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London, England, 1847-01-19 00:00:00

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P. DEANS, Registrar of Bank Returns.
Stamps and Taxes, Jan: 9, 1847.

PETITIONS ON. PRIVATE BILLS
110U8E OF COMMONS.
(Commit'ee Rr)prn'No. 22, before Mr. Examiner SMITH
and Mr. As ;is ttiat:Earainer FRE RE. )
(Continued from our Afteinoon Edition of pesterday.)
GLASGOW, PAISLEY, KILMARNOCK, AND
AYR, AND GLASGOW, DUMFRIES, AND
CARLISLE RAILWAY (No. 3).
This case was then resumed, and occupied the re-
mainder of the day..
(Room 23; before Mr. Examiner MAYiand Mr. Assistant-
Examiner G lINNELL).
WILTS, SOMERSET, AND WEYMOUTH RAIL-
WAY.
(Continued-from-caw Afternoon Edition of yesterday.)
Several allegations of minor importance were bus-
t ained, and the' case was adjourned till to-morrow.

SPORTING IN TELLIGEN CE.
TATTERSALL'S.— YESTERDAY.
THE Cl/ESTER 'CUP.
-An, expectation that, in observance of the conditions of the
race, the Handicap would be made public this afternoon, led
to a numerous attenlinee; and it was very evident that had
it made its appearance, 1 good deal of business would have
been transacted. To the surprise and disappointment of the
subscribers,- the weights were .not declared, and the accounts
of the investments, althotigh heavier than on any
previous occasion, fell short of our anticipations.
It will be seen that aeveral. horses found favour ;
but the only •" pot " was Antler, whb was in the first
instance backed at -5,000 to 110, and subsequently at 40 to 1,
in three or four 'quarters. • The following bets were also
taken:-5,000 to 100 agst Mr. Whaley's Burgundy, 400 to
10 agst Mr. Griffith's Newcourt, 1,000 to 15 and 1,000 to 20
-agst Mr. W. H -Johnstone's Milden, 2,500 to 50 agst Mr.
Irwin's Mickey Free, 2,000 to 80 agst Lord Chesterfield's
Lady Wildair, 1,000 to 15 agst Mr. Mostyn's Camera
Obscura, 1,000 to 15 agst Mr. Irwin's Horn of Chase, 1,000 to
15 agst Lord Chesterfield's Jenny Wren, 6,000 to 100 each,
in one bet, agst Bourton, The Flitch, and Doleful ; 1,000 to 15
each, two or three times, agst The Flitch, Jenny Wren.
Chertsey, jinglepot, Best Bower, and Milden, in one bet; and
also, in one bet, 1;000 to 20 agst Cherry, 1,000 to 20 agst
Lady Wildair, 1,000 to 15 agst Pam, and 1,600 to 15 agst Jenny
Wren

NEWMARKET.-HANDICAP.

600 to 20 agst. Sir C. Monek's Vanish—taken
100 even on the field agst the following 20, viz.:—Sting,
Lady Wildair, Footstool, Queen of Tyne, Kesheng, Ennui,
Marquis of Conyngham, Campanile, -St. Demetris, Camera
Obseura, Free Lance, Hydranger, Queen Anne, Queen Mary,
Sagacity, Geraldine, Vanish, l3ravissimo, Alarm and Lynceus.
Another lot of 20 was taken for 200 even, but the names
of the hoises did not transpire.
2,000 GUINEAS STARES.
4 to 1 agst Mr. MoStyn's Planet—taken to 501.
5 to 1 agst Mr. Mostyn's Gleatilt—ditto ditto
DERBY.

15 to 2 agst Lord Eglinton's Van Tromp—taken to 501.
10 to 1 agst Mr. Bowes's Epirote—taken
100 to 6 agst Mr. Mostyn's Planet
20 to 1 agst Mr. Mostyn's Glentilt—taken 25 to 1
• 1000 to 30 agst Mr. Gully's Allertonian—taken
40 to 1 agst Mr. Gully's Tantavy
40 to 1 agst Sir R. Pigot's Conyngham
40 to 1 agst Duke of Richmond's Red Hart
50 to 1 agst Mr. Conway's Christopher—taken
50 to 1 agst Mr. Pedley's Cossack—taken to 25/.
1000 to 15 agst Mr. Bouverie's War Eagle—taken
1000 to 15 agst Mr. Mostyn's West India Planter—
taken, and afterwards offered
1000 to 15 agst Mr. A. W. Hill's Will-o'-the Wisp—taken
and afterwards offered
1000 to 15 agst Mr. O'Brien's Bedlam—taken
. 1000 to 15 agst Mr. Irwin's Horn of Chase—taken.
Epirote, who was backed at•-10 and 11 to 1, and left off
looking up, was the only horse in anything like force. Planet
was backed for 501. At 16 to 1, and two or three parties would
have taken 25 to 1 ali9tit

OAKS.
9. to 1 agst Mr._ Payne's Clementina—taken
10 to 1 agst Mr. John Day's The Farmer's Daughter—t.
12 to 1 agst Mr. Mostyn's Slander—taken
IC to 1 agst Sir J. Hawley's Miami—taken
We understand that Mr. Irwin's Horn of Chase, Mickey
Free, and three or four others, have arrived at Forth's stables
at Mitchell Grove. • The Queen of Tyne and Banana have
beet sent to Ridsdale's stables at Newmarket.
Mr. Mostyn -has named his Derby colt by Lanercost, out of
La Femme Sage, " Wiseacre;" his Miss Martin colt, " Mr.
Martin ;" and the filly ont of L'Hirondetle, " Swallow."
Sir G. Heathcote has sold Akbar, to go to Italy, for 500
guineas. We believe he is, in consequence, scratched for the
.:Jictropolitan Handicap. •

MESSRS. ROWNEY, DILLON, AND ROWNEY.—Under
this head a paragraph found its way into our paper of
the 26th ult., in the last column of the first page. It
obtained insertion not only without our knowledge but
to our great regret, because it was an unworthy puff
obtained through the medium of an agent, and contained
an injurious libel :upon a valuable invention of Mr.
Brockedon, a gentleman described in the paragraph as
an artist of very considerable scientific acquirements,"
who has recently dis Covered ti beautiful mode of compres-
sing all that is pure of the dust of Cumberland lead or
plumbago, into a solid state fit again for the use of
pencil manufacturers. This discovery has been hailed
as a most valuable acquisition to the fine arts, and it
would be impossible to surpass the list of testimonials
given in its favour by the most eminent artists, and
printed in another column. The libel charged that Mr.
Brockedon's Patent Pluinbago was " exceedingly rotten,
and iris now scarcely made use of by any of the pencil"'
manufacturers ;" a statement which, as we are informed,
is utterly false, as .it is now consumed in larger quan-
tities than ever by the first makers of the day, by S.
Mordan and Co., Cite -road, Finsbury, who supply
-the

Governsent.offices under e,pecial orders from her Ma-
- - .

jesty's Stationary.7-offiee for Brockedon's lead ; by Brook-
man and Langdon,..of Great Russell-street ; by Reeves
and Sons, 113, Cheapside ; by Winsor and Newton,
.Rathbone-place ; by A.. Lazarus, 3, Bury street, St.
.Mary-axe, and other:. . In consequence of our attention
having been 'called to the wrong attempted to be done to
Mr. Brockedon's interests
.by the puffing paragraph, we
have made the fullest inquiries into the merits of his
plumb:sp. We have not only tried the pencils made of
this' lead from other sotireeS, but We have even obtained
some from 'Rowney, and Co. themselves, bearing their
names, aslvelt,as that of Mr. Brockedon as patentee,
and, foundthe:iv to be 'excellent, and utterly disproving
the mistatements of Messrs. Rowney and Co., for they
are tot only firm but rich in colour, and easily erased—
a merit carefully 'unClainied- by them for the pencils they
have thus attempted to puff into notice. Upon the
merits of Mr. Brockedon's Patent Plumbago we again
refer to the evidence which will be fcund in another
column.
TEMPTATION AND.. ATONEMENT. -- Mrs. Gore's
clever novel " Alen of Capital," is to be succeeded by
" Temptation end Atonement,"--a tale written in a very
different style, and which exhibits the extraordinary
versatility of the author's genius. The heart stirring
earnestness of Godwin is said to be rivalled in the pages
of thii story, which is.one, of the most thrilling interest,
and appeals to all the better sympathies of our nature.
Its appearance Wilt, doubtlt ss, be hailed with satisfaction
as affording proof that ;one of our most popular writers
has not been slow to pi.oht by the hints of the press,
and is turning lier inviestioned talents to sterling uses.
Why should our sculptors, with all modern statues,
,says a popular and witty author—why should our sculptors
turn aside the coated and trouserad man, as an unfit subject
for the divinity which inspires every blow bestowed upon the
chisel ? Why shoeld they strip off the registered paletAt
and. put on the toga ? Indeed, we do not see why the
Pale& should not be adoptedf by them, as it must be ac-
knowledgek to have a. more graceful appearance than
alMost any' other ' gaiment that has of late years been
the fashion amongst ti,s ;', but one of the best argu-
ments. in. its favour is that it, will serve to perpe-
tuate the .s
almost universal costume of this country,
during the 19th century. _ .4ain quoting from this author,
do we not generally take our notions of dress and personal
appearance of an age from the statues and coins which come
-down to us? ---lintegiiie, then,-ages after this, when England
shall be , England, but living- England no more, when the
tide of civilisation shall have flowed from us as it-has flowed
towards us—whitit the governing isles of the earth shall be
the coral reared clusters of southern seas, and when the
Thames shall flow at inid-day as silently as the Thames flows
at midnight now. Imagine centuries after some great con-
vulsion of the world's society, when the learned of
a thousand 'years hence -shall,. take to disinterring
our past history and habits •in antiquarian works on Eng-
land in the 19th century. Imagine, I say, th m
e luinous
notions they will obtain of our costumes from such of
from
now existing statues of London. as may be
,sduagi
erusp
of our
tumuli, or, perhaps, fished up out of the reed
b Yd fittle Roman
river. If our great men, they will say.
it byt seizing every
Virtue, they, at all events, made up or_
_ people of England
trhdTerhe: s natural presump.
further back stilt
assumed by the
the banks of the Thames worked
taht u aping
es, centuryß
willot hub:se,ao,
nraedtt irellyearsti
noeut eroefsnt
patterns as the tailors on the bank s of
and
dptlhe
that
tf
the Rome
tai
tamers on
.
the Tiber,same
and the erowd on Lord Mayor's Day hurried along, t.tl
all appearance, exactly a .imilar congregation to that wbicti
might have greeted Cmsar depositing his spoils in the Capitol:
'And yet, what have we to do with ancient Rome or ancient
opportunityLi t. frome nineteenth
addressedll anßomansEnglishmenot t?
h e 0i: fun
eHnwg
nearly
trenel
lyroeettd
.Adapirleeslasisse,retts?h.ateNs
classes, and
asebpnayedoa
ifktsinforinoEnglishmen
moderate
eermpaatseer
themselves
cost
u.
larly the great middle class ? and has it not onlj
been adopted by - the princes and ' nobles, and equally
by . the .gay_ and fashionable promenaders past aid
Temple for costume in Regent-street, as also by the bus]
and thoughtful merchants passing their depot on Conthill
yes, by all these presumed opposite tastes has the Registerei
i'iletOt been adopted. Then why should not also our na
tional sculptors recognise it as part of the national costume
ACCIDENTS IN THE PARE. —Yesterday the weather
continued its severity, the thermometer at the highest bean
at 30 degrees, but more generally as low as 24, or six degree
below freezing point. A rather heavy fall of snow occurrei_
in the afternoon in the eastern suburbs of the metropolia
very little, however, fell at the same time in any other dig
trict. About ten o'clock last night the wind shifted, and th
thermometer rose to 32 degrees. The ornamental waters i
St. James's-park were:frequented, as usual, by numeron
skaters. Towards evening an accident occurred to a gentlt
man named Scadding, residing at Pimlico, who, while skat
ing, came in violent contact with another gentleman, whe
both were thrown down, and sir. Scadding's arm was broke
land his skull severely fractured. Several other accident
occurred, owing to the breaking of the ice, &e., but tt
prompt assistace rendered by the officers of the Roy
:Humane Society prevented any loss of life.
BREACH OF TRUST BY A BANK OFFICER.-
Roßald Gordon, - late secretary and accountant to the Ea
change Bank of Scotland, Edinburgh, 'was found guilty, ,
the High Court Of Justiciary, on Wednesday, of embeazlir
the funds of the bank to the extent of from 2 ' ' to 3,0(4
He was sentenced to fifteen years' tranar