The Express.
London, England, 1866-04-16 00:00:00

1883. I 1884. 1 1865. 1 1888.

Stock on hand this day. .casks! 411,823
Delivery last week
Ditto from Ist June 178,
Arrival last week , Z. 07 I
Ditto from Ist J use s 78,222
42 9
44 3

52,116
1,002
68,870
60
82,639
• d.
41 0
49 0

57,006
2,152
166,146

•370
78,132
gt 41.
30

81.102
1,181
90,171

as
N,991
4.
48 48
48 4

PrlceY C on 'pot this day
Ditto Town last Friday
Arrivals for the week ending Aprtl 24 last year, cub;
and delivery, 1,349 'asks The artivnl bat week comprised 128
casks Australia: 7 other places; total, 135 casks.

METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET.
(THIS DAY.)
The supply of beasts u rather larger, owing to a miss*.
Con of the orders as to bringing them into market. Tim
Order in Council which comes into operation this day,
prevents their being taken beyond a very limited district,
which order applies also to sheep ; the effect of this is, not-
withstanding there is a demand for every head of stock tat
offer,that a large number remain unsold. prices are lower for
both beasts and sheep, but the trade is very uneven, owing
to its unsettled state. There are a few snore calves, and
they are not quite so dear. From France and other coun-
tries we have 1,856 beasts, 8,910 sheep, 53 caves, and 250
pigs ; Spain,lo4 beasts ; Scotland, 303 beats ; and 727 front
Norfolk and Suffolk.
Per stone of 811 a a. d. a. d. I Per stone of a. d.
Beet Soot,Beret& 50 6 2 Beet Due& liffixisfet 6 0 4
Best. Short-bums 4 8 6 0 I Best Long-wools 0 0 0•
Second qua beasts 8 0 4 0 Do. do .Shorn.... 410 6!
inlves
Ply
•
Best Dna& Fllf-brests 0 0 0 0 Lambs
Boons at market, 2,990 ; sheep and limbs, 27,210 ; calves, 44
OP. 650. -

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BOROUGH HOP MARKET.--(THIS DAY.)
Kern. Pattenden mid Smith report there is a °anti-
nued steady demand for Consumption for all descriptioos
of both English and foreign hops at full rates. Choices
samples are remarkably scarce at slightly enhanced prim.

ANOTHER Dirrsoroixreat &wiz. —The whole of
the outlay connected with the London General Omnibus
Company have struck for an advance of wages. They
have been receiving Zls. • week, besides certain MIN given
to them daily by the drivers and conductors, making 0111
the whole an avenge of 30s. a week. They have Dow
struck for an extra 6d. • day.
birrsorourreat Fuss HoePrret, DEVONSHMS-
ONT.—The aurigate number of patient.' relieve&
daring the week ending April 14, was— medical, MS;
surgical. 555 ; total, 1,443, of which 578 were new mem

*porting EnteUtgtnct•

TEE FIEIST SPRING MEETING AT
NEWMARKET.

TO THE EDITOR OF TIM EXPZIOE.
Sill,—Sportaig news of the last few days has
been dreadfully sensational, the death of Salamander at
Crewkerne and the more serious accident to the Lord
Lyon jockey Custance, whilst riding in a paltry 501. plate
at Epsom, being wound up by a great catastrophe at
Cheltenham. This latter was the more appalling because
there is no doubt it should not have happened had onli-
nary care been taken in the erection of the temporary
stand which fell, and it is to be hoped the " celebrated
contractors " who dill the " job " will, if really to blame,
be taught a lesson in economy by the injured parties. The
fall of Salamander, and subsequent destruction,
is a matter easily got over, for the horse
earned twenty times his value during his brief
sojourn in the steeplechase world ; far more easily
can he be replaced in the hunting field, where he has many
a time and oft carried Mrs. Studd in the first flight with-
out ever making a mistake, than Custance can on the turf,
there being quite a lack of Set 71b artists just now. His
first words after recovering consciousness had reference to
who would get his mount, Lord Lyon, for the Two Thou-
sand, of whom he is even more fond than he was of
Delight, who carried his "pony" for the City and Suburban.
It was only an hour before he lay crippled on the ground
that I heard him giving little Kenyon advice as to how he I
should tool the son of Ellington and Placid to victory ' • but
the little man required no other instructions than to keep
out of danger, for the colt had a stone in hand if not
more and his heart being in the right place,
he justified the opinion I expressed last week that
he could not lose, and at the same time oanfirmlnee my
statemeut that he had been tried a Derby horse. He is
not unlikely to prove the St. Albans of his year, so far as
merits eeo ; and perhaps recollections of the latter's rate
for the Blue Riband will deter Delight's owner from run-
ning him at Chester, where the son of Stockwell and
Bribery ran for and won the Cup, but at the same time, so
hard was the eeround, destroyed his Derby chance. Another
good home unheard of Lest year, Treasure Trove, ran away
with the Metropolitan, beating a highy-tried and good-
looking one in Lucifer • but his backers may, perlara,
thank the bolting of Eakring for their victory, as sir.
Barite's grey looks like doing anything over a distance of
ground, anti she is almost as likely to prove a second
Virago as Delight is a second St. Albans. There is
nothing to prevent Treasure Trove cutting in for the Ches-
ter Cup, as he is not in the Derby, and must be dangerous
even with 61b more on his back than he carried for the
Metropolitan. Sandal, beaten four lengths from him, will
also have to be taken care of, " if the money's right; as
she meets the Treasure on 171 b better terms ; and we are
certain to have a good Chester Cup race after all, though
the field may be limited to less than a score, if they are
really in earnest with Redcap, Delight, Treasure Trove,
Bengali, Gong, Dalby, Sandal, and any one of T. Dawson
lot, which must not be quite despised because Harry
Brailsford, the Czar, and Rococo were all beaten last week.
Previously, however, we have other important events to
get over, at the First Spring Meeting (Let us hope it will
be a spring one, for if so, it will be the first this year) at
Newmarket, where the Two Thousand and its sister race,
with a rich handicap and an interesting two-year-old race,
will be decided this week. The bulk of the races to come
off have yet to be completed, and there are very few in
the list worth noticing, the four-year-old Stakes being
all certainties, as the majority of those entered for them
are either used up or broken down. The Princess of Wales's
Stakes is only a question of the Moutiulina filly having
form enough left to beat Salliet, who would be sorely
troubled to gallop the whole mile and seven furlongs ; Mr.
Pill will win the Spring Stakes unless there is abetter two-
par-old than Hippie in the background ; and Monday's
20 sons Sweepstakes may be safely reduced to s match be- ,
tweenVerulam and Problem, of whom thelatter is the safest
to trust. The Prince of Wales's Handicap has a large ac-
ceptance, and is worth some money ; still an extensive
field is not to be expected, only Custaloga,(sst 121 b), and '
the Raven (list 101 b), or Plutus (Get 111 b), of the throe-
fir;-olds 'appearing worthy of notice, and if Vandervelde
rer , Teti can get the mile he will do for them. Pintail
S list 121 b) is another of the medium weights worthy
of pa,
notice, but I would rather trust in one of Mr. Chap-
lin's heavy weights, whether he pins his faith to
Breadnlbane (4 yre, fist 101 b), or Broomielaw (4yrs, Bat),
and as the latter betrayed as much improvement as his 1
companion when I saw him in the Craven week, he may
prove the Simon Pure. On Tuesday we have the Two
Thousand, a sweepstakes amounting to about 5,000 e, which
three-year-olds have to contend for over the Rowley mile;
and it is remarkable that with 86 entries there are so few
expected to start. Beelzebub, Dalesman, Westwick,
Mount Palatine, Magician, the Czar, Mephistopheles, the
Rector, the Primate, Duke of York, the Peer, and Crown
Prince, all esteemed once, have performed so badly this
season already that their chances are nil, and they will be
absentees, with scarcely au exception. Then, again, Young
Monarque end Esca are amiss, whilst the vaunted Auguste
is believed to have been tried and found sadly wanting—
no better, in fact, than his two-year-oil performances
made out 6, that the eel,' will have to be mainly com-
posed of the following : —3lr. Sutton's Lord Lyon (ridden by
T. French) ; Janitor (Wells), with another of Baron Rothe-
child's to help him, probably Robin Hoed ; Lord Stamford's
Freedom (A. Edwards), and perhaps Chibisa (Martin) ; Mr.
Kerry's :Student (Daley) ; Lord Glasgow's colt by Y. Mel-
bonnie, dam by Teddington (Osborne), and colt by Brother to
Birdon-the-Wing ; Mr. Savile's Sealskin (J. Mann), or Ley-
bourne ; the Duke of Beaufort's Jack-in-the-Green (Can-
non); Leel Exeter's Knight of the Crescent (Ashmell);
Mr. Padwick's Apsley (J. Goatee) ; and Mr. Naylor's Mo-
narch of the Glen (Chalonere Auguate's starting is not a
certainty, anti his absence would deprive H. Grimshaw of
a mount, unless they have not actually closed with French
for the creek, when his services would be invaluable.
There may he an extra one or two, unheard of as yet,
spring up at the last moment to swell the field ; but the
brunt of the battle, whateverhappens, will have to be borne
by Lord Lyon, Janitor, Student, and Jack-in-the-Green,
on the one hand, as the representatives of public form,
and by the Y. Melbourne colt, Freedom, and Knight of the
Crescent on the part of the dark division. The latter and
Apsley have never been out yet, so that they cannot be
accused of having ever disgraced themselves, like
the two Earls' colts ; but still we have only hear-
say to enlighten us on the merits possessed by the
Knight, Naiad ocular proof has been afforded that Free-
dom and the unit tined colt are at least good-looking, badly
as they performed. The fact, too, of the Young Melbourne
colt being better than his roan companion that beat Duke
of York and Ambition, and Freedom than Chibisa, says
much for them, but not more than the defeat of Crown
Prince and Beelzebub by Leybourne says for Sealskin, who
has never been hacked yet. However, it is not often that
we get such a brilliant performer as Lord Lyon to stand on
for the Two Thousand ; and as Student (who never did
better than he. and often worse) is not up to the mark, and
Jack-in-the-Green not at all fancied by his own party,
there is everything to indicate most plainly that his lord-
ship has only Janitor to fear. The Coffee-Room Stakes
will be as much as Student can get through, for he has a
fair horse to heat in Sealskin. The only other closed
events in the grand day's list are the 200
nova sweep, wherein Marksman looks like coming
off beat. and a 300 sons. " ditto " that Kla-
rinska may walk over for, the latter also having the
Prince of Wales's Stokes to walk away with on Wednes-
day, when a trio of three-year-old sweeps have to be settled
that may not provoke contests, and will certainly not be
worth looking at, supposing Strathconan does not come
upon the scene for the 200 f. at his bidding. A T.Y.C.
sweep might excite some interest, as the Duke and Bread-
albane are in the lists, and it must be a near thing between
_them, for the latter has improved more than his grace,
who was not much the superior last season. The Two-
yea.r-old Plate, which affords a profit to the fund of 761.,
rung to the numerous entries, is certain to be well con-
Started Hippie, the Lady Mary colt, and Knight of the
Garter having uo penalties to carry, and being very close
together on the Northampton running. But the Knight
*declined to cut in for 600/. at Epsom, and may leave this
2001. to his stable companion, Problem, whose 51b penalty
will et and in the way of her beating either the Lady Mary
colt or Hippie. The One Thousand, forthree-year-old fillies,
D.M. , aci Il he worth 4,0001. ; anti yet we shall not have many
in the field beyond the Duke of Beaufort's Ischia (ridden
by Cannon), Lord Hastings's Repulse (H. Day), Count F.
de Lagrange's Bayonette (IL Grunshsw), Mr. Johnstone 's
Illfeta (Morris), one of Lord Glasgow's (Osborne), Sir R.
Bulkeley'a Pamunkey (J. Goater) or Potomac ; Lord
Falmouth's Penelope Plotwell (T. French), Lord Stam-
ford's l'aleria (A. Edwards), and Mr. Merry's Mirelle or
Gong fteevey). The contest appears to rest entirely be-
tween the four first-named, although I do not pretend to
know aught unfavourable of the " dark" Gong and Pene-
lope Plot well, who might be first-raters • and the Dane-
bury stable should not be beaten with Ischia and Repulse
to represeet it, the former having done a great thing when
else beat Stratliconan and Vespasian so easily at York last
August. The whip must be won by Sydmonton, and
Friday's long race by Breadalbane ; bus whether Robin
Hood is to be troubled in the Newmarket Stakes, the pre-
vious doings of Jack-in-the-Green, Sealskin, Magician,
King must show. The only interesting match
af the week is the new one between Aft. Pitt and Velma-
elan, the former having to g ye Blb away over six furlongs,
which he may just succeed in doing.—l am, Sc.
MEI'EOR.

TATTERSALVS.—SeruiMAT.

The tone of the market at Knightahridge this afternoon, In
emaexion with certain horses both for the Cheater Cup
and the Two Thousand, was anticipated after the transac-
tions at the Victoria club earlier In the day. Redcap was
wain u red-hot favourite for the former, haring been sup-
ported right down to the chose of business at 1 to 1,
gils of .C 750 being lavested at that price, nor did we hear
say money having been "got on "at the veriest fraction
kayoed. Delight declined slightly the Got bet recorded in his
t 'Your beluga:OM 100, but despite the ' • caution" which the power-
Cul oy :don he received ors Wellington-street might have con-
hts intend I ng backers they were still operate take Ho to 15.
Sbe gentlemen who usually immure Dalby's again are gee&
Tony distinguished by a naive unobtrusivenees in market
Roca, and ever since this horse has come into the bettiagliaZt
Cray sustained the same reserve, almost amounting to reticence.
lad yesr'e winner Mai "put up" several times this afternoon,
bat sot an offer even could be extorted until the large majority
of the members had left, when we saw 8 " Mies" booked shout
the mysterious horse. After 1,000 to 100 had bean accepted
about 'Treasure Trove, 9to 1 only was procurable. There
were frequent Inquiries after Bengali at 20 to 1, and
MI to 10 warn laid twice against Buckfout ; almost at the same

meat 1.060 to '2O, and r.OO to 10 (the latter " tvrice"l
were noted in L.i our of The Lion. The Two Thousand
Is generally looked upon as such a hollow affair for the favourite
that but little intermit attaches to the price current thereon, and
were it not for the reoiwitatian of Janitor, it is more tliau
likely that nothing under Y to I on Mr. Sutton's crack would
satisfy the backers of the field. The baron's hone was in great
force here to-day, and at 6 to 1 he was supported for upwards of
VW, layers being the find to cry off. Quite a fresh candidate
for honours over the Rowley Mile was introduced in Freedom a
few days ago at the Victoria Club, where 1000 to 40 was laid
several times; but the very favourable accounts of his recent
doings" brought him to-day to 12 to 1, taken to a little
mouey. The Derby was limited to four animals, Lord Lyon
hating the decided call of Rustic, for after 450 to 110 had
been recorded in favour of the former, only 4 to 1 was offered on
the field. Last Monday's list of quotations contained a specific
transaction of 1700 to SOO against the Duke of Beaufort's hone,
and singularly enough, a like bet was repeated to-day from the
same source, both being doubtless hedging bets 11 to 2 was
eagerly sought for subsequently, bat falling that price, half a
point less was taken, though finally offered. Delight was backed
once—towards tho close of business—at 1000 to 65, and after
1000 to uu had been, after considerable haggling, laid against
Student, any number of the Runley horse's devotees, who fondly
believed in the efficacy of Turkish baths," could have been
accommodated at the same long shots. Closing prices:

CiIiNTEZt CUT.
9to 2 agat Redcap (off, sto I 100 to 0 agat Haragah (off, t2O
1 taken freely) to 1)
6to 1 Delight off, t 100 to 6 Sandal (off t2O
100 to 15) to 1)
Bto 1 Dolby ~t) 50 to 1 Buckfoot
9to 1 Treasure Trove I 50 to 1 The Lion (t)
(off, t 10 to 1'
20 to 10 apt Treasure Trove starting (off, t 30 to 10)
TWO THOUSAND.
sto 4on Lord Lyon (L6OO 11 to 2 apt Janitor (off, 6
to 400 laid at Jolt!)
first) 12 to 1 Freedom t)
100 to 7 Student 'off)
50 even agat Janitor being placed ft, 50 to 40 laid at tint.)
100 to 10 agat Student with a start
DERBY.
4 to 1 agat Lord Lyon (oft, 11000 to 55 agat Delight (t)
9to 2 tt, 1000 to 20 Student t and
5 to 1 Httatic ,t dc off, off)

BETTING AT THE VICTORIA CLUB.-SATURDAY.

The preliminary to a settling at Tatterson's Is always evaded
hero, no matter whether on the regular or exceptional days.
Members began to assemble from an early hour, and before
midday the subscription room, capacious though it Is, was
crowded. The lipiont accounts were by no means so "easy'
as bookmakers would have wished, although it must be ad-
mitted that, despite the hard knocks they received over both
the peat events of the meeting, they faced fortune with a
pluckiness worthy of their order. After the bulk of burbles&
in the way of adjusting accounts had been got through attention
was turned to the Chester cup, on which some animated betting
took place. It waist one period doubtful whether Redcap was
a better favourite than Delight, but "the Leviathan" having
accommodated a hacker of the Suburban with 2,400 to 400 (which
the former wished to repeat , the adherents of Danbury were
jubilant, and offered to take 5 to 1, which, however, they were
unable to procure to the extent they wished. Yet, notwith-
standing the stentorian demonstration against Mr. Carew's horse,
almost et the same instant large commimioners took 800 to 100
quietly in another corner of the room. The Two Thousand being
almost reckoned a foregone conchulon for the favourite, is
divested of special interest to layers, and were if not for the
renewed support awarded to Baron Rothschild's horse, the chance
of the "fielders" would be all but ertinguished, Freedom and
Lord Glasgow's lot notwithstanding. Scarcely anything was
done on the Derby. Lord Lyon had just the "call" of Rustic,
but we did not bear of a single transaction about either, and the
usual "return" would bare been a blank, as far as the "blue
'Mend" Is concerned, hut for an outlay of 18 fifties on Delight.
Clueing prime at 2.30 p.m. :
CHESTER CUP.
4to 1 egg, Redcap (off, sto 10 to 1 agst Dslby ;oft, 12 to
1 t freely) 1 wanted;
Bto 1 Delight 1; 20 to 1 Sandal Off, !Stet
10 to 1 Treasure Trove taken to g 25)
:off, 13 to 1 w;
400 even that Redcap beats Delight, both to run (t).
200 to 100 that Delight beats Treasure Trove the beet of 1,2, 3,
both to run (t).
200 to 100 apt Delight being placed t.ofE.

TWO THOUSAND.
to • on Lord Lyon it & off? I 12 to 1 agst Freedom !t)
Bto 1 .get Janitor (od, 7to 10 to 1 Lord Glasgow's
1 t freely) lot (t)

5 to 1 apt Lord Lyon ;w;

BETTING AT MANI

1 iti to I agst Delight (t to LBO)

CUP.

.-SATVBDAY.

sto 1 agst Redcap ft hoedr 10031,17 apt Treasure Trove (1)
to 1 Delight (t =doff' 25 to 1 Sandal and off)
100 to 8 Daley .0, t 14 SS to 1 Lon it,
to 1) 40 to 1 Honesty (t)
TWO THOUSAND.
- • --

5 to 4 on Lord Lyon 74, n---12 to 1 apt Young Melbourne
to 4 t freely) colt (off)
9 to 1 apt Janitor t 20 to 1 Augusta (t)
12 to 1 'freedom (t and Si to 1 Kalght of the
off; Crescent (off)

DERI

5 to 1 agnt Lord Lyon (ti
5 to 1 Bustin ,off, t 11
to 2;

96 to 1 agst Stabber (off)
40 to I Freedom (t dt off)
45 to 1 Ceylon (off)

THE PARIS RACES.
(REUTER'S TELEGRAM.)

PARIS, APRIL 15, Evtalgo.
The Paris races were run to-day, with the following result:

PRIX D'AVIRTM..

Scudo.

TRUK DNS CAW.

Colombo (amity)
Victortome ....

LA COUP&
Glad'stew eaally by two lengths)
Atantbuin
Gontran

PRIX BuMum
Irteuroite 'by a neck,
RUIWn
Etelle

Mix im Smasmrs.

Anglo

liabal anli illititarv.

ADMIRALTY, APRIL 14. —APPO/NIMENTR.—CODI-
- G. 1). Bevan, to command the Barracouta, 6, at
Spithead, vice W. B. Unuston, promoted ; H. E. G. Earle,
to command the Royalist, 11, sloop, at Port Royal, vice
Hon. M. H. Nelson, promoted • J. R. Bushnell, to com-
mand the Dasher, 2, paddle, Channel Islands, vice G. J.
Malcolm, promoted ; B. S. De Roo Hall, from the Active
to the Fawn, 17, at Bermuda, vice Hon. W. C. Talbot,
promoted ; A. It. Owen, to command the Falcon, 17,
Australia, vice G. H. Perlin, promoted • T. E. Smith, to
the Shearwater, 4, in Pacific, vice R. G. Douglas, promoted.

Lieutenants M. B. Medlycott, late of the Galatea, to
command the Minstrel, gunboat, at Portsmouth; S. R.
Huntley, from the Duke of Wellington, to the oommand
of the Cherub, gunboat, at Portsmouth ; W. F. L. Elwyn,
from the Princess Royal, to the command of the Slaney,
gunboat, in China, vice J. S. Keats, promoted ; C. E.
Domvile, late of the Meeanee, to command the Algerinc,
gun-vessel, in China, vice J. C. Tucker, promoted ; W. St.
John S. liornby, of the Excellent, J. M'Neill Boyd,
late of the Meeanee, and L A. Bell, late of the Rattle-
snake, to the Challenger, IS, at Sheerness.
Clerks E. R. Brown, C. C. Wilson, and S. J. Davis, to
be additional of the Challenger, for disposal.
Clerks' Assistants F. H. M. Whitfeld, to be additional
' of the Challenger, for disposal ; H. A. Lapidge, to the
Formidable.

CHATHAM, ApRIT.IS.

REINFORCEMENTS FOR BRITISH NORTH AMERICA.
—Orders from the Horse Guards werebesterday received at
this garrison, by Major-GeneralSir Robert Walpole, K.C.8.,
commanding the district, directing the following troops to
embark from Government-quay, Gravesend, ta-morrow, on
board the hired troop-ship Ottawa, for the purpose of
reinforcing the various corps serving in Nova Scotia
and New Brunswick. viz.:—Twelve non-commissioned
officers and sappers of the Royal Engineers, selected from
the depot companies at headquarters, Brampton ; Captain
W. F. Blake, Lieutenant F. R. Sandys, Lieutenant G. A.
Sweny, Ensign K W. Stokes, 53 non-connuisaioned officers
and men, two women, and four children, of the 2nd
battalion 4th King's wn Royals ; Captain E. Mason,
2nd battalion 17th Regiment ; Captain A. P. O'Malley,
Captain A. Gardner, Captain E. M. Cookealey, Lieutenant
F. W. B. Parry, Ensign W. K. Matterson, one of
wife, 114 non-commissioned officers and men, and three
women of the Ist battalion 22nd Regiment, the whole un-
der the medical charge of Assistant-Surgeon S. Robertson,
Royal Canadian Rifles. The whole of the officers
and troops have been inapected by Major-General Sirßobert
Walpole.
-- • • •

TROOPS FOR THE MEDTTERRLNEAS.—Yesterday an order
was received at the garrison, directing the following de-
tachments to proceed from this garrison, on Wednesday,
to Gravesend, for the purpose of embarking on board the
screw-steamer Lady Jocelyn, for:Gibraltar and Malta—via.:
4 officers and 69 men of the Royal Artillery, 2 officers, 88
men, 10 women, and 12 children of the 2nd battalion 15th
Regiment, and 4 officers, 68 men, one officer's wife, and
two women of the 29th Regiment, for Malta.

THE NORTAIIMBERLAND.—A numerous party of
shipwrights from the dockyards of Woolwich end Deptford
were employed during yesterday in the preparations for the 1
attempted launch of the Northumberland, iron-clad steam-
vessel, from the premises of thellwall Ironworks this
day. Four large camels, or pontoons, have been attached
by means of strong chains—two on either side of the stern
of the vessel—the chains passing under her keeL Each of
these camels is 50 feet long, 21 feet deep, and 20 feet ex-
treme width. The four united are expected to have a
lifting power of 2,000 tons, and this will be in addition to
the six smaller pontoons previously used, and the other
appliances of steam-tugs, hawsers, capstans, and teams of
horses. During the past week herways have been taken up
and relaid to the extent of about 200 feet at the mid-ship
section and bow, and her sliding timben have been con-
siderably widened, which it is considered will teed to
prevent the ship from hanging should she once make a
etart. With this object new foundations and timbers of
great strength to support the hydraulic rams have been
placed under her bows, and the hydraulic pressure will on
this occasion be nearly doubled. Lord Clarence Paget and
several °Sands from the Admiralty have been watching
the operations during the past week, and at Deptford
Dockyard be& were made up in the joiners' shop, and the
schoolroom was converted into a meesroom for about 150
shipwrights brought up from Chatham and Sheerness.
The attempt to launch the ship will take place about half-
wit two o'clock.

THE GOVERNMENT REFORM BILL.

The reform agitation has been prosecuted with
great vigour in the eastern oounties during the past week.
A meeting at Ipswich was addressed by Mr. IL W. West,
who contested the borough in the liberal interest at the
late general election.—A meeting held at Harwich—Mr.
it. J. Bagshaw, formerly M.P. for the town, in the chair—
has adopted a petition in favour of the bill, and has for-
warded it to Sir T. Western, M.P. for North Ennis, for
presentation to the House of Commons.— A meeting held
at Lynn is considered to have been one of the most suc-
cessful demonstrations organised by the local liberal party
for many years past ; regret was expressed at the course
taken by Lord Stanley (who site for this borough).—A
meeting at Wisbech was addressed by Mr. R. Young,
the new liberal member for Cambridgeshire ; Mr. Young
said he did not fear the result of the impending division,
but hi would recommend the government, in the event of
their being defeated, not to resign ; he advocated rather a
dissolution, which would, he thought, have the effect of
"disfranchising" Mr. Lowe. A meeting at Peterborough
has been addressed by Mr. Whalley, M.P., who expressed
his opinion that with judicious support the bill would be
carried. Mr. Hankey, M.P., also spoke, and remarked
that although the proposed bill was not so good as it ought
to have been, still it was a safe and judicious step in the
right direction. A large meeting has been held at Boston,
composed principally of nnenfranchised working men.
The Rev. A. Goalen has made a successful tour in
Essex, having addressed meetings at Chelmsford, Hal-
stead, &o. From Staffordshire we learn that a
meeting of the inhabitants of Twistall was held
on Friday evening to support the government Fran-
chise Bill. The meeting was called by the Chief
Bailiff (Mr. W. Emberton), who presided, in reply
to a requisition, and was addressed by several gentle-
men of local influence, all of whom warmly supported the
bill, although they all expressed a wish that a still lower
franchise had been adopted. A resolution was passed
alanimously, in which the meeting, believing the Fran-
chise Bill to be an equitable and moderate measure,
pledged itself to use every effort to secure its adop-
tion by parliament. It was also decided to petition
parliament in favour of the bill. The petitions sent
to parliament from Stoke-on-Trent in favour of the govern-
ment bill from the four principal towns in this parliamen-
tary borough contained an aggregate of 11,500 signatures.
Lord Frederick Cavendish, M.P., writing to one of his consti-
tuent* at Bradford, in referenceo the Reform Bill, says :
"The feeling shown by the country has already produced a
great effect, and if it continue (as 1 doubt not it will do)
equally strong and moderate in its expression, I am san-
guine for the success of the government in paaang this
measure in spite of all opposition. he manner
in which so moderate a measure has been adopted
and supported by non-electors is a strong proof
of their fitness for the franchise.—A public meet-
ing was held at Freemantle, near Southampton,
last week, in favour of the government reform
bill, Sir J. C. Jerrone, Bart., one of the members for
South Hants, was invited to be present, who sent the fol-
lowing reply to the invitation:—" April 11, 184i6.—Dear
Sir,—Your letter of the 16th has just been delivered
to me at the house. You will well understand how
it is that I am unable to attend the meeting of which
you give me notice, and to which you invite me,
when I remind you that we shall both be supporting
the People's Representation Bill at the same time, faith-
fully yours, J. CLARICE JERVOTEM H. Ashby, Eec."—
On the evening of Thursday a public meeting was held in
the Corn Exchange, Mansfield, to take into consideration
the above bill. Mr. J. Mande, iron-founder, presided on
the occasion. The following resolution was pained :
" That the meeting approves of the bill now introduced by
her Majesty's government into the House of Commons for
the extension of the franchise in the counties and boroughs
as an honest, substantial, and valuable instalment of re-
form, and therefore worthy the support of every true
liberal.

Ma. H. W. WICKHA.M.—Mr. H. W. Wickham,
M.P., lately dangerously ill, in writing to Mr. Robert Kell,
at Bradford, saps :—" I am thankful to say I am now
well enough to go down to the House of Oommons, from
whenoe I now write, and you may rely upon my giving all
the support in my power to the government franchise bill."