The Sun.
London, England, 1863-01-30 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 30, 1863.

LAW INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE.
(Before ;he Judge Ordinary.)

MOLYNEUX V. MOLYNEUX, BOYLE, AND RAWLINSON.
This was a petition presented by the husband praying
for a dissolution of marriage.
The parties were married at St. Peter's, Liverpool, in
1846, and the separation took place in 1858.
The marriage was proved by a person named John
Adams.

Miss Doyle said she knew the respondent previous to her
marriage, and visited her after. She recollected Captain
and Mrs. Honiball living with them in Westley-street, and
twelve months before the separation the respondent told her
that she intended to leave her husband and go to Australia,
as she did not like her husband, and that she should go
away where she would have more money to spend. She
had seen her once throw a shovel of burning coal after her
husband as he was going up stairs.
Jane Postance, formerly a domestic servant to Mrs.
Moleyneux, recollected her leaving her husband to go to
Australia. Previous to which she removed several articles
of furniture to her mother's residence. Mr. Molyneux
always seemed to treat his wife with the greatest kindness.
Jane Johnson, the mother of Mrs. Honiball, said her
daughter left England for Australia in August last. She
knew she had arrived there, and from there she had gone
to Singapore.

The depositions of Mrs. Honiball were here put in, which
stated that the respondent was living with a person named
Rawlinson, as his wife, at Port Philip.
Other confirmatory evidence having been given, two let-
ters were put in written by the wife after she left, in which
she referred to the fact of her departure, and pointedly
alluded to some family disagreements that had probably
healed in her absence. She concluded her letter by sign-
ing it with her maiden name.
Decree nisi granted.
MILES V. MILES AND JOHNSON.

This was a similar petition presented by the husband,
who was a silk finisher, residing at Longsight, near Man-
chester. The marriage took place in 1844, and up to 18-,9
they lived together, although her habits towards the latter
part of the time were very intemperate. In the early part
of that year a separation took place, but a reconciliation
took place afterwards on her promising td behave better
for the future. An improvement was for a short time ob-
servable, but eventually she relapsed inot her former
habits of intemperance, and sunk so low in degradation
that the present suit was instituted.
Decree nisi granted with costs against Johnson.
COOKE V. COOKE.

This was a petition for judicial separation instituted by
the wife against the husband on the ground of cruelty.
There were several other averments in the petition. The
respondent pleaded denial, justification, condonation, and
undue delay in the instituting of proceedings.
Mrs. Francis Judith Cooke, the petitioner, said—My
father was one of the fellows of Eton. My husband is in-
cumbent of Seymer, in Suffolk. There have been eleven
children, nine of which are still living, My first daughter
was born in 1838. The youngest child at the present time
is twelve years. I had reason to complain of the conduct
of my husband previous to 1852. I had often had unkind
language from him. In September, 1851, I paid a visit
with his consent to my sister, Mrs. Richards, in
Somersetshite. I remained there until the 12th of
January, 1852. On my return my husband treated
me with great unkindness. In the winter of the
year I experienced the first at tack of personal violence from
Mr. Cooke. He rubbed me violently over the mouth with
his hand, which caused great pain. This took place in the
drawing-room of Seymer Rectory. During that year there
were some other acts of personal violence. The one I best
remember was that which took place on Sept. 10, 1853. On
the evening of that day, after I had returned, he followed
me into my dressing-room and treated me with great vio-
lence. He forced me down upon a chair with my head
against the wall, and hurting my face very much. He
dragged me across the bed and kept me in such a painful
position that I could scarcely move, and for an. hour I could
scarcely breath. I believe he was asleep part of the time,
but he held me so tight that I could not move. I suc-.
ceeded in extricating myself after the time specified, and he
remained quiet for the rest of the night. The next day my
brother and sister, Mr. and Mrs, Richards, came to Seymer
to take me away on account of my husband's former ill-
usage. I went and remained till the 12th of May. Part of
the time I was in London, and the latter part in the country.
When I returned to my husband he was as violent as ever.
I came into some property on the death of my mother, and
differences occurred between myself and husband respecting
it. In the early part of 1854 I went to Colchester to my hus-
band's sister and husband, Dr. and Mrs. Maclean. My hus-
band drove me over in the dog-cart. Two of my daughters
went with me. We returned the same night. Before we
got out of Colchester my husband struck me in the face
with the whip. He frequently pashed me backwards, so
that it was with difficulty I could keep my seat in the
vehicle. Only my second daughter returned with me. In
the year 1854 I paid a visit, with my husband's consent, to
my sister, Lady Symonds, the wife of Sir W. Symonds, who
was then living. Sbe is now the wife of Dr. Mayo. I re-
turned towards the end of the year. On the day I got home
my husband told me I was not to resume the keys or the
housekeeping, which he had determined should be attended
to by my eldest daughter. In a few days after he placed
her in my seat at the head of the table. In October of that
year we had company, and one evening my husband was
exceedingly violent because I had given an order to some
of the household. He rubbed 14 face violeady
in the middle of the night as a punishment
for having ordered some candles. The next day
I left my room while my husband was in bed, and pro-
ceeded to my daughter's apartment. On my return I dis-
covered that my husband had locked the door of my dress-
ing-room and taken away the key. My clothes were in that
room, so I could not go down to breakfast. I sent for the
key, which he refused, and it was not until the middle of
the day that he allowed me to dress. In November Mr.
Cooke locked me out of my bedroom, so I had to pass the
night in my daughter's apartment.
The case is expected to occupy the whole of the day.

LORD MAYOR'S COURT.
(Before the Recorder and a Common Jury.)

WILKINS V. THE UNIVERSAL LIME LIGHT CO. (LIMITED).
THE TRINITY-HOUSE CORPORATION (GAILNISHERS).
This was an attachment to obtain the sum of £753 10s.,
alleged to be in the hands of the Trinity-House Corporation
on behalf of defendants.

Mr. Henry James, for the plaintiff, was proceeding to
state his case, when

Mr. Robinson, for the garnishers, said he would, to sim-
plify and shorten matters, admit that the garnishers bad
£3OO in hand.

Mr. James then expressed himself as willing to accept
that eurn on behalf of the plaintiff, and, upon his lordship's
direction, the jury found for the plaintiff for £3OO.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE---This Day.

LONDON, Jan. 30.—Wind this day at noon—South-
Westerly ; strong bi eeze, and cloudy weather.
QUEENSTOWN, Jan. 29.—Arrived —Rio Vougo, from
Pernambuco.

COWDS, Jan. 30.—Arrived—New York, screw steamer'
from New York.

PORTSMOUTH, Jan. 29.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrived—
Her Majesty's ship Supply, from the Eastward for Ply-
mouth.

NEWPORT, Jan. 28.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Dauntless,
from Gloucester for Gibraltar; Von Laffett Leksen, from
Bristol for New York.

Bank of England Return.—Yesterday.

An Account, pursuant to t:
cap. 32, for the week endind
or Jan., 1863 :

:he Act 7th and Bth Victoria
lon Wednesday, the 28th day

ISSUE DE!
LNotes issued ......X27,387,475

'A.RTMENT.

Government Debt £11,015,1C0
Other Securities 3,634,00
Gold Coin & Bullion 12,737,475
Silver Bullion

427,387,475'

£27,37,475

BANKING D
Proprietors' Capi-
tal £14,553,000
Rest .......
Public Deposits (in.-
eluding Exche-
quer, Savings'
Banks, Commis-
missioners of Na-
tional Debt, and
Dividend Ac-
counts) 5,416,863
Other Deposita 14,414,763
Seven Day and
other Bills 670,066

:PARTMENT.
Government Seen-

cities (including
Dead Weight A-
nnuity) £10,606,648
Other Securities 19,535,217
Notes
Gold and Silver 874,348

£38,302,818 I
W.

£38,302,518
MILLER, Deputy Cashier.

Jan. 29, 1863.

Mr. Marshall Wood has received through the
Hon. J. Rose, M.P., a commission to execute a
marble bust of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales
to be presented by William Molson, Esq., Principal
Dawson, and the Fellows, to the MGM College,
Montreal.

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in Italy. l
AN ITALIAN NlGHT._Nothing
iky itself, so vast, tender, and delicate, is like no other sky.
The American sky is bluer, but harder, more metallic.
can be more. e,x-
There is all the difference between the two that there is be-
tween a feeling and an opinion, As you stand on one of
the old balconies or walk along the terraces of the Frascati
villas, looking down over the mysterious Campagna, and
listening to the continuous plash of fountains and the song
of nightingales, you feel Italy—the Italy of Romeo and
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groves, and breathing
adierl,icpaatsesliyngagoavinerstotrhanegberoawnd myrtleandcheeks,
seem to blow open
the inmost leaves of the book on which youth painted its
visionary pictures with the colours of dreams. In a word,
we say this is Italy--the Italy we dreamed of—not the
Italy of fleas, couriers, mendicants, and postilions, but
of romance, poetry, and passion,—Robs di .Roma, by Wil-
liam W. Story.

NEGRO EMANCIPATION.

A demonstration in favour of negro emancipation
was held last evening at Exeter-hall, under the aus-
pices of the Emancipation Society. The hall was
crammed in every part, and hundreds of persons were
unable to obtain admission. The chair was taken by
Mr. William Evans, chairman of the Emancipation
Society, who was supported by Mr. P. A. Taylor,
M.P., Mr. Thomas Hughes, Mr. J. M. Ludlow, the
Hon. and Rev. Baptist Noel, the Rev. Newman Hall,
the Rev. W. Landells, and other gentlemen.
The CHAIRMAN, in introducing the business, said
the object of the conveners of that meeting was to
obtain an answer from that audience to this question
—whether the feeling against slavery was really
dead in this country. He believed that their pro-
ceedings would help to demonstrate the hollowness
of the pretence that in resnect to the contest now
going on between the Northern and Southern States of
America the sympathies of Englishmen generally
were on the side of the oppressors of the negro.
(Cheers.)

Mr CHESSON, the honorary secretary, then read a
number of letters from gentlemen who concurred in
the object of the meeting, but were unable to attend.
Among the writers were General Peyronet Thomp-
son (who sent £lO to the funds of the society, " as
the most rational way of contributing towards the
relief of Lancashire distress") ; Mr. W. E. Foster,
M.P. (whose excuse for his absence was that he had
to take the chair at a similar meeting the same even-
ing at Bradford) ; Professor J. E. Cairnes, of Dub-
lin ; Mr. John Stuart Mill, Colonel Salwey, and
Mr. W. Hargreaves (who believed " that Chris-
tianity embraces liberty, equality, and fraternity,
and abhors slavery, although the Beelzebub of the
press thinks otherwise.") A communication was also
read from the Union and Emancipation Society of
Manchester affirming that the working classes of
that city "are untainted by the virus of pro-
slavery advocacy, and that the sympathy with Jef-
ferson Davis and his co-conspirators, which makes
so formidable an appearance in the columns of cer-
tain journals, is at best a colossus of brass with feet
of clay ;" and that " should our Government, under
pressure from the aristocratic sympathizers with
slavedom, attempt a premature recognition of the
projected Southern slave empire, it will arouse the
indignation of the working men of the north of
England."
The Rev. BAPTIST NOEL rose to move the first
resolution, viz. :-
4, That the revolt of the Southern States of America
against the Federal Government having avowedly originated
in the determination not only to maintain but to extend
slavery, and having been followed by the organisation of a
Confederacy based upon the denial of human rights to the
negro race, this meeting indignantly repels the assumption
that the English people sympathise with a rebellion that thu
violates every principle of political justice, or with institu-
tions framed in defiance of the moral sense of civilised man-
kind, and which are an outrage upon the religion whose
sanction has been claimed in their support."

In supporting this resolution the rev, gentleman
cited facts and arguments to show that if th
Southern people succeeded in gaining their inde-
pendence they were not likely to emancipate their
slaves. All the official acts and declarations of the
leaders in the Secession proved slavery to be at the
bottom of their movement. Slavery was also the
avowed basis of their national life, and if that basis
went their national existence would go with it.
They maintained that slavery was a divine institu-
tion, that their material prosperity depended
upon it, and that if free the negro would not
work; so that they must themselves be re-
duced to pauperism. Moreover, these proud
oligarchs saw that, with their republican form of
government and the rapid increase of the black
race, they would before long be ruled by their own
slaves. With their views and principles, then, no
wonder if they would rather die than make the ex-
periment of emancipation. Freedom, they asserted,
would be the destruction of one of the races. Did
the Southern whites mean to immolate themselves ?
With what bloody determination they would hold
their human chattels was evident enough from the
sanguinary deeds which shocked us, as recounted
from week to week in the little intelligence which
reached us from Southern sources. At Charleston,
the other day, 19 regroes, for no other offence than
secreting arms in a graveyard, were hanged upon
the spot. At Murfreesborough, again, the black,
unarmed teamsters of the Union army were
ruthlessly murdered in cold blood by the
Confederate cavaliers. The reverend gentleman,
in referring to these and other alleged atro-
cities cn the part of the Confederates, was interrupted
by cries of "Butler !" and "M'Neil !" In rejoinder
he said that M'Neil was not an officer of the Federal
Government, and Mr. Lincoln, so far from shoring
these sanguinary tastes, when he heard of a single
rebel having been put to death, issued an order to.
his generals to execute none without first commu-
nicating with him. President Davis's proclama-
tion declared that every captured negro soldier
should be handed over to the authorities of the State
in which he was taken, to be treated according to
their laws, or, in other words, to be executed. All
this evinced a preterhuman thirst for blood, and was
the inauguration of a murder policy. President
Davis pronounced Mr. Lincoln's proclamation to be
"a measure by which millions of human beings of
an inferior race are doomed to extermination."
(Shame.) What did that mean ? It did not mean
if they rose upon their masters. The negroes could not
do that if they wished ; it was impossible for such
unarmed men to rise where there were 500,000
hostile whites with rifles in their hands. They could
not rise except where the Federal troops had pene-
trated, and where those troops had come there was
no instance of violence having occurred. The lan-
guage of President Davis meant that if these slaves
attempted to fly they should all, men, women, and
children, be murdered by those whose powerful in-
tellects were linked with Satanic energy. (Shame.)
Now, he and those who acted with him in that
room had been sneered at as being few, insigni-
ficant, and, in fact, mere "nobodies." (Laughter.)
He unaffectedly believed that that was true—(no,
no)—but he said that they were only the " pickets"
of a great emancipationist army scattered through-
out the country. (Cheers.) If these, then,
were their principles, let them carry them through
the length and breadth of the land. Let there
be everywhere such an echo of them that no man
in his senses could any longer pretend that England
was in favour of slavery. Let them proclaim in un-
mistakeable accents that they had no sympathy
with the oppressors of the black race—they were
for no alliance with the murder policy of Mr. Jef-
ferson Davis—for no Alabamas to prey upon the
peaceful commerce of the North in resurn for their
George Griswolds, sent out to feed our distressed
operatives—for no war with the United States for
the sake of slaveholders--no premature recognition
which led to war--110 hostile mediation which led
to both—no recognition at all till they emancipated
—no jealous or spiteful wish to see the United
States dismembered, impoverished, and disgraced ;
that they were for emancipation and reunion—
(enthusiastic cheers)—that they gave all honour
to Mr. Lincoln, his Cabinet, his Congress, and
all anti-slaverymen of all parties ; that they de-
sired a speedy peace throu:h emancipation and
reunion, and the mediation of France, England, and
Europe to promote both ; that they were for com-
pensation being granted to the slave-owners for the
loss of their slaves; and, lastly, that they were for
England and America ever continuing friends and
allies in promoting religion and liberty throughout
the world. (Loud cheers.)

Mr. THOMAS HUGHES, in seconding the resolu-
tion, paid the question which was daily becoming
more distinctly visible in connection with the con-
test in America was, which is the side of freedom?
That question had been answered lately on behalf
of the British people by the Times. (Hisses.)
The issue had been fairly taken up by that news-
paper. In an article published on the 19th inst. it
stated that Englishmen were deeply impressed
with the conviction that the cause in which the
South was gallantly defending itself against the
cruel and desolating invasion of the North was the
cause of freedom. (Hisses.) Now,
did the voice
gland really endorse that state-
of the people of En
moot?
(No, no.) The same journal taunted them
with being a few
struggling obscurities. (Laugh-
ter.) He accepted that designation frankly, though
that splendid meeting threw some doubt on its accu-

racy, but he maintained that if they were obscure
and few, that fact made it only the more incumbent
on them to speak out boldly what they felt on this
great matter. As the American poet of freedom
said,—

" They are slaves who will not choose
" Scorn and hatred and abuse,
" Rather than in silence shrink
" From the truth they needs must think ;
" They are slaves who will not be
" In the right with two or three."
(Cheers.) He was there to contend that the cause
of the South was the cause not of freedom, but of
the most degrading and hateful slavery which the
world had seen for a thousand years. In proof of
this proposition Mr. Hughes proceeded to sketch
the public career of Mr. Jefferson Davis, " the re-
presentative man," as he called him, of the Southern
rebellion, beginning with the education at West
Point and going on to his advocacy of repudiation
in Mississippi, and his support both of the exten-
sion of slavery to the territories, and of the re-open-
ing of the African slave trade. There had not been
a single act of his life that was not opposed to the
sacred cause of freedom. Having next referred to
the political conduct of Vice-President Stephens
and. Mr. Mason, author of the Fugitive Slave Law,
and to the decision of Judge Tanney in the Dred
Scott case, Mr. Hughes challenged any friend of the
South to point out any singe leader of the Confe-
deracy who was not over and over again pledged to
slavery. He then endeavoured to account for the
bitter feeling of America towards England by quot-
ing a passage from the same article in the limes,
to which he had already adverted, in which, after
speaking of the humbug of the Northern people in
pretending to care for emancipation, the writer said
" Mr. Cassius Clay himself would sink in his own
estimation if he thought his neighbours could ima-
gine he was a real emancipator for emancipation's
sake." Such statements as that was enough to
make any people bitter towards us. A more unjust
and wicked libel than that was never put forward
by an English gentleman. Mr. Cassius Clay had
no doubt said many foolish things about this coun-
try, but what was his personal history ? Born in
Kentucky—a slave state—he went to New England
for his education. There he made use of his eyes,
and discerned the marked contrast between the
condition of a country in la hich slavery existed
and one where that abomination did not exist.
When he returned home he resolved to put an
end to the evil state of things there, so far as
he was concerned, and he emancipated every slave
he bad in the world. (Cheers.) Nor was that all,
he went about Kentucky, one of the most noto-
riously rowdy States, where a man must go, as
it were, with his life in his hand, and he lec-
tured against slavery, on one occasion being vio-
lently attacked and left for dead on the floor of his
lecture-room. Yet that was the man against whom
one great newspaper had used the language he had
described. (Hisses.)
Mr. M. FIELD claimed the right to move an
amendment characterising the emancipation pro-
clamation as unconstitutional, vindictive, and dia-
bolical, and affirming that the recognition of South-
ern independence would ultimately secure freedom
to the negro. This amendment was received with
a perfect tumult of groans and hisses, and its pro-
poser was obliged to abandon the attempt to finish
his speech, which he read from a manuscript half
concealed by his hat.

The meeting was next addressed by the Rev.
NEWMAN HALL, who strongly supported the reso-
lution ; and the amendment, having been seconded
was put to the show of hands and negatived. The
original resolution was then carried by an over-
whelming majority.
Mr. P. TAYLOR, M.P., then moved the next re-
solution, viz. :—".That in the election of President
Lincoln, and in the principal acts of his adminis-
tration—the prohibition of slavery in the district of
Columbia►, the recognition of the republics of Hayti
and Liberia, the concession of the right of search
for the suppression of the slave trade, the scheme
of compensated emancipation, and the proclamation
which inaugurated the new year—this meeting re-
cognises successive triumphs of anti-slavery senti-
ment in the United States ; rejoices is the prospect
thus afforded of friendship between England and
America, as well as of liberation to the enslaved ;
offers to the Government and to the people of the
loyal States the assurance of fraternal sympathy in
their noble struggle, and requests the chairman to
communicate this resolution to his Excellency the
American Minister." (Cheers.)

Mr. S. M. LUDLOW seconded the resolution, to
which an amendment condemning slavery, but de-
claring that England's treatment of her own poor
disqualified her from remonstrating with America
on that subject, was proposed by a rev. gentleman
whose name was not included in the pre-arranged
programme of speakers, and who was constantly
interrupted by loud and general marks of impatience.
Several gentlemen on the platform attempted to be-
speak a fair hearing for him, but the meeting was
still clamorous, the hour was growing late, and the
obnoxious dissident had to content himself with
getting his amendment read to an unwilling audi-
tory by proxy.
Mr. GEORGE BROOK seconded the amendment,
which was put and negatived, and the resolution
was carried with all but entire unanimity.

A vote of thanks to the chairman closed the pro-
ceedings.

Two minor meetings were held for the same pur-
pose in other parts of the building, with the like
result.

MARKETS—This Day.

MARK-LANE.

A very small supply of English wheat was on sale here
to-day in poor condition. The trade, however, was in a
sluggish state, nevertheless, dry samples supported pre-
vious rates.

The show of foreign wheat on the stands was moderately
extensive. Generally speaking, sales progressed slowly,
yet no change took place in prices, compared with Monday
last.

Floating cargoes of grain were in slow request on former
terms.

Malting barley was very firm, and its value was fully
supported. Other descriptions met with a slow sale at
late rates.

Malt changed hands slowly at former rates.
The oat trade was firm, and prices were well supported.
The supply on offer was small.
The demand for beans and peas ruled far from active at
late currencies.

Most kinds of flour moved off slowly, yet prices ruled
firm.

ARRIVALS THIS WEEK.
Wheat. Barley. Malt. Oats. Flour.
English...— 420 280 + 1,250 810 I (1,660
Irish
Foreign.— 11,550 12,890 1,290

470 sacks
8,720 brls

NEIVGATE AND LEADENHALL.

Full average supplies of town and country killed meat
are on sale at these markets. Sales, generally speaking,
progress slowly at our quotations.
Per 81b. by the carcase.
s .I s d
Inferior beef .. 2 6 2 10
Middling do. .. 3 0 3 6
Prime large do. 3 8 3 10
Do. small do. .. 4 0 4 2
Large pork .... 3 6 3 10
Inferior mutton. 3 2 3 6

a dad
Middlingmutton 3 8 4 2
Prime do .. 4 4 4 6
Veal.
Small pork .. 4 0 4 6
Lamb

BOROUGH HOP.

We have to report an inactive market both for home-
grown and foreign hops. In prices, however, no quotable
change has taken place since we last wrote.

Mid and East Kents 7os to 180 s per cwt.
Weald of Kents
Susses . Bos to 150 s ~
Bavarian
American

COLONIAL.
TEA.—A fair amount of business has been done on the
fresh arrivals, and good and fine qualities have fully sus-
tained previous prices.
SUGAR.—There has been a steady demand for West India
at former quotations. Foreign qualities, however, were, in
some instances, rather cheaper. In the Refined Market no
material alteration has taken place in prices.
COFFEE.—Tha demand has been less active, and Planta-
tiondone
and Native Ceylon have been at slightly reduced
prices.
COCOA..—OnIy a limited business has been recorded, and
prices have shown rather less firmness.
RICE.—A moderate amount of business
ashtathee
s been
at about previous prices.
rmnonths
TALLOW.—The market has been more active,
have tended upwards. P.Y.C. on the spot is quoted prices 3
9d. ; March delivery, 40s. to 463. 3d. quoted 458.
475. to 475. 3d. per cwt. 1

Importing Tea without colour on the leaf pre-
vents the Chinese passing off inferior leaves as in the usual
kinds. Horniman's Tea is uncoloured, therefore, always
i goocl alike. Sold in packets by 2,280 agents.

ELECTION OF ALDERMAN.---This Day.

At half-past two o'clock the poll stood thus :
Waterlow
Capper. ,•
The ekction is thus virtually decided, there
being only a few more electors to poll.

Naval and Military Intelligence.

THE NAVY.

The Supply, iron screw troopship, Mastee.Com-
mander Balliston, anchored in St. Helen's Roads,
off Portsmouth, yesterday afternoon, from Wool-
wich, bound to the Mediterranean. It was blowing
heavily at the time from the westward, and commu-
nication was held with the flagship of the Comman-
der-in-Chief in Portsmouth harbour by signal only.
The indicated horse power of the screw gunvessel
Tyrian on her high pressure trial al Portsmouth on
Wednesday was 226.1; her engines are 60 horse,
nominal.

The Hannibal screw-liner, is ordered to be cora-
missioncd at Portsmouth by a commander, and at-
tached to the Asia, steam guardship, as a depot ship
for the receptio❑ of seamen returning from leave.
Her galley is ordered to be fitted with a supplemen-
tary oven for baking the men's dinners on the plan
referred to in the article headed " Cooking for the
Navy," which appoared in The Sun of Wednesday.
The official trials of the Himalaya screw troopship
and the Enchantress Admiralty paddle yacht, at
Portsmouth, were yesterday again postponed owing
to the unsettled state of the weather.

Her Majesty's paddle yaoht Victoria and Albert,
Capt. George H. Seymour, will make an official trial
of ker machinery, weather permitting, to-morrow,
on the completion of the fitting of her new inter-
mediate shaft by Messrs. Penn and Son.

The undernamed lieutenants have been promoted
to the rank of commander ; —C. 0. B. Hall, T. D.
Williams, W. S. de Kautzow, E. B. H. Franklin,
F. T. Thomson, and St. G. C. D'Arcy Irvine.
The following appointments were made yesterday
at the Admiralty :—Capt. Count Gleichen; to the
Racoon; Commander Edward Wilmot, to the
Euryalus ; Lieut. H. M. Miller, Lieut. Hugh
Campbell, and Lieut. G. R. Trefusis, to the Racoon ;
William H. Bradley, master, to the Racoon ; Dr.
James Young, Burg., to the Racoon ; Wm. F. Alex-
ander, paymaster, to the Edinburgh; Thomas Brad-
bridge, paymaster, to the Racoon ; William L.
Powell, assist.-surg., to the Racoon ; Robert W.
Parish, assist.-paymaster, to the Implacable; Chas.
E. James, assist.-paymaster, to the Racoon ; Henry
H. Tonkin, promoted to chief engineer; John
Staley, first class assist. engineer, to the Asia, as
supernumerary; Michael A. Fothergill, acting
second class assist. engineer, to the Cumberland ;
and Alfred N. C. King, clerk, to the Racoon.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

TATTERSALL'S-YESTERDAY.

The attendance to-day was very small, and attempts to
re-open speculation almost fruitless. Scarcely a dozen bets
were booked during the afternoon, and those to such trifling
amounts that they cannot be accepted as any criterion of
the actual tone of the market. Admiral Rous's handicaps
were made the subject of conversation, and the general ten-
dency of criticism was decidedly in their favour, 1,000 to 30
being once or twice offered on the field for the City and
Suburban. The Liverpool Grand National was not even
alluded to during the afternoon. For the Chester Cup
Ftradella remained at the head of the quotations, and was
backed for a "pony" at 20 to 1, which odds were currently
offered on the field up to the close. 25 to 1 was taken
about Black Deer, and 33 to 1 about Anfield, though a con-
siderably shorter price was perhaps the correct quotation
of the last-named. The Two Thousand was barely men-
tioned, but, after a little badinage, 100 to 6, and then 20
"ponies," were taken about Tom Pool; 100 to 6 was taken
about Pratique. For the Derby £525 to £lOO was offered
against Lord Clifden, but his friends were not present this
afternoon, and he was, consequently, not supported. The
other transactions on the great Epsorn race require no
comment. The filly races were introduced towards the
close, and £2OO even laid on Lady Augusta, Cassidia,
Cachuca, and Tornado against the field for the One Thou-
sand, and the like amount on Avondale, Lady Augusta,
Cassidia, and the Orphan, for the Oaks.

CLOSING PRICES.
GREAT NORTHAMPTONSHIRE STAKES.

15 to 1 agst Mr, Blake's Croagh Patrick, 5 yrs, Sat 81b
(taken)
TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS.
100 to 6 agst Mr. Naylor's Pratique (taken)
20 to 1 agst Mr. E. Brayley's rom Fool (taken)

ONE THOUSAND.
200 even on Lady Augusta, Cassidia, Cachuca, and Tor-
nado agst the field (taken)
CHESTEIt CUP.

' 20 to 1 agst Count F, de Lagrange's Stradella, 4 yrs, 7st
41b (taken)
25 to 1 agst Mr. Godding's Black Deer, 3 yrs, sst 101 b
(taken)
1000 to 30 agst Mr. Greville's Anfield, 3 yrs, sst 81b (taken)
33 to 1 agst Lord Stamford's Le Marechal, 3 yrs, Est
21b (taken)
40 to 1 agst Mr. Melville's Plover, 3 yrs, 6st 31b (taken)
200 t , 100 agst The Three-year-olds (taken)