The Sun.
London, England, 1849-05-24 00:00:00

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.

Mademoiselle Parodi has secured her position as the
Queen of lyrical tragedy. She appeared on Tuesday in
the character of Semiramide, rind even surpassed the
expectations of her warmest admirers. As a whole,
(and it is as a whole that the impersonations of Made-
moiselle Parodi must be judged, for she is no mere self-
seeking point-maker, but a conscientious interpreter of
the whole inspiration of her author, leaving the points
to make themselves, which they do much more effectually
than when strenuous efforts are made to bring them
out), as a whole never has the character of the majestic
yet guilty Assyrian Queen been more truthfully or more
grandly developed than it was on Tuesday by Mademoi-
selle Parodi. She was equal to Pasta in bar graneest
moments. In the earlier scenes she was indeed queen-like;
there was a calm dignity about her impersonation which
seemed to awe all those about her into respect, it
was the calm majesty of conscious power, the innate
sense of an undoubting and admitted superiority which
has no need to exert itself in order to prove its exist-
ence. Mademoiselle Parodi has reached the highest
pitch of art—she understands the secret of repose.
Never have we seen anything more majestic than her
acting during the whole of the magnificent quartett
" Di tanti regi e popoli," which was sung as perfectly
as it could be by herself, Colletti, who was the Assur,
Lablache, who was the Orue, and Bartolini, who was
the Idreno. The" Bel Raygio" was magnificently sung,
and acted beautifully. The Queen was for once sunk in
the woman, and the majestic Semiramide was again a
girl in her love for Arsace, and in her joy at the favour-
able response of the oracle. It was an oasis of human
feeling in the sterile desert of heartless state in
which she who wears a crown is condemned
to live, and move, and have her being.
She was, however, again the Queen, ay! every inch a
queen in the speech from the throne, in which she an-
nounces to her assembled subjects her choice of Arsace
as a husband. And the conclusion of this scene, the
magnificent finale " Guiri Ognuno," was, whether consi-
dered as a vocal or as a dramatic display, one of the most
magnificent, one of the most perfect ever witnessed.
Never have we beheld anything finer, anything more
classical, than the attitudes of Mademoiselle Parodi,
as she listens to the voice of the spectre; never anything
more terribly sublime than the changes of her counte-
nance in that supreme moment of terror and of horror.
Never, not even by Pasta herself, Las this terrible icene
been more sublimely embodied. Every attitude of
Parodi was a study for a sculptor, whilst the
rapid changes of her mobile features put the
painter's urt at defiance to catch them. The opening scene
of the second act, the great duet with Assur was, per-
haps, the triumph of the night. The haughty dignity
of Mademoiselle Parodi in this scene was msgniEcent
end intense, as was her expression of indignation—and
never have we seen indignation expressed with greater
intensity—it was the indignation of a Queen who felt
and knew her power, and never once forgot her state.
The stately pride and haughty dignity with which she
commanded Assur to respect in Arsace his sovereign
was sublime, and then that sudden gust of feeling with
which she exclaims," Send questa gioia," as she hears the
music announcing the approach of Arsace and his troops,
was perfectly thrilling, and went at once to the heart.
The scene with Arsace was also a magnificent display of
histronic power. Never has the expression of the most
acute mental agony been so truthfully depicted as it was
by Parodi, in which she lets the paper fall from her hands
which reveals to her the history of Arsace. She
gives but one look —one momentary glance—before
she covers her face with her hands ; but that one
glance is a glance of such unutterable anguish
as to show that in that moment is concentrated
the agony of years. In the far-famed duet which fol-
lows " Ebben a to ferisce," the conception is beautifully
carried out. She is no longer the haughty Queen, bid-
ding stern defiance to Assur, and breathing forth
thrcatenings against him ; she does not address Arsace
in a tone of defiance, but as a guilty woman, bowing to
the irresistible decrees of fate, to whom death would
be a welcome refuge from the more than mortal agony
which she suffers. Piteously she implores him as
the minister of the gods to give her that death.
This duet was deliciously sung by Parsed and Alboid
(who was of course the Arsace), and the middle move-
ment, the ar-famed'. Giorno d'orrore," was rapturously
encored. The triumph of Mademoiselle Parodi was
complete, she has made the character of Semiramide,
perhaps the most difficult in the whole range of Italian
lyrical tragedy, her own, and this is but the foretaste of
many future triumphs yet in store for her, among which,
not the least, will be ber Medea. She was called for at
the conclusion of the first act, and at the conclusion of
the opera, and also frequently during the course of the
performance. Mademoiselle Alboni was the Arsace; this
was the character iu which she first made her debilt, and
by her personation of which she at once secured her
position. Her rich mellow contralto tones were never
heard to greater per eetion than they were on Tuesday.
Her magnificent rendering of the opening aria, " In se
bareara, ' excited a perfect furore. We have frequently
heard her in the part of Arsace, and always with de-
light, but never have we heard her in such excel-
lent voice, never has she acted the part of
Arsace so excellently as on Tuesday. Coletti was
magnificent as Assur, both as regards his singing and
his acting. In the second act ho nobly seconded Parodi
by his impassioned energy; in fact this scene has never
before been so perfectly rendered in this country as it
was on Tuesday by Coletti and Parodi. Lablache, in
order to strengthen the cast, took the part of ()roe, the
High Priest, and the consequence was a representation
if us. e chef d'oeuvre of Rossini as nearly approaching
perfection
p ble, more perfect by far, as a whole,
than any r eat: e
place in this country.
-87:itatiou of it which has hitherto taken

no less
4 TRE.
ADELPHIst triumphs
olnBe4,o_f ttlhi ee grea.,
benefit
favoriteaoflt hase
ut
The house, crowded to the very ceiling, and by no means
etenoinf theatricalth :
weeEtalinsegoiniiesodhf public than Madame Celes,
stinting in its plaudits, testified the high estimation
in which the talents of that accomplished artiste is held,
and showed that a London audience still retains, to the
full, the capacity of appreciating true 1-;strionic ability.
Of Madame Celeste we might without exaggeration re-
peat some of those beautiful epithets of paneg) ric which on
Monuay evening were so happily pronounced in re-
ference to another gifted lady, the Queen of tragedy,
by Mr. Charles Dickens. The archness, the pathos,
the elcgance, the nervous and impassiuned energy of
the acting of Madame Celeste, are familiar to
ninety, nine out of every hundred who may chance
to read this paragraph in the metropolis. And these
qualities it is which have secured to Madame Celeste the
regard and admiration which were so strikingly evinced
towards her by her numerous and enthusiastic audience
of last evening. The drama in which the fair directress
made her appearance was one which has recently risen
into a very marked and deserved popularity—the eccen-
tric but witty and sparkling drama bight The Devil's
Violin, and the llevolt of the Flowers. No one who
v.itnessod the " perf,rinance" on the Devil's Violin yes-
terday could fail to ri cognise in it —one of thou. legiti-
mate Adelphi hits, of which Buekstone'. Green Bushes ,
was an example. Among the other attractions of the
entertainment, was the appearance of Mrs. Glover
in the first piece, Who's Your Friend:. or the '
Queensberry Fcte, in which Mr. Webster himself was the
Giles Fairland; also the drolleries of Going
to the Derby, in which Paul Bedford was the
John James Chuck and Wright the preposterous Jere-
miah Twiddle. Madame Celeste has every cause tor
congratulation upon her splendid reception last night at
the Adelphi.

Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-
office from the Governors of the West India Colonies.
LEEDS, CORN EXCHANGE, MAT- :22.—Our supply of wheat
this week is large ; moderate of other grain. The wheat
trade is slow to-day, and where sales are effected, rather lower
rates have to be submitted to. In beans, oats, and shelling no
alteration.

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THE WEATIIER.—SON OFFICE, MAY 24.
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BAROMETER, 30.24.
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LONDON, THURSDAY, MAY 24, 1849.

" That which ALEXANDER attemped, the British
Indian army has accomplished." Those are expres-
sions contained in the farewell addressed to his
soldiers by the Conqueror of Goojerat ; and they
have reference to an achievement, the importance
and magnitude of which can only be rightly esti-
mated by posterity. That achievement is the formal
annexation of tha Punjaub to the British dominions
in Ilindostan—an event announced in a proclama-
tion, dated the 29th of March, 1849, and issued by
order of his Excellency, the Earl of DALHOUSIE. By
this extraordinary proceeding, our empire has been
enhanced by the acquisition of a territory larger in
dimensions than the whole of the islands
of Great Britain put together the Punjaub
extending over au area of 100,000 square miles,
watered by the Indus and its trit!utaries, containing
a population of three millions and a half, and yielding,
even under its recent mismanagement, an annual
revenue of one million sterling. The quietude, com-
paratively speaking, with which this final decision
has been arrived at, and the positive apathy with
which the intelligence is received in England, are of
o:teasel's/El sufficiently indicative of the vastnesa of

that great empire which has diffused the domination
of the Anglo-Saxon ra,e throughout the various
climates of the globe, and into all the
habitable recesses of both hemispheres. When
a little more than seventy years ago DUPLEIX was
forming to himself the project of increasing the glory
of the Bourbons by the spoliation of the Asiatics, it
was scarcely conjectured that before another century
should have elapsed, the vast and populous peninsula of
the East—a country abounding in all the riches and
adorned with all the magnificence peculiar to the
Orientals—would become the property, the sole and
undisputed property of England. Yet such, as history
has already narrated, has actually been the case--
such has actually been the consequence of
the conspiracy at Pondicherry. Our dominion in that
quarter of the earth stretches northwards as far 93
the range of the Caucasus, and southwards to the
extremity of Cape Comorin ; it reaches even across
Palk's Strait and the Gulf of Manaar to the noble
bland of the Cingalese ; it spreads eastwards
to the Himalayas, and westwards to Beloochistan;
it is diffused through the whole of the provinces
traversed by the waters of the Indus and the
Ganges ; it comprises the treasures in specie
and jewels, in precious stones and precious
metals, accumulated by a succession of despotic
rulers, as well as fruitful regions prolific in rice
and all the other varieties of Asiatic vegetation.
In the acquisition of this remarkable territory, the
fame of England has no doubt been sullied by some
crimes, and before the re-organization of her Indian
Government by CLIVE, by many atrocious cruelties.
Nevertheless, it will be acknowledged by all
future ages that the evils entailed upon the
Asiatic multitudes by the subjugation of Hindostan
by England have been immeasurably more than
counterbalanced by the blessings conferred upon them
by British law and European civilization. And
among all the successive conquests and annexations
which have marked the progress of our arms in the
East, not one can be mentioned more perfectly justi-
fiable, more obviously necessary, or more strictly
honourable in every particular than the conquest of
the Seikhs and the annexation of the Punjaub.
It must be borne in recollection, that in reducing
the Hindostanees to obedience we hare acted
very differently than in bringing the Redskins
into a state of vassalage. Tho Iroquois and the
other tribes of that noble race, the abo-
rigines of America, were—it can never be
forgotten so long as the name of GEORGE CATLIN is
preserved in remembrance, so long as a charm cow
tinues to be attached to La Longue Carabine, so long
as a heart can throb or an eye can weep over the
melodious and pathetic verse of " Gertrude of
Wyoming"—unpolluted by vice and gifted with all
those moral and physical attributes which are
the most calculated to ennoble man when in a condi-
tion of natural vigour and primitive simplicity. In
dealing with the inhabitants of the Eastern peninsula
we were, on the contrary, dealing with a race ener-
vated to a state of unexampled degeneracy—a race
habituated, generation after generation, to all the
villanies of chicanery, cruelty, and despotism. Any
change likely to introduce amongst them the practice
of honesty and the principles of justice could not fail
to be beneficial; and especially was this probable if
with those general practices and abstract
principles were introduced also the benign
and humanizing dogmas of Christianity, and the
elevating enlightenment of Civilization. Again, and
more particularly, in regard to the conquest of the
Seikhs and the annexation of the Punjaub—that con-
quest, that annexation are the result not of any
treachery, not of any selfish lust of spoliation,
but of a glaring and unavoidable necessity. When the
Jannissary bands of Lahore, mustering under the
banners of their Chieftains, made an unprovoked in-
cursion upon the territories of British India by cross-
ing the current of the Sutlej—upon them, and upon
them alone, rested the responsibility of the possible,
nay, we should rather say, the inevitable consequences
of that expedition. They it was who threw down
the gauge of war. They it was who forced upon the
comprehension of our Government the conviction
that there remained no security for our
possessions so long as the Sutlej con-
tinued to be our northern boundary. For
a time the necessary result of this flagrant
act of defiance on the part of the Seikhs was post•
poned. For a time the dangerous necessity of still
further annexation was delayed—dangerous we say,
because of the already gigantic dimensions Of
our dominions. A second act of perfidy and
defiance--coupled this time with two most
dastardly and execrable murders—reduced the
Supreme Council at Calcutta to the acknowledgment
that our policy was confronted to this decisive alter-
native—either to annex the Punjaub to our dominions
after beating down the insolence of its trea-
cherous and rebellious warriors, or to con-
tinue matters in their present state with the
certainty of the periodical recurrence of these murders
and insurrections. Acting upon the only possible
determination that could be come to, Lord DAL'
HOLISM has caused the little Maharaja DHULEEP
SINGS to sign away his crown. His Excellency has
driven back the boundary line to the Caucasian Moun-
tains, he has annexed for ever to British India the
famous country of the Five Rivers. This he has been
enabled to accomplish thus rapidly by the triumphs
of our brave soldiers over the two most warlike and
redoubtable races of the East, and by the heroism Of
the veteran Commander-in-Chief, his Excellency the
Lord GouGH. So decisive was the brilliant victory
gained by that eminent soldier at Goojerat, that the
march of Sir WALTER GILBERT after the fugitives
--a march which will be long remembered in the
records of our Indian warfare for its admirable pre-
cision and its astonishing rapidity—was made
without crossing swords with the enemy. DOST
MA HOlll ED has fled through the Kyber Pass into
Affghanistan. The MOOLRAJ is to be tried and
subjected to a fitting punishment. CIMT7 tag
SINGH and SHERE Saxon are, as is generally be-
lieved, to be imprisoned for life. The boy MAUL
RAJA, is to receive a pension of four lacs per annum,
with a suitable residence ; and, as among the
most striking trophies of our recent successes,
the celebrated diamond, one of the largest,
if not the largest diamond in the world,
known among lapidaries as the Koh-i-noor,
or Mountain of Light, is to be presented to her
most gracious MAJESTY, and will henceforth shed
its cloudy radiance from the diadem of Queen
VICTORIA.

One thing can assure to the British Government
that the acquisition of the Punjaub is an advantage
and not a curse, and a cause of involvement : and that
thing is the laying down of trunk railways through-
out Ilindostan. We look for this as a consumma-
tion of the great deeds already achieved by the sword
of GOUGH and the counsels of DALHOUSIE.

We have repeatedly directed the public attention
to the Attachments Bill, introduced by the Honour-
able Member for the city of Dublin. We had hoped
that this measure, so important not only to the mer-
' cantile and trading interests of Ireland, but to the
English merchants and manufacturers, who sell their
goods on credit to Irish dealers, would long since
have passed the Home of Commons. It was received
with general approbation ; none denied the gross
abuses to which it gave rise, none could de-
fend the existing system, which led to results
such as those so clearly and ably exposed
by Mr. REYNOLDS. It was shown that it
6,:-casioned the greatest frauds, enabled malignant
scounflrels to indulge their vindictive feelings in the
most oppressive manner, frequently inflicting irrepa-
rable injury on perfectly solvent parties ; that it Ives
freely resorted to by persons with doubtful or dis-
puted claims, to enforce a nttle:nent of their unjust
demands, of demands sustained by the most open and
unblushing perjury, and that in many cases it 'was
adopted as a means of sweeping off the entire
property of an insolvent trader, and depriv-
ing the fair creditors of the reasonable dividends
which might otherwise have been obtained. No voice
was raised in defence of those iniquitous proceedings,
no person, could be found to advance a single arr
ment in support of these flagrant abuses ; yet a trifling
obstacle has hitherto retarded the progress of the just
and equitable measure now under the consideration
of Parliament—an obstacle utterly insignificant in
comparison with the great advantages to be derived
from a judicious alteration of the law, and the total
abolition of proceedings by attachment.
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numerous constituents, so justly complains. Attach-
ments are of a twofold character—first, the ordinary
attachment of goods and chattels, the property of the
alleged debtor ; secondly, what is termed the foreign
attachment, where proceedings are taken to seize
upon the goods, moneys, or credits of the debtor in the
hands of a third party, who is brought into Court on
the allegation that he has property in his bands be
longing to, or is himself indebted to the real de-
fendant, which claim it is sought to transfer to the
claimant.
In the first instance an affidavit is sworn, either by
the plaintiff himself or some person on his behalf, be-
fore the Lord Mayor or Recorder, stating that the cause
or causes of action, and that the debt was within the
jurisdiction of the Court, or (where the amount
claimed is under 201.) that one of the defendants
resides within the jurisdiction, and that there is
reason to fear that the claim is in danger
of being lost unless an attachment be granted against
the goods. of the defendant. It will be noticed that
e'en the poor security afforded by the plaintiff being
required to swear personally to the validity of his
claim is wanting. The affidavit of any person who
Professes to be personally acquainted with the cir-
cumstances of the case, and to speak to the facts of
his own knowledge, is sufficient ; the process there-
nPon issues, and the stock in trade or goods of
the defendant are forthwith seized by the Marshal
of the Court, without any notice whatever,
and without his being allowed an opportunity
of averting an act so injurious to his character and
credit—perhaps occasioning his utter ruin. If bail '
be not given within twenty-four hours in double the
amount of the alleged debt, the goods are removed
from the premises where they were taken to the
elarshal's stores, who is entitled to certain fees for
storeage, &c. The bail to be given is not analogous
to that required when arrest on mesne process was
sanctioned. It is not merely for the appearance of
the defendant, and for his being forthcoming to
abide the judgment of the Court, which might
PerhaPs easily be obtained, but it provides
for the full payment by the sureties of such sums as
day be decreed to the plaintiff, including the costs of
!he suit. It may easily be conceived how difficult it
" for the small trader (and such persons are gene-
rally the victims of these oppressive and harassing
Proceedings) to procure two persons resident within
the borough, able and willing to become securiy for
,UI,! full satisfaction of the debt, within so short aft me.
'lle mere fact of the seizure: induces former
friends to. stand aloof, and if anything should be due
to themselves to adopt immediate proceedings to
°1:41" payment thereof. A removal, there-
.cre) generally takes place. A public exposure
ia
the inevitable consequence. The credit of the un-
fortunate sufferer is wholly blasted, he can no longer
carry on business as he had previously been accus-
oruted) and his prospects in life are irretrievably
80—"naed• by the undue facilities afforded to some per-
this enemy or rival in trade who may chose to put
cPPressive law into operation. Theo goods so
removed—Perhaps of a fragile description—are also
materially
deteriorated in value. If, as we are told,
three removals are as bad as one fire, it may readily be
conceived what damage will be inflicted by the
careless bands of the Marshal's bailiffs and
a4istants in bringing the goods to the stores and re-
turning them, if the defendant should be so
te rtlinate as to procure the necessary bail.
If`
hail be ,not given within twenty-four days
after seizure, the goods are sold by the Marshal's
auctioneer,. and the proceeds, after deducting fees of
41' in the pound upon any sum under 1001., and 6d.
In the pound on all above that amount, the cost of
atnreage, removal, advertisements, and a variety of
other demands, are lodged in court to abide the event
of the suit.

ranged. He proposed that certain fees should be
levied in the proceedings, that might Fe substi uted
for the old attachment, out of which not only the
5001. a year to these parties, but even the 1,5001. a
year to the Recorder (now payable by Government),
might be provided for. We have not yet heard whether
this straightforward and reasonable proposition will
be acceded to by the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
It ought to be so at least, and if the anticipations of
the Honourable Member for Dublin, as to the pro-
bable amount of the fund be, realised, all parties will
be satisfied, and the removal of the Recorder's salary
from the national Exchequer will convince the Minister
of Finance that, in public as well as in private mat-
ters, " Honesty will ever be the best policy."

deputation came and announced the surrender of the
town, and a capitulation was forthwith agreed on, and
in accordance with its conditions the Austrians took
possession of the gates of Castiglione, S. Felice, and
Galliera, the barricades were removed, and the guns
deposited in the Apostolic Palace, and a disarmament
of the Bolognese effected. General RADETZKY im-
mediately sent the keys of the city to the PorE, at
Gaeta.

The Austrians were defeated by the Venetians at
Malghera on the 7th. The Venetians made a sortie,
and drove the Austrians back to the entrenchments at
the same time destroying a considerable portion of
their works. The Austrians lost 300 men in this
affair.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
• The Cotton Market at Liverpool ye,terday was quiet, and
prices remained much the same as on Friday last. The sales
were estimated at from 4,000 to 5,000 bales, 500 of which
were for export.— Railway Shares were quite inactive, and
very little business was transacted.
The six weeks' average price of grain is returned at 455.
3d. per quarter.
The Continental advices have again been the general
theme of comment, and are unfavourably construed.
Indeed the impression becomes almost daily stronger.
that some strong coup d'etat will be attempted in France
with the view of crushing the war party, or other-
wise, that a mischievous quarrel will arise. All seems
chaotic at present, and the sensitiveness of the Money Market
at Paris is likely to endure until some settlement of pending
difficulties can be reasonably foretold. The French Funds
lust yesterday part of their previously improved tone, but
rallied a little after the Bourse, according to what is
stated in private letters that have been shown to us.
In the Amsterdam Bourse on Tuesday there was great
excitement, owing to the news from Paris, and large
sales of French rentes being pressed ; the Three per
Cents. declined 46i, nor did they rally subsequently. Dutch
Stock suffered likewise, being 47 for the Two-and-a-Half per
Cents. Spanish were most depressed among the foreign
investments.
It is stated in the continental papers that England, France,
and Russia have acquiesced in the plan of a federal govern-
vernment for Germany, because such does not violate any
existing treaties.
The advices by the overland mail report very favourably
upon the markets in our Eastern possessions, and in most
articles of British manufacture a fair business was doing at
Calcutta, Bombay, and Madras.
The China market report is not altogether satisfactory.
There had been a moderate business done a short time pre-
viously, but a suspension of dealings occurred, owing to the
uncertainty about the opening of the gates.
The Committee of Spanish American bondholders have re-
ceived another communication from Messrs. Manning and
Mackintosh, in which the great probability of a further
appropriation by Congress of the United States indem-
nity money towards the payment of a dividend
is reiterated, with a hope that the Mexican Government
will make certain concessions in respect to the cotton
licenses that will render them more saleable. It is like-
wise intimated that we may soon expect a further remittance
from the tobacco duties.
At the meeting of Icnian Bank shareholders held to-day
a dividend at the rate of 6 per cent, per annum was declared,
with an addition to the reserve fund.
The English Stock Market opened firmly upon the in-
telligence from India of the entire subjugation of the Pun-
jaub ; but the Continental news by the second delivery
has since had an effect. Consols have been 91
14, and are now 91 to 1/s. The New Three-and-a-Quarter
per Cents. realised 90' to 3/4. Bank Stock is worth 193%
to 195. Exchequer-bills have been 475., and India Bonds
68s. to 71s. premium.
In the Foreign Market there is not much doing Spanish
Five per Cents. are 16 to 1%, and the Three per Cents. 344
to % ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents, have been 481/s.
Mexican are steady at 3058 3/4, and Equador are 31,6.
The Share Market is dull, and prices rule heavier for Cale-
donian, South-Eastern, and Brighton. The French lines are
cheaper again.

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Brazilian Bonds
Danish Bonds, 1825, 3 per Cent —
Ditto, 5 per cent. Scrip, 1849 — 6 p
Equador Bonds
Grenada Bonds, 1 per Cent — 16
Lexicon. 5 per Cent. 1846, with Coupons 304,4 39 IA
Ditto, Ex Coupons
Ditto, Account ............
Portuguese 5 per Cents. —
Ditto, 4,per Cent — . 27
Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840. . 161,,i 1614
Ditto, Account . l6 161% 16,4
Ditto, Passive
Ditto, 3 per Cent ... 32%1A
. . . 32

The proceedings under a foreign attachment are of
a very circuitous and expensive character. Want of
3131t0e unfortunately prevents us from detailing the vex-
atious course adopted—a course equally injurious and
oppressive to the alleged debtor and to the garnishee,
i. e., the third party who is asserted to have property
in his hands belonging to the real defendant, or to be
indebted to him in any amount. In many instances
the process is resorted to by a party in collusion with
the debtor to coerce payment Of a fictitious claim
against the garnishee, which it may be supposed he
will rather settle than undergo the annoyance, ex-
Posure, and expence of a trial in the Borough Court,
a tribunal not very celebrated for the soundness or
legality of its decisions.

oividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch 24 per Cent., 12 Guild.... 48%. 48%
Ditto. 4 per Cent. Certificates 74%
I'IIICES OF PAID. BUSINESS DONE CLOSINu
:s.kILWAY SUARES. AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Birmingham and Ox-
ford Junct., calls duly
paid, or with a guaran. 20
Nuekinghamahire ... 161. 4s.
Caledonian
Do. New 101. Prof-- 10 ..., ll I/04 xin ... 11.!‘xin
:pester and Holyhead... 50
Dublin and Belfast June. 37th ...... 514
Eaaern Counties........ 20 ..... . 8 %;i .1/1, . . • B%
Do. New Guaranteed

This then is the system which Mr. REYNOLDS,
with the full consent and approbation, indeed at the
express desire, of the commercial community, wishes
to abolish. Every resident in the Irish metropolis,
or in any of the various boroughs throughout the
country subjected to a similar jurisdiction, is mate-
rially interested in the speedy abatement of so in-
tolerable a nuisance. The English manufacturers
toe so equally. The goods which they sell upon credit
a person believed to be respectable and solvent
Y be swept away the very day of their arrival
"Y a collusive juggle between the purchaser
41u1 some friend, or relative, who can obtain a third
,Person to swear an affidavit of debt, which can easily
be effected, when there is an absolute certaint that
Judgment y
will be suffered by default, or at least that
no effectual resistance will be offered to the recovery
of the fictitious demand. Why then should any diffi-
ulty suffered to prevail? Why should these ad •
Milted evils be tolerated for a single moment ?
There ark
it
appears, three functionaries who
realise considerable profits from these transactions.
The Marshal and his two bailiffs have, it
Period, held their offices for a considerable
,Triod, and they claim compensation for the losses
"34' will undoubtedly sustain if the process of at-
tsehment be altogether abolished. . However oppres-
sive the practice, or objectionable the proceedings,
they are not in fault ; they were public officers
appointed to execute what (however faulty) was most
Unquestionably the law of the land; and their
offices being invariably held for life, or during good
behaviour, they had reasonable grounds to suppose
fat no change would be made that would
involve them in comparative poverty
M and
destitution without some
provision being
Made for their losses. The amount involved does
pot, we believe, exceed some 5001. or 6001. a year at
the outside; but by whom should these annuities be
payable ? The Chancellor of the Exchequer objects
to any alteration that may possibly occasion a charge
upon the Consolidated Fund. He acknowledges the
imp ortance of the measure, the vast benefits to be
derfived from its adoption to her MAJESTY'S subjects
generally, to those tax-payers by whom the national
Xzebequer is replenished ; but he refuses compensation
because the parties claiming it are the servants of the
Dublin Corporation, and he declares that most of it
811".1c1 (if not all) bepaid from the municipal funds. The
wryoration, on the contrary, declare that their funds
t-
not be in any degree benefited by the alteration ;
,sat It is the public generally who will reap the ad-
Th e , and who should consequently pay for it.
3, also declare that the claimants were not ap-
jtuillted by them; that they were legacies (dconnoe
cern,..e,ditates) bequeathed by their predecessors of the
--,=ornied Corporation, and they positively and dis •
tounctly, and
as we think very correctly, refuse
saddled
the beb
with any new liability. Owing to
tions°t,stnaeY of Sir CHARLES WooD, the abomitia-
- *lf
le We have above referred are to be per-
petuated, or •
on three grievous injustice is to be perpetrated
'us who are to be stripped of their
litnations (-witho
hundredsut any equivalent lest some few
purse Per annum, might be charged on the public
for th
lives. e few remaining days of these old men's
as sir NOW we are as anxious for every just economy
stren RARtas WOOD himself. We would as
the AI Y object to the perpetration of a job as any of
in lniaters ; but England is not yet so bankrupt
u
van
oiat„ rees, that a gross injustice should be
perpe-
A ,
to save a few paltry hundreds per annum.
bauirpensation should be given to the Marshal and
fro2-_,
_and the Consolidated Fund is the only source
which that compensation is properly payable.
o .
11,t e
tinY difficulties, such economical scruples, would
.°_ be interposed if the claimants were some titled
eurists or hereditary pensioners with Parliamen-
tary influence to sustain their demands for annual
aaanda; but unfortunately, in the present instance,
theyrely are men without rank or influence, who can only
th:sup" the justice and equity of their cases, and
tnallness of the amounts required, and of course
they are to be treated with supercilious contumely.
Mr. REYNOLDS, himself,
Which suggested a mode by
the matte...
4 might be equitably and fairly az-

6 per Cent..
Ditto, Extension, 5 per
Cent., No. 1 6/.135. 4d...
Ditto. 5 per Cent.... 50 ...... .........
E vst Lincolnshire ...... 25
ltdinburgh and Glasgow 50 ...... 42 42
Treat Northern
Great Western 100 ...,,..7 78 _. .. 7B3e
Hall and Selby .. 5O ...... 96%. 96%
Ditto, Half Shares 25 ...... 471/4 49
Lancashire & Yorkshire 93
Ditto, ditto
Do. Fifths... ...... ...... 10
Do. Sixteenths 614 4,4 4l/4
Do. Thirds ..
Do. New, Gua. 6 uer ct. 10
Leeds and Bradford
London, Brighton, and
South Coast 5O ..... 36141,i... . ...... 35%
Ditto, New 51., guar
6 per cent.
London and Greenwich 12/15s 4d... 93/
Loudon and N. Western 100 1271/.2.. 126:,'1
Ditto, New Quarters.. 7
Ditto,Fifths ..... .. .. 2 ...... 71i...
Lond. &S. NV, stern 5O ......
Do., New Scrip, 1848,
Pref. 7 per Cent. on
Deposit, and 5 per
Cent. on Calls
ManalleAter.liaaton,and

't i atlock •..
Midland ... .•
Du.Consol. Bristol and
Birming., 6 per ct. -.100 ......124 .... ..•.. 123%
Nlrth Brit3sll .. .... ... 25 ..... ... ..... . .....
Ditto, Halves ..
Sorth Staffordshire l7;t l2l/2%
2142%
Scottish Central
bouth hasttra .. 33'/ 20% 201,1,.
Do., N 0.2.
Do., Registered No. 4 10 ...... 6%
Do., Scrip No 4
Y irk, Newcastle, and
Berwick. ... ..
Do. Newcastle Exten. 20 ......1—
D,. G.N.b.Preterence 8 ... - •• • .....
York and North Midland 50 ..... 30 294 ...... •••••• 301/4
Ditto, Preference
L'o.East and Westßid-
ing Extension
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
- -

Boulogne and Amiens... 20
Central of France (Or-
yierzon )
Great Indian Peninsular 5
Northern of France
Paris and Rouen .. 2O ..... 19 ........
Paris and Strasbourg ... 10
Rouen and Havre
fours and Nantes ..... ... 11 ......

MINES.
Australian 3 64 6. 6
Barrossa Range

LLOYD'S SHIPPING—(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, MAY 24.—Wind at noon W.N.W., moderate
breeze, and fine clear weather.

BELFAST, MAY 22.—The Zephyr, Liverpool for
Memel, went on shore on the 17th inst. near the North
and South Light, but got off and put into Donaghadee
for examination, making water, and arrived here this
morning to discharge and repair.
SUNDERLAND, MAY 22.—Sid. Sir Charles Napier,
Cuba.

HARTLEPOOL, MAY 23.—Wind N.W.—Sld. Edward
Thorne, Coquimbo.
SHIELDS, MAY 23.—Wind W.S.W.—SId. Lydia,
Quebec.

DEAL, MAY 23.—Wind W.S.W. to N.E.—Arrd. Ann
Eliza, Cook, Porto Rico; John Baring barque, Jamaica.
Arrd. from the River, 22d, Iron Queen. Arrd. from
the River and sailed, Alice, Palmer, Jamaica; Mar-
quis of Hastings, Sabestoo, River St. Lawrence. bld.
23d, Euphrates, St. Helena; Blanche, Jamaica.
DOVOR, MAY 23.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrd. Nagade,
Arft, Havannah for Haraburgh; Harmonic, Hilners,
Cardiff tor Bremen, in consequence of the blockade.
LIVERPOOL, MAY 23.—Wiud W.N.W.—Arrd. 22d,
Chieftain, Edwards, Calcutta; klumayson, Findlay,
Bombay; Mary Woods, Bartlett, Callao; Una, Cauzer,
New Orleans.
,lber, Murray, Buenos Ayres;
Bombay, Moore, Demerara; John Tamworth, Young,
St. Domingo; Douglas, Herbert, New Orleans; De-
b:A.3.h, Norman, ditto; Atlas, Homan, New York; Va-
liant, Thompson, St. John's, New Brunswick. Sld. 22d,
Courner, Port Philip; Sporting Lass, Vir.inia; Salacia, New York; Susan Ann, Newfoundland. 'Off port, 23d,
IndPperidence, New Orleans.
RonisAir, ISLE OF BUTE, MAY 22.—The Ann smack,
Henderson, was wrecked at I3ogney Point, 20th inst.,
crew saved.
PENTLAND FRITH, MAY 20.—A small sloop, sup-
post d to be abandoned, or unmanageable, was seen
drifting this day through the Penttand Frith to the
westward.

DAY.)
MANREKvirEGTATNEEAWNDS—LEarIIizriusaza..
These markets were again heavy to-day, at barely the
late decline in the quotations. Beef, from 2s 4d to
3i 2d; Mutton, 2s 8d to 3s Id; Limb, 4s 8d to 5s 8d;
Veal, 3s to 4s; and Pork, 3s to 4s per Blbs.
MEAT MARKETS.
Sountaz, MAX 23.—Qur market today ivaa hoary

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 24, 1849.

The Derby Stakes of 50 sovs. each, h ft, for three yrs
old; colts, Bat 71b; fillies, Set 21b; the second horse to
receive 100 soya. out of the stakes, and the winner to
pay 100 sovs. towards the police regulations. Mile
and a half. (237 subs.)
Lord Eglil.ton's Flying Dutchman (Marlow) 1
Mr. Godwin's Hotspur (Whitehouse) 2
Colonel Peel's Tadin,r (Nat) 3
Lord Clifden's Honeycomb (Robinson) 4
Lord Egliuton's Elthiron (Prince) 0
Mr. A. Nichol's Nunnykirk (Marson) 0
Mr. Bowes's The Knout (F. Butler) 0
Sir C. Monk's Vanguard (J. Holmes) 0
Mr. H. Hill's Henry of Exeter (W.Boyce) 0
Lord Stanley's Uriel (Bumby) 0
Duke of Rutland's c out of Flambeau's dam...(Pearl) 0
Mr. Pedley's Old Dan Tucker (Templeman) 0
Mr. Watt's Chatterer (A. Day) 0
Sir J. Hawley's Vatican (Rogers) 0
Sir C. Cockrell's Thib sic (H. Darling) 0
Mr. Gratwick's Landgrave (Kitchener) 0
Mr. Disney's Montague (W. Abdele) 0
Sir G. Heathcote's Companion (R. Sherwood) 0
Mr. Farrance's The Old Fox (Hornsby, jun.) 0
Mr. Nicholl's Woolwich (W. Oates) 0
Mr. B. Green's Westow (Winteringham) 0
Lord Exeter's Glenalvon (Bartholomew) 0
Mr. Burgess's The Crowner (out of Sou-
venance) (J. Sharp) 0
Mr. Campbell's Robert de Brus (H. Bell) 0
Lord Bateman's Goodwood (Sly) 0
Mr. Jaques's Chantrey (G. Simpson) o
Betting-2 to 1 agst Tadmor--2 to 1 agst Flying
Dutchman-6 to 1 agst Nunn,, kirk —lO to 1 agst Chat-
terer-20 to 1 agst Vatican-25 to 1 agst Honeycomb-
-25 to 1 sgst Elthiron-30 to 1 agst The Knout-30 to 1
agst Uriel-40 to 1 agst Old Dan Tucker-40 to t agst
R, 'ben de Brus-50 to 1 agst Hotspur-50 to 1 agst
Montague. Lord Eglinton declared to win with the
Flying Dutchman.
Westow went in front immediately after starting, and
made play at a moderate pace, followed by Chantrey,
Tadmor, Vatican, Elthiron, Uriel, Henry of Exeter, and
Nunnykirk, the Dutchman and Old Dan Tucker lying
close up. This order was maintained for rather more than
a quarter of a mile; Westow then dropped into the ruck,
and Vatican assumed the command, Uriel, Elthiron,
Hotspur, Tadmor, and Nunnykirk lying with him, im-
mediately in their wake coming Old Dan Tucker, the
Duke of Rutland's colt, and the Flying Dutchman. On
reaching the turn the front rank was thinned by the de-
feat of Elthiron and Nunnykirk, the leading horses from
this point to the corner being Vatican, Uriel, Hotspur,
and the two favourites. Vatican and Uriel were beaten
before they got to the road, and the race was left to the
Flying Dutchman, Hotspur, and Tadmor, the former
being first, the half-bred horse at his side, and Tadmor
third. Colonel Peel's horse was in difficulty half way
up the distance, but Hotspur made a gallant fight of it,
and was so nearly level with his opponent opposite the
Stand that the issue appeared very doubtful; the Dutch-
man, however, ran the stoutest, and won by half a length.
Tadmor struggled on to the end, and was not beaten
more than a length from the winner. Honeycomb laid
off in the early part of the race, but passed his horses one
by one in the straight running, and obtained a bad fourth
place. Uriel was fifth, and the Duke of Rutland's colt
sixth. Chatterer never showed in front. The race was
run in three minutes; twelve seconds slower than last
year.
The Carew Stakes of 5 soya. each, with 30 added; three
yrs old, 7st 101 b; four, Bst 11lb; five, 9st 21b; six and
aged, 9st 61b. Mares and geldings allowed 31b. The
winner to be sold for 150 sovs., if demanded, &c.
Three-quarters of a mile.
Mr. C. Hornsby's Bokhara, aged... (Hornsby, jun.) 1
Colonel Peel's Taffrail, 4 yrs
Mr. Drinkald's Resolution, 5 yrs ... 0
Mr. Waller's Pottinger, 5 yrs
Mr. Formby's br m out of Guzman's dam, 4 yrs ... 0
Mr. Carew's Philosopher, 5 yrs ...
Mr. Dawson's St. Oswald, 5 yrs ...
Mr. Bull's Mogador, 5 yrs ...
Mr. Death's Pleheia, 3 yrs ..• •• •••
Mr. S. L. Fox's Faith, 4 yrs ...
Betting-7 to 4 agst Philosopher and Taffrail, sto 1
agst Resolution, and 7 to 1 agst Bokhara. Bokhara
made all the running, and, after a severe race, at the
finish won by a head, Pottinger a good third. Run in
1 min. 22 sec.
The Burgh Stakes of 5 sovs. each, with 30 added; three
year olds, Bst 21b; four, Bst 111 b; five, 9st; six and
aged, 9st 41b. Mares and geldings allowed 31b. The
winner to be sold for 80 soya., if demanded, &c. Heats,
half a mile.
Mr. Burgess's Hind of the Forest, 4 yrs (J. Sharp) 1 1
Mr. J. Day's Colocynthus, 4 yrs ...(Wakefield) 7 2
Capt. Richard's Landrail, 4 yrs ... (Sly) 2 3
Sir C. Cockerell's Kennett, 3 yrs . (Brooks) 6 4
Mr. Price's Gabbier, 5 yrs... ... (W. Oates) 5 5
Mr. Greville's Paquita. 3 yrs... ...(Dockeray) .3 dr
Mr. Drinkald's Grief, 3 yrs ... ... (Rodney) 4dr
First heat-2 to 1 each agst Grief and Landrail; won
by half a length, Paquita a bad third. Second heat-
7to 4 agst the Hind; won by two lengths. The winner
was claimed.

for each kind of fat stock, and prices receded quite 2d
per 81bs. Bet f, from 3s to 3.: 101 ; Mutton, 3s to 4s;
Lamb, 4s 8d to 5s 8d; Veal, 3s 4d to 3s 103; and Pork,
3s 2d to 4s per Blbs, to sink the offal.
ROMFORD, MAY 23.—We had a very slow trade this
morning, and the quo ations were not supported. Beef,
from 2s 8d to 3s 8d; Mutton, 3s to 4s; Lamb, 4s 8d to
5s 8d; Veal, 3s 2d to 3s 10d; and Pork, 3s 4d to 3s 10d
per 81bs. Suckling Calves, 18$ to 255; quarter old store
Pigs, lfis to 20s; and 112ilch Cows, with their small
Calf, 131 to 171 each.

HAILSHAM, MAY 23.—Very little business was trans-
acted in to day's market on the following terms:—Beef
from 3s 2d to 3s 10d ; Mutton, 3s 4d to 4s; Lamb, 6%
to 6s; Veal, 3s 4d to 3s 8d; and Pork, 3s 4d to 38 8d
per 81bs.

ARUNDEL, MAY 22.—W0 had a very slow trade this
morning. In prices we have nu material .change to
report:---Beef, from 3s to 3s 10d; Mutton, 3s 4d to 4s;
Lamb, 5s 2d to 6i; Veal, 3s 41 to 3s 101 per Sibs.
CHICHESTER, MAY 23.—The general demand was
heavy, at hardy late rates. Beet, from 35 to 3s 8d;
Mutton, 3s 21 to 4s; Lamb, 53 to 6s; Veal, 3s 4d to
3s 10d; and Pork, 3s 4d to 3s 8d per 81bs. Suckling
Calves, 20s to 25i; quarter-old Store Pigs, 18s to 21s;
and Mulch Cows, 131 to 17/ each.

HAT MARKETS.
SMITFIFIELD.—Meadow flay, 21 las to 4/ ; Clover
ditto, 3/ Os to 51 Os ; and Straw, 1/ 6s to 1/ 10; per
lead. Both Hay and Straw moved off slowly, at barely
stationary prices.

CCIMBIMLAND. Meadow Hay, 21 12s to 41 Os ;
Clover ditto, 3/ 5s to 4/ 16s ; and Straw, 1/ 6s
.to
1/ lOs per load. A fair averne supply, and a sluggtkh
demand.
WinTEcHArEL.—Meadow Hay, 2/ lOs to 41 Os ;
Clover ditto, 31 5s to 51 Os; and Straw, 1153 to 1/ 105
per load. Supply tolerably good, and trade dull.

CORN AVERAGES.
GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN
For the Week ended May 17. 1849, made up from the Returns of the
Inspectors in the different Cities and Towns in Eagland and Wales
per Imperial Quarter.
. I . R. I BEANS. PEAS.
PRICE .. I 44sWIIEAT
9d I 28sBAILLIT. I
Od I7sOATS I
Sd 25sY E
81 I 30s 7d 293 lld
DUTIES ON FOREIGN CORN.
WHEAT. BAILEY. I OATS. I BEL BEANS. I PEAS.
Is Od is Od is Od Is Od lls Od is Od

CHANCERY.—(TFIIS DAY.)
Continued indisposition prevented the Lord Chancellor
sitting in his court at Westminster to-day.

ROLLS' COURT.-(THIS DAY.)
His Lordship the Master of the Rolls heard petitions
(:...clay, none of which presented any feature of interest.

THIS DAY.)
E
VICEef-CHANCERY.—(THIS
Of ENGLAND.)(
His Honour proceeded with the hearing of motions to-
day, but no case calling for a special report came before
the Court during the morning.

(Before theNice-Chaneellor KNIGHT BRUCE.)
The case of Longhorn v. Smith, which came before his
Honour upon further directions, occupied the Court the
greater p irt of the morning.
(Before the Vice Chancellor WIGiuM.)
REYNELL V. SPRYE.

The further arguments in this part heard cause occu-
pied his Honour the whole morning.

BOW-STREET.-(THIS DAY.)

Martin Oboni, a respectably dressed young man:wbo
described himself as an assistant to an artist in Bond-
street, was charged with damaging one of the benches
in the Green Park,

A park-keeper (No. 6) stated that he this morning
saw the prisoner carving the letters of his name upon
the bench, when he took him into custody.
The prisoner said he did not know that he was doing
any thing wrong.
Mr. HALL thought that the prisoner, who was twenty-
two years of age, had come to the years of discretion,
and must know very well that it was as wrong to dis-
figure public as private property. The prisoner might
just as well walk into a private house, and practice hia
art of wood cutting on a gentleman's table. The Act of
Parliament empowered him to inflict a penalty of 51.;
but, taking into consideration that the prisoner's wages
were only a guinea a week, he would only fine him 205.,
or send him to prison for ten days.

MARLBRO'-STREET—( THIS DAY.)
AN ABSURDITY IN TIIR LAW.—Captain Warriner,
gentleman staying at the Waterloo Hotel, Jermyn-street,
was brought before Mr. Bingham, charged with having
committed a nuisance against the shop door of a house
in Jermyn-street.
Bishop, 72 C, stated that this morning, about half-
past two o'clock, he saw the defendant committing a
nuisance in the doorway of No. 132, Jermyn-street. As
there had been frequent complaints made by the pro-
prietor of the house, he took defendant into custody. De-
fendant was perfectly sober at the time.
Mr. Clark, the occupant of the house in question, here
stepped forward and said the nuisance complained of
had become so intolerable of late that he was determined
to put a stop to it. In this instance the water had made
its way under the shopdoor, and from thence through
the floor into the kitchen, the ceiling of which was com-
pletely saturated with the filthy fluid. He therefore
trusted the worthy magistrate would inflict the highest
penalty the law allowed.
Mr. BINGLIAM said it certainly was a very filthy nui-
sance, and if he had it in his own power, he would
certainly inflict the highest penalty the law allowed
him; but, unfortunately, the law only allowed him to
deal with the case by tine, when the person charged was
in liquor at the titue of committing the offence. It bad
been proved that the defendant was sober when caught
in the act of committing the nuisance. The proper re-
medy for the complainant to adopt, would be to sum-
mons the defendant to the County Court, for wilful
damage. He must, therefore, dismiss the charge.
Mr. Clark said the varnish on the door was totally
destroyed, and it would cost him a trifle to have it re-
varnished. • If the defendant would pay for the varnish-
ing of the dour, he would forego any further proceed-
ings.

.., 0

Defendant readily agreed to this proposal, and the
parties having thanked the magistrate, left the court.

BETTING ON THE COURSE.
THE OAKS.
1 1 to 2 agst Sister to Arkwright
11 to 2 agst Clarissa
6 to 1 agst Glauca
6 to 1 agst Woodlark
12 to 1 agst 'roperAffix— taken
12 to 1 agst Escalade
14 to 1 agst Lady Superior.
ST. LEGER.
2 to 1 agst Flying Dutchman

rbtrV WOttion

EPSOM RACES.

(THIS DAY.)-BY EXPRESS.

The Epsom Four Years Old Stakes of 50 sovs. each, Sze.

THE DERBY.

➢ir. Hoh's Comet ...

In the " golden age" ofthe turf, when the old-
fashioned mode of travelling had not been superseded by
railways, the journey to Epsom was, to the journalist,
one of the most prolific subjects of the Derby-day, and
its incidents, from " the Elephant" to the Downs, were
productive of almost as much amusement as the race
itself. Steam, however, has materially diminished this
fruitful source of excitement, and we now rarely bear of
broken limbs and panels, of drunken postilions, or extor-
tionate tolikeepers. The glories of the road have de-
parted, and the journey, with prudent, quiet-going people,
is simply a case of getting into a railway carriage at
London-bridge, out of it at Epsom, and on by the
" bus," or a-foot to the Downs. We do not mean to
say that the road is deserted; on the contrary, great
numbers remain faithful to old predilections and cus-
toms, postmasters still hold out for and obtain high
prices, and the innkeepers are astonished with an amount
of patronage which, however unfavourably it may con-
trast with former times, affords some consolation for the
almost total absence of business during the rest of the
year. Still the falling off is so marked, that the ques-
tionable features which once made " the road" so cele-
brated will be looked for in vain. Even the gathering
in front of " the Eagle," on the morning of the race,
has fallen into disuse, the betting mee, to avoid the
clamour and crush hich have invariably made the
transaction of business at this time-honoured, but most
particularly inconvenient, spot, so difficult, reserving
their operations for the enclosure on the course. No
one will deny that these changes are improvements,
when it is borne in mind that whereas in bygone
times, in order to avoid the crush at Ewell, and
secure a good berth on the Downs, it was necessary
to be stirring with the lark,
one can now devote
a considerable portion of the morning to
business in
town, and reach the scene of action long before
the commencement of the races, at one-fourth of the
expense which the trip would cost by the road. The
changes on the Downs are not less important—tbe ring
on the hill is one of the " has beens" of the ancient re-
gime, and pedestrians can now move about with little
danger of being trodden under foot; the horses are sad-
dled in front of the stand, without interruption from
the mob, are started without those vexatious failures
that have so often given the victory to animals which, on
their merits, could not have won a 501. plate; the race is
in view from the commencement to the final struggle,
and the Grand Stand has become, what it always ought
to have been, the centre alike of business and pleasure.
To sum up, Epsom, from being one of the worst-con-
dueted meetings in the kingdom, is now nearly every-
thing which money, labour, and experience can make it.
Under ordinary favourable circumstances the success
of Epsom races has never been a matter of doubt; but
tlem or
ency of the weather;
good
management,
but
we have this year seen the Metropolitan, and, in fact,
nearly all the spring meetings, prove the most complete
failures,
from not h frome tra
e extraordinary
l
and so inauspiciously did the present meeting commence,
that we had strong misgivings as to the fate of the
aocrkdin t y sport
"grand day." Happily our fears proved groundless, the
morning broke favourably, and, saving that one or two
heavy showers between eleven and twelve o'clock excited
some apprehensions, more agreeable weather for the
sport could not have been desired.
The Grand Stand was thronged in all parts, and the
assemblage, in the aggregate, was immense, but decidedly
below the average in every respect. Most of the magnates
of the turf were present, still it is not to be gainsayed,
that in the item of "rank, beauty, and fashion," there
was a marked falling off. Admitting this, however,
there can be no doubt that the parties interested in
keeping up the popularity of the meeting, must, in a pe-
cuniary sense, have met with the reward to which their
endeavours to meet the public taste fairly entitle them.
And now for the Derby, the only event calling for any
notice beyond the official return. As will be gathered
from what we have already said, little or nothing
was done in the town, but from the " offers" it was
not difficult to make out that Nunnykirk was on the
" go." This was more obvious on the course, and
it will be seen that he closed at nearly double the odds at
which he left off on Tuesday. This decline was partly
attributable to a belief that he was short of work, and
partly to a misunderstanding in the stable as to the
jockeys. Chatterer also went out of favour. On the
other hand, Tadmor and the Flying Dutchman were in
immense force, and left off at 2 to 1 each.
The race was fixed for half-past two, and by a few
minutes after that time the horses, 26 in number, includ-
ing no less than six from John Scott's stable!—were
conducted 'to the post, and started without a mistake.
The result of the race will be a heavy blow to the
" ring," scarcely a man, we should say, escapes. Lord
Eglinton and his friends, and the " public," win all the
money. The Carew Stakes came off about four o'clock.
and the heats being run in quick time, the races were
*Pelt to a ow:ludo at as early 11" r•

... walked over

NATIONAL B.A.N.K. OF IRELAND,

The fourt?Enth annual meeting of the proprietors
of this bank was held yesterday, at one o'clock, at the
offices, Old Broad-street ; T. Lamie Murray, Esq., in
the chair.

The following directors were present :
T. Lamie Murray, Chairman; John O'Connell,
; Maurice O'Connell, M.P. ; Anthony
O'Flaherty, M.P. ; Robert Sutton, Augustus Vigne,
Octavius Ommanney, J. B. Henshaw, James Reade,
J. C. Ruding, and Christopher Fitz-Simon, Esqs.
Among the shareholders we observed—
Sir B. W. Wall, Captain Sir Burton Macnamara,
the Rev. Horace G. Cholmondeley, the Rev. Dr.
Magee, the Rer. Thomas Madge, Alderman Hackett,
of Clonmel ; and J. L. Wheeler, Joseph Wheeler, %V.
L. Wheeler, E. Smithwick, of Kilkenny; Robert
M‘Mahon, of Limerick ; Edmund Power, Charles
Rule, George Coxhead, John Pitman, Rowand Ronald,
A. K. Hutchison, E. Bedford, "William Handley;
Peter Daly, John Hardy, and John N. M'Kenna, Esqs.
The SECRETARY (N. S. King, Esq.) read the ad-
vertisement convening the meeting, and also the
following