The Sun. — London, England, 1853-05-12 00:00:00

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. 'Under the management of Mr. Buekstollo. THIS EVENING, MAT 12, Will be performed LEAP YEAR ; or, The Ladles' Privilege. Characters by Messrs. Compton, Carl, Howe, and Buckstone; Miss Reynolds, and Mrs. Fitzwilliam. After Istdds, MR. BIICKSTONE'S ASCENT OF MOUNT PAR- RiABSUS. To conclude with BOX AND COX. . ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATER, OXFORD-STRZET. Trager the Management of Mr. Charles Kean. THIS EVRNING, MAY 12, Will be performed THE CORSICAN BROTHERS. Principal duiracier 4y.Mr. C. Kean. Te conclude with the new Drama, adapted from the French of Mom. Scribe, by Mr. Palgrave Cmpson, called MARCO SPADA. Principal 'c h a racters by Messrs. W. Lacy, J. Vining, Ryder, , Graham and Everett ; Misses Heath and C. Leclercq. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. trader the Management of Madame Vestrie. THIS EVENING, MAY 12, Will be performed A.S.S. Characters by Messrs. F. Mathews, actor, and Rosier*; Mn. Macnamara and Miss 'Wyndham. After which, A FAST TRAIN—HIGH PRESSURE EXPRESS. Characters by Meesrs. C. Mathews, Baker, and Stater. To be followed by TB:TING IT ON. Principal character by Mr. •. Mathews. To which will be added a DIVERTISSEMENT, in which Miss Easina Wright will appear. To conclude with THE CRITIC. Characters by Messrs. CC. Ma likewe, F. Matthews , and R. Roxb y ; Miss St. George, and Mrs. iisonamara. THEATRE ROYAL ADELPHL groprliter, Mr. B. Webster. —Directreu, Madame Colette. THIS EVENING, MAT 12, Rill be performed MASKS AND FACES; or, Before and Behind the Curtain —by Messrs. B. Webster, L. Murray, Honey, P. Bedford, ;sad Culleniord ; Madame Celeste, and Miss Woolgar. After which, A DESPERATE GAME. To be followed by THE PRETTY GIRLS OF STILSBERG. To conclude with TAE DANCING SCOTCHXS.N. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. Tanabe and Manager Mr. Parren. THIS EVENING, IfAY 12, Wilt be performed THE MILLER OF DERWENT wATE - z. Characters by Messrs. H. Farrel. E. E.obion, Shalders, G. Cooke, aid Shades; Mesdames Anderton and E. Turner. After which, UNCLB CROTCHET. Supported by Mr. Far no, &e. To be followed by MACBETH. Supperted by Mr. Samuel Mac beth and Mr. F. Robsen ; Mrs. Sarah Macbeth and Mrs. A. Phillips. To conclude with THE SWISS COTTAGE. Lisette, Miss H. Gordon. AsTLErs ROYAL AMPEUTFIEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. W. Cooke. In e:,mpliance with a generally -expressed wish, Mr. W. Cooke has the honour of announcing that A GRAND JUVENILE MORNING PERFORMANCE Will take place on WHIT-TUESDAY, May 17, commencing at Two o'clock. By Permission of the Commandant Col. Clark, R.H., and by special Invitation from Mr. W. Cooke, the Boys of the Duke of York's School, with their Band, will attend. LAST FIVE NIGHTS of THE KAFIR, WARFARE, which must be withdrawn for the entirety new sporting Hippo Drama, illustrat ing LIFE ON THE TURF, to be produced ter the WHITSUN HOLIDAYS. _ THIS EVENING, MAT 12, And during the week, the entertainments will commence with the grand rpectacle of AMAKOSA.; or, Scenes of Kafir Warfare. Te be to:lowed by a display of Equestrian Scenes in the ARENA, introducing Mr. Cooke's highly-trained steeds. The infant Victor Claude Cooke and his pet Drawing-room Puny. The Entertain ments supported by the eminent A rtistes of the Establishment. To conclude with Hugo Vamp, Esq '5, new Cemio Drama, entitled IN FOB A DJG; or, Life at the Diggings. Boa-office open daily from Eleven to Four. Stage Manager, Mr. . W. west. DAILY WEATHER TABLE. THURSDAY, MAY 12, 1853. State of the wind and weather at each of the following ila-teg at nine' o'clock yesterday morning. The stations are arranged in order of latitude. I[Am:zeta—Calm—partially cloudy. SOUTHAMPTON N. - NIT., strong_ breeze—clondless. FOLKESTONE—S. W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy. T UNBRID GE—N.E., calm—cloudless. BASINGSTOKE—N.B., gentle breeze—partially cloudy. GRIIKNWICH—Caim--elondles3. STROOD—N., gentle breeze —partially cloudy. SWINDON—N.ii., fresh breeze—cloudless. CAMBRlDGE — Calm—cloudless. YAR3fOUTII—W., calm—cloudless. The returns from the following places indicate the state of the weather on Tuesday morning at nine o'clock : fiminns—N.W., fresh breeze —overcast. SounrAmpTox—N.W., strong breeze—partially cloudy. FoLIEr6TONE—S.W,. gentle breeze—partially cloudy. BASINGSTOKZ—N.W., hard wind—partially cloudy. G nERYWI 0 —N.E., strong breeze—partially cloudy. STEOOD—N.W., strong breeze —overcast. SWIND'JN—W.. strong breeze—partially cloudy. CAMBRIDGE—N. , strong breeze—rain. 'YARMOUTH—N. W., hard wind—overcast. LANCA STER—N.W., calm—partially cloudy. WHITBY—N.B., hard wind—prin c ip a lly c l ear . DARLINGTON—N.:'.T.W., strong breeze—overcast—light rain. SHAD— N., gentle breeze—overcast. • THE PUBLICATION OF (c ILT JUL AA SUN" COMMENCES Erni* AVTERNOON AT THREE O'CLOCK, AND TID3 LATE OR THIRD EDITION, CONTAINING Tan DEBATES IN PARLIAMENT THE SAME EVENING, With &t other News arriving up to Out hour of Post, AT SEVEN O'CLOCK. EXPRESS EDITIONS will be forwarded after the Post is closed by the Latest Trains. RlG][ WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. rII3 Der —Morning 12 min. after 4 j Evening 28 min.aft. 4 To-Moaßow—Marning 45 min. aft©r 4 j Evening 3 min.aft. 5 THE WEATHER.—SLTN OPFICK, MAY 12. THRRIIOXIETICR, IN THE SIIA.DE. 55—highest since noon yesterday. 42—lowest this morning and during tho night. 57 this day at stool. BAROMETER, 30'05. Wrxr), E.N.E.—Sharp breeze, and sunshiny weather, *with elands. WI) t LONDON, THURSDAY, MAY 12, 1853. It is observable from the statistics of the annual mortality furnished by the Registrar-General, that the most critical age of man is—Sixty-Three. Why it should be so, it were perhaps difficult to decide. But so it is, and so it continues to re main a problem baffling the elucidative powers of the physiologist. Its solution may be traceable possibly to the mystery of numbers ; or it may be arrived at through what has been aptly termed the metamorphosis of the tissues—one of the most surprising of the many marvels making up the sys tem of the animal economy. However it may be —there the fact is perpetually before us, in the Doomsday-Book of Death, that momentous re cord which is being published ever and ever, leaf by leaf, in periodical instalments. An average proves beyond the reach of doubt, that the sixty third' year is the most critical age with the gene rality of individuals. Philosophy shows us that every seventh year the human frame, even to the very marrow of our bones, is entirely renovated. Whether any peculiar crisis is reached on the attainment of the ninth seventh, it were some what puzzling to conjecture. About as puzzling as it would be to attempt anything like a distinct estimate of the relative value of the numbers involved in the matter under discussion. As we have already remarked, the only certainty in rela tion to the subject, as shown by the incontestible evidence of statistics, is the fact that the sixty third is our most critical anniversary. Without any question, it would be altogether frivolous to place under this head within the same category, not only men, but institutions. Our conduct in doing so would, of course, be merely idle and preposterous. Yet, remembering the rather formidable coincidence of the crisis, as it occurs to man, it is satisfactory (at least, to our selves) whenever we see the perilous interval posed by in safety, by institutions in whose ex istence our sympathies have become in any man ner interested. Recently it has so occurred in reference to the Literary Fund, now firmly established as a Royal Corporation. Yesterday witnessed the sixty fourth anniversary of its foundation. The event was, naturally enough, celebrated, according to custom, by a public dinne r at Freemasons' Hall— on the a banquet presided over, present occasion, by the Right Hon. BEN.ramix DISRAELI s Those intrusted with the managern ent of the institu tion could scarcely have made a happier n selectiontitution tn under the circumstances. Encour agement fortunate and desponding men of letters, was ob viously implied by the nomination as chairman over the proceedings of last evening, of a r asa who has iisen to power simply through the influ ence acquired by aid of his intellectual achieve ments—one who ultimately became a Ministerial adviser of his Sover ei g n, b y the exercise of those Capacities which first gained him a name in litera ture—one, in fact, who presented to the world in his own proper person, the unprecedented pheno menon of a novelist gazetted as Chancellor of the Exchequer. Remembering the career of Mr. Dimum—remem bering it even under the lurid and distorting light thrown out by the malevolence of the Edinburgh--remembering it through all the derision of the Times, and all the spite of the Post, and all the sneers of the Chronicle—we re peat, that substantial encouragement was afforded to men of letters by the instalment as Chairman of the Literary Fund, this year, of the Right Honourable Gentleman the leader of Her Majesty's Opposition. It was appropriate, moreover, that he should have won his way to that position, that he should have been selected to preside over the anniversary proceedings of the Literary Fund Dinner—himself a Scholar, and the son of a Scholar—himself a labourer, and the descendant of a labourer, in the beautiful fields of polite literature. As he intimated in the course of his remarks last evening, many years have elapsed since the rise of the very institution over the anniversary banquet of which he himself was then presiding, was watched over with peculiar solicitude by his father, then in the first glory of the popularity which has now ripened into a classic the " Curiosities of Literature." It was just, therefore, and graceful, that what was tended in its infancy by DISRAELI the 'Elder, should be commended in its maturity to the in terest of DISRAELI the Younger. It is impos sible for us not to admire the tone evidently adopted throughout the remarks to which the latter yesterday gave utterance, when speaking of the band of authors, to him a veritabl brotherhood. That such was the feeling whtcl pervaded his allusions to them and their attendant difficulties last evening, is to us, we repeat, suffi ciently evident, although we have listened to them, not warm from the lips of the speaker, but cold and faint, through the subtile but inadequate echo of the stenographer. It is impossible, in deed, after carefully perusing, as we have done, the speech delivered yesterday at the Literary Fund Dinner by the ex-Chancellor of the Ex chequer, not to admire the gentle and tender appreciation evinced by him of that class among whose honoured ranks he himself had first grasped the guerdon of a reputation. No one but a man who had himself struggled in that noble contest for celebrity could have commented as Mr. DIS RAELI commented last night upon the inner life, upon those hidden casualties and secret pangs which impede from time to time, unknown to the generality; the solitary labours of the student of literature. No one but a man of literary experi ences ,could have referred in terms of such deli cate and refined sensibility to those intervals when, the charmed public eagerly expecting to witness a repetition of the spell it had found fraught with fascination, " Nature might whisper to the author that the brain which had been over worked should lie fallow, and that the frame which had trembled with agitation required for its nerves repose and stillness"—intervals which the orator afterwards finely designated " those great patisesiwhich are the universal appanage of imaginative minds." Everything through out that speech of the evening, the speech in which the Chairman proposed as a toast, " Prcsperity to the Literary Fund, and the health of its President, the Marquis of LANS DOWNE," everything in it, from first to last, ap- pears to have demonstrated more and more clearly the app:ropriateness of yesterday's proceedings being presided over by a man liko Mr. DISRAELI —a man. who has proved himself not only a writer, but a statesman, not only an essayist, but an orator, not only a novelist, but a financier, the author of " Coninguby," and the Leader of her MAJ "ZSTY'S Opposition. Altovther the interesting festivities of last evening i Freemasons'-hall, could not it would seem have pas E;ed. off more satisfactorily. Among the toasts pry: posed, we are surprised to observe one remarkable omission—that is to say, supposing the repot t given to be scrupulously accurate. There wet •ct toasts such as "Professor CREASY and the Historians," proposed by Lord STANLEY ; or as " Profs !ssor AYTOUN and the Poets," proposed by Mr. RIGBY SEYMOUR ; or, again, as " Justice HALIBURT ON (Sam, Slick) and the Essayists," pro posed by- Lord JOAN MANNERS. But with the witty au.thor of the " Chronicles of Clover nook," in the apartment, there was no toast of " DOUGLAS JERROLD and the Novelists." At any rate; we can perceive no such toast in the report of last night's proceedings. And we are the more surprised at the omission, because we remember it to have been once remarked by the Chairman of the evening—if we recollect rightly the thought occurs somewhere in " Contarini Fleming"—that prose fiction has latterly taken the place of poetry, or rather that the true poet of this age is—the Novelist. Besides, some tribute such as this was due, we conceive, under the circumstances to a popular writer like DOUGLAS JERROLD, to say nothing whatever about the toast here suggested being in a singularlygraceful manner complimentary to the Right Honourable Gen tleman in the Chair. Excepting this single hiatus, we can detect nothing in these fes tive proceedings of last night at which the most captious could cavil, or at which the most phlegmatic could carp. The dinner of yesterday, in short, yields admirable augury for the future prospects of the Literary Fund—to ourselves, and no doubt to many others likewise, the most interesting among our great eleemosynary establishments. The Commissioners appointed to inquire into the process, practice, and system of pleading in the Superior Courts of Common Law have pub lished a second Report, an analysis of which appeared in our impression of last Monday. It is a well-considered and carefully-formed docu ment, containing many valuable suggestions and recommendations for the further improvement of the procedure and practice of the several tribunals. With the majority of these recommendations, we fully coincide ; and we trust that they may be speedily brought into practical operation by a judicious extension of the Common Law Pro cedure Act. The first point adverted to by the Commis sioners is the " Trial by Jury." They review with great acuteness the various argu ments as to its comparative advantages and disadvantages with the existing system. The conclusion at which they arrive is favourable to that which has long been considered the " Palladium of English liberty," stating that, " whilst they feel that there are cases in which a jury may be advantageously dispensed with —as, for instance, in matters of undisputed facts, and where the question turns upon the legal effect of evidence—they do net feel themselves warranted, except in cases of account, to recommend that it should be dispensed with ;" adding, that " on the whole it works well, and enjoys the confidence of the public." We believe that there are few per sons who will not concur in this view of the case, or in the slight modification suggested by the learn ed Commissioners, viz., that while Trial by Jury constitutes the rule, it may be dispensed with, and the issues of fact, as well as of law, left to the decision of the presiding Judge, but only with the consent of all parties. While every litigant, there fore, is entitled, ex debito justitice, to the judgment of twelve of his peers, he may, if his opponents be also willing, leave all matters in dispute to the judgment of the Court, without the delay or ex pense of impannelling a Jury, or subjecting men of business to the great inconvenience of absenting theniselves from their counting-houses, at the greatest possible inconvenience to themselves and their customers. There is a class of cases such as are not fitted for investigation before a jury. Loud and well founded complaints have been repeatedly put for ward by Judges and Juries at the time of the Court being most uselessly and vexatiously wasted in investigating matters of mere account that could be far more easily settled, and at a tithe of the expense, by an accountant or arbitrator. The usual cou rse i u suc h cases is, after all the expenses have been incurred, when several voluminous briefs h ave been prepared ' and delivered, with heavy fees to leading counsel, to merely open the question ; and then, at the st rong recommenda tion of the Jud g e sometkies. approaching to judicial coercion—to refer' the matter to the arbitration of some barrister nominated by the Judge or selected by the parties. Nothing save the public time is saved by this practice. Even the Court fees must be satisfied, including, if in the Exchequer, a gratuity to the Lord Chief Baron's coachman. The Commissioners now pro pose that such matters should be referred, in the first instance, and without the ruinous cost and vexatious delay at present inevitable, either to one of the Officers of the Court, a County Court Judge, or an Arbitrator chosen by mutual con sent, upon whose report judgment may be entered as upon a verdict. This will, indeed, be a boon to a certain class of litigants, and is so obvious an improvement on the existing system, that it is only astonishing that it has not long since been resorted to. Another great and much-required amelioration contemplated by the Commissioners is an altera tion in the qualification for Jurymen, which is to be made higher than it is at present. An admixture of persons of the class from which Special Jurymen are taken is also recommended, so as to secure a superior degree of intelligence in every case with out the expenses incidental to the services of a Special Jury, which can, however, if desired, still be obtained in the same manner as at present— the practise in that respect not being in any degree interfered with. Another, and a very important question, in reference to the Trial by Jury, is that respecting the "unanimity" now required, and the sugges tion for assimilating the practice to that in opera tion in Scotland, where the decision of the ma jority is binding. On that point the Commis sioners very properly consider that the present rule, requiring unanimity should be main tained. And they ground that opinion on the facts, that the verdict of a mere majority would fail to give satisfaction, inasmuch as the consciousness that a portion of the jury were in favour of the defeated party would materially in crease his dissatisfaction at the result, and would probably lead to renewed litigation, while every divided verdict might be urged, and not unrea sonably be entertained, as a very strong ground for obtaining a new trial. One of the chief ad vantages of unanimity is, that it insures a full and complete discussion and consideration of the evidence offered in all its varied aspects, and that the minority, in place of at once yielding, as they would most probably do if the expreision of a sim ple dissent removed the responsibility of be coming participators in an erroneous verdict, will be enabled to resist conclusions from which they feel themselves bound in con science to dissent. One great evil is, however, noticed, and an adequate remedy suggested. The Commissioners naturally feel that verdicts should no longer be obtained by coercion. That every proper accommodation and necessary refresh ment should be allowed to Jurymen during their deliberations ; and that the health of gentlemen who may honestly differ as to their final verdict should no longer be injured, perhaps their lives endangered, unless they are prepared to violate the solemn obligations they have taken. We have heard the old adage, that " Wretches hang that Jurymen may dine," and there was, unfortunately, but too much truth con tained in the apophthegm. It is notorious that the necessary agreement is occasionally obtained in consequence rather of the " exhausted powers " than the honest convictions of some of the Jurors. It is also suggested that—unless the Jury require further time, and state that there is a probability of agreement—the period of deliberation should not exceed twelve hours, which is amply sufficient for the consideration of the issues submitted for decision in all their varied aspects. After that time, it is proposed that the Jury should be discharged, leaving it optional with the parties to try the cause again with a dif ferent Jury. We have thus stated the views of the Commis sioners in reference to Juries—the most important point of any on which they have reported. We shall take another opportunity of considering the other recommendations, which, with few excep tion, are of a very important character, and de serving of attention and respectful consideration. It is striking to observe how ready the House of Commons is to deal with one class of electoral matters, compared with its vacillation and per plexity when obliged to vote upon another class. Ropositions to amend our constituencies can be got yid of with ease by withdrawment ; even a division is not needed. Mr. HUME, the Nestor of the _Radicals, backed by younger and earnest co adjutors, could be of one mind with Lord JOHN RUSSELL in requesting Mr. LOCKE KING to with draw his indubitably excellent motion for the ex tension of the franchise in counties to 101. house holders. Not a word can be said against the pro posal, but the comparative independence of the new voters. They would not be under, not absolutely under, the dictation of the great territorial land lords. This was Lord JOHN'S real meaning when he spoke of the greatness of the change it would introduce, and the prolonged discussion he should see fit to raise upon it, if the House allowed Mr. KING to introduce a bill. Therefore, as Lord JOHN threatened it should waste the time of the House, and as Reform was to be the Coalition work of next year, even old and tried Liberals agreed that county 101. householders must wait the pleasure of her MAJESTY'S Coalition. We think the Government ought to have supported it heartily, as an earnest of something worth hoping for next sprint, andas a guarantee so far of abetter constituencyin the verypossible case of a dissolution before a new Reform Bill. Had the Lords thrown it out, yet the Government would have stood immeasurably better before people gene rally, and that in supporting no merely clap trap measure. We do not blame the Liberals. They knew they should damage their object by persisting. We, however, have none of Mr. HU3n's new-born faith in Lord Jourr's promises. He has once more wielded his old anti-Reform weapon, the wet-blanket, with his wonted success, and we doubt not he is fully prepared to give Mr. BERKELEY also, and his supporters, the be nefit of his cold-water cure on the 10th. Yes, the House (for Lord JoHN is now the House) is quite prepared to deal with every proposition of elec toral reform. It has ono course ready for all such intrusions—Lord Joirres wet-blanket policy. Not so, however, in regard to Election Com mittee Reports. It really hardly knows what in the world to do with them. Nearly all the motions founded on them are motions of pains and penalties ; of pains and penalties for what has been done in the spirit or in the letter by neArly every Member in the House. Added to this, in the case of many boroughs there is no satisfactory evidence before the House as to the extevit of the bribery, and the Mem bers are iv the awkward predicament of being called on to vote in ignorance and doubt. Of course Englishmen in such a case must give the benefit of the doubt to the borough. It would be hard indeed to risk disfranchising for the session a whole honest constituency because of the corrup tion of a few voters. We want, however, some better machinery, if possible, for working out the entire facts of each case. _ _ Still more was it perplexed, and reasonably so, with the motion of Sir JOHN SHELLEY to prose cute Sir FREDERIC SMITH for bribing JOSEPH GREATHEA.D by procuring for his son the office of a letter-carrier. No one will suspect us of any merciful leanings to bribery in any form ; we con demn entirely Sir F. SMITH'S reported act. We consider him really guilty of bribery, yet we must ourselves have recommended the culprit to mercy. There were, we must in all candour say, so many things which mitigated the guilt of the man, however wro.ng the thing. With Mr. DRUMMOND'S amusing car f a zture of the universal corruption of Lords, Commons, and electors (we wonder he did not include her MAJESTY), though we enjoy his genial humour, Fe cannot sympathise. There is, however, no doubcu that situations under Go vernment have come to be regarded as almost the perquisites of Govenimmit supporters. Through out the whole kingdom, thet Liberals or the Con servatives expect to procure for their own man even a walking post to a village, according as the Postmaster-General is a Whig or Iv, Tory. Mem- ' bers of Parliament unquestionably expect to have this humble patronage in their hands. We could name instances in plenty. One is just now before us, every way a perfect parallel to the WELLS and COTSNLI, case, In ,America it is in- THE SUN, LONDON, THUNSDAT EV I ENING, MAY 12, 185-3. finitely. worse than with us in this respect. Hundreds and thousands of postmasters and minor Government officials are actually turned out, though already in, to make room for the nominees of a new Cabinet. This kind of bribery there is a perfect matter of course. Hardly any one complains of it but the actual sufferers. Aristocratic England contrasts most favourably on this point with democratic America, for we hardly recollect a case of subordinates, whose livelihood depends on their employment, being ejected by a new Ministry. It were, of course, exceedingly desirable that Government appointments of every kind should be decided by merit solely. This, however, seems to be impossible with an elective Government. Undisturbed despotism can look simply to the qualifications of its agents. But where opinion is the virtual governor of a country, it seems necessary that agreement in opinion with the Government should be considered at least one qualification for office under it. The old rule, eadern de republica sentire, to hold the same po litical creed, cannot well be dispensed with. Of course, the rule is wholly out of the question where the public service would suffer by it. It can only apply where, amongst equally-qualified candidates, some would be supporters of, some opponents of, the existing Government. What ever the right or wrong of the case, it is certain that every Constitutional and Republican Govern ment will give the tur n o f th e scale to those who uphold it. Sir F. SMITH'S offence, therefore, was in the line in which Members are, most of all, expected to befriend their supporters. His error, his great error, we admit, was in bestowing the situation at a time when every one but himself perceived that it became a bribe to GREATHEAD'S father to keep his promise to vote for him. But of the practice, the ab wsehnacte o with f in j the ury in frequencythisc a se to the public service, the frank and gentlemanly way in which Sir FRE DERIC treated every promise, even against him, as a settled case, and might, therefore, naturally think GREATHEAD'S vote already secured, and the almost impossibility of a candidate's setting temptation at defiance in the Dockyards, we do think it would have been hard upon Sir FREDERIC to make a public example of him. Indeed, we do not think a jury would have convicted ; and, in addition to all, his punishfuent has already been abundantly severe. With impartial men it is the system which is in fault, and Sir FREDERIC is its victim. No doubt he is guilty, but about as much as most of us would have been in the same position. We only hope that he, and all who take lenient views of his case, will be honest enough to become staunch advocates of the Ballot. We dislike the whole system of disfranchising persons employed by the Government. Why should Government be served by electoral eunuchs? To most Englishmen losing their political privi leges is losing half their better energy ; losing their interest in the chief thing which gives them a thought and a life beyond their nearest and selfish interests. Bribery is most to be hated as converting that to narrow selfishness which ought to be expansive patriotism. Let us not, however, destroy the motive to patriotic feeling because it can be tampered with ; let us place rather the one great and obvious barrier in the path of the corrupter. If the Ballot be re fused everywhere else, let its virtue be tried on Dockyard constituencies, at least, before they are finally disfranchised. COURT CIRCULAR. OSBORNE, WEDNESDAY. The Queen and Prince took their usual early walk yesterday morning. The Princess Helena and Princess Louisa drove out in the afternoon in an open carriage. The royal dinne r pa r ty yesterday included the Earl of Clarendon and Sir Edwin Landseer, who has arrived on a visit. Lord Clarendon returned this afternoon to London. The Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Mary visited the Duchess of Kent yesterday, at Clarence - House, St. James's. The Duchess of Kent, accompanied by the Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Mary and the Princess Ade laide of Ilohenlohe,, and attended by Lady Anna Maria Dawson and Lieut.-Colonel F. Seymour, honoured the performance of the French Plays with her presence last evening. A deputation, consisting of Mr. Charles Turner, M.P., with Mr. D. Rowland, secretary'to the Liverpool Pilot Commissioners, and Mr. John Shepherd, master pilot, had an interview with the Right Hon. E. Cardwell on Tuesday, at the Board of Trade. Colonel W. L. Freestun, M.P., had an interview with the Earl of Aberdeen yesterday, at his official residence in Downing-street. Mrs. Chisholm had an interview with the Duke of Newcastle yesterday, at the Colonial-office. Earl Granville, Lord President, and the Countess Granville, left town yesterday morning for Dublin, to be present at the opening of the Irish, Industrial Exhi bition. FRENCH PLAYS. Dumas's lively comedy of Les Demoiselle de St. Cyr, was revived at the St. James's Theatre, and with Rey nier and Lafont in it could scarcely have failed to be successful. The Viconte Roger was Lafont's part, and he played in the most perfect style of manner and tone, presenting alighly-finishedibut life-likevicture'of the courtlAgallant of the time. The sympathising Hercale was played by M. Reynier, and what between laughing at him and with him, he kept the audience in continued merriment throughout. Mdlle. Brohan made the most of Charlotte de Merian ; the spirited and graceful Mdlle. Henry played the part of Louise Manclair with admirable piquancy. The house, as usual, was crowded. BALL AT THE FOREIGN-OFFICE.—The Countess of Clarendon gave a grand ball last evening at the official residence of the Foreign Secretary, in Downing-street. THE LATE LADY DALHOUSIE.—The remains of the late Lady Dalhousie, wife of the Governor-General of India, who died on the passage home from India, will be interred in the family mausoleum in Scotland, and Captain Bowie, aid-de-camp to Lord Dalhousie, has gone to Scotland to attend the funeral. CITY CORPORATION COMMISSION.—It is rumoured that Mr. Justice Patteson and Mr. G. Cornewall Lewis will be two of the members of the City Commission. RE-OPENING OF CHEAPSlDE.—Cheapside was yester day restored to general traffic, having been closed nearly three weeks for repair of the road. MAILS FOR AUSTRALIA.--The Post-office authorities have given notice that ship letter bags will be made up on the 7th proximo for Adelaide, Port Philip, and Sydney, to be forwarded by the screw-steamer Victoria ; and for Melbourne and Sydney next month, to be for warded by the steamer Great Britain. VICTORIA LONDON DOCK COMPANY.—Yesterday a special general meeting of this company was held at the London Tavern, Bishopsgatc-street, for the purpose of submitting for the approval of the proprietors a bill now before Parliament, entitled " A bill to amend the Vic toria (London) Dock Act, 1E50," and to authorise the construction of additional decks and other works ; Mr. J. P. Heywood in the chair. Mr. W. Smith, the secre tary of the company, read the heads of the bill, which gave power to increase the capital of the company from 400,0001. to 900,000/., by the issue of new shares dis tributable pro rata, to extend the time originally deter mined upon for the completion of the works ; to con struct new works, including additional docks and ware houses • and to lease the line for a period of 21 years. The bill was approved, subject to such alterations as Parliament might consider expedient ; and the common seal of the company was affixed to the draft. The meeting then separated. SERVANTS' ROYAL PROVIDENT AND BENEVOLENT SOCIETY.—The sixth annual meeting of this society took place yesterday, at the office in Great Marlborough street ; William Ford, Esq., in the chair. It appeared from the report, which was read by the secretary, that during the past year 11,0041. 9s. 10d. had been paid to the Provident Fund of the society for life annuities, en dowments for children, and insurances. The total amount paid by servants to the provident fund of the society, since its commencement in 1847, has been 54,4241. 7s. 6d. In the department of the registry for male and female servants, the report showed that places had been provided for 2,315 servants during the past year, and for 6,374 servants since the opening of the registry in 1850. The progress of the Home for female servants out of place appeared also to have been highly encouraging. The meeting terminated with a vote of e s n t e t e r e d n a t y h , thanks to the chairman. N — vas Th h e eld se y v e anu T t ri v E er4 P ary lle TnEleSeTtAieNgT ofA tshsioscsloAcTiTeotyN. at Exeter-hall ; Mr. R. C. Bevan in the chair. On the platform were the Rev. Hugh Stowell, the Rev. Dr. Marsh, the Rev. Dr. Malan, of Geneva ; the Rev. R. Bickersteth, the Rev. W. Wilson, the Rev. A. .S. Thel wall, the Rev. C. Prest, &c. The report stated that the receipts of the past year amounted to 1,4211. ls. 2d., and the expenditure to 1,410/. Is. Bd., leaving a balance of 101. 19s. 6d. ; while the liabilities of the association ex ceeded 400/. The receipts for publications amounted to 1841. 7s. 4d. The " Protestant Magazine " was still eontinued, and given to all subscribers of 10s. a-year and upwards ; and a valuable work had been issued, en titled "Popery at the Hustings," being a compilation of the sayings and doings of Romish priests and laymen at the lato Irish elections. During the past year, it was stated, petitions had been circulated with reference to Maynooth college, nunneries, and the Protestant Episco pal Church in Ireland. Several resolutions indicative of the peculiar features of the association having been adopted, the meeting separated. MONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWO O'CLOCK. The sales of cotton at Liverpool yesterday were estimated at 10,000 bales—of which 1,000 Ameri can were taken for export and on speculation. The market was animated, and prices of American were a point against the buyer. The sales com prised 6,500 American, 700 Pernam and Maranham, at 6d. to Id. ; 250 Bahia, at 6d. to 6d. ; 1,500 Egyptian, at 6id. to 10d. ; 800 Surat, at 3/d. to 4id. ; and 40 Sea Isla n d, a t i s. 9d. to 2s. 2d. per lb. Railway Shares were steady. The six weeks' average price of wheat is 445. 7d. per quarter. - Ai the Indigo sales yesterday there was no im provement in prices, or in the amount of business done. The Overland Mail is telegraphed, but some dis appointment is felt that there is no mention of later news from Australia. On previous occasions, however, it has happened that the first telegraphic dispatch has omitted the mention of Australian news. There has been the annual meeting of the National Provincial Bank of England to-day, at which the encouraging report, of which the follow ing is a portion, was unanimously adopted : "The circumstance, however, which exercised the most powerful influence upon the prosperity of the last six months of the year, was the undeniable evidence which poured in, from time t o ti me, o f the great extent and richriess of the gold fields of Australia. The effects of this vast gold discovery upon the enterprise and con dition of the worli, is only beginning to appear in the great undertakings recently projected, and in the tide of emigration now setting in from various points towards our Australian colonies, but its more immediate effects at home have been already sensibly felt in a continuous and active demand for all our manufacturing products-- in the marked improvement which has taken place in the important staple of iron—in the revival of the ship ping interest, and of the general trade of the country." " The directors are happy also to report a change for the better in the condition of the agricultural interest, with the prosperity of which the welfare of the National Provincial Bank is so closely identified. " Such are the prominent features of a year, .which may fairly be characterised as one of general prosperity, the main cause of which, however—an influx of bullion —has naturally operated against banking profits, but an increased extent of business has gone far to compensate for the low rate of interest which throughout the whole of last year prevailed. " The usual summary for the year ending 31st Decem ber last, is as follows : " January 1, 1852—Amount of undivided profits £115,613 6 1 Dec. 31, 1852—Net profits of 1852, after making allowance for bad and doubtful debts and a proportion of preliminary expenses 39,759 18 2 Total £155,373 4 3 Deduct dividend on company's stock for 1852 £24,649 16 0 Bonus of 2 per cent. declared and paid last year 32,866 8 0 Leaving undivided p ro fit s a t 31 s t Decem -- ber, 1852 £122,506 16 3 " It will be observed, therefore, that after payment of the dividend of 6 per cent., a surplus of th e y ear ' s net profits remains of 15,1101. 2s. 2d., out of which the directors recommend that a bonus of 2 per cent. be de clared, and that the same be made payable with the usual dividend in July next. " The directors going out of office by rotation are Sir J. Campbell, K.C.H., Thomas F. Wilson, and John Kingston, Esqs., but being eligible for re-election offer themselves accordingly. " A strong desire having manifested itself among the officers of the Company for the formation of a fund for their mutual benefit, the directors recommend the pro prietors to pass a vote of 5,0001. for this purpose, as a mark of appreciation of the past zealous and faithful services of the executive of the establishment. In what manner this sum can be most advantageously disposed of for the common good of the general staff—whether by a guarantee fund, a benevolent fund, or by the adop tion of a scheme embracing both objects, has not yet been decided upon, but the directors intend to give their early and best consideration to the subject, should the meeting sanction the vote of 5,0001. now recommended, and which it is intended to form the foundation of the scheme that may finally be determined upon." In their report upon the indigo market, Messrs. H. W. Jewesbury and Co. states : " The quarterly sales commenced yesterday, consist ing of 15,116 chests (including 7,359 chests of old goods, bought in at, or withdrawn from, former sales, and 2,954 chests in second hands), comprising the following, viz. : Catalogue A... 8,477 Chests Bengal, Oude, &c. 1,586 „ Madras. 1,911 „ Kurpah. 9 „ Bimlipata,m. 7 „ Pontlecherry. 16 „ Madras fig, 20 „ Manilla. 136 „ WitbdrP.wn up to the 9th instant. 12,162 ~ Catalogue B 2,954 „ Various, in secondhands. Total... 15,116 Chests. " The qualities of Bengal are about one-third good and fine, and two-thirds middling and ordinary ; the Madras one-fourth good and fine, and three-fourths mid dling and ordinary ; the Kurpah one-third good and fine, and two-thirds middling and ordinary ; the Oude, Bimlipatam, and Manilla, ordinary. "The sale room presented a thin attendance, and, pre vious to commencing, 1,074 chests were announced as withdrawn ; after which a parcel of good and fine qua lity, including 125 chests of the mark J and R W was offered and mostly bought in, a few chests selling from 6s. Bd. to 7s. 4d. per lb., being last sale's rates to 3d. per lb. advance. The flatness with which the sales opened continued throughout the day, and the quantity sold has been so insignificant, that prices cannot be said to be established, but may be quoted at par for, for good and fine indigo, and at 3d. to 4d. per lb. discount for the lower qualities. Madras and Kurpah were mostly bought in at 3d. to 4d. pre lb. under last, sales' rates. " 1,540 chests have passed to-day, of which 283 were withdrawn, 968 bought in, and 289 sold. " The following are the highest and lowest prices :-- 955 Bengal Os. 9d. to 75..4d. per lb. 138 Madras 159 Kurpah - 2s. 2s. 6d. „ 283 Withdrawn 1,540 chests." The following is from Jamaica, yid New York, dated April 21 : " The House of Assembly, as you must be aware from my previous correspondence, passed a bill to reduce the expenditure of the colony, which bill in its operations would have lopped off from certain officials twenty per cent. of their incomes. With one or two exceptions, the second branch of our Legislature —our " miniature House of Lords"—is composed of such officials, and they have, through dsfferent sessions, seven times refused their as sent to the Reduction Bill. The House of Assembly, in consequence of this, passed the Provincial Revenue Bill —the Import Duty Bill—and tacked to it appropriation clauses, in which it was ordered that salaries should be paid at the reduced rate contemplated by the last Re trenchment Bill. This bill was sent to the Council, and on the 15th inst. they rejected it unanimously, not having the power of amending a bill of supply. In consequence of this the Governor prorogued the Legislature, on the 19th inst., until Monday the 25th inst., to afford the house an opportunity of retracing their steps, and enacting a bill more agreeable to the Council. This, lam pretty confi dent, the house will not do, and that they will offer to the Council the same " Retrenchment Bill," and if that be rejected, the same Import Duty Bill. In the mean time, there is every chance of a great loss of revenue, for the present Import Duty Bill will expire on the 30th of this present month, and then goods will be received here free of duty, unless a new bill is agreed to. Rumours are rife as to the steps the Governor will take— one is that he will issue his proclamation, declaring all old laws in force, and suspen di ng the constitution. This is perfectly idle. The more likely course is another pro rogation, and after that, perhaps, a dissolution. But this seems certain — notwithstanding all the rumours— unless the two branches of the Legislature can agree to a bill, great loss of revenue will be the consequence. The Council, of course, will charge the Assembly, and the Assembly will charge the Council, as being the authors of this mischief. To dispassionate minds there can be no doubt that the fault —nay, the crime—is fairly charge able to the Council, for it is the undoubted constitutional right of the house to raise and appropriate the public money without dictation from any quarter. This state of things of course unsettles trade. Our bonded ware house contains large quantities of goods, and holders are unwilling to release them, in the hope if the bill ex pire, and no new bill is enacted, they will be taken out of bond duty free ; but this is a question of some doubt. My next letter will advise you, perhaps, of some de cisive step on the part of the governor. If he dissolve the house fully forty days mast elapse before a new house can be formed. " This is the most important topic—other matters scarcely secure any attention. lam sorry to announce the appearance of yellow fever among the shipping. Europeans lately arrived seem to suffer most. A few cases have proved fatal. " Among the passengers from Jamaica is Dr. Lyon, agent for the Pioneer line of vessels to Australia. The object of his visit was to promote the interests of the company. If ho has not been successful, then no man will ever succeed on a similar mission. Dr. Lyon has made friends of all to whom he has been introduced, and his temporary absence from Jamaica will be so much felt as if he had been an old resident there. " Copper mining is now all the talk. No doubt there are excellent specimens to be found ; but without your enterprise nothing advantageous can be expected. Cer tain it is, nothing will be done by Jamaica enterprise." Stocks are dull still. Consols have been 100- for Transfer, and 100 for the next Account day, the Ist of Juno. Th e " settlement " is progress ing satisfactorily. The New 31. per Cents. have been marked 103 to and the 3 per Cents. 99& to par. Bank Stock has been very firm at 2281. Exchequer Bills are firmer, being up to par, and 4s. premium. Foreign Securities are heavy, Peruvian Deferred have declined to 65, and calculations made show that the 41 per Cents. Stock is relatively much cheaper, and therefore susceptible of a greater rise. Equador Bonds have been marked 6k. Buenos Ayres Stock is at an advance to 70. Mexican Bonds are dull, at 27 to 27i. Spanish Bonds have not been dealt in. Portuguese Bonds are steady, at 40&. Belgian 4 per Cents. are worth 98 ; and Dutch 2i per Cents., 65i to 66. The last week's railway receipts, ascertained up to this day, are in round figures as under : 1853. 1852. Great Western £19,465 £17,886 North Western 51,843 48,661 South Western 12,110 11,754 Brighton 11,280 9,776 Midland 22,946 21,237 South Eastern 13,575 13,134 Caledonian Great Northern Lancashire and Yorkshire 18,456 16,352 In Railway shares there is not much doing, but sellers rather preponderate. French shares also are the turn lower. The market for Joint Stock Bank shares is quiet, The Land Companies' shares are not so good. Gold Mines are unusually quiet. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY. ( From the Opicial List.) - Business done. Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 99i 100 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities New 31 per Cent. Annuities Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan., 1860 India Bonds, £lOOO '29 5 Ditto, under 7 2looo 29 . South Sea Old Annuities lOO Consols for Account Ist June Exchequer Bills 1, 1 ,d. June. March. £lOOO.. 3 4 p par 3 p par 4 p £5OO 34 p I 14 p Small 3 4 1 4 p 1 4 p PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY. Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent. Ditto Small Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent .Equador Bonds Grenada Bonds, Deferred Mexican 3 per Cent. Ditto for the Account Peruvian Deferred 3 per Cent. Ditto for the Account Portuguese Bonds, 4 per Cent. Russian Bonds, 5 per Cent. Ditto 4A per Cent lo4a Sardinian Bonds, 5 per Cent. ......... Spanish 3 per Cent., New Deferred 24 Spanish Committee Cert. of Coup. not fun 6 p Swedish Loan ........... ........ 1. dis Dlvideb.ds onthe above payable in London. Belgian 4i per Cent. Dutch Exchange, 2i per Cent. 12 Guil. . 100/ . 70 .. 6 .. 11 . 7 2 1 2.7) Consols Ditto June Account THREE O'CLOCK. 100, 2 a loot THE CAMP AT CHORTIAM. 'The preparations for encamping a division of the army on the heathy commons of Berkshire and Smrrey begin to approach completion. It is intended that Lieutenant-General Lord Seaton, an experienced and accomplished officer, will command in chief. The troops will consist of four regiments of cavalry, 24 pieces of artillery, and three brigades of infantry, each under the command of a Major-General. The Ist Infantry Brigade will be formed of three bat talions of Guards, the 2d and 3d each of three battalions of the line. The whole force will amount to about 8,000 men, with 2,000 horses, and after the troops composing the first division have had three or four weeks' practice in field evolutions they will be replaced by a similar force for the same period. The Sappers aad Miners from Chatham will form part of the force encamped, fieldworks and entrench ments will be thrown up, and bridges of pontoons, in which the merit of recent inventions may be tested, will be thrown over some narrow portions of Virginia Water- . —a lake which, as is not perhaps generally known, owes its existence to the labours of the army which fought under the Duke of Cumberland at Cul loden. METROPOLITAN SEWERS COMMISSION. Yesterday a court of the justices connected with the above-named Commission was held at the Town-hall, Poplar, Richard Jebb, Esq., in the chair, Mr. Baker, another of the gentlemen of the Commission, being present. The chief business transacted upon this occasion was the summoning of certain parties who were alleged to be defaulters to the sewer rate in the Poplar district. The parties summoned were represented by Mr. Need ham, the barrister, who, in a speech of upwards of an hour's duration, contended, in the first place, that his clients were not benefited by the payment of sewer rates inasmuch as they had not any sewer in the parish ; and, further, that consequently they possessed a pre scriptive right of exemption, through being compelled to pay for the cleansing of Poplar ditch to any charge which might have been levied upon them for sewer rates under the 11th and 12th of Victoria commonly called " The Metropolitan Sewers Act, 1848." The learned gentleman said that his clients were not unwilling, but most ready, to pay the rates, provided proper sewerage accommodation was provided for them ; but in the ab sence of such accommodation, they stood upon their right as before stated. The evidence of Mr. John Carter, one of the oldest inhabitants in the locality, having been received, as to the nature of the prescriptive right referred to, it was agreed, upon the suggestion of the learned counsel, that the surveyor of the court should institute every neces sary inquiry into the facts of the case, and report the same to the Commissioners, who promised, on an early day afterwards, to send an answer to the parties sum moned, proceedings in the meantime to be stayed. The matter excited considerable interest, the spacious hall being crowded with inhabitants. After the transaction of some other business, the Corn missioners adjourned. NOUVEAU MONDE COMPANY. —The subjoined memo randum has been received from the Nouveau. Monde Company :—" The Nouveau Monde Gold Mining Com pany have received letters from Mr. Clement; their su perintendent, to the 23d March, in which he "reports that the expected lode in No. 1 Cross-cut, in the Pine tree set, had been cut, and that it is over four feet wide, and contains gold to about the same amount as the other lodes in the same set already explored by the Adit level. The dam and road to the works were finished, and the walls of the crusher-house getting up fast, so that it was hoped to fix the crushing mill in the following month. The steam engine at Mount Vernon had been put in good repair; and the one sent by the Flora M'Donald had arrived at the mines. He expected to get the Chilian mills and amalgamating duos completed and set to work in about 10 days. The bad state of the roads in the low country had been a sad drawback to him, but the future portended well." THREE PER CENTS.—The voluntary conversion of Consols and Reduced Three per Cents. at the Bank of England yesterday proceeded very slowly, and it is un derstood that the amount thus far applied for is con siderably below 1,000,0001. At present the applications are solely for the 21 per cent. stock, the public being still left in doubt as to the precise terms on which the Ex - chequer Bonds are to be issued. The settling day for the shares of the Grand Trunk Railway of Canada, the Portsmouth Railway, the Mount Carbon Company, the Great Hewas Tin Company, and the Chalanches Silver Company, is fixed for the 18th inst. Of the above the Grand Trunk Railway of Canada is alone to mark in the official list. At the same time the committee have decided that the shares of the British Colonial Bank and Land Company and the Portland Iron Company are to be marked. ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL. --Th e twenty-fifth anniver sary festival of this institution was celebrated yesterday evening, at the London Tavern ; Viscount Maidstone in the chair. About 150 gentlemen were present. After the routine toasts had been disposed of, the Chairman proposed "Success to the Royal Free Hospital." In doing so, he observed that there was no channel in which the public benevolence could flow with greater benefit to the poor than in that presented by this hospital, which, under the management of Dr. Marsden, had been con ducted for 25 years with unexampled success. Having visited the establishment that day, he was sorry to find that many rooms were empty in consequence of the in adequacy of the funds. The number of patients relieved from the commencement was 403,533; the number in the hospital at present was 134, there being room for 500. For the reason which he had stated, a large por tion of the premises was let for various purposes. The hospital was at that moment in debt to the extent of up wards of 1,000/. ; and, as the principle on which it was founded, and on which all its operations were conducted, was that of affording relief to the sick without any in quiry, he knew of no charity which was more in accord ance with the example of the Founder of Christianity, and none which had more powerful claims to the support of the benevolent, The toast was most cordially re sponded to. The health of the chairman was proposed by the Earl Powys, and received with enthusiasm. The donations announced during the evening amounted to 1,366/. NEW ASYLUM FOR FATHERLESS CHILDREN, STAN FORD-HILL.—The ninth anniversary dinner in aid of the funds of this charity took place last night at the London Tavern ' • the Right Hon. the Lord M a y or , M.P . , i n t h e chair. The report stated that there were at present 95 inmates, and all available room was fully occupied. An important change had been made during the past year, in the prolongation of the period during which the child ren received into this asylum should be allowed to enjoy its advantages ; it was determined that the boys should have the privilege of remaining until the age of fourteen years, and the girls till fifteen years. Thi s c h ange ren dered necessary an alteration in the name of the charity, and it is to henceforth called by the name of " The New Asylum for Fatherless Children," instead of " The New Infant Orphan Asylum." The collection at the table realised the sum of 700/. MERCANTILE AND MARITIME COLLEGE.—A meeting of merchants and bankers is to be held on Tuesday at the London Tavern to promote the establishment in the city of a Mercantile and Maritime College, together with a museum of trade, where specimens of produce, &c., as well as commercial statistics of all kinds, may be col lected. The question will also be considered whether the Gresham College may be induced to enter into the spirit of these proposals, and transform its present life less routine into something that shall better harmonise with the purposes for which it was founded. f ourtt VZ:ilttton SHREWSBURY RACES. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) CLEVELAND HANDICAP. Audubon Red Lion Nine ran. LONGNER STAKES. Brown Brandy Czarina Nine ran. QUEEN'S GUINEAS. Goldfinder Knight of Whistle Three ran btrb . ttiOn SHREWSBURY RACES. (THIS DAY.) (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) SALOPIAN STAKES Cuckoo filly Little Blossom HERBERT STAKES. Whalebone.. Eccentricity NEWMARKET RACES. (THIS DAY.) BY ELECTRIC, TELEGRAPH HANDICAP SWEEPSTAKES. Sophistry Ada Oleaster Cyrus Three ran. SWEEPSTAKES. Six ran. SWEEPSTAKES. 10 Sovs. Two-year-old s • 'Alas ........................................................ .• • 5 Splitvote filly ............................................... Twelve ran. HANDICAP PLATE. A.F. Desdimona Peacock MATCH.—Counsellor Mare walked over BETTING ON THE COURSE. DERBY. 25 to 1 agst Ninnyhammer (offers to take)• SHREWSBURY—Tars DAY. „. 7 . 0 0' The undermenti one d h orses h ave arr i ve d : v Miss Ann, Dick Turpin, Massaroni, Wilmontw o t, Leeming, E ven i ng Star, Whalebone, Lerry A gai/' Young En g l an d, Pl ac id , P astrycoo k , T av i stoc k, "piff bon, Ibis, Athena Pallas, Harp, Morning Star, 1 - 4 ,Ljer , Bardoiph, Clothworker, Merry Bird, Goloil' i i t of Daphne, Brown Brandy, Spicy, fby California , O t t Truth's dam, Pope Joan, Sampson, fby Safegtuirqit 0 ' of Sarah Rebecc a (Susannah), c by Scamander , Pantalonade, Little Blossom, Red Lion, fa r e t ob: Cuckoo f, Alp, Candl ew i c k, F orester, Liberty, '''"firo' room, Truth f, Kiteflyer, Salopian f, Sister Oyor, Fruits, f by Little Known, Black Doctor, LettP Newman Noggs, filly by Sweetmeat, Ada. BANKRUPTCY COURT.-(THIS DA fl (Before Mr. Commissioner Fane.) 080 11 ANOTHER RUNAWAY BANKRUPT.-IN RE REA,,z -.n AND NANS ON. These bankrupts were described as of Pimlico, O makers, and to-day was app o i n t e d f or the 01°1w assignees. ° Nanson surrendered in due cours e , but lie n f Jer th e absconded, and was app r eh en d e d by S p ittle, one detective force, who traced him to Jersey, and b r° , t ioo' him before this Court. and h e u lti ma t e ly g ot Pr6te-05 The failure is not of any g r ea t ex t en t, b u t the ac c-, o t; have not been made out. A choice of assignee s place, but the proceedings were pro forma. (Before Mr. Commissioner Goulburn.) IN RE WILLIAMS AND MARCHANT. per/ These b an k rup t s h a d carried on business on 3 large scale as railway contractors, and to-day l7 ,l l did pointed for con s id era ti on of proof o f d e b t, but sale not involve any point of interest. ,„ oe At the conclusion o f th e case, M r. Pennell, the cial assignee, said that he expected there would surplus.of about 6,0001., after payment of all clair°' CENTRAL CRIMINAL cOu- (THIS DAY.) OLD COURT. FORGERY. 9. 11 William Morley, 25, chemist, pleaded guilty t°,, dictment, charging him with f e l on i ous ly forg'inb.,tel" uttering an order for the payment of 2001., to defraud William Alers Haulrey and others ! lg .' boo' sentenced to 12 months' impriso nmen t, w ith hard . v oW er l . George COVO, 40, described as a MANSLAUGHTER labourer—a 0 ' 1 " 'oll o ' ful-looking man—was indicted for feloniously and slaying Agnes Ann Weaver. The prisoner pleaded guilty to misdemeanour. $.3, 1 Mr. Bodkin, who appeared for the p ros ecutie s o 'bteri the coroner's jury had r e t urne d a v 4 r di et o f mansinosi but on looking through the depositions he found ' 4 , e oc ee r ' not sustain that char ge . It ap p eared t h at the rceoqe'' i ' who was a married man , co h a bi te d w i th t h e ae and that, in consequen ce o f some provocat i on s he g' 0 1 he knocked her d own an d ki c k e d h er w i th h i s heavy or e , boots while on the ground. When she got up sh e isl )° , ll sotnething at him and us e d some a b us i ve epithetV' t which he returned and struck her intbe same brutal I t o Shortly afterwards, while sho w i ng th e w ounds " r ise; legs to some neighbours, she suddenly fell dovi, l o but it was found on a p os t mor t em . examination ain lungs, liver, and heart were ser i ous l y di sea sed ) s ' n , i fev" even the act of stooping, w hil e un d er exciterae" et have been sufficient to produce death. o °ll The Lord Chief Justice Jervis sentenced the P to three years' imprisonment, with hard labour. NEW COURT. In the case of three men charged in this COt ic h '1" _ hici-ljer• w being concerned in stealing so me oa t s ," and partially reported, the jury acquitted the lad b° The case against th e o th er t wo was w i t hd r awo• The three men, Bradley, Smith, and Elion°d'for were acquitted yesterday, were again arraigne.oo, similar charge, arising out of the same transacts stP In this case no evidence was offered, the O i l. b, eij3 d cion against Emmott, the coffee-house keep er ' bole that some mutton was found hidden in the citl s 'ns' his premises. An acquittal was therefore taken 1 parties. tO THIRD COURT. g i t A o l , William Reed, a labouring man, plead-, stealing a quantity o f l ea d, b e l ong i ng to tp e Counties Railway Company. °let tell' Mr. Harvey said that the prisoner was elk kA 9 labourer on the new Stratford Extension of tu e o ,lo o l- Counties Railway, and was s t oppe d by the A lso who found a quantity o f l ea d i n hi s basket 0 ,0 11 den about his clothes. He was sentenced to six months'.impris onmeri hard labour. • . i .,..., SOURWARK.—(TIIIS DA-1' d ig ' • i i, itg lag , ' ,dor° A FOOL AND HIS MONEY.—Hannak b 4; O - ug i o t vere w - ig0 0: sipated and dirty-looking female, was Mr. A'Beckett, charged with stealing two, ‘ "cier ibeci i s, from the person of Mr. Hen r y Broadridgo, , lio• the charge-sheet as a gentl e man residing t '' too Dover-place, Old Kent-road. ~,i rather oet much grog on the previous night, Prosecutor, who appeared to have imbibe" t he m t o stated that h 0 • the prisoner about twelve o'clock, several glasses of gin and water.' He aften"lthe 50 panied her to a low brothel in Revels-rove, f ' bad fie wh o of the Police-court, and retired to bed- bot „ri' sovereigns in his pocket, besides some ally e !?„d the i r, of he awoke up he missed the two sovereigns:l; sea Boner. He hastily dressed himsolf and vree' lleta ble- or her, and eventually handed her over to ace ea acc Mr. A'Beckett—Was you sober 'wh en ' I , hod panied her to the house in question ? da y, sou ler 0 ,11 ~,,,,,0 to Prosecutor—l had been drinking nt I three or four glasses of gin and water, b ~ volt ably sober. I thin and ands a0.)..1. ucb Mr. A'Beckett—After drinking so ° healed ° d i°- could not be very sober, and I doubt v i v,- - ther efor/ o r on anything about your money. I sh 3 T n a her O l e o jo charge the prisoner, as no jury would n ut re or your evidence. I advise you to be ii ° o bly. future, and not spend your money so foo The prisoner was then discharged advices ......___________ T ............_ CONTINENTAL PROJECTS.—The con 1 qt .-- II P on e o tinent3l,,; o of lodging-houses on an en c o ° r rn m P continue without interest. At Paris the A - stra ctl t h e coo _ or icio; ject is the formation of a an for classes, an b d also of others for Goouvernment e fi f te e ° 4i pe r persons of limited means, the State to gua s troe f°,, - .9/ Fent. to the shareholders. At Vienna, the scP - ra ise 0- , Bo as to t o. gttlib' issue of additional shares of the blnlc, capital for discount upsto be considerlVipell; mented beyond the p am r oousnets, Oliginally fix ed t his is 6ti o 4,000,0001. The number of applications for on for ti l i . on the part of the public is given as t he , r d by 0 10 1 sugg eso rnis h .-. 0 increase, but probably it has been cipation of the Government that it oIaY.T difficovit:o with the means of palliating their fu3nclaoir periOW ?scale for theiv,y6s ootl and putting off for a short time longer their announcement of a loan.