The Sun.
London, England, 1855-02-06 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 6, 1855.

L'N RS LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS.

SPORTING NOTES.

MAEKET .NEWS-(THIS DAY.)

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ITA.Y MARKETS.

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odious one ugh may be instituted between
the Ilanclie,y for the Cilesti,k Cap and that for the Me-
tropolitan Stakes. For the former event the weights
were distributed in accordance with the popular notion,
and care was evidently taken to command a large accep-
tance ; whilst, for the latter, the imposts were allotted
on the old and effete system, which was seemingly
adopted to exclude first-class horses, to enlarge the for-
feit list, and to diminish the number of competitors.
On the very day the Handicap was published I indicated
how destructive the "pet theory" on which it was formed
would prove to the character of the race, and my opinion
has been confirmed by the insignificant show which the
list of acceptances makes in juxtaposition with that for
the Chester Cup. Mr. Dorling should rouse himself
to sustain the perceptibly diminishing popularity of the
Metropolitan Stakes, and not allow a long series of un-
interrupted successes to lull him into a false sense of se-
curity, for unless he take heed for the future the race
which was established with so much energy, and ad-
vanced to so high a pitch of popularity, will gradually
dwindle into an affair of second or third rate importance.
The " Bonus " is not now subscribed to with that
readiness and liberality which were formerly displayed,
and indeed Mr. Dorling seems to lack the in-
clination to canvass personally for support, or
is unable to solicit aid with that tact and
urbanity which were so eminently displayed by ,
the late worthy founder of the race. Poor Sam Becton
thou art sorely missed by thy peers and associates
already is thy loss felt and deeply deplored ! -
Speculation on the Metropolitan Stakes will, perhaps,
lee unusually limited in its range, and at present it is con.
ducted with little activity or determination. The lead-

arrifFIELD.-I,lcadow hay, 2/ 12s to 1! ;
ditto, 31 Os to 4:7. 153; and straw, 11 3s to 1/ I.OA per lout.
A. full ay..irage supply and a sluggish demand.
CUMBERLAND.—Meadow hay, 2/ 183 to 41 16s ; clover
ditto, 31 Os to 51 12s ; and straw, 114 s to 1/ lls per load.
Both hay and straw moved off slowly, at our quotations.
WIIITECHAPEL.—Meadow hay, 2118 s to 41 15s; clover
ditto, 3/ 03 to Si 16s; and straw, it 3s to 1/ 8s per load.
Trade rather dull.

COLONIAL.
TEA.—There is very little inquiry—common congou is
aid to 10d per lb.
SUGAR.—East India descriptions are in request at full
rates. Refined is firm, 42s Gd being paid for brown lumps,
and 43s to 49s for grocery. There was none landed last
week at the East and West India Docks, bet there were
taken for home consumption, 1,371 hhds 92 trs and 221
brls. The stock in these places is 10,532 hhds 1,950 trs
and 1,491 brls. Yellow Havannah is 31s 6d to 36s Gd, and
Manilla. 27s to 29s 6d per cwt.
COFFEE.—Native Ceylon is 45s 9d to 46s for good ord,
and 46s Gd for real good ord. Fine Costa Rica brought
628 6d per cwt.

RICE.—Tke market is quiet. A French Government
contract has been taken, but the price is not divulged.
RllM.—West India is inactive at 2s 9d to 3s 4d for Lee-
wards and Demerara proof . There were taken for home
use from the abovenamed establishments 297 puns and 27
hhds ; the exports comprised 281 puns and 96 hhds. The
stock is 3,073 puns and 112 hhds.

SALTPETRE.—At auction 1,403 bags realised 22s 6d to
27s for low to fine Bengal, 11 to 2i per cent. refraction.
Bombay, 92 bags brought 21s for 11i per cent., there being
rather more inquiry.
COTTON.—This article is rather dull.
TALLOW.—P.Y.C. is 56s 6d per cwt on the spot, being
firmer.

CASTOR OIL.—A good demand has been experienced,
but business has been prevented owing to the further slight
advance asked.

&MS.—The market remains quiet without change in
price.
TlN.—The market keeps dull, Banca is now nominal at
1083 to 109 s and Straits 1063 per cwt.
SPELTEB remains flat, and there are ready sellers at 251.
on the spot.
IRON—Scotch pig is quiet at 65s 6d for cash or mixed
Nos. _ _ .

ing favourite is Pharsalus, an animal in W. Day's
stable, and whose pretensions to the position to which
he has been advanced in the betting are somewhat 1113.
certain. If my memory serves me aright he only ran
once as a two years old, when he was called Farsa, and
was unplaced ; last season he figured only once,
and that in a somewhat questionable shape at
Shrewsbury Autumn Meeting. Fandango, the
next in demand to Pharsalus, is certainly worthy
of the support which she has received ; her run.
ning is sufficiently good to justify some confidence
in her chance. Could I calculate with certainty upon
Wild Huntsman's starting, and his party's intentions, I
should unhesitatingly place some faith in his ability to
carry off the race. He is marked on my list " danger--
ous." Winkfield, Joshua, Paletob, High Priest, and
Matilda, seem, in my opinion, to be the only other notice-
able names in the list of acceptances.

OILS.— Linseed is less in request to-day, and the price is
now 36s on the spot, and 37s for forward delivery. Rape
is also dull, brown 51s for immediate cash, 50s 14 days,
and 48s 6d one month, and refined iis3s. Cocoa Nut with-
out change. Palm is steady at 44s to 45s for good and
fine.

Andover's upward tendency in the betting on the
Chester Cup is well sustained, and, should the Derby
victor be the trusted animal of his party, he will
indubitably become a most formidable antagonist.
The two Johns Day have certainly a most "dan-
gerous lot," and nothing is more probable than
that the interest of the Findon and Danobury stables
will be amalgamated. Those stables are represented in
the list by Virago 9st 61b, Andover Bst 121 b, Little
Harry, Bst 21b, Scythian 7st 41b, Star of Surrey Get
101 b, Marc Anthony 6st 61b, St. Stephen sst 81b, and
Sailor, sst 71b ; of these animals—Andover, Little
Harry, Scythian, and Marc Anthony are unquestion-
ably leniently handicapped. For the two last mentioned,
in particular, I entertain a well-founded partiality. The
Reiver is now scarcely mentioned in the turf-market ;
that he is well in I readily admit, but a brute of so
vicious a temper few would be inclined to trust on a
course like the Roodee. What jockey will be able
to keep him straight, or from flying open-mouthed
at other horses in the race in such a scrimmage
as annually occurs for the Chester Cup ? According
to his St. Leger running and his performance with Der-
vish at Goodwood, Arthur Wellesley is favourably han-
dicapped, but he is after all merely a moderate horse,
with very doubtful staying qualities. Notwithstanding
the " quiet tone" of the market with reference to
ROTHERHAM, I am prepared to see this horse become a
m
great favourite ; he possesses unquestionable racing
with a good turn of speed, and "Dangerous Daw-
son" well knows how to use a horse intended for the
Chester Cup. To extend my notes to the other acceptors
would occupy too much space. I shall take an early
opportunity of again expressing my opinion as to the
relative merits of the probable competitors for the Cos-
trian Prize. The " lot " which I should at pre-
sent stand on comprises Andover, Knight of St.
George, Indian Warrior, Kaffir, Scythian, Early
Bird, Llauforda, Weathercock, Palmeria, .Rotherham,
General ,Picton' atml Atherstone. Those printed
in italics stand foremost in my, estimation. By the
way, Tonathass Wild, the winger of the Goodwood.
Stakes in 1846, is entered for ,this race, and weighted at
sst. 81b. He is now in his twelfth year. His name was
almost forgotten until the publication of the nomina-
tions. Bell's Life announces that he is in "harness,"
and driven about the streets of London, and that he was
only entered to win a bet about his starting.

The Oundle Steeplechases are announced to take
place to-morrow and Thursday. Doubts are, however,
even now entertained, whether it will be practicable to
celebrate the sport. After the recent severe frost, snow,
and rain I should have scarcely deemed the ground in
primfit"e promoter
"running
gco
of the
ndition:U Mr. Newcome Mason, the
undertaking, is exerting himself
most energetically to insure the success of the gathering.
I fear his efforts will not be commensurately rewarded.
Feb. C. A. FRESH MAN.

Owing to the contraction of trade and the consequent
extent to which mercantile engagements are now running
off without being renewed, the demand for money yes- 1
terday in the discount market showed a considerable
diminution, and in the Stock Exchange the supply was
abundant.
FMK AT PECKHAM, AND SUPPOSED LOSS OF LIFE.—
yesterday morning afire broke out on the premises,No.l,
used as a linendraper s shoones, a scripture reader, who
by a gentleman, Npe,vbut Peckham,recently purchasedformerly
iMntielen-dteerlatcooiPnantrhkaeni-rnoeidaa'dsj, a place of worship for the poor
in the neighbourhood. The premises, which had a con
siderable frontage, were completely gutted, owing to the
w Company was very scanty, while the Southwark mains
were also nearly three hours late. We regret to add
thatan t o f
:ar. . water,
Jones
a iss thes y furnished by the Kent
up
psouspepal
to have perished in the
flames. The other inmates had gone into the country,
but Mx. Jones was seen in the neighbourhood as late as
nine o'clock on Sunday night ; and as he has not since
been heard of, great fears are expressed with respect to
his probable fate. A.s soon as the ruins were sufficiently
cooled, the firemen made an examination of the saree,
but though the body had not been discovered up to eight
o'clock last night, as nothing had been heard of Mr.
Jones in any other quarter, little doubt remains that
the unfortunate gentleman lies in the lower part of the
ruins. _ _ • _

- T-Hil MAIM—SOUTHAMPTON'
Feb s.—The Peninsu
1r andty u, r
Company'syesterda Steam shipy with the India China, and
has on board 127 first-class and 40
Indus, Captain
.3.:esd oiwral Orientalhliecawhich left
le
ft
mails,
second-class passengers. Among her first-class pas-
n-Mine the Hon. Mrs.
Forbes,
, Archdeacon Messurier,
Major and Mrs. Taylor, ca_
sgbee rss, are
Generalt he Hon.
Sewell,
‘v Judgeell
Captains Waterman, On-
slow, Galway and Lady, and Miller, and Archdeacon
closnevx4ecttleiedPineninsular mails of the 7th
Chuck-erbutty. The Indus had n freight specie
value 209,065/. ss. 11d. for India and China,
the course e
steam-ship
f-sthoi-pm osrorloawn
t.
Chehmineawaarndd
p2oOrtoiooln.
ss. 11d., and a' full
sYt'Blndia and Mexican
forgeneral Alexandriacargo.
h.t oe:w.aiTllit,:hal2ulctshl,o,oll7oll6:ll
oninpathney 9th inst. The
Theo fth 1
Ltabdorvi
de mail,will
to despatch her
inst.(cap taTinhejetcyhaol),
mails, has net yet arrived. She is anxiously looked for
awsithitthise
new s teant-ship Tyne left Blackwall for Southampton
this morning. In consequence of there being no dock
tmhoentiinotyenßtraznii?lafn tinhaeilc,so
for her at Blackwall, one
.w!ll be prepared at this port,
for the -purpose of ascertaining the damage she sustained
by getting ashore on the Girdles in her passage to this
port on i
Wednesday last. It is stated that the Tyne is
intended to convey the West Indi▪ a mail
of the 17th
inst. ; but, in case of the non-arri▪
val of the Solent, we
presume she will be selected to supply the vacuum' on
the Brazilian station. The Plata,
steam-ship, next home
from the West Indies, is expected about the 15th inst.
By dint of exertion she may be turned round and de-
spatched again with the mails of the 17th, to prevent any
deficiency on that line. The U.S. mail steam-ship Her-
mann, Capt. Higgins, with dates from New York to the
27th Jan., is expected to arrive, en route to Bremen,
about Friday or Saturday next. Iu consequence of no
mail steamer having been des patche dfrom Southampton
to the :Brazils in December, there will be no incoming
homeward-bound steamer during the present month from
those parts of the world.
AMENDMENT or MR LAW SOCIETY.---LIMITED LIABI-
LITY IN PARTNERSHIP.--A: meeting of this society was
held last evening at their rooms, 21, Regent-street ;
Lord 13rougham in the chair. The minutes of the last
meeting having been read and confirmed, Mr. D.
Power opened the proceedings
.bydiscussing at some
length the question of limited liability in partnership.
Ho concluded by moving a series of resolutions for
carrying out that object, as recommended by the com-
mittee. Mr. P. Hill seconded the resolutions. He
considered that such an alteration as would admit of the
formation of partnerships upon the commandite prin-
ciple would be a great improvement. Mr. Elliot ob-
jected to any alteration in the e exi▪
sting law on the sub-
ject of liability, as endangering the security of mercan-
tile operations, and 'increasing to a very great extent
the amount of fraud in commercial affairs. Considerable
discussion then took place on the resolutions, in which
the Chairman, Mr. Commissioner Fane, Mr. Field, Mr.
Sergeant Manning, Mr. Webster, and other gentlemen
took part, and the further consideration of the subject
was adjourned until the next meeting. ) The proceedings
i then terminated.