcol; all well. The weather was foggy off the harbour. Federal gunboats are reported to have passed through the channel, from the Mississippi, into Lake Providence, and to be doing considerable destruction. It was thought that the Confederate transports would come out of White River, and offer battle. One Federal gunboat is said to have reached Yazoo City through Yazoo Pass. The Federal Commander, Porter, has proclaimed that all parties caught firing upon unarmed vessels, burning cotton, or levying contributions, should be hanged. Immense numbers of troops are sick at Vicks burg. The Confederate General, Stephenson, offi cially reports that the steamer Indianola was not destroyed, but was being raised. One gun had burst, but the others were uninjured. The Confe derates made a raid into Fairfax Court-house at two o'clock on the morning of the 9th inst., and captured Brigadier-General Stoughton, with his headquarters, guard, and fifty-five horses. After securing the prisoners and booty they retreated by Warrington-road, and, by using the countersign obtained from the captured order books, they passed the outposts at Centreville. The Federal cavalry was sent in pursuit. On the 7th inst. the Federal cavalry attacked the Confederates at Unionville, ten miles from Mur freesboro', Tennessee, capturing their camp equipage and a number of prisoners. At the late engagement at Springville Van Dorn is said to have had 10,000 men, whilst the Federals numbered only 3,000 men. According to Southern reports Van Dorn cap tured 2,000 prisoners. The destruction of the steamer Nashville at Savannah is confirmed. A collision between the military and the citizens at Utah is imminent. The Governor of Utah and his associate justices ordered the military to arrest Brigham Young and Councillors Kimball and Wells. The citizens are armed, and determined to resist the arrest of their leaders. A movement has been made by the Government to make General Butler provost-marshal under the Conscription Act. Resolutions have been introduced into the Con federate Senate to inquire into the expediency of repealing the resolution declaring that a neutral flag covers enemies' goods, with the exception of contraband of war. The Washington senate is occupied in executive session with civil and military nominations. Despatch bearers to the British and French mini sters have arrived in Washington from Richmond. The New York Journals assert that gold at Rich mond is at 350 (P) premium. The privateer Retribution was at Nassau on the 28th ult. Three iron steamers arrived at Nassau on the 27th ult. from England. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, March 10, Evening. Money easy. Gold 59 per cent. premium. Ex change on London : Bankers' bills, 178 to 180. Stocks steady. New York Centrals, 1184; Illinois, 90; Erie, 783. Cotton steady; middling upland, 87c. Flour improving, and prices 20c. higher. Wheat and corn improving. Provisions quiet. Sugar improving. Coffee quiet. Molasses ad vancing. Crude petroleum 20 to 21. NEW YORK, March 11, Morning. Van Dorn's forces in Tennessee are reported to have retreated South. Another report says that a large Federal force has moved against the Confede rates at Spring Hill, Tennessee, and that a battle is imminent. It is also rumoured that Van Dorn has been defeated with heavy loss. The wreck of a steamer has been seen about 12 miles from Havannab, and an impression prevails that it was the wreck of the privateer Florida. President Lincoln has issued a proclamation de claring that absent soldiers who return to their commands before April 1 will be reinstated, but that those who do not will be arrested and treated as deserters. IL) warns the people against enticing soldiers to desert, and calls upon them to assist in preventing desertions. Several persons who had left New Orleans for the South, as registered enemies of the Union, have re turned to New Orleans in a starving condition. The /Veto York Tribune asserts that the Federals were expecting to be attacked at Baton Rouge. Mr. Slidell's property had been confiscated in New Orleans. The three republican members are reported to be elected in New Hampshire. The legislature will also be largely republican. No governer has been elected, as there were three candidates, and neither had a legal majority, consequently a governor will be appointed by the legislature, which, being re publican, will appoint a republicatk candidate. The committee of the New York Chamber of Commerce has had an interview with the President, urging him to issue forthwith lAters of marque. The Washington correspondent of the New Jerk Times asserts that General Butler will be appointed Provost Marshal. The following are the particulars of the Confede rate raid on Fairfax Court House : Information has been received that the rebel Captain Moseley, with his command, stealthily entered Fairfax Court House this morning at two o'clock. They captured Provost Marshal °scanner's patrol, horses, &c., together with Gen. Stoughton and all the men detached from his brigade. They took every horse which mild be found, public and private. The commanding officer of the post, Colonel Johnson, of the sth New York Cavalry, made his escape. The rebels scotched for men in every direction. All our available cavalry force were, at last ac counts, in pursuit of the rebels. The enemy appeared - suddenly during a rain storm. General Stoughton had established his head-quarters at some distance from his brigade. The rebels captured one hundred and ten horses. They went in search of Colonel Wyndham, but that gentleman happened to 1)9 in Washington. They, however, searched his trunk and took his papers. A telegraph operator, it is said, was taken prisoner by the rebels. The capture of Brigadier-General Stoughton, with his head quarters, guard, and fifty-five horses, by a marauding party of rebels, within our lines, is regarded by the military authorities here as deeply mortifying and disgraceful. Upon securing their prisoners and booty, the t rebel party retreated by th e W arren t on roa d. Hav ing obtained possession of tho countersign from the captured order books at headquarters, they used it on their arrival at Centreville to pass the outposts, and went to the right. An orderly who had been taken escaped during the morning, and arrived at Fairfax Court House at 2 p.m. He reported the enemy rapidly retreat ing, and our cavalry in such close pursuit that the rebels had left behind them 30 of the captured pri soners, and were cunning for life. At the moment of this raid Colonel Wyndham was in Washington under arrest, for causes hereto fore stated. It was his custom, while commanding that post, to keep patrols between the pickets, which would have prevented this raid upon the head quarters of a brigadier-general. A few days ago Colonel Wyndham was tempo rarily released from arrest to take command of an important cavalry expedition, with orders to report himself again under arrest when the duty had been performed. To-day he was unconditionally released, and directed to resume the command of the cavalry forces at that point. The following Southern despatches are published in the New York journals : Commander Porter has proclaimed that any parties firing on unarmed vessels shall be barged ; also persons burning cotton, or levying contri butions. The Jackson Mississippian's correspondent says there are but 2,000 Union troops in Arkansas. The rebel Generals Holmes and Hindman are at Little Rock,qud there is a demand among the rebel troops for their removal, and for fighting generals to be put in their places. In the rebel Senate, on the 3d, a resolution was adopted to inquire into the expediency of repealing the resolutions deck:it-ing that a neutral flag covers enemies' goods, with the excepti on o f contra b an d I of war. NEW YORK, March 10, Evening. In the House a resolution was off6red to suspend all business until the Currency and Tax Bills are acted upon. A bill has been introduced into the rebel Senate to place all telegraphic lines under the control of the Postmaster-General. A Fredericksburg correspondent of the Enquirer gives the fuliowing prices there :—Coffee, 5 dols. per pound; sugar, 1 dol. 50c. per pound; candles, 1 dol. 50c. ; beef, 75c. per pound; peas, 16 do's. per bushel; butter, 3 dols. per pound. All arc on half rations. The Richmond Dispatch, of March 6, says—." The gunboat Indianola, recently captured from the Yankees, was blown up last Tuesday night by the rebels, and her guns fell into the hands of the Federals. The Queen of the West left in s uc h a edra hurry e a iS. as to leave part of her crew on shore. A later despach states that the Indianola, is not destroyed, and that they are raising her. The Federal gunboats aro making great destrue tion on Lake Providence. The Federals attacked Van Dorn, March 1, at Thompson's, near Franklin. He drove them back, and captured 2,200 officers and men. The rebel loss is not yet reported. An attack ja daily expected on Port Hucition by General Banks' force. The preparations of Admiral Dupont for the at tack upon Charleston and Savannah are said to be completed. He has under hie command a most efficient and iron clad act, with all manner of novel and ingenious appliances for removing the obstacles which th e C onfederates have p l ace d i n the harbour of the former city, and the assault may begin at any 111°113(.Confederates we re i n hi gh sp i r i ts, t h e o ffi ce rs o' Beauregara's st a ff h av i ng -i recently given a brilliant At the last advices thean ball in the thr ea t ene d c i ty, an d the defence . doubtless be as d e t erm i ne d as t h © assault. .. I h p.,_. ‘ ' T ul l ,_,,,,-, tutular HER MAJESTY. WINDSOR CASTLE, March 21. Her Imperial Highness the Duchess of Brabant, attended by the Countess d'Yve, left the Castle last night. Her Royal Highness the Countess of Flanders arrived at the Castle last evening and accompanied the Duchess of Brabant to London, Her Majesty the Queen, accompanied by her Royal Highness the Princess Louis of Hesse, walked and drove in the grounds this morning. Her Royal Highness the Princess Beatrice tock a carriage airing. His Royal Highness Prince Arthur, attended by Major Elphinstone, arrived at the Castle this afternoon. March 22. The Queen, Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse, Princess Helena, Prince Arthur, and Prince Leo pold, with the Ladies and Gentlemen in Waiting, attended Divine service this morning in the Private Chapel. The Rcv. F. C. Cook, Chaplain in Ordi nary to the Queen, preached the sermon. IRE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EV ENING, MARCEI 23, 1863. The Prince and Princess of Wales. The Prince and Princess of Wales went to Marl borough House on Saturday forenoon. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cam bridge, the Princess Mary, and the Duke of Cam bridge visited the Prince and Princess of Wales on Saturday, at Buckingham Palace. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess Christian, with the Princess Dagmar, Prince Frederick, Prince William, and Prince Waldemar, and Princess Thyra, of Denmark, visited the Prince and Princess of Wales, at Buckingham Palace. The Prince and Princess of Wales, Princess Christian of Denmark, and the Princess Dagmar, took a drive in an open carriage in the afternoon. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess Christian of Denmark, attended by Colonel Fratcis Seymour, C.B.,visited Marlborough House. His Royal Highness Prince Frederick of Hesse Cassel and the Duke of Holstein Glncksburg visited and took leave of the Prince and Princess of Wales in the afternoon. His Royal Highness Prince Louis of Hesse, attended by Captain Westerweller, left Buckingham Palace on Saturday for Windsor Castle. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge visited Prince Frederick of Hesse Cassel and the Duke of Holstein Glucksburg on Saturday, and took leave of their Royal and Serene Highnesses. The Prince Frederick and the Duke of Holstein, attended by Baron Oertzen, M. de Roepstorff, Capt. Von Kaas, and Lieut.-Col. Du Plat, left town at 6 o'clock on Saturday evening, for Dover, and em barked for the Continent in the Vivid. VISIT OF THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES TO THE ZOOLOGICAL GAB.DENS.—Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, the Prince and Princess Christian of Demark, and other members of the Danish Royal family, visited the Zoological-gardens yesterday. They were conducted over the gardens by Mr. Bartlett, the superintendent, and appeared much interested with the col lection of animals. His R lat Highness the Prince of Wales has appointed Messrs. Sandilands and Son, of Conduit. street, to be military tailors to his Royal Highness, --Court Journal. Meetings of Learned Societies this Week. TO -DAY, MARCH 23. Architects--At 8 p,m. "On the Abbeys of Ireland." By the Rev. J. L. Petit, M.A.., F.S.A. Geographical—At 8) p.m. 1. " March from Km rachee to Gwadier, on the Mekram Coast, in the Cold Season of 1861." By Major F. J. Goldsmid. 2. "On the Har bour of Shedashagur." By Dr Duncan. Medical—At 81 p.m. " Casa of Obturator Hernia Opera • tion. By Mr. W. J. Coulson. London Institution—At 7 p.m. " Opera." By J. Pitt. man, Esq. TO-MORROW, MARCH 24. Anthropological—At 7t p.m. 1. " A Day Amongst the Fans." By Captain R. F. Burton. V.P. 2. " Indian Tribes to Loreto, North Peru." By Prof, Raimondi. (Translated by W. Bollaert, Esq.) Civil Engineers—At 8 p.m, "1. Description of the Lyd gate and Buckhorn Weston Railway Tunnels." By Mr. J. G. Fraser. 2. "The Public Works in the Pro- vince of Pernambuco, Brazil." By Mr. IV. M. Peniston. Medical and Chirurgical—At 81 p.m. "On Diphtherial Nerve Affections." By Dr. Greenhow. 2. "On the T: eatment of Stricture of Urethra." By Mr. Henry Thompson. ,oyal Institution—At 3 p.m. "On Animal Mechanics." By Professor Marshall. Zoological—At 9 p.m. 1. "On a New Bat from British Columbia." By Mr, L. Lord. 2. "On Anatomy of Sea Otter," and (3) "Anatomy of Humming Bird." By Dr. Crisp. 4" On New Birds from China." By Mr, Swinhoe. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25, Archceolog,ical Association—At 81 p.m. 1. "On Thu ribles." By Mr. Pettigrew. 2. "On Ancient Snuffers." By Mr. Cuming. Royal Literature—At 41 p.m. London Institution—At 7 p.m. " Vertebrata." By C. Carter Blake, Esq. Society of Arts—At 8 p.m. "On the Present Sources of the Supply of Quinine, with Special Reference to the in troduction of the Cinchona Plant in India and other Countries." By Mr. Clements R. Markham. THURSDAY, MARCH 26. Royal Society—At 81 p.m. Antiquaries—At 81 p.m. Artists and Amateurs—At 8 p.m. Royal Institution—At 3 p.m. "On Chemical Affinity." By Dr. E. Frankland. FRIDAY, MARCH 27. Royal Institution—At 8 p.m. "On the Discovery of the Metal Thallium." By Win. Crookes, Esq., F.C.S. London Institution—A. 7 p.m. "On Economic Botany." By Professor Bentley. SATURDAY, MARCH 28. Botanic—At 3i p.m. Royal Institution—At 3 p.m. "On the Science of Lan guage." By Professor Max Muller. THE EDINBURGH BOTANIC GARDEN—The Lords of the Treasury having deferred till spring their decision as to opening the Edinburgh Botanic Garden on Sunday afternoons, the local agitation on the question was revived a few weeks ,go, and many additional memorials were sent to their lordships. On Thursday the Lord Provost received a letter from Mr. Peel, stating that, " having taken all the circumstances into full consideration, and especially the divided state of opinion in Edinburgh, and the strong expression of feeling against opening the garden on Sundays, conveyed to this Board in memorials from many congregations and places in Scotland, my Lords have come to the conclusion that it is their lordship's duty, on the whole to make no change in the rules regarding ad mission into this garden." THAMES EMBANKMENT, SOUTH SIDE.—The bill defines the works authorised as follows :—An em bankment from Gunhouse-alley, near the London Gas works, to Bishop's- walk, with an enlargement of the bed of the river by excavation of the land and removal of the wharf walls from Gunhouse-alley to Broad-street; a new street from the embankment to Vauxhall-row ; a viaduct from Bishop's-walk to 'Westminster-bridge; a new street from Bishop's-walk to Palace-new-road. A clause authorises the construction of barge beds and basins, with entrances from the Thames under the embankment, for the purpose of diminishing the inconvenience that may be caused to wharfingers. WRECKS.—During the past week the number of 46 wrecks have been reported, making a total for the pre sent year of 603, EARL CANNING'S CASHMERE SHAWLS.—The extraordinary excitement occasioned by the sal', at Messrs, Christie and Co.'s, of these noted shawls must have ended in disappointment to many persons anxious to become pa,- sossed of a Cashmere from this noted collection. The name of the Governor-General appeared to be a guarantee suffi cient to induce many persons to give considerably m ore t h an the value. Tha circumstance, taken in conjunction with the patronage bestowed by her Royal Highness the Prin cess of Wales on Cashmere shawls, doubtless created an unusual desire among India shawl buy ers t o ta k e advantage whatof appeared to be a favourable opportunity. The dealers in India shawls mustered in great force, but did not appear successful in making many purchases —a sure indi cation that the goods had much exceeded their value. A few lots were knocked down to Messrs. Farmer and Rogers, of Regent - street, who, p er h aps, considered they " ere making an interesting addition to their important stock of India goods. The disappointed at Earl Canning's sale may find consolation at the above establishment, where a large variety of every c l ass of Cashmere shawl is kept, from the simple Delhi scarf of one guinea to the elaborately wrought Cashmere of one hundred and fifty. Importing Tea without colour on the leaf pre vents the Chinese passing off inferior leaves as in the usual kinds. Hornimau's Tea is uncoloured, therefore, always god SQlcl i packets by 2,280 agents. MAIKETS---This Day. , MARK-LANE. The wheat trade, in the country markets, held on Satur day, was less firm, and, in some instances, the advance rea lised at the close of the previous week was not maintained. The supplies on offer exhibited a slight increase. All spring corn was very dull at drooping currencies. Flour changed hands slowly on former times. On the Continent the demand for wheat is steady at late rates; and in other articles, a moderate business is doing, but at rather lower prices. The American markets continue dull for wheat, flour, and maize at reduced quotations. The arrivals of home-grown produce up to our market last week were very moderate. The imports from abroad amounted to 19,647 quarters of wheat, 17,886 barley, 65,732 oats, 34 beans, 956 peas, 1,616 tares, 16,969 linseed, 6,033 rapeseed, 6,136 maize, 19 sundries, 222 sacks and 17,484 barrels of flour. The supply of English wheat received fresh up to this morning's market was only moderate. But few samples came to hand in good condition, and these were mostly dis posed of at barely last Monday's quotations. Inferior qualities, however, met a dull inquiry at drooping curren cies ; and a portion of the supply was left unsold at the close of business. The show of samples of foreign wheat, both ex granary and ex ship, was somewhat extensive. lied American and white Dantzic parcels changed hands to a moderate extent, chiefly in small quantities, and prices were fairly supported ; otherwise the foreign wheat trade ruled heavy, and the quotations had a o ownward tendency. Floating cargoes of grain were in slow request, at about sts.tionary prices. The market was moderately supplied with English, and extensively with foreign barley. Owing to the favourable weather for the completion of spring sowing, all qualities sold heavily, at fully th e l a t e d ec li ne i n their value; in deed, in some instances, a further reduction took place in the quotations. No quotable change took place in the price of malt. The. trade, however, was quiet. The supply of oats was very large. Good and fine parcels moved off slowly at fully the late reduction in the currency. Heated parcels were very dull, and they were disposed of at very low prices. Beans, with which the market was moderately supplied, were in slow request, on former terms. Peas were tolerably firm as to price, but the demand for them was in a sluggish state. The flour trade was dull, yot prices were without material change from Monday last. The supply of barrels on offer was moderately large. CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASITRB, Wheat—Essex and Kent, red, new Ditto, old 4BB 54a Ditto, white, new 478 51s Ditto, old 509 578 Norfolk and Lincoln, red, old —9 8 Ditto, new Talavera, Bye— Barley—Grinding Malting 3Bs 43s Malt—Suffolk and Norfolk 5OB 608 Brown Kingstown and Ware 568 70s Chevalier 66s 25s Oats —Yorkshire:and Lincolnsh., Feeding l9B 218 Potato Youghal and Cork, black 169 22s Cork, white lOs 25s Scotch, Feeding 2lB 258 Beans—Tick Pigeons, Peas—Grey, new Maple White, new 369 40s Boilers 3Bs 40s Flour—Town-made Suffolk 349 888 Stockton and Norfolk. 34s 35s METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET. The supply of foreign beasts and calves here to-day was only moderate, but there was a large number of Hambro' sheep on offer, in very poor condition. Sales progressed heavily, at depressed currencies. From our own grazing districts, as well as from Scotland, the arrivals of beasts fresh up this morning were on the in crease, compared with Monday last, and the condition of most breeds was good. Although the attendance of buyers was somewhat numerous the beef trade was in a sluggish state, at Thursday's decline in the quotations. The best Scots and crosses sold at 4s 8d to 4s 10d, being 2d per 81b lower tha - n on this day se'nnight. A few of the inferior breeds were turned out unsold. The arrivals of beasts from Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, and Cambridgeshire amounted to 2,100 Scots, short horns, and crosses ; from other parts of England, 800 various breeds ; from Scotland, 500 Scots and crosses ; and from Ireland, 70 oxen and heifers. We were moderately well, but not to say heavily, sup plied with sheep. Their quality and condition, however, were prime. All breeds moved off slowly, and prices gave way 3d per 81bs; Downs, in the wool, realised 6s; out of the wool, 5s 2d; shorn half-breds, ss; do. Lincolns and Liecesters, 4s 8d per Blbs. A few very prime lambs sold at Bs, but the more general quotation was 7a 4d per 81bs. The supply was very moderate, From the lele of Wight the arrival was 60 head. Calves, though in moderate supply, moved off slowly, at a decline of 2d per Blbs. Prices ranged from 4s 2d to 5s 4d per 8 lbs. The pork trade was heavy, at barely stationary prices. Per Slb, to sink the offal. s. d. a. d. a. d. a. d. Crse. & inf. beasts 3 4 3 6 Primecrs-wool d 0.5 0 5 Second quality do. 3 8 4 0 i Pme. S'thdown d 0.5 10 6 0 Prime large oxen 4 2 4 6 I Large arse. calves 4 2 4 10 Prime Scots, & - c. 4 8 4 10 Prime small do 5 0 5 4 tiro. & inf. sheep 3 6 4 0 Large hogs 3 8 4 4 Second quality do. 4 24 10 Small porkers , 4 6 4 8 Lambs, 7s 4d to 8s Od. Suckling calves, 12s to 20s ; and quarter-old store pigs 20s to 295. TOTAL SUPPLY. FOREIGN SUPPLY. Beasts Cows Sheep Calves { Pigs Pigs Pigs. 260 ; A. statement and comparison of the supplies and prices of fat stock exhibited and sold in the great metropolitan cattlemarket, on Monday, March 24, 1862, and this day, Monday, March 23, 1863. Per 81b. to sink tho offal. March 24, 1862. Coarse and inferior beasts.... 3 oto 3 2 Second quality do ?rime large oxen .. 310 4 2 Prime Scots, &c 4 4 4 6 Coarse and inferior sheep Second quality do. Prime coarse-woolled do 4 8 5 4 Prime Southdown do. .. 5 6 .5 8 Lambs Large coarse calves Prime small do. Large hogs Seat small porkers 4 4 410 Beasts 3,890 Sheep Calves Pigs .. 450 SUPPLIES ON SALE, March 25, 1861.—8 sheep, 19,260—calves, 79—pigs, 240. MARCH 26, 1860.—Beasts, 3,3 Bo—sheep, 2 95—pigs, 310. The total imparts of foreign stoca into London, last week, amounted to 5,449 head. In the corresponding week in 1862, we received 2,768—in 1861, 2,106—in 1860, 2,351 —in 1859, 3,065—in 1858, 414—in 1857, 1,094 head. IMPORTS INTO LONLGIS LAS'S WEEK. From Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs. Rotterdam ....,220 .. 294 70 .. 2 Harlingen .... 292 .. 59 .. 7 .. Ilamburgh .... 17 .. 3,747 - . • Boulogne Cuxhaven . 470 _ Vigo e• NieweDiep Amsterdam — Antwerp .. Ostend •.• • • 7 .. Carril 04 •• •• •• Dordt •• 4 . . • . 166 .. 11. 410 Oporto March 23, 1863. 3 4to 3 6 38 4 0 42 4 6 ,4 8 410 36 4 0 4 2 410 50 5 8 510 6 0 74 8 0 4 2 410 50 6 8 38 4 4 46 4 8 4,920 19,640 116 260 ,asts, 3,580 ~240—calves, ---• to '—" 'it ..-'" to '"" - - .. 60 .. - - .. 2 .. 22 .. Total .... 473 .. 2,111 .. .. 220 .. 2 The yearly comparison of weekly imports is as follows : Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs. 1862 73 2.537 .. 38 .. 120 .. 1861 493 .. 1,499 .. .. 76 .. 38 IS6O l3l .. 1,886 .. .. 234 .. 100 1859 232 .. 2,786 .. 47 1858 9O .. 158 .. 162 .. • • ....- NEW GATE AND LEADENHALL. The supply of town and country-killed meat has some what increased ; but it is still far from extensive. Good and prime qualities move off steadily, at full prices; other wise, the trade is less active, at our quotations:—. Per 81b. by the carcase. sdad [nferior beef .. 2 10 3 4 Middling do. .. 3 ti 3 8 Frime large do. 3 10 4 0 Do. small d 0... 4 0 4 2 Large pork 3 G 4 2 Inferior mutton, 3 6 3 10 sdsd Middlingmutton 4 0 4 4 Prime do . 4 6 4 10 Veal Small pork ~ Lamb BOROUGH HOP. Good and fine English hops command rather more atten tion, and prices rule firm. Inferior qualities, however, owing to the large influx of continental descriptions, are a dull inquiry, yet the quotations are without material change from last week. Since we last wrote, the import has been 26 bales from Bremen, KO Ilambro', 13 Ostend, 73 Antwerp, 14 Rotterdam, 244 Dunkirk, and M Boulogne. Mid and East Kents Weald of Bents Sussex Belgian Bavarian American BOROUGH AND SPITALFIELDS. The arrivals of foreign potatoes have greatly fallen off, but the receipts of home-grown produce have continued ~ n a large scale. G, od and fine qualities are in fair demand, and prices are steadily supported ; otherwise, tho trade is in a sluggish state, at our quotations. The import, last week, was only 66 bags from Boulogne, and 71 bags from Rotterdam. Yorkshire Regents loos to 120 s per ton. Do. Flukes Do. Rocks. Bos to 90s ~ o. Seedlings Kent and Eseex Regents loos to 125 a ~ Scotch Regents Do. Rocks 7os to 859 ~ Dunbar Regents —s to - - € 1 ), Foreign 5OB to 608 J, SEEDS. Cloverseed moves off steadily, at ex.treine rates. Trefoil i 4 very firm, and fine pplities command very high prim, Linseed and rapeseed are stl little is doing. Cakes are former terms. Turnip, IV hite,p.bus 11s to 14s Swede —s -8 Mustard, Brown Sis 12s White, Tares, New 7s 6d 8s 6d Old per quarter - s —s Canary, per quarter 46s Ns Rye grass, new -s —s Clover, Red Eng., ct 6os 76s White Foreign 403 56s , ady, bat in other seeds very in fair average request, on White 62s 86] Trefoil, new 268 40s Carraway Coriander ...... Henapseed, per qr 42s 440 Linseed,Eng.sowing 72s 74$ Crushing Baltic —s —0 Odessa —s —8 Linseed Cake, p ton —s —s English £lo Os £lO 108 Foreign...... X,lO Os .£1 i Os Rape Cakes,p ton.£6 Os £0 Os Rapeseed, new,pr qr 15s —0 WOOL. The public sales of colonial wool were brought a close on Thursday last, and the total quantity offered during their progress amounted to 49,096, of which 23,263 bales were :row Port Philip ; 6,309 Sydney and Queensland, 1,179 Van Diemen's Land, 1508 Adelaide, 595 New Zealand, 2 Swan River, and 16,240 balk s from the Cape of Good Hope. Owing to the limited demand for export, and to the large quantities of the new Australian clip now near at hand, the biddings for all descriptions ruled very inactive. Compared with last series, Port Philip qualities declined Id to 2d ; Sydney, id to ld ; and other Australian descriptions fully id per lb. Fine Eastern Capes fairly supported previous quotations ; but the value of inferior produce depreciated to the extent of ld to lid per lb. The iollow,ng prices were realised during the sales :—Sydney and Moreton Bay— Fleeces, is 6d to 2s 4d. Victoria—Fleeces, is 6d to 2e sd; greasy, 10d to is 4d ; lambs, is 6d to 2s 3d ; pieces, is 4d to is 8d ; locks, is Id to is 3d. Tasmania—Fleeces, is 6d to 2s; lamb, is 6d to 2s ld. South Australia—Fleeces, is 2d to is sd; do. scoured, is 5d to 2s; grease, is Ofd to is lid; lambs, is to Is 2d. New Zealand—Fleeces, Is 3d to Is 6d; scoured do., 2s 2d to 2s 4d. Cape—Fleeces, is to 2s; dorscoured, is lid to 2s Is ; greese, 71d to 10d; pieces, is to is 2d per lb. The trade for English wool continues dull, and prices have a downward tendency. The import last week amounted to 7,622 bales from Adelaide, 7,193 Melbourne, 3,699 Geelong, 1,309 Launceston, 1,624 Sydney, 111 Bombay, and 33 from Calcutta. TALLOW. The tallow trade is less active to-day, and prices have declined. St. Petersburg Y.C. is quoted at 438 9d per cwt on the spot, and 44s for April to June delivery. Town. tallow, 43s 3d net cash. Rough fat, 28 31e1 per 81bs. 1859. 1860. I 1861. 1 1862. 1863. Stock this nay— .. 16,186 3:455 72,089 , 42.114 45,258 c ,350.1 to 5769'1 t0,5030d to '46502 to 13s Od9 Price of Y.C. .. t 53s 3d —s Od 59s :td I—B Od —l3 Delivery lastweek 1,34 1,077 ,006 1 ,27 ,, 1,012 Ditto from June 1 87,5)4 69,9..7 67,919 '103,302 1,8,037 Arrivals last week 285 325 1,204 89 677 Ditto from June 1 91,813 91.87( 112.911 88,6,5 75,016 Price of Town ~... .558 ud 58s Od 688 9d 48s 6d 458 9d 1 SPORTING NOTES. [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] The racing during the past week presented no remarkable features, and both oncaster and Warwick produced but very indifferent sport. At the farmer place we were introduced to a new claimant for the blue riband in Stockman, a good looking son of Stockwell, of good size, length, and power; and, as he was by no means fit, backers were quite justified in immediately accepting 1,000 to 10 about him. Watson's stable showed in such form that Nationol Guard returned to favour, and the trainer is more " fond" of him than ever. The meeting could not pass off without some of the inci cents which so frequently disfigure the spring gathering, and a more decided case of having " the string on" was perhaps never witnessed than Fontenoy's performance in the Scurry Handicap. The betting on the race plainly indicated the game about to be played, the whole proceeding being in the worst style of turf larceny. The Jockey Club were very indignant and Draconic in dealing with the Tarragona business, and this Fontenoy affair calls more loudly for their interference. Mr. S. Merry's meeting at Warwick was wretchedly poor, and the handicapping occasionally displayed a bias in taveur of certain owners and stables, much to the annoyance of those gentlemen who ran "on tile square." Le Marechal, who had lost his trial at home, beat Atherstone very cleverly for the Trial Stakes, but he is too small for the Chester Cup, and I do not think, from what I saw in the ring, that Lord Stamford will stand him. The so-called Great War wickshire Handicap was a dreadful failure, for the five that did come to the post went no faster than a man could kick his hat along, and was won by Suburban, a notorious miler, while the second, Optimist, was literally lame all round, and had only two legs to finish on I The starting nuisance was downright terrible, and unless Mr. T. M.'aeorge makes some progress we shall have to exercise the patience of Job when horses go to the post under his Cate. The two-year old lace was delayed an hour, and the starter made sworn enemies of three jockeys to begin with, by getting them fined 410 each. As a delightful proof of consistency the stewards reprimanded their own official, the starter, and how on earth are they to expect, after this fact is publicly known, that the young jockeys will obey him in future. Starbeam, as 1 informed your readers last Monday would ,be the case, won a very clever race, and young Reeves, who rode her in too easy and jolly a manner at Doncaster, displayed ex cellent horsemanship in this case, which must convince him of the necessity of being careful, and attending to his work in the saddle, instead of showing flashiness, and looking at the jockeys who were coming on behind him. The present week is a very important one in the racing world, for with the "fashionable" meetings of Northampton on Tuesday and Wednesday, Market Harborough on Thursday, Croxton. Park on Friday, and the Oxford and Cambridge boat race on Saturday, the list of sport is full to repletion. At North ampton we shall, as usual, have the patrons of the turf out in all their strength, and the scarlet coat will give place in their thoughts to the attractions of the silk jacket. There is an excellent supply of races for the two days at North ampton, although the quality of the animals is, with a few exceptions, interior. There are eight races to-morrow, and we have the first of the watchmaking element in that between Manrico and Batsman. Tile bet ting upon the Northamptonshire Stakes has been very limited, the horses likely to come to the post are moderate, besides which the field will be proportionately small. The following may comprise the runners :—Fairwater, Oldmin ster, Carisbrook, Knutsford, Balham, Man. at. Arms, Gorse, Grimston, Harlequin, Lord Stanley, Incitatus, M. Philippe, African, Fee, Ernest, Voluptas, Chaff, Brother to Sp, mg bok, and Zelos. Fairwater is, I hear at the last moment, a certain runner, although only backed at extreme outside prices. If in her best form she would take some beating, but I fear that she is not likely to run up to the Liverpool July Cup achievement. Oldminster has been put about as a good thing, and was spiritedly backed, more espe cially by the Manchester division. I have always considered him an overrated horse, and his retrogres sion in the market within the last eight and forty hours arises from the fact of somebody having been put in to "lay," and from what I hear in the market the horse will not do at any price.- Carisbrook was beaten in his trial, notwithstanding all that is said to the contrary, and Fairwater, if well, will be sere to hold him safe. Knuts ford is the reigning favourite, as he ought to be, seeing that he has always run a thoroughly good horse over severe courses, and is backed for the genuine money of the stable. No sound judge ought to think of opposing him, as he is the only one of the lot likely to come to the post, about whose qualifications there cannot be the slightest doubt. Balbam is fancied by Mr. Morris, but I do not think he will stay the course. Man-at-Arms I have an immense par tiality for, for although a most unfortunate horse, he has always shown some form, although it is supposed that he is deficient in stamina. Still ha is a great fine animal, and has such a pull in the weights that I quite expect to see him, like Suburban, quite reverse his character in this race. Griniston, despite his present position in the market, has been a very shifty gentleman, but now seems firm in the estimation of his friends. The Berkshire people declare the race a "gift" to him, and when Mr. T. Parr gives £l,OOO for a horse there must be some, hing in him. His running in Scotland is sufficient to prove him possessed of some merit, and if he has undergone any improvement he will be a very awkward customer. Gorse is fancied at Newmarket as an outsider, but I fear is only moderate, as nobody can believe in the accuracy of her running with Caller Out at Doinuster last year. African has lately been amiss, or might have been able to take his own post. Canzonette, after being ft great " pot" at Warwick, received her quietus, owing, it is said, to some of the clever division having got the !list run of the minket, and forestalled the stable. I fear no d a nger whatever from the three year olds; but if there is a possi bility of the success of one of them, it must be with Ernest or Brother to pringboth. The first -mentioned is a good looking son of Stockwell, in Godding's stable, and the owner himself assured me this morning that he sent a com mission into the market to back hiw, and that he would do his best, which is something to know in the present days of " safe 'uns" and " dead 'tins." Tho Handicap presents but a poor field for criticism, and I have treated it as amply Mau-at-Arms, Grireston, and as it deserves. Knutsford, Earnest may form the front rank, but lexpect to see MAN-4T-ARMS and KN TS.FOR.6 D fi e g a h r t es t t he loo b k a e t r ti - e on o . ut T b h et e w l e v en hit t t h i e e m bii , i w y it 6 t ia G t : s nu wsitiolu t a a s li th to e Lord Stamford by the aid of Livingstone or Cttssida, and the Cup to Aurelian or Revolver. The Stand Pl a tt) I must assign to • Nymph or Sooth sayer. The Plate of £5O seems destined to go to Lord Siamitord with Eller ton. Batsman cannot beat Marine() at the weights in the face of his limit. d performances. For Wccluesaay there a re eight races, two of which have yet to close, one of these being t he Queen's Plate, and tor which Asteroid is under orders, and although the entries for it are nut yet made known, licanuot but predict the hzuccess of the old horse. Th e Racing Stakes incluue tile names ui Le LNlalech,l and Golden Dust, ono of Whom will N\ in, the firstmentioned for choice. It would be supeifluous to examine at length a race like 1 1 16 Spencer Plate, the following trio being the pick of the handicap : ARGONAUT, BIONDELLA, and FLYING The St. Liz Handicap will fall to Man at Arms or Cowley, and for the Althorp Park Stakes I hear the beet accounts of Moiley Carew and Sister to Queen of the Vale. • Mouday Afternowil PECI'AUS. 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