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Bst 81 b, agst Prospect, 7st 91b. D.M.

ewmarket Stakes—The following were left in at ten
o'clock :—Galata colt, Polecat, lago, Pyrrhus the First, Mar-
quis of Cunningham, Sister -to Flambeau, Hereof, and the
Little Vulgar Boy. • -
LATEST BETTING.
t, NEWMARKET STAKES.-6 to son lEl'B'o.
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10 to 1 agst Best Bower RESTER cup.
20 to 1 agst Hope
10 to I agst Sweetmeat 20 to I agst The Magnet
12 to 1 agst Clumsy—taken 20 to 1 agst Corranna
12 to 1 agst The Baron 22 to 1 agst Inheritress
14 to 1 agst Pedometer—t. 25 to 1 agst Vitula—taken
18 to 1 agst Polish 50 to 1 agst Weatherbit
The death of Mr. A. W. Hill, the owner ef Sweetmeat,
has been reported this evening, on apparently good authority.
DERBY.
3 to 1 agst Sting—t. 33 to 1 agst Crown Prince-
-13 to 2 agst Sir Tatton Sykes taken freely
12 to 1 agst Tom Tullock 35 to 1 agstM:ilcolm
33 to 1 agst lago..t 40 to 1 agst Perk colt—t.
OAKS.
8 to 1 agst Mendicant—t.

THE ADMIRALTY.
TO THE ELI TOR OF THE SUN.
Sir,,—Whenever the interests of the navy are toncerzied,
it has always called forth from your pen a love of justice, and
the warmest concern for the welfare of that service ,• these
circumstances induce me to make a few remarks on the late
appointment of Commodore Sir F. Collier to the command of
the Experimental Squadron, in the hope that your talented
and independent paper may remark upon it.
The Admiralty have certainly manifested wisdom and dis-
cernment in the appointment of that (Ricer, but at the same
time they have proclaimed to the world, that out of two
hundred admirals they cannot find one capeble of taking
charge of a squadron; how these admirals will endure the
insult and partiality displayed is another question. Be this
as it may, it proves beyond tiouht that the system of patron-
age which predominates at the Admiralty is bad and dis-
Lusting. Need you proof ? Turn to Haltour's new Navy
ist. Look at the columns of the periods of promotion, of
the different grades, and also the services of the different
officers; couple this with the millions spent in altering and
building ships. If anything will come home to the under-
standings of the public, surely this will. There is only one
consolation for this, insulted public, and the majority of aficas
composing the navy that public bodies, however corrupt,
quail under the influence of the press and public opinion.--•
lhave the honour to be, Sir, your obedient servant,
Cheltenham, Ma A LOVER OF JUSTICE.
y 1, 1846.

LOSS OF THE FALCO.
„ PLUNDERING OF THE- SLAJL-&e.
Lltters have been receivarl contana eBAGS,
iouncement -
of the total loss of the brig Falco, (7ri the
announcement
Zealand, New
Zealand, and an attack made on the unfortunate crew and
plundering the cargo by the natives. The Falco, it appears,
sailed from Boston in the early part of last year, on a trading
voyage to the islands of the Pacitis, having on board the new
American Consul for New Zealand. She touched on her
way at Swan River, King George's Sound, and Adelaide,
prosperous voyage, to New
aznedalatnhden.
Sheproc eaendedive,daftaetr a
Port Nicholson in the month of
fJournAe,uacnkdlasnad via
iledhTab
hence with
Cape, on the 2
withtheGoN-enTE h of theient following
mails on board
month. The vessel reached the Cape, and she was brought
to an anchor at a place called Wangawai, where, in the
course of a few hours afterwards, it came on a violent
storm. During the succeeding night she rode with both
anchors down, until about two o'clock, when the wind-
lass broke in two, by the excessive pressure on
it. Immediately she was carried by the furious waves
through the breakers, over a reef a mile in extent, and
struck on a shelf of rocks and stands on a steep shore; the
masts were cut away in crossing the reef'. For a time the
situation of those belonging to her was perilous in the ex-
treme—every sea making a complete breach over the decks
and nearly washing them off; as the tide receded, however,
the wreck was left high and dry, enabling the crew to walk
ashore.: Finding the vessel not much injured, they returned,
and were about preparing to get her again afloat, when a
large number of natives, in concert with the Europeans
living on the island, rushed on board and committed the
most disgraceful outrages. Having hemmed in the captain
and officers on the quarter-deck, and threatened them with
violence if they offered any resistance, they broke open the
hatches, and, getting into the hold, commenced plundering
everything that was valuable. They opened the mail-bags
and boxes, and scattering their contents in the hold, ob-
tained all the Government dispatches, which they tore up and
otherwise destroyed. One European was seen opening what
seemed to be a private letter, and robbing it of its contents,
which appeared to be money and bank notes, and several
others imitated his example. They afterwards began to
strip the vessel, tearing off the copper, cutting thesheathing,
stancheons, bulwarks, and destroying the hull in every part
with pole-axes. It was quite evident to all the respectable
Europeans in the neighbourhood, that the whole work of
destruction and piracy was a preconcerted plot between the
whites and the natives, and that unquestionably the chief
blame was to be attributed to the former, who seemed to vie
with each other in their outrages. The American consul
contrived, at the onset, to escape, with a large amount of
specie and papers of great value, which he had charge of, and
obtain security in a gentleman's house, some distance along
the beach. Some few days afterwards an attack was threat-
ened by the natives to possess themselves of the treasure, but •
their nefarious plans were frustrated by a number of armed
gentlemen, who, with about two hundred, guarded the place
night and day, until the an ival of a vessel to take the consul
and the officers and crew of the Falco to their destination.
The wreck was subsequently burnt.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN INSTITUTE.—Last evening
this Society held its eighth soiree for the season. The Earl of Devon,
its distinguished PreAchnt, who returned yesterday from Ireland,
was present, surrounded by a very numerous and fashionable com-
pany of the members and their families. The musical visitors were
more than usually numerous, and inc'uded Madame Dulcken, Made-
moiselle Schloss, Miss Paintorth Miss Dolby, Miss Messent, Miss
Richards, Mr. and Madame Mac'farreu, Mr. Charles Soloman, Mr.
Vincent Wallace, Mr. Kialimack, Mr. Sloper, Mr. Tarish Alvars,
Mr. Grattan Cooke, Mr. Catkin, Mr. ilodda, Mons. Deloffne, Mons,
filet, Mr. Richardson, Mr. Jarratt, Mr. Goodlaw, Mr. Case, and many
others. Among the instrumental pieces performed during the evening,
the most striking were a grand quintett of Sphor's, written for accom•
paniments of wind instruments, and admirably sustained by the flute,
clarionet, horn, and bassoon, and a splendid trio of Beethoven's, for
piano, violin, and violoncello, both of which were executed In a most
effective mmnier, as well as a concerto on the oboe, and a thems,
with variations, on the concertina. These were agreeably inter-
spersed with single songs, duets, and concerted pieces, which were
charmingly sing, and prelonzed the evening's entertainment to a
late hour, to the great gratification of a wry numerous and brilliant
audience.
ONE HUNDRED VOLUMES.—The celebrated Standard
Novels, published by Mr. Bentley, have reached one hundred volumes.
by the publication of " Ayesha," Morier's popular Oriental romance.
In no language can such a body of fiction be found—it Is altogether
unrivalled. Sir E. Bulwer Lytton and Godwin, Marryat and Cooper,
Theodore Hook and Mrs. Gore, Miss Austen and Mrs. Brunton, Max-
well and Galt-1n fact, all the best modem novelists Combine to give
the " Standard Novels " a variety and richness which belong to them
alone. Such a collection of the best modern works of fiction is ti uly
indispensable to every library, and without it not any can be called
complete.
NIGHTINGALES NEAR LONDON.— Last season a pair of
these delightful songsters took up their abode in the Surrey Zoological
Gardens, where they built their nest and hatched their young. On
Wednesday last they re-appeared in their old quarters close by the
New.street entrance, where they are occasionally fed by the person
iu attendance, and warble forth their delicious melody early and late.
HocusslNG.—Suppose one of these characters wants
to borrow ten pounds of you. Were he to ask point blank for the
loan, he knows you would peremptorily refuse it. He therefore tries
a little hocussing, administering the medicine according as he esti-
mates your disposition. If he suppose you to be a vain man, he will
open the conversation by praising your pictures, your wine, your
wife, your eldest boy, or your last new book. At length, by insidious
and delicately-introduced flattery, he awakens your self-esteem in
so high a degree, that it completely overwhelms your caution. When'
he has deadened your acquisitive faculties, and completely fuddled
your powers of calculating the chances of ever seeing the money
again, he puts the momentous question; in the midst of one of his
most superlative bursts of admiration—at which he perceives your
eye to kindle with delight, he asks in a tone of well-dissembled in-
difference, " By the by, could you oblige me with the loan of ten
pounds?" If you have been effectually hocussed—with praise In-
stead of laudanum—you ring for your check-book, and without delay
sign a draught for the amount in MlL—Our Own Times.
AFFECTING INClDENT.—Yesterday afternoon, while
the schooner John Bromley was passing out of the St. Katharine's
Dock, through the lock, into the river, the wife ot one of the seamen
on board, who was standing on the quay, being anxious to take ano-
ther farewell of her husband, from whom she had parted about two
hours previous, made a sudden leap from the pier-head to the deck
of the schooner. She fell with great violence on the main hatchway,
and was stunned by the fall. Her husband, who was aloft doing
duty in the maintop, and who saw the accident, immediately de-
scended to the deck and assisted in conveying his devoted but unfor-
tunate wife to the Bull's Head public-house. where she was attended
4
face
by a surgeon. Her head and fa were cut in a dreadful manner,
she has only been married a fortnight, had her conveyed
reach
until
and she bled proflisely from tho wounds. Her 11usbadt,.
her home
BRITAIN.—LIVEHPOOL,
sinhpageoatb
below, andow tohereen.rewituehrned to his ship, which he did not
THE STEAM-SHIP GREAT
most satisfactory trial trip of 24 hours'
re-entered the Mersey
arrival was witnessed by a large
duration in the Irish Channel. Her
aboutrinisa :00.47.—The steam-ship Great Great Britain
number and the spectacle of this magnificent vessel
sweeping rapirutytirs. fae flood past the crowded pier, was most re-
markable. Opposite the Prince's-parade, a river flat crossing the
stream towards the Lancashire shore lay directly in the path of the
(treat Britain, and, but for the fine steering capabilities of the ship,
must have been totally destroyed. She escaped by merely a few
yatds. This obstruction then rendered it necessary for the Great
Britain to maintain her course onwards through the
mass 01 vessels
•wartttuPtiaebrlel eat
od 'thaewwilotanpdleirlicil Ira cinil i
IlY'lliisgisoffenttbieretlyl
t ys e a
NI 1 'al le ewo hick hr,
immense fabric yields to he direction of the helm. The new screw
has answered every expectation, so far as it has yet been tasted. It
raises but little commotion astern of the ship, She sails hence for
New York on the 9th of May next.
The British Museum closed yesterday afternoon until
Friday, the Bth inst.
ESCAPE OF POLISH POLITICAL PRISONERS.—A letter
from Posen, of the 21st ult., states that the student Nigolewski, Lieut.
Msgdezinski of the Lat:dwh, r, the non-commissioned officer Kon-
kiewicz, and the master locksmith LipinAl, four of the principal
political prisoners confined in Fort Wingeri, have effected their escape.
THE ASSASSIN LEO dIITE.—" The cell in which
Lecomte is confined, at the prison of the Luxembotu
damp,
'''aays 71
made an application on the subject to the Presidentof
Presse, " being on the ground-floor, and consequently
of Peers, who has just had him remove
his dto a higher story. Every
precaution has been taken to prevent s
being
seen in his new place
the Chamber
of confinement. The windows, which were before grated, have had
r 1
,annual
room. Lecomte is treated withm
for his meals." admitted itattkedaiwsntofotloide
blinds fixed, so that only the necessary
regularly, and gives his own ordershe
PENNY POSTAGE.—The tikaililgdhir:esetiSsU. Ms, just pub-
of penny postage, during the year
fished, show that the
of letters delivered in the
progressgreautenritfrdhanKattntadsoymfewrmaesr2penr}4ledm.
auThoena.nubeimbengr
1845, has been mach
ions o
revenue for the year was
thirty millions the year 1844. The gross
an
amountincrease
200,0001.0 n 1844, and nearly four-fifths o
an inerease of nearly
befinthge
100 0001.
donna in former yearn.
was companies, for work
was paid to the railways 6
000
1 on 1844, while the
system. The net revenue, notwithstanding that more than .
was 775,9861., being an increase of ,
have increased to such as
under of
theuearollyd
London district (old twopenny) post letters
m._
~.., exceed that
extent, that the revenue derived from them
~arsalb:yore the reduct
the number or
the present Year,
t of 303 mil-
tion of the rates. In January of
la was at
the
ra
e the nlll)ber
which was obtained from the same class of letters
letters delivered in the United kingdom was
mar t
system. The money
lions per annum ; or, excluding
orders. since 1839, Lava increased
under the end
rx.—At the Mount
about thirty fold.
Meson GERRARD AGA
o ard had upwards
MR. AND M---• ~, ikfr. and Mrs. (IT
another genttem
tenants on from the witness that the cattle
of thirty
ti,. evil., . " it appearsttomfield (marsh)
an's estate summoned for
belonging to the
strayed Into a bo
,B.
ienlle.iwic
jp.etity sessions, on Fri-AY,
of these tenants
and for this they claimed the penalties, not
e celebrated parties,
. law, but the pains and penalties imposed
The defendant proved that Mr. Gerrard
slid us trespass."
for "m— - -rftm• and that he requested him to join them in making
I
had no me -, res ectable gentl
one. A highly P
over the
drove his gig and horse
underabov the ordinary trespass
eman swore " that he frequently
stream and boundary, and that it
was quite insufficient to keep out any beast." The magistrate (the
Hon. M. French, R.M.), dismissed the complaints with no small
degree of indignation.—Roscommon Journal.
CUSTOMS.—The office of Receiver-General of the
Customs, vacant by the death of Sir W. Boothby, has not yet been
filled up. In the mean time an ofncial printed notice has been Pu-
nished to the principals of the several departments and the collectors
and comptrolers of ail the outports throughout the kingdom' di
toras revenue
ing them to make all accounts to the credit of the cusr.o.nend fbr
payable to " Mr. John Catman, as the Acting
Etheiveeppolutment is
the time being." It would appear from this that at
be considered by the
in abeyance for the present, until the matter
Commerce states that
Government, and arrangements made
MADAME LAFFABGE.—The
the U.pdmproachins.
anniversary
of
several pardons are to be grantedseo:
tence of Madame Lafarge is tO
enbesubject.
the King. Amongst others, the ,
yew, to bo ccuivuted frorh the
be commuted to hap:loms for teu
period ad her gavot.