The Sun.
London, England, 1847-07-08 00:00:00

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.

BRISTOL, JULY 7.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Bristol and Exeter,
New, 21/2 p.—Great Western, Quarters, 6 p.—Ditto, New,
3:Y4 p.--Midland, New, 8A
P.—Ditto, New, ,g p. —North
Staffordshire, 3 p.—South Devon (6 per cent.)„i dis.—Taff
Vale, 131—Ditto, Quarters, 4
263/ Ditto, New, 3s. 9d. P.
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' . LIVERPOOL, JULY 7.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The market has been very flat to-
day ; there was a good demand for heavy stocks, but scarcely
any were offered, and the market closed dull at reduced prices
on yesterday's quotations. The sales were—Blackburn, Cli-
theroe,&c., 3 p: ex int.—Blackburn, Darwen, and Bolton, 21/2
ex int.—Birmingham and Oxford Junction,
7 p.—East Lan-
cashire, New, % dis.---Ditto, New Scrip, par—Liverpool, l
Chester, and Southport, a<
- p.—London and North-Western,
181—Manchester and Leeds, 22 p.—Ditto, Fifths, 414 P.--
Ditto, 321. Shares (late Exension), 1/1 p.—Ditto, Fifths (late
Vest Riding Union), 6e. 3d. p.— Blanchester and Southamp-
ton, % dis.—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, Quarters,
No. 2, 221/2 dis. ex int.—Ditto, Quarters, 1% dis. ex int.—
Midland Stock, 129—Ditto, New Halves, 41/4 P• "Newcastle
and Berwick, 3% P.—North British, New Quarters (scrip),
1% p.—North Staffordshire, 31% p.—North-Western, 1% dis.
—Shrewsbury and Hereford. 1% dis.—Shrewsbury andUies-
ter (late N. W. M. ), 5 P.— Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and
Chester, 2% dis.—South-Eastern and Dover, 37%—Ditto,
No. 4, Thirds, 114 dis. ex int.---York and Newcastle, Pre-
ference, 41/2 p.—Great Southern and Western, 1% dis. ex int.
MANCHESTER, JULY 7.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Ambergate, Notting-
%.
ham, and Boston, 1 5.16 dis.—Birkenhead, Lancashire, and
Cheshire Junction, 1 dis.—Birmingham and Oxford Junc•
tion, 7 1-16 p.—Blackburn, Clitheroe, &e.,
p.—Great Northern (L. and York Extension, scrip), % dis.
—Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal, 2% P---
Ditto, :Pi IL—Leeds, Dewsbury, and Blanchester, 434 p.
Manchester and Leeds, 321. Shares (late Extensions), 1% p.
—Ditto, Fifths (late West Riding Union), % c• P.shire), 2 11-16 dis.—North Staffordshire, 3% p.—Oldham
.Preferentials, 3%
—Blan-
chester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire (Sheffield and Oldham
shire),
1-16 p.—Preston and Wyre (guar• and div.), 621/4
—Ditto, Halves (B), 9-16 p.
LEEDS, JULY 7. ~, ~ r 4-:
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are-'
,oun,,,er,
York Extension, Bs. 9d. dis.---East Lancashire, New, 6s. 3d.
c. dis.—Ditto, New Scrip, 2s. p.—Leeds and Dewsbury, 5
p.—Leeds and Thirak, 51/2 dis.—Ditto, Preference, 13s. s. dis.
—Manchester and Leeds (West Riding Union), 6s. p.—
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire (Grimsby and Shef.
field) Quarters, 14, dis.—Newcastle and Berwick, New, 2/,
19s. p.—North British, Quarters, 28s. p.—Ditto, Exten-
sion, 3s. 6d. p.—North Staffordshire, 3 I).—North-Western.
1 265. Gd dis.

ate, Notting..
SHEFFIELD, JITLY 7.
STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Amberg
1 % dis.-Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire (Grimsby
ham, and Boston, 11A dis.-Manchester Lincoln. Union,
nd Sheffield), 7% dis.-Ditto (Sheffield and Lincoln), 565.
is.-Leeds, Wakefield and Midland, 245. 6d. dts.-South
Yorkshire, Doncaster, and Goole, IA dis.
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EDINBURGH, Jur,v 6.
STocK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Alserdeen, 304 12s.
6d.-Airdrie and Bathgate, 3L 10s.-Arbroath and Forfar,
26/, 10s.-Ditto, Halves, 14/. 102.-Ayr and Galloway, 21.
alOnsd.-DCunailbedaortnoinansh,jr3eo,l.
111.55i-55DDeeside, 3/. 55.-Dunblane, Doune,, and Callender, 1/. 7s. 6d.
-Dundee and Arbroath, an. 10s.-Ditto, New, No. 1, 28/.
7s. 6d.-Ditto, New, No. 2, 30/. 75. 6d.-Ditto, New, No.
55.--Clydesdale
New,desdaJunction, 491.-
21.5x.-Caledonian
3,3/. 2s. 6d.-Dundee and Northern Junction, ii. us.-
Dundee and Perth, 32L 155.-Ditto, New, 131.-Ditto, Quar-
ters, 3/. 6s. 6ast of Fife, IL 18s.-East Lothian Central,
11. 19s. Ed.-Edinburgh and Bathgate, 71. 108.-Edinburgh
and Glasgow, 691.-Ditto, Half es, 22/. 10s.-Ditto, Quarters,
17/. 2s. 6d.-Edinburgh, Leith! and Granton, 191. 2s. 6d.-
Ditto, Preference, 20/. 10s.-Ditto, 1.
Npv, 2/. is. 6d.-I)itto
Quarters, 13s. 9d.-Edinburgh and Northern, 18/. Bs. 9fi'.
-Ditto, New, 3/. 16s.- I!to,Newport, 71. 10s.-Ditto
ditto, New, 2/. 12s. 6d.-I.dinbnrp and Perth (New Co.),
1/. 3s. 6d. -Ditto, Halves, 65.3:"-Glasgow awl Avrshire,
1201. 55.-Ditto, New Stock, 421. 2s. 6d.-Ditty,,Halves'
No. 1,9/. 76.-Ditto, Halves, No. 2,6/. I ls.-Glasgow,
Dumfries, and Carlisle, 5/.‘ 7s. 6d.-Glasgow and Garnkirk,
39L-Glasgow General 'Terminus, 121. 155.-Glasgow and
Greenock, 191 55.-Ditto, Halves, 91. 108.-Ditto, Preference,
8/. 2s. 6d.-Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ardrossan 4/. ss.-
Great North of Scotland, 1/. 17s. 6d.-Great Northern (late
Direct Northern), 41. 103.-Ditto (late London and York)
1?. 125.-Newcastle and Berwick, 26/. 1.
......
us. North British,'
331. 55.-Ditto, Halves, 151.. 10s. -Ditto, Quarters, 4/. 13s. -
Ditto, Ditto, New Quarters (senl3) 153. to,
Quarters,
Thirds, 2/.
14&-Ditto, Fifths, 6 ..
/ 10 Scottish-
s. Central, 27/. 15s -
Scottish Grand Junction, 195.-Scottish Midland, 18/.-
Shrewsbury and Hereford, 105.-S.hrewshur
3', Oswestry, and.
Chester, 91. 10s.-Ditto,
.New, 1/. 25.-Stirling and Dunferm-
line, 51.-Stirling and Midland, 21.. 6.3.-Wishaw and Colt-
ness, 491.-York and Newcastle, 38. 1.-Ditto, New, 17/ 2s.
6:1.-Dicto, Pr. ierc •nce, 12/. 17s. bd.-Direct Bombay .an'. i
Liadrxts, 2s. 3d.-East. Indian, 58.-
Great _North of India,
23. 61-Great Southern of Madras, 25.-Madras, Nollore, and
Arcot, Is. 6d.

GLASGOW, JULY 6.
STOCK Exc-HANGE.—The sales are—Ayr and Galloway,
47s.—Caledonian, New, 41s. 6d.—Dundee and Perth, Quar-
ters, 67s.—East Indian, ss. 3d.—Edinburgh and Bathgate,
81.—Edinburgh and Perth, 225. 6d.—Glasgow, Kilmarnock,
and Ayr (5 per cent. guar.), 124/.—Kilmarnock and Ayr
Direct, 13s. 3d.—Manchester and Southampton, New, 225.
6d.—Ttlidiand, Halves, 10 V--North British, Thirds, 525. 6d.
i:‘/. 9s.
—Paiklet , Barrbead, and Huriet, 35,3.—YeJi and Newcastle,

A NEW TltlCK.—Sohe thieves in Paris dress as
servants, and visit the different tradesmen, requesting
certain accounts ; they then dress as tradesmen, take
the neonate to the parties, receive the Dioey, and wt.

CANTERBURY ELECTION.
On Tuesday evening a numerous and influential meet-
ing of the electors of Canterbury was held at the Victoria
Rooms, in that city, at the invitation of the Honourable
G. P. Smythe, the present Member, in order that he
might render an " account of his stewardship," and set
forth his claims upon their suffrages at the approaching
election. At half-past eight o'clock the hall was
thronged with electors of every shade of politics, Whig,
Tory, and Radical, and on the motion of Mr. Sladden,
Mr. Wooten was called to the chair. Shortly after-
wards, Mr. Smythe, accompanied by several friends,
made his appearance, and was welcomed with loud cheers.
As the meeting was somewhat of a convivial character,
the Chairman opened the proceedings by proposing the
toast of " The Queen.
Mr. SMYTHE then rose, and was received with a
burst of cheering which lasted several minutes. He
said—Mr. Chairman and gentleman, it is impossible for
me to meet so many old faces once again without some-
thing of emotion, were it only gratitude for their at-
tendance here this evening.—(Cheers.) You know why
I have called you together this evening ; it is because I
understand that a resolution has been come to by a sec-
tion of the Conservative party, which states that my
anti-Protestant votes, as they are termed, incapacitate
me from receiving their support. I might, were I inclined
to bitterness, retort on these gentlemen, now my
opponents, of the Conservative Club, and remind them
that after I had recorded my vote in favour of the May-
floods grant—after I had voted in favour of the emanci-
pation of the Jews from Parliamentary and other dis-
abilities—l had their active support, as well on my
committees as by their votes at the poll.—(Cheers.) In
your local history, in the records of your corporation, in
1535, one year after the great Reformation, I have
stumbled upon the following passage:—" Paid 14s. Bd.
for the expense of bringing a heretic from London; and
for one half-load of wood to burn him, 2d.; for gun-
powder, ld.; fora stake and staple, Bd."—(Cheers arid
laughter.) I doubt not but there are some corporators
in Canterbury who would not grudge me the 14s. Bd.,
or even the additional 4d., which the South-Eastern
Railway would exact—(Cheers and laughter)—the gun-
powder, the stake, or the staple.—(Renewed cheers.)
But there is this difference between the two cases.
Whereas the victim of those days suffered for a creed
which he heroically witnessed, the victim of these
days suffers for a creed which he does not, cannot,
will not entertain.—(Loud cheers.) Nay, I doubt
whether, when the heat of this election shall
have passed away, when Lord W inchilsea's
letter, Sir Brooks Brydge's and Sir E. Deering's letter—
even a longer life shalt have been forgotten—when
national clubs shall be no more—and when even Conser-
vative societies shall have expired—(Great cheering)—
I think in that day they will almost doubt whether it is
not I who have been the better Protestant, in the inmost,
the highest, and the truest sense of the word.—(Re-
newed cheering.) I, who against such odds assert the
right of private judgment, and the freedom of particular
opinion against those who in their aggregate infallibity
attempt to proscribe and persecute independence of
opinion as intolerantly, as unwisely, and as fruitlessly as
Rome ever did—fruitlessly, because I believe that if this
section of Conservatives could send whom they chose to
Parliament, the common sense of the House of Commons
would nullify that man's votes and shock him out of his
prepossessions.—(Great cheering.) lam not sorry this
resolution has been passed against me, because it gives
me an opportunity of answering charges which have
been brought against me week after week, in your local
papers and otherwise, for the last six years.—(Cheers.)
I shall not shirk them; but I believe they may be con-
densed into two accusations. In the first place, that I
have deserted the Tory party by the
.advocacy of
Liberal opinions ; and in the second, that I have
apostatised from my particular professions.—(llear,
hear.) I give both these charges the most absolute,. the
most complete, and the most indignant denial.-(Cheers.)
I must, I am afraid, bore you with much that is of a
personal nature; but when was a person attacked and
an English assembly refused to listen to his defence?—
(Cheers.) lam upon my defence.—(Renewed cheeing.)
I must recal to to your recollection the circumstances
of the ease. When lam accused of deserting the Tory
party, I can only regret the youth, the earnestness, the
energy, and the passion, with which as a mere boy I
asserted before you the seeming paradox, which the
Legislature has since confirmed in many an enactment,
namely, that the Tory party is the party of progress and
of the people.---(Cheers.) I came first before you al-
most a boy, though I felt, as I believe, that I had a true
theory and a true idea, which others, my contempora-
ries, had borne triumphant over an academical society,
and which a man of genius has since made familiar to
the public by his writings, I came before you at a time
when Lord Melbourne's Ministry was in the agonies of
dissolution; but did I then adopt one word or one syl-
lable of the vulgar slang which had gone abroad? Did
I say one word of " No Popery"—of a " bedchamber
plot"—or of "an Owenite Administration?"—(Hear.)
Did I affirm any one of the enormous lies which drove
that Ministry from office?—(Cheers.) My charge against
the Minister was that no man since the days of Lord
Carteret had put the Crown in so false a position. I
then used a figure to say, " That a horse which went
forward was a good horse; a horse which went backward
was a bad horse; but than any horse was better than a
dead horse."—Cheers and laughter.) Such was the
reason of my opposition to the Melbourne Ministry.
You returned me to Parliament, and when there, I am
not ashamed to confess that I was awed by the Nemesis
of that great assembly, and that, in Parliamentary
parlance, " I broke down."—(llear, hear.) Notwith-
standing this, your kindness shortly afterwards again
returned me as your Member at the head of the poll.
Having gone through these disagreeable details—for I
wish to evade no mortification—l will now allude to an
attempt frequently made, no doubt in Canterbury as
well as elsewhere, to represent that dissolution as caused
solely and exclusively by the principles of free trade
and protection being at issue. I challenge even the
shadow of a shade of discrepancy between my votes in
Parliament and my professions at the hustings. I came
in, as I have said, with others, full of hot thoughts and
ardent speculations, and we sat by men who now, for-
sooth, are patriots, but who then had but one rule,
which adapted itself to all things, to all measures, to all
debates, and to all votes—the will of the sole Minister.
I spoke, perhaps, of some ancient privileges, and the
most intrepid thinkers would shake their heads and say,
" Listen to Sir Robert Peel," and the less intrepid
thinkers would shake their heads and say, " Listen to Sir
Thomas Fremantle."—(Laughter.) When persons were
thus substituted for principles, personalities became a
duty with those who wished to substitute principles for
personalities. " I am no more ashamed," said Mr.
Southey, " of having been a republican than of being a
boy." And lam no more ashamed of having used strong
language against the Minister than I am of being a boy.
—(Hear.) But now that I appear before you to render
an account of my parliamentary conduct, I would fain take
this public opportunity of making an apology to a great
man, and I cannot be suspected of adulation, for he has
arrived at an age when no man except one ever led the
House of Commons—a great man who has since shown
that his heart was all the while with the people. In the
year 1842 I had just come from witnessing all the horrors
of starvation in the manufacturing districts, and I sup-
ported the Corn Bill of that year as an instalment of a
wiser policy; but I attacked the Ministar because it was
only an instalment. In the year 1846 I had the satisfac-
tion of joining a dying Administration, which only
sought to live for the purpose of perfecting that measure
of free trade of which the other was the instalment.—
(Cheers.) In 1843 I almost seceded from the party of
Sir Robert Peel in consequence of his Irish policy.
In 1845 Sir Robert Peel changed his policy to-
wards Ireland, in the sense of which I had pre-
viously voted and spoken, and I had the satisfaction
of voting for that increased grant to Maynooth which
I had been the first in the last Parliament to recommend.
I have disproved by date and fact and circumstance
the charge of inconsistency.—(Cheers.) But, having
said that, I say frankly I care very little whether the
charge be true or not true—(Loud cheers)—for there is
nothing more admirable than for a man to change his
opinions upon conviction.—(Cheers.) If I had changed
my opinion from conviction, I would gladly have pleaded
guilty to the charge, but as it so happened that I had
not, I could not permit that charge to be made without
refuting it.—(Cheers.) But while I know nothing more
admirable than for a man to change upon conviction, I
know nothing more ridiculous than the infinitessimal lit-
tleness of Parliamentary politics, and the boast of having
been perpetually either Tweedledum or Tweedledee.—
(Loud cheers and laughter.) There is a man, the wisest
of modern times, a German, named Niebuhr, who says
that the English of the present day are like the Romans
of the third century. With all due deference to so great
an authority, I am more reminded by them of the
Greeks.—(Hear, hear.) In an old city, older than Can-
terbury, once upon a time, grave men, grown men, illus-
trious senators, spent their whole lifetime in disputing,
and they took great pleasure in the dispute, upon the
relative merits of blue and red and green.—
(Hear, hear.) But the people of Byzantium were
wiser than the people of England; for there at
least the colours were salient and the dresses new; but
in our time and in our country, the dresses are so worn
that you can no longer distinguieh the colours.—(Cheers
and laughter.) The next point of any moment is the
question of education.—(Great cheering.) lam bound
to say I looked with little satisfaction on the scheme
proposed and inaugurated the other day by Lord John
Russell. I think it was meagre as a measure of state,
and offensive as a matter of re,igion.—(Cheers.) I think
that it acceded what to all intents and purposes amounted
to a monopoly to that Established Church which has, by
the confession of the best and wisest of her ministers,
been guilty of neglecting for certainly more than a
century her only duty, that of teaching her own chil-
dren.—(Loud cheers.) •And why has she been guilty
of this ? Because she is lying bound down pd
fettered, as our northern neighbours would say, in a
thsee
lowest dungeons of Eradiate imprisonment—beca
she has been compelled to accept the alms of the
_,
State without its confidence ; moneys upon
ionet
avour.
but at the same time disfavour upon dis,
But some may ask why, with these opinions,
be-
d you
not vote against the measure? I .tell you, frank
cause I be ieve the want of educatmnssen thisogrea scheme,
with country, that any scheme of education, i
with all its vices, was better than none atev all.—(Cheers.)
andl (Cheers.)
There is another subject which has been frequently
much canvassed of late—the endowment of the Ronan
Catholic priesthood in Ireland.—(Hear, hear.) lam in
principle opposed in this our time to the all-general en-
dowments of religions.—(Cheers.) I will not say to the
partial payment of
all religionaries, for there may arise
particular provincial and colonial cases of necessity ;
but in principle I am an opponent to general endow-
ments.— (Cheers.) In the old days the priest, was
thought by the public to be the rrpre,enZitive of truth,
and the state, its
vicar, eon-eui,cmtly, Pr" 1 i'lLrienliV
enough,aukbi,,,il)l.,rittrs 0.6 W ;save puuiehee
p
criminals. In these days the priest is thought to be the
representative of heaven, and the less he has to say to
anything, under the earth, and in earth's bowels, in the
obape of minerals, the better,—(l4wghter.) There vial

ia great man great, though be dare not invade the
homes of the men of Kent—(Cheers)—Napoleon Bona-
parte, who said that the Irish Roman Cathclic priesthood
in Ireland were the moral captains of the people. Why,
because they are independent and unpaid. Endow them,
and they will immediately lose their influence.—
(Cheers.) That is my deliberate opinion. With these
principles and opinions, you may readily believe that I
shall not easily bring myself to vote for the endowment
of the Irish priesthood.—(Cheers.) And now, although
I am obliged, for the sake of time, to omit many sub-
jects, on which, however, I shall be ready to answer, if
you will ask me questions, I IN ill pass to that which is
considered to be the holy of holies, the occupancy of
Downing-street.—(Cheers.) And as there is little
enough as yet of public significancy about this Ministry,
I do not know that I can do better than to quote
what I said six years ago of Lord John Russell,
the chief and champion and best representative of
modern Whiggism, in the figurative language of a
boy, " that it was impossible to speak without admira-
tion of a statesman who reminded him of a saying
of a great imperialist general, who made it his
proudest boast that he had fought two campaigns
against the Conde and Turenne, and had not been con-
quered. Lord John Russell had fought more than two
campaigns against Stanley, more chivalric than Conde;
and against Peel, more far-seeing than Turenne; and
had not been conquered."—(Cheers.) But since I spoke
that sentence six years have passed away, and Lord John
Russell has not only not been conquered, but has himself
conquered both Lord Stanley and Sir Robert.—(Great
cheers.) He has realised to the furthest and the fullest
the prophecies of his coming greatness which fell from
the greatest of our political poets, Mr. Thomas Moore,
and the most eloquent of our statesmen, Mr. Canning.—
(Cheers.) But notwithstanding the greatness of his
position, and the greater greatness in himself, I may,
perhaps, be permitted to say—l, who have that Sydney
blood in my veins which was shed on the same scaffold
with his-Russell blood in defence of the liberties of Eng-
land—(Great cheering)—that he remembers too much
and too often that he is a Russell and a Whig, and too
little and too late that he is the Prime Minister of
a country which is sick—heartily and cordially sick—
of all the barren inanities of party.—(Great cheering.)
It has been to me a reproach in politics that my watch
is always five minutes too fast.—(" Hear," and laughter.)
You will probably think that in saying how I will act
towards Lord John Russell my watch is going too fast,
and I am already supposing myself once more your
Member.—(Cheers.) Flattered by such a meeting as
the present—guaranteed by your sympathy and support
—I believe I all for the third time be your Member.-7--
( Tremendous cheering.) Under all circumstances I
shall go to the poll.—(Cheers.) Except in a time of
movement, I must admit that we men of theory make
indifferent Parliament men. My own temper is such
that I will frankly say that in these last vicissitudes I
would rather have been one of the journalists who led
than one of the statesman who followed.—(Loud
cheers.) And if I shall be ostracised and deposed by you
—(Loud cries of "No, non—to exercise thenceforth
the free pen of an independent intelligence, I shall not
personally blame the instigators of a change which shall
hinder and prevent me from mingling in the small dis-
sensions of modern legislation.—(Loud cheers.) But
whatever the event, be it yours now to acquit me of the
charges brought against me ; be yours, or at least of the
gentle-judging and generous among you, the part to try
me by no vulgar standard of success ; to reproach me
not that I have been a patriot when a Government was
strong, and a placeman when a Government was weak,
but for that very reason to sympathise with and adopt
my public conduct. Be it mine to assure you that, had
I to renew it, I would speak again as I have spoken, and
vote once more as I have voted—to rejoice that I at-
tacked Sir Robert Peel when his Administration stag-
nated beneath the superincumbent slime of aristocratic
approbation—to rejoice still more that I joined him
when his band was free, and he struck the niggard rock
of Parliamentary bounty, and the waters flowed forth,
and the people of England were permitted, even in our
time, to feel the invigorating influence of a liberal and
beneficent, but not the less an ancient and ;Tory policy.
—(The lion. Gentleman resumed his seat amidst reite-
rated rounds of enthusiastic applause).
The meeting broke up at twelve o'clock.

ROYAL THAMES YACHT CLUB.
Yesterday a sailing match for a purse of 100 sove-
reigns, and which, on account of the extensive publica-
tion given to the contest, excited very great interest,
took place on the Thames, the starting point being at
Erith, the course thence to the Nore light, and back
again to the starting-point, a distance of close on sixty
miles. The fact of the prize being in the current coin of
the realm, and for such a large amount, induced a greater
number of entries than usual, those entries comprising
yachts belonging to the principal sailing clubs of the
kingdom. The chief regulation in this match was that
for difference of tonnage half minute time per ton was
allowed upon yachts coming in.
It is scarcely necessary to remark that the morning
was propitious for an aquatic fete of this description,
and that in consequence the steamers, viz., Meteor, Gem,
Ariel, and Waterman No. 10, engaged to accompany
the competing yachts, were at the appointed hour fully
freighted with fashionable spectators. The Meteor car-
ried the Commodore, Lord A. Paget; the Vice-Commo-
dore, Captain Barwell; the Committee, end their numer-
ous friends. The Marquis of Anglesea was present in
his beautiful yacht the Pearl, and so was the Duke of
Beaufort, accompanied by the Earl of Cardigan, in his
Grace's yacht the Intrepid.
At a quarter past eleven the Noble Commodore gave
the signal for preparing to start, and of the nineteen
yachts which had been entered eleven obeyed the signal,
and took their positions in the following order. The
station figured No. 1 being the nearest to the southern
and No. 11 to the north shore:-
No. 1. R.T.Y.C., Chamois, 8 tons, Southampton,
Smyth Pigott, Esq.
2. R.T.Y.C., Eclipse, 50 tons, Weymouth, T. P. Wick-
ham, Esq.
3. R.T.Y.C., Princess Olga, 35 tons, Cowes, T. B.
Rutherford, Esq.
4. R.T.Y.C., Secret, 25 tons, London, T. W. Smith,
Esq.
5. R.T.Y.C., Ino, 25 tons, London, H. Gibson, Esq.
6. R.T.Y.C., Bianca, 31 tons, Cowes, Lord C. Paget.
7. R.T.Y.C., Snake, 20 tons, Poole, T. and M. Stan-
hill, Esqs.
8. R.W.Y.C., Lily of Devon, 31 tons, Plymouth, W.
F. Moore, R=l.
9. R.T.Y.C., Blue Bell, 31 tons, London, Twisden
Hodges, Esq.
10. R.T.Y.C., Little Gauntlet, 15 tons, Portsmouth,
A. Fountaine, Esq.
11. R.T.Y.C., Antagonist, 25 tons, London, G. P.
Nayler, Esq.
The signal gun for starting was fired at twenty-six
minutes past eleven, upon which the different crews
hoisted canvass with equal rapidity and address, no sen-
sible advantage being gained in this point by one over
the other. The yachts immediately canted round, the
Snake and the Bianca taking the lead, the Eclipse took
up the third position, but soon exchanged it for the first,
the Secret a good fourth, and the Ino following close in
the fifth berth, all the others well up. They maintained
this position to the Nore light with no other remarkable
change or incident save the following. The Eclipse in
Long Reach got the first position, the Secret obtaining
the second. In the Lower Hope the Bianca abandoned
all hope, and the little Chamois, desponding of success,
followed suit, and declined the contest.
As the yachts were rounding the Nore light the
excitement was momentarily diverted by the interesting
coup d'cril presented by the graceful manoeuvring of the
many assembled yachts, and by the swelling sails of
several score of trading vessels outward bound.
Tho Nore light was rounded in the following time
and order:-Eclipse, 2h. 40m. 50s. ,• Secret, 26. 46m.
255.; Snake, 2h. 54m. 243.; Princess Olga, 2h. 55m. 45.;
Ino, 2h. 55m. 205.; Antagonist, 2h. 56m.; Blue Bell,
2h. 58m. ; Lily of Devon, 2h. 58m. 2s. ; Gauntlet,
3h. 7m. 40s.
In rounding, the Ino weathers on the Princess Olga,
and cuts her out, amidst great cheering ; the Blue Bell
doing the like to the Lily of Devon. In the upper part
of Sea Reach the Blue Bell overhauls the Snake and Ino,
and a beautiful race ensued between the two latter boats.
From this point home no important change took place in
the relative positions of the yachts, and the interest was
centred in the leading ones, the Eclipse and Secret. The
former having retained and gradually increased the six
minutes' lead obtained at the Nore, and the excitement
therefore being caused by the doubt as to whether she
would increase her lead to twelve minutes and a half,
the time required by her superior tonnage to ensure her
victory over her lesser opponent, the Secret. This she
nearly succeeded in doing, to the admiration of all, and
only lost by the short space of twenty-five seconds. It
was curious to witness the astonishment of the uninitiated
on learning the Secret to be a winner, though she had
been eclipsed by a distance of nearly two miles by the
loser. The boats reached the goal in the following dine
and order:-

h. m. s.
Eclipse
Secret 6 15 46
Blue Bell 6 26 40
Antagonist
Snake ...........................
..
6 33 6
Ino
- Lily of Devon
Princess Olga ••.. ................ 6 38 18
—r
all weathers."
The purse and its contents were handed over by the
Noble Commodore with a congratulatory address to
bhoaavred ctallbeedmheetre,or, " the bo fo
the
spirited owner of the Secret, a craft almost invariably
again
successful, no matter what wind blows. She has
min'
at least both
T proveh od
arrangementswhat
we
with respect to amusement and comfort,
every-
thing that the most fastidious could desire; and she
were
landed her numerous and highly satisfied company at
London bridge at a quarter to nine in the evening.

COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
JULY 7, 1847.
A general meeting of the members of the Royal
Yacht Squadron is to be held at; the Squadron House on
Friday next, at which a Vice-Commodore will be elected
in place of the Marquis of Donegal!, elected Commo-
dore. Sir Bellingham Graham, Bart., :It is said, is to be
the new Vice. Ho is a true yachtsman, and keeps his
yachts afloat tin the November gales dr.l:ve them from
the cruising ground to their moorings, and then Into the
harbour, the Flirt being the last of the flee t aflostatCowes,
Died of consumption, on the 7th inst., at We
after an illness of 15 years, Robert Aleiklatc. 1:51
aa
sat a hisot
upright, honourable man. It is unders*oodi;",„, ,
remains are to e taken round in his yact, tne Jana-
mao, to Scotland

POPULATION OF TuscArive--The Gazette di Firenze
gives 1,565,751 as the populetion of the
lation Grand Dst yeue hy of
Tuscany. The increase of e pou ear
th
amounted to 16,880. Amongst the deaths 1846 tL9re
were ;line QUO OCOUtellariang.