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London, England, 1861-06-25 00:00:00

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HOUSE OF COMMONS—(THIS DAY.)
The SPEAKER took the chair at twelve o'clock.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.

The following bills were read a third time and passed :
Conway and Llanrwst Railway (New Title) ; London,
Chatham, and Dover Railway (Lease of Margate Railway,
&c.) ; Margate Roilway (Ramsgate Extension, &c.) ;
Stourbridge Railway (Extension to Smethwick, &c.) ; West
Hartlepool Harbour and Railway (Ti affic, &c.)
The following bills were considered and ordered to be
read a third time :—Mold and Denbigh Junction. Railway;
North London Railway (Branch to the City); North Lon-
don Railway (Widening) ; Somerset Central Railway.

Tuesday Morning.
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Tuesday Morning.
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(BY SUBMARINE AND MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND,
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Riding Hood, from Barbadoes ; Ouse, from Dunkirk ;
frotrißveude,noJsune
Ayres;24—
avelines ; Esk, fro
Thames, from Gr 41 Guernsey ; Tiger,
from Santander ; Charles Riddle, from New York; St.
George, from Guernsey.
Arrived, June 25—Prosyer9, from Leghorn ; Star, from
Rosario ; Souvenir and Fidelity, from Guernsey; Thomas,
from Riga.
Sailed—Panther, steamer, for Boulogne.
DEAL, Tuesday Morning.
'"Anchored—Malakhoff, from Londoli •
, Mogadore, from
Loudon for Cardiff.

BRITTSIi POLICY IN NEW ZEALAND.—The fol-
lowing is an extract from the minutes of meeting
of New
Zealand colonists :—" That this meeting having learnt that
Colonel Gore Browne, C. 8., has ceased to be Governor of
the colony of New Zealand, desires to record its cordial ap-
probation of the manner in which his Excellency has dealt
with the resistance offered by certain aboriginal natives to
the authority of the Crown in New Zealand, and its regret
has that ho should not remain in the colony to cart y to its con,.
elusions the policy which he has adopted."
GLASGOW COTTON-MARKET,isJ reeek. A.
22.—This mar-
ketidsemand
has been met uiet, bu
byholders steadY
pretty daily
freely, but no decline
can
be quoted. Yarn.—The market continues in a lifeless
state, and, while yarns aro maintaining their value, the
s been
b tqt
price of goods has touched such an unprofitable point that
manufacturers must shortly be compelled to resort to short
time. Pig Iron.—There has been a gradual advance in
the Scotch pig iron market all this week, with e good de-
mand for warrants. To-day the market closes steadily at
the highest points. Warrants, 50s. 3d. prompt cash; No.
L
1, G.M.8., 50s. • No. 3, G.M.8., Os.; No. 1, Glart-
665.

PRUSSIAN EPSOM- _RACES.

Yesterday (June 21) began the Prussian Epsom
races. Epsom, in Berlin, is called Tempelhof, and
the course is about two miles from the Halle gate of
this capital. The commencement of the four days'
running does not produce that general animation
and holiday aspect of things so striking in London
on a Derby-day. Indeed, it would be possible for a
foreigner to be the whole day in Berlin without
knowing that anything unusual was going on. The
sport began at five in the afternoon—rather late
according to English ideas, but the intervals were
short between the races, and here at this season the
days are very long—indeed, with a clear sky, there
is hardly any darkness. In coolness yesterday but
little was gained by fixing the running for the even-
ing, for a heavy, sweltering heat, making perspira•
tion profuse in perfect repose, and causing every
horse to break out and lather almost as soon as
he left the stable, hung over the dusty fiat. Berlin
has been compared to an ostrich egg laid in the
midst of a desert of mud, and the simile is not
inapt, although it must be admitted that the spa-
cious and pleasant Thier-garten and the tree planted
streets and pretty gardens of the adjacent suburbs
agreeably moss up one end of the egg. But the
immediate environs are otherwise as arid and sandy
as they are flat and uninteresting. The road on
to Tempelhof is no exception. After a time you
quit it and take a sandy track leading to the course
and in which your wheels sink deep and your
horses labour painfully. Soon after 5 yesterday
the Crown Prince and Princess Victoria drove out
in a light low carriage and four. One saw but four
private vehicles upon the road, there were a few
large char-a-bancs, such as Londoners go out to
country parties in and there were some hired coaches
from the hotels, and even the ignoble Berlin fiaeres
a particularly cheap and nasty sort of machine had
the audacity to display its dingy panels and
dirty lining and broken-kneed venerable horse on
the way to the Rennbahn. The number of car-
riages of all descriptions was, however, insignifi-
cant, and the absence of the lower classes from a
racecourse so short a distance from the capital
showed how little national taste there is here for
horse-racing. On the ground a stand was erected,
two long, low sloping sheds, and between them
was a neat little white pavillion, surmounted by
the national colours, for the royal party. The
stand was tolerably full, but ladies were
not numerous. Uniforms were extremely abun-
dant on the ground, especially in the vicinity
of the stables, weighing machine, &c. It is diffi-
cult to estimate the whole number of the spec-
tators, because they had distributed themselves at
various points of the course, at a turn correspond-
ing to Tattenham-corner, and at a place half-way
round the course from the winning-post, whence
several of the races were started. There was no
crowd, however, anywhere ; and if the races took
5,000 persons out of Berlin yesterday, including
servants of all descriptions, it is more than I am
inclined to believe. There were no rows, no
fights, no runaway horses, no detected pickpockets,
no thimble-rigs. Aunt Sally did not show. As
most people in Berlin dine at about three o'clock
in the afternoon, there was no need of comestibular
hampers. Some trays of beer were carried about
the course, and much demanded, and of tobacco, I
need hardly say, the fumes were übiquitous. The
day's programme comprised nine races, one a hurdle
race with gentlemen riders, and two of them flat
races for horses of the Landwehr Cavalry. A pretty
good number of English horses ran, and some of
tem, according to the Berlin Dorling, were of dis-
tinguished pedigree. From the principal race of
the day, the " Union," English horses were ex-
cluded. It was " for all horses born on the Conti-
nent in 1858," and was won by a horse of Count
Hahn's. As regards the running, all that I can say
is, that it was of a mixed description. A sporting
and military friend, who was on the ground,
thought that they did those things better in
Ireland, and that he had once seen better races
at Fernley. Some of the jockeys were rather
heavy, and some of the horses a little light.
There were one or two well-contested races, espe-
cially one between Count Wilamowitz's Yankee
and Baron Maltzahn's Tiptop. A good deal
of the riding was decidedly bad, and the horses
were not made the most of. The two Landwehr
races were good fun, owing to the hearty zeal of
the men. They were run. for prizes given by the
Government—the first horse 50 thalers, the second
20, arid the others minor sums. In each race ten
or a dozen horses ran, and among them were some
fine, powerful chargers. The riders, who seemed all
of the class of stablekeepers, yeomen, and the like
social grade, were in their ordinary civilian dresses,
and wore every man a badge number on his right
arm. They rode (some of them with cigar in mouth)
with much more apparent eagerness than the jockeys
did, and the start in the last race, which took place
at half-past 8, when they burst off well together, dis-
appearing almost immediately in a tremendous cloud
of dust, was very good. But the hurdle race was, as
usual, the event that excited most interest. The
course was about 2,000 paces, there were six hurdles,
nominally three feet high, but in reality somewhat
less. Seven horses ran, four of them ridden by
officers in uniform, and three by civilians in the
usual jockey costume, which had the appearance
of giving them a decided advantage over their
tightly fitted military opponents. They made a
very fair start; a certain blue silk Jacket, a
light weight, and a neat rider, was rather a favou-
rite among strangers, although a gorgeous scarlet
Hussar was apparently looked upon by the
natives as the coming man. The hurdles were
nothing to leap, and over the first they went
almost in a line. The second was less visible from
the neighbourhood of the winning post, but it was
got over (or, I suspect, by some of the horses,
swerved at and passed by) without accident,
blue silk and Hussar keeping the lead. Then the
course sank, and was lost for a short time to our
view, and something wrong must have happened
at or near the third hurdle, for one horseman alone
turned the corner and came in sight again, followed
at a considerable interval by one more, while a
riderless horse galloped down in the direction of
the stand. Scarlet was evidently carrying it hol-
low ; he cleared the last three hurdles in good style,
and Lieutenant Krell, of the Brandenburg Hussars,
was proclaimed the winner. Another cavalry
officer came in second, and all the rest were
nowhere.

The Crown Prince and Princess left the ground
after seeing two or three races. Several others of
the Royal Princes were present. When all was
over, horse, foot, and vehicles made for the main
road by various sandy tracks. The stream cannot
be said to have been either very long or very dense,
but the dust was prodigious. In this respect alone
did the homeward drive resemble the return from
an English race. No other point of likeness was
there—no excitement, no fun, no chaff, no upsets
or locking of wheels, no gallant costermongers
giving the go-by to aristocratic equipages, no pelting
with oranges, nor, I am happy to say, with China
dogs. Nothing could be more orderly, more re-
spectable, more decorous, or more dull. A horse-
race out of England is, in one respect, like a bull-
fight out of Spain ; you may import the thing, but
you cannot supply the spirit or communicate that
genuine love of the sport, innate in and common to
all classes, which creates for the time general sym-
pathy and perfect equality, and establishes upon
English heaths and downs a great democratic
carnival.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

TATTERSALLS'—MONDAY.
NORTHUMBERLAND PLATE.
sto 2 agst Underhand (taken)
6to 1 agst Rosamond (taken)
100 to 15 agst Wombat (taken)
7to 1 agst Doefoot (taken)
100 to 8 agst Wildman (taken)
100 to 8 agst Joey Jones (taken)
GOODWOOD STAKES.
12 to 1 agst Schism (taken)
12 to 1 agst Starke (taken)
100 to 6 agst Elcho (taken)
20 to 1 agst Umpire (taken)
25 to 1 agst Zodiac (taken)
25 to 1 agst Fisherman (taken)
000DWOOD CUP.
stolon the field (offered)
6to 1 agst Optimist (taken)
ST. LEGER.
sto 2 agst Kettledrum (taken)
12 to 1 agst Rouge Dragon (taken)
20 to 1 agst Big Ben (taken)

BETTING AT MANCHESTER, MONDAY.

Contrasted with Saturday we had a very quiet day. For
the Northumberland Plats at one time Underhand did not
seem quite so firm, 3 to 1 was freely offered, and the only
animal backed was Doefoot, about whom 5 to 1 was taken.
Afterwards 3 to 1 was taken about Underhand, and 6 to 1
laid against Doefoot. At the same time Rosamond, Wom-
bat, and Peggy Taft were backed, and there was money
for Volatile at any advance over 100 to 8. Tho only change
was the support given to Wildman and Predictor, who
were each backed to win a few hundreds, but the layers in
both cases were the stronger party. Any price was offered
agat Danae. Closing prices :

NORTHUMBERLAND PLATE.
3to 1 agst Underhand (taken)
6to 1 agst Doefoot (taken)
Bto 1 agst Wombat (taken)
9to 1 agst Rosamond (taken)
10 to 1 agst Joey Jones (offered)
12 to 1 agst Peggy Taft (taken)
12 to 1 agst Volatile (offered)
16 to 1 agst Wildman (taken and offered)
20 to 1 agBt Predictor (taken and Offered)