The Sun.
London, England, 1863-03-12 00:00:00

sit I is, LoN DoN, THITESoAY EV EN ING MARCH 12, X 863

BANK of ENGLAND March 10, 1863.-
The COURT a DIRECTORS of the GOVERNOR
and C MPANY of the B of ENGLAND GIVE
NOTICE, That a ' KNERAT., COURT will be held at the
Bank on HURSDAY, the 19th inst., at Twelve o'clock pre-
cisely, to consider of a Dividend.
Also, that another General Court will be helclat the Bank
on Tuesday, the 7th April next, from Ten o'clock in the fore-
noon until Four in the aft, moon, for the Election of a
Governor and Deputy-Governor for the year ensuing (which
will be declared that evening); and the same Court will be
continued by adjournment, and held at the same place, and
during the same hours, on Wednesday, the Bth April next,
for tit,. Election of 24 Directors (which will also be one of the
Quarterly General Courts appointed by the charter); and the
election of the 24 Directors will be declared as soon as the
scrutiny is over.
Printed lists of the proprietors having votes will be ready
to be delivered at the Bank on Monday, the 23d March.

JAMES STEWART, Secretary.

N.B.—By an Act passed in the seventh year of the reign of
George 111., no person will be entitled to vote at the said
election who shall not hive been six calendar months pos-
sessed in h s own right of the stock for which he shall then
give his vote, unless the said stock shall have been acquired
or shall have come by bequest, or by marriage, or by succes-
sion to an intestate's estate, or by the custom of the City of
London, or by any deed of settlement after the death of any
person who shall have been entitled for life t, the dividends
of such stock.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

LIVERPOOL SPRING MEETING, MARCH U.
Aided by the glorious weather on both days of this meet-
ing, and by the general holiday, Mr. Topham may con-
gratulate himself upon a success in a financial point of

view, in spite of his adherence to the system of light han-

dicaps. But, prejudiced as he is in favour of the speedy
weed, even he must have opened his eyes to the numerous
" rankings" which have been perpetrated this year in con-
sequence of his decision, coupled with the maintenance of
the ridiculously easy course which is now run over at Ain-
tree. It is true that the, two brooks (Valentine's and
Beecher's), together with the water jump opposite the

stand, are much the same as in the good old times of Lot-
tery and Gaylad ; but the thorn fences are so thin and full

of gaps that they are perfect " squire traps." Indeed,
few horses but those which have learnt their trade by ex•
perience rise at them at all, but, dropping their hind legs
into the ditches on the landing aide, fall and are out of the
race. A speedy animal, therefore, which can just
struggle under 10 or 11 stone, and can be taught to jump
with certainty over the slightest fence, though utterly

useless as a hunter, can win here, if cnly he can be landed
on the racecourse, where the 300 or 400 guineas Lei-
cestershire hunter has not pace enough to bring him
home The racecourse itself forms nearly half of
the good hunting country, being twice traversed, besides a
long start on it, increased this year in length by 200 or 300
yards. The fields are more than half fallow and whetif, but
no rain having fallen for 48 hours the sandy soil had become
quite dry, though as loose and deep as the sea shore. The

winner is a neat racing-like horse, but quite unfit to carry
more than list 71b in the hunting field, nor indeed were
there more than one or two of that character in the race,
Fosco, Medor a, Jealousy, and The Dane being apparently
up to the ►uoL,t weight. To meet the wishes of those who

desired, to leave by the 5 o'clock train for the south, the
steeplechase was set for 3 30, and being decide-a- by a few
minutes to 4, their object was attained, much to their satis-
faction. Mr. Marshall's claim upon Freshman and Jerusa-
lem being settled, the former was allowed to start, but cut
no figure in the race. Avalatiche, who was backer by her
party atter her defeat yesterday for a considerable amount,
was, as we then predicted, unable to go home nearer than
fifth, and behind her again was the second favourite, who
looked very formidable up to the distance, and apparently
has not lost her old form. There was little fluctuation in the
market since our quotation yesterday,Emblem and Jealousy
being the firstfavourites, while Medora, The Dane, Arbury,
and Master Bagot had each a circle of steady supporters.
We trust that before next year a larger and better field of
horses at Market Harborough will convince Mr. Topham
that by raising the weights he will not only subserve the
true interests of the British turf, but also improve his own
prospects and those of his supporters.
The All-Aged Selling Stakes of 3 sovs each, with 20 sovs
added; 2-yr-olds ani, upwards. Weights for age, with
maiden and selling allowances. T.Y.C. 5 subs.
Mr. a Angell's Lufra, 3 yrs (L 20); 7st 121 b.... (Perry) 1
Lord Stamford's Xenius, 3 ps (L2O), Bst 21b (J. Mann) 2
Mr. W. Owen's Glasgow, 2 yrs (L2O), fist 21b
(J. Grimshaw) 3
Mr. H. William's Sherwood, 5 pa (L5O) 9st 101 b (Knott) 4

Betting—Even on Lufra, 6 to 4 on Xenius.
Sherwood was the first off, but in a few strides was passed
by Xenius, Lufra, and Glasgow, the former two running
abreast to the distance, where the favourite next the rails
drew way, and won very easily by three lengths, four lengths
separating the second and third, Sherwood was a bad fourth.
The Sefton Handicap of 100-sovs, added to a sweepstakes of
5 sovs each, for all ages. Winners extra. Five furlongs.
56 subs.
Mr. Riddell's Leontes, aged, 7st llb (inc. 7th extra)
(T. French) 1
Lord Bateman's Peignoir, 4 yrs, Bst 21b .. (G. Fordham) 2
Mr. H. Wilkinson's Dictator, 5 yrs, Bst 81b (Doyle) 3
Mr, Hodgman's Libellous, 6 yrs, Bst 71b (Perry) 4
Fravola, Little Lady, Brilliant, and Kill or Cure also
rau.

Upwards of 20 minutes were consumed at the post in
consequence of the continued breakings away of Libellous
and Leontes. At last the flag was lowered to a satisfactory
start, and,Libellous being the first in action made,play, fol-
lowed 'by the favourite, Fravola, Peignoir; and Brilliant,
the other three being some distance in their rear. In round-
ing the turn into the straight Leontes rushed to the front,
and with Mr. Hughes's old one on the whip hand, and Fra-
vola next the rails, came on to the half distance, when Li.
bellous resigned his position to Peignoir, who headed Fra-
vola at the stand, but was unable to reach the favourite
who won in a canter by four lengths, a length separating
the second and third. Libellous was fourth, placed by the
judge, Little Lady fitth, and Brilliant next; the other two
close together, followed some distance in their rear.
The Grand National Steeplechase Handicap, of 20 sovs
ea:th, h ft, with 100 soya added. Second saved his stake.
Winners extra. About four miles and a quarter, 74 subs,
21 of whom, declared and pay 5 soya each. The highest
weight accepting being list 31b, it has been raised to
12st, and the others in proportion.
Lo, Ewblem, aged, lOst 1. lb (inc 101 b ex)
(G Stevens) 1
. .

Mr. J. 1-,llE.y's Arbury. aged, list 21b (Mr. Goodman) 2
Mr. li,sec,o's Y..ner Gal, aged, 104 131 b (Mr. Dixon) 3
Mr 1-I,lnuAn ns Fusco, aged, 9st 111 b ..(G. 11(dman) 4
Baton de Mesnil's Avalanche, 6 yrs, lOst 91b.. (Palmer) 5
Mr. Priestley's Jealousy, aged, 11.4 101 b (Kendall) 6

The following also ran :—Medora, Freshman, The Dane,
Master Bagot, Light of Other Days, Inkerman, Orphan,
Telegraph, Birdbolt, and Rell Jam.
Jerusalem was struck oui, at 12 p.m. en Tuesday, and
Satellite at 1.45 p.m. onWednesday.
Betting-3 to 1 agst Jealousy, 4to 1 agst Emblem, Bto

1 agst Medora, 10 to 1 agst The Dane, 12 to 1 agst Master
B Tot, 20 to 1 each agst Light of other Days, Real Jam,
Yaller Gal, and Arbury, and 33 to 1 agst Avalanche.
The lead was taken by Medora, closely waited on by Tele-
graph, Light of other Days, Inkerman, and Oc phan, the rest
being well up. On entering the meadows Orphan rushed to
the tront, with Inkerman and Master Bagot second and
third, but dw‘ ]ling at the first fence Master Begot got the
lead, followed by Medora and the Dane, in which order they
ran to Beecher's Brook. As they took this, Telegraph
showed slightly in front, Medora being in the air almost at
the same moment, and a very short interval separated them
from the two light grays (Master Bagot and Fosco), Birdbolt
bringing up the rear. In the next ploughed field Master
Bagot again went in front, closely attended by Medora,Light
of Other Days, and Arbury, Emblem heading the next lot
a few lengths behind the leading horses. At Valentine's
Brook Jealousy rushed through her horses and headed
Master Begot, close to whom were Medora and Light of
Other Days, and after crossing the Canal-bridge-lane she
increased her lead very considerably, Master Begot still
lying second, and Freshman assuming the third place.
Entering the race-course Jealousy was 20 lengths in ad-
vance, Master Begot being next, with Inkerman, who had
thrown Mr. Smith at the bank leading into the lane, run-
ning loose at the girths. Next to these were Emblem and
Arbury, the Dane, Light of Other Days, and Yaller Gal
following in the order named, and no change occurring till
reaching the thorn fence at the distance, where Orphan fell,
and unhorsed Mr. Bevill. The water jump was taken by
all but Inkerman and Orphan, who were out of the race,
without a mishap, and as they passed the stand Jealousy
still led, Emblem lying next, followed by The Dane,Master
Begot, Medora, Arbury, Yaller Gal, Light of Other Days,
Freshman, Real Jam, Fosco, Avalanche, Telegram, and
Birdbolt, almost in Indian file, and as placed above, but all
pretty well up. On entering the meadows the second time
round Emblem deprived Jealousy of the premiership, but
at the turn for Beecher's Brook the latter raced by her, the
favourite and Master Begot and Medora taking it nearly
abreast of one another. Yeller Gal here mended her pace,
and getting on to the soundest part of the fallow between
the two brooks, assumed the lead, with Jealousy close at
her quarters, and Light of Other Days third, Avalanche
and Emblem being fourth and fifth. As they turned for
Valentine's Brook Mr. Rowlands called upon Medora and
got over first, Jealousy being the next and Yaller Gal
charging it abreast of The Dane, who immediately put on
the steam, and was first into the lane a length ahead of
Emblem. As they entered the racecourse Emblem was
seen in front, with Arbury second, Light of Other Days
third, The Dane fourth, Jealousy fifth, and Yeller Gal
sixth, the rest farming a considerabla tail. At the distance
The Dane, who pulled up lame, retired, and Light of Other
Days followed suit,Emblem increasing her lead,and coming
in an easy winner by 20 lengths—Arbury beating Yaller
Gal for third place by 10 lengths, and. atter a severe
struggle, the latter headed Fosco by two lenKtho. Ava-
lanche was a very bad fourth, Jealousy fifth, and the rest
pulled up opposite the stand as they came in.
A Handicap of 40 sous ; winners extra. Three furlongs,
100 yards. 16 subs.
Mr. R. Riddell's Leontes, aged, 7st 131 b (inclu. 91b extra)
(T. French) w.o.
The Aintree Plate, of 50 sous; winners extra. 14 subs.

Five furlongs.
Mr. Samuel's Twilight, aged, Nt 21b .. (G. Fordham) 1
Mr. M`Ghee's Mountain Buck, 3 yrs, 6st 31b (G. Noble) 2
Betting-5 to lon Twilight, who waited upon the non-
favourite to the half-distance, where she came out and won
in a canter by a length.

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
good alike. Sold in packets by 2,280 agents.
THE ILLIIMINATIONS.—Messrs. Defries, having
been specially requested to do so, will illuminate
the National Gallery and the War-office, and the Treasury
again this (Thursday) evening. In our description of the
illuminations in St. James's-street it was stated that at
Messrs. Moore and Woodward's, gunmakers, the windows
were defined by lines and semi-circles of gas gets. The illu-
mination in question, however, belonged to the Cocoa Tree
Club, and not to blessrs, Woodward.

PRICE.....—..4d.
STAMPED

Naval and Military Intelligence.

THE NAVY.
The Admiralty yacht Black Eagle, Master Com-
man,ler Whiliier, sailed yesterday from Woolwich
for Portsmouth, on special service, to convey some

of the distinguished foreigners now in England to

the Continent.

Iler Majesty's paddlewheel steamsloop Spiteful,
Commander W. C. F. Wilson, from the West Indies,

has returnel stores at VVoAwich, and is ordered to

poy off on Snturday next. During the prevaleacu
of yellow fever, which attacked the crew of the
Spiteful in 1861, soon after her arrival in the Ha-

vannah, no less than 50 men, including 6 officers,

died, and several men were invalideo. and bent. hoine.

Commander Wilson was in hospital at Nassau, and
was for a considerable time incapacitated from duty.

During his illness the command of the ship devolved
on the first-lieut., J. N. Croke, who, although he
had scarcely recovered himself from a severe attack

of the malady, assumed the entire charge. Out of
the number of offcers who left England in 1860)

when the Spiteful was commissioned at Woolwich,

only four have returned, including the commander
and first-lieutenant—the former bearing evident in-
dications of the shattering effects of the attack. The
Spiteful has latterly been employed at Halifax, and
was last year engaged in quelling th,- :tart ea
on shore in Newfoundland. She is now sent .accae

on account of her boilers being defective. Before
leaving for England she was carefully inspected by

Admiral Wine, who expressed his satisfaction
with tiie.,statk of the Ahip, and forwarded 411Y.c.pqrt
to that effect to the Board of Admiralty.. On her

arrival at Woolwich she was again inspected by
the senior officer commanding, and the men were

put through a thorough course of exercise in the
rigging and under arms. In consideration of
the satisfactory reports their lordships, con-
trary to the usual custom on paying off, ordered
the ship's company three days leave, and, it is
satisfactory to add, all returned to the ship sober
and in good plight, with the exception of one man
sent to the Infirmary. The officers report that on
their voyage home Clifford's lowering gear, with
which the Spiteful's boats are fitted, was called into
operation to rescue a man who had fallen over-
board. The poor fellow was unable to swim, and
had already disappeared, when the boat was manned
and lowered, and in three minutes the drowning
man was again on board and safe. The steamtug
Kite, relieved by the Spitfire, sailed from Bermuda
seven days before the Spiteful, but, as she per-
formed the passage under sail, she is not expected
to arrive in England before the end of the present
month.

The Active, 40, sailing frigate, fitting at Chatham
as a training ship for the Naval Coast Volunteers
at Hartlepool, is to be supplied with an armament
consisting of 12 32-pounders, each 56 cwt., and
eight 8-inch guns, each of 60 cwt. She is also to
be furnished with 150 of the new pattern sea rifles
and 150 cutlasses.

The Melpomene, screw frigate, Capt. Chas. .1. F.
Ewart, and the Imperiense, screw frigate, Capt. R.
Gibson (acting), having been officially inspected at
Spithead by Vice-Admiral Sir Michael Seymour,
G.C.8., Naval Commander in Chief at Portsmouth,
went into Portsmouth harbour yesterday to dis-
mant!e and prepare for paying out of commission
on their return home from foreign service.
Armour-plate experiments were resumed at Ports-
mouth on Monday last, under the superintendence
of Capt. R. S. Hewlett, C.B. The plates tested on
this occasion comprised three of 44in. in thickness

of metal from the Elswick Company—two of iron
and one of steel, all three made under the steam
hammer, but with the additional novelty attending
the steel plate that after its manufacture it had
been re-heated to an annealing heat and then cooled
in oil. There were also two hammered plates of
oit in. thickness of metal from the Thames Ironworks
and Shipbuilding Company, one of which was a

sample plate for the Minotaur iron frigate, building
for the Government by the company, end the other
was a Flt!e for the M.yal Sovereign's turrets, bent
21-in. out of a straight line, when heated, by the
wtdge-press process. l'he Elswick plates failed
utterly in (Hering resistance to the shot from the
68-pounder gun, one iron plate being destroyed by
a single shot, the other by two shots, and the steel
plate being broken up in five separate pieces by two
shots. The diameter, depth, and general character
of the indents from the shot on the two iron plates
were of the ordinary description, but those on the
steel plate were considerably less than what is made
by the shot on iron plates, the diameter of the in-
dents in this case being only 6in., and their depth
only 1 1-10 in. The plate possessed all the required
hardness, but also the fatal fault of brittleness. It
was made from the best Sheffield steel. Tee two
plates from the Thames Ironworks proved to be of
an usually excellent quality, considerably above the
average of good "A 2" plates. It is a remarkable
fact in connexion with the cast plate for the Royal
Sovereign that there were no cracks or openings in
the metal after it was bent, and even when the
plate was broken eventually across its back, in a
known weak part of the forging, by the severe
pounding which it received, the metal did not open
with the curve, but across it. This plate received
five shots in an irregular triangular space, 1
foot by 1 foot 3 inches and 10 inches. Three of
these shots struck in a space of 8 inches, measuring
from centre to centre of the extreme indents.
There was no penetration of the plate in any
part by the shot, nor was any part of the metal
detached from the main body. The other plate,
made by the Thames Company for the Minotaur,
received seven shots in a space of 2ft. 6in. by 2ft.
and three of these were on the lower left side, beat-
ing the edge of the plate partially into the ship's
side, but without any part of the plate being tho-
roughly separated from the main body. The chord
of the arc within which the three blows struck mea-
sured 23in., and the depth of the arc was 12in.
Commodore Dunlop, C. 8., has received the gond
service pension vacant by the death of Captain
M'Cleverty, C.B.
Capt. T. R. Sulivan is appointed one of the cap-
tains of Greenwich Hospital, vice Capt. Liardet,

deceased.
The following appointments were made yesterday
at the Admiralty :—G. A. F. Day, master, to the
Pembroke, for the Coastguard ; A. Murray, staff-
surgeon, to the Impregnable ; H. P. Brenan, assist
paymaster, to the Black Prince; J. Cleland, J.
Prebble, I. A. Cooper, and P. Sanson, assist engi-
neers, to the Indus, as supernumerares ; Geo. S.
Goddard, clerk, to the Cornwallis , and It. G. Gor-
don, clerk, to the Asia.