The Sun.
London, England, 1851-03-14 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON,

FRIDAY EVENING,

PENITENT FEMALE ASYLUM.

Mr. HENRY BLARE presented a petition from the Corn-
;
Penitent Female h-t.• &Alum for a grant in aid of their
funds. The institution was one into whose bosom un-
fortunate females, wherever they might reside, were re-
ceived and supported to the utmost extent of their funds.
It bad a peculiar claim upon the benevolent, for it af-
forded succour and relief to those who were afflicted
with the awful malady of the loss of virtue, a malady by
which they were cut off from the respect of one sex and
the sympathy of the other, and often plunged into a
condition of hopeless crime. Subjected to the jeers and
taunts of the thoughtless and the unfeeling, the victims
of seduction commenced a course of horror which ter-
minated in misery the most appalling. The institution
he recommended made every effort to save the wretched
objects who were to be seen at night at the corners of
streets with bleared eyes and bloated countenances, and
its endeavours had been blessed with such suCcess as pro-
mised the greatest source of gratification to its benfi-
cent supporters.—(Cheers.) Mr. Blake then, in a very
feeling manner, described the effect produced upon the
grateful hearts of the poor females who were received
into the establishment, and the extraordinary efficacy of
the system of kind discipline adopted under its regula-
tions, and concluded by moving that the petition bo re-
ferred to the Coal, Corn, and Finance Committee.

The motion was unanimously agreed to.
Upon the motion of Mr. R. L. JONES, a petition from
the president and governors of St. Mary's Hospital,
Paddington, for a grant to their funds, was referred to
the Coal, Corn, and Finance Committee.
Mr. FREEMAN (chairman of the Coal, Corn, an•i Fi-
nance Committee) brought up the following reports,
which were agreed to, and referred back to be carried into
execution :—For granting 210/. to the Asylum for Idiots,
1051. to the German Hospital, and 1054 to the Ragged
School Union.

Mr. 11. L. TSYLOR brought up a report with the draft
of a petition to Parliament against the Metropolitan
Market Bill.

After some opposition from 'Ur. BENNOCII, the report
and petition wore agreed to.—Adjourned.

COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
COWES, MARCH 13.—THE WORLD'S FAIR.—At two
o'clock this day arrived the American frigate St. Law-
rence, Captain J. R. Sands, in twenty-one days from
Now York. She has on board Mr. Stansbury, the
United States Commissioner for the Exhibition of all
Nations, who is in charge of the American contributions.
On coming into the roadstead and sighting the British
standard on Osborne Palace the fired a royal salute of
twenty-one guns in honour of England's Queen, and a
short time afterwards she saluted the American Consul
at this port, Joseph Rodney Croskey, Esq , with nine
guns. She is expected to proceed to Southampton to-
morrow.

ARRIVAL OF THE AMERICAN

FRIGATE ST. LAWRENCE.
SOUTHAMPTON, THURSDAY.—The United States' fri-
gate St. Lawrence, 50, Commander J. R. Sands, arrived
off Cowes about two o'clock this afternoon, after a pas-
sage of 22 days from New York. She is the bearer of
the long expected freight of American contributions to
the Great Exhibition of 1851, in Hyde-park. The St.
Lawrence has anchored in Cowes Roads for the night,
and will probably come up to Southampton to-morrow,
when she will exchange salutes with the town and im-
mediately commence discharging the articles intended
for transmission to London. We understand that she
brings a much larger quantity than WAS at first expected,
there being upwards of 500 exhibitors in all, and there
are between 1,000 and 2,000 packages, extending to a total
of nearly 1,000 tons of general products of industry, many
of which are of great interest and of considerable value.
Owing to the largeness of the freight all the armament
of the St Lawrence, save only the guns on the spar deck,
had to be taken out. She has a complement of 303 sea-
men, and is officered as fellows : —Commander J. R.
Sands; Lieutenants Charles S. Boggs, Latham B. Avery,
Washington Gwathemy, George H. Prebble; Purser,
Samuel P. Todd; Surgeon, Lewis P. Hunter; Assistant-
Surgeon, James F. Harrison; Master, Bays N. West-
cott; Passed Midshipman, Andrew F. Munroe; Mid-
shipmen, J. R. F)ffe, Henry Erben, jun.; William T.
Glassel, Captain's Clerk, C. S. Livingston.
In connexion with the arrival of tins vessel it may not
be uninteresting to give a short account of the proceed-
ings adopted in the United States which led to the dis-
patch of the St. Lawrence to the shores of Great Britain
with so extensive a freight of American industrial pro-
ducts, designed to ent,.r into competition with those of
the Old World at the Crystal Palace. The subjoined
account i 5 abridged from a late American paper:—
"On May 17, 1850, a letter was addressed by the
Secretary of State, Hon. J. M. Clayton, to the President
of the National Institute, transmitting the correspondence
which had taken place betwee❑ the Minister Plenipoten-
tiary of her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain and the
State Department relative to the proposed Exhibition.
This letter was immediately laid before the Institute, and
by it referred to the following select committee:—Peter
Force, Joseph Henry, W. R. Johnson, J. J. Greenough,
and Charles Wilkes. _ _

Tne committee reported in favour of taking imme-
diate action, by nominating a central authority' for
the United States. The report was adopted on the 27th
of May, and the following gentlemen were nominated to
the State Department:—
" Millard Fillmore, Chairman.
" Peter Force. I " Charles F. Stansbury.
" James A. Pearce. " J. J. Abort.

" Levi Woodbury.
" Lowii Warrington.
" Joseph Henry.
" Alexander D. Bache.

" Joseph G. Totten.
" Thomas Ewbank.
" William Easby.
" Leonard D. Gale.

" Joceph C. G. Kennedy.
" Ezra C. Seaman.
" William W. Seaton.

" Charles Wilkes.
" Jefferson Davis.
" Matthew F. Maury.
" J. James Greenough.
Walter R. Johnson, Secretary.
" The authority thus nominated way approved by Mr.
Clayton, the then Secretary of State, and the central
authority at once entered upon the discharge of their
duties. They addressed a letter to the Governors of the
several States, of which the following is a copy:—
" CIRCULAR. LETTER ADDRESSED BY THE CENTRAL
COMMITTEE TO THE GOVERNORS OF THE SEVERAL
STATES.

" Ropms of the National Institute,
Washington, June
" ' To his Excellency the Governor of --•
" Sir—We hive the honour to submit to you the ac-
companying papers, from which it will be seen that the
undersigned have been appointed a central authority,
through which alone, according to the regulations
adopted by the Royal Commissioners, the productions
of American art and industry can be recognized as en-
titled to admission at the Industrial Exhibition to be
held in London in May, 1851.

" Our object in addressing you is to request that
you will confer with societies and individuals in the
State of --, and appoint a local committee or commit-
tees to correspond with us; and to select from such ar-
ticles as may be submitted by the citizens of your State
those most suitable for the Exhibition. By this means
we shall better accomplish the objects for which we are
appointed, and your citizens be enable to avail them-
selves of the advantages promised by the Exhibition.
"' An early reply is respectfully solicited.
. Very respectfully, your obedient servants,
6 4
" A majority of the Governors appointed committees
in accordance with this request., but in some cases there
was great delay.
" The central committee also published a pamphlet,
containing an account of their appointment and duties,
and of their action up to its date, as well as the regula-
tions of the English Commissioners, arrangement of the
Exhibition, and a classitied list of objects to be admitted

to the Exhibition.
"The committee alto published a number of circulars
of information to persons interested in the Exhibition,
and a second pamphlet, containing the correspondence
between their secretary and the secretaries of the Eng-
lish Commission, and the regulations of the Commission
adopted subsequent to the date of the first pamphlet.
e These pamphlets and circulars were distributed to
the committees throughout the country, and attention
was called to them through the press.
e The committee prepared blank forms in duplicate
for the applications of exhibitors in sufficient number to
supply the whole demand by the country.
" Having prepared the work for the State committees,
the central committee next interested themselves to pro-
cure free passage for goods across the ocean. The first
idea was to obtain the Pennsylvania,
but that was
found to involve too much expense. The Fredonia was
then assigned to them, but subsequently the St. Law-
rence was substituted. The revenue cutters were also
ordered to aid in concentrating the goods at the port of
shipment.
" The committee have been for some months occupied
in issuing certificates for articles submitted to them by
the State committees for approval.
" When the goods began to arrive at New York, Mr.
C. F. Stansbury, recording secretary of the National
Institute, was appointed to attend to their receipt and
delivery, and accordingly came from Washington for the
purpose.
" The services of the committee have been gratuitous
—not a dollar has been appropriated to pay their ex-
penses—and they have, now that the Government has,
at the last moment, refused them a paltry sum to carry
out the plan in a manner creditable to the country, put
their hands into their own pockets, and advanced the
means. The object is purely national, involving the
honour and reputation of the United States, and it is
unjust that the committee should incur any loss."
Mr. Charles F. Stansbury (recording secretary of the
National Institute at Washington) is on board the St.
Lawrence. He is charged by the central committee with
the care of the whole of the packages, and will super-
intend their transmission to London and arrange for the
fittings necessary for their proper exhibitioa. The
cargo is consigned to the American Consul here (Mr. J.
R. Croskey), who has obtained the
privileges of having
it conveyed from the ship to London free of dock dues
or railway carriage.
Some of the packages are very large, consisting of
machinery, models, sculpture, Sce. The het of exhi-
bitors alone occupies three columns in the "Vett, York
Herald of the 13th ult. One curious item is an immense
block of z:ee ore wcighiuo 16,4001 b. (eight tons), and is
probably the largest single block of that ore ever ob-
tained. It is sent by the New Jersey Exploring and
Mining Company, and cost that association many hundred
dollars to transport it over the mountain roads from the
mines to its place of shipment. From the magnitude as
well as from the peculiarity of this kind of ore this block
is esteemed a great curiosity.
After discharging her carg,e, we are informed that the
St. Lawrence is ordered to take on board the remains of
the celebrated Commodore Paul Jones, now reposing in
Paris. The ashes of the first Republican naval officer
under General Washington are thus to be honouited by
special removal across the Atlantic in p ship of war.

THE NAVY ESTIMATES.

Ta THE ED:TOR Ca' TH,.
I :7,9 e M.. Hu:.._, Ide. ' ees
Mr. M'Gregar, thet the vote for men governs the
amount of the navy cstiasates. It is the vote for artifi-
cers employed in the dockyards that ought to rule the
expense.
Lord John Russell, in a very excellent speech, has
shown the impolicy of reducing our seamen and marines,
and we have a confession from the Prime Minister that
Great Britain can no longer be considered an island, and
that, as we keep up neither a sufficient army or militia
for our defences, we must trust to the navy.
He has told the House of Commons that 70,000 mon
were convoyed from Vienna to the frontier of Bohemia
in 48 hours—that many thousand men were transported
from France to Civita Vecchia in an exceedingly short
time; and he admits that, without waiting for the acci-
dent of wind and weather, an army may be transported
in a few hours to our coasts; and that if we parted with
our naval force for the first six months of war we should
be utterly unable to send out an efficient force to meet an
enemy disposed to attack us.
Ile further stated we might be engaged in war with
Russia and Austria, and in friendly alliance with France,
and in that case we ought to have a sufficient naval force
to meet aggression; but he d:d not state what would be-
come of us should we have a war with France and
Russia, and, if so, most probably with America to the
bargain. In that case we should have France in our
front with a large force at Cherbourg; Russia on our left
flank with 30 sail of the line always ready, and 90,000
men disposable at St. Petersburgh, and the 2,000,000
tons of American commercial shipping, capable, as Mr.
flume says, of being converted for warlike purposes, on
our right flank. Why, Sir, with all this staring us in
the face, would any man in his senses reduce our force
who knows the difficulty of getting them together again,
and who knows that we have no reserve to fall back
upon, and that in a peace of 36 years no step has been
taken by any Government to have a reserve? If the
Government fancy they can return to impressment, let
them look to the north, where the seamen have struck
work because they think their rights have been tres-
passed upon. We might just as well attempt to return
to Protection.
Sir, it is on the vote for artificers and stores for ship-
building that we ought to economise. Strike off a
couple of thousand of them, and that would be followed
by a reduction of stores and materials. We have ships
enough in the water, and all our ships aro full. There
let them remain and season, and instead of allowing our
ships afloat to lie and rot, let us keep them in repair;
but so badly is that part of our establishment managed
that we never hear of a ship being commissioned and
going to sea without her first going through dockyard
repair, even should she be an advanced ship.
In a former letter I mentioned the case of the Britan-
nic, and I will now show another case. On the 7th of
January the Cumberland was commissioned for the flag
of Sir George Seymour, and did not arrive at Spithead
till the beginning of March, a new ship—an advanced
ship, and yet she required all this time to get ready.
The Powerful arrived at the same time from the Medi-
terranean, after an absence of ()lily two years and three
months, in splendid order, wed manned and fit for any
service. With proper management, why could not the
Powerful have been re-commissioned for the flag of Sir
George Seymour, and thus have saved the expense of
fitting out one ship and dismantling another?
Sir, the system of paying off our ships after three
years' service is one of the causes of dockyard extrava-
gance. The seamen's pay does nct increased till they
have served five years. No ship should be paid off till
they have been at least four years and a half in commis-
sion; the rigging, stores, Sc., would last that time.
After three years they aro not considered fit for a second
commission, and the whole is condemned and turned
over to the lot yard, and the ship is sent up the harbour
to deteriorate for half-a-dozen years or more, as may be.
Should she not be a favourite, and should the dry
rot appear, it is allowed to spread till the ship becomes
too expensive to repair. She is then turned into a hulk
or broken up.
liord John admits that there has been a great deal
of wastefulness and abuse; but he thinks it has been
corrected of late years. I have been tolerably
watchful of how naval affairs have been conducted
for many years, but I can see no improvement; and
unless we change our system of governing the navy,
it will never be better. Tho three last steamers
built, the Argus, the Tigre, and Magicionne, are so badly
arranged, that before they are fit for service they must
go through great alterations at a considerable expense.
It is, however, just to say the present Surveyor had no-
thing to do with them, and it would be difficult to find a
father for them.
The Penelope, which has been under repair for up-
wards of a year, is again commissioned for the coast of
Africa. During her last commission her guns were re-
moved to allow her people to be berthed, the between
decks being so low that it was, I suppose, considered
dangerous to keep them there. The same thing ie to
happen again, so that we shall have is red pennant com-
modore in a ship without guns, while the Sidon has been
lying at Portsmouth for eighteen months ready for com-
mission, her rigging rotting, her boats and spars decay-
ing, and, if kept in that state much longer, will require
refitting before she can go to sea.
Another system of store destruction it is high time to
put a stop to the flag ships* at the ports and the guard
ships are rigged, aid at the beginning of winter their
topmasts are struck. To put their topmast rigging
down below would not occupy two hours ; but there
they remain with their rigging rotting on their mast-
heads like a parcel of Portuguese. Nine votes have
been carried ; it is not yet too late. Let the House of
Commons strike cff two hundred thousand pounds from
the 10th vote, and that will teach the Admiralty eco-
nomy. Colonel Sibthorp proposed a moderate reduction
of the salaries of the First Lord, two secretaries, and a
reduction of the lay Lord, the latter reduction was
supported by his predecessor, and who would pro-
, bably be his successor ; yet the economists supported
the Government on this occasion. Sir, I do think
3,5001. a year is a sufficient salary, for the First Lord.
I presume when a largo house and a large salary
were first granted it was intended to enable the First
Lord to entertain naval officers ; but I have not heard
much of their hospitalities. I have been 51 years in the
service, and have only been three times in the large
house, and few of my brother officers have been so for-
tunate. As to the secretaries, I cannot understand why
they should be higher paid than their masters ; yet the
Radical and the economical talkers in the House think
differently. I was happy to hear the First Lord was in
consultation with the Chancellor of the Exchequer to
remove the Surveyor's department to Whitehall. How
long tho consultation will last I know not, but, as the
committee have recommended that two Lords' houses
shall be given up, I see no necessity for a consultation,
unless it is to remove the whole establishment, and the
sooner that is done the better; but the House may rely
upon it unless the screw is applied the two Lords wil
remain till their successors are appointed.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
CEI ARLES NAPIER.

* The flag ships have jury topmasts.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

The Royal Naval Club of 1765 dined at the Thatched
House on Wednesday, the business of the evening being
efficiently and agreeably presided over by Captain Wm.
Henry Smith. The guest of the club was Sir Henry
De la Beebe, of geological fame. The Gallant Chair-
man was supported by Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Mal-
colm, Captains Sir Edward Belcher, C. 8., Chappell,
Branford, Coghlan, Duthy, Dyer, Fead, Featherstone,
Montagu, and several other members of this estimable
club.

The flag of Vice-Admiral Sir George Seymour, blue
at the fore, was hoisted on board the Cumberland, 70,
Captain Seymour, at Spithead, on Wednesday evening,
at sunset, and at nine o'clock yesterday tho Cumberland
saluted the flag of the Commander-in-Chief, Admiral
the lion. Sir liladen Capel, with seventeen guns, and the
Victory returned it with thirteen. Vice-Admiral Sey-
mour embarked on board yesterday morning, at half-
past ten, and Lady Seymour and family also went on
board, going out in Admiral Capers yacht, the Fanny.
The Cumberland will probably sail about Saturday or
Sunday. At present the wind is foul. She takes out
a few Marines and Marino Artillery to complete the
ships on the West India station, and forty supernume-
rary boys.
TRIAL OF THE BIAGICIENNE STEAM-SLOOP.—Accord-
ing to their Lordships' directions, the Magicienne steam-
sloop has been further tried as to her sailing qualities,
in charge of Mr. Brown, second master-attendant, end
commenced on Saturday, the Bth instant, going out in
the morning and returning to the Sound in the evening
of each day; and from what we hear said of the result,
her steaming qualities are very fair. She made ten miles
per hour with 81h. pressure, and eight miles with only
two boilers; but her sailing qualities are very indifferent,
so particularly so that she could not carry her canvas
at all, and with a moderate breeza her paddle-wheels
are so immersed that there is no doing anything with
her. She went up Hamoaze on Wednesday afternoon.
Orders have arrived at Portsmouth to fit the iron
screw steam-frigate the Simoom as a troop-ship, and the
estimate is to be forthwith sent to the Admiralty. She
is to have a poop and topgallant forecastle; the latter is
to come sufficiently far aft to take her ship's company to
mess under.
The Rolla, 5, apprentice-brig, Lieutenant. Commander
Fenwick, has gone down to Cowes cruising.
Petrel, 6, packet-brig, Lieutenant Commander Creser,
is ordered to be paid off at Devonport.
Captain Peter M'Quhis (1835), who formerly com-
manded the Dmlalus, 19, iu China, has been appointed
Commodore of the second class, to relieve Commodore
Bennett at Port Royal, Jamaica, as seem' in command
at the We,t Indies. Captain MeQuhle is an able, active,
zealous, and highly deserving officer, and we are glad to
find that so meritorious a selection has been made ny the
First Lord of the Admiralty.
PORTSMOUTH, THURSDAY.—The Pyrenees, having
embarked a gang of convicts from Cowes, returned to
the anchorage at Spithea, i lust evening.
A court-martial is ordered to bo held on board the
Victory on Thursday, to try Commander St. Ledger, the
other officers, 21nd ship's company of her Majesty's
steam. sloop Flamer, for the loss of that eessel on the
- coast of Africa.

Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion ;
and Le whose real wants are supplied must admit those of
tancy.--E/iza cook's Journal.
AN ORIGINAL DEFENCE.—A prisoner defending
himself on a charge of burglary at the Limerick assiv.s on
Friday addressed the Court as follows :—" If I committal all
the murders and robberies in the county, my lord, I am as
innocent of this charge as the child unborn; and I nlv wish
I had half an hour's liberty, ant I Ns. ou 1 d shoot Malone as
dead as a mackerel, the perjured villain. I hope the
Lord will take use out of this world soon ; and I pray to
God that inv ghost may be an evil spirit, and haunt for life
every one \vim had anything to do in my prosecuion. You
have all done your best, and I don't care a for it all,
for I could live iu a bastable oven if I had only a smoke or
pipe."

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
T A TTERSALL'S, THURSDAY
Tempted by cheap trams, a strong list, a=
ther, the neijority of the " working" mem:,ers of the
room started esterday for Doncaster, causing the mus-
ter here to be so small as to put regular business cut of
the question. The only blows struck were 1,000 to 40
agst Marlborough Buck, 900 to 100 agst Rhesus, 2,000
to 100 agst Montague, 500 to 25 agst Wallflower, and
625 to 25 agst Lady Evelyn.
DONCASTER SPRING MEETING—THURMAN.
A Free Handicap Hurdle Stakes of 5 sovs. with 30
added; the second to save his stake; a winner once
after the weights are published to carry 41b; twice or
more, 7lb extra. Two miles, over five flights of hurdles.
(9 Subs.)
Mr. Hutton's Psyche, 4 yrs, 9st 41b
Mr. Phillip's Tally-ho (h b). lOst 2:b (H Bradley) 2
Mr. Lister'e Wharfdale Maid, aged, 113t...(Frisby) 0
Mr. G. Lamplugh's The Wild Hero, aged, 9st 10Ib 0
Mr. Godson's John Lawrence (h b), 5 yrs, 9st 61b 0
Mr. Foster's Fanny (h b), aged,Bst 121 b (Berkenshaw) 0
13etting-7 to 4 cost Psyche and 2 to I eget Tally-ho.
Tally-ho made nearly the whole of the running, but
was caught by Psyche at half-way up the distance, and
beaten by a neck; Wharldale Maid a bad third. Run in
4 min. 15 sec.
Betting-room Stakes of 5 sot's. each, with 50 added; for
two years old, 7st; three, 9st; fillies and geldings
allowed 31b; winners extra; the second to save the
stakes, and the winner to pay 5 Bove. to the fund.
Red House in. (9 Subs.)
Mr. Lister's Nancy, 3 yrs, 9st 21b (Marson) I
Mr. H. Stebbing's Knook Kuoll, Bst 9lb (Bumby) 2
Mr. Walker's Merlin, 2 yrs, Est I Ilb (lrving) 3
Mr. J. Armstrong na Paddy Bird 9st ... (Charlton) 0
Mr. B. Eddison's cby John O'Gaunt, (Whitehouse) 0
Mr. W. E. Hobson's Babette, 2 yrs, 6st 111b(Wells) 0
Mr. W. Neale na Little Fawn, Bst 61b ...(G. Oates) 0
Mr. J. Osborne's King of Troy, 2 yrs, ist (Osborne) 0
Mr. P. Reed's Mona's Pride, 3 yrs, 9st (Templeman) 0
Betting-7 to 4 each agst Nancy and Knook Knoll,
and 6 to 1 agst King of Troy.
Knook Knoll jumped off with the lead, Nancy, Mona's
Pride, Babette, and Merlin well up; at the distance
Nancy took the lead, had it all herself; and won easliy
by two lengths ; the same between Knook Knoll and
Merlin. Babette a bad fourth. Run in 1 min. 17 sec.
The Grand National Steeplechase Handicap of 15 sovs.
each. 10 ft, and only 5 if declared, &c., with 100 added.
A winner of 100 sovs. clear after the weights are pub-
lished, once 71b, twice 121 b extra; the second to save
his stake, and the winner to pay 20 Boys. towards ex-
penses. About three miles and a half. (38 Subs., 15 of
whom declared.)
Lord Airlie na Chieftain (h b), 9st 81b (Harrison) 1
Mr. Elmore's Mulligan, aged, 9st 12Ib (Archer) 2
Mr. Donkin na Quadruped, aged, lOst 61b (Darling) 0
Mr. J. H. Kemp's Hope (h b), aged, 9st Illb (Green) 0
Mr. P. Barling's Bedford hb, 5 yrs, 9st 91b (Higgins) 0
Mr. J. Lamplugh's Standard, aged, 9st 81b (Lamplugh) 0
Mr. Walker's Cedeby, hb, aged, 9st 41b(Meorhouse) 0
Betting-5 to 4 agst Mulligan, 4to 1 agst Quadruped,
7 to 1 agst Hope, 8 to 1 agst Chieftain, and 10 to 1 apt
any other. Won by nearly a distance, the two placed
only having past the winning post. Rua in 8 min. 55 secs.
The Municipal Stakes of 5 toys, each, with 30 added fur
three yrs old, 7st 71b; four, 9st 51b; five, 10st; six and
aged, lOst 51b. Half bred horses allowed 71b; mares
and geldings, 31b; and maiden horses, 51b. The winner
to be sold for 150 sutra., and allowance if to be sold for
less; the second to save his stake, and the winner
to pay 5 soya. towards expenses. St. Leger Course.
(7 Subs.)
Mr. Dawson's True Blue, 3 yrs, sst 61b, 401 (A ldcroft) 1
Mr. Baldock's bc by Red Deer, sst 61b, 401 (Wells) 2
Mr. H. Stebbieg's Guardsman, sst 121 b, 50/ (Barker) 3
Mr. J. Skipsworth's Gimcrack, 6st 111 b, 301(Osborne) 0
Mr. Lawson's Keleshea, hb, Bst 1 Ilb, 75/( Mr. GM:II2D) 0
Mr. T. Hesseltine's Louisa, Tat 61b 301(W. Sharpe) 0
Mr. J. Marson's Lady of the Grove, 3 yrs, 4st 131 b, 30/ 0
Betting-5 to 2 agst Keleshea, sto 2 agst Red Deer
colt, 3 to 1 agst Louisa, and 4 to 1 agst True Blue. Won
by a heed; three lengths between second and third. Run
in 3 min. 27 sec.
The Sheffield and Rotherham Stakes (handicap) of six
soya, each, h ft, with 40 added; for horses that before
the entry never won at any one time 1001. clear. The
winner to pay 5 toys. towards expenses. One mile.
(17 Subs.)
Mr. Harrison's bl c by Prince Caradoc, out of Miss
Julia Bennett, 3 yrs, Est 131 b ... (Harrison) 1
Mr. Halford's The Deceitful (late Mr. Merryman),
3 yrs, 7st Ilb (W. Sharpe) 2
Mr. G. Barton's The Little Fawn, Est ...(Mayhoe) 3
Mr. Holtby's The Shareholder, 7st lllb ...(Cooper) 0
Mr. Foster's Osbaldwick, 4 yrs, 7st 61b ...(Charlton) 0
Mr. Goodison's Maid of Kent, 7st 41b ...(Wheatley) 0
Mr. T. Taylor's fby Birdcatcher, 7st 21b (Wells) 0
Mr. Wright's Miss Flyaway, 655 10Ib ...(Barker) 0
Mr. G. Barton's Madame Wharton, 3 yrs, Est 101 b... 0
Mr. Jones's Goldfinder, 3 yrs, 691 71b (Knott) 0
Betting-2 to 1 agst Deceitful, 4to 1 agst Goldfinder,
5 to I agst Madame Wharton, and 6 to 1 each agst Miss
Flyaway and Osbaldwick.
Oabaldwick with Deceitful, Goldfinder, Miss Fly-
away, well up, cut out the work till within the distance,
where he was passed by Prince Caradoc colt, who went
in an easy winner by a length, Little Fawn a bad third.
Run in 1 min. 4S secs.
BETTING ON THE COURSE.
100 to 6 agst Nancy
DERBY.
25 to 1 agst Storm I 33 to 1 agst Confessor

SPORTING NOTES.

No. XIX.

WARWICK SPRING MEETING.

"Consider what you venture, weigh discreetly
The dangers of your project. Ask yourself
If you are steel'd and proof against its perils;
Dauntless and daring; if thou fear'st not BEING DONK !"
Fiesco, by LADY FLORA HASTINGS.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sin,—This week has produced a ooaple of
steeplechase capers of the ordinary class, i. e., the
horses that could havo won, for the usual golden
reasons, have not even started for them; it is, however,

a consolation to think that the concoctors of the " cer•

tainty" yesterday at Doncaster, by the fall of their horse,
made a mull-again of it; Lord Airlie's Chieftain, 5 yrs,
9st 81b, tooled by Harrison, winning is a canter by
lengths, aye, by at least two hundred yards. The field
he beat was a wretched one, consisting of Quadruded,
Hope, Bedford, Standard, Cadely, and Mulligan, the
fag-end of the handicap; all the cracks, in-
cluding Maria Day, Fugitive, Peter Simple, Vain Hope,
The British Yeoman, and Victim, were non est. The
other caper was at Derby on Tuesday, where the Yeo-
man, as at Oldham, could have won easily enough, had
they started him. By way of showing the ease with
which judgment can master the difficulty of selecting
the winner, even of a steeple; chase, if the animals are
run on their merits, I quote my remarks in Note No. 17 on
the Slough Steeplechase, on which, for a very great
wonder, there was nothing done on the " squaring prin-
ciple;" it was all above-board. They were—" As Vola-
tile's running is not at all certain, he being engaged at
Derby to-morrow, I must set his chance aside; but should
he run, HE WINS! In his absence, I shall place Kilkenny
first and liendsburgh second." The result proved
the correctness of my judgment. I accomplished the
(in steeple chasing) unparalleled feat of placing the
first three, Volatile winning cleverly from Kilkenny,
who in his turn beat Rendslaurgh cleverly for second
place. In my observations on the Doncaster Spring
Meeting, I placed Tallyho first and Psyche second, with
the Wharfdale Maid and Little Queen well up, for the
Hurdle Race; this position was nearly realized, Psycho
winning atter a desperate struggle, in the last stride, by
a neck! Tallyho being second, and Wharfdale Maid
third; Little Queen was drawn; nothing else near.
Time 4 min. 15 sees.—very good.
On the Betting-room Stakes, I remarked that Nancy
was "considered a certainty; should she miss the mark,
Knook Knoll or Paddy Bird will fill the vacuum."
Nancy won, with 9st 21b up, in a canter, by two lengths,
beating Knook Knoll, Bst 91b, who was second, and seven
others.
The Sheffield and Rotherham Handicap I did not give
a decided opinion upon, merely observing that "if Old
Claret or Mr. Merryman, now called The Deceitful,
can't win, probably Madame Warton or The Little Fawn
can." 1 was entirely out here; the colt by Prince
Caradoc, out of Miss Julia Bennett, winning by an easy
length; the Deceitfal second, and Little Fawn third.
I am now about to touch upon the last hybrid meeting of
the Spring, that at Warwick, which commences on Tues-
day next, with thelattractive Trial Stakes, for which four
years old are allowed an entry this year. The nomina-
tions for this stake number eighteen, and include the
names of Aaron Smitb, 3 yrs, ist; Nancy, 3 yrs, 7st;
Musician, 4 yrs, Bst 91b; Mark Tapley, 4 yrs, Bst 91b;
Le Juif,3 yrs, 7st; besides Gladiola. Truth, Manchester,
Recruit, and Knight of the Thistle, all of whom have
shown the world the tidy racing qualities they possess;
but the race, in my opinion, beyond the shadow of a
doubt, will be between the first named quintette, Aaron
Smith or Nancy for choice, and notwithstanding the
magnificent form of the latter, I feel inclined to place
AARON SMITH
NANCY
is a kind
The Willoughby Handicap, gentlemen jocks,
of anybody's race, but I understand that mischief is meanti
with Agis, 6 yrs, lOst 121 b; Kisssway, 5 yrs, 11)s0tat. o IbA:
Reversion, 5 yrs, lOst 41b; Sisyphus, 4 yrs,
strong commission was out yesterday in suppoortraco of
Agis, with whom or Kissaway, I should say,
would lay.
The most prominent names in the list for he 4
Free
Handicap are Woodlark, 5 yrs, 7st 31b; Bullfincth, yrs,
Est 71b; Swordplayer, 6 yrs, 6.: 41b; Unity, 3 y. a, La
and Heart of Oak, 3 yrs, 4dt I Ilb; butlittle doubt nau„s
on my mind concerning t
be result, the last three above,
will, I fancy, be the fir,,t three in the race.
The Woodcote Sta'.os, for two-years-old, is a bit of a
mystery, all the ar.lnsale are " dark," and from all ac-
counts not the meat brilliant lot imaginable; I shall go
for the Lively nee, and filly by Slane out of Polerint
On Viredoeso,ay the performances commence with the
Castle Stakes, for which Recruit, Knight of the Thistle,
groom], r,n J Souffle are entered, bat I very mucbldoubt
whether a :ace will be the result, the stake being of the
value of 3 51. As the names are written down, so they
stand in 'ny estimation.
The G reat Warwickshire Handicap stands v‘co:lcl cn
the list, although first in importance; I expect that
above a dozen ell' be brought to the post, including the
top- weig lit, Borneo, 5 3 re, Set 71b—Clothworker, 5 yr:,
Bst—D,P.tbt, 5 yrs, 7st 'Ono—Mark Tapley, 4 yrs, 7st
91b—Mi.: imuin, 5 yrs, 7st 71b—Iiissaway, 5 yrs, 7st 71b
—Cranberry, 4 yrs, 7st 61b—Escape, 6 yrs, 7st 31b—
Gladiole, 4 yrs, ist—Docility, 5 yrs, bit 121b—Ondine,
4 yrs, 6A. 101b—Captain Parry, 5 yrs, Est 41b—Sunrise.
3 yrs, 5 si; 41b (doubttel)_unity, 3 vrs, Colibri,
3 yrs, 4e 31b. Tizds list may be where'd in several re-
spebts by Monday evening, when I shall dot down my
'• final rem 'irks en the race. Borneo, Mark Tapley, Sir
Joseph U tmley's horse, anti the trio of three-year olds