The Sun.
London, England, 1846-10-23 00:00:00

ROYAL VISIT TO ARUNDEL.

We have received the following communication from
our Arundel correspondeht :
" The visit of her Majesty and Royal Consort to the
Duke and Duchess of Norfolk, at Arundel Castle, will,
it is confidently expected, take place next week, for
which happy event all the necessary preparations are in
a forward state. We believe that up to the evening of
Tuesday her Majesty had not communicated to his
Grace her intentions as to the day Oa which she will
arrive; but, according to present arrangements, the du-
ration of the visit will be lour days, including those of
the arrival and departure. During. the Royal stay, her
Majesty will pay a visit to the Duke of RiAmond, at
Goodwood, calling on the way upon the Countess of
Newburgh, at Slindon House, and will also honour
Colonel Wyndham with a visit, at Petworth Home.
" The at rangements in anticipation of the royal visit
include new dresses for the boys and girls of the na-
tional schools, the laying down of gas pipes for illumi-
nating the exterior and approaches of the Castle, and the
planting of cannon for firing royal salutes. Artists ar-
rived last week to sketch the rooms, &c., of the Castle,
for the pictorial newspapers.
" The royal party will arrive by special train via the
London and Brighton Railway, quitting and taking the
train at the Arundel Station of the Chichester Branch."

It has been stated in some of the London papers that
her Majesty will make a brief sojourn at the Pavilion,
after her visit to Arundel Castle. We can only state
that no preparations have been made at the Pavilion,
such as to induce the belief that we are to be honoured
vsith a royal visit at so early a period ; and, even so late
as yesterday, no less than 57 large hampers of wine were
taken from the Pavilion, and conveyed by railway to
London.--Brighton Gazette.

HE MEXICAN BONDHOLDERS.

Whatever opinion may be entertained of Mr. Mur-
phy's answer to the Mexican Minister of Finance, and
its sufficiency in justification of the late conversion, there
is one fact which makes a strong impression on even the
most sanguine holders of stock, and that is, that there is
no doubt that the dispatch, be its reasonings good, bad,
or indifferent, expresses the feelings of the Mexican Go-
vernment, such as it was, at the date of the latest advices.
It is perfectly evident that the people who have to pay
make a formal objection to the document on which pay-
ment is claimed. Whether they are justifiable or not,
there is the filet, and the bondholders cannot be perfectly
easy, however logical or equitable their position.
Indeed, Mr. Murphy's letter has confirmed this fact.
When first we gave the substance of the Gomez Farias
dispatch there was nothing more common than to hear
that we had been hoaxed, and that no such document ex-
isted as the one described. The assertions thus recklessly
uttered were put to silence by the publication of the
operative part of the dispatch, which had been forwarded
for that purpose by Senor Gomez Ferias the younger.
Then came a series of doubts whether that gentleman i
was properly authorised, and whether Mr. Murphy was
bound to take any notice of his document. All these
doubts are dispelled in ther turn by Mr. Murphy's letter,
in which he t xamines and criticises the charge made
ag,in,t him in the dispatch, and officially publishes it.
The discussion now becomes merely one on the late con-
version, and the authority to make it, the great fact that
the present Mexican Government protest against it bcirg
incontrovertibly proved. Some persons, pie have heal d,
are so sensitive, that they attribute the pains we took to
set forth this fact in a strong light, at time wht n
doubts were so freely uttered, to a feeling inimical to the
bondholders. Such a charge as this is too absurd to
merit a reply. If it was an injury to the bondholders
to put them in possession of a fact most important
for them to know long before there was any other
source for the information but that of mere rumour,
such an injury we committed. We gave the material
part of the dispatch, and from Mr. Murphy's first letter
to the Spanish American committee, it is not too much
to infer that to the publication of that part the bond-
holders are in some measure indebted for the official
publication of the whole. _

While it is clear that the feeling of the existing Go-
vernment is against the converted bonds, and in favour
of a re-conversion of these into their original shape,some
of the dealers are beginning to inquire what would be
the result of such a re-conversion. The new bonds do
not all represent the same original stock, but some re-
present the old Active, some the old Deferred or Deben-
tures, and some a mixture of both. If the old bonds had
remained unconverted, it is very clear that, the time for
the Deferred becoming Active drawing nearer every day,
the difference between the two descriptions would be
getting less than at the beginning of the year. The
relative values of Active and Deferred stock would
have changed; and thus, if a re-conversion takes place,
the holder of a new bond for OOL may find himself in a
different position from another holder to the same
amount, according to the nature of the old bonds given
in exchange, one being entitled to take so much Active,
another so mush Deferred, in various proportions.
Hence a correspondent suggests that on every new bond
should be marked the description of old stock for which
it was changed, that people may know what they are
buying, in case of are conversion. We hope that the
present storm will blow over, and that there will be no
occasion for a process so difficult and troublesome that
Mr. Murphy pronounces it a "physical impossibility;"
but, in the meanwhile, the point started by our cor-
respondent is too curious not to merit a moment's at
tention.

The tie 4. Mexican bonds issued under the late con-
version amount, we are told, to 7,300,0001., being about
two-thirds of the amount stipulated.—Times.

THE GREAT WESTERN STEAMER. LIVERPOOL,
THURSDAY AFTERNOON.—The ship Sea has arrived ;
she sailed from New York on the 30th ult., the same
day as the Cambria's mails were dispatched to Boston,
consequently her news is not any later. We are now
hourly expecting the Great Western.
THE NAILORS' STRIKE.—The nailors about Broms-
grove have partially reiumed work agair, and the re-
mainder are expected to go to work in a day or two,
though it is not yet settled whether an advance in the
wages will take place or not.
THE EARL OF LINCOLN AND THE REPRESENTA-
TION OF LANARKSHIRE.—It is rumoured that whenever
a dissolution of Parliament takes place Lord Lincoln
will be brought forward to contest the important county
of Lanark, against the present Protection member, Mr.
Lockhart. As he will have nearly the unanimous sup-
port of the manufacturing anal commercial interests of
the lower and middle wards, as well as the powerful
support of his noble father-in-law, the Duke of Hamil-
ton, and the Whig gentry, success is almost certain.
SUDDEN DEATH OF T. BATE, ESQ.—We regret
to have to announce another instance cf sudden death
in this county. Thomas Bate, Esq., for many years a
banker of Dudley, and a magistrate of Worcestershire,
and who has always taken an active part in the magis-
terial business of the neighbourhood, died -on Tuesday
se'nnight. He had in the evening complained of a pain
in the chest, and retired early to bed ; in half an hour
afterwards he was a corpse.— Worcester Journal.

LARGE IMPORTATIONS OF BREAD STUFFS.—In the
Sheridan, from New York, arrived at Liverpool on
Tuesday, there are 1,678 barrels of flour, 335 of corn
meal, 10,400 bushels of Indian corn, 9,000 bushels of
wheat. In the Wyoming, from Philadelphit, arrived
same time, there are 1,000 barrels of flour, 14,700 bushels
of Indian corn, 6,400 bushels of wheat, 563 barrels of
corn meal. As the wind is now blowing strong from the
south-west, there will be many arrivals this week of flour
and corn from the United States.
INCENDIARISM.—An extensive fire broke out be-
tween seven and eight o'clock on Tuesday night at Bat's
green farm, in the parish of Hurley, Barks, on the road
from Henley to Maidenhead, The fire, which was to be
seen many miles round for several hours after the out-
break, was observed at Reading, a distance of ten miles,
from the eminence of the spot. Owing to a gentle breeze
at the time of the conflagration, and the want of ergines
at hand, it was a long time before it could be subdued.
Considerable property was destroyed, and the fire is
generally supposed to have been the act of an incendiary.
We have not heard whether the property was insured.
The utmost alarm was created in many parts where the
fire was viewed.

DUDLEY OLD BANK.—A dividend of 2s. 6d. was
paid by Edward Dixon, Esq., on Tuesday week, making
a total of 20s. in the pound on all claims on account of
shia bank.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FR 131 THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
CHRONICLE.—" I declare to the House that that
day in my political life on which I look back with most
satisfaction and pride, was that on which I was ready
and prepared to take on myself the responsibility of
issuing an Order in Council for the opening of the ports,
and trusting to you for an Act of indemnity." The
events and experience of the year that has elapsed since
the late Premier arrived at the ever-memorable decision
to which he thus alluded on the 16th of February last,
have so completely authenticated the soundness of that
decision, and legitimated the " satisfaction and pride"
with which it was retrospectively regarded by its author,
that it is difficult to comprehend the apparent reluctance
of his successors to adopt, under circumstances gene-
rically identical, but of incalculably greater urgency,
a precedent which time and opinion have thus em-
phatically sanctioned. Why is it that the Queen's
present Ministers, who have not usually been reputed
less impressible than Sir Robert Peel by obvious con-
eid,rations of policy and humanity, continue to deny
themselves that honourable " satisfaction and pride
which a recent and most instructive experience indicates
as the weed of bold and prescient statesmanship ?
Whence this strange pertinacity with which Lord John
Russell and his colleagues refuse themselves the right to
indulge hereafter in a retrospect, which they are in
faliblv pre-assured will be freely accorded to them by
the voice of an approving people, the verdict of rival
statesmen, and the more formal concurrence of both
Houses of Parliament ? This question is now coming
to be very generally asked, even by the most friendly
critics of Lord John Russell's public conduct, in a
tone in which surprise is largely and increasingly,
qualified by regret. For our own part, we cannot under-
take to meet it with any answer that will be fully satis-
factory either to ourselves or to our readers. Yet
we have always been accustomed to take for granted,
of the less intelligible acts or omissions of the Noble
Lord's public career, that they were grounded on reasons
of sufficient prima facie force, at least, to justify them to
his own mind; and we are not disposed to relinquish in
the present instance a pleasing and respectful assumption
which has rarely deceived us. In the absence of any
other intelligible or conceivable grounds for the pro-
tracted hesitation of Government in meeting the de-
mands
of the present crisis, by the prompt application of
the simple, rational, and traditionally-recognised policy
of " open ports," we are constrained to believe that it is
some respectable "constitutional" scruple that stops the
way. Lord John Russell must see as clearly, and feel
as strongly, as any capitalist or operative in Lancashire,
the monstrous impolicy, the almost indecency, of the
State's artificially obstructing the ingress of the very
food for which it asks the Church to pray. It cannot
but be painfully repugnant, both to his convictions and
feelings, to tolerate, in the present circumstances of the
united British and Irish people, the continued action of
a system which operates as a bounty on the re-
exportation of - the corn that commerce has
housed and garnered, and gives foreigners an
an unfair advantage over us in our own market.
Nor can his Lordship entertain the smallest shadow
of a doubt as to the cordial willingness of Parliament to
ratify, on its first day of meeting, the measure by which
he is now on all hands implored to anticipate its formal
vote. That which Parliament has repeatedly done, or
approved of the Executive doing, throughout a series of
precedents reaching over the last three-quarters of a
century ; that which the very protectionists blamed Sir
Robert Peel for having left undone twelve months ago—
will indubitably receive Parliamentary approval now,
when the whole system of policy whose last miserable
remnant it is proposed summarily to extinguish has been
deliberately declared an egregious injustice and folly.
All this Lord John Russell perfectly well knows, of
course. That his Lordship has not ere this acted on
what must be his undoubting conviction of the right and
expedient, we are disposed to attribute to a misplaced
and exaggerated deference for the formalities of that
constitution with whose preservation and improvement
his public life is so honourably identified. Lord John
Russell—so, at least, we find ourselves constrained to
infer—declines opening the ports, suspending the navi-
gation laws, and permitting the use of sugar in our
breweries and distilleries, by Order in Council, be-
cause he thinks it would be " unconstitutional."
That there would be anything really and truly
" unconstitutional " in the course which public
opinion and necessity now impose on her Majesty's
Ministers, we must take leave altogether to deny. Such
a reading of the constitution of this country as would
preclude the Executive from temporarily suspending
legislative measures that are found, from unforeseen cir-
cumstances, to be working counter to the Legislature's
knoWn intent and expectation, we pronounce without
hesitation to be not merely narrow and pedantic, but ac-
tually false. Should Lord John Russell and his col-
leagues continue to hold themselves constitutionally
disabled from anticipating the known intent and purpose
of the Legislature in regard to those statutory checks on
superabundance of food, which have unexpectedly be.
come operative\as aggravations of a horrible famine,
there is only onelhing to be said. Let Lord John Rus. •
sell forthwith summon the Legislature to re consider
and undo its own most palpable blunder, and put its acts
into contbrmity with its known intentions. As it is
quite certain that this Parliament—the free trade Par-
liament—would gladly do, in the present tremendous
emergency, that which many previous Parliaments have
unhesitatingly done in far less serious emergencies,
there would be obvious constiutlonal propriety in giving
it the opportunity of promptly arresting the copse •
quences of its own error.
ADVERTISER.—AItheugh the alliance between
Fiance and Spain—now become matter of history—is
almost worn threadbare in discussion, there is yet one
point of vies-, from which it has been but little consi
dared by the parties engaged in the controversy, hut
which is, in fact, the most important to this country.
We mein the degree in which the material interests of
England are concerned, in preventing the union of the
young Infanta Luisa with the Duke de Montpensier. It
is, in fact, from a want of knowledge of the pounds-
shillings-and-peace part of the argument, that many
persons in this country maintain that we are not justi-
fied in interfering with a mere family arrangement.
They assert that England has already lost enough by
her interference in the domestic quarrels of other na-
tions, and that she ought by this time to
have learned experience, and should quietly stane
by, and let other nations do as they like with their own.
Such principles are, it must be owned, very good in
theory; needless and uncalled-for interference with
the transactions of foreign states is certainly
to be deprecated; and it is allowed that past expe-
rience shows that we have not always reaped the
benefits from our benevolent interposition which we
more immediately proposed to ourselves. But the ques-
tion is, can a great commercial state like England exist
without in some degree interfering in the affairs, internal
and external, not only of her neighbours, but of all the
world ? A small inland state like Auhalt, or Lippe-
Detmold, may not, perhaps, be much affected by a few
islands at the Antipodes being taken possession of by
France, or by the Dutch • dethroning a petty Sultan in
the Indian Ocean ; England, however, with her com-
merce extending to the remotest corners of the earth,
her ships in every sea, and her possessions on which the
sun never sets, is concerned in every event that can
occur, even of the most insignificant nature. His Serenity
of Ankalt, or his Highness of Lippe, cannot lay an ad-
ditional thaler on the cotton
.nightcaps of his subjects,
without perhaps throwing a hundred or two English'
workmen out of employ, and causing the ruin of one or
more manufacturers and merchants. The loss accruing
to England by the union of France and Spain, is by no
means to be measured by the amount of diminution of poli-
tical influence sustained by this couietry at the Court of
Madrid. France is longing to become a manufacturing
and commercial country. Two things, however, pre-
vent the attainment of her wishes—she has no market
for her manufactures--she has not adequate ports for
her commerce. In the open market she is undersold by
England; Germany (or at least the;Zollverein States)
is herself a manufacturing country, and as eager as
Feance to become a commercial power. With the excep-
tion of Marseilles on the Mediterranean, and Havre and
Bordeaux on the Atlantic coast, France does not pos-
sess a single port equal to a third-rate English port.
Her manufactures cannot flourish for want of commerce;
her commerce is declining owing to the deficiency
of manufactures. The fruits of the Montpensier
alliance are expected to supply all these wants.
Spain possesses numerous splendid ports on a long
, line of coast ; Barcelona, Carthagena, Seville,
Cadiz, Malaga, and numerous others present un-
rivalled facilities for again creating ,an extensive
commerce, such as once made Spain the greatest nation
in Europe. The immense trade of England with these
ports is naturally regarded by France with the utmost
envy, and were the influence of that power once predo-
minant at Madrid, there can be little doubt that special
commercial treaties, differential duties, and exclusive
privileges to French commerce would soon reduce the
trade between England and Spain to a mere name. The
cottons now exported from England to Spain and her
colonies, to the amount of several hundred thousand
pounds, would hare to give way to the productions of
Rouen, Mulhausen, Lyons, and other would-be " Man-
chesters " of France, while the grain and other
. natural productions of Spain, the sugar, coffee, and
tobacco of Cuba, and the spices of the Philippines, re-
ceived in exchange, would contribute to raise French
shipping at the expense of England.
HERALD.—A most sensible—and, we may add,"a
most seasonable, letter—appeared in the columns of a
Contemporary, headed " A Few Words to the Members
of Agricultural Societies and others interested in Land,"
and signed " James Stewart, Lincoln's Inn." At the
first blush we were under the impression that this letter
was the production of Mr. J. Stewart, the Queen's Coun-
sel, who has recently been elected M.P. for Newark, by
the protectionists of Notts, and who is a gentleman of
some seven-and-twenty years' standing at the bar ; but
on closer inspection we find it is the production of Mr.
James Stewart, of Stone-buildings, the conveyance and
equity draughtsman—a gentleman who, though w.inrthtohuot
a silk gown, is of some twenty years' standing. lorated
profession--and who, as a legal author, has incorporated
the
the alterations in the law of real property
present time—or at least down to 1837-IN'
lie with the disrepute of having been made a
Blackstone. Though Mr. Stewart comes beforel 1637—with
hlovhvhtneih tee xp
pub-
lie bo-f
com-
missioner,
the
rns(ommsee
_ovfeacr(simornf
voting in oatsl;,idautolduson Whigc..o/tmaidt'te.ccals
—and though we believe he has had no very large
practical profession—we nevertheless
conceive tlel:tpehriiselnecteterinihsiisvell worthy of attention, em-
bodying, as it does, many valuable and really practical
suggestions. We are by no means insensible to the ad-
vantage conferred on the community by the Ist William
IV., c. 27, which extended the remedies provided by the
3d and 4th William and Mary, c. 14, for the relief of
creditors against fraudulent devises, and enabled courts
of equity to carry their decrees on this subject into exe-
cution. Neither would we undervalue the Acts of Ist
W' illiam IV., cc. 47, 65, 60, 36, and 40, known to the
profession under the style and title of Sir E. Sugden's
Acts--and which provided for consolidating and amend-

ing the laws for facilitating the payment of debts out of
real estate—for amending the laws respecting convey-
ances and transfers—for consolidating and amending
the laws relating to femes-covert:, idiots, lunatics, and
persons of unsound mind—for altering and amending
the laws relating to illusory appointments—and for
making better provisions for the disposal of the un-
disposed residue of the effects of testators. But though
we admit the full value of these improvements, and
readily concede to Lord Campbell also the praise which
is his due for the great improvements he introduteoedLionrtdo
the law of real property,—and freely allow
Brougham, else, his full share of merit for his reforms
accomplished, and, in a still greater degree, for those
intended by him, and in the prosecution of which he has
been thwarted—yet we still think that much remains to
be accomplished,—and feel perfectly persuaded that the
statesman—be he Protectionist, Tory, Whig, or Radical
—will immortalise hitt. self, under whose auspices Mr.
Stewart's principal recommendations,—to use the vulgar-
est of all Parliamentary and newspaper phrases—shall be
"carried cut." The simplification of the law of real
property presents a fine field for a great statesman or
great It gal rs former, en a ground totally irrespective cf
party, 'That branch of the law of England, which relates
to the acquisiticn, transmission, and encumbraneing of
real property, coin's hem to the business and boscm
of every considerable man and family in the kingdom.
The expenses and delays which now embarrass all deal-
ings in land are great and crying. If free trade in corn
be a good thing, why should not free trade in land?
Tbe buying and selling of land is now anything but
free, and the expense and delay which embarrass all
d. clings in it, are serious evils:. The state of the law as
to lane, as Mr. Stewart states, is anything but clear,
simp'e, or easily under: tood. In truth, it is the most
difficult branch of our jurisprudence: so difficult that,
perhaps, there are not more than a dozen lawyers in
England—if there really be so many—profoundly
skilled in it. That this is not as it should be, perhaps
there is not even more than one sergeant who would
now contend. The laws relating to property should be
few and simple. Even the earliest conveyance of which
we have any account—" the field of Ephron, which was
in Macpelab, which was before Mamre, the field and
the cave which as therein "—was needlessly
verbcse, though there may be one sergeant—the
man of Calipee and Calipash—and three conveyancers
now living who would maintain the contrary. The length
of legal instruments in England bas indeed become in-
tolerable. They are spun out by repetition, and involu-
tion, and circumlocution; and the men who so spin them
out, and who are the only beings who profit by it, an-
nounce to their dupes, that they follow the good old
practice. But the fact is otherwise—for this abuse of
verbose draughting, and dray.ing, and diffuse pleading,
is an evil of scarcely more than sixty or seventy years'
growth. The older and better—and, for want of a more
expressive term, we must say the more classic draughts-
men and pleaders—did not set their clients afloat in a
sea of provisos, or launch them into a wide waste of
words. Mr. Stewart asks, is it necessary that the pur-
chase and mortgage of land should be so difficult as they
now are ? To which we, though mere laymen,
answer unhesitatingly, no. Rail and steam have
fortunately brought us into closer contact with con-
tinental countries, and in that France, Belgium, and
Prussia, which we can reach in a few hours, the
transfer of land is nearly as easy as the transfer of
stock. The result of this increased facility is—that
land is more valuable in those countries than in
England—fetches more in the market—and money can
be borrowed at an easier rate than here. It is monstreus
that at the very close of the nineteenth, and we may say
bordering on the twentieth century, the first rules of
English property law should, in a civilised country like
England, be founded on the feudal system. At a time
when there was neither domestic nor foreign trade, and
when property seldom changed hands, the policy of
that system was to restrict, if not to prohibit, alienation.
It was only by degrees, and then fraudulently and in a
cunning and clumsy fashion, that the rules prohibiting
the transfer of land were evaded. But even in 1846 'ha
doctrines of feudality must be treasured in one particular
corner of a conveyancer's brain, and in the alienation of
copyholds, Cragius, and Spelman, and Glanville, and the
Regiam Majestatcm—and Skeen and Bracton and Stair
—and Heineceius and the Burgundian-laws—and Staun-
ford and Kaimes—and old Dalrymple—as well as the
English Statutes at Large and Chancery Reports, must
be sometimes consulted by the bewildered practitioner.
Some of the most eminent men in ancient as well as in
modern times have been in favour of a registry, and
t Nh ee
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sr
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book "His Life," written by his kinsman Roger. In
much that is said by Mr. Stewart as to the mischief of
entails of excessive duration, we cordially agree. Most
of the continental jurists and publicists have urged strong
objections against them, and none more than Muratori,
and that great magistrate the Chancellor D'Aguesseau,
who in 1731 drew up an ordonnance which received the
royal sanction in 1747, by which they were limited to
two degrees between the creator of an entail and the
heir; these degrees being counted per capita, and not per
sti,pes. We believe the landed interest will oppose no
obstacle to such reforms as Mr. Stewart propo'es, and
the lawyers certainly hill not thwart measures which will
multiply dealings in land tenfold.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE,
TATTERSALL'S.—THURSDAY.
CAMBIUM° ESHIRE STARES.
Sting is reported to have had a favourable trial on Wed-
nesday, aid on the slrength was backed yesterday for a
large sum at odds, flu,:tuating between 16 and 13 to 1 ; the
layers, allyjr, were numerous, and at the close 14 to '1 might
have teen got. The Si-ter to Joanna Colt was also fancied
rather strongly in the early part of the day, hnt was
peppered" towards the evening' and receded to 10 to 1.
A!arm was steady at 3 to 1, and Red Robin improved on
Monday's market; but. except Alexa and Lady \Vildair, who
gave ray, the genetal quotations showed bat very little
alteration.

3 to 1 agst Mr. Grevii!c'e Alarm—(take 7 to 2)
10 to 1 agst Mr. Nantes Sister to Joahna Colt—taken
11 to 1 ags'. Col, anm! Anson's lago
14 to 1 agst Lord E. Russ(ll's Sting—taken
15 to 1 agst Lord Glasgow's Conspiracy—taken
16 to 1 agst Major Yarborough's Red Robin—taken
20 to 1 agst Mr. Pemberton 's Best Bower—taken
25 to 1 agst Colonel Peel's Garry Owen
25 to 1 agst Duke of Richmond's Refraction
30 to 1 agst Mr. P. P. Rolt's Alexa—taken
30 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Lady Wildair
33 to 1 egst Mr. Wyatt's Laundrymaid
33 to 1 agst Lord Exeter's Sis to Pergularia
35 to 1 agst Mr. Forth's False Rcport
40 to 1 agst Mr. Rolt's Evenus—taken
40 to 1 agst Mr. Crockford's Terrier—taken
50 to 1 agst Mr. Wigrain's Kesheng—taken
50 to 1 apt Mr. Mvtton's Sorella
1,000 to 10 agst Lord Chesterfield's Cherry—taken
1,000 to 10 agst Lord Stanley's Tour de Force--taken
3,‘00 to 300 on Alarm agst Sorella—taken
THE CRITERIC N STAKES.
7 to 4 agst Mr. Mcstyn's Planet—taken
DERBY.
8 to 1 agst Lord Eglinton's Van Tromp—taken
50 to 1 agst Mr. Mostyn's Miss Iris colt—taken
66 to 1 agat Mr. Mostyn's West India Planter.
WELSHPOOL RACES.—TUESDAY.
The Tradesmen's Purse of 201. added, to a Sweepstakes of 2
sous. each, one mile and a half.
Mr. Edward's Knife and Steal, 3 yrs, 9st (Arthur) 2 1 1
Mr. Griffiths' Robin Rough, 5 yrs, lOst 7113
The Borough Plate, of 151. added to a Sweepstakes of 5
sovs. each. Heats, 2 miles.
Mr. Tempest's, 'Maid Squire, 5 yrs, Bst 111 b
Captain Knight's Jolly Beggar, 5 yrs, Bst 91b ...•• 1 2dr
Mr. W. Smith's Foxwhelp, 4 yrs, Bst
The Selling Stakes of 3 soya. each, and 15 added, heats,
twice round, were won by Mr. Stagg's Hector, 4 yrs, 6st 41b,
(Jones), beating three others.
WELSHPOOL RACES.—WEDNESDAY.
The Tally-ho Stakes of 5 sous. each, and 20 added. Heats.
Twice round and a distance.
Mr. Hance's bg by Young Cadland, Bst 121 b
Mr. Smith's Foxwhelp, 4 yrs, 9st 121 b ... 3 1 2
Mr. Walmsley's Heir-at-Law, 4 yrs, 9st 121 b
Mr. Davis's Kitty Wee, 4 yrs, Bst 91b • 2 2dr
The Hurdle Stakes of 3 soya. each, and 10 added, one
mile and a half, were won in two heats by Captain Knight's
Raymond Lally, 4 yrs, lOst 81b (Wooman), beating Totten-
ham, 11 st 81b, and Heir-at-Law, list 81b.
The Beaten Stakes of 2 soya. each, and 10 added, once
round and a distance, were won in two heats by Mr. Tem-
pest's The Stranger, beating Jolly Beggar and Tottenham.
AMESBURY ( WILTSHIRE) CHAMPION COURSING
MEETING—WEDNESDAY.
The Great Western Cup--First Ties.
Magog beat Sempstress Saringa beat Lucy Neele
Winter beat Burgomaster Walbertha bt Forest Flower
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The Druid Cup—First Ties.
Bessie Belle beat Probity I Swallow beat Wirmibal,l
Reserve beat Smuggler Bill Spinster beat Goddess
Ettonian beat Fleetwood I Fancy beat Enford Lass
Magic beat Gaslight
The Stonehenge Stakes for Puppies.
Mr. Miller's Furlong beat Mr. Chase's Charlie.
Mr. Miller's Beau beat Mr. Etwall's Sir Edmund. '
Mr, Lawrance's Lightning beat Mr. Parkinson's Ponsonby.
Mr. Clowes's Cascade beat Lord Eglinton's Old England.
' Mr. W. Etwall's IVindfall beat Mr. Edleston's Rio Santa.
Mr. Long's Centurion beat Mr. Wyndhanis Waggerwolf.
Mr. Parkinson's Stockton beat Mr. Wyndham's Plunder.
Mr. B. Smyth's Shacabac agst Mr. A. Graham's Knight
Marshal.
WILTSHIRE CHAMPION COURSING MEETING.
THURSDAY.
Second Ties for Great Western Cup of 320 soya.
Wildfire beat Magog Auchinlack beat Jupiter
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Wilbertha beat Winter Juverna beat Syringa.
Second Ties for Druid Cup.
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Walberga beat Swallow.
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tercFi beatrs
MarshaltSpinster. beat Ties.
Thunder
Beau beat Lightning.
I Cascade beat Centurion.
Windfall beat Furlong.
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larlNllst'sen dliain's Willa bt. Mr. Lawrence's Lady Ross.
Lord Eglinton's Frolic brat Mr. Etwall's Element.
Mr. Inskipp's Jessie beat Mr. Lawrence's Caprice.
Mr. Fowle's Flattery beat Mr. Parkinson's Polka.
Mr. Clowes's Coy beat Mr. Parkinson's Position.
Captain Wyndham's Wease bt. Mr. Long's Confederation.
The Beacon Hill Stakes.
Mr. Langtrey's Baronet beat Mr. Gordon's Ceckflghter.
Mr. Inskip's Jumping Jenny beat Mr. Parkinson's Eothon.
Mr. A. Graham's Curry Powder beat Mr. Rake's Rapid.
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Mr. F. Parkinson's Proteus beat Mr. Lawrence's Lotbario.
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Mr. Batt's Sampson beat Mr. Clowes's Cataract.
Captain Wyndham's Winks beat Lord Eglinton's Rufus.

DETENTION OF THE EDINBURGH MAIL:--The Lon-
don mail (conveyed by the North British Railway) is
very irregular in its arrival. It did not arrive on Satur-
day evening till eleven o'clock, three hours, and on
Sunday forenoon it was almost four hours beyond its
usual time. The cause of the detention of the train, we
have learned, was owing to the engine on the York and
Newcastle Railway having run off the line at York—for-
tunately without the occurrence of any casualty. The
mail was delayed yesterday forenoon a couple of hours,
from the heavy rains which have fallen...—Edinburgh
Witness, Oct, gl.

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COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL.
Yesterday a Court was held for the dispatch of a great
deal of public business.
Upon the motion of Deputy CORNEY, the question at
issue between the Court of Aldermen and the Court of
Common Council, upon the subject of the payment of the
expenses incurred by the Lord Mayor, in the survey of
the western district of the river Thames, was, without
discussion, referred to a committee of five members, with
instructions to open a communication with the Court of
Aldermen, with a view to an amicable adjustment of the
existing differences between the two Courts, and to re-
port the result.
The proposition, which was seconded by Mr. JUPP,
who apprehended very disagreeable consequences from
a rupture, was received with high satisfaction by a very
crowded Court.
ALLEGED DEFICIENCIES-TDE WINE DUES.

Mr. SELSON wished to be informed by the Chairman
of the Officers and Clerks' Committee, when it was likely
that the Court could be informed upon the important
subject of the deficiencies in the wine dues ? The public
were deeply interested in the matter, and looked fur the
information with great anxiety.
Mr. BURN (the Chairman) said the committee were
doing all they could to ascertain whether there were any
deficiencies at all, and he expected that in the course of
three or four weeks he would be able to make a commu-
nication to the Court upon the subject.
THE FREEDOM OF THE CITY TO LORD GOUGH AND SIR
HARRY SMITH.
The LORD MAYOR presented letters which he had re-
ceived from the two Gallant Generals, acknowledging
the receipt of the resolutions of thanks of the Court, and
the freedom of the City, for their gallant services in India.
Ordered to be entered upon the journals.
His LORDSHIP also presented a letter of thanks for the
donation of 1001. from the Ragged Union Committee.
The letter was entered upon the journals of the Court.
REVIVAL OF THE ANCIENT PRACTICE OF CORONERS.
His LORDSHIP then presented the following commu-
nication from Mr. Payne, the Coroner of the City of
London :

" To the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and
Corporation of the City of London, in Common
Council assembled.

"My Lord and Gentlemen,—l beg leave to report to
this Hon. Court that, in the month of August, 1845, I
revived the ancient practice of holding inquests, or
courts of inquiry, in cases of fire, a preeeeding which
had long been in disuse, but which appeared to me, from
the frequency of these destructive occurrences in
numerous parts of the country, to be most desirable to
resume.

" That such inquiries were formerly part of the Coro-
ner's duty, maybe seen by a reference to the old treatises
on the Crown law, as well as the ancient statutes of the
realm ; and, inasmuch as the power to hold such courts
has never been taken from the Coroner, 1 was led to re-
sume the exercise of it from a conviction of its great im-
portance and utility.
" The example has been followed with public benefit,
in various part of the kingdom, and has been the means
of bringing to justice many offenders who, in all proba-
bility, would never have been discovered but for the in-
vestigation of the Coroner's Courts. It has also met
with the approbation of the Chief Justices and other
Judges before whom those cases were tried, as well as
many magistrates and members of the Corporation, and
the Times and other public journals.
" I have further the satisfaction to state that, not-
withstanding the city of London and borough of South-
wark contains more property than any other local dis-
trict in the kingdom, the only fires reported to me
within these districts within the last twelve months, as
being of sufficient importance to require an investiga-
tion by a jury, were, in London 9, and in Southwark 2,
a list of which I have sent herewith. Of these stme
were incendiary and others accidental ; and the expenses
paid by me to constables, witnes.es in those investiga-
tions, amount altogether to the sum of 201. Is. 2d. I
mention this, because there is at present no provision
made for the payment of those expenses.
" I have not charged my own fees for holding these
inquests, preferring to show that my object has been
public utility rather than personal emolument ; and it
will be a great gratification to me if my endeavours to
render the office increasingly useful, are approved of by
the Corporation, to whom I owe the favour of my ap-
pointment, as well as attended with success.—l have
the honour to be, my Lord and Gentlemen, your faith-
ful servant,

" WILLIAM PAYNE,

" Temple, Sept. 22, 1816."
Mr. STACEY said the letter ought to be received
merely as a communication from the Coroner.
Mr. PRENDERGAST, who listened with impatience to
the contents of the letter, said, the idea of a coroner
sitting, under such circumstances as were represented,
was an absolute farce. He had never heard a chief
justice, or any other law authority, say that a coroner
had any such power as that which was here described as
having been executed by the Coroner of the City of
London. As that gentleman had been kind enough to
favour the Court with the communication, he should
move that it be laid upon the table. He was sure it
ought not to go to a committee.---(Hear, hear )
Mr. DAwsoN rose to move, as a rapid amendment
upon the motion, that the Coroner's letter be referred
to a committee. to consider and report. He was con-
vinced the practice, which had been revived by the care
and energy of the Coroner, would be very serviceable to
the community.—(lleac, hear.) It was the firm belief
amongst the authorities at the fire-offices that many fires
originated otherwise than by accident, and the perfect
performance of the duties of coroner was calculated to
increase the source of detection.
Mr. STEVENS seconded the amendment. The course
pursued by the Coroner gave additional security to life
and to property, and the Court ought to feel indebted to
Mr. Payne for having revived a practice which, though
evidently good, had fallen into disuetude.
Mr. TAYLOR expressed a similar opinion to that de-
livered by Mr. Stevens.

Mr. BjWER was decidedly opposed to the amendment.
The committee, if referred to, would probably recom-
mend the giving away of money upon the occasion ; and
the insurance officers were very well able to take care of
their own interests without the assistance of the Curpo-
ration.--(A laugh,)
The letter was then referred to a committee by a
large majority.