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to 4,156,000—an increase of nearly 20 per cent. The
number of men in 1850 was 3,137,000, and in 1856 it
had risen to 4,150,000. It had been predicted tbat the
increase in the number of foreigners serving in English
vessels would be very great, but the.ab.tract showed
that in 1854 the number was only 13,200 ; in 1855, it
fell to 12,927, and in the early part of the present year
it was but 13,350. It was also said that the number of
apprentice boys would diminish. Well, at first there was
a reduction. In 1852 the number was only 11,105 ; but
in 1853 it increased to 13,820 : in 1854 to 18,523 ; and
in 1855, the last year to which the number had been
made up, it was 22,082. (Hear.) Since 1842, up to the
present time, about two millions of Customs had been
remitted, but the Customs, which in 1842 were
21,025,000/.,"and in 1845 were 20,196,0001., had in 1856
increased to 22,370,000/., a larger amount than when
these changes were commenced. The Excise duties in
1842 amounted to 12,517,9001., and increased in 1845
to 12,585,0001., and in 1856 to 17,357,0001. The
character of the board had certainly changed
of late, and it was less a consulting body
than formerly ; but it was more an executive
body, and very considerable executive duties had
devolved upon it in consequence of recent changes.
The right hon. baronet then referred to the changes in
the Merchant Shipping Acts, which, he contended, bad
been beneficial; and though that word "centralisation,"
so often made a bugbear, and so little understood—(a
laugh)—had been applied in this case, the fact was,
that the power still vested in the local magistracy.
Men of eminent talents had filled the offices of State
which the hon. member opposite wished to get rid of,
and the right hon. b; renet, in support of the continua-
tion of the present Board of Trade in all its integrity,
enumerated the various beneficial changes that bad
taken place connected with trade and commerce during
the last five years that had emanated from the Board of
Trade, such as the repeal of the navigation laws, the
suppression of crimping, the survey of passenger steamers,
a regular official inquiry into the misconduct of the
masters of vessels, and numerous others, having parti
cular reference to the shipping interest and the protec-
tion of seamen, and all of which had been attended with
salutary effects. During the time Mr. Cardwell held
office he-was no idle-man, for he introduced the Mer•
chant Shipping„Act and carried it, an act containing
400 clauses, and which was a complete consolidation of
the whole code of shipping laws. (Hear.) By it fifty
statutes were repealed and embodied in it, and he (Sir
James Graham) was not wrong in saying that, after all
that had been said about consolidation of the statutes,
that was a solitary instance of consolidation on a large
scale. There were in that act facilities for the transfer
and mortgage of ships, and it was a model for imitation
when the house had to deal with the question of facile-
ting the transfer of land. (Hear, hear.) That gentle-
man also succeeded in inducing the Trinity House to
give up their charter of Henry VIII., and become
under the control and regulation of the executive govern-
ment, which had had the effect of remitting in
two years 170,0001. worth of shipping duties levied for
the maintenance of lighthouses, whilst the old ones bad
been efficiently maintained by the Government, and new
and improved ones had been erected on various parts of
the coast. (Freer.) Another great benefit obtained by
the Bard of Trade was the control of the pilots in the
Thames, Cinque Ports, and other places on the coast.
He hoped the Government would firmly resist the mo-
tion for a committee, and maintain the existence of this
department of the State in its present integrity, the
value of which was so apparent to the trade and com-
merce of the country. Any alteration that could be
made for the benefit of the country with reference t) its
official capacity he should have no objection to see
adopted. (Hear.)

Air. Ba'SlriNaK did not agree with Mr. Horsfall in
all his statements, but was in favour of the motion for
inquiry.

PECHELL also complained of the officioue
meddling of the Board of Trade with the commerce of
the country.
Mr. LO EVE said that he had come down to the house
fully prepared to argue the question raised by the mo-
tion of the hon. member for Liverpool, as to whether
there ought to be an alteration in the constitution of
the Board of Trade, but not to answer every possible
case that might be brought against the Board of
Trade in the absence of papers and books to which to
refer to. If the hon. member wished to raise the
question on all the statements he had made to the
house, he (Mr. Lowe) would be happy to consent to the
production of the papers and enter on the charges.
(Hear, hear.) The hon. member having entered so
fully into the history of the establishment and con-
stitution of the Board of Trade, had, he (Mr. Lowe)
thought, disposed thereby of one part of his mo-
tion. The right honourable gentleman the Vice-Presi-
dent of the Board of Trade then entered into a
comparison of the duties of the board in the time of
Burke and in the present time, remarking that grave and
heavy responsibilities rested on the board for the protec-
tion of the public. He thought that if the Board of
Trade had too much to do, it was no argument for an
alteration of its constitution, but rather of its being re-
lieved of some of its burdens. It was the fault of that
house that the board had so much to do, because every-
thing that required investigation and inquiry was handed
over to the board, so that if any one was really to blame
it was that house for imposing such a multiplicity of
duties on that department. It was in consequence of
the information obtained by the Board of Trade that
it might be said to be the cradle of free trade, for Mr.
Huekiason at one time held the office of Vice-President
of the Board of Trade, and in 1340 Mr. H. J. Deacon
Hume came forth with his valuable evidence relative to
the import dues. (Hear.) Replying to the charge
brought against the board by the gallant admiral (Sir G.
Pechell), the right hon. gentleman said that the strin-
gency of the order connected with the oyster fisheries
would only have reference to the oysters being taken up
during the months that had been named for eating, but
liberty would be granted under it for taking up the
oysters for transplanting. The right hon. gentleman de-
nied that the Board of Trade were the enemies of local
self-government. Their duties were to stand forward as
impartial arbitrators between great interests and the
people, and the Board of Trade would ever do it, it it
were necessary, with integrity and impartiality, and not
allow errors to be passed over by well meaning friends.
(Hear, hear.) The charge of interfering with local self-
government had reference to the Liverpool Local Marine
Board, established in 1854, under an act which gives an
alternative tribunal for inquiring into wrecks at
sea By that act parties could go before the Marine
Board, composed of seven shipowners on the spot,
four named by' the Board of Trade, or before
magistrates, assisted by Board of Trade asses-
sors. At Liverpool many of these had come
before the magistrates, from its being thought more de-
sirable than to go before shipowners, who had generally
a very tender regard for brother shipowners. Much had
been said about these proceedings, but no single case
had been brought before the house of injustice on the
part of the board. There bad been 190 cases in which
the Board of Trade had withdrawn their certificates to
seafaring men, 58 of which had been renewed, and it ap-
peared very strange if the Board of Trade had acted with
injustice, that not one case could be brought against
them out of so many. (Hear.) The board might have
erred in judgment, but they had never been guilty wil-
lingly of an act of injustice towards any party. (hear.)
They bad withdrawn 116 certificates for drunkenness,
20 for loss or damage to ships, and 59 for other offences;
there had been 96 cases tried by the local marine hoard,
and by naval courts of law on complaints 57, and 48 by
magistrates and assessors ; the number of certificates of
competency that had been withdrawn, were 71 ; and for
service withdrawn, 124. Another complaint made
against the board was their interference in asking ques-
tions in cases of wreck relative to the insurances, and
were the board to abstain from doing so they would not
be doing their duty, especially as the committee of 1837
called attention to the prevalence of wrecks from that
cause, and it being known that ships had been wilfully
run ashore where they had been insured abave their
value. One complaint against the board was with refer-
ence to advancing an officer's salary 501., and the ques-
tion arose whether it was to be considered as-salary or as
a gratuity. The board contend the latter, and the Ma-
rine Board the former, so that rather than give way the
independent Liverpool Marine Board all resigned. (Hear.)
One of the duties of the Board of Trade, and which
appeared to give the boa. member for Liverpool-some
offence, was to examine' all private bille. That was
a matter of great importance to the public, and were
it not for, the vigilance of the Board of Trade, the
greatest injustice would be inflicted on them, and, in
illustration, he referred to the city of London btaining,
during the railway period, power to collect the coal-tax
on all coals brought into the metropolis, by land as well
as by sea. Had these bills, then, been referred to the
Board of Trade, such ate injustice would not have been
permitted by Parliament. The right hon. gentleman de-
fended the Board of Trade from the charges that had
been brought against them for interfering with the con-
struction of socks at Liverpool, remarking that all the
Board of Trade wanted was for the people of Liverpool
to comply with the terms required in respect to these
docks, and keep faith with the Board. In the case of
the guano, the Board were charged with default, because
the Government of Peru charged a high price for that
article. They were charged also in reference to Kooria-
Mooria, Island guano with not remitting 2s. a ton on
that product. The Government bad declined to do that,
because as it was not proposed to reduce the price of the
guano of those islands below the price of Peruvian guano,
the Gevernment thought they might better have that
amount of duty than to allow it to go into the pockets of
the lesses. Although Liverpool proposed tlet the
guano sheuld,be imported in vessels of all nations, the
truth was, that the proposition; in effect, restricted the
importation Of that guano except in Liverpool ships, in
as much as the lessees claimed to issue permission to load
with guano from those islands. In relation to the mana-
gement of railways, they were charged that a viaduct on
the Manchester and Sheffield Railway bad been delayed
for three months eight years ago, by the Board of Trade.
That was not the case, for at that time the inspecting
officer of railways was not under the control of the Board
of Trade. He would not say that the hon. member for
Liverpool had been personal, but he certainly had been
very fecal. (Laughter.) If there was a department of
the Government which deserved well of the country, it
was the Board of Trade. (Laughter.) All the acts
complained of had- taken place- befOre he (elr. Lowe)
had had the honour of being connected with it.
The honourable gentleman then read an opinion of
the hon. gentletnan the member • for the University for
Oxford, as to the value of the labours of the Board of
Trade. Of late years the Board of Trade had beta in-
atrumental in instituting savings banks for
,seamen ; of
eytabliehing a department to take charge of the wages
and effects of deceased seamen, and distributing them to
the friends and relatives. In the year 1856 there had
been collected and distributed without expense, 33,0001.
from that source. Through the instrumentality of Mr.
Cardwell the Board of Trade had altered the doctrine of
salvage, and made it payable for saving life as well as
for saving property, It had also, by an improved mod

of inquiry into the causes of shipwrecks, ♦ery much
diminished the loss of life from that cause. In 1852,
920 lives were lost ; in 1853, 689 ; in 1854, 1,549 ; in
1855, 469 ; and in 1856, only 521. Considering the
large increase in shipping, those figures were most gra-
tifying ; and the hon. gentleman (Mr. Cardwell) was
entitled to much credit for having inaugurated the im-
provements he bad specified. Great improvement in
the organisation of life-boats had also taken place, from
the application of large sums out of the mercantile
marine fund to that purpose. The Board of Trade had
also received from the Trinity Board the management of
lighthouses, and remitted light dues to the extent of
170,000/. Having heard both sides of the question, he
submitted to the committee that no board bad better
fulfilled its functions than the Board of Trade. No
board had been better served by its officers, and he sub-
mitted that it was rather strange that the right hon.
gentleman opposite should come there to make a
formal complaint of that board, not based on any
great principle, but on a single instance of misconduct,
which he had carefully culled up. He had made a
great many charges; occurring at different times and
in different places, but be (Mr. Lowe) thought he had
succeeded in answering every one of them ; but
if he had not done so, that might be a reason
for objecting to the management of the Board of
Trade ; but it would be no reason for breaking up
the constitution of the board and entrusting it to the care
of any body of gentlemen who would go there to repre-
sent particular interests. If that were permitted, the
effects would be precisely what it had always been in
the case of guilds. Unjust rules against the interests of
the public would be enacted, opposition would be roused,
and the guild would be overthrown, and the principle of
freedom of trade would again triumph. The Board of
Trade had fallen into no such error. They had concili.
ated no interest at the expense of the public, but had en.
deavoured so to discharge their functions as to do their
duty to the people. That, he believed, would be the
opinion of that house, and they would by their vote, if
the question came to a division, very unmistakeably ex-
press that opinion.
Mr. BASS was grateful they had Bush a department
as the Board of Board. He thought, however, they
ought to be grateful to the hon. member for Liverpool
for having brought forward the question. He was of
opinion that no statistics which that board had compiled
would be so valuable as those they might prepare in the
shape of agricultural statistics. He believed it could be
done if the proper means were taken, and he much re-
gretted to have gathered from the speech of the hon. gen-
tleman that he had no intention of censidering that im.
portant subject.
Mr. JOHN EWART agreed that the mode in which
the Board of Trade had been conducted by Mr. Huskis-
son was everything that could be desired, but since that
time he believed that many of the acts of that depart.
ment had been most oppressive, and for one was desirous
that the inquiry into its present constitution and working
should take place.

Mr. HADFIELD congratulated the Vice-President
of the Board of Trade on his conduct in reference to the
question of local dues during the last session of Parlia-
ment. With that question still unsettled this was not
the time for any change in the Board of Trade. Let it
exercise its influence on that great question, and thus
earn the thanks of the northern towns of the kingdom,
by freeing them from the oppressiveduties levied ontheir
goods by Liverpool [time, time, and question.]
Mr. HORSFALL in reply said he had made no attack
on Mr. Card well. During the time Mr. Huskiseon and
Mr. Canning were members for Liverpool, he had con-
sistently supported them, when the hon. baronet oppo-
site bad not.
Sir J. GRAHAM dissented.
Mr. HORSFALLL continued—He had not sneered
at either the noble lord at the head of the department of
the Board of Trade or at the Vice-President. He would
promise that if the committee were granted he would
bring forward many cases of injustice. But whether that
was the case or not, there was a feeling that the mercan-
tile marine were not tried before a proper tribunal. That
feeling existing, and the opinion expressed by petitions
was a sufficient ground for the Government to concede
the inquiry sought for. There never was so absurd an
argument as that, because the lessees of the guano
islands resided in Liverpool, they therefore desired
to monopolise the trade. He had not brought forward
the grievances of any other port than where the occur-
rences had occurred under his own eye ; but the ques-
tion was not local, it was a national one, and whatever
might be the decision of the house that night, it would
not be allowed to rest there. His arguments had not
been met by any of the speakers ; but a good case had
been made uut for the inquiry. He had never suggested
that any one coenected with commerce should be placed
at the head of tte Board of Trade, although he certainly
did think a person with experience in commercial
affairs would not be misplaced there. He hoped the
house would grant him the committee he had asked for,
when he had very little fear of being able to establish
his proposition by a sufficient number of the cases
of injustice, the absence of which had been remarked.
The motion eras the❑ put from the chair, and ulti-
mately negatived without a division.
SOCIAL CONDITION OF THE WORKING
CLASSES.
Mr. SLANEY moved for the appointment of a stand-
ing committee, or unpaid commission, to consider and
report *ma time to time on practical suggestions, free
from party differences, to give facilities for improve
ment in the social condition of the working classes. The
rapid increase in our industrial population and the dense
aggregation of human beings caused by the development
of the manufacturfng system, had, he maintained, re-
sulted in serious scalel evils among those classes of the
community, which required constant vigilance and legis-
lative interference for their mitigation. This duty he pro-
posed to assign to a permanent board, whose chief
duties he outlined, but would not undertake the respon-
sibility of nomina:ing the members of which it should be
composed.
Sir. G. GREY admitted the importance of the sub-
ject, and recognised the benevolent intentions of the
proposer, but on practical grounds objected to the ap.
pointment of a standing committee. Questions relating
to the social condition of the working classes could be
best decided in detail as they arose, and many of the
most important were, he observed, already under pro-
cess of consideration and settlement by measures now
before the house.
Mr. SLANEY, after a few words in reply, withdrew
his motion.

THE LICENSING SYSTEM.
The house then resolved into committee on the mo•
tion of Mr. ATHERTON, to enable him to mo►e for
leave to bring in a bill to explain and amend the act to
regulate the granting of licenses to public•houses. This
bill he proposed to be a declaratory act. The act
for granting licenses vested the power in the jug.
tices. He desired to make the law plain, and in
boroughs not having quarter sessions he proposed to
vest the power of licensing in the borough justices.
There were no less than 77 boroughs having sepa-
rate jurisdictions without separate quarter sessions. At
present there was a doubt whether the borough justices
were the licensing justices, and it was to remove that
doubt that he wished to introduce his bill. If the doubt
which at present existed with regard to the licensing of
borough justices were well founded, then all innkeepers
who held licenses from such justices were liable to be
proceeded against for penalties, and therefore he asked
leave to introduce this bill to declare the law with regard
to the licensing by borough justices in boroughs having
separate jurisdiction. lie concluded by moving for
leave to introduce the bill.

•
Sir G. GREY said he had no representation made to
him upon the subject. He should not oppose the intro
duction of the bill.

Leave was then given to introduce the bill.
BURIALS.
Mr. HARDCASTLE obtained leave to bring in a bill
relating to burials in consecrated and unconsecrated
grounds.

MARRIED WOMEN.
Mr. MALINS moved for leave to bring in a bill to
enable married women to dispose of reversionary inte-
rests in personal estates. He had successfully introduced
such a bill in 1855 and 1856 ; but last year, when taken
to the House of Lords, no noble lord was found to move
the second reading, and therefore it remained a dead
letter on the table of that house. He had now, however,
obtained the promise of a noble lord to move the second
reading, and he believed the merits of the bill would
secure its passing. - Nhat be proposed was to enable the
wife to deal with reversionary personal estate the same
as ebe could with regard to real estate.
The ATTORNEY•GENERAL said the public would
be much indebted to his hon: and learned friend, if he
should succeed in carrying this bill, which was to re-
move an anomaly in our law.
Leave was then given to introduce the bill.
DUCHY OF LANCASTER.

Mr. CONINGHAM rose to move for a select commit-
tee to inquire into the statements set forth in a petition
from Mr. Francis Robert Bertolacci, praying for an in-
quiry inte the proceedings of certain functionaries of the
Duchy of Lancaster in preventing him from ecercising
the rights, powers, and privileges of the office of auditor ,
of the Duchy, and in superseding him by a near connec•
tion of the Receiver-General, to audit that officer's ac•
oounts, such committee to consist of fire members, to be
appointed by the General Committee of Selection. He
had brought this subject forward on public grounds, and
all he required was a full investigation into the state-
ments made in the petition of Mr. Bartolacci.
Lord CAVENDISH, in seconding the motion, said
he was nearly related to Lord Granville, whose conduct
was irnpugneci in this matter, and that noble lord was
desirous of the fullest and moat searching investigation
into the matter.

The motion was agreed to.
HOP DUTY.
Mr. KNATCHBULL.HUGESSEN moved to add
the name of Sir Brooke Bridges to the committee on the
hop duties.
Mr. FITZROY opposed the motion, as he objected to
the number of committees being increased at a time when
so many committees were sitting.
After a short conversation between Mr. Hugessen,
Sir John Shelley, Mr. Stafford, and the Chancellor of
the Exchequer 2 who opposed the addition of other names.
Mr. HUGESSEN declared his intention to divide the
houie upon the motion.
The question was then put, and the house divided.
The numbers were—
Against the motion
Fur the motion
Majority against it....._ —77
BURIAL ACTS AMEND ENT BILL.

This bill went through committee pro forma, to be
repainted with amendments.
SHEEP, &c., CONTAGIOUS
_DISEASES PRE.

VENTION BILL.
On the motion of Mr. BENTINCK this bill was read
a second time, and ordered to be referred to a select
committee.
JOINT-STOCK COMPANIES BILL.

This bill went through committee pro form; f• the
purpose of numb:tent.

PRINCESS ROYAL'S ANNUITY BILL.
This bill was read a third time and passed.
SUPPLY.

The report of the Committee of Supply was brought in
and agreed to.
Sir H. WILLOUGHBY inquired whether there would
be any additional estimates brought in on account of the
Chinese expedit ion ?

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said
that esti ca.es for the transport service would be laid be•
fore the house later in the session.

The Ministers' Money (Ireland) Bill was read a third
time and passed.
The Joint Stock Companies Amendment Bill W 33 read
a second time.

The Turnpike Trusts Abolition Bill (Ireland) was read
a second time.
The house then adjourned at half-past 12.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

GREAT WESTERN.

Yesterday a special general meeting of this com-
pany was held at the Paddington Station, to take
into consideration certain bills now pending in Par-
liament, as required by the standing orders.
The Hon. Mr. PONSONBY took the chair, stating
that Lord Barrington had resigned the chairman-
ship of the board, and that the directors had done
him the honour to elect him as his successor. He
was happy to add that Lord Barrington had con-
sented to be their deputy-chairman.
A SHAREHOLDER inquired whether the hon.
gentleman had been previously a director of the
company ?
Mr. SAUNDERS (the secretary) replied that Mr.
Ponsonby was not a director at the last half-yearly
meeting, but that ho held that position at a former
period.
The first resolution proposed was to sanction a
bill for making a railway from the Torquay branch
of the South Devon Railway to or near Dartmouth,
to be called the Dartmouth and. Torbay Railway,
and for other purposes. On this motion being put
from the chair, a long discussion took place upon
the general question as to the propriety of entering
into arrangements with other companies at the
risk of involving this company in expenses without
any guarantee that their interests would be thereby
promoted.
The CHAIRMAN replied that the new branch lines
to which the bills in question referred did not in-
volve this company in any liability whatever. The
only clauses which immediateiy concerned the
Great Western Company ware of a permissive cha-
racter, giving power to the directors to enter into
working arrangements with the new branches at
some future time if it should be thought desirable
to do so.

Mr. MALINS begged to be allowed to take this
opportunity of asking some explanation respecting
the arrangements between the Great Western Rail-
way Company and the Weymouth and Channel
Islands Steam Navigation Company, as there was
a general impression that those arrangements were
calculated to entail a loss (it this company.
Mr. SAUNDEItS replied that it was a mistake *to
suppose that the arrangements were likely to involve
the company in any lqss. The result up to the present
moment, be was happy to say, had been far.other-
wise, and he was quite sure that the agreement in
question was one of the most important which the
directors had yet entered into for promoting the
interests of the company.
The motion was then put and carried unani-
mously ; as were also resolutions approving bills
for making railways between the city of Bristol and
the South Wales Railway, with a steam ferry across
the river Severn, in connexion therewith, for the
purpose of improving the railway communication
between South Wales and Bristol, Southampton,
and the south-western districts of England ; for the
making and maintaining of the Stratford-on-Avon
Railway, and for other purposes ; for making a
railway from the Llantrissant station of the Suuth
Wales Railway to Penrhiwfer, with branches to
Glanmychydd and Mynydd Gellyrhaidd ; for
making a railway from the Llanidloes and New-
town Railway to the town of Machynlleth.
The meeting was then made special, to consider
and ratify certain agreements entered into with the
Bridport Railway Company and the Stratford-on-
Avon Railway Company, for working their re-
spective lines, in pursuance of resolutions of the
last half-yearly meeting of the company.
A resolution upon this subject was proposed and
agreed to ; and votes of thanks were passed to the
chairman, to the late chairman, to the board of
' directors, and to Mr. Saunders, the secretary.
The meeting then separated.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

TATTERSALCS'-TIIIIRSDAY.

A large majority of the principal book-makers being
at Manchester, the Room was not numerously attended.
The following scanty list of quotations comprises all the
transactions that came under our notice :
ASCOT CUP.
eto 1 aget Skirmisher (take 13 to 2)
7to 1 aget Lance (offered)
Bto 1 agst Pole Star Offered)
100 to 7 aget Fisherman (taken and offered)
25 to 1 agst Ellington (taken)
MANCHESTER RACES—WEDNESDAY.

The Sapling Stakes of 10 sovs each, h ft, with 100 added,
for two-year-olds, colts Bst 71b, and fillies Bst 41b.
The second to receive 25 says out of the stakes. The
winner of any race before starting of the clear value
of 200 says 31b, and if 500 soya clear, 71b extra. T.
Ari,C. 25 subs.
Admiral Ilarcourt's Sister to Ellington, by the Flying
Dutchman, Bst 41b (Aldcroft) 1
Mr. R. L. Walker's The Flying'Duke, Bst 101 b (inc
31b extra►) (Charlton) 2
Mr. J. Osborne's Intercidona, Bst 41b ...(J Osborne) 3
The following also ran :—Spread Eagle, Prince of
Denmark, Patience, Tom Linne, and Knockburn.
Betting-7 to 4 agst Sister to Ellington, sto 2 agst
Flying Duke. . . .

iVo-n in a canter by four lengths, two lengths between
the second and third, and a length between the third
and fourth.

The Trafford Handicap of 5 sous each, With 50 added
One mile.

Mr. W. H. Brooks'A Manganese, 4 yrs, Bst 71b
(J. Osborne) 1
Mr. T. Cliff's Lady Hercule's, 3 yrs, Est 31b ....(Bray) 2
Mr. Barber's Lord Nelson, 3 yrs, 7st 81b (Hayward) 3
The following also ran :—Six and Eightpence, Blight,
Evelyn, and Master Bagot.
Betting-5 to 4 agst Lord Nelson, sto 1 each agst
Evelyn and Lady Hercules-6 to 1 agst Six-and-Eight-
pence, 7 to 1 agst Master Begot, 100 to 15 agst Man-
ganese.
Won easily by a length ; a head between the second
and third ; bad fourth. Evelyn was fifth, Blight sixth,
and Master Bagot last
THURSDAY.

The Two-year-old Stakes of 10 soya each, h ft, with 50
added, for 2-yr-olds ; c >its Bst 71b, fillies 83t 41b. The

second to receive back his stake. Certain penalties for
winners. T.Y.C. 23 subs.
Mr. W. S. Halford's Mainstay, Bst.7lb (in. 31b extra)
(Kendall) 1
Mi. Howard's Jack Horner, 83t 71b (J. Goater) 2
Mr. Eastwood's Hesperithwa, Bst 41b (G. Oates) 3
Mr. Lee's Soothsayer, Bst 71b (Aldcroft) 4
Betting-5 to 4on Maiustay-7 to 4 aget Soothsayer,
4 to 1 agst Jack Horner, 6 to 1 agst Hesperithusa.
Won easily by a length ; two lengths between the
second and third ; and a length between the third and
fourth.

The City Handicap of 70 sove. The winner of any race
after the publication of the weights, once, 51b, twice
71b extra. Three quarters of a mile.
Mr. Andrew's The Martlet, 4 yrs, 7bt 21b (J. Forster) 1
Mr. Gill's Bourgeois, aged Bst 91b (3. Gill) 2
Mr. Osborne's De inkel, 4 yrs, 7st 21b...(Challoner) 3
Mr. Watson's Sulpitia, 3 yrs, sst 121 h (Pritchard) 4
The following also ran :—Ellertnire, Red White and
Blue, Frodsham Squire, Breez-4.
Betting-5 to 2 aget Sulpitia, 4to 1 agst Bourgeois,
7 to 1 each agst The Martlet, De Ginkel, and Ellermire.
Won by three-quarters of a length ; a length between
the second and third, bad fourth, Breeze was fifth, and
Ellermire sixth. Red White and Blue was last through-
out.

The Manchester Tradesmen's Cup of 200 sovs, in specie,
added to a handicap sweepstakes of 20 goys each, 10
ft, and 5 only if declared, &c. Certain penalties fir
winners, &c. ; the second to receive 50 sovs out of
the stakes. Two miles and a quarter. 46 subs, 27 of
whom pay 5 soya each.
Mr. Foster 's Underhand, 3 yrs, 7st 101b...(G. Oates) 1
Mr. Dawson's Janet, 3 yrs, 7st 81b ............... (Bates) 2
Mr. Barber's Commotion, 3 yrs, Bst 21b...(flayward) 3
The following also ran :—Romeo, Vandal, Gortscha-
koff, Companion, Brother to Preston, Pizarro, and Silk-
more.

Betting-3 to 1 agst Commotion, 4to 1 agst Romeo,
4 to 1 agst Underhand, 6 to 1 agat Companion, 10 to 1
agst any other.

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A fine race; won by half a length ; two In)gths be
tween second and third ; a head between the third and
fourth ; Companion was fifth.

The Maiden Plate.
General Williams • ••••
Arnbas's darn colt

Eight ran.
Chesterfield Handicap.
Glede Hawk
Manganese
Lady Hercules .

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Four ran.
Her Majesty's Plate.