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EVENING, APRIL 89 1_852-

prudence could scarcely justify! When my mind was
thus reproaching me, I asked Lord ISTLarnoliffe, if he
would kindly assist me, by e-Cti77 as president.
Lo:dshto-1 may (July use the word—el:Jai:ably con-
sented; and, 1 hove, the warmth or ray heartfelt grati-
tude to his Lordship will never cool—Lis kind and
condescending rhanzer, his encouragoment when all that
was within ram was ready to give way, now that be is
absent from England, is pressing with renewed force
upon me, and when unnatural difficulties are thrown
around me, so that thoughts hare oppress mo and me-
• mery -grows painful! - • .• •
To keep up the spirit of the movement, my desire
Lord Wharncliffe took the chair at several meerin,-s; on
one of those occasions Lord Wharncliffc said—' Ile was
always prepared to further any legitimate object which
the commercial world might have in view, and ho was
especially ready to giro his assistance on the present
occasion with regard to the proposal of Mr. •Lyne, that
that. vast interest (the commercial) .should tstir itself to
obtain a special judicature to decide in any complicated
cases that arose in commercial affsire:
We had many public Meetiugs, and noniresnla---
tions were passed; on some we have acted, on others we
found it best (on reflection) not to act—such ai petition-
ing the Prime Minister, the Board of Trade, and so
forth—the public mind was too uninformed for such deH
eided steps. - Seeing this, I Was.desirons by all means to
procure for, and to-give to the public useful information,-
and I found that they could not read as fast as I could
write en the advantages of the tribunals of commerce;
my only chance of f uceess I discovered was.

at once to turn tinker, and keep hammer-
ing out little pieces of evidinea and so
patiently elaborate what I wished the public to know;
and upon the whole we must, I suppose, 1,11 agree it is
better to take too much time rather than too little when

great reforms are engaging our thoughts, for we must
have a code or law to regulate tribunals of commerce,
and there are now three barristers on this platform who,
I am quite sure, if the merchants and traders of the City
of Loudon would confide the task to them, would, toge-
ther, form a commercial code for this country as would
immortalize their namt2s, and satisfy the independent
notions of Englishmen. At length, Lord Wharncliffe
came down to the London Tavern, and delivered a well-
studied speech on this important subject—it was given
in full, through the columns of the newspapers, and the
Morning Chronicle had a forcible leading article on the
subject, pointing out the sound reasoning of Lord Wharn•
eliffe; and the clever editor thus commenced his re-
marks :—' It is by no means a new discovery that with
the most extensive and important trado in the world,
this country does not possess any system of commercial
law which satisfies even the elementary conditions of ex-
cellence.' This, gentlemen, pretty clearly tells you that
the editor of the Morning Chronicle thinks you ought, in
the 191 h century, at least to begin to do something in
the way of improvement as to the administration of the
commercial law of this great country.
" This speech of Lord Wharncliffe did a vast deal of

good for the cause—as soon as the English papers
reached North America, With his Lordship's speech, the
merchants of New York examined the arguments in
favour of tribunals of commerce, and lost no time in
preparing for themselves plans for the establishment of
such commercial tribunals; our colonies, too—Sydney
in particular—with equal quickness took up the subject
as being one of great importance for their merchants
and traders, and I am now in correspondence with that
part of the world on the subject. Thus have we, far
away from home, sown good seed, and springing up
there it has invigorated what was planted here. That
great town Liverpool (great because inhabited by
busy, intelligent men) set to work to examine what had
been said in London and done in North America, and
after admiring the beauty of the out-line of a tribunal
of commerce they formed within their Chamber of Com-
merce a committee on commercial tribunals,
and the following pertinent questions put to
myself by
.that committee, will prove to YOU
that they intend to examine thoroughly into the

matter.
" Ist. Do any lawyers sit on the Board ?
" There do not exist any assessors in these tribunals
of commerce—they are the judges or a.sociates, who
replace those who hear their pleadings, and render judg-

meet.
"2(1. Is there any law-clerk or assessor to aid by advice?
3rd. Are those tribunals courts of record ?
Yes, in one sense.
4th. What class of men are the licentiates: do they
by their practice in these courts ?
They do not form any particular class, but must
; study three years.
sth. Are the judges assisted by legal teen ?
" Whether or not, we are to stop short—London, after
all, will have it to say, she gave birth to the movement,
and that it stands recorded at the Mansion House, that
1,000 trading firms at the least in this City are wise
enough to wish for such tribunals. Fancy 1,000 firms
in London, with an average of three partners each,
wishing for a change, and yet that wish doubted by
some of the leading houses, because, ere now, the desire
has not ripened into something like a demand, widened
by frequent over-crowded meetings. Why do they not
push on ? Are they not encouraged so to do ?
Lord Brougham has said in the House of
Lords, •It is impossible to overrate the
value of these tribunals for commercial men !'
This, I trust, you will think is great encouragement.
Perhaps some people will say practical men in the City
are not in favour of the proposed change ; but would
that be true ? There is a little knot of well-known
practical men in Charlotte row ; what have they said ?
In a few words they have said a great deal for us; they
toll you that for the small and the industrious man in
trade the London Tavern is open, and so are our law
courts—if the little trader loves his family lee would not
come to this magnificent house, to get his daily dinner;
and none of you could force him so to do; but any one
owing to him e trifling sum might force him, to his ruin,
into, our costly courts of justice to seek his due.
During the last eight or ten months I have gained
many victories over opinions which were at one time
dead against the movement. lam deeply indebted to
Lord Brougham for very much kindness during
my efforts, but espc cially for one great ser-
vice, that of allowing me to address him,
by letter, through the columns of a newspaper.
My letter and his Lordship's reply were noticed by the
Law Review for November, 1831, and I cannot resist
reading to you the following extract from that review:—
" Arbitrationi s so intimately connected with the pro-
ceedings of the City gentlemen, which have fur their ob-
ject the obtaining an easy and expeditious, as well as
cheap mode, of settling their mercantile disputes, that
we must shortly advert to it. Few who have of late
years taken an interest in the amendment of the law
can have forgotten Mr. John A. Smith's statement,
which was also made on another occasion by Mr. A.
Baring (afterwards Lord Ashburton), that after a cause
to which mercantile men were parties had lasted for some
years in the Court cf Chancery, and coot many thousand
pounds, without making any visible progress, it was re-
ferred to those two eminent individuals, who settled it in
a couple of days, to the entire satisfaction of all concerned.
It is no weeder that suitors, or those who expect
to bo suitors, should reflect with envy on this
remarkable example of the natural, as contradistin-
guished from the technical procedure."
" This tells you at once why I delight to serve the
cause. I am sure, from my own experience, that to
make traders virtuous, good, and happy, you must take
away technical procedure by giving to them Tribunals
of Commerce. Perhaps, gentlemen (I am going to
joke with you a little), you are much in love with our
present bankruptcy laws, and the dread of Tribunals of
Commerce sweeping them away may doter you from
coming heart and soul to aid this movement; but in this
case, too, depend upon it the exchange would be, that
you would have a more simple and less Expensive sys-
tem than you now possess. Go but once to Basing-
hall-street,' said en intelligent merchant, and you will
see incredible confusion and irregularity; and it really
seems as if the money in question there were a thing
with no lawful owner.
" I am sorry to intrude so much upon your time; but
there is ono other important point I wish, with your in-
dulgence, to touch upon.
We can now fully meet those who would say that tri-
bunals of commercegnight prove a dangerous speculation,
as their admirable usefulness cannot be supported by
experience; we disarm such opposers now, through the
great kindness of the President of the Tribunal
of Commerce In Paris, who at the cost of
very great labour to himself has enabled me
to give to the British public a true picture of the
Tribunal of Commerce iu France, and no impartial
minded man, after reading what the President of the
Tribunal of Commerce has given to us from tho store-
house of his own experience, can gainsay the declaration
of Lord Brougham, that it is impossible to overrate the
admirable working of such tribunals; and recollect that
such tribunals are known to be working %ell in Belgium,
Bremen, Greece, Hayti, Hamburgh, Malta, Portugal,
Rome, Sardinia, Saxony, Spain, Turkey, Tuscany,
Prussia, and Wurtemburg, all pointing at cur deficiency,
and you may rely on it the United States will soon do
the same. Hair-splitting iu our comating-houses
would disappear as soon as it became generally
known that the pathway to justicoletchu'iunigd
no longer be robbed of its natural simplicity. Nothing
more convenient now than for a dishonest maaltoispilsaYa
upon the string—that his solicitor is a rogu
cloak that covers a multitude of sins;
if
rn_ lawyer's
men had not the power of saying, It is in
how they
hands, and I can't interfere,' I do not k
t:
respectable
would be enabled to pass through you
members of society. If you cannoltifechaange men
must change systems; but, gentle: 1%,
done my best to
this is a matter
fur public feeling to ispose of. I
orvpo e
this it , hmye e
teht.
serve this cause. I believe Istillandn
Ishe
aid of the friends I have enliste des
gain
ast unnatural foes
ing will do its part to hap
viz:id all personalities now,
and unfair impediments. I
because, gentlemen, so as I
aprotect the,cadusein,
nleerdeloyf
with full confidence that I si a ettui
honest-minded mentor
I thank you for yropteactiencYeb, sir, and your great
indulgence.
The CHAIRMAN said that a meeting of the general
committee bad been called, and although he was a mem-
ber he did not attend it, which act he considered to some
extent still sanctioned that meeting.
d when he
Mr. LYNE said the time was now arrive
hoped justice would be done to himself as the originator
of this movement. He had no fear of meeting with
f
justice from such advocaetems or!
Lthaewcraeunsee e Lord W ham-
e
Heyworth, and
Mr. Richard Thornton. After going through some of
getn
the difficulties he had encountered ;
his efforts to esta-
blish tribunals of commerce, he said he should throw
himself and his case entirely on the consideration of the
general committee.—
(Hear, hear.)
Mr. STANLEY here retired.
Mr. AYRTON then moved the first resolution, in doing
which he pointed out the advantages of the French com-
mercial code, and also its ihsPplictibility to the multi-
transactions of the commerce of
tudinous and weighty
this nation. The Course recommended by the lieu,

live I
first

Gentleman Was the establishment of special - courts in
, London, and in any other city which was desirous of _
lowing the example of the metropolis. Ile woulC, how-
c!•er, not have eny new compulsory court of the working
of which they,conld have no real experience, and which,
ofter nil, might, turn cot an unsatisfactory experiment.
What he wished WilS that certain business men should in
each place register their names as arbitrators in com-
mercial disputes, -who should elect a sufficient body cf
themselves to-act ds a commercial jury, and these being
aided by a man of legal knowledge, in order to regiotor the
causes and digest the documents for the various cases for
adjudication,:as.in other tribunals. such local courts as
these, where causes could be decided by men of business,
would be much more satisfactory, in his opinion, than
the dilatory mode at present adopted of settling disputes
in this country. Such courts could not be established in
this country without an Act of Parliament. It seemed
to him that it would be in their power to frame a plan
of such courts EV3 he had described without in any degree
trenching upon the law of the land or the general admi-
nistration of justice.—(Applatise.) Asa simple experi-
ment, offering such advantages, it would be very judicious
to have a trial, if possible, of such att ibunai. If the
views he had expounded were satisfactory to the Intel-
inn, there ought to be a united proceeding on the part of
the friends of the cause for this purpose.—(Applause.)
In conclusion the. Learned Gentleman moved the follow-
ing resolution :—" That it is the opinion of this meeting,
that it is highly important to the interests of the great
-metropolitan trading community that a united and de-
termined movement should be made with a view to the
establiebment of tribunals of commerce."
Mr. RAINY, in seconding the motion, alluded to one
commercial case (a disputed contract) which had Leon
in a state of litigation for nearly fifty years before it was
brought to a close, when the costs were stated to have
amounted to 100;000/. Numerous other cases were re-
lated by the speaker, in which he showed the small pro-
bable charge which would occur to parties having disputes
arranged by tribunals of commerce, in comparison with
the unbusinesslike and tedious proceedings of the courts
of Westminster.
The resolution was passed unanimously.
Mr. COWAN, M.P., had great pleasure in moving the
adoption of a vote of thanks to the Chairman for his
kindness in presiding on that occasion.
Mr. LYNE seconded the motion, which was passed
unanimously.
The meeting then separated.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
THE LOBS OF THE BIRKENHEAD.—PLYMOUTH,
APRIL 6.—ln conversation with several of the pas-
sengers per Propontis, from the Cape of Good Hope,
I have been informed that the general impression is
that the melancholy accident resulted from a variation
of the compass, for tho Birkenhead was presumed to
be steering at least three miles outside the rock on
which she struck. That part of the coast) n which
the Birkenhead was lost was first surveyed in 1818,
. .

by Commander Walker, of the Dispatch tore ship,
who carefully examined the coast during fourteen
trips along the S.E. coast of the. Cape colony, and

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made a chronometric survey and chart from the Cape
of Good Hope to Algoa Bsy. Captain Walker gave
his name to Walker Bay, and also gave its name of
Point Danger to that projection of the land, in con-
sequence of the reef extending so far off. The same
coast has been since surveyed by Admiral Owen with
a surveying-ship. The coast is well known, and the
awful disaster must have arisen from deviations of
compass, occasioned by the local attraction of the
iron ship, which were, in all probability erroneously
corrected on Professor Airey's principles. The loss
of this steamer has created a deep sensation in the
community here, many of whom are related to the
unfortunate officers and erew.—Shipping• Gazette.
Commander Shepard APCormick died on Sundey,
'2Bth ult., at New Ross, Wexford, Ireland, deeply
and deservedly regretted, and to the inexpressible
grief and irreparable loss of a sorrowing widow and
six children. He served in various parts of the globe
during the late war, and bore on his person many
honourable marks f the hard-fought actions he had

been engaged in. His last service was in the St.
George, 120, Captain Nias, from which ship he vvas

superseded at his own request.
Commodore Bruce, the Commander-in-Chief on the
coast of Africa, in hia flag-ship Penelope, 16, steam-
frigate, Captain Lyster, left St. Vincent the day
before the screw Cape packet left for Sierra Leone.
The Commodore had appointed his Flag Lieutenant
Bonham to the acting command of the screw-sloop
Wasp, vice Commander Crozier invalided.
THE HYDRA STEAM-SLOOP.—A letter, dated Sierra
Leone, March 2, 1852, says :—" We arrived here on
the 28th of February, and will sail this afternoon
for St. Paul de Loando and the Cape. We are all
well. The English mail of the 15th ult. has just ar-
rived, and our purser has joined. Sierra Leone is
just now very healthy. The Crane, 6, Commander
M`Donnell, is here, waiting the arrival of the Commo-
dore, who is expected hourly in the Penelope."
A letter from the Swift, dated Callao, January 19,
1852, says:—" Commander Aldam, in the Swift, is
on his way to the coast of Mexico to collect freight,
where he will remain senior officer till the middle of
June, when he will return to Valparaiso. It is ex-
pected she will have a good freight. The Swift may
be probably in England about November. Dmialus,
19, Captain Wellesley, will, it is believed, relieve the
Swift i❑ June. Driver, 6, steam-sloop, Commander
Johnson, has just gone to Valparaiso pretty well
laden with freight. She will leave this month
(January) for England. The Swift relieves the
Daphne on the coast of Mexico. The Mexican Go-
vernment has increased tho duty on the exportation
of silver."

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Avon, steamer, arrived at Portsmouth from Ply-
mouth, on Tuesday, and proceeded on to Sheerness
with supernumeraries.
Vulcan, iron screw steam troop-ship, Master Com-
mander Penn, discharged her powder, and the Echo
has towed her into Portsmouth Harbour,: where she
will be docked. Her bottom is said to be very foul.
PORTSMOUTH, WEDNESDAY.—THE LOSS Or THE
BIRRENLIEAD.—It is impossible to describe the sen-
sation this melancholy event has occasioned in this
port, to which nearly all the crew belonged. The
dockyard has been the scene of many heartrending
exhibitions of grief to-day, and numerous have been
the applications for information by widows and or-
phans. The Port-Admiral and Admiral-Superin-
tendent have evinced the utmost anxiety and readi-
ness to render all the information in their power, and
to alleviate as far as in their ability the distress oc-
casioned by this unlooked-for calamity. The Bir-
kenhead was an iron steam-vessel, of 1,400 tons,
built by Laird, of Birkenhead, for a steam-frigate,
but before being tried as a ship of that class she was
converted into a troop-ship, in which character she
never enjoyed a good reputation, as many officers
who have sailed and held appointments in her can
testify. She left this port last on the 2d of January,
on which day she victualled as her own troop service
complement 129 persons, her apportioned complement
being 131. As a navigator Mr. Salmond ranked
among the most skilful of the Masters of the Royal
Navy. His latter services were in the Retribution
steam-frigate, and the Vengeance, 84, under Captains_e
Lushington and the Earl of Hardwicke ; thee the
Fisgard, 42, at Woolwich, from which
ship bonbon the
appointed to the command of the Dille')e a
Bth of February, 1851.
We are gratified to state that our hint has been
promptly taken as to a demonstration of
in public
the sym-
pathyßirken-
with the relatives of those 1
8, the Commander-
and his views are
head. Admiral Sir Thomas Bugg
Admiral Superin-
in-Chief at this port, has pro,toosaerd.,
by I beey,
ntogether with the
most warmly espoused
tendent Prescott, C. 8., that, t
hips companies of her Ma-
captains, officers, and s s ithead and in Ports-
mouth ships and vessels t_
iead.emPonstration of their deep
leirkernbreaid
_subscribe one
mouth harbour, should
regret at the loss of the
pecuniary day's pay towards the
seamen and relief
of the widows
and orphans of the sea marines who perished
t(h:lAsrc.raßellq. wuß'iisiri,ltrniobnieb)a_scaallsiongbeenWe are proud to add
be most readilyl acknowledged.
on that melancholy occasion.
signed to the Mayor
a special meeting of the
Town Council of.
_Portsmouth, " for the purpose of
raking into consideration the best means to be adopted
funds in aid of the sufferers by the
for raising'
me-
lancholy loss of her Majesty's ship Birkenhead, and
to tyke such steps as may be deemed desirable." This
meeting will be held on Saturday at two o'clock. It
could not be held earlier, as the Municipal Act com-
pels a notice of three clear days to be given before
any special meeting of a corporation can legally take
place.
PORTSIVOUTII__GARRISON.—The Master-General of
the Ordnance (Lord Ilardinge) arrived at this port
yesterday, and after e inspee ti g the new works, forts,
Bze. embarked in the Lightning steam-tender for the
Channel Islands.
Woonwicn, Aram 7.—The intelligence which
reached this port yesterday afternoon of the loss of
the Birkenhead, and of so many persons on board, has
caused a more than ordinary feeling of regret, as
Master-Commander R. Salmond, who had charge of
the vessel, and Mr. W. Brodie, additional master,
were well known and greatly respected at Woolwich,
both having been borne on the books of the Fisgard
flag-ship at this port immediately previous to their
appointment to the Birkenhead. Mr. W. Brodie bad
been but recently married at Portsea ; the chief en-
gineer, Mr. W. Whyham, and the assistant-engineers,
were also known to many in this quarter. Many of
the officers who were drowned were well known to
the officers of the garrison here. Cornet bolt, of the
12th Lancers, was the son of Mr. bolt, the contractor,
who has become a candidate for the borough, and all
feel deeply for the loss he has sustained.
Captain Erasmus Ommanney and Colonel Fre-
mont, with Mrs. Fremont, from the United States,
visited Woolwich Dockyard yesterday.
Fremont is well known in all quarters of the ev
,0,.1.1
his name being so often mentioned in connexion lE
the " diggings" in California.
are Several of the workmen at the factory w"king
A new
overtime at present, being employed i.O making
troop-ship
el
crank for the celebrated iron t
8 jai: of Good H ope.
I can, recently returned from the Cap yr
The Liighflyer steam-I'l°P' Captain "ent'y

Matson, will stop at Greenbithe when =
Woolwich on Saturday, to have her comp
t,- s.
jested by
Captain Johnson. The whole of th.
have noiN, joiucd this fine vessel,
.and she will form a
powerful addition, from her great weight of arma-
ment, to the steam-vcssels in commission at Ports-
mouth.

LAUNCH OF THE SCREW, STEAM-SHIP

INDIANA.
Yesterday was launched from the extensive build-
ing establishment of Mare and Co., Blackwell,
another of the new fleet of screw _steamer: destined to
convey the mails, ikc., from Plymouth to the Cape of
Good Hope and Calcutta, and ultimately, in all pro-
bability, to Australia. This ship is the fourth large
screw-vessel that has been turned out by Mare and
Co., and the Indiana is a worthy addition to the
large squadron now afloat, composed of the "
Har-
bieger, "Queen el the South," and the " Lady
Jecelyn." The event was regarded as quite a holi-
day at Blackwell, and be- the thousands assembled
at Mr. Mare's establishment to witness the depar-
ture of the ship from the slip on which she has bsen
constructed in comparatively a very short time.
From the gigantic proportions whieth the ship pre-
sented on the. --stocks', it was almost deemed im-
possible that she could be got into the water
safely from such a box of a place in
which she was cradled ; but the same art that
designed such a magnificent structure had arranged
the necessary means for extricating her from her
slip, and consequently, at the appointed time the
Indiana, having received her appropriate name with
the usual ceremonies, glided into the water in excel-
lent style—first moving almost impercoptihl v, but at
each yard gathering way, until the huge falNric had
acquired such a momentum that she dashed sway
across the creek and ran on a bed prepared to rieeeive
her, from whence she was subsequently towed out
into the Thames and moored off Blackwell, prepara-
tory to being taken into dock to be fitted for sea.
The Indiana, like her sister ships, is a credit
.to the
company and her constructor, and an honour to the
country which has produced so fine a fleet of vessels
as already compose this rising and influeatial com-
pany. She is 240 feet 6 inches long, 39 feet 3 inches
broad, and 25 feet deep. Her burden in tons is 1,778,
and she is to be propelled with engines of 300 e
horse power, by Maudslay, Field, and Co. Het'
appearance in the water was hailed with shouts
of applause by the spectators, who watched
with great interest the process of extricating so large
a ship from the confined limits of
Beoe wt t
bCeresebki
p. Hoff Her
the launc,hiog trim a little by stern
great advantage, and altogether me v.ppeo,cu
stem to stern a most handsome craft. A contrast to
the Indiana was afforded to the visitors to the East
India Docks in the almost finished sister ships the
Queen of the South and the Lady Jocelyn. They
were fully rigged and nearly completed, and, we be-
lieve, the Queen of the South will make her first trip
during June next. Their appearance could not fail
to arrest attention ; for they were strikingly massive,
but well-equipped and wholesome-built ships. At this
launch an opportunity was afforded to the numerous
assembly to rersmbulxte the extensive, but com-
plete, establishment of Mr. Mare, at which we un-
derstand, he employs some three thousand men,
and has building and fitting, and in course of
laying down some 25,000 tons of steam shipping,
includingthe "Mauritius," "Calcutta,"and other 1,800
ton screw ships, for the General Screw Steam Ship-
ping Company, and, with some small vessels for his
Holiness the Pope f Rome, that stupendous steamer
for the Peninsular and Oriental Company, the Hima-
laya, of 3,200 tons, and 1,200 horse power.
After the launch, which was attended by Mr. Ellis,
the Chairman, Mr. Fox, M.P., and other director!,
Mr. O'Beirne, the Secretary, and Captain Ford, the
superintendent of the company, Mr. F. P. Smith,
Mr. Field, and a great many other scientific gentle-
men, the directors and their friends adjourned to the
Brunswick Hotel, where a dsjeuner was partaken of,
and success was drunk to the ship, the company, Mr.
Mare, his naval architect, Mr. Waterman, and others
concerned in the proprietary and in building the
above addition to the enterprising company's fleet of
screw steamers.

SPORTING NOTES.
No. CXCIX.
THE NEWMARKET CRAVEN MEETING.

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TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sill,--In days of yore, the Craven Meeting at head-
quarters commenced the racing sea: on; now, however,
it is preceded by several large, and many minor, meet-
ings. This meeting still has one peculiarity, and though
it does not open the season, it is the ground on which
we have the first peep at some of the principal three
years old engaged in the I)erby—no less than nine
stakes being for horses of that age. The Meeting com-
mences on Monday with the Craven Stakes, which has
yet to close and name. Then follows a small Handicap,
the entries for which are to he made the night before
the race; after which, as the play-bills have it, the first
stake of any standing—the Thirty-eighth Riddlesworth
—will be run over th Abingdon Mile. There aro only
three subscribers to this stake, and but two nominations,
the Duke of Bedford's and Sir R. Pigott's. Hunk, be-
longiD to the former, will, I have but little doubt, de-
feat the Baronet's Daughter of Saint Francis and
Prioress.
c‘t.A. Sweepstakes of 100 sore. each, h ft, colts, Bst 71b,
fillies, Sst 41b, over the Abingdon Mile, in all probabi-
lity will not be contested by more than a couple, and
might be a walk over; but in any case it will be won by
Lord Ribblesdale's LIvERDIERE.
Another Sweepstakes of 100 sovs. each, h ft, for colts
only, over the Cambridgeshire Course, will most pro-
bably be contested by Ilex, Hesperus, and Wingenund.
The last-named has proved himself such a very wretched
previous performances, that I think this
race animalabyy his
be booked to the Duke of Bedford with
HESPERus.
On Tuesday the first stake on the list is the Nineteenth
Tuesday's Riddlesworth Stakes of 200 Bova,. each, h ft,
Weather-
gage
for three yrs old, colts, Sst 71b; fillies,.Bst alb, over the
D.M. lam not at all certain what will be started for
this race, but I am tolerably confident that M.AGNE3 and
, over the Cler-
and beingt"verfiyrsbtapd'agess;,
Ro-
sary a very doubtful starter.
or
THE Nsn
theon will
Togaoc car/ th the
weights, together, I be-
The Newmarket Handicap of -J EON'S. each, 10 ft, and
moat Course (about a mile, six furlongs, and some score
attention.
S: cru.,ywith 200 added
yonarlyd'Bs),ifndexectlacrleadina,
'Addington and
Aparo , , ill be
have, with Hernandez,w
__ missing from the fray.
Toe Grand Duke, Tom Holtby, Harpsichord, Lady
Old Lad, and
Agnes, the , , , Snarry will bo also
' di 6 the couple of top
absentees. &ebbing" couple likewise,
I think,
will be non est on the day, and Merry
peal is set-acted. At the present time
I
imagine
the field will be composed of the following:— Officious,
Hardinge, Proctor,
TAh ry ana, Co phee, The Little
savage Mountain Flower, Delia '
War-
foot colt, Bardolph, Cascara, _P 1 colt (d), Sally
umstead, Pluck, Maria,
and ono of Lord Citfd,en, probably Poodle. The top
weights I consider are all 6
Officious; the middle settled by the presence of
tion by Tophana and l weights ate placed in a like
weights aredisposed
of
by
the Coryphee, and the light
the Ltttio Savage and Poodle.
I should be inclined t
_.ro tote the three first named for
choice to stand On •
beat the lot, My ,fiTolrnANA, however, if she runs, to
n.at remarke on this reek will tippear
on :110Iiday evening,being impossible for me give a de-
cisive opinion at 1 the present moment, as the various
Owners' intentions are .
not at all clear as to starting,
&c. Two or three other stakes, which have not closed
as yet, finish the day's sport.
On Wednesday's races I shall only touch upon one—
the Column Stakes—of 50 soya. each, h ft, over the
R.M. This stake has thirty nominations to it; yet
will probably have but few starters, namely—
Lapidist, Glenluce, Sophistry, Exotic filly, Princess
colt, and,: perhaps, another or two cf comparatively
little account. The field I will give in my communica-
tion on Monday. At a first glance the race seems a cer-
tainty for LiApidist, and to my thinking so it is; but it
must be remembered that Glenlace is a remarkably fast
filly, and that Sophistry's running was anything but bad
last year. It would be a curious coincidence were La-
pidist, ala Ariosto, to find himself dividing the two fil-
lies by running home second, as was the case whit
Ariosto last year; but at the present reading I must'
place LAPIDIST first, with the two fillies second and
third, the Orlando colt fourth, and the Exotic filly last.
Thursday's and Friday's races I will touch upon to-
morrow.

I am, Sir, yours, &c.,
THE SPIRIT OF THE TURF.

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