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SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

NEVVMARKET FIRST SPRING MEETING.
MONDAY.
Fifty Pounds, for four yrs old, 7st 101 b; five, Bst 91b; six
and aged, Oat. Last three miles of B.C.
Lord W. Powlett's Brandyface, 5 yrs ... (Rogers) 1
Lord Exeter's Gardenia, 4 yrs ••• 2
Duke of Rutland's Paladin, 4 yrs .•• ••• 3
Betting— 6 to 5 agst Bratitlytace,.and 5 to 4 agst Gar-
denia. Won in a canter by four lengths. The rain pre-
vented our timing this race.
Handicap Sweepstakes of 20 sous. each, h ft, if declared,
&c., for three yrs old and upwards. T.Y C.
Duke of Bedford's Saddle, 5 3 rs, 9st llb (F. Butler) 1
Mr. Rolt's Collingwood, 6 yrs, 9st 21b ... 2
Lord Exeter's Cosachia, 5 yrs, 7st 131 b ... 3
Lord Glasgow's fby Lanercost, out of Canada, 3 yrs 4
Mr. Gurney's Cantley, 6 yrs, 7st 9lb
Lord Clilden's fby Emilius, out of Flycatcher, 3 yrs 0
Sir J. llawley's Queensberry, 3 yrs, sst 91b 0
Mr. G. Hobson's Carbuncle, 3 yrs, sst 71b 0
Betting-7 to 4 agst Saddle, and 2to 1 agst Coiling-
wood. Carbuncle and Cosachia went off together, and
made the running alternately to the cords, were it was
taken up by Saddle, Collingwood waiting on him. A
fine race home ended in favour of Saddle by a neck,
Cosachia a had third. Run in 1 min. 14 sec.

The Downham Stakes of 200 sovs. each, h ft; colts, Bst
71b; fillies, Bst 41b; 3lb allowed, &c. R.M.
Lord Bateman's Goodwood, Bst 41b ... (F. Butler) 1
Lord W. Powlett's cby Touchstone, Bst 71b... ... 2
Lord Clifden's Cacus, Bst 41b
Betting-5 to 4on Van colt, and 7to 4 agst Good-
wood. Goodwood made nearly all the running, and
after a very severe race up the cords with the Van colt,
won by a head. Run in 1 min. 59 secs.
Sweepstakes of 50 sovs. each, for three yrs old colts, Bst
71b. D.M. (II subs.) _

Lord Orford's Fire King •••
Duke of Bedford's Quasimodo

(Flatman) 1
... ... 2

Lord Exeter's cby Voltaire, out of Velveteen . . 3
Betting-11 to 8 on Fire King, and 6 to 4 agst Quasi-
modo. The Velveteen colt made the running to the
cords, where he was beaten ; Fire King then took
the lead, and won easily by a length. Run in 1 min.
52 sec.
Sweepstakes of 20 sovs. each, for three yrs old, 7st;
four, Sst 91b; five, 9st 21b; six and aged, 9st 41b. D.M.
Mr. Roles Collingwood, 6 yrs ... (Robinson) 1
Lord Exeter's cby Voltaire, out of Silistria, 3 yrs ... 2
Mr. Beaneleik's Diplomatist, 5 yrs ... ••• 3
Lord Glasgow's Big Jerry. 4 yrs 4
Betting-2 to 1 agst Collingwood, and sto 2 agst Di-
plomatist. The Silistria colt made the running to the
T.Y.C. winning-post, where it was taken up by the
favourite, who maintained it to the end and won cleverly
by a length. Run in 1 min. 55 sec.
Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each, for three yrs old colts, Bst
71b; fillies, Bst 41b. The winner to be sold for 200
sovs., if demanded, &c. T.Y.C.
Col. Peel's Quinine ... (Flatman) 1

Lord Exeter's cby Voltaire, out of Mecca ... 2
Captain Lowther' s Piceola ... 3
Mr. Drinkald's Susau Lovell ... ..„ 4

Betting-11 to 8 on Quinine, and 5 to 2 agst Piccola.
Won easily by a length; Piccola a bad third. Run in
1 min. 17 sec.
Match, 500, h ft. TM M

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Lord Exeter's Tophana, 6st ... (received)
Lord Clifden's Surplice, Bst 71b ... (paid)
Sweepstakes of 100, h ft, for fillies, Bst 71b each. D.M.
(3 subs.)
Mr. Newton's Memento (Rogers) 1
Mr.= Newton's ""•• L••

Sir B. Bulkeley's fby Piccaroon out of Bonny Bonnet 2
Lord Glasgow's fby The Provost, dam by Actsoon 3
Betting-2 to lon Piccaroon filly, and 4to 1 agst each
of the others. Memento made a waiting race of it into
the cords, and won, in a canter, by two lengths. Bun in

1 min. i 3 sec.
Sweepstakes of 50 sovs. each, for three yrs old out of
mares tbat never bred a winner; colts, Bst 71b; fillies,
Bst 31b; 31b allowed, &c. A. F. (15 subs.)
Mr.. Greville's Clarissa, Sat 3lb (Flatman) 1
Mr. Mostyn's Honeycomb, Bst 71b ... 2
Lord Stanley's Strongbow, Bst 7lb 3
Mr. E. N. Fox's Cambric, Rst 41b ... 4
Mr. Batson'a Abd-el•Kader, Bst 41b
Lord Exeter's Skudar, Bst 41b

The field for choice against Strongbow, 5 to 2 agst
Clarissa, and 4 to 1 agst Honeycomb. Skudar made
running to the new ground, where it was taken up by
Clarissa, who went on by herself and won in a canter by
three lengths. A length between second and third.
Run in two minutes twenty-nine seconds.
Sweepstakes of 100 sovs., h ft, for colts Ilst 71b, fillies
Bst 31b, &c. D.M. (3 subs.)—Duke of Bedford's Sobraoa
and Lord Stradbroke's Pylos, divided the forfeit.
Match 200, h ft, Bst slb each. R.M.—Mr. Shelley's
Beauvale received; Lord W. Powlett's Swivel paid.
Match 300, h ft. D.M. —Mr. Payne's Glauci, Bst Ilb
received; Duke of Bed tord's St. Rosalia, Sat 41b, paid.
The short interval between the last race and the de-
parture of the train, leaves us time only to say, that
although the weather was very showery, there was a
good show of company on the Heath. The ground was
very heavy.
LATEST BETTING.
2,000 GUINEAS STAKES.
5 to 4 agst Nuunykirk 16 to 1 agst Garrick—t.
5 tO 1 agst Do the Boys

DERBY.

Ofieri to take 6 to 1 about Vanguard, and to lay 7 to 1
agst Nunnykirk.
ENTRIES FOR TUESDAY.
Queen's Plate.

Doctrine, 5 yrs—Cardinal's Niece, 5 yrs—Tophans, 4
yrs—Duplicity, 4 yrs.
Sweepstakes, winner to be sold for 501. T.Y.C.

Cacus, Perspicacity, Rackety Girl.
Sweepstakes of 10 so's. each ; winner to he sold for

150/, &c.
Queen Mary, 5 yri—Slug, 4 yrs—lone, 3 yrs.
Handicap. D.M.

Sponge, 4 yrs, Bst 71b—Pell Mall, 5 yrs, 7st 101 b
Circus, 4 yrs, 7st 21b—Vasa, 3 yrs, 6st 21b—Pyloeles, 3
yrs, 6st—Cayenne, 3 yrs, sst 121b—Sister to Jolly Dick,
yrs, sst 71b.

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INCREASING FORGERIES ON
THE BANK OF ENGLAND.
TO THE EDITOR OF 7'HE SUN.
SIR,—" An old story!" I think I hear you impa-
tiently cry, and }et it is a paragraph in this evening's
Sun that suggests this communication; and let me ask
ou, shilst I appeal to your judgment and feelings vs
an influential journalist and guardian of the public in-
terests, whether, from the frequent occurrence lately of
forgeries of Bank of England paper, this serious sub-
does not come le:ore us again with fresh and
pressing interest?
The Liverpool Albion tells us (following upon the
recent circulation of forged notes of the Bank of Eng-
land in London, Bristol, and other places), that " two
hotel keepers and three publicans" in Liverpool have
just been similarly fleeced—one of these unlucky trades-
men having given 9!. 19s. and a glass of brandy and
water in exchange for one of these forgeries.
Is it enough, I beg to a-k, Sir, that a paper
circulation should be adequately protected only
to the eyes of bankers, their clerks, and those of
observant and experienced moneyed men? The fact
that the Bank, after the numerous suggestions which
have been made for the better prevention of forgery,
since the Parliamentary Commission instituted nearly
thirty years ago, has not even yet availed itself of a single
suggested idea for the protection of the public, by ren-
dering their notes something, at least, more difficult of
imitation, is the more puzzling and provoking, because if
it be granted that, to attain inimitability, be like the
search for the "philosopher's stone," still to render the
opt ration of the forgt ry of bank-notes all but practicably
impossible, is, I understand, beyond doubt, very easy—
namely, by merely rendering it necessary for several
individuals to associate to effect a fraud of this descrip-
tion, instead of issuing a note which engravers tell us
any one man of tolerable ability can imitate, water-mark
and all!
It is constantly being proved that the boasted paper of
the Bank, however beautiful, is easily to be imitated,
somehow; by artificial means, well enough to pass over
the counter of the tradesmen (mentioned in The Sun) of
the Poultry, King William-street, and the Commercial-
road (who are now sorely exhibiting the forged specimens
in their windows), and the hotel keepers and tradesmen of
Bristol and Liverpool. That point should now at least
beLallowed to be a settled fact, as these victims can vouch
to their cost. The triple paper, proposed and patented by
the late Sir W. Congreve, could not possibly have been
imitated ,by any artificial process; that also is a fact
which I believe has never been denied, and papermakers
are very unlikely people to associate with forgers. Why,
then, is not this patent triple-paper of SirW. Congreve's
invention adopted, or something adopted to compel these
prayers upon the public to go to the manufacturer for
their paper, or rather, as the fact would prove, to go
without it and put a stop to forgery. Is it because the
Bank cannot afford to incur a little extra expense?
Then as to the writing of the Bank of England notes
as a security, it seems surprising, but no less strange
than true, that the public in general are exceedingly bad
judges of good writing engraving, even among the middle
and higher classes. Exhibit a piece of superior and nicely
executed writing to a jury of any dozen persons, and I
grant it will apparently be appreciated. They will all
declare to a man, probably, that it is capitally and beau-
tifully executed; but the deuce of it is, as it applies to
security for banknotes, that show these same twelve ob-
servers another piece of very far inferior engraving, and
half of them, probably, will admire that also, and a third
of them, perhaps, pass a very bungling performance in-
deed as good work; hence, no doubt, the multiplication of
the advertising cheap engraving shops, which exist from
the public want of discernment. Thus, with an easily
imitable piece of writing and vignette, and an easily
imitable water-mark, the trading public are very neatly
plundered, and will continue to be so, by the operations
of the 'cute gentlemen or gentleman, who, probably,
laughing in his sleeve, keeps himself ensconced in his
secret garret, combining in his one rascally carcase, the
efficiency of a trinity of operators—the engraver, printer
and papermaker.
I positively declare to having heard country bankers
admit, that, although offering adequate security to them-
selves, they really do not think the Bank of England
note sufficiently protected for the public circulation, and
I expect this is a very general opinion among hankers.
Then why not alter it? Country bankers, with few
exceptions, afford it; cannot the Bank of England do so?
I am respectfully, Sir, yours,
A COMMERCIAL TRAVELLER.
London, April 17th, 1849.

IRELAND.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

my letter signed "A Grand Juror," about a
fortnight ago, I gave you some particulars of the de-
plorable state of this city. Even since then things have
become worse and worse. Trade we have none, save that
in foreign breadstuff's. The condition of our shopkeepers
is truly pitiable. Bowed down by heavy rates, they are
doing no business whatever. One man, who for many
years has supported his family respectably, informed me
this day that for the last fortnight the receipts of his
shop were one shilling I
With matters thus, in the first commercial city in
Ireland, you may well imagine the state of the rural
districts. . .

In the Bantry Union, of which the population is now
reduced from 50,764 to about 38,000, the number of in-
mates in the workhouse last week was 2,331, and the
number receiving out-door relief 9,850, being a total of
12,181, or nearly one-third of the entire population.
This union is bankrupt, depending on the weekly re-
mittance of the Commissioners for its maintenance, and
owing 7,0001. to the traders and shopkeepers of the town
of Bantry, many of whom will become paupers if this
debt remain much longer unpaid.
In the Skibbereen Union, of which the population,
104,508 in 1841, is now reduced to less than 80,000, the
numbers in the workhouse are 3,784, on out-door relief
lists 15,748, being a total of 19,537, or about one-fourth
of the entire population. This union too is bankrupt,
owing a eebt of over 6,0001., and without one penny in
the treasurer's hands. One of the guardians informed
my correspondent this week that they are afraid to
strike a rate lest the farmers now remaining should emi-
grate! Your English readers are probably not aware of
the nature of our out-door relief; simply one pound of raw
Indian meal per day to each adult, and half a pound to
children! Many of the unfortunate creatures have no fuel
to prepare it, and eat it raw. Thus, amongst the several
cases of death by starvation, in the Cork Examiner of
last evening, we find it stated in the course of the
inquest on Mary Nolan, found dead at the gate of the
Tralee workhouse, on Saturday morning, that "on 9.
post mortem examination, by Dr. Alton, there was
nothing but a few grains of raw Indian meal found i❑
her stomach!" The weekly cost of out-door relief to

15,748 human beings in the Skibbereen Union is only
3241. 18s. 11d. or sd. each; And yet this paltry sum,
insufficient for more than one day's relief, is
far more than the union can afford. A correspondent
of the Cork Eraminer writes thus from Skibbereen,
April 16:—
No rate struck—credit of the board nearly gone—
unwillingness on the part of contractors to give
further supplies. Some thousands have been lately
struck off the out-door relief lists, by an order or re-
solution of the board of guardians, limiting the classes
to be relieved out of the house. Hundreds of the poor
creatures thus struck off, though recommended by their
respective relieving officers for admisssion into the poor-
house, and though having repeatedly applied for
admission, have been excluded in consequence .of
the over-crowded state of the house. Hundreds
of all ages and of all sexes, who have travelled,
some 10, some 20, some 30, some 40, and
some 50 miles, seeking admission into the workhouse in
vain, have been obliged to sleep in the fields, in the
ditches, and in the streets of Skibbereen 1"
The population of the whole country is fearfully
thinned. 'Thus, in iiilmoe (Skibbereen Union) the
number of inhabitants-8,000, in 1841—is now under
1,500.
The tide of emigration flows fast. A gentleman
coming into town from Bandon, one day last week,
passed no less than 40 cars, full of emigrants, and their
effects, on the road. At one particular poiet he over-
took a line of 17 of these cars, and met at.the same time a
melancholy procession coming in the opposite direction—
the bodies of ten paupers, carried out from the workhouse
for interment I The great mortality of our workhouses
is easily accounted for by the fact, that many of the
paupers do not apply for admission until they are ex-
hausted by starvation, beyond recovery.
The number of ragged, starving country paupers in
our streets is really appalling. I confess it puzzled me
for some time to find out where they all came from, for I_
Lthoe
conceived that the pauperism of the Western districts 1
our country had been swept almost entirely awayr
week I find that those squalid, emaciated
living beings,
famine and fever of 1846-7. But on close
circruiesytyutrhesis,
more like the tenants of the grave thantwioi
awne
dr e
thatthemselves
several
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them
mp
aomnyfoprtaid r a Lgese
for the
support of the poor. . athraentivaectuc
us, our rural unions bank-
rupt,tinct, heavy rates oppressing
With these facts staring us in the face, our trade ex-
best
co •• untry pa) mg no rent, well,
circum-
stanced properties in air l
we desp unless something immediate
large tracts of. land lying waste, the
gasi.l t
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oouugldh
ibnededeodn,.
I am little of a politician; but hitherto I have invari-
mtoayrelieve us.
invari-
ably lent my humbleNsauy7tohretirtloritshhe
policyW hi
that they were equal to the present crisis! But I regret
to say they are not.
has been most disastrous. Of living statesmen, there is
but one man who can bring us through the ordeal. In
this large and important city, and I have
citizens of every shade of politics spoken to
is but one feeling, and that is,on the subject—there
that the continuation of
the present Administration in office would complete our
ruin, whereas the speedy ad vent of Sir Robert Peel to
power, alone can save the country.
I remain, Sir, your obedient servant,
Cork, April 19, 1849. M.

FEMALE EMIGRATION.—About 200 young Irish
females arrived at Plymouth on Friday, and they will
leave that port early this week for Australia. They are
a fine set of young women, and will be a valuable ad.
dition to the colony of Port Phillip, where females are
much wanted. These will be sent out by the Colonial
Land and Emigration Commissioners in the New Liver•
pool, 587 tons burden, Captain Richstrdson.