The Sun.
London, England, 1854-01-20 00:00:00

RACING FIXTURES FOR 1854.

The Jockey Club having determined to commence
their season on Easter Monday (April 17), the princi-
pal meetings—supposing the usual arrangements are ob-
served—will stand as under. Should the stewards, in
any instance, determine to vary the fixture, it will be
advisable, as a guide to others, to give us immediate
notice :

FEBRUARY.

Newton Spring 2
Derby Spring 8
MA:

Lincoln Spring 14
Nottingham Spring 21

Liverpool Spring.... 1
Doncaster Spring 7
Salisbury .
Coventry Spring l4

Warwick Spring 21
Catterick 27
Northampton 29
Abergavenny 30
IL.

Croxton Park 4
Epsom Spring 6
Cheltenham Spring 12
Newmarket Craven 17

Catterick Bridge 19
Abergavenny 2O
York Spring 25
Malton 27
BER.

OCTI

Chester Autumn 3
Yorkshire Union Mint 5
Wrexham 5
Newmarket S 0 9

Warwick Autumn 17
Caledonian Hunt 17
Newmarket H 23
Worcester Autumn 31

STEEPLECHASES TO COME.
FEBRUARY.

Newton (1)
Derby (2) 3 Carmarthenshire

Liverpool (1).
Beverley (1) .

MARCH.
1 I Birmingham
10 I

APRIL.
Liverpool Hunt Club Cheltenham
(Hoylake) (2) 8 I Rothbury

NOVE
Cowbridge Hunt

:BER.

_l6
..21

....18

9

THE PORT OF LONDON.—The new warehouses in
course of erection at the St. Katherine's Docks are fast
approaching completion, the works having progressed
with all possible celerity. The new warehouses, which
are on the same scale of magnitude as the other build-
ings of the kind in the St. Katherine Docks, and which
are well known to be some of the most perfect and
complete of the kind in the kingdom, are now being
roofed in, and "'Present a very imposing appearance.
When complete and ready for occupation, additional
facilities will be afforded for the bonding of goods at
this already extensive establishment. When it is borne
in mind that not only have the directors of the London
Docks recently found it necessary to extend the accom-
modation of their already immense establishment by the
erection cf new warehouses and other works of an im-
portant nature now in progress and in perspective for
the purpose of affording facilities to trade, but that there
are schemes in progress for the establishment of new
docks and warehouses on a large scale, it is evident
that the trade of this vast port is on a most flourishing
and increasing state, notwithstanding the greatly in-
creased trade of late years at Liverpool, Glasgow, and
other large ports in the kingdom.
NOTTINGHAM TRADE.—There is a slight improvement.
in the lace trade for the present week, both in respect of
transactions and manufacturing activity. The .
attend-
ance of London as well as country buyers, and especially
of
e calrall
of considerable purchasers from Glasgow, has ed
an impetus in the first direction—the second portion of
the progress has, however, been More necessitated by
the advance of the season than by any other induce-
ment. The low state of the stocks on hand and the near
approach of spring conspire to warn our.. manufacturers
of the propriety rather than the necessity of commencing
their usual preparations, which they have accordingly
done though without any great
skalacrity, as the firm prices
maintained both by cotton and , but especially the
latter, and the continued high rateil of wages, consequent
on the unusually high prices of subsistence, are very un-
propitious to speculative production. Raw silks exhibit
surprising firmness in the face of very large deliveries.
We observe by Messrs. Durant and Co.'s returns, that
whilst last year's importations amounted to something
over 54,000 bales, and the stocks on hand at the close
of 1853 (including solid bales, however) were above
22,000, those now on hand are only 23,000 in amount,
notwithstanding the tremendous importation of 7,000
bales of China silks iu December, which it is obvious,
therefore, must have been nearly all absorbed. Ad-
vices also announce the arrival of the July and
August ships from Chir a with 7,000 bales more.
And yet the firmness of the market is such that one
letter which we have seen advises the actual refusal
of 325. 9d., and a stand for 335. to clear a parcel of six
bales of Italians, which could not have in any respect
affected the market. Hosiery is rather duller this week
than last. The impression created in many minds by
the apprehensions of war, and political excitement, has
done a great deal to limit transactions to mere hand to
mouthsiness • and at stocks are low, the manufacturers
only go on keeping them up as orders come in. There
is not at present, therefore, the same amount of orders
on hand as usual at this season of the year ; but busi-
ness, notwithstanding, proceeds quietly and fairly, the
hands obtaining altogether ample employment, and the
warehouses finding no reason to complain.—Notting-
Wilshire Guardian.