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were present, in addition to many other guests. It was
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would be considerably increased.

Betting—Even on Lady Hylda, 9 to 2 agst Peignor, 7 to
1 agst Lady Evelyn filly, and 8 to 1 each agst Manrico and
Moulsey.

Armourer, with Gaily in attendance, was the first to
show in advance, followed by Conundrum, Maurice, the
favourite, Lord Wilton's filly, and Mousley in a body. They
retained this position for three-quarters of a mile, when
Armourer fell back, leaving Gaily with the lead, closely at-
tended by Conundrum, close up with whom were the &volt.
rite, Manrico, and the Lady Evelyn filly. On catering the
straight the leaders were joined by Iphigenia, who until
then had officiated as whipper-in. At the diatanca Gaily
wa. seen in difficulties, and giving way shortly after to Lord
Wilton's filly, who came on in advance, and won easily by
a couple of lengths, John Osborne's filly defeating the fa-
vourite by a length for second. Iphigenia was a good
fourth, Peignoir fifth, Conundrum sixth, and Armourer
next. Manrico and Monkey were the last two.

The Forester Plate of£4o(aandicap). Winners extra.
About one mile.

Lord Wilton's Stockinger, 5 yrs, Bst 21b (H. Grimshaw) 1
Mr Naylor's Quarantine, 3 yrs, 6st (ear Gat 11b) (Sayers) 2
Mr Ten Broeck's Troublesome, 5 yrs, 85t.... (Fordham) 3
Warrior, Nell Digby, Handley Cross, and Connexion also
ran.

Betting-100 to 30 agat Warrior, 4 to 1 agat Quarantine,
5 to 1 each agat Troublesome and Stockinger, and 8 to 1 agat
Handley Cross and Connexion.

Handley Cross led, closely attended by Nell Digby,
Warrior, and connection, the favourite, with Quarantine
and troublesome, lying off. On entering the straight they
closed and ran in company to within the distance, where
Handley Cross declined, when Stockinger appeared in
front, and, having all his horses safe at the stand, won in a
canter by four lengths. There were three lengths between
the second and third; Connection was fourth, Warrior
fifth.

A Handicap Plate of 25 soya. Winners extra. About five

furlongs.

Lord Westmoreland's Practitioner, 3 yrs, 7st 31b

(Morris) 1
Captain Cooper's Czarina, 2 yrs, Est Stb.. (J. Grinishaw) 2
Lord Wilton's Brother to Rubini, 3 yrs, 6st
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(Loates) 3
The following also ran :—Anfield, Armadillo, Bella,
Hope, Joss Stick, and Merry Harp,
Betting--6 to 4 agst Brother to Rubini, 4to 1 agst
Czarina, 7 to 1 agst Anfield, 10 to 1 (at first 100 to 5) agst
Armadillo, 11 to 1 each agst Practitioner and Bella.
A succession of false starts attended the efforts of the
starter, principally occasioned by the over.anxiety of the
riders of Brother to Rubini and Armadillo, the latter break-
ing away no less than four times, and running to the stand
before Cranshaw could stop him. This caused three-quarters
of an hour to be wasted, and when the flag was lowered
Practitioner, getting away in company with Bella, Merry
Harp, Czarina, and Brother to Rubini, carried on the
running into the distance, where Bella and Merry Harp
gave way to Captain Cooper's filly and the favourite, who
joined the leader at the stand, the three finishing a good
race home; Practitioner who had never been fairly reached,
winning cleverly by a length; a length and a half separated
second and third; Armadillo, who ran through his horses
at the last, was fourth, and Bella fifth. The last two were
Merry Harp and Hope.

The Longner Hall Steeplechase Handicap Plate of 50 sous.

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Winners extra. About two miles. 18 subs.
Mr Davies's Bowman, 6 yrs, list llb ..(Harding) 1
Mr D. Collins's Nil Desperandum, aged, lOst 71b
(Mr Grant) 2
Captain Brown's Hall's Court, 5 yrs, lOst 41b (W. Wink.) 3
Breary's Telacombe, 3 3 rs, 102 t , (Waddington) 4
Betting-7 to 4 agst Telscombe, 2to 1 agst Bowman, and
4 to 1 each apt N;1 Desperandum and Hail's Court.

The favourite made play, followed by Nil Dcsperandum,
Hall's Court, and Thwman for a mile, when Telscombe
(MC to grief, and the lead was loft with Nil Desperandum
to the straight, where ho was joined by Bowman. The pair
rau locked together to the end, Bowman winn'ng at last by
half a length. Hall's Court was beaten dr. At the scale
an objection was made to the winner, which remains for
decision to-day. _

After some further discussion,
Mr CARTWRIGHT suggested that the resolution should
contain a conaition as to protective Claucir. t. .he Aynn.
mouthshire Company, which was agreed to by the mover
and seconder.

The resolution as amended was carried by a largo majority.

NORTII-EASTERN.

The directors of this company have given notice of in-
tended application to Parliament for power to amalgamate
the West Hartlepool Railway and Harbour Company and
the Cleveland Railway Company with the North-Eastern
Company on such terms and conditions as may have been
or may be hereafter agreed upon.
A provisional agreement for amalgamation has been en-
tered into between the directors of the North-Eastern and
the director of the Hartlepool Company, subject to the
approval of the shareholders of both companies, to the effect
that for the year ending July, 1865, the net earnings of the
Hartlepool Company are to be divided among Class A and
Class B and the ordinary stooks as provided by the act,
1863. The amalgamation is to commence or take effect on
the Ist of July, 1866, and the North-Eastern Company, on
obtaining Parliamentary sanction, are to substitute for the
West H.artlepel classes A and B stocks a corresponding
amount of North-Eastern preferential stock, carrying a per-
petual guaranteed dividend at the rate of £4 per cent. per
annum, from the Ist of July, 1868, with intermediate gua-
ranteed dividends for the year commencing the Ist of July,
1865, at £3 ss—for the year commencing the Ist of July,
1866, at £3 10s—and for the year commencing the Ist of
July, 1867, at £3 15s per cent. per annum. The holders of
ordinary stock aro to be entitled to 'guarantee dividends at
like rates per cent., calculated on £76 195 for each £lOO
ordinary stock. The directors of the Hartlepool Company
have unanimously recommended the adoption of an amal-
gamation on the terms provisionally agreed upon,

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mares and.geldings allowed 31b. The winner to be sold
for £3OO. About half a mile.
Mr Thellusson's Hesper, 6 yrs, Bst 10Ib (Fordham) 1
Mr ()Acme's Lady Abbess, 4 yrs, Bst 71b.... (Whiteley) 2
Mr Stevens's Faith, 3 yrs, Bst 21b .... (Payne) 3
Mr W. Morris's Antidote, 4 yrs, Bst 7tto (Custance) 4
Mr Winton's Prescription, 3 yrs, Bst 2lb (Doyle) 5
Betting-6 to 4on Hever, sto 1. agst Prescription, and
8 to 1 agst Faith.

Faith, with Prescription at her girths, jumped away in
advance when the flag was lowered, Lady Abbess going on
third, with Reaper and Antidote side by side next. As
they entered the straight liesper joined the leaders, and
obtaining a clear lead at the distance ho won in a canter by
two lengths; Faith finished a bad third. The \winner was
bought in for 560 guineas.

The Jenkinstown Park Handicap of 5 soya each, with 50
sovs added. Winners extra. 10 subs. About a mile
and a half.
Lord 'Wilton's Lady Evelyn filly, 3 yrt., 75t.... (Morris) 1
Mr Osborne's Gaily, 4 yrs, 7st 121 b (Whiteley) 2
Mr G. Bryan's Lady Hylda, 3 yrs, Gst 101 b.... (Carroll) 3
Maarico, Mousloy, Conundrum, Peignoir,fArmourer, and
Iphigenia also ran.

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kets' Improvement Committee, of the proce. dings under the
reference to obtain designs, plans, &c., for the meat and
poultry market to be erected at Smithfield, and for autho-
rity to select from the designs sent in a limited number for
the approval of the Court.

The report was agroed to, and the Court shortly after
wards adjourned.

Naval and Military Intelligence.
.

A general order from the Horse Guards, signed
by Col. Glocester Gambier, CAL, Deputy-Adjutant.
General Royal Artillery, has been promulgated by
order of the Field-Marshal Commanding-in-Chief,
in which it is announced that his Royal Highness,
with the concurrence of the Right Hon. the Secre-
tary of State for War, bas given instructions for the
name of Gen. Sir Robert William Gardiner, G.C.8.,
K.C.H., to be added to the names inscribed on the
memorial pillar in the rotunda at Woolwich. His
Royal Highness deems it unnecessary to recite to
the Royal Artillery the special actions in which

this distinguished officer acquired his own military
reputation, and contributed, with many gallant
comrades, to raise the fame of the British Artillery.
He expresses his earnest desire that the long service
and strenuous exertions of Sir William Gardiner for
the benefit of his corps, and that the personal cha%
ratter of this officer, conspicuous for its dignity and
chivalry, should be permanently and publicly corn•
memorated.

A general order from the Horse Guards, signed
by Lieut.-General the Hone Sir James Yorke Scar-
lett, K.C.8., Adjutant-General, has been received
and promulgated at Chatham, containing the red
vised code of rules and regulations for admission to
the Staff College. Under the new rules ail applica-
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while the officer making it is present and serving
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No application from an cffiaer on leave will be en-
tertained. Although only one officer can be spared
from a battalion at a time for the purpose of study.,
ing at the college, this will not necessarily prevent
a battalion sending more than one to compete at an
examination if circumstances admit of their absence
from their regiment. The principle under which
officers are allowed to enter the Staff College being
that of pure competition, it follows that candidates
who may be found quadfied at any examination,
but who from want of a sufficient number of vacan-
cies cannot then be admitted, will not have any
claim to subsequent admission without undergoing
another competitive examination.

Lieut.• Col. G. H. Vesey has been appointed to
the command of the Ist division of the Depot Bri•
gade Royal Artillery during the absence on leave of
Lieut.. Col. W. H. Fooks.

On Wednesday evening the Duke of Someiset,
K.G., accompanied by Admiral Charles Eden, C. 8.,
and by Captain Hall, R.N,, private secretary to his
Grace, arrived at the Admiralty-house, Portsmouth-
dockyard, the residence of Admiral Sir 11. Seymour,
G.C.H., Port Admiral and Commander-in-Chief,
from London.

Yesterday morning it blew a hard gale, with con-
tinuous rain, from the southward, but the Duke, ac-
companied by Admiral Eden and Capt. Hall, and
by Sir Michael Seymour, Admiral Superintendent
G. Elliot, Capt. Sherard Osborn, C. 8., of the Royal
Sovereign; Captain Astley Key, C. 8., of the gun.
nery ship Excellent, Captain C. P. Cales, R.N., and
other officers, embarked on board the Admiral's
barge at the King's stairs of the dockyard, and pro.
needed on board the Royal Sovereign, now lying
in mid-stream in the upper part of Portsmouth
harbour. The Duke was conducted over the ship,
and all rfquired explanations were given by Cap-
tains Osborn and Coles. One of the turrets was
entered, and the winches being manned it was
made to revolve and the principle was fully ex-
plained. The importance was pointed out of being
able by a partial revolving movement in 45 seas,
to throw the port out of the sight of the enerny,and
thus effectually closo the port to an enemy's shot
without the use of the objectionable port swing shut-
ters, which were found to be so liable to getismmtd
by shot on board the American Monitors. The gun-
carriages were then examined, and the reasons
explained for believing in the superiority of the
wrought-iron carriages, with which it is proposed
to supersede the wooden ones at present in use for
mounting 12-ton guns. The new leather collar
now fitting round each turret at the deck line was
also examined and explained. From the Royal
Sovereign the Duke and officers accompanying him
went on board the gunnery ship Excellent, where
the two 12• ton guns, one rifled and the other
smooth-bo•e, were exhibited. Their peculiarities,
in the guns themselves and their carriages, were ex•
plained and commented upon by Captain Astley
Key, C.B. From the Excellent the Duke returned
to the Admiralty House, and in the afternoon, ac-
companied by Admiral Eden and Captain Hall, he
returned by the South-Western Railway to Lon-
don. It may not be inopportune to refer in this
brief notice of the visit of the Duke of Somerset to
the 12-ton guns mounted in turrets on board the
Royal Sovereign,and in broadside ports on board the
Excellent, to the remarks made by General Todle-
hen during his recent visit to Portsmouth and the
Royal Sovereign on the broadside and turret ports
of ironclads. The General said that in measuring
the port on the broadside of an ironclad it had be-
come the custom to give the outside measurement,
whereas its true size must be measured on its inside
—on the inner side of the inverted embrasure, which
wno, and which constituted its real weak-
ness. The General might also have added that the
broadside ports of our ironclads have become so
contracted that the gunners on board would but
seldom obtain a glimpse of the enemy—the glimpse
could only be momentary, and the damage they
would inflict upon them by the discharge of their
guns would, therefore, most probably be very trifling
The Victoria screw three-decker, 121 guns, 1,000-
horse power, Captain James Goodenough, steamed
out of Portsmouth harbour yesterday and anchored
at Spithead, in readiness for her trial on Saturday,
and her voyage to the Mediterranean, as flagship
of the British Admiral in that station, in company
with French, Italian, and Austrian iron-glad fleets.
A series of important trials, with a view of test-
ing the relative merits of two ship's pumps, was
yesterday commenced in Woolwich dockyard. The
trials, more properly speaking, were to test the
working powers of a newly-invented fire-engine and
bilge pump, manufactured by Messrs. Morton and
Wilson, of Stockton-on-Tees, in competition with

the "Downton pump," manufactured by Messrs.
J. Stone and Co., of Deptford, and used upwards of
40 years on board the ships of Her Majesty's ser.
vice with success. The experiments took place
under the supervision of Commodore Dunlop,
superintendent—Mr George Turner and Mr William
Henwood, superintending shipbuilders of the yard
—Commander Biddlecombe, master-attendant—Mr.
Gossage, from the department of the Storekeeper-
9eneral of the Navy,,the Hon. Robert Dandas, and
other officials. They were carried out on board the
old paddlewheel sloop Hecate. The two pumps
were fixed within working distance of each other on
the orlop deck, and were manned by eight men, who
worked the two pumps in succession, each being
fitted with auction-pipes leading to a tank on a raft
under the ship's bows, and capable of containing
about four tune, or 860 gallons of water. The first
pump put to the test was the Wilson pump, which
filled the tank in 11 minutes 46 seconds, making
501 revolutions. This was considered highly satis-
factory. At a given time the process of filling the
tank through the medium of the Downton pump
was commenced and completed in ten minutes 18
seconds, making 478 revolutions, thereby corrobora-
ting the opinion generally entertained of its
efficiency and value. The respective firms were
represented at the trial by their senior members.
On the part of the Messrs Stone and Co. it was stated
that their Downton pump used on the occasion was
but little more than two-thirds the size or capacity
of the Wilson pump, and that it laboured under the