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PUNCTUALITY TO TIME BY RAIL ENFORCED.—An
Exeter solicitor, detained for an hour at the Starcross
station on the South Devon line, was lately awarded 10A.
damages by a jury, on tip ground that an hour's delay
in the arrival of a train, without good excuse, was
actionable under the contract to carry passengers at a
certain time, implied in the company's time-table.—
Builder.

THE MURDER AT ST. BOSWELL'S FAIR.—The man
recently apprehended at Belford, in Northumberland, as
being the person who killed the shepherd, William
Lauder, was set at liberty after being examined. He
was an Irishman, and resembled the murderer somewhat
in the peculiar distortion of one of his feet.—Edinburgh.
Advertiser. .

COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)_

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
TATTERSALL'S.—YESTERDAY.
The Cesarewitch was the only event on which busi-
ness of any consequence was transacted. For that
Vatican was steady at the closing prices of Monday; the
second place, however, which was then held by Glenal-
von, was now taken by Raby, who stood, during the
greater part of the afternoon, at 7 to 1 layers, but just
before the close was backed eagerly at those odds, the
layers refusing to go on. Miss Ann was backed for a
good deal of money, and from 30 to 1 rose to 100 to 6.
Fire-eater bad a few friends at 20 to 1, but everything
else gave way. Little or nothing was done on the
Cambridgeshire, and not a quotable bet laid on the
Derby.

CESAREWITCH STARES.
4 to 1 agst Sir J. Hawley's Vatican, 3 yrs, Est 131 b
—take 9 to 2
7 to 1 agst Mr. Meiklam's Baby, 3 yrs, sst 71b-
-taken freely
10 to 1 agst Lord Exeter's Glenalvon, 3 yrs, Est 21b
taken and afterwards offered
15 to 1 agst Lord Eglinton's Glen Saddel, 4 yrs, Est
81b—taken and arterWards offered
100 to 6 agst Mr. Merry's Miss Ann, 3 yrs, 7st
20 to 1 agst Duke of Bedford's St. Rosalie, 3 yrs,
Est 31b—taken and afterwards offered
20 to 1 agst Mr. S. Stanley's Fire-eater, 3 yrs, Est 51b
—taken and afterwards offered
25 to 1 agst Mr. H. Stebbings's Malton, 4 yrs, 7st 71b
—taken and afterwards offered
25 to 1 agst Mr. Drinksld's Amazement, aged, 6st 911)
33 to 1 egst Mr. Charlton's Kissaway, 3 yrs, sst 6lb
33 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Lady Evelyn, 3 yrs,
7st 71b
33 to 1 agst Sir R. Pigot's Essedarius, 3 yrs, ist
33 to 1 agst Mr. Osborne's Carthagenian, 3 yrs, 4st
131 b—taken and afterwards offered
40 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Chicot, 3 yrs, sst 3lb
—taken and afterwards offered
50 to 1 agst Mr. Pedley's Old Dan Tucker, 3 yrs,
7st 21b—taken and afterwards offered
50 to 1 agst Sir J. Hawley's Bacchanalian, 4 yrs, Est
taken and afterwards offered
,000 to 10 agst Lord Brooke's Grief, 3 yrs, Est 71b—t
CAMBRIDGESHIRE STAKES.
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15 to 1 agst Mr. Nicholls's Woolwich, 3 yrs, Est 121 b
20 to 1 agst Mr. B. Green's Malton, 4 yrs, 7st 21b
22 to 1 agst Mr. Oslialdeston's Joc o' Sot, 5 yrs,
6st 10lb—taken
25 to 1 agst Sir J. Hawley's Sponge, 4 yrs, Gst 81b—t
Sir Launcelot was scratched on Tuesday last.
DERBY, 1850.
No betting.
WREXHAM RACES.—TUESDAY.

Sweepstakes of 10 sous. each, and 20 added. Mile and
a half. (7 Subs.)

Mr. Mostyn's Didsbury, Bst4lb, walked over.
Tho Wynnstay Handicap of 15 soya. each, 10 ft, and 50
added; the second to save his stakes. Two miles. (11
Subs., 1 of whom paid 5 soya.)

Mr. Grity's Maid of- Team Valley, 7st 51b (Noble) 1
Mr. Smith's Master Downes, aged, Sit ... 2

Mr. Highetes Castoff, 4 yrs,7A-61i, ... 3
The following also ran:—Lady Hylda, 5 yrs, Bst 7113;
Clara, 5 yrs, Tat 101 b; Elizeaa, 4 yrs, 6st 61b; and Selina,
3 yrs. 6st 61b. _

The Scramble Stakes of 3 sovs. each, and 20 added,
one mile (5 Subs.), were won by Mr. Wadlow's Sarah,
3 yrs, 7st 71b (Tasker), beating Maid of Team Valley,
3 yrs, 7$ 71b, and Treasure, 3 yrs, 7$ lib.
The Town Plate of 50 sovs., the second to recieve 91.
Heats, one mile and a quarter.
Mr. Fowler's Cingari, 3 yrs, 7st ... (Wells) 1 1
Mr. Barton's Didsbury, 3 yrs, ist ..• ... 0 2
Mr. ILrgreave's Oversight, 6 yrs, Ost
... 2 0
Mr. Lane's The Mev, 5 yrs, tist 915 ... 3 0
Mr. C.Alingwood's Administrator, 5 yrs, Bst 9b 0 0
Mr. Phillips's Burghley, 3 yrs, 7st 0 0
Mr. Henderson's Mrs. Walker, 5 3 rs, 8$ 9:b ... 0 0
Mr. Clegg's fby Touchston,, 41b dig.
The Cavalry Stakes of 3 soya. each, and 20 added,
one mile and a hair, were won in two heats by Mr.
Birch's Eliz.na, 4 yr:, 11A 71b (Owner), beating Mr.
W. Jarnts's f by Speculator, 4 yrs, 10st 111 b, and Mr.
Birch's b g, 4 yrs, 104 111 h.

1 NVEDNE S DA Y.
The Bryn y pys Free Handicap of 5 sow,. each, and 20
added; the second to receive 9Z One mile and At
quarter. (9 Subs )
Mr. Fiintotrs May Day, 3 yrs, 7st 41b ... (Well) 1
Mr. Collingwoon's Administrator, 5 yrs, 7st 101 b ... 2
The following also started:—Master Downes, aged,
Bst 71b—Mrs. Walker, 5 yrs, 7st 121b—Rebecca, 4 yrs,
7st glb—Rochester, aged, 7st 81b—Energy, eged, 7st
21b—Didsbury, 3 yrs, 7st—and f by Touchstone,
6it 41b.

The Gold Cup of 110 sovs., by subscribers of 10 SOTS.
each; the second to save his stake. Two miles.
Mr. Jones's Selina, 3 yrs, 6st 121 b ...(Evans) 1
Mr. Osborne's Lady Hylda, 5 yrs, Bst 81b 2
The follwing also started, but were not placed :—Mr.
Skerratt's Romance, 6 yrs, Sit 12th; Mr. Mostyn's b f
by Colwieic, out of Birdlime, 3 yrs, 6st 121 b; Mr. West
na Cast-off, 4 yrs, Bst 31b; and Mr. Worthington's
Sharston, 6 yrs, 9st.
The Selling Stakes of 5 soy. each, and 20 added; winner
to be sold by auction for 2001. &c. Heats, once round
and a distance. (5 Subs.)
Mr. Flintoff's Little Mary, 9s 111 b (Whitehouse) 1 1
Mr. Park's Lady Barryruore, 3 yrs, 7st 121 b ... 3 2
Mr. Hargreaves's Oversight, 6 yrs, Oat 111 b ... 5 3
Mr. Henderson's Mrs. Walker,s yrs, 9st 71b ... 2dr
Mr. Holdforth's Energy, aged, 9st 131 b ... 4 dr
The Hurdle Stakes of 3 sovs. each, and 20 added,
heats, once round and a dis. (3 Sabs.), were won in two
heats by Mr. H. W. Johnson's Jessie, aged, 12st, beating
Elizena, 12st 101 b, and Celt, 12st 51b.

ROYAL CALEDONIAN BUNT AND STIRLING

RACES.
The Caledonian St. Leger Stakes of 25 eons. each, and
100 added; colts, Bst 71b; and fillies, Sat 4113: winners
extra. One mile and three quarters. (13 Subs.)
Mr. Rail's Priestess ... 1

➢ir. Dawson's Jenny Lind ...
Lord Eglinton's Solon ...
Mr. Ramsay's Lady Aberdour

... 3

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Won easy.
The Gold Cup of 100 sovs., and 251. added to a Handi-
cap of 15 sovs. each, 10 ft,. &c.; the second to save his
stakes. Cup course. (17 Subs., 9 of whom paid
5 sovs. each.)
Lord Eglinton's Elthiron, 3 yrs, Est 81b 1
Hun. J. Sandilands' Arthur Briggs, 4 yrs, 6st 101 b ... 2
Mr. W. Stirling na. IVhizgig, 4 yrs, sst 121 b ... 3
Mr. Merry's Chanticleer, 6 yrs, 9st 81b 4
Even on Chanticleer, and sto 4 agst Elthiron. Won
cleverly
The Hunter's Stakes of 3 sovs. each, and 20 added,
two males (six Subs.), were won by Mr. Ryan's Tom
Tit, beating Sir John, Henry, Pleasure Trip, and
Jonathan.

The Polmont and Grangemouth Stakes of 3 sovs.
each, 1 ft, and 25 added, for three yrs old, 7st 51b; tour,
86t 21b; five, Est 71b; six and aged, Bst 10lb; mares, &c.,
allowed 31bs, once round (seven Subs.),were won in three
heats by Hon. J. Sandiland's Jenny Lind, 3 yrs, beating
Wensleydale, 3 yrs, and two others.
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The Members' Plate of 50 save: Heats. Once round

and a dis.
Mr. Wrather'a Maid of Masham, 4 yrs ..•
Mr. Smart's Aspasia, 4 yrs •••
Hon. J. Sandiland's Confederacy, 4 yrs ...

... 1 1
... 2 dr
... 3 dr

The Liverpool Autumn Meeting promises to be a
brilliant wind-up to the
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to return at a quarter before seven in
the evening. The regular visitors will find the 130 train
the most convenient.

DONATION BY THE QUEEN.—We are happy to
announce that her Majesty the Queen, before leaving
Balmora', was graciously pleased to transmit to Mr.
Wilson, editor of the North of Scotland Gazette, a dona-
tion of 201. for " the Ate:adeen Ragged link."
LAYING THE FOUNDATION STONE OF ST.
THOMAs'S CHURCH, WOOLWICH. —Yesterday haling
been appointed tor laying the foundation stone of St.
Thomas's Church, Woolwich, constituted und( r the Gth
and 7th Vic., cap. 37, comprising portions of the parishes
of Woolwich and Charlton, a great nutriiier or the in-
habitants of both parishes assembled at 3 o'clock, r.ae.,
on the ground liberally given gratuitously by Sir
Thomas Wilson, Bart., on the new road leading from the
Woodman, Chariton, to the Bull-terrace, New Charlton.
The church is to be one of the extra-parochial erected
by public sulhcription, aided by grants from her Ma-
jesty's Commissioners, the incorporated Society for
Building Churches, and by the appropriation under an
Act of Parliament of a sum of money arising from the
sale of glebe lands belonging to the church of St. Mary,
Woolwich. The ceremony of laying the stone was per-
formed by Sir Thomas Maryon Wilson, Bart., and con.
eluded by an address by Archdeacon Sinclair, and after.
wards ;he Benediction.

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FUNERAL OF THE LATE Mr. G. 11. WARO
D.CT—The
mortal remains of this gentleman were deposited in
the family vault in St. Mary's Church this morning, in
the most private manner, the corpse being taken di-
rectly from the grounds of Northwood House into the
churchyard by the family's private gate, without
being brought out into the public road. It was
attended by the heir to the estates (Mr. W. G.
Ward), and the deceased's only surviving brother
(Mr. H. B. Ward), Messrs. John and Robert Saun-
ders, the executors, and other members of the family,
the solicitor, stewards, and the domestics. Nearly all
the shops in West Cowes were partially closed the
whole day. Mr. W. G. Ward, his lady, their two chil-
dren, and her sister, are staying at Mill-hill House, the
seat of the late General Richardson, which was pro-
vided for them by the Rev. Mr. D'Acey.
GAME.—The late Mr. Ward was a very strict pre-
server of game, and had several large preserves, which
were attended and watched at so great an expense,
that he has often said every pheasant he had cost
him a guinea, and such was the destruction they
made in the crops of his tenants, that they thought
they cost them as much. Report saes that the pre-
sent Mr. Ward intends following the example set by
Mr. A'Court Holmes and others—allowing his tenants
to look after the game themselves, which will save him
all the expense of keepers and watchers, and give
universal satisfaction to the unfortunate farmers on
whose crops these vermin have so long been feeding.

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SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
TIMES.—We wish we could altogether acquit her
Majesty's Ministers of having themselves provoked
the suspicions wins which the Post-offices changes are
assailed. There has lately been a concurrence of
blunders, of a nature to annoy the religious feelings
of the country. The worst specimen of coinage that
ever came from the Mint has been rendered still more
disagreeable in the eyes of loyal subjects by the
absence of two or three letters, to express our recog-
nition of Him by whom Kings do reign. Then there
came the unfortunate lathes of appointing no general
day of humiliation and prayer at the approach of the
pestilence, now happily abated. Such inadvertencies,
as we cannot but think them, make a deep impression
on sensitive minds. There are not a few persons who
are, p;!rhaps, even more anxious to ascertain whether
we live under a religious Government than to
know their own spiritual state. We are, there-
fore, by no means surprised to find a' proposition
which encroaches considerably on the observance
and enjoyment of a Sunday stigmatized as an im-
pious innovation, "a desecration of the Sabbath," a
" commencement of Sateley business," an " opening of,
the P.,3t-ofii.:e on Sunday," " a point of the wedge,'
and a great deal mare not strictly and literally true,
but expressing, in an exaggerated manner, a very
respectable feehog. We respect the agitation against
the change just as we do the strenuous determination
of the Dutchmen at the Cape not to admit convicts,
though it was carried to the verge of rebelli en, and
was not in all respects reasonable. Should Lord
Clanricarde find himself obliged to bend to the storm,
it will be a lesson to him and his colleagues to stand
rather on their P's and Q's for the future, and to
treat the religious sentiment of the country as a real
and substantive power. In point of fact, however,
the question is one, not of principle, but of details.
The Post•office authorities and the gentlemen who
spoke yesterday at the Hall of Commerce lay equal
claim to the argument drawn from religious con-
siderations ; the former wish to protect the pro-
vincial Sabbath, the latter the metropolitan. The
most zealous stickler for the Sabbath, therefore,
must admit that there are two sides to the question.
A communication which we publish from our South-
ampton correspondent, and which refers exclusively
to the foreign mails, will show, that in our former
remarks on this subject we have not at all overstated
the inconveniences of the present practice, as far as
foreign letters are concerned. When we are told
that foreign letters which have been brought from
South America, the West Indies, or the Spanish
Peninsula with great and costly expedition, and
which have passed Cowes on Saturday morning, can-
not be delivered at Liverpool or Manchester till
Monday night, and in most other parts of the country
till Tuesday—when we are told that the homeward
and outward bound steamers have lain side by side
in Southampton harbour for forty-eight hours, with-
out the possibility of a merchant out of London an-
swering his letters by the outward mail, one is forced
to admit that something ought to be done. Certainly
this must be religion pushed to the extreme of su-
perstition. The various remedies suggested show
the greatness of the evil to be removed. To our taste,
we roust confess, the worst part of the evil is its un-
fairness. A rule ought to be equal in its operation,
especially if it i 3 a hard rule. In this instance the
merchants of the metropolis find their Hamburgh,
their West India, and South American letters on
their desks as soon as they sit down to business on
Monday morning. The merchants at Liver-
pool, on the contrary, are lucky if they get
them late on the Monday afternoon. This
throws them a whole day behindhand, and
gives the London merchant a twenty-four hours'
monopoly of information. When such is the case,
the religious part of the question becomes invested
with an unusually delicate character. A very heavy
burden is laid upon Liverpool, but London does not
touch it with its little finger. When metropolitan
piety obtains so immediate and so palpable a reward
as a whole day's start in the great race for profit,
promotion, and honour, it ought to be doubly suspici-
ous of its spirit and motives, lest haply it should be
found to have its reward. As the public are now
thoroughly aware, it is only a figure of speech to call
the haw arrangement an " opening" of the Post-office,
or a fundamental change of any sort. Sunday work
in the General Post-office is, unfortunately, no in-
novation. As we are informed, a number of clerks
and messengers varying from 26 to 57 is, and has
long been, employed at the Post•office on the Sunday,
and chiefly during the hours of Divine service. It
is proposed to add 25 to this number, but they are
not to be employed between ten A.M. and five
P.M., and it is part of the plan to do what can be
done to relieve the present staff from employment
during the same hours. Could we •be sure that
the proposed object is attainable at so small a cost
as an addition of 25 to more than that number
already emplosed ; and could we also hope '
that all the middle of the day will be
reserved to its more proper uses, we might acquiesce
in the change. It is evident, however, that these
promises must he taken on trust, and if any people
think that they hive reason fur suspecting the Post-
office authorities, they will condemn the new ar-
rangement, not for its own sake, butt because it pro-
ceeds, as they toink, from unprincipled men feeling
their way to tie ulthrlate abolition of all our religious
olervances. But, whatever suspicions of this sort
may be, entertained, the present question must still
be discussed upon its own merits ; so we will proceed
with the present Sunday arrangements of the Post-
office. The men now employed are, and always have
been, engaged in sorting letters froth Ireland and
Scotland,- and foreign letters received in London by
the Sunday morning mails, for the London de-
livery ; and in reply to the argument of the " wedge,
it is urged that this practice has never led to such
delivery having been made on the Sunday.
The letters lie sorted and ready for delivery
from Sunday morning to Monday morning, yet
neither is the Post office anxious to deliver them,
nor the public to receive them. The 'additional
letters ateiving in London on Sunday will consist
of such as are to pass through London,
English letters for London remaining, as at
present, at the country offices. Hence the small
number of sorters said to be required. The number
of such additional letters is about 50,000, instead of
200,000, the estimate lately put about; and, as it is
part of the niiiv arrangPenent that no letters shall
have the privilege of Sunday transmission unless
they are staTped, the 50,000 will be quickly
disposed of. It is evident that the plan as it
no..v s ands entirely supersedes our suggestion of
a distinctive envelope, with a higher rate of postage,
for the trans-London correspondence, seeing that
no other lett, rs will arrive on Sunday. We are
assured that it has never been intended to employ
any but voluuteers in the new service; and that, if
it were made imperative, it would rarely come to the
turn of each individual. This, again, is a point
whi. Ii we mast teke on trust, as, if the plan is once
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in pra., pubic will have very little check on
the ards!dis and violations of conscience that may
be inflicted on the crowd of subalterns; and certainly
there is some reason to apprehend that non-volunteers
will find their scruples. interfere with their promo-
tion. As to the connexion of the new arrange-
ment in the General Post-office with the relief
of country offices, we have already observed that
Sunday transmission cannot fail to diminish the
number of country letters written on Sunday, and
received on Sunday. As an extension of the plan for
closing the money-order offices on Sunday through-
out the United Kingdom, it will give relief on the
Sunday to some two thousand persons in the pro-
vincial offices ; so that, assuming the official estimate,
the proportionate saving of Sunday labour is, say, as
2,000 to 25. The present arrangement, which it is
unnecessary to say has undergone no change since its
promulgation, we are further told, stands in all its
details as it did last February. That it has been long
in contemplation is well known to the numerous suf-
ferers by the present system. When Mr. Rowland
Hill was examined before the Lords' Committee on
Postage in 1847, while he decidedly repudiated all
idea of a Sunday delivery he proved that a Sunday
transmission would involve very little additional la-
bour. f By the common admission
of nearly all parties,
the only realty•dehatable point is the natural an intrinsic
tendency of .the change to end in a London Sunday
delivery. On this point we are bound to confess our-
selves very ill at ease with the measure. Sir James
Dukelouebed its vital weakness when he observed,
that•it -would give Prerpool a priority of information
over London ; an that however he, or some other
people, might submit to that disadvantage, the majo-
rity would'not be so patient, and London would de-
mand'a Sunday delivery. If foreign letters are to be
despatched over the country by the Sunday morning
mails, and lodged in the post-offices all over the king-
dom that afternoon, it is difficult to see how they will
fail to reach the owners, who will thus be a mail in
advance of the metropolis. Should that be the case,
it is equally difficult to see where the change will
stop short of a London Sunday delivery—a con-
summation of which we feel the most unqualified
abhorrence.

CADvERVSEmENT.J—The extensive publication of
The Observer commences at four o'clock Sunday morn-
ings. Newspaper agents can have any number of copies
before five o'clock on Sunday morning in time to supply
passengers going by all the railway trains, as well as by
early steam-ves;:els. Price of The Observer, 40 folio
columns, 61. Palslkhed by Mr. Clement, junior, 170,
Strand. Monday Edition of The Observer is regularly
published at tour o'clock Monday afternoons.
POLITICAL OFFZNDERS. —On Wednesday night a
meeting was held at the South London Chartist Hall,
Blackfriurs-road, to adopt a memorial to the Queen to
grant a general amnesty to tall political offenders. Messrs.
M‘Grath, Baker, Clark, and other Chartist leaders, were
present. Mr. Miller presided, and the memorial was
adopted. The memorial, it was decided, should be en-
trusted for presentation to the Home-office, to Mr. Al-
fieri-an Homphery, and letters were read from Sir J.
Walmsley, Mr. Coh&n, and Mr. Hume, approving of
the objet: of the meeting.