The Sun.
London, England, 1847-04-19 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

NEwmA,-;
El FIRST SPRING MEETING.-1847.
NEwm
SATURDAY NIGRT.—In the subjoined
st of
the engagements and proposed stakes for the coming
meeting. We have prefixed the usual mask C), not only
horses already on the spot, but to those which we
44
1327 e ascertained to be on the road. The programme pro
18es a good field for the 2,000 Guineas, and at least an
average amount of sport for the week.
MONDAY, APRIL 19.
04 for 4 yrs old, 7st 101 b; 3 yrs, Bit 91b; 6 yrs and
agsetcl9;: 5 st. Last three miles of B.C.
" eepstakes of 20 sous. each; for 3 yrs old, 7st; 4 yrs,
ti
yrs, 9st 21b; 6 yrs and aged, 9st 41b. D.M.
andicaP Svveepstalzes of 20 sous. each, h ft if declared;
for 3 rs old, . T.Y..
Sweepstakes of 10 soy ch&c C
vs. ea ; for 3yr old colts, Bst 71b;
d fillies, Bst 41b. T.Y.C. The winner to be sold
for 2001., &o.
Sweepstakes of 50 soya. each; for foals of 1844, out of
mare that never bred a winner, colts Bst 71b, fillies
Bst 31b; those by stallions that never bred a winner
alloived 31b. A.F.
~,,Lord Albemarle's Odille, *Duke of Bedford's Bridle,
1,41". Mosty's King of Morven arid *Planet, * Mr. W. H.
''..,rook's Luminous (31b), Lord Chesterfield's Papa, Mr.
Verres and "Mirrnillo, Mr. R. Ilesseltine's
"It it, Mr. Osbaldeston's br f by Emilius, out of Lan-
;ern, •Mr. Shelley's Cutaway, *Mr. Watson's Sir Peter
Laurie.
SWeepstakes of 50 soya each; for colts, Bst 71b : and
nilies, Bst 31b. Cambridgeshire course. (6 Subs.)
*Sir R. Bulkeley's Mont nsier, 'Lord Exeter's c by
,
• Platoff, out of Marmara,pe Lord G. Bentinck's Devil-
me-care, Lord Glasgow's ch f (dead) by Sir H. rcules,
Tit of Deerslayer's dam, *Mr. Shelley's Cutaway, Col.
*lllson's Jesuit (dead).
Match, 200 h ft. T.Y.C.—'Duke of Bedford's Eothon
%Pt Sir J. Ilawley's Piccinino, Bst 7lb each. _
Match, 325 to 300, 100 ft. D.M.,—*Duke of Bedford's
Pistiana, Bst 71b, agst Lord Glasgow's f by Phoenix, d
by Actaeon, fiat 41b.

TUESDAY.
ihe"queen's Plate of 100 guineas ; for mares, four yrs
old, Bst 91b ; five, 9st 81b ; six and aged, lOst. R.C.
Sweepstakes of 5 sous. each ; for three yrs old colts, Bst
711 N and fillies, Bst sib. The wiuner to be sold for 50

1110,5„
Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each ; for three yrs old, ist 21b
four, Bst 71b; five and upwards, 9st. T.Y.C. Winner to
n.be sold for 1501., &c.
.&he 2,000 Guinea Stakes, by subscribers of 100 sovs
each, h ft ; for three yrs old colts, Bst 71b ; and fillies
ast-416. 2M. (28 Subs )
*Lord Afbem.arle'slngoldsby—*Mr. Mostyn's Glen-
tilt, G abbler,. and *Planet—Mr. Bowes's Lunedale—*Mr.
O'Brien's The Liberator—Sir R. W. Bulkeley's Mont-
pensier—Mr. Clifton's Bedlam, *Dromedary, • rhe Posi-
tive Young Man, and 'Brown Bess—*Lord Exeter's c
by Hetman Platoff, out of Marmora, *c by Hetman
Platoff, out of Toga, and *Voronetz—Mr. Ford's Crassus
and *Clarendon--*Lord Orford's c by Clearwell, out of
Zipporah—*Mr. Payne's b c by Venison, out of Sister to
Cobweb—*Mr. Payne's Oregon—*Sir R, Pigot's Co-
nynghani.—*Duke of Richmond's Halo—*Mr. S. Con-
way"! Christopher—Lord Stanley's Abdiel—Mr.
Pottinger—Mr. 'Worley's Golightly—Mr. Worley's
Old Port—Lord Stradbroke s b c by The Saddler. out of
Marpessa, paid—Lord Exeter's c (dead) by Hetman
Platoff, out of Vtlance, paid.
Sweepstakes of 300 sous. each, 100 ft ; for four yrs old
'colts, Bst 71b ; and fillies, Bst 21b. B.C. (5 Subs.)
Lord Exeter's c by Colwick, out of Macren ma. and *c
b 7 Colwick, out of Lucetta—*Duke of Bedford's Para-
en—Col. Anson's Shelford—Mr. Bowes's Mowertna.
#.4le Cofee-room Stakes of 50 sovs_ each for three yrs
old colts, Bst 71b ; and fillies, B,t 41b ; the produce of
mares which never produced a winner. A.F. (4 Subs.)
Duke of Bedford's c by Envoy, out of Monceds (wrong
nomination)—Mr. Mostyn's Projectile—*Lord Orford's
hr
e by Clearwell, out of Zipporah—*Mr. Shelley's Cut-

WEDNESDAY.
; for four yrs old, Tat 81b; five yrs old, Bst 111 b ;
six yrs and aged, 9st 31b. B.C.
handiest') Sweepstakes of 20 soya. each, and only 5 ft if
declared by ten o'clock the evening before running,
to go to the owner of the second horse ; for three yrs
&c.
'"'ifeepstakes of 10 sovs. each ; for three yrs old, 7st ;
and four, Bst 101 b. D.M. The winner to be suld for
1001,
Sweepstakes of 50 soya. each ; for three yrs old colts,
Bst 71b ; and fillies, Bst 21b ; not engaged in the 2,000
Guineas or 1,000 Guineas Stakes ; those by untried
stallions or out of mares that never bred a winner
. allowed 41bs. A.F.
Mr. Mostyn's Projectile—*Mr. Greville's Apricot
Stradbroke's Coningsby—*Mr. Watson's Dr.
(41bs)--Mr. Worley s Wintonia—Sir W. W.
Faunus.
Sweepstakes of 200 says. each, h ft. A.F.
—Colonel Anion's lago, Bst 12:b—*Sir J. Hawley's
numdrum, Bst 51b—*Lord Glasgow's Conspiracy. Bst 31b.
ceMatch, 200, h ft. T.Y.C.—*Duke of Bedford's Lady
71b.
natalleep Bst 71b, agst *Sir J. Hawley's Piccinino,
st
Match, 1000, h ft. T.Y.C.—*Duke of Bedford's Lady
711 t 71b.
coustance, Bst 71b, agst *Mr. O'Brien's The Traverser,
.
atch. 200, h ft. D.M.—*Sir J. Hawley's Piccinino,
pasMt 21'N receives
50 sovs. forfeit from Sir W. W. Wynn's
41111110,- Bst 91b.

Colonel Anson's lago is also here.

TIIE SUN,

HAMPTON' SPRING M ETYING.—SA.TURDAT.
The Aristocratic Hurdle Stakes of 10 sov. each,
and 25 added ; I Ist 71b each ; half-bred horses
allowed 51b. Two miles.
Lord Strathmore's Red Lancer, aged (Owner) 1
Mr. P. P. Ralt's Spectator 2
Mr. R. Cl ton's Miriam. Mr. Hussey's Quicksilver,
and Lord B Cecil's Mortrge, also started, but were nut
placed. Won by two lengths.
The Free Handicap Hurdle Stakes of 10 soy. each, 6 ft,
and 50 added. Two miles.
Oliver's Redstreak, list 121 b (Owner) 1
Ekin's Salopian, 1 Ist
G. H. Brettle's The Curate, 1141 61b..... ..... 3
G. Walter's Cavendish, lOst 10lb ..
Won cleverly.
The Moulsey Hurst Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each, 5 ft,
and 25 added ; the sinner to be sold for 2501. Once
round.
Lord Strathmore's Lyons,- (Owner) 1
Count Bat: h) any's Master Stepney
The Ladies' Purse of 151,, ii.,l4lcd to a Sweepstakes ot
7 soya. each, 3 ft. One mile.
Mr. Webb's An: u z anent, 5 yrs (Capt. Little) 1
Mr. Miner'. Carrissima
3
Lord Strathmore's Barnaby
• Two others started.

Mr.
Mr.
Mr.
Mr.

TO THE EDITOR .OF THE S.
SlR,—The past week's; racing at Catterick has borne out
my anticipations pretty near.i to the letter, having hit the
mark in five casts out of seven. At Bath I was not so sue
cesitful, the state of the ground putting all my previous
calculations completely to the rout;. I was only right in
two instances, in two I named the second, and in the
other two (the City Cup and the Somersetshire Stakes)
1 was out altogether, having, named Brave Buck and
Clermont as the couple most likely to win the Handicap:
the first did not start; the latter ran a wretched third,
in consequence of the heavy state of the course. For
the Metropolitan Stakes I :elected, among others, the
Emerald Isle and Clermont. The former threw away
her chance (a first-rater, by the bye) by running against
the cords, jumping them, and playing off other extraor-
dinary pranks, anything but pleasant to her backers, or
that thorough-bred son of the Emerald Isle, her owner.
Barring thin accident, she would have been either first or
second, in my humble opinion, and that she will not be
far from winning the Chester Cup is also any firm con-
viction. Clermont won very cleverly, beating that
splendid racer Wolfdog by a short neck in the last stride
or two; Bruti er ni Stitch, by norusea, out of Industry,
running a game third. The latter nag must not be lost
sight of; he will be doing something extraordinary in
the handicaps before the year is out. Clermont's per-
formance in this race entitles him to the appellation I
bestowed on him a week since, of the "champion of the
feather-weights;" whether be will be able to run suc-
cessfully with heavier weights time will prove; at present
he is indubitably one of our best• second-rate thr,
years old.
For the Two Years Old Stakes. I placed the first and
second, nothing entered, in my opinion, having any
chance with Antelope.
A moderate meeting at Newmarket,'yclept the "First
Spring" begins in earnest to-day, with tour sweepstakes
to close and name the evening before running.
A Sweepstakes of 50 sovs. each, across the eat, for
three yeas old, has twelve nominations, but nothing
likely to contend successfully with the King of Morven,
who will not have more than two competitors.
A Sweepstakes of 50 sovs. each, over the Cambridge-
shire Course, will be reduced to a match between Mont-
pensier and Devil me Cure; the former for choice.
Piccinino and Fistiana, will win both their matches.
On Tuesday the Two Thousand Guineas Stakes—the
great attraction of the meeting—will bring tog- ther a
distinguished batch of candidates for Derby honours,
about eight in number. The tollowing includes all that
are likely to start:—Christopher, Conyngham. Sister to
Cobweb colt, colt by Clearwell, out of Zipporah, Mont-
pensier, The Liberator, Lunedale. Halo, Planet, and
Glentilt. Kent has a string of nine for Newmarket,
including four engaged in the " Two Thousand," to wit.,
Halo, Planet, Glentilt, and Gabbier. Now of the last
three it is extremely dubious which will go, or whether
Mr. Mostyn will start Os o. The latter will must likely
be the ease, and Planet and Glentilt the ins selected.
There is another dcubtful affair attached to this race.
Old Port has not been so lively lately either in constitu-
tion or in the market, consequently it is not very pro-
bable that he will start; but he might, and, if all right
again, Mr. Worley would fiiai that he had a golden drop
of Beeßwing in his Old Port, which would make him
go•lightly through the year.
From Kent's lot I take Glentilt, as decidedly the
best, and from the others Cony nghatn, Sister to Cobweb
colt, and -he Zipporah colt; but I am inclined to think
that the race will lay entirely between Glentilt and
Conyngham.
The Sweepstakes of 300 soya, each will be an easy
victory for Paragone.
The Coffee-room Stakes will go to the Zipporah colt
with a start, otherwise Projectile will walk over.
On Wednesday Coningsby will win the Fifty Soy.
Stakes, and lago the Two Hundred Sovs. Stakes, Con-
spiracy second, and Humdrum third.
Piceinino and -Alarm will win their matches, but
neither with much to spare.
On Thursday for the One Thousand Guineas Stakes
seven or eight will start, including Clementine and
Slander, whom I expect first and second at the winning-
post, Belladonna well up.
The One Hundred Sovs. Stakes will produce a race be-
tween Epirote and Halo—the former for victor.
Typhon will have the credit of .receiving forfeit from
or heating Eiithen in their-TALC. spin.
On Friday the Harmony colt, Cossack, War Eagle,
gEsupeiiwertomut:e
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nwi vinh:ern,orEwtphiarrreoet
gmore,l
Eagle
It
receivec one st thhi:
Stakes, when
the Harmony colt
being third, and Cossack fourth.
The Fifty Simi. Stakes are all but in the pocket of
his Grace of Bedford, for nothing but accident can put
a stopp,r on Fistiana's pretensions.
The One Hundred Suys. Stakes Piccinino ought to
win, Gag second.
Lord E. Russell with Reminiscence will take the other
One Hundred Soya. Stakes, without a doubt, neither of
her opponents being within 71b. of her.
With War Eagle's match ends the First Spring Meet-
ing of 1847.—1 am, Sir, &c.
April 19. THE SPIRIT OF THE TURF.

UN

THURSDAY.
The Queen's Plate of 100 Guineas ; for foyr yrs old,
9st 81b ; five yrs, lOst 71b ; six yrs and aged, lOst 121 b.
Sweepstakes of 10 soya. each, for three yrs old colts, Bst
71b; and fillies Bst 41b. First half of Ab. M. The
winner to be sold for 80/.
Handicap Sweepstakes of 25 sovs. each, and only 5 ft
if declared by ten o'clock the evening before running,
for three yrs old and upwards. T.Y.C.
Sweepstakes of 10 soya. each, for three yrs old colts,
Sat 71b; and fillies, Set 41b. The winner to be sold
for 150 sovs., &c. T.Y.C.
Sweepstakes of 10 soy& each ; for two yrs old colts,
Bst 61b; and fillies, Bst 31b. T.Y.C.
The 1,000 Guineas Stakes, by subscribers of 100 sovs.
each, h ft ; for three yrs old fillies, Bst 71b. D.M.
30 Subs.
Lord Albemarle's Madge Gray—Lord G. Bentinck's
bevil-me-Care, *Archness, and *Slander—Mr. Bowes's
aennola—Mr. O'Brien's *The Emerald Isle, Lord Ches-
terfield's f by Don John, out of Arachne and Maid of
Saragossa—Mr. R. Clifton's *Brown Bess, Conceit, and
amttrbleMaid—Mr. Coape's• The Cardinal's Niece—Lord
*Cosachia, and *f by Hetman Platoff, out of
P•aerernma—Mr. Ford's *Millwood—Lord Glasgow's
by The Provost, out of Miss Whip—Mr. Grant's
Shahzadee—Mr. Greville's Ferina—Lord Ortord's
sMangostien—Mr. Osbaldeston's f by Lanercost, ont of
CollimP Follower and Sister to Surella—Mr. Payne's
l'leroentina—Col. Peel's *Palma and Sorrel—Lord W.
p owlett's *1 by the Saddler. out of Fanchon—Duke of
Richmond's Pell Mell—Duke of Rutlands *Bella Donna
Stephenson's ns Extra—Mr. Stephenson's
Victress—and Mr. Worley's Margaret of Anjou.
sweepstakes of 100 sovs. each, h tt ; for three yrs old
Colts, Bst 71b ; the winner of the 2.000 Guineas Stakes
to carry 51b extra. D.M. (8 Subs.)
.„Lord Albemarle's *lngoldeby —Mr. Bowes's *Epirote,
j'r• Osbaldeston's br.ther to Devil-among- the-Tailors
--Lord Stradbroke's Cc by The Saddler, out c f Mar.
pease—Duke of Richmond's *Halo and Red Hart—Mr.
reville's *Mirmillo—and Sir J. Hawley's Pampeluna.
(Paid.)
__Match, Ino, h ft ; T. V. C.—Duke of Bedford's*
-COthen, Bst 71b, agat Lore; Spencer's* Typhon, Bst 41b.
FRIDAY.
A Handicap Sweeps of 10 soya. each, for three and four
Yrs old. D. M.
'Sweepstakes of 10 soya. each, for three yrs old, 7st ;
four, Bst 61b ; five, six, and aged, 9st. The winner to
be sold for 100 goys. if demanded, &c. D. M.
The Newmarket Stakes of 50 sovs. each, h ft ; for three
yrs old colts, Bst 71b ; fillies, Bst 21b. The second to
save his stake. D. M. (23 Subs.)
Mr. Watson's *Sir Peter Laurie—Mr. Corombs's *o by
Sir Hercules, out of Harmony—Lord Exeters's *Vero-
nets—Mr. Pedley's Cossack—Mr. Wigram's *Dtriades—
Mr. Bouveries *War Eagle—Mr. Ford's Crassus—Mr.
Bowes's *Epirote—Lord Lonadale'sc by Muley Moloch,
out of Ann—Lord Orford's *c by Clearwell. out of Ange•
line—Lord Milltown's *Shawn Buidhe—Mr. 0-baldes-
ton'a els. to Sorellak—Lord Stradbroke's "`c by The Saddler,
out of Marpcssa--:-Vol. Peel's *King of Naples, and
*Oregon—Mr. Payne's *c by Venison, out of Ms. to
. Cobweb—Mr. Grevilie'a *Mirmillo and Verres—•Mr,
Ward's Eldon—Lord Exeter's c (dead), by Hetman
• Platoff, out of Valance, paid—Sir J. Hawley's Pampe•
Inns, paid—Duke of Bedford's Free Gift, paid—Cul.
Anson's Jesuit (dead), paid.
Sweepstakes of 50 sovs. each, for three yr old fillies, out
of mares that never br. d a winner of more than 50
sovs. at any one time. R.M. (6 Subs.)
Duke of Bedford's *Bridle. and *Ftstiana—Field
Marshal Grosvenor's *by Dcedalus, out of his Brocard
. mare—Mr. Batson's *by The Doctor, out of Revelry—
Lord Exeter's *by Hetman Platoff, out of Macremma—
Sir W. W. Wynn's by Gladiator, dam by Buzzard, out
of Emma.
Sweepstakes of 100 sovs. each, h ft. Last half of Ab.
M. (3 Subs.)
Duke of Bedford's *Gag, Bst 71b—Mr. Ford's Rest-
less, Bst 41b and Sir J. Hawley's Pampeluna, Bst.
Sweepstakes of 100 Boys. each, h ft, Bst 41b. T.Y.C.
(3 Subs.)
Duke of Bedford's *Bridle, Lord W. Powlett's *f, by
-the Saddler, out of Fanchon ; and Mr. Newton's Remi-
niscence.
Match, 50. Sst 7lb each, Ab. M.—Mr. Bouverie's War
Eagle eget Mr. Shelley's Cutaway.
We have marked Planet. Slander, and Glentilt as
likely to be here, of which little doubt is entertained ;
',bang of Morven, Gabler, and Halo are also expected ;
but up to the time of closing this parcel nothing definite
was known.

KING'S COLLIGE HOSPITAL.—In consequence of
the great increase of applicants, both for in and out-door
relief, and the inadequacy of the funds to meet the ex-
penses, the committee have just issued the following report,
and appeal to the affluent to come forward and assist the
governors of the institution in their endeavours to con-
tinue the usefulness of the hospital. They say— "There
is no locality in the metropolis where the assistance of an
hospital is more needed than that in which King's College
is situated, being surrounded on all sides by a dense
mass of population. During the past year upwards of
16,500 out-patients and 1,296 in-patienta were cured or
relieved. The expenditure for the year exceeded the in-
come by 6301. The committee are desirous of continuing
to admit all who come with or without letters of recommen-
dation ; but as they have no funded property, and rely en-
tirely upon the donations and subscriptions of the benevolent,
they will not he enabled to do so unless some assistance is
afforded them."
ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, GRAY'S INN ROAD.—
Owing to the continued severity of the weather, coupled
with the prevalence of typhoid fever, the doors of the Royal
Free Hospital, in Gray's Inn-road, have been literally
thronged with des. itute sick applicants for relief or admis-
sion. The number of patients amounted yesterday to 333.
The asylums for the houseless in various parts of the metro-
polis being closed for the season, accounts for this pressure
upon the institution.
DEATH or LADY GODoLPHIN.—We regret to learn
that intelligence of the demise of the above lady, sister of the
Earl of Auckland; was received in town yesterday. The
melancholy event took place on Saturday morning, at Gog-
magog Hall, Lord Godolphin's seat, in Cambridgeshire, after
a short illness. Her Ladyship was third daughter of the
late Lord Auckland, and was born on the 21st of March, 1780.
The deceased married en the 31st of March, 1800, Lord
Francis Godolphin Osborn, second son of Francis Godolphin,
fifth Duke of Leeds, who was in 1832 created a Peer of the
United Kingdom. By her Ladyship's marriage with the
Noble Lord she leaves issue three sons. The families of the
Earl of Auckland, Lady Brougham, the Hon. Mrs. Vansit-
tart, Lord Bexley, Mr. C. and Hon. Mrs. Drummond, the
Countess (Dowager) of 'Buckinghamshire, &c are placed in
mourning by her Ladyship's death. • •
EXTRAORDINARY ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE -DY A
BiteracraßLE Fkastatfr..—Yesterday afternoon, between the
hours of two and three o'clock, the neigbourhood of Man-
chester-square was thrown into a state of considerable alarm
and excitement in consequence of the following extraordi-
nary attempt at suicide made by a highly respectable female
whilst labouring under some temporary mental aberration.
It appears that the unfortunate victim, named Fanny Richey,
aged fifty-six, had for some months pa,t resided at No. 19,
Henrietta-street, Manchester-square, and was somewhat re-
markable for her eccentric ways and habits, though it was
little suspected that she was of unsound mind. At eleven in
the morning she was in conversation with the landlady. after
which she retired to her apartments at the upper part of the
house, and at the period specified above she deliberately pro-
ceeded to the roof of the house by means of a small ladder,
and at once precipitated herself into the street. She fell in
a diagonal direction, and lodged upon the area rails, her
clothes haying caught, and thus the unfortunate creature
miraculously escaped an instantaneous death. The occur-
rence was seen by several persons passing by at the time,
and police-constable 109, D division, states that her dress
caught on to the spikes of the rails, so as to break the fall,
otherwise she must have been killed on the spot. The unfor-
tunate creature was then conveyed in a cab to the Middlesex
Hospital, and Mr. Dickson, the house surgeon, ascertained
that she had sustained, besides a dreadful wound on the
head, some severe internal injuries. so as to leave little hopes
..f her ultimate recovery. She is unmarried, and very re-
spectably connected.
LIIIERALITY Or THE DIME OP BEDFORD.—IIiS
Grace the Duke of Bedford has, we understand, most liber-
ally intimated his intention of giving out of his own private
resources, in addition to a former gift of 10,0001., the sum of
3,0001., still required by
•the Commissioners of Woods and
Forests for the parish of St. Paul, Covent-garden, as the
amount of its contribution towards the formation of the new
street from Leicester-square to King-street, Covent-garden,
and which, but for his Grace's kindness, would have had to
be raised by a rate on the parishioners. It is understood
that this great metropolitan improvement will be
.forthwith
corn menced.
APPROACHING ELECTION OP SHERIFFS —The Lord
Mayor has named James Hartley, Esq., chairman of the
ta:unr md theensuing
e Williamr.d, will
jynext
eyear,
Cubist, E q Peninsular and Oriental Steare-pachet Company, tor sheriff
andb
t gentleman it is
beput expectedin h
at
nominations eodn gentleman
j)thiiedi;
readiness to accept the office if elected.
ROYAL HIGHLAND SCHOOL
SOCIETY.—The 74th
anniversary of this institution is to be celebrated on Saturday
next at I reemasons' Hall, when his Royal Highness the
Duke of Cambridge will preside, and the Duke' of
.Wellington
has promised to attend. We know of no
society Scotland
which has greater claims to the sympathy and liberality of
the public than this.; and we fondly hope that these claims
will be generously met at the approaching feetival. It '
ls a
singular but gratifying fact, that the best and bravest 1
in her
maj!ity's Hi Olancl regiments ham beou educated " th
saimilag uwttutAft! 12 efoe
•

RECEIVED THIS DAY.
NEWMARKET FIRST SPRING MEETING.
NEWMARKET, SUNDAY NIGHT.
ENTRIES FOR MONDAY.
• Plate. Last 3 miles of B. C.
Wolfdog, 5 pa—Leopard, 5 yrs—Cantley, 4 yrs-
-11„ Ydrangea, 4 yrs.
sweepstakes of 10 soy.. each; winner to be sold for
2001. T. Y. C.
Veronete—Redwing—Conan More.
riandicap of 20 sous. each, 10 ft if declared. T. Y. C.
Bishop of Romford's Cob, aged. Bst 81b—African, aged,
Bat 91b--Cocoa Nut, 6 yrs, ist 61b—Sir Francis, 5 yrs,
Tat 51b—Vert Vert, 3 yrs, 6st 716—Jollity, 3 yrs, 6st 21b
Dublin Colt, 3 yrs, 6:4—ldas, scratched.
TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS STASES.
5 to 4 apt Planet. I 9 to 2 agst The Liberator (t)
3to 1 agst Conyngham. IBto 1 agst Christopher.
DEUY.
Offers to take 6 to 1 about Planet.
iThe following horse* have arrived from Goodw(od:—
planet, King of Morven, Halo, rrojeobile, Gabbltr,
aieTi"l.llGrer QOM% WI 'kW"

LITERATURE.

HISTORY OF EUR )PE. Vols. H., III:, and IV.
By Archibald Alison. • -
As this admirable 'reprint of Alison's European His-
tory proceeds, we cannot discern any abatement whatever
in the carefulness of its revision. The indices continue
to be of the same elaborate completeness, the typography
of the same beauty and precision, and the general appear-
ance of the volume, of the same compact and elegant cha-
racter. The narrative is brought down to the greed crisis
of the French Revolution, when Democracy not only gained
the supreme predominance, but began to illustrate the
extasy of its jubilations by the commission of crimes
more awful and rutl.less than we could otherwise have
conceived humanity to be capable of perpetrating. From
the execution of the vaccinating. and unfortunate Louis
Sixiirie to the establishment of the Directorial Govern-
ment and the close of the National Convention, the dema•
gogues, whether Girondists or Mountaineers, gradually
extended their power, until it merged into a disguised des•
potism, and became uniedurable to the populace, from
whose credsility it had imbibed its vitalty. During that
interval of bloodshed and legalised sensuality, the palaces
of Paris became the lairs of men more akin to the demons
of Gehana than to the Adam of the Asiatic Paradise.
In the person of Marat the spirit of a cruel insanity
se,ined to be embodied ; in Hebert, that of despicable
blasphemy ; in " the Incorruptible," that of a relentless
ee.otism ; in St. Just, that of a barbarous audacity ; in
Couthon, that of an execrable heartlessness; in llenriot,
that of a drunken domination ; and so on, through the
hideous catalogue of murderers. It is upon this terrible
but enthralling epoch that Mr. Alison is entering
when the third volume closes, leaving the reader
solicitous for the publication of the succeed-
ing chapters. Even to those who are familiarly
acquainted with this extraordinary composition, the
styls as well as the subject will possess an undiminished
fascination. Every successive perusal only convinces
one the more that Mr. Alison has contributed a splendid
work.to the literature of his country, and that if he
cannot divest himself of certain preposterous prejudices,
he still enables us, by the very ardour of the passages in
which they are contained, to avoid the warps of his in-
tellect and judgment. Upon the opening of the fourth
volume we find the whole of the internal crimes and
sufferings of France detailed with scrupulous accuracy
and impartiality up to the memorable campaign of 1794,
when the Republic had to withstand the assault of the
banded sovereigns of Europe. Among the most beauti-
ful descriptions in this portion of Alison's history must
be particularly mentioned the executions of hialesherbes,
of Chenier, and of the sister of LouisXVl. ; among the
most impassioned is the 'account of -Tallien's eloquence
in impeaching the Terrorist's, and theborrible deaths of
I.lobe'spierre and liiiineeon, c '

THE CABINET HISTORY OF ENGLAND,
Vols. XXIII and XXIV. .

As brilliantly written as heretofore, the present volumes
of Mr. Macfarlane's national history possess a peculiar
and almost paramount interest, seeing that they are the
condensed record of perhaps the grandest epoch in the
whole existence of man. But the work is flawed, is blurred,
is miserably warped in spirit. Its offence is Toryism,
and its

"Offence is rank, it smells to Heaven!"

We never read volumes so small crammed with so
many errors, so> many monstrous misstatements, such
inveterate and abhorrent bigotry. The historian is a
worshipper of legitimacy ; he resembles Lord Nelson
too, in one particular, for he seems actually " to have
imbibed a hatred for the French with his mother's
milk." Whatever the English do is noble, and true,
and glorious. Whatever the French do is bad, execrably
and irredeemably bad. Is that the disposition for a his-
torian ? A party man should never presume to take up
the pen of history.

TRUTH AND FALSEHOOD. A Romance. 3 Vols.
By Elizabeth Thornton.

COURT CIRCULAR.

Seeing that we have noticed the piecemeal publication
of this clever fiction on its commencement in Tan's Ma-
gazine, it is unnecessary to give either an analysis
of its merits, or an epitome of its plot. From the hur-
ried production of Mrs. Gore's last work, " Temptation
and Atonement." in the pages of the periodical just
mentioned, the romance by Mrs. Thornton was suddenly
discontinued, and the authoress here receives ample
compensation for this (probably unavoidable and unin-
tentional) injury by the publication of the entire work
in the customary three volumes. We are induced to say
that Mrs. Thornton thereby receives ample compensa •
tion, from a conviction that the amusing narrative here
presented to the public cannot but add to the reputation
already acquired by that lady as a romancist from the
composition of " The Marchioness." Sparkling and
interesting as that story was, it is eclipsed both in the
interest of its incidents and the sparkle of its style, by
" Truth and Falsehood." Mrs. Thornton has no ambi-
tion in this book to acquire either the sickly fame of a
depictor of fashionable life as it is now-a•days, nor the
preposterous notoriety struggled for by the cultivators of
the " virtuous indignation" line. The three volumes
are pure romance, and the tale is situated in the fittest
land for the romantic, the land of Gil Blas and
Rozinante. Spanish scenery, Spanish character, Spanish
crime, and Spanish passion, are among the most appro-
priate adjuncts of the romantic, whether it relate to love
or to adventure ; and these adjuncts Mrs. Thornton has
most skilfully employed. _ _

The Queen and Prince Albert, the ladies and gentle-
men of the Court, and the domestic household. attended
Divine Service yesterday morning in the private chapel
in Buckingham Palace. The Hen. and Rev. C... Leslie
Courtenay officiated.
Her Majesty and her Royal Consort took their ac-
customed early walk yesterday.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, Prince
Alfred, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, took
airings yesterday in the Royal gardens.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited the
Queen on Saturday, and remained to luncheon with her
Majesty and Prince Albert at Buckingham Palace.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert rode out on horse-
back on Saturday attended by the Hon. Capt. Gordon.
The Prince of 'Wales, Prince Alfred, the Princess
Royal, and the Princess Alice, took their usual pony and
walking exercise on Saturday.
Her ,Majesty and Prince Albert, attended by the
Countess of Mount Edgcumbe, Hon. Miss Kerr, Hon.
Miss Cavendish, Lord Byron, and Major General
Wemyss, honoured the Royal Italian Opera House with
their presence on Saturday evening.
We understand that hjr Majesty, anxious to comply
with the wish expressed by many persons to be allowed
to see the pictures lately painted by Mr. F. Winterhalrer,
namely, one representing her Maj ?sty, his Royal High-
ness Prince Albert, and the Royal children; the other,
his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales in a sailor's
dress ; has been graciously pleased to command that
they shall be exhibited in the banqueting-room in St.
James's Palace.
On inquiring at the Lord Chamberlain's office we find
that it is intended that tickets shall be issued by the
Lord Chamberlain from thence to commence op. Tuesday
next, the 20th instant. The hours of admission to be
from two to five o'clock.
At first the tickets will be limited to the Foreign
Ministers; the Members of the late and present Cabinets;
and the Great Officers of State. After the 28th instant,
tickets will be issued for about three weeks to ladies and
gentlemen upon personal applicati• n at the Lord Cham-
berlain's office, between the hours of twelve and four, at
the end of which time tickets may be obtained in the
same manner as the orders to view the state apartments
in Windsor Castle, upon application to Messrs. Paul and
Dominic Colnaghi, printsellers, No. 14, Pall-mall East ;
Mr. Moon, printseller, NO. 20, Threadneedle-street; Mr.
Mitchell, bnokseller, No. 33, Old Bond-street; Messrs.
Ackermann and Co., printsellers, No. 96, Strand, until
the end of June, when the pictures will be removed to
Osborn, her Majesty's private residence, iii the Isle of
Wight;for which'place they were painted.
Mr. Moon has purchased the copyright from , Mr.
Winterhaltee, and engravings of the Two. Pictures, in
the highest style of art, will be published by sub-
scription.`
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited her
Majesty the Queen Dowager yesterday. His Royal
Highness the Duke of Cambridge also visited her Ma-
jesty yesterday, at Marlborough House.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge attended
divine service yesterday morning in Grosvenor Chapel,
South Audley-street.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of
Cambridge, attended by Lady Augusta Cadogan, Baron
Knesebeck, and Major Stephens, honoured her Ma-
jesty's Theatre with their presence on Saturday evening.
A Cabinet Council was held at two o'clock on Satur-
day afternoon at the Foreign Office. It was attended by
Lord John Russell, the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of
Lansdowne, the Earl of Minto, Sir George Grey, Vis-
count Palmerston. Earl Grey, the Earl Auckland, Sir
John Hobhouse, Lord Campbell, Viscount Morpeth, the
Earl of Clarendon, the Marquis of Clanricarde, the
Right Hon. T. B. Macaulay, and the Right Hon.
Labouchere.
The Council sat three hours.

KNIGHT'S MONTHLY VOLUME. No. Xl.
Rambles by Rivers: The Thames. VOL I. By James
Thorne. _

Another pleasant series is here commenced, and a
series which is calculated to diversify the character of
the general publication. After rambling in imagination
down the bitigraphic..ll.course 'of some- remarkable per-
sonage, or along the broad stream of the events recorded
of a country, it is agreeable enough to follow the track
of our beautiful island.rivers. Among them, of course,
the Thames-7dd Father Thames—the silent Highway
—is paramount. And Father Thames is accordingly
first selected for description by Mr. Thorne. With rt
variety of clever woodcuts, beginning with the source of
the river at the Seven Springs near Cheltenham, and ter-
minating with a representation of Windsor Castle, the
little volume oretents a most attractive appearance. It
is rendered instructive by' multiplicity of historical and
antiquarian facts elicited by the associations of the
different venerable localities traversed by the monarch of
English rivers.

A deputation from the metropolitan gas companies,
consisting of Mr. Bateman, from the Chartered Gas-
light and Coke Company ; Mr. Gainsford, from the
Phcenix Company; Mr. Hinde, from the London Com-
pany ; Mr. Sangster, from the City of London Com-
pany; Mr. T. B. Simpson, from the South Metropolitan
Company; Messrs. Townend and Grattan, from the In-
dependent Company; Mr. Hammick, from the Ratcliffe
Company; Messrs. Tyrrell and Richards, from the Im-
perial Company; and Mr. Holdship, from the Equitable
Company, had an interview with Viscount Morpeth at
the office of her Majesty's Commissioners of Woods and
Forests in Whitehall-place on Saturday.
A deputation from the Supporters of the Government
Minutes on Education in Btrmingham, waited on Lord
John Russell on Saturday, at his official residence in
Downing-street. The deputation consisted of the Rev.
John C. Miller, Rector of St. Martin's ; the Hon. and
Rev. G. M. Yorke, Rector of St. Philip's ; Mr. T. Lane,
High Bailiff ; and Mr. John Aston, and were intro-
duced by Mr. R. Spooner, M.P.
Mr. C. K. Murray had an interview with Lord John
Russell on Saturday.
A deputation of the New River Company, consisting
of Mr. Richard Beauvoir Berens, Governor ; Major-
General Ellicombe, Deputy-Governor ; Mr. E. W.
Webster, Treasurer ; Mr. Henry Hulse Berens, and the
Rev. C. Keene, Directors ; and Mr. C. Mylne, Engineer
to the Company ; had an interview on Saturday with
Viscount Morpeth, at the office of the Woods and

KNIGHTS WEEKLY VOLUME, No. CXIV.
Canterbury Tales from Chaucer, Vol. H. By John
Saunders.

Forests.
The Duke of Wellington and Sir Frederick Trench
attended the early Service in the Chapel Royal St.
James's, yesterday. The prayers were read by the Rev.
Dr. Wesley, and the sermon was preached by the Rev.
J. R. Wood. At the daily service the prayers were
read by the Rev. Dr. H. Dakins, and the lessons by the
Rev. Dr. Knapp. The sermon was preached .by the
Rev. 3. R. wood. The anthem was " 0 give thanks "
(Purcell). The Ladies St. Germans and Somerset, the
Duke of Beaufort, the Marquises of Anglesey and Wor-
cester; Lords Fortescue, St. Germans, Cawdor, Jocelyn,
Cantilupe, and Ebrington, were among the nobility
present.

It has been recently and justly remarked by Mr.
Charles Knight that Mr. John Saunders has conferred
a great boon upon the future students of old Geoffrey
Chaucer by the composition of these volumes. A greater
boon we regard it than the " Tales from Shakspere," by
Charles Lamb and his congenial sister ; for whereas the
latter are only suited to the innocent tastes of children,
the former have a vigour and boldness about them most
suitable to the theme, and such as must impart the fullest
pleasure to the hearts of the adult lovers of true poesy.
The stories are daintily told, partially in prose and par-
tially in quotations, giving us the very marrow and cure
of the original.

ESSAYS ON HUMAN RIGHTS AND THEIR
POLITICAL GUARANTEES. By E. P.

Hurlbut.
An Americrin writer, but especially an American
political writer, never had a more flattering introduction
to the readers of Great Britain than the one here
.fforded to Mr. durlbut by the brief but suggestive pre-
face of George Combe. The simpli. announcement, "A
Preface and Notes by George Combe," was a thing pre-
cisely calculated to attract the attention of the very many
thousands of admirers of that philosophic and argumen-
tative mind. Mr. Hurlbut, therefore, comes before
us with the prestige, of being a friend of George
Combe, and as such we welcome him cordially ;
and the more so, let it said, from finding,
on inspection, that neither the manner nor the
thoughts of this E. P. Hurlbut are unworthy of one who
has communed with George Combe. As the annotatpr
observes in his introductory remarks, " the aim of the
work is to determine the foundation and objects Of Go-
vernment, and the powers with which the Legislature
and the executive should be invested, to enable them to
perform their functions to the best advantage to the
State." The object of tbemork is, in other words, a
comprehensive inquiry into the problems, " Whence
comes Government ?" and "How shall we ensure good
Government ?"—problems of unutterable importance.
The author treats both queries with the skill or a prao
tised " counsellor at law (which be is, in New York).
and his essays are piinted of the form and at the price of
the popular edition of the "Constitution of Man. Alto-
gether it forms a sort of sequel to the " Constitution of
Man," seeing that it telatei to the "Constitution of So-
ciety," 'society being, as it were, the noun multiple to the
word man.

" Gun LONDON CORRESPONDENT."—Such is the
title under which various provincial journals keep a
contributor in town, whose duty it is to send a weekly
column of exclusive intelligence. The intelligence
is certainly exclusive enough, being th© exclu-
sive manufacture of the indiviJual who forwards
it. The person engaged in the capacity of London
correspondent is compelle f to affect an acquaint-
ance with all that is passing in the best-intormed
circles; but as his sphere of observation is confined to
the limited circle of the tavern he frequents, he is
obliged to drew upon his imagination for the " facts"
be furnishes to the provincial journal. It cannot be ex-
pected that there will be much veracity in his state-
ments, but what they want in truth is made up in
audacity. Upon the strength of what he picks up
from his know-reporters on the London press, he has
generally something to say about the movements, in-
tentions, engagements, or non-engagementsof the leading
writers, about whom ho knows positively nothing.
Occasionally he has
some grand scheme to communicate
with reference to the starting of a new daily paper, which
is to oppose every other journal in existence, and is to
be conducted by everybody who have all seceded from
everything else, for the purpose of putting every possible
and impossible strength into the new enterprise. Pro-
prietors, printers, publishers, editors, contributors, re-
porters, and indeed the entire establishment, from the
highest to the lowest, are said by "our London corre-
spondent" to be on the point of abandoning profit, posi-
tion, character, and everything else, to start a wilful op-
position to the paper in which they all have a mutual in-
terest. When " our London Correspondent" is asked for
his authority—though it is seldom worth any one's while
to do that—his announcement of a new paper is found to
rest on no foundation whatever. It enabled him to fill up
a portion of his required sheet, and be cannot afford to
be scrupulous as to the means of doing so. " Our
London Correspondent" is of course in the confidence of
all the Ministers and all the leading members of the Op-
position ; ands et, upon his own showing, if his boast be
true, he is betraying all the secrets intrusted to him on all
sides, for a few shillings a week from a country news-
paper. He knows that Lord John Russell will not be in
office another month at least four years before he goer
out, and thus " our London Correspondent" proves the
access he bas to very, very early (a little too early) in-
telligence. He can tell you who is to have the next gar-
ter, when there is one vacant ; and has seen letterafrom
Jenny Lind or Mendelssohn, notwithstanding no letter
has been written by either of these illustrious indivi-
duals. In fact "our London "Ourrespoodent" live& in a
world of his ewn; which enables Mew to,see a treat deal
more than, is seen
.by any body else. sad the befit aisle,
that there'_il
,)• 'no vrritnesses to prove the contrary of
- his assertionscs. Ter his facts arose truly original, that ho
has them all to hilbSelf, and no ono else hss•an opportu-
nity of meeting them.--Punch
LAUNCH 01" •"ANOTHER IRON STEAMER.,--011 Stl-

DRURY-LANE THEATRE.—The Sptletftele Of The 1,
Desert, at the very moment it is drawing all play goers to
this theatre, is to be unexpectedly cut short in its career. it
having been found impossible to obtain a renewal of Mr. '
Hughes's engagement. His entire establishment leaves town
the end of next week.
ACCIDENTS ON THB SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY.
—SALISBURY, APRIL 17.—During this week two accidents
occurred on the branch of this line running to this city,
which, but for the skill and great care evinced by the en-
gineers, might have proved very disastrous; as it was, both
occurred without any serious accident, the passengers being
" frightened, not hurt." The first was the half-past eight
A.m. train for London, from Salisbury, on Monday morning
last, which ran oft the rails approaching " Clay Cutting,"
about two miles and a half from the city ; after a delay of an
hour only all was set right again, the train arriving within
less than an hour of its usual time at Nine Elms, London.
This clay cutting is one of the most troublesome parts of this
branch to work through and render safe, costing the con-
tractors some thousands of pounds more than they antici-
pated, yet they persevere, men working early and late in
great gangs to make the line safe and firm. The second ac-
cident , was to the half-past three P.M. train from London.
The man at. the Kienbridge Gates, about three miles front
Romsey, which are kept closed over the line at that spot,
opening only fifteen minutes before a train is due, neglected
to perform that duty; on this train approaching the engine
took the gate, dashing it into many pieces, carrying bars,
posts, and every piece of timber away, scattering the same
in every direction, but providentially the wood was forced
from the carriages instead of into ;hem, or some dreadful
accident might have been the consequence ; the engine-
driver perceived the danger, caused the shrill whistle to be
heard, and the speed to be slackened, stopping the train
entirely after within fifty yards of the disaster, when it was
found that no one was hurt, and but very little injury done
to the engine or carriages; this occurred about eight o'clock
in the evening of Friday, the 16th instant, and, to prevent
accidents on this branch, the engineers hays an extra
quarter of an hour allowed them to go over the branch from
Bishopatoke to Salisbury, a distance of twenty -two miles
only.
BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, APRIL 16.—The market
continues exceedingly dull, and although importers here
show a disposition to meet the buyers by a further con-
cession in -prices, it has not led to business of moment.
IThe assortment of West India sugar is very indifferent,
particularly of anything suitable for settle purpose*,
.3641t1 Mern• '

turday afternoon a fine new iron steamer, called the Joseph
Miller, was sent off the stocks into the Thames, from the
so that tbere was more than the usual
building yard of Miller, Ravenhill and Co., at Orchard
into the water without the slightest
afloat the extreme beauty of her form was
Wharf, Blackwell, in the presence of a considerable number
of spectators. The vessel was gaily dressed out with flags,
&c. ; her paddle-boxes were up, and a good deal of her in.
; depth of hold, mid-
-10 inches •, burden, old
ffeeeeStthe will be fitted with a
tenorstrain
weight:
;w ao
buturkd dwsoihineee,n
glided
seen to great advantage. She was built for the Lower and
Middle Rhine Company, and for service on that river, after a
beam,ite t0n5.r,129
design of Mr. Pasco. Her length between the perpendiculars
pair of Miller and Co.'s 40-horse power oscillating engines,
and be lightly rigged with two masts. Her saloons, cabins,
&c., are to be handsomely decorated, and furnished by first-
imssh
measurement,
9rfeefi
neeteetn;tb, rd3erat
idutgliihot of
.90
fitwi
rate artists, and will probably exceed in elegance and com-
fort any vessel of the same class now afloat. The name was i
given, at the urgent request of the owners, as a compliment
to Mr. Miller as an enginetr, and an expression of the com-
pany's sense of the important services he has rendered them
by supplying them with their best vessels, especially the
Elberfeld and Concordia,. which have no equals on the Rhine
for speed or accommodation. After the launch a numerous
party of ladies and gentlemen partook of refreshments in a
room commanding a full view of the river, over the counting
house at Orchard Wharf. " g-
Success to the Joseph Miller"
was of course drunk with all the honours, followed by "The
health of Miss Ravenhill," sister of the second partner of
the firm, who had performed the ceremony of baptism with
spirit. The Joseph Millers will be Completed with all
great
possible dispatch; the engine re nearly ready, 'and the
vessel will, in all likelihood, b-. 3 on its station by the first or
second week in June.
SA LE OF TIIII GREAT WESTERN STEAM Snip.—The
Great Westerns team-ship was sold at Bristol on Friday to
Captain Chappell. the secretary of the Royal West India
Steam-packet Mail Company, for 25.0001., exclusive of her
plate, and which was the reserve price put on her when she
was offered for sale by auction a few weeks since. She will
proceed in a few days to Southampton, from which port it is
intended that she shall sail for a five months' voyage, and at
the expiration of that period we are informed that it is the
• .
Campany's intention to lay ner up and expend a large sum
' upon her (report says 10,0001.) in repairs, refitting, &c.
' 'rue ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.—On Saturday orders
were given that the electric telegraph wires of the South-
' Western Railway, now conducting to the Admiralty. should
pass through Spring-garden gate into St. James's Park, to
I ' enter the Admiralty troll; the Parede is *out .4 C 3 Morse
Guirtli.

LON DON,__MOVDAY
_EVENING, APRIL 19, 1847

THE GOLD CURRENCY.
(From the Post.)
The accounts of the Batik of England which we pub-
lished on Saturday show that a very important diminu-
tion of the means of the Bank for carrying on its busi-
ness had taken place between the 3d instant and the 10th
instant. On the 3d instant the establishment possessed
in its banking department 3,699,7001. in notes, and
691,770/. in coin, applicable to the carrying on of its
banking business. On the 10th instant the same de-
partment held 2,832,9151 in notes, and 630,713 L in gold
and silver coin, applicable to the carrying on of its
banking business. On that day (the 10th instant), the
issue department held of gold and silver coin and bullion
the sum of 9.236,340?, but over this sum the banking
department of the Bank had no control. The whole
funds of the Bank, and of all its branches which could
be made use of for payments to the public on the 10th
instant, amounted to 3,463,628/., and if more than that
amount had been demanded by those depositors who had
a legal right to make the demand, the Bank must have
stopped, though in its issue department it held 9,236,3401.
lying useless—useless, at all events, in the sense of cir-
culating money. It was understood last week,lby persons
likely to be well informed on the subject, that on the 17th a
large sum would become due to the Bank in liquidation
of a part of its securities. This sum being paid to the
Bank in notes would place it in a considerably stronger
position than it was in previously, but as this sum of
bank-notes would be withdrawn from the general circu-
lation, the payment would tend to increase the " tight-
ness" of money, and consequently the pressure upon all
who have to make money payments in the course of their
business, or in the payment of bills which they accepted
tinder an easier state of circumstances. These are but
the details of that pinching, draining, exhausting system
to which money convertible into gold, coupled with a
free trade in gold, must always be liable, and which has
been so excessively aggravated by the additional restric-
tions of Peel's Bill of 1844—that "complement to the
measure of 1819" of which he made suet vainglorious
boast in the prosperous period of May, 1844. It was
true that previously to that time the Bank was liable to
be pressed for payment of its notes in gold, but the
directors had such opportunities of knowing the chan-
nels of eistribution of their notes, and such means of
judging whether they were, or were not likely to be called
upon to pay to a large extent in gold, that they could issue
notes, under certain circumstances of pressure, without
imprudence, although not holding gold against such
issue. Say that they were drawn upon for a million or
two, which they knew would go into the hands of per-
' sons who, within a week, would repay these very notes
to them upon another " account. This often happened,
and 'when it did happen it made no difference. to the ac-
commodation given to the public at large ; for the Bank
increased its issues, or had the power to do so, in order
to meet the particular case. Since Peel's Bill of 1844,
however, there is no such liberty left with the Bank.
If to-day, out of the fifteen millions of deposits which
the Bank holds, a million or two were withdrawn, the
bankers, well knowing that this day week the notes
would be repaid, and in the meantime would lie in some
iron chest in Lombard-street, still the Bank must pro-
portionably diminish its accommodation to the public,
for without bank-notes it cannot accommodate the public,
and it has no privilege to obtain from the issue depart-
ment a million or two to replace those which have gone
to the iron safes in Lombard-street. It can only obtain
notes as any private individual could, by giving gold
in exchange for them, and that it has not to. give.
Such is the working of Peel's Bill, which some per-
sons have still the effrontery to talk of as a beneficial
measure 1 To whom is it beneficial? Does it serve the
trader who relied upon the discount of good bills for
meeting his engagements, and finds he cannot get dis-
counts, or cannot get them except at a premium which
takes away all his profit? Does it serve the owner of
Consols, or of Shares in joint-stock companies, who has
occasion to turn his securities, or a part of them, into
money, and finds them enormously depreciated in conse-
quence of the scarcity of money? Does it serve the
banker, who is liable to heavy demands being made upon
him, and who fears to make use of the funds deposited
with him, lest, from the increasing pressure, deposits
should be withdrawn? No, it serves only the owners of
large sums of ready money, over which they have ab-
solute control, and who, in such a time, command almost
what remuneration they please for temporary loans.
These only are the people who thrive by such circum-
stances of pressure as such a Bill as Peel's Bill of 1844
must inevitably lead to, whenever the course of mercan-
tile affairs takes large sums of gold out of the country.
A letter to the Chancellor of the Exchequer has been
sent to us, in which the writer (Mr. T. Lainie Murray)
points out the circumstances of difficulty under which
the monetary concerns of the country are now placed,
and' suggests a remedy. The remedy proposed
is an interference with the business of the
Bank of England, which we cannot conceive
that any gentleman not concerned in that es-
tablishment has any right to propose; but his statement
of the circumstances which require some remedy is worth
attention, and the more so because we believe tar. Mur-
ray's experience entitles him to give an opinion upon
such matters. After adverting to the circumstances of
the potato famine, he proceeds to say:—
" Ev. ry one will admit that this visitation of Divine
Providence is in itself of sufficient magnitude, but when
it is increased by a monetary crisis, it may become to
the last degree inconvenient.
" One of the arguments against the abolition of the
corn-laws was the apprehended disturbance of the cir-
culation of the Bank of England by the efflux of bullion
in the purcha,e of corn. But when that argument was
put forward, it was never contemplated that this dis-
turbance could hear the smallest ratio to the quantity of
coin imported into western Europe, and likely to arrive in
the courss of this year. If; thereforo, what was consi-
dered a serious inconvenience on so small a sale, as one
ventured to assert, how much must the evil assume the
character of serious alarm when this importations of fo-
reign corn, and the consequent efflux of the precious
meads, is carried on upon a scale of magnitude beyond
parallel, and p olectly disproportionate to the resources
of the Bank of England aeting under the restrictions
impose,' by the Bill of 1844?
"It should be remembered that this state of things
has suddenly come upon the country in the very midst of
engagements for public undertakings of all kinds un-
precedently large, and resting on private means for their
execution, already sanctioned by Parliament, and of
others awaiting that sanction.
"At no period in the commercial history of this
country has such an amount of floating values existed
upon the stock markets.
" I am disposed to agree that the amount of enter-
prise to which capital is pledged, and now in the course
of being required, is entirely disproportionate to the an-
nual surplus.
" This state of things is not alone confined to England
—France, Belgium, and Germany are, with ourselves,
equally purchasers of corn, equally require bullion for
the purpose, and are equally engaged in extensive rail-
way constructions, requiring a large capital and resources.
"To this surcharged state of things must be added
the deficiency in the cotton crop, its influence on em-
ployment and manufactures. The loss to the consumer
in the difference of price is estimated at more than
4,000,0001.
" I have drawn your attention to these facts with a
view of proving that the state of England and Europe,
both in respect to the deficiency of food and the under-
takings in which all are engaged, is widely different
from that of the year 1844, when the law regulating the
Bank of England was passed.
" At that period, and under widely different circum-
stances, the inconvenience that might result from an
exceptional state of things was foreseen by some of our
most extensive and sagacious London bankers, who, in
the memorial signed by some of the most eminent firms,
dated the 11th June, 1844, clearly indicated a case such
as has now arisen, fur which the law has made no pro-
vision.
" A situation of embarrassment, which was deemed
possible, has at length arrived ; and the Bank of Eng-
land, coerced by the law of 1844, is no longer able to
interpose a barrier against the sweeping torrent of de-
preciation, and public and private discredit that has set
in. The Bank has already exhausted its resources, and
overstepped its prudence. The effort has been perhaps
praiseworthy ; but the endeavour has been vain.
" In former times, at periods of distrust, the aid of so
powerful an establishment has always, when exerted. in-
vigorated the disorganisation of private credit, without
'injury to itself; but the Bill of 1844 entirely destroyed
this useful function, and in this exists its greatest error
and deficiency.
" Under the law of 1844, sooner or later in this year,
the present state; of things was inevitable. In the one
case, had the Bank restricted its accommodation, the-
panic would have resulted from real pressure.; and in the
other, as in the present instance, from anticipated pres.
sure, arising from the exhausted and hopeless condition
of the Bank."
The remedy proposed by the writer of the above is,
that the Bank should employ a large portion of its " rest"
in purchasing two and a half millions of Government se-
curities, and be empowered by Act of Parliament to issue
that amount of bank-notes against such securities, over
and above the sum at present allowed to be issued against
such security. This might, no doubt, be serviceable as
a temporary expedient, if the Bank thought fit thus to
make use of its accumulated profits; but no one, except
the Bank itself, has any business to propose such an ex-
pedient. Besides, we must remember that the vicious
principle would still remain which compels the autho-
rised issuers of paper money to contract their issues as
gold leaves the country, while the policy demanded by
the nature of the case, and by common sense, is that as
gold money is taken away from the country some other
medium of exchange should be proportionably supplied
For the purpose of carrying on the vast business, both
,nternal and external, in which the country is engaged.

THE MAILS: SOUTHAMPTON, APRIL 16, TEN P.M.
—The Oriental Company's steam ship Montrose, Captain
Burney, has just arrived in the docks from Gibraltar, with
the Peninsular and Mediterranean mails, which will be
landed under charge of Lieutenant Newenham, and for-
warded to London by the 2 A. m mail train of the 17th. The
dates are Gibraltar, April 4th ; Cadiz, sth ; Lisbon, 10 ;
Oporto, 11 ; Vigo, 12. She brings 19 passengers and a full
cargo of fruit. Ships at Gibraltar, Virago ; at Lisbon,
Hibernia, Trafalgar, American, Phoenix, and Polyphemus.
The Montrose spoke the Royal Tar off Portland, outward
bound. The Montrose experienced line weather out, but
strong gales from the eastward home Our Portugal news
will be found in another pal tof our paper. April 17.—The
Royal \Vest India mail packet Forth, Captain Chapman,
left the port at 3 p.m. this day for the West Indies, with the
usual mails, in charge of Lieutenant Hay, R.N., Admiralty
agent. She has taken out 60 passengers. including the
Bishop of Barbadoes, family and suite, 11,0901. in valuables,
and very full cargo. The Oriental Company's steam-ship
Madrid, Captain Weeks, left the docks at 3 F.M. this day for
Gibraltar, with Peninsula and Mediterranean mails, in
charge of the Admiralty agent, Lieutenant Snwth. She has
20 passengers on board ; also 500 barrels of flour, and full
cargo of bale goods.
'he statue of Marshal Bessieres, Duke of Istria,
was inaugurated on April 5, at Fraysac (Lot), the marshal's
1430123 were present on the
'natal town. Upwards of 20,000

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.
THE TRENT VALLEY RAILWAY.

- _
TAMWORTII, APRIL 17.—Yesterday Mr. Brassey, the
principal contractor for the works on this important line
of railway, in company with a party of friends, tra-
versed the line from Rugby to Stafford. During their
progress they were loudly cheered by the populace as-
sembled at the various stations on the line, and particu-
larly at Tamworth ; the rejoicing was manifested by the
waving of flags, the firing of cannon, and the ringing of
bells. From Tamworth the party (the train consisting
of an engine and two carriages) proceeded to Lichfield
and Rugeley, and thence through the great tunnel on
Lord Lichfield's estate at Shuckborough to the neigh-
bourhood of the terminus at Stafford. At present, how•
ever, owing to the boggy state of the land, over which is
an embankment, in the neighbourhood of that town, an
efficient junction with the London and North• Western
has not yet been effected. Notwithstanding, there is no
doubt that in the course of a short time the nnessary
solidity will be obtained, as the Grand Junction had to
contend with the same difficulty when the line was first
put down in that vicinity.
Mr. Brassey and his friends remained at Stafford
for the night, and this morning, as previously an-
nounced, returned on their experimental trip to Tam-
worth. Here, where the sod was first turned by Sir
Robert Peel, great doings were expected, and, as the
directors had intimated their intention of taking lun-
cheon, it was not unnaturally supposed, Sir Robert
Peel being at Drayton, that he would hcnuur the party
with his company. At the time the directors were ex-
pected to arrive a considerable concourse of people,
amongst them the most respectable inhabitants of the
district, had assembled in the neighbourhood of the Tam•
worth station:—Sir R. Peel, Lady Peel, Miss Peel, and
the youngest son of the Right Hon. Baronet, were on
the platform ; but, as it subsequently appeared, Sir
Robert was not there with the view of taking any part
in the festivities which followed, but for the purpose of
starting with his family by the next train for London.
Accordingly, at half past eleven o'clock, before the Trent
directors made their appearance, the Right lion, Baronet
had directed his course to the metropolis, and those who
imagined that they were about to be favoured with an-
other address upon railway projects were doomed to dis-
appointment. Sir Robert was looking well, and appeared
to be much gratified with the gay and animated scene of
which he was a spectator.
The party from Stafford arrived shortly before twelve
o'clock, amidst the cheering of the populace and the
booming of cannons. Amongst. the gentlemen who
alighted were Captain Huish, Mr. Bruyeres (of the Lon-
don and North-Western), Mr. Vooch, C.E., Mr. Bart-
lett, C.E., Mr. Dockeray, Mr. Yield, Mr. Berkeley, Mr.
Godson, Mr. Irving, Mr. Cawley, Mr. Brassey, &c.
A sumptuous luncheon was provided by Mr. Rhoades, of
the King's Arms, and, as might be expected, the festi-
vities passed off with great glee and good humour.
The report of the directors and engineers who con-
stituted the party to this experimental trip is, that the
line throughout, with the exception of the portion near
Stafford already referred to, is remarkably firm, and the
work substantially and in all respects efficiently com-
pleted. The station at Tamworth is an elegant Eliza-
bethan building of great capacity, and will be of great
ornament to the line. _ _

The party, after leaving Tamworth, 'proceeded for-
ward through Atherstone and Nuneaton to Rugby,
where the Trent line effects its southern junctiun with
the London and North-Western.
_ .

It is intended to open the line fir the conveyance of
goods on the Ist of June, and for passengers on the ht
of July. From that time the truffle between London
and Manchester and Liverpool will take its leave of the
present route through Birmingham.

DUBLIN AND KINGSTOWN RAILWAY COM-

PANY.

The half-yearly meeting of this company was held on
Saturday, at 12 o'clock, in the board-room of the com-
pany's station-house, near Handrow, Mr. George Pim
in the chair.
The treasurer read the usual report from the directors,
from which it appeared " that there has been a decrease
in the receipts of the company for the past year, the
number of passengers booked at all the stations during
the last six months being :1,668,650, and for the pre-
vious half-year 1,747,100, showing a decrease of 78,450,
which produced a decrease in money receipts of
1,345 L 3s. I Id.

.C. 6. d.

" Gross income from all sources (ex-
clusive of Dslkey 51,691 15 2
" Income last year). 53,036 19 1

" Decrease £1,345 3 11."
The report went on to say, " that although a decrease
in the company's receipts was a matter to be regretted,
it was not at all calculated to excite surprise, owing to
the awful calamity which had fallen upon their country,
and which had not confined its effects alone to the poorer
classes, but had chiefly affected all ranks and positions
in society; a calamity that had curtailed all superfluous
expenditure, building, &c." In referring to the agree-
ment between the company and the Waterford, Wex-
ford, and Wicklow Company, the report went on to say,
" Whilst the board continue of opinion that the com-
pletion of a line of railway tly Wicklow and Wexford
to Waterford, without unnecessary delay, and in pur-
suance of the agrecment between the two companies,
would be highly advantageous to your interest, they
have not been unobservant of the late proceeding; of
the shareholders of the Waterf,rd, Wextord, Wick-
low, and Dublin Company, and of the anxiety which
lilts been shown by very many of them to endeavour to
relieve themselves from their rt-sportsibilities. The
directors have, therefore, ;felt it to be theirAluty t i seek
for such information from the directors of the 'Waterhird,
Wexford, Wicklow, and Dublin Company, as wotild
elable them to judge of the ability of that company to
complete their undertaking in its integrity, before trans.
ferriug to them either your powers or your property.
The opinion of the board remained unchanged on this
subject, and all that had occurred since their previow
meeting only tended to confirm the board as to the pro
ixiety of the emirse they adopted; and not only has the.
infortaNstion bought ttr been withheld and &Menhirs
thrown in the way of your obtaining it, but the di, ect,,rs
of the Waterrord, Wexford, Wicklow, and Dublin Com-
pany have brought into Parliament a Bill for the amend-
in, tit of the Act, to enable them to shorten their line and
reduce their capital, which contains provi,ions and
clauses prejudicial to your interests, and at valiance
with the agreements between the two companies. The
board, there-fore, acting under the advice of eminent
counsel, have not executed the transfer of the powers fin•
making the Bray line on the lease of the Dublin and
Kingstown Railway, and they have forwarded a petition
to the House of Commons, under the common seal of
the company, against the Amendment Bill, &c., and are
prepared to offer an effective opposition to the Bill should
it be proceeded with. They trust the proprietors will
rely on the best exertions of the board to watch over and
protect the company's interests in this very important
matter."
A long discussion having:arisen upon the adoption of
the foregoing report, two amendments were proposed,
one to the effect that the directors should at once pro-
ceed to construct the extension from Kingstown to
Bray, and throw the onus on the Wexford and Water-
ford Company of applying for an injection to restrain ;
and the other, which was proposed by Mr. Palmer, of
London, recommending that the Kingstown Company
should not oppose the amendment Bill ; and also that a
deputation of the directors should wait upon the
directors of the Waterford and Wicklow line, in order
to arrange differences, and modify the arrangements
already entered into, so as to make theta meet the
wishes of all parties. After the discussion of those
amendments for upward of two hours and a half, they
were both withdrawn, and the matter having been
left to the discretion of the directors the report was
adopted.
Some routine business was then transacted, and the
meeting separated.

WILTS, SOMERSET,
WAY AND WEYMOUTH
RAIL.
At a special meeting of the proprietors, held at Bath,
Sir John Awdry in the chair. Bills were approved for
constructing a railway from Bleadon to Blandford. with
a branch to Glastonbury ; a railway from Compton to
Wilton, with
.a branch to Gillingham; to make certain
alterations in the main line, and to authorise certain
agreements with the Great Western Company.

ALARMING FIRES AND NARROW ESCAPE.—Shortly
before midnight on Saturday a very alarming fire, by which
a young girl nearly lost her life, broke out upon the pre-
mises, numbered 107, Great Rusttll-street, Bloomsbury.
It originated in the third floor, occupied by Mrs. 11. Soy,
a milliner and dressmaker, and was occasioned thus:—lt*

appears that Mrs. Soy had placed her daugliter Blanche,
a child about six or seven years of age, in bed, and had left
a candle burning in the room. Some time after the girl had
been asleep she was awoke by a burning sensation in one
of her legs, and on rising found the bed she was sleep-
ing in in one complete blaze of fire, caused by a spark
from the candle lodging there. The child instantly jumped
out of bed and ran screaming down stairs, which brought
the inmates of the house to her assistance, who endea-
voured to subdue the flames, but without avail, for owing
to the firm hold they had then obtained they were pour-
ing out of the door with suck fury as to threaten the en-
tire building with destruction. The residents, finding that
they were unable to extinguish the flames, sent for the en-
gines. In a very brief space of time the Royal Society for
the Protection of Life from Fire bad one of their escapes at
the scene, and the engines from Crown-street and High Hol-
born stations followed immediately after. The firemen, after
considerable trouble, succeeded in getting the flames sub-
dued, not, however, until the whole of the furniture in the
apartment was spoiled, three other rooms
th on the same floor
damaged, and two on the second floor, wi the furnit
therein, damaged by water. Unfortunately Mr. Soy was
uninsured. The occupier of the other rooms was insured in
the Scottish Union Fire-office. Yesterday, at noon, another
fire broke out at No. 3, Cole-street, Great Dover-road,
Southwark, belonging to Mr. John Harditiabgeh,Lucifer-match
manufacturer. It was caused by the overheat of the
idrying
stove at the back of the house, which set about 300 gross
match splints in a blaze. Several of the inhabitants
diately went to work, and succeeded in subduing the fire,
but not before the stock is the drying house was destroyed.
Some of the parties in rendering assistance were burned over
the face. Mr. Harding was not insured.
FATAL ACClDENT.—Yesterday
Anneevening
Jervis,
a small
wherry, containing six persons, was upset in the Thames oft
Milbank, and a young woman named
at 42, Salamanca-row, Lambeth, was drowned. It seems
that all the party were unskilled in the management of a
boat, and in their exertions to g etout of the way of an ap-
proaching steamer the brother of the young woman who w,,a
drowned dropped his scull in h
it fell overboard. The whole ofewater,
them rose with alarm, and
The accident was observed upset the boat.and in reaching after
from the shore,
and they were saved with the exception of the female, whose
body has not been recovered.
THE COBDEN NATIONAL TRIBUTE FUND.--SiD2R
the last announcement, 9781. has been contributed to this
fund, including a sum of 2001. by Mr. James G. Marshall, of
Headingley House, near Leeds. The total amount of the
snbseriptions, 51) OX as advertised Blanchester, is now
61,670 L