The Sun.
London, England, 1849-08-02 00:00:00

LATEST CUP BETTING.

Even on Canezqu, 5 to 1 agst the Hero, 6 to 1 sgst
Tadmor. Tadmor'a starting has been declared to be
doubtful.

BETTING AT MANCHESTER.—TIIESDA.Y . I
GOODWOOD STAKES.-7 to 1 agst Clermont (t)—lo
tol agst the Maid of Lyme (t)-10 to 1 agst Collingwood
(t )-10 to 1 agst Van Dieman (t)-12 to 1 agst Maid
of Alasham (t)-15 to 1 agst Tophana (t)-16 to 1 agst
Hornpipe (t)-300 to 8 agst Fire-eater (t).
Goon WOOD CIJP.-6 to 4 agst Canezou (taken freely).

ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, COVENT GARDEN.—Her
Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, their Royal High-
nesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, and the
Grand Duchess of Mecklenburgh Strelitz, honoured the
performance at the Royal Italian Opera on Tuesday even-
Mg with their presence, and occupied her Majesty's box.
There were in attendance upon her Royal Highness the
Duchess of Kent, Lady Anna Maria Dawson and Sir
G. Cowper, Bart. ; in attendance upon the Duchess
of Cambridge were Lady Augusta Cadogan, and
Mr. Edmund St. John Mildmay. Among the visitors
were, his Serene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe Wei
roar, Prince Richard Metternich, the Duke and Duchess
of Beaufort, his Excellency the Hanoverian Minister, the
Russian Consul General, the Marquis and Marchioness
of Ailesbury, the Marquis of Douro, the Countess of
Glengall, the Countess of Westmoreland and the Ladies
Butl. r, Earl Compton. the Earl of Belfast, the Earl
of Cardigan, Earl Manvers, and the Honourable
Sidney Pierrepoint, the Countess of Jersey and
Lady Clementina Villiers, the Earl and Countess
of Kenmare and Mr. Valentine Browne, the Countess
de Flahault and Mdlle. de Flahault, the Countess of
3lalmesbury, Countess Cadogan and the Hon. Captain
Cadogan, Lady Georgina Grey, Lady Mary Bentinck,
Earl Bruce, the Earl of Wilton, le Comte and Ccmtesse
de Nouailles, le Comte and Comtesse de Rossi, Viscount
Duplin, Viscount Clifden, Lord Cranstoun, Lord Brown-
low Cecil, Baron Koller, Lord Alfred Paget, Lord Fo-
rester, Lord Elphinstone, Baron de Steinberg, Lady
Bateman, Lady Duff Gordon, the Hon. Miss Gordon,
Hun. Julian Face, Hon. Theobald Dillon, Hon. W. L.
Powys Hon. Ralph Neville, Hon. F. L. Gower, M.P.,
Chevalier and Mdme. de Hurts, Hon. Mrs. Charles Cust
and Miss Macdonald, Sir H. Webb, Bart., Sir Peregrine
/Wand, Bert., Sir Isaac Lyon, Lady and the Misses
Goldsmidt, Sir William and Lady Clay, Sir Henry
Paulet, Bart., Sir John Gibbons, Bart., Sir Thomas
Bare, Bait, Sir William Abdy, Bart Lady de Bathe
and Miss de Bathe, Sir Henry Meux, Bart., Lady
Antrobus, Lady Shelle
y, L ady Lawley, Lady Talbot
and the lionli.e.M: 24r. Mr. Talbot,., Lushington, M.P., Mr.
T. Baring,
D.anistoun,onel MI)"
Mr. Denistoun,
North, Captain Egerton,
Captain W. Tomlins, Captain Durham,
Captain Hamil-
ton. Colonel Wingfield,
Captain F. Seymour, Captain
C. Ellison, Miss Burdett Coutts, Miss Temple Mowdoin,
Miss Byrne, Miss Richards, &c.
[AnYEnTisnmENT.]—A. certified Cure of
Scrofula
by Holloway's Ointment and Pills.—The following certificaterula
from Mr. Alcorn, of Jerry's Plains, New South Wales,
was
forwarded to Professor Holloway by Mr. Pinkev, chemist, of
the same place. " This is to certify that my daughter, aged
seven years, was afflicted with scrofula for three years, and that,
after she bad been attended by several respectable practitioners,
without success, I was induced to try Holloway's Ointment
and Pills, which remedies in about three months completely
cured her, and she is now in the best of health. This can be
verified by various persons in this vicinity, where I have resided
for twenty-two years. (Signed) R. Alcorn. Jan. 1, 1849."
,Sold by all Druggists, and at Professor Holloway's Establish-
ment, 244, Strand, London.
Thomas Fricker, Esq., was on Friday elected to the
coronership of North Lincolnshire, in the room of Mr.
Mastin, resigned.

THE ARCHEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE.
SALISBURY, TUESDAY.—The annual meeting of the
institute concluded this day by an excursion to Sil-
bury-hill, to investigate the operations in progress
there, under the auspices of the society, and to exa-
mine its contents, as well as those of other celebrated
barrows in that neighbourhood. Dr. Merewether,
Dean of Hereford, has taken great interest in the
operations going on in this locality. He visited the
spot last week to superintend the proceedings of the
workmen engaged. He found the tunnel, which has
been made by subscription, advanced about 32 yards
into the hill, parallel with the surface of the soil. He
had recommended the workmen to stop at about two
yards from the centre of the hill, where he expected
to find some remains, a cist with bones and coins or
other contents. Under the guidance of the Dean the
party inspected the spot to-day, end were pleased with
the proceedings. The day was remarkably favour-
able, and the fine bracing air of the Wiltshire Downs
was thoroughly enjoyed by all present.
The meetings in this city have gone off well, not-
withstanding the meagreness of the attendance, a
fact which may be accounted for by unfavourable
weather at the commencement, and the state of dis-
ease in which the town has been during the meeting.
The papers read at the meetings have been of more
than ordinary excellence, and, if we may credit the
assertions of some of these gentlemen, the members
were highly pleased with their reception, and gratified
by the results of their meeting. Great credit is due
to the local authorities and local committee for the
excellence of their arrangements and the zeal shown
in providing the necessary accommodation. Nor
should the hospitable manner in which the savans have
been received by our local gentry be forgotten. On
the whole, this visit has clearly shown that Salisbury
possesses ample antiquarian resources for many such
meetings as that which has just closed.

CONGRESS OF :THE BRITISH ARCH/E.
°LOGICAL ASSOCIATION.
CHESTER, TuEsnar MORNlNG.—Yesterday even-
ing the congress open NI with a promise of very great
success. The trains .during the day had brought
numerous visitors from London and from various
parts of the country, and at eight o'clock not less
than 300, a considerable portion of whom were
ladies, were assembled iLn the room of meeting—the
Royal Assembly Room. The Noble President, Lord
Albert Conyngham, took the chair, and was sup-
ported by the Bishop, the Dean, the Mayo!, and a
Lord Albert Conyneiam was introduced
.s
number of the leading members of theassociatttoont.he
but
very judicious, speech .
mixed audience of citizbenvs
the an d
Bishop
of i
en
dd s the PRESIDENT brief,
hester.
In a short opening 96 re.s , . . .
spoke of the importance and interest of the study of
ad-
verted to his own recent antiquarian visit to Greece,
archwology, and of the pleasure which he had himself
derived from it, and described the objects of the
meeting. His observations were received with very
strongly marked feelings of satisfaction. He then
introduced to the meeting
Mr. DILLON CHOKER, who read some remarks on
the study of archaeology. He was followed by
Mr. PLANCHE, who read a long paper on the seals
of the Earls of Chester, in which he attempted toclear
up some obscurities in their armorial bearings, but
the paper was of a character which would not admit
of our giving an analysis in the space to which our
report must naturally be restricted. He made some
incidental remarks on the absurd conventional forms
which had gradually been given to particular animals
on the shields, and instanced especially that of
the lion.
At the conclusion of the paper,
Sir W. BETHAM rose and made some observations
on the latter point. He mentioned the instance of a
heraldic painter, who had been for many years in the
habit of painting such lions, and who had never seen
real lions until one day he was taken to the mena-
gerie in the Tower. When shown the lions he
laughed at his conductor, imagining it was a joke,
they were so totally dissimilar to the animals he had
been so long accustomed to call by that name.
Mr. WRIGHT next gave his paper on the ivory
casket, which he stated, from the workmanship and
costume, to be of the beginning of the fourteenth
century. It was an attempt to give an accurate and
rational explanation of pictorial representations,
which had been hitherto spoken of in a very vague
manner. Mr. Wright pointed out the value to the
archaeologist and historian of such pictorial represen-
tations, and the use which had been made of the
similar works of the Romans, Greeks, and Egyptians.
He then gave a brief sketch of the origin and progress
of the medimval romance, and described and explained
the scenes represented on the coffer, in doing which
he showed the influence of those romances on the
manners and sentiments of the female sex in the
middle ages, for whose use such articles were in-
tended. Thus the consideration of antiquities of this
class illustrated the manners and history of the past,
as well as the progress of the arts.
A local antiquary, Mr. W. BEAMONT, then read a
long paper on the origin, history, and existing re-
mains at Eddisbury, of which, nor of the paper,
which concluded the evening, by Mr. Halliwell, on
the cottage literature of the palatine counties, we will
not attempt an abstract. Mr. Halliwell gave some
curious notices of old printed tracts, relating chiefly
to Chester, or printed in the palatine.
The meeting broke up late, and evidently well
satisfied with this first stage of the proceedings.
This morning the archxologists have been em-
ployed in wandering about the town, and they are
now assembling in the Shire Hall to listen to Mr.
Black's lecture ou the records of the palatinate of
Chester.
Domestic affairs have suddenly called away Lord
Albert Conyngham, who left Chester about ten
o'clock this morning, very unexpectedly.
The Bishop of Chester has taken the chair at the
meeting in the Shire Hall.

REPRESENTATION OF BOSTON.
THE N OMINATION.
BOSTON, WEDNESDAY.—More than usual interest
was excited in the town this morning by the announce-
ment that Mr. Freshfield, the Conservative candidate,
had withdrawn, from a sense of the impossibility of
obtaining a sufficient: number of votes to give any
hope of his being returned at this election. Mr.
Freshfield, previous to his departure from the town,
announced the difficulties under which he had entered
the field at a late period.
The nomination was fixed for ten o'clock.
On reaching the hustings, Mr. W. Garfitt, banker,
of Boston, nominated Captain Pelham.
Alderman Rawsox seconded the nomination.
Mr. SNAITU proposed Mr. D. W. Wire, and Mr.
SLATER seconded the nomination.
The candidates having addressed the electors, a
show of hands was taken. It was, by an immense
majority, in favour of Mr. Wire.
Captain Pelham's friends demanded a poll, and the
candidates then retired from the hustings.
The town is in a state of great excitement, and
business is entirely suspended.

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.--There were present
on Tuesday evening at her Majesty's Theatre, his Grace
the Duke of Wellington and the Marchioness of Douro,
the Duke and Duchess of Clevelend, and Lady Augusta
Paulett, the Duke of Leeds, the Dowager Marchioness
of Sligo, and the Ladies Browne, the Marquis of Clan-
ricarde, the Marquis of Headfort, Lady Young, and the
Ladies Taylor, the Marquis Donegal, his Excellency the
Swedish Minister, his Excellency the Neapolitan Ambas-
sador, his Excellency the Belgian Minister, and Madame
Van der Weyer, his Excellency the Brazilian Minister,
and Madame In Marquess de Lisboa, the Charge d'Affaires
of France and Madame de Montherot, his Excellency the
Minister from the Argentine Republic, the Earl and
Countess of Bective, the Earl of Essex, the Earl of
Falmouth, the Earl of Cardigan, the Earl of Bruce,
the Earl and Countess of Malmesbury, the Earl Alta-
mont, the Count de Berke, the Baron Koller, the
Count and Countess do Miremont, the Vficount Somer-
ton, the Viscount Cantilupe' Lord George Gordon
Lennox, Lord Sandys, Lord Saltoun, Lord William
Gordon Lennox, Lord and Lady Hallyburton, Lady
Powlett and Miss Webb Cunningham, General the
Hon. Arthur Upton, General the Hon. H.iCavendish,
Lady Seymour and Miss Seymour, the Hon. Mrs. Nor-
ton, the Baroness North, Lieutenant-General Sir Alex-
ander Woodford, Bart., Lady and the Misses Woodford,
Sir Cornwallis Rickets, Bart., the Baron de Gurlache,
Sir Ralph Howard, Bart., M.P., Lady and Miss Howard,
Lady Susan Reeves, Sir Thomas Barrett Lennard, Bart.,
and Lady Barrett Lennard, Sir Philip Acland, Bart.,
General Sir Frederick Trench, Bart., M.P., Mrs. Hen-
niker Wilson, General Reeves, Major Buckley, Mr.
Henry and Miss Singleton, Lieutenant-Colonel Ellis,
Colonel L. Harvey and Miss Harvey, Mr. and Mre.
Tudor, Mr. Moore, Colonel Lc:layer Freestun, M.P., and
Mrs. Lockyer Freestun, Mr. Charles Barry Balwin,
M.P., Mr. Richard Viner, Captain Smith, &c.
OFFICERS OF TEE HOUSE OF COMMONS.—Yester-
day an Act of Parliament, which received the Royal
Assent on Saturday, came into force with respect to the
payment of salaries of the officers of the House of Com-
mons. By the Act in question (12 and 13 Victoria,
chap. 72) all moneys arising from the fees of the House
of Commons are to be carried to the
Consolidated Fund,
and the salaries of the clerk, clerk's assistant, &c., are to
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77, as directs the Commissioners for regulating the
offices of the House of Commons to appoint a pay-
master, and as regulates the said offices, shall, from and
after the let of August, 1849, be repealed; and the
salaries, allowances, superannuations, charges, and ex-
penses of the House of Commons shall thenceforth be
paid by the Paymaster-General in such manner and at
such times as the Speaker of the H
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returnouse of Commons or
the Commissioners of the Treasury
ACCOUNTS OF THE
WALES.—A BOROUGHSWiIIiam
ENGLAND AND WA
presented to Par.
' Bement, pursuant to the A:
gross chap. lteof
a, l arnedeetihpetal st
of Vtihcetlitttir,i chap.
i337a8e,. shows that t IV.,Fe
year
ricipal boroughs
ended the 31st
of England and Wales during the
of August, 1848, amounted to 1,195,3481., and the total
expenditure to 1,170,4411.

Name of Company.

Australasia • • • • • • • • • •
BritshNorth American
Ceylon • • • • .. • • • • • • • •
Commercial of London
C010nia1........
Gloucestershire • • • • • •
lonian • . • • • • .. • • • • • •
Londn and Westminstr

London Joint-Stock . • •
Provincial of Ireland..

Ditto, New..; • • • • • •
National of Ireland • •
Nat. Provncial of Eng.
Ditto, New. ..• •• • •
South Australia • • • • • •
Union of Australia.. • •

Ditto .......... ••
Union of London... ••
Union of Madrid .•• • •

Name of Company.

Alliance Brit. and For.

Ditto Marine... ....
Atlas . • • • • • • • •
British Commercial .•
Clericl,Med.&Gen•Life
Eagle ......
Eng.& Scot. Law
European Life ......
Family Endowmn t Soc.
Freemasons' . • • • • • • • •
Gl)be
Gastrdian ............
Imperial Fire ........
Imperial Life ........
Indemnity Marine....
Law Fire
Law Life • • •• • ••• • ..
Legal and General Life
London Fire .• ••• • • •
London Ship • •
Sled. Invlidik Gen. Life
Stational Lean Fund • •
stational Life •• • •
Palladium Lila
Pelican • • • • • • • • • • .. • •
Phoenix • • • -
Pi oteetor Life •. • .
Provident Life • •
Rock Life • •
Royal Exchange
San Fire..
Ditto Life .....
Universal Life.... • . • •
Victoria Life ....

Name of Company.

East and West Ind'a ..
East Country ..
London .... .
Ditto Bonds .• ......
6 t.Katharine ........

Ditto, Scrip ......
Ditto 80nd5........
Southampton • • ......

Name of Company.

Charing-cross...• .. ••
Southwrk,NwSub.Av.
Ditto Nw of 754 p.c.
Waterloo .... • • • • .• ••

Ditto Old Ann. of 81.

Ditto Nw ditto of 71.
Vauxhall .... ... Av.

Name of Company.

East London...• •: •• ••
Grand Junction .• •...
Kent• •• •• •• ••
Lambeth •.•.........
New Rivr Lndn Brdge
Vauxhall .... •.......
West Middlesex . . .