The Sun.
London, England, 1855-03-13 00:00:00

LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 13, 1855.

MR. ALBERT SMITH'S MONT BLANC
TO-NIGHT, at 8 o'clock, and Every Night (but Saturday).
Stalls, 35.; Area, 25.; Gallery, Is. The Morning Representations
take place every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, at 3 o'clock.-
Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly.

LONDON and NORTH-WESTERN RAIL-
WAY. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That on WED-
N r.,;D AY, the 21st instant, Utz day appointed as "A Day of Humilia-
tion and Prayer," the TRAINS will only RUN as on SUNDAYS,
with the exception of the 9.15 a m. Dawn Mail Train, whin will run
as on other week days.

By order of the Board.

MARK IIUISII.

General Manager's Office, Euston Station,
March 12, 1855.

TO CAPITALISTS, INVESTORS, and
BUILDERS.—Mr. HOOPER begs to Inform such that an
OPPORTUNITY OFFERS of making a ready, remunerative, and
secure return for their outlay. Wanted 150 to 200 fourth-class
Loci elling-houses for the many hundreds of workmen employed on
the Isle of Dogs, who are, for the want of such houses, compelled at
present to reside in Poplar New Town, Lirnehouse, and even Dept-
frd ant Greenwich. The choice of four different estates for build-
ing is offered by the advertiser. Apply at his Offices, Mill-wall,
Poplar.

PURSUANT to a Decree of the High Court of
Chancery, made in a cause, RUTTER against RUTTER, the
Creditors of THOMAS BLAKE, late of No. 25, Cloufiesley-terrace,
Islington, in the County of Middles x, Esquire, who died in the
month of August, 1854, are, by their solicitors, on or before the 10
day of A pril next, to come In and prove their Debts or Claims at the
Chambers of the Vice-Chancelier, Sir Richard Tom Kindersley, No.
3, stone-buildings, Lincoln's inn, MlddleSex, or, in default thereof,
they will be peremptorily excluded from the benefit of the said
Decree.

Monday, the sixteenth day of April, 1855, at Three o'clock in the
afternoon, at the said Chambers, is appointed for hearing and adjudi-
cattn,i upon the claims.
Dated this ninth day of March, 1855.
CHAS. PUGH, Chief Clerk.
Richard Stspbens Taylor, 3, Field-court, Gray's-inn, plaintiff's
solicitor.

ADVERTISEMENT.—A Renewed Appeal in
beha f uf the FAMISHING HIGHLAND ER 4 is respectfully
made by the Committee. Contributions are earnestly requested to
be made to the Royal Patriotic and Industrial Society of Scotland's
account (marked Highland destitution), at Me.srs. Smith, Payne .nd
Smith's, Lombard-street; to Messrs. Hatchard, Piccadilly ; Nisbett,
Bernet's-street ; Rivington's, Waterloo-place; J. Bigg and Son's, 53,
Parliament-street ; to Sir Charles Forbes, Bart., Broom Wood, Clap-
ham ; to Colonel Sir Duncan MacDougall, Bart., Eaton-square ; to
W. F. Caldwell, Esq., of as ishinish, Boundary House, St. John's
Wood; to Benj. Bond Cabbell, Esq , M. P., Treasurer ; to Chas. Cowan,
Esq., M.P.; to Capt. Geo. tevenson, 17, Grafton-street ;to George
Bain, Esq., Hon. Sec., 18, Parliament-street; or to the Secretary,
Mr. Charles Bond, at the Society's Highland Industrial Hosiery
Depot, 196, Piccadilly, where also orders for Hosiery will be grate-
fully received.
N.B.—A large stock of warm, soft, and very durable long and short
kn tted hose on hand, suitable for officers and men ordered to the
Baltic, and indispensable to health, during the rainy months in the
Crimea, to those about to enter upon a spring campaign, wet feet
having destroyed more than the sword.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

TATTERSALL'S -YESTERDAY.

Notwithstanding the celebration of the Derby meet-
ing, and the proximity of the gathering at Doncaster, a
tolerable number of the members congregated at the sub-
scription rooms. The early part of the afternoon was
chiefly devoted to the settlement of accounts in connec-
tion with the Liverpool events of the preceding week.
Speculation was limited, and, with one or two exceptions,
the investments made were inconsiderable.

DONCASTER HANDICAP.—The only animals backed
were Alonzo and Lady -Vernon-6 to 1 being taken
about the former, and 8 to 1 about the latter.
DONCASTER STEEPLECHASE.—Boundaway, Bourton,
Teddesley, and Little Charley were severally backed at
10 to 1 each, to a small amount.

CITY AND SUBURBAN HANDICAP.—Seducer came into
the market, and was supported at 16 to 1. Nothing
else named.

GREAT METROPOLITAN.—PhareaIus was in some favour
at 6 to 1, Curcebus receded to 10 to 1, at which price
Fandango was also Lacked, 12 to 1 was taken about
Redlamb:, and 20 to 1 very freely about Vandyke.
CHESTER CUP.—Marc Antony maintained his position
at 25 to 1, and Schatnyl at 30 to 1 ; Bolton was backed,
as was also Star of Surrey, at 40 to 1 ; Legacy was at
50 to 1, and Weathercock was a fixture at the same
price.
Two THOUSAND GUINEAS.-2 to 1 was taken about
St. Hubert, 7 to 2 about Lord of the Isles, 500 to 50
about Polydore, and 20 to 1 about Claret.
THE DERBY. —The betting on this event was too flat
and insignificant to require comment. The subjoined
quotations indicate the closing prices :

DONCASTER STEEPLECHASE.
10 to 1 agst Bourton (taken)
10 to 1 agst Boundaway (taken)
10 to 1 apt Teddesley (taken)
10 to 1 agst Little Charley (taken)
DONCASTER HANDICAP.
6to 1 agst Alonzo (taken)
Bto 1 agst Lady Vernon (taken)
GREAT METROPOLITAN.
6to 1 agst Pharsalus (taken)
10 to 1 agst Corcebus (taken)
10 to 1 agst Fandango (taken)
12 to 1 agst Redlands (taken)
20 to 1 agst Vandyke (taken freely)
CITY AND SUBURBAN.
16 to 1 agst Seducer (taken)
CHESTER CUP.
25 to 1 agst Marc Antony (taken)
30 to 1 agst Schamyl (taken)
40 to 1 agst Star of Surrey (taken)
40 to 1 agst Bolton (taken)
50 to 1 agst Legacy (taken)
50 to 1 agst Pharsalus (taken)
50 to 1 agst Weathercock (taken)
THE TWO THOUSAND.
2to 1 agst St. Hubert (taken)
7 to 2 agst Lord of the Isles (taken)
10 to 1 agst Polydore (taken)
20 to 1 agst Claret (taken)
THE DERBY.
10 to 1 agst Rifleman (taken)
11 to 1 agst Graeculus Esuriens (taken)
12 to 1 agst Lord of the Isles (offered)
14 to 1 agst Cruiser (taken)
25 to 1 agst Wild Dayrell (taken and offered)
25 to 1 agst Flatterer (taken)
25 to 1 agst Oulston (taken)
200 on Rifleman agst Lord of the Isles (taken)

NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.

Rear-Admiral the Hon. Richard Saunders Dundas,
C.B , arrived at Portsmouth yesterday, and hoisted his.
flag (blue at the mizen) on board the Duke of Welling-
ton, 131, Captain Cali well, as Commander-in-chief of the
Baltic fleet. He saluted the port-admiral .(his senior
oflicer),.Sir Thomas Cochrane, K.C.8., with 15 guns,
which Sir Thomas acknowledged by firing 13 from the
Victory.

The Orion, 91,, screw steam-ship, Captain H. E.
Erskine, is ordered to get her strain up at Sheerness to•
day, and steam round to Spithead. The Adder steam-
ve3sel is to fallow with sails, &c.

The Edinburgh, screw block-ship, Captain Hewlett,
will haul out of Oock in Portsmouth yard to-day, and
proceed to complete her refit in the basin.

The Penelope, 18, paddle-frigate, Captain Sir William
Wiseman, Bart., left Spithead yesterday at 3 p.m. for
Cork, to embark Royal Artillery for the Cape •of Good
Hope.

The Rhaclamanthus steam store-ship, Master Com-
mander John Belam, arrived at Woolwich yesterday
from Portsmouth.

The steam gunboat Ruby arrived in Portsmouth har-
bour on Sunday evening from the westward.
The guns have been all mounted at the new battery,
Sconce Point, Isle of Wight, and the works for a for-
midable redoubt commenced at Freshwater-gate, Isle of
Wight.

AN APPEAL FOR THE FAMISHING.

The pressure of severe destitution is, we regret to say,
again experienced by numbers of the poor in the
Hebrides and West Highlands, whose case has been
taken up by a number of gentlemen in 'London, who are
identified with efforts for ameliorating the condition of
the highlanders, through the best of all inqtramentalitieß,
viz., by developing their industrial resources ; in a word,
by " helping the poor to help themselves." The coin-
mittee say owing to a more extensive failure last autumn
of the potato than in any previous year, and a wet acid
bad harvest of the scanty cereal crops grown by the poor
inhabitants of parts of the West highlands, and of the
Hebrides, including Skye, Mull, and Ilay, not merely-
want and hunger, but destitution °fan Warming charac-
ter afflicts numbers of the population. By the existing
Poor Law of Scotland, no able-bodied person, however
destitute of the means of subsistence, posiesses a claim,
a 4 in England and in Ireland, to workhouse, or out-
door relief, as a refuge from starvation.
It is only when disabled by famine, or other casualty,
that a pittance, hardly sufficient to keep the body and
soul together, can be claimed of the inspector ofthe poor
of a parish, generally as extensive as an English
county, with lofty mountains, or stormy firths lying
between the destitute and the poor law official, who can-
not ascertain the period when famine has reduced the
o:

ince hardy and athletic Highlanders to physical dis-
ablement, so as to prevent exhaustion and exposure re-
sulting in death.
The directors of the Royal Patriotic and Industrial
Society of Scotland, having in 1851 relieved destitution
in the Highlands by employing poor families in weaving
of cloth, and the knitting of hosiery which they
have introduced into the London mat ket, by
establishing a depot for their sale at 196, Pic-
cadilly, are again importuned by ministers of religion,
and other trustworthy persons, to resume and largely
to extend the sphere of their inlustrial relief—the posi-
tion of the people, until the ingathering of the next
crop, being most destitute and alarming. Every true
patriot must have viewed with gratitude and pride
the heroic defence of Balaklava by the 93d High-
landers, though opposed to the hordes of Russia, who,
had they overcome that wall of fire and steel, might
have destroyed that town with its magazines and ship-
ping, and have added a disastrous defeat to the other
calamities of the campaign. The hardy sons of the
mountain and the flood, however, stood invulnerably
firm in defence of the interests of their country, and of
humanity—and shall no sympathy be felt by the Bri-
tish public for their suffering Highland kindred, when
a shilling or eighteen pence a week, conveyed in the
best possible form---of wages, in return for industry—
will supply the wants of a may, accustomed to live
thriftily and simply on a little oatmeal ? Shall no inte-
rest be felt, no effort be made, where there are, on ac-
count of remoteness of locality, of unequal Poor-law
legislation, and of great destitution of food and clothing,
such urgent claims upon Christian charity, and such
immunities against the possibility of its abuse ?
The directors confide.itly anticipate a different result,
and will be happy to afford further infor:nation, and to
receive contributions, which will be immediately de-
spatched to districts, which the exhausted funds of the
Society have hitherto been unable to relieve. Ministers
of religion, and benevolent ladies and gentlemen, are
solicited to originate collections in their various locali-
ties, and to forward the amounts as announced in our
advertising columns.