The Sun. — London, England, 1857-06-04 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE., GREAT NORTHERN. A meeting of preference shareholders in this com pany was held yesterday at the King's Arr Arms Hotel, Westminster, to consider the propriety o promoted petition ing against the bill now in Parliament, by the directors of the company. Mr. Williams, at the request of the meeting, took the chair. The notice convening the meeting having been read, The CHAIRMAN said, the meeting had been con vened in consequence of the unjust way in which it was proposed by the directors to deal with the dividend of the preference shareholders. The whole matter had been fully stated in a correspondence which had taken place between him and Mr. Deni son, the Chairman of the Great Northern Railway Company, the whole of which had appeared in fferapath's Railway Journal. He supposed they had all seen it. (Cries of " No, no ; read it.") He then read the correspondence, from which it appeared that Mr. Williams contended that the directors had no right to retain any portion of the dividend of the preference shareholders for the purpose of making good the losses occasioned by the frauds of Redpath. If they wanted to buy up the 220,0001. stock issued by Redpath, they could raise the necessary funds for the purpose of calling up a portion of the 400,0001. the company was authorised to raise on preference shares, but on no account should they touch the money available for dividend on the preference shares. It was a most unjust thing to take from the net revenue of one half-year the whole sum of which the company had been defrauded during a period of 10 years. Some of the preference stock had not been in existence two years. The frauds had been perpetrated by degrees, and the amount ought to have been re placed in a similar manner. He had suggested that as Redpath's frauds amounted t 0220,0001., and as it was determined by the half-yearly meeting to pay the whole amount out of the 243,0001. net revenue, 23,0001. would remain, which, added to the 50,000/. that Redpath's assets would realise, would make . 73,0001. This amount would pay 2 per cent. on the 3,500,000 of preference stock and shares, and the remainder of the preference dividend could be paid out of the net revenue of the next half-year. If the Bill passed in its present form they would be de prived of their dividend. A petition had been pre sented against the Bill, and a similar one would be submitttd for the approval of the meeting. Mr. LAWRENCE, the solicitor, explained that the directors of the Great Northern Company had in the first instance presented to Parliament a Bill authorising them to pay all the shareholders their dividend for the past half-year, and to provide for the loss by Redpath's frauds out of the unissued capital of the company. The directors at the same time circulated their report, in which they stated that they proposed to go to Parliament for powers to regulate the capit it of the company, and further stated in paragraph 44 of their report, after refer ring to the loss occasioned by the frauds of Red path, that they could not take upon themselves to propose or support any Bill which would throw upon the preference stocks any portion of the loss in question, and thereby shake the confidence of the public in all such stocks. Numerous proxies were sent out with that report and returned to the di rectors duly signed, authorising them to vote as they pleased at the meeting. It was therefore the duty of the directors to protect the interests of the preference shareholders, a,‘; they had undertaken to do by the statement in their report. On the con trary, however, the directors sacrificed the interests of the preference shareholders by adopting an amend. went to the proposal contained in the report. The present Bill was called an amended Bill, but instead of being amendments they were direct negatives of the original Bill. The first and the amended Bills were as opposed as white to black. A fewpreference share holders had instructed him (Mr. Lawrence) to pre sent a petition against the Bill in Parliament. The petition had been printed, and was signed by five or six shareholders, but it would not be proceeded with unless they were supported by that meeting and other shareholders. They could not undertake to fight the battle themselves unless supported by the preference shareholders generally. He then read the petition against the bill, which was of con siderable length. The CHAIRMAN proposed a resolution to the effect that the meeting being fully convinced of the injus tice of throwing any portion of the losses by Red path's frauds upon the preference shareholders, concur in the views stated in the petition of Dr. W. C. Henry, Lord Wensleydale, and others on the subject of the bill now before Parliament, and that a similar petition be now signed and pre2euted, and that a committee of preference shareholders be appointed to conduct the proceedings in such man ner and to such extent as they may deem expedient. On the motion being seconded a discussion en sued, in which Mr. Greening, Mr. Campbell, Mr' Hardy, Captain Gladstone, and other shareholders took part, in the course of which it was stated that several shareholders had sent their proxies to thc directors on the faith of the statement in the direc4 tors' report that the interests of the preference share holders would be protected. It was understood that a Wharncliffe meeting would not be necessary t sanction the bill. Lord St. Leonard's would cer tainly oppose the bill in the Upper House. It was looked upon as a most unjustifiable measure, and thought by some that the sooner they got rid of the directors who promoted it the better it would be for the company. The motion was put and carried unanimously. Resolutions were also passed, pledging the meet ingto' subscribe to the extent of 5 per cent. of the amount of their dividend towards the expenses of opposing the bill, and calling upon the other pre ference shareholders to do the same ; and appoint ing Messrs. Heath, Greening, Campbell, and Wil liams a committee, with power to add to their number ; three to be a quorum, to carry out the objects of the meeting. The proceedings then terminated. GRAND TRUNK OF CANADA. It appears that this company's relief bill passed the House of Assembly on the 13th ult. by a majo rity of 13; and it was expected to pass the Legisla tive Council on the 19th ult. by a large majority. The object of the bill is to dispense with Govern ment directors at the board, and to facilitate the completion of the works from Riviere du Loup to Sarnia. The bill am -nds former acts relating to the company, and provides that the present direc tors appointed by the Governor of the province shall go out of office at the first general meeting of the shareholders for the election of directors ; the company shalt render half-yearly (and oftener if required) to the inspec' or-general a full statement of their affairs, with abalance-sheet, the correctness of which shall be attested under otth by the book keeper, accountant, or other officer having a know ledge of the accounts. It also provides for the pro duction and inspection of the books, accounts, and vouchers of the company by the board of audit. On condition that the company, by means of prefer ential bonds and other loans, complet e their railway from Riviere du Loup to Stratford, and thence by St. Mary's direct to Sarnia, including the Victoria bridge and other works, undertakings, and engage ments mentioned in the Act of 1856, and supply the railway with a sufficient plant, rolling stock and appliances to work the same efficiently within the limits of time specified, being one year after the time named in the Act of 1856, and so long as they maintain and work the same regularly, the province - foregoes all interest on its claim against the company until the earnings and profits of the company, including those of the Atlantic and St. Lawrence Railroad Company, shall bs sufficient to defray the following charges :-1. All expenses of managing, working, and maintaining the works and plant of the company. 2d. The rent of the Atlan tic' and St. Lawrence Rail Way, add all interest on the bonds of the company, exclusive of those held by:the province. 3. A dividend of 6 per cent. on the paid-up share capital of the company, in each year in which the surplus earnings shall admit of the Stine; and then in each year in which th e re shall be a surplus over' the abovenamed charges ouch surplus shall be applied to the pay went of the interest on the Province Loan accru ing to -such, h z c year, The bonds and sha re capit a l herein mem' of all loan s so d toned shall be held to include and consist paid-up capital which the company have raised or raa of a y hereafter raise bona fide under the-authority 1 1 , act of the Provincial Legisla ture passed or to b u s such a T t a . aseid,.for any purpose autho rised by any are autho rised by the bill to ree e i- v 6ifrom the Receiver-Ge and expend upon the works, neral of the provinc e , the proceeds of the preferenti a l bonds, provided the sum so depended upon each work bears the same ptoPortion to the total BUM allotted to it as the sums p a id in bear to the whole amount authorised to be raised by the act, and that ea c h of the seve ral works shall be proceeded -with simultaneously and in the same proportion. This is considered It om wi I relieve th e c a very liberal measure. from the Government claim of 3,111,500/. ster P li a n n4 hieh stood as a first mortgage on the Whole of the company's railway and works, and enable th em to complete the undertaking. LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN RAlLWAY.—Traffic return for the week ending May 31, 1857 2n5,406 0 0 Correspondi ng wee k last year GREaT NORTHERN RAlLWAY.—Traffic return for the week ending May 24, 1857 Corresponding week last year 21,026 1 7 CHESTZRAND HOLYHEAD RAlLWAY.—Trattic return fc r the week ending May 31, 1F57 £5,392 0 0 Corresponding week last year, 5,083 0 0 inereaße in 1857 ... 300 0 0 LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE RAILWAY.--L-Traffin re turn for the week ending May 31, 1857. £24,372 14 9 Corresponding we last year .................... 22,724 9 0 Naval and Military Intelligence. LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 4, 1857 to prove of great importance, as well to the general prosperity of the island as to the interests of the na tional treasury. For iF, as we consider in every way improbable, the guano from the new depo , it., whence the samples collected by the commission have been taken, should not be found to be im mensely more rich than th former in fertilising power, the information we have received of the avidity with which the guano most resembling that first analysed is received on the neighbouring con tinent would already assure us of its recognised utility and value for exportation when once autho rised, as it has accordingly sinee been, by the de cree of his Excellency the Governor Superintendent of the 12th inst. The liberal terms of this decree deserve our warmest acknowledgments, as much on account of the just discretion exercised in the total avoidance of any grant of monopoly as on account of the zealous desire shown on behalf of the agri cultural interests of this island. " Such, then, are the facts and observations which we proposed to enregister. That our agri culturists should not show themselves indifferent to the benefits thus conferred upon us by Provi dence, or ungrateful to the exertions of the autho rities, is our sincere desire, as it must needs be of whoever feels a true interest in the prosperity and enrichment of the island." THE WINDING-UP ACTS AMENDMENT BILL. (From the eolica777ournal.) The Bill which has been introduced by the Attorney- General nominally for the amendment of the Winding up Acts, but mainly for the purpose of legalising the in tended compromise in the case of the Royal British Bank, was read a second time without opposition on Thursday evening. The Attorney -General professed his readiness to consider any amendments which might be suggested in committee, and as very considerable altera tions will be needed to make the measure at all satisfac tory as a piece of permanent legiattion, it is to be hoped that the bill will not be hurried through its stages with out full consideration. The mischief to be remedied is notorious enough ; and probably there is not a member in the house or a lawyer out of it who would say that the law ought to remain in its present anomalous condition. It has been denounced in the strongest terms from the bench, and popular feel ing has approved the outcry against the slovenly and dis graceful legislation which has been the means of prevent ing a satisfactory settlement of the demands of the credi tors of the swindling bank. The existing law may be very shortly summed up. The shareholders in a joint-stock bank are individually liable to make good every farthing of the debts of the concern. By the Joint-Stock Com panies Act, every creditor is entitled to take proceed ings, under which he can issue execution for the full amount of his debt, against any one of the shareholders. Under the Winding-up Acts the shareholders may get their liabilities relieved by the application of the corpo rate assets to the debts of the concern so far as they may suffice for the purpose, and may have the remaining deficit supplied by means of rateable calls upon the various members. At one time the courts of law seemed to con sider that the pendency of winding up proceedings was a sufficient reason for withholding their assent to execu tions against individual shareholders. Unfortunately, though no doubt correctly in point of law, they have now adopted the practice of permitting executions to be levied notwithstanding that the official manager may be in course of getting in contributions, with every prospect of being able to provide 208. in the pound, The consequence of this, in the caoe of the Royal British Bank, together with the litigation which arose out of the bankruptcy, has been that the share holders have been put to flight, and that the excessive eagerness with which some creditors have pressed on their remedies has rendered it rather problematical whether the official manager will be able to raise a suffi cient sum by calls to pay off the whole liabilities. The law has thus worked ruin to the shareholders who have remained to face their liability, and has at the same time seriously diminished, if not altogether destroyed the prospect which the creditors would other wise have had of obtaining foil satisfaction] through the medium of the Winding -up Acts. This is the first evil which the Legislature has to repair, and to which the bill of the Attorney-General is directed. The proposal is, that representatives of creditors shall be elected in the winding-up proceedings, or that that fun c.ion shall be performed by the assignees in cases where there may have been a previous adjudication of bank ruptcy. Very extensive powers of binding all parties to a compromise are to be conferred upon them, and no execution is thereafter to issue against individual shareholders without the leave of the court which has the conduct of the liquidation. This arrange ment seems to lean as unfairly towards the side of the debtors as tke existing law does in the otherdirection, and the result would general y be, that the creditors, being deprived of their compulsory power, wou ld b e com pelled to submit to a c,mpromise, even is cases, where the shareholders were well able to pay in full. If the members of a defau!ting company which has commenced busine-s on the principle of unlimited liability are to be relieved from the plenum of individual executions, some provision should be introducd either requiring them to give ample security for the payment of calls In the wind ing up, or in default, rendering all disposition of their pro perty fraudulent and vuid as against the official manager. There ought'also to be a clause, as suggested by Mr. Malins to enable creditors to arrest any shareholders who may be about to abscond, and also summary powers to prevent a fraudulent removal of property. It is right enough to relieve the debtors from the harassing process which the law now allows ; but at the same time care should be taken that their pro perty may be forthcoming, so far as necessary, for the purpose of meeting the calls which may be assessed on each particular contributory. The bill as it stands does not provide this security, and we hope that the point will not be neglected in committee. CURRENCY AND BANK REFORM. Yesterday a preliminary meeting of the members of the Currency and Bank Reform Association was held at the London Tavern, Bishopigate-street, to elect a president, vice-president, and acting committee. The announcement convening the meeting, and explaining the objects of the association, was to the following effect : " The object of the association is to diffuse informa tion and arouse the attention of the whole kingdom to this, the most important question of the day. Without energetic action a high rate of interest will become per manent, and revolutionise the value of property of every description. Railways.—An advance of 1 per cent. on the mortgage debt of the Great Western Railway would be a reduction of 50 per cent. in the dividends. Other railways rateably, as the debts bear upon share capital. Mortgages.—lf land yields 3 per cent. rental and mort gages advance to 5 and 6 per cent., how long will it require to deprive a large portion of the present proprietors of their incomes and estates ? Manufacturers.—lf interest on capital be a cost of pro duction, how can we compete with the foreign manu facturers when that cost is doubled ? Agriculture.— By the large importation of foreign corn, &c., the ex changes are acted on most disadvantageously. The remedy is the increase of our own growth. Will this be done extensively under a ruinous state of interest ? Shipping.—Steam navigation, mining, and distant un dertakings, like irrigation and the growth of cotton in India—the retail trader, the artisan, and all classes ex cept the money-lender, are seriously injured by the present rate of interest on current money, although capital is abundant, and trade sound. To invests• gate the causes are the objects of this proposed Association, and so urge the remedy upon Government and the members of both Houses of Parliament as to ensure the removal of so great an impediment to the national prosperity and progress. Co-operation from all parts of the United Kingdom is earnestly solicited without delay, as the Committee on the Bank Charter is now sitting. A low rate of interest is not desirable, but to avoid the two mischievous extremes—very high and very low rates—is a consummation most earnestly desired." A more serious mischief is the conflict of jurisdiction , between the Courts of Chancery and Bankruptcy, which the government bill leaves without a remedy. Until last year it was generally supposed that the Winding-up Acts had by implication repealed the statute under which a company might be declared bankrupt. At any rate that act had re:mined a dead letter until it was un luckily revived in the ease of the Royal British Bank. The effect has been to squander 17,000/. in establishing the privilege of the Court of Bankruptcy to distribute the assets which would otherwise have been divided by the official manager. At the same time it is found necessary to continue the winding -up proceedings, for the sake of raising the contributions which the Court of Bank ruptcy has no power to levy. In many winding-up cases which occurred before that of the British Bank, as, for example, in Mr. Boyd's Australian bubble, enormous sums were raised in liquidation, whi c h certainly never would have been got in if the struggle between the courts had occurred cases , and there is ev e ry r eason t o be lieve, matter been allo we d to go o n i n th e depositors in the Royal British ordinary that, i course,n had those t h et the e Bank would have recovered 20s. in the pound. It is obvious, indeed, that the whol e li qu id at i on oug ht to b e in the hands of one court. There is no earthly reason why an official assignee should distribute the assets of the corporation, while an official manager has the task of dividing the amount which may be raised by calls. The extent of the calls must depend on what the assets may realise ; and it is clear that nothing but cost and confusion can arise from the intervention of rival juris diction in the liquidation of the same estate. It is dearly, therefore, the duty of the legislature to prevent such conflicts in future, and the only remaining question is which court should be employed. The main objec tion to the sinding-up procedure is, that it gives the creditors no voice in the matter, and that the official manager may be as dilatory as he pleases. The remedy for this is to associate with him a re presentative of the creditors, and this is one of the provisions of the Government bill. The objections to the bankruptcy jurisdiction are more serious. The delicate business of settling li4ta of contributories and enforcing calls is one for which the court at Basinghall-street has not the requisite machinery, and which is altogether foreign to its ordinary business. If it is the better court for the purpose, by all means let the-whole jurisdiction of the Chancellor be transferred to it ; but we can see no exouse for allowing the two courts to run races for the possession of an estate after the unseemly fashion exhi bited in the recent struggle. The Attorney-General's bill, however, leaves tbis absurdity untouched, only so far mitigating the evil as to make the assignees, by vir tue of their office, the representatives of the creditors in the winding up. This is a blot which ought not to be suffered to remain. DISCOVERY OF AN ANCIENT IRISH ORNAMENT.--A few days since, as a poor man named Daly was engaged in levelling a ditch at Liscarrol, 29 miles from Cork, he found in the deep part of the ditcb, about 18 inches be low the surface, a valuable Irish relic, which is believed to be unique. It consists of a gold fillet or ornament for the head, composed of nine strands of twisted gold joined together like a band, with a loop at each end. lts length is fully 20 inches, and it weighs loz. 3dwts. 1 2 grains. The gold, whi c h is of great purity, would be worth at the standard value over 4/. The reiic has been examined by some local antiquaries, who have pronounced it be over 1.000 years old. A LIINATIO ON HORSEEACIC—One of the most laugh able circumstances we remember to have heard of has occurred in connection with the Lunatic Asylum here. Amongst the inmates of that institution is a boy named M. Clogher. The great illusion in Mickey's mind is hunting and horseracing, the noise of which be fre quently mimics by putting his hands to his mouth and imitating the sound of a horn. It appears that Dr. Dil lon, the highly esteemed visiting physician, proceeded at the usual hour from his residence on Saturday morning to inspect the patients, and on arriving at the front entrance had his mare, as was customary, sent to a stable in the rear t o awa it his departure. The doctor had not been more than 15 minutes in the institution when the lunatic proceeded to the stable and took out the mare. Having led her to the back gate, he informed the porter that he was taking the mare round to the doctor at the front entrance. Murphy opened the gate and allowed egress to the lunatic and the doctor's mare. Mickey io sooner found himself free, and the gate locked behind him, than he mounted the animal, rode fearlessly past the front gate unobserved, and got into Ballinasloe. He rode quickly through the Main-street unchallenged, and dashed rapidly up Dunlo-street. Here he was observed by one of the offi cials of the asylum, who used his best exertions to over take and arrest the fugitive, but to no purpose. The official then proceeded to the asylum and reported the circumetanee. A,car was procured, and two keepers sent in hot purssit. By • this time, however, Mickey had passed the suourban district of Brackerna, and had the.wide country tefore him. At 10 o'clock at night the lunatic 'was brougit to prison in custody of the keepers despatched after him.— Watern Star. The attendance was very small. Mr. W. Matins oc cupied the chair. The CHAIRMAN, in opening the business of the meet ing, said that they were met to consider the meat impor tant subject of the day, and he regretted that some other person of greater importance had not been called to the chair. The movement was between a wealthy class who were opposed to any alteration, and others who were suffering, but did not like openly to complain, of the present state of monetary affairs, and it was to that he attributed the finial attendance. The hon. gentleman having referred. to the announcement of the meeting, tbat it was a preliminary one for the election of officers, said that the report of 1848 on the distress of the country showed that the panic of 1847 was caused by the want of available capital to pass from hand to hand, and not from the want of actual capital in the country, and the question was whether the people of this country would tamely submit to the re-enactment of the Bank Act of 1844. An important inquiry was, in what capital con sisted ? Some said the National Debt was capital, whilst others said it was only gold and silver represented by Bank-notes, but in the banking account 14,553,0001. were put down as proprietors' capital. That was money lent to the Government in the reign of King William. (Hear, hear.) In 1844 the Bank was allowed to issue paper to that extent, so that if the proprietors' stock was to be taken as capital, he thought the national debt should be considered as capital also. It was stated that the whole commerce of the:country required nine thousand millions per annum, and the whole capital of the country was only five thousand millions, consisting of fixed pro perty of various descriptions, of which the national debt formed about eight hundred millions ; and the question arose what portion of that eight hundred millions should be available for the use of the public whenever they required it for carrying on the ordicary operations of trade. After alluding to the fluctuations in the issue of bank notes, and the rate of interest, the hon. gentleman said that the Bank of England bad greater powers in taxing the coun try, in interest, &c., than were possessed by the Queen and her Ministers, and which tended to the injury of the people, and to the advaatage of the Bank proprie tors. An important modification had taken place since 1844, in abolishing silver from the Bank coffers. No person could hold silver without effecting a loss, because the legal tender of silver did not exceed 40s. In 1847 it was much felt, and he knew of a gentleman who had a large amount of silver in his possession, but who could not convert it, and suffered in consequence. He (M:r. Malins) thought that silver was applicable for the requirements of the trade of the country, and he saw no reason why it should not be accepted by the Bank as a security as much ae gold. He objected to the bill of 1844 from the great revolution it had caused in the value of property, and he prooeed,ed at great length to illus trate his assertion, an&said that previous to 1844 the highest rate of interest charged was 6 per cent., bu , since then it had risen to 94 per cent., and without limi tation under peculiar circumstances it might get much higher by the present Bank Act. Our exports of gold exceeded the imports, and therefore it was not likely we could obtain relief from that quarter. It was high time for the traders of the country to consider whether something should not be done to prevent their being rode rough-shod over by the moneyed interest. What was wanted was a just medium that would fairly remunerate the money-lender and not rob the borrower. He referred to free trade, to the requirements of cotton, large interest paid on joint-stock banks' • deposits, &c., as having produced an effect on the Bank of England. The meeting was called , without previous arrange ment to get an attendance, believing the whole country was interested in this question, and he had no doubt that by combined action they would be able to effect an alteration in what they complained. Many members of Parliament bad intimated their readiness to support the objects the meeting had in view. Mr. BELL said the question excited the greatest inte rest throughout the country from a belief that double the amount of interest had now to be paid for money by the producing classes than formerly, and that they were paying more for it than money was worth. If legisla tion was bad in reference to this question, it was their duty to get it remedied as soon as -pos sible. The present system told most inju riously in the end on the working classes, because if an employer of labour could not pay 10 or 12 per cent. for money, he must discharge his bands. He considered it a subject demanding the fullest investigation. We owed the present law to Lord Overstone, who instructed Sir R. Peel on the question ; but he and those who went with him had failed to show the reasons why interest should be double what it, was before 1844. He (Mr. Bell) asked for a full and impartial investigation. That could not be obtained :from the present committee, many of their number being ignorant of monetary matters, whilst those who did understand the goes-, tion were bound up in the present system. He had no doubt that, when the objects of the meeting be came known, it would receive the support of the public. He moved the following resolution :—" That this meet ing pledges itself to use every effort to form an associa tion sufficiently powerful to resist the renewal of the Bank Charter Act of 1844, experience having demon strated its injurious action on railways, on agriculture, on shipping and mining, and on wages in every depart merit of industry." Mr. J. DUNOLN seconded the motion, and proceeded to expose the several fallacies connected with the queE • tion, and said that it required a thorough sifting. Mr. DODD urged that a movement should be got up to have the Bank Committee a public instead of a private one, that the public might have daily opportunitienof analysing the evidence produced before it. The resolution was carried unanimously. Mr. DODD then moved a resolution, expressing the opinion of the meeting that the Bank Committee should be a public and not a private one. Colonel MAODONNELL seconded the resolution. The resolution was then agreed to. A resolution, appointing a committee to carry out the objects of the meeting was then agreed to, A. vote of thanks to the Chairman terminated the business of the meeting. CRYSTAL PALACE. ONE SHILLING DAY.—Yester day, June 3. Ad m ission s on payment, 6,646; ditto, by season tickets, 586 ; total visitors, 7,232. THE POWER OP WOMAN.—According to a writer in Blackwood, every man who is not a monster, mathemati cian, or a mad philosopher, is the slave of some woman or other. SIGNIFICATION OF LADIES' NAMES.—Mary, Maria, Marie (French), signify exalted. According to some, Mary means lady of the sea. Martha, interpreted, is bitterness ; Isab e l, s i gn ifi es l ove ly ; Julia and Juliet, soft-haired ; Gertrude, all truth ; Eleanor, all fruitful ; Ellen, o r i g i na ll y t h e G ree k H e l en c h ange d bythe Latins into Helena, and by the French into Helene, signifies alluring, though according to Greek authors, it means one who pities. The interpretation of Caroline, is regal ; that of Charlotte, is a Queen ; Elizabeth and Eliza, sig nify true ; Clara, bright, or clear-eyed ; Agnes, chaste ; Amanda, amiable ; Laura, a laurel ; Edith, joyous ; Olivia, peace ; Phosbe, light of life ; Grace, favour ; Sarah, or Sally, a princess • Sophia, wisdom ; Amelia and Amy, beloved ; Matilda, a noble maid ; Pauline, little one ; Margaret, a pearl ; Rebecca, plump ; Han nah, Anna, Anne, Ann, and Nanny, all of which are of the same original name interpreted, mean, gra cious, or kind. Jane, signifies dignity; Ida, the morn ing star ; Lucy, brightness of aspect ; Louisa, or Louise, one who 1 rotects ; Euinaa, tender ; Catherine, pure ; Fiancee, or Fanny, frank or free ; Lydia, severe ; Minerva, ,haste, — Ladies' Note Book. _ TIE SUN, H. R. B the Duke of Cambridge, as the General Commanding-in-Chief, held a levee at the Horse Guards yesterday, when rather a numerous circle of officers waited on his Royal Highness. It is understood the distributio❑ of the Victoria Cross (the Order of Valour) will take place early in the ensuing month. The precise day has not been decided on. Her Majesty will personally award the decoration to those gallant men entitled to the honour, and the ceremony will take place on the parade in front of the Horse Guards, as was the case when the Crimean medals were distributed. The steam frigate Cyclops, 6, from the eastward, arrived at Plymouth on Monday, and sailed the same day with apparatus for taking soundings in the Atlantic.. The steam vessel Alban, 4, Commander de Bla quiere, and the Sprightly and the Pigmy, from Portsmouth, with a portion of the 93d Highlanders, arrived at Plymouth on Tuesday morning, and transferred them to the Belleisle, for service in China. The screw Steam ship Exmouth, 90, Captain H. Eyres, and the screw steam sloop Brisk, 16, Com mander Curtis, from Portsmouth, arrived at Ply mouth on Tuesday afternoon. There is much despatch at the Devonport dock yard in order to prepare the screw steam ship St. Jean d'Acre, Captain King, upon which the arti sans were employed on Sunday. All the magazines are cleared, and it is intended to place 1,200 miles of the electric cable in her hold. She is to be got ready, if possible, by the next spring tide. The screw steam sloop Cordelia, 11, Commander Vernon, has been for several days in Plymouth Sound. She made a successful trial of her engines, and it is expected that her destination will be the Red Sea, where she will be employed, in conjunc t tion with the Imaum of Muscat, to protect British shipping engaged in the guano trade at the Kooria . Moons Islands. Capt. Ord, superintendent for the proprietors, was at Plymouth on Monday. He will proceed overland, so as to reach the Islands by the Ist Sept., which will be sufficiently early in the sea son for the commencement of operations. Captain Ord will be provided with a steam-vessel. The toll, it is understood, will be 1/. per ton to the proprie tors, and 2s. 6d. per ton to the Government. Strong hopes are entertained that the Arabs will be induced to help to load the ships. The Colossus, 80 guns, screw steam-ship, Captain Thomas S. Thompson, arrived at the Great Nore at 8 p.m., on Tuesday. The Malacca, 17 guns, steam-sloop, Captain Arthur Farquhar, arrived at the Little Nore at 9 p.m., on Tuesday, The Colossus and Malacca are to be dismantled and paid off at Sheerness. The Eurydice, '26 guns, Captain John W. Tarle ton, C. B. Liz;c. and the Mariner, 12 guns, sloop, Commander Wray R. G. Palliser, are ordered to proceed to Chatham to be dismantled and paid off. The floating battery Terror, 16 guns, has been taken into No. 3 dry dock at Sheerness for the purpose of a survey being held on her. She is being rigged with all possible despatch. By a letter received from Carthagena, dated the 11th of May last, it appears that the Orion, 91 guns, screw steam-slfp, Captain John E. Erskine, was that day to sail, and convey the Admiral of the West India and North American station to Navy Bay. The Admiral was to proceed to Panama, where he was expected to remain a few dsys, after which the Orion was to convey him to Greytown, from thence the Orion will convey him to Bermuda, where he is to join his flagship, the Indus, 78 guns, Captain John C. Dalrymple Hay, w hi c h hip leaves Carthagena on the same day as the Orion, andpro ceeds direct for Bermuda. The West India squad ron is broken up, and the following vessels (says the letter) are to be sent home :—" The Cossack, 20 guns, screw steam-corvette, Captain James H. Cockburn, sailed for England yesterday, to be paid off ; the Victor, 6 guns, screw steam gun-vessel, Commander Algernon, F. R. De Horsey, leaves to day ; the Tartar, 20 guns, screw steam-corvette, Capt. Hugh Dunlop, has proceeded to New York, but she ie under orders to return again In a certain number of days to Bermuda. All the vessels are ex pected to return home about the latter end of July next, or the beginning of August. The Orion, it •is expected, will return home shortly after the re turn of the Tartar from New York." The fleet of 40 iron barges ordered by the Board of Trade for the service of the Turkish Government which are under construction by Messrs. West wood, Baillie, and Campbell, at Millwall, Isle of Dogs, are rapidly progressing towards completion. They are intended for dredging the Danube, in order to carry out the terms of the treaty entered intofor the free navigation of that river. They are termed hopper barges, from their peculiar constractioo,and are well adapted for the purpose, being fitted so as discharge their contents by means of a trap con nected with the flooring. They are 30 feet long, and carry 15 tons ; when light, they draw 15 inches of water. One of the barges is ordered to be de spatched to Woolwich Dockyard to be tested in the basin, to verify their efficiency prior to the fulfil. ment of the builders' contract Yesterday four 68-pounder guns, captured in the late Russian war, were forwarded from Woolwich Arsenal to York, 'Leeds, Sheffield, and Hudders field. A number of these trophies have been de spatched to the various provincial towns of the kingdom, and also to the colonies, to be erected in the parks or otherpublic places of resort. Yesterday a number of hands employed in the mi litary store department of Woolwich Arsenal, who were entitled from length of services to the superan nuation ftind, retired from the establishment. Most of these men hadbeen nearly 50years in the service. Yesterday the annual inspection of the Chatham Division of Royal Marine Light Infantry to A( place by Major-General Lord Rokeby, K. C. B. The whole .of the officers and men of the battalion were formed in the barrack-square at 10 o'clock, and on Major- General Lord Rokeby, who was attended by Colonel Lord A. Hay, Assistant Adjutant-General, and Col. S. R. We-ley, Deputy Adjutant-General, arriving he was received with a general salute, the band playing " Rule, Britannia." After inspecting the troops who were in heavy marehing order, the bat talion was formed into 10 companies, and, headed by Col. E. A. Parker, the commandant, proceeded to the Great Lines with colours flying. Lord Rokeby having concluded the inspection of the barracks, the barrack accounts, and the sergeants' mess, visited Melville Hospital, over which he was con ducted by Mr. Drummond, Deputy Inspector of Hospitals, and, having made an examination of that building, proceeded with his staff and nearly all the field officers of the garrison ,to the lines, where the Marines went through a variety of evo lutions and light infantry manceuvres, each mart having been supplied with 15 rou n d s o f bl an k car tridge. On the conclusion of the evolutions Lord Rokehy, addressing Col. Parker and the battalion, expressed his entire satisfaction with the result of his inspection, and p rid a compliment to the com mandant on the high state of discipline of the corps of the Royal Marines under his command. Lord Rokeby and suite then left the ground to visit the batteries, where he inspected the Marine gunners in the great gun drill under Capt. R. G. Connolly, the manner in which that body of men worked the guns eliciting unqualified approbation. The Royal Horse Artillery, under the command of Col. Wood, were yesterday morning drawn up on Woolwich common in field-day order. Shortly 10 o'clock Col. Bloomfield, aide-de-camp to her Majesty, Acting-Commandant of the garrison -- ; Brigade-Major Shaw, and.the garrison staff, in un dress uniforms, accompanied by Count Von Bern storff, the Prttaia.n Ambassador, and Sir Culling E. Eardley,. arrived on the ground and took up their positron,' when the troops commenced a series of field inanceuvres, and fired 15 rounds of ammu nition. At later, hour the whole of the Royal Marine force, under the command of the respective Colonels ,of Divisions. also assembled on Woolwich common, and went through a c ourse o f p l atoon and other field drills. The quarterly ball held by the officers of the Royal Artillery garrison took place on Tuesday evening in the mess-room of the establishment at Woolwich. This evening (Thursday) a grand din ner Ens to be given by• the mess committee of the establishment to Lieutenant-Colonel R. A. Shafto Adair, Commandant of the Suffolk A r till ery Militia, and Mr. Bell, the sculptor. Major-Gen. Sir W. F. Williams will preside at the entertain ment, the object of which is to inagurate a white marble statue representing " Armed Science," presented by Col. Shafto Adair. The statue is chiselled out of a solid block of Carrara warble. It stands 6 feet 6 inches above the pedestal, and is placed in a well-selected position, within a recess at the northern extremity of the mess-room. The following regiments are held in readiness at short notice to proceed from Dublin for Cork for embarkation, the former for Ceylon and the latter for the Cape of Good Hope :—The 50th, consisting of 36 officers, and 800 men, including non-conantis !toned officers, drummers, and rank and file, under the command of Col. R. Waddy, C.B. The 95th, consisting of 40 officers and 800 non-commissioned officers, drummers, and rank and file, under the command of Lieut.-Col. Hume, C.B. Of these 30 officers and 200 rank and file, with a number of women and childr en , w ill' go in the Beechfield, and the remainder in two other vessels which are daily expected. Major li. Smith, late 3d Buffs, is now Adjutant-Gener a l of Cork district. Col. Smyly, 99th Regiment, is Actin g Q uartermaster-General, in the room of Quartermaster-General Packe, on leave of absence. A number of volunteers arrived in Cork on ou their way to Alder from Templ,-more, shot Camp, to join the 88th Regiment, under orders f)r India. The following appointments were made yesterday at the Admiralty :-11. W. Burnett, master, to the Basilisk ; C. Mitchell, mate, to the Princees Char lotte ; E. Key, assistant-paymaster, to the Edin burgh. WOONMI ALLEGED DISCOVERY OF GUANO. The Spanish Consul-General presents his com pliments to the Editor of The Sun,, and begs to for ward the translation of an article relative to the probable discovery of guano on the southern coast of the island of Cuba, which appeared in the Madrid Gazette of the 23d ult., in hopes it may prove of sufficient interest to merit insertion. JOSE J. DE MORA, Consul-General. Consulado General de Espana, en la Gran Bretana, 1, Cushion-court, Old Broad-street, June 3. " Havannah, March 24, "We have lately spoken of the discovery of a deposit of guano upon the Keys (Cayos) adjacent to the island on its southern side ; we announced the appointment and departure of a commission deputed to make a detailed survey of the said rocks, and also notified the fact of the arrival of some cases of samples sent from Trinidad by the commission ; from which place, according to the intelligence published in our number of last Sun day, it was announced that the guano had been met with in abundance and of fine quality. We this day propose to occupy ourselves more fully with this discovery, entering (although briefly) into its history ; for we are of opinion that the facts which have come to our knowledge, and which we are now about to relate, will not be found wanting in interest, more especially since the recent publication of the decree of his Excel lency the Governor-Superintendent. "According to our information, then, the exist ence of a species of guano upon the Cayos, adja cent to the island, and even upon some point of the island itself, was a circumstance 'that bad been long since ascertained.' One of our friends assures us that, happening to be some years back at Trinidad, he had been commissioned by a merchant , of Havannah to withdraw from the stores of that city certain bags of guano, with the object of remit ting the same to France for the purpose of its being examined with a view to ascertain whether its ship ment to that market would likely to be advanta geous, subsequent to which he had learned that its transmission having taken place, the answer which had been returned was that the guano was found to be of excellent quality. Again, we learn that D. Tranquilino Sandalio de Noda has declared that among his youthful recollections he remembers that upon the occasion of his sailing towards Bata bano from the direction of Vuelta Abajo his vessel, having to make her escape from the pursuit of pica' es, had been obliged to take refuge upon one of the southern Cayes, where the passengers found that they could scarcely sustain the bad odour emitted from the soil ; which strong smell, he pre sumed must have proceeded from an abundant de posit of guano. But, at all events, we are not aware that up to the present moment any serious investigation has been made of the matter, al though it is certain that very powerful reasons exist to lead us to suspect that the greater portion, if not the whole, of the guano which for a long time has beenconsumed in the United States under the name of Mexican guano has been taken from the Cayos upon our southern coast. However this may be, in the course of:thelpast year Captain Green, of the American brig Mon cure, succeeded in convincing the firm of Tyng and Co., of this city, that guano in large quantities did actually exist upon the Cayos of Jardines and Jardinillos, and that a large profit would be de rived from its exploitation, if permission could be obtained to work it. The house of Tyng and Co. applied to his Excellency tire Superior Civil Governor, Captain-General and Superintendent of Finance, requesting such exclusive privilege for a certain term, and presenting a sample of the sub stance in question, submitting that they had esta blished a right to claim that or an equivalent re ward for the information which might be conceded without prejudice to the State, since from the be fore mentioned Cayos alone as much as 150,000 tons might be annually extracted. " As it may naturally be presumed, our supreme authority gave immediate orders that the sample of guano should be analysed, committing this task to the case of the intelligent director of the Labora tory of Chymical Investigations. Those who are acquainted with the activity and scientific attain ments of that distinguished professor will not be surprised to learn that this commission.was promptly and conscientiously performed. Although the an alysis did not furnish results entirely conformable to the qualities which had been attributed to the sample of guano submitted, it, on the hand, gave others more than sufficiently satisfactory and valu able to render it highly advisable to continue the investigation ; for, although no guano equal to that of Peru had been found, still the substance which had been examined possessed qualities, as a man ure, of an exceedingly valuable nature, which would render its employment in our agriculture highly profitable and even afford ample returns to the ex chequer by the granting licenses for its exportation, which would not have been so earnestly sought for without well-grounded reasons for counting upon a profitable return. " The sample submitted to examination was a substance which, taking the result of its qualitative analysis, was found to contain sulphate of lime or gypsum, traces of salt; chloride of sodium, phos phate of lime with oxide of iron, carbonate of lime with indications of magnesia, silica and silicate of iron, vegetable organic matter and water corn bined ; the quantitative analysis showing that the sulphate of lime and:, -the traces of salt en tered into its composition in the proportion of 40 parts in the 100, the phosphate of lime 20 parts, the carbonate of lime 12, and the silica and silicate of iron 2, organic vegetable matter 6, and water and loss 20 parts. Mr. Casaseca very justly called attention to comparison of this analysis with that of the guano of Peru, from which the sample examined materially differed, since the latter contained neither uric acid, utate of ammonia, or ammoniaeal salts. while the average qualitative analysis of the Peruvian guanosupplies no sulphate of lime, the sample analysed contained no less than 40 per cent, of that substance it being to be ob served that no guano hith e rt o examined had yet furnished gypsum, on which account Mr. Casaseca considered himself authorised in terming it a cal careous stone. " But Mr. Casaseca was notwithstanding of opinion that this substance was to be considered as a mineral manure of great utility, on account of the large quantity of gypsum it contained, and to a high degree valuable in particular descriptions of cultivation, no less than on account of the remark able proportion it contained of phosphate of lime, one of the best mineral manures known. He Was of opinion, therefore, as we have already stated, that the subject was a matter calling for thorough investigation ; and this accordingly is the object with which the commission appointed has set out on its voyage, accompanied by the before-men tioned Captain Green, sent by the firm of Tyng and Company. " The commission left Batabano on the 6th ; on the 7th the steamer arrived, conveying it nearly as far as the extremity of the= Rosario Channel; and anchoring near the Cantiles Cayo. 'This cayo was examined, and an abundance of white guano, similar to that sold in the United States as Mexican guano, was found upon it. Ou the Bth the Rosario Cayo was 'examined, and on the 9th the Pasages Cayo, upon which was found guano equal to that of the Cantiles.• On the 10th after going in the direc of the Largo• Cayo, their explorations were con tinued with various results, but they had found on some islets in sight of the said cayo an immense number of birds and a considerable quantity of guano. " On the 11th, directing their course along the south of the Largo reef and. cayo towards the Bel lenatos CAyoR, they found upon the larger one to the east some guano of superior quality. On the 12tb, at daybreak, the steamer went in a direction E. by S. of the Largo Cayo, and visited some cayos which they had not examined on the 10th, meeting with a dark-coloured guano, and upon one of them so immense an assemblage of birds that the very sun was darkened by them ; the soil of this cayo was covered with eggs, it being calculated there were as many as a dozen to every square yard. The guano appeared to be abundant, and of excellent quality. The steamer afterwards sailed to Trinidad, from which place the commission was about to leave for the cayos of Dice Leguas, and to continue their explorations as far as the Cruz Cayo , also reserving ler examination th e cayos situated etween the Ro sario Channel and the Isle of Pines. " But before resuming their labours the commis sion took care to remit to his ExCellency the Go vernor and Captain-General six cases of samples of the qualities of, guano, •to all appearance distinct, which it had rust with at different spots. Some at least of these samples, which we have had the plea sure of insp , .!cting, must differ considerably from that previously analyzed by Mr. Casaseca. ; for, if we are not, mistaken, it cannot be doubted that they exhale aramonia in abundance, and that conse quently that essential point of distinction betiveen it and the guano of Peru no longer exists. " Th'e samples have now been since Tuesday last in the hands of Mr. Casaseca, with the view' of his so that the ,de innaiktiir.7;eg r n e e s w ait a s n b al y yses of the same, which we Are to abide cannot it is our firm conviction b.) . what they long in being made known q , .Blitthc4; that the cannot fail - __ ~~ ,PORTING INTELLIGENCE, MANCHESTER RACES-WEDNESDAY. The Pninips Handicap of 70 soya. About half a mile. Mr. Allen's Plausible, 5 yrs, Bst lib (Snowden) 1 Admiral Harcourt's Eltenpin?, 5 yre, Bst 71b (Aldcroft) 2 Mr. Osborne's Glede Hawk, 3yrs, 111 h (Challoner) 3 Cora Linne, Frodeham Squire, and Echo also ran. Betting-7 to 4 apt Ellermire, 3to 1 agst Plausible, sto 1 agst Frodeham Squire. Won easily by a length ; a bead between the second and third ; goad fourth. Echo lost start. The Seventh Manchester Produce Stakes of 10 sous each, h ft, with 100 added, for 3-pr-olds ; the second to receive 501. out of the stakes. One male and three quarters. 64 subs. Admiral 0. V. Harcourt's Wardersmarske, Bst 4ib (A idcroft) 1 Mr. T. Parr's Sir Colin, Bst 71b (Fordhain) 2 Mr. R. Chilton's Norton, Bst 41b (Bearpark) 3 Mr. Oiborne's Gledo Hawk, Bst 41b (J. Osborne) 4 Betting-6 to 4on Wardersmarske, sto 2 a gs t Si r Olin. Won by two lengths ; a length between second and third ; same distance between the third and fourth. The Union Cup of 200 sovs, in specie, added to a sweep. stakes of 5 Boys each ; the second to receive 20 sovs out of the stakes. About our mile and a quarter. 67 subs. Mr. Simpson's Fright, 3 yrs, sst slb (Plumb) 1 Mr. W. rAnson's Cuurtettay, 5 yrs, Get 131 b (Witbington) 2 Mr. Ridley's Hospitality, 4 yrs, Tat 101 b (Bates) 3 Mr. Gill's Bourgeois, aged, Bst 6lb (Aldcroft) 4 The following also ran :—Saraband, Stork, Breeze, De Ginkel, King Brian, Bel Eiperaoza, Princess of Orange, Pera, Red Robin, and Old Tom. Betting-4 to 1 each agst Stork and Breeze, 6to 1 aget Courtenay, 7 to 1 agst Bel Esp-ranza, 8 to 1 agst Bourgeois, 10 to 1 aget Fright. Won by a length ; a bead each between the second, tbird, and fourth ; De Ginkel was fifth. Cedric was struck out at 2.27 p.m. The Sapling Stakes. T.Y.C. Sister to Ellington 1 Flying Duke Eight ran. Trafford Handicap. One mile. Manganese 1 Lady Hercules Seven ran. GOOD WOO Nominations for the Good and Ch c by Birdcatcher, out of Maid of Masbam, 3 yrs Dulcamara, 3 yrs Glee-singer, 3 yrs Gemina di Vergy, 3 yrs Barfleur, 4 yrs Westminster, 5 yrs Emulator, 4 yrs Sluggard, 5 yrs Newington, 4 yrs The Earl, 5 yrs Paladin,* by the Baron, or Caravan, out of Honey moon, by Quoniam, 3 yrs Florin,* by Surplice, out of Payment, by Slane, 3 yrs Petocki,* by the Baron, or Nunnykirk, out of Mys zka, by Bizarre, 3 yrs Messange,* by Red Hart, out of Cuckoo, by Elis, 3 yra Gilliver, 3 yrs Aleppo, 4 yrs C by Epirus, out of Elcot's dam, 3 yrs Ruth, 3 yrs • Gunboat, 3 yrs Emigrant, aged Bannockburn, 3 yrs Alice Wentworth, 4 yrs Ackwortb, 3 yrs Zigzag, aged C 'tswold, 4 yrs King Cob, 4 yrs Lord Derwentwater, 4 yrs Lord of the Hills, 3 yrs Warderemarske, 3 yrs Kingmaker, 3 yra Sueeze, 3 yrs Liverpool, 3 yrs Martinet, 3 yrs Chevalier d'lndustrie, 3 yrs Somerset, 3 yrs Rhisus, by Orlando, out of Ma Mie, 3 yrs Peeping Tom, 3 yrs Charles O'Malley, 3 yrs Hamlet, 3 yrs Mary, 5 yrs Queen Bess, 3 yrs Eloquence, 4 yrs Worcester, 3 yrs Pauli Monti, 3 yrs * These horses wei ID RACES. wood Stakes. Two miles 6 half. Prizefighter, 3 yrs Wentworth, 4 yrs Hobgoblin, 3 yrs Regerthorpe, 4 yrs Cerva, 4 yrs The Flying Englishman, 3 yrs Mincepie, 4 yrs Enchanter, 4 yrs Stanhope, 4 yrs Elartley Buck, 5 yrs Kestrel, 4 yrs Mr. Sykes, aged Orlando, 3 yrs The Bird-in-the-Hand, 3 yrs Humourist, 4 yrs Victoria, 4 yrs Pole Star, 5 yrs Y. Hopeful, 3 yrs Homily, 5 yrs Melissa, 4 yrs Turbit, 3 yrs Borderer, 3 yrs Relapse, 3 Nra Blooming Heather, 5 yrs Fisherman, 4 yrs Fright, 3 yrs Bracken, 6 yrs Van Dunck, 4 yrs Absolution, 4 yrs Mongrel, 3 yrs Warlock, 4 yrs The Hind, 5 yrs Heir of Linne, 4 yrs Energy, 3 yrs Fulbeck, 5 yrs Underhand, 3 yrs Verona, 3 yrs Star of Albion, 3 yrs Rosati, 4 yrs Commorer, 3 yrs Pretty Boy, 4 yrs The Unexpected, 4 yrs Mysterious Jack, 3 yrs Apathy, 3 yrs The Dupe, 3 yrs Squire Watt, 4 yrs South-Western, 3 yrs Sir Cohn 3 yrs Dusty Miller, 3 yrs Sprig of Shillelagh, 3 yrs Leamington, 4 yrs Lord Maidstone did not name. Te bred in France. NOMINATIONS FOR T Prior, 5 yrs—bred in Ame rica Prioress, 4 yrs—bred in America Fazzoletto, 4 yrs Monarque, 5 yrs Br. c. by the Flying Dutch. man, out of Barba, 3 yrs Sweet William, 3 yrs St. Giles, 3 yrd Do!camera, 3 yrs Gemma di Vergy, 3 yrs Fisherman, 4 yrs Viscount, 4 yrs Florin, by Surplice, out of Payment, by Slane (bred in France), 3 yrs Potocki, by The Baron, or Nunnykirk, out of Myszka, by Bizarre (bred in France), 3 yrs Gunboat, 3 yrs Lord of the Hills, 3 yrs Early Bird, 6 yrs Sneeze, 3 yrs Arsenal, 3 yra 'HE GOODWOOD CUP, ' B f, by Sweetmeat, dam by Hetman Platoff, out of Sister to Lanercots, 3 yrs Artillery, 4 yrs Anton, 3 yrs Rogerthorpe, 4 yre Gaberlunzie, 3 yrs The Flying Englishman, 3 yrs E❑chanter, 4 yrs Alta, 3 yrs Zaidee, 3 yrs Kestrel, 4 yrs Pole Star, 5 yrs Melissa, 4 yrs Blue Jacket, 3 yrs Pretty Boy, 4 yrs Mary, 5 yrs Wardermarske, 3 yrs Mongrel, 3 yrs Sir Colin, 3 yra Riseber, 3 yrs Zuyder Zee. 3 yrs Sprig of Shillelagh, 3 yra Zigzag, aged ASCOT RACES. Nominations for the Gold Vase. Two miles. Strathnaver, 3 yrs I Arsenal, 3 yrs I Mary, 5 yrs The Royal Hunt Cup, a piece of plate value 200 80VP ; by subscription of 10 Bove each, with 100 added ; the winner of any handicap, value 100 soya, including the winner's stake, after the weights are declared, to carry 71b extra. New mite. Yrs st lb The Early Bird 6 9 3 Flacrow Saraband Wild Huntsman New Brighton Artillery 4 8 4 Polmoodie 4 8 3 Victoria Theodora Wells= 6 7 7 Kestrel Zaidee . 3 7 7 Manganese. 4 7 6 Uzella 4 7 4 Queen of the South 4 7 4 Duke of Lancaster 6 7 3 St. Giles 3 7 2 Jesuit 3 7 0 Intimidation Good Friday Martinet . 3 7 0 Glen Lee • 4 7 0 Loyola .. 3 6 12 Miss Harkaway_ 4 6 11 Yrs st lb Tester 4 6 10 Bel Esperanza Bracken 6 6 8 Cotswold 4 6 7 Peeping Tom Marmion C by Touchstone out of Diphth6ng 3 6 4 Turbit 3 6 4 Sister to Jesuit Strawberry Beechnut Leo 3 5 12 Beatrice 3 5 12 Lat rtes Nougat 3 5 10 The Cave Adullam 5 5 10 Rosa Bonheur Duoboyne Kilbride 3 5 8 Cantrip Humbug Black Tommy HORSES STRUCK OUT ,OF THEIR ENGAGE. MENTS. May 30, at 12 noon.—Fie, out of all her engage. meats. June 1, at 9 a.m.—Barfleur, out of the Tradesmen's Cap at Manchester. June 1, at 10.35 a.m.—Theodora, Early Bird, and Glen Lee, out of all their engagements at Manchester. June 1, at 1.15 p.m.—A tblete and Fascine, out of their Ascot engagements. June 1, at 1.15 p.m.—Morra, out of all her engage ments. June 2, at 11.15 p.m.—Black Tommy, out of the Hunt Cup at Ascot. June 2, at 5 p.m.—Fly-by-Night and Fazzoletto, out of the Seventh Ascot Triennial Stakes; Caonist, out of the Ascot Derby ; Cock-a-doodle-doo, Go-ahead, and Windy Cap, out of the Two-Years-Old Biennial Stakes, at Ascot ; Caledon, out of the Windsor Castle Stakes ; Windy Cap and Caledon are dead. ASCOT STAKES AND CUP.—The London Racing hal cator, private circular, on Saturday next, contains the probable Winners at Ascot and Beverley, and for Northumberland Plate. In previous numbers Fent Blink Bonny and Adamas for Derby ; Vedette for 2,000 guineas ; Imperieuse for 1,000 guineas; Skirmisher, Great Northern; and Adamas, City and Suburban Handicaps ; Blink Bonny for Oaks. Price Westin pence. 1, Savoy-bill, Straird, I ondon. HOW LADIES DO IT IN PARIS.—Mark how with one hand she gathers up her drapery, fairly lifting it from the ground, but still allowing it to hahg with a gradual negligence, so as to show, with an artistic irregularity of revelation, her well turned feet and ankles. You might suppose that she bad borrowed a living grace from the famous Venus of Milo, in the gallery of the Louvre. —Note Eook. ANGLo-SexoN AND LATIN,—It would be almost im possible to compose a sentence of moderate length con sisting solely of words of Latin derivation. But there are many which can be rendered wholly in Anglo-Saxor. It would be easy to make the Lord's Prayer entirely, as it is in present use almost entirely, Angle-Saxon. It consists of 60 words, and six of these only have a Latin root. But for each of them, except one, we have an exact S oon egd►valent. Fur ‘.` trespasses," w e may substitute "sins ;" for "temptation," "trials ;" for "de liver," " free ;".and for "power, " "might." Dr. Trench proposes for "glory," " brightness ;" but this we think is not a good substitute, although we are unable to suggest a better.—Fraser s Magazine. ASSAULT IN A RAILWAY CARRIAGE. _-...±,.,.--. Mr. James Algernon Stuart Austen, a m'ddle agsd man, of Headley, Surrey, stat,d to be a mer chant in the city, son of a baronet, and brother to a county inagistra,te, was examine t before a bench of justices at Reigate on Tuesday, on a charge Of committing a gross and indecent assault upon Miss Emily Burley, lady's maid to the wife of the Rev. Lord Charles Hervey, in a railway carriage during , 7 its passage through a tunnel, in the month of May last. The complainant stated that she left Loudon by the 4.40 p.m. South-Eastern train in a second class carriage on the 12th ult. There were two men in the carriage with her. The defendant was one of them. (Complainant pointed him out in the court.) During the journey she was grossly insulted by the defendant. At first he spoke pleasantly to • her, but she only spoke to him when he spoke to her. The other person in the carriage was a very disagreeable-looking man, with a swollen hand and face ; he looked as if he had been fighting. She was frightened at him, and objected to get into that carriage, but as the train was just starting she bad no time to get into another. Defendant began by putting his feet on hers shortly after the train started. She then moved back on her seat, but she could not move back so far as she wished because she had some parcels on her right hand. The de fen.•lant was sitting opposite. The defendant wag first sitting in the corner when he put his fe. t near • to hers. Before coming to Msrstham tunnel be put his feet on each side of her feet and tried to raise her clothes. When the train entered the tunnel„ he took hold of both h er h an d s an d t r i e d t o pun her towards him. She got one hand released and then pushed him away. She t esisted strongly, she did , not shout because she thought no one would hear, and she thought she would be safer if she was quiet. She was afraid to attract the notice of people iu the same carriage. When lie found she resisted be de sisted. The struggle last a few minutes. When the train got to the fi:st station after leaving the tunnel she • tried to at ract attaiation by signs, as she was afraid to speak. She had no oppertu nity of calling anyone's attention. At the next station she got to she told the porter she ni_ r ust change carriages as s h e h a d b een i nsu l te d. ide then put her into another carriage. She Nog going to Box-hill. She was positive it was the de" fendant who insulted her. The complainant viaa cross-examined by Mr. Morrison, who appeare d for the defendant, but nothing was elicited to shake her testimony. She said that she did not take any steps against the defendant until last Friday, be; cause it was not convenient. Mr. Morrison dressed the - Bench for his client, and suggested that the complainant might be mistaken in the ' identity of the defendant. The Chairman said the ' Bench was of opinion that there was no doubt in the matter, and they had therefore unanimously decided upon sentencing the defendant t a three week's imprisonment. Mr. Morrison endeavoured to induce the bench to change their decision, and; said the defendant would pay 501. to any charity they would mitigate the sentence, but this was re' fused, and the defendant was removed to Wands worth prison. The Bench suggested that the c rir parry should have lights in the second-class car' riages the same as in the first-class, when the train . was passing through tunnels. Mr. Rees, the soli c i citor to the South-Eastern Rail wa y C om p an y, sal he would convey the suggestion to the board. Country Markets. EDINBURGH HAY AND STRAW MARKET. JUNE 2. Supplies of all kinds these last six days again large. , Oat straw, from 7s Od to lOs Od per kemple of 16 0407 tron; wheat do., 5s 6d to 8s Od; barley do., 7s 01. to Qi Od. Hay from is ld to is. 4d. EDINBURGH MEAL—JUNE 2. There wore in the market to-day 12 sacks oatmeal, each weighing 2801 b imperial, which sold at 44s Od and --3• DALKEITH MEAL MARKET—JUNE 2. There were in the ma r k e t to - day 7 bags of oatmeal, 00 4 barleymeal, and 0 pot barley. Sales realy. Oatmeal, per sack of 2801bs First. Second. I Thili imperial Barleymeal, per ditto -s Od —s Od —s o d Peasemeal, per ditto Pot-barley, new, per ditto — s Od —s Od —3 DUBLIN, JUNE 2. White wheat, 35s 01 to 3Ss 6d ; red ditto, 32s 6d to 361 nd• 64; ditto new, —s; barley, malting, 16s 6d to 25s 6d ; ing, —a to —s ; oats, old, 13s 3d to 16s; ditto, new. 0.1 to —s Od ; oatmeal, 15s to 17s Od; bare, new, —8 0 , 91 01 ; raps d, Od to —s Od per brl ; bakers' dour, A . , 0d to 21s Od per cwt; Indian corn , 38 s 01 t o 40 3 6d P" 4SO BRISTOL SUGAR-JUNE 3. We have bad a quiet week for both raw and rosotifite . tured sugars, and the trade are not inclined to operst* ' Itrpoi ters, however, are firm in demanding former /I mo: In rum 230 puns. and hhds. Demerara have been diepoieci of at 3a and 3s ld per proof gallon. :ET.—JUNE 3. t the close of tho market. Wallsend, aus. , s a . Framwellgate l5 -" n$ Eleugh Hall 15 Haswell 17 6 ' Riddell l4 - 3 Whitworth 16 15 S Eiartlepool Efarton .. S Fees l7 Eletton l7 3 ' Kepier Graingo ... l6 3 , ' South Kelloe 1 6 3 Eden 0 Eden Main l6 ;,, 55 ; sold, 37. COAL MARK Prices of Coals per ton al s. d Tanflold Moor l4 0 Wylam West Wylam 15 0 North Percy Hartley _l3 0 Davison's West Hartley 16 0 Bebside's Hartley 16 0 Walker Primrose l4 0 Tanfield Moor Butes 14 0 WAllsend, &o. Russell's Hetton 15 9 Stewart's 17 3 Kelloe 16 0 Cassop 16 3 Derweetwater Hartley 15 C Ships at marks' LOCAL SHARE MARKETS. LIVERPOOL, JUNE 3. STOOL EXCHANGE.—The mark e t h as b een mo re 00 t iff d, to-day, and prices of all the leading stocks are a shade o ri , vanced since yesterday, at th e f o ll ow i ng ra t es : —East h Counties, 11i—London and N or th W es t ern, 101i—Pl'ii Rhenish, d.—Manchester, Sheffi e ld, an d Li nco ln, 3 `, 4 --Grand Trunk of Canad a , 16k—N or th E as t ern, Berw m i ck, 224—Ditto, York, 3-4 i—Lancashire and Yorkshire, I,w: —Midland, 831 : 1--South Eastern, 22i 4—Great tern of Canada, 23I—Ditto, new, 1 p. MANCHESTER, JUNE 3. at b STOCK EXCHANGE. —There was a q uiet b us iness, - A . prices wore about station ar y. Sheffields, 42B—Lea d 104---Eastern Counties, 11i—Dovers, 22 Cheshl` Junction, 69—Great Western of Canada, 234—London °, 1018—Sheffields, 61. prof., 6. BIRMINGHAM, JuNN 3. STOCK EXCHANGE. —This market was inanimate to-dfl i but in prices no alteration. London and North-Weste rlio 1011—Ditto, Eighths, new, 3s. 9d. d.—South Stafford* 91—Manchester and Sheffields, 423 43. ETONIANS . IN OPFIOE.—Of the four new Gorern'ta• nt official, just appointed, three are old Etonians, natuo l P Mr. Chichester Fortescue, M.P. for Louth, Under.Secor tary for the Colonies ; Sir John William Ramsden, Bart'' ,r M.P. for Hyth e , U n d er -S ecretary for W ar ; and Mr. I G. Baring, M.P. f or F a l mout h an d Penryn, a Lord o f the Admiralty. M r . F or t escue l e ft Eton for Cb ri ' l Church, Oxford, of w hi c h h e b ecame a s t u d en t (reil° w l graduating in very high classical h onours ; M r . Bart was, we believe, a fellow of Bras e nose, and a l so a gradal" t in honours; Sir John Ramsden was for a short tiros 1 . Cambridge. Alt three are veryyoung tnen,and were at Bw; under Dr. Hawtrees, the present provost. The Speak, of the House, the First Lord of the Admiralty, and Secretary, Mr. Oshorne, and the Chancellor of the Dr chequer, are also Eton men. BIRTHS. OF A SON. On the 2d inst., at Abbotsford, Mrs. Hope Scott. ier On the 2d inst., th e wif e o f the Ito% Cha nd Willey. OF A DAUGHTER. On the 2d inst., at Penge, Surrey, the wife of WIIIIO Th,ttcher, Esq. tb. On the 3d i ns t., a t 3, Arundel-terrace, Barnsburh wife of Mr. W. EL T. Allen. MARRIED, On the 2d inst., at St. Paul's, Winchmore-hill Cl'O r g e ' eldest so n o f G eorge H ar k er , E sq ., o f Woodbury, Sto ke Newington, and Upper Thames-str ee t, e ity, t o Harn ett, second daughter of Frank Gardner, Esq., late of roe ' Swfex. On the 2d inst., at St. Paul's, Deptford, Edward re , r , 13 ,; broke, Esq., of South Lodge, Tul se -hill, t o M ar y Ann, " only daughter of Hesketh D. Wells, Esq., of atteet, Deptford. DIED. ; On the 3d inst., at 28, Bayham-terrace, Mr. / 4 ° -h 9 Dent, aged, 82. On the 2d inst., at Mount Annan Dumfriesshire, V ey tenant-Col. Di row , l a t e Grenadier Guards, aged 63. icac , Ou the 2d i ns t., at M ercury House, Brentfor d , the '— Edward Trimmer, late of Putney, Surrey. aged 57. 0 , On the 2d inst.' at 16, Park village west, Caroline A . the wif e o f R. B.Baxendale, Esq., and daughter of A W° Darro the ch, of Gourock, N. 8., aged 23. arove On Ist inst., Henry Francis Metcalf, Esq., Lodge, New Park-road, Stockwell aged 47. On the I s t i ns t., a t G rove H a ll, B ow , Middlesex, 8i r ....° 13 _ Aldham, fourth son of the late Captain George Aldias'" R On N., and 46. the 31st ult., at Stonehouse, Devon, Major Joseph Reid Jackson, late R.M. Light Infantry, aged 46. to , On the 2d iust„ W. G. Gill, Esq., surgeon, of IslirlS aged 32. - LONDON : Printed and Pnblisbod by MURDO YOU 1 9":;" of No. 112, strand, Printer, at The Sun °Wee, Pl ° 112, Strand, in tho Pxociuct of the Savoy, in the ootaa of Middlesex, Thursday, June 4, 1851. Mo IVY I%TR, bk. IN tact eritie. Siorhing r B tlll 3 may . Poir,ra,lo hag at the. Rost. e 7 c' oFjof the orty of XI. e L Ro a ute n : Th Gaily, at 3 , b nPrtni half, - bi, ord Dast 7 218 6; " 4 bi . g rn ratio gg ""ueraen °ge m COO' ROY: ,/tine `OP] aid other IN Ile, a An, fre Ir e j Rome, M ons and 0 The th e in In rei fro rt l'' "tee titles Thl titl e the akin, I P nth Its n , YMtr , " Pi. 'tilt' of th 140 Eic; atrx razd