The Sun.
London, England, 1861-05-31 00:00:00

BIRTHS.

KENNEDy.—On the 29th inst., at 9, Southwick-place,
Ilydo-park, Mrs. Henry Hyndman Kennedy, of a
daughter.
Porr.—On the 28th inst., at 16, Sussex-gardens, Hyde-
park, the wife of Robert Pott, Esq., of a son.

MARRIAGES.
TOLLMANN--BAKER.—On the 28th inst., at Reading, the
Rev. C. J. T. Tollmann, to Maude, youngest daughter
of the Rev. T. F. Baker, late rector of Little Crepping-
ham, Norfolk.
WEBBED—TRACY.—On the 28th inst., at St. Nicholas
Church, Brighton, Charles E. Webber, Esq., Royal En-
gineers, to the Hon. Alice Augusta Gertrude H. Tracy,
fourth daughter of Lord Sudeley.
DEATHS.

ore, Windsor', Miss
Fthreanttshxvinosot.d,,aatgedFro7gm3.
CL kRKE.—On the 29th inst., at Leyton, Essex, Miss C. E.
Clarke, aged 70.
FORSTER
WEoOliDza.
.—On the 28th inst., the Ven. James William
Forster, LL.D., Treasurer and Vicar-General of Lime-
17e(jthn

rick, &C.
MENDS.—On the 30th inst., atßlomfield.crescent, West-
bourne. terrace-road, Nina Sidon, daughter of Capt. W.
R. Mends, C.B
MYERS.—On the 23th inst , at SelhurstLodge, S.Norwood,
Lawrence Myers, Esq., of 881 Leadenhall-street, city,
aged 59. , R.N., aged 10.
WELLINGTON.—On the 27th inst., at Exmouth, Devon,
the Hon. Mrs. Wellington, second daughter of George,
13th Viscount hereford.

The following also ran :—Bumble Bee, The Monk, Ship-
wreck, Bayonet, Zingaro, Foretop, Dorking.
Betting-10 to 3 agst Umpire, 4 to 1 agst Zingaro, G to 1
agst Bumble Bee, 8 to 1 each agst Lupus and Dorking, 10
to 1 agst Amy, 100 to 8 agst any other offered.
From the distance the race was confined to the first three ,
Arty dropped back beaten half way up, and Umpire had
all the best of it at the stand, but hanging to the right, and
appearing to stop suddenly, Lupus made a dead heat with
him; Amy, third, was three lengths off, and upwards of a
half-a-dozen lengths behind her Dorking was fourth, Fore-
top fifth, and Zingaro sixth; the others finishing together
at their heels. Lupus afterwards walked over, and received
one-third of the stakes.

The Two •yr-old Stakes of 10 sous each, with 50 added ;
colts, Bst 10 lb; fillies, Bst 71b; any winner before start-
ing to carry 51b extra. Half-a-mile. Thirty-six subs.
Captain Coates's Patriot, Bst 101 b .. (Bullock) 1
Mr. Merry's Express, Bst 121 b (in 51b extra) (Custance) 61-
Lord Stamford's King of Hearts, 9st llb (in 51b extra)
A. French) t

The following also ran :—Antares, PelluAd, Voltaire,
Leonora, Baliverne, and Hippodamia.
Betting.—Even on Patriot, 6 to 1 agst Euress, 7 to 1
agst Hippodamia, 8 to 1 agst King of lizarts,lba to 8 Agit-
Baliverne. 'After some delay at the post, caused principally
by the impatience of Patriot, Antares, Baliverne, and King
of Hearts, the last mentioned of whom seemed inclined to
do a bit of steeple-chasing by leaping the hedge, the lot
was dispatched, Patriot in the middle of the course making
the running with Express, King of Hearts, and Baliverne
well laid up, Antares in the rear running wide on the lower
ground. An exciting race home with the first four ensued,
Patriot winning by a head, and King of Hearts and Ex-
pres making a dead heat for second place. Baliverne was
close up with them, and Pellucid was a bad fifth, and up-
wards of a dozen lengths from him came the others, headed
by Hippodamia. _ _

The Epsom Cup of 10 sovs each, h ft, with 10 added; for
three-yr-olds, 7st; four, Bst 91b; five, 9st 31b; six and aged,

9st 51b. V
Baron Niviere's Surprise, 4 yrs, 7st 121 b ....(Watkins) 1
Mr. W. Hudson's Lady Trespass, 4 yrs, Bst_l 11b_ _ _

(J. Osborne) 2

Betting.--G to 4on Lady Trespass. Surprise took a lead
of about three lengths, which he held to the straight, where
the mare began to draw forward, but never quite got up,
and was beaten after a slashing race from the distance by a
head.

The Walton Stakes of 5 sous. each, with 30 added.
Mr. Hughes's Broad Arrow, 2 yrs, sst 10lb (carried
sst 111 b) £5O (J. Daley) 1
Mr. J. Smith's Hedgehog, tyre, sst 101 b, £6O (Wheatley) 3
Mr. Hudson's Revolt, 2 yrs, ast 101 b, £50.... (Parsons) 3
Betting-5 to 2on Broad Arrow. Revolt and Hedgehog
rannearly side by side to tho road, where Broad Arrow shot
ahead, and won by two lengths, the second beating the third
by three lengths. The winner was bought in for 275 guineas,
and Revolt was claimed by Mr. J. Smith under the New-
market rule.

The South-Western Stakes of 13 sovs each, h ft, with 10e
added by the South-Western Railway Company (Handi-

cap); for all ages. One mile.
Mr. Mellon's Sporting Life, 3 yrs, ist llb (J. Snowden) 1
Mr. Copper thwaite' s T wilight, 5 yrs, Bst 121 b (Wi thin gton) t
Sir J. Hawley's Gallus, 5 yrs, Bst 101 b (Wells) t

The following also ran :—Nicholas, Horace, Furious,
Camerino, Gardener, Little Dick, and Eccola.
Betting-7 to 2 agst Twilight, 4to 1 agst Nicholas, 6to
1 agst Horace, 7 to 1 agst Gallus, 8 to 1 each agst Camerino
and Sporting Life, 10 to 1 agst Gardener, 100 to 8 agst
Furious.

Her Majesty's Plate of 100 guineas (for mares only) ;
three-yr-olds, 7st 91b ; four, 9st 71b ; five, lOst ; six and
aged, lOst 31b. Great Metropolitan Stakes Course (two

miles and a quarter.) To start at the winning chair.
Mr. Parr's Avalanche, 4 yrs (Clement) 1
Mr. Gratwicke's Allington, 4 yrs

Betting-5 to 2on Avalanche, who made all the running,
and won by three quarters of a length.
The Epsom Four-year-old Stakes of 50 sovs, h ft ; for colts,
Bst 111 b ; fillies, Bst 61b. New Derby Course. 8 subs.
Mr. Ten Broeck's Umpire, Bst Illb (G. Fordham) 1
Sir J. Hawley's Loiterer, Bst Illb (Wells) 2
Betting-8 to lon Umpire. Loiterer led by a couple of
lengths up to the half distance, when Umpire came to the
front, and won in a canter by six lengths.

THE POST-OFFICE AND THE GALWAY

S7'EAMERS.

Yesterday a return was made to an order of the
House of Commons, of a letter from the Postmaster-
General to the Lords Commissioners of her Majes-.
ty's Treasury, dated May 11,1861, proposing to ter-
minate the contract with the Atlantic Royal Mail
Steam Navigation Company, and of a copy of the
Treasury minute thereon.
The following is the letter of the Postmaster-
General to the Treasury :
" General Post-office, May 11, 1861.
,s My Lords,—With reference to my letter of
January 18 last, transmitting copies of an agree-
ment which, under the authority conveyed to me
in your letter of the 19th of November previous, I
had required the Atlantic Royal Mail Steam Navi-
gation Company to enter into, as the sole condition
upon which I would relieve them from the penalties
already incurred, and would consent to a temporary
suspension of the mail service under their contract,
I have the honour to inform -your lordships that,
for owingsur
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bh
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theco m
timep anyfihxae having only
tohnelyreoenoemvmesesoeleermeaednyt
of the service, and owing
t seriously damaged, and rendered unseaworthy,
while proceeding from Southamptono tha t vessel t
o Galway, being
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to
take up her station, the
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convey the mails on the appointed day, and it was
therefore in my power at
contract at an end. Under the circumstances, how-
ever,
I refrained from doing naraebdlethteo
so, and allowed the re•
commencement of the service to be postponed until
April 9. The mails were accordingly despatched on
that day, and on April 23 another approved vessel
was provided by the company, and took her depar-
ture. The third packet from Galway should have
on this
have
esioll been
sailed on the 7th inst., but the company have failed
i
under the necessity,
any efficient vessel for
therefore, of announcing at the last moment that
no despatch of mails could take place. As it is
now quite evident that the company are not in a
position to fulfil their engagements, I have caused
a letter to be prepared terminating the contract ;
nh
e offering
service,
but before sending that letter, I submit a draft of
it for the approval of your lordships.—l have, &c.,
(Signed) STANLEY of ALDERLEY.
" The Lords Commissioners of the Treasury."
The letter referred to is as follows :
" To A. Boate, Esq., Atlantic Royal Mail Steam
Navigation Company.
" Sir,—The failure of the Atlantic Royal Mail
Steam Navigation Company to provide an efficient
steam vessel for the American mails of the 7th inst.,
has rendered it necessary that the Postmaster.
General should again consider the obligations of
the company under their contract, the manner in
which those obligations have been fulfilled, and
the means possessed by the eompany for con-
tinuing the mail service. In acquainting you with
the determination at which his lordship has ar-
rived, I am desired briefly to advert to the length-
ened correspondence which has taken place between
the Atlantic Company and this department since
the commencement of the contract, such correspon-
dence having been almost wholly occasioned by the
inability of the company to abide by the condi-
tions to which they had bound themselves, and
on which alone their offer to perform the mail ser-
vice had been accepted. By the terms of the con-
tract, the company undertook to p,rovide a sufficient
number of vessels which should not only be approved
of when complete, but of which the designs
and plans had been previously approved of ;
nevertheless, when in June last, the time fixed for
the commencement of the service, had arrived, they
had only one such ship, the Connaught, ready, and
even the attempt with this ship to perform the first
voyage under the contract was fruitless. Under
these circumstances the Postmaster-General would
have been authorised to put an end to the contract,
but he foreboro from doing so, and allowed a vessel
(the Panama), which did not come within the stipu-
lations of the contract, to be despatched in place
of the Connaught. In the second and sixth voyage
the Connaught was employed, but in the latter
she took fire and wa s lost, and the company were
then without a single ship built, surveyed,
and accepted in the terms of the contract. Be-
tween these latter voyages, the Postmaster-
General had permitted three voyages
to be made
by ships not in accordance with the contract,
although his lordship was more than once assured
that the application for such an irregularity was
made for the last time. From the commencement
of the contract, in June last, to the present time,
only one complete voyage has been performed by a
Tend built for the purpose as contemplated by the

contract. When the Postmaster-General would no
longer accept ships which did not possess the neces-
sary qualifications, the company applied for permis-
sion to forego several voyages, and not only was this
permission granted, but the heavy penalties to which
they rendered themselves liable for not providing
a packet on the appointed day were wholly re-
mitted. At length, and after great delay on the
part of the company in complying with the condi-
tions upon which alone the Postmaster-General
could grant such a further concession, they were al-
lowed, temporarily, to suspend the service alto-
gether. By the agreement executed in January last
the company undertook to recommence the service
on March 26, end thenceforth to perform it in strict
conformity with the conditions of their contract,
which the Postmaster-General was empowered to
terminate if those conditions were not observed.
The company were warned that, in such case, the
Postmaster-General's power would certainly be
exercised. The date for the recommencement of the
service was, nevertheless, extended to April 9, in
consequence of the damage sustained by the vessel
which was to have taken the first mail while on her
way to Galway. Since the agreement by which the
company undertook to recommence the service in
March last was executed, the company have pro-
vided three vessels. One of these, the Columbia,
owing to doubts as to her strength, was accepted
by the Postmaster• General for two voyages only.
By intelligence just received, it appears that this
vessel put into Halifax on the fifteenth day after
leaving Galway short of coals, and there is reason to
believe from other circumstances, so that a further
survey maybe necessary even before she could be per-
mitted to perform a second voyage. Another veg.-
, .seirthedlibernia, while on her way from Southamp-
ton to Galway, six weeks ago, is reported by the
Lords of the Admiralty to have been injured in such
a way as to indicate a deficiency in strength, and to
render her unseaworthy. This leaves the company
only one efficient vessel for the performance of their
contract. It is evident, therefore, that the company
are not now, and never have been in a position effi-
ciently to perform the stipulations of their contract.
Under these circumstances, and on a review of the
whole case, the Postmaster-General feels that in the
discharge of his public duty, he has no alternative
but to exercise the power reserved to him, and to
declare the contract at an end. lam desired, ac-
cordingly, to transmit to you the accompanying
notice to that effect :

" Copy of Treasury Minute, dated 14th May, 1861.
" Write to the Postmaster-General that my lords
approve of the letter which his lordship proposes
to address to the directors of the Atlantic Royal
Mail Steam Packet Company, terminating the con-
tract with the company."