The Sun.
London, England, 1860-06-18 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENiNtI, JUNE 18, 1860.

THIS DA rs MARKETS.

CORN EXCHANGE.

The leading country markets held on Saturday were but
moderately supplied with wheat. Both red and white
JI
parcels were less active than the previous week ; neverthe-
less prices ruled firm, and very few sellers come forward
except on higher terms. Barley maintained its previous
value, but the inquiry for it was by no means active. Other
produce sold without difficulty.
Throughout the Continent the wheat trade has been ex-
cited, and large quantities of produce have changed hands '
for shipment to England. In the United Statesboth wheat
and flour have commanded more attention.
The arrivals of English produce up to our market, last
week, were only moderate. From abroard the imports
wereliberal, vis., 20,605 quarters of wheat. 19,048 barley,
53,281 oats, 1,545 beans, 70 peas, 1,180 linseed, 773 rape-
seed, 90 sundry seeds, 2,325 sacks and 5,541 barrels of
flour.
Fresh up from Essex and Kent, only a limited supply of
wheat came to hand this. morning ; but the general quality
of the samples was good. Selected parcels were in fair re-
quest, at last Monday's currency ; but low and damp
ations.
ties were very inactive, at about previous quot
Millers generally, owing to a large influx from abroad
evinced no disposition to purchase beyond immediate wants,
especially as the Talavera wheats are now in ear.
There was a slight increase in the show of breign wheat.
Importers, however, were very firm in their demands ; but
the business done was very moderate, at last Monday's
prices.
Floating cargoes of grain were in demand at extensive
rates.
The show of foreign barley was large, and the inquiry for
most kinds was somewhat restricted at about last week's
currency.
We have to report a slow sale for all kinds of malt at
late quotations.
The supply of foreign oats being very large, the oat trade
was less active, and, in some instances, prices gave way 6d.
per quarter.
Beans changed hands freely at the late advance.
In the value of peas no change took place, but the de-
mand ruled steady.
The flour trade was tolerably firm at last week's im-
provement in value.

299

£lO.

spot,
is selling at 52s 3d to 52s 6d and for delivery during
the last three months 52s per cwt. Rough fat, 2s 91d per
81bs.

Stock this day..-..
Price of Y.C. ..
Diplivery last week
Ditto from June 1
Arrivals last week
Ditto from June 1
Price of Town ....

1857. 11858. 11859. I 1860.

18,08)
46s 3d to
—s Od
2,122
4,329
2,781
5,200
483 6d

15,561 13,877 12,376 f 25,556'
616. 6d to 5256 d to 55s 3d to 526 3d to
—s Od —s Od 556 6d 52s 6d
998 790 1,013 1,427
8,913 2,296 2,278 4,402
1,261 1,433 1,148 3
6,360 4,607 2,573 2,861
605 3d 525 9d 555 Od 53s 6d

LA Tir INTEL LICENCE.—(This day.)

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.
(Before Mr. Justice Hill and a Common Jury.)
SMITH V. GORRUM—BREACH OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE.
This was an action fa- a breach of promise of marriage.
The plaintiff was employed in a wholesale statio er's in
Cannon-street, and the defendant was a sorter in the
General Post-office.
Mr. Hawkins, Q C., was for the plaintiff, and Mr. M.
Chambers, Q.C., for the defendant.
Mrs. Smith said—l reside in Alfred-terrace, Bermondsey.
The plaintiff in this action is my dant ter. She is 18
years of age. Before 18.59 I was acquainted with the de-
feedant's family. The defendant is in the Post-office as a
sorter. His father is also in the same situation. Soon
after any husband's death, which occurred this year, the
defendant c- mmenced to'frequent my house. My daughter
was then ender some engagement to a Mr. Addey. He
then made a profession of attachment to her, but
she said she could not receive it. She told him
that she was under a promise to Mr. Addey, who
had gone to the Cape, and he said if she (plaintiff) ac-
cepted him he would soon arrange matters with Mr. Addy
when he came back from the Cape of Good Hope. The de-
fend ant then asked my permission to visit any daughter,
and after the 16th of May he visited regularly. Very soon
after that he happened to be speaking about his sister being
married on the 27th of October, when he said he should like
to be married on that day. My daughter went to his
sister's wedding. Soon after the marriage of his sister the
defendant was taken seriously ill. He wrote a number of
letters, all breathing the fondest attachment, and most of
them signed "Your ever, affectionate lover." [Several of
the letters having been read, the examination was pro-
ceeded with.]
On his recovery he resumed his visits, and the marriage
was fixed for the 14th of February. He called on me pre-
viously to that, when he had put up the banns. He bought
the weddir g presents and the ring, and brought them to me
and told me to give them to no person befere he gave direc-
tions. He wished my daughter to leave her situation.
She did so, and went on a visit to her grandfather, who is
a farmer at Eltham. My daughter returned to London in
company with defendant. The day after I noticed a cool-
ness on his part. My daughter asked him the reason,
when he replied his grandfather did not approve of her,
and he supposed he must cease paying visits. My daughter
said she thought it was cruel on his part to listen to his
grandfather after bringing things so closely. He said he
must study his grandfather on account of money matters.
They both parted very friendly that evening, the defendant
requesting my daughter to think nothing of it. Soon after
that his soother applied to me for the ring, I refused to give
it up, and I told him so when next I saw him on the 2d Jan.
After that time he ceased to visit my daughter, and she then
became very ill. I went to ascertain the cause, when I saw
his mother. My daughter on one occasion after this went
out with me, and we met the defendant coming from the
Post-office. My daughter, and he went for a short walk,
when they returned to me, and he told my daughter to get
the wedding-dress made as the ceremony should take place.
He told her he would not listen to the persuasions of his
family, but that he would go to bed directly he got home,
as that would be the only way to prevent their talking
to him. (Laughter.) He never came to my
house after that. I and my sister went to
to see him at the Post-office. I told him that it was very
mean conduct, and that it was damageable. I then said,
"Do you really intend not to marry my daughter ?" He re-
plied that he should not. I asked him if there was any
fault with her, and he said no.
Cross-examined by Mr. Chambers—My daughter was a
tall, handsome girl. She never had a score of lovers.
Addey gave my daughter some trifling present. The de-
fendant is not what you call a penny postma'i—he was a
sorter. Defendant asked my daughter to send back Adder's
letters and presents. This took place at his grandfather's.
He did not positively refuse i;o do as he required. The cir-
cumstance led to a misunderstanding, but not to a quarrel.
He never ordered his letters to be sealed up and sent to
Addey's sister. My daughter told me that they had had a
tiff about Addey. My daughter told defendant that Addey
was a very jealeus man, and that when he came back from
the Cape of Good Hope there would be murder when he
found she was married. The conversation did not take place
during his visit to his grandfather. My daughter never read
a letter to me as coming from the defendant, stating that
as she set so much store on Addey's gifts he was sure they
never could be happy. I know a Mr. Boyle. I never said he
was in love with her. I never told him there were two or
three persons dying of love for my daughter. I never told
him that the foreman of her employer was in that state.
(Laughter.) I know he was very anxious to get her. The
quarrel, or tiff, took place before the visit to the grand-
father's. That lam positive of.
Miss Strickland, a niece of the witness, gave evidence as
to the defendant naming the day of marriage, and also said
that ho had told her that his mother intended to give him a
house when ho was married.
Mrs. Strickland also gave evidence to the same effect.
Mr. M. Chambers then, in a very humorous speech, said
his learned friend lead entirely failed to make out a case
against his unfortunrite client, the penny postman. (Laugh-
ter.) The lady was a person against whom nothing but
what was highly creditable could be said. The jury, he
thought, would agree with him, that this was nothing
but a youthful lover's quarrel, and certainly that it
was not one for severe damages. The quarrel had
been occasioned solely by the lady refusing to return the
letters of Mr. Addey. It appeared that she shill). shelled
with her new lover before she was off with the old, and
altogether she had lost both lovers. The result of giving
her heavy damage was that Mr. Boyle would come in and
say to her, I am foreman, you can be forewoman, haste
away to the Wedding. (Laughter.) The result of large
damages being awarded was that his parents would certainly
have to pay them, as the defendant's salary, as a penny-
postman, aged about 19 or 20, was but 18s. to 20s.
per week. The loss of a marriage with such a public
servant—(laughter)—could not be of much importance to
the lady, and, as the mother had retained the ring and
wedding dress, they would come in useful ; for, as soon as
the trial was concluded, Mr. Boyle, who was brimming
over with love and affection—(laughter)—would certainly
come forward and make her his wife.
The learned Judge summed up.
The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff—damages,

POLICE INTELLIGENC.E-(THIS DAI.)

THAMES.

CAUTION TO SHIPWRIGHTS AND ENGLISH WORN.-
gEN.—TRE EMIGRATION TO CHERBOURG.—John Jones,
a shipwright, of No. 26, Park-street, Poplar, waited upon
Mr. Selfe and stated that he had been to Cherbourg in
search of work, in consequence of the reports in circulation
here, and had been most grievously disappointed. There
was nothing at all doing there, and not an Eng-
lish shipwright in the place. He saw the British
Vice-Consul, who said that the rumour circulated in Eng-
land that there was work for English shipwrights at Bs. per
day in Cherbourg was erroneous—that it was quite false.
The Vice-Consul also stated that two Englishmen who had
purn fruitless errand had fallen into
a state of destitution, and he had -supplea them
means of reaching home as distressed British subjects.
Mr. Selfe.—When did you go to Cherbourg ?
Jones.—Last Thursday week, and I am very sorry I went

there.
Mr. Selfe.—When did you arrive here ?
Jones.—l came home on Friday afternoon, and I felt

my duty to come here in consequence of the erroneous im-
pression that prevails among my countrymen. There are
no ships building at Cherbourg, and no work for English
shipwrights.
Mr. Selfe—You have done quite right in coming here,
and it will save a great many men from breaking up their
homes anJ borrowing money to enable them to proceed to
Cherbourg. I shall not grant any more passports to work-
men: to proceed to Cherbourg. Will you be so kind as to
leave your name and address f'
Jones—Certainly, sir.
The magistrate took down the man's name and address,
and he then left the court.

THE EASTERN FISHERIES.—The recent dreadful
loss of fishing boats belonging to Yarmouth and Lowestoft
has cast a great gloom over the eastern Fisheries. Several
boats have, however, succeeded during the past week in
taking 600 to 700 mackerel each, and these have been sold
at 40s. to 455. per 100. The late awful destruction of fish-
ing boats was attended with the loss of about 200 men, and
meetings have been held at bath Yarmouth and Lowestoft
to.promote subscriptions in aid of their destitu'e widows
and orphans.
MRS. PROUDIE'S CONTZRSAZIONE.—Her plan
was to sit the people by the ears talking, if they would, or
to induce them to show them*elves there inert if no more
could be got from them. To accommodate wits. chairs and
sofas as many as the furniture of her noble suite of rooms
would allow, especially will& the two chairs and padded
bench against the wall in the back closet—the small inner
drawing-room, as sho would call it to the clergymen's
wives from Barsetshire—and to let the others stand
about upright, or " group themselves," as she des.
cribed it. Then four times during the two hours'
period of her conversaziona tea and cake was to be
handed round on salvers. It is astonishing how far a very
little cake will go in this way, particularly if administered
tole
early after dinner. he men can't eat it, and the
woman, having uo plates and notable, are obliged to abstain.
Mrs. Jones knows that she cannot hold a piece of crumbly
cake in her band till it be consumed without doing serious
injury to her best dress. When Mrs, Proudie, with her
weekly books before her, look into the financial upshot of
her conversazione her conscience told her that she had
done the right thln'g.—Cortikiid 11fallazine.

SPORTING NOTES.

There will be plenty of good racing in Hampshire this
week. The Odiham meeting, which commences to-morrow,
has six items for decision, two of which close this evening.
For the Manor Plate, three-quarters of a mile, thirty- seven
horses have been handicapped, and I shall select Duplicity
or Codicil to furnish the winner.
The Odiham Handicap, one mile and a half, has twenty-
two subscribers, and Mavourneen or Kinnersley appear
the best to stand on. .

__
The Dogmersfield Park Stakes has twenty-three two-
year-olds engaged, and those, to my thinking, with the best
chance of success appear to be Flotilla, Duplicity, and
Malta, in the order named.
In the Hurtsbourne Stakes appear the names of several
dark two-year-olds, but Big Ben, despite his 71bs. penalty,
shall do battle for me.

The Bibury Club meeting has only as yet three events
closed—the Handicap, the Bibury Stakes (gentlemen
riders), and the Champagne Stakes.
For the Bibury Handicap of 5 sovs. each with 50 added,
one mile and a-half, Worcester, 6 yrs, 1 Ist ; Wanderer, 5
yrs, lOst 11b ; and Norton, 3 yrs, Oat Clb, shall rcpresent
my interest in the order named.
The handicap for two and three-year-olds bas 17 subs;
and the most trustworthy amongst the two-ycar-olds are
Flotilla and Cronstadt.
The Champagne Stakes generally brings out some dark
horse, and to the Danebury stable or Shillelagh I leave the

race.
Stockbridge, which commences the day following, always
attracts an aristocratic company, but at present I will
merely remark that th© Amport Handicap is likely to fall
to Northern Light or Ariadne, and the Stewards' Plate to
Rupee, Rattlebone, or llouravieff in the order named. I
shall refer more fully to their respective chances on Wed-
nesday.

Monday, Juno 18.

A FRESH MAN.

SOUTILERN ITALY,

The following is from a letter dated Ancona, June 3:—
Ancona is a citycontaining 35,000 inhabitants, with a capi-
tal port, and a flourishing trade at ordinary periods. It
was formerly fortified, but its defences are now in ruins,
and a few discharges from a siege battery would be suffi-
cient to scatter them to the ground. M. de Lamoriciere
comes very frequently to Ancona, which he seeks to con-
vert into a place of refuge, where the Papacy might defend
itself with its own forces; far from the humiliating protec-
tion of those Frenchmen whom the Holy Father and the
Cardinals execrate as the instigators .of all the evils that
have befallen them lately. When questioned on the sub-
ject by the General, the Pontifical engineers demanded no
less time than three years to repair and complete the forti-
fications of the city. Where will Pius IX., the Court of
Rome, and Lamoriciere be in three years at the rate at
which things are at present progressing? It was, there-
fore, necessary to give up the project, to say nothing of the
money which would probably have been wanting pending
the progress of the works.
The Papal recruits from:Germany, by way of Trieste, are
disembarked at Ancona. Every two or three days:a steamer
lands some forty Germans, Austrian sol iers in uniform, or
volunteers. They are placed in an old convent for a while,
and when a sufficient number has arrived they are clothed
and despatched to the military depots of the interior,
where th 3 battalions of the new army are at present in
course of formation, though very slowly. These defenders
of the Holy Father are as much the terror of the
good citizens of Ancona as of the country they tra-
verse on their way to their destination. They are
either sort, as I said before, be the Austrian Government,
or they are pal I for by a. fixed bounty, and they permit
themselves all kinds of excesses, being sure of impunity.
They are, for the most part, ruffians and robbers, and of
course utterly devoid of discipline; they think nothing of
going into the shops in gangs, evn in broad daylight, and
taking possession of whatever suits their fancy, saying, on
quitting with their spoil, "The Pope will pay." A great
number of disturbances have taken place through these
desperadoess and several murders. The Pontifical gend-
armes will not interfere in these matters, neither will they
listen to complaints, so that the people are exasperated to
the:last degree, and prepared for anything.
I was present to-day at the arrival of thirty-five volun-
teers of the above description, and I can assure you I should
not be anxious to meet any of them on a lonely road or on
the skirt of a wood.
It is the intention of the authorities to form with these
recruits certain battalions of Chasseurs a pied, the regi-
ments of the line still remaining composed of Romans and
Swiss. The following is an account of the actual troops at
the disposition of Lamoriciere, and the different localities
where they are stationed :
At Pesaro (frontier of Romagna), 2,500 men; Urbino
(between Pesaro and Ancona), 1,000 men ; Ancona, 2,500
men; Gabble (beyond Ancona and the Romagna), 1,500
men ; Perugia (frontier of Tuscany), 2,000 men; Macerate
(on the Adriatic), 1,500; in the depots of Fossonbrone,
Fano, Sinigaglia, Spoleto, and Terni, 2,000 men • at
Rome, 2,000 men ; total, 15 '
000 men. Of these 15,000
men, 10,000 at least aro Pontifical subjects, slovenly,
cowardly, and undisciplined. They would be sure to turn
their backs at the first report of a musket ; 5,000 of them
are Austrians, good soldiers enough if they were not mere
machines, without a sentiment of loyalty; moreover, they
are particularly discontented at the present time.
Those of the foreigners who had sold themselves for a
bounty were, it seems, promised 50 crowns ; they have only
received 10, and they will never get the rest. All those,
moreover, who were engaged cr sent by Austria were
assured a daily pay of 20 baiocchi and two good meals. At
present they give them but 4 baiocchi and one meal per day,
and that but a very sorry one. It may easily be believed
that these men are discontented. Indeed, they do not hesi-
tate to call out aloud that they will serve as they are paid.
The Government certainly can n
not cout upon them.
As to the thousands of gallant Irish of whom the
clerical organs have boasted so loudly, they must be re-
duced to 68 individuals. I saw them in the cloisters of the
convent where they are at pr, sent quartered ; they are half
composed of the sons of families in easy circumstances,
who have been fanaticised by the priests, and of poor pea-
sants, enrolled for a bounty. The joke is, that no one knows
what to do with them. The poor Patlanders do not, of
course, understand a syllable of German or Italian, while
the Italian officers and authorities do not speak a syllable
of English—they are hardly expected to be conversant
with Irish. The poor fellows seem already awfully bored
with their position and their national " green flag." As
for the Germans, they tire, for the most part, Austrian sol-
diers detached from the Imperialearmy who have arrived
here with their own officers, and with their
organisation. complete. The authorities here openly
boast that they are sent directly by Austria. These
troops were to do wonders, and the Romagnas
were, of course, to be immediately reconquered ; but the
scantiness of the pay has considerably modified the general
enthusiasm.
A glance at the present financial position of the Papal
States will soon show to what an extent the Holy Father
must be embarrassed. While his territories remained in-
tact, he was in the receipt of a revenue of;twenty-two mil-
liens of crowns. Since the loss of tke Romagnas the re-
ceipts have fallen to eight millions of crowns—a clear de-
ficit of no less than fourteen millions on the former revenue.
In the meanwhile the expenses have been. triplgd, and
principally from the creation of an army with its iiiilitary
materiel. The King of Naples and the Princes of Germany
sent sums of money to Rome; an example followed by some
of the clergy of France, Belgium, and Ireland. These con-
tributions were, however, of little or no avail towards filling
up such a bottomless gulf of need. The political crisis is
imminent, and in a little while the irresistible movement
of Italian independence will have swept away every vestige
of the Pope, his cardinals, his generals, and his army. The
approaching financial crisis is amply sufficient for the pur-
pose, however, if impatient patriotism will only take the
trouble to wait.
Poor Lamoriciere,ywho in this wretched service has lost
both his personal and his military reputation, has been the
victim of Governmental misrepresentations of the most
grotesque kind. lie was assured by the Vatican that a
depot of no less than 30,000 muskets was at his disposal at
Ancona. He found but barely 6,000 antiquated and
almost unserviceable weapons, half of which would burst
at the very first discharge. These have been supplied to
the s,ooo*Austrians.
The small old-fashioned cannon of the Pope's army are
neither mounted on wheels nor have they any regular
artillery horses. They are now buying lgoken-down horses
from the peasants, and they are dragged along like carts
about a farm. Millions are required for the purchase of
what is still absolutely necessary--and where obtain them ?
They have neither ambulances, hospitals, nor medicines.
A fine army, truly, to start upon a campaign, and do
honour to the general in command.
As for myself, without being a Garibaldi, I would under-
take, with a regiment of French Zouaves, or of Piedmon-
tese,Bersaglieri, to teach the united forces of his Holiness
the best use of their legs; and this is the general opinion
of the inhabitants.
The unhappy Lamoriciere has upon several occasions
-erentseseanes ,p....24,2,17._ of A nrnna, Tlrbann, PAcstrn, nail Peru-
gia. Imagine his stupefaction, on attempting to review the
troops, to find that they could not even march in step. It
was hopeless ; from the superior officers to the lowest
corporal, the same crass ignorance prevailed. After
having called from the ranks and interrogated a num-
ber of the officers, the poor General retired, confused,
depressed, and crestfallen. The citizens who were present
at this melancholy scene were heartily amused. The same
state of things awaited the champion of 'the Papacy at all
the garrisons he visited. Everywhere he met with anarchy,
disorder, and organised robbery.
Lamoriciere, not tknowing, or not believing, that the
superior officers and employes of this service robbed the
State by unanimous accord in conjunction with the priestly
governors, was at first furious. He ordered pernishm.ents
and imprisonments right and left. None of these results,
how7ever, occurred'; the offenders whom he sought
to displace or cashier retained their ranks and places in
spite of him, and continued their wholesale peculation in
the old style. Lamoriciere was recommended not to meddle
in what did not concern him; and this is why, even if he
could obtain the millions he requires, the Pope would nevec
have an efficient army.
One fact alone will prove to what an extent the govern-
ment is incorrigible, and bent on these malpractices. There
is at present at Pesaro a superior officer of the polio',
named Salvi, a Tuscan, who fled from his country under a
clierge of robbery. This Salvi, with the connivance of the
Pontifical Prefect, Bella, invented an ingenious method of
destroying those who were suspected or in any way dis-
pleasing to him. He had compromising letters written,
and addressed to the persons he intended to inculpate, pur-
posely dropped in the street. , The police agents, properly
instructed. watched till some unsuspecting passenger picked
them up. The passenger was of coarse questic nee, and then
the person to \vhom the letter was supposed to be addressed
was at once arrested, and from that time at the mercy of the
authorities.
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Nevertheless, Salvi retains Iris post, and persecutes the
inhabitants morn than ever. It was this worthy who gave
the order to the gendarmes and the regular patrols to fire
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quently taken place.
In conclusion, I can declare, as far as regards the two
cities I have lately resided in, Pesaro and Ancona, that the
people only exist in the hope of an approaching and radical
change. If the movement should be much longer deferred
the people are prepared for everything. I leave to-morrow
T Rome.

TIIE ADMIRALTY PIER AT DOVER.—One bun-
ched and fifty feet of the extension of this magnificent work
may now be seen at low water.

FIIHI) EDITION.

SUN OFFICE, Seven o'clock,

TAT2ERSALES-(THIS EVENING)

NORTHUMBERLAND PLATE.
10 to 3 agst Butterfly (taken)
sto 1 agat Ben Webster (taken)
10 to 1 agst Edmund Kean (taken)
10 to 1 agst Wild Man (taken)
12 to 1 agst Apollyon (taken and offered)
100 to 7 agst Baron Parke (taken)
100 to 6 agst Hepatica (taken and offered)
20 to 1 agat Shafto (taken)
ST. LEGER.
sto 2 agst Thormanby (taken)
7to 2 agst The Wizard (taken)
10 to 1 agst Horror (taken and offered)
20 to 1 agst Stampedo (take 25 to 1)

GOOD*OOD STAKES.
100 to 7 agst Gridiron (taken)
100 to 6 agst Rattlebone (taken)
20 to 1 agst Stapleton (taken)
25 to 1 agst Edmund Kean (taken)
25 to 1 agst Pitman (taken and offered)
25 to 1 apt Feodorowna (taken and offered)
25 to 1 agst Claire (offered)
3to 1 agst Avalanche (taken)
33 to 1 agst Marine (taken)

THE DERBY.
30 to 1 agst Klarikoff (taken)
33 to 1 agst Nautilus (taken)
33 to 1 agst Robin Hood (taken)

CITY BETTING—(THIS DAY).
The Racing Times says :—Notwithstanding the severe
week the bookmakers experienced at Hampton, there was
a very showy muster both at the City clubs and the West-
end places of meeting, not even excepting the park.
Business was somewhat brisk, and the backers of horses
really seemed to have gained courage by their late suc-
cesses, and were both willing and anxious to renew their
speculations on forthcoming events with spirit.
We heard of several members of both clubs who had
been considerable losers, when the limited amount; of sport
that the " Hurst" produced is remembered. Several
changes in the prices of the different animals engaged in
coming struggles, more particularly in the larger and
earlier events to be decided, were manifest.
The Stockbridge Meeting engrossed considerable attention,
the Stewards' Plate being the principal betting race, to •
gethor with the Amport Stakes. Mouravieff was decidedly
first favourite for the Stewards' Plate, as little as 4 to 1
being taken. Rupee and Northern Light were each sup-
ported at 8 to 1. Seclusion, Cheesecake, and Gridiron were
backed fora little at 10 to 1 each. For the Amport Stakes,
John Day's two, Atiadne and Blue Ruin, were decidedly
the leading favourites, 5 to 1 being taken about each.
Donizetti, Underhand, and Forager we:e supported at 10

to 1 each.
The Northumberland Plate: 5 to 1 could have been ob
tained about anything. Ben Webster was not in
such force as he has been, but' on the other hand Butterfly
was evidently the selected, about whom 7 to I would have
been taken to money, but the longest offer was 6 to 1.
Gladiolus, her stable companion, declined in price as the
other improved in the market. Edmund Kean, although
supported on Saturday at as little as Bto 1, was to-day, at
the opening of the rooms, at 100 to 6, but before the break
up of the members 12 to 1 was the highest offer.
For the Leger Thormanby would have been backed at 3
to 1, but it was net obtainable ; 7 to 2 was offered against
the Wizard, and Buccaneer was quietly backed at 100 to
6, and will, we doubt not, see a much shorter price than
that.
That there was great spirit shown in the support some
horses received, the prices at which they left off will
show, which were as follows
STOCKTON STEWARDS' PLATE.
4to 1 agst Mouravieff
8 to 1 agst Rupee
Bto 1 agst Northern Light
10 to 1 ags: seclusion
10 to 1 agst Cheesec.-.lce
10 to 1 agst Gridiron

AMPORT STARES.

sto 1 agst Ariadne
sto 1 agst Blue Ruin
Bto 1 agst Donizztti
10 to 1 agst Underhand
10 to 1 agst Fora ;• r
NORTIMMBERLAND PLATE.
sto 1 agst Ben Webster
7to 1 agst Butterfly (taken freely)
10 to 1 agst Wildman
10 to 1 agst Gladiolus
11 to 1 agst Edmund Kean
12 to 1 agst Baron Parke
15 to 1 agst Bivouac
15 to 1 agst Underhand
20 to 1 ggst Volunteer

ST. LEGER.

5 to 2 agst Thormanby
7 to 2 agst Wizard
10 to 1 agst Umpire
12 to 1 agst Horror
12 to 1 agst Avalanche
15 to 1 agst Buccaneer
2) to 1 egst Stampedo
.000 to 15 agst Itattlebone (taken)

MPE RIAL PARLIAMENT

HOUSE OF L9RDS—(Tins EVENING.)
The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack
at five o'clock.

PRIVATE BUSINESS.
The Swansea Local Board of Health ; Bradford, Wake-
field, and Leeds Railway; Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Car-
lisle Railway, and Port Carlisle Dock and Railway, and
Silloth Bay Railway and Dock Companies; and Denbigh,
Ruthin, and Corwen Railway Bills were read a second
time.
The following bills were read a third time and passed :
Wexford Free Bridge, Blyth Harbour and Dock, Sovereign
Life Assurance, Abergavenny Improvement, North Bri-
tish, and Peebles and Jedburgh Railway Companies.
NEW PEER.
Baron FORTESCUE (late Lord 'Ebrington) took the
oaths and his seat as a peer of the United Kingdom. The
noble baron was introduced by the Earl of Gosford and
Lord Broughton.

CHURCH RATES.
A number of petitions against the abolition of Church
rates were presented.
SECOND READINGS,
Lord REDESDALE moved the following resolution,
viz. :—That this house will not read any bill a second time
after Tuesday the 17th of July, except bills of aid and sup-
ply, or any bill in relation to which the house shall have
resolved, before the second reading is moved, that the cir-
cumstances which render legislation on the sub-
ject of the same expedient are either of such
recent occurrnce or real urgency as to render
the imm‘diqte consideration of the same necessary.
The noble lord thought it would be of great convenience if
the resolution was agreed to, and he should be very glad to
hear from the noble earl opposite that the 17th July would
be convenient to Government.
Earl GRANVILLE said he should offer no objection to
the resolution of the noble lord, His lordship made some
further observations, but in a tone of voice quite inaudible
in the gallery.
The resolution was agreed to.
Lord BROUGHAM said be wished to put a question to
the Lord Pres'dent (Earl Granville), but was met with
loud cries of " Order of the day."
Lord REDESDALE rose to order; it was of the greatest
importance that their lordships should adhere strictly to
the rules of the house. The noble and learned lord was
clearly out of order in putting the question.
Earl GRANVILLE said the noble lord;had given him
notice of his intention to put the question, and he was
ready to give him the answer. The noble lord, however,
would have ample opportunity of putting the question pre-
sently.
Lord BROUGHAM said it was in the power of any peer
at any time to put a question to the Government by moving
the adjournment of the house. Thd was the rule, and he
could insist on putting his qucstionby making that motion.
However he would put his question presently.
CONDITION OF CATHEDRALS.
Lord LYTTLETON asked her Majesty's Government
it they intended to bring in any measurefounded on the re-
port of the commission for inquiry into the condition of
cathedral and collegiate churches (1852), or to report of the
se'ect committee of the House of Lords for inquiry into
the deficiency of means of spiritual instruction and of
places ;of divine worship in the metropolis and populous
places.
The Duke of NEWCASTLE said the recommendations
of the commission would nearly necessitate a new eccle-
siastical code. He did not think, that being the case, that
the noble lord could expect him at the present time, the
18th of June, they would legislate upon the question. The
noble lord wished to ',know whether there was any hope
of anything being done next session; he could not, how-
ever, give him any promise that any steps would be taken
then. With respect to the latter part of the question, the
recommendations of the commissioners had been introduced
into a measure at present before the other house, and a
short bill bearing on the subject had also bean introduced
by the Home Secretary.
ECCLESIASTICAL COURTS (IRELAND) BILL.
This bill passed through committee.
(LEFT sITTING).

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HOUSE OF COMMONS--(Tins EvENING.)
The SPEAXEIt took the chair at 4 o'clock.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.
The Lords' amendments to the London, Brighten, and
South Coast Rail, ay (Croydon to, Bantam Hill) Bill were
considered and agreed te, and the bill was ordered for third
reading.
The following bills were read a third time and passed:—
Epsom and Leatherhead Railway, Galway Harbour, Rim••
gerford-market and Charing-cross-bridge Companies, Lin-
coln's-inn ;_ London, Chatham, and Dover Railway (Capi-
tal) ; and London, Chatham, and Dover Railway (Metro-
politan Extensions).
The following bills were considered and ordered for third
reading :•—Egham and Woking Railway,Dublin and
Drogheda Railway, London Railway Depot and Store-
houses, Morayshire Railway, North British Railway (Sta-
tions, &c.), and Caithness Roads.
BERWICK-ON-TWEED ELECTION.
Lord CASTLEROSSE brought up her Majesty's most
gracious reply to the address from both Houses of Parlia-
ment, praying for the appointment of a commission to in-
quire into the alleged corrupt practices at the last election
for the borough of Berwick-ox. Tweed, whieh stated that