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

THE StTN, LONDON, PRIDAY EVE

COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL.
Yesterday morning, precisely at eleven o'clock, the
itii,7lit Hon. the Lord Mayor took the chair in the Com-
mon Council Chamber at the Guildhall, for the special
purpose of giving to the members of the court an oppor-
tunity to discuss a motion by Mr. James Anderton, with
re erence to the Papal aggression, and for the transac-
tion of the general business upon the notice paper.
The minutes of the last court having been read by Mr.
Woodthorpe, a report from the Prison's Committee,
brought up by Mr. James Low, in the absence of Alder-
man Wire, for sealing a contract for the completion of
the building of the new prison at Holloway was agreed
to, and ordered to be sent back for execution.

THE MINISTRY AND THE PAPAL AGGRESSION.
The LORD MAYOR then ruse and said that it was with
much pleasure that he had consented to call the present
meeting at an early hour, for the special consideration
of the notice given by Mr. Anderton on the subject of
the Papal aggression. He would suggest, therefore,
that the memorial be read, in accordance with the usual
custom.
This having been done by Mr. WOODTHORPE,
Mr. ANDERTON said that he rose upon that occasion
to propose the following motion, notice of which he had
previously given, namely:—
"That petitions be presented by this court to both
Houses of Parliament against the late aggression of the
Pope of Rome, and fur preserving the supremacy of the
Queen, and protecting inviolate the civil and religious
liberties of her subjects."
By virtue of the oath of supremacy which he, in com-
mon with all the members of that court, had taken upon
their induction into office, he felt bound to resist the at-
tempt made by the Roman Catholics to establish eccle-
siastical titles in this kingdom. That oath, to which he
adhered, stated that " no prince or potentate hath or
ought to have any jurisdiction in these realms" for any
such purposes as those contemplated by the Pope of
Rome.—(Hear, hear.) Therefore it was that he upon
that occasion had thought it proper once more to bring
the subject before the representatives of the city of Lon-
don in Common Council assembled. The question, then,
before them was whether or not the Pope of Rome, by
his recent bull, had or had not exercised, or attempted
to exercise, ecclesiastical authority within these realms.
—(Hear.) The question was whether these parties had
or had not attempted to deprive the Queen of England
of the authority to which that illustrious lady was
entitled by virtue of the puissant position she was
called upon to fill.—(Hear, hear.) He (Mr. An-
derton) thought he should have no difficulty what-
ever in proving that the Pope in his late bull had
done so, or at least that he (the Pope) had attempted to
exercise ecclesiastical and spiritual authority in these
realms. If he proved this, he should consider that
he had entitled himself to call upon that court to ex-
press a further opinion upon the aggression to which he
had alluded. All they asked for was a common protec-
tion for their faith, and that he called upon the whole
of the members of that court to give, while they had it
in their power; and to resist the present impudent ag-
gression on the part of the Pope of Rome.—(Hear,
hear.) Doubtless they had read, and unquestionably
they would remember, that " his Holiness," in that man-
datory document, had referred to Gregory the Great,
who had given instructions to the monk Augustine to
convert our forefathers. Now, what followe in that
case? Why, that in the train of the said monk there
was not less than forty followers or priests appointed to
bring the Saxons to Christianity. As it was in this
case, so it would be in the present instance. Pope Pius
IX. had sent Cardinal Wiseman to convert the people
to Roman Catholicism, and the " priests" would, doubt-
less, shortly follow him.—(Hear, hear.) Suppose they
were to admit this aggressive principle, what would
be the result two hundred years hence, when they
would all be in their graves? Why, their children
would have to fight fur the faith of their forefathers,
while their children's children would blame them for
their want of dignity of soul and determination of man-
ner in the present critical instance. Mr. Anderton
having minutely criticised several points of the " bull"
of Pius IX., in the course of which he (Mr. Anderton)
denounced very strongly the appointment by the Pope
of archbishops and bishops having ecclesiastical juris-
diction in this country, then proceeded to say that he
would make no observation to the court which would
bear at all upon the religious part of the question. He
would only say that he was moat anxious and desirous
that every man should enjoy civil and religious liberty,
and that all men should have the opportunity of wor-
shipping God according to the dictates of their own
consoiences.--(Hear, hear.) That he deemed to be every
man's right and privilege, as a man and a citizen.—
(Loud cheers.) But while he (Mr. Anderton) granted
this to his fellow-citizen, as a Roman Catholic, he (Mr.
Anderton) claimed for himself protection from that kind
of religious aggression which might deprive him, as a
Protestant, eventually of his immunities and privileges.
—(Hear, hear.) The present attempt on the part of the
Pope he could not but regard as an aggression, and cer-
tain it was that it was their duty to say to the Pope,
" Thus far shalt thou go, but no farther."—(Hear, hear.)
Was it not the fact that the Pope was brought back to
his throne, or rather to St. Peter's chair, not by the
power of public opinion, but by the force of French
bayonets?—(Cheers.) That was the man who sought to
coerce England—a man who would not remain where
he was for twenty-four hours, had it not been for the
assistance of French bayonets. In illustration of the
arbitrary and intolerant proceedings of the Papistical
leaders in former times, Mr. Anderton read extracts
from one of the statutes of Henry VIII., in which it
was enacted that no woman, or artificer, or servingman,
or husbandman, should read the Bible or New Testa-
ment to himself or any other party under pain of one
month's imprisonment ; after which he (Mr. Anderton)
denounced most strongly the conduct of the Premier,
whom be said ought to have sent the celebrated " bull"
of the Pope back to his " holiness" at Rome, to deal
with as he (the Pope) might think fit. He (Mr. An-
derton) regretted the milk-and-water policy of Lord
John Russell, and he trusted that every man in that as-
sembly would unite with him (Mr. Anderton), who
would shed his blood in defence of the Protestant faith
if required to do so, to represent fully, fairly, and
honestly, to the Commons of the United Kingdom their
opinions upon this important question. He would con-
clude with moving that petitions be presented by that
Court to botk Houses of Parliament against the late
aggression, and that the following shall be a copy of the
same :
" TO THE MONotRABLE THE COMMONS OF THE UNITED
YINGDObI OP GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND, IN PAR-
LIAMENT ASSEMBLED.
The humble petition of the Lord Mayor, aldermen,
and common council of the city of London, in common
council assembled, showeth—
" That your petitioners have witnessed with deep re-
gret and indignation the arrogant aggression on the part
of the rope of Rome upon the Queen's supremacy, and
in defiance of her crown and dignity.
" That your petitioners are anxious to preserve for all
classes of her Majesty's subjects the full advantage of
civil and religious freedom and equality; but they
humbly submit that a defensive measure is now indis-
pensably necessary to secure the independence and pro-
tect the rights of the Protestant religion in this country
from a spirit of Papal usurpation, insult, and ag-
gression.
" Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that your
Honourable House will forthwith take such measures as
may be necessary unequivocally to suppress the use of
territorial titles, and the exercise of territorial jurisdic-
tion, under delegation from any foreign prince or eccle-
siastic, with such other provisions as shall be necessary
to prevent any synodical action on the part of the Ro-
mish clergy, under colour of authority from the See of
Rome, and effectually vindicate the independence of the
Crown, and secure this kingdom from all interference or
domination.
" And your petitioners will ever pray, etc."
Mr. J. T. NORRIS seconded the motion. In doing so
he did not think it was at all necessary for him to go
much at length into the argument, as the feeling was
evidently nearly unanimous in favour of the motion he
bad the honour to second. He would, however, raise
his voice against that which he considered to be an at-
tempt on the part of some parties to abridge the rights
of the Sovereign, and to limit the liberties of the subject.
He regarded that as being the fitting time for the Court
of Common Council to approach the bar of the House of
Commons upon the matter of Papal aggression, seeing
that of late it had presented such a peculiar phase. He
thought that that was the period for them to assert their
rights and liberties as Protestant Christians, and to
struggle against the attempts made for ascendancy by a
hierarchy confessedly Roman Catholic. He believed,
and he spoke it without hesitation or reservation, that
many of the evils which had come upon them in this
matter were to be attributed mainly to the sleepy con-
duct of those who had been placed as warders of the
Protestant faith.—(Hear, hear.) It was the fact that
these men had been feeding upon the glebe of Pro-
testant profit while they had been the most active of all
other persons in leading the way to Popery and its
mummeries.—(Cheers, and hear, hear.) In order to
show to the Court the significant evils connected with Pa-
pistry, he would take them back to the reign of the se-
cond Henry in the year 1190, a period which, as the chro-
nicler Hume, afterwards corroborated by Dr. Lingard,
had been marked by signs of the most serious character
and portentous of the most fearful results both to the
regal and the civil authority, in consequence of the dic-
tatorial spirit of the Church of Rome. And this spirit
continued for many years; and even so late as 1750 the
same principles were manifested in Paris, and the same
that Catholicism, as professed
Church, is the same as it
andeffe effects
practisedfnllow followed,
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always was, and as it always must be.—(Hear, hear.) He
did not appear there as the exponent of either Pro-
testant or Catholic opinions; these he left to live or die
as best they might; all he wished to see was the purity
wofhitehheirwparsacmtiece3t pure would be beat sanctioned, and, and he had no doubt but that praeeee
meet with its deserving mead of success. With regard
to the influence of Romanism, when tried by this test,
he would refer them to an extract from one of the
ctire-
cent works by Mr. Macaulay, who had stated that, in
the neighbourhood of Rome, where the immediate
werein-
most
misery,d whilst in neigh-
bourhoods felt, there ir e
ex-
istedfiuencmesittonftalltotemrapnoirstn
ued
physical
bourhoods where Protestantism reigned might be found
mental vigour, philosophical industry,
.and healthy phy.
sical development.--(beer, hear.) Let them com-
pare the country round Rome with that round the
city of Edinburgh, and they would find the facts
the same. So it was in Holland and in Ger-
many. In Switzerland, how different both in appear-
ance and intellectual development were the Protestant
and the Roman Catholic cantons—(Hear, hear)—and in
Ireland the fact broad and palpable was still the same.—
(Hear, hear, and cheers.) Let them look at the recent
period of 1848, when Europe was from one end to the
other of her continental border racked with intestine
commotion. Even in Rome the Pope could not sit se-
curely even in St. Peter's particular chair—(Loud
laughter)—while in England every man was proud to be
in a position to defend his Queen and his own liberties
by being sworn in as a special constable."—(Hear,

hear.) For one he was determined to adhere to tho
faith of his forefathers, and therefore it was that he se-
conded the motion, and implored his fellow corporators to
support the same.—(Loud cheering.)
Mr. GILPIN said, that at the risk of being "alone in
his glory," he would undertake to move " the previous
question," inasmuch as he thought that the motion slid
not go directly to the point required to be wet. He was
not one of those who was favourable to the doctrinal
tenets of the Church of Rome, but be was i❑ favour of
" civil and religious liberty " to all classes of men. Ho
thought the motion was exceedingly vague; and as re-
garded the fears entertained by some as to the assump •
tion, by the Cardinal or the Pope, of ecclesiastical titles,
no harm, in his opinion, would arise from that. He
thought it absurd for people to object to Ni-
cholas Wiseman's being made Archbishop of
Westminster, while John of Tuam was allowed
to call himself an "archbishop."—(Hear, hear)

Lord John Russell had proposed a Bill, a very little
Bill, and finding afterwards that even that was not sa-
tisfactory, he (Lord John Russell) had struck out of it
the ♦ery clauses of any value in it, because they were
the only workable ones it contained.—(Hear, hoar.)
What had been the result? W hy, that neither the very
liberal Earl Fitzwilliam in the one House, nor the not
very liberal Robert Harry Inglis in the other, could say
less than that they were, both of them, disgusted with
it.--(Hear, hear.) He contended that the tendency of
the opposition to the measure was in a great degree to
give effect to the establishment of a Catholic hierarchy,
and hence in a great degree had arisen the present op-
position to the existing movement.—(Cries of " No, no.")
He believed it was so, or why was it that Milner Gibson
and John Bright had been scouted? Why, it was be-
cause they had seen and felt this, and therefore they had
voted against the measure.—(Hear, hear, and cheers.)
He denied that the " masses" in the country had bad
the opportunity of fairly expressing their opinions on
this Bill. It was true that the " drum ecclesiastic"
had been sounded in the cases of Sheffield and Bir-
mingham ; but in the former place the promoters had
dared not come to a public meeting on the question,
and in tke latter town they met with scarcely any
patronage. With regard to the proposition, he consi-
dered
it to be inexplicit, unnecessary, and out of place,
most likely to be mischievous, and prejudicial even to
those who desired to promote the object contained in the
resolution.—(Hear, hear.) He thought the best way
was to let the poor, puny measure of the Whig Premier
alone, for certain he (Mr. Gilpin) was that it would
shortly be transferred to the tomb of " all the Capulets,"
the commo❑ receptacle of so many " Whig" abortions.—
(Hear, hear.) He (Mr. Gilpin) would exhort the mem-
bers of that court to cast aside their fears with regard

to the probable influences which it was predicted would
arise from this " Papal aggression." What they had
to do was this, to send forth their missionaries to pro-
mulgate the truth and to spread around the world edn•
cation and sound principles.—(Hear, hear.) They need
not they be afraid of bishops' miters, nor of altars, nor
croziers, nor silk aprons, for the truth was "mighty,"
and it would " prevail." Any attempt to overthrow it
would prove futile, for as well might man, by his insig-
nificant masonry, attempt to produce a result which
should prove equal or superior to the " everlasting
hills.—(Loud cheers.) He would, therefore, move as an
amendment, " the previous question,"
Deputy PEACOCK seconded the amendment.
Mr. ELLIOTT regarded Popery as being the sworn and
bitter enemy of intellectual advancement, as one of the
remnants of the dark ages, and highly dangerous to the
moral, political, and social condition of the people at
large. Mr. Elliott concluded a most eloquent speech
amidst loud applause.
Mr. Jostles and Mr. Bowan then addressed the court.
Deputy PEWTRESS, who warmly supported Mr.
Elliott's view of the subject, said he would give perfect
liberty, both orally and otherwise, to the Roman Catho-
lics, so that they might disseminate the doctrines con-
nected with their religious faith; but if he found that
either the system they followed or the practice they pur-
sued was likely to interfere with his rights and liberties
as a Protestant Christian, he should feel it to be his
duty to ask the Government to protect him against such
an unfair advantage.—(Hear, hear.) The Ecclesiastical
Bill brought in by Lord John Russell he (Deputy Pew-
tress) considered to be a most absurd thing—a mere
futile piece of legislation, which would be repudiated by
the House, and unanimously rejected by the country at
large.—(Cheers.)
Mr. GODSON said it appeared to him that the Corpo-
ration were at the present moment where they were when
they petitioned the Legislature on the subject of the
Papal movement a few months age. Although the Bill
brought in by the Minister was far short of the feelings ,
of the community, yet the principal clauses of that in-
effective proposition had been removed to gratify the
wishes of a few individuals whom the Government cons
sidered it advisable to please, in the teeth of public
opinion.—(Hear, hear.) Ho believed that what had
taken place in consequence of such a course would
hare a salutary effect upon the Church of England, the
advocacy of whose cause by Lord Eldon he well remem-
bered, prophetic as it was of the dangerous incursions
of the Catholic priesthood. He felt convinced that the
most wise proceeding the Coart could adopt would be to
address her Majesty, praying that she would dissolve
Parliament and give the masses the opportunity of re-
turning men able and willing to support their privileges,
especially those privileges which wore connected with
their religion, and were attacked by the Pope of Rome.
—(Cries of " No, no," and " Hear.")
Alderman COPELAND, in answer to an allusion which
had been made to his conduct in the ward of Bishops-
gate, as to the enforcement of the payment of the tithes,
stated that he was in the habit of attending to adjudicate
in that extensive district in order to promote the econo-
mical convenience of the inhabitant., and to facilitate
the collection of a very moderate amount of tithe, which
had been accepted in lieu of a much larger claim by a
former incumbent.—(Hear, hear.) With respect to
the matter immediately before the Court, he was
determined to make every effort of which he was ca-
pable to uphold the Protestant religion. It appeared
to him that the question was now, shall the Reforma-
tion stand?—(Loud cries of " Hear, hear.") That
was the question at issue. He would say, that if
Romanism were to obtain the ascendant, by and by not
a brick of the churches dedicated to Protestant worship
would be allowed to stand.—(Hear, hear.) For his part,
he would do all of which ho was capable to get rid of the
dishonour which was reflected upon the character of the
Sovereign and of the people she governed by the issue
of the Papal bull.—(Cheers.) He would ask those
around him to make inquiry in the offices of merchants
in the Italian trade on the subject of the treatment of
the poor Jews who were unfortunately located in the
dominions of the Pope.—(clear, hear.) They would
learn that the persecution of that people rivalled the his-
torical cruelties of former ages. He hoped the Lord
Mayor would soon give the citizens of London an op-
portunity of testifying their feeling upon the projected
measure, by calling together the livery in common hall,
to tell her Majesty's Ministers that they would not be
satisfied with any measure that was not calculated to put
I down effectually the aggressive interference of the Pope
of Rome.—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. ANDERTON, in reply, expressed his surprise at
the manner in which Mr. Gilpin had met the proposi-
tion, for he believed that the Quakers were more in-
debted than any other body of Christians to the over-
throw of the Roman Catholic religion in this country.
He felt confident of the necessity of the measure he pro-
posed, and so he was assured every one would who be-
lieved that if it had not been for the Reformation this
country would be now under the influence of the Popo,
instead of being blessed by the most tolerant religion
known in the world.—(Cheers.)
The question was then put, and the amendment was
lost by a vast majority, about a dozen bands having been
held up for it. The original motion was then carried
amidst cheers.
Upon the motion that the petition be adopted,
Mr. BOWER moved, as an amendment, that the follow-
ing words be inserted after the word "ecclesiastic:* " and
to secure the rights of private families from the unfair
influence of the Roman Catholic priesthood, too often
exercised at the bed of the dying."
Mr. R. LAMBERT JONES seconded Mr. Bower's amend-
ment, or rather addition to the petition. He could not
forego the opportunity of expressilig his admiration of
the language used by Earl Fitzailliam, a few nights ago
in Parliament, when speaking of the tendency of the Bill
in the Nouse of Commons to expose the Legislature to

contempt.—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. Low thought it would be injudicious to point a
any particular transaction in a petition intended to ex
press the general feeling of the Corporation, and that
they meant to make specific objections, it would be
necessary to introduce a great variety of matters of
which it might not become them to treat.—(Hear.)
Mr. HOLT thought it would be advisable to name a
committee to draw up another petition, which might be
better adapted to the views of the great body of the
Court.
Mr. Deputy LoTT said the petition, in its original
form, was calculated to convey adequately to Parliament
the sentiments of the Corporation. Independently of
the objections made to the amendment by Mr. Low, he
considered that it would be prudent to avoid the use of
any language capable of being construed into an allusion
to the case pending at present in the Court of Chancery.
Mr. HENRY BLAKE suggested the reading of the whole
petition, with the amendment annexed, and commented
upon the difference between its original and its amended
form, to the prejudice of the latter.
Alderman SIDNEY approved of the addition proposed
by Mr. Bower. In France the law prevented any death-
bed interposition by priests for the purpose of obtaining
legacies, and it was but right that in England similar
protection should be afforded.
The amendment was then rejected by a large msjority,
and the original petition was carried amidst aeolama-
mations.
It was then agreed that the Sheriffs should present
the petition to the House of Commons.
A discussion took place upon a petition presented by
Mr. R. L. JONES from the Rev. Sir John Page Wood,
rector of the parish of St. Peter, Corn hill, for the assent
of the court, as patrons of the living, to a lease of pre-
mises in the parish being granted for twenty-one years at
150/. per annum.
It was urged that the incumbent was a pluralist, who
left all the duties of the church to be performed by his
curate, and never showed himself to the parishioners
except when he applied upon the pecuniary matters
attached to the living. It was ens veered, that with the
performance or non-performance of the clerical duties
the bishop of the diocese, and not the Common Council,
had concern; and that the report of a committee could
not affect the question in any way.
By one member it was argued that some advantage
might arise from referring the petition to a committee,
and it was stated that in consequence of some agitation
in a neighbouring parish some time ago, an overgrown
pluralist had thrown up his City living, and it eventually
got into the hands of a reverend gentleman. who per-
formed the duties of his sacred office so admirably that
the congregation increased sixfold.—(Hear, hear.)
rite petition was ultimately referred to the general
PurPosee committee.

PENITENT FEMALE ASYLUM.

Mr. HENRY BLARE presented a petition from the Com-
mittee of the Westminster and North-West London
Penitent Female Asylum 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 utmo►t extent of their funds.
It had 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 ono 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 seductio❑ 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.
liaised 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 movinz that the petition be 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, and Fi-
nance Committee) brought up the following reports,
which were agreed to, and referred back to be carried into
execution :—For granting 2101 to the Asylum for Idiots,
105/. to the German Hospital, and 1051 to the Ragged
School Union.

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

After some opposition from Mr. BENNOCH, the report
and petition were agreed to.—Adjourned.

COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT.
FROM OUR OW CORRESPONDBNT.)
COWIN, MARCR 13.—THE WORLD'S FAIR.—At two
o'clock this day arrived the American frigate St. Law-
rence, Captain J. B. Sands, in twenty-one days from
New 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 she 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. Sho 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 bo taken out. She has a complement of 303 sea-
men, and is officered as follows:—Commander J. R.
Sands; Lieutenants Charles S. Boggs, Latham B. Avery,
Washington Gwathemy, George H. Prebble; Purser,
Samuel F. Todd; Surgeon, Lewis P. Hunter; Assistant-
Surgeon, James F. Harrison; Master, Bays N. West-
colt; Passed Midshipman. Andrew F. Munroe; Mid-
shipmen, J. R. Fyffe, Henry Erben, jun.; William T.
Glassel, Captain's Clerk, C. S. Livingston.
In connexion with the arrival of this 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. Lawrenca to the shores of Great Britain
with so extensive a freight of American industrial pro-
ducts, designed to enter into competition with those of
the Old World at the Crystal Palace. The subjoined
account is abridged from a late American paper:—
"On May 17, 11150, 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 between 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.
" The 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. 1 " Charles F. Stansbury.
" James A. Pearce. " J. J. Abert.

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

" Charles Wilkes.
" Jefferson Davis.

" Joseph G. Totten.
" Thomas Errbank.
" William Easby.
" Leonard 1). Gale.

" Joseph C. G. Kennedy.
" Ezra C. Seaman.

" Matthew F. Maury.
" J. James Greenough.
" Walter R. Johnson, Secretary.
" The authority thus nominated was 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:—
"'clactmAn LETTER ADDRESSED BY THE CENTRAL
COMMITTEE TO THR GOVERNORS OF TIE SEVERAL
STATES.

" William W. Seaton.

" ' Rooms of the National Institute,
Washington, June —.
" To his Excellency the Governor of
" Sir—We have 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 fi om 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,
66
"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 classified list of objects to be admitted
to the Exhibition.
"The committee also 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.
" These pamphlets and circulars were distributed to
the committees throughout the country, and attention
was called to them through the press.
" 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 fur the State committees,
the central committee next interested themselves to pro-
cure fee© 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 eommitteo 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 tire central committee with
the care of the whole of the packagess and will super-
intend their transmission to London and arrange for the
fittings necessary for their proper exhibition. The
cargo is consigned to the American Consul here (Mr. J.
R. Crooke)), 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, &c. The list of exhi-
bitors alone occupies three
columns in the Aetv York
Herald of the 13th ult. One curious item is an immense
block of zinc ore weighing 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 cargo, 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 aro thus to be honoured by
special removal across the Atlantic in a ship of war.

THE NAVY ESTIMATES.

To TEE EDITOR OF TRH TRIES.
Sir.—l do not agree with Mr. Ha ne, Mr. Cobden, and
Mr. M'Greger, that the vote for men governs the
amount of the navy estimates. It is the vote for artifi-
cers employed in the dockyards that ought to rule the
expense.
Lord John Russell, in a vi ry excellent speech, has
shown the impolicy of reducing oar seam-n 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 men
were conveyed from Vienna to the frontier of Bohemia
in 48 hours—that many thousand men were transported
from France to Civite 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.
He 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 did 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 are 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-
eia, 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 only two years and three
months, in splendid order, well 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 not 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, So., would last that time.
After three years they are 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.
Lord 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. The three last steamers
built, the Argus, the Tigre, and Magicienne, are so badly
arranged, that before they are fit for service they must
go through great alterations at a considerable expense.
.It 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 watt, I suppose, considered
dangerous to keep them there. The same thing is to
happen agaio, so that we shall have a 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, and 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 or 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
3,500 L a year is a sufficient salary for the First Lord.
I presume when a large house and a largo 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 the 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 will
remain till their successors are appointed.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
CH ARLES NAPIER.
* The flag ships have jury topmasts.

SPORTING INTELLIGE N CE.
TATTERSALL'S, THURSDAY.
'Tempted by cheap trains, a strong list, te,d fine wea-
ther, the m,jority of the " working" mem ere of Ihe
loom started 1 esterday for Doncaster, amine the mus-
ter here to be so small as to put regular business out of
the question. The only blows struck were 1,000 to 40
agst Marlborough Buck, 900 to 100 apt Rhesus. 2.000
to 100 agat Montague, 500 to 25 apt Wallflower, and
625 to 25 agst Lady Evelyn.
DONCASTER SPRING MEETING—THURSDAY.
A Free Handicap Hurdle Stakes of 5 soya. with 30
added; the second to save his stake; a winner once
after the weights are published to carry 41b; twice or
more, 71b extra. Twe miles, over five flights of hurdles.
(9 Subs.)
Mr. Hutton's Psyche, 4 yrs, 9st 41b
Mr. Tally-ho (11 b), lOst 2113 (H Bradley) 2
Mr. Lister's Wharfdale Maid, aged, 1 lst...(Frisby) 0
Mr. G. Lamplugh's The Wild Hero, aged, gat 101 b 0
Mr. Godson's John Lawrence (h b), 5 yrs, 9st 61b 0
Mr. Foster's Fauny(h b), aged,Bsl 121 b (Berkenshaw) 0
Betting-7 to 4 agst Psyche and 2to 1 agst 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; Wburtdale Maid a bad third. Run in
4 min. 15 sec.
Betting-room Stakes of 5 sove. 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 sovs, to the fund.
Red House in. (9 Subs.)
Mr. Lister's Nancy, 3 yrs, 94 21b (Marlon) 1
Mr. H. Stebbing's Knook Knoll, Bst 91b (Bumby) 2
Mr. Walker's Merlin, 2 yrs, 6st I llb (lrving) 3
Mr. J. Armstrong na Paddy Bird 9st ... (Charlton) 0
Mr. B. Eddison's cby John O'L;Zunt, (Whitehouse) 0
Mr. W. E. liobson's Babette, 2 yrs, ,fit 1 Ilb( Wells) 0
Mr. W. Neale na Little Fawn, Bst bib ...‘g. Oaten) 0
Mr. J. Osborne's King of Troy, 2 yrs, 7st (Osi.Orne) o
Mr. P. Reed's Mona's Pride, 3 yrs, 9et (Tempfemao 0
Betting-7 to 4 each agst Nancy and Knock Knoll,
and 6 to 1 sget 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 herselt, and won efts,;;
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 1.5 son'.
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 tne winner to pay 20 sous. towards ex-

panties. 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 121 b ... (Archer) 2
Mr. Donkin na Quadruped, aged, 10st 61b (Darling) 0
Mr. J. H. Kemp'a Hope (h b), aged, 9.t I Ilb (Green) 0
Mr. P. Barling's Bedford hb, 5 yrs, 9st 91b (Higgins) 0
Mr. J. Lamplugh's Standard, aged, 9st 810 (Lamplugb) 0
Mr. Walker 'a Cadeby, bb, aged, 9st 41b(Meorbouse) 0
Betting-5 to 4 agst Mulligan, 4to 1 agat Quadruped,
7 to 1 agst Hope, 8 to 1 agst Chieftain, and 10 to 1 agst
any otter. Won by nearly a distance, the two placed
only having past the winning post. Run in 8 min. 55 secs.
The Municipal Stakes of 5 80V8. each, with 30 added for
three yrs old, 7st 71b; tour, 9st 51b; five, lOst; 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 sous., and allowance if to be sold for
less; the second to save his stake, and the winner

to pay 5. sovs. towards expenses. St. Leger Course.

(7 Subs.)
Mr. Dawson's True Blue, 3 yrs, sst 61b, 401 (Aldcrort) 1
Mr. Baldock'e bc by Red Deer, sst 610, 401 (Wells) 2
Mr. H. Stebbing's Guardsman, sst 121 b, 50/ (Barker) 3
Mr. J. Skipsworth's Gimcrack, 6st 111 b, 30/(Osborne) 0
Mr. Lawson's Keleshea, hb, 8,0.111b,75/( Mr. Gilman) 0
Mr. T. Hesseltine's Louise, 7st 610 301(W. Sharpe) 0
Mr. J. Marson's Lady of the Grove, 3 yrs, 4st 131 b, 301 0
Betting-5 to 2 aget Keleshea, sto 2 abet Red Deer
colt, 3 to 1 agat Louisa, and 4 to 1 agst True Blue. Won
by a head; three lengths between second and third. Run
in 3 min. 27 see.

The Sheffield and Rotherham Stakes (handicap) of six
sore, 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 soca. towards expenses. One mile.
(17 Subs.)
Mr. Harrisou's bl c by Prince Caradoo, out of Miss
Julia Bennett, 3 yrs, 6st 131 b ... (Harrison) 1
Mr. Halford's The Deceitful (late Mr. Merryman),
3 yrs, 7st llb (W. Sharpe) 2
Mr. G. Barton's The Little Fawn, 6st ...(Mayhoe)
Mr. Holtby's The Shareholder, 7st 111 b ...(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, Est 101 b ...(Barker) 0
Mr. G. Barton's Madame Wharton, 3 yrs, Est 101 b... 0
Mr. Jones's Goldfinder, 3 yrs, 6st 71b ...(Knott) 0
Betting-2 to 1 eget Deceitful. 4to 1 agst Goldfinder,
5 to 1 agst Madame Wharton, and 6 to 1 each eget Miss
Flyaway and Osbaldwick.
Osbaldwick 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. 48 secs.

BETTING ON THE COURSE.
100 to 6 apt Nancy
DERBY.

2b to 1 apt Storm

1 33 to 1 aget 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 DOU 1"
Fiesco, by LADY FLORA HASTINGS.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SlR.—This week has produced a couple of
steeplechase capers of the ordinary class, i, e., the
horses that could have 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 null-again of it; Lord Airlie's Chieftain, 5 yrs,
9st 81b, tooled by Harrison, winning iu 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
ran on their merits, I quote my retest ics 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, nr. 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 chasine) unparalleled feat of placing the
first three, Volatile winning cleverly from Kilkenny,
who in his turn beat Rtndstsurgh cleverly for second
place. In my observations on the Doncaster Spring
Meeting, I placed Tally-ho first and Psyche second, with
the Wharfdale Maid and Little Queen well up, for the
Hurdle Race; this position was nearly realized, Psyche
winning after a desperate straggle, in the last stride, by
a neck! Tally-ho being second, and Whartdale 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 Koook Knoll, Sat 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 Deceitful second, and Little Fawn third.
I au now ahont to touch upon the last hybrid meeting of
the Spring, that at Warwick, which commences on Tues-
day next, with the attractive 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 Smith, 3 yrs, 7st; Nancy, 3 yrs, 7st;
Musician, 4 yrs, Sat 91b; Mark Tapley, 4 yrs, Bst 91b;
Le Julf,3 yrs, 7st; besides Gladiole. 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 no' withstanding the
magnificent form of the latter, I feel inclined to place
AARON SMITH
NANCY

The Willoughby Handicap, gentlemen jocks, is a kind
of anybody's race, but I understand that mischief is meant
with Agis, 6 yrs, 104 121 b; Kissaway, 5 yrs, lOst 101 b;
Reversion, 5 yrs, lOst 41b; Sisyphus, 4 yrs, lOst. A
strong commission was out yesterday in support of
Agis, with whom or Kissaway, I should say, the race
would lay.
The most prominent names in the list for the Free
Handicap are Woodlark, 5 yrs, 7st 31b; Bullfinch, 4 yrs,
Est 71b; Swordplayer, 6 yrs, 64 41b; Unity, 3 yi 5, 11.,
and Heart of Oak, 3 yrs, 44 1 llb; but little doubt oauge
on my mind concerning the result, the last three above,
will, I fancy, be the first three in the nee.
The Woodeote Stakes, fur two-years•ofd, is a bit of a
dark," and from all ac-
mystery, all the animals sire
counts not the most brilliant lot imaginable; I shall go
for the Lively Flea and filly by Slane out of Pelerine.
On Wednesday the performances commence with the
Castle Stakes, for which Recruit, Knight of the Thistle,
Kremen, and Souffle are entered, but I very muchicloubt
whether a race will be the result, the stake being of the
value of 351. As the names are written dovrn, so they
stand in my estimation.
The Great Warwickshire Handicap stands accord cll
the list, although first in importance; I expect • that
above a dozen will be brought to the post, includi g
the
top-weight, Borneo, 5 are, Bst 71b— Cloth work 5 yrs,
gat—Doubt, 5 yrs, 7st 101b—Mark Tapley,
91b—Minimum, 5 yrs, 7st 71b—Kissaway, 5 Yrs' 7't 71b
P —Cranberry, 4 yrs, 7.4 61b—Etca e' 6 rt..
Gladiola 5 yrt, 64 I2lb—Oudine,
4 yrs, 7st—Docility, yrs, ist 31b-
-4 yrs, 64 10Ib—Captain Parry, 5 yrs, 6st 41b—Sunrise,
3 yrs, sst 4lb (doubtful)—Unity, yrs, sst—aud Colibri,
3 yrs, 4st 31b. This list may be 3
altered in several re-
spebts by Monday evening,
wh
final remarks on the race. _ ea I shall dot down my
Joseph Hawley 's horse, and Borneo, Mark Tapley, Sir
the trio of thrse•vrig •)11=1

form the lot from which I Lbe Win n" "1 arise.
givin4 the preierel,ce SrtJ,,s. •allel "1"d Unit,.
Ato d n Monday.
Tue tne.ting concAvits, so) far sy tt'e Bat v`•cilig7 por-
tion ‘,I it Is a ,t,cerneo,
toe tr-,,Ear-k Id S takes,
which has fourte,-n n..rum,,tioas, vli awrit 't co area;
most , 'rat•ttv, no e•;(,. b ink` 81,10*
e
L zsy and to; r,n p4hape the Is "Vim d
two ma) te the first in the rtee.

I am. sir. y,..kirt,. &c..
THE SPIRT r OF TUE TUC F.

March 14, 1851.

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MARLBRIY-STREE r—(T HIS DAY,V
A MISCREANT - Row, au ill-looking lellow,•
was brought bef. ire Mr. Ilarciwick char Ted with in.
decently exposing his person to several young ladies, in
Kensington .gardens.
Catherine Mitchell, an inolligent child, eleven years
of age, residing with her par,Aats at No. 4, Hinton-
street, Kensington, deposed, that about six o'clock the
previous evening, she, and another young lady named
Crosbie, were walking in Kensington-gardens, near the
round pond, looking at the ducks; and, on turning round
to leave the spot, she saw the prisoner, who was
standing about six yards from them, leaning
against the railings with his person ex•
posed. Directly she saw the prisoner she
turned round to go away, and having called the attention
of her friend to the circumstance, she went to the lodge
and informed one of the park keepers of what she had
seen.

Mary Ann Croabie, 13 years of age, residing at No.
1, Newland-street, corroborated the above evidence.
Several other young ladies also proved that the prisoner
had owed in a similar manner towards them.
Dunn, one of the park constables, said he took the
prisoner into custody at the instigation of the young la-
dies. Oa conveying him to the station ho found hie
dress in great disorder, and his trousers unbuttoned.
The prisoner, who most solemnly denied the charge,
was committed to the House of Correction for three
mouths, with hard labour.