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In going over one of his lec tures alone, they seenied to grow and expand under your own reflections. We know not how to express the effect they produced. They seemed to give new pleasure on repetition, to purify your thoughts scarcely less than they animated your onward studies. In studying their more suggestive passages, you would now and then feel sur prise at the number and variety of important practical relations arising out of a single proposition. We are here merely stating our own early impressions of his power ; what we really felt always was, that great as was the excellence of these lectures in a scientific or pro fessional sense, there was something more excellent still in the element they contained of intellectual expansion and of moral improvement. We cant ot, indeed, say they had no faults, but we should be hard driven to point them out, and although we feel how short our attempt to give some idea of his mode of proceeding must fall of doing him justice, still, if there be any truth at all in our representation, it is quite clear that his negative excel lences alone must have implied no ordinary powers." It is somewhat curious that the profession of a surgeon was not that chosen by Abernethy, his pre dilections having been for the bar. He used some times to say in joke, " Ah, if my father had let me be a lawyer, I should have known every act of Parliament by heart." It is not to be doubted, says the author, that in the legal profession he would have attained the highest eminence ' • but he has bestowed a greater benefit on humanity by his improvements and discoveries in the practice of surgical science. So much has been said of the roughness of his manner, and so many anecdotes told to his disad vantage, that it is difficult to separate the true from the exaggerated. It is asserted that to the patients at the hospital he was invariably kind and atten tive, saying that others need not come to him if they did not like, but that those at the hospital must remain there. QUARTERLIES. The British Qua'i terly Review. No. XXXV.— Conspicuous among the contributions to the last number of the British Quarterly is an exquisite paper upon the life and genius of "Horace," an essay at once critical and biographical. The article to which we here make allusion would reflect Inonour upon the oldest and the most honoured ofthequarterly periodicals. It is characterised throughout by the most admirable freshness and the most exhilarat ing vivacity. The opening sentence indicates the key in which the whole is pitched. " Fancy," says the reviewer, " a frank and highly educated young fellow, of four-and-twenty, short, and rather thick-set in body, with weak eyes, and a strong compact forehead, turned adrift upon Londoi with a very slender purse, and nothing particular to do, and you will have an idea of our friend, Quintus Horatius Flaccus, at the time w - aen he returned to Rome, after his escapade Philippi." The reader is then reminded of Horace being removed, when just about enter ing on his teens, from the grammar-school at Venusia, " kept by one Mr. Flavius," to the care of a respectable old military schoolmaster— Orbilius of Beneventum. Orbilius, by the way, " Plagosus Orbilius," is described as a fine old fel low, who lived to be a hundred, and who conse quently " must have flogged two generations of Horace's contemporaries !" Guided by the agree able scholar writing for the British Qvarterly, we follow the stripling Horace in his eighteenth year to Athens, whither he went to complete his studies at the critical epoch " when the Caesar and Pom pey business came to an end," the great Julius having vigorously seized upon the dictatorship. For years afterwards (namely, when Horace was a little more than " of age," in other words, just 22) we find him serving with Brutus in Macedonia and Asia. Shortly after the world had once more been " thrown into confusion by the shock of Caesar's assassination." We behold the young Roman cadet suddenly invested with a com mission as military tribune. We see him actually in command of a legion ; we observe him scuttling off the battle field of Philippi. Re cognising, with Falstaff, that the better part of valour is really and truly " discretion," Horace so closed his soldiering. A penniless adventurer, he hastened to the capital, and entered Rome pre cisely at the moment when the young Octavian was " restoring Italy to order, by proscriptions and confiscations in the name o f th e Triumvirate." Lepidus, being just then differently occupied in another part of the empire, and " Antony in the East, swaggering about as a conqueror, and getting near and nearer to Egypt and Cleopatra." Octa vian, of course] ultimately obtains the mastery, as all of us who have thumbed those glorious annals remember not without emotion ; causing, in his new capacity, and under his new name as Augustus Caesar, the imperial splendour to swallow up the gorgeous but divided pomps of the Triumvirate. It is under his rule, therefore, that we follow Horace to the capital, where daring poverty drove him to the making of verses— BOULOGNE, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON. After the departure of my hurried letter of yesterday the Emperor and Empress proceeded to the Napoleon column, where they were received by a number of vete rans of the Empire, drawn up in two lines. After in specting the column and the troops, their Majesties re turned through all the principal streets of the town, pro ceeding twice along the quay and through eight or nine triumphal arches, some of which were covered with evergreens and flowers, i,nd others made to represent marble columns ; one of the most remarkable of these latter was situated on the quay, close to the Custom house. It was surmounted with a representation of Napoleon le Grand, as he is generally depicted crossing the Alps, and the one pillar was dedicated to the glory of the war of 1804, and the other to the glory of the peace of 1853. After returning to the sous-prefecture, where their Majesties arrived about half - past six o'clock, the Em peror entertained at dinner a party of the military and civil authorities of the town, covers being laid for be tween 60 and 70, and a military band being stationed in front of the house to play during the repast. In the evening the whole of Boulogne was most bril liantly illuminated, scarcely a house, however small or however obscure, being without some testimonial of re spect to their Majesties—whilst the principal streets, from the quay to the rampaeo, presented one continuous blaze of light, intermingled with flowers and evergreens. The streets were, throughout the evening, most densely crowded, not only by the inhabitants, but by thousands of visitors, there being scarcely such a thing as a vacant bed to be found in Boulogne, and the numbers would have been much increased but for the difficulty expe rienced in obtaining conveyances from Calais and other towns, and the unfavourable weather which prevailed during the three or four previous days. The ball offered by the municipality of the city to their Imperial Majesties took place in the evening, and was a very brilliant affair. The whole interior of the theatre, from the back of the stage to the boxes, was converted into one splendid salle de danse, and, in the centre of the audience portion, state chairs were placed, under a beautifully decorated canopy, for the use of the Emperor and Empress. The guests, including the leading residents of Boulogne ; and all the English visitors who had taken the trouble to leave their names at the Maire had the honour of receiving invitations. About 1,500 persons may have been present when the Imperial party entered the theatre. The Emperor and Empress were received with the warmest acclamations, cries of " Vive l'Empereur" and " Vive l'lmperatrice" resounding from every part of the salle. Their Ma jesties appeared to be much gratified with their recep tion, and, before sitting down, acknowledged in a very gracious manner the enthusiasm of the assembled company. Twelve young ladies, attired in white, with wreaths of violets in their hair, occupied a position immediately below the throne as demoiselles d'honneur to the Empress. The band of one of the regiments of the line was in at tendance, and before dancing commenced a selection of operatic music was performed. At 10 o'clock the Em peror descended to the ball-room, the Empress resting upon his arm, and the members of the imperial suite fol lowing. A quadrille was now formed, in which the Emperor honoured the wife of the Mayor of Boulogne, Madame Fontaine, with his hand. The Empress danced in the same quadrille with the Mayor. The members of the imperial suite completed the set. The grace and beauty of the Empress was now first observed to the fullest advantage. Her faultless delicacy of feature, and the elegance of her figure, were well displayed by a very chaste costume of white lace, ornamented with ribbons of violet colour, falling half way down the skirt. The head-dress was exquisitely beautiful. Her Majesty's hair is of a beautiful light brown tint s and it was dis posed last evening in tasteful rolls over the forehead, leaving disclosed the ears, from which diamond drops were pendant. Her Majesty wore a diamond necklace, of marvellous brilliancy, every stone of which reflected its myriad hues, and a pair of somewhat small bracelets en suite. During the quadrille the Empress chatted familiarly with the Mayor and also with some of the young ladies by whom the Imperial party were sur rounded. There was a sad want of unanimity in the musical direction of the dance—probably arising from the distance at which the orchestra was situated—and after passing through the three first figures, and endea vouring to proceed with the last, the Empress, with a charming smile, betokening the utmost good humour and amiability, gave it up in despair, and returned with her Imperial Consort to the throne. The shouts of welcome now again broke forth, and some exuberant Englishmen, jealous of allowing their French neighbours to monopolise the vocal expression of their loyal enthu siasm, called out in a burly voice, " God save the Em peror !" The sentiment was infectious. In a moment, others responded with " God bless the beautiful Em press," and for a short time John Bull had it all to him self, until, until one hearty fellow, more noisy than the rest, occasioned a burst of laughter by calling for " One cheer more l" The Emperor could not repress a smile at this truly English method of paying respect to his august person ; but his Majesty appeared much pleased at the evident good feeling which had prompted the com pliment. At this period of the evening the presenta tion of several persons to the Emperor and Empress took place, Mr. Hamilton, the English Consul, was among the number permitted to an audience. The con descension and affability of both the Emperor and the Empress were remarkable. A second quadrille was now formed and danced before the Emperor and Em press. This was followed by a beautiful cantata, com posed for the occasion, which was sung by the pupils of the Ecole de Musique stationed in the peristyle of the theatre. At 11 o'clock the Emperor and Empress, attended by their suite, again descended into the ball-room, round which they perambulated, receiving as they proceeded the respectful salutations of the company. After partaking of some slight refresh ment at the imperial buffet, their Majesties retired from the theatre amid renewed shouts of "Vive l'Empereur," " Vive l'lmperatrice," agreeably diversified with some good English cheers. The extraordinary beauty of the Empress appeared to take all the English visitors, who had not previously seen her Majesty, by surprise, and by general acknow ledgment it was admitted that no portrait, hitherto pub lished in England, does justice to the exquisite expres sion of her Majesty's features. There was also a gratis ball at the Tintilleries, an open piece of ground containing between two and three acres, which was illuminated with a taste and elegance that threw the glories of Vauxhall, with its 10,000 additional lamps, completely in the shade. The doors were thrown open at nine o'clock, and the Jullien of the evening having waved his baton, the dancing commenced, and was kept up with great spirit until long after midnight, notwithstanding a light drizzling rain which prevailed throughout the evening. Though there could not have been less than 3,000 or 4,000 persons present at a time, the evening passed off with the utmost good humour and order. This morning the Emperor and suite left the sous prefecture shortly after ten o'clock, and proceeded in open carriages, preceded only by about a score of soldiers as a guard of honour, by the Grand rue, the rue de la Lampe, the pont d'Ecluse, and th e q ua y , to view the docks and the new sluice bridge. His Majesty, who was received at the docks by the municipal authorities, was received throughout the whole route with the greatest enthusiasm, the cries of " Vive l'Empereur" and " Vive Napoleon" being most incessant and hearty, whilst the ladies in the windows of the various hotels and private houses were waving their handkerchiefs and bouquets. His Majesty returned to the sous-prefecture shortly before twelve o'clock, and about a quarter to one a discharge of artillery announced that their Ma jesties were about to take their departure. About ten minutes to one their Majesties' carriages arrived at the station of the Chemin de Fer du Nord, which had been elegantly decorated with flags, eagles, evergreens, &c. Their Majesties entered the station through an elegant tent of red velvet, looped with gold and decorated with mirrors and flowers. Their Majesties having been con ducted to their state railway carriage, the train de parted amidst loud cheers at five minutes past one. The royal train was almost immediately followed by the ordinary train, which ought to have left Boulogne at half-past 12, but had been detained a short time in order to give precedence to the royal train—and a smart shower of rain soon dispersed the crowds which had assembled to witness the departure of their Majesties. At twelve o'clock to-day there was a gratuitous per formance at the theatre, which in a great measure retained its decorations of last night, when a new piece de circonstance was represented, illustrating the funeral of Napoleon, on his body being brought from St. Helena. In the afternoon the fetes were brought to a close with rowing matches by sailors, matelots or fishing women, jousts in canoes with spears, sailing matches, &c. The naval fete, as it was styled, was held on the Liane, the surface and banks of which were crowded with spectators, notwithstanding that the weather was far from favour able. In honour of their Majesties' visit, wine, bread, and meat were yesterday distributed to the poor, and it has been arranged also to distribute 500 counterpanes to the most necessitous at the commencement of the winter. Vin d'honneur was presented by their confreres of Bou logne to the Sapeurs Pompiers, from Hisdin, Fruges, and other neighbouring communes, and the municipality accorded 25 centimes per day, and 15 cents to the pri vates of all troops who participated in the Imperial reception. The troops also received to-day a litre of wine per man to drink to the prosperity of the Emperor and Empress. "It is true his roughness was very superficial ; it was the easiest thing in the world to develop the real kindness of heart which lay undoubtedly beneath it, and it is very instructive to observe how a little yielding to an absurdity may occasionally obscure one of the most benevolent hearts that ever beat in a human breast with the repulsive exterior of ungentle manners. Still pa tients could not be expected to know this, and therefore too many went away actually dissatisfied, if not dis gusted. The sli g ht es t rea ction was in general sufficient to bring him to his self-possession. A lady whom he had seen on former occasions, was one day exceedingly hurt by his manner, and burst into tears. He immedi ately became as kind and patient as possible, and the lady came away just as pleased as she had been at first offended. Reiction of a different kind would answer equally well. One day a gentleman consulted him on an affection of his shoulder. Before he had time to enter on his case, Abernethy said, ' Well, I know nothing about it.' The gentleman sharply retorted, Ido not know how you should, but if you will have patience till I tell you, perhaps you th en may. ' Ab ernethy at once said, Sit down,' and heard him out with the greateot kindness and patience. " Sometimes Mr. Abernethy would meet with a pa tient who would afford a useful lesson. A lady, the wife of a distinguished musician, c onsu lt e d him, and finding him uncourteous, said, I had heard of your rudeness before I came, sir, but I did not expect this.' When Abernethy gave the prescripti on , s h e sa i d, ' What am Ito do with this ?" Anything you like. Put it in the fire if you please.' The lady took him at his word, laid his fee on the table, and threw the prescription into the fire, and hastily left the room. Abernethy followed her into the hall, pressing her to take back her fee or let him give her another prescription, but the lady was inexorable, and left the house. Such anecdotes are curious, as related of one so really kind that he would cover the instruments before an operation, that the patient might be spared the sight of them. To the professional reader there is much in these volumes of the greatest in terest, affording subjects for study and considera tion and to the uninitiated they will give much entertainment, while presenting at the same time some of the elements of that physiological science which, it is much to be regretted, is so little known. The author may, therefore, be considered as having faithfully fulfilled his duty to the me mory of Mr. Abernethy, in defending it from the detracting opinions frequently held, and as having given to the general reader an interesting and in structive history. The volumes contain a portrait of Abernethy, and an autograph letter addressed to the author. " Paupertas impulit audax ut versus faceret." The reviewer at this point carries the reader quite away with him to the old classic city and to the old classic times. Under his guidance we see the Paternoster-row of ancient Rome in the street Argiletum—we see the pomp and the squalor of that vast pagan metropolis, where 200,000 free citizens were daily fed like paupers—we see Horace formally installed in the clerkship he bad bought in the Qumstor's office, " corresponding" says the critic, " as nearly as possible, to a situa tion in our Treasury, or in Somerset House." Further on, upon this bead, the writer in the British Quarterly observes—" From being a military tribune and commanding a legion, to being a clerk in the Qustor's Office and casting up accounts was certainly a fall ; but we have expe rience enough to know that an ex-colonel of a de feated revolution does not rank with a colonel in the regulars, and that there are many refugee officers in London who would be glad of 80/. a-year on the Great Western Railway." The reviewer speaks, a little later, of Horace wandering about ancient Rome unrecognised but observant, just as in our own days a celebrated author, like Dickens or like Thackeray, may rove unnoticed but watchful about the streets of London 1 It would be impracticable within our limit 3 to afford any adequate notion of the abounding vivacity and pleasantry of this delightful contribution. It shines conspicuously in the latest number of the British Quarterly, as we have already remarked ; and this, moreover, though the number is adorned with several other articles of a merit more than ordinary. Before closing our allusions, however, to the paper on Horace, we are tempted to make one other excerpt from the contribution. It is the following : YEARS. POET'S AGE. EVENT. B.C. 35 ... 30 ... Satires, Book 1., published. „ 34 ... 31 ... Gift of the Sabine farm from Maecenas. Battle of Actium leaves Octavianus master of the Roman world. 35 ... Satires, Book 11., published. 36 ... Epodes published. 38 ... Octavianus takes the name of Au gustus. 25 ... 40 ... Virgil finishes the Georgics, and be gins the Aneid. Odes, Books 1., 11., and 111. pub- 31 ... 36 THE LATE ACCIDENT IN THE STRAND. — Since the ver dict of the coroner' s j ur y , im p anelled to investigate the circumstances connected with the late fatal accident in the Strand, additional supports or shores have been put up to the house No. 183. It will be remembered that it was given in evidence that the shores had not been continued up to a sufficient height, and to secure the adjoining house, which appears to be in anything but a safe condition, shores are put up to the top of the party wall to support it. AMERICAN FISHING SCHOONER STARLIGHT. — In refer ence to the American fishing schooner Starlight, which was brought into this port for condemnation, charged with an infraction on the treaty existing between Great Britain and the United States regarding the fisheries, we learn that she was detained on the coast of Lower Canada, and that the captain of her Majesty's steamer Devastation, in obedience to his instructions, brought her to this port, when, after some delay, he was advised that the Vice-Admiralty Court of Prince Edward's Is land had no jurisdiction over that portion of the coast, and that she ought to have been taken to Quebec. In consequence of the inconvenience and expense to the owner likely to ensue from delay, and with a desire, no doubt, to deal as leniently as possible, Captain Campbell judged it expedient to release her from detention, — Charlotte Town, Advertiser, SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURIVALS. THE EASTERN QUESTION. (From the Morning Herald.) THE NEW ORDERS TO THE AMBASSADOR AND THE FLEET. In spite of reports and contradictions, we nevertheless believe that special orders have within the last six days been sent out to Vice-Admiral Dundas, C. 8., the com mander-in-chief, via Marseilles and Malta, to hold him self in readiness to proceed, with all the naval force under his command, from Besika Bay to Constantinople on the requisition of the British Ambassador. We believe that it will turn out as we have stated, that these instructions to the gallant admiral are fresh orders, and that for the first time he is informed that he is to place himself and his fleet at the disposal of Lord De Redcliffe. We believe that hitherto, as in the in stance when Colonel Rose demanded the presence of the British fleet at Constantinople, the gallant, and always ready, admiral has referred to the home Government for confirmation of orders before moving. We believe that hitherto a responsibility has been thrown upon Lord De Redcliffe, which, in justice to himself, he could not or would not incur ; hence the energy of the French ambassador and the hesitation of the British representative. M. de la Cour, be it remembered, was the " first" to summon the small squadron of steamers. Lord de Red cliffe was obliged for the sake of appearances to demand from Admiral Dundas a similar force to accompany the French to Constantinople. We believe that up to this time Lord Stratford De Redcliffe has acted on his own discretion, and looks to the Government at home for approval ; but we believe now that within the last six days special dispatches have been sent to Lord De Redcliffe, increasing the scope of his power, and extending his sphere of action at his dis cretion, and that he is now (he was not previously, ex cept on his own responsibility) empowered to call the British force under Admiral Dundas up to Constanti nople, and that Admiral Dundas, who has been ready for any service ever since he reached his station and assumed the command in chief, is now ordered to obey the call, requisition, or demand of the British Ambassa dor at Constantinople, without referring Lord De Red cliffe's order previously to the Earl of Clarendon affirma tion. We have no doubt that these orders reached Malta last night or this morning, and that by this time they are on their way to Besika Bay and Constantinople in the first available steamer that could be procured at Malta. With respect to Admiral Corry's fleet, we repeat, and it is not denied, that the gallant Admiral had orders to take the entire force under his command, and proceed to sea yesterday morning, the First Lord of the Ad miralty accompanying the fleet for a short distance. The orders were ostensibly for a three weeks cruise ; but it is absurd to suppose that, with the new instruc tions sent to Admiral Dundas, and the great probal.ihty that the Mediterranean fleet has passed up the Darda nelles, the Government will not have a reserve or rein forcement of men of war between Queenstown and Con stantinople, the British fleet in the Bosphorus being inferior in numbers to the French fleet. It is also absurd to attempt to lull public apprehen sion for the security of our northern coasts, when it is most likely that war is raging at this moment in the East, and that British ships are engaged in it. In the event of hostilities Scotland and England are totally unprotected, and the powerful fleet of sailing ships and steamers from Cronstadt could with ease ravage the whole of our northern coasts, burn our coast towns, and return back to Cronstadt without molestation. Can the Government be so blind to consequences as not to provide against such a risk, when the consequences of such a calamity as a visit of the Russian fleet to Edin burgh or Hull would be their impeachment ? We be lieve, as stated in the Second Edition of the Herald on Tuesday, that a portion of Admiral Corry's fleet will go to the Mediterranean, and a division will go north ward, whilst other ships will be commissioned to recruit the Channel fleet. All our correspondents confirm this belief, at least so far as the reinforcements to the Medi terranean. ( From the Morning Chronicle.) The next step which may be taken either by Turkey or by Russia, can scarcely fail to be one of such im portance as to form a new point of departure in the consideration of the Eastern question. In the mean time, it may not be altogether useless to turn our atten tion to a phase of the subject which has been brought prominently forward by a certain class of logicians, and especially since the sailing of our ships of war through the Dardanelles, and the attempted interpretation of that movement, by Russian sympathisers, as an un important and purely precautionary measure for the protection of our own subjects at Constantinople, has given a handle for departing from the question which had hitherto been under consideration, and for raising a different issue. The discovery that the Turks have been, from beginning to end—in their first distrust and in their final resolution—in their suggested modifications, as in their rejection of the note of Menschikoff— altogether and entirely in the right, has, it seems, been followed up by a yet more notable revelation. It is true that the Turks have every claim to our sympathy which the spirited maintenance of a just and noble cause can give them. But it is also true—undeniably true-- that the Turks are Mahometans. And it appears to be thought possible that, by a judicious use, or misuse, of the one aspect of the case, attention may be so far concentrated on it as to be withheld from the other. That Russia should be permitted to consummate, without opposition, her long-cherished, and, it may now be said, avowed designs, it would be useless and inconvenient to main tain in the face of general indignation. But it is easy for the advocates of that Power to insinuate another view of the case, if not equally effec tive, at least tending strongly in the same misleading direction. That the very existence of the Ottoman Porte is an evil, only and scarcely second to that of the full accomplishment of the designs of Russia, is an opi nion which, judiciously put forward, may yet find idle and accepting auditors. It needs no argument to show how strongly the general prevalence of such a view is cal culated, as its insinuation is intended, to work in behalf of the invader of the provinces and the assailant of the sovereignty of the Porte. Between evils so nearly ba lanced, why should we put ourselves so much out of the way to choose? If the Turk in Europe is only by a shade, and hardly by a shade, preferable to the Russian at Con stantinople, it surely cannot be wise to incur, for so trifling a difference of evils, the risk of so terrible a cer tainty as war. Such will be the inference drawn by superficial minds from the whole tenor of the arguments to which we refer, and truly it is not uncharitable to conclude that to such a conclusion they are intended to lead. Even if they fail to carry conviction on this point of intent, they have yet done a great work if they suc ceed, even partially, in alienating from the side of jus tice an all but universal sympathy. It is greatly the fashion to represent John Bull as actuated solely by the result of a somewhat close calculation of his interests, in the lower sense of that very wide word. Those who have studied that worthy personage closely, well know ' how often his view, even upon questions of the most material kind, is nevertheless determined mainly by his feelings—how often he invents reasons, of a cold pru dential character, for actions done not indeed in rashness, but in obedience to other than mere logical conclusio ns . He acts, in short, up on th e di c t ates of what, for want of a better word, we call feelings, which are but the instinctive perceptions of higher than material interests. Persuade him that there are really, in behalf of the course which he is about to adopt, no reasons of the class adapted to evoke a noble sympathy, no grounds except such as consist in a slight balance of advantage, and you have done much to deter him from adopting that course at all. Persuade him that his sympathies are really due to the other side of the question, and he will fling the balance of conflict ing selfish motives aside, and invent a hundred well seeming, prudential reasons for having done so. And thus it might be on the present occasion, could the merits, moral and material, of the question between Russia and the Porte be obscured by depreciation and abuse of the injured party. Lord Palmerston, in the speech reported in our columns yesterday, while avow ing with a decisive sincerity, his faith that the Foreign Minister would not, in this crisis, disappoint the expec tations of England, held out at the same time to his colleague a fully warranted assurance of " the cordial, the generous support" of his countrymen. Such sup port, in circumstances like the present, is indeed not so much desirable as essential to the Ministry of a coun try like England. They may, by a judicious and decisive course of conduct, aid greatly in creating it for them selves. But they must have it—they can do nothing, take no effectual step, without it. To alienate it from them is to paralyse their action. And a great step would have been made towards alienating it, if the conviction which it is sought to produce, with respect to the Turkish character, could be thoroughly worked into the English mind. Once it was asked, is the peace of the world to be overthrown to spare the sensitive perverse ness of barbarians ? Now, however, it is admitted that the sensitiveness was not perverse. The Turks, barba rians as they may be, had the plain good sense which enabled them to detect an intended assault on their in dependence. and which, under the specious cover of general phrases, bad escaped the acuteness of our culti vated western diplomatists. But what of that ? They were, and are in the right—they stand merely on the defensive. Their opponents are the assailants, and alto gether in the wrong ; but there is one thing which their advocates cannot deny—they are Turks after all, And then follows the definit'on of the Turk—an irreclaim able barbarian, a savage oppressor, an unimprovable nuisance, a blot on the face of Europe ; in all things, ex cept force, what he was four centuries back, and ever will be—a Mahometan, a misbeliever. What might not the Emperor of Russia hope from the English Cabinet, in the present and in coming years, could but the honest Protestant Englishman be fully possessed with an appro priate horror at the idea that he is on the verge of war against a Christian potentate, the protector of oppressed Christians, and on behalf of a set of wicked misbe lievers ? The controversy between believers and those who are styled misbelievers—a word used with so much unction as a euphemism for its synonym, miscreants—is not for our columns. We are not in the era of the Crusades, and though Prince Gortschakoff is prepared to bear the red cross on li;s shield against the Paynim hosts, it would tax a vivid imagination to see in him a parallel either to the comrades of Coeur de Lion or to the heroes of the " Fairy Queen." Certain vices, it would seem, are not altogether incompatiable with the profession of Christianity, or even with readiness to fly at the throats of . Pagans. It may possibly also be found that ce rtain virtues are, in practice if not in theory, consistent with the status of a misbeliever. The names which distin guish religions are old, but the difference between right and wrong is older. Before Mahomet arose to propa gate a religion of which the wide-spread existence proves, at all events, its partial appeal to something real and not LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. Sitr.lPaid.! RAILWAYS. Leasing Compans. Closing Prices Yesterday 1041 all *4l all ;0,1 all ;t. 100 0 all ,t. 100 5 all /0 all i 0 all 15 all all 3 all :O all !.() 100 ;0 11.00 5 all 'OO all 0 all 5 all 2 t i 12 it. 100 ;t. 100 5 185 1 .2 9A i 0 all 15 all A. 100 11 all )s. all .0 2 1 all 1 all 1 all 1 all 1 all ;CI 13.5 21?2 10 all 0 15 1 ? all :5 all 5 all !O all 2 all 3 all 1 all 1 all 1 all iledforcl and I Lyndon & Bletchley.... N. West Birm. & Oxfd. guarantee..., Gt.Westn. Do. withoutgr Do IBirm.Wolv. & Dudley guar. Do. wtht guar. Buckghamsh. Clydesdale Jc. E. 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New Union of London Union of Madrid 98 - 100 50 - 52 140 - 145 30 - 32 106 -- 108 5:3 -- 54 27 -- 28 134 -- 144 25, -- 24 21 3Lxd 99 = la 59 - 61 xd 140 - 145 140 - 145 ... 2 . lkd ifi - :30 98 - 102 g £F 11 P 2i d 4 -- d d dis-- par A -- d 7 -- 9 -- 3 -- 2 32 -33 h d 42 -- 45 iP 104 --1 55 - -- 65 6 -- 7 p 21 14 16 d — p 2i— 2d, Ad, 6 4 —ct 1 id 3 3? 2 . d 5 7 3 31 d 6 d BANKS. 71 - 73 id par 2 ldis 2i lici 1 d— parl 45 - 47 i d • par 36 38 61 63 6A. 7i 17 1U li.s 81.7 :oUs 29 - a gi -- a li - lip 1 id. par 1: 1 - Igp 30 - 32 ii - i 6 Business this day. STATE OF TRADE. (Prom the Manchester Guardian of yesterday.); MANCHESTER, Sept. 27.—0 n Saturday and yesterday, this market in some degree shared the panic which seized upon shares and consols. To-day, under the in fluence of a hope that war might yet be averted, that feeling has given place to one of less gloom. As regards business, a proper caution has withheld the buyers from anything beyond a few limited and necessary purchases. For it is felt that, with a rising corn market, increased complications and dangers in the east of Europe, and a great probability that, before the object can be accom plished, a further restrictive action on the part of dis counters and the Bank of England will be necessary there can be no safety in extensive operations. This has been the predominent feeling of the day, and it has kept the transactions within limits so narrow as to afford no test of the state of prices. These are, however, lower, both in yarns and goods, than they were this day week ; and, in the former, the fall, from the rates current two months ago, is very considerable. Goods, which were relatively much cheaper, were not affected in the same degree. But there is great irregularity in the prices asked for yarns, and for some descriptions of cloth, arising from the varying situations of producers in regard to stocks and contracts. Yet there is a re markable absence of anything like a forcing of sales, though the desire to sell is much enhanced. Among our neighbours at Liverpool, there is much doing in cot ton ; the sales yesterday having been 7,000 bales, and to-day 8,000, with somewhat more of firmness among holders than at the latter end of last week, when, in some instances, low offers were accepted. ROCHDALE, Sept. 26.—We have had but little change in the market to-day ; goods of an inferior quality still meet a ready sale at former prices. Wool is much the same as it was on the previous Monday, both in price and demand. HALIFAX, Sept. 24.—We have again had a dull market in our piece hall, and but few worsted goods of any sort have changed hands. The yarn trade is by no means brisk, and prices are much the same. Wool is quiet, with the turn in favour of the buyer. HUDDERSFIELD, Sept. 27.—We have again to report a quiet market ; the attendance of buyers has been meagre, and very little been done, either in the cloth hall or warehouses. The only article for which there is a fair demand is black and white woollen twists, of which the supply is scarcely equal to demand. BIRMINGHAM, September . 26.—The preliminary meet- in , of the South Stlffordshire iron trade, for the Purpose of declaring the nominal prices of iron for the ensuing quarter, is expected to take place on Thursday next. Though the confidence of the public in the decisions of these meetings has been latterly much weakened, by the lightness with which advances or reductions have been adopted, and the rapidity with which they have been again almost simultaneously abandoned—so much so that the nominal prices have scarcely Over been the ruling prices for the time being—still their resolutions are gene rally acknowledged as the safest existing guide, and as operative materially for good or evil. At the present moment, the circumstances of the trade ceem to be suffi ciently critical to excite considerable anxiety as to the adoption of a stationary or progressive policy. In limestone, and partially in coals, advanced prices have lately been declared, while the miners have required and obtained higher wages. To meet this, in some measure, it is stated that manufacturers have a sufficient margin to allow considerably higher prices to be given for their pigs, and that they will have to give them ; but, whether to a sufficient extent, without advancing their articles, remains to be seen.—A 7 is's Birmingham Gazette. THE ELECTRIC TIME BALL IN THE STRAND.--The directors of the Electric Telegraph Company have issued a notice to chronometer makers and the public in gene ral, for regulating their watches and time-pieces, " that the system of dropping the ' time signal ball ' on the buildings of the Electric Telegraph Company, 448, West Strand, opposite Hungerford-market, by a galvanic current from the Royal Observatory, Greenwich-park, after the experience of several months, has been per fectly successful. Chronometer makers and others are informed that when no extraordinary signal is exhibited, implict reliance may be placed in the accuracy of the time given by the drop of the ball. The same galvanic current which liberates the ball in the Strand, m oves a needle on the transit clock at the Royal Observa tory, Greenwich-hill. The time of movement of this needle is observed by the officers of the Royal Observa tory, and, duly registered, is found to be sensibly cor rect. The time occupied by the transmission of the gal vanio current, from the Royal Observatory to the Strand is about 1-3,000 th part of a second. The time occupied by unloosing the machinery which supports the ball is only 1-sth of a second. Chronometer makers, and the public are requested to remark that the instant which is to be taken as truly corresponding to one o'clock, p.m., Greenwich mean solar time, is that of the commence mencement of the drop of the ball." Thu same galvanic current is also communicated to the electric transparent dial, which has been found to be so correct since it has been erected in the Strand, and being lit up at night, the hour (is always visible on each side of the Strand, Hungerford-street, Adelaide and Duncannon-streets. There is likewise an electric communication to the clock at the Horse Guards, and the electric dial at the new Houses of Parliament, as well as to all the different metropolitan railway termini, and the principal seaports and commercial towns throughout the United Kingdom. SUICIDE OF A RESPECTABLE BUILDER IN CAMDEN TOWN.—A lamentable case of suicide was discovered to have been perpetrated on Tuesday evening, by Mr. Wm. Shaw, a highly respectable builder, resident in Arling ton-street, Camden-town. Mr. Shaw, who has for many years taken an active part in local matters in St. Pan cras, and was highly respected, had latterly become somewhat flighty in his manner, and would at times ab sent himself from home. He had not been seen, it is stated, since Sunday evening ; but on Tuesday night he was discovered suspended from a beam in some back premises in the rear of his house, and it is supposed he had been hanging there from the time he was first missed. Mr. Shaw was of a literary turn of mind, and some years ago contributed occasionally local news to some of the daily papers. An inquest is expected to be held on the body this day. :0 all :0 all 0 all 0 2 ;5 5 10 25 10 20 !O 10 !O 15 i 0 20 i 0 10 )0 20 )0 35 10 1:10 22 15 all 0 all 5 1 15 25 15 all 5 5 )0 35 !O 8 10 6 5 1 0 32 5 5 4 2 !O 1 1 1 L 5 14 !O 14 .?0 5 1 all .0 3 1 ail :0 V 5 all 50 all 10 60 j all 1 !, ;5 25 1 all )0 28 LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS 11A Y.) LONDON, Sept. 29.—Wind this day at Nc on, S. ; light breeze, and dull cloudy weather, with rain.— -The of Boston, St. John's to Liverpool, dismast NI and under a jury mainmast, was spoken on the 20th i not. in let. 49 N., 16 W., which had spoken two other yes% dismasted. DEAL, Sept. 29.—Wind, W.S.W. Ari Calcutta ; Mary, Africa ; Sumatra, Coloml )es ; Margaret Elizabeth, Buenos Ayres ; Helene, New York ; Connecti cut, do. ; Northumberland , do. ; Tola, Quebec. PLYMOUTH, Sept. 28.—Wind, W.S.W. A ..rldved—John Pardew, Monte Video, for Liverpool. FALMOUTH, Sept. 28.—Wind, W., fresh b:reezes. Ar rived—lda, Cardiff , f or Q uebec, with e, u shifted; Cosmo, Bristol, for New York with loss a spars, fore mast, &c. ; Reaper , P orto Rico; Syrian, Maulmain. Sailed—Eliza, Hart, Hobart Town ; Christal el, Cape of Good Hope. — The Juno (barque), America to Bremen, was spoken, leaky, and making for the West .ern Islands, 1 on the 13th of Sept., in lat. 41 N., 42 W., Inv /mg encoun- I tered the hurricane of the 9th inst , and los I part of her I crew. SOUTHAMPTON, Sept. 28.—Sailed—Cadizs), Bombay ; Tartar (s), do. YARMOUTH, Sept. 28.—Arrived —Clutha, I a verkei thing, foz New Zealand.—The Mary Ann, of Newha: yen, is being brought into the Roads a de relict. Poor,E, Sept. 28.—Wind, strong and squab y. Arrived —Angle, Newfoundland. IlArtwicH, Sept. 28.—The J. Emilie, of and for Fe camp, from Seaham, has been wrecked orL the Long Sand ; crew saved. NEWHAVEN, Sept. 29.—The Surprise, of Rye, is on shore full of water. BERWICK, Sept. 28.—The Friends, from Quebec, has been got off the Carr Rock. BELFAST, Sept. 27.—Wind, S.W. by W.. Arrived — Constellation, Quebec, Sr.iled—Gilbert, New York. Sept. 28.—Arrived—Kezia, from Miramichi, leaky. CAPE TOWN (Cape of Good Hope), Aug. 20). —The Sand wich, Akyab to London, in running into Table Bay, got on shore, and became a wreck ; crew saved, except one man, who died of exhaustion. -The Zetnindsa, Madras to London, put into Simon's Bay, July 27, with loss of rudder. MAURITIUS, Aug. 6.—The Gazelle, Petorhead to Mel bourne, put in here on the 2d inst., lealky, and is dis charging. SINGAPORE, Aug. s.—The Jack, from Melbourne to this port, was wrecked on the N.E. point of the great detached shoal of the Barrier Reef, on the 9th of July ; crew saved. —A vessel, supposed to be a clipper-built ship of 500 or 603 tons, was seen on shore on the Barrier Reef, on the 15th of July, and it is feared that the screw have not escaped. (BY ELECTRIC TELGRAPH.) LIVERPOOL, Thursday, 10.30 a.m Arrived—Globe, from Valparaiso ; Parma, St. John's, N.B. ; Skiddaw, Trieste ; Tyro, and Albatross (steamer), Lisbon ; Flora, St. Übes ; Lucietia, Santander ; Diamant, Sea Eagle, and Emile, St. Petersburgh ; Sydney, and Jane, Dragornelstre. Off the Port—Margaret (steamer), Havre ; Goliath (ship), and Lalla and Adriatic. The In trinsic was got off last night and into Sand on Dock. Put in Studwellßoads the 28th Sept.—The Axeoy,from Liver pool, for Quebec, leaky. WATERFORD, Sept. 27. The barque Brothers, arrived here from Quebec, reports having passed, on the 13th, in lat. 50, long. 25.40, the brig Neptune, with foremast gone by the deck, maintop mast gone by the cap, and cap and bowsprit and jibboom standkog. It was blowing a strong gale from the W.NW., and no assistance con7d be rendered. She was from Quebec), and out 33 days. (B Y SUBMARINE AND EUROPEAN TELEGRAPII.) DEAL, Thur;day, 9 a.m. Pas:led—Devon, from Calcutta, for London ; Zeepleey; Patens, for London ; Connecticut, New York, do. ; Marl boroul ;h, Port Philip, do., taking steam. Philadelphia, of Bmmen, remains. x d x d 144 23 ... 42 lished. 46 ... Epistles, Book 1., published; Virgil dies. 47 ... Tibullus dies. 48 ... Carmen Smenlare written. 50 ... Orbilius, Horace's schoolmaster, dies, 100 years old. „ 13 ... 52 ... Odes, Book IV., published. „ 12 ... 63 ... Epistles. Book 11., published (?) „ 11 ... 51 ... Art or Poetry, published (?) „ 8 ... 57 ... Death of Alweenas, and of Horace • Augustus Emperor for the third time. PA 18 .. „ 17 . „ 15 . From this it will be seen that up to his thir tieth year nothing had been done towards the establishment of his vast literary fame as the great lyrist and satirist—the follower of Brutus, the friend of Virgil, the admired of Augustus, and the favourite of Maecenas. Besides this charming biographical and critical essay, the British Quarterly will be found to contain many other agreeable and some really superior contributions. First in point of position is a chaptar of " French History in 18:53 ;" and certainly not last in point of merit, is a paper on " Turkey and Russia." A review of " Hypatia" will be read with interest by those who have watched the progress of that serial through Fraser's Magazine from its commencement to its 1 recent conclusion ; while from an article of a very different character—one relating to " Electricity and Magnetism" —may be culled an abundance of valuable information. Memoirs of John Abernethy, F.R.S., with a View of his Lectures, Writings, and Character. By G. Macilwain, F.R.C.S. Two vols. Hurst and Blackett. The author of this work, a pupil of Mr. Aber nethy, who had a great respect for his opinions and labours, observed with regret, some time after his death, that erroneous impressions were enter tained of them. He considers that, "to do him full jusuice, it would be necessary to republish his works with an elaborate commentary ;" but as this would require more time and labour than any indi vidual could afford to give, he resolved, at least, to publish a memoir, which, though a less satisfac tory, would be an easier, task. He has furnished us with an interesting history of an arduous life dovoted to the pursuit of science and the elevation of a profession. The motto he has taken is— " The evil that men do lives after them ; The good is oft interred with their bones." This is not the case in the present volumes, as Mr. Macilwain has the highest opinion of Mr. Abernethy, and perfectly coincides with his opinions. He regrets that the arrangements of the hospital he attended should have kept such distinguished abilities for twenty-eight years in the inferior posi tion of assistant-surgeon, which deprived him of the power of making those reforms and improve ments he would otherwise assuredly have intro duced. The author also laments that circumstances induced him to commence his lectures so early in life as the age of twenty-three, and thinks that so much exertion and so little rest as he allowed him self in his early days affected his health in later years, and detracted from his subsequent powers of usefulness. His lectures soon became celebrated, and his constancy in attending them is instanced by the following "I met him coming into the hospital one day, a little before two (the hour of lecture) ; and seeing him rather smartly dressed, I said, You are very gay to-day, sir.' "'Ay," said he, "one of the girls was married this morning. " ' Indeed, sir,' I said ; 'you should have given your self a holiday on such an occasion, and not come down to lecture.' " Nay,' returned he, I came down to lecture the day I was married myself ' " The ensuing passage is from a chapter on his lectures "There was hardly any subiect that he touched of which he did not take some view more or less original; and his reasoning was always simple and to the point. No man, we believe, ever exceeded him in the skill he possessed in conveying ideas from one mind to another ; but he did a great deal more—he ::nt tho7.e wlio really studied him away thinking, and led them to work with a kind of pleasure, wnich was in some sense distinct from any mere practical or professional interest. He, contrived to embue you with the love of philoLophical re search in the abstract, with a i interest in t-uth far iti own sake : you found yourself. remembering the bare facts, not so much from conscious effort of memory as from the interest suggestive of observations with which they were tr N 1, 314 1 : - •-•, - ignoble in map, fraud was fraud, roblierrwaft,m. murder was murder. It would nt i d some, "tilt! ment to prove that th e di s ti nc t is, at present day—in matters of polit - s ,at - - 16577.: more ignored by the votaries of Islam, 1 ...---tetiter religionists of Prince Gortschakoff. :• 1 t Sth 41;o . . ready to say, with that eminent Christian philanthropist, " Long life to the god of the Russians !" might possibly find it neither easy nor agreeable to define the exact essence and attributes of the, apparently, not immortal divinity before whom they are prepared to offer the costly sacrifice of the plain rights of a nation. It is better to spare them and ourselves such unprofitable theological efforts, and to resume the moral of all that has been said, in a short reference to what, as known to us on the highest authority, is the present state and probable future of the Ottoman Empire. Let those whose sympathies with right need more to rouse them than the reiterated demonstration that it is right, recall the general drift and bearing of a recent speech of Lord Palmerston. Let those, too, who, with every feeling that " Because right is right, to follow right Were wisdom, in the seorn of consequence,'' would yet gladly find themselves relieved from the idea of being bound up in the same cause with a set of unim provable barbarians, recall the positive statements of the same speech in answer to Mr. Cobden. When the late Foreig n Minister ga ve th e sanct i on o f hi s know ledge and judgment to the opinion that the moral and material condition of Turkey was neither desperate nor unimprovable—when he flatly contradicted the counter assertions of the calumniators of the Porte—when he finally stated, amid the expressions of a generous satis faction on the part of his audience, that in no country in Europe had greater advances been made than in the Ottoman Empire within the last thirty years—he gave, by anticipation, an answer to much that has been since and recently said—an answer sufficient to convert the candid, and, it might have been thought, to silence the cautious, whether candid or not. And, when he added that, with what may be called fair play on the part of other Powers--with themere abstinence from open attack and injury—there was not a doubt of the power of Turkey, and every hope of her readiness, to continue to advance, to improve, and gradually regenerate herself to the point of becoming a fit member of the civilised community of the world, his declaration led every other mind to draw the irresistible inference which the states man might have scrupled to express. That inevitable inference was, that such improvement—desired by, and acceptable to all the rest of the civilised world—was the one thing feared by that Power whose interest lies in the continued degradation of Turkey, and which, because feared, was the true cause of the attack on her inde pendence. Russia alone has a continuing interest in the barbarism which is weakness, for weakness is the road to subjugation. Therefore is it that, rightly appreciating the progress of improvement, which may be loss to her, though gain to all others, she assails it before it be too strong for her. Hers, and not the Ottoman Porte's, is the barbarian interest in the matter. True in every sense, this would be true even in the restricted meaning which would be given it by the assumption, in itself er roneous, that the interests of justice and truth can ever be separated from or be found in conflict with the proper interests of civilisation. • SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. NEWMARKET FIRST OCTOBER MEETING. WEDNESDAY. MATCH. T.Y.C. 200, h ft. Mr. Baker's Mississippi, by Old England, out of Miami, Bst 51b, received 50 sovs. forfeit from Mr. W. H. Gregory's Papageno, by Birdcatcher, out of Sister to Wanota, Bst 71b. HANDICAP SWEEPSTAKES of 15 sovs. each, 10 ft for two yr-olds. T.Y.C. Four subs. Lord John Scott's Calliope, by Oakley, 7st 101 b (Flatman) 1 Mr. Rogers's Miss Bolton, by Ascott, 6st 131 b (S. Steggles) 2 Mr. Turner's Worthless, 7st 61b (E. Sharp) 3 Mr. J. Goodered's Domino, Bst 71b paid Betting—Even on Calliope, and 5 to 4 agst Miss Bol ton. Miss Bolton made play into the cords, where she was joined by Calliope, who defeated her rival by a neck. Worthless was last throughout. SWEEPSTAKES of 50 sovs. each, h ft, for two-yr-olds ; colts, Bst 71b; fillies, Bst 51b, not engaged in the July, Chesterfield, Rutland, Clearwell, or Prendergast Stakes. A winner of 200 sovs. or upwards, 51b extra. T.Y.C. Five subs. Captain Lane's Epaminondas, by Epirus, Bst 71b (Flatman) 1 Duke of Bedford's Weathercock, Bst 41b (Butler) 2 Lord Exeter's Phcenix, Bst 71b (Norman) 3 Betting-5 to 2on Weathercock, and 3to 1 agst Epaminondas. Weathercock made the running to half way in the cords, where Epaminondas challenged, and the race ended in his favour by half a length. Bad third. SECOND YEAR of the FIFTH TRIENNIAL PRODUCE STAKES of 10 sovs. each, for 3-yr-olds ; colts, Bst 71b ; and fillies, Bst 41b ; the owner of the second horse to receive a sum equal to 10 per cent. upon the whole stake, and. the owner of the third horse a sum equal to 5 per cent. upon the whole stake. A.F. (65 subs). Duke of Bedford's Sittingbourne, by Chatham, Bst 71b (Butler) 1 Mr. Knowles's Talfourd, Bst 71b (Bumby) 2 Lord Exeter's Filbert, Bst 71b (Norman) 3 The following also ran :—Feversham, Cuba, Catherine Hayes, Dove. Betting—Even on Sittingbourne, 3 to 1 apt Cath erine Hayes, 5 to 1 agst Talfourd. Dove, with the others well together in her wake, made play into the Abingdon Mile Bottom, where Talfourd, who had been lying second, took a slight lead, which he held to within a few strides of the chair, when the favourite, who had gradually neared the front, came out and won by a length and a half ; a neck between second and third. Catherine Hayes was a good fourth. PRODUCE SWEEPSTAKES of 200 sous. each, h ft ; colts, Bst 71b ; fillies, Bst 41b. T.Y.C. Three subs. Lord Derby's Sortie, by Melbourne, out of Escalade, 'Bst 41b (Templeman) walked over BETTING IN THE MORNING. CESAREWITCH.-7 and 6 to 1 taken about King Pepin ; 16 and 14 to 1 about Nancy ; 100 to 6 Joe Miller. Garforth was in great force, and was backed for a con siderable sum of money, at prices ranging from 1,000 to 45 to 15 to 1. 16 to 1 taken about Indian Warrior, 40 to 1 Rosalba, and 1,000 to 12 Pancake. CAMBRIDGESHIRE.-20 to 1 taken about Invasion, 26 to 1 Seahorse. DERBY.-1,000 to 25 and 1,000 to 30 taken about Neville. HANDICAP SWEEPSTAKES, Tuesday.—By an error in transcribing the betting on this event, Cheddar was re turned at 7 to 2, and Coleraine at 6 to 1 ; the prices should have been reversed. What with forfeits and scratchings the list to-day dwindled to comparative insignificance : in the course of the morning, however, a bit of bye-sport, consisting of a pigeon shooting match, in which the " Piccadilly Pet" was the winner, made some amends for its short coming. The attendance on the heath was of a Wed nesday's average. The weather dry and breezy ; clouds of dust occasionally swept through the town with an almost blinding effect. Watercarts are about as rare at Newmarket as a horse is at Venice. THE TWO-YR-OLD RACE AT BEDFORD.—An investiga tion into the circumstances connected with this race has commenced this day by the Jockey Club. THE ECONOMY AFFAIR AT CHATHAM.— This case is before the stewards. The ST. LEGER STAKES of 25 sovs. each, for three-yr olds ; colts, Bst 71b ; and fillies, Bst 31b. Certain penalties. Horses which had never won a plate or sweepstakes allowed 51b. D.I. Fifteen subs. Lord Exeter's Cobnut, by Nutwith, Bst 71b (Flatman) 1 Lord Exeter's Nutpecker, Bst 71b (Norman) 2 Captain Lowther's Rackapelt, Bst 71b (Rogers) 3 Betting-5 to 4on Rackapelt, 7to 4 agst Cobnut. Won by two lengths ; bad third. The FIFTY POUNDS, for three-y r - o ld s , 7 s t 51b ; four, Bst 81b ; five, Bst 131 b ; six and aged, 9st. D.I. Mr. Howard's Little Harry, 4 yrs, Bst 81b 1 Mr. C. Roberts's Lamartine, 5 yrs, Bst 131 b 2 Only these two ran. Won by 20 lengths. BETTING AFTER THE RACES. CESAIiftWITCII. 5 to 1 agst Sing Pepin. 25 to 1 agst Nutpecker. 100 to 6 was betted asst Nutpecker and Nutshell coupled. 26 to 1 agst Songstress. DERBY. 1 O RDER OF RUNNING THIS DAY. 4 40 t t oo asst asst 11.45—Five Sovs. Sweepstakes. 5 5 -- - Q T° u w ee n n' P s l P at l e a . te. 1 1 21 2 .. . 14 1 s—Match. I.4s—Triennial. 2.ls—Rutland Stakes. WARWICK AND LEAMINGTON OCTOBER MEETING. WEIGHTS for the GREAT WARWICK HANDICAP. Age st lb Goldfinder 5 8 7 Adine 4 8 5 Lady Evelyn King of Trumps 4 8 3 Truth 5 7 9 Neasham G athole 6 7 2 El •,,t 4 7 0 Koh-i-noor 4 6 12 Sal 'y Warfoot colt 4 6 12 Alp 4 6 10 Calot 4 6 10 Father Thames Talfourd 3 6 8 Montague Little Fawn 5 6 7 Ethelwolf 4 6 5 Gapabout Mrs. Binh 5 6 4 Orpheus 4 6 2 Doubt Little Davie Deformed Ireland's Eye 3 5 13 May-day Annie Sutherland 3 5 12L * The handicapper has omitted the insertion of this horse's weight. Age st lb Radcliffe Hero 3 5 12 Charley Simplicity Massa Mungo Mr. Sykes 3 5 10 Melford Madeline Cory bantes IMissive Ibis 4 5 6 Janey,byMalcolm 3 5 4 Jacqueline 3 5 2 Mary Aislabie Ar. Baththa (late Nee Shay Woo Shin), by Shaun Buidhi Dear Polly 3 5 0 Winter Pastrycook 3 4 12 Pearl Angelo 3 4 9 Lady Emily. 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