The Sun.
London, England, 1838-02-22 00:00:00

THURSDAY.

Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. with 20 added by the Town,
for all ages ; two yrs old, 6st. 71b ; three, Bst. 101 b ; four, 9st.
71b ; five and upwards, 9st. 101 b. Mares allowed 31h. Winners
during the week to carry 31b. extra. The second to save his
stake. One mile. Ten Subscribers, on or before the Ist of
March, or no engagement ; but the horses not to be named till
the time and place of entry for the plates.
A Gold Cup, or Piece of Plate, value 100 sovs., by subscriptions of
10 sovs. each, the surplus to be paid to the•winner in specie ;_
three yrs old, Est. 101 b ; four, Bst. 21b ; five, Bst. 101 b ; six and
aged, 9st. Mares and geldings allowed 31b. Two miles. The
winner is expected to subscribe for the Cup for the following
year. The second to save his stake.

Piesent Subscribers—Duke of Cle;eland, Earl of Eglinton, Lord
Keiburne, Lord Howick, Lord Ossulston, S. L. Fox, E. Riddell,
T. W. Beaumont, M. Bell, C. Blaekett, W. Ord, C. Attwood,
J. H. Hinde, and W. Orde.

The Members' Plate of 50 sovs. ; three yrs old, 7st ; four, Bst. 31b ;
five, Bst. 121 b ; six and aged, 9st. Mares and geldings allowed
31b. The winner to be sold for 250 sovs. if demanded. Heats,
once round and a distance. •

A Sweepstakes of 5 guineas each, for horses, &c., bona fide the
property of Members of a Fox Hunting Club, which have never
run except for a Hunters' Stake, or a half-bred Stake or Match,
and have been regularly hunted with any established Pack of Fox
Hounds (Certificates to be produced) ; three yrs old, 9st ; four,
10st. 101 b ; five, 1 lst. 51b ; six, l Ist. 1 ; aged, l2st. To be
ridden by Gentlemen, Members of a Fox Hunting or Racing
Club. Two miles. To close and name the Ist of Slay, Ten
Subscribers or no race. The second to save his stake. .

In case of a walk over for any of the races, the public money will
not be given.

LONDON LINEN-DRAPERS', SILK-
MERCERS', HABERDASHERS', &c., INSTITU-
TION.

The Sixth Annual General Court of the members of this
flourishing, useful, and extensive Society, was held last eve-
ning (Isth), at Exeter Hall, for the purpose of balloting for
new Directors in the room of those going out by rotation, and
receiving the report on the year. Ambrose Moore, Esq., of
the house of Alderman Wilson, Moore, and Co , Cheapside,
in the chair. After the preliminaries, Mr. Hodgkinson, of
the firm of Hozlgkinson and Co., in New Bond-street, was
ealled.upon to read the report, he ha'ring presided at the Di-
rectors' meeting, at which such was prepared, and which he
now brought up with a few congratulatory remarks. From
this document, which was of a highly satisfactory nature, we
give the following extracts :—" Every succeeding, year has
enabled the Board of Directors to present a report showing a
progressive increase to the annual receipts of this excellent
institution, and in reference to the. past year the agreeable
duty devolves on them of assuring the members that, not only
has the income continued to increase, but that whilst the re-
ceipts have very nearly reached the sum of twelve hundred
pounds, there has bren evinced amongst the assistants an
unprecede.nted desire to have the objects and rules more gene•
rally known and better appreciated."
•

" Since the date of the last report, the following sums have
been received : 2.7. 4d. dividends on stock ; 223/.' Bs.
donations; 157/. 103. life subscriptions; 4261. 63. annual
subscriptions ; which; with the sum of 751. already received
from the Managing Committee of the bill in December last
make the gross receipts of the Institution for the past year,
1,1 881. 6s. 4d. Of the 2101. 10s. (balance on the year 1836-7)
and 1,188/. 6s. 4d., 8001. have during the, year been invested
in the purchase of 9,0751. 18s. 3d. 3i per Cent. Reduced
Annuities."

" The establishment of an annual ball has given general
satisfaction, and the practicability of an addition to the funds
being effected by such means, has been proved. The assis-
tants have also manifested their inter;tion to co-operate with
the views of the Directors, and have voluntarily forwarded,
from a social meeting held exclusively for the purpose of in-
vestigating the true character and merits of the Institution, a
list of subscriptions amounting to two hundred pounds. This
important addition is not included in the last years' account,
and therefore forms an auspicious commencement of the cur-
rent year's proceedings, which the Directors have no doubt
will exhibit a rapidly-increasing prosperity." [The balance
in band on the past year also, appeared, from the accounts, to
be 2031. Bs. 3d.]
This,Report was well received, and it- was unanimously
agreed that it should be adopted and published. It was stated
that numerous applications were continually being made to
enter the Institution.

Mr. MUNDAY, of St. Paul's Church-yard, eulogised the
principles and operations of the Society, made an energetic
appeal in its behalf, and urged its clsims on the active support
of the members. The speaker pointed out how its prosperit:
was identified with that of the individuals assembled, and
stated his conviction that the nature and importance of the
Society needed only to be correctly and adequately understood
to be more still more embraced. Its advantages were those
of gratuitous medical aid, pecuniary relief in sickness, dis-
tress, or-superannuation, and facilities for procuring situations,
&c. by a trifling subscription.
Mr. SMITH entered into similar observations, and hoped that
persons connected with these trades, would not unwisely delay
availing themselves of the cheap and yet superior benefits of-
fered by the institution, merely because they happened to be
in present health and prosperity ; for they knew not what
changes might occur, and in many circumstances connected
with persons employed in tLir fa3hion—varying businesses,
,•.

We had not received our letters from Cove when we were
oblig«I to go to press on Thursday, and therefore could not
have given those disastrous accounts from thence and other
parts of the coast in our rego7ar sheet, which, with many
others have since reached us. We soon issued them in a se-
parate slip, for the information of those who may have been
afT..?eted by the disasters.
lhe gale commenced at the Cove on Wednesday evening,
sonic hours before its force was fi It in this city. The letters
from thence state that it set in about five o'clock P. at. , whereas
here it was comparatively calm till about ten—from which
time up to a late hour last evening it continued With 0-
,nost uadiminisheri violence. The fury of the tempest then
began to abate, and it seems now completely exhiaisted.
—this day being remarkably fine. The snow, which began
to fall cal ly on Thursday morning, continued all day, and up
to a late hour at night, without a moment's intermission —the
consequence of which is, .that (very road leading to and from
the city is blocked up at a few miles' distance from town, and
we have been, and are up to the time of writing, cut off from
any cornmulication with even some of the nearest country
towns, except upon the Yonghal line and Massage.
The first Dublin up coach of Thursdly proceeded about
seven miles, where it met an impassable barrier of snow and
was obliged to stop. The second up coich could not get
further than three or four miles ; and the coach which left
yesterday morning at eleven o'clock, • returned at three, LA
having been able to proceed more than about two miles after
the first change of horses. In this state of things, it was ma-
nifestly useless to dispatch the evening up coach, and accord.
ingly it did not start.
Diasters befel the Western coaches on the Bandon line.

The Waterford Mail from Cork, on the 15th inst. was
obliged to spend that night on the Tallow Mountain, the snow
being so high-it could not travel; the passengers were obliged
to remain-in-the coach.
The Mallow Rakes' coach, on Thursday morning, pro-
ceeded to within live miles of this city, wheic it remained until
this morning, when, with much difficulty, it made its way to
town. The coachman, Mr. Johnson, reports the snow in
some parts to be eight feet high, and that it is impossible fur
a coach to travel on to Mallow.

There has been no arrival on the Fermoy line since Thurs-
day morning. A foot passenger reports that even a common
cart could not travel it, the snow being, in many parts, on a
level with the ditches.
The Limerick Mail, which left here at half-past nine o'clock
on Thursday, proceeded as far as the half-way house to Mallow,
where, the snow being upon a level with a turnpike gate, ono
of the leaders, who came in contact with it, was killed on the
spot, and the coach remains there still in eight feet of snow.
The up Mail for Limerick of the same day reached Mallow,
where it now lies.

The Kerry Mail of Thursday morning hence, is lying nt a
place two miles west of Alacroora in a drift of snow 12 feet
high. No account of the Aia'l from Tralee, the latest arrival
thence being of Wednesday.
Two o'CLocK.—The Lincrick Mail bags of Thursday
have been just received ; they wore brought by one uf the
Guards, on a single horse. flc states that he walked the

greater part of the road, which is covered with deep drifts of
5110 W.

THREE o'ceocx.—The Dublin coach, whim left here to-
day at eleven o'clock, has just returned, not being able to
proceed beyond Mr. Brazier's Gate, near Watergrass Hid, the
snow there being ten or twelve feet high.
The Corte Southern Reporter of Saturday, from which
mire. the above particulars are gleaned, states in a Second
Edition, published at five o'clock, that "'the Dublin, (via
Clonmel) Mail bags of Wednesday evening, due here on
Thursday at a quarter past two o'clock, have been just now
brought to the Post-office by Mr. Bottle, the guard, who
states that the coach is at Fcrmoy since Thursday morning,
and that, with great difficulty and exertion, he succeeded this
day in urging on a single horse; such was the state of the
road—that no tidings had reached Fermoy of the four
coaches tine to-day—and that Me. Briscoe, of Fermor, had
placed 100 men on the road between that town and Cork, who
are engaged in clearing away the sooty."
The Dublin Freeman says the southern !ine of road con-
tinues completely impassable for vehicles of any kind. We
are thus without any communication from Cork. The Li-
merick mail bags were conveyed to Dublin across the flelts,
from Naas, by men emplyed for that purpose, the roads being
blocked up even to foot-passengers from Naas. Chaises,
with four horses, were put in requisitien yesterday morning,
for the conveynnea of the southern mails, but, after proceed-
ing three or four miles, were obliged to return, unable to
icrce a passage through the drifts of snow. On the northern
ti.e coaches, with six horses attached to each, slowly and
with difficulty make a tardy progress on their journeys.
THE STEAMERS.—Great anxiety was manifested for such of
these vessels as were known to be at sea. The Victory, Capt.
Parker had left on Tuesday for Bristol, aed the weather, even
then, was any thing but fair or favourable. The recent loss
of the Killarney encreased the solicitude for the ship at sea,
nor was the public mind at all at case with respect to her un-
til yesterday evening, when a letter was received from Capt.
Parker at the Packet-office, dated from Kinsale, into which
place he had succeeded in getting.—Cork Southernßeporter.
Loan CIMNBROOK.—This Noblemen has been elected a
Representative Peer—the numbers at the close being—For
Lord Clonbrook, 75;- for Lord Langford, 4.—Dublin Even-
iny