The Express.
London, England, 1862-05-05 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, MAY 5, 1862,

BANQUET AT THE ROYAL ACADEMY.

On Saturday evening the President and members
or the Royal Academy entertained a distinguished company

at dinner ia their spit men* Trab/gar-equare, previous to

_ . .
the opeaing of the exhibition. The doors were opened at
two o'clock, and soon after that hour the guests began to
arrive, oocopying themselves till dinner was aononnoed in
viewing the gems of British art which adorn the walls of
the Academy.

Sir CIIARLii EISTLAKI, the President of the Royal Aca-
demy. officiated as chairman.
The cloth having been removed,
The PRFAIDEN r rose, and, in • few words of respectful
sympathy, propsed as the brat toast "The Health of her
Majewty the Queen."
The tout was drunk with all the honours, and followed
by the National Anthem.
The PRG•gDENT, in giving the next toast, "His Royal
Highness the Prince of Wales and the rest of the Royal
Famil," said—Every society at its anniversary in this year
bas, for the Awn time, to orni! a revered name—• name

which this institution, connected as it is with thi;
roust ever hold in honour, and which cannot now be
over in silence ; more especially when the opening i=se
mod International Exhibition in England reminds us of the
wisdom and perseverance which conducted the lint gnash
enterprise of the kind to a successful termination, (Cheer.)
We have to speak of the los of one who was a nalens
friend and promoter of art—(hear, hear)—the enlightened
adviser of its profenon—(hear, hear)—of one who, with
the best right to be a severe critic, was ever ready to ex-
tend to them his sympathy and encouragement ; and who,
with high aspirations for the future of art, took the
warmest interest in the efforts and productions of hie own
time. (Loud cheers.) Nay their Royal Highnesses whose
health I have now the honour to propose inherit the kindly
nature, the love of knowledge, and the public and private
virtues of his Royal Rieman; the Prince Consort. (Chem-)
Glee (four vacs)—" Oh, the Spring, the bountiful
Spring I"
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The Parunint—We are honoured on this
.00casio.n.7rith

the presence of an fflnairons foreign guest, his Royal High-
ness the Crown PriDoo of Prussia—(cheers)—who elorl►
connected with the royal family of England, has a double
claim to our moppet sod attentioa. (Cheers.) Elia royal
li.ifhnesabas bees pleased to vials this oonotry as the pito
meat of a l'timalaa Commission oe the 001:011.1.41 of the

opening of the laternational Exhibition. We have the
honour to offer him a most respectful and most cordial wel-
come, and I take thiicipportimut7 of congratulation hie royal
bighocai on the sdenrablio specimens of art and industry
which Prolate has furnished to that great Exhibition.
(Cheers.) Those works must excite the generous emulation al
the con tributon from other countries, all whom have done
themselves honour i and we are thus led to feel that emit
international rivalries, by stimulating invention sad is-
duatry, by facilitating the intercourse of nations, and by
developing and enlarging their commercial resources, moat
tend to promote the general love of peace. I give you
" The Ilealthol kis Boyd Highness the Crown Prom a
Prwwia."

The toast was drank amid much cheering.
His Royal Highseas the Prince of Namara, who was.
loudly theered, _said—Bir Charism Reatiake, your Royal
Highness, my lonia, and Fathom, I hope that the grati-
tude which I fed for the cordiality with which you have
bees pleased to propose end receive my health will sot be
measured by As manner in which I return thanks for it, as
am sorry to say I fear I shall not be obit toe:emo my
feelings as I should perhaps be able to do WWI 1 lower
accustomed to the language of this dear country.
cheerio.) I thank you, gnat of ell, for the way in whictayload
have been kind enough to speak of my near relationship to
the royal family of England (cheer.) ; nor can I on such
an occasion omit referring to the km which this country
has recently sustained—o km felt so intimately by your
royal family and also by my own. (Cheers.) We have all
heard from the president how that lon his been felt here,
and lam happy to say that Ia my own country the same
monumental feeling will always remain associated with
the memory of that dear Prince who was takes so suddenly
from ua (Chests.) It is Dot semesery for me to my bow
happy lam to be able to be menet at this peat festival
of peso,, and, at themes time, to homer the great under
4akisg which we owe to the manor mind of him I was so
proud to regard as may father-ia-law. (Chests.) I have also,
Six Charles, to thank you for the meaner is which you spoke
just now of the state of art sad eeknos into v own country,
end particularly of the article@ sent to the Great Interna-
tional Fahibition. lam happy to think, from the way in
which that reference of the president was received, that
you all appear to epee with him on that point—(Chearn—
arid I hope I can say that the same feeling for English art
is reciprocated by my country. (Cheers.) Perhaps I may
be allowed to say, as I am proud to say, that the Princess
Royal of year country is one of the first repreasnatives of
English art in my country. (Meek cheering.) Returning
thanks again for the Idea way in which I have been re-
ceived, I tan only add that I hope it will be a sew tie
strengthening those warm sympathies I have always felt
for this great country ; and, more than this, that the strong
sympathy which always existed in my tows heart will in
and the great fatherland of Germany, be more and
more and for ever maintained. (Loud cheers.)
The Paxawunv next gave " The Army and Navy, and
the Volunteers," connecting with the army the name of hie
royal highness the Commander of the Forces, with the navy
the name of the First Lord of the Admiralty, and with the
yolunteers that of Lord Eltho. (Cheers.)
The toast was drunk with much cordiality.
The Duke of ()AMMER= having briefly acknowledged the
toast, added—l cannot sit down without expressing my
strong appreciation of the noble sentiments we have just
heard from the illustrious Prince on the other aide of the
chair. (Loud cheers.) I believe I may my, without the
slightest flattery to my illustrious relative, that the senti-
ments he has exp-sesed have been most acceptable to this
distinguished commey—(cheer)—and that they will be
mostcordially received and echoed by this entire great coun-
try with which he is proud to be associated. (Loud cheers.)
The Duke of Boynton, in the course of a short
speech, said—l have observed in going round these
rooms that there are Dot many pictures relating to the navy,
and I believe that in future years it will be found more
difficult still to immortallie the deeds of the Brinell navy in
pictures. (Cheers, and a laugh.) How you are ever to pro-
duce pleasing pictures of vessels with no matte and no sails,
low hulls, creeping along, mere black objects in the water, I
know not— (Laughter and applause)—but I have no doubt
the skill of the Royal Academy will get over that difficulty.
I must say I look forward with no little interest sad plea-
sure to seeing these pictures immortalised io future exhibi-
tions. (Cheers and laughter.) I beg again to thank you
for the honour you have done to the British navy. (Cheers.)
Lord ELCHO returned thanks in the name of the Volun-
teer service.
The PRICSIDYNT gave " The Health of the Noblemen and
Gentlemen who this day honour the Academy with their
presence." (Cheers.
The taut was deceit with all the honours.
The Loan CHARCELLOR was loudly cheered on rising
to acknowledge the toast. He proposeed "The Health of
the Pendent and Members of the Royal Academy."
(Loud cheers.)
The Patemeirr, after @sprain the thanks of the
Royal Academy, with some complimentary remarks on
the Lord Chancellor's speech, proposed the health of her
3.lajesty's ministers.
The toast was drunk with loud cheers.
Viscount PALMIER/WI, who was received with much
cheering, rid,—Sir Charles Eastlake, your Royal High-
nor, my Lords and gentlemen,—On the part of her Ma-
jesty's ministers I beg to return you moat cordial thaaks for
the honour you have done a, sot only in inviting us to be
members of this distinguished assembly, but also in pre-
paring as you have now been kind moues to do, our health.
Its needless. I am sure, we should say her Majesty's minis-
ters feel the deepen interest in the promotion of the fire
arts in this country. (Cheers.) It is no merit on our par is
to entertain that feeling, because it is impossible that any
public men charged with the conduct of the affairs of a
great country should be insensible to the advantage arising
from the promotion of the) fine arts. It is a pursuit which
dignifies and ennobles both those who practise it and those
who admire the productions of these by whom it is practised.
(Cheers.) Like the quality of mercy, it is doubly blessed—
is blessed in those who themselves display the genius they
possess, and it enlarges the sphere of enjoyment on the part
of the public, who are taught to naderstand, to value, and
admire the works of genius—(cheers)—and I am sure we must
all of us feel highly gratified, not merely by the display
which these walls pow afford of the works of &With pint;
but by the records of the same kind which are now exhi-
bited in that larger building—larger certainly, and perhaps
better adapted for the purpose, than that in which we have
DOW the honour to aseemble—(cheers)--an Exhibition in
which, as his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge has
well and in good English idiom expressed it, the artists of
England hold their own. (Cheers.) It is needles, to say
that the cultivation of the fine arta is a kind of cosmopo-
litan freemasonry ; it one as a bond of union between
different nations. who are taught by rivalry in these arta a
generous epirit of emulation, and also mutual and reciprocal
admiration. (Cheers.) I. said that her Majesty's govern-
ment must netemarily entertain the strongest desire to
encourage and promote the lite arts ; but I am aware that
there is one charge to which we are liable, though I
think there it a defence to be made against it. We may
be said, in one respect, to be the enemies of the fine
arts, for it is well known that them are no sub-
jects more inspiring, none that give greater scope to the
development of creative genius than the event. of war. We
have seen examples ; I need only remind you of that msg.
nifioent work of Mr. Madise—(cheap)—which is cow adorn-
ing the walls of that buildin grog which the great issues of
peace and war ere perpetually (Cheers.) Yin are,
therefore, so far, I admit, apparently the enemies of the fine
arta, became it is the study, the °Nest, and the desire of
her Majesty's government to avoid war end to maintain
peace--(elieirs)--on far depriving the arts of soine:of thebeet
tisliztruities of illustration. But we trust that past
will yet .ford sufficient unexhousted sub.
j7ctTior the creative genius of all living artiste. It must
be membered, too, that " Peace has her victories as
well war," and that peacealio may afford subjects for
the pencil an chisel of the artist quite ea inspiring and as
snaohliog as any of the events that are mended in the
annals of hostility. (Cheers.) I don't wish to detain you.
but I men advert to two eireamstasess which am
peculiar to our preterit is the einnumitenese
which has been alluded tmsosirrh Duke d Osaibridge
—the premium, moody at our board of en of the
most di Ainguished prh;cies that Europe een eas
(theare)-- a pnnoe happily couseeted with the royal family

of this canary by a union which I trust will be productive
of happiness to all parties conoemed—(cheers)—a prince as
illustrious 5040 ennobled by the sentiments you have
baud from him as he is by the distinguished lineage
from which he is sprung. (Cheers.) There is another
ofreussatance marking this day, though of a different
character, which was adverted to by Bir Charles &a-
kin, the President, in cue of the toasts he had to propose.
We have lost one of the most distinguished patrons of the
be arts in this country. That eye, which was accustomed
with discriminating power to perceive merit where other
parties would not have found it, to follow out the work-
sap of genius in all their details—that eye is now chair'.
Those lips which need with the utmost judgment to award
praise to the suiressful efforts of genius, to give encourage-
ment to struggling talent not yet brought into the full
blase of fame—those lips are now closed for ever ; and
that band which used to dispense largely encouragement to
art in all its branches is now lifeless and cold. That is •
melancholy reflection which it might not, perhaps, have
been seemly for me to introduce on the present occasion,
but the manner in which the President adverted to the
loss sustained mace me feel that that loss will
be felt by the artists of this country as deeply, per-
manently and sincerely as by any. other clan of her
lEl'4C:subject. (Cheese.) I beg again, on the part of my
and myself, return you our best thanks for
e to
the honour you have done us, and to assure you that we
feel highly gratified for having been permitted to amid on
this moron. (Loud cheers.)
The Parethmer proposed, firms to the International
Exhibition, and the health of her Majesty's Commissioners."

(Loud cheers.) _
Earl Gnaw/tux, who was loudly cheered, said—Sir
Charles Eastlake, your Royal Highnesses, my lords and
gentlemen—l cannot forget that more than ten years ago
I had the honour hers of responding to a similar toast. I
then Mood as the unworthy representative of that great
Priam to whom 'you have alluded, and whore merits have
been so well described by Lord Palmerston, sad, palace,
even more strikingly. by the illustrious Prince in • speech
remarkable for its simple and truthful slavering', which,
by a touch of feeling concerning one of whom this
country is proud, went directly to all our hearts.
(Cheers.) It would be superfluous to say, in answer to
your ripped, Sir Charlie, the immense facility we have
received in our work from the previous labours of the
Prince Consort. (Cheers.) I now speak in the name of the
oommierioners, whose only ambition it was to make this
enterprise not altogether unworthy of the one that preceded
it, and of thorn I trust which will follow. The Lord
Chancellor spoke of the pride which be felt on this ocea-
sion in showing these walls to foreigners; but I cannot
doubt that he alluded morn to the contents than to the
building which contains those beautiful pictures. (Cheers.)
Lord Palmerston, with that statesmanlike discretion which
characterises him, without distinctly committing himself,
=to understand that a larger sad more commodious
might be desirable. I remember some years &go—
nad the fact is more impreared on my memory from itsbeiog
an instance of the singularly harmonious effect which three
meetings of the Royal Academy has in bringing together
of all political parties—certain pledges were made
persons
distinguished members of opposite politics, when I
do not clearly remember whether it was Lord John Russell,
now Earl Russell, who promised that Mr. Disraeli.should iit
for his picture, or whether it was Mr. Disraeli who pro-
mised that Lord John should sit for his. (Chrism sods laugh.)
In other case the pledge has been fully met, and we have
had the pleasure of seeing those historical features satisfee-
torlly represented on these walls before being _taansaillited
to poterity to bold that place in history to whirl' they we
so well entitled. (Cheers.) Another pledge was made by
both—that they were to provide • mach more handsome and
suitable building—fa }nimbi—but obstacles seem to have oc-
curred, and somehow here we are enjoying our intellectual
hest with these beautiful pictures mound us, in the very
same room as ten years ago. (Cheers.) If, there-
fore, even when the great political partis. unite,
there impairs to be so much difficulty in pr.o-
siding • picture gallery, I think my brother commis-
sioners have some little claim to your consideration for
having, by the aid of artistic advice, the ingenuity of our
architect, and the unexampled energy al our contractors,
been able to in one short year the erection of a
building which, frost what has been mid to-sight, seems
not to be deemed unfitted to exhibit the glories of the
• British School of Art, and offer due hospitality to those
• tmenues of art which distinguished foreigners have been
goed enough to bring to us. (Cheers.) Speaking witlate three
• walla, it is impossible for me to forget the service we have
, derived from you as President of the Royal Academy, the
• remeuragemeut, and particularly the excellent practical ad-
_

vies us. (Ches'is.) Bt7lless can 1 forget that
the gentleman I ventured, from my personal knowledge of ,
him, to nionimendl to ay brother colleagues as the fittest ,
person to take the whole responsibility of the selection of
pictures—a most difficult and invidious task—was a distils- 1
guished member of the Royal Anidemy—(cheers) ;—and that
when he required assisteace in the still more difficult matter
of hanging them, it woe to a Royal Academician we '
applied to aid him in that work, which is considered by the
most competent persons to have been very satisfactorily
done. (Cheers.) There was one role which, in • spirit
of fairness to other exhibitions, we laid down, which wee
that we would not exhibit any picture which had not been
pievionsly exhibited. This was somewhat of a self denying
ordinance. I cannot pretend that Ido not feel regret at our
not having oe our walls some of the pictures which I see
around me • but in one way a great advantage was derived
from the f;ct, as it will give foreigners now visiting us, and
who will come in myriscis, I believe, in the eourse of the
year, an opportunity by comparison with other annual exhi-
bitions, of judging that our gallery in Cromwell-road na-
tant a genuine reorientation of the merits of the British
school. (Cheers.) It is almost presumptuous for me to
anticipate the pleasure, and I might add the surprise, with
which foreign!, will sae, not only the pictures of our Ho-
gan*, our Reynoldses, our Cainsborouglis, our Wilson,
our Turners, and our Ettys, but also the worts of these
greet artists whom I cannot name, because they are nearly
all here present to-day ; but of whose reputation the nation
is justly proud, and on whom the great responsibility lies
of maintaining and increasing, if poerible, the character
which British art now enjoys. (Cheers.) I may speak of
the pleasure which we who are assembled here will derive
from having opportunities of seeing the works of Corne-
lius, Oven**, Raubach, and ]fensel, the representatives
of that fatherland of which the Crown Prince spoke with
such just praise—(cheers)—the works al great French
artiste, whose names are well known tom ; and your en-
joyment of the excellence of the Belgian department will
he ineremed by the recollection of the cordial and sr-
tistie hospitality which on a recent occasion the Belgian
artists afforded to their brother artists of this oountry.
(Cheers.) On the other hand, you will rccogniee with satin
faction the revival of art, as of other things, in the land of
Murillo and Velasquez. Yon will perceive great merit in
the works of several of the northern countries of Russia
and Sweden. To Italy next we owe admiration. I have no
doubt there are many here present who from a feeling of
friendebip will be glad to see holding a central position a
beautiful landscape by the accomplished orator, the distin-
guished man of letters, and able painter, M. d'Aviglio.
(Cheers.) I can only, in again returning thanks for the
honour you have done to us, ay that I can conceive no
greater reward than that ari intellectual. oritfeal, and artis-
tic audience like the present should be of opinion that we
have, eves in the slightest degree, promoted that friendly
rivalry in art which you, Sr, described with so much elo-
qquaeeuoeess as likely to produce such excellent effects on the
Ovilisation of mankind. (Hear, hear.)
The Parnmawr in proposing the toast, "Prosperity to
the City of London and the Health of the Right Hoe. the
Lord Mayor," observed that this was the second year of
his lordship's official labours—a circumstance which, as the
• result of the universal satisfaction he had given, must be
nettled as a peculiarly hououraba distinction.
The LORD MAYOR returned thanks.

The Puterue.sr then proposed, es the last tout, "The
Interests of Literature," connecting it with the health of
Mr. Charles Dickens. (Cheers.)
Mr. C. Diann—lt is one of the privileges of literature
to speak from the walls of this room rather then from the
floor, and to find expression here in the great work of paint-
ing and sculpture rather than in spoken words. (Cheers.)
From these walls, even in our own times Shakwear,
Moli&e. Le Sege. Cervantes, Goldsmith, Sterne, Fielding,
Smollett, Defoe, • host of illustrious writers has been so
eloquent in the masterpieces of members of this Academy,
that one poor writer of fiction left to his own lip may
well find nothing to say in this otherwise difficult trek
easiimed to him. However, he finds consolation in this,
that bin own art is inseparable from the art of his enter-
tainers, that the great magic circle of the arta is impossible
to be broken, and that here at least "him foot Si on bin
native heath," even though his name is not by any means
Macgregor. (Loud cheers and laughter.) In the name of
many distinguished gentlemen, present and absent, foreign
and native, I have to thank you for your remembrance of
the sister art, though I beg to say on behalf of those whom I
represent, that we cannot by any restos hold that the present
President of the Royal Academy is at all disinterested in this
proposal to do honour to literature, seeing that he himself is
so near akin to in, (Cheers.) We scarcely ever open any book
with • higher interest and pleasure than we open this great
animal volume, of which the leaves are now spread before
this company—(cheers)—and we certainly never open a book
to which we flood so graceful and appropriate a preface as
that which is always delivered from the red chair which
you, Sir Charlie, occupy. (Loud cheers.) If might have
changed the afore, supposing noble lords and right bon.
gentlemen to have remained, I might even in conclusion
have gone so far as to say that L think we receive the annual
budget of the President of the Royal Academy with almost
as much interest as we receive the animal budget of the
Chancellor of the Exchequer—(ebeers)—having in addition
the pleasant consideration that it is not attended with those
terrific consequences which we cannot by any strength of
imagination separate from the latter production. (Cheers.)
The company then retired to the middle room. where tea
and coffee were served, after which the distinguished smut-
blue broke up.
, The dinner, woes, he., were supplied by Messrs. Wallis,
of St. James's-street. Mews. Land, Baxter, W. Cummings,
Young, Winn, and W. H. Weiss, were the vocalists,

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,SPORTING INTELLIGIENCE.
THE NEWMARKET FIRST SPRING

)i!EtINO.
TO TIM =TOT OP TM. ICITTMUL

leis,—The excitement consequent on tbe knocking
about of Old Calabar invests the forthcoming race for the
Two Thousand Guineas with more than ordinary interest,
and the misting altogether is one of the greatest importance
to the Derby. Hondas the many candidates for it that will
meet in the grest event, there are eogagementi made for
Duke Rollo and St. Alexis, and • fair opportunity will he
afforded of judging whether the latter is entitled to the
position occupied in the Derby since the Duke's recent
triumph. The twenty-nine events in the programme yet
to be completed will only create interest for the
time being, and on them depends how the five
days are to be spun out, for only two or three
of the eight matches are between animals of any account ;
and after the Two Thousand, Two-yr-old Mate, One
Thousand, and Newmarket Stakes are taken away, the
eighteen public race dosed do not present many remarkable
features. Still, the fifty-four notate peoposea (not includ-
ing one reduced already to • walk over) will give enough
sport to prevent eves the off days becoming slow, however
poor may be the list for Monday. There is • 8.. M. Handl-
rip awes takes to take piers, which is note:tulle • certainty for
Asteroid, allowing his weight to be • lenient one, as most of
his opponinta are admirably suited to the interne, and he
will have • difficulty in shaking off Camerino. The Tro-
yr-old Sweepstakes is within the comps, of Livingstone •
and in the Matohee, Sweetesuce, Woman in Red, West-end,
and Ming Sun are worth trusting.
The Coffee-room Stakes and 300 son. Sweepstakes which
King of Hearts and Matador may secure respectively, cor-
priis alll can touch upon in Tuesday's list besides the Two
Thousand Guineas stakes, and this promises to attract the
following to the pad :—Alvediston (ridden by Pordham),
The Marquis (Ashmall), Caterer (Challcuer), Nottingham
(Britton), Win re (Wells), a oolt by Stockwell, out of a
mare by Orlando—Brown Bess (Aklcroft), the Claris' colt
(Bullock), Leeching Stoczkictßoi2gamigh), Beckenham (Bataan),
Instruotor (Daley or Bell Hubert (J. Snowden), Old
Calabar (W. Boyce), tier (J. Osborne), Balder (J.
Adams), Costa (Custance), • tof the Bath (Gaiter),
Brighton (Reeves), and Cariabrook. The latter is mid to
pilot the way for Caterer, and the Clarissa and Stockwell
colts only represent one intense, Exchequer end Balder
being in the same position. Them may be one or two others
in the field, but the above comprise all I can
depend upon, and some of their owners may alter their
minds before the day, and keep them at home. Of the
above-mentioned only Instructor and Balder failed to
show as 2-yr-olds, the Stockwell cold baring aooompiwbed
a walk over ; and this sawn we have seen z
La IE
ug hung Stock, Beckenham, Old Calabar,
Balder Cons, Brighton, and Ounbrook in
nabbed; can be said to have diagramed himself, GT'di
ete.he bale
named drays bed too greet • distant. to travel, sad Hadar I
woe very backward when he ran with Duke Rollo in the
Newmarket Biennial, Costa, however, his been defeated
by both Leigh* Stock and Beckenham, to which must
be added Wingrave, Old Calabar, and Lord Coventry's
Champion, for the best we have seen this year,
although it is doubtful whether dine:baton will not
suit the latter gentleman better than either of his own.
Laughing Stock and Beckenham both exhibited the most
sterling qualities in their inrounten, and I do not think
they lit to be measured through the animals they bad
a ouchdifficulty in besting, as both made waiting
_isms,
and might have told a very different tale had t "ems
through" from end to end. This pair, with Lord
colt by Stockwell, and Indructor, whose preindenn sew
dark, will run capital outsiders, and both the Like bore hem
highly tried, Lord Glaagow's colt particularly go, his spin
not having come off until too late on Saturday for any dr
monstration tobave been made at Tattensll's, or he would
have become • favourite. Old Calabar, Wingrave, Alw
distal) Caterer, Nottingham, and The Marquis can be mea-
sured by • very sate lies on last year's running, which
was superior to that of either Hubert or the Clarinet
colt, as the met • better class of horses. Mea-
sured through Casts, the six just named are at least
711): better thee laughing Stock or Beckenham ;
but, as before obesend, this would not be ado, although it
is as well to put on paper the weight. they should be haft
&appal at, whim! NS as follow :
st lb st lb
The Marquis 8 10 The Clarissa eon 8 0
Old Calabar
Alvediston 8 8 Beckenham
Wingrave
Caterer
All but Laughing Stock and Beckenham I handicapped
thus when analysing the performances of last year'. Coo-
pers some months back, but pee Nottingham credit for
comiderably more Wm the gibers, rbed he
beepirieTlitprn either of his morionten be most have ma • 10lb
better horee,• consequently, while fearing to follow the per-
formance* of Laughing Stook and Beckenham with Costa as
their best, I can come to no other conclusion than that tiaabove
are veryoaee together, and if the Stockwell colt le smith
superior to his stable Companion out of Clarinet, he will be
• most dasgeroes outsider. Old Canner has receded in the
market at a most alarming rate, and even now no one seems
capable of assigning the real owns, his owner being am-
pletely in the dark on Saturday whether anything wee wrens,
although the layers drove him to 40 to 1. He has bad some
good gallops occasionally during the week, but brealosont in
sweats very suddenly, and some even go so far as le awl be
looks after a gallop like a horse that has been poteoned. It
is the general opinion now be will not run ; but meths
may wear a very different complexion in the coarse of four-
and twenty-hours, and if he should be sent to the poet it
would not surprin me to see him win. Caterer is Dot at all
liked lately, and the foremoet of the favourites are the Mar-
quis, Alvediston, andW ingrave, of which, ea will be seen by the
above handicap, I have • slight preference for the Marquis,
and if he cannot win, the event may fall to quite ea out-
sider, Lord Glasgow's representative, perhaps.
Wednesday's list is soon run through, and Lord Stamford
looks like pocketing the three 50 son. sweepstakes for
3-yr-olds, while the Roe cannot lose that for 4-yr-olds.
The Jockey Club Plate Asteroid has the best chance for •
Evenhand is about the ben of the lot of bad horses in the
Prime of Wales's sham, and if breeding will go foe any-
thing, Weatherbow ought to beat the Senorita colt in their

On Thursday there is the One Thousend Guises,
Slakes for 3-yrold fillies, for which Sappho (ridden
by J. Closter), Lorelei (Sharp), Repose (J. Adams),
a Young Melbourne filly (Aldcr), Ma& Pearl
Express (Custance), Oantiniere (Challoner).
Class (Osborne), Bertha (Edwards), Donna del
(French), Imperatriee (.1. Snowden), Hurricane (FordZ,
Ethel (Payne), and Jung Frau (Bogen), are the pro e
competitors, and it appears to rest between Ouitiniere, Re-
pees, Bertha, Insperatrioe, Hurricane, and Ethel, seeing
Jung Frau and Sappho have been unable to distinguish
themselves in handicaps. Among the best fillies last year
were Bertha and Imperstrice, and I doubt whether the
former was not the best, this pair being shout
good enough to beat the field, as they are in
splendid form. The Two Year Old Plate is a dark affair
completely, although we might hear the crack of a
Revolver that has not been primed sufficiently to go off
in any of his spring engagements as Tot. The 100
Soya Sweepstakes will be walked off with by Owls,
and both Confidence and Duke Rollo ought to win
their matches, the latter having such a good horse to meet
in the Clarissa colt that if he can win tolerably easily, the
Newmarket Stakes will be no trouble to him on Friday,
when St. Alexis leas to meet another of Lord Glasgow's
colts, by Barbstua out of Brown Bees, whom he ought to
find no difficulty in beating. Wallace will probably prefer
the 100 sore. sweepstakes to the handicap, and Carbineer
will then have one of his most dangerous opponents for the
/ether ronoved.—l am, do., METEOR.

TATTERSAIL'a --SATURDAY.

Old Calabar received his quietus for the Two Thousand
this afternoon. 40 to 1 was currently offered against him,
and the origin of the hostility which he encountered was
lancatto reports, to vouch for the truth of which there were
many witnesses, of his rep having given way. In the mean-
time the position of Alvediaton was established. 4to 1
war taken about him to 1001. ; those odds were subeequently
offered, but his supporters did not seem inclined to do bad-
Mee at the price. IS to 1 was offered against The Marquis,
and Nottiegliam wsa advanced to 8 tot taken. The other
quotations do not require comment.
TWO THOUSAND GUMMI
4 to 1 apt Mr. W. Day's Alvediston(off)
sto 1 Mr. Hawker's The Marquis (off)
8 to 1 Mr. J. Johnstone's Caterer (t and off)
8 to 1 Mr. IL liattoes Nottingham (t and off)
10 to 1 Mr. T. Cook's Wingrare (off)
20 to 1 Lord Olaegow's eh c, by Barbital--
Clad6b9lt)
25 to 1 Lord Ur ridge's Laughing Stock (t)
25 to 1 Colonel Towneley's Hubert (t and off)
40 to 1 Sir H. Bulkeley's Old Calabar (off )
50 to 1 Mr. Valentines Carisbrook (off)
80 to 1 Lord Annealey's Ace of Clubs (off)
ONE THOUSAND GUINEAS.
3 to 1 apt Colonel Towneley's importance (t)
4 to 1 Lord Stamford's Bertha (t)
5 to 1 Mr. Honeywood"s Ethel (t)
CHEATER CUP.
5 to 1 apt Mr. Hawkeeley's Zodiac (t 6to 1)
100 to 6 Sir W. Booth's Stempedo (t)
90 to 1 Mr. t.ltrtwright's Fairwater (off)
30 to 1 Mr. Williamson's Simla (off)
DERBY.
13 to 2 apt Mr. Merry's Buckstone (t)
15 to 1 Mr. Hawker's The Marquis (t and off)
15 to 1 Lord Stamford's Ensign (t and off)
25 to 1 Sir J. Hawley's St. Monk (t)
40 to 1 Mr. Bodices Spite (t)

LATEST MANCRESTZR MMHG.
SATURDAY.
TWO THopt Alwdietoo Wft)OUSAND OMNSAS.
4 to 1
4to 1 Marquis 6
to 1 Cototor Wir) WS)
10 to 1 Wiograw (t)
10 to 1 Notatin (012. ill to 1)
26 W 1 Clarieso eat (t)
33 to 1 liottuotar
33 to 1 Bolder (t obi ofS
33 to 1 Hubert S god of[)
66 to 1 Old Dokter 0)
46 to 1 Aso al Club (odo

CHESTER CUP.
sto las the field (off)
10 to 1 apt &amps& (t)
25 to 1 Fairwatar (t)
33 W 1 Caller Oa (t)
50 to 1 Simla (aff)
THE DERBY.
16 to 1 apt Zetland (t)
16 to 1 Haman (off)
50 to 1 Nottioginua
60 to 1 Clarissa wit (t)
ONE THOUSAND GUINEAS.
4to 1 apt Imparatrios (t sad )
4 W 1 Bertha (off)
10 to 1 Caatiniere (off)
12 W 1 Sappho toff)

Their lordships were divided io opinion, sad soonesquently
judgment was till next term, to lune the case
argued before the bfteen judges.