The Sun.
London, England, 1849-04-16 00:00:00

NORTH STAB.

" As it would appear from a memorandum of Captain
Bird, which was picked up in a cask and brought by
Captain Lee, of the Prince of Wales, whale-ship, to
this country, that the Enterprise and Investigator did
not reach the entrance to Lancaster Sound till the 20th
August, 1848, and that the expedition under your
orders will virtually have to commence its search this
year, my Lords deem it inexpedient that you should be
so early deprived of the services of the Investigator as
would naturally follow on Captain Bird's adherence to
your instructions of the 12th July, 1848, and their Lord-
ships are desirous that that officer should remain with
you in the Investigator during the present year.
" For this purpose supplies of provisions, stores, and
fuel for the ships under your orders will be sent out this
spring in the North Star, in the hopes of her communi-
cating with the Investigator.
" The North Star will leave England about the 15th
of May, and will be directed to proceed across Baffin's
Bay, and as much further as practicable in the way of
Lancaster Sound and Barrow's Strait, looking out for the
Investigator' or her boats.
"In the event of the 'lnvestigator' or her boats not
being fallen in with, the commander of the North Star'
will be directed to laud the supplies in sufficient time to se-
cure his return across Baffin's Bay to the eastward, at such
points on the south side of Lancaster Sound, or other
places of rendezvous indicated by you in your instruction
to Capt. Bird, as may be accessible to the North Star.'
or should any of these points prove inaccessible to the
ship, the commander of her will endeavour to leave
notices as to where the provisions are likely to be
landed, together with copies of the instructions he is
charged with for you.
(Signed) " W. A. B. HAMILTON.
" Captain Sir James C. Ross."

j• A copy of this letter was sent to the masters of seven
whale ships, and to each of the seven was sent a box
with 12 cylinders, containing the annexed communica-
tion to Sir James Ross. The whale ships selected were
the Prince of Wales, Lord Gambier, Truelove; Abram,
of Hull; Advice, of Dundee; Pacific, of Aberdeen; Re-
galia, of Kirkaldy. In addition to the above, copies of
the letter to Sir James Ross were sent to every whale
ship that could be heard of.

COURT CIRCULAR.
WINDSOR, SUNDAY.

Her Royal Highness the Hereditary Princess of Purina,
attended by the Countess Lopez, paid a visit to the Queen
yesterday afternoon, in the Castle, and partook of a di •
jourer with her Majesty and Prince Albert. Her Royal
Highness the Duchess of Kent also visited the Queen
yesterday afternoon, and afterwards returned to Frog-
more House.

The Hereditary Princess of Parma took leave of her
Majesty and the Prince, and quitted the Castle, at four
o'clock, to proceed to Frogmore House, and after visiting
her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, returned to
her own residence, attended by the Countess Lopez.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Lansdowne left the
Castle yesterday morning.
The Marquis of Abercorn arrived at the Castle in the
afternoon.

The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the
elder Royal Children, and attended by the Ladies and
Gentlemen in waiting, inspected the great Panorama of
the Mississipi and Missouri Rivers, in St. George's Hall,
yesterday afternoon. Mr. Banvard was in attendance.
The Royal dinner party yesterday evening included
her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, Lady Augusta
Bruce, Baroness de Speth, and the Marquis of Abeirrn.
Her Majesty's private band played the following pieces
in the Castle on Friday evening:—
Herold.
Overture, " Mario"
Fantasia, "Souvenir de Spa."
Violoncello,
Servais.
Herr Cossmann
Beethoven.
March, " Fidelio" .................. . ........
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Zwei Lieder, Herr Cossa7HighSncehssubperril.e
Violoncello,
Coro, " Nel Silenzio" Meyerbeer.
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This morning the unfavourable sta.ste_,oufgththeewi
prevented her Majesty and his Roy
the Royal Family Albert taking their accustomed early walk. The same
Yale' Lildies and airings.
cause prevented
The Queen and Prince
n of the Court, and the domestic
tended Divine service this forenoonhousehold
cha-
pelat-
,of the Castle. The Hun., in the private and
officiated. Rev. C. L. Courtenay

Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge
and the Princess Mary dined with her Majesty the Queen Dowager on Saturday, at Marlborough House.
Their Royal Highnesses, accompanied by the Princesses
Amelie and Elise of Hohenlohe Schillingsfurst, after-
wards honoured the performance at her Majesty's The-
atre with their presence.
A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday afternoon, at
the Foreign office. The Ministers sat three hours.

We understand the East India Railway Company
have specially met and accepted the terms of tho India
House rntb,orities.

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two heats, by Mr. Barrance's Stream. , , - ',lOst 1011). -
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The Hunters' Stakes of 10 Soy". each, 11st 71b each.
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The Claret Stakes of 15 Sovs. each, 10 ft, and 25 added;
for three-yr-olds, 9st 91b; four, lOst 101 b; five, &e.,
list 51b; half-bred horses, bred in Herta or Beds,
allowed 101 b. Winner to be sold for 350/. Once
round, about a mils and a half. (10 Subs.)
Mr. Brand nd Tufthunter, 5 yrs (Mr. S. Batson) 1
Mr. D. Ratcliffe nd Bird of Paradise, 4 yrs 2
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ran. Won by a neck, after a fine race
three.

The Scurry Stakes of 5. soya each, Ilst 71b each,
half s mile, winner to be sold for 401. (13 subs), were
won by Mr. Shelley's Philosopher (Mr. Batson), beating
Mr. Ilobson's Tawney (Owner) and six others.

HUNTING APPOINTMENTS.
The Sinnington hounds will meet to-morrow, at
Helmsley-10.
The Bedale hounds, Thursday, at Catterick Bridge-11.
Mr. Morgan's hounds, Thursday, at Chillaton-10.
The Devon and Somerset staghounds, to-morrow, at
Harford; Friday, at Dalverton-10i.
Mr. Furse's hounds, Friday, at Berry Moor, Petrock-
stow-10i.
The Pytchley hounds, to-morrow, at Weldon; Thurs-
day, at Biggen-104.
Earl Fitzwilliam's hounds, Wednesday, at Moorhay
Lawn; Friday, at Bulwick-10.

" Say from whence
You owe this strange intelligence; or why
Upon this heath you stop our way
With such prophetic greeting."—SHALSPERE.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SlR—The. past week teems with strange intelligence;
in the first place, the first and second favourites for the
Oaks, Escalade, and the Sister to Arkwright, have suc-
cumbed to nags of no account in the market, the former
being a wretched third to the Fire King and Quinine,
and the latter a good second to Sobraon, a remarkably
stout son of Harkaway, whom, by the bye, Tadmor beat
into fits in the first October meeting last year; at present
I do not consider that either have much damaged their
chances for the Epsom event, Escalade being in but so-
so trim, and the Sister to Arkwright, by no means up to
the mark; as regards the defeat of the latter, it must be
borne in mind, that she was a very fair second to
Sobraon, a horse that will put many a hundred into the
i)uke of Bedford's pocket before he closes his career.
Nina's easy defeat of Legerdemain will make Glauca
premier favourite for the Oaks.

The Craven running has had a marvellous effect on
the Derby, having directly or indirectly annihilated
the chances of the following:—All Scott's lot but
Nunnykirk and Strongbow; all Stebbing's lot; all
Dilly's but Saucy Dick; all Dawson's; all Kent's
and Peck's, but Rochester and Old Dan

Tucker; all Day's but Osterley; all Lord Exeter's
lot; and many more too numerous and unimportant to
mention. Leaving the following list from which to pick
the runners and winner, viz.: Tadmor, Old Dan
Tucker, Drakelow, John Bull, the Flying Dutchman,
Elthiron, Garrick, Rochester, Landgrave, Vatican, Nor-
manton, Montague, Rebecca colt, Magician, The Seraph,
Saucy Dick, Vanguard, Lioneycomb, Osterley, Tire-
some, Nunnykirk, Fire King, Indus, Newport, Uriel,
Strongbow, Captain Parry, Chatterer, Oquetos, and colt
by Venison out of Nuthourne's dam; the remaining 208
obscures rank so poorly in my estimation that I would
not back the lot at 1,000 to 15; the struggle on the
Downs of Banstead, or Epsom, will, I opine, at the dis-
tance be between Tadmor, The Flying Dutchman, Old
Dan Tucker, Saucy Dick, Nunnykirk, Strongbow, and
Osterley; and I see no reason why I should alter my
predictions of last summer, when I for the first time
assured your readers that, bar accident, the Derby of
1849 must come off in favour of the produce of those
splendid mares Palmyra, Beeswing, and Barbelle; in my
mind's eye I can fancy the result to be thus:—
Tacit:nor ... (Nat) 1
Nunnykirk
or 2

Flying Dutchman ... (Marlow).
The victory of Flatcatcher, with " our Jem" up, for
the Port Stakes was a certainty; Dover, who started to
save his stake, never in any part of the race being able
to fully extend this rattling son of Touchstone and
Decoy, who won as he pleased, in the most absurd of
canters, by three lengths; he i■ worth an investment for
the Metropolitan, for he is sure to be handy at the finish,
if not the winner.

The forthcoming week is one of consequence to the
sporting fraternity, containing three meetings of note,
to wit:—Bath and Catterick Bridge on Tuesday and
Wednesday, Epsom on Friday, and, to crown all, the
Metropolitan Steeple Chase on Saturday, plenty of
amusement for one week in all conscience.
The Catterick meeting is of but little importance to
the south'rons, but, as it generally introduces a good
many two•year-olds, the result will be read with plea-
sure. Among the debutantes will be found Mildew,
Weldon, The Italian, Lord Eglinton's Derby cracks for
1850, Mayor's, and the Knight of Avenel, the Canada
colt, Tbackeray, and Cyprus by Ithuriel, all promising
youngsters, and safe to be on the winning side at Cat-
terick or elsewhere.
The Bath sport commences on Tuesday next, at two
o'clock, with the Trial Stakes, for which I presume Phi-
lippa, Volley, Hotspur, Woodcraft, Over Fork Over, and
perhaps Sponge will run. I see nothing likely to beat
Philippa, whom I place first, and Volley second.
For the Weston Stakes, half a mile, there are 21 sub-
scribers, but as:the.formidable name of Officious;figures on
the list, not more than six or seven will run, to be se-
lected from the following:—Officious, Bst 41b—Remnant,
Bst 91b—Mountaineer, Bst 91b—Dactyl, Bst 61b—Wans-
dyke, Bst 91b—Knight of Gwynne, Bst 61b—Miss Lark-
away, Sat 41b—St. Ursule, Bat 41b—The Old Commodore,
Bst 91b—and Kathleen, 7st 131 b. For the winner I look
to the first named or Dactyl, and expect to see Remnant
and Kathleen close up.
For the Somersetshire Stakes about ten will run, viz.:
st 11" at lb
Radulphus, 6 yrs 7 8 Vaut-rien, 4 yrs
The Tartar, 5 yrs ... 7 8 Glenalvon, 3 yrs
Brand) face, 5 yrs 7 7 Loupgarou, 3 yrs 5 0
Lethargy, 5 yrs . .... 6 11 Cheerful, 3 yrs 4 12
Bacchanalian, 4 yrs... 6 4 Essedarius, 3 yrs 4 11
Brandyface and Loupgarou, from their previous running,
ought to be first and second, with Radulphus, Glenalvon,
and the Tartar filling the next three places.
The second day's sport is very inferior, and calla for
no remark.

The solitary day's rambling on the Downs next Friday,
to witness the race for the Metropolitan, if not too cold,
will afford infinite pleasure to numerous denizens of
" the village," who will be glad to escape, for one day at
least, from the cares and troubles of business.
For the Two-years old spin the Duke of Richmond
will officiate as proprietor of the Stakes, the Cowslip colt
and Giraffe being handy at the finish.
The Great Metropolitan Stakes.—ln all probability
eighteen will be found at the starting post, to be selected
from the following:—

st. lb.
Peep•o'-Day Boy, 5
yrs

st. lb.
Bellenden, 4 yrs 6 4
Trap, 4_yra 6 4

E3Zecutor, 5 yrs 8 3
Canezou, 4 yrs
Mogador, 5 yrs
Flatcatcher, 4 yrs
Gwalior, aged 7 7
Giselle, 6 yrs 7 5
Fogleman, 4 yrs 6 13
Maid of Lyme, 6 yrs 6 11
Valentinia, 4 yrs 6 10
Fernhill, 4 yrs

MuleY Moloch filly,
4 yrs 5 5
Baby, 3 yrs 5 3
Slashing Alice, 3 yrs 5 3
Loupgarou, 3 yrs 5 2
Do-the-Boys, 3 yrs 5 0
Lugar, 3 yrs
Clarissa, 3 yrs 4 9
Eva, 3 yrs
Clifford, 3 yrs.

Tuscan, 4 irs 6 5

From the light weights, I I should select Lugar, Loup-
garou, and Raby; from the middle weights, Fernhill,
and from the heavy's, Flatcatcher, Canezou, and Peep-
o'-llay Boy ; the struggle I imagine will lay between
Flatcatcher, Canezou, and Lugar, whom I place first,
second, and third, with Fernhill fourth. Should any
" move " affecting my decision take place between now
and the day of the race, I will notify the same on
Thursday nest.

I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
THE SPIRIT OF THE TURF.

April 13.

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corrects several inaccuracies which appeared in a former
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scendant of Addison's friend. Ile was the author of
many very pretty, but ephemeral poems, and a much-
talked of pamphlet entitled " Anticipation." He was a
gay man of fashion, brother-in•law of Richard Brinsloy
Sheridan, and a Whig, though a friend of Lord North,
by whom he was made a Commissioner of Bankrupts and
also Stamps and Taxes.
THE " ARMY AND NAVY" IN YORISHIRE.—At a
banquet given to Mr, Cobden in Yorkshire, a few days
since, "The Army and Navy" was omitted in the list of
toasts of the evening. Wo most heartily congratulate
the services on the omission,
and we may add that we
wish we could say as much for the Sovereign. To be
toasted by such an assembly is oneof the heavy penalties
which Royalty must, from its position, patiently endure;
but, on the part of the united service, we owe our
thanks to the ill mannered and illiterate Yorkshiremea.
They seem to possess at least one faculty, and that is
the instinct to know that the toast of "The Army and
Navy" is only proposed in the society of gentler,nen.—
United Service Gazette.
A Glasgow firm is stated to have purchased, in
London, ready-made clothes to the value of 11,0004 in-
tended for shipment to California.

IMPERIAL P tRLIAMENT

ORDERS OF "l HE DAY AND NOTICES OF

MOTIONS
HOUSE OF LORDS.

ORDERS OF THE ' )Air FoR THURSDAY. APRIL 19.

Loam SIIMMONED.—(North Wales Railway Company
—William Chaiwick, chairman, and John Marriner, late
secretary, of the North Wales Railway Company, to
attend at the bar).

Prisoners Removal (Ireland) Bill—(Lord Somerhill)
—Second reading.
Spirits (Ireland) Bill (Lord Somerhill)—Committee.
Recovery of Wages (Ireland) Bill (Lord Somerhilt)—
Third reading.
Protection of Justices (Ireland) Bill (Lord Somerhill)
—Third reading.
Petty Sessions Bill (Lord Campbell)—(Amendments)
—Third rearing.
NOTICES, FOR WHICH NO PARTICULAR DAY HAS BEEN

FIXED.
The Lord Brougham and Vaux—To bring under the
consideration of the House the conduct of the Governer
of Ceylon.
The Earl of Harrowby—To call the attention of the
House to the system on which beer houses are regulated.
The Lord Bishop of Cashel—To present petitions
complaining of the regulations laid down by the Com-
mittee of Council on Education with regard to the
schools in connexion with the Established Church in
Ireland.
The Earl of Harrowby—To ask for information as to
the stal of our relations with the states of the River
Plate.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
ORDERS OF THE DAY FOR MONDAY, APRIL 16.
Supply—Committee.
Parliamentary Oaths Bill—Second reading.
Apprehension of Deserters (Portugal 13110—Second
reading.
Administration of Justice (Metropolitan Districts)
Bill—Second' reading.
Ways and Means—Committee.
Qualification and Registration of Voters (Ireland)
Bill—Second reading.
Elections and Polling Places (Ireland) Bill—Second
reading.
NOTICES OF MOTIONS.
Mr. Scott—Select Committee to inquire into the politi-
cal and financial relations between Great Britain and her
dependencies, with a view to reduce the charge on the
British Treasury, and to enlarge the functions of the
colonial legislatures.—Copies of any correspondence be-
tween the Boards of Admiralty and the Treasury, or
between those Boards and the India and Australian
Mail Steam Packet Company, relative to the conveyance
of her Majesty's mails between England and Alexandria,
and to the establishment of communication by steam
navigation with the Australian colonies.
Mr. Mackinnon—Select Committee for the Removal
of Smithfield Market:—Lord Robert Grosvenor, Vis-
count Mahon, Mr. Bramston, Mr. Alderman Copeland,
Mr. Masterman, Mr. William Miles, Mr. Yorke, Mr.
Stafford, Mr. Pugh, Mr. Mackinnon, Sir Edmund
Filmer, Mr. Cornewall Lewis, Sir Charles Douglas, Mr.
Childers, and Mr. Christopher.
Mr. Ward—Navy Estimates (in Committee of Supply).
Sir De L.tcy Evans—On the motion for going into
Committee on Army and Navy Estimates, to bring
under the consideration of the House the claims of the
medical officers of the army and navy to military rewards
and distinctions.
Mr. Urquhart—On going in Committee of Supply on
Navy Estimates, to move, that the naval force be em-
ployed only in accordance with the laws of England and
of nations : that officers in command shall only em-
ploy that force on patent instructions from their imme-
diate chiefs, and not presume to negotiate on their own
bottoms with foreign stairs.
Mr. Anstey—On going into Committee of Supply, to
move for an humble address to her Majesty, on the sub-
ject of cartain illegal ordinances or acts of Council for
the taxation of the people of Van Diemen's Land,
the attempts of Lieutenant-Governor Sir Wiliiam
•nis::n to intimidate the Judges of the Supreme
Court of that island into declaring such ordinances
or acts to be legal, and the grievances complained
of by the colonists of that island in their
petition presented last year to her Majesty, and printed
by order of this House; and that her Majesty may be
pleased to direct the local author.ties in future to respect
the independence of the judicial function of that court,
and also to signify her disallowance of any ordinance or
act subsequently passed by the said Lieutenant-Gover-
nor in Council, for giving to such illegal ordinances or
acts the force of law.
Mr. Fagan—ln Committee of Supply on Navy Esti-
mates, in vote No. 11, for " New works, improvements,
and repairs," to bring under consideration the expendi-
ture for the erection of a steam factory at Haulboline.
Mr. Elume—On the motion for going into Committee of
Supply, to move, that the repeated explosions from fire-
damp in coal mines, by which great sacrifice of life from
time to time has taken place, render it the imperative
duty of the Legislature immediately to adopt means
now at command to prevent the occurrence of such
calatnaties in future.—ln Committee on the Navy Esti-
mates, to move to agree with the recommendation of the
Select Committee of the last session on the Navy, Army,
and Ordnance Estimates, in that part of their report in
which they state "a certain proportion of the list of
admirals must be composed of officers who have grown
old in the service, who deserve well of their country,
and who are entitled to higher rank and to
higher pay on account of their • merits, although
they are no longer able to serve afloat. But when it is
considered that in the last naval war with France, the
greatest cn record, not more than thirty-six admirals
were employed at any one period, and that at the present
moment the services of only fourteen are required, it
would not seem unreasonable that the number of admi-
rals, now fixed, actor ding to the scheme
sanctioned in 1846, at one hundred and fifty,
should be gradually reduced to a number not
exceeding one hundred.—lu Committee on the Navy Es-
timates, to move to reduce the estimate of the number of
admirals to one hundred, and the number of seaman for
the service of the year to 35,000; and also to reduce the
dockyard battalions.—ln Committee of Supply (Navy Es-
timates), on vote No. 8, for wages to artificers, labourers,
and others employed in her Majesty's dockyards at
home, to move to reduce the establishment of shipwrights
in the dockyards at home to 2,650, and as fixed by the
Admiralty order of the 29th day of June, 1833.—0 n
vote 10, for naval stores, to reduce the amount for stores
in the same proportion as the number of shipwrights.