The Sun. — London, England, 1863-04-23 00:00:00

jr4I,GAL and GENER NT, LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY. NOTICE IF, HEREBY" GIVEN, That an EXTRAORDI 1\ AI:1" (.d MEETING- will ne held at the House of the Society, No. 10, Fleet-street, London, on TUESDAY, the 12th day of May next, at One o'clock precisely, fbr the purpo , e of taking, into consideration a certain clause of the Deed of Settlement, which has been recommended for amend- Dient by an I , xtraordinary Board of Directors. By order of the Board, JOHN NETTLE PON, Secretary. QT. JAM E S' HO'I'EL, Cotner of BERKELEY-STREE I', Piccadilly. This HOTEL will be OPENED to the public on SATUR DAY, the 2d of May next. Manager—M. FRANCATELLI. By order, G. T. OLDFIELD, Secretary. Dated April 17, 1863. SAWYER'S FAMOUS LONDON DINNER FOR. THIS DAY. At 2s. ed. each Person. SOUPS. Green Pea. itslienne. FISH. Turbot and Lobster Sauce. Fried Soles. ENTREES. Boudin ala Richelieu. Salmi of Ptarmigan. JOINTS. Boiled Beef. Roast Mutton. SWEETS. College Pudding. Rhubarb Tart. Cheese and Salad. An extensive and carefully selected stock of FRENCH, RHENISH, MOSELLE, and other WINES, imported ex pressly for the London Dinner. THE LONDON, 191, FLEET -STREET. CANTERBURY HALL AND FINE ARTS GALLERY. NOTICE.— ENTIRE CHANGE OF ENTERTAINMENT LES FRERES ATHOS. From the Cari2,nan heatre, Turin. Master EDWIN SAUNDERS, the Child of Song. THE NEAPOLITAN MINSTRELS. GRAND SELECTIONS from OPERAS, GLEES, and CANTATAS. Principal Artistes —Miss Russell, Miss Townley ; Mr. Green, and Signor Tivoli. Conductor, Mr. Jonghmans. The celebrated UNSWORTIT'S NEW STUMP SPEECIT, The only Negro Orator of the day. EUGENE and DULEY, wills new Eccentricities. ARTHUR LLOYD, Miss SAUNDERS, and Mr. HILTON, the Comic Ventriloquist and Modern Magician, EVERY EVENING. Admission—Uall, fd. ; stalls and balcony, Is. THE oxF ORD, 5, OXFORD STREET. THIS EVENING. Auber's Grand Opera, MASANIELLO. Also, the New Cantata, by Herr Meyer Lutz, " HERNE THE tiUNTER," Supnorted by Miss Russell. Miss Oesten, Miss Townley, Ric.; Messrs. Albert, Green, Bernardi, Eluish, Kimberley, &c. with full band and chorus. Conducted by Mr. Jonghm,ns. Drew Dean's Flute Solos UNSWORTH, the modern Demosthenes. Eugene, W. Randall, J. Hutchenson, and the mat vellous A RTIT R and BERTRAND. "These two Parisian clowns have carried the art of tumbling to apparently the highest pitch of perfection, and it is impossible even for the most staid of visitors to avoid being amused by their origin , 1 gambols. They elicit shouts of laughter and applause."—Times, April 7, 1863. Me JULLIEN'S PROMENADE CONCERTS. At the ARGYLL ROOMS, Great Windmill-street, Piccadilly. Continued success of J. LEVY, the celebrated Cornet-a- Piston ! Every Evening a Grand Operatic Selection from Verdi's Opera, IL TROVATORE—SoIos, Cornet-a-piston, by Mr. J. Levy—Messrs. Horton, Tyler, King, Snelling, and Mosca. Revival of the Scotch Fantasia and Irish Quadrille, by M. Jullien. Der Freisehutz, Masaniello, L'Etoile du Nord, dm. Doors open at Eight o'clock. Admission, ls. Manager, Mona. GRENET. THE LONDON ANATOMICAL MUSEUM, containing the Wonders of Nature and Art, shown by i nnumerable Models, illustrating every part of the Human Frame ; together with a variety of Natural Preparations, Malfot mations, Monstrosities, ; also the Mo v i ng Ana tomical Dying Zottave, and other life-size figures. Open daily from 11 to 10, for Gentlemen only. Admission, One Shilling. Entrance-4i A, Maddox-street, Regent-street, London, W. Illustrated Catalogue, free by post for 12 stamps, sealed 20. Explanations throughout the day. Lecture at 4. Address the Secretary, as above. THE FARMER'S BAROMETER, 505., a new Instrument, by Negretti and Zambra, will cor rectly indicate whether the Barometer falls fbr Rain or for Wind. Particulars by enclosing stamp.-1, Hatton-garden ; 57, Cornhill ; and 122, Regent-street MOORE BROTHERS' TEAS. Choice SOUCHONG, recommended 38. 9d. per lb. suitable for superior purposes, full rich Souchongflavour. Mixed ASSAM, 1 ighly recommended 48. Od. per of very choice quality, and the cheapest Tea sold. id per lb. deduction on 20Th. Bags and 45Th. Chests. Prospectus free. MOORE BROTHERS, 35, London-bridge, City, E.C. LUXURIANT WHISKERS, Moustaches, and Eyebrows produced In a few weeks by the use of ELLIOTT'S TONIC LOTION, the stimulative properties of which are unfailing in their operation. Thomas Elliott invites a trial from the moat sceptical, that they may be con vinced of its infallible power. Price Is. 6d., ss. 6d., 10s. ad., and 21s. Forwarded on receipt of postage stamps.—Thomas Elliott, hairgrower (first floor), 51, Fenchurch-street. T. E.'s Wigs, £1 108. O S T E O E ID 0 N: Patent, March 1, 1862, No. 560. GABRIEL'S Self-adhesive Patent Indestructible MINE RAL TEE and FLEXIBLE GUMS, without palates, Firings, or wires, and without operation. One set lasts a lifetime, and WAR RANTED FOR MASTICATION and ARTICULATION even when all others f a il. P ures t ma terials only, at h a lf the usual ost. Messrs. GABRIEL, the old-established Dentists, 27, HARLEY-STREET, CAVENDISH-SQUARE; 34, LUDGATE-HILL, LONDON; 65, NEW-STREET, BIRMINGHAM ; and 134, DUK ti—STRE ET, LIVERPOOL. Complete Sets, 4 to 7 and 10 to 15 guineas. One visit only required from country patients. Gabriel's Practical Treatise gratis. Conmultations free. RUPTITRES.—BY ROYAL LETTERS PATENT. WHITE'S MOO-MAIN LEVER TRUSS (PERFECTED AND EXHIBITED IN THE GREAT 1' XD IDITION 8 OF IRSI AND 1 9 62), is allowed by upwards of Two Hundred Medical Gentlemen to be the most effective i nvention in the curative treatment of UERN I A. The use of a steel spring, so often hurtful in its effects, Is here avoided—a soft bandage being worn round the body, while the requisite resisting power is supplied by the Aloc-Main Pad and Patent Lever, fitting with so much ease and closeness that it cannot be detected, and may be worn during* sleep. A descriptive circular may he had, and the truss, which cannot fail to fit, forwarded by post, on the cir cumference of the body, two inches below the hips, being sent to the manufacturer, Mr. WHITE, 228, Piccadilly. A Single Truss, 165., 21s. , 265. 6d., and 31s. Bd. Postage ls. A Double Truss, 11s. 6d., 425., and 525. M. Postage, ls , Bd. An Umbilical Truss, 425. and 525. 6d. Postage, la. 10d. Post -office Orders to be made payable to John White, Post office, Piccadilly. NEW PATENT ELASTIC STOCKINGS, KNEE-CAPS, &c., for Varicose Veins and all cases of Weakness and Swelling* of the Legs, Sprains, &c. They are porous, light in texture, and inexpensive, and are drawn on lit ean ordinary stocking. Price 4s. 6d., 7a. 6d., 10s., to 16s. eaoh. Postage 6d. JOlll NiiilTE 111 anufacturor, 228, Piccadilly. R OYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road, in the immediate vicinity of the Great Northern Rail way Terminus, at Ring's-cross. Patron—The QUEEN. President—The Duke of BUCCLEITCH, Treasurer—Edward Masterrnan, Esq. This was the first hospital to introduce the principle of free and instant admission to the destitute sick, without the for mality of governors' letters. It is entirely devoted to desti tution in its most pitiable form—viz., that which is accom penied by sickness and disease, and is now of sufficient magnitude that, with adequate support, it may be rendered capable of admitting into its wards a very large proportion of the casual sick of this great metropolis. It requires but the funds in order to have 500 beds available for the reception of these the most wretched of our fellow-creatures. Moreover, it gratuitously affords medical advice and medicine to more, on the average, than 3,000 out-patients a week. The Weekly Board feel it their imperative duty to make an EARNEST APPEAL to the public for continued support, to enable them to edmit and relieve the distressing cases that daily present themselves. Contributions are received by the Treasurer, Edward Mae erman, Nicholas-lane ; also by Messrs. Coutts and Co. ; Drummond and Co. ; Herries and Co. ; Ransom and Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and Co.; Smith, Payne, and Co. ; Glyn and Co. ; Jones Loyd and Co. ; Barclay and Co. ; D enison and Co. ; W Blame, Deaco n , and Co. ; reverend, Gurney, and Cu. ; Nisbet and Co. ; Messrs. J. Barned and Co., Liverpool and at the Hospital. STANFORD S. SMITH, Secretary. tIVERPOOL JULY MEE TING _ A SECOND DAY. - TUESDAY, .JULY it.—The Lrymn poor, Cur, in specie, value 2';o sovs. given by the Lessee, added to a Handicap `-weep takes of 25 sovs each, 15 ft, and 5 only if declar, d on a day hereafter to be named, to Messrs. Weatherby, London ; or to ISt , . W. Topha-e, Clerk of the Course, Chester; the winner of any swepstakes, cup, cup stakes, or plate, of theclear value of 500 Boys alter the weights appear 5 , b, two of such races 101 b extra, but this in an , case to be the extreme penalty; the winner of the Manchester Union or Trades ('up, Ascot Stakes, Northumberland Plate, or Cumberland Plate, 151 b extra; or of any other handicap race of the va l ue of 200 Boys clear 51b, of 450 71b, or of any 1_ opof such last mentioned handicaps 81b extra ; the winner t ,_ 3' 30 sovs to the jude - e, and 20 sovs towards expenses of ~ cours e • second be published in d n u d e t t o t save his stake, ••two miles. Weights to time. ITioorrdd Annesley PRESENT SURSCRTBERFL Mr. J. Bennett I.or i t "triterbur /,,,,,, i liarti not Y Mr. It, Bi,gnell li. ore v. 7to ni n 0 ": 1 11 ,_ , Mr. W. G. Craven Mr. D wson col. orif.eewmitenu Mr. Dims Col. c, ple , * Mr. Frail 11Mirr.. krligarlelaves Capt. Christf4elle Capt. White Mr. Plart Mr. G. Angell , Mr. ti Mr. Barber Mr 0,1 . T . 'ATV s Ti the highest Mr. T. Hughes raised to that, an s( i TtA i iii. The MERSEY acetheerPstlinng be under Bst 121 b, it will be pr y o a portioa. added, for two year oid a ß °I ' 5 , 5 ft, with 50 soya second t) save his stake - ' colts %t 1(?l ach b, and fillies Pat 71b ; more Slb extra, but not 't win ners of 0 be race ; T.Y.C. cumulative ; 8 subs or no THI it D DAY. — WEDNEsb A:v STARES of 15 sous each, 5 ft, with - 6'4 1 / I 'V M.—The ST three year olds ; two year olds 7st 411 , -° va added, for two ANLEY d geldings allowed 21b ; winners of pi,' three cost ; fillies and an the present year amounting to 10 s oyt t e l or s weepstakes in Or more 81b extra, handicaps excepted ;e4ar to car 51b, 200 Boys to the fund; T.Y.C. e Winner to pay 10 PRESENT SUBSCR/11Elts, Lord Annesley, I Mr. W. Cl. Craven, i Mr ~In all races, at Liverpool, where fewer thau ''' P r l e• a ‘arti the added money will be withheld, three horses Mr. Jackson Mr. W. Lynn Mr. J. Merry Mr. W. Owen Mr. Payne Mr. W. 101n11 Mr. It. Riddell Mr. R. Riddell Mr. Saxon Mr. J. Scott Mr. F. Swiniell N°. 22,095. NEW NOVEL BY THE HON. C. S. SAVILE. Just ready, in 3 vols., CE CIL BEAUMONT, Ey the Hon. C. STUART SAVILE. Also now ready, in 3 vols., EVELINE. By the Author of " Forest Keep." Hurst and Rifle...eft, 13, Great Marlborough-street. Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., T HE DESERTED HOUSE OF HAWKSWORTII. " This story is uncommonly well told, and will be sure to please that large c'ass of readers who delight in startling Incidents narrated in a piquant style."—Daily News. Hurst and Blackett, 13, Gi eat Marlborough-street. PRETTY POLEY, Come back to his loving Father—Lord Clarence E sward Paaet, M.P.—The Teetotal Charger, &e., &c., in " FUN " this week. One Penny. HR.H. THE PRINCE AND H.R.H. THE , PRINCESS OF WALES, the Nobility, and the Gentry are respectfully recommended to use OLDR[DGE'S BALM of COLUMBIA, established upwards of forty years. It is acknowledged to be the best and only certain remedy ever discovered for preserving, strengthening, beautifying, or restoring the hair, whiskers, or m.,ustaches, and prevent ing them from turning irrey. Price 3s. 6d., 65., and II s. C. and A. OLDRIDGE, 22, Wellington-street, Strand, London, W.C., and all chemists and perfumers. For children it is in valuable. ARMY CONTRACTS. TENDERS will be received at this Office until Noon on the sth of MAY, from persons who may be willing to enter into Contracts to supply BREAD AND MEAT, in such quantities as may be required for the use of Her Majesty's Land ! orcea stationed in the fo'lowing places, from let Ju ie to 30th Novemb:r, 1863:- 1. Brompton House, Hyde-park, and Kensington. 2. Regent's -park, St. John's-wood, and Portman-street Barracks. 3. Wellington Barracks, Buckingham Palace and St. George's Barracks. , 4. The Tower. 5. Hounslow and Kneller HalL 6. Hampton Court. 7. Windsor. 8. Brighton, with Coast Forts from Newhaven to Shoreham. 9. Croydon. 10. Sandhurst. Sep Tate Tenders for Bread and for Meat must be mee for each of the above-mentioned Stations or Barracks as sepa rately grouped and numbered. Forms of Tender and Conditions of Contract may be ob• tained on application at this Office, by letter or in person between th hours of ten and four o'clo k. Tenders on the printed forms mu t t e propel ly filled up and signed, and no Tender will be noticed un.ess delivered at th' undermentioned Office. undt r closed envelope (marked on the outside, " Tender for Commissariat Supplies"), before Noon on the sth MAY next. THE SUN, LON DON, THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 23, 1863, SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. NEWMARKET FIRST SPRING MEETING. WEDNESDAY. The events to be decided to-day were of the usual num ber, but, as before, only one race was of any permanent in terest, and that attracted very little attention beforehand. as so many of the horses engaged were unknown to fame. In the morning the general topic of conversation was the progress of the unfortunate quarrel now going on between the Jockey Club and certain members of the sporting press. ' Mr. Willes (" Argus," or the Morning Post), who had been warned off Newmarket-heath by the Jockey Club at the last Houghton Meeting, appeared on it for the first time yesterday, when he was informed by the Earl of :Coventry that the latter was requested by the club to give him notice that his presence would not be permitted, and that the legal notice which had been served upon him by their secre tary would be followed up by further proceedings if he did not withdraw. Mr. Willes, as we are informed, replied that he was present by the desire of the proprietors of the Morning Post (in which paper his remarks Appeared), who were determined to try the right of the Jockey Club to exclude their representative from the heath at those times when it is thrown open to the public. The Jockey Club are also engaged in another matter some what of the same character, but varying to some extent, as in the latter case the attack complained of has been made upon a member of the club in his individual capacity, and not upon the Jockey Club itself. Some remarks having ap • peared in the Sporting .Life reflecting upon the Earl of Stamford's proceedings on the turf, the editor of that paper was summoned before the Jockey Club last evening and re quired to apologise to his lordship. On his refusal to do this, he was informed that unless the demand was complied with before next Saturday he would be warned off the heath, and would not be allowed admission to any room or race stand over which the Jockey Club have control. We offer no opinion as to the truthfulness of the remarks made by either of the writers complained of, but we cannot but think that the Jockey Club have not exercised a sound dis cretion in attempting to exclude from their ground those representatives of the press who venture to criticise the proceedings of that body itself, or of those noblemen and gentlemen who are its individual members. The public are invited at certain times to Newmarket-heath, and among them those who cater for their information and amusement. Now, it appears to us that as the law of libel is specially directed to the prevention of unjustifiable remarks upon public bodies or private individuals, the Jockey Club should have recourse to that remedy if the persons complained of have laid themselves open to the punishment it inflicts; and if not, the attempt to coerce them in the exercise of their vocation by other means is scarcely worthy the high posi tion assumed by the Jockey Club. Mr. Willes has this morning been officially applied to for the name of his solici tor, in order to avoid personal service of the writ, and thus the matter rests for the present. During the forenoon a heavy shower fell, which had the good effect of laying the dust ; but the running ground was made by it, if possible, harder than ever. Nevertheless, 13 horses came to the post for the Handicap Plate, and 21 for the Two-yr-old Plate. The winner of the former was made the favourite at 4to 1; but only justified the selection by a neck. The start for the Two-yr-old Plate was a mag n4ficent one, and showed what can be done even in a five furlong race, where the riders are obedient to the starter. Here, again, the favourite, who is a fine filly, and as clever a goer as is often seen, pulled through, the conjoint second favourite with Royston not starting, owing to his having kicked Alderoft off at the stables, who fell on his head, and was a good deal shaken. Royston looked and went well, but was outpaced. The other events decided to-day require no comment. W. H. MATURIN. Deputy Commissary-General. Deputy Commissary-General's Of f ice, 5, New-street, Spring-gardens, London, S.W., 10th April, 1863. ARMY CONTRACTS. Commissariat Office, Aldershot, Bth April, 1863. 'SEALED TENDERS will be received at this 17 office, until noon on WEDNESDAY, the 6th May, 1863, rom persons who may be aiding to enter into Contract to supply A Sweepstakes of 50 ir vs each, h ft, for 3-yr-olds ; colts Bst 101 b, fillies Bst 61b, those by stallions or ma res th a t never _ _ _ _ bred a winner allowed 31b. D.M. 5 subs. Lord Strathmore's Sea King (31b), Bst 71b (Aldcroft) 1 Lord Stamford's Oscar, Bst 101 b (Edwards) 2 Betting-2 to lon Oscar. Sea King took a slight lead to the foot of the hill, where the favourite made his effort, but, dying away in tho cords, he was defeated cleverly by a length and a half. The Prince of Wales's Stakes of 150 sovs each, h ft, and 25 if declared before the Ist of July, 1861, to go to the second horse, for 4-yr-olds ; colts Bst 91b, fillies Bst 41b; win ners extra, maidens allowed 71b. Cesarewitch Course. 9 subs. Lord Stamford's Citadel, Bst 21b (Edwards) 1 Lord Ailesbury's Teterrima, Bst 41b (Challoner) 2 Mr. R. Boyce's Lord Clyde, Bst 91b (W. Boyce) 3 Lord Fitzwilliam's Vanguard, Bst 91b ...... (J. Osborne) 4 Mr. Hughes's Barbadoes, Bst 21b (Hughes) 5 Betting-6 to 4 agst Citadel, 3to 1 agst Teterrima, 6to 1 each agst Barbadoes and Lord Clyde. Teterrima made running at a slow pace to the bushes, with Citadel and Vanguard next, on the upper ground. The leader then gave way to the favourite, who came on and won after some shaking by a couple of lengths, Lord Clyde passing Vanguard a few yards from home, and finishing a bad third. Barbadoes was beaten a long way. Handicap Plate of £5O, for 3-yr-olds and upwards. Bretby Stakes Course. Mr. Hargreaves's Berkeley, 4 yrs, Bst 41b (Doyle) 1 Mr. R. Bignall's The Proph e t, 6 y rs , 7 st 71b (Edwards) 2 Mr. Naylor's Drummer Boy, 4 yrs, 7st 71b.. (Challoner) 3 The following also ran :—Canwell, Rest, Gem of the Sea, Disappointment, Cadiz, Lady Harriet colt, Miranda filly, Sandford, Harleston, and Anemone gelding. Betting-4 to 1 agst Berkeley, sto 1 agst Canwell, 10 to 1 each agst Harleston and Prophet, 100 to 8 each agst Sand ford, Drummer Boy, and Rest. After two attempts, the failure in which was caused by the breaking away of Berkeley and the fractiousness of the Lady Harriet colt, the lot (with the exception of the latter) got away on excellent terms. The Prophet at once took the lead, followed closely by Rest on the upper ground, Ber keley being next on the other side, and the others form ing a very level line across the course, the Anemone geld ing being last. At the foot of the hill Berkeley took the lead, with Rest and The Prophet close up, but at the bushes Sam Rogers brought Canwell to the front with a rush on the lower side, Berkeley and Rest being next. The first-named, however, soon died away again, leaving the other two with the lead, Drummer Boy, The Prophet, and Disappointment being at the head of the remainder. Within the cords Rest succumbed, and Berkeley took the command, followed by The Prophet, the latter being de. feated after a good race by a neck, a length between the second and third ; Rest was a good fourth, Canwell fifth, Disappointment sixth, and the Lady Harriet colt was last, beatten a long way. A Sweepstakes of 60 soya each, hft ; weight for age. Last Erythia, she made the running into the cords, Here Miss Emma came through end took second place, but Good for Nothing held the lead to the end and won by two lengths, Erythia being a bad third. The winner was claimed by Mr. T. Hughes, and Mr. Fleming claimed Miss Emma. A Sweeptakes of 10 sovs each ; 2-yr-olds, 7st; 3-yr-olds, 9st; fillies all , lwed 31b ; the winner to be sold for 300 sous, if demanded, &c. ; if entered to be sold for 200 sovs allowed 51b. Last half of Ab. M. 7 subs, Lord Stamford's Chicquot the Jester, 2 yrs, Est 91b (£200) (Loates) 1 Lord Westmoreland's Overcast, 2 yrs, Est Glb (£200) (Morgan) 2 Mr. Brayley's Neilgherry, 3 yrs, Bst Gtb (£200) (Cowley) 3 Prince Soltykoff's Whitefield, 2 yrs, Gst 111 b (£3OO) (A. Woodhouse) 4 Mr. W. G. Craven's llarleston, 3 yrs, Bst 91b (£200) (J. Goater) 5 half of R.M. Three subs. Marpesia filly also ran. Betting--5 to 4 agst Overcast, sto 2 agst Whitefield, 5 to 1 agst Neilgherry, 6 to 1 agst Chicquot the Jester. Whitefield took the lead, followed by Neilgherry and Chicquot the Jester, tho Marpesia gelding bolting imme diately the flag descended. Halfway up Overcast joined the leaders, and Whitefield and Neilgherry soon dropping back, the issue was left to Chicquot the Jester and the favourite, and terminated, after a good race, in favour of the former by a head ; Neilgherry was a bad third. The winner was not claimed. Renewal of the Sweepstakes of 50 sovs each, for 3-3 r olds. colts, Bst 101 b ; filli es , S a t 51b , no t engage d i n th e 2 , 000 guineas or 1,000 guineas stakes; those by stallions or mares that never bred a winner allowed 41b ; only one allowance. A.F. 5 su b s . Mr. Wybrow Robertson's Dunkeld (41b), Bst 61b _ . (I3reutey) 1 Lord Strathmore's b c Sea King (41b), Bst Gib (carried Bst ilk) Lord Stamford's Revolver, B,t 101 h (Edwards) 3 Betting-6 to 4 each agst Daukeld and Sea King, 3to agst Revolver. Sea King led for a few strides, and then gave way to Dunkeld, who led to the finish and won by half a length, a length and a half between second and third. Sweepstakes of 50 sovs each, for 4-yr-olds ; colts, Bst 101 b fillies, Bst 51b ; winners of the Derby, Oakes, or Doncas ter St. Leger, Port, or Claret Stakes to carry 61b, of any Iwo of those stakes, 101 b extra ; maiden horses which have never received £lOO for running second allowed 51b Last three miles of B.C. 3 subs. Mr. Naylor's Biondella, 4 yrs, Bst 1016 (Challoner) 1 Baron Rothschild's Wingrave, 4 yrs, Bst 101 b .. (Wells) 2 Betting -11 to 10 on Wingrave. Biondella made all the running, and cantered home the winner by six lengths. The Newmarket Two-year-old Plate, of 200 sous; colts, Bst 71b; fillies, Bst 51b ; winners extra, Last five fur longs of R.M. 76 entries. Baron Rothschild's Sister to Queen of the Vale, Bst 51b _ _ Mr. Savile's Harlequin, Bst 101 b ........ (J. Goater) w.o LATEST BETTING, MIDNIGHT. ONE THOUSAND. 3to 1 agst Tornado (taken and offered) 7 to 2 agst Lady Augusta (taken) sto 1 agat Sister to Singapore (taken) 11 to 2 agst Amelia (taken) 10 to 1 agst Crafton Lass (taken) 11 to 1 agst Gold Dust (taken) 20 to 1 agst Cadeau (offered) THE DERBY. 4to 1 agst Lord Clitden (offered) 1000 to 100 agat Saccharometer (taken) 1000 to 60 agst Ranger (taken) 2000 to 30 agst Giles the First (taken) 1000 to 15 agst Stockman (taken) 101.0 to 25 agst Early Purl (taken) 1000 to 10 agst Trojanus (taken) 1000 to 10 agst Golden Pledge (taken) (00 to 5 agst Avenger (taken) 3000 to 90 agat Flying Fish (taken) GREAT NORTHERN HANDICAP. sto 1 agst Carbineer (taken) 6to 1 agst Fantail (taken) Bto 1 agst Manfred (taken) 10 to 1 agst Physalis colt (taken) (J..oaborne) 1 Marquir of Hastings's Garotter, Bst 121 b (in 51b extra) (S. Rogers) 2 Mr. Savilo's Rigolbocke, Bat 51b (Phillips) 3 Mr. Elphinstone's Plague Royal filly, Bst 61b (Breutey) 4 The following also ran :—Elgiva, Rothschild, Lady Maud, Royston, Lady Hylda, Horse Marine, Black Sarah, Whitebait, Physalis colt, Drosera's dam colt, Comme-ga, Yates, Alabama, Diviner, Toy filly, Yafa colt, and Lytham. Betting-3 to 1 agst Sister to Queen of the Vale, 4to 1 each agst the Brother to Bird on the Wing colt and Roys ton, 10 to 1 agst Alabama, 100 to 8 each agst Garotter and the Tadmor colt. The " Strike" Amongst The Preston Parish Labourers. Naval and Military Intelligence. THE NAVY. position is undisturbed. Her Majesty's screw corvette Archer, 13, commis. sioned at Woolwich for the West Coast of Africa The regulations adopted by the Preston board of guardians last week, relative to the employment of tha able-bodied men in receipt of relief, and which were "struck" against by all those working at the new Cattle Market, came into operation on Mon day. The whole of the men proceeded to the ground on which they are employed, but only about 90 out of 1,200 commenced work under the new regula tions. The remaining 1,100 played about on the ground, and during the day formed effigies of two or three of the unpopular guardians. The me❑ paraded the effigies up end down the ground, to the ,nne of the "Dead March," and afterwards buried them, amid groans and affected sorrow, in the soil adjoining. The men who had been indulging in this piece of mock sepulture subsequently left the ground, on the understanding that they should return the next morning and repeat the same " game," and then apply for their wages in the evening as usual. In the meantime full particulars of their conduct had reached the ears of the guar dians, who straightway caused to be printed and posted throughout the town a placard which ran thus :—" To the parish labourers.—Those who do not intend to work in a proper manner are requested not to go to the ground. The mere attending upon the ground will not entitle any to pay; no man regulationsw will b e pai paid issued unless by theguardians o n the according to the heworks 14th instant." This made more commenc e work yesterday ; but still several lounged abo u t, determined to do no work according to the regu lations of the guardians. In the evening the men proceeded to the workhouse for their pay. The greatest excitement prevailed at the pay offices. Many of the men went away without any money, others said that they could not get any, and several were shouting outside that they had been "shame.. fully" bated. whole of the pa r i s h l abourers, num b er i ng b etween Shortly before 7 o ' clock on T ues d a y n i g h t, the had been informed th e 2th,oeopooatinede 3 st , o a o 6 o o , n f , o vv rtn h e er d e in ion and w en t to Mayor, the Town Clerk (who is the chairman of the board of guardians), and the Chairman of the Re- The Defence, 16, iron frigate, Capt. A. Phillimore, is completing her new hammock berthing and after quarter ports alongside Portsmouth Dockyard. The Resistance, 16, iron frigate, Captain W. C. Chamberlain, is ordered into Portsmouth harbour from Spithead, for the purpose of being docked to clean and examine her bottom. The court-martial on Capt, Hillyar, C. 8., and Lieut. Lillingston, of her Majesty's ship Cadmus, was brought to a conclusion on Tuesday afternoon, after having extended over 14 days. The evidence for the defence was closed at 10.45, and at 3.40 the Court was again opened, when the Deputy Judge-Advocate read the finding of the Court. They acquitted Capt. Hillyar of the charge of cruelty and oppression, and also of ordering punishments not to be entered in the defaulters' book, but found him guilty of an act to the prejudice of good order and naval discipline in not making himself acquainted with the punishments which were going on in the Cadmus while he was in command, and seeing them entered in the defaulters' book, for which the Court adjudged him to be severely reprimanded. The Court found the charge against Lieut. Lillingston partly proved, inasmuch as he had been guilty of unofficerlike conduct in ordering punishments to be inflicted upon Robert Baker and other boys of the Cadmus which were not authorised by her Ma jesty's regulations. The Court adjudged him to be dismissed her INI ajesty's service, but in consideration of his zeal and ability they recommended him to the favourable consideration of the Admiralty. A meeting has been convened for this evening by the Mayor of Portsmouth to raise a public subscrip tion for the relief of the widows and orphans of those who perished in the wreck of the Orpheus. The following appointments were made yesterday at the Admiralty :—Wm. B. Sheilabear, master, to the Orontes; Wm. F. Murray, midshipman, to the Curacoa ; Chas. R. Wood, midshipman, to the Meeane ; Alfred A. C. Parr is nominated to the naval cadetship , and Gerald J. H. M'Carthy, mas ter's assistant, to the Valorous. lief Committee, were in attendance. The men ap pointed a deputation, and an interview took place. The Mayor stated that those who felt themselves aggrieved would have their cases investigated on the following day. This the deputation communi cated to the men outside, whom they advised to pre serve order and keep the peace. Many did not re ceive this with favour, and afterwards Mr. Joseph Livesey proceeded to address the assemblage from one of the windows of the police station; a favour able impression could not, however, be made upon the multitude; and after Mr. Livesey had retired, serious symptoms of a disturbance were evident. A rush was made towards the door of the station, and the crowd for upwards of half an hour made a des perate attempt to get into the police station. This, however, was prevented, and a strong body of police was ordered to clear the approaches. Soon after wards random stones were thrown towards the station, and in a few minutes the missiles were hurled in greater numbers. The police drew their truncheons and made a " charge" upon the crowd, which they eventually dispersed. Five officers were injured by the stones, some of them rather seriously. Three or four persons were apprehended, and will be brought before the magistrates to-day Crowds are in the streets con d further di s t u rb. PRESTON, Wedne s d ay A fternoon. a t ingeueosus weret o the apprehended.police sta to n , an Some considerable delay occurred at the post, owing to Aldcroft's getting a heavy fall from being kicked off imme diately after mounting Lord Glasgow's colt, which pre vented his starting. After waiting a quarter of an hour Mr. M'George marshalled the other 20 in capital line and walked them to the post, sending them on their errand with one of the very best starts ever seen. Royston at once took a very slight lead, the rest being all across the course in a lino as level as water itself. As they neared the bushes Baron Rothschild's filly had a slight lead on the upper ground, and just at this point Lady Maud drew to the front on the other side, but quickly fell back, leaving Garotter in the second place. In the cords the latter made his effort, but the Baron's filly won cleverly by a length, Rigolboche, who came in at the finish, being a head behind the leading pair. The Plague Royal fitly was placed fourth, beaten a neck from the third, and then came Royston, Comme-ga, Whitebait, and Alabama, in the order named ; Elgiva, Diviner, and the Yafa colt being the last three. A Plate of 50 sovs, for 3-yr-olds ; colts Bst 101 b, fillies, Bst 71b; winners 41b extra. R.M. Baron. Rothschild's Giraffe colt, 9st (including 41b extra) Mr. Savile's Miranda filly, B s t 71b ..... (Wells) 1 .... (J. Goater) 2 Betting-5 to 2on the Giraff e co l t, who made play from end to end, and won in a ca n t er b y f i ve lengths. Sweepstakes of 10 sovs each ; 3-yr-olds, 7st 101 b ; 4-yr olds, Bst 81b ; 5-yr-olds, and upwards, Bst 111 b ; mares and geldings allowed 31b; the winner to be sold for 100 sovs if demanded, &o. Last half of R.M. 7 subs. Lord Stamford's Good for Nothing, 4 yrs, Bst 51b (Edwardl 1 Mr. T. Hughes's Miss Emma, 5 yrs, Bst 81b (J. Hughes 2 Lord Uxbridge's Erythia, 3 yrs, 7st 71b ....(Challoner 3 Mr. Fleming's Jemima filly, 3 yrs, 7st 71b (Daley) 4 Mr. Payne's Perquisite, 3 yrs, 7st 101 b .**. (Drew) 5 Lord Derby's Leotard, 3 yrs, 7st 101 b ........................ 6 Betting-5 to 4 agst Miss Emma, 3to 1 agst Erythia, 5 to 1 agst Good for Nothing. Perquisite refused to go near her horses for some time, and this, coupled with the eagerness displayed by the riders of Good for Nothing, Miss Emma, and Erythia, caused the start to be delayed some minutes. At last Good for Nothing waited upon trout; and,by the Jemi ma filly and got off in This morning the men assembled at the cattle market as usual, but refused to commence work, threatening to kill Jackson, the labour m as t er , w h o yoining about an hour, and in proceeded by the l a b ourers proceeded to the conversingm left o otrhte where g h r e o rine: theydg . r o u A p f sw t , e e r t earteshj men proceeded to the Moor, where they were joine there, and the joint body then wont by w ay o f th e ge, where th e y t urne d the number of a b ou t out the h t h a 600. A meeting was afterwards held in th e O rc h ar d , e rd y t o o ut t h h s e C at or s n eh E o:l c , h t a o n addresses being delivered from an empty cart which happened to be there. . were i nterrupted by loud c r i e s ao sf (- 8 1: 0 :h ot e proceedings hna e sthe rs am soldiers l are d co persons, however, remained . for a short ti me; b u t sight, they di s p erse d se esf or su th g e ge s s o t l i d n i g ers. A loud ieemineg l it: A large numb er o f that they cheer was then given for the mili tary. The sol shvoeurladl give of ve the t hreeoperatives t v iv e diers about two or three hundred , Were marched in front of the lock-up, to await the orders of the Mayor and magistrates. At 1 o'clock great excitement, prevailed through out the town. Groups of men had been begging in some of the principal streets. Th e superintendent of police had given directions to have them appre hended if they persisted in it. 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At 3.45 the military still remained under arms, A serious riot is apprehended to-night. The Black Prince, 40, iron frigate, Capt. Wain wright, is coaling in No. 10 dock at Portsmouth, and will be undocked about the 4th proximo. Her bot tom has been scraped over, and it is now ordered to be coated with the l'l'lnnes composition on one side, and with the composition prepared by Mr. Hay, the Admiralty chemist, on the other, in order to obtain a comparative result of their respective merits. A good deal of corrosion is visible in places, but the most serious injury exists on the third streak of plating below the armoar-plates. These results forcibly illustrate the danger which must always attend the use of copper compositions, as at present applied to the bottoms of iron ships. Fur about 40 feet along this streak of plating, where the vessel is broadest, there run straight lines of indentations, irregular in number, averaging about an eighth of an inch in width, and at their greatest depth about the 16th of an inch. The ship has hero evidently rubbed against something, possibly the staging alongside the dockyard on first leaving the dock, and scraped through the composition to the surface of the iron, and this done a powerful battery has been at once formed, the power of which to destroy the ship was only a question of time. In the in stance of the Black Prince this power has been ar rested, but it is a proof that all iron ships coated with copper preparations require frequent docking to ascertain whether the outer surface of the cora- Capt. J. Bythesea, has been detained at the Arsenal buoy to undergo various alterations. Her departure is uow ordered to take place to-morrow, when she will steam down the river on a final trial of her speed. If it prove satisfactory she will retur❑ to Greenhithe and adjust compasses for sea. The Cadmus, 20, screw, Capt. Ross, sailed from Spithead at 5 p.m. yesterday to dismantle and be paid out of commission. The Jaseur, 5, screw steam gunvesse], 425 tons, 80-horse power, commissioned a few days ago from the Sheerness steam reserve by Corn. Walter J. H. Grubbe for service on the West Coast of Africa, was taken out to the measured mile off Maplin Sands for trial of her machinery on Tuesday last. The vessel was in charge of Commander 0. C. Read, of the Cumberland, guardship of the Sheerness steam reserve, and the machinery was under the superin tendence of Mr. W. Rumble, inspector of machinery afloat, and Mr. G. Blaxland, chief engineer of her Majesty's dockyard at Sheerness. The trial was most satisfactory. The following were the results : —True mean speed at full boiler power, 8 . 398 knots per hour ; revolutions, maximum, 102, mean 99 per minute; pressure of steam, 201 b, and vacuum gauge, 251. At half boiler power the true speed attained was 6.876 knots ; revolutions, maximum 87, mean 811. The circle was made at full boiler power, helm starboard 32 deg, in 4 min 7 sec; revolutions, 92; diameter of circle, 200 yards ; at half boiler power, helm starboard, 35 deg, in 5 min 17 sec ; revolutions, 73; diameter, 300 yards. The half circle was made at full boiler power, helm port 28 deg, in 2 min 16 sec ; helm starboard 31 deg, in 1 min 48 sec ; at half boiler power, with helm port 31 deg. in 3 min 30 sec, and with helm starboard 32 deg, in 2 min 57 sec. The vessel was started at full speed in 4 see, and stopped in 6 sec. She was started full speed astern in 7 sec., and stopped in 6 sec. The force of wind was from 5 to 6 ; and the draught of water, forward, 10ft Bin ; aft, 12ft. The pitch of the screw was 12ft ; diameter, 91t; immersion, lft 9in ; tem perature, on deck, 53 deg ; engine -room, 84 deg; stokehole, 90 deg ; weather barometer, 29.80 deg. The Jaseur will be inspected today by Vice-Admiral Sir W. J. Hope Johnstone, K.C.8., and Staff Com mander-in-Chief at Sheerness, after which she is expected immediately to proceed to sea. The Curacoa screw frigate has been commissioned at Portsmouth to carry the pennant of Captain Sir W. Wiseman as Commodore of the second class on the Australian station. E spAp Eh r \ et a pp V : t* : ISI 4 nt , e erting the taeaetz .s ; of titritijr number of fluid gallons into a mews ,61.01.40dsNak 60 pounds weight per bushel for the vaKiotis'Vrirti of grain, and he moved an amendment OtarryloutZ.l that proposition. Mr. RUCKER seconded the amendment, but Mr. Hubbard suggested that the amendment was rather a question for the committee to consider th.o such a meeting, and, Mr. Russell supporting that in which Mr. M'Cann, M.P., coincided, the emend meta w 45 withdrawn. The resolution having bee❑ put to the meeting was unanimously adopted, and the proce!iing ter minated with a vote of thanks to the chairman far presiding. PRICE— .—..4d. STAMPED ...sd. I regiment arrived esterdey at Portsmouth from Aldersbott, and embarked on board her Majesty's screw troopship Megiela, Commander Madden, for conveyance to Plymouth, the Megmra sailing at 3 p.m. The detachment was under the command of Major R. R. RockP, and comprised Capt tins Thompson, Chalmers, and Drake ; Licuts. Tucker, Gossett, Crawford, Boughey, Fosbroke, and Corbel; Ensigns Grant, Davie, and Blyth ; Quartermaster Mackie, Assist.- Surg. Roose, 337 non-commissioned officers and men, 27 women, and 27 children. Major-General Stransham, Inspector-General of Royal Marines, yesterday went down to Woolwich and brigaded the division on Woolwich-common. They formed in three battalions and went through a series of exercises under the command of Colonels Gascoigne, Sather, and Marriott, their movements being minutely inspected by the Major-General. The annual course of rifle practice recently com menced in Woolwich marsh, under the direction of Captain Bunce, musketry instructor to the division of the Royal Marine Light Infantry, has been unex pectedly interrupted and is ordered to be suspended for two months during the agricultural season in consequence of the unprotected state of the targets. It is much to be regretted that in a garrison locality quartering upwards of 1,000 troops, the importance of securing a rifle range available at all seasons of the year, and especially at the present, when most in request, should have bean hitherto overlooked. The battalions of Royal Marines, numbering 1,600 men, who commenced their rifle course on April 1, are in consequence unable to continue the most im portant part of their summer drill, viz., that of mus ketry. The rifle party, in command of Capt. Bence, musketry instructor to the division, assembled in small numbers in the chalk quarry at Charlton, by the permission of Capt. G. H. Graham, and went through a course of musket firing over the short range, in consequence of the long range being closed. Col. Paradis, accompanied by a party of officers belonging to the Imperial Austrian Engineers, yes terday went down to Woolwich to ascertain finally the capabilities and result of the quarterly report of Bray's traction engine employed in the dockyard. His object was to close the negotiations for the pur chase of a number of the engines for use in the Austrian service. The report states that the engine at Woolwich has been doing the work of the yard over four months, during which time it has been in daily use without accident or delay of any kind, and frequently working till 9 o'clock at night. Car goes of foreign timber constantly arriving at Wool wich are now landed and stacked by steam; ships are masted and rigged by the same system, and the teams of horses and gangs of labourers are in con sequence reduced upon the principle of expedition and economy in the labour. THE PRISON MINISTERS BILL. --- (From the Times.) There is a class of sayings in all mother tongues o the effect that the worse leads and the better fol lows. In the mixed teams one sees abroad, while the shaft horse is a colossus, the leader is a mule or an ass. Accordingly, those terrible questions under which acute politicians see "the point of the wedge," or " the snake in the grass," usu Illy relate to the unfortunate, the neglected, and the criminal. The point of the wedge showed itself last night, happily not yet at the very heart and core of the old British oak, but iu some of its sap and rotten wood. 4, 'rh o Prison Ministeis Bill" is a proposition to appoint and pay chaplains forother than Churcli of England prisoners when they are sufficiently numerous, and after a severe debate it went through its second read ing with no very triumphant majority. Besides pairs, 152 Liberals and Roman Catholics thought it their duty to support Sir G. Grey, and a compact phalanx of 122 ultra-Protestants voted against the Bill. The majority is probably sufficient to carry the Bill through the Lords, but the Division is close enough to show how little real zeal there is for con sistency or fairness, or even the improvement of criminals, when the least glimpse of a great horror has once occupied the cowl. In the abstract, and in the simple and natural view of the case, the 3,000 Roman Catholics in our prisons and the 1,500 in our convict establishments require spiritual care quite as much as their Protestant fellow criminals, and are too considerable a body to be passed over. We are bound to do for the Roman Catholics just what we do for the Protestants, not leaving it to their choice whether they will receive pastoral visits or not, but sending the chaplain to them, and leav ing upon their own heads the responsibility of re jecting him. So long as we confine our attention to the poor wretch absolutely in our grasp, and shut up body and soul from all other influences, we can not dispute that we must get at his conscience as best we may. Every consideration of humanity and reli gion brings us to this point. We pride ourselves on the care we take of the prisoner. We keep him warm, sweet, and dry; we sustain his spirits with plenty of wholesome food ; we give him moderate work to exercise and amuse him ; we cheer him with the hope of release before his time, and flatter ourselves that we send him out a wiser, and better, and stronger, and happier man. We then compare our prisons with those which Howard visited, and which the old Bourbons kept up wherever they reigned. The real difference is that our prisons sustain life, and those prisons were only the plausible means of a more cruel death than that of the scaffold. But we cannot do all this without going a step further. As wo take the body under our care, so have we taken the soul—the soul of the Papist as well as the soul of the Protestant. This duty, too, we must discharge on our own established and now national principles of religious toleration and equality. It is the fact of our having the entire charge of these poor creatures that leaves us really little choice in this question. No doubt that charge is troublesome and disagreeable. It is much easier and cheaper to shoot, to hang, or to starve criminals, or to let them rot and forget them. Not only is it easier, but in some places you must either destroy the class, or be destroyed by them. We, on the contrary, are undoubted masters, and can do what we please with the criminal, only at a rather inconve nient cost and trouble. Such responsibility cannot be discharged without doing all we can for the souls whose ill-conditioned state has brought them to this pass. The very utmost that could be said ' in reply to these plain considerations last night was that prisoners might have the priest if they wished. This is as much as to say that the respon sibility of spiritual correction and improvement rests on the prisoner, not on the authority which has put him in prison. Yet we do not leave Protestant prisoners to choose for themselves. We send them the chaplain whether they wish it or no. Soldiers are under our care, and, accordingly, we give them Roman Catholic and Presbyterian as well as Church of England chaplains. Being free, they can de mand chaplains of their own persuasion. The only reason upon which we could refuse to prisoners what we grant to soldiers is that they are not free and are therefore at our mercy. But this is a plea which the nation cannot entertain for a day. We must do our best for these poor creatures. Nobody pretends that they are best left alone, or that the Church of England chaplain will have much chance with them, or that it is even fair to give him either the monopoly of access or the practical advantage arising from being the authorised and paid official. As a general rule nothing is well done that is not paid for. The most zealous priest will flag before long if his services are not acknowledged as services usually are. He may be glad to see this prisoner or that, if he can take his choice, but he will not undertake all the Roman Catholics in a prison, with all the variations of character and condition certain to be found in it. So, if the work is to be really done, it must not be left to an unpaid amateur, do ing what he pleases because he pleases to do it. But is not this the point of the wedge, and are not fur ther concessions certain to follow ? So thought 122 gentlemen last night, and a good many more, count ing the pairers. It must be admitted that one thing leads to another, and as this measure is advocated as a supplement of existing arrangements, so it will in its turn be the basis of further requirements. If we provide chaplains in prisons for men hardened in crime, and so far past gentle influences, whey n ot yet for the Irish poor in this country, who i ti i ! i s his own is that the Roman Catholic out h o .s f o d w oo n in so hopeless a state P The answer w re t master, and master, and insists on bein g at q n oest a i n on d iblAeawyiatthtet liber ty h m e pt Beto endow the assistance of makes pretensions incomp at ible end in otanlidkeulyil°tbeliged. a grant of g to . which w o a for- So the midablewhichwould power, and m i t n h o d e n e p e p y r e i , n e s d t e h n o c o e d o f w o t o u h u l e d l d S g t o b a ein and • point unfettered wedg e iis not Penetrate fur ' ther in that direction. The sto • stoppage is the impos sibility of any agreement o enta ofwbothlley Rome that should have the s r understanding with the various institutions (me political effect as and arrangements what is called the 1J • forcing mon of Church We have not and State, U nion the • • Roman Catholic out n spiritual care of the of doors, for we have not taken him in hand at all. The prisoner we have taken in hand, and we are therefore answerable for his spiritual care. But will not the precedent lead further ? 2'h at a is a question which it is needless to answer, for it is impossible to do a generous act, or even an act of justice, without being immediately called on to do a good deal more of the same kind. The world, disgusted and despairing of good, looks about for some one better than the common herd, and when it finds him engaged in some good actim mediately besets him with petitions for more. So is only too probable that what we do for a few hundred prisoners we shall have to do for others. But it is no business of ours to put claims in the order of precedence, and tell people what else they may rightly ask when one thing is given. For the matter now in hand, magistrates will not be very lavish with the funds at their disposal, and will take care that the priest p erforms his office strictly with a view to the good of the prisoner's soul and those poor amends which the worst man may make by a full public confession. —T i 13:: total ended the 318 t , PUBLIC " ---- _-7----"7"------__—__ amounted ill 0,000 of the revenueoft the eN UnitedCOME AND Kin g E d o X: E i nN theD ITyUe::: of March last was £ 70,603,560 15s. . ld.. The total expendi ture, all to £7,263,838 19s. 6d., this sum ineludinwlsB7°,3s2,oo7 balances u a i a. e n , c i 2 n ed : , 1 i u n d lt i e n ha g ev .C i l xg , O c h s . o e , gb O au O lea O rn f , o ca r et f o ot r hf t the 1 same aasmtli,oosnss2, date, money raised for fortifications. lam' THE ARMY. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, as Field Marshal Commanding in Chief, held a lev6e yesterday afternoon at the Horse Guards. The Adjustant- General, Sir James Yorke Scarlett, has issued a circular memorandum addressed to regiments of infanty, with the exception of those in India, dated the Horse Guards, April 11, of which the subjoined is a copy : " In consequence of the difficulty experienced by com manding officers in finding good men to fill the situation of master tailor to their regiments under the recent warrant, the Secretary of State for War has, on the recommendation of his Royal Highness the Field Marshal Commanding in Chief, consented to the instruction is tailoring of a certain number of men at the Government clothing establiehment at Pimlico. Commanding officers are accordingly d e sired to s', , nd to this department the names of volunteers who may wish to avail themselves of this priv ile g e, taking care that they are industrious men, of good character, tailors by former trade, and having a capacity and desire for th e business. During the perio d of instruction a sum of extra pay not exceeding is. per diem will be allowed, and beyond the actual expense of proceeding to and from their regi ments they will be entitled to no other allowance. Quarters will be provided for them in the Wellington Barracks, and they, of course, will be subjected in all respects to military discipline. As the clothing factory is not calculated to accommo d a te above 30 men at one time, i n t h e first instance men will be selected from regiments serving at home. On reeeiving a certificate of qualification it will be optional with the men to volunteer to any corps in w an t o f a master tailor, or, should they prefer it, they may await in their own regi ments a similar appointment." A detachment of the Ist battalion 2d (Queen's) NOTICE. AT ODDS, the New Novel, hy the Author of "The Initials" and "Quits," in 2 yds., pest Bvo., is now ready at all the Libraries. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. FLOUR FOR HOSPITAL BREAD in such quantities as may be required, from the Ist June to 10th November, 1f6.3, for the use of her Majesty's Forces stationed at Aldershot Camp, and within the command. Forms of Tender and Conditions of Contract may be ob tained on application at this office, by letter or in person be tween the hours of ten and four o'clock. , Tenders on the printed forms must be properly filled up and signed, and delivered at this office (under closed envelope, marked on the outside "Tender for Flour for Hospital Bread"), and no tender will be noticed unless made on forms obtained from this office, and delivered by the hour ap pointed. ARMY CONTRACTS. Commissariat Office, Aldershot, Bth April, 1863. QEA LED TENDERS will be rece i ved at this S office, until noon on WEDNESDAY, the 6th May, 1883, from persons who may be willing to enter into Contracts to supply • - FLOUR AND MEAT in such quantities as may be required, from the Ist June to 30th November, 1863, for the use of her Maje,ty's Forces stationed at Aldershot Camp, and within the command. Separate Tenders are required for Flour and for Meat. Forms of Tender and Conditions of Contract may be ob tained on application at this office, by letter or in person, be tween the hours of ten and four o'clock. Tenders on the printed forms must be properly filled up and signed, and delivered at this office (under closed envelope, marked on the outside " Tender for Commissariat Sulies"), and no tender will be nrticed unless made on forms obtained from this office, and delivered by the hour appointed. BERWICKSHIRE STEEPLE CHASES, at Himmerehame-Mains, within three miles of itunbe and twelve of Berwick, on Wednesday, April 29th, 1863. I. THE SCOTTISH GRAND NATIONAL STEEPLE CHASE of 100 sous, added to a Free Handicap of 5 sous each (in case of awe , tance) ; the winner of any handicap st eple chase of the value of 50 cove after the weights are l , ublished to carry 71b extra; the winner to pay 20 goys towa-ds expense., and the second to save his stake ; fi ve h orses to start, or the added money will not be given war out the consent of the Stewards ; about three miles and s half over a rood hunting country; 2 soya entrance, to go to the fund, which must be remitted with the entries, otherwise they will not be received. To close and name with the Clerk of the Course, Dunse, on or before 31st of arc', 1863. Top weight, 12st 71b. Handicapper, Mr. H. Johnson, York. —The HtTNT STEEPLE CHASE of 50 sot's., added to a Sweepstakes of 5 sovs each, 1 forfeit to the fund, open to all orses that have been regularly hunted in Scotland, and with the Earl of Wemyss's Hounds in Northumberland ; second hor eto save his stakes four yr old4llst4lb, five yr olds 12st 21h, six and aed 12st 71b; previous winners of any steeple chase or hurdle race value 50 sovs 71b extra ; the winner to pay 3 soya towards expenses ; about three miles and a half ; gentlemen riders : professionals, trainers, grooms, or any one who has ridden for pay 71b extra. lll.—The TALLYHO HUNT STEEPLE CHASE of 25 sovs., added to a sweepstakes of 2 soy, each, 1 forfeit to the fund, for horses that have never won any steeple chase or hurdle race, nor paid race horse duty previous to 1863 ; open to all horses that have been regularly hunted in Scotland, or with the Earl of Wemy ss ' s H ounds in Northumberland ; second horse to save his stake; about three miles and a half ; weights and riders same No. 2. IV.—The HUNTERS' SELLING STEEPLE CHASE Of 2 sovs each, 1 forfeit to the fund, with 20 soya added; the second to save his stake ; four year olds, list 41b ; five year olds, 12st 21b ; six and aged, 12st 71b ; the winner to be sold for 80 says: if entered t 3 be sold for 50 soya allowed 71b, if for 40 soya 141 b, if for 30 soya 211 b. and if for 20 sovs 281 b ; the winner to be sold immediately after the race, and the surplus to go to the race fund; three horses to start, or the added money will not be given : about three miles and a half. Nos. ? and 3 being intended for bona fide hunters only, cer tificates from the respective masters of hounds must be pro duced before starting, if required, that they have not only been regularly hunted, but ridden to hounds, and must not have been in a public training stable in 1563. Entries for Nos. 2 and 3to be made to the Clerk of the Course, Dunse, on or before the 21st April, and objections to qualification of horses to be made to him in writing not later than Monday, 27th April. Colours to be declared at time of entry for each race. Sir a A. BOSINTALL, Bart, Sir DAVID BAIRD, Bart, Major INNES, Stewards. Major L'AMY, J. B. KELLIE, Clerk of the Course. RUSSIAN ATROCITIES. The following official reports, describing the atro cities committEd by the Russian troops at Bialaszew, have been sent to the Home Minister at Warsaw : " REPORT OF THE MAGTSTRATE OF THE COMMUNE OF BIALASZBW. " On the 19th (31st) of March, at 8 30 a.m., a detachment of insurgents entered Bialaszew by the road leading from the village of Klimaszewice, through the courtyard, and seized upon the houses on the estate. In about an hour afterwards the imperial troops in pursuit of them arrived. Some firing took place on both sides in the yard, and after a few shots the armed detachments retired. Being in the midst of the firing, I could not see whither this detachment proceeded. The imperial troops now attacked the house with a hailstorm of shots, I, a quiet inhabitant, being in the house at the time. At length the soldiers entered, killed my daughter with two bayonet stabs, wounded with two shots my son-in-law, who came from Suwalki for the holidays, and began to plunder When these outrages began we went out of the house into the garden. Here three soldiers continued to fire at us from the street, although we were unarmed. The first—viz., the armed men who attacked my house—took what they were most pressingly in need of, or, rather, what they were able to obtain within the space of an hour. They took three horses, a britska, and a labourer named Martin Gawelka, about 25 gallons of brandy, and 30 trusses of hay. The im g say daught er , and wounding my son-in-law, killervants of the household, viz., Francis Slineki, Victor Bogdaszwski, John Bornowski, John Kolinski, Frederick Robylinski, a l a b ourer, and John Karas, an old man aged 60, and a Prussian subject. The above were first castrated, sad then twice stabbed with bayonets. They also wounded mortally Gottlieb Szsnt, a smith, a Prussian sub ject, and Joseph Bifner, a farm labourer. They set fire to the corn granary, and to the stables, with the cattle, horses, and valuables; they knocked the locks off chests and cup boards, stole the clothing, linen, and money, and broke the glass, such as mirrors, &c. They took with them the cop per kitchen utensils, broke into the offi ce, took destroyed the registers of th e popula tion " SIVIDERSKI, Magistrate of the Commune of Bialsgew in the district of Augustowe." " MEMORANDUM ON THE ABOVE BY THE CIVIL GOVER NOR OF AUGUSTOWE. " These are the last news from this Government, and in notifying the same to the Minister I venture to request that the proper steps may be takes with a view to obtaining satisfaction for M. Swiderski, landowner and communal magistrate, who has been so grievously ill-treated, and also to obviating for the future as much as possible similar out rages on the part of the troops, for such conduct causes even those who wish to remain quiet to prefer to join the insur gents rather than be exposed to such treatment. " KORYTKOWSHI, Governor. "March 26 (April 7)." THE DITTIES ON GRAIN. A meeting was held yesterday, at the Corn Exchange Subscription Rooms, Seething-lane, for the purpose of considering the proposed alteration in the levying of duties on grain from measure to weight. Mr. W. S. Lindsay, M.P., occupied the chair, and the attendance was very numerous. . The CHAIRMAN, in opening the business, explained that at the meeting previously held at the Baltio Coffeehouse, it was determined that the freight should be paid in future by the quarter, as hereto- fore. It was also thought desirable that under these circuu.stances the duties should be paid by weight, and he communicated to the Chancellor of the Ex chequer, in forwarding him a report of the proceed ings of the meeting, that a deputation would be happy to wait upon him to discuss the question at any time he (the Chancellor of the Exchequer) might think proper to appoint. The following day the right hon. gentleman replied that he had re- ferred the matter to the Commissioners of Customs, and their report, he presumed, was favourable from the communication he (the chairman) had received from the Treasury, stating the matter would be con sidered, and requesting those interested to furnish him with a table of the scale of duties proposed to be substituted for those at present in operation, and which must provide against any loss to the revenue. Mr. COVENTRY said that the resolution he had to propose was as follows 'that it is the opinion of this meeting that the present system of charg ing the duties on grain is imperfect, and that it is desirable that the same should be levied by weight instead of measure." Formerly grain was sold en- tirely by measure, but now it was almost entirely sold by weight; it had also been decided that freight should be charged by weight, and it ought naturally to follow that the duties should be levied in the same way. By taking the duty by measure they paid the larger amount on the inferior article, and in addition to this the expense of measurement added from 30 to 40 per cent. to the duty. Mr. HUBBARD, M.P., said that he had been asked to second the resolution, and he had hoped that before doing so he should have heard the opinions of some of the gentlemen present whose experience and observation would have entitled their views to considerable weight. The case, however, appeared so remarkably clear, that it was hardly necessary to offer anything in support of the statements already put forth. This was one of the cases in which ex perience and practice had provided a remedy for an existing grievance, and the freight being charged by weight, and the sales being effected on the same principle, no doubt the Government would see the advantage of extending it to the levying of the duty. At present, so far from the duty being in harmony with the value of the article taxed, in many cases the duty increased in an inverse proportion to the value of the article; nor did this observation apply to one article alone, but it referred to the various kinds of grain. It was now proposed that one duty should be levied on all kinds of grain, and that duty being levied by weight would correct the inequalities of which they now had a right to complain. Taking the imports during the last year he found they had been— Wheat Barley Oats 1,622,919 of 304 Beans 479,758 of 456 Peas .. 230,132 of 612 Rye 1,694 of 464 Maize giving a total of 16,491,813 qrs., upon which a duty of £824,590 had been paid, and which, if taken in weight, would have amounted to 3,338,020 tons, the duty on which, being levied at 48. 11d. and Is. 3d., would realise £824,690, being the same amount as was raised under the present system. They therefore proposed to simplify the matter by offering to the Chancellor of the Exchequer a form duty of s s. per ton. Ile (Mr. Hubbard) could an d he had much pleasure in second not anticipate any difficulty in carrying out this arra ngement, ing the res olution. Mr. MITC HELL cordiall y su pp or ted the resolu tion, believ in g that the alteratio n would be certai n l y b e neficial, thoug h it w ould not entirely remedy the e vils of which they now complain e d. unani mously. The resolution wa s then put and carried Mr. S. RALLI proposed the appointment of a com mittee comprising several influential members of the trade to consider a scheme to be laid before the Chancellor of the Exchequer. He condemned a proposition that had been made in the matter by Mr. Osborne to impose a duty of ls. on 4801 b. of wheat, 4001 b. of barley, and 3201 b, of oats, in lieu of the present levy, and he (Mr. Ralli) further expressed his disapproval of two other schemes that that had been submitted, arguing that the ton being the standard measure of the country ought to be adopted as the basis. Mr. RUSSELL, M,P., seconded the appointment of the committee. Mr. OSBORNE defended the proposition be had made, and urged that the quarter having been hitherto the measure by which all business had been transacted it was desirable that it should be