The Sun.
London, England, 1854-03-24 00:00:00

Trout
Oscar .

WARWICK RACES.
(THIS DAY.)

(BY ELF-07111C 7LLE67LA PH.)
ANNUAL STEEPLECHASE.

Five ran. Oscar broke down.
SCURRY HANDICAP.

Battery
Jack Leeming 2
Need wood was scratched for the Annual Steeplechase
at a quarter past one.

ORDER OF RUNNING.
3.3o—Free Handicap.
5. o—Hurdle Race.

LATEST BETTING ON THE COURSE.
ANNUAL STEEPLECHASE.
sto 1 agst Needwood.
METROPOLITAN.
10 to 1 agst Muscovite.

DERBY. •
13 to 2 agst King Torn (taken).
50 to 1 agst .Boiardo (taken).

LATEST CITY BETTING.
ANNUAL STEEPLECHASE.
2to 1 agst Oscar (taken).
2to 1 agst Trout (taken).
sto 1 agst Needwood (taken).
10 to 1 agst any other.
HURDLE RACE.
sto 2 ag-t Theodine (taken).
7 to 2 agst Gerard (taken).
7 to 2 agst Sir Philip (taken).
sto 1 agst IVla,y-day (taken).
NORTHAMPTONSHIRE STAKES.
6to 1 agst Defiance (offered).
Bto 1 agat Mr. Sykes (taken).
12 to 1 agst Bracken (taken).
EARL SPENCER'S PLATE.
10 to 1 agst Ephesus (taken).
10 to 1 agst Twinkle (taken).
10 to 1 agst King of Trumps (taken).
12 to 1 agst The General (taken).
12 to 1 agat Koh-i-nonr (taken).

THE MEDITERRANEAN.

SOUTH IMPTOIST, FRIDAY MORNING.
The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-ship
Tagus has just arrived hers, with dates from Gibraltar,
March 15th ; Cadiz, 16th; Lisbon, 19th ; Oporto, 20th ;
Vigo, 20th.

She brings on freight five packages specie, 100 chests of
oranges, anti a cargo of dates, tggs, wine, &c.
All the foreign vessels of war had left the Tagus.
Several Russian merchant ships had been put up for
sale in Portuguese ports.
Exchange on London, 54A ; paper scarce.
An unsuccessful attemp., hail been made in the province
of Trasos Montes to excite the people to oppose the new
system of taxation.

A new system of diligences ha 1 been established between
Lisbon and Badajoz.
Yesterday the Tagus spoke the P3ninsular and Oriental
Company's steam -Nhip Rajah, from Constantinople,
Smyrna, Malta, and Gibraltar, with her machinery
damaged. She was under canvass.

INDIA AND CHINA MAILS.

SOUTHAMPTON, FRIDAY MORNING.
The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-ship
Sultan, with the heavy portion of the East India, China,
an I Mediterranean wails has just art ived h: re, having left
Alexandria on the 9th, Malta the 13th, and Gibraltar the
18th inst

Her Majesty's steam troop-ship Simoon, with the first
battalion of the Scots Fusiliers on board, arrived at
Gibraltar on the 9th init., and proceeded to Malta on the
12th.

The Royal Mail steam-ship Orinoco embarked the 44th
RogiineL.t at Gibraltar o the 10th, and left on the 11th for
'lal

At Gibraltar, on the 11th inst., exchange on London was
quoted 52 to 524 ; Spanish pillared dollars, 24 premium.

COURT OF BANKR,UPTCY.-(THIS DAY.)

(Before Mr. Commissioner Fane )
BUILDING SPEC ULATIONS.-IN RE COX.
This bankrupt was de,;crioed as of Rotherhithe and
Wandsworth, builder, and to-day was appointed for his
last examination.

The bankrupt appeared but had not filed any accounts,
and excused himself by saying that he had not been able
to obtain the money to pay the account.
His Honour asked how much was required 2
Bankrupt said 5/.
. . _ _

His Hoiiour wished to inquire of the accountant why,
after having been appointed by the sanction of the court,
he hat neglected his duty, for Mr. Cannan, the official
assignee, did net consider they were at all complicated?
Mr. Canaan said that there would be nothing for the
creditors, unless a surplus should accrue over the mort-
gaged property.
His Honour doubted whether he ought not at once to ad-
journ the examination sine die, particularly as the accoun-
tant did not appear to offer any explanation, and could not
be sent for, as he reside 1 two or three miles off. He (his
Honour) should consider the subject of sanctioning the ap-
pointment of accountants residing such a distance from the
court. The bankrupt, and persons like him, who entered
into buil ling speculations, and gave preferences to some
creditors by mortgaging all they had to pay them 20s. in
the pound, and living on what they obtained from the
others, did not deserve any sympathy, but ought to be left
to their mercy, and sued :int thrown into prison. As, how-
ever, the blame in the present instance did not rest entirely
on the binkrapt, he w nerd adjourn the case for one month,
and if the accounts were not Wei, the examination would
be adjourned sine die.

MARLBOROUGH-sTR&ET-(THIS DAY).

STEALING 2,000 OUNCES OF SILVER.—James Robert
Yeoman, Park-road, Forest-hill, Surrey, was brought be-
fore Mr. Hardwick, charged with stealing 2,000 ounces of
silver, value 5001., the property of Mr. Charles Frederick
Hancock, silversmith, 40, Conduit street, Hanover-square.
Mr. Wontner appeared for the prosecution.
Gage Jessie Sharpe said he was clerk to the prose-
cutor, who has a seoarate establishment in Little Burton-
street for the manufacture of siver articles. Prisoner was
foreman over that establishment. When prisoner wanted
silver for work he applied to witness, and he gave him an
order upon the refiner, which enabled the prisoner to
receive the quantity he wanted. The refiner sup-
plied it in lumps of sterling silver, and before it
was used it had to be sent to the caster, or
the millman, in order to be converted into a usable
form. The prisoner's duty was to weigh it in an
out, and then give it out to the workpeople. On the 18th
inst. witness wept through the stock with prisoner, and
finding a deficiency in the silver he required the prisoner
to render an account of the silver he received in 1853, and
what he had done with it. Witness found that on 14th
Jan., by prisoner's own account, he had received 200 oz.
from the refiner; and on asking him what he had done
with it, he said he could not tell anything at all about it.
Had it been handed to Corbett, the caster, in t!re usual
way, he (prisoner) would have written Corbett's name
against the item ; but he had not done so. Witness went
through the rest of the account with him, and found a de-
ficiency of more than 1,900 oz. After this discoiery the
matter was placed in the hanils of Sergeant Godfrey, a de-
tective officer of the C division, who, after some difficulty,
sneceeded in taking prisoner into custody. Mr. Wontner
said that was all the evidence he had to offer at present,
and begged for a remand.
The prisoner was remanded till Friday next.

LETTERS FOR THE BRlrisg FLEET 1N THE
BALTIC.

GENERAL POST OFFICE, March, 1851.—Mails will be
made up from time to time, as opportunities occur, for
transmission to her Majesty's Fleet in the Baltic.
Letters for soldiers and seamen serving in the fleet, with
respect to which the rez,ulations required by law have bee
duly observed, will be forwarded on payment of one penny.
Letters addressed to cominissioned or warrant officers will
be chargeable, under the Treasury warrant of the 21st la-
slant, with a rate of 6,1. when not exceeding # ounce
ls. when seeding ounce and not exceeding 1 ounce,
2e. when exceeding 1 ounce and not exceeding 2 ounces,
and so on, which postage must be paid in advance.
No charge will be made upon British newspapers ad-
dressed to the fleet, provided they are duly stamped and
posted in conformity to the established regulations.