The Sun.
London, England, 1858-08-03 00:00:00

LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 3, 1858.

THE AFFAIRS OF ALGERIA.

We find in the Moniteur the following report

the Emperor from Prince Napolcon relative to the
system of administration which his Imperial High-
ness intends to pursue in the affairs of Algeria and
the colonies :

" Sire,—ln pursuance of the decree of the 24th of JJunelast, establishing the Ministry of Algeria and the Colonies,
a commission has examined the questions relative to the
division of attributes necessitated by the creation of the said
Ministry. This commission has assembled under my presi-
dency; the Ministers of War and Marine, who had named
some of the members, attended its sittings and took part in
the deliberations. The decree of the 24th of June established
the principle of division of attributes, and the commission
had therefore no other object than to fix precisely the appli-
cation of it. I have the honour to submit to your Majesty
the result of its labours.

" ALGERIA.—GENERAL ARRANGEMENTS.
" The Governor-General shall be nominated on the pro-
position of the Prince charged with the Ministry of Alge-
ria and the Colonies, shall depend only on him, and conse-
quently shall correspond only with him, except as regards
acts purely and exclusively military, and which do not spe-
cially interest Algeria. The questions which regard the
position of the Prince charged with the Ministry of Algeria
and the Colonies, when he shall be in Algeria and the colonies,
especially as concerns the command of troops, shall be regu-
lated hereafter with the approbation of your Majesty. The
commission has recognised in principle the necessity of
attaching to the Ministry of Algeria and the Colo-
nies, in conformity with what was indicated in the
projects presented to your Majesty, the Affairis of
Justice, Publie. Viro,,bip, Public Instruction, and Fi-
nance, which were detached from the Ministry of War
in 1848. The Ministry of Algeria and the Colonies will
have to come to an understanding with the respective Mi-
nisters to effect the transfer of those affairs, and to submit
the conditions to the approbation of the Emperor. The
officers of engineers and the agents of the inteadance shall
continue to give their co-operation in the works and in the
settlement of expenses in the military territory. The per-
sons employed in the Arab bureaux shall be placed at the
disposal of the Ministry of Algeria and the Colonies. In-
terpreters shall depend on that Ministry, as they have
always been more of a civil than a military character, and
the selection of them can only be offected by the central ad-
ministration of Algeria.

" DIRECTION OF AFFAIRS.

" As regards the direction of affairs, the :ollowing prin-
ciples, clearly fixing the attributes of the new Ministry, have
been established. All despatches, without exception, which
concern political matters and the administration, and all
those which, though having a military character, concern
the situation of Algeria, shall be addressed to the Prince
charged with the Ministry of Algeria and the Colonies, sub-
ject to the communication, when necessary, by that Minis-
try to the Ministry of War of the despatches which may
concern the latter. The correspondence relative to the
internal administration of the various corps, to purely mili-
tary questions, and to military justice, except in certain
trials of Europeans or natives by courts-martial, shall be
transmitted to the Ministry of War.

" ENGINEERS.

" This service shall be charged with new works or repairs.
In the first category shall be comprised the construction of
fortifications, barracks, hospitals, and military edifices o f all
kinds; and in the second the repairs of such buildings. Pro-
positians relative to new works shall be addressed to the
Ministry of Algeria and the Colonies, which will transmit
them, with its opinion, to the Department of War ; propo-
sitions relative to the execution and repair of works already
approved shall be sent direct to the Minister of War, and he
shall continue to decide on their execution. The Ministry
of Algeria and the Colonies shall only give direct decisions
on works executed by officers of engineers which are
inscribed in the budget of its expenses. Neverthe-
less, the Governor-General shall, at the commence-
ment of each year, send to the Ministry of Algeria
and the Colonies a :detailed account of the division of the
credits to the different works undertaken en account of the
Budget of War.

" ARTILLERY AND MILITARY ADMINISTRATION.
" The same principles shall be applicable to the service of
artillery and that of military administration, which com-
prises clothing, hospitals, transports, and even, to a certain
extent, the provisions of the army. Thus, for example, if
the intendance shall think fit to make experiments for mo-
difying the food or clothing of the army in Algeria, &c.,
propositions shall be sent to the Ministry of War, through
the Department of Algeria and the Colonies.
" MILITARY JUSTICE.

" As regards the army, the correspondence relative to
military justice shall be transmitted direct to the Minister
of War. Nevertheless, as courts-martial judge crimes and
offences committed by Europeans and natives in certain
parts of the territory, their judgments in such matters shall
be addressed to the Ministry of Algeria, which shall notify
them to the Department of War. Propositions for a dimi-
nution of punishments or pardons to the condemned shall
be within the attributes of the Ministry of Algeria and the
Colonies.

" TROOPS.

" According to the rule established, correspondence rela-
tive to the policy and administration of the country shall
be addressed to the Minister of Algeria and the Colonies;
and it now remains to specify the consequences of this rule
as regards military operations and the persons connected
with the army. Projects relative to military operations
shall first of all be submitted to the Ministry of Algeria and
the Colonies, which shall decide on their oportuneness,
and, if necessary, come to an understanding with the
Department of War on the subject of the force and
composition of the columns to be employed. But as
soon as the troops shall enter on a campaign the Minister
of War shall receive a copy of all the reports of the com-
mander of the troops, in addition to the part of the military
correspondence on the situation of the troops, which must
be addressed to him direct. Propositions for promotion of
persons of the army of Algeria may be made after a general
inspection or for extraordinary purposes. In the first case,
the general and definitive report shall be addressed in du-
plicate
to the Department of Algeria and the Celonies. In
the second, the propositions shall be transmitted to the
Ministry of Algeria and the Colonies, which shall transmit
them, with its opinion, to the Ministry of War. The same
shall be done for propositions respecting the movements of
troops and exchanges among officers of all grades.
" ARRANGEMENTS RELATIVE TO ALGERIA CONNECTED

WITH THE MINISTRY OF MARINE.
" The same principle which regulates the relations of
the Ministry of Algieria and the Colonies and the Ministry
of War for Algeria—leaving to the Prince the knowledge
and direction of the military measures which interest Al-
geria, and to the Ministry of War the questions of pure
military administration—shall regulate the relations of the
Ministry of Algeria and the Colonies and of the Ministry
of Marine with regard to Algeria.
" COLONIES.

"As far as regards the direction of the affairs of the
colonies the following general regulations have been de-
cided on :

" SETTLEMENT OF ACCOUNTS.
" The arrangement of the expenses in Paris and the mea-
sures to be adopted for that purpose cannot be the object of
any difficulty. The service of the colonies, however, neces-
sitates the liquidation and the payment of numerous ex-
penses, both in the naval and in the commercial ports. In
order not to have any interruption in these affairs, the set-
tlement of those expenses is left to the secondary clerks of
the Department of the Marine. • They will examine and
settle them in virtue of an authority from the Minister of
Algeria and the Colonies. The Minister of Marine has
given his consent to this arrangement. As the administra-
tion which makes the payments in the colonies passes over
entirely to the new Ministry things will there naturally
follow their ordinary course.
" PENSIONS.

"The central clerks of the colonial service and those
abroad have their pensions inscribed at the Caisse des
Invalides of the Marine. These are acquired rights and
private interests which will be respected. The creation,
therefore, of the new Ministry will in no way prejudice the
clerks of the colonial administrations.
" OFFICERS ON DETACHED SERVICE.

"The colonial service, both at home and abroad, employs
in various ways officers belonging to the different corps of
the Marine. Those who continue to serve, either in the
colonies, or in the central administration of the new Minis-
try, are, according to the rule adopted in the other Mini-
sterial departments, considered as being detached from the
department of the Marine and on special service.
" MIXED GOVERNMENTS.
" The governors stand in the first rank among colonial
functionaries. Thorp aro coma who are at the came time
governors and commanders of the naval squadron on the sta-
tion. The nomination orthe former belongs exclusively to
the Ministry of Algeria and the Colonies. Three of those
governors command at the same time the naval forces of
France en the western coast of Africa, Oceania, and Gui-
ana; their designation is proposed on a repbrt concerted
between the Ministry of Algeria and the Colonies and that
of the Marine. Their instrdctions will emanate from the
Ministry of Algeria and the Colonies, which, however, in
the case of naval expeditions or similar circumstances, will
have to communicate on the subject with the Ministry of
Marine.

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estimates shall be transferred from the Ist of July, 18.58,
from the budgets of the Ministries of War and the Marine
to that of the Ministry of the Algeria and the Colonies.
" LIQUIDATION OF EXPENSES.
" The accounts of the expenses of Algeria for 18.57 will
be liquidated by the Ministry of War, and for 1858 by the
Ministry of Algeria and the Colonies. Several other ques-
tions have also been examined by the Commission, and
among others that of the Marines. It is of opinion that
experience will best point out the solution of those questions.
Until that time an understanding will be come to for the
executian of certain measures between the Ministries of
Algeria and the Colonies, War, and Marine. A de-
spatch signed by me and by the Marshal Minister of War
has been addressed to the Marshal-Governer-General of
Algeria, pointing out to him the whole of these regulations.
A similar despatch signed by me and lbyf the Admiral
Minister of Marine has been sent to the Admiral command-
ing the naval forces at Algiers. I have written to the same
effect to'all the governors of provinces in the colonies. Such
Sire, is the aggregate of the measures I have the honour to
submit to the approbation of your Majesty. These arrange-
ments, which have been decided on by common accord,
and in perfect harmony between the Ministries of
Algeria and the Colonies, War, and the Marine, secure
the regularity of the service, and transfer the affairs
of Algeria and the colonies to the new Ministry without
delay or interruption. By the aid of measures, some
of which are transitory, but all of which can be maintained
so long as good order in the servee may require them, I
shall be able to study without uneasiness and without pre-
cipitation questions relative to Algeria and the colonies ; I
shall be able to prepare the reforms which may perhaps be
necessary, and which will be always. submitted to the appro-
bation of your Majesty. I hope, sir, to be able soon to
reply worthily and usefully to the confidence of your Ma-
jesty and to your elevated views as to the future condition
of Algeria and the colonies. If the preceding arrangements
have the sanction of your Majesty, I beg you to approve of
the present note. Accept, sire, the homage of the profound
and respectful attachment with which I am of your Ma-
jesty the very devoted cousin,
"NAPOLEON (JEROME), the Prince charged with
the Ministry of Algeria and the:Colonies."

REGISTRAR GENERAL'S QUARTERLY
RETURN OF MARRIAGES, BIRTHS, AND
DEATH'S, IN ENGLAND.

This return comprises the-births and deaths registered by
2,106 registrars in all the districts of England during the
spring quarter that ended on June 30, 1858; and the mar-
riages in 12,283 churches or chapels, about 3,068 registered
places of worship unconnected with the Established Church,
and 629 Superintendent Registrars' offices, in the quarter
that ended on March 31, 1858.
The gloomy appearance of the winter quarter is gradually
giving place to a better state of things. The marriages in
that quarter were much below the average, and in the spring
quarter the births were slightly below the average. But the
public health in the spring quarter exhibited signs of im-
provement.
30,034 marriages took place in the quarter that enipd on
March 31; and consequently 60,068 persons married in the
three months. The number is less by 6,700 than the num-
bers of persons who married in each of the winter quarters of
the two previous years, and is rather more than the number
of persons who married in the hard war winter of 1855. The
marriage rate of the quarter was 1,254 per cent. per annum;
or at such a rate, if it continued uniform, that 1,254 persons
would marry in a year to every 100,000 persons living.
The average rate is 1.410, and the rate of the quarter is
such, that one out of every nine marriages was deferred, or
broken off. The stagnation of trade had cast a shadow over
the prospects of the people, and they did not marry. The
inhabitants of the manufacturing districts were under -the
greatest depression; and the number of marriages in Che-
shire and Lancashire fell from 5,821 to 4,793, more than
a thousand; but all the parts of England and Wales are so
intimately associated in evil as well as in good fortune that
in every division the marriages declined. - It is to be re-
gretted that the returns of tuareL,ts in the spring quarter
cannot be obtained from tbeselerff in time for puhrieltion
with the returns of births and deaths for this quarter, other-
wise it is probable that some improvement might be appa-
rent.
The births of 169,170 children were registered in the quar-
ter ending on June 30, 1858; and the birth-rate was 3.482
per cent. per annum. It was slightly below the average
rate of the spring season. The births decreased or were
stationary in every division.
169,170 births and 107,193 deaths were registered ; and
the natural increase of the population of England and Wales
was 61,977 in 91 days ; or 681 daily.
The probable natural increase of the population of the
United Kingdom was 1,021 daily. In the preceding winter
qnarter it was estimated at 750.
40,961 persons sailed from the ports of the United King-
dom at which there are Government emigration agents.
After distributing proportionally 4,084 of undistinguished
birthplace, it appears that 1,930 were of foreign, while
20,077 were of Irish, 4,702 of Scotch, and 14,252 of English
origin. Of the English emigrants, 5,717 sailed to the Aus-
tralian colonies, 1,543 to the North American colonies, 6,218
to the United States, and 774 to other places.
The emigration is still decreasing; it was at the rate of
157 daily from England and Wales, 429 daily from the in-
habitants of the United Kingdom. In the spring quarter of
1852, six years ago, 1,375 of the people emigrated daily.
The mean temperature of April (46 deg.) and May (52
deg.) differed little from the average at Greenwich ; June was
hot throughout, and its temperature (65 deg.) was 7 deg.
above the average. On the the 16th June the temperature near
the sea rose as high as 88 deg., and reached the point 95 deg.
between the latitudes 51 deg. and 52 deg. The mean tem-
perature of the day was 77 deg.; which is the highest tem-
perature in June on record. Saturation being represented
by 100, the degree of humidity in June was 67; so the air
was dry, or 7 deg. less humid than it was during 17 pre-
vious Junes. The rain-fall above the average in April and
May was below the average in June. The rain-fall in the
three months was 5.4 inches. The air moves usually at the
rate of 4 miles an hour on an average ; it moved at the rate
of less than a mile and half an hour in June. The mean
temperature of the Thames from 55 deg. in May rose to 67
deg. in June. The metereology of the differcntparts of the
country is shown in Mr. Glaisher's tables.
The prices of the principal articles of food have followed
different rates : the price of the quarter of wheat has regu-
larly fallen in the three months of April, May, June of the
years 1856, 1857, and 1858, from 68s. 8d to 565. 9d., and to
445. id. a quarter; by the carcase at Leadenhall and New-
gate Market beef was 52-Bd., 5d., and 50.; and mutton
Sid. 5 4-Bd. a pound. While the price of wheat fell the
price of potatoes (York regents) rose from 80s. and 128 s. to
1635. a ton, at the waterside market, Southwark. The prices
of animal food declined, the price of wheat fell 36 per cent.;
the price of potatoes rose more than 100 per cent. in the in-

107,103 persons died in the three months of April, May,
and June ; the deaths were at the rate of 1,178 daily.
The mortality rate prevailing was 2.206 per cent., or
22.06 in 1,000. This is slightly below the average rate,
22.25, of the ten preceding spring quarters.
The average death rate of the 63 least unhealthy districts
is 17 in 1,000 ; and the mortality of England, corrected for
age. should be 16k ; but the actual rate in the quarter was 6
in excess of this rate. The 27,355 deaths in excess are
principally deaths from various kinds of poisons, and are
therefore properly designated unnatural deaths.
Upon dividing the population into two portions (1) the
8,247,017 people living in rather close proximity to each
other, and (21 the 9,680,592 living much further apart, the
result is that .he mortality in the dense districts was at the
rate of 2433—nearly 25 in 1,000; while in the other districts,
over which small towns and villas arc distributed, the
mortality was at the rate of 19.66mearly 20 in 1,000 of the
population.
In the town districts the rate of mortality was 8, in the
rest of the country 3, in 1,000 above the rate which actually
rules in comparatively healthy districts. Of the 27,355 un-
natural deaths, 18,668 took place in the large town districts;
8,687 in other places.
Now in England and Wales the tom population is in-
creasing much faster than the population of the rest of the
country.
In the last spring quarter, while the mortality of the
country districts decreased, the mortality of the town dis-
tricts rose to 24.73, the average of the proceeding ten years
having been 23.94 in 1,000. This was probably due partly
to the reduced earnings in the towns, t) the scarcity of
potatoes, and to the intense heat, which accelerated the pu-
trefaction of organic refuse in the houses, streets, ditches,
and rivers.

Is the actual mortality of cities inevitable? The Turks
reply in the affirmative. Many of the cities of Europe in
which the death-rate ranges from 30 to 40,acquiesce quietly
in their fate; and in England, where we have adopted ano-
ther course, it has been, not without some show of reason,
asserted that the unnatural deaths in towns are the penal-
ties of civilisation. But what is civilisation? If it consist
simply in the aggregation of families on limited areas, with-
out arrangements to meet the exigencies of their new posi-
tion, it will ever have heavy penalties to pay. Unclean&
liness is, however, not a consequence of civilisation ; it is a
relic of barbarisn. The people of districts living in England
wide apart experience generally a low mortality, and
the mortality increases in proportion as their dwellings are
brought into closer proximity. People remaining the same,
and indulging in the same habits, collected front their scat-
tered habitations into a camp and kept in that camp for
some months, suffer from diseases, and are utlitoately deci-
mated by epidemics. Our towns were no bet ter than un-
cleansed camps in the middle ages; and London in the
seventeenth century lost 50 in 1,000, or, including the
plague years, 80 in 1,000 of its inhabitants annually. The
black death, sweating sickness, and plague followed each
other in succession: The mortality of London was reduced
to the rate of 29 in 1,000 at the neginning of this century ;
civilisation advanced; and in the 15 years 1840-51 the rate
further fell to 25* , still remaining 10 in 1,000 aboNe the cal-
culated healthy rate for London. As Athens in andentstw y
had to send seven of its youth, chosen by lot, to be devoured,
so London has hitherto given up ten of every thousand
her inhabitants yearly to disease and untimely death.. Alt the
towns of the kingdom in the aggregate gave up propor-
tionally this number of victims in the last three months.
They were not destroyed openly. The poison by which they
died was not purchased in chemists' shops. It was admini-
stered in the silence of the night, and in the streets it noon-
day, either with the air which they breathed, or Stith the
water which they drank.

The poison is -generated by the decomposition of effete
organic matter, which gives off diffusible and dangerous
products, wherever it is left beyond a day in the houses,
streets, and neighbouring ditches or streams, instead of
being lodged in the disinfecting earth.
It can easily be shown that the mortality bears a certain
proportion to the quantity of the poison which the people
inhale; and that the quantity is greatest under the cess-
pool system, which formerly prevailed in London, and is
now in use in the French, German, and Italian towns. The
mortality has gradually fallen in London as the cesspools
have been abolished ; it is still high in foreign cities where
the cesspools are in use. In Manchester, where the dirt is
allowed to decay behind the houses, and is not thrown into
sewers, the mortality was at the rate of 334 in the years
1841-50; in the foreign cesspooled cities the mortality
ranges from 30 to 44 in 1,000.
Of 1,000 people in London, ten died unnatural deaths an-
nually; and to make the view of the facts clear, let it be as-
sumed for a moment that into the causes of four deaths no
inquiry is new made, that three are killed by the poisonous
emanations from cesspools, closets, and sinks in dwelling-
houses, offices, and workshops, that two die of diseases
induced by the emanations from dirty streets or gullies, and
one from the vapours arising from the Thames. Here evi-
dently a great step is gained by the water system
superseding the cesspool, as the noxious matter is pro-
jected into the sewers under the streets, and is par-
tially oxydised. If the cesspools, therefore, are everywhere
abolished, and the house is purified, the mortality,
on the above hypothesis, will be reduced to the extent of 3;
while if the corrupt sewer air in the sewers be carried above
the chimneys beyond the reach of the lungs, two more lives
will be saved ; and if the water and the banks of the Thames
are no longer the final repositories of the town guano, one
more life will be saved. These numbers are adopted, not as
expressing exact results, but to fix attention on the fact that
the impurities of London are the main causes of its insalu-
brity ; and that in their fatal effects they may be classed in
this order : (1) impurities of dwellings, (2) impurities of
streets and pulleys, (3) impurities of the Thames.
The progress of sanitary measures in London has hitherto
resulted in the removal of the impurities from the dwelling-
houses into the sewers and the Thames, and this enables
us to understand how the mortality has declined as the
Thames has grown fouler. It also enables, us to under-
stand how the mortality of London is lower than
the mortality of many other cities. The wise
policy of substituting streams of water for cesspools is
fully confirmed ; and experience has shown that the town
guano is less hurtful in the sewers and in the rivers than in
the dwellings of the people. It is only when the supply of
towns is drawn from the rivers saturated with foul organic
matter that the people are poisoned in great numbers by
water. The vapours of the Thames, noxious as everybody
possessed of common sense has now learnt to consider them,
are less heavily laden with poisonous exhalations than the
vapours of cesspools and sewers. The practice of laying on
water and of abolishing cesspools should therefore be actively
continued. At the same time steps should be taken to de-
stroy or to deliver the exhalations of the sewers into the
higher stratum of the atmosphere, where they would be
partlyldestroyed, and would not be breathed, as they are now,
undiluted. The Thames itself must be purified. Our pre-
sent imperfect system of sewers admits of readjustment;

* The people in early and middle life are so numerous in
London, owing to the excess of births and immigration, that
the mortality should be 15 in 1,000 to be at the several ages,
at the same rate as it is in the healthy districts, where the
mean lifetime is 49 years. The corrected rate of mortality is
20 in 1,000, and the actual uncorrected rate in those districts
is 17 in 1,000,

but the country can never rest satisfied until the water which
is distributed through its dwellings carries away all the town
guano to fertilise the land, from which its materials were
derived. Any other solution of the sewage question is pro-
visional.

Exact observation for 20 years in every district of Eng-
land and Wales places the question fairly before the country.
Impure air is destroying the health of the people. The at-
mosphere in which they live can be purified by restoring
the town guano to the fields. This involves a large imme-
diate outlay ; but the expense is not beyond the means of
'England. It will not exhaust the resources of a nation
which freely devoted eighty millions sterling to resist the
encroachments of Russia on the Turkish empire; which
maintains a squadron on the coast of Africa in the hope of
diminishing the slave trade ; which proposes, after conquer-
ing, to govern, perhaps to civilise India; and which has
now a fleet on the other side of the globe opening the
Chinese empire to the enterprise of the world. If capital
is sunk freely on these vast distant objects in the hope of
realising returns, it will not fail- when it is required to
purify the air Englishmen breathe at home; for the invest-
ment will be profitable to all living men, and will confer
blessings on all future generations. And if the national
honour was concerned on the shores of the Black Sea,
in the Baltic, on the Coast of Africa, in India, in the
Chinese waters, in the presence of the enemy, is not the
honour of England also concerned when the lives of her
children are in peril, and no arm is stretched out to save ?
Can our towns strike their colours to:their own accumulat-
ing dirt, and avow that they are vanquished, without igno-
miny ? England is in sanitary science and art taking the
lead in Europe, and teaching important lessons to all na-
tions. But the work must be consummated. The mortality
must be reduced. The people must be animated anew by
the energies of health. And public men will find that some
dory may he gained by .sayiagAif6r.by-Ateat—simitsair
works. Honour will crown those who rescue the Englisblh
race from pain, sickness. and degeneracy. They will for
ever enjoy the satisfaction of having done their duty.
The Legislature has, in the acts of the present session,
given the inhabitants of every district of England and Wales
the power to raise the money and to execute the great works
which the country requires ; and it may be sanguinely
hoped that the new powers will be employed to their full
extent by the people themselves, under the Public Health
and the Local Government Acts. The results will in a few
years be apparent in the public registers.

SPORTING _INTELLIGENCE.

TATTERSALL'S.-MONDAY.

The shortcomings which marked the recent Goodwood
meeting were merely fortuitous. They neither affected the
success of the sport nor the popularity of the meeting, but
perhaps they appeared somewhat the more striking because
they were unexpected. The principal falling off was in the
numerical strength of the fields, but this circumstance was
not attributable to a diminished popularity of any of the
stakes, to which the number of subscribers was satisfactorily
large, but to a lack of horses, many animals having engage-
ments at the meeting being confined to their stables by ill-
ness, and others having been completely worn out. The
backers of horses and the book-makers had an equal share
of fortune ; but until the Friday the " fielders" found the
balance of their account on the wrong side of their books
Of the 31 races which were run off the first favourite was
defeated 16 times. On the Friday the layers had a rare
turn of luck, which compensated them for the badness of
the betting on the Stakes, and their " Roman Candle"
losses. That the meeting was "harmless" was proved this
afternoon by the promptitude with which accounts were
closed. Mr. J. Merry—who won the Goodwood Cup with
Saunterer, and the Chesterfield Cup with Sunbeam—wins
about £20,000; whilst Mr. Mahon and several of Mr
Merry's friends likewise throw in for a good stake.
The room was crowded, and time was too fully occupied
with the business of " settling" to allow much betting on
future events. 9to 2 was offered on the field for the Ebor
Handicap, and at the close of business the Hadji was de-
cidedly the best favourite for The Leger. At first 6 to 1
was laid, but 4to 1 was the final offer against him. Five
to 1 each was laid against Fitz Roland and Texephilite ; no
great disposition, however, was manifested to back the
latter.

CLOSING PRICES.

THE GREAT EBOR HANDICAP.

9to 1 agst. Lord Clifden's Roman Candle—offered.
sto 1 Lord Zetland's Vedette—takeu.
10 to 1 Mr. Barber's Pretty Boy—taken.
THE ST. LEGER.
4to 1 agst. Mr. T. Dawson's The Hadji—take sto 1.
sto 1 Sir J. Hawley's Fitz Roland—taken.
sto 1 Lord Derby's Toxophilite.
100 to 6 Mr. J. Merry's Sunbeam—take 20 to 1.
20 to 1 Mr. Gratwicke's Governess—taken.
20 to 1 Mr. W. S. S. Crawfurd's East Langton.

THE DERBY.
50 to 1 agst. Mr. Gratwicke's Serenader—taken.

WON RACES.—MONDAY.
(By Electric Telegraph.)
THE TWO-YEAR-OLD STAKES.
Shaft() 1
Raspberry 2
Rachael 3
Thirteen ran.
GREAT ST. WILFRED HANDICAP.
Julia
Valiant
Ducrow 3
Seven ran. Won by half a length.
TWO-YEAR-OLD SELLING STAKES.
Tiny
Eight ran.
ST U DLEY HANDICAP.
11C9WriiblISR
Princess of Orange
Attorney-General 3
Eleven ran. Won easy.