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THE NEIV READING-ROOM AND LIBRA. b Erb' Wbition BIES OF THE BRITISH .211USbU3I. YORK RACES.—(This Day.) (BY ELECTRIC TELEORAPII.) GREAT NORTHERN HANDICAP. Skirmisher Pantomime The Dupe 3 Thirteen ran. Won by half a length. Two lengths between second and third. KNAVESMIRE STAKES. Terrific Admiral Lyons Gentle Kitty colt Twelve ran. SPRING ST. LEGER. walked over. ZETLAND STAKES. The new Reading-room of our National Museum and Library is now eubstantially completed. We announced on Thursday last that it would be opened to public view on the Bth of May for a week only, and that on the following week readers will be admitted to its use under the usual regulations of the trustees. In the meanwhile our readers will be interested by an account of one of the most re markable public buildings and architectural won ders of modern times. The Times, in a leading article on the 7th of May last year, contained a general description of the building then in progress; and we humbly conceive that, by our then pro test against any false economy or miserable stint of means for embellishment, we contributed to the perfection of interior decoration. With the ex ception of a brief article in the Builder, of the 24th ot March, 1855, when the foundations were just laid, accompanied by woodcut plans of the in tended area and interior, we are not aw are of any public no ti ce o f this marvellous work. Its site, in the internal quadrangle of the Museum, has concealed its progress from the public eye, although the lofty and capa cious edifice occupies an area of 48,000 super ficial feet. This site was indeed its proper and only situation from the obvious necessity of the new Reading-room being adjacent to the vast magazines of books and manuscripts contained in the various apartments of the Museum. In the public view, therefore, the magnificent structure when visited will appear to have been created by the wand of a magician. Except to a few favoured visitors it is unknoWn and has been unseen. The present number of volumes in our great public library is upwards of half a million ; but even that large figure does not co m p r i se th far larger collection of separate and distinct articles— in tracts, pamphlets, and manuscripts. They are legion, and not yet accurately catalogued or com puted. Probably, theeuormous quantity of pamph lets, political, theological, and scientific of Great Britain, since the Reformation, constitute the Bri tish Museum Library the largest collection of printed literature in the world. Maps also form a rela tively considerable portion. The rats of increase is enormous. In the Parliamentary return for the year ending the 24th of December, 1856, not yet published, it will appear that the last annual addi tions number 10,434 volumes, including music, maps, and newspapers, of which 753 were pre sented, 4,018 purchased, and 5,831 acquired by home copyright. The number of distinct articles in these volumes was 27,516. In addition, the Library had accumulated numerous maps, charts, and plans, variously obtained. The number of pieces of music &one added was 2,347. In gross, the total additional articles that year numbered 42,639. Of the complete works accumulated in the 12 months 1,908 were presented, 2,005 purchased, and 7,933 were acquired under the Copyright Acts. In the same year, also, each article being stamped, the number of stamps used was 162,910 ! The number of books returned to the shelves of the General Library was 110,873 ; to those of the Royal Library, 8,869 ; to those of the Grenville Library, 1,018; to the closets in which books are kept from day to day for the use of the readers, 79,598 ; making a total of 200,358, or 604 per diem. Adding the number of volumes returned to the shelves of the Reading-rooms, about 144,000, the whole amounts to 344,358, or 1,175 per diem. The whole number of readers within that year was 53,209, or an average of 181 per diem, the Read ing -rooms having been kept open 293 days. Each reader had, therefore, consulted on an average 6i volumes per diem. Thus had our giant Library outgrown its local habitation since its foundation in 1753, and when the first contents of " Montagu House," Blooms bury, consisted of the Sloane Collection, including only a few books, the Harleian MSS., and the Cot tonian Library ; Parliament providing no money, but by act authorising the provision of 30,0001. by a Lottery ! The old mansion continued perfectly sufficient for the whole miscellaneous contents of the Museum until a few new rooms were added for the Egyptian antiquities obtained in 1801, and for the Townley Marbles. In 1823 the present entirely new building, designed by Sir Robert Smirke, be came necessary. Montagu House was finally levelled with the ground in 1845, the new portico being only finished April 19, 1847. It is worthy of record that in the month of July, 1759, only five readers attended the public reading-room. The utter insufficiency of the institution for book room and accommodation for readers existed during the last four Parliaments, and without a remedy. The public, the trustees, men of letters in the Leg,i-lature, in vain devised various plans, and de manded pecuniary aid from the Commons. Select committee reports and annual returns followed in rapid arid abortive succession. The blue-books and other Parliamentary papers and privately printed statements would almost fill a private library. It is sufficient now to refer our readers to the two volumes of reports in 1835 and 1836, and to the various Parliamentary returns asked for since 1850 ; to similar Parliamentary volumes on Public Libraries in 1849 and 1850 ; and, lastly, to the effective Report of the Royal Commission (with 800 appended folio pages of evidence) appointed in 1850 to inquire into the constitution and government of the Museum. The practical result was an unanimous representation of the Commissioners that " the subject of additions to the Museum was one which must evidently, at no distant period, engage the attention of her Ma jesty's Government." Mr. Hume, fortunately, was an active member of the Commission, and con curred from honest conviction in the necessity of an early and munificent grant of public money. The aßoyal Commissioners, reporting the inade quacy of book-room, the injury to the valuable contents of the library by the existing reading room arrangements, the slave-labour of the attend ! ants, and the bad accommodation of the readers, stated that " these circumstances have suggested to Mr. Panizzi a scheme of extension by which the buildings to be constructed would consist of new MSS. rooms and a new enlarged reading-room, which would enable the trustees to devote the pre sent MSS. rooms, including that at present made over to the Grenville Library, to the printed books. This report lay dormant almost for four years. " Questions" were constantly asked in the House of Commons as to the intentions of the Mi nisters of the day. The answers were of the usual circiunlocutive character. The ordinary annual vote was now and then opposed by individual mem bers, on the ground of theindeciewn or indifference of the Government to the recommendations ot the Commission. Actually the trustees ono year de clined to take more than half of the sum proposed to be voted for the purchase of books and other ob jects of acquisition, assigning as a true reason that the Museum would be inadequate for the reception of increased contents. Matters thus continued in status quo. In the meantime the difficulty of find ing room for the current accessions to the Library became daily greater. The plan first suggested by Mr. Panizzi, and alluded to by the Commissioners, bad to be aban doned on the ground of expense and delay. As a last resort, Mr. Panizzi proposed to the trustees that a building should be erected in the inner quad rangle of the Museum. By this scheme the cost of purchase would be avoided. This proposal was a, • corupanied by drawings, showing the ground pl an, and a gen era l d e t a il o f the manner in which it was proposed that the interior arrangements for the ac commodation of the readers and of books should be framed. Tie architect of the trustees Mr. Sydney Smirke, was directed to confer with dr. Panizzi on the details of this plan, and reported favourably upon it. It is a remarkable circumstance that, al though some modifications were made by Mr. Panizzi in his ori g inal plan, th e y were u lt imately abandoned, and the schf me, as ho first conceived it, carried out. Mr. Smirke has the great merit that, laying aside all professional jealousy, he has always shown himeelt ready to carry out the plan of the original designer ; and the result is a build ing, than which none are better, few perhaps so thoroughly, adapted to the purposes for which it is intended. Ultimately, on a " Supply night," on the 3d of July, 1854, Parliament, by its lastetyteedn ing vote, on the " miscellaneou s estimate," granted 55,2251. for the "British Museum establishment," towards its ordinary expenditure, and 101,142/. for "new buildings and fittings." In this latter gross estimate there was an item of 61,0001. "for the erection of a building within the interior quad rangle, for the purpose of affording increased ac commodation." One member only " thought the sum a great deal too much." Such was the first vote for the great national monument we are now describing. The first grant was not half enough, as will soon be seen ; still it was a beginning, and laid the foundation. Within three years the vast structure has been completed, at the cost of 150,0001., or about that sum when &l the " ex tras" are accounted for. The building is circular. It does not occupy the entire quadrangle, there being unavoidably a clear interval of from 27 to 50 feet all round, to give light and air to the surrounding buildings, and as a guird against possible destruction by fire from the outer parts of the Museum. The dome is 140 feet in diameter, its height being 106 feet. In this dimen sion of diameter it is only inferior to the Pantheon of Rome by 2 fe e t ; St. Peter's being o n ly 139 ; St. Maria in Florence, 139 ; the tomb of M a h omet, Bejapore, 135 ; St. Paul's, 112 ; St. Soptlia, Con stantinople, 107, and the church at Darmstadt, 105. In other particulars our new dome is far superior. The new reading-room contains 1, 250, 000 c übic feet Ignoramus sister to Ellington Soothsayer Night Ranger..~ Twelve ran. Won by a head. LATEST BETTING. GREAT NORTHERN. 3to 1 age, St. Giles (taken) 7to 2 agst Skirmisher (taken freely) 7to 1 agst Chevalier d'lndustrie (offered) 100 to 7 bar three (offered) 25 to 1 apt Odd Trick (taken) Nothing else named: ARRIVALS. Countess of Westmoreland, Ben Bolt, Rawcliffe, and Princess of Orange. fourtt SUN OFFICE, Seven, o'Clock. NAVAL APPOINTMENTS.—(This Day.) The following appointments were made at the Admi ralty this afternoon : Midshipman—R. H. M. Molyneux to the Vesuvius. Paymasters—Howard E. L P. Bailey to the Assistance; obert T. Rayne to the Adventure. Cleak•—Edward A. Burmeister to the Vesuvius; Henry V. Forrest to the Cambridge; Byron Stratford to the APsistance. Staff Surgeon—James Jenkins to the Belleisle. Assistant Paymasters—Frederick F. Miller to the Adven ture; Charles G. Smith to the Excellent; Robt. H. Lowry to the Royal William ; T. D. Concord (in charge) to the Nerins ; Richard Sainthill to the Nerins ; T. W. Harriott to the St. Vincent; Edwin Harris (in charge) to the Dee; Richard Muuday to the Hastings. Assistant-Clerks— Henry B. Robinson to the Tortoise ; James B. Bertrand to tho Excellent. MEMBERS RETURNED TO THE NEW PARLIAMENT. (From the London Gazette of this evening.) CROWN-OFFICE, APRIL 18. Members returned to serve in the Parliament summoned to be holden at Westminster, the 30th April. County of Surrey—Eastern Division—The Honour able Peter John Locke King, of Woburn-park, Chert •ey ; Thomas Alcock, of King's Wood-warren, Epsom, E.g. Western Division—John Ivatt Briscoe, of For bills, Surrey, Esq. ; Henry Drummond, Albury-park, Surrey, Esq. County of Glamorgan—Christopher Rice Mansell Talbot, of Msrgbam.park, Glamorganshire, Esq ; Henry Hussey Vivian, of Park wern, Glarnorganshire, Esq. Town of Drogheda—James M'Cann, of Stalleen, county of Meatb, Esq. County of Meath—Matthew Elias Corbelly, of Cor balton.hill, Meath, Esq. ; Edward M'Evoy, of Jober tinan, Meatb, Esq. County of Mayo Roger William Henry Palmer, Esq. ; George Henry Moore, Esq. County of Kilkenny—The Honourable Leopold Agar Ellis ; John Greene, Esq. King's County —Patrick O'Brien, Loftus Henry Bland, both of Merrion-square, Dublin , Esqrs. County of Fermanagh —Mervyn Archdall, of Castle Archdall, Fermanagh, Esq ; the Honourable Henry Arthur Cole, of Florence Court, Fermanagh. Borough of Enniskillen—James Whiteside, of Mount joy-square, Dublin, Esq. County of Roscommon—Fitz3tephen Frencb, of Lough Erritt, Roscommon, Esq. ; Oliver D. Grace, of Manta, Roscommon, County of DOnegal--Str Edmund Samuel Hayes, Bart., of Drumboe Castle ; Thomas Conolly, of Cliff, Esq. County of Kildare—William Henry Ford Cogan, of Stepben'e-green, Dublin, Esq. ; David O'Connor Hencby, of stone Brook, Kddare, Esq. County of Sligo—Sir Robert Gore Booth, of Lissa dell, Bart. ; Edward Joshua Cooper, Esq., of Markuee Castle, Sligo, Esq. Bt)rough of Sligo—John Patrick Somers, Esq., of Denbigh-place, London. LONDON GAZETTE —{This Evening.) COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORD-LIEUTENANTS. County of Stafford—Lieut.-CA James Horton to be Deputy Lieutenant. 2d Regiment of King's Own Staffordshire Militia—Lieut. Frederick Alfred Augustus Whyte has been permitted to resign his commision. Royal Wilts Militia--Ensign Alfred Wyndham to be Lieutenant, vice Paton, appointed Quartermaster; Ensign Thomas Edward Pinkett to be Lieutenant, vice Robinson, promoted. Royal South Gloucester Light Infantry Regiment of Lyford Champion, Gent., to be Ensign. Southern Regiment of Nottinghamshire Yeomanry Ca valry—Henry Charlton Staunton, Esq., to be C orne t, v i ce Lowe, promoted ; Hen r y Beevor, Gent., to be Cornet vice Clowes, promoted. , BANKRUPTS. Leonard Dalton, stone merchant, Canal-bridge, Old Kent-road, to surrender, May 5, at half-past two, and June 2, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Lee, official assignee, Alderman bury; Lawrance, Plews; and Boyer, Old Jewry-chambers, City. George Brooke, provision dealer, Leadenhall-market, City, May 5, at twelve, and June 2, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards, official assignee, Basinghall street ; Lawr ance , Pl ews, and Boyer, Old Jewry chambers. Robert Ashling, brewer, Duxford, Cambridgeshire May 4, and June 3, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee, Basinghall-street ; Aldridge and Bromley, South-square, Gray's-inn ; Probert and, Wade, Saffron Walden, Essex. John Shaw and Joseph Shaw, woollen drapers, Shef field, May 2 and June 6, at ten, at the Council-hall, Shef field. 'Brewin, official assignee, Sheffield ; Broadbent, Sheffield. Jobn Pepper and Edwin Addy Holmes, grocers, Shef field, May 9 a nd J une 6, a t t en, at the Council-hall, Shef field. Brewin, official assignee, Sheffield; Chambers and Waterhouse, Sheffield. Michael Neville, brasefounder, Liverpool, May 8 and 28, at twelve, at the Liv e rp oo l Di str i ct Court Bird, offi c i a l assignee, Liverpool ; Dodge, Liverpool. John Wick, electro-plater, Sheffield, May 2 and June 6, at ten, at the Council-hall, Sheffield, Brewin, official assignee, Sheffield ; Smith and Burdekin, Sheffield. Thomas Eva s, grocer, Newtown, Montgomeryshire, May 4 and June 1, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Conrt. Cazenovo, official assignee, Eltion-chambers, South John-street; Jones, Newtown. Samuel Joseph Smith, a'c i meer,'Birmingham May 1 and 22, at half-p as t e l even , a t th e Birmingham 'District Court. Christie, official assignee, Birmingham; Knight and Suckling, Birmingham. Henry Noell, accountant, Phillack, Cornwall, April 30 and May 28, at one, si the Exeter District Court. Hirtzel, official assignee, Exeter; Roscorla and Davies, Penzance; Stogdon, Exeter. Frederick Bliedberg and Marc Saran, commission mer chants, Liverpool, May 4 and June 1, at eleven, at the Li verpool District Court, Cazenovo, official assignee, Liver pool ; Holden and Son, Liverpool. SCOTCH SEQUESTFLATIONS. Mathew Dunlop, farmer, Middleriggend, Slamannan. k[ugh Haddow, coal merchant, Newhaven. Alexander Fraser, coal merchant, Inverness. William Shaw, grocer and potato merchant Dumbarton Thomas draper, Kilmarn oc k. , COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—TIIIS DAY. Amsterdam.... —.• •... 11 , 7 Gibraltar .. .• •• •••• •• •• Rotte Dit ree months .• 11 19! Lel;1:orn .... ••• • •• •• • • 29 5738 rdamto, th, ............ 11 19y, Genoa ..... ••••• .....• :5 7b Antwerp .............. 25 AO Milan .......• ••••• art " 3lB •• •• •• •• .. •• .. 2 50 Venice ...• .• ..•• ...... Alßounburgh .......... 13 8. 7 i Naples •• •• .......... .. 43% tona —•••• •• ........ _ Palermo• .... •• 13014 Faris.... •• .• ... .. •• •• .25 ' 6 Messina .... 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FERMI KHAN AND LORD STRATFOR D DE REDCLIFFF. —We read in the Assentilee Nationale :—":rhe Journal do Teheran received by the last Levant mail contains a note from Ferukb Khan to Lord Stratford de Redciffe, from which it appears that during his stay at Constanti nople the Persian diplomatist evinced the . most . his a all tory spi r it , and the moat pacific t'iyor'lt'", l negotiati ons with the sruba , sador. But being at last out o f patience with Lord Sqatford'd obstinacy, he told him that in consequence at his systematic reqi sal to give any answer to the successive propositions made, he should withdraw the concessions which he bad offered to make for the sake of peace, and should pro ceed at once to France. This document proves clearly that Lord Palmerston wilfully distorted facts when bi told the House of Commons that Lord de Itcdcliffe was n no way responsible for the rupture of the nego iatione." rHE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 21, 1857. of space ; its " suburbs," or surrounding libraries, 750,000. The building is constructed principally of Lon with brick arc h es b e t ween th e ma in r ib s ; sup ported by2o iron piers, having a sectional area oflo superficial feet to each, including the b r i c k cas i ng , or 200 feet in all. This: wiring of space by the use o' iron is remarkable, the piers of support on which our dome rests only thus occupying 200 feet, whereas the piers of the Pantheon of Rome fill 7,477 feet of area, and those of the Tomb of Mahomet 5,593. Upwards of 2,000 tons ofiron have been used in the construction. The weight of the materials used in the dome is about 4,200 tons—viz., up wards of 200 tons on each pier. The first standard was only fixed in January, 1855. The framework and scaffolding upon which the dome rested were re moved on the 2d of the following June. No sub sidence or " set" of material was observable on the wedges being removed. The entire dome was roofed in and copper covering laid in September, 1855. The roof is formed into two separate spherical and concentric air chambers, extending over the wh o l e surface ; one betw een the external covering and brick vaulting, the object being the equalisation of temperature during extremes of heat and cold out of doors ; the other chamber, between the brick vaulting and the internal visible surface, being intended to carry off the vitiated air from the read ing -room. This ventilation is effected through apertures in the soffites of the windows, and partly by others at the top of the dome ; the bad air pass ing through outlets provided around the lantern. In order to obviate the effects of condensation, all the skylights, lanterns, and windows throughout the building are double. The quantity of glass used amounts to about 60,000 superficial feet. In order to guard against the consequences of an avalanche of snow falling from the dome on to the surrounding libraries, the building has been carried up outside perpendicular to such a height above the spring of the arch as to form a gallery nine feet in width, provided with proper outlets by which the snow is intercepted. This vast Dome contains ample and comfortable accommodation for 300 readers. Each person will have a separate table, 4 feet 3 inches long. lie is screened from the opposite occupant by a longitu dinal division, which is fitted with a hinged desk graduated on sloping racks, and a folding shelf for spare books. In the space between the t wo , w hi c h is recessed, an inkstand is fixed, having suitable penholders. Thus the whole table top is free from writing implements or other embarrassments, and every precaution is taken to preserve the books if the readers will but use common care. The framework of each table is of iron, forming ' air-distributing channels, which are contrived so that the air may be delivered at the top of the lon gitudival screen division, above the level of the heads of the readers, or, if desired, only at each end pedestal of the tables, all the outlets being under the control of valves. A tubular footrail also passes from end to end of each table, which may have a current of warm water passed through •it at plea sure, and be used as a footwarmor if the reader have a slow circulation, or perchance there comes a Moscow winter. The Catalogue tables, with shelves under, and air-distributing tubes between, are ranged in two concentric circles around the central superin ts ndent's enclosure or rostrum, the latter being fitted with tables, ticket boxes, and with dwarf partitions sur mounted by glassscreens, dividing a passage leading to the surrounding libraries. The pedestals of the tables form tubes communicating with the air chamber be!ow, which is six feet high and occupies the whole area of the Reading-room. It is fitted with hot-water pipes, arranged in radiating lines. The supply of fresh air is obtained from a shaft 60 feet high, built on the north side of the north wing about 300 feet distant, communicating with a tun nel or sub-way, which has branches or " loop-lines" fitted with valves for diverting the current either wholly through the heating apparatus, or through the cold-air flues, or partly through either, as occa sion may require. The air channels are of suffi cient capacity to admit a supply of freSh air for 500 persons at the rate of 16 cubic feet per minute, and at a velocity not exceeding 1.0 foot per second. For summer ventilation steam pipes, placed at the summit of the roofs and dome, will be heated, and extract the foul air when the external and internal temperature is unfavourable for the purpose. The new Libraries now deserve description. Their arrangement is equally remarkable and origi nal as the other parts of this immense and ingeni ous strusturo. It is calculated that the inner lib rary shelves in galleries within the Dome-room will contain 80,000 volumes. .Two lifts are placed at convenient stations for the purpose of raising the books to the level' of the several gallery fibers. The bookcases are of novel and simple construc tion, the uprights or standards being formed of mal leable iron galvanised and framed together, having hard wood inserted between the iron to receive the brass pins upon which the shelves rest. The framework of the bookcases forms the support for the iron perforated floors of the gallery avenues, and which are generally eight feet wide, he central six ft et, being appropriated to the perforated floor, and the remainder being a clear space b e t ween th e back of the bo o k s and the flooring, and by which contrivance the light from the skylights (in all cases extending to the full width of the avenues) is thrown down the back of the books on each storey, so that the lettering of the backs may be easily discerned throughout the book ranges. Tne shelves are formed of iron galvanised plates, edged with wainscot and covered with russet hide leather, and having a book-fall attached. They are fitted at each end with galvanised iron leather soovered, and wadded pads placed next the skeleton bookcase framing, to prevent injury to the binding when the books are taken out or replaced. Between these pads the skele.on framing of the cases forms an aperture, by which a current of air may pass and ventilation be kept up throughout. The shelves rest upon brass pins, the holes for which are pierced at three-quarters of au inch apart from centre to centre ; but by a contrivance in cranking the shaft of the pin, which may be turned upwards or downwards, this interval is practically halved, and the position of the shelves may be altered time eighths of an inch at a time. There aro 2,750,000 of these holes ! In all cases, except against the external wa ll s , th e bookcases a re double, the books being placed back to back, a lattice of iron work being fixed for their longitudinal separati on , Th us, throughout the whole interior of the new building there are no walls, the division being in all cases formed of a double range of books, back to back. The only exception is at the shelving provided for news papers, a single range of which necessarily occu pies the space of two ranges of books. Three thousand superficial feet of cases are provided for newspapers. For convenience of access to the galleries the staircases have been placed so the, throughout the building, they are within 40 feet of each other. The building contains three miles lineal of book cases, and which in all the cases are eight feet high ; assu wing them all to be spaced for the averaged octavo book size, the entire ranges form 25 miles of shelves. Assuming the shelves to be filled with books, of paper of average thicknes s , th e l eaves placed edge to edg e would extend about 25,000 miles, or more than three times the diameter of the globe ! The cost, about 150,000/., includes the fittings and furniture and the necessary shelves for the working of the existing library establishment i The decoration of the interior dome is happily an exception to the monotonous and dingy shadows usually adopted in this country. Light colours and the purest gilding have been preferred. The great room, therefore, notwithstanding its circular shape, has an illuminated and elegant aspect. The deco rative work may be shortly described :—The inner surface of the dome is divided into 20 compart ments by moulded ribs, which are gilded with leaf prepared from pure gold, the soffites being in orna mental patterns, and the edges touching the adjoin ing margins fringed with a leaf pattern scolloped edge. Each compartment contains a circular headed window, 27 feet high, and 12 feet wide, with three panels above, the central one being me dallion-shaped, the whole bordered with gilt mould ings and lines, and the field of the panels finished iu encaustic azure blue, the surrounding margins being of a warm cream colour. The details of the windows are treated in like manner,—the spandril panels blue ; the enriched coltinin and pilaster caps, the central flowers, the border moulding and lines being gilded ; the margins cream colour through out upon the tops of the main ribs' rests. The mould rim of the lantern light, a hich is gilded and overcoated to correspond, is 40 feet diameter. The Imperialpait,the The, under sash is formed of gilt moulded ribs of a ray-like from a central medallion, in which the Royal monogram is alternated with the terminating ers fringe being ggmafaotsrstmihveeed endsa intond nice, from which the dome springs, wathoas panelstg i w lbt h o f o ur i ne l wholly gilded, bounded ornament.l d b e y d, i the n es Each compartment of the cornice is marked by a bold enriched gilt cousale, which forms at once the The e ip f o o r e t t of of tthheesomraibins, isTidbimaigundeda fboarseoofloorssastlamtuarabryle. statues, the alvent t of which art we ardently in voke. nederrwcon. emanating Between the cornice and the floor the space is filled with the bookcases and galleries of access, the cornice, standards, and railings of which are wholly gilded, the panels of the sotlites of the latter being blue, having gilded ornaments therein. ' The tables and attendants' enclosures are of wainscof„ the chairs of mahogany, the doors being coverer' with Kamp-tulicon. The main entrance into the new reading-room is tiixvo s .from the great Hall, and there are secondary entrances via tin King's Library and the Great Northern Library rooms. We should not do justice if we omitted to give credit to those who richly deerve it for individual aid in this invaluable service of the public. To Mr. Panizzi, as we have shown, is due the merit of the first conception of a single and sufficient struc ture. His indefatigable industry and his untiring interest in the Museum have been devoted to the daily inspection of the works, and he has originated constant and valuable suggeztions in the course of their progress. Some of the trustees have given a similar attention and individual aid. The archi tect, Mr. Smirke, has his merit in the preparation of the original and fi rs t d es i gns . Th e contractors, Messrs. Baker and Fielder, share no common de serts in their professional labours. Indeed, the skill, perseverance, and ingenious resources of their managing partner, Mr. Fielder, have been beyond all praise. All worked together, we understand, without vanity or jealousy, to complete a public reading-room worthy the Museum and their cowl try. It is gratifying to record that such a vast and lofty building has been completed without loss of a single life or any'serious accident. The vexed question of the new catalogue need not be mooted. In fact, the real progress of that laborious and unprecedented undertaking is now unquestionable. The amalgamation of the several catalogues, which are drawn up on various plant, with one catalogue prepared on a uniform plan, is prone ?ding rapidly. Letters A, B, C, D, E, F constitute about one third of the en tire catalogue, and this portion completed will be placed in the new reading-room on its opening ; it will be comprised in 500 volumes. The comple tion of this Herculean work is now under the re sponsible superintendence of Mr. J. Winter Jones, the intelligent successor of Mr. Panizzi in the keepership of the department of printed books, Mr. Panizzi being now the Principal Librarian. It may be the subject of vain regret that such a public building, so perfect and grand within, has no architectural exterior or outward presence. But it must be obvious to all our readers acquainted with the limited area of the Museum ground, and with the extensive buildings already erected, that no sufficient or tolerable new frontage existed consis tent with the proper and more important objects of the new erection. An improved reading-room was the public want and constant demand—an object of utility, not of ornament. Further, any exterior architecture would have been at an enormous cost, for which the House of Commons would not have been justified in providing the means. We must, for our generation probably, be content with this large gain of reading accommodation, superior to any afforded by our continental rivals. We intended to have given the statistics of the chief foreign lib rar i es , o f P ar i s, S t. P eters b urg, Munich, Copenhagen, Berlin, Vienna, Dresden, Madrid, and the Vatican—not for vain-glorious or jealous comparison —all more or less possessed of invaluable and particular treasures, but our limits will not now permit the detail. The fact, however, may be stated, that in number of volumes is the British Museum excelled by the Imperial Library of France alone. Ours, ere many years, with the increase of room and publicatious, may obtain pre cedence in bulk. In value we are already without a rival, and now in sumptuous accommodation for readers we surpass every similar institution in the world. The completion of the new reading-room is an era in the reign of Victoria. —Times. LAW INTELLIGEN6B.-April 20. ARCHES COURT. (Before Sir John Dodson.) ARCHDEACON DENISON'S APPEAL. DENISON, CLERK, V. DITCHER, CLERK. This was an appeal from the decision of the Arch bishop of Canterbury, sitting at Bath as pro-dio cesan in the matter of certain articles administered at the instance of the Rev. Joseph Ditcher, vicar of South Brent in the county of Somerset, to the Venerable George Anthony Denison, vicar of East Brent, and Archdeacon of Taunton. The proceed ings had been instituted under the 13th of Eliza beth, intituled "An Act for the Ministers of the Church to be of Sound Religion," under the pro visions of which the latter gentleman bad been sentenced to deprivation of all his ecclesiastical pro motions for an alleged infraction of the 28th and. 29th Articles. The material part of the pro-dio cesan's judgment, it may be remembered, was in the following terms : " That whereas the said archdeacon, in a sermon preached by him in the Cathedral Church of Wells, on Sunday, the 7th of August, 1853, did advisedly maintain and affirm, " That the Body and Blood of Christ, being really present after an immaterial and spiritual manner in the consecrated bread and wine, are therein and thereby given to all, and are received by all who come to the Lord's table ; and, " That to all who come to the Lord's table, to those who eat and drink worthily, and to those who eat and drink unworthily, th• Body and Blood of Christ are given ; and that by all who come to the Lord's table, by those who eat and drink worthily, and by those who eat and drink unworthily, the Body and Blood of Christ are received ;' " We, the said archbishop, with the assistance and unanimous concurrence of our assessors did deter mine that the doctrine in the raid passages was directly contrary and repugnant to the 28th and 29th of the said Articles of Religion mentioned in the aforesaid statute of Queen Elizabeth, and that the construction put upon the said Articles of Religion by the Venerable the Archdeacon of Taunton—viz., that the Body and Blood of Christ become so joined to, and become so present in, the consecrated elements by the act of consecra tion, that the unworthy receivers receive in the elements the Body and Blood of Christ is not the true or admissible construction of the said Articles of Religion, and that the true and legal exposition of the said Articles is, that the Body and Blood of Christ are taken and received by the worthy re ceivers only, who, i►► taking and receiving the same by faith, do spiritually eat the Flesh of Christ and drink his Blood, while the wicked and unworthy, by eating the bread and drinking the wine, with out faith, do not in anywise eat, take, or receive the Body and Blood of Christ, being void of faith, whereby only the Body and Blood of Christ can be eaten, taken, and received." . . . And where as the said sermon or discourse contains the follow ing among other passages, . . . " It is not true that the consecrated bread and wine are changed in their natural substances, for they remain in their very natural substances, and therefore may not be adored. It is true that wor ship is due to the real, though invisible and super natural presence of the Body and Blood of Christ in the Holy Eucharist, under the form of bread and wine' —we, the said Archbishop, with the as sistaece of our said assessors, did determine that the doctrines in the said passages are directly con trary and repugnant to the 28th and 29th of the said Articles of Religion." In another passage of the judgment similar doctrines set forth in a sermon preached in Wells Cathedral on the 6th of Nov., 1853, were likewise condemned. The two articles referred to are in the following terms :-- "XXTIII.—Of the Lord's Supper. —Th e Supper of the Lord is not only a sign of the love that Christians ought to have among themselves one to another, but rather is a sacrament of our redemp tion by Christ's death, insomuch that to such as rightly, worthily, and with faith receive the same, the bread ' which we break is a partaking of the Body of Christ ; and likewise the cup of blessing is a partaking of the Blood of Christ. Transubstan tiation (or the change of the substance of the bread and wine) in the Supper of the Lord, cannot be proved by Holy Writ, but is repugnant to the plain words of Scripture, overthroweth the nature of a sacrament, and haPa given occasion to many superstitions. The Body of Christ is given, taken, and eaten in the supper only after a heavenly and spiritual manner. And the mean whereby the Body of Christ is received and eaten, is Faith. The sacrament of the Lord's Supper was not by Christ's ordinance reserved, carried about, lifted up, or wor shipped." ‘"XXIX.—Of the wicked, which eat not the Body of Christ in the use of the Lord's Supper.— The wicked, and such as be void of a lively faith, although they do carnally and visibly press with their teeth (as St. Augustine saith) the sacrament of the Body and Blood of Christ, yet in no wise are they partakers of Christ ; but rather to their condemnation do they eat and drink the sign or sacrament of so great a thing." Dr. Phillimore and Dr. Deane appeared for the archdeacon ; Dr. Bayford and Dr. Spinks for Mr. Ditcher. Mr. Ditcher and half a dozen other clergymen were present, but the case did not ap pear to excite much general interest. Dr. Phillunora said be had tendered in the court below a protest containing five pleas against the re port of the commissioners who had sat at Cleve land, and upon the report of whom the subsequent proceedings were all founded. If these pleas, or any of them, were held to be valid, they would put an end to the case ; and it would, therefore, pro bably the most convenient course to argue the protest first. The five pleas of the protest were as follows :-1. That the proceedings of the commis- limners were null and void by reason of the rejec tion of a plea tendered before them, and called re cusat:o judicuna. 2. That the commissioners had refused to bear the defendant either by himself or by his agent upon the subject on which he stood charged. 3. Because the requisitions of the statute with respect to the filing of the depositions, pro ceedings, and report of the commissioners had not been complicd with, the documents having been filed in the diocese of London instead of in the dio cese of Bath and Wells. 4. That the ArchbiShop having sum atoned the de,fendant t o appear before him at Doctor's-common, the archdeacon duly-at tended ; and, as no charges had 13, en proceeded with against him, he was entitled to be dismissed. 5. That more than two years had elapsed between the alleged commission of the last offence charged, and the day on which the archdeacon was cited to ap pear before thew chbishop of Bath. A second pro test had &so been filed to the effect that, inasmuch as the 29th article was not in the imprinted Book of Articles mentioned in the statute of the 13th of Elizabeth, the defendant could not be puni-hed under that act for any alleged contravention of that article. He (Dr. Philmore) suggested that these protests should be disposed of before they went into the merits of the case itself. Dr. Bayford objected to this course as being likely to protract the proceedings to an enormous length. The Court, however, decided to hear Dr. Philli more on the fifth article of the former protest. Dr. Phillimore said the archdeacon had preached three sermons on the Holy Eucharist—the first on the 7th of August, 1853 ; the .second on the 6th of in the same year ; and the thi r d on the 14th Nov.,f May, 1854. The charges relating to this last, however, the court below had not re garded as proved, for the archbishop did not make the least reference to it in his sent rice ; and it would, therefore, not be competent for the pre sent court to eutertain any charges in connexion with the third sermon. Mr. Ditcher made an ap plication to the archbishop on the 20th of October, 1854, and the commission was issued on the 30th of November in that year. It met on the 3d of January, 1555, and male its report on the 10th. The alleged aiticles against the archdeacon were served on the archdeacon on the 4th of August, 1855. The citation of the archdeacon to attend at Doctors'-commons was dated the sth of May last ; and that to appear at Bath was served on the 10th of June. Now, he (Dr. Phillimore) contended that the proceedings were not instituted within the meaning of the 20th section of the Church Discipline Act till this last date ; and that, there fore, the suit was barred by the statute. The object of the preliminary commission was not to inquire whether "further proccedings"shouH be taken, but whether there were any grounds "to institute pro ceedings" at all. Such was the language of the sth, 7th, 13th, and other clauses • and the 20th clause must therefore be construed in conformity with that use of the term. The point had, moreover, been decided by Sir H. Jenner, in the case of " Brooks v. Cresswell" (Robertson's Ecclesiastical Reports, vol. I.), whore it had teen held that the proceedings commenced from the date of the cita tion. The same thing had also been decided by the learned judge himself in the case of the "Bishop of Hereford v. Thompson" (Robertson's Ecclesias tical Reports, vol. If.) At any rate it must be admitted that the quest on was one of very grave doubt ; and, such being the case, the defendant was entitled by every principle of English juris prudence to the benefit of that doubt. Dr. Deane was a'so heard on the Dr. Bayford contended that the commencement of the proceeding dated from the notice of the archbishop to issue the commission ; or, at any rate, from the time a copy of the criminal articles were served upon the archdeacon, which was on the 4th of August, 1855, three clear days within the two years from the date of the first sermon. But that was not all. The court at Bath was the mere creature of the Clergy Discipline Act, and to this day was literally without a name. It would be absurd, therefore, to hold it bound by the rules which had been established by long usage in the regular courts of law. Moreover, the alleged " citation" was not a " citation" in any technical sense ' it was merely a notice when an d w h ere th e cour t would be held. Anyhow, Mr. Ditcher had done every thing in his power to expedite the proceedings, and if delay- had occurred the court would not hold him responsible for the inches of the archbishop, whom it had been found necessary to compel by manda mus to proceed at all. Lastly, the Court of Queen's Bench had virtually decided by the manner in which it spoke of the case, that the proceedings at Bath were the cont;nuation of a suit already begun, not the commencement of a new one. Dr. Spinks was proceeding to address the court on the same side, but Sir J. Dodton adjourned the discussion till this day. POLICE INTELLIGENCE-April 20. MANSION-HOUSE.—Mr. D. W. Harvey, the commissioner of police, and Mr. J. Macgregor, and Mr. M. Ware, two members of the committee of the Ragged School Shoe Black Society, attended at the justice-room. Mr. Harvey, addressing the Lord Mayor, said— It has been ft equently represented to the presiding magistrate in this court, that the police interfere with boys who are endeavouring to earn, as it is stated, au honest livelihood by cleaning the shoes of those who apply to them, such boys not belonging to the society known as the Boys Shoe Black So ciety. In order that the public may understand the principles upon which both this society and the police act in reference to these boys, it is necessary that their minds should be disabused, and that they should understand how utterly impracticable it is to pursue the course that has been suggested, namely, of alldwing every boy to obtain what is called an honest livelihood without the intervention of the police ; whereas, we wish to represent to your lordship that unless these boys submit to government, and are under those regulations which the gentlemen who are here representing the society feel necessary, the result must be that they must be all forbidden ; became if it is once understood that any boy may place himself where he pleases in the City with his box and brushes, pressing to clean the shoes of passers-by, the inconvenience will become altogether intolerable ; while, ou the other hand, if boys have th e i r a ll ot t e d localities, and submit to wholesome regulations, it is a great advantage to them, and not loss to the public. Mr. Macgregor, as a member of the Ragged School Seciety, c 'begged leave to explain the matter. There are two sorts of shoeblacks—those who are under regulation, and those who are free to do as they please. The boys who are under system be long to four societies, all of which are managed in the same way by gentlemen connected with the Ragged School. The bays are selected for good conduct from the Ragged School ; they are under a regular system of discipline and control ; they come at fixed hours ; they go to fi xe places ; they go in fixed numbers, and they have a fixed• rate of payment proportionate to their earnings. A regular system of discipline and of promotion, of reward and punishment is established, and theirre ligious and iitellectual education, as well as their advancement in life, and their preparation for emi gration, is attended to. This costs a considerable deal of trouble, but I am happy to say that, al though very expensive, the whole expenses fi om one end to the other are, in the oldest of the foiir societies, entirely borne by the boys ; and this is the fist instance of a self-supporting reformatory insti tution in the world. The other boys seen in the streets earning money by shoe blacking are wholly without control, they leave at such times as they please, in such numbers as they please, and forsuch purposes as they please. No person is responsible for their conduct, and the question is whether the boys shall be wholly left without con•rol, or whether the discipline that is now extended to those in the Shoe-black Society shall be such a warrant to the public for their good management as would justify the publice in com mitting to the police that exercise of their discretion which is already vested in other eases in the streets The earnings or amount of money taken by the Shoe-black Society have been about 2,5001. during the past year. We think some arrangement ought to be made by which the boys who do not belong to the society should not become an annoyar.ce to the public. The Lord Mayor—l am glad the Commissioner has come to see me upon this subject, because, like many others, I have felt the g rea t ev il lik e ly to arise from what we wish to be a great advantage to the public. I at one time thought that one boy had as much right to wand in the street and black shoes as another. During the last two or three months I have been watching and have paid great attention to these boys, and I believe that the pretence of blacking shoes has been made the means of congre gating pickpockets and thieves, whose system is al most as well organised as that of the Shoe-black. Society. Certainly, the bays belonging to the so ciety do conduct themselves most properly, and since I have occupied this chair not a single charge has been brought against them. If after this the Commissioner complains to me of annoyance to the public occasioned by boys who aro not under the control and government of the society, I shall im mediately endeavour to put a stop to it. I should feel myself perfectly justified in punishing any boys who obstruct the public streets by blacking the shots of passers-by, unless they are under proper control. If you were to form a brigade for sweep ing crossings as well as for blacking shoes, I believe you might'employ about 1,000 boys in the metro polis, and I am sure that passengers would willingly give them a ld. or ld. for their labour. Unfortu nately the present-crossing sweepers are a very 'dis reputable class, and on a ditty day as soon as they have got a pocketful of halfpence they leave their station, and not unfrequently spend their earnings in drink. Mr. Ware—By the end of this Week I believe that a p l an s imilar to that ligge*ted by your ic3A- ship will be tried iu Southwark, when about 20 boys will be employed. The commissioner and the deputation thanked the Lord Mayor for tho attention with which ho had lisened to tht•ir remarks, and withdrew. James Brooke, a ferocious looking fellow, was charged with an unprovoked assault. Frederick Malcowbe, a iner3hant carrying on business in London Wall, said—Late on Saturday night, as I was passing through Lombard-street, tLe prisoner rushed against me, giving me a most severe blow. It was a most wilful blow. Tho pri soner is a perfect stranger to me. Several constables said that the prisoner was a most dangerous character, and was in the constant habit of ill-treating children in the street without the slightest provocation. He had repeatedly been in custody for assaulting persons in the street, as well as upon the charges of robbery. The Lord Mayor—This is not the first time you have been hers upon the charges of assault and theft. The gentlema-i may think himself fortunate that you did notsucceedinrobbing hint ot his watch. The prisoner was sent to prison for 21 days, with hard labour. GUILDHALL.—John Samuel Thorne, a porter in the employ of Mr. Barnard Muller, a furrier, of 172, Ablersgate-street, was charged with stealing forty-two-sable tails, value four guineas, the plc) perty of his employer. The sable tails were missed, and found in the pri soner's possesson. The prisoner confessed that he hid taken a false step, and was very sorry for it. Between 8/. and 9/. was found in his possession, and it was stated he had been about 10 or 12 years in his mister's service. The prisoner was remanded. WORSHIP-STREET.—Wm. Woodie, a hard ened looking youth, about 19 years of age, was placed at the bar, before Mr. D'Eyncourt, charged with having assaulted his father, a coachmaker, in New-inn-yard, Shoreditch, and also with cu , tingaud wounding a police-constaide, who apprehended him. Davidge, G 159, who was evidently in a state of severe exhaustion, and appeared with his face en veloped in binrlages, stated that while on duty in Curtain-road, Shoreditch, on the previous after noon, he was suddenly accosted by the prisoner's father, who expressed his intention to give his son into cu'tody for having brutally ill-treated him. Witness accordingly accompanied him to his house, which he was about to enter, when the prisoner rushed forward and struck his father a violent blow in the face. Witness endeavoured to protect the old man, but when he seized the prisoner by the collar he fixed his teeth in the upper part of his thumb, which he bit so severely as to compel him to release him. The prisoner then retreated into a back room, where ho caught up two table-knives, which lie brandished, and declared he would mur der the first man who ventured to approach him. Witness was attempting to disarm him, when the prisoner made a rapid thrust at his breast, which cut through his coat and under-clothing, and im mediately afterwards stabbed him in the face, and inflicted a frightful gash under his left eye. He was almost blinded with the blood which flowed from the wound, but he managed to get out his trun cheon, and at length the prisoner was overpowered and secur d. The prisoner's father, a respectable elderly man, who wept biterly while giving - his evidence, en tered into a sad relation with regard to the profli gate habitsand turbulent conduct of the prisoner. The prisoner was ordered to, be remanded for depositions. WESTMINSTER.— A native of China, who gave the name of Hudson, was charged with begging. A policeman stated that, at half-past three on Sunday afternoon, he. found the defendant seated upon the pavement in the Brompton-road, hat in hand, collecting alms. He then removed a few paces, and sat down again, as though he was very ill. He received more money there, and upon the constable's taking him into custody, declared that all the money he had got was the amount in his waistcoat pocket, seveupence, but upon searching him sixpence was found concealed in a rag under his armpit ; sevenpence more in a private waistcoat under all his clothing, and some leaf tobacco and inciters secured next his skin on the middle of his back by his flannel waistcoat. Jr. was stated by the constable that the defendant understood English very well when taken into cus tody, but his acquaintance with it appeared to have completely evaporated, and, as the worthy magi strate was completely puzzled to know how either to communicate the particulars of the charge or re ceive the accused's reply in any intelligible tongue, defendant was remanded till to-day fur an interpre ter. William Blakewell, a boy of 14, was charged with robbicg William Hart of his watch, value 91. —He was remanded. MARYLEBONE.—Ann James, aged 18, and Mary Burke, aged 19, well-dressed fem des, were charged before Mr. Broughton with stealing 36 yards of gingham from the shop of Mr. Johnson, linendraper, Edgware-road. It appeared from the evidence of police-constable Parsons, 182 D, that on Saturday night, about 9 o'clock, he was on duty (in private clothes) in the Edgware-road, when he observed the prisoners to gether. They were strangers to him, but from their manner he thought that they wanted an opportunity to take property from some shop or other. They stopped at the house of Mr. Johnson, where the prisoner James entered. He observed that she cut a cord, on which hung several pieces of muslin and gingham. After doing that they both went away. In about half a minute they again proceeded to the shop, and then Burke dragged away one of the pieces, which she put under her shawl. They were about to run away, when he ran up and secured both prisoners. In the struggle Burke dropped the property from under her shawl. At the Aa tion-house, he (Parsons) found upon James half-a dozen yards of sheeting, for which he has to find an owner. There was also a printed card. The words on it were as follows :—" To be raffled for, on Thursday, April 30th, at the Swan, Chequer alley, a gold ring, for the benefit of Rt. Blount, who has come out of trouble. Dancing to commence at 8 o'clock. Sixpence each membr. Ned Crum), chairman." The ring was on the prisoner James's finger. _ Mr. Broughton directed the inspector, who was present, to report to Mr. Hughes, the superinten dent of the division, that great credit Ira duo to Parsons for his vigilance. The prisoners were remanded for a week. GREENWICH.—SamueI Morris, a pork-but cher, at Forest-hill, Sydenham, was charged with travelling on th e L on d on an d Brighton Railway without paying his fare. On the 30th March last the defendant arrived at the Sydenham station by the Epsom train, and being unable to produce his ticket the full fare from the place whence the train started was demanded. This he refused to pay, saying that a friend, who would arrive by the next train from Forest-bill, had taken tickets for two, and would produce them. Mr. Inspectm An3cm:the, of the Brighton Rail way Company, said he called upon the d.efetidant about four days afterwards for the fare, which he not only refused to pay, but said he (witnees) was one of those vagabonds whom he had to pay tu wards keeping. The defendant said that himself and a friend ar rived at the Forest-hill station just as the bell rang for the departure of the train, and his friend ob tained tickets for both, but after be ran out to the platform the door was suddenly closed, and his friend prevented him from taking his seat in the train. Mr. Adams, the frie nd in question, a master gar dener at Sydenham, corroborated th e s t a t ement, adding that on finding defendant had gone by the train, he had the money returned to him which he paid for the second ticket. Mr. Seeker said the servants of the company were perfectly right in demanding the full fare from the place whence the train started. The de fendant must pay a penalty of 10s. and costs. The defendant—l will not pay the fine. • M rSec keri—min -Tl e te d i order a distress war rant to issue Defendant l e ft th e court w i t h ou t paying the fine. EMIGRATION FRO'3I THE NORTH OF SCOTLAND.—The Spring fleet has just sailed for Canada from the north east ouast of Scotland, carrying o ut 1,600 passengers. They are chiefly agricultural labourers, and for the most part young and newly-married people. Large sums of money continue to be received from ,ettlers in Upper from Canada who h a d prev i ous ly gone out, cheer,; Aber deenshire, and there is every prospect that bete:: many years few agricultund labourers will be left at how:: Wages have risen, but when we state that the hi g h es t rates do not e xceed 201. alear, it will not be thought sarprising. [ADVERTISEUENT.]—HoIIoway's Pills the most effec tual remedy discovered for the cure of liver complaints, a disease most distressing in its effects, deranging all the proper functions of the organ affected, and undermining the constitution, producing feverish symptoms, restless ness, melancholy, languor, weariness, inability to ci ep, pain in the side, until the whole system becomes enfeebled, and the end is fatal. But thousands have gratefully tes tified to the wonderful virtues of these pills, striking at the root of the malady, and stimulating the stomach into healthy action.—Suld by all Medicine Vendors throughout the world ; at Professor Holloway's Esta blishments, 244, Strand, London ; and 80, Maiden-lane, New York ; by A. Stamp, Constantinople; A, Guidicy, Smyrna; snd E. Muir, Malta, ' • " Sporting Intelligence. T ATTERSALL'S—NIoNDAT. Miring .the early part of the afternoon the room was numerously attended, but in order to leavo London kr York by the Great Northern express, subscribers di"' persed before the usual hour. The settlement of the past week's accounts engrosse d nearly all attention, the betting was very limited, and, with one or two exceptions, unimportant. GREAT NORTHERN lIANDICAP.—St. Gies only waq in demand. At first 5 to 2 was taken freely about bin ), subsequently 9 to 4 wag booked, arid at the do es solve business was done at 2to 1. Skirmisher and Chevalier d'lndustrie were backed at 9 to 2 each, and that pries was obtainable about either with little difficulty through' out the afternoon. 15,000 to 30 was hid against St Giles winning the Gr ea t N orthern and Chester Cup, on " Anton the Two Thousand and Derby. 1,400 to 20 g' 9 l hid against St. Giles winning the Great Northern, an' Warl , ck the Chester Cup. Two THOTJSAND.—Kent was steadily supported. Much money was invested on him at 4 to 1, and at the clme 7 to 2 was taken to nearly 2001 Several investmentg wore made on Anton at 5 to 1, 11 to 2, and 6 to 1 ; 600 to 100 wa.s taken about Loyola, who was backed for, various smaller sums at the same rate o f odds. 500 to lo was bid against Kent's winning this event, and Learn' gton the Chester Cup. 1,000 to 20 was laid again' ,. Loyola's w i nn i ng t hi s event an d the Derby, and 2,5 0 0 to 5 was betted ag,airort Lambourne's winning this event and Blue Jacket the Derby. CriEsTrn CUP.—Leamington and Mincepie were a l usual in brisk demand. The odd s quo t e d against Dui' samara, were taken to 100/. DE HBY. — No . transantion relative to Blink Bonny cam, ‘ „ ° under our notic e . 1 , 5 00 to 100, 1,400 to 100, anti 2,4 0 , to 200 were tak en a b out Anton. 100 to 6 was booked to some money about Arsenal, the takers offering to go on at the price. Scott's lot does not this year comPri g° any very formidable animal, for 1,000 to 5 was betted five times against Athlete, and 1,000 to 5 once again st Colonist. CLOSING PRICES. GREAT NORTHERN HANDICAP. 2to 1 agst St. Giles (9 to 4 taken freely) 9to 2 agst Skirmisher (taken and offered) 9 to 2 agst Chevalier d'lmlustrio (taken awl Cu 200 to 0 agst Siding (taken) CHESTER CUP. 6to 1 agst Leamington (taken) 13 to 1 agst IVlincepie (taken and offered) 20 to 1 agst Dulcaniara (taken) 30 to 1 a_st Zig ZAg (taken) 50U to 5 apt Lance (taken) TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS. 7 to 2 agst Kent (taken) 11 to 2 apt Anton (taken and offered) 6to 1 agst Loyola (taken) 6 to 1 agst Vedette (taken and offered) 10 to 1 agst Sydney (offered) ONE THOUSAND. 5 to' 4 agst Blink Bonny 3 to 1 Ayacanora 6to 1 agst Tasmania DERBY. 12 to 1 agst Anton (taken) 100 to 6 agat 4rsenal (taken) 25 to i agst Tournament (taken) 25 to 1 agst Sprig of Shillelagh (taken) 25 to 7 agst Lady Hawthorn (offered) 40 to 1 agst Wardermarske (taken) 50 to 1 agst Chevalier d'lndustrie (taken) 1000 to 5 agst Athlete (•aken and offered) 1000 to 5 aget Colonist (taken and offered) THE Two THOUSAND GUINEAS, &o.—The Lod ° Racing Indicator of Monday next, price sevenpenet will contain Chifney on the Newmarket Spring.Meetingt with probable winners. Private Circular on . a turitig next. Enclose 12 s t amps an d di rected envelope. Seat twenty -tine winners l as t wee k. Offi ce, 1, SavorbillP Strand, London. Country Markets. ,D-A rßir, 17. best wheats was to•clay(0 4 ; tualities wer e diffi cu lt to 9% corn firm, without altelaPQ" I. s , 3 0 Oats, per qr. 24 4 3 Peas, Partrid ge .. 4 16 4 White 39 6 Boiling )9 4 5 9 Dun 31 9 5 Beans, Tiek . 35 4 1 Harrow ticks 39 5 6 Mazagan 3 4 31 Ditto, new 3* CHELMSFO An advance of is per qr. on plied with, but second-rate q at last week's rates. Spring . in value. Wheat, white, old, per a. a. qr 32 70 new 35 69 red, old 30 60 new 3O 60 Barley 35 4G Chevalier 40 61 Grinding 35 46 Malt 73 77 Ch9valier 75 79 Official Statement of the Quantities of Corn, &c,,' in the port of London, f rom th e following Forts, fl ° — April 13 to 18, both inclusive. „.; • . 3 g gOl 0 $34 Colchester 47 200' 58 3 Harwich 3l „u o Leigh Slaldon COLCHESTER— APRIL 18. COLCHESTER —APRIL 18. A fair supply of wheat. There is more life in the WI than for several months past, at is to 2s per qr. over 1.0 week's currency. B ar l ey l ess i nqu i re d for, the malting r o season having drawn near ly t o a c l ose. B eans and poo l - without any material change. Prices to-day were as f o l lo w :—Wh ea t, w hit e , 56s to 6 1 red, 46s to 565; barley, 44s to 48s ; oats, 23s to 2k Mazagan, 34s to 368; middle and small, 36s to 44e; white, 3SB to 42s ; grey, 40s to 425. DY—APR/L 18. To-day we had KIRKCA only a f L ew sacks of wheat, barlif, o . oats at market, not a tithe of our ordinary supply. quick. i. Wheat. Barley. ! O a ts. 1 ) 3 ° n od First s6s Od 41s Od 30s Od 91 o d Second Third 34s Od 35s Od 24, Ud I 00 Oatmeal, 36s to 38s per bag of 2801 b. r.—ArniL 20. the close of the market. Walleend, ita. 0 v g Framwellgate i6 0 Haswell lietton lB 6 Lambton ll 6 Plummer l6 6 KuuselPs /Eaton l l i 9 ionth lletton 11 a itewart's. 18 p 17 Cassop , 0 Hartlepool Hotton li. 6 Ileugh Hall 1 0 6 Kelloe 1 6 9 south Kelloe 16 0 roes lO 0 Whitworth l b 6 Caradoe l6 6 Braddyll l6 t, 122 ; sold, 69. • COAL MARK Prices of Coals per ton at s d Bates's West Hartley 15 0 Bell's Primrose 13 0 : Buddle W. Hartley l7 3 Howard's West Hartley Netherton 17 3 Longridge's Wst Hartley 17 3 Tanfield Moor l3 3 Tan field Moor Butes 13 3 Walker Primrose l3 9 West Hartley Grey's...J.6 9 Wylain Hastings' Hartley l7 3 North Percy Hartley _l5 0 Wal isend, &a. Acorn Close l6 9 Eden Eden Main l6 6 Denison 16 6 Ships at mark& LOCAL SHABA MARKATS. LIVERPOOL, APRIL 20. L STOCK EXCHANGE. —Th e mar k et was somewbs.a ore to-day, and not much b us i ness d one. The following "/4h the sales : Caled on i ans A'', 341 i—London and ,to• Western, 105 4l—M anchester, Sheffield, and Lin,,„%th shire, 39, 1 9 9%—Lanca s hi re an d Y orks hi re, 101i—fcoti Eastern, 2.j o—Eastern Counti es , 11.8.9. Trunk of Canada, 16i —Great Western of Canada, ' so t —Ditto, new, 2i prem. ea div.—Blackburn 81 Lancashire, 98i—Midlands, 82k. MANCHESTER, APRIL 20. STOOK EXCHANGE.—The market today was 0 0 —.1 - 0 very quiet business, b u t pr i ces were s li g htl y flrroe'do, the close. London and North Western, .105—Mid i gh f—South Eastern and Doyen, 22 7-16---Leeds. lv Grand Trunk of Canada, 16 i—Shatfields 39i lot $ London and NorthWeetern, Eighths, Assurance, 7 pin. BIRMINGHAM, APRIL 20. STOCK EXCHANGE. --The market wa s d o ing p elf limited business to-day, but prices remain st.wly, 11 : 0 0- marks of SAturday. Great Western Birmingham Gt o tb. teed, 73 Midland Derby, 53i---Stour Valleys, 81- - "'" Staffords, 94. —.4 BIRTHS. OF A SON. If e II On the 19th inst., at Lee, K en t , th e w if e o f Arthur - V ° May, Esq. W l ' . On the 20th inst., at 12 , Clift on Villas, Maida-bill, -- do , of Edmund P. A. Thompson, Esq. OR A DAVOIITER. abliN On the 18th in s t., a t 43 , U pper M oun t-street, Lady Burke. w.-- Oda On the 20th inst., at 12, St. Paul's Villas, St. Pa Islington, the wife of Mr. Twynam G. Shaw. M A 11.11, 6 11.4 . - On the 17th inst., at St. Paul's, Newington, GeorgeLf.a*ges, son of the late Rev. James Willins, rector of Melton o pll in the County of Norfolk, to Jane Elizabeth Mary " D 'Oara . child of William Simpson, Esq., of Bradmoro Rou se, mersmith. Joho, the On the 18th inst., at St.- Mary's Church, Dover, Sarah. youngest son of the late John Boom, of Folkeston e, toot tpe Kelcey, fourth daughter of the late George Janewab same place. D I E D. On the 20th inst , at Albion-square, Ralston, NathL .13°1. den Layers, Esq., aged 53. -0 ~harf i On the 19th lust., at tho house of her son-in-laif, -,"".„ea Eato ,: , Esq., in Meeklenburgh-square, Mrs. Saunders, P° 92. al b ' On the 18th ,inst, at Leamington, Joseph fl for Esq., of Belle Vue, i; r .akefield Dep.-Lieut. and JY. , West Riding, aged 68. o° l6 On the 18th iust,, Mr. Benjamin Ifowton, of Thayer -5 Manchester-square, aged 68. I /. 1;° On the 17th hist , at Sydenham, Lieutenant-Colone Pond, Ist European Bengal Fusiliers, aged 45. ro ad On the 17th hist ,at Marlborough-road, Old Ken t$ Mr. Thomas Jackson,. aged 67. Ifeti lielP On the 18th inst., Thomas Dear, Dunford House, oldsvi os Yorkshire, aged 70. 112, `beard, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in th e 4° LOoNfDNONo: Iplr2i,ntSedtraantudl,Pfurbiloi4hteerd, a b t y Tl 3" ; R&D:Oro:15i of Iliddlosex, Tneslay, Aril 0 4 107. - .r;' i I I 1 • PI tt fa C. az ant ellf ext are me Ca ac th,