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London, England, 1851-01-27 00:00:00

TUE SUN,

nuity of 100,000/., and it had since been paid regularly
on every quarter-day up to and including the 30th Sep•
tember, 1849. The next quarter day would have been
the 31st Dec, 1849., but her Majesty d patted this life
on the 21 Dec., 1849. He (the Attorney-General) un-
derstood that the claim was made in respect of the two
months which her Majesty survived the payment made
for the quarter ending on the 30th September, 1849, in
other words that there should be paid to her executors
two-thirds of the quarter which would have been pay-
able had she lived until the 31:4 December, 1849. Their
Lordships would observe, in point of fact, that if this
1 annuity had accrued de die in diem, like interest on a
debt, or a salary for services, her Majesty
would have received salary for nineteen days more
than she actually lived. Rho received a full quarter fur
the ten days previous to the 30th June, 1837, and she
received nothing in respect of the quarter ending 31st
December, 1849, she having died twenty-nine days be-
fore that day. The question in this case solely arose
upon the construction of the first clause of the statute
' to which he had adverted. If this were a settlement made
between two ordinary individuals, he (the Attorney-
General) apprehended there could be no doubt or ques-
tion on the subject. There were two cases of annuity
spoken of by conveyancers. One was where an annuity
proceeded after the death of the grantor ; then, of
course, the first payment was duo at the first quarter
after the grantor's death, where the annuity deed di-
rected the annuity to begin from the death of the
grantor, but, at the same time, as it was to be paid at
certain stated days of payment throughout the year,
the deed provided that the first payment should
be made on the first day which occurred after the death
of the grantor. It was the invariable practice among
conveyancers, whenever the grant of au annuity began
from the death of the grantor, to introduce words ap•
portioning the payment of the last quarter up to the
day of the death of the grantee of the annuity. But
where the annuity began from the death of the grantor
it was to be paid at certain quarterly days (fixed, as in
the Act under consideration), and with respect to the
first payment to be made on one of those particular days
the ordinary practice was not to make any apportion-
ment at all. He submitted that no court of law or equity,
having regard to the practice of apportionment among
conveyancers, would say that her late Majesty the
Queen Dowager was entitled to anything after the
last quarter's annuity which accrued duo on the quarter's
day immediately preceding her death.
The SOLICITOR-GENERAL and Mr. M. D. HILL, Q. 0.,
followed on the same side.
(The case was proceeding when our report left.)

EXCHEQUER.-(THIS DAY.)
The Court took the special paper, but the cases pro-
ceeded with were devoid of public interest.
The LORD CHIEF BARON was absent in the morning
owing to his attendance being required at a coroner's
inquest on a gentleman namod Sedgwick, who, we bo-
lieve, was found dead last evening in the immediate
neighbourhood of his Lordship's residence where, a few
hours previously, he had hien a guest.

MARLBRO'-S FREET.--(THISDAY.)
IiOBBERY BY AN ERRAND BOY.—John Smith, a lad
about 16 years of age, was brought before Mr. Bing-
ham, charged with stealing a quantity of copper wire,
the property of his master, Mr. James Hodge, piano-
forte string-makers 51, Greek-street, Soho.
The prosecutor deposed that the prisoner bad been in
his employ for about four weeks, at a salary of 4s. per
week. On Saturday afternoon witness had occasion to
go into the workshop, and on looking round the place,
he saw several sings of copper wire lying in a corner,
doubled up, apparently for the purpose of being more
easily carried away. Witness having his suspicions that
a robbery was ietuaded, left the shop and com-
municated with the policema❑ on duty. About five
o'clock prosecutor went into the shop again and found
that the wire had been removed. A short time after the
prisoner was brought to him in custody of the
policeman, who had stopped the prisoner with the
wire in his possession. The wire was worth Is. per
pound wholesale price.
Police-constable 27 F, said, about half-past five o'clock
on Saturday evening, in consequence of what he heard
from the last witness, he followed the prisoner just as
he was leaving the prosecutor's shop. He went up to the
prisoner and asked what he had got in
his pockets? The prisoner replied " nothing
but a piece of copper wire, with which I am going to
string my banjo." He then handed to witness the
ring of wire produced. Witness then took him to the
station, where' he was searched, but nothing else was
found upon him. He had since discovered that the pri-
soner had sold a large quantity of wire to two marine
store dealers, who were now in court.
Ann White, a dealer in mariue stores, Curzon-street,
London University, proved purchasing about 16 pounds
of the wire, at the rate of sd. per pound. The prisoner
was the lad she purchased from. On the last occasion
when he came, she refused to have anything to do
with him again. He always told her that he lived with
Mr. Smith, of Oxford-street, and who gave him the wire
to make up his wages.
The other marine store dealer said, the prisoner came
to him about a week ago, and offered to sell him some
copper wire, but, as he refused to tell him how he came
by it, he detained it until he could bring some person to
satisfy him. The prisoner said he would, and left the
shop. As the prisoner did not return, witness gave in-
formation to the police.
The prisoner was fully committed for trial.

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➢IANCHESTER FREE LIBRARY.--At the meeting of
the committee on Thursday last the Mayor announced ad-
ditional subscriptions to the extent of 2041. 45., the total
amount now subscribed being 7,0371. 53.-31auchcster Ex-
aminer.

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A MERMAID IN SCOTLAND.—In the hyperborean
village of Shieldaig, on the western shore of Scotland, a
lady appeared the other morning whose visit is likely to
throw the sea serpent into the shade. It appears that a
number of women had risen pretty early, as their custom is,
to go for fuel to the Gascan, when the attention of one was
attracted by a number of seamews which were hovering and
screaming near the church. On a further inspection she
discovered a lady sitting on the rock, with a comb and glass
in her haad, singing one of her madrigals in a plaintive voice,
and duly pointed her out to the others, who all maintain that
they saw the strange apparition. The probability is, that
this mermaid was one of the Razaay white seals, which are
known to sit frequently on rocks during night, uttering
plaintive sounds; out so superstitious are the fishers here
that not a single boat has put to sea since.
EXHIBITION or 1851.—The Perth Courier states
that Lord Willoughby d'Eresby has, with his usual libe-
rality, hired, at his own expense, a house in London for the
accommodation of such of the tenants on his extensive es-
tates as may wish to visit the Great Exhibition.
Praise, when jud*.ciously bestowed, tends to encou-
rage everyone in the pursuit of excellence.—Eliza Cook's
Journal.
FATAL ACCIDENT.--An extraordinary accident,
attended wtth fatal results, occurred iu the park at Badmin-
ton on Monday last. Mr. Eeles, the park-kceper to his
Grace the Duke of Beaufort, was driving a herd of deer
from one part of the park to another, and his nephew, Mr.
William Eeles, was on horseback assisting him. The deer
were driven into a corner and one of them in attempting to
escape, ran under Mr. William Eeles's horse. The terrified
horse threw his rider, who fell to the ground upon his head
with great violence, and the horse fell upon him. On rais-
ing the young man he was found to have sustained very
serious iujuries. He was taken home in a state of insensi-
bility. and medical aid instantly 'procured, but he never re-
covered consciousness, and died in a few hours. The de-
ceased was a fine young man, about twenty-two years of
age. An inquest was subsequently held, before Mr. W. J.
Ellis, and a verdict returned of " Accidental Death."—
Glocester Journal.
SUICIDE OF A CHILD.—John Wilson, aged twelve
years, of Skelton, near Carlisle, after being chastised for
tying together the tails of two cows standiug opposite each
other, committed suicide by suspending himself with his
woollen comforter, from a beam in the hayloft of his master.
—Doncaster Gazette.
PITMEN AND MATHEMATICS.—A paragraph has
appeared in the papers, stating the fact that the booksellers
of Newcastle had observed that most of the standard ma-
thematical works were purchased by pitmen. The following
anecdote is in point. Some years since a gentleman, on his
passage from Newcastle to Shields in a steam- boat, went into
the engine-room, and found one of the books mentio
rather
ned—
namely, " Emerson's Flustions "—lying on the table
black and smutty, evidently much read. He asked the young
engineman who read the book? He answered that
he did when he had time. Rather surprised at the fact, and
presupposing that he was a young man of superior talent, he
questioned him upon the subject, stating that himself had
studied these matters at the University—had passed, he be-
lieved, a fair examination—and obtained a creditable degree.
With this prelude they entered freely into conversation; and
from that time the stranger used all his influence to bring the
studious engineman into notice. The engineman is now
a distinguished mathematician, and the author of many of
the very works alluded to. He had, a short time previous to
this interview, ". risen from a bank-trapper to a breaksman
in a Newcastle coal-pit, as stated in evidence before the Lords
Committee last session ; and is now—Professor Hann, of
King's College I—Gateshead Observer.
GOOD CRY FOR PROTESTANTS.—A considerable
hubbub has been raised by Lady Morgan's controversy with
Cardinal Wiseman about the chair of St. Peter. As the dis-
pute might easily be settled by producing the article of fur-
ture in question, there is a striking appropriateness, during
this particular row, of raising the cry of " Chair ! Chair "
Punch.
Punch.
INDEPENDENT ASSURANCE COMPANY.—THE FOUR
Josxrus.—On Saturday, before his Honour Master Tinney,
the settlement of the list of contributories was proceeded
with. Mr. Roxburgh, on the part of Mr. Hutton, the
official manager, appeared to show cause why Mr. Joseph
Turnley, lighterman, should not be placed on the list as hav-
ing applied for thirty shares, and had them allotted, and
paid the deposit, but had never signed the deed. Mr. Joseph
Turnley, solicitor, stated that the Joseph Turnley upon whom
the summons had been served had never applied for shares,
or bad anything to do with the company. There were, in
fact, four Joseph Turnleys, viz., Joseph the father, Joseph
the son, Joseph the cousin, and Joseph the
grandfather, all
lighterinen.— (Laughter.) The case was then adjourned,
for the production of the right Joseph.
NEW FOOD FOR lIORSES.—The lndependance of
Brussels says that a M. Moreau has invented a bread for
horses, which is very nutritive and economic; it is made as
follows i foul-tenths of oaten flour, ground like rye and
roughly bolted ; three-tenths of flour and wheat straw ; one-
tenth of flour of barley, or maize ground in the usual way;
one-tenth of rye flour, if the bread is to be preserved fresh,
and one-tenthof flour of horse beans. The flour is kneaded
in the usual way with a certain proportion of yeast and salt.
The dough is baked in an oven, and placed in iron moulds,
square in form, and slightly conical ; the crust must not be
burned or too much baked, and neither cinder, nor bits cf
coal, must attach to it as they disgust the horse. The straw
before being ground into flour is chopped up very fine.
INSTALLATION OF A NEW MINISTER IN THE MAN-
CHESTER SYNAGOGUE.-On Saturday afternoon the ceremony
of installing the Rev. Dr. Schiller Szinessy, as minister of
the old Hebrew congregation in this town, took place. After
the conclusion of ,a discourse, the wardens approached the
steps of the ark, and conducted the rev. doctor to his oflicial
seat ; and the service closed with the usual afternoon prayer.
Dr. Schiller Szinessy took an active part in the Hungarian
war, and received some severe wounds while fighting on the
popular §ide in that struggle,—Manchester Courier.

FINE ARTS.
THE COUNT AND COUNTESS DE
NEUILLY.
Two exquisite and characteristic engravings of
these illustrious personages have within the last few
days been published by Mr. J. Mitchell, at the Royal
Library, 33, Old Bond-street. They are copied from
portraits taken in 1849, by M. Edward Dubuffe,
while the distinguished exiles were residing happily
together in their seclusion at Claremont. The re-
semblance is something wonderful—truly lifelike in
its character. Louis Philippe is represented as he
was—the remains of a handsome man after years of
extraordinary and perilous viscissitudos. Trouble
had wrinkled his features and distorted the muscles of
a countenance once eminently symmetrical. Even in
his old age, however, his face retained about it beauty
of the Bourbon contour. The ex• Queen Amelie is
portrayed as of snore venerable aspect than her
husband—care and anxiety having not only blanched
her hair to the whiteness of snow, but expressed
itself on her countenance in au ineffaceable hnguor.
All those who are any way interested in the misfor-
tune of the renowned will regard these two exquisite
pictures with a peculiar and melancholy satisfaction

PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
The pieces performed at Windsor Castle on Friday
were repeated here on Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Kean
and Mr. and Mrs. Keeley played the principal parts in
the Prisoner of War, and Mr. and Mrs. Keeley were
the Peter and Gertrude in the Loan of a Lover. Both
these pieces were played with great spirit, and it
should be remarked that the Prisoner of War is got
up with the same regard to costume as when it was
revived at the Haymarket last year. The pointed
hats and short-waisted coats which were fashionable
at the beginning of this century are not, to be sure, the
most lovely articles in the world, but nevertheless the
general effect is pleasing, as will, indeed, almost al-
ways be the case when correctness of detail is ob-
served, and there is good taste in the regulating
authorities.

We beg to refer our readers to a report of the York
Currency Meeting, which appears in another part of to-day's
Courier. Wherever these meetings have been held, the at-
tention of reflecting men has been decidedly drawn to the
subject. Good must result. For as a considerable portion of
the agricultural body, many of the manufacturers and mer-
chants of our large towns, and many men of study and
thought who have devoted much time to the subject, agree
in desiring a reformation of the Monetary System—and as
the number of these persons', of all classes, is daily increasing,
it is extremely desirable that the English people should be placed
in a position to give an intelligent verdict on a question which
must, before long, be submitted to their decision. The ob-
ject of these meetings is to make the Currency Question
patent to Common Sense: and therefore we recommend the
report to which we have referred to an attentive perusal.—
Derbyshire Courier.— [A report of the meeting appeared in
our Third Edition of Monday last.—ED. Sun.]
THE NORTH AMERICAN MAILS.—LIVERPOOL,
SATURDAY.—The Atlantic's mails arrived here this morning
from Cork, for dispatch by the Royal Mail steam-ship Africa
on Saturday next, the Ist of February. The Cunard Com-
pany's steamer Cambria, chartered by Messrs. Brown, Ship-
ley, and Co., agents for thel United States mail steamers, will
leave Liverpool on Tuesday next, for Queenstown. The ex-
pedition with which she has been fitted is remarkable. We
understand that the Baltic, one of the American line, is
neaped in her dock, otherwise she would have proceeded to
Cork immediately on receipt of the intelligence of the At-
lantic's disaster. The British and North American Royal
Mail steam-ship Niagara, Captain Stone, which would leave
Boston on the 15th, and Halifax on the 17th inst., bringing
New York papers and letters to the 14th, and telegraphic ac-
counts, via Halifax, to the 16th instant, may be expected to
arrive in the Mersey early this (Monday) morning,
DEATH OF THE REV. DR. BLACK OF THE
BARONY PARISH, GLASGOW. The public will learn with
deep regret of the demise of the Rev. Dr. Black of the Barony
Parish of Glasgow— a man endeared to the whole commu-
nity for the zeal and ability with which he discharged the
pastoral functions in the most populous parish in Scotland.
He retired to Italy a few months ago for the benefit of his
health ; but the milder climate of the south failed to remove
his malady ; and Thursday's post brought the distressing in-
telligence. that he departed this life in Florence at 9 r.m. on
Wednesday, the 15th current. The sufferer was solaced to
the last by the presence and attentions of his amiable partner.
—Glasgow Herald
THE COUNTESS OF MORNINGTON.—At the Blooms-
bury County Court, on Saturday, an action was brought by
Mrs. Stevens, a dressmaker, to recover from the defendant,
the Countess of Mornington, the sum of 6/. 165., for goods
supplied. Mr. G. E. Williams, solicitor, Upper Norton-
street, appeared for the plaintiff; and Mr. Randall, for the
Countess, who pleaded her coverture, and in support of which
witnesses were called, who swore to being present at the
marriage of the Countess to the Earl of Mornington, at
Hampshire, in the year 1828. Mr. Williams—Your Honour,
in other cases heard before you, when the same plea has
been made, your decision has always been adverse to her
Ladyship. His Honour—Yes, but on those occasions there
has been no proof, as now, of the marriage. Mr. Williams—
I am not in a position at present, although I shall be, to show
that the Countess is separated from the Earl, and has a se-
parate maintenance allowed her by the Court of Chancery
of 1,0001. per annum. His Honour—Then you had better
be nonsuited, and commence fresh proceedings against the
Countess jointly with her husband, when you may subpoena
her to attend, and proving, from her own lips, the truth of
what you state, my judgment will be for the plaintiff. To
this Mr. Williams consented, and the case was entered as a
nonsuit.
BRIGHTON RAILWAY.—At the half-yearly general
meeting of the London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway
Company, on Friday, a satisfactory report was presented,
from which it appeared that the total receipts of the half-
year were 311,2191., being 19,8621. increase on the same pe-
riod of 1819. The balance remaining for dividend was
124,2541., which, at 2/. 12s. per cent. for the half-year, would
take 120,006/. of this amount, leaving a balance of 4,248/. to
the credit of the next half-year. The chairman, Mr. Laing,
congratulated the shareholders on the completion of the new
London-bridge station, and the remainder of the works,
which he was happy to say had been completed within the
estimate. 7 he amount he gave them in 1849 of the liabilities
for the works in progress and to be undertaken was 390,0001,
and the assets were put down at 145,000/. On the realisa-
tion of the assets and the completion of the works, it was
now found that a margin of about 25,0001., besides the sur-
plus lands, remained available, of the estimated final capital
of 7,200,0001„ which sum he fully expected would not be ex-
ceeded, and would close the capital account. After some
discussion of a very favourable nature, the dividend of 21. 12s.
per cent. for the ,half-year was agreed to, and the report
passed unanimously.
STEAM COMMUNICATION BETWEEN GLASGOW AND
LONDON.—It is something new in the history of the Clyde
to have direct steam communication with London. This has,
however, been projected, and a few days more will suffice to
tell whether it is an experiment likely to prove successful,
though it is certain that the advantages to manufacturers are
obvious, in getting by this means their goods transmitted to
the metropolis without being subjected to the risks of tran-
shipment. It is possibly calculations of this kind that have
induced the owners of the fine new iron screw steamer Euro-
pean.to place her on the line between Glasgow and London
direct. She leaves the Broomielaw on Saturday first, on her
first voyage, taking with her, we understand, nearly 800
tons of general cargo; and it is confidently anticipated that
the voyage, a long one undoubtedly, will be accomplished
within four days. It is dependent on the state of the wea-
ther, whether she will shape her course northward or south-
ward ; but as the former is the shorter route, it will likely be
taken.—North British Mail.
MILDNESS OF THE SEASON.—As Mr. B. Saw.'
bridge, of Rempstone, was removing a portion of a straw-
stack in Mr. Hopkins's yaial, a few days ago, he discovered
a newly-built robia's nest with four eggs in it.— Notts Guar-
dian.
OLLERTON.—THE SEASON.—The weather during
this last week has been most cheering for out-door employ-
ment. The sun has put forth his beauteous rays, and the
the
wing. are decked with flowers. Butterflies are strong on
the wing. The woodlark has commenced his sweet lay, and
the Blackbird sings a song. This is, at present, one of the
mildest winters ever known.—Notts Paper.
ST. ANDREW'S, HOLBORN.—HANDSOME TESTIMO-
Nim..—The subscriptions for an appropriate mark of respect
to John Robert Taylor, Esq., of Chancery-lane, and Red
Lion-square, has, it was stated on Saturday last, already ap-
proached 150 guineas. The exertions of this gentleman in behalf
of" Baths and Wash-houses" for the poor of the parish of St.
Andrew's, and St. George the Martyr, and also for the public
improvement of Chancery-lane, was warmly commented
upon, and a hope expressed, concurrently by all parties, that
the testimonial would be fully worthy of presentation to so
truly a philanthropic an individual. The final arrangement of
this demonstration of good feeling is in the hands of Messrs.
Matthew and Drew, of Holborn, and other gentlemen.
BLOCK OF COAL FOR THE EXHIBITION.—It gives
us much pleasure to state that this important coal field
(Swansea) will not be unrepresented in the forthcoming In-
dustrial Exhibition, our townsmen, Messrs. James and Au-
brey, having now on their wharf here, on its way to London,
a magnificent block of their anthracite or stone coal. This
piece of coal is an oblong of about 7 ft. by 41/2 ft. by 3 ft.,
weighing nearly four tons, and, considering that it is ex-
tracted from a vein only four feet thick of the hardest coal
known, will, we think, prove an interesting and not unwor-
thy rival of the piece which we noticed in a former num-
ber as about to be sent from the Ten-yard seam in the
neighbourhood of Tipton, which is comparatively soft. This
coal was extracted at a distance under ground of about half
a mile, from the bottom of the pit, to which and up which—
a depth of 106 yards—it was conveyed without
any addition to the ordinary means in use for
the daily working of the pit, which is a balance pit. The
colliers, with that good spirit which we have seldom found
wanting in Welsh workmen,
willingly gave up to the pur-
pose nearly three days, the only pay they asked for being
some" Cwrw da," to celebrate the safe landing of the mon-
ster. This fuel, which has some most valuable properties,
is used throughout the whole district whence it comes for
steam boilers, and ought to be used for such purposes in all
localities where eimoke, soot, and dust are injurious, as it pro-
duces in burning neither the one nor the other; and we have
heard that it is probable that Messrs. James and Aubrey's
offer to supply gratuitously a sufficient quantity for the use
of one boiler fire during the period that the Exhibition will
open will be accepted by the Commissioners.—Cambrian.
THE PAPER AND THE ADVERTISEMENT DUTIES.
—We believe we are justified in stating that it is the inten-
tion of the Chancellor of the Exchequer to reduce both the
paper and the advertisement duties to one-third their present
amount. The advertisement duty, in that case, will be only
sixpence. The relief, in both instances, will no doubt be
considerable to the classes on whom the two taxes press with
the greatest force; but it is to be regretted that Sir Charles
Wood should persist in retaining any portion of imposts
which are so obnoxious, as well as injurious. His notion is,
that the consumption of paper will, in consequence of the
reduction by two-thirds of the present tax, produce at least
half the amount of revenue just now derived from that source ;
while in the case of the advertisement duty, he calculates
that a reduction from eighteenpence to sixpence will so ma-
terially increase the number of advertisements, that in the
course of a year or two the amount of revenue received under
that head will not be much lets than it is at present. The
Right Hon. Gentleman seems to have taken a strange fancy
of late to the reduction of taxation on the two-thirds prin-
ciple. That is the principle on which ho means to proceed in
the case of the window duties. These duties, yielding
1,800,0001. per annum, are to be abolished ; but then a house
tax, yielding 600,0001., is to be substituted. If the country
only makes a vigorous effort, all the three taxes will be
swept off entirely—window tax, paper tax, and the duties on
4(1)7044025ta.- Ado/liar.

SPORTING NOTES.
No. IV.
ANALYSIS OF THE SEVENTY-SECOND DERBY.

"i'll look into the seeds of tim3,
And see which grain will grow, and which will not."
SHAIISPERS.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sin,—To use the phraseology of the Stock-Exchange,

THE BETTING MARKET
during the past week has ruled remarkably bullish, al-
most all the fancy nags for the various stakes in the
market having been quoted at an advance of from one to
twenty points; this looks healthy at this early period of
the year, and leads one to infer that the season we are
about to enter upon will be one of the most brilliant on
record. Speculation at the list houses has extended
over a wide field, including the steeplechase
to be run at Southern to-morrow, for which,
the British Yeoman, 10 it 101 b, is in great
force at from 3 to 2 to 1; Verax, 19st 21b, firm at 3
to 1; St. Helier, lOst 3!b, at 4 to 1; and Spring Buck,
lOst 71b, Mulligan, lOst, and The General, 9st 121 b, aro
not without supporters at from stoBto 1. I opine
(barring accidents by flood and field) the first three at
the finish will be those at the top of the betting; and
were I to invest on such ticklish sffairs, I should specu-
late for the Yeoman being the first in the quadrupedal
scroll of fame to-morrow, with St. Helier and Verax in
the second and third positions, in very close attendance;
but steeplechasing is rather out of my line of business,
there being too much trusting to chance, and too little
to judgment in it, to please my fancy.
A few transactions have placed Vain Hope, Abd-el-
Kader, Maria Day, and Sir John foremost on the lists
fir the Liverpool Steeplechase, the first two at 12, and
the latter couple at 15 to 1, but very little doing, in con•
sequence of the late appearance of the weights.
Within the last day or two the Northampton and New-
market Handicaps have been brought rather prominently
into notice by a good many investments having been
made on Chief Justice, Cocktail, and Nutmeg for the
former, and on The Cutter, Recruit, and Legerdemain
for the latter stake; Cocktail at thirty, and The Cutler
at fifteen to one, being in most request. Baby, Sunrise,
Exeter, and St. Rosalie are severally in force for the
Metropolitan, at a slight advance on the prices quoted in
my last note. The upward move has been pretty gene •
ral on the Chester Cup during the past week ;
Rhesus has been backed for a good round sum
in public and private, and has advanced to
12 to 1 ; it is difficult to obtain more than
61 to 1 about Cossack, or 18 about the Italian; Haricot
and Lady Evelyn are marked 25, the Knight of Avenel
and Wallflower, 30 to 1 each; among the outsiders,
Woolwich, at so, has many admirers, Sauter-le-Coupe,
at 66, has several, and one or two are to be found who
invest their loose cash at long-shots on Strap, the
quondam Fitzallen of other days, who, at three years
old, ran fourth for the memorable Chester Cup of
1845, when the public and myself had the intrepidity
to hack any and everything but Mr. Skerratt's halt-
bred son of Accident, who won easily. For the Derby
Grecian is uncommonly steady at 5 to 1, Prime Minister
at 13 to 2, Newminster and the Mountain Sylph colt
at 12 to 1 each, and Constellation at 33 to 1; but little
has been done about any others, with the exception of
Lightfoot, who has been sent to the right-about, as he
ought to have been long ago; on Monday be was pep-
pered at 66, on Thursday at 100, and on Friday and
Saturday at 200 to 1! _ _

It will be seen by the foregoing account of the market
that there is nothing particularly " rotten in the state
of Denmark," but a' contraire, that the speculative de-
partment of the turf is i❑ as blooming a condition as the
vegitation in the Isle of Wigbt, where the sprouting
trees and flowers, together with the early birds, have
evidently 13€ en led astray by Dame Nature, under the
'delusion that it was the end of March or beginning of
April instead of January-
4, Firstling of the year, stern month of chills,
Whose breath is cold and dumb ;
Yet promise dost thou give, cold friend,
Of glowing skies to come."
I shall now turn my attention to the greatest racing
stake in the universe, 'yclept
THE DERBY,
- •

now in its seventy-second year, having been established
by the grandfather of the present Lord Stanley, the late
Earl of Derby, in 1780, as a sweepstakes of fifty guineas
each, h ft, for three years old; colts, Bst; fillies, 7st 1 llb;
over the last mile. The conditions were altered in 1784,

in respect to the weights and distance • the former to be,
colts, Bst 31b; fillies, Sat; and the latter, the last mile
and a half. In 1807 the weights were altered again, to
what they have remained ever since, viz., colts, Bst 71b;
fillies, Bst 21b.
In 1848 the New Derby Course, one mile and a half,
as originally proposed, I believe, by Lord George Ben-
tinck, was finished; and Surplice, the produce of Lord
George's celebrated, mare, Crucifix (the winner of the
One and Two Thousand Guineas and Oaks) was the first
to travel over it a Derby victor, and destined afterwards
to be renowned as the dissolver of the champion charm
—winning both Derby and St. Leger. The levels of the
New Derby Course, as far as a rough measurement will
allow me to judge, are as follows :
In the first 100 yards it rises 1 foot in 18
In the next 120 yards it rises 1 foot in 16
In the next 130 yards it rises 1 foot in 17
In the next 160 yards it rises 1 foot in 18
In the next 213 yards it rises 1 foot in 40
In the next 155 yards it rises 1 foot in 25
(Hero it joins the old course )
In the next 120 yards it rises 1 foot in 48
(Here ends " the hill.")
The next 720 yards are nearly flat, then a gradual
descent of one foot in seventy-five for the next 280
yards, then one in forty-five for the next 180 yards, then
one in fifty-two for the next 104 yards, then nearly
fist for 116 yards, and ends on a steady rise from
" the distance" to the beginning of the stand of one foot
in thirty, and from the stand to the winning-post of one
in twenty-two; a very severe finish. For the hill por-
tion of the above I am indebted to Bell's Life in London
of 1848.
The Derby is a stake on which my prognostications
are, generally, remarkably correct, never having been
absolutely wrong, except in the instance of Voltigeur
last year, to whom, however, I assigned the fourth place;
and hitherto it has been my annual custom to lay before
the public, early in the year, a handicap of the Derby
favourites, showing in what degree of estimation I hold
them; this scheme of mine having in previous years met
with very general approbation, I give it again as under,
taking The Prime Minister and Newminster es my
standards of excellence this year, as I did The Flying
Dutchman and Tadmor in 1849, and Surplice and Springy
Jack in 1818.

st lbl

The Prime Minister -8
7
Newminster
Grecian

Lamartino
8 3
8 3
RI It° nu Stormon yt ami ne
Sy
l P.
.h
800
Balsamo
Hernand€z
Tearaway colt
Bro. to Drakelow
A riot°
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st lb
Teddiogton 7 10
Bonnie Dundee 7 10
Constellation

Black Doctor 7 10
&gland's Glory
Prinaitius 7 9
The Ban .
Juggernaut 7 9
llyppolytus 7 9
Theseus
Bro. to Chanticleer 7 9
harpsichord .
CO93US 7 8

Aaron Smith
Midas
Confessor 7 11 Entre Non; 7 7
Marlboro' Buck 7 11 Azeth 7 7
Oleander 7 10 Ipsus
Croupier ...., 7 10 Lightfoot ............... 7 7
In consequence of divers important scraps of informa-
tion concerning several of the favourites not having
come to hand this morning, I am unavoidably compelled
to postpone tho completion of my analysis of the Derby
to Thursday next, as it would be of but little ser-
vice to send it forth in a mutilated state.
I am, Sir, yours, &c.
THE SPIRIT OF THE TURF.

Jan. 23, 1851.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
CHESTER CUP.
The following horses have been scratched :—Doubt,
Dough, Snowstorm, Chief Justice, Reversion, Old
Claret, Mark Tapley, Abbess of Jerveaux, Post Tern-
pore, Velox, Alonzo, Lough Bawn, Hippogriff, Colwyn-
thus, Sweep, Indian Chief, Trouncer, and Musician.
HUNTING APPOINTMENTS.
Essex Union lids.,
Wed., Ilazeleigh Hall; Sat., Had-
leigh Common-10i.
East Essex hds., Tues., Stoke College; Thurs., Mes-
sing-street; Sat., St. Ann's Castle-10i.
Essex and Suffolk hds., Tees., Hartley Wood; Fri.,
Wiston-10i.
Suffolk Ms., Tues., Rushbrooke Hall; Thurs., Kitt-
ling Tower; Sat., Bawatead Green-104.
Duke of Rutland's hds., Tues., Great Ponton; Wed.,
Piper Hole; Fri., Broadwater-10i.
Cottesmore lids., Tues., Brook Hall; Thurs., Little
Bytbam; Sat., Market-Overton-11.
Mr. Hellier's lids, to-morrow, Turnby Gate; Thurs.,
,hWdse.,sttolsmeaolr—rolwl.
gram's lids.,,TChuarvse.n,dciushbi le3yrGidagtee;;
Legsby;
Rufford lids., to-morrow,
. Rufford Abbey; Thurs.,
Ossington-10i; Saturday, Langwith Lodge-11.
Gotham
kt r eVyinl left ein
Mr. Lumley's hds:, to-morrow, Dinnin
RaDDneimi3goSot°ra-1*
10i.
gton; Thurs.,
Park Lane; Fri., Gripgley-on-the-11111-10i.
Lord Henry Bentmck's lids., to-morrow, Skilling-
thorpe; Wed., Stainfield Hall; Thurs., Hackthorn; Fri.,
Sowerby Hall; Sat., Wickenby-11.
Sir W. W. Wynn s lids., to-morrow, Iscoyd; Fri.,
Llanypwll; Sat., Boratten
anSdoputahrtrEidsgsee—x
Partridge-10.
lids., to-morrow, Mucking; Sat., Dog
Dumfrics-shire lids., to-morrow, Glen Stewart; Fri.,
Mossknow—lO.
Harrowgate hrs., Fri., Burnt Bridge-10i.
; Sat., Crownhill
.--10 i.
York and Ainsty Tues., Amster; Thurs.,
Down-18.
York hrs., Wed.,
Providence Green; Sat., Brandsby Bar-10i.
V. W. H. hde., Tuesday, Lediard Plain; Thurs.,
Lechlade Town; Sat., Bibury-10i.
Carlisle hrs., Wed., Scotley ,• Fri., Halfway-House,
Dais ton-road— 9.
Eamont hrs., Wed., Spital Temple, Sowerby; Sat.,
Longwathby-10i.
Mr. Morgan's lids., Thurs., Pitland Corner-10i.
Mr. Trelawny's lids., Tues., St. Anne's Chapel, Big-
bury; Fri., London Inn, South Brent-10i.
Mr. Purse's hada., .Ilarpur Wood-10i.
Sir Henry Scale's lids., Tburs, Stoke Gabriel.
Tiverton lids., Tburs., Hays° Moor; Sat., Warnicombe
Lodge-101.
Aikton hrs., Wed., Tburs., Fri., Bounness-8.
Wigton hds., Wed., Highland Laddie, Croft; Thurs.,
Rosley— 8.
Whitohavon bra., Tuos., Wodow Bank; Fri., Eskat