Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-07-16 00:00:00

THUIVDXY, JULY 16, 1857.

HER MAJESTY'S' PLATE of 100 gs. Three years old
7st 71b, four 9st, five 9st 61b, six and aged 9st 91b. Two
Fisherman .. • •• •
. . • ...
Pantomime ...... • • ......... ...... ..........
General Williams....
Brotver to Homily . .
Commoner .. .. .
Hamlet....
The LIVERPOOL CUP, in specie, value 200sovs, given by
the Lessee, added to a Handicap Sweepstakes of 25sovs
each, 1511. The winner of any sweepstakes, cup, cup
stakes. or plate, of the clear valua of 500sovs after the
weights appear, 51b; two of such races 101 b extra, but
this in any case to be the extreme penalty. The winner
of the Manchester Union or Trades' Cup, Ascot Stakes,
Northumberland Plate, or Cumberland Plate, 101 b extra ;
or of any other Handicap race of the value of 200sovs
clear 31b, of 400, 51b ; or of any two of such last-mentioned
Handicaps, 81b extra. The winner to pay 30sovs to the
judge•, and 2030 vs towards expenses of the course. The
second to receive 50sovs out of the stakes. Two miles.-
72 subs., 35 of whom declared a^d pay ssovs each.
8 i 2 Cap ain Vernon nas b c Lance, 4yrs
8 2 (in. 10 lb ex )Mr R. Bayley ass b g Pantomime, aged.. .. a
8 0 Mr J. Merry's b c Lundyfoot, 4yrs . • •
7 8 Sir T. Burke'. b h The Chicken. syrs a
7 8 Lord Enfield nas b c Rogerthorpe,4yrs..
7 7 Mr Hind nas gr f Maid of Darwent, 4yrs.
7 2 Mr Rigby's t,r m I uogene, byre
6 13 Mr J. Merry's gr c Riseber, 3yrs .
6 13 (in. 51b gx.) Mr. ',argent nas b c Mongol, 3yrs•.a
610 Mr Payne 's b h Syvagee, 6yrs
610 Mr Glbt•'s b c Tyne, 4yr. .••• .
6 8 Mr hrinkald's gr c Gtey Pyrrhus, 4yrs
6 7 Mr 1.. Keegan sch c Psizefighter, 3 y'rs (fhb.) ........
6 7 )in 31b. ex.) Mr G. Taylor's b c Newton-IQ-Willows, 3yrs ....a
6 6 Lord Bath nas hr c Swyndel Dhyz,ga, 4yrs
6 6 Hon. Admiral Rous nas b f Rosati, 4yrs ........ ......
6 6 Mr .1. Jackson'. b c Lord D rwentwater, 4yrs .....
6 6 Hon. H. Curzon nas b c Commoner, 3yrs .................. a
66Mr W. Disney's ch c Highlander, 3yrs
6 4Mr Howard's b c Marti act, 3yrs•. .
6 4 Mr R. H. Jones' br c Bashi Bazouk, 3yrr..•.
6 0 Lord Chesterfield's .3 c Setneider, :3yrs
6 0 Captain E. Burke's b c The Tattler, 3yrs
5 OMr J. Marry's b f Sunrise, 3yrs • •
5 12 Mr T. Dawwa's b J.net, 3 yrs
5 10 Captain White's b c Giliioer, 3yrs ..........................a
5 8 Mr T. Cunningham nas b e South-Western, 3yrs.„
6 6 Lord Anuesley nas ch c Moose, 3yrs .
5 6Mr Windsor's br cS r Hum uhre 3yrs..
5 2 Mr Barber's br c Hamlet, 3 yrs
5 2 Mr Buchanan nas rh c Kenerdy, 3yrs .
5 0 Mr Saxon's b f Qnren Bess, 3 yrs ........
Mr Morris' br c-Artillery, syrs. . . . .paid
Mr Williams' b e Malacca, 4yrs..
Mr Lynn nas bl f Lima, 3yrs
Mr J. Clark's ch c by Epirus—Elcot's dam, 3yrs.. paid
Lord Glasow was b f Relapse, airs .....
The highest weight accepting beinz under fist 121 b, it has bean
raised to that, and the others In proportion.
A HANDICAP SWEEPSTAKES ot .SSOVS each, with 30sovs.
added. Six subscribers or no race; if ten the second to
save his stake ; if fifteen to receive 20sovs oat of the
stokes. T.Y.C. To close and name at seven o'clock the
night preceding.
A SWEEPSTAKES of 15s0v8 each, sft with 80sovs added
by the Earl of Derby. Two years old 4st 121 b, three 7st
91b, four Bst 111 b, five and upwards 9st 21b ; mares and
geldings allowed 31b. Winners before starting (matches
excepted) of 200sevs 31b; 590, 71b; 1000 and upwards,
141 b extra. Maidens at starting having run three times
allowed if two or three years old 71b ; four and upwards
(and never having received .£5O as second horse) 141 b.
One mile.-19 subs.
Lord Derby's b f by Melbourne—Meeanee. 2yrs .. • •
Lord Lnridesborough's br h Flacrow, syra extra).— ..........
Sir J. BOswell's b c Swale,2yrs
Admiral Harconrt's b f by Touchstone—Ellerdale's dam, 2yr; a
Mr E. R. Ciark's br c Vandermulin, 4yra • • •. . a
Mr E. R. Clark's b h Swiftsure, aged
Mr W. S. Halford's br f M dnstay, 2yrs (31b extra)
Mr Hawkin's b e Gunboat. 3yr5...... .
Mr J. Jacksoa's br e Terrific. 2yrs . . .
Mr J. Jackson's b c Night Ranger, 2yra ...... .....
Mr J. Jackson' b c Sprig of Shillelagh, 3yrs •• . • .• , • • • • • •..
Mr J. Jackson's bl c Saunterer, syrs (31b extra) ' •... •.a
Mr J. Jackson's bl f Sneeze, 3yrs .......•
Mr T. Parr's gr c Childrey by Chanticleer, 2yra
Mr T. Parr's b c York. 2yrs 131 b extra)
Mr Saxon's ch m Mary, syrs (7 b extra) .
Mr Saxon's b c P. Cooke, 2yrs . .
Mr Saxon's b f FricicUsti 2yrs (31b extra,
Mr Windsor's b or ro f Collodion by Birdeatcher, 2yra
A SWEEPSTAKES of ssovs. each, with 30sovs. added. Two
years old 6st 31b, three 7st 101 b, four Bst 101 b. five 9st 31b,
six and aged 9st 51b; mares and geldings allowed 211). The
winner to be sold for 100sovs. ; if entered to be sold for
80, allowed 41b ; 60, 71b ; 50, 101 b ; and 30, 18:b. To be
sold by auction after the race, and any surplus to go to
the Fund. T. Y.C.
Wild Strawberry •• ..
Repute •• • • .• • ..
C0110di0n..•....... •.....
Chester....
Thornhill.— .
Frodeham Squire ..... . • • • •
Moose .....•
Match of 300sovs., h. ft.
8 7 Sir J. Hawley's b c Mohawk, 3yrs
8 7 Lord Glasgow's ch cby Surplice—Clarissa, 3yrs.. „ „
LATEST CUP BETTING.

ON TIIE Counsc, Wednesday.-4 to 1 agst Rogerthorpe,
5 ito 1 agst Bashi Bazouk, and 7 to 1 agst Grey Pyrrhus.

ORDER OF RUNNING.

Selling Sweepstakes 2 0 p.m.
Lord Derby's Sweepstakes 2 30 p.m.
- .. 3 15 p.m.

Handicap Sweepstakes 4 0 p.m.
Match . 4 30 p.m.
Qaeen's rlate„„ 5 0 p.m.

110\V OUR CONVICTS ARE TO DE

PUNISHED.

On the first of the present month, an Act of
Parliament came into operation, which at once
defines the question that has been so frequently
asked by the presiding authorities in courts. of
justice—whether Chairman of Quarter Sessions
for county districts, or Recorders of cities and
boroughs—" What are we to do with our crimi-
nals This Act, which has become the law of
the jeri;_l7 was passed during the present Session,
and has effeetfld a most important change in our
criminal jurisprudence, as by its enactments the
punishment of transportation .h abolished, and
that of penal servitude is substituted, and, to
prevent the various anomalies' that has existed in
granting pardons or tickets-of‘leave, a regular
scale of punishments .will be adopted in accord-
ance with the sentence awarded. At the Itirkdals
Quarter Sessions held yesterday, the Chairman,
the Right Hon. Lord Stanley, M.P., in hie charge
to the grand jury, particularly alluded to this im-
portant measure, with a view of bringing it more,
prominently before the public, and with' that
view he made several extracts from a circular
forwarded by Sir George Grey, to all Chair Men
of Quarter Sessions, and Rec n.clers, througllont
England. We subjoin a copy of the circular- in.
exam. It is as'follows

WuxiEntALL, Julys 27, 1857.
Sir,—l have the honour to transmit to you the copy or
an Act which received the Royal Assent on the 26th inst.,
and which will come into operation on the Ist of .T72ly,
entitled "An Act ti amend the Aut of the 16ili and 17th
years of her Majesty, to substitute, in certain cases, other
punishment in lk tr of Transportation."

The following are the principal alterations in the law
made by this Act :—"lsf. It i,xtends the provisionsof the
Act above mentioned of the 16th and 17th years of her
Majesty, by substituting in all ceses the sentence of penal
servitude for the sentence of transportation, ily. It
extends the terms of perpil servitude so as to make then
correspond in duration with the terms of transportation
to which convicts might formerly have been sentenced.
3rdly. It gives a power to pass sentences of penal servi-
tude of a shorter duration than the-former minimum terra
of transportation, but of not less than three years. 4thly.
It attaches to the sentence of penal 'servitude the liability
of the convict to be removed while under sentence from
this country to a colony, there to be dealt with in all
respects as if he had been sentenced to transp3rtation."
The second and third of these alterations have been
made in accordance with the recommendation of a Com-
mit'ee of the lionse‘ of Commons appointed,. in 1856, to
enquire into the provisions and operation of the Act 16th
and 17:h Viet., cap. 99: •

The last, and the mcst important of them will enable
the Government to avail itself, to the fullest extent, of
facilities which may from time to time exist for removing
to a penal settlement abr ad convicts sentenced, to penal
servitude. But although the sentence of penal servitude
will hereafter subject the convict to the•liability to removal
under such sentence to a penal Colony, the number of
convicts who can be thus dealt with must depend on the
facilities existing at any given perioa for their employment
and absorption in a Colony; and on the willingness of the
colonists to receive them. For this reason, and for the
additional reason that those only can bc sent to a Colony
who, from age, physical strength, and other eiream-
stonces, are fitted for the employment which can be there
found for them, it is impressible to determine, at the time
when the sentence is passed, whether a prisoner sentenced
to penal servitude can be removed by virtue of such sen-
tence to a Colony.
As a considerable discretion has therefore been left in
the hands of the Executive Government as to the manner
in which such sentences are to be carried into effect, I feel
it right to inform you of the general rules which- it is
proposed to adopt with regard to prisoners on whom the
sentence of penal servitude wi'l hereafter be passed:
In the earlier stages of their sentence, all convicts under
sentence of penal servitude will, as .a general rulerbe dealt
with alike. They will be subjected to separate imprison-
ment for a period of, eight or nine months, after which they
will be removed to one of the penal establishments created
under 5 Geo. IV., cap. 84, there to be employed in hard
labour upon public works. From among the prisoners so
employed, a certain number will be selected, from time to
time, for removal to a penal Colony ; such selection being
made, as far as possible, from among those whose sen-
tences are for terms of not less than seven years.
The Committee of the House of Commons in recom-
mending the extension of terms of penal servitude to a
duration corresponding with former sentences of transpor-
tation, express d an opinion that every punishment by
penal servitude should, besides a fixed period of imprison-
menr, or hard labour on public works, include a further
period capable of being abridged by the good conduct of
the convict himself. In accordance with this recommenda-
tion, which appeared to meet with the approval of Parlia-
ment, it is proposed that, while a certain fixed term of the
sentence shall in all cases be inflicted, a remission of the
remaining portion of it shall be granted to those convicts
whose conduct in prison is such as not to deprive them of
this indulgence. In carrying this into effect, it wilt be
necessary to make a distinction between those who are
removed to a penal Colony, and those who are retained
in this country. In the case of the former, it is proposed
that the period of imprisonment, and hard labour upon
public works here, shall be considerably shorter than in
the case of the latter. They will be removed to a Colony
after having undergone about one-half of their original.
sentence, and they will become eligible by good conduct,
shortly after their arrival, to a ticket of-leave, followed,
after a certain interval, if their conduct continues to be
good, by a conditional pardon. Those who are retained
in this country will be required to undergo a longer term
of imprisonment, and hard labour upon public works,
varying, according to the terms of the original sentence,
from five-sixths to twc-thirds of such sentence.

I suliiin a table, showing the proportion of the sentence
to which it is proposed that in each case the remission
should be limited. It will at the same time be clearly
understood that the prisoner will he liable to undergo the
whole of his sentence, and that the proposed remisoion
will not be granted unless the general conduct of the
prisoner while under sentence renders him a fit subject for
such indulgence.
As an illustration of the manner in which this rule will
operate, the case may be taken of a man sentenced to ten
years penal servitude. If removed to a colony, he will be
so removed after undergoing about five years of his sentence
in this country, when be may entitle himself at an early
period to the qualified liberty of a ticket-of-leave, and
subsequently to a conditional pardon ; while, if retained in
this country, he will be required to undergo at least seven
years and six months, or three-fourths of his sentence, in
imprisonment with hard labour on pubrc works-
The case of sentences for life requires to be dealt with
seperately. They will have to be considered according to
the special circumstances of each case. Some conl4.ets on

whom a life sentence is passed have been guilty of crimes
of such an aggravated character as to exempt them from
the operation of ordinary rules, and it may be necessary to
retain them under restraint during the wh,le of their
sentence. When, however, circumstances may justify the
ap?lication to them of the same rules which are applied to
other convicts, it is proposed tbat in the event of their
removal to a colony, such removal shall not tike place
until after they have undergone at least eight yeas of im-
prisonment and labour on pub'ic works in this country;
and that if nit removed to a colony, they shall obtain no
remission until after they have undergone at least twelve
years of their sentence.
Although there may be cases in which it will be expe-
dient, in the exercise of the power created by section 9 of
16 and 17 Vic., c. 99, to qualify the remission of a portion
of the sentence. by the grant of a licence to be at large in
the United Kingdom, or any part thereof, revokeable at
her Majesty's pleasure, it is not intended, generally, to
exercise this power in the case of the remission of a por-
tion of the sentence to which I have referred.
In stating the course which it is proposed to adopt i.
ordinary cases in giving effect to sentences of penal serv.n•
tude, I have thought it unnecessary to advert to those erke
ceptional cases which must from time to time occur in_
which special circumstances may jusiify the exercise oithe
royal prerogative of mercy.
As there is not at thin moment any colony open to, the
reception of female convicts, the course which I have indi-
c iced as to the removal to a colony of convicts under Fell-
tete?, of penal servitude is for the present, at least, applica-
ble only to male convicts.—l have the honour to be, Sir,
your most obedient humble servant, G. GREY.

Proportion whit
may bo remitted ix%
case of Good
Conduct.
3 veare...Fire-sixtbs, 2 years 6 mouths „Ono-sixth.
4 „ ..Fotn,fifths, = 3 ~ 3 „ .one•fiftb,
5 ~
..Ditto, = 4 . ,
6 .Three-fourths, = 4 „ 6 „ ~.Onc,fouro
7 ~ 5 „ 3 11
8 „ ..Ditto, = 6 ~
10 ~ ..Ditto, = 7 „ 6
12 „
a.n. dDitto, 9
13 years
upwards ..Two,thirds,
The Chairman 01 0
Comity of Lir-

Ssntence,
penal Proportion to be undergone.
FOI vitude.

—Ditto.
. Ditto.
. Ditto.

..One-third.

~uarter Sessions, for the
.caster, B ikdale, Liverpool.

POLICE COURT.--YESTERDAY

LIVERPOOL.

BEFORE MR. MANSFIELD.

AgFAULTS.—John Reid, described as a baker, living in
B.ck Portland-street, was charged with having assaulted
a labourer, named John Perse. The facts appeared to be
these :—There was something about the "old man's
daughter," the complainant, but beyond this, there was
no apparent provocation given by the complainant to the
prisorer, the latter of whom fleng a flower pot from a
window at complainant's head, which cut him severely.
The prisoner was fined LI, or one month's imprisonment.
A. respectable-lorking female, named Anne Rutherford,
the wile of a ship painter, living in Pitt-street, was
charged with having assaulted police-officer 610. Mr.
Gluck was for the prisoner. The officer said the prisoner
was put out of a public-house, where she was acting in a
disorderly manner. He wanted her to go home, but she
refused, and assaulted him. Mr. Block having addressed
the court, his Worship asked if the prisoner was known ?
and the governor of the Bridewell said two years ago she
was fined for a similar offence. Arr. Black contended that
that should not be brought against her. She was fined
103 for the as,ault.
A BLACICGUAUD —Wiliam Kelly, an American sailor,
wrs brought up by detective officer Povey, who said he
saw the prisoner in Church-street, between four and five
e o'clock on Tuesday evening He was drank, and caught
hold of several ladle.. When he spoke to the prisoner he
drew a dagger knife, and threw cherries into the faces of
several ladies. The prisoner was secured, after running at
several ladies. The prisoner expressed his regret and said
be was drunk. He was fined 5s and cwt.,.
STABBING--Mary Beiaes, a bad' character, living in
Albion street, was sent for trial for having stabbed a
woman of ill fame, named Eliza Murphy, in a row that
took place in the street.
DEATH OF A CHILD.—Mary Ann Jones was brought np on
remand, charred on snspicion of having caused the death of
a bey named John F. Geary, at St, Anna's-terrace. St.
Anne-atreet. Mr. Dodd appeared for the prisoner. The
details of this case appeared in our paper of Monday. The
ease was heard de novo. Mr. D. 4.1 produced evidence to
show the prisoner had n:t .touched the child, and she was
discharged.
THE CATHOLIC CLERGY OF THE ISLE OF MAN V. THE
EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR OF 11113 " LITERPOiL HERALD."
—This case, which stood for hearing yesterday, was, by
conEent of the attorneys on both sides, postponed to
Tuesalay.
A FAST YOUNG ORANGEMAN.—WiIIiam Morgan, aged
seventeen, who was a junior clerk in the employment of
Mr. James Ackers, warehouse owner, 8, Fenwick-street,
was brought up by detective officer Scott, on a charge of
having embezz'ed ' XlOO belonging to his em-
ployers, The officer said he would only offer as mach
evidence as would warrant a remand, as one of the chief
witnesses, who paid the prisoner money, and who held his
receipt for it, was at present in Manchester. He continued
to say—" I was sent for yesterday, and after I arrested him
I went to a shop, No. 2, Cooper-street, Park, where the
prisoner's mother kept a shop, and where he resided, and
there got a quantity of carpenter's tools, a pair of pistols, a
gun, and a variety of other things, which the prisoner had
recently purchased. I also found that he kept a trap and
horse, and also a dog, and that he used to go out in great
style to short distances in the country : and that he lived
in a very extravagant manner lately—quite like a man of
property.. I ascertained that he was in the habit of writing
letters from the office to himself, and that a few days ago
he purchased two expensive 13 igs and made aoaresent of
them to an Orange Lodge in Mann-street, Park. He
also had purchased a boat, On his person I found a gold
watch and two Albert chains, all purchased by the money
of his master" Mr. Storp, the manager and agent of Mr.
Ackers, said he heard from one of his people that all was
not right, and he sent to a person who rented a ware-
house to know if he had paid his rent. 113 found
he had, and held the prisoners receipt, although the money
was not returned to him. A young gentleman named
David Bingham, from the house of Mr. John Bingham,

corn mercrlant, Brunswick-street, proved having paid
lOs to some one, at Mr. Acker's, whose receipt he
banded in. He could not say if the prisoner was the
person to whAn he /mid the money, but the receipt was
signed in his (the witness's) presence, by the person to
whom he gave the money. Mr. Storp proved that the
receipt in question was the handwriting of the prisoner.
Mr. Mansfield asked Mr. Storp when the prisoner should
have accounted to him for the money, and he replied the
same day oa which he received it. The prisoner was then
remanded.

B 7BOFE ME=SRS. HAYWOOD AND TURNER.
Mr. E. P. NPlCnight, the Secretary of the Liverpool
WarAansemen's Association, summoned John Murphy,
carter 1,318, for demanding over fare for carting a quantity
of maccorcni and other thing.. The complainant alleged
that 6s 31 was the regular charge for the work that bad
been done, whereas the carter demanded s'. He said
there were 5,928 town carts in Liverpool, and out of these
4,000 were daily employed, and at an earning of £2 a
week eight thousand pounds weekly would circulate on
that one item of business. He contended that the sum of
6s 3d, which he had off-red to pay, was the legitimate sum
to which the defendant was entitled, and which he offered
him. The case was, however, dismissed, the magistrates
saying it was not one that came within their jurisdiction,
as it was nat laid down in the rules of cartage.

The F,fe Journal reports a subterraneous fire -in the
Dysart coal seam. "In the village," says the same
authority, " the walls are rending, the lime is bursting at
some places off the walls, numbers of the doors will not
slant, and some of the floors are bursting asunder. The
farm-house of Branxton is torn, and swayed, and propped
to hold it up."
Tuts Tweelerre OF JDLY.—By an adherence to prece-
dent peculiarly Irish, the Twelfth of J rly was not cele-
brated on the twelfth of the month this year, bat on the
thirteenth. And sincerely happy are we to say that,
unlike other traditional Irish celebrations, the celebration
of the Orange anniversary passed off without a conflict.
This, indeed, is a novel, and no less novel than auspicious,
circumstance to record ; and all welt-thinking persons will
join us in the hope, that the precedent thus set will be
adhered to in future; and that, should the over-ardent
disposition of the people betray them into a deviation, it
will be merely "a lull"—a matter to smile at rather than
one to grieve over. —Belfast ltzercury.
RE-EDIFICATION OF SEBA3TOPOL —By the last vcounts
received from Sebastopol, the re-building of that devoted
city was going on with great activity, and it was gra-
dually rising from its ruins. The fortifications on the
south side have undergone a thorough repair, and will soon
be as formidable as ever. although every effort had b.en
snade to destroy them. first during the ten months' bom-
bardment, then by the Russians themselve on their retreat,
and finally by the allies during their occunatnn of Sebas-
topol; the materials they are composed of are of such
immense strength that they were only partiall; injured ;
the granite walls remained almost intact, and after the
rubbish was cleared away it was found that it would take
much less time and trouble to repair them than was
anticipated. The Governor of Sebastopol, Admiral B:r-
-tenieff, is iedeLtigable in his endeavours to restore every
thing to its former state, and when the ba!ance of the
fleet is raised, or the harbour cleared of such part of it as
is not worth raising, there will be no traces of the havoc
of war remaining but the ruins of the magnificent docks,
which it will require years of labour to rebuild.
441I5DriGRATioN T) THE UNITED STATES.—We note •by
the returns of Commissioners of Immigration, that the
number of new corners this year, at this port, 25,600 in
advance of the number for the same period last year. A
similar increase is reported by the emigrant agent at
Quebec. No doubt the entire receipts of the year will fall
short of the receipt of the great immigra ion years; still it
will probably be a considerable improvement of the last
two. The cause of the improvement is obvious. The war
in the East stimulated a demand for raw labour in Europe
to a very sensible extent. Then as to Ireland, the opera-
tion of the Encumbered Estates' Act, and the depletion
of the country, created, two years ago, a state of proE-
peritv such as it has rarely known, and tended to keep the
people at home. Finally, the Know-Nothing excitement,
-while it lasted, no doubt operated to discourage immigra-
tion. These causes are now passing away; the result is
what we see. At the very lowest calculation, these
immigrants are worth to the country 1,500 dollars a head,
men, women, and children together ; that is to say, should
we receive 150,000 of them here, as we probably shell, this
year, the country will be a gainer of 205,000,000 dollars.—
..Yew York flernli.

LEICESTER Z.3UNDkY BAND.—The musical performances
commenced for the seas-,n on Sunday last on the race
course. Previous to commencement the lessees of the
course served every member of the band with a notice to
the effect that the lessees ere opposed to such re2rfor-
rtunces, that neither the magistates nor the town council
had sanctioned the performances, and that any one playing
music on the course on Sunday would be " prosecuted as
the law directs." A large number assembled to see the
issue of these notices, and the greatest order was main-
tained. A collection was entered into on the spot to
oppose any prosecution that might be instituted. Preach.
jog parties were stationed as near the band as they could
be beard. The race-course belongs to the corporation,
and it is let subject to certain conditions—one of which
is that it is a public promenade. There is also a
provision for preaching and for week-day bands, but the
lessee last year being favourable to the Sunday band, there
was no application made for a specific arrangement at the
time of re-letting the course. An eminent legal gentleman
is said to be retained on behalf of the Sunday Band Com-
mittee.