The Sun.
London, England, 1854-03-31 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

NORTHAMPTON "AND PYTCHLEY HUNT
RACES.—TRuusnAr.
The INNKEEPERS' PLATE of 50 sovs., added to a handi-
cap sweepstakes of 5 sovs, each, for three years old and
upwards. Certain winners extra. Once round tone
mile four furlongs 180 yards). 10 subs.
Mr. Death's Cranbourne, 3 yrs, Est 101 h ...... (Wells) 1
Mr. C. Formby's John Bull, 4 yrs, Bst 51b (Flatman) 2
Mr. Webb's f by Verulam —Jennala, 3 yrs, Est 61b
hma
The following also' sm :.L.Tomboy, Florist As ,
Sir Georn) 3
ge,
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EARL SPENCER'S PLATE of 100 sovs-, added to a handi-
cap sweepstakes of 15 sore. each, 5 ft. if declared, &c.,
for horses of all ages (two-year-olds excepted). Certain
winners extra. Five furlongs. 66 subs., 29 of whom
paid 5 sovs. each.
Lord Lonsdile's Welham, by Cowl, 3 yrs, Est 61b
(S. Steggles) 1
Mr. J. Shelly's Koh-i-noor, 5 yrs, Bst 111 b (including
71b extra) .....
. (Kendall) 2
Lord Strathmore's Cyrus, 3 yrs, Est 101 b (Ashmall) 3
The NORTHAMPTONSHIRE CUP STAKES of 10 sovs. each,
for horses of all ages. The winner to be sold for 500
sore. if demanded, &c, &c. About two miles and a
furlong. (15 subs.)
Lord Exeter's Ilex, by Beiram, 5 yrs, 9st 1113
1
Capt. Lowther's Rackapelt, 4 yrs, BQt 71b (Rogers) (Norman) 2
Mr. Johnstone's Gabriel,:3 yrs, Est 91b (Bates) 3
Mr. Anderson's f by. John o'aunt—Blanchie, 3 yrs,
6st 91b (Wells) 4
The ALTHORP PARK STAKES of 10 BOWL each, with 50
added ; for two-year-olds ; colts, Bst 71b ; fillies,
Bit 31b; a winner before starting, slb extra. T.Y.C.
About half a mile. (32 subs.)
Mr. Powell's Flatterer (brother to Elirt), Bst 71b
(Yates) 1
Mr. Scott's Louvat, Bst 71b (E. Harrison) 2
Lord Chesterfield's f by Epirus—Pelion's dam, Bst Sib
(Ash,
The DELAPRE STAKES of 5 sovs, each, with 2;lies and
:,in) 3
added
.
for three-year-olds 7st ; four, Bst 101 b ; fi
geldings allowed 31b. One mile. (9 subs.)
Baron Rothschild's Orestes, by Orlando, 4 yrs, Sst 101 b
(Charlton) 1
. .
Mr. Morris's Eulogist, 4 yrs, Bst 101 b _(B tsharn) 2
Mr. Reeves's Pollard, 3 yrs, 7st ......... (T. Sherwood) 3
Mr. Brown's Danube-(1 b), 3 yrs, 6,t 111 b (Cowley) 4
Betting-5 to lon Orestes, who won, hard held, by
five lengths The others finished at wide intervals.
841414.1% rIiATZ Of 40 fionth, '4(44 to a l'irmxiyie of

soya. each, for 3-yrs-old and upwards. Optional sel
ing weights, &c. One mile. (3 subs.).
Mr. Liley's Prevarication, by John o' Gaunt, 3 yrs
(300, sst 71b ...
Mr. 'Reeves's Lioness, 3 yrs MO, sst 71b...(Cresswetl) 2
Betting-2 to lon Prevarication, who made all the
running, and won by three lengths. She was afterwards
sold by auction to Mr. Hadland for 67 guineas.
The race for the Nene Stakes, intended to be run on
the first day, was off by consent.
The weather, though no so fine as on the previous
day, was altogether favourable, and from first to last the
meeting was eminently successful.
To the Race Committee and to Mr. Marshall, the in-
defatigable Clerk of the Course, all praise is due. We
understand that it is in contemplation to extend the
meeting next year to three days • the original fixturea
are, however, to be kept intact, and an entirely new pro-
gramme modelled for the third day, the leading feature
of which will be a New Handicap Stakes, with a liberal
amount of money added from the Fund. Plenty of
money is in hand to render the additional day extremely
attractive. Considerable improvements at the Stand
are also projected.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

NOTICE TO MARINERS.
LIGHTHOUSE AT THE ENTRANCE OF PORT PHILIP.
The second lighthouse at Portland's Bluff, being now
nearly completed, mariners aro requested to take notice
that on and after the Ist (lay of January next, a " fixed.
red light Fill be exhibited thereon, from sunset to sunrise.'
The leading lighthouse tower is built of wood, paint
white, and stanits at an elevation of 80 feet above the level
of the water, bearing from the centre of the upper light-
house on Shortland's Bluff south, 33 degree's west, distant
670 feet.

The leading light will be seen in ordinary weather 10
miles to seaward, within the bearing of south one quarter
west round (westerly) to south-west one qu'lrter west.
The two lighthouses by day, and lights.. by night, kept
in one line of bearing, lead in mid-channel between Point
Lonsdale and Nepean ; but.strangers are cant; ouzi not to
attempt the entrance by night, nor against the strength of
the ebb tide by day.

BEACON OF SWAN RIVER. •
A eone-shaped irou beacon, painted white, vlev-tted 50
feet above the level of the water, has been erc;(. on Swan
Point, bearing from the low lighthouse or: ,Hatn.rl
Bluff, north 41 degrees east. This beacon, ')
the eastward of the low lighthouse,,leads"in cleat 4„ ,
Lonsdale Reef, and the flagstaff on Shortland's IP ;„ ~r,
-half a cable's length open to the westward of the low light-
house, leads in clear of the Corsair Rock, and the other
sunken dangers lying off Point Nepean ; but in all prac-
ticable cases, mariners waiting the turn of the tide, enter-
ing or leaving the harbour, are recommended to keep the
Point Lonsdale shore aboard, as the tide there runs fairer,
and in bad weather small vessels incur less risk on the
Point Lonsdale shore, from the tide ripples, than towards
Point Nepean.
No alteration has taken place in the upper lighthouse on
Shortland's Bluff, which is, as heretofore, a bright station-
ary lig tt, 105 feet above the level uf the water, seen in
ordinary weather 20 miles to seaward, within the bearings
of south round by west or south-west by west.
The bearings are by compass, and heights at mean high
water.
January 3rd, 1554.

The Danish Government have issued notice, that all the
floating liglits are now laid out and lighted. The light
vessels at Lesso Trindelen, •at Kobbergrunde•n, and at
Anholt Kolob, are in future to be laid up on the 31st of
December, and not replaced before the Ist of Ma:T.oh. The
light-vessels in Drenen and the Laesso Strait are ordered
to keep their stations as long as the ice permits. ..Tf the
floating ice should force them to leave their stations they
will not be laid out again before the Ist of March. When
the light-vessel in the Laesso Strait is not on her station,
on account of ice in the Kattegat, a white flag, with a l,lue
perpendicular stripe, will be hoisted on the Lighthouses of
Handthohn and Skagen. If from other reasons it shall be
obliged to leave the station, a-red balloon will appear on
the Lighthouses of Skagen and Kirtsholm.

' AUSTRALIAN SHIPPING.
MELBOURNE.—From London, arrived the Stebonheath,
Dec. 16 ;.Henry Gillespy and Ida, 17th ; Ratcliffe, 20th ;
Willem and Carl, 24th ; Countess of Yarborough, 24th ;
William Ackers, 27th; Java and Windsor, 29th; Fairlio
and Flying Dragon, 30th ; Australian, steamer, Jan. 1 ;
Tubal Cain, 2nd ; Eastern State, 4th ; Poictiers, 7th ;
Chance, Bth; Maria Somes, Bth; Tuscan, Bth; Kenart
Hasselaar, 11th ; Kent, 12th; Little Pet, 14th ; Hope,
16th ; Jannetjee, 16th; Omega, 17th ; Marion, 20th ;
Oriente, 22nd ; Wanata, 22nd; Mallard, 22nd ; Burger-
meister Jansen, 22nd ; Wyvern, yacht, 22nd ; Duke of
Northumberland, 24th; Tudor, 25th ; General van.' den.
Bosch, 27th ; Juno, 27th ; Hendrika, 28th.
From Liverpool, arrived the Banshee, Dec. 14 ; Chimera,
17th ; Winterhur and Irene, 22nd ; Lady Bute, 23rd;
Nelens, Post-office packet, 24th ; Gipsy Queen, 24th;
Nova Beila, 29th ; Daring, 30th ; Wave, Jan. 2 ; Birming-
ham, 2nd; Martaban, 2nd; Swallow' 4th; South Caro-
lina, 4th ; Midas, 7th; Gulnare, Bth; Thomas Lowry
Bth ; Robert Henry, 12th ; Aerolite, 12th ; Mooresfoart,
13th ; Merlin, 17th; Aurifera, 18th ; Boomerang, 22nd;
Marco Polo, 25th ; Allegro, 27th.
From the Clyde, arrived the Lyra, Dec. 14 ; Verona,
17th ; Linn, 23(1; Hurkaree, 24th: Sea Nymph, 24th;
Ada, 30th; Nile, 31st; Ripley and-X: L., 31st; Templar
Jan. 2; Thomas Hamlin,- Eleutheria, and Scotia, sth;
Leipzig, 16th ; Nelson, 16th; Heatherbell, 19th ; Eliza
Stewart, 19th ; Mischief, 21st ; Lady Amherst, 23d ; Ro-
bertina, 24th ; Queen, steamer, 2 .;th ;' Harbinger, 25th ;
Sarah and Ann, 27th ; Annabella, 28t1..
From Bristol, arrived the Melbourne, Dec. 17 ; Svbilla
27th ; Cotfield, Jan. 6 ; Balgownie, 9th ; John Wesley
231 ; Express, 25th.

From Calcutta, arrived the Hindoo, Dec. 17 ; Queen,
20th ; Macedon, 27th ; Paradise, Jan. 4.
From Dundee, arrived theJes,ica, Dec. 22 ; Polonaise,
Jan. 2.
From Mauritius, arrived the Emma Colvin, Dec. 29 • ,
Roscoe, 29th ; Marmion, Jan. 19.
From the Cape, arrived the Bell, Dec. 2¢ ; Norden, Jan,
/th; America, 20th; Rienzi, 23d.
From Plymouth, arrived the Salvadora, Dec. 26.
•
From Scilly, arrived the Guardian, Dec. 30.
From Gloucester, arrived the Caroline; Dec. 30 ; Ma.
donna, Jan. 23.
VESSELS SPOKEN WITH.

The Maranon, March 18, in lat. 43 N. long. 59 W.
The Montreal, bound west 25th, in lat. 51 N. long. 26 W.
The City of Manchester (s.), supposed same day, in lat.
51 N. long. •23 W.
The Hayti, from Jacmel, 26th, in lat. 51 N. long. 19 W.
The Buenos Ayrean, for Liverpool, 27th, lat. 51 N. 13 W.
The Woodcock, rom New York to London, March 7, in
lat. 40 N. loi g. 65 W.
The American Union, 16th, in lat. 48 N. long. 32 W.
The Andover, f-^m Plymouth to Melbourne, in lat. 26
S. long. 28 W.

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An American L .ig, from Liverpool to Melbourne, 139
days out, in let. 39 S. long. 118 E., had encountered a gale
off St. Paul's, and lost spars.
The Rose Standish, from Boston, supposed bound for
Australia, Dec. in let. 38 S. long. 16 E.
The New England (ship), from New Zealand to New
London, mate in charge, master
,dead, Dec, 13, in lat. 36
S. long. 45 W.

1-7117NTRY MARKETS.

DERBY SMITHFIELD—MAnau 24.

Thr. allowing were the quotations :—Beef, ''Cd to 61d ;
mutton, 7d to 70. ; land, Od to Od ; veal, Td to Od per
lb. ; pigs, 9s 9d to lOs per score ; rough fa, 5s 9d to Os Od
per 141 b.; hides, 24d to 3d per lb ; ealf-skinq 3id to 4d
per lb.