The Sun.
London, England, 1860-04-04 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

BETTING AT MANCHESTER—TUESDAY.
The business at the Rooms to-day was exceedingly dull,
and the attendance of subscribers was far below the ave-
rage of whet are usually present on Tuesdays, and beyond
giving the following quotations, which are in a great
mea-
sure made up from offers, nothing transpired requiring our
notice.

NEWMARKET HANDICA P.
10 to 1 agst Remunerator (offered)
10 to 1 agst Athos (take 100 to 9)
100 to 8 agst Wallace (taken)
100 to 8 agst Confectioner (taken and offered)
100 to 8 agst Jason (taken)
100 to 6 agst Man-at• Arms (taken)

TWO THOUSAND.
sto 2 agst Buccaneer (take 3to 1)
3to 1 agst The Wizard (take 7to 2)
Sto 1 agst Lupulus (offered)
100 to S apt Brother to Rainbow (take 100 to 7)
30 to 1 agst King of Diamonds (taken)

DERBY.

Bto 1 ag,st Buccaneer (offered)

CHESTER CtiP.

100 to 6on the Field (offered)

CITT AND SUBURBAN.
Bto 1 agst Yoicks (take 100 to 12)
100 to S agst Chore Arnie (offered)
100 to 7 agst Homeward Bound (offered)
100 to 6 agst Odo (take 20 to 1)
40 to 1 agst Topsail (taken)

CHURCH BATES ABOLITION BILL.

THE PETITION MOVEMENT.

Yesterday, we were placed in possession of the Report of
the House of Commons' Petition Committee to the 28th of
March inclusive. It appears by this report, that, up to that
date, there had been presented to the house—
Petitions. Signatures.
.... 4,972 .... 546,579
... 5,203 181,856
litions has been made. The
from which those in favour

For abolition ...
Against abolition

A caieful analysis of these
following will show the sour(
of abolition have conic, :
From ratepayers and
inhabitants
" Protestant Dissent-
ing" congregations 814
Independent ditto 668
Baptist ditto
Wesleyans as follows :
Wesleyan Confereneo
Methodists, 130 ;
Methodist New
Connexion, 91; Me-
thodist Free, 169 ;

leyan Reformers, 33;
Wesleyan Associa-
tion, 2 :
Total Wesleyan bodies
Society of Friends ..
United and other Pre-
sbyterians
Unitarians ..
Countess of Hunting-
don ..
Roman Catholic ....
Bible Christians ....
Various denomina-
tions, including
Jews, New Jerusa-
lem Church, &c. , .

Primitive Metho-
dists, 235; Indepen-
dent Methodists, 1;
Calvanistic Metho-
dists, 80 ; United
Methodists, 2; Wes-

Total

These figures show that s(
ment has taken a wider ran,
character than has that for
rates.

arcely any petitioning move-
;42) or been less sectional in its
he total abolition of church-

Of the petitions presented the following appear from
public bodies :
Town Council of Sheffield.
)1 Leicester.
/) Haverford west.
9 9 Newcastle-on-Tyne.
Congregational Union of England and Wales.
Baptist Union.
General Baptist Committee.
Wesleyan Reform Union.
Protestant Dissenting Deputies.
Religious Liberation Society.
Ministers of the Three Denominations in London.
Ministers and Delegates of the Independent Churches o
Carmarthen.
Western Association of Baptist Churches.
South Hampshire Baptist Association.
Denbighshire, &c., Baptist Association.
Cardigan, &c., Baptist Association.
Carlisle meeting of the Society of Friends.
'Allendale meeting of the Society of Friends.
New College, London.
Cheskunt College.
Hackney Theological Seminary.
Rotherham College.
Spring-hill College.
Homerton College.
Rawdon College.
Regent's-park College.
Bristol College.
Airedale College.
Taunton College.
Western College.
Brecknock College.
Lancashire College.
Bala College.
Pontypool College.
We are also able to give a
large towns—a list which she
of religious liberty have 1::e
challenge of the archdeacons,
inhabitants are :
City of London 2,845
Lambeth .. .
Finsbury .. 4,496
Kingsland, Totten-
ham, &c 1,104
Signatures. Signatures
Manchester . 17,790 Durham 867
Salford .. ...
York
Coventry ... 1,750 Scarborough 6OB
Birkenhead .
Henley
Rochester
Yeadon
' Sunderland ... ...... 1,720 Maidstone 1,674
Sheffield .. 4,580 Leeds 2,308
Carlisle
Colchester 1,580 St. Helen's ....... • • 3,003
Oxford
Nottingham
Since the last report of the Petition Committee, there
have been presented 313 petitions for, and 140 against
abolition. These have to be added to the above, when the
figures will be as follows :
Petitions. Signatures.
For abolition 6,274 with say 580,140
Against abolition 5,317 „ 186,085
Thus, in little more than five weeks, the opponents of
church rates have obtained nearly an equal number of
petitions, with more than three times the number of signa-
tures, than all the archdeacons and rural deans have been
able to secure, with all the advantages of their eccle-
siastical prestige and organisation, in more than as many
zionthe.

list of the petitions from the
vs how thoroughly the friends
!en aroused to action by the
Amongst the petitions from

Marylebone
Southwark 293

Total Metropolis ....14,289

PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 3.—During the past week
the Channel has been swept by a succession of fierce gales
from S.W. to W.N.W., and, in the heavier squalls, from
N.W., accompanied by hail, rain, and snow. A large num-
ber of vessels had anchored inside the Isle of Wight for
shelter, and among many others off this port are the Guid-
ing Star, for Calcutta; the Damascus, for Sydney, N.S.W.;
the Antonio, for Iquique; the Bordeaux, for Bordeaux;
the Beta, for Cardiff; the Sultan, for Bombay; the Ulidia,
for Singapore ; the Ein Dracht, for Bilboa ; the James
Montgomery, for Alexandria, &c. Many persons were
startled from their sleep this morning about half-past 3by
a tremendous clap of thunder, or rather a rapid succession
of reports like a simultaneous discharge of a battery of the
heaviest ordnance. One vivid blue lightning flash accom-
panied it, and was instantly succeeded by a heavy fall of
hail and sleet, which, however, was not of very long dura-
tion. The day previous, up to sunset, had been excessively
wild, and blowing so furiously at times on the water that
no communication could be held between the Lloyd's cutter
afloat and the various merchant craft as they ran in for
shelter. After sunset the weather had cleared up, and the
night gave promise of finer weather. Since the thunder-
storm this morning the weather here has been much finer,
with a fresh breeze westerly. The Dutch ship Beta, lying
at anchor at Spithead, was struck by the electric fluid at
the commencement of the storm this morning, and carried
away her fore-tonallantmast, injured fore-topmast and
yard, and passing downward, tore up three planks in the
vessel's deck, in which were driven three iron bolts, and
appeared to have afterwards passed along the chain cables
and out through the hawse-pipes. The crew were all below
in their hammocks, and luckily no one was injured.