The Sun.
London, England, 1869-02-12 00:00:00

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VICTORIA CLUi—Tres DAT.
LINCOLNSHIRE HANDICAP.
8 to 1 agst Sycee (taken)
9 to 1 agst Monarch of the Glen (offered)
100 to 9 agst Drummer (taken)
100 to 8 agst Silenus (offered)
100 to 8 agst Formosa (taken)
100 to 7 agst George Osbaldeston (taken and off.)
100 to 6 agst Islam (taken and offered)
20 to 1 agst Uncas (offered)
20 to 1 agst Choral (offered)
20 to 1 agst Friday (offered)
25 to 1 agst Warrington (taken)
25 to 1 agst Van Amburgh (taken and offered)
25 to 1 eget Mr. Pitt(taken and offered)
33 to 1 agst Anlaco (taken)
40 to 1 agst Bessie Dixon (offered)
LIVERPOOL GRAND NATIONAL.
11 to 1 agst Colonel (offered)
100 to 6 agst Tathwell (taken)
100 to 6engst Fan offered)
25 to 1 agst Pearl Diver (offered)
28 to 1 agst Despatch (offered)
1000 to 30 agst Dick Turpin (taken)
83 to 1 agst Fortnnatus (taken and offered)
1000 to 30 agst Bishopton (offered)
40 to 1 agst Guy of Warwick (taken)
40 to 1 agst Brick (taken)
50 to 1 agst Sultan (offered)
50 to 1 agst Billy Gladstone (taxon and offered)
50 to 1 ngst Bristles (offered)
1000 to 15 agst Juryman (taken)
1000 to 10 agst Clansman (taken)
1000 to 5 agst Malvern (offered)
CHESTER CUP.
22 to 1 agst St. Mungo (offered)
25 to 1 agst .gear: (taken and offered)
TWO THOUSAND.
Bto 1 agst Belladrum (offered)
10 to 1 agst Ethus (offered)
TUE DERBY.
sto 1 agst Pero Gomez (taken)
7to 1 agst, Belladrutu (taken)
1000 to 20 agst Drennus (taken)

BENTINCK CLUB.—Tms DAY.
LINCOLNSHIRE HANDICAP.
8t) 1 agst Sycee (taken and offered)
10 to 1 agst Drummer (taken)
100 to 8 agst George Osbaldcston (taken and off)
14 to 1 apt Formosa (taken)
23 to 1 agst Warrington (taken)
33 to 1 agst Mr. Pitt (taken)
GRAND NATIONAL STEEPLECHASE.
25 to 1 agst Dick Turpin (taken and offered)
WATERLOO CUP.
25 to 1 agst agst Jones's, nomination (taken)
25 to 1 agst Crawford's nomination (taken)

LONDON GAZETTE-THIS EVENING

ADMIRALTY, TED. 9.

Commander Frederick Ililde6rand Stevens has been
promoted to be lt,tired Captain under the provisions of
her Majesty's Orders in Council of Ist August, 1860, 9th
July, 1864, and 24th March, 1866, from the 10th of
January last.

COURSE OF EXCHANGE—This Evening.

Amsterdam Short ... 11 191 ... 12 f
Do
Rotterdam... — ... 12 1 ... 12f If
Antwerp — ... 25 35 ... 25 40
Brussels - ... 25 35 ... 25 40
llamburgia — ... 13 10 ... 13 101
Paris
Ditto
Marseilles - ... '25 371
Frankfort-on-the-Main ... 120 ... 12Uf
Vienna — .. 12 27 ... 12 32
Trieste --.
••• 12 27 ... ]2 32
Petersburg
Copenhagen... ...... .•
Berlin
Madrid..
Cadiz — ... 481 ... 48f
Leghorn
Milan — ... 26 35 ... 26 45
Genoa — ... 26 35 ... 26 45
Naples
Palermo
Messina -
Lisbon 591 521
Oporto
Rio Janeiro - .
::: 5:24 •.... 521
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New York —
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TVESTIIIINSTER ALEC 7 10 y PETITION.

THIS DAY.

The inquiry into this case commenced to-day, at 10
o'clock, in the Westminster Sessions Court, before Mr.
Baron Martin.
The petition is that of Mr. James Beale, who charges
Mr. Smith with being guilty, through his agents, of brihery
and treating.
Mr. F. Stephen opened the case for the petitioners. Ho
said the ground of complaint against Mr. Smith, as set
forth in the petition, was, that he had been guilty, by
his agents, of bribery and treating. The expenses in-
curred by Mr. Smith in 1865, when he was a candidate
for the representation of Westminster, amounted to
£5,000, whilst his expenses on the occasion of the last
election were, according to the official return, no less
than £8,909 17s. 7d. Of the constituency of Westminster
which Lumbered about 18,000, 7,648 votes were recorded
for Mr. Smith, thus leaving on an average the sum of £1
3s. 3d. as the expense of each voter. The expenses of
Captain Grosvenor and Mr. Stuart Mill on the occasion of
the last election were only £2,300. It appers that a
sum of £6,500 was expended under the four following
items, viz., central committee expenses, £1,463 10s.
11d. ; district committee expenses, £6,599 15s. 3d.
agents. £1,747 19s. ; and for advortistng, £689 2s. Of the
sum of £6,500, no less than £2,500 was either not vouched
for or imperfectly Ivouched for. There was a sum of no
less than £1,226 9s. 6d., for which there were only for
what he (the learned counsel) could call colourable
vouchers. In theee wards, namely, those of St. George,
Knightsbridge, and St. John's the sum of £1,131 18s. Bd.
was expended, and those expenses have not been vouched
for, or had bees improperly vouched for. One of the
items of expense was £209 to Mr. Henry Edwards. On
the part of this man Edwards, who was a farmer at St.
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was the Hon. Mr. Grimston, who resided at Watford,
which was not a great distance from St. Albans, and
Edwards and that gentleman had been seen together
on several occasions. Mr. Stephens then proceeded
to refer to the cases of colourable treating, and men-
tioned the names of several persons who were paid
7s. a week for exhibiting a board with Mr. Smith's
electioneering address pasted on it, outside their
shop doors. The sum of £209 had been expended
in this way, and he should be able to prove that Edwards
had committed bribery by colourable payments to those per-
sons. There were three cases of treating, the first of which
was at a public-house called the Merlin's Cave, where, at
a meeting held in support of Mr. Smith's canvass every-
body present partook of drink without paying for it.
That was followed by a more serious transaction in the
course of a few days. Mr. Smith went personally to the
Merlin's Cave, held a meeting, and addressed a considerable
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his witnesses.

ROYAL SCOTTISH ACADEMY.—On Wednesday
Mr. Hugh Cameron and Mr. It. I'. Ross were elected
Academicians, in room of the late Mr. John Stevens and
Mr. W. B. Johnstone.
PROVINCIAL BANKING.—The net profits of the
Bradford Banking Company for 1868 amounted to
£39,785 ; out of this sum the directors recommended a
dividend at the rate of 19 per share, absorbing .£47,b11
The Union rank of LivGrpocl pays 10 per cent. for 18GP ;
the total Fronts of the year were £57,G20. The reservea
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surplus fund was increased from £lB9,
3113 to £200,712
during 1868.