The Sun. — London, England, 1853-04-08 00:00:00

RATIONAL D. 'MPTION ACT. ( From the Times. ) We candidly confess that in our yesterday's remarks on the rumoured Ministerial plan for dealing with the Three per Cents. we had not fathomed the depth or unravelled the ingenuity of Ministerial finance. Pre mising that it was only a rumour that we dealt with, we described that rumour to be the offer of 21 per cent. for 20 years, secure from further reduction, with the equal certainty of redemption at par at the end of that period. We believed the proposal by no means un favourable to the public creditor, while, supposing it to be accepted by all holders of the stock in question, it would save the nation at once two millions and a-half per annum. Had it not been thought favourable to the creditor as well as to the State, the value of Consols would not have risen in the market as they did on Wednesday, when this was the form and shape rumour gave to the Ministerial announcement. The resolutions are now before us, and we must say that they look more like what scholars call a praxis, or an exercitatio in finance, than a serious propo sition to the Legislature. If we could suppose some student calculating, or attempting to calcu late, a number of equivalent securities, varied by caprice rather than any reference to the wants of capi talists, we have before us the results of his morning's speculations, carefully preserved, as if they had cost too much labour to be thrown into the waste-paper basket. The Chancellor of the Exchequer offers as many as four alternatives in return for one security, for it is substan tially one description that is dealt with. This is con trary to all the rules of prudence. It assumes for the originator of the bargain a great part of that responsi bility that usually and properly attaches to the persons to whom the bargain is propounded. The former should leave the latter to make counter-bids, that is equivalent offers, if he likes ; but should rest his own case on one carefully-considered proposal. As it is the creditor will simply examine the four proposals gratuitously placed before him, and choose that which he thinks best. This has already been done by the skilful calculators of the city, and they have fixed on one of the alternatives which will evidently carry the day :—that is, would carry the day should the resolutions ever pass into law. Mr. Gladstone first deals with some peculiar stocks which answer no other purpose than to encumber the " quotations" and perplex the uninitiated. These ought long since to have been reduced to one description. That is now proposed to be done, and, if the resolutions become law, the very names of the South Sea Annuities, &c., will cease. Their holders are summoned to accept one of four alternatives, the last three of which are of fered also to all holders of Consols or 3 per Cents. Re duced. The four alternatives are :-100/. in money for every 1001. stock ' • or 821. 10s. of a new 3 1 per cent. stock, guaranteed against reduction for 40 years ; or 1101. of a new 21 per cent. stock, with a like guarantee; or an Exchequer bond for 1001., bearing interest at 21 per cent. for 10 years, and 21 per cent. for 30 more. Why this last proposition, with the inconvenient feature of a drop in the interest after ten years, should ever have been made, we cannot conceive, unless as a mere feat of calculation, or on the model of the vanishing sugar duties. The only alternative, however, worth considering is the offer of 1101. in 21 per Cents., guaran teed till 1894. Supposing the resolutions to be adopted, and all the holders of Three per Cents. to make this selection, it will save the country a quarter per cent. on the interest of about 500,000,0001. Three per Cents., that is, about 1,250,000/. a-year ; 1101., at 21 per Cent., being equivalent to 1001. at 21. So far the annual saving to the country would be only half that to be an ticipated from the scheme as rumour had described it. But, inasmuch as it is proposed to increase the nominal capital in this alternative from 1001. to 1101., that would be an addition of 10 per cent, to the capital subjected to the process, and in the year 1894 our descendants would have to thank ua for adding about fifty millions to the national debt. We have no hesitation in laying it down as a principle that, whatever we do, we are not justified in increasing the capital of the debt. We may increase the interestas much as we please, within reasonable limits and for a moderate term of years ; but to make a bargain with the national creditor, adding fifty millions to the debt, when the children born this year shall be forty years old, simply and solely in order to escape paying 1,250,000/. a-year ourselves, would be nothing less than disgraceful, and certainly most contrary to the resolute, sturdy, self denying spirit of our recent commercial and financial le gislation. It is to this point that the study of finance should be specially directed, and Whoever shall devise some means of diminishing our fatal inheritance of debt will indeed earn a place in the first rank of British statesmen. Now that the great names of the last long and glorious warare becoming historical, we may com plain that we of this day have no such opportunity of distinguishing ourselves. One way, however, is open to those who would win a place in the memories of that splendid era. The man who can devise a means for paying off the debt of the war may well rank with the statesmen who directed it and the great captains who fought it by sea and by land. If Mr. Gladstone would tell us how to extinguish the capital of our stupendous debt by the end of this century, that would be worth the addition of another 5,000,000/. a-year to our present burden. His proposition, little as we expected it from such a quarter, is quite in the other direction. It is to spare ourselves at the expense, or at least at the risk, of our children. Mr. Gladstone evi dently does not anticipate so great a preference for this particular alternative. He gives to posterity the option of reducing our debt by a hundred millions, that is, sup posing the 82i. 10s. at 34 per cent. generally accepted. But, unfortunately, posterity is not here to make its choice ; the choice is to be made now by living capitalists, and they will undoubtedly select the alternative that spares themselves at the expense of the country forty years hence. In another part of our impression it is suggested that the Resolutions be at once amended by the omission of this one alternative, and we cannot but agree that its surrender wilt come with more grace now than at the end of a Parliamentary struggle. THE GOVERNMENT BOOKSELLING CONCERNS. In an article on the education question in the new number of the Edinburgh, Review, the writer, in reviewing Sir James Kay Shuttleworth's new work, remarks : " We are glad to observe that Sir James Kay Shuttle worth expresses a very decided opinion on a subject which is one of considerable importance, and which has been much discussed. With reference to the publica tion and trading in school books by the Government, Sir James Kay Shuttleworth remarks is essential that the Government should avoid every form of inter ference which could discourage individual enterprise, the freedom of opinion, and the natural action of litera ture on the popular intelligence and taste, or of the trade in books in their production and diffusion. The Govern ment is not an author, a holder of copyrights, a publisher of books, nor a patron of methods ; much less is it to interfere in the formation of opinion, by making schools the organs of its own doctrines.' And he adds--' I concur with the great publishing houses of London in their objections to any sale of the books of the Irish Commissioners in Great Britain, except through the ordinary channels of trade.' This is an opinion founded on sound principles. The act of copyright creates a monopoly for the encouragement of literature, and thus for the benefit of the public. It never was contemplated that the Government should buy up, or in any way hold, these monopolies. If they hold them, they must either trade in books, and carry on the business of booksellers in all its details, or they must restrict the use of their works to their own schools. In the one case they embark in a business they cannot carry on without prejudice to the public interest ; in the other, they deprive the public of the books they have every right to demand, inasmuch as they have been con structed at their own cost. It would, indeed, be a nar row and exclusive policy, little to be commended, were the Government to use the influence they possess, to en courage the most able writers, free of money payment, to write books restricted to the use of their own schools. It cannot be supposed that any writer would, of his own choice, restrict the circulation and utility of his writings to a particular class of schools. On the contrary, he should desire that they might have the widest diffusion, thus extending the public benefit, and at the same time securing to himself, in the most legitimate way, that just reward which should result to him from a public re cognition of the value of his services."—.Edinburgh MANAGEMENT OF THE DEAD IN THE METROPOLIS.— The number of superficial feet in an acre is 43,560. Hence we have merely to establish a simple rule and say, if so many superficial feet are made to contain so many bodies, how many will 43,530 (the acre) contain ? When we reflect that from fifteen to twenty times as many bodies as ought to beare daily deposited in many . receptacles, that in some examples upwards of 20,000, in others beyond 50,000 have been dispose of in a single acre of ground—that dead bodies are corrupting—within six inches of the surface, under every variation of tempe rature, every change of atmosphere, from dry to moist, from moist to dry : that myriads of dead, " piled one upon another (according to one eye-witness), like bricks," are incessantly evolving many thousand times their own bulk of the most poisonous compounds, within a few feet of densely -crowded habitations—that the very ground is growing up around us, and houses disappear ing beneath masses of corruption—we are compelled again and again to repeat that the entire system of grave yard and vault management in this metropolis is an enormous and scandalous iniquity, Can we wonder that disease is engendered or life destroyed by noxious emanations ? We make for ourselves the poison which we breathe ; in our perverse blindness we sow decay, and we reap death ! It is almost unnecessary for me— indee.-I, it would be impossible to enumerate the varied injuries inflicted on the health of the living, by a prac tice which compels us to breathe, not the pure air of heaven, but the poisonous compounds of our own c , ,,r. ruption.—G. A. Walker, in Practical Suggesti o " for the Establishment of National Conetrie3. PROSPECTS OF EMIGRANTS.—If the immigrant can manage to bear up against the exorbitant rents, over crowding, and general social discomfort that meet him upon his lauding, he will not find very much else is complain about. The absolute necessaries of life are not very dear. The fears which we expressed some months since respecting a scarcity of flour have subsided for the present, in consequence of importations from various quarters, and the prospects of tolerable harvests in this and the neighbouring colonies. From these causes, the price of flou r recently fell from 45/. to 301. per ton, and it has further declined to 23/. —its price at the present moment. Been and mutton, tea and sugar—the of colonial sumption—are reasonably cheap staple• d and so forth, abundant. Vegetables, fruit, eggs, butter, must be classed amongst luxuries; they are scarce and dear. Men find it far more money -making to dig for gold than to cultivate market gardens ; and the digger is . oontto,), im . ' - simple fare of " mutt on , tea, aria '''' ' Al1111;er - i 4 '4 4,0.4 : ..;:, orday."—Mdbul•no A Puto. .....:—.- , -; ~ • .(•:. --• j i:-.-4 • ra G!<:'~C N' , V;, - T A ) A:J*44i The designation of Conmaiene-Mara, corruptly pro nounced and written Connemara, signifying Bays of the Ocean, is applied generally to the whole tract of country from Lough Corrib to the Atlantic, although, in fact , it is subdivided into the separate districts of Connemara Proper, Jar-Connaught, and Joyce's Country. It is singular enough that, barring the wild beasts and the trees of which he speaks, both of which have disappeared totally, the description of a worthy choregrapher of 1684, from whom I have before borrowed, pretty . accu rately represents the Connemara of 1852. He paints it thus :—" The country is generally coarse, moorish, and mountainous, full of high rocky hills, large valleys, peat bogs, and some woods, whereof it had abundance before they were cut. It is replenished with rivers, brooks, lakes, and standing waters, even on the tops of the highest mountains. On the sea-side are many ex cellent large and safe harbours for ships to ride on an chor ; the climate is wholesome, so as divers attain to the age of 90 years, 100, and upwards. The land pro duces wild beasts, as wolves, deer, foxes, badgers, hedge hogs, hares, rabbits, squirrels, martins, weasles, and the amphibious otter, of which the white-faced otter is very rare. It is never killed, they say, but with loss of man or dog, and its skin is mighty precious. It admits no rats to live anywhere within it, except the Isles of Arran, and the district of the west liberties of Galway. The water streams, besides lampreys, rochcs, and the like, of no Salue, breed salmons (where is recourse to the sea), eels, and divers sort of trouts. The sea here is plenti fully stored with fish—as cods, lings, hawkfish, coale fish, turbots, plaises, haddogs, whitings, gurnards, macrells, herrings, pilchards, &c. ; and no less librall of shell-fish, as oysters, scollops, cockles, muscles, razares, together with lobsters, crabs, shrimps. &c. It now and then casts ashore g rea t w h a l e s, gramps, porcupisses, thanies. Both sea and land have their several kinds of birds. Here the ganet soars high into the sky to espy his prey to the sea . under him, at which he casts himself headlong into the sea, and swallows up whole herrings in a morsell. This bird flies through the ship's sailes, piercing them with his beak." The worthy author gives an account of various other " foules," in addition to barnacles, wild geese, swans, cocks of the wood, and woodcocks, and especially of " the bird engendered out of timber long lying in the sea." " Here, too," he adds, " are rivers which breed pearls, and the sea shears have amber-greese often cast into them. The greatest number of cattle are of cows, the soil being for the most part good only for pasture and grazing, and very fertile of all kinds of herbs. The chief- - est product, therefore, and greatest • commodity is beef, butter, allow, hides, and of late cheese, out of the Isle of A.ran ; yet it yields as much corn, of wheat, barly, oats, and ry, as is enough to sustaine the inhabitants, and fur nishes the market besides." Such were the appearance and condition of the Far West in 1684, and such, with very trifling differences, are they now. The people are rather worse off ; there are no wolves, no deer, and no trees, and ganets no longer fly through the sails of ships. The fish, however, still abound on the coasts. The salmon and the trouts are in the rivers, and the cods, the turbots, the haddocks, the mackerels, the herrings, the oysters, and the lobsters are in the seas. The coast fisheries are, in fact, rich enough to support of themselves the population. The fishing, however, is only pursued intermittently, with very insufficient means, and very lazily. The rivers are fortunately chiefly in the hands of English gentlemen, some of whom rent them for pleasure and others for profit. In the latter category may be mentioned Mr. Ashworth, the wealthy millownner of Lancashire, who has lately purchased the Corrib Fishery for 5,6001., and is apply ing himself to its perfectionment by the assistance of his clever agent Mr. Holliday, with that energy and judgment which distinguish the English manufacturer. The coast fishery is not so fortunate ; and from Gallway to Black Head is mainly in the hands of the native fisherman of the ancient village of the Claddagh, now a suburb of Galway. Inglis speaks of this community as clean and indus trious, and he is so accurate that I have no doubt they may have been so ; but now they certainly are neither the one nor the other. Their village consists of a com plication of narrow, dirty lanes, dotted throughout their length with slops of stagnant water and heaps of putrid filth, and wandering crookedly between rows of dirty, miserable hovels. These are inhabited by a population unskilled in their craft, ill supplied with the means of following it, idle, jealous, lazy, tyrannical, quarrelsome, and cowardly in the highest degree. They regard the sea as their private and exclusive property, and will nei ther fish it effectually themselves, nor suffer anybody else to do so. The district which is known familiarly as Connemara, with its islands, possesses nearly 400 miles of sea-shore. On the south and west, it is embraced by sea, and is bounded on the east by the great lakes of Corrib and Mask. affording now an open navigation from the head of Lough Mash to the Bay of Gal way, so that the surface presents nearly as much water as land ; water that exacts no rent, and is full of prod-ace. It contains, among other advantages, not less than 20 safe and capacious harbours. The district em braces in itself, and is adjacent to, some of the finest and most productive fishing banks in the world. Among others may be named the bank off Black Head, one of the best trawling banks on the coast, the Sun Fish Bank, the Cod and Ling Bank to the west of Arran, and the Cod and Ling Bank of Bofin. These are, how ever, for the greater part, at a considerable distance from the shore, and in deep soundings ; and as the fishermen of the district have neither boats fitted to stand the weather they must expect to encounter at sea, nor the gear for deep fishing, thei r p owers o f pro d uc ti on rema i n com paratively undeveloped. That they present, however, a field for enterprise that may be cultivated with large profit has been satisfactorily proved by the entire success of the experiment which was made last year by Mr. Sing, the incumbent of Arran, and which, I believe, is still continued. I offer no opinion as to the propriety of a clergyman undertaking such a speculation : that I leave to Mr. Sing's bishop. At the same time, I imagine the most zealous of men could scarcely occupy all his time and energies with the care of the half-dozen Protestants who form the flock of the Established pastor of the Isles of Arran. Be that as it may, Mr. Sing has, for some time now, trawled day by day in the Connemara district, cruising from Galway to Blacksod Bay. His ordinary fishing-ground, however, during the time I was on the coast, appeared to be from the boundary trawling line in Galway Bay up to the Bofin Bank. His trawler consisted of a cutter of about 48 tons. His net profits, as I was informed from authority which I could not doubt, notwithstanding very high wages which he paid his crew, varying from 30s. to 21. per week, ranged from 401. to 501. a-month. Mr. Sing was continually impeded in his enterprise by the threats and the turbulence of the Claddagh fisher men who, though they were restrained by the fear of the armed revenue cutter, which was ordered to keep an eye upon them, from actu a lly b oar di ng hi m, an d , as they had threatened, scuttling his vessel, made many half attempts at surprise, and pelted him with fish, offal, and every kind of violent insult. He had supplied him self with about 30 stand of arms, and begged hard of the Inspecting Commander of the Coast Guard for the loan of a crew of his men. I suggested that an old jacket or two in the rigging would answer every pur pose. I doubt which were the most afraid of each other, Mr. Sing or the Clatldagh fishermen. It put one irre sistibly in mind of the duel between Sir Andrew Ague cheek and Viola. Poor Mr. Sing, however, appe are d to live a sing u l ar lif e o f accumulating profit and con tinual apprehension. There is at the same time no question that these Clad dagh fishermen block the way to any improvement or progress among the fishermen of the coast generally. Banded together in an ancient community, they make laws in the most arbitrary spirit for the whole fishing population of these coasts, and enforce them in the most despotic and, occasionally, most violent manner. I have myself known the Clare men, when the bay Was full of mackerel, come humbly over from the opposite coast to ask whether they might fish the bay on the following day, and receive from these self-constituted despots a flat refusal, for no better reason than that they happened to be full of fish, and were 'afraid of the market being better supplied than suited their views of their own inte rests—a restriction of competition beyond the fabulous dreams that their opponents attributed to the most ultra- Protectionist. Had the others ventured to disregard the veto, they would certainly have had their gear cut to pieces, and probably found themselves beaten to death's door. The emigration of the whole tribe would be the best thing that could happen for the district. They are gradually, as a separate community, melting away or being absorbed ; but in the meantime the Government would do wisely were they to station a small steamer on the coast. The cutter of the coast guard had orders while I was there to protect the fishery ; but in calm weather, her restraint was comparatively inefficient.— Correspondent of the Morning Post. A BEAUTIFUL TRIBUTE, TO A WIFE.-Sir James mac kintosh, the historian, •Nas married in early life, before he attained fortune or fame, to Miss Catherine Stuart, a young Scotch lady, & , stinguished more for the excellences of her character Vsan for her personal charms. After eight years of hr.ppy wedded life, during which she became the mother of three children, she died. A few days after her death, - the bereaved husband wrote to a friend, depicting the character of his wife, in the following terms :—" I was guided in my choice only by thaiblind affection of youth. I found an intelli gent coir.panion and a tender friend—a prudent moni tress, tae most faithf u l o f w i ves, and a mother as tender as ch%tdren bad ever the misfortune to lose. I met a wo'.nan who, by the tender management of my weak r.esses, gradually corrected the most pernicious of them. She became prudent from affection ; and, though of the most generous nature, she was taught frugality economy by her love for me. Du r i ng th e most critical period of my life she preserved order in my affa'A.s, from the care of which she relieved me. She gently re claimed me from dissipation ; she urged my indolence to all the exertions that have been useful and creditable to me ; and she was perpetually at hand to admonish my heedless improvidence. To her i owe whatever lam ; to her whatever I shall be. In her solicitude for my in terests she never for a moment, forgot my feelings or my character. Even in her occas;.onal resentment, for which I but too often gave her cause (would to God I could re cal those moments !) she had no sullenness nor acri mony. Her feelings were warm and impetuous, but she was placable, tender, and constant. Such was she whom I lost, and I have lost her when her excellent natural sense was rapidly improving, after eight years of strug gle and distress had bound us fast together, and moulded our tempers to each other; when a knowledge o f h er worth had refined my youthful love into friendship, and before age had deprived it of much of its original ardour. I lost her, alas ! the choice of my youth, the partner of my misfortunes, at a moment when I a prospect or her*hartr. - Ag nay better days." • THURSDAY. Epsom, replete with the most exciting reminiscences of past racing seasons, has added largely to its reputa tion by the success- of this meeting. When first con ceived the project had to encounter strong prejudices, and objections were raised on all sides, The undis couraged spirit of enterprise which animated Messrs. Beeton and Dorling to increased exertions, and the warm liberality with which the licensed victuallers of the metropolis substantially aided them in obtaining the means and appliances, have now permanently estab lished the meeting in popularity. Dark lowering clouds had occasioned uneasy doubts respecting the weather, but before noon they cleared off. and the sun shone forth with power and brilliancy. Special trains were, dispatched in quick succession from London-bridge station, and were well filled. The arrangements for the safe and expeditious conveyance of visitors were complete, and were carefully carried out. The high fares, however, produced much grumbling and dissatisfaction. • The grand stand and betting inclosure were very nu merously attended, the company comprising the prin cipal professional speculators and high-born patrons of the turf. Each side of the running ground was thickly thronged, but the display of vehicles was neither numerous nor gay. The varied programme promised ample sport, and the expectations which it excited were most pleasantly rea lised. The proceedings commenced at 1 o'clock with the Trial Stakes, to which, on this occasion, unwon t e d interest attached. The entry included the names of Frantic, Bird-on-the-Wing, Ephesus, Weathergage, and Hobbie Noble ; a n d th e mee ti ng o f th ess turf celebrities was eagerly anticipated. The withdrawal of Weather gage, however, occasioned considerable disappointment; still the race was regarded as one of peculiar importance. Hobbie Noble, the favourite, figured somewhat inglori ously; never once showin g in front. The City and Suburb an Handicap brought out a strong field, and produced an exciting contest. Ethelbert and Pancake ran a dead heat—an event of rare occurrence in such a race. It imparted additional and unexpected interest to the proceedings. In accordance with custom, the deciding heat was not run until after the other stakes had been disposed of. oto 4 was betted on Ethelbert for the second encounter, and he fully justified the par tiality of his supporters. He waited upon Pancake until near the stand, when he challenged, and, after a most interesting set-to, he beat her by a short head ; thus establishing indisputably the correctness of the running in the first instance. Twenty-one horses started for the Metropolitan Stakes. The winner, Gadabout, was only introduced into the betting on Saturday last, but so numerous were the in vestments on her that she quickly advanced to a promi nent position amongst the favourites. At Tattersall's on Monday, and at Croxton Park on the following day, the outlay was something considerable. Although a strong prejudice existed against Contentment on Wed nesday, he remained first favourite to the close of the betting. His defeat occasioned great disappointment. By the appended details it will be seen that, in the aggregate, the number of competitors for the various stakes was, for the Spring Meeting, unprecedently large. The business was most efficiently conducted. Mr. Dor ling, the clerk of the course, being, as usual, assisted by the experienced race officials--Mr. James Manning, clerk of the scales, Mr. Hibburd, the starter, and Mr. J. F. Clark, judge. EPSOM TRIAL STAKES of 5 says. each, with 50 added ; for 3-yr-olds and upwards ' • mares allowed 51b ; geld ings, 31b. O ne m il e . (12 subs.) Mr. Howard's Lascelles, 3 yrs, 6st 121 b (Wells) 1 Capt. Lane's Ephesus, 5 yrs, 9st .....(Bartholomew) 2 Mr. Greville's Frantic, 4 yrs, Bst 71b (Flatman) 3 The following also ran :—The Secretary, Polly, Bird on-the-Wing, Cassique, Miss Delamere, b g by Don John out of Cara, and Hobbie Noble. Betting-6 to 4 agst Hobbie Noble, 2 to 1 agst Frantic, 3 to 1 agst Ephesus, 8 to 1 agst Lascelles (taken only to a little money). A fine race with the three placed ' • won by half a length, a neck betw e en se con d an d thi r d. Hobbie Noble, beaten off, was fourth. CITY AND SUBURBAN HANDICAP of 15 BOW each, 'lO ft, and only 5 if declared, with a bonus of 150 sovs added ; the owner of the second horse to receive 25 sovs. out of the stakes. Winners extra. Mile and a quarter. (81 subs, 23 of whom declared.) Mr. Oliver's Ethelbert, 3yrs, sst 131 b (Wells) 0 1 Mr. Rogers's Pancake, 4yrs, sst 21b (Steggles) 0 2 M. Lupin's Jouvence, 3yrs, 4st 121 b (carried sst 51b) (T. Sherwood) 3 The following also ran :—Longbow, Prime Minister, Conmore, Glenluce, Evadne, Convulsion, Allegro, Calcot, St. George, Jack Leeming, Surprise, Charley, Stam ford, Ida, Madam Landeau, The V arm i n t, S narry , Jullien, Appleton, Miss Emma, Little David, and Sister to Singapore. Betting-2 to 1 agst Ethelbert, 7to 2 agst Long bow, 5 to 1 agst Pancake, 10 to 1 each agst Jouvence and Madame Landeau, 12 to 1 agst Varmint. A straggling start. Stamford jumped off with the lead but after the first hundred yards was deprived of it by Calcot, who carried on the running to the mile post. Little David, Jouvence, and Jack Leeming then went in advance with the favourite, and Pan cake in close attendance. At Tattenham Cor ner Little David and Jack Leeming dropped off, and the favourite and Jouvence went on together, followed by Pancake. At the Stand, Pancake beat Jouvence and challenged Ethelbert, in the last stride reached him, and the struggle ended in a dead heat. Jouvence was a length and a half behind him. The "others scattered. Deciding heat.-6 to 4on Ethelbert, who waited on Pancake to the Stand, where he began to gain upon her, caught her when close at home, and beat her by a short head. Two-YEAR-OLD STAKES of 10 sovs. each, with 50 added ; colts, Bst Gibs : fillies, Bst 4lbs. Half-a-mile. (11 subs.) Mr. Gullivar's Village Lass, Bst 41b (Crickmcre) 1 Mr. Y. King's Mouser (late Ellen) Bst 41b (Charlton) 2 The following also ran :—Ch c by Napier, Nightshade, Pollard, Epaminodas, Spinaway, Himalaya, Winkfield, Citizen. Betting— 2 to 1 agst Spinaway, 7 to 2 agst Nightshade, 4 to 1 agst Mouser, 4to 1 agst Himalaya, 5 to 1 agst Epaminondas. Village Lass made the running through out, and won very cleverly by a length and a half. Nightshade was third, and Spinaway fourth. GREAT METROPOLITAN STAKES (HANDICAP) of 25 SOVB. each, 15 ft, and only 5 if declared, with a bonus of 350 sovs. ; the owner of the second horse to receive 50 sovs, out of the Stakes ; winners extra. Metro politan Stakes Course, two miles and a quarter. (12G subs., 62 of whom declared.) Sir C. Monck's Gadabout, 3 yrs, sst 71b ....(Carroll) 1 Mr. C. Peck's Richmond, 4 yrs, sst 91b ...(Ashmall) 2 Mr. J. M. Stanley's Contentment, 3 yrs, 4st 71b (Fordham) 3 The following also ran : Cariboo, Candlewick, Miss May, Terpsichore, Allegro, Defiance, Exact, Abdallah, Madeline, Pug Orrock, Happy Joe, Snowdon D un hill, Ireland's Eye, Peggy, Psaltery, Pantomime, Deerhound, Tobolski. Betting-5 to 4 agst Contentment, Bto 1 each agst Gadabout, Snowdon Dunhill, and Ireland's Eye, 10 to 1 agst Pug Orrock, 20 to 1 each agst Richmond, Deer hound, and Terpsichore. A good start. Snowdon Dun bill immediately went to the front and made strong run ning, Pug Orrock and Gadabout being alternately second and third until they passed the Old Mile Post ; the for mer then gave way, and Deerhound, Richmond, and Defiance took close order in the wake of Gadabout, now second. At Tattenham Corner the favourite, who had been lying seventh or eighth, began to draw forward. Snowdon Dunhill maintained the lead to the road, where lie was beaten. Richmond then went on closely attended by Gadabout and Contentment ; the latter was beaten on reaching the Stand. Gadabout caught Richmond in admirable style, and at last defeated him by three-quar ters of a length. Half a length between the second and third. Defiance, beaten off, was fourth. SELLING STAKES of 3 sous. each, with 50 added; optional selling weights. New T.Y.C. Three-quarters of a mile. (16 subs.) Mr. Darling's, jun., Puritan, 4 yrs (80/.), Bst 71b _ (Marlow) 1 Mr. T. Fryer's Shipwreck, 3 yrs (301.) 75t...(Ha11) 2 The following also ran :—Palma filly, Batty Darling, Sabra, Wedlock filly, The Varmint, Lady Isabel, Uncle Sam, the Violet, Polly Burns, General Gilbert, Sweet heart, Merriment. Betting-5 to 4 agst Puritan, sto 1 agst Shipwreck, 6to 1 agst Polly Burns. Puritan led to the distance, whore Shipwreck went ahead, but in the last five or six strides Puritan caught him, and, he was beaten on the post by a head. Polly Burns a bad third. The winner was afterwards bought in for 180/. RAILWAY PLATE of 50 sovs. (handicap), for all ages. New T.Y.C. Three-quarters of a mile. Mr. Y. King's Narcissus, 6 yrs, Bst (Charlton) 1 Mr. Gulliver's Chilton, 3 yrs, 6st 41b (Wells) 2 Mr. Barling's *Union Jack, 4 yrs, 6st 21b...(Jaggert) 3 LATEST BETTING. TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS. sto 2 agst West Australian. CHESTER CUP. 16 to 1 agst Richmond (taken). DERBY. 9to 1 agst West Australian (offered). 10 to 1 agst Honeywood (taken). 14 to 1 agst Pharos (taken). 16 tcl 1 agst Umbriel (taken). 50Q even on Orestes agst Honeywood (taken). IFAMILIARITT AND TAMENESS OF THE RED-BREAST.— T.a the last number of Kidd's Journal of Natural History, are some very interesting anecdotes of the robin, contributed from many sources. In addition, the editor records a very pleasing as well as curious fact connected with a pair of these tame birds now "sitting" in his own greenhouse. After detailing their many pretty attractions, the editor adds :—" This same pair of robins, about which our pen has been so often eloquent, are now 'sitting.' They have built their nest on a shelf in the greenhouse, close to the dwelling heuse. It is in one corner, based on an old japanne dressing-box, over which a pair of garden shears, in an upright position, are carelessly placed. Between the handles, is the place of entrance and exit. It was as good as a play to watch the construction of that nest, and see the large mouthfuls of dead leaves, hay, and hair, that were carried in. Wo were invited to look, and we did look ; and no doubt we shall see, as we have before seen, the exodus of the 'happy family' when fledged. Our wrens, dunnocks, and thrushes are all equally tame ; and we look daily for the nightingales and blackcaps to complete the ' band' that always sojourns with us in spring and summer. If we could only prevail upon our neighbours to lay aside their mur derous guns, -who could be more happy than we and our ' little farailiee I"' MURD. ►ER AT SHEFFIELD. The town of Sheffield haTof late obtained an unenvi able notoriety from the commission of deeds of bloodshed and publichouse quarrels. So recently as Easter Tues day another young man feel a victim to an outrageous affray in a publichouse at Catcliffe, and the perpetrator is now lying in York Castle awaiting his trial. The present case originated in an affray in a publichouse on Sunday evening, the 6th of March, about half-past 11 o'clock. The deceased, Joseph Leadbeater, a tableknife cutter, residing in Dunfields, William Turner, a saw handle maker, of 27, Radford-street, and a man named Timperley were at the Crown Inn, Scotland-street, drink ing in the tap-room, at the time some Irishmen were drinking in the bar. One of the Irishmen broke a pane of glass in the bar window, and they refused to pay for it. In endeavouring to force their way out of the house the landlord and another of the Irishmen broke two other panes. The noise attracted from the taproom the deceased, and Turner and Timperley, and then one of the Irishmen impudently charged Lead beater with having broken one of the first panes. A watchman was sent for, and, rather than be given into custody, they paid for the broken panes, and went away threatening it should be a " bad job " for the landlord. A few minutes afterwards Turner and the deceased and Timperley went together up Scotland-streot, and, when opposite Scotland-street chapel, the three Irishmen rushed out of Cannon-yard and felled Turner and the deceased with brickbats. The decealed received a frac tured skull, and was immediately removed to the Shef field Infirmary, where he died on the following Sunday, leaving a wife and three children. Turner received a large wound the whole depth of the forehead, another on the right eyebrow, and a third just above the right angle of the mouth, the missile penetrating through the flesh, and knocking out a tooth from the upper jaw. He was so far convalescent as to be able to appear at the adjourned inquest on Wednesday week. No new light, however, was thrown upon the case by him, for to him, like the -rest, the Irishmen were unknown. After the Irishmen had left Crown Inn a watchman, named Else, heard one of them say he would "give it that d-- d Englishmen, if he had him in the dark." The Coroner (Mr. T. Badger) stated that he had learnt the names of the three - Irish men ; they were,—John Fitzgerald, John Dermoty, and Jem Nolan, alias M'Quin, or " Big Jem." They were all masons' labourers, and, he understood, had been working for some time past at the Sheffield new barracks. An Irishman named John Ferrock, a gardener, living at Hill-foot, stated that Fitzgerald was his son-in-law, but he was so designedly stupid in giving his evidence, that the coroner more than once threatened to give him into cus tody. He knew nothing about the "accident," as he per sisted in calling it. After much cross-questioning, how ever, he admitted that all the three men were drinking together at his house on the evening when this outrage occurred, in honour of the christening of Fitzgerald 's child, and that they left between nine and ten o'clock. A few days after the " accident" Fitzgerald and Der moty disappeared, he knew not where, but he believed it was to get out of the way, owing to this " job." Fitz gerald lodged with Dermoty, near to him, and " Big Jem" at Owlerton-bridge. The inquest was concluded on Wednesday evening last, when the jury returned a verdict of " Wilful murder" against some person or per sons unknown. The jury requested the coroner to com municate with the Secretary of State (Lord Palmerston), to solicit a reward for the apprehension of the guilty per sons, and the granting of a free pardon to any person not the actual perpetrator of the deed. NUMBER OF PERSONS EMPLOYED ON RAILWAYS. It appears from a return - just issued that the number of persons employed on railways in England and Wales at the end'of June, 1852, on 5,4331 miles open for traf fic, having 1,790 stations, was 55,331 ; and for the cor responding period of 1851, OR 5,200 miles of railway, having 1,669 stations, was 51,979 persons, showing an increase of 3,352 persons, 233 miles, and 171 stations. The number of persons employed on railways in Scot land at the above date on 961 g miles of railways open for traffic, having 311 stations, was 8,271 ; and in June, 1851, on 960/ miles of railway, having 304 stations, 8,107, showing an increase of 164 persons and 7 stations. The number of persons employed on rail nwnay6sBoogpemnilfeosr n t f ra r ffi ai c lw in ay l , r h e a la v n in d g a l t 6 t 2 h s e tn en ti d nn o s f , J w u a5 ne 3 1 ,6 85 6 2 9 , ; and at the same p er i o d in 1851, on 5371 miles of railway and 134 stations, was 3,477, showing an increase of 522 persons, 43 miles, and 18 stations. The total number of persons employed on 7,0751 miles of railway, open for traffic in the United Kingdom, having 2,253 sta tions, was 67,601 ; and in June, 1851, on 6,6981 miles of railway, and 2,107 stations, was 63,563, showing an increase of 2,778 miles in the length open, 146 in the number of stations, and 4,038 in number of per sons employed. At the end of June, 1852, the number of secretaries, or managers, employed on railways open for traffic was 176, of treasurers 30, engineers 138, superintendents 317, storekeepers 131, accountants of cashiers 146, inspectors or timekeeper 654, station masters 1,704, draughtsmen 119, clerks 5,418, foremen 865, engine -drivers 2,397, assistant engine-driver or firemen 2,460, guards or breaksmen 2,257, artificers 13,878, switchmen 1,605, gatekeepers 2,088, policemen or watchmen 1,567, porters or messengers 10,434, plate laters 4,909, labourers 13,682, miscellaneous employment 2, 626-total, as above, 67,601. The average number of persons employed per mile was 9.55, and per station 30. The number of persons employed on railways -not open for baffle in England and Wales at the end of June, 1852, was 25,393, the length of line in course of construction was 575 miles, and neither open nor in course of construction 2,7021 miles, making the length of line authorised but not open at the end of June, 1852, 3,2771 miles. The number of persons em ployed on railways in Scotland not open at that date was 128, the length of line in course of construction 231 miles, and neither open nor in course of construction 6961 miles, making the total length authorised but not open 7204 miles. The number of persons employed on railways not open in Ireland was 10,414, the length of line in course of construction was 1394 miles, and neither open nor in course of construction 6711 miles, making the length authorised but not open 810/ miles. The total number of persons employed on railways not open in the United Kingdom at the end of June, 1852, was 35,935, being 7,003 less than at the end of June, 1851 ; length of line in course of construction 7384 miles, and neither open nor in course of construc tion 4,0701, making the total length authorised but not open at the end of June, 1852, 4,8084 miles, being 4511 miles less than in June, 1851. The total number of per sons employed on 8,6471 miles of railway authorised in England and Wales at the end of June, 1852, was 80,724, being 112 persons more than at the end of June, 1851. The number of persons employed on 1,6814 miles of railway authorised in Scotland was 8,399, being 403 persons less than at the end of June, 1851. The number of persons employed on 1,491 miles of railway in Ireland was 14,413, being 2,674 per sons less than at the end of June, 1851. The total num ber of persons employed on 11,821 miles of railway at the end of June, 1852, authorised in the United Kingdom, was 103,536, and at the end of June, 1851 106,501, showing a decrease in the number of persons employed of 2,965. The length of line authorised at the end of June, 1851, was 11,959 miles, and at the end of June, 1852, 11,821 miles, showing that the powers for merly granted for the construction of lines had been re pealed so as to reduce by 138 miles the aggregate length of railway authorised in the United Kingdom. At the end of June, 1852, 7,0751 miles were open for traffic, 738 miles in course of const ruc ti on , an d 4 , 007 m il es i n abeyance, making the total authorised as above, 11,826 miles. RAILROADS IN SWITZERLAND.—It has been stated by electric telegraph from Berlin, that the King of Prussia had caused a note to be communicated to the Federal Council of Switzerland, relative to railroads in the canton of Neufchatel. We now give the note tex tually :—" Up to the present time the establishment of railroads in the principality of Neufchatel has been abandoned to private enterprise. But if the demand for a public guarantee which has been made should be renewed, it would be very important to the parties interested to know what is the opinion of the Royal Government on this subject. The opinion is governed by circumstances. The Royal Government does not intend at this moment to explain itself as to the advantages to be obtained from a railroad running through the principality, either as regards the choice of the direction, or as regards railroads in general. But as the Royal Government does not recognise in the men who have now the power de facto in the principality of Neufchatel, the right of burdening the country with guarantees of interest, or other obligations of that na ture, the resolution of his Majesty the King, after the re-establishment of legal order, will not depend on what the present Government of Neufchatel may have done or ordained without right on this subject, but solely on considerations of general interest."—Galigaani. WEST FLANDERS RAILWAY.—The report of the di rectors to the proprietors at the general meeting to be held in London on Wadnesday, states :—"ln the preceding report your directors felt fully justified, by the then advanced state of the works between Courtrai and Wervicq, in anticipating the opening of that portion of the line for traffic by the end of December. The causes which delayed that event until the 15th of January have been stated by the Directeur Grant, and were beyond the influence of his zeal and activity, as well as the exertions of the engineer. The progress now making between Wervicq and Ypres is as satisfactory as the unusual difficulties occasioned by the state of the weather will allow, whilst your directors look forward with con fidence to the future progress of the works. The receipts for the four months from September to December amount to 5,2891. 19s. 2d. ; the expenditure during the same period to 3,4861. 17s. 7d. ; leaving a balance of profit of 1,8031. Os. 2d., which will enable the directors to declare a dividend of is. 3d. per share, and to carry forward a balance to the next account of 1941. 13s. lid. A resolution for the payment of that sum will be brought forward at the general meeting to be held at Bruges on the 19th instant ; and provided a sufficient amount of stock be then present, either personally or by proxy, to constitute a meeting, the payment s w ill b e made at the office on and after ie sth of May in respect of all registered shares, and on the presentation of shares To Bearer.'" [ADVERTISEMENT.]—HoIIoway's Ointment and Pills singularly effective in Cu r i ng a Di sease d A n kl e , and preventing a Whit e S we lli ng. —E xtract o f a l e tt er from Mr. Hicks, druggist, Lerwick, dated March 12, 1853 : —`: To Professor Holloway. Sir,—l have the pleasure to inform you that your medicines have been eminently successful here in the cure of various diseases, among which is that of a young woman, residing in this town, who had suffered for a considerable time from a diseased ankle, producing lameness, and symptoms of white swelling. After every other remedy had failed to be of any benefit, your ointment and pills %vere made use of, and they have been the means of effecting a perfect cure." —Sold by all druggists,. and at Professor Holloway,'s Establishment, 244, Strand, London, CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT-April 7. OLD COURT. (Before Mr. Justice Erle.) MURDER. .Thomas Mackett, 30, described as a labourer, who was remanded from the last sessions, was indioted for the wilful murder of Eliza Lee. Mr. Bodkin conducted the prosecution, and Mr. Parry appeared for the prisoner. The facts of the case are already familiar to the public. The prisoner is by business a mason, and it appeared that he and the young woman with whose murder he was accused, had lived together as man and wife. He , subsequently married another woman, and seemed anxi ous to break off the first connection he had formed. The murder of the deceased was said to have been caused by his thrusting her into the Regent's Canal at a late hour on the night of the 31st of January last. The prisoner is a strongly-built man, of rather tall stature. He was dressed in a white flannel jacket, and listened to the opening address of counsel and the evidence with great attention, exhibiting every now and then considerable restless anxiety. Mr. Bodkin, having stated at some length the facts of the case, proceeded to call the following evidence. Wm. Lee, a lablurin„e• man, said he was the father of Eliza Lee, the deceased. He last saw her alive on Monday, the 31st of January, at half-past seven in the morning. He knew the prisoner well. He and his daughter had lived on intimate terms, but they had been separated five or six months. He saw the body of his daughter about half-past twelve on Monday night. On 1 the Monday and the Sunday she was in her best health and spirits. Cross-examined by Mr. Parry. She was a girl who enjoyed a good flow of spirits. She used to come and dine with him every Sunday. Witness's wife gave her on Monday morning a half-sovereign to get some things out of pawn which had been pledged by her and the de ceased in the Tottenham-court-road. He could not say that his daughter had ever been tipsy ; she used some times to take a little when she went out marketing. Eliza Lee, the mother, said the deceased and the pH , soner have lived together five or six years. She slept 'at my house on Sunday night, and I last saw her on Monday morning at half-past nine, when she left my house. I gave her the half-sovereign to redeem some blue merino and to buy some lining and trimming, in order to make it up for my youngest child. I never saw her alive again. I saw her dead body at St. Pancras workhouse. She got her living by going out to work and by ironing. The article produced is similar to that which was pledged ; it had been in pawn about eleven months. Cross-examined—l have never seen my daughter in toxicated. She was very spirited, and was subject to hysterics ; they were crying hysterics. She was full of, spirits and life. She was always happy, poor thing. When she left she said she would be back in half-an hour, if she was not detained in the shop. Re-examined—The merino was pawned for 3s. Sarah Hermitage examined—My husband is a labourer; he is an acquaintance of the prisoner. The prisoner is a mason's labourer. I knew him when he and the deceased lived together. I saw the deceased last on Monday, the 31st January, in the Hampstead road about half-past 11 in the morning. She was alone and carried a parcel. She showed me the contents of the parcel. In consequence of something she said to me about the prisoner, I went with her to Kensington. We did not see him there ; we then went to Margaret street, Oxford-street, where he was at work. We then saw him. Some conversation passed between him and the deceased ; but I did not hear it. He then came out with a basket under his arm, and went with us to a public-house close by. He called for a pint of beer. At that house he told Eliza that he was married. She said she did not believe it. He said, " I am, so help me God." She observed she would not believe it unless he showed her the certificate. We then proceeded to another public-house in the New-road. We had there another pint of porter, for which the deceased paid. We next went to the Southampton Arms in the same road, and had some gin. We left there at half-past seven, and went to my lodgings in Pratt street. My husband came in about ten minutes past nine. We there had some beer and tea. The deceased was very cheerful throughout the whole day. I did not notice any change in her manner after he told her he was married. At my lodgings .the deceased said, " Let us have a song." My husband objected as it was getting late, but she said she would sing, and she did so. They left my house about a quarter past ten. She took the parcel with her. The prisoner also carried away his basket. Cross-examined—They were on the best terms when they went away at a quarter past ten. I had known the prisoner and the deceased six or seven years. The song she sang at my lodgings was a sentimental one— "As I Wandered by the Brook." It was a foggy dark night when they left—you could hardly see your hand before you. Knew the deceased occasionally got intoxi cated. Henry Kempson examined—My father keeps the Vic toria public-house in the Mornington-road, Camden town. I recollect seeing the prisoner and a female com ing to the bar, and having a quartern of gin to drink about half-past 10 on the Monday night. I had seen both the women and the prisoner before. I believe they were sober. On the same night between 12 and 1, I saw the dead body of a female at the Regalia public house. I believe it was the body of the woman whom I had seen shortly before at our bar. Henry Wilson, pianoforte maker, said he lived on the banks of the canal, and that, on the night in question, he had occasion to go into the garden, at the bottom of which the canal was, about 11 o'clock. Ho there heard a kind of gurgling sound, as if some ono was in the water, and immediately afterwards the feet of a man coming rapidly up the passage which led down to the canal. He appeared to be running fast. The man had on a flannel jacket and trousers, and bad a basket with him. He appeared to be about 5 feet 8 inches. The man said, I think there is a woman thrown herself into the water. Mr. Woolf, the landlord of the Regalia public-house came up and asked the man to go and assist. He said he would, and afterwards witness heard a noise as of several splashes in the water. Mr. Woolf went for a light, and witnem waited at the water's edge. The man, who he believed to be the prisoner, did not return with Mr. Woolf, and from something he said he went in search of the Prisoner, and followed him down Augusta-street, towards Cumberland-market, where he met a police constable, and they both returned together to the canal, and soon after the body of the deceased was taken out on the opposite side of the canal by means of a rope with a stone fastened to it, the body was then taken to the Regalia public-house. Police-constable Percival, 116 S, deposed to seeing a man, which he believed to be the prisoner, passing him at the corner of Augustus-street, about 11 o'clock of the night of the 31st of January. The man was dressed in a flannel jacket and trousers, and was coming from the direction of the canal. Charles Bow, 383 S, deposed that in consequence of information he received he went to Eccleston-buildings on the Tuesday morning, where he found the prisoner i• • ving ; a woman w as sitting in the room with him, whom he represented to witness as his wife, to whom he had been married about a week before. Witness asked him if he knew and had been with a girl named Lee the night before, when the prisoner admitted he had, and asked where she was. Witness said she is now in St. Pancras Workhouse and dead, and you are charged with causing her death by throwing her into the canal. When he told the prisoner the woman was dead the prisoner dropped his head and appeared desponding, and after taking him into custody the prisoner bristled up,!'and said he would soon be able to clear himself. Cross-examined- —There was no difficulty in finding the prisoner. Did not tell him the charge against him when he first spoke to him, but told him he was wanted to erect a scaffold for Mr. Norris, his master. A duplicate was afterwards found of a dress being pawned in East street, Marylebone. Alfred George Gunn, pawnbroker's assistant, proved the pawning of the dress and other articles produced by the female whom the prisoner had stated to be his wife, and which had been identified by the previous wit nesses as being the same dress which the deceased was sent by her mother to take out of pledge on the Monday morning, and the same as shown by the deceased to the witness Hermitage, who accompanied her to find the prisoner on the Monday. Mr. Johnson, surgeon, deposed to being called in to to see the deceased on the night of the 31st of January. She was quite dead at the time he made an examination of her person, but found no appearance of bruises. The post vzortem examination did not account for death ex cept from drowning: Several other witnesses were called. At the close of the case for the prosecution, Mr. Parry addressed the jury for the prisoner. Mr. Ju3tice Erle having summed up the case, the jury deliberated for a short time in the box, and then ex pressed a wish to retire. The jury left the court a little before four o'clock, and remained in deliberation until half-past eight, when it was announced that one of the jurymen was dangerously ill. A surgeon was sent for, and shortly afterwards a communication was ma d e t o thei learned judge, and the jury were brought into court. Mr. Justice Erle inquired if they had agreed upon their verdict, and they said they had not, and there was no probability of their doing so. Mr. Olding was then sw•rn. He deposed that he was a surgeon. He had seen one of the jurymen, and he believed that he was in a dangerous state of illness, and that further confinement without sustenance might en- dancer his life. The learned Judge then addressed the jury, and said that under those circumstances they would be discharged without giving a verdict. The prisoner was ordered to be detained, and he will be tried for the offence by another jury. EXTRAORDINARY MARRIAGE.—Another of those ex which we reported about twelv e traordinary marriages , months ago, has again taken place—namely, the mar f two deaf and dumb mutes, Thomas Omaley and riag e 13- The marriage was celebrated in Catherine M Kean. parish church of Ardtrea, on the 29 th ultimo, by th e the: v Mr. Jones, curate of that parish. Mr. Whitaker acted as interpreter. Oinaley was educated at Claremont, near Dublin, is a native of the county Mayo, and served his time in Moneymore to the tailoring business —which he gave up, and joined Miss Wright's school, for the education of the deaf, dumb, and the blind. Being an ex pert fellow, he soon learned to be an excellent carver in wood. So clever did he become at the busines s , that when the teacher whom M iss W r i ght had 'employed to teach the others had left, he was fit to take his place and to teach the others. Catherine was brought up in Moneymore, and was e d ucated at the same school. She ir alro very clever at the carving work, and not only at this, but is also an exce ll ent hand It any ' kind of needle work, either plain or fancy. They are able to earn from 12s. to 15s. weekly. They can both read and Write well,-,,D41124 Promo. r ` ~~ IW~ t i 4(.k.", , '..'":•:::).',,,,',`,<:Tt- :::;, • ~., - !.'.4' : , ..;...'-l. \.1. : \,.,.. NI. R § THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 8, 1853, EPSOM SPRING MEETING. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. It is reported that the vacant promotion to the rank of captain has been given to Commander Thomas Chal oner (1845). Captain Chaloner is known as a good, humane, and efficient officer. His last service was in command of the Siren, 16, on the co as t o f Af r i ca, when he was senior offi cer f a division. It is stated that Captain Williams Sandom (1828) is to succeed' Rear-Admiral Rich as superintendent of the Royal Naval Hospital and the Royal William Victual ling Yard. Captain Sandom's last employment was in command on the lakes of Canada. • Rear-Admiral Corry re-hoisted his flag yesterday in the Prince Regent, 90, in Plymouth Sound, and took the sea-going ships there under his command. He is under orders to proceed on a cruise with a squadron, composed of his flag-ship, the Prince Regent, 90, Capt. Hutton ; Vengeance, 84, Lord Edward Russell ; Leo pard, 16, steam-frigate, Captain Gifford ; Valorous, 16, steam-frigate, Captain Buckle; Vulture, 6, steam-frigate, Captain Glasse ; Magicienne, 16, steam-frigate, Captain Fisher. The Queen, 116, Captain Mitchell, was not ready to receive the flag as intended, and cannot go to sea, being nearly 400 short of complement. PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 7. The Arrogant, 46, screw-frigate, Captain Fremantle, and the Sidon, 22, paddle-frigate, Captain Goldsmith, returned to Spithead to day from Plymouth ; and the Basilisk, new paddle-sloop, 6, Commander the Hon. F. Egerton, from Glasgow, to complete for foreign service. Low water was selected to bring her into harbour, and she took the ground and held fast when off the King's rooms, and remains a fixture at the time of writing, a subject for the jeers and jokes of hundreds of seamen, watermen, and others. Sir Thomas Cochrane, Commander-in chief, Rear-Ad miral Fanshawe, and a party of other official personages embarked on board the steam -vessel Sprightly, Mr. Geo. Allen, acting master, commanding, this morning, and proceeded to Sconce Point to inspec:l the new battery erecting there. They returned in the evening. The following young officers (midshipmen, R.N.) passed examinations in seamanship; qualifying for the rank of lieutenant, on board her Majesty's ship Victory, yester day :—Mr. Keith Stewart, of her Majesty's ship Blen heim ; Mr. James H. Whitehead, of her Majesty's ship Victory; and Mr. George W. Strong, of her Majesty's ship Hogue. SHEERNESS, APRIL 7. The Barracouta, 6, paddle-wheel steam-sloop, Com mander George Parker, is ordered to proceed to the Nore, where the crew will be paid advance on Saturday next. Her destination is not known at present. The Amphion, 34, screw rsteam-frigate, Capt. Charles G. E. Patey, has made a trial trip down the Swin, and is reported upon most favourably. Her engines work admirably, and she bids fair to stand without a rival as a steam-frigate of her class. She has taken in her powder, shell, &c., and was inspected yesterday by Vice-Admiral the Hon. Josceline Percy, Commander-in -chief. The crew were put through their gun exercise, &c., and proved to be fully efficient. Captain Patey and the officers were highly complimented by the gallant admiral for the dis cipline and skill of the crew. The Amphion saluted the Admiral, which was returned by the Waterloo, 120, flag ship. The Amphion is now rea dy for immediate ser vice, having her full complement of men, ammunition, and stores on board. She will take from here as smart a ship's crew as we have seen for some time pas —many from the Phaeton, Castor, &c. She has had all her weather and main deck guns covered with a chemical preparation of black lead, which gives them the appear ance of being highly polished, and is reputed to be im pervious to salt water or any weather. Her compasses have been adjusted. The Imp6rieuse, 60, screw steam frigate, Captain Run dle B. Watson, C. 8., is to proceed to the Nore forth with. The crew will be paid in advance, and she is ordered to sail on Saturday next for Portsmouth. We were erroneously informed as to her deficiency of sea men ; it is certain that she is not 80 seamen short. Captain Watson has one-half of his crew of blue jackets composed of man-of-war's men, all of whom are thoroughly efficient in gunnery and gun exercise, the remainder of the crew being principally seamen volunteers from the merchant's service, who only require to be taught their gun exercise to qualify them for their present position in the service. It is gratifying to state that only seven men have run from their ship during the time she has been fitting, and, if report be true, they are not worth finding. Her compasses have been adjusted. The crew of the Horatio, 24, screw steam guard ship, Captain the Hon. S. T. Carnegie, are at daily exercise in gunnery, and aloft reefing, and furling sails, &c. WOOLWICH, APRIL 7. The Spiteful, 6, paddlewheel steam-sloop, of 280 horse power, arrived here yesterday, having been brought round from Devonport by the master-attendant and riggers of that dockyard, to have some defects in her machinery made good. Mr. Taplin, second assistant to the chief engineer, went on board the Spiteful in the forenoon, and she made a short run down the river to enable him to report on the state of her engines. The Medina, the Medusa, and the Jackall steam ves sels were taken out of the basin yesterday, and towed by the Monkey steam-vessel to moorings in the river, as it is intended to commence operations to-morrow for clear ing out the mud in the basin by means of bucket ma chines, preparatory to its being made ready to receive the Royal Albert, 131, screw steam-ship, on that vessel being launched in the course of the present year. PLYMOUTH; THURSDAY. COURT-MARTlAL.—Yesterday morning a court-martial was held on board the Impregnable, flag-ship at this port, to try John Newt, a serjeant of the Plymouth di vision of Royal Marines, serving on board the Queen, for paying, on Jan. 31, 1853, the sum of 3s. 6d. to James Rowe, a private marine, serving on board the Queen, as part of a sum of money he, by an improper arrange. ment, had agreed to pay to Rowe out of the strag gling money he (Newt) would • be entitled to for capturing him as a straggler, if Rowe remained long enough on shore ; and for paying to John Rogers, a private marine, serving on board the same ship, 3s. 6d. under the same circumstances. The Court having heard the evidence for the prosecution and the defence, consi dered the charges proved against the.prisoner 2 and sen tenced him to be reduced to a private, and mulcted of all pay due to him and time of servitude. CHATHAM.—The launching of the after part of the frame of the Orion, 80 guns, building at Chatham-y ar d, took place at 10 a.m. on Tuesday. The whole of the arrangements were very judiciously managed, and the launch was admirable, giving every satisfaction to all present. After they had started it about 10 feet, she was allowed to be brought up by the tackles again, and then finally allowed to slide gently to the distance, which was 24 feet. She is also to be lengthened forward four feet, and the after part 12 feet ; consequently she will, on being completed, be in length, f rom th e fi gure -head to taffrail, 274 feet, and the difference in her length between the perpendiculars will be 40 feet, and the keel for ton nage will be an addition of 391- feet. By this alteration the ship is to carry 90 guns, with an engine of 600-horse power. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. CUSTOM-HOUSE APRIL 7. ENTERED INWARDS. The Albion, for Boulogne ; Tjakma, Seville ,• Hendrick Hudson, New York;. Moselle, Rotterdam ; M`Donnell, Cochin ; Fame, Calais ; Charm, Seville; Adolf, Torrevechcia; Lucie, Emden; Wilhelmina, Groningen ; Anna Catherine, ditto ; Ocean Queen, New York ; Antwerpen, Antwerp ; Earl of Auckland, Rotter dam ; Margaretha, Leer ; Henta, ENTERED OUTWARDS FOR LOADING.—The Tiger, for Hamburgh ; Kingsfisher, ditto ; Rowallan, Melbourne ; Hendrick, New York; Albion, Rotterdam ; Welcome, do.; Rhine, Tweelingen, Amsterdam ; Noultan, S an Fran cisco ; Hindoo, Calcutta ; Mary Henzie, Madras ; Naom ite, Melbourne ; Railway, Madeira ' • Albion, Boulogne ; Soho, Havro ; Columbine, Cape of Good Hope ; Gertrude Lammechina, Elsinore and Riga ; Scotia, Amsterdam ; Champion, Belize and Honduras ; Urania, Valparaiso ; Earl of Auckland, Rotterdam. CLEARED OUTWARDS WITH CARGO.—The Salva,dore, for Memel ; Cammorn Packet, Stettin ; Guda, Hobart Town ; Celestial, Madras ' • Alecto, Hamburgh ' • Watchful, Rotterdam, Dunkirk Philip ; Mandarin, Adelaide ; City of , Dunkirk ; City of Paris, Boulogne ; Three z Mon treal ; Ipswich, Cape of Good Hope ; F idenitsonstan tinople, &c. LI VERPOOL--Arun. 7. A boat, bottom up, about 18 feet long, and painted red, was passed April 5, off Holyhead, by the Cynosare, arrived here. The Fidget, which sailed on the 4th inst. for Nassau, has put back. I ( l . Gviia a n te a o , fr en om dro D w u n t e c isa ... l?t ca a rgo, and most of the materials, saved. JERSEYI, rack 5 ; . m — aB Th w e r G a r i n i g x e% part ANTWERP, April 6.—The Deane, from Pernambuco to Marseilles, put into Martinique, March 3, leaky, and had discharged. The Leonie, from Pernambuco to Havre, put into St. Thomas's, Feb. 15, leaky; has been abandoned and sold. NAPLES, March 31.—The two English vessels which were driven on shore on the coast of Calabria, March 20, were the Lavinia, from G enoa to Constantinople, and the Dove, from Palermo to Galatz. The former cannot be got off, it is supposed. VESSS SOKEN WITFI. The Edgar, of and E fo L r Lon P don, from Jamaica, March 2, lat. 20 N. long. 74 W. The Perthshire, for Melbourne, March" 26, lat. 45 N., long. 13 W. The Leopard, Liverpool to Shanghai, long. 110 W . Dec. 15, lat. 13 S., The Chundernagore, for Sydney, Feb. 8, lat. 1 N., lon g . 21 W. The Cornnbia, Buenos Ayres to Liverpool, Feb. 21, lat. 43 N., long. 24 W. The Albion, Mauritius to Cork, Feb. 2, lat. 25 N., long. 24 W. • • The Ariel, NOW York to Melbourne, Feb. 21, lat. 26 N., long. 37 W. Tho Middlesex, Liverpool to Now York, M arc h 24, let. 50 N., long. 17 W. Tho Sailors' Friend, London to the Cape of Good Hope, March 16, lat. 1 N., long. 25 W. The Constantinople, Mauritius to London, Feb. 21, lat. 5 N., long. 21 W. The Australia, Bristol to Bahia, Feb. 4, let. 24 N., long. 23 W. DEPARTURE OP THE UNITED STATES AND CANADIAN MAILS.—On Wednesday forenoon, shortly before ten, the United States mail steamship Pacific, Captain Nye, sailed from the M ersey f or N ew Y or k with the usual mails for the United States and British possessions of North America, 66 passengers, and a large -cargo of merchandiee on freight. BIRTHS. OF A SON. Of On the 4th i nst., at Harcourt-street, Dublin, the w"" J. T. Ussher, Esq., 91st Regiment. r Ol d On the 31 s t u lt ., at Hove-lodge Sussex the wifo o % te r Rev. T. R. J ones, late minister Of Christ Church, 135 " sea. OF A DAUGHTER. On the 6th inst., at No. 7, Ladbroke-place, Notting the wife of J. Paday, Esq. MARRIED. b ot On the sth. inst., Astbury, by the Rev. J. Hui Percy Soulsby, Esq. ' of Overton, North W a les, to Lu of eldest daughter o f Edward Wallett Wilmot, EA' Hl On n e 3 h° Walfield, Cheshire. g 0 thlst ult., at St. Mary's Chu - - the "1 1 ~uurch, by . Rev. tho Lord Bishop of Tuam, Sir Robert Lynch arr ie Bart., of Athavallie, county of Mayo, to Lady P o Browne, fourth (la ug ht er o f th e l a t e M arqu i s of Shg DIED. lo de, On the sth inst., H. D. Waiter, Esq. ' of Cruck Salop, a deputy-lieut enan t an d magistrate of that lc' aged 83. LONDON : 'Printed and Published by MURDO 11 , 1 of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office; N°' o' Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the o' Middlesex, Friday, April 8, 453. COUNTRY MAIULETS. BOSTON —APRIL 6. With a scanty supply of wheat the trade ruled heavy, at is per quarter. In spring corn no alteration. Whenat„, red, 37s to 465, whit e , 45 s to 475, extra 495; barley, , to 30s ; oats, 153 to 19s ; beans, 30s to 35s ; peas, 272 t ° 33s per qr. NEWARK—APRIL 6. A thin attendance to-day at the Corn Exchange,__sna: drill market at late r a t es . Oth er gra i n unaltered. Whet' white, 52s to 565. re d 47 s t o 50 s ; b arley, grinding, 2 7 5 , 30s, malting 32s to 358 ; oats, seed 24s to 265, feed 00s 0 00s ; beans 37s to 408 ; peas 30s to 34s ; malt 56s to 605 ; tares, 48s to 50s per qr. DERBY SMITHFIELD—AriaL 5. ------- The supply of fat beasts large. Quality generally goo d ' Attendance of buyers large, but no alteration. She sheep pens well filled. Demand for mutton brisk. A large sur t ply of fat a n d s t ore ca l ves. Fat pigs more plentiful, lint lower.—Beef, 51d to fid ; mutton, 71d to 81d ; veal, 5 ,1 1 6d per lb. ; pi gs , O s t o Os lid per score ; rough f a t, 4s 6', per 141 b. ; hide s , *I to 3d per lb ; ca lf- s ki ns, 3d to 4(' per lb. EDINBURGH GRAIN—Arm 6. We had a small supply of grain in to-clay's marke t ' Sales dull. Wheat down a little, but barley firm. OP clown and beans up. Top of Wheat ......... ........ ... ...... 621 lb 54s Od 8ar1ey....... ................. 57 lb 40s Oil - Oats Beans Total Supply and Sales. 66 lb 37s Od Wheat 4BU qrs sold 338 qrs Barley 489 qrs sold 399 qrs Oats ' 778 qrs sold 564 qrs - Beans B7 qrs sold 86 qrs AVERAGES PER IMPERIAL QUARTER. Average of wheat £2 8 7 11-12ths Ditto of Barley - 1 13 8 1-12ths . Ditto of Oats 1 1 7 8-12 tbs Ditto of Beans ......... 1 14 9 0-12ths DUBLIN —Arum 5. Our market to-day was generally dull, except for bl qualities of oats and barley, which met a steady den o f at slightly improved rates. Indian corn very difficult sale, even at a reduction of 6d to is per quarter. White wheat, 26s Od to 30s Od ; red ditto, 25s Od to 2 86 ,! barley, 12s Gd to 16s 3d ; oa t s, 9s Gd to 115 ; ra pescet:, 21s Od to 23s per brl ; oatmeal, lls Od to 12s Od ; bake flour, 14s Gd to 18s Od per cwt ; Indian corn, 31s Od to 33s r per 480 lbs. CORK —Arum 6. Brls. Currency. White wheat 00s 0(1 to OOs Od Os ocl-20 stone' Redwheat 00s Od to 00s 01) Ditto 00s 6d to 00s Od 00s od-20 do. Ditto Otis Od to OOs Od) 49 Barley l3s 4d to 13s ld Ditto OGs Od to 00s Od .00s Od-16 do. Ditto OOs Od to OOs Od Bere . oos Od to OOs Od Os Od 104 Oats 122 Ditto 10i Od to lls Od Os 11d -- do. Ditto OOs 0,1 to OOs Od ) 17 Pigs 43s 6d to OOs Od OOs Od per oft' Quantity sold at the highest prices : , 1 00 barrels white wheat ; 0 red ; 32 barley ; 0 bor e ' oats ; 0 pigs. Quantity of grain and number of pigs sold last week ! -- ; 6 9, Wheat, 79. Ba r l e y, 212. B ere, 00. Oats, 2 ? Pigs, 269. Return of cattle sold for week ending April 2 :-- Pigs, 499.• Sheep, 313. Cows, 73. Od; CORR.—Flour- First, 15s Od to 16s Od ; extra, 17 seconds, 13s 6d to 14s 6d ; households, lOs to 13s Od ; t b l J ,i; 7s Od to lOs per cwt. M ea l—l n di an meal, 7s 9d to Ss "04 oatmeal, lOs 6d to lls 0d; wheat meal, 10s to Il s Od per c o ,' Indian corn, 71 5s Od to 8/ Os Od per ton. Bran, 4/ 55 to 4/ 12s 6d porton. Hay—Farmers, 28s Od to 40s 0d; 345; dealers, 32s Od to 50s Od ; average, Os per ton. Stlo Farmers, 21s Od to 26 s Od; average, 24 s ; dealers, 32s v`cito 008 Od ; average, Os. p er t on . B rea d —Wheaten loa f , Ka to Od ; household ditto, 6d to Od per 41b.—Fresh butter, % o ~f, 11d per lb. Eggs, 4 s 4d t o 4s per hundred. Meat - ti 4},dl to 8d ; mutton, s:' ; d to 6:3d ; veal, 4 . Ad to 6)od ; pork, gli 6d ; bacon, 7d to 7Ad ; sausages, 6d per lb.—fish, Newfl oo ; land, 111. Os to 12/ Os per ton ; Scotch herrings, 3ls Red, do., 30s per brl.—Potatoes, white, 9d to 10d; i. " . 10 lld to 12d.—Coals, Newport, 21s ; Lydney, 21s ; Od per ton.—Whi s k e y , 25 0.p., 65 Od per imperial gA"°"6il Hides, market, 30s to 38 s; S a lt e d , 3 0s to 38s per cw t. skins, 3rd per lb.—Bangor sl a t es 2/. 17 s. 6 d to 31. per "'a/0 Fleece wool, 00s to 00s per stone.—Hemp, 381. to 42/.4, ton—Timber, Memel, 3/. lO s ; re d p i ne, 3 1. 103 ; yellow ( „",j, 3/. ss. per ton ; deal s , 161. t o 181 . per hundred.—Bar k, P' o6 , 8/. to 101. 10s. per ton.—T a ll ow, 468 to 47s per cwt. -11°i °, 71. lOs to 0/. per cwt.- T ar , A rc h ange l , 19 s. per b r l.— Guan Peruvian, 101. lOs to 11/. per ton. RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. LIVERPOOL, APRIL 7. Di' have advanced materially. 'T I mated all day, and prices B' kenhead Lancashire' STocrc EXCHANGE.—The market was exceedingly A followino , were the quotations : Ir . ,1 Chester and Birkenhead, 21i ; di t' €11 . 8.. 32 4 • Chester and RA head, 221 ; Eastern Counties, 13 0; East Lancashire, 1- 81 :, Great Western, 93 ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 77i i L'',,',l British, pover 2 9 34 ; . I t.: o r iji don and North Western, 121 ; Manchester Sheffield, ''.. o 2 " 2/ d . shares , Chesh 1. r 3 e 1 6 dis. , Caledonian, . ,'So . ll 76 Ea ; ste N rn ori a ' n h d { r c o o l r n d , s h 3 i o r e i ,; 4 Midland, dis. Lincoln, and North Midland, 30k ; Manchester, Sheffield', 1, Lincoln 101. sh ares , 11i ; N or th U n i on, A, 262 ; ditto, ' 176; Dutch Rhenish, 28 dis. MANCHESTER, APRIL 7. iI STOCK EXCHANGE.-The mar k et has been very 11A- 0 0 and prices were higher. Birkenhead, Lancashire , fa . Cheshire, 6g dis. ; Caledonians 32i ex div.; ditte,Y l !tall, Counties 3. , eix34div. East; ChesterLan caashnilrell°llBY-117;d 211 ; -E' -- D it ; London a Glasgow, 37; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 76g North-Western, 120.1; Manchester and Birmingham Qrs., 14 p.; Manchester, Shebleld, and Lincoln, 301; ditto ,: Edinburgh ' ll ,l 101. Preference, 11 . ; Midland Rail.. Consols, 76.3. i Cone:, dated Bristol and Birmingham, 1494 ; North Staffordsb4 4di • Shrewsbury and Hereford, 1 3-11 dis.; • South s., ern, 221 ex div. BIRMINGHAM, APRIL 7. t he STOCK EXCHANGE.—There was little a lt era ti o n :„ A— o r quotations of the sha re mar k e t t o -d a y. P r i ces we re gc ip rally very heavy, and the principal business done 109 local stock. BRISTOL, APRIL 7. btl i STOCK EXCHANGE.—The market continues inacti .. . r ve , ,,o, firm. Great Westerns were done at 91,1 • Vale of •L` 4 151. SEABORNE MAILS. (N signifies that the mails are sent from the General Poi by the night—and Mby the morning —dispatch.] COUNTRIES. Day when made uj in General toq- Office, London.* From what Port Dispatched. Ju , gad , 31° America(byßrit.pack)N America (by United Sts. packet) ..........N America (by U. States packet) ..........N Australia (via South. ampton) .......... Ditto (via Marseilles) N Ditto (via Cape of mood H0pe)............N Africa (Nest Coast)..N Alexandria .... N Alexandria Bahamas ..... Belgium ............N Brazil .............. M ' Bvenos Ayres .. Cape of Good Hope ..N Cape of Good Hope ..N Cape de Verds ......N Ceylon (see India) Cey10n...... ........N Channel Isles ........N China (see India) (Every Friday ... March 30 ...... Liverpool ... Aprils ....... Liverpool... 14th of May ..... 'Bth of May ..... ISowhampton' 2d of April ...... 23rd of the month, 8,9, 24, & 30 of m 4th & 20th of mon. 2nd of the mouth Sonthampton Dover •• .• •• !9th of the month.. 9th of the month.. 14th of the month 2nd of Apr 1-. .• 14th of the month 14th of the month Mon.,Wed ,BcFr , d. -d & 17th of month Plymouth .. Plymouth .. Dover ...... Southampton Southampton ,Dover Southampton Southampton Plymouth .. Plymouth .. Plymouth .. Constantinople ......N Constantinople .... Cont. of Europe M & N Egypt (see India) France .. • • .... M & N Gibraltar ...• Greece (sea India) Greytown ..........'.41 Hamburgh ..........N Havannah ........ Holland .. 7,8,17,24,&27 of m 4th & 20th of mon Twice daily Twice daily .. .. .. 4,7, 17, 20, 27 of m. Plymouth .. Southampton, Southamptork 2nd & 17th of mon. Tuesday & Friday 2nd of the month Wednesday & Sat. 1 7th of the m onth . 4th & 20th o f mon. B th&24th of month Dover .. ISout h Ampton Dover .. Honduras ... •• • : India (viaSoutliampt.)M India (via Marseilles)M lonian Isles (see India) Ireland .... • • • .31 & N Lisbon..... • • • ...... M I Madeira .... . •• • • ..Ili Madeira ...... • • • • • . Malta (see I n di a ) Mauritius (see India) Mauritius • • • • N Mexico .111 Naples • • • • ....N New Granada .. •• • • lid New Zealand.-- • • • • Papal 8 tales .• .. • • •• N SicilyP PP e ee r n ta . . t i v. V an e T unceaDziiYeeml Twice daily ...... 7,9, 17, & 28 of m. 9th of the month 23rd of the month Dover Southampton 17,17,19,28, 30 ofm z onthampton Condon.... 14th of the month Vial of the month. 2d & 17th of nrnth By private Ship ithiho2sthotmon. th 1 ith2BthohnOli 5 141 15 1 1:2 t 5 h t e "r month in°n ;d iBth of mon 5015th25thottnon, 501502500th-ion. 2d& 17th of month Southampton London Southampton Southampton Dover Holyhead .• • I Southampton ) Southtunrt" Plylrout n '• 1 Australia) ... ..... .. West Indies .. •• .... 3,1 ' 12(1& 17th of month ---- (day, the mails W' ll ,,is Iception of the India %6 , 1 , tch will be dispatch ' ! Do .rei . .... .. rlsmouth Southampton Dover Southampton Various ports Dover .... Southampton Southampton PlYmouth Dover Dover (Southampton Arlis'` j 4 l Pr' 18 April 4 April 1 Afar ° ij , Apr il Ap ril S o o Ist of nalil i s 'April '6 iprii 16 Ap ril Y Apr" lu April 6 41 , Tu.Tn• April ' '3 O 3fatcli April 4 f Twice° Twice , April 5 April t gyts Tao., Arrnovo 'O , lO APf' l 4 Mot 011 1 1,9 , 0 APP. ,0 pril ;April I' ISoathampton Mardi 19' April 2 6 4 , Ist of T v April April 10 Uncer t 'April April 5 April 1 April Apra ' - • April , ; April iAPO I_ * when any of these dates ftll on a Sun dispatchel on the following day, with the ex, Southampton), and the Malta, both of whit , day preceding.