The Sun.
London, England, 1851-04-29 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 29, 1851.

SPORTING NOTE,
No. XLIV.
CHESTER SPRING MEETING.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
perceive that I snail not hove the benefit, of
Lord Eglinton's colt to pull my judgment through kr
the Mostyn Stakes, rind that Youeg Hawthorn is a very
uncertain starter, consequently, Lizzy and Merriment
will be first and second, and the crack (The Greek)
third. As I remarked yesterday, Merry Peel, in the
absence of Hesse Homburg and Vermuth, is tolerably
certain of being the winner of the Palatine Stakes.
There seems to ue some little doubt whether Lord Clif-
den will start either his Harpsichord or 'Touchstone
filly for the Rodeo Produce Stakes tomorrow; should
he not do so, Avia. 7st 131 b, Guardsman, Bst 51b, and
Paddy Whack, Bst 51b, will then run home as I have
placed them.
The following is a corrected list of the presumed
starters for the Chester Cup:—Russborough, "Wooleich,
Backbiter, Vempyre, Duceen-Durras, Sauter'-la Coops,
Langton, The Italian, ClariAere Spot, Knight of Averei,
Montague, Rhesus, Seaman, Haricot, Damask, Lady
Eden, Mickleton, Gladiator colt, Strap. D'a, York-
you're-wanted, Wallflower, Wilmeet, Rubins, Sprite
filly, The Black Doctor, Nancy, and Besse Homburg.
Vatican, The Iron Duke, Dulcet, Sir Robert, Cuu-
riri, Panope, Made-Safe, The Cutler, Tightweist,
Knook Knoll, Queen Bee, Hurry Scurry and Guards
man are also there, but, for the most part, are very
doubtful runners. The field, after the gr nee ally mute •
rous deductions on the morning of the race, is expected
to number twenty-seven at the least.
The betting at Chester last night was of a very ]an-
gun! description. Russborough wtes in force, and Vern-
pyre, "rbe Italian, Rhesus, Seaman, The Black Doctor,
and Hesse Homburg, were talked about, but not backed
to any extent. I remain of the same opinion as lien-to-
fore expressed; still thinking that the race will show
VAMPYRE, THE KNIGHT, or THE ITALIAN in
the ascendant; the last named for choice; with The
Doctor, Rhesus and Russborough at the head of the
ruck. All long shots taken about the couple of D's
(Damask and Due-an-Durres) with superfluous cash are
not such bad specs. as they may seem; it is very possible
you may not have to rue D. as a bad investment on the
Roodee. In case my other ventures fail me on this
stormy sea of speculation, I shall reserve this couple of
outsiders as ecckboats to carry me safe home to port.
I am, Sir, yours, &c.
THE SPIRIT OF THE TURF.
April 29, 1851.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
TATTERSALL'S—MONDAY.
The only beta laid were:-5,000 to 60 agst Langton,
1,000 to 15 agst Duc-an-Dhurras, 1,800 to 100 agst
Knight of Avenel, and 800 to 100 agst Russborough, for
the Chester Cup; and 20 to 1 agst Sir Rowland Tren-
chard, for the Dee Stakes.
CHESTER RACES.
CHESTER, MONDAY AFTERNOON, FIVE O'CLOCK.--The
following list includes nearly all the arrivals up to the
present time:—
The Mountain Deer, Joc-o'-Sot, Hesse-Homburg,
Hurry Scurry, colt out of Khorassan's dam, Queen Bee,
Alonzo, Emma, Deceitful, Foam, Spot, Pilot, Sir Robert,
Worcester, Vampyre, Wallflower, Clarissa, Sauter la
Coupe, Dulcet, Paddy Bird, York-you're-wanted, Pa-
quette, Nancy, Lizzy, Montague, Scar, Era, Escape,
Russborough, Seaman, Duc-an-Dhurras, Kick-up-the-
dust, Merriment, Truth, Margaretta, Paddy Whack,
Woolwich, Backbiter, Black Doctor, The Iron Duke,
Mickleton, Wilmont, Rubinia, Sprite filly, Pagliano,
General Sale, Rhesus, Badajos, Grand Duchess, Merry-
bird, Vanguard, Haricot, Brenda, Maid of Team Valley,
Emily Bell, Caurire, Lady Eden, Tresina, March Bird,
Merry Peal, Strap, Knook Knoll, The Cutler, Guardsman.
Dawson's, J. Dawson's, Lord Zetland's, Heseltine's,
Lord Eglinton's, and two or three other lots, had not
arrived when our parcel was made up. We hear that
John Day will not have anything here. Lord Eglinton
will have only Knight of Avenel and Hippolytus. Daw-
son will have nine.
A good deal of snow fell yesterday, and we have had
a few cold showers to-day, but the course is in first-rate
order. We fear it will not continue so, for the weather
is very doubtful. The city, as yet, shows little of the
bustle incident to a great meeting, and not a bet has
been laid. Those who were on the course this morning
select Russborough, Seaman, Kent's three, and the Black
Doctor, as having taken strung gallops, and gone re-
markably well. Mr. Osbaldeston's Derby horse did not
please them. Rhesus and Backbiter arrived only this
afternoon, and have not been out.
The following arrived after our parcel was dispatched:
—Knight of Avenel, Hippolytus, Langton, Tightwaist,
Snow Storm, Mark Tapley, Italian, Colsterdale, Aristos,
Asia, Old Claret, and Damask.
CHESTER, MONDAY NIGHT, NINE O'CLOCK.
The Entries have closed as follows :
TUESDAY.
The Grosvenor Stakes of 10 soya. each, 11 ft, with 30
added. Grosvenor Course.
—Mark z
01:a4 3pl,erys_, 4Kyierks;p.Vat
hntg,udaursdt,. 3
yrs—Lord syr
Byron,spot,syrs
3 yrs—The Cutler, 3 yrs—Merry Peal, 3 yrs.
Sweepstakes of 5 soys•ddelacAv
htiiswitaia:nh3ce3y.o
e 8 added. Once round
Master Downes, aged—Avis,
—Lucy, 6 yrs—Hurricane, 3 yrs-13; rMmodstibe nycaa, 4 yrs
rdival
Puff, 5 yrs.
Optional Selling Stakes of 5 soya. each, with 30 added.
One Mlle and a quarter.
Avia, 3 yr.: (301)—True Blue, 3 yrs, (801.)—B g by
Greatheart, out or Jolly Beggar's dam, 5 yrs (1001)—
Costume, 3 yrs (301.)—Emma, 3 yra (300— Osbald-
wick, 4 yrs (301.)—Maid of the Mountain, 3 yrs (501.)
WEDNESDAY.
Corinthian Handicap, of 5 sovs. each, with 20 added.
Seven furlongs.
Fifty-three, 3 yrs—Escape, 6 yrs—ch f by Arundel,
out of Camerilla, 3 yrs—b m by Cardinal Puff, 5 yrs.
Sixty Guineas, added to a Sweepstakes of 3 soya. each.
Once round and a distance.
Aristos, 3 aTs—Mark Tapley, 4 yrs—Psyche, 4 yrs—
True Blue, 3 yrs—The Cutler, 3 yrs—Lady Eden, 4
yrs—Roller, 3 yrs—Kick.up-the-dust, 3 yrs—Simpli-
city, 3 yrs—b c by Melbourne, 3 yrs.
Her Majesty's Plate of 100 Guineas. Thrice round.
Vanguard, 5 yrs—Aristos, 3 yrs—Mark Tapley, 4
yrs—True Blue, 3 yrs—b c by Melbourne, dam by
Bran, 3 yrs—Psyche, 4 yrs—The Cutler, 3 yrs—Hur-
ricane, 3 yrs—Truth, 3 yrs—The Flying Englishman
(h b), aged.
BETTING AT CHESTER THIS MORNING.
CHESTER CUP.
4 to 1 agst Rhesus
8 to 1 agst Russborough
9 to 1 agat The Italian
9 to 1 agst Hesse-Homburg
12 to 1 agst Backbiter
20 to 1 agst Haricot
20 to 1 agst Vampyre
30 to 1 agst Khorassan's dam colt
DEBBY.
20 to 1 agst Mountain Deer
20 to 1 agat The Ban and Lightfoot

AMERICAN NEWS.

ARRIVAL OF THE BALTIC.
LIVERPOOL, MONDAY EVENING.

By the arrival of the United States mail steamship
Baltic, Captain Comstock, we have received advises
from New York to the 16th inst. She brings
30,514/. in specie and 204 passengers. Simms, the
fugitive slave, whose arrest at Boston created so much
excitement, has been sent back to the state from which
he fled. The Tribune states, that while the West
India mail-steamer was waiting outside of the bar of
Tampico, on the 6th ult., for specie amounting to
nearly 800,000 dolls., a " norther" sprang up, and she
was compelled to leave the coast at once, without the
money.

From Havannah we have advices to the Bth inst.
We subjoin the mercantile report. Rumours, appa-
rently ba*ed upon some foundation, relative to a re-
newed invason of Cuba, were rife.
From Mexico we have advices to the 22d of March.
The Government finances were in a bad condition.
The American ind.eminity had been nearly all spent,
and the deficiency on the Ist of the month was
2,500,000 dolls. _ _ _

. .
Prom Jamaica we have advices to the sth instant.
The crops at Trelawny this season will be deficient by
one-fourth.

Accounts from Hayti to the Ist announce that the
late Minif•ter of Justice, and several persons of high
standing, had been publicly shot by order of the
Emperor.

CO.VMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
MONEY M ARK Ef.

NEW YORK, APRIL 16.—Negotiations for money are
not quite so easy as last week. Exchange for the Baltic
opened with an advance on sterling, and to this fact
alene may be ascribed the present stringency in the
market. Sales of bills on London have been made at
110 to 1101, mostly at 110 to 1108. On Paris, 5 114-
to 5 10. Amsterdam, 41i to 414. Hatuburgh, 36a to
361. Bremen, 78.2 to 79. The transactions in the con-
tinental funds have been moderate. Short paper of the
first class is in request at 6 to 61 per cent.; but in other
descriptions the rates are firm uc our quotations. Money
an demand upon the hypothecation of mercantile paper
and stock securities readily commands 6 to 7 per cent.
Specific loans are not so readily made, in consequence of
the continued scarcity of floating capital. There has
been a fair market for sound stocks, with a fair demand
for Government and States Securities.

Cotton-For a few days succeeding the arrival of
the Baltic's favourable intelligence there was an active
demand, but since then the market has receded some-
what, with a less active inquiry, the decline being
greatest on the low grades. We revise our quotations,
which now stand A-c. to oc. lower than on the sth inst.
The sales of Saturday last were 1,000 bales, at a con-
cession of ie. on low grades, included in the
above, but Monday and yesterday there was a good
demand, without change in prices. The receipts of cot-
ton at all the shipping ports are 1,927,991 bales, against
1,749,065 to the same dates last year, an increase this
season of 171,976 bales; the total foreign receipts this
year are 258,026 bales more than last; say 183,287 bales
increase to Great Britain, 46,503 increase to France,
28,423 increase to the north of Europe, and 29,813 in-
crease to other foreign ports. The shipments from
southern to northern ports are 178,911 bales less this
season than last, and there is an increase in stock of
4;923 bales.
Naval Stores-Turpentine sold a few days ago at 2
dolls. 80ic., but 3 dolls. are now asked. Spirits of
turpentine, 35 dolls. cash. Resin is firm, and good de-
scriptions are wanted. Ashes (pot) have continued in
fair request, and about 175 barrels have been taken at
5 dolls. Pearl remains steady at 5 dolls. 75c., with sales
of 100 barrels. Stock, 11th inst., 1,187 barrels (pot),
and 459 ditto (pearl).
Iron-English bar is dull, and prices irregular, some
holders show an anxiety to realize. Sales are a few
hundred tons Scotch pig, at 20 dolls. 50c. to 21 dolls.
50c. from ship and store; 800 tons Gartsherrie, from
yard, 20 dolls.; 150 tons English bar, 36 dolls. to 36
dolls. 50c.; 260 ditto, in yard, slightly damaged, 35
dolls. 12ic., and 200 tons Irish wrought scrap, about 27
dolls., all at six months. The stock of Swedes is small
and holders firm at 85 dolls.
Flour-There has been the usual home trade demand,
and the market closed with much firmness. Canadian
brands, in bond, of which the stock is reduced to about
12,000 barrels, are dull at 4 dolls. 561 c. to 4 dolls. 62ic.
To arrive, it is offered freely at 4 dolls. 50c. 1,500
barrels have been sold, deliverable in May, at 4 dolls.
37ic,, in bond.
Grain-In wheat the operations are limited, the mil-
lers on aht avy market buying sparingly. Genessee is
held at 112 c. to 1160.; Ohio, 1000. to 1050. Canadian
in bond is inquired for at 102 c. to 104 c. The southern
crop of Indian corn being light is now almost exhausted,
and the arrivals are small. The closing prices are 68ic.
to 69c. for southern end northern yellow, and 70c. for
White Jersey; for delivery in June there are sales at
623 c. for western mixed; cornmeal brings 3 dolls. to
3 dolls. 25c. per barrel.
Provisions-New mess pork has been in good demand,
and large sales have been made at 15 dolls., the market
closing at 15 dolls. 25c. for mess, and 11 dolls. 25c. to
12 dolls. 25c. for prime. Old mess 14 dolls. to 144 eons.;
prime. 11 rinoa t, ill dolls- 11,,,f is firm at aftalle_to
11 dolls. 50c., and 5 dolls. to 6 dolls. 25c. for mess and
prime; prime mess in tierces, 15 dolls. to 16 dolls. 25c.
Lard is in good demand, and sales to a fair extent have
been made for flavre at 9c. for barrel. Cheese ranges
from sic. to 7e., according to quality.
Freights-To Liverpool-Cotton is offered more freely
at 3-16 to 32d.; flour, 10d. to Is.; grain, 31.1. to 4d. per
bushel; naval stoles, ls. 5d.; heavy goods, 10s. to 15s.
To London-Tobacco, 325. 6d.; flour, ls. 6d.; heavy
end measurement goods, 255. to 305.; provisions in bar-
rels, 2s. To lii.vre-Cotton, ashes, rice, &e., 5
dolls. to 6 dolls. To Glasgow-Flour, Is. 6d.
NEW ORLEANS, APRIL 14.-Cotton is quiet.
Flour is steady, with sales of 2,000 barrels Ohio at 4
dolls. 10c.
Cern is firmer at 55e. to 57c.

Sterling exchange we quote at 94.
CHARLESTON, APRIL 11.—Our market was very in-
active under the Africa's advices. Prices of cotton for
the present are nominal; sales were limited to 300 bales
at extremes ranging from aa to
SAVANNAIJ, APRIL 11.—The cotton market opened
with a fair demand at previous prices, which continued
until eleven o'clock, when the accounts by the Africa
were received, noticing an advance of one-eighth in Li-
verpool. This brought the market to a stand, and no
sales were afterwards effecteJ. The morning's business
amounted to 815 bales at from Sic. to 11ic.
11AVANNAII, APRIL B.—Prices of sugar are firmer.
There is an active demand, as many vessels were char-
tered and receiving.

Molasses as last reported.
Freights to Europe the same.
Exchange on London, 6 to 7 per cent. premium.

AMERICAN SHIPPING.

Arrived—The Washington steamer, from Bremen
and Southampton; Fides, Edward O'Brien Constantine,
Hemisphere, Norden, Roscius, Fidelia,Boadicea, Arctic,
Vanguard, Eliza, and Cornelia, from Liverpool; Vesta,
from Dublin; India, from Newcastle; Governor Hinck-
ley, from London; Salome, from Bordeaux; Arbaces,
from Genoa; Wilhelm, Cotton Planter, and Fanny, from
Antwerp: Favourite, from Newport, Wales; Luconia,
New York, and Volans, from Havre; Luna, from Gal-
way; Star, from Marseilles; Dorothy Henrietta, from
Rotterdam; Sir Isaac Newton and Hyne, from Ham-
burgh; Manilla, from Cardiff ; Oudsod and Matta, from
Bremen; Fanny, from Londonderry; Mississippi, from
Cork; and Juliet, from Rochelle, at Now York.
The Hor, Sidon, and Albion, from Liverpool, at Apa-
lachicola.
The John H. Jervis, Colonist, and Aplin, from Liver-
pool; Kileura,' from Newcastle; Amelia Janet, America,
and Nova Scotia, from Glasgow,-at Boston.
The lEolus, from Liverpool to Baltimore; Roscoe,
from Liverpool; Mobile, Otilla, Sea Lion, Essex, and
John Haven, from Liverpool; Tamarac, from Newport, '
Wales, and Virginia, from Gottenburg, at New Orleans.
The Milo, from Sunderland, at Newhaven, Connec-
ticut.
The Atalanta, Katamanzoo, and Tuscany, from Liver-
pool, and the Johanna, from Leghorn, at Philadelphia.
The Georgia, from Newport, Wales, Intrinsic, and
Jessie, from Liverpool, Eli Whitny, from Cardiff, and
Robert Mason, from Bristol, at Savannah.
The Ocean, from Leith, and Renfrewshire, from Glas-
gow, at St. John's New Brunswick.
The barque reported ashore at Key West was the
Brothers, of Yarmouth, from New Orleans for Havre.
The captain refused the assistance of the wreckers, and
succeeded in getting the vessel off without auy apparent
damage, and she proceeded on her voyage.
The Woodstock and Freeman, from Liverpool, St.
Vincent, from Newport, Vales, and Mary Allen Scott,
from Glasgow, at Port Royal, Jamaica.
The Baracoa and Sophia, from London, and Copse,
from Leith, at Jamaica.
The Frank Stovin sailed from Jamaica for London on
the Ist.

FATAL ACCIDENTS IN REGENT-STREET.—Yester-
day Mr. Laugh= held an inquest in St. George's Hospital,
on Valentine Symons, aged 26, a painter, in the employ of
Mr. Jackson, contractor under the Woods and Forests. De-
ceased was working at the front of 86, Quadrant, when a
ladder, adjoining that on which ha was standing, tilted over,
and knocked hint down a height of 15 feet. He was taken
up and carried to the hospital, where he died from the effect
of the injuries, which consisted of two fractures of the skull.
Great blame was attached to two men named Lambert and
Markham, to whose negligence the accident was attributed,
and the jury, in returning a verdict of accidental death; told
them -that they had narrowly escaped a charge of man-
slaughter.—Mr. H. M. Wakley held an inquest in the Mid-
dlesex Hospital, on William Toombes, a painter, aged 32.
Deceased, while painting the front of 311, Regent-street,
occupied by Mr. turner, a veterinary surgeon, incautiously
placed a ladder which he was using On a scaffolding that was
too narrow, when it slipped, and he fell a height of twelve
feet, fracturing his sp,ne. Verdict—" Accidental death.'
Both these accidents occurred in the same street, and at about
the same hour.

DEATH OF THE COUNTESS OF RADNOR.—We
regret to announce the death of this noble lady, which took
place on Sunday morning at Lord Radnor's seat, Coleshill,
Berks. Her Ladyship had Leen in declining health for some
time past, nevertheless her demise occurred somewhat unex-
pectedly. She was the daughter of the late Sir Henry
Paulet St. John Mildmay-, and married the Earl of Radnor in
1814. Her Ladyship was much beloved : by her death many
noble families are placed in mourning.
WEsTmiN:TER ABBFT OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.—
The Dean and Chapter ct Westminster have resolved to open
Westminster Abbey to the public without charge on and after
Sunday next. Circulars have been dispatched to the choirs
of the different cathedrals throughout the country request-
ing their attendance. There will be a full choir every Sun-
day vieuipg.

COURT CIRCULAR.

Her Majesty and his Royal Highness the Prince Al-
bert, accompanied by their Royal Highnesses the Prince
cf Wales, Prince Allred, Prince Arthur, the Princes:
Royal, and the Princesses Alice, Helena, and Louise, left
Windsor Castle at seven minutes before twelve o'clock
yesterday, fur London. The Royal suite consisted of
the Countess of Charlemont, Lady Caroline Barrington,
Honourable Flora Macdonald, Hon. Mary F. Seymour,
Lord Byron, Lieutenant-Colonel lion. C. B. Phipps.
Captain Hon. Joseph Denman (Royal Navy), Colonel
Buckley, Lieutenant• Colonel Francis Hugh Seymour,
and Mr. Birch. _

The august party went from the castle to the Windsor-
station of the Great Western Railway, where a guard of
honour of the first battalion of Grenadier Guards were
on duty. A special train conveyed the Queen to the
Paddington terminus, on reaching which the Royal
Party entered six of her Majesty's carriages, and with
an escort of Lancers, proceeded to Buckingham Palace,
where they arrived at ten minutes before ono o'clock.
The Queen and Prince Albert were received et the
Palace by the Vice-Chamberlain, the Master of the
Household, and Colonel Wylde.
Her INN enty held a Court in the afternoon, for the re-
ceptiun of his Royal Highness Prince Henry of the
Netherlands.

His Royal Highness arrived at Buckingham Palace
at hall-past two o'clock, and was received by the Equ'r-
ries in Waiting, Colonel Buckley and Lieut.-Colonel F.
H S. yrncur, and the Master of the Ceremonies.
The Prince Henry of the Netherlands was attended by
Count Schimmelpenninck, the Netherlands Minister ;
the Chevalier van Rappard, Aide-de-Camp of his Royal
Highness; and the Chevalier de Carsonbroot. Oflicier
d'Ordonnance of his Majesty the King of the Nether-
lands,
Attaché to his Royal Highness.
His Royal Highness had an audience of her Majesty,
to which he was introduced by Viscount Palmerston,
G.C.B , the Queen's Principal Secretary of State fur
Foreign Affairs and conducted by Colonel the Hon Sir
Edward Cust, K.C.H., her Majesty's Master of the Ce-
remonies. His Royal Highness was also presented to
his Royal Highness the Prince Albert.
The Queen was attended by Lord Byron, Lord in
Waiting, and Captain the Hon. Joseph Denman, R.N.,
Groom in Waiting.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert presided yesterday
afternoon at a meeting of the Royal Commission for the
Promotion of the Exhibition of the Works of Industry
of all Nations in 1851. His "Royal Highness arrived at
the Exhibition building, in Hyde-park, at a quarter past
three o'clock, attended by Lieutenant-Colonel Hon. C.
B. Phipps, and Lieutenant. Colonel F. H. Seymour.
The Commissioners assembled at four o'clock. Those
present were—The Earl of Rosse, Earl Granville, Lord
Overstone, the Right Honourable Henry Labouchere, Sir
Richard Westmacott, Sir C. Lyell, Sir C. L. Eastlake,
Mr. T. Baring, M.P.; Mr. Cobden, M.P.; Mr. Cubitt,
Mr. T. F. Gibson, Mr. John Gott, Mr. P. Pusey, M.P.;
Mr. R. Stephenson, M.P.; Mr. John Shepherd, Chairman
of the East India Company; and Mr. Hopkins, President
of the Geological Society. Sir Stafford Northcote and
Mr. Scott Russell, Secretaries to the Royal Commission,
were in attendance. Mr. Edgar Bowling also attended.
Colonel Reid, Chairman of the Executive Committee;
Colonel Lloyd, Special Commissioner; and Dr. Lyon
Playfair, Special Commissioner, were also present.
A deputation from Sheffield had an interview with the
Royal Commissioners. The deputation consisted of Mr.
Henry Wilkinson, Mr. Joseph Bradbury, Mr. Fawcett,
Mr. Potter, Mr. John Hawksworth, and Mr. John Hall.
The Musical Committee of the Royal Commission,
consisting of Sir George Smart, Dr. Wylde, and Sir
Henry Bishop, had an interview with the Royal Com-
missioners to make the final arrangements for the mu-
sical performances at the opening of the Exhibition.
Viscount Palmerston, the Queen's Principal Secretary
of State for Foreign Affairs, the Marquis of Breadalbane,
Lord Chamberlain, Mr. Norman Macdonald, superin-
tendent of the Lord Chamberlain's department, and Mr.
Mayne, Commissioner of Police, had severally inter-
views with the Royal Commissioners, respecting the ce-
remonial of the inauguration of the Exhibition on the Ist
of May.
The meeting of the Royal Commission broke up at
half-past six o'clock.
A meeting of the Financial Committee had previously
been held at the Exhibition Building, which was at-
tended by the Earl Glanville, Lord Overstone, the
Right Hon. H. Labouchere, Sir Alexander Spearman,
Mr. Baring, M.P., Mr. Cubitt, Mr. T. F. Gibson, and
Mr. Peter

Sir Stafford Northcote and Mr. Edgar Bowring, Se-
cretaries to the Committee, attended. The Committee
sat two hours.

Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert
honoured the Philharmonic Concert, at the Hanover-
square Rooms, with their presence yesterday evening.
The Royal suite consisted of the Duchess of Sutherland,
the Countess of Charlemont, Hon. Flora Macdonald,
Hon. Mary F. Seymour, the Marquis of Breadalbane,
Lord Byron, Lord George Lennox, Captain Hon. J.
Denman, Col. Wylde, Col. Buckley, and Lieut.-Col. F.
H. Seymour.
His Royal Highness Prince Henry of the Netherlands
visited the Exhibition Building in Hyde-park yesterday
afternoon, and was conducted through the building by
Colonel Lloyd, Special Commissioner of the Royal Com-
mission.

His Serene Highness Prince Victor of Hohenlohe
Langenbourg landed at Dover yesterday morning from
the Continent, travelled to London, and in the afternoon
proceeded to Frogmore, on a visit to her Royal High-
ness tne Dllultrat, uf

The Duke of Wellington bad an interview with Sir
George Grey yesterday, at the Home-office.
A deputation from the New River Company bad an
interview with Sir George Grey yesterday. The depn•
nation consi,ted of Mr. Richard Beauvoir Bireos (gover-
nor), Mr. Charles Henry .I.),l4ritn (treasurer), Mr. Henry
Hulse Birens (auditor), Sir John Johnstone, Bart., M.P.,
Mr. Gathorne Hardy, and Mr. Thomas Mills (directors).
Mr. Frederick Inglis (clerk), and Mr. Wm. Chadwick
Mylne (engineer).
The Archbishop of Canterbury had an interview with
Secretary Sir G. Grey yesterday at the Home-office.
The Marquis of Clanricarde had an interview with
the Chancellor of the Exchc quer yesterday at his official
residence in Downing-street.
Lord and Lady John Russell arrived in town yester-
day from Pembroke-lodge, Richmond-park.
The Oxford University Commission had a meeting
yesterday at the official residence of the First Lord of
the Treasury, in Downing-street. Present the Bishop of
Norwich, the Dean of Carlisle, the Master of Pembroke,
the Rev. H. G. Liddell, the Rev. Professor Powell, and
the Rev. A. P. Stanley (secretary).
Sir William Clay, M.P., had as interview with Sir G.
Grey yesterday.

THE FASHIONABLE-- WORLD.
IMPROVEMENTS IN PALL-MALL.
Schombergh House, Pall-mall,
Co.,heter known as the pre-
mises of Messrs. Harding and . silk- mercers to the
Queen, with its many historical associations, has been
forced, in its time,,.
adapted to the prevailing fash(i)ofn,.
to give way to a building more
and better calculated
to meet the requirements its owners. The new
building, which Messrs. Harding and Co. have erected,
presents a striking illustration o
has been made of late years in the progress which
the construction of
houses devoted to the purposes of trade. The compa-
ratively modern and profuse introduction
rich furniture, and articles of virtu of mirrors,
fashionable shops
is beginning to
Pass away, and greater
attention is being
paid to elegance of design, correctness of proportion,
and artistic beauty. In these respects there is no
building in the metropol is, dedicated to similar
which can be placed in comparison
and
the elegant
structure which Messrs. Harding Co. have reared
in Pall-mall. The exterior is the
architecture belonging to the Romanltalian style of
school. The
elevation is executed in brick,
Aubigney store dressings to the windows andithCaen and
The lower portion, including the portico cornices.
7 and its elabo-
rate embellishments, is formed ent!
material, which is peculiarly adapted Lo they of the latter
purpose, on
account of its great hardness and close `
n" ofWe believe this is the first instance of its employment
texture.
in
the metropolis. An Italian staircase leads to the show-
rooms on the first floor. It is panneliel
,and lighted,
from above by glass domes, between which
headed covering, following the line of ascent, wa9lgsgoli-
n
glass. The whole of the glass used in this portion of
the building is bent, and embossed with flowers and fo-
liage; and its introduction for such a purpose is another
example of the manifold uses to which this valuable ma-
terial is applicable. A corridor, having pendentive ceil-
ings, divides the front from the back show-rooms; and
the architecture is assimilated, in some degree, to that of
the staircase. The walls of the front show-room are
covered with paper in silver tissue, with enriched cor-
nices picked out in gold and colours. The apertment
behind is divided into a series of arches, the pii„•
tres and spandrils intervening being filled with ara-
besques those in the pilastres on a gold ground.
The ceiling is richly pannelled, and the decorations,
generally, are painted in white sad gold, with
here and there flowers and foliage coloured in
the most delicate tints. A boudoir is attached
to this apartment, with walls and ceiling also richly-
pannelled. The whole of the work on this and the
ground floors is executed in Parian cement. The ground
floor, upwards of 130 feet in depth, is decorated atter the
same elegant design. A magnificent Swedish stove
(Jeakes' patent) warms the apartment, and is constructed
so as to carry the smoke under the floor. It is manu-
factured of brown steel, with ormolu enrichments and
arabesque pannels in encaustic tile, on a crimson em-
horsed ground. Glass lamps, of globular shape,
of an
entirely new form, light the entrance, ground floor, and
corridors. Some idea of the dispatch with which the
works have been carried on may be gathered from the
fact that Messrs. Holland, the builders, who are also the
contractors for the- new Ordnance-office adjoining,
did
not commence preparing the foundations until the end
of October list. The new building is in keeping with
the palatial character of this portion of Pall-mall, and
must be aeknowledged as one of the most tasteful resorts
of the fashionable world in the metropolis.
The architects are Messrs. Lawford and Heneker; the
builders Messrs. Holland ; end the decorators l'Oessr.,.
Trollop() end Son. The stoves have been supplied by
Mr. 'Lakes; the chandeliers by Messrs. Hughes and
Forest; and the glasses by Mr.Blandford, of the Thames
Plate Glass Compeny.

The 'Duke or Northumberland, with his usual
liberality and consideration, has given instructions that
during the period of the ensuing Great Exhibition in the
metropolis his Grace's mansions of Northumberland-house,
London, and Sion-house and gardens, Middlesex, shall be
open for the inspection of parties visiting Loudon, more espe-
cially those connected with the county of Northumberland.
By applying personally or by letter at the commissioner's
office, Alnwick Castle, introductions for this purpose may be
obtained.—Newcastle Journal.

During the last week fifteen vessels put to sea
from the Birkenhead Docks, and there are at present in
dock sixteen vegsela.--Liverpool Abios.

DEATH OF ADMIRAL SIR
EDWARD CODRINGTON, G.C.B.
We regret to announce the demise of Admiral Sir
Edward Codrington, G.C.8., one of the oldest flag-
officers in the British Navy, whose brilliant naval
career is identified with our national annals. The
venerable and gallant Admiral expired last evening
at his town residence in Eaton-square, shortly after
six o'clock. The gallant deceased was son of Mr.
Edward Codrington, brother of the late Sir William
Codrington, Bart. He was horn in 1770, and had
consequently reached the ripe age of eighty years.
In July, 1783, 'being in his fourteenth year, he
entered the navy as a midshipman, and after a pro-
bationary career of nearly ten years he obtained his
lieutenancy. Without going into detail of the ser-
vices rendered by the Gallant Admiral, we cannot
notice his decease without mentioning that he was
Lieutenant of the Queen Charlotte in Lord Howe's
action ; that he commanded the Babet in Lord Brid-
port's celebrated victory ; the Orion, under the im-
mortal Nelson at Trafalgar; the Blake in the Wal-
cheren expedition ; that during the Peninsular war
he had the command of a squadron in co-operation
with the Spanish patriots off the coast of Catalonia ;
and was subsequently Captain of the fleet stationed
on the coast of America.

The crowning achievement in the life of the de-
ceased Admiral was, however, the battle of Navarino,
when the Russian and French squadrons acted under
his general orders. The instructions issued by the
Admiral for the positions of anchoring and the order
of battle were concluded by Lord Nelson's well-
known maxim, that " If a general action should take
place no captain can be better placed than when his
vessel is alongside one of the enemy." The Asia,
the Vice-Admiral's ship, bore a leading part in the
conflict. After having disposed of two Egyptian men-
of• war, she became exposed to a severe raking fire,
which carried away her mizen-mast and dismounted
many of her guns. Vice-Admiral Codrington was him-
self struck, and his watch shattered in his pocket.
The victory, howe's er, was complete. In the Admiral's
official dispatch the condition of the enemy's fleet on
the morning after the action is thus described :
" Out of a fleet composed of 81 men of war, only
1 frigate and 15 small vessels are in a state ever to
be again put to sea." In reward for this distinguished
service, Sir E. Codrington was advanced to the dig-
nity of the Grand Cross of the Bath; while from the
Emperor of Russia he received the Grand Cross of St.
George, and from the King of France the Grand
Cross of St. Louis.

During the administration of the late Earl Grey
the gallant Sir Edward was the naval Commander-
in-Chief at Portsmouth. Since the expiration of the
usual term of service he has not held any appoint-
ment. Sir Edward represented the borough of De-
vonport in 1832, and in several successsive sessions in
the House of Commons. In 1809 he married Miss
Hall, of New Windsor, by whom he leaves a family.
Sir Edward's commissions were dated as follow :
Lieutenant, 28th May, 1793 ; Commander, 7th Oc-
tober, 1794 ; Captain, 6th April, 1805 ; Rear-
Admiral, 4th June, 1814; Vice-Admiral, 19th July,
1821. He became an Admiral of the White in 1841.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
Sir Francis Baring, Admiral Dundas, and all the
other members of the board have returned to the Admi-
ralty.

fieut. James 11. Morgan's (of the Royal Marine)
sudden death at Tenby, on the 11th inst., has been re-
ported.
The Turkish steam-frigate Feiji Bahri is expected at
Spithead, from Southampton, when it is expected the
frigate and brig that have wintered in this country will
proceed to Constantinople, touching for a few days at
Plymouth.
The Prussian man-of-war corvette Mercure is daily
expected at Spithead.
Crane, late packet brig, having had her bottom com-
pleted, was taken out of No. 2 dock at Devonport on
Saturday, and the Tortoise lighter, taken in the same
tide.

Devon lighter, Bond master, arrived at Devonport
on Sunday, with stores from Pembroke.
Sprightly steam-tender, Master.-Commander Allen
sail,Al at nin2. A.M. on Saturday from Davenport, for
Portsmouth; she is expected at Devonport again on
Wednesday with Admiral Ommanney, and will then
take away Sir W. H. Gage, who will leave the port
universally respected. The Devon lighter, Bond mas-
ter, will he appropriated to convey the furniture to tLo

The Sir John Falstaff barque, belonging to Ports-
mouth, ceded on Friday with a cargo of coals for the
Government of Moulmein. She will bring home a re-
turn cargo of teak wood.
PORTSIIIOUTII, MONDAY, FIVE O'CLOCK. -- Wind
northerly, witn cold weather.—Yesterday and last night
we have had unsettled weather, with squalls of snow,
and occasionally thunder and lightning. Put in the
Dutch ship De Amstel, Captain V. Dwyn, from Amster-
dam to Batavia, with loss of cutwater, works of head,
flying jibbooms, &c., having been in contact with the
Spanish brig Dacila, Captain Arozena, off Beachy Head,
early on the morning of the 27th instant, and very
shortly afterwards the Spanish brig sunk, her crew and
Passengers having barely time to save their lives on
board the Amstel, some of them in a state of nudity.
They were very kindly and humanely treated by Cap-
tain Van Dwyn, of the Amstel. L. Vanden Bergh,
Esq , the Dutch consul here, having had intimation of
the accident to the Dutch ship, and that she was off the
Isle of Wight, with his usual promptness applied for a
Government steamer to render such assistance as might
be essential, and soon after the steamer succeeded in
falling in with her, and the Amstel was accordingly
safely towed into this port about noon. It appears the
collision was purely accidental, and only attributable to
the darkness of the night, which both commanders have
fully admitted and agreed to. The Dacila was from Te-
neriffe, laden with wine and cochineal, bound to London.
We regret to add, one of her crew was unfortunately
drowned.

PLYMOUTH, SATURDAY.—Her Majesty's steam•fri-
gate Retribution, 22, Captain Frederick Warden, came
down harbour yesterday, and sailed to-day with super-
numeraries and stores for Commodore Martin's squad-
ron at Lisbon.

The Falmouth lighter sailed yesterday with stores for
Pembroke.

Letters dated Valparaiso, Bth of February, announce
the arrival of the Portland, 50, Captain Chads, flag of
Rear-Admiral Fairfax Moresby, in relief of the Asia,
84, Captain R. F. Stopford, flag of Rear-Admiral Phipps
Hornby, to sail on the 15th for Portsmouth, where she
is to be paid off.
WOOLWICH, APRIL 28.—APPOINTMENT.—Master's
Assistant George Morice to the Southampton, 50, flag-
ship on the south-east coast of America station.

The Leopard, 12, steam-frigate, of 560-horse power,
engines by Messrs. Seaward and Co., went down the
river to-day on trial in charge of Mr. Brown, Second
Master-Attendant at Devonport Dockyard, and the
crew that brought round the Greenock steam-frigate to
Woolwich. Mr. Humphrys, chief engineer at Woolwich
Dockyard; and Mr. Hughes, assistant to the chief
engineer at Somerset House, went in the Leopard
to witness and report on the working of the en-
gines; and the following officers, at present studying
steam at the factory in Woolwich Dockyard, were
on board :—Captain Murray, Captain Sir Frederick
Nicolson, Commander F. Egerton, Commander G.
Ogle, Commander T. Hope, Lieutenants N. G. Brick-
nell and J. N. Norman. The Leopard, on arriving
at the Lower Hope, ran the measured mile once
down and once up, and made a speed on the average of
9 2•lOths knots per hour, and then returned to Wool-
wich at two o'clock P.m. On her return up the river she
kept considerably ahead of one of the fast Leith boats
belonging to the General Steam Navigation Company,
and was half-an-hour sooner at Woolwich than the
Monkey steam-vessel, which accompanied her during the
trial.

The Lightning steam-vessel, Master-Commander
Henry W. Allen, was taken into the basin to-day to be
refitted and newly painted on.the Black Eagle, Master-
Commander John Petley, being taken out.
Commander H. G. Morris (1846), and Mate A. J. Bul.
lock (1849), were both examined on Saturday last by
Mr. Humphrys, chief engineer, having completed their
course of study at the factory here, and on passing re-
ceived their certificates.

SYMPATHY OF THE RUSSIANS AND
FRENCH IN THE FATE OF SIR JOHN
FRANKLIN.

By private letters received from her Mgjesty's ship
Enterprise, Captain Collinson, C. 8., dated Hong-
rong, 26th February, it would seem that much
sympathy is felt by the Russians in the fate of our
missing Countrymen.

The-followink is an extract of a private letter from
one of the officers serving on board :
"We left two officers, Lieut. Barnard and Mr.
Adams, assistant-surgeon, at Michaelowski and Nor-
ton Sound, with orders to proceed into the interior,
and see whether any communication takes place be-
tween the Russian ports and the natives inhabiting
the shores of the Polar Sea. From Michaelowski I
went to Sitka, where from the researches of the
Russians we find our Polar chart, as far as the Cul-
vitle, is concerned, totally in error. The Yoncon, it
would appear, is the head water of the Kiverpak,
which runs into Bebring Sea to the southward of
Norton Sound, and they have no port on any river
emptying itself into the Polar Sea.
"We found a great disposition on the part of the
Russian authorities to aid in our search. The Go-
vernor-General, Captain Resenburgb, has ordered the
post of Michaelowski to be reinforced this year by 18
Aleutians and nine skin boats, which are to be
placed at Captain Moore's disposal, should he require
them. The men are armed with rifles, are expert
hunters, live upon Esquimaux diet, and speak a
dialect of the same tongue. The skin boats are what
the Russians have made use of in all their exploring
expeditions.
"We are to sail on the Ist of April to Behring's
Straits.

" Lieut. Bellot, of the French navy, Knight of the
Legion of Honour, has volunteered his services, by
permission of the Minister of Marine of France, to
join an Arctic expedition, and speaks of the enthu-
siasm felt in the French navy that one of their own
officers should be embarked in the sacred cause which
has engaged the sympathies of all nations. This
devotion is alike creditable to the officers and to the
nation."

LAUNCH OF THE PRINCE OF WALES.—This beau-
tiful model of a 20-gun frigate arrived from Woolwich at an
early hour on Sunday morning, and was brought ashore at
Cubitt's•wharf, Pimlico, the same day, at high water. Yes-
terday morning, at five o'clock, nine horses were attached to
the sledge on which she was landed, which proceeded at a
slow pace towards the Serpentine, Hyde-park, where she ar-
rived at ten o'clock, having occupied five hours in her transit,
part of which was taken up in mending one of the wheels of
the sledge, owing to the tyre coming off no less than four
times. Having arrived on the north side of the Serpentine,
preparations were made for launching, when she was dragged
with some difficulty to the water's edge. One of her hawsers
was taken across to the south side, and fastened to the horses,
when, after some few casualties, and the breaking of the haw-
ser, which was soon made good, she was dragged off the sledge
into the water; but, unfortunately, in so doing, her rudder
was broken. The riggers have been set to work, and will
have her completed by the Ist of May.
ADMISSION OF SOLICITORS.—The Master of the
Rolls has appointed Tuesday, May 6, at the Rolls Court,
Chancery-lane, at four o'clock in the afternoon precisely, for
swearing solicitors. Every person desirous of being sworn
on the above day must leave his common-law admission or
his certificate of practice for the current year at the Secre-
tary's Office, Rolls-yard, Chancery-lane, on or before Monday,
May 5.
THE ALDERMANIC GOWN OF BRIDGE WITHOUT.—
The vacancy in the Ward Bridge Without, caused by the
death of Sir C. S. Hunter, will be filled at the next Court of
netd
-
Aldermen. Alderman Thompson, as senior alderman, is is en-
titled
e ec
to the office, which has not so many duties
with it as the alderman of any other ward is obliged
form. The inhabitants of the Ward of Cheap, of whitenhphelrrl
Thompson is the alderman, not wishing to losea man of such
him
high respectability, resolved to petitionto remain
among them, and he has consented. The next alderman in
rotation for the privileged ward is Sir J. Key.
THE GREAT FAIR IN THE PARISH OF KENSING-
oenin the
gofmtohsist
TON, NEAR KENSAL NEW TOwN.—On Saturday
active preparations were in progress for the
fair on Thursday next. The precise locality, opr that which
will be at any rate the nucleus of this holiday fair, is a
large field— say twenty acres—abutting on the south of the
Talbot-road,i)y the Westbourne IVaterWorks, and running
up northward to the bridge whsichsolysses the Great Western
Railway, near the new ragged oho
extremity of Kensal New Tow at the south-western
The best way of approach
from rre at parts of Londoit,satdodthe site of the affair is by the
Royal Oak publice-hstotuosteit,
to the left into W ntehepaliniitdroonidithen up Albert-terrace,
Talbot-road, adjoining ,I,sheihich runs intiolitbbee
held. The nearest public-house to it is. thecn Athretef:irn'svartne,
the landlord of which may reckon upon making alafortuue.
The field yesterday contained from sixty to seventy show
vans, amongst which several n belong • g to the well-known
Richardson and Nelson Lee were visible.l Wombwell's wild
beast vans, from which great things are expected, has not as
yet arrived. The most remarkable feature is a large booth—
indeed it may be called a one-story building—that is almost
finished at the upper extremity of the field. We understand
that it is to be a casino on a inonstre scale. The roads leading
to the field were thronged with show vans and waggons
laden with materials for constructing booths. The field in
question will, we think, give space for them all, so that we
should not be surprised to see the fair extend south-west-
ward to the Hippodrome.
PAYMENT OF CUSTOMS DUTlES.—Yesterday notice
a sp saita p
ri
e n s
e n the
present.
Customsl,or t
the
e treasury,
convenience
of
was issued that on and after the 6th of May all duties under
15/. will have to be
of the long room,
merchants and others, payments of not less than 50/, (in-
stead of 100/. as formerly) may be made at the Bank of
England. Messengers; will be dispatched every half-hour
between the Bank and Custom-house. On andif after the 6th
of May great alterations, with a view to expedite
sinews are to be made ill the Cw3oinB departiueat.
hrc