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SHAKSPERE SCHOOL OF THE ROYAL
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EXTRAORDINARY AND QUINQUENNIAL COURT.
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SPORTING INTELLIGENCE,

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DERBY SPRING MEETING,-THURSDAY.

The Stiunton Harold Stakes of 20 sovs, added to a Sweep-
°stakes of 5 sovs each, for two-yr-olds; colts, Bst 101 b;
fillies, Bat 71b ; whiners Writ. Straight half-mile. 11

subs.
Mr Stamford's Love Letter, Bst 7lb (J. Adams) 1
Mr Meredith's Amazon, sister to Peru, Sat 7lb (Pearson) 2
Mr Hineson's Lady Sefton, Bst 71b (Connor) 3
A, Edwards weighed for Blackbird, and the filly's num-
ber was hoisted upon the telegraph board ; but the mare
not having arrived in time to start, her number was taken
down, and she did not run.
The betting opened at 5 to 4 on Blackbird, but closed at
3 to 1 on Love Letter.
The trio ran in close company to the half-distance,
where Love Letter quitted her two companions and won
easily by a length and a half. An investigation into the
circumstance of Blackbird's not running resulted in the
stewards exonerating Mr. Samuels, the owner, and A.
Edwards, the jockey, from blame.
The United Hunters' Stakes of 40 Bove, added to a
Sweepstakes of 2 soya each, to go to the second. Two

miles.
Mr Holliday's Vandal, aged, 12st 21b .......... (Owner) 1
Mr Booth's Lucy, 12st 21b (Mr T. Price) 2
Mr W. Cherrington's Liverpool, 1 Ist 71b (Mr. Brooke) 3
Mr Warres 719.8. Violet, 12st 21b............ (J. Knott) 4
The following also ran :—Miss Diggory, Raven, and
(111.Y2y Jane.
Lotting—Q to son Vandal, 3to 1 eget Lucy, 10 to 1 bar

two.
Lucy followed by Liverpool end Viellfit Made play, Vandal
fiwrasittinhgalut-pmonliet.hemn.
aylienissanDdiggGoipryey wasjanebeaatreolii:llocird inftwthaye
three-quarters of a mile from home, where Vandal took
the running and won by four lengths. Owing to Liverpool
sticking to Luoy, the latter's jockey was compelled to rouse
her to get second place. Violet, who started in a black
sweat from having had to gallop from the station to the
course, was a bad fourth. :le owner of the third horse ob-
jected to Lucy receiving mond money on the grounds of
having won at Nottingham but as the competitors in that
race were not subject to race-horse duty, the objection was

overruled.
The Harrington Plate (Handicap) of 30 sous, added to a
sweepstakes of 6 sovs (mei, for 3-yr-olds and upwards;
winners extra. Ono

Lord Bateman's Danatts (tale Stonewall Jackson), 3 yrs,
6st 71b .. (J. Grimshaw) 1
Mr Wallace's Golden Drop,4 yrs, 7st 61b .... (Connor) 2
Mr Crook's Dawdle, 3 yrs, Get (Kenyon) 3
Betting—Even on Demur, and 5 to 4 agst Golden Drop.
The latter held a slight lend of the favourite till arriving
half-way in the distance, fron whence a pretty race ensued,
which ended in favour of Dims by three-quarters of a
length. Dawdle was beatenoff
The Derby Selling Plate of :;50, added to a Sweepstakes of
3 sows each ; selling and other allowances. Three quar-
ters of a mile.
Mr Clay's Damascus, 6 yrs (£80), Bst llb .. (E. Taylor) 1
Mr Mansfield's Wee Aggie, 3 yrs (Z8o), 7st 81b
(J. Grimshaw) 2

to grief at the water jump and the double. At the back of
the stand Baronet was leading, Übique second, and Vesta,
who had reoovered from her feeler, drawing forward ra-
pidly, British Grenadier next, the others in Indian filo.
After crossing the course, Baronet and Vesta became first
and Second, Übique third, the three running thus across
4he ploughed field until jumping into tho lane, where Ba-
ronet and Vesta fell, leaving Übique with the lead, Sara-
cen's Head, who had made up his lee-way, being second.
Tho same order was continued on their way home, where
they were joined by Vesta, but Übique running the longest
won by two lengths, Saracen's Head being three lengths
before Vesta.

A Steeplechase of 10 soya each, h ft, with 75 added, for offi-
cers' horses that have never won a public steeplechase or
hurdle race: 12st each. About 3 miles.
Capt. 11, Vyner's (Grenadier Guards) Useless Brute, 12st
(Capt. Knox) 1
Sir W, O'Malley's Kate, 12st (Capt. W. Peel) 2
Mr, Buckley's Red Miner, 12st (Lord Adair) 3
Betting-6 to 4on Useless Brute, 3to 1 agst Red Miner,
Immediately after starting Useless Brute took the lead,
Red Miner second, Kate last, to the lane, where Red Miner
refused ana ran down the road. Soon after Useless Brute
refused, and Kate came up, Red Miner being last of all.
After going through the water at the back of the Stand Kate
took the lead, but was passed at the hill by Useless Brute,
Red Miner creeping up. At the double out of the ploughed
field they all baulked, and Useless Brute, being got over
first, took a commanding lead, was never afterwards ap-
proached, and won easily ; Red Miner was second at the
fence into the running field, but refusing, Kate obtained
second honours, Red Miner cantering in third.
A Sweepstakes of 5 soya each, 3 ft, with 50 added ; for
officers' horses, Ilst each; winners extra. About 3 nines.
Capt. J. Yibart's Übique, list 71b (inc. 7lb extra)
(Captain Keene) 1
The Hon R. Hare's Raillery, list (Owner) 2
* IV orthana's Oldcastle, list (car. list 13Ib)
Cap.' (Mr. Ilszelrigge) 3

3..t0 1 agat Raillery.
Rathzv second, the others to-
:Raronet
Baronet also mu. • •
Betting--6 to 4on Übi.:.'le,
Oldcastle took the lead, aouble, and Übique
gether. Oldcastle came to grief at the ,
soon after took up the running, which he het' the back
of the stand, when Oldcastle again joined them,
lying last. Crossing the ploughed field Raillery went .t°
the front, Übique next, Oldcastle and Baronet behind. At
the jump out of the ploughed field Oldcastle took second
place, but on coming into sight again for the run home
Übique was leading, Raillery second. They soon, how-
ever, became neck and neck and ran thus to the jump into
the winning-field, where Raillery " dwelt," and 'Clique
jumping very quick, led by two lengths, but being pulled
up near the winning post, Mr. Hare made a rush, and was
only defeated by a neck, Oldcastle, being two lengths off,

third.
A Plate of 50 Bove, added to a Sweepstakes of 3 soya each,
for hunters ; 12st each. About three miles.
Mr Price's (R.M.L.1.) Norah, 12st .... (Mr Anderson) 2
1
Mr Healey's Maniac, 12st (0 wuer)
Mr Grey's Sportsman, 12st (Owner) 3
Betting—Even agat Maniac, 2 to 1 agst Sportsman.
Maniac refused soon after starting, when Sportsman went
to the front, with North in close attendance, past the stand
and across the course. On the top of the hill Maniac, who
had been set going, rapidly made up his lost ground. North
led out of the ploughed field, the other two lying well to-
gether to the turn for home, where Norah gained a trifle of
advantage, but soon after the three joined issue, and a good
race home:resulted in favour of Norah by two lengths ; a
similar distance separating the second and third.

BETTING AT MANCHESTER—TILUIIBDAY•
There was a small attendance of subscribers at the rooms
to-day, and scarcely any betting took place on future events.
Closing prices :

myEnron STEEPLECHASE,
7 to 1 agst Bantam (taken)
11 to 1 agat Jerusalem (taken and offered)
THE GREAT NORTHAMPTONSHIRE STALES.
14 b 1 aget Lioness (taken freely)

•••••••••--
SCRATCHINGS••••-011 the 26th ult. at 3 40 p.m. Waterloo
out of the Sefton Handicap at Liverpool. On the 29th, at
9 a m. Leading Article out of the Derby Steeplechase, Mies
Julia out of all races for which she is handicapped ; and at
335 .p.m. Truant and Alpheus out of the Nottingham
Handicap. On the let inst. at 9 a.m. Carlisle out of all en-
gagements. On the 2d, at 12 10 p.m. Bridegroom and Alci-
biade out of the Spring Steeplechase at Shrewsbury ; at 8
a.m, Satellite out of Liverpool Spring engagements ; at 3 30
p.m. Charming Woman out of the Ain.ree Plate, Liver-
pool, and Amain out of the Hurdle Race at Liverpool. On
the 31, at 9 a.m. Leonora out of spring engagements ; and
.5 r. ex) Ihaohltsual vt46 of gal Lam 05a8+5«......5i0.

NEWMARKET FIRST SPRING MEETING.
Arum 25.
ACCEPTANCES.
The Prince of Wales Stakes of 200 rows, added to a Han
dicap of 25 soya each. R.M.
Age et lb
Adventurer .. 5 9 4
Stradolla .. .. 5 8 13
Exchequer .. 5 8 6
Donybrook .. 4 8 3
Hospodar .. 4 8 1
King of the Vale .. 4 8 0
Marigold .. .. 48 0
St. Alexis .. .. 6 8 0
Fantail .. .. 4 713
Despair .. .. 57 13
Suburban .. .. a 7 12
Blue Mantle .. 4 7 12
Flying Fish .. 47 10
Cadiz .. .. 47 10
Taje • . .. 47 9
Union Jack .. 3 7 9
Golden Dust .. 4 7 8
Merry Hart .. 47 7
Newmarket .. 4 7 6
Dr. Syntax .. 4 7 6
Coup d'Etat .. 37 5
Stockinger .. 5 7 6
Black Lily .. 6 7 4
Dolphin .. .. 47 4
Summerside .. 4 7 4
Stookowner .. 4 7 2
Muezzin • • .. 47 2
',Tabula .. .. 4 7 0
Amelia .. .• 47 0
Soapstone .. .. 47 0
Tademus .. .. 47 0
Trap .. .. 46 12

Age st lb
Evelina .. 3 6 11
Lady Superior .. 4 611
Amazonian .. 4 6 11
Gentle Kitty colt.. 4 6 10
Kempton .. .. 4 6 9
Durham • • .. 3 6 8
Horse Marino .. 3 6 8
Midnight Mass 3 6 7
Caryophyllns .. 3 6 6
Voluptas .. 4 6 5
Glendaak .. 3 6 6
Sir Roger .. .. 3 6 4
Young Rapid .. 3 6 3
Lady Emma .. 46 3
Echo .. 3 6 2
Bangle .. 3 6 2
Bacchus .. 3 6 0
Beadle • • .. 3 512
Highland Piper .. 3 5 12
Dispute .. 3 611
Battaglia .. 3 6 10
Lucky Star .. 3 6 10
Bonus .. .. 3 5 9
Wandering Minstrel 3 6 9
The Bea Boy •• 3 5 9
Rigolbocho .. 3 6 8
Hawkshaw .. 3 5 8
Confederate .. 3 5 8
Lytham .. .. 36 8
Bittern .. 3 6 7
Lobelia .. 3 5 7
Templar .. .. 36 7

COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL,

A Special Court of Common Council wasconvened yester-
day at Guildhall, the Right lion, the Lord Mayor presiding.
The Loan MAYOR, on taking the chair, said he had to
announce to the Court that the deputation appointed by
the Court had attended at Windsor Castle on Saturday
last, according to appointment, and presented the address
of congratulation to her Majesty the Queen, and he handed
in her Majesty's gracious reply. He also informed the
Court that the Court had proceeded on Monday to Marl-
borough House to congratulate their Royal Highnesses the
Prince and Princess of Wales upon the birth of an infant
Prince, and ho also handed in their replies.
Tho 10,A:omit:it then read the answer from her Majesty,
which was as follows :
" I receive with sincere satisfaction your dutiful and
affectionate address of congratulation on the birth of the
Prince my grandson.
"Your expressions of warm attachment and devoted
loyalty to my person and family are most gratifying to me.
" The city of London will ever possess my earnest wishes
for its welfare and prosperity."
The replies from the Prince and Princess of Walea were
also read by the Rlioottintit, and were as follows :
"My Lord Mayor and Gentlemen,—l thank you sincerely
for your congratulations on the birth of a Prince and the
Princess's recovery. I ant deeply sensible of the feeling
which prompts your hope that the virtues of her Majesty and
of my late lamented father may descend upon my offspring.
" The Princess and myself are deeply grateful to the city
of London for the sympathy it has shown in all that con-
cerns our happiness, which is inseparably connected with
the best interests and welfare of this country.
4. My Lord Mayor,—l return you my cordial thanks for
the address which you now present to me on the part of
yourself and of the Aldermen and Commoners of tho city of
London.
" I am very sensible of the warm interest therein expressed
for myself and my infant son, and I deeply appreciate the
kind, loyal feeling manifested towards me."
The addresses and their replies were then ordered to bo
entered upon the journals of the Court,
The following is a copy of the address presented to her
Majesty :
" Most Gracious Soverign—
" We, your most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Lord
Mayor, Aldermen, and Commoners of the city of London,
in Common Council assembled, approach the Throne with
the strongest feelings of loyalty to your Majesty's person
and Government, to offer our humble congratulations on
the birth of a son and heir to his Ito) al highness the Prince
of Wales. Bound as we are to your Majesty by feelings
alike of grateful attachment and devoted loyalty, we cannot
but rejoice in the event which, while it is calculated to add
to your Majesty's domestic happiness, affords to your people
fresh security for the stability of the institutions under
which we have the happiness to live. That God's choicest
blessings may be vouchsafed to the infant Prince and hie
s
illustrious parents, and that your Majesty may Land
hie
delight of seeing in him the growth of the virtues which
adorned the life and have endeared the memory of yourßo):,sl
Consort, is the earnest prayer of the citizens of London.
The addresses to their Royal Highnesses the Prince and
Princess of Wales were as follows :--
"May it please your Royal Highness,—
" The Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Commoners of the
city of London, in Common Council assembled,desire to

PRICF
STAMPED ....sd.

offer to your Royal Highness their heartfelt congratula-
tions on the safe delivery of her Royal Highness the
Princess of Wales, and on the birth of a Royal Prince.
Living, as it is our happiness to live under the beneficial
rule of our gracious t-overeign, wo cannot but indulge the
hope that the people of this country may witness in suc-
cessive generations of her descendants the virtues by which
her Majesty and her late Royal Consort have been dis-
tinguished. Wo fervently pray that the late auspicious
event may contribute to this end, and that the grandson of
Albert the Good may be richly endowed With the virtues of
his illustrious grandsire." ;
" May it please your Royal Highness,—
"The Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Commoners of the
city of London, in Common Council assembled, rejoice in
the opportunity which is afforded them of tendering to your
Royal Highness their hearty congratulations on the birth
of your first-born son. The citizens of London, who hailed
with delight the advent of your Royal Highness to our
shores, will ever take a lively interest in all which can effect
your happiness and welfare. They rejoice, therefore, in the
event which is calculated to add to the domestic happiness
of your Royal Highness, and they trust that you may be
long spared to watch over the Royal Prince, and that you
may be rewarded for your care by witnessing in the young
Prince the gradual development of those virtues which
alone can add dignity to the position to which by birth and
lineage he is entitled."
The Court then proceeded to dispose of the business for
which it was specially called together, which was to consi-
der a report of the Improvement Committee, brought up by
Mr. Deputy Fry, and asking the sanction of the Court to
the plan agreed upon by the committee, in connection with
the Holborn Valley Improvement Bill in Parliament. The
report gave a detail of the plan and the mode in which it is
to be carried out, and stated that the bill had already been
read a second time, and was to go before a committee on
Monday.
Mr. Deputy FRY made a few remarks, and hoped the
Court would agree with the report.
Mr. Deputy DE JERSEY, while agreeing with the general
plan, thought that the 80 feet which was the width pro-
, posed by the committee for the high level roadway from the
Old Bailey to Hatten-garden was too wide, and he proposed
that it should be only 70 feet, which ho said would make a
reduction of some £15,000 iL the expenses, and he proposed
r;:nendment to that effect, any also that the width of the
other 5tr,,,,40 should be left an open question.
The am„dtiLent was, however, lost.
Ono or two other slight alterations were pi:Vesed, but the
report was eventually Agreed to, and referred back to the
committee for execution.
THE PROPOSED RAILWAYS IN TILE CITV.
In accordance with a motion placed on the paper, Mr.
Deputy LoTT moved as follows :—" That it be referred to
a Special Ward Committee to take into consideration the
various railway schemes now about to be introduced into
Parliament, and which comprise projected railways enter-
ing into or traversing this city ; and to report to this Court
whether any of them aro likely seriously to affect the inte-
rests of this city by the disfigurement of the streets, the un-
duo annihilation of the buildings, the destruction of trade,
and the expulsion of the inhabitants."
Some discussion took place as to whether the matter
should be referred to the Law and Parliamentary Commit-
tee, or to a Special Ward Committee, and Deputy Lott's
motion was eventually agreed to, with the addition of the
words, "and how far they may affect the ratepayers by'
widening streets, which are already sufficiently wide," and
the Court shortly afterwards adjourned.

,!,-,s i - ---v-Asi r• -e; i'
`'' ~,
mere reconnaissance in force on the,vart of the,;,4o
Prussians. The Danes had only tviejegiments, :.. ,f
engaged at the beginning of the fray‘,a,but ono off-t i'l
them, the 22d, lost no less than 100 officersiall.
men dead and wounded. The losses of the tithe "-7
regiment, the 18th, were hardly lee 3 severe; and, I
am told, not a few of the men at the out-posts
(300 it is supposed) fell into the enemy's hands.
On the other hand, the Prussians left many dead
and dying on the field—heaps of them. The Danes
fought with great bravery ; a young officer of the
22d, at the head of his company, charged the enemy
with the bayonet with a headlong valour which is
even now the theme of every man's eulogy here.
The little Danish army went into and retired from
the field in high spirits, and looks forward to a new
trial te-morrow with an ardour which I have not
yet se;:n before among these poor, overwrought,
and overmatched men, either at Schleswig or in
this place.
likvini.7 thus acquitted myself of my task by
giving the news of the day, I hope yea will al:ow
me to enter into some retrospective F.:eieulars eon-
cernim; the retreat from the Dinnewerk. As I was
for a long time the only English reporter of events
on this side of the belligerent parties, and some of
my telegrams have miscarried, and my letters have
,„13, very late reached their destination, or nut
reached it at all, I have been hitherto unable to cor-
rect several assertions which have found their way
into the English through the German press, and
which must needs have misled the reading public as
to some points of the greatest importance.
In the first place, it is not true that it was the
achievement of Prince Frederick Charles of Prussia,
in throwing a bridge across the Schlei, that deter-
mined the retreat of the Danes from the Dannewerk.
The retreat of the Danes was effected on the even-
ing of Friday, the sth, at 11, and the bridge across
the Schlei was only begun at five o'clock on the fol-
lowing morning, when not one man on the Danish
aide remained on the spot to dispute the passage of
the fiord. .The real motives which led to the
backward movement of the Danes are still to a great
extent, and will bo perhaps for over, wrapped in
mystery.
A second assertion, which must be flatly con-
tradicted, is that of the Danes asking for and ob-
, taing three hours' armistice under pretext of bring.
ing in their wounded, and profiting by this respite
to steal away from Schleswig. The Austrians left
their wounded for two nights on the field at Bustrup,
and fired upon the Danes, who were moved by feel-
ings of humanity to issue forth to the relief of the
poor sufferers. That the officers at the outposts may
eventually have come to some mutual understanding
between them for such a purpose is indeed possible,
the ugh nothing whatever is known about it here ; bnt
what io quite certain is that I left Schleswig with
thp very iast troops of the rear at about 11 o'clock
on the evenia.:g of Friday, and that it was only at
4 in the morning of Saturday that the Austrians,
disbelieving for a long time the assertions of some
of the Schleswigers as to the evacuation of their town
could be at last induced to venture in. It was about
that time that the Prince of Prussia, also aware that
he would meet with no resistance, throw his bridge
over the Schlei at liappelu.

As soon as they obtained possession of Schleswig
the Austrians, it is true, set out in purauit of the
slowly retreating Danes, and came up with them at
break of day ; but it is not true, however, as it has
been blazoned forth in all the German papers, that
they gave battle to the Danes at Idstedt, and that
they defeated them with great slaughter. There was
no serious encounter between the two armies before
they camo to the neighbourhood of Bilskov Kro, or
Overso, on the Saturday afternoon thefith, and there
it is not by any means true, as it has been gratui-
tously asserted, that " the Danes lay in ambush for
their foes." The simple fact is, that the Austrians
came up somewhat suddenly with the Danish rear,
and these, with the resolution of a wild beast at bay,
turned round upon their pursuers, and fought them
with a valour which cost them much blood, but
covered them with honour. Idstedt, it should be
remembered, is at least 12 miics from ()verso, and
it is impossible the misstatement should be caused
by a mere confusion of names.
The same may be said of other battles, which, if
.we believe the fettile lull:intim of the telegraph.
ought to have strewn the whole distance between
Schleswig and Dybbol with dead and wounded.
The real truth of the matter is that the Danes re-
tired in admirable order, considering the terrible
hardships they had to contend with ; and as the
Germans hsd also their own share of difficulties to
overcome, the pursuit was not so fruitful in trophies
to their arms as people have been led to believe.
A great deal of the materiel of the I)9.:iit•:h army,
it is true, tell into their hands ; but it was not taken
by hard fighting. The slipperiness of the roads, the
encumbrance of the thoroughfares, and the utter
exhaustion of men and beasts compelled the Danes
to abandon not a few of their heaviest impediments,
among which were some of the 84-pounders which
were paraded with so much pomp along the streets
of Hamburg. But the field artillery was all
brought in safe here, and General Wilstar, who had
s:leli a chance asa few hours' start on an unencum-
ber„' road gave him, conveyed from Frederickstadt
to Sondei
iborg all of his heavy artillery and ammu-
nition that ht, deemed to be of use.
Whatever judgznent men may come to as to the
conduct of the Danis Government, and of General
do Meza as to the defence of the ,theDannowerk ne
is no doubt the conduct of the army, both dg
the few days of the conflict and during the 48 hours'
awful retreat, was such as only could bo expected
of ono of the most warlike and long-enduring among
the European races.

THE HALL END EXPLOSION.—Two more deaths
caused by this explosion, making nine in all, have
occurred. Tho iiiiminghant Post states that the cause of
the accident was a Weak spot in the boiler near the blow-
pipe. The boiler, during the ten years it has been in uset
has been frequently and regalarly repaired and inspected,
but no amount of tapping from tiie interior, it is said, would
have revealed the detect, because the brickwork beneath
would deaden the sound.
FATAL COLLIERY EXPLOSION AT HANLEY.On
Wednesday an explosion of fire-darnP took placo in
13rookhouso pit, 13ucknall, the property of Messrs. Pratt
and Co. Two men, named John Price, 19, and David
Oration, 30, were instantly killed, and James Rob ,
erts
William Aaron, and Samuel Chapman were seriously in-
jured. The latter were conveyed to the infirmary, and two
(1 thorn were so seriously hurt that they were not expected
to survive. The cause of the explosion is not known.—
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THE CUMSYMLOG UNITED SILVER-LEAD
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DIRECTORS.
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Cornwall (Chairman).
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