The Sun.
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CHELMSFORD, Marten 26.—Prices to-day were as follow:
Wheat, white, 44s to 50s; red, 381 to 435; barley, 26s to 295;
chevalier 28s to 33s ; grinding 21s to 27s ; malt 55. to 565;
chevalier 55s to 58s ; oats 18s to 25s ; peas, partridge, 27.
to 30s; white, 28. to 30. ; boiling, 29s to 325; dun, new, 26s
to 28s ; beans, tick, 26. to 3013; harrow ticks, 27s to 31s;
snazagan, 24s to 28s.
COLCHESTER, MARCH 27.—Wheat, white 46s to 50s; red 42e
to 45s ; oats, 20s to 235; beans, mazagan 27s to 28s; middle
and small 30s to 335; peas, white 34s to 38s, grey, new 28s to
30s ; barley, 30s to 34s per qr.
KIRICALDT, MARCH 27.—The following are the quotations
for grain:—
Wheat. Barley.
First 44s Od 31s Od
Second 423 Od 303 Od
Third 36s Od 253 Od

Oats.
24a 01
23s Od
19s Od
5 imperial,
.The follow

Beans.
—8 Od
—a Od

Peas.
--s Od
—s
Od
—5
Od
Its Cd.
prices Of

—s Od

Oatmeal, per bag of 2801bs
HADDINGTON, MAaCH 26.—'
grain at our market to-day :
Wheat. _ 1

.30s Od to
ing are till

Barley.
35s Od

Oats.
255 Od

Beans.
36s Od
32s Od
23s Od
331 sold
351 sold
318 sold
245 sold

First
Second 42s 3d
Third
Total quantity of Wheat i
Do. Barley
Do. Oats
Do. Beans

Ns 4d
246 6d

22 2d
20s Od

market 425 qrs.,
do. 388 qrs.,
do. 891 qrs.,
do. 273 qrs.,

COAL MARKET.—:YESTIRDAT.
Prices of Coal por ton at the close of the market :
Puddle's W. Hartley 12s 6d Haswell ..... ........ ..... 15s 3d
Chester Main l2s 3d Lambton
Dean's Primrose
Howard's W. H. Neth. 12s 6d! Holy well
63dctIRRuicashmella'snyetton
145 Od
Ravensworth Pelaw .. 12s 6d Stewart's .. ... ....
Ord's Main ...... ...... 118 Od Plummer ... 14s 6d
Ravensworth'sW. Hart 12s 6d Cassop
Redheugh Main ...... 1l s Od'Heugh Hall
Tanfield Moor ......... 12s 6d Kelloe
Canfield Moor Butes... 12s 3d Soutk Hartlepool
West Hartley
West Wylam
Wall's End, &o. ,Whitworth
Acorn Close ....... ..... 13s Od Hartlepool Hetton
Horton
Hobburn
Lawson l2s 3d:z.: our Tees 1 ...... .. 13s 6d
Northumberland
Walker l2s 3d Tees
Harvey Wylain (uns.) 11s 3d West Cornforth
Eden Main ...... l4B Od Gwaen Cae Gurwen 24s 6d
Lambton Primrose ... 14s 3d Llangcnniech
Braddyll
Hetton

Ships at market, 151 Sold, 83.

RAILWAY SIIARE MARKETS.

MANCHESTER, MARcli 29.
STOCK EXCHANGE. —The share market was not quite so
good to-day, but prices remain without material alteration.
The transactions were as follow : —East Lancashire, 17 5-16
—Eastern Counties, 9th—Manchester, Sheffield,
and Lin-
colnshire, 3414—Ditto, New Preference, 11-16 p.—London
and North-Western, 12114—Ditto, Fifths, 3 15-16 p.—Mid-
land, 641 A—Manchester and Birmingham (C), Quarters,
2%p.—North Stlffordshire, 8 dis.—Lancashire and York.
shire, 72%—York and North Midland, 24%--
Wharfdale,
2'A dis.—South-Eastern and Dover, 22 1-16.
BIRMINGHAM, BIAACH 29.
STOCK EXCHANOK was very .—The business to-day
limited
in amount, but prices generally were well sustained. The
'only sales reported were—Shropshire Union, 3/. Is. 3d. dis.—
Shrewsbury and Birmingham, (B), 514 dis.

SOUTH-EASTERN RAILWAY.
Gross traffic receipts for passengers
and goods, week ending March 27,
1832 ...
••• ... £10,441 19 2
Ditto, March 29, 1851 ... ... 8,931 17 9

... £1,510 1 5

Increase in 1852
London Terminus, March 29, 1852.
GLASGOW AND SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY.—Trade for
he week ending March 27, 1852 :
Passengers (18,050), goods and
parcels, horses and carriages.. £3,769 5
Corresponding week in last year 3,507 19
Glasgow, March 29.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE-
PLYMOUTH, MARCH 29.—THE MISSING
ADMIRALTY
ST E AME a. —Her Majesty's screw steam troop-ship
Vulcan,
Master-Commander John Penn, which was left by the
Simoom on Wednesday last, 10, A.m., twelve miles south-
west of Scilly, arrived at Plymoath late last night. Her
outward dates are—Portsmouth, Oct. 3 ; Cork, Oct. 12 ;
Sierra Leone, Nov. 8; and Simon's Bay, Dec. 12.
She left Simon's Bay Dec. 15, reached the Buffalo Mouth
on the 16th, landed her troops on the 17th, sailed therefrom
on the 18th, and returned to Simon's Bay on the 21st of Dec.
On her homeward voyage she sailed from Simon's Bay on
the 31st of Dec., arrived at Table Bay on the Ist of Jan.,
and took her departure for England on the 3d of January,
touched at St. Helena on the 15th, and reached the Island of
Ascension on the 23d.

She has returned Ordnance stores, guns, &c., from the
Cape, and condemned naval stores from Ascension.
The Vulcan conveyed the Lord Bishop of Cape Town from
Table Bay to St. Helena. She brings, as passengers from the
Cape, Captain, now Major Monkland, 74th Highlanders,
whese leg was injured in an attack upon the Kafirs ; Lieute-
nant Palmer, of the 12th, and family, and Mr. Cassidy, who
has returned home to join the 21st Royal Northumberland
Fusiliers; Dr. Dick, of the 12th, and Captain Fortescue.
From St. Helena, Mr. Brownell ; Ensign Cape, of the Gold
Coast Corps. From Ascension, Commander Corbett, late
gunnery lieutenant of the Penelope, who was wounded in
nine places in the attack on Lagos; Lieutenant F. Probyn,
Penelope, on sick leave; Lieutenant Williams, Royal Marine
Artillery, Penelope ; Lieutenant Noot, Royal Marines, Tor-
toise ; Dr. Squire, Tortoise, in charge of invalids ; Mr. G.
Bowen, midshipman, Royalist; Mr. Grant, midshipman,
Hastings; Mr. Rainbott, second-master, Rhadamanthus ;
and invalids from the African squadron.

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rayn, d
IhBas;e
;
It would seem that the engines and machinery of the un.
fortunate Vulcan have scarcely ever been in proper condi-
btieoenn.
inlnisee,ernngoirneesbrwleerses, csoinnesetrutcbteed23bdy
fßennie,
t the
stuffing o f
the collective horse power is 455, and they are of the de-
scription known as " horizontal," with direct action to the
thescrew.
brass
s sDuring
observedthe working
throughon- he
b 9th
boxin
November,
the stern, on account of the friction of the engines, and the
minute.
revolutions were reduced from six to four per • e.
Subsequently the plummer block brass was observed to
wear considerably, which caused a jump upon the engines.
On other occasions the engineers appeared to have expe-
rienced considerable trouble in their vain efforts to get the
engines into good working order. The propeller shaft was
sent ashore at Simon's Bay.
During the passage home, on the IGth of January, after
steaming 13 hours the engines were stopped in consequence
of a favourable breeze having sprung up. The next day
(the 17th), when the enginemen were cleaning the ma-
chinery, which was out of gear, they discovered that the
foremost main crank was cracked or split, and this circum-
stance having been duly reported to the commanding officer,
the engines have never been tried since.
The greater part of her coal was discharged at Ascension.
The passage of the Vulcan from that island to England is
not one which will reflect much honour on the steam navy
of Great Britain. The V ulcan, it appears, cannot get to
windward. About a month since she was 606 miles off, and
to cover that distance she has had to beat upwards of
2,700 miles. It is reported that her commanding officer is
about to publish an account of this remarkable voyage.
When spoken by the Simoom had provisions had been so
much reduced that all hands were on short allowance.
th of the Simoom ; en-
The Vulcan is ca
lled
ff St.
llelena,e issister of the same character asher that
gine defect, o
which occured on board the Blegfera.b
In consequence, we suppose of er very unweatherly
capabilities, the Vulcan, instead of being moored inside the
breakwater, h„ dropped her anchor off Cawsand-bay, near
Mount Edgecrunbe—a most unfavourable position in case of
strong winds from the so uth-east. She will probably be
towed to the eastward by a paddle steamer.
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SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
THE MILITIA BILL.
TIMES.—Mr. Walpole's Militia Bill is studiously designed
to escape the conflict of opinions that proved fatal to its
predecessor, and it bears evident marks of the discussion
which that casualty has provoked. It is altogether another
measure. The odiousness and unfairness of the ballot, and
the uncertain operation of the system of substitutes, are to
be avoided, if it be possible, by enlistment, with the stimulus
of a sufficient bounty. We need not take any credit to our-
selves for having pointed out this only practicable alterna-
tive, for really there was no longer any doubt in the matter,
and Lord John Russell had all but given up the plan of con-
scription. If the militia are really to be placed at the ser-
vice of the State, and to be made " worth their salt," it
would be a great hardship to impose such troublesome duties
on any one against his consent, and to compel one man to
be at the beck and call of the State, to wear a uniform, and
to be drilled with chance companions, in order that fifty other
men might engage in the ordinary business of life with
greater security, and sleep a little sounder in their beds.
They who suffer the inconvenience and possible danger
ought to have some adequate compensation ; and they who
receive protection should not object to pay for it. As it is
proposed to raise no more than 80,000 men, 50,000 this year
and 30,000 next, and as a bounty of about 41. is offered to
each recruit, we are encouraged to hope that it will not be
found necessary to resort to the ballot, which the Govern-
stilLeontemplatee as a possible necessity. For the two
islands 80,000 men are only about one in a hundred male
adults, and that proportion it is expected will be forthcoming
for a three weeks' training once a year, with the possibility
of a little real service in case of invasion. In that event,
while all the male population will have to turn out to fight,
__however unprepared, the militia will at least have had some
preparation for the dire emergency. The tneaeure was re-
ceived with a marvellous amount of civility. Lord Pal-
merston gave it his decided approbation, and Lord John
Russell, with a tender recollection of the usage
his own Bill had received, felt it would be most
unjustifiable to offer any obstacle to the introduc-
tion of the Bill. The only decided opponents who
announced themselves were Mr. Hume and the
Manchester party, who, from an equal horror of war and
expense, refused to acknowledge the necessity of any such
measure. Whether the shores of this country are likely to
be invaded in the lifetime of the present generation is a ques-
tion on which men must differ, but there really cannot be
any difference of opinion as to the fact that whether we shall
be invaded or not depends at this moment on the will of one
man. It is not agreeable to Englishmen, nor is it their
habit, to depend on the will of one man, to tremble when he
frowns, to breathe freely when he smiles, and to trust his
assurances. The French dictator has only to give the word,
and an army is let slip against us that wants neither the
skill, the courage, the numbers, nor the will to do us the
most serious mischief. It is true that military authorities
are not agreed as to the possibility of an actual invasion, and
are only agreed, all but unanimously, that no invasion would
ever be successful; but if there be the barest chance in
the world of 100,000 men being thrown on our shores, it
would not be comfortable to have against those men, armed
and trained as they are, no more than 25,000 soldiers whom
we might perhaps with plenty of warning be able to
scrape together. To train one man is hundred at the ex-
pense of 250,0001. a year for five yeas does not seem a very
troublesome or costly precaution to adopt against a danger
that certainly is within the range of possibility. When Mr.
Cobden has no better security to offer than his private opinion
that French officers are too much of gentlemen to obey their
President if he commands them to invade this country
without a good reason, we certainly feel that so slender and
ridiculous a ground of confidence only betrays the very grave
nature of the possibilities that we are bound to provide
against. As to the merits of the new measure, after the fate
of Lord John Russell's, and the very strong difference of
opinion it has elicited, it would be premature to speak with
confidence. The truth is a Militia Bill must be an experi-
ment. It is the gauge of many conditions that cannot be
otherwise easily estimated. How far have our insular
position, our peaceful state, and our industrious habits
eradicated the taste for war, or even inspired a positive
horror of it? What proportion of men is there in the
country to whom a bounty of 41. or 5/.; or half-a-crown a
month for five years, besides payment of expenses, is likely
to have much attraction? Does employment abound to such
an extent as to leave none at leisure even for three weeks
soldiering? The ordinary comp9tation is, we believe, that
there are at least eight weeks in the year during which
farmers can easily dispense with the services of their
labourers; but whether agricultural labourers are the class
to which we are to look chiefly for our national defenders, is
one of the questions for which we must abide the experiment
of the measure before us. When the whole ground has yet
to be explored, the best course is to try a measure that
shall offer the least violence to feelings and that
may admit most easily of amendment. These con-
ditions are fulfilled in a scheme which proposes
to raise by bounty no more than 80,000 men, to
train them no more than twenty-one days, and to leave a
longer training, and an appeal to the conscription, to the
discretion oftile Government. In further proof of the mo-
dest character of this Bill, we may mention that it differs
vtry slightly, we believe, from one drawn up by Sir James
Graham and Mr. Sidney Herbert in 1845. As often hap-
pens, however, the most moderate and diffident course
seems to have cut the knot of a real difficulty. That difficulty
consists in the facts that we have increased our regular army
to the utmost limit of British forbearance—that we are too
free a people to submit to conscription—and that our labour-
ing classes are not of a military turn. The solution of
these difficulties rests on the hope that the posis
Lion of the volunteer militiaman in Mr. Wal-
pole's Bill will not seem so onerous, so dangerous, so
thankless, so insulated from the rest of? the community, as
that of the regular soldier. But, as we have said, the
ground being to a great extent unknown, the measure must
needs be experimentaL Lord John Russell has no great
opinion of it. He thinks that the bounty will prove no
great inducement, and that the ballot will be found neces-
sary. He expects that the measure will be tedious in its
operation, at all events not prompt enough for the possible
emergency. Yet, as an experiment there must be, and as
almost any description of militia is preferable to a large in-
crease in the regular army, he is disposed to give a candid
consideration to this plan, particularly as he recognizes in it
some of the features which led to the defeat of his own mea-
sure at the hands of Lord Palmerston. To all appearances,
the Bill will be discussed with all convenient dispatch, so as
not to protract the session, its more serious defects being left
for trial to show, and for the next session to correct.
CHRONICLE.—The Government plan for the embodi-
ment of the militia, as explained last night by Mr. Walpole,
has for its object to raise a force of 80,00 men, between the
ages of eighteen and thirty-five-50,000 the first year, and
30,000 the next—the term of service being five years. The
enlistment is to be voluntary, encouraged by a bounty of 3/.
or 41. persman, or by a monthly retaining fee of 2s. or 2s, 6d. ;
and the period of training will be twenty-one days, with a
power of extension or diminution if necessary. The existing
law is to regulate the embodiment of the force for actual ser-
vice; and it any district fails to make up its quota of vo-
lunteers, recourse is to be had to the system of ballot. The
expense of the new armament is estimated at an ag _re-
gate sum of about 1,200,0001. for the entire five
years. In the general outline of the scheme, so far as it
has yet been developed, there is much that entitles it to
support. The great desideratum is the
ed formatio
than
of
obj ect
an
efficient army of peareser and, provid
be accomplished, it appers to us that the question
of voluntary or compulsory enlistment is entirely
secondary. So far as it goes, compulsory service is no doubt
an evil, though, as compared with the safety of the country,
its inconveniences are as nothing. If voluntary
enlistmen
be pre-
t
can be made to supply its place, it clearly ought to
ferred ; and notwithstanding Lord John Russell's doubts
upon the subject, we are very much mistaken if a long peace
has so far damped the warlike spirit of the country as to
have rendered the volunteer system impracticable. It may
serve to facilitate the discussion of the subject if we briefly
state what we consider to be the true ens n
view
uite in forming
such a force. Its objects appear to us to be qin
pendent of, and different from, those of the volunteer
companies proposed by Sir Charles Napier, and
subwe
do not see why the two systems shogld not -
sist together. Sir Charle's rifle corps would be en-
rolled, not for the ordinary purposes of warfare,
but with the special object of harassing an invading
army in its passage through the labyrinth of hedges,
ditches, and woods which covers our southern counties.
What we more immediately want is a reserve force capable
of largely increasing our regular army in time of war, on the
shortest notice. Let objectors say what they please, we
could not, at this moment, with our utmost efforts, collect
an army of 50,000 regular troops at one point, except at the
cost of leaving Portsmouth, Plymouth, and Woolwich un-
defended, and committing to the police the whole charge of
the peace and safety of Ireland. We require, therefore, a
body of men capable of undertaking the ordinary defuse, a
the army, and of reinforcing it in case of need—a body fitted
to occupy entrenched posts, to defend garrisons, to form
patrols, and, above all, to supply by degrees the waste of war
amongst our regular troops. Such a force as this cannot be
extemporised. .It is said, indeed, that we can at any
time guard ourselves against a raszia, whilst we could
organise an overwhelming resistance to a deliberate
invasion. It may be so, but both of these objects might be
attained far more certainly by our providing ourselves be-
forehand with an organization for the purpose. We should
most gladly witness the formation of volunteer corps, who
might make'an excellent irregular force; but nothing short
of the discipline which arises from the habit of men capable ofilitary subas
-
ordination could give us a body of m serving
regular troops. "It was neither the volunteers nor the con-
scripts that saved the country in 1793, said Napolltion—" it
was the 180,000 old soldiers of the monarchy." Ve have
already a limited number of excellent regular troops ; the
Government have but to speak, and they may command
almost any amount of irregulars, in the shape of volunteer
riflemen ;and the proposed measure will, if carried, give us
an army of reserve which would possess, at any rate, such a
rudimentary knowledge of military discipline as would soon
enable it to acquire, in actual service, a very formidable do-
gree of efficiency.
HERALD.—Ministers have not much to dread from their
opponents, if we are to judge from the kind of opposition
offered to the motion proposed last night by Mr. Walpole, for
consolidating and Mending the laws in regard to the militia.
First and most formidable of these antagonists was Cob.
whosofhawi na -8
den, the sinewy Ajax of the Manchesinterthsechhooople.
manifestly put forward by his party,
pering the Government, or gaining a little popularity for the
Opposition. The attempt signally failed. Mr. Cobden was
weak and illogical ; his topics of debate badly chosen and
ill-
arranged; no extraordinary censure, perhaps in the
judg-
ment of some, and none at all in that of his Manchester pelM-
mis a
porters, with whom plain home-spun, however coarse, a
web of the finest texture, and rude strength has more charmss
than athletic elegance. Mr. Cobden's arguments, however,
carried with them their own refutation—the bane had it,
own antidote. The Member for the West Riding
not deny the vast preparations of our COOtlnental
neighbour; he does not deny that vast sums of 001
have been expended by that nation upon vessels of Vir an
does

naval armaments—sums of money which, upon his own
showing, no nation is justified in so expending, when they
can be more wisely applied to commerce and manufacture.
Could he deny this state of things, his arguments would be
plausible. But acknowledging these, how is it that so
shrewd a man did not at once perceive that the present
proceedings of France afford the most complete contradiction
to his assumptions? The same arguments which he uses to
show the utter improbability, if not the very impossibility of
an invasion by France, would also disprove the actual ex-
istence of these preparations. Mr. Cobden dwelt much upon
the fact of France being an industrial country, and on the
necessity of peace for success in its various manufactures.
Invasion was unprofitable; he would therefore infer impos-
sible. But are not those naval preparations, the enormous
works at Cherbourg. and Brest, and Toulon unprofitable
in Mr. Cobden's sense? Would not the money now
expended on them be more wisely and profitably
employed in improving the resources and developing the
industry of the country? If, therefore, in these matters,
where the prospect of advantage is more distant and more
uncertain, that nation has not been guided by those ideas
of commercial and mercantile advantages which Mr. Cob-
den thinks irresistible, and which render the very idea of
invasion ridiculous; why should they be guided by them
in the event of a war? So weak an argument, one ad-
mitting of such easy refutation, and yet forming the staple
commodity in the mouths of the Manchester men and the
extreme opponents of the Ministry, gives a plausibility to
the sarcasm thrown out against them by the Secretary at
War—that Hon. Members had expected to find in the
.measure laid before the House some details which could be
popularly attacked, either on the ground of expenditure or
the unpalatableness of its provisions to the tastes and
habits of the people. Happily, however, to the nation
at large (unhappily it may have been to this section of
the House), no such cause of offence could be found—for
none such exists. The old form of the ballot is to be
superseded by voluntary enlistment ; and, as an encourage-
ment to serve, it is proposed to offer a bounty to men join-
ing the service, not exceeding 31., to be paid at once, or in
monthly instalments. The length of service extends over
a period of five years; but the time for drill in each year is
not to extend beyond twenty-one days. The opinions of
the first military authorities in the kingdom are sufficient to
satisfy any doubts which may exist as to the adequacy of
this period for efficient drilling and training. The great
object of the Bill is to render it as little obnoxious as pos-
sible to the people ; and it must be remembered that a saving
of time in this respect is not only a saving of labour and
trouble to the volunteer, but a considerable saving also of
expenditure to the nation. A right, however, is reserved
to the Crown, in cases of emergency, to extend this
period of three to seven weeks, or reduce it to
three days. The age at which the volunteers will
be capable of serving varies from 18 to 35. The result of
this will be to render easy the employment of substitutes,
should the ballot be resorted to. It is proposed to raise
the entire efficient force to 80,000, of which 50,000 are to
be called out the first year, and 30,000 the next; thus
varying the time of service, in order that a nucleus may
always be preserved of men already-trained and disciplined.
Every district in the country will furnish its proper con-
tingent, and the limits of these districts will be fixed by the
Registrar-General. On the average of five years the ex-
pense will be 250,0001. per annum; but in the first year not
less than 400,0001. will be required, in consequence of the
cost of arms and equipments. Mr. Cobden and Mr. Bright
will make a hustings question of it. Let them make their
vaunting good, and we shall be the first to thank them,

SPORTING NOTES.

No. CXCVI.
THE EPSOM SPRING MEETING.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sin,—The meeting on the Cockney-loved Downs of Epsom
stands for decision on Thursday next, and bids fair, from
present appearances, to be the best of the kind that has yet
been celebrated.
The sport commences at one o'clock, with the Epsom Trial
Stakes of 5 soya. each, with 50 added; three yrs old Gst
121 b ; four, Bst 71b ; over the mile coarse. This stake closes
to-night at six o'clock, and the nominations will have to be
made to Mr. Dorling at Epsom. I shall give my opinion on
it to-morrow.
The second race will be run at a quarter before two, and
is the City and Suburban Handicap of 15 soya. each, 10 ft,
&c., with 150 added; over the last mile and a quarter of the
Derby course. lam not at all positive at the present time
of the fields far any of the races, consequently shall give a
list of the nags under moving orders in the Third
Edition of The Sun of this evening, should my ac-
counts come to hand, otherwise it will appear in
to-morrow's paper. The field for this stake, I believe, will
consist of the following :—Prime Minister, Thornhill, Merry
Peal, Kilmeaey, Edward of York, Diligence, Mary Ann, The
Brahmin, Sir Charles Napier, Greengage, Cytherea filly,
Lady Isabel, Flounce, Butterfly, and perhaps Surprise. The
race, I may briefly state, will, in all probability, be contested
severely by the Minister, Edward of York, Greengage,
Flounce, and Butterfly ; I say nothing about Surprise, be-
cause considerable doubt surrounds his starting. Should he
go, however, his chance is first rate, and there seems but
very diminutive hopes of anything beating him; but as his
non-starting seems stronger than his starting, I must look
somewhere else for the winner, which it is not at all impos-
sible I may find in Air. Grevills's GREENGAGE or EDWARD
or YORK; Butterfly, Flounce, and Sir Charles Napier being
elose up.
The third race on the card will be run off at half-past two,
and is the Two years old Stakes of 10 aovs. each, with 25
added; colts, Bst 61b; and fillies, Sat 41b; half a mile. The
field will probably consist of the Sister to Iracund.us,
Anxiety, Margellina filly, Blonde], Gold Dust, John Bull,
Fermentation. Deerhound, Pantomime, Sextris, Red Tape
filly, Estelle filly, King David, and one of Mr. Payne's. Tile
race, I imagine, will rest entirely with the Sister to Ira-
cundus, Margellina filly, Pantomime, Estelle filly, and Mr.
Payne's Starter; and that the final struggle will show the
ESTELLE FILLY, SISTER TO IRACUNDUS, and PANTOMIME,
in the first, second, end third places.
The fourth race will be for the Great Metropolitan Stakes,
and will come off as near half-past three as possible, on the
two-miles and.a quarter circumbendibus course. As near as
I can judge this morning, the field will be comprised in the
following :—Elthiron, The Ban, Miss Ann, Backbiter, Offici-
ous, Calmar, Kick-up-the-Dust, Hungerford, John of Ber-
wick, Achyranthes, Candlewick, Ischia, Sally Warfoot colt
(d), Joe Miller, Saowdrop, Ethelwolf, Captain Flash, Kate,
Stilton, and Sperry. This field may be slightly altered, but
such accounts as I have received load me to infer that
it is, with perhaps one or two exceptions, about the
thing. Elthiron, The Ban, and Miss Ann, are in my
opinion effectually settled by the weight, ani their chances
held particularly safe by Backbiter, at Bst 31b. Officious, a
five yrs old, at 7st 31b, and moreover a flyer in days of yore,
looks anything but dispicable for this event; she shall offi-
ciate as my forlorn hope or cockboat on the present occasion,
in case my selection should be defeated. Calmar, at 31b less
than the last-named, is of c lnrse out of therace. Kick-up-the-
Dust, a filly that can go the distance and live a respectable
pace, is the most dangerous looking animal figuring in the
middle division. Her performances have always been re-
spectable, and I have no reason on this occasion to think that
it will be otherwise. Hungerford's chance is not a bad one,
but the distance is a shade too far for him. John of Ber-
wick and Achyranthes;will run forward, but to my thinking
not quite forward enough to win. Candlewick, at a very
favourable weight, would look well if the course was heavy
or the pace slow, but her want of speed will on this occasion
operate as an effectual bar to her winning. Ischia has been
leniently treated by the handicapper, but still has
little chance of turning up a good thing. The Sally
Warfoot colt is a fine slashing animal, and if
it had not been for adverse rumours concerning his condition,
&c., I should have been inclined to place him in the front
flight. Joe Miller, well-bred, in good form, and much fan-
cied by his owner, will cut a respectable figure in the race;
but this son of witticism will not carry my cash. Snowdrop
is no go. Ethelwolf will persevere to the end. Captain
Flash will take some beating and will finish forward. Kate
will attain a place ; Stilton be about the bull's-eye ; and
Snarry, if he runs, will be just inside the distance when the
race is won. To draw my remarks to a conclusion, I believe
Backbiter to be the best of the heavies, Officious, and Kick-
up-the-Dust of the mediums, and Kate and Stilton of the
feathery division. One of this quintette lam tolerably wel'
convinced will be the winner, and I should place them thus
STILTON OR
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KICK-UP •THE-DUST •••
OFFICIOUS
KATE -. •..
BACKBITER ... •,.
I am, Sir, yours, &c..
THE SPIRIT OF THE TURF
March 30, 1852.

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SPORTING INTELLIGEN CE
TATTERSALL'S—YESTERDAY.
METROPOLITAN HANDICAP.
4 to 1 agst Mr. Meiklam's Stilton, 3 yrs, 4st Illb
taken and afterwards offered
9 to 1 agat Mr. Sergent's Kate, 3 yra, 4st 121b—t
10 to 1 spit Mr. Merry's Miss Ann, 6 yrs, Bst 41b—
taken and afterwards offered
10 to 1 eget General Ansoa's Backbiter, aged,6B3llt
71b31
—taken and afterwards offered
12 to 1 agst Lord Waterford's Kick-ap-the-Dust,
4 yrs, 6st 121 b—taken
15 to 1 agst Lord Eglinton's Elthiron, 6 yrs,
25 to 1 eget Duke of Richmond's Officious,
7st 31b—taken 5 yrs,
Benita was scratched at half-past four.
The above were the averages at the close, and they
varied only from the general run of the betting in the
instance of Kate, who, after several transactions as s to
1, went to 10 to 1; those odds being, in fact, offered ages
anything, bar one. She improved a point on its being
announced that Benita was scratched. Next to Nate an
the favourite (Backbiter), Miss Ann and Nick-
iz
Dust were most in favour.
THE SUBURBAN HANDICAP.
5 to 1 agst Mr. Merry's Mary 20e:taken
6 to 1 apt Mr. Greville's Greetgaiss',_taken
Besides the three horses quoted,
8 to 1 agst Lord J. Scott's Ninnellei.
r is considered
hoWele v
or two at 6 to 1; his starting.,
very doubtful.
r ivi SAs STARES.
TWo TriousAND - Nx, flomobrewed—t
Surprise had a ba.cker.
9to 2 agat Duke of 9 le.
B I!ishi):nniel O'Rourke
6to 1 egst Mr. 'Jo ~ Filius
6 to
I agst Sir ".
rig
Ambrose
10 to 1 agst Lord EursTtcgri:
c-v-ilie'a Scarecrow, 3 yrs, 4st 71b
16 to 1 agst 51
« Mr; Orsborne's Merry Bird, 3 yrs, 53t 61b
25 to 1 ags. --- CUP.
—taken
t Mr. Otooch na Surprise, 3 yrs, 4st 41b—
taken25 to 1 agi and afterwards offered
6 Backbiter, aged, 7st
to back
veryScare-
little betting, but plenty of offers .
Surprise. agat General
nA us
°ll'
orow aa-would have been
but 50 to 1 taken.
a We did not hear of a bet laid eget
Nancy,
50 to 1 a
DERBY.
taken
5 to 1 agst Mr. Merry's Hobble Noble—taken
12 to 1 eget Lord Zetland's Augur--
15 to 1 agst Mr. Stebbing's Alfred the Great
16 to 1 eget Mr. J. Stanley's Orelio—taken and after
wards offered
1.7 to 1. KA turd YafAlint9lefi ell11411191'!