The Sun.
London, England, 1860-04-13 00:00:00

NEWMA.RK

THIS DAY)

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGAPH.)
QUEEN'S PLATE.

Newcastle
Maazini
Bevis

Four ran.
£5O PLATE.

Neophyte
Vulture
Tyrant

Eight ran.
MATCH—Cock-a-Hoop beat Adulation.
SIVEPSTAKES OF 30 SOVS.

Trovatore
Thunderbolt

Two ran. Won easy.

LATEST BETTING.
CITY AND SUBURBAN,
Bto 1 agst Confectioner (taken)
10 to 1 agst Yoicks (taken)
12 to 1 agst Homeward Bound (taken)
15 to 1 agst Chere Amie (taken)
18 to 1 agst Bentinck (taken)

CHESTER CUP.
10 to 1 agst Satellite (taken)
14 to 1 agst Tame Deer (taken)
14 to 1 agst Gaspard (taken)
TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS.
10 to 3 agst Wizard (offered, take 7to 2)
6to 1 agst Lupulus (taken)

THE DERBY.

20 to 1 agst Buccaneer (taken)
20 to 1 agst Wizard (offered)

MISS RODEN'S MUSICAL ENTERTAINMENT.—On
Wednesday last Miss Roden, under very distinguished
local patronage, including that of Lieutenant-Colonel
Baker and the officers of the 10th Royal Hussars, gave her
musical entertainment at the Town-hall, Hounslow, con-
sisting of a lecture on the beauties of the poet Gay, illus-
trated by the musical gems of the Beggar's Opera, to a
numerous and fashionable audience.

THE SMALL-PDX IN CHELSEA.—At the weekly
meeting of the directors and guardians of the poor of St.
Luke's, Chelsea, onWednesday, the reports of the parochial
medical officers were read, from which it appeared that the
small-pox, that has of late been alarmingly on the increase
in that parish, is on the decline, there being but three fresh
cases reported since last week.

MURDER AT Knßusir.—The dead body of a
boatman named Mahony was found in a shallow stagnant
pool near Kilrush, on Monday. From the marks of vio-
lence, and the fact of a sum of £4O having been taken from
his pockets, there are strong grounds for apprehending that
he has been murdered. A man named Hithmore has been
arrested on suspicion of being concerned in Mahony's
death.

SINGULAR OCCURRENCE.—On Wednesday a
blackbird, chased by a hawk, dashed violently against the
window of an upstairs sitting-room, shattered the pane of
glass against which it struck, and fell dead on the floor
from the concussion. It was momentarily followed by its
relentless pursuer (a fine young sparrow-hawk), which,
passing unharmed through the aperture, was captured
alive.—Ross Intelligence•.

THE SMUGGLING TRANSACTION AT HULL.—On
Monday, at the Hull Police-court, the four foreign sailors
charged with smuggling a large quantity of tobacco from
the Austrian ship Margaret Rosa, were again In ought up,
and, after some further evidence, they were each fined £lOO
and costs. The three prostitutes charged with receiving the
cigars and assisting in the smuggling were discharged, as
the Board of Customs did not press the case against thorn.

IMPORTS OF FOREIGN GRAIN AND FLOUR.,—Duty
paid at Hull last week :—X6S 8s on 1,308 qrs. of wheat ;
£614 on 12,280 qrs. of barley ; £3 9s on 69 qrs. of beans ;
£lB 4s on 364 gra. of peas; and £1 17s 6d on 100 cwt. of
potato flour.

THE CLYDE PORTS.—The Customs' revenue of
the port of Glasgow for the year ending March 31, was
£814,954 as compared with £813,347 in the 12 months end-
ing March 31, 1859, and £780,752 in the 12 months ending
March 31, 1858. At Port Glasgow the totals were £51,393,
£64,043, and £78,191 respectively ; and at Greenock,
£160,714, £173,978, and £141,234 respectively. On the
whole, the revenue has therefore slightly retrograded dur-
ing the last three years.

According to the Government statements from
Naples yesterday, the outbreak at Palermo was suppressed
on the 4th inst. There is great reason to doubt this asser-
tion. A private telegram from Palermo on the sth inst.,
received in London this afternoon, announces that the
English residents had just embarked on board British ves-
sels in the harbour, and this is a step not likely to have been
taken if, as is represented by the Neapolitan accounts, tran-
quillity had been restored on the preceding day.

A singular suicide was committed the day be-
fore yesterday at the Louversey (Eure). A boy eleven years
of age, son of a dressmaker, having suddenly disappeared,
his mother sought for him, and to her horror she found him
hinging by the neck by a cord to the upper part of the gate
of her garden. A neighbour, attracted by her cries, cut
him down at once, but he was quite dead. The suicide is
ascribed to the child having been plunged into despair at
learning that his mother, whom he tenderly loved, was
afflicted with an incurable malady. He had frequently de-
clared with tears that he would die before her.

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CLIFTON SUSPENSI ON -B RlDGE.—Another project
has been broached for completing this structure across the
Avon, which will unite the counties of Somerset and Glo-
caster. The matter has been taken up with spirit, and, if the
difficulties which have prevented former sckemes from being
successfully carried out are overcome, this great work which
was commenced by the late Mr. Brunel more than 20 years
ago, and upon which upwards of £40,000 were expended up
to 1843, may yet be accomplished. The roadway of the
hroposed bridge is 850 feet in length, and 220 feet above
igh-water mark.

ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS.—At a meeting
of the council on the 12th inst., the Jacksonian Prize for
1859 was awarded to Mr. John Whitaker, Hulke, of Old
Burlington. street, a Fellow of the College, and Assistant-
Surgeon to the King's College and Royal Opthalmic Hos-
pitals, for his dissertation on the morbid changes in the re-
tina, as seen in the eye of the living person and after re-
moval from the body, together with the symptoms associated
with the several morbid conditions. At the same time an
honorarium was awarded to Mr. Charles Bader, of the
Royal Opthalmic Hospital, a member of the College, for his
essay on the same subject.
HEREFORD EASTER FAlR.—This great fair for the
sale of Hereford stock, cattle, &c., took place on 'Wednes-
day, and was largely attended. It was a very good fair for
sellers, for everything fat was worth an increased price. The
fat beasts sold in this market are almost invariably cows, as
the oxen are sold for the London market, or to fatten on the
midland pastures. Except at Christmas, ox beef at Hereford
is a rarity. Prime fat cows, and calves in good order, sold
from 7d. to lid. per lb. ; and good wether sheep, in the
wool, in some cases exceeded that sum. Pigs were dear,
and porkers fetched bid. per lb. Good nag horses were
scarce, and fetched high prices.

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THE STONEHOUSE RIFLE CORPS.—There appears
to be a screw loose in this corps, and it arises on the ques-
tion of the appointment of officers. When the first com-
pany was formed, we understand that it was the wish of
R. Marsh Dunn, Esq., to be its captain, but Lord Valle-
tort, being a captain of some militia company or other, de-
clined to serve as lieutenant in the Stonehouse Rifle Corps.
His lordship was subsequently elected captain, and it was
understood that Mr. Dunn would be elected to the captaincy
of the next company. There are now sufficient members
to form a second company, but Lord Valletort hesitates to
form it. Mr. Dunn is thus kept out of his captaincy. He
has therefore resigned.—Plymouth Journal.

THE !MAILS, &C.-SOUTHAMPTON, April 12.
The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamship Massi-
lia, Capt. T. Black, took her departure to-day for Gibral-
tar, Malta, and Alexandria, with the heavy Bombay and
Australian mails. Among her cargo she has 800 boxes of
specie and jewelry, value £250,034 Is., of which £26,000 is
in gold, £219,965 in silver, and£27B in jewelry for Bombay;
and jewelry value £1,341 ss. for Hobson's Bay, £740 for
Melbourne, and £1,709 16s. for Sydney. She takes out 61
first-class and 34 other passengers, among whom are Capt.
W. E. Newell and Sergeant-Major Cunningham and wife,
for Gibraltar; Major Balfour, Surgeon Gardiner, Armoury
Sergeant Wennham, Surgeon-Major Mockler, Staff Assis-
tant-Surgeons E. Gribbon and Ligestwood, and Captain
Norris, for Malta ; Surgeon D. G. Penrith, for Sydney ;
Capt. A. T. Etheridge, Dr. R. Butler, Assistant-Surgeons
R. Alleyne and T. Ffolliott, Lieut. R. Jenkins, Sir George
Clerk, Capt. Clerk, Capt. Hodgson, Major-Andrews, Lieut.-
Col. Grimes, and Dr. Miller, &e.

Some paper manufacturers of Essones, Angoii-
leme, and other places have published, in the form of a
pamphlet, a letter addressed by them to the Minister of
Commerce, against the exportation of rags. They maintain
that the export of rags, even on the payment of a high
duty, would inevitably cause the ruin of the paper manu-
facture in France, inasmuch as it is only by the prohibition
to export that rags can be obtained at a price which enables
good paper to be made cheap. Moreover, if, say they, per-
mission to export were to bo accorded, not only English,
but German, Austrian, and Dutch makers would come to
France for rags, and the consequence would be that the
price would rise so high that France would be unable to
compete with foreigners in the manufacture of paper. In
Belgium, for example, the export of rags is prohibited, and
therefore rags are cheaper than they would be in France if
export were allowed. But as the Belgium paper brought
into France pays only 25f. the 100 kliegs., it could mani-
festly be sold cheaper than the paper of France.
THE MONEY MARKET.—The stock market opened
yesterday morning with a very unsettled appearance, but
the measure of the Bank, instead of leading to a further de •
cline, caused a favourable reaction, and prices closed with
an appearance of more steadiness than has been observable
for two or three days past. During the recent pressure in
the money market a curious idea has been current, that it
is in some way to be traced to the action of the Bank re-
fusing accommodation to the discount houses. The Bank
have advanced their rate of discount solely because the
public have drawn so largely upon them as to reduce their
unemployed reserve to a comparatively low figure, and it is
impossible to conceive how the state of things could be
mended by their admitting the discount houses as custo-
mers when they find themselves obliged to contract their
accommodation to the customers already pressing upon
them. If they were now to make advances to the discount
houses it must be by withthuwing some of the advances
already made to the commercial community, and although
the discount houses would, doubtless, lend the money again
to the merchants, and thus throw it back to the hands in
which it was previously held, such a proceeding would be
merely like digging a hole to fill it up again. The discount
houses can require it only in order to supply the public,
and the public have got it already. It is not an increased
supply of the brokers for the distribution of Bank notes
that appear to be wanted, but Bank notes themselves, and
unless, therefore, the discount houses can exercise some in-
fluence over the actual production of those articles, all
question with regard to their functions and the facilities
that should be granted them must appear, at the present
moment, not only unimportant, but incongruous.—Times'
City Article.
POT-WALLOPPERS.—A " p9t-waller," or " pot-
wallopper," was one who had a right to boil a pot within
the borough, and if he had possessed this right for six
months preceding an election, and had not been in the re-
ceipt of parochial relief, he had a vote. Taunton was a pure
pot-walling borough, and one of the most corrupt in the
kingdom. It is only very recently that the pot-wallers
there have been convinced that they are not entitled—as
of right—to a sovereign a-head at every election I—Once a
Week.