The Sun.
London, England, 1861-10-24 00:00:00

THE r, SITN, LONDON, THURSDAY E FINING, OCTOI3E ft: 24, 1861.

SHE NAVY.

The Mohawk, 5, screw, Commander Howard,
sailed from Spithead yesterday morning for the east•
ward, where she will be dismantled and put out of

commission.

The Medea, 6, paddle, Commander D'Arcy Pres-
ton, had her steam up at Spithead at sunset yester-
day, and was expected to sail immediately after-
wards for Halifax.

The further issue of the 100 pounder Armstrong
gun has been suspended from the Ordnance stores
at Portsmouth until further orders, except where
an exchange is required, as in the case of the Hero,
90, screw, which vessel to-day exchanges her 100-
pounder, which is damaged, for a perfect one from
the store. The Warrior had the steel vent-pieces
of her Armstrorigs yesterday exchanged for wrought
iron ones.

The Danubio, convict ship, Capt. Smith, arrived
at Spithead early yesterday morning from Bermuda,
with 255 convicts on board, who were landed by
Government steamer yesterday and sent on by rail
to Milbank.

The War Department transport Thames arrived
at Chatham yesterday, and during the day landed
at the Ordnance wharf a further supply of 2,000
rifles, with the like number of the new sword
bayonets attached, for sea service. She also landed
10 of the 8 inch 60 cwt. guns, from Woolwich, for
the ships fitting at Chatham.
A number of carpenters and mastmakers have
arrived at Chatham from the Formidable, 84, flag-
ship at Sheerness, and the Fisgard, 42, at Woolwich,
to be employed in preparing the Wellesley, 74,
flegship at Chatham, and fitting her as a training
ship for boys and lads entering the Royal Navy.
Already the most extensive alterations have been
made on board the Wellesley, which, to enable the
work to be carried on more expeditiously, has been
removed higher up the harbour. The upper deck has
been levelled, and the guns, stores, and gear cleared
away to provide the greatest possible space for the
instruction of the lads in broad-sword exercise and
in various naval duties. With the exception of a
few 32-pounders, the whole of the guns have been
removed and landed at the dockyard. The rudder,
weighing about ten tons, has also been un-
shipped, the anchors and chain cables taken out,
and the water-tanks removed, in order to lessen her
draught of water. Notwithstanding this, however,
the depth of water in that part of the harbour where
she is now moored is so little that at nearly every
low tide the Wellesley takes the ground. A few
nights since She grounded so much that she had a
list of 20 degrees. On each of the decks the most
extensive alterations are in progress. The officers'
cabins, storerooms, offices, &c., on the main deck
are being cleared away to provide additional space
for the lads, and, according to present arrange-
ments, it is intended to accommodate them on the
lower deck, which is to be given up exclusively to
their use, the seamen being removed to the orlop
deck. By the conversion of the Wellesley to a re-
ceiving and training ship the Admiralty have
determined on supplying a want which has long
been felt at Chatham—namely, a vessel in which
promising lads wishing to enter her Majesty's sea
service may be at once entered, instead of being re-
jected, as has hitherto been the case, or sent to other
and more distant ports, simply because there was
no receiving•ship for them at Chatham.

The following appointments were made yesterday
at the Admiralty :—W. Patrick, surg,., to the Por-
cupine; J. Ward, of the Indus, confirmed as chief
engineer and appointed additional to the Asia, for
charge of the machinery of the Esk ; E. S. Ash-
worth, promoted to engineer, additional to the
Cumberland, for the Fearless ; H. C. Jones, engi-
neer, to the Fisgard, for charge of the machinery of
the Spitfire ; D. Driscole, promoted to first-class
assist.-engineer in the Firebrand ; J. Mather, first
class assist.-engineer, to the Fisgard, for charge of
the machinery of the Investigator; G. Hunt, first
class assist.-engineer, to the Pembroke, for charge
of the machinery of the Magnet ; A. N. Miller,
acting second classassist.-engineer, tothe Firebrand
vice Jones ; W. IL P. M. Gillman, assist.-paymaster,
additional, to the Victory. Dr. C. A. Anderson is
appointed Deputy Inspector-General of Malta Hos-
pital, instead of Inspector, as originally announced.

ENGLISH POLICY IN NEW ZEALAND.

(From. the New Zealand _Examine,

Mr. Waring Taylor (one of the representatives
for the city of Wellington), after several motions in
the Assembly, succeeded in obtaining the publica-
tion of the following despatch from the late Gover-
nor-General of Australia. It will well repay the
most careful perusal, and shows that the policy
which the Opposition to the Stafford Government
have been so unjustly accused of advocating, on
mere factious ground's, is that which in its broad
outlines suggested itself to a statesman of acknow-
ledged ability like Sir W. Denison, one who pos-
sessed the advantage of a slight personal acquaint.
ance with New Zealand, combined with that of a
several years' residence in Australia—a residence
6ufficiently near to become cognisant of the current
history of New Zealand, and yet sufficiently far off
to be removed from local bias :
COPY OFDESPATCII PROIL SIP. W. DENISON, K.C.8., TO

HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF NEWCASTLE.

" Government-house, Sydney, June 8, 1860.
" My Lord Duke,—When the Governor of New
Zealand applied to me for assistance in the diffi-
culty which had arisen between the Government
and the Maories, he sent up for my information a
sort of manifesto, drawn up by Mr. Richmond, one
of the members of his Executive Council, a copy of
which I transmitted to your grace with my despatch
No. 42, dated 12th of April last.
"In my correspondence with Col. Gore Browne
I alluded to the exposition of the policy of the Go-
vernment contained in this document, and I re-
ceived from him the more formal document (which
I herewith enclose) drawn up by Mr. Richmond,
as the mouthpiece of the Ministry at Auckland, ex-
planatory of the opinions entertained by the ad-
visers of the Governor of the state of the relations
between the Maories and the white population.
"In a private letter to Col. Gore Browne—a copy
of which'l take the liberty of forwarding herewith,
I have commented upon the document put forth by
his advisers, and have, at the same time, sketched
out a course of policy which would, as it appears
to me, remedy many of the evils which have arisen
out of the anomalous system hitherto pursued to-
wards the Maories.

" If the present state of relations between the
two races is allowed to continue, outbreaks like the
present will occur periodically; demands will be
made for military assistance with which it will be
difficult to comply, and claims for assistance from
the Imperial Treasury which will not be willingly
responded to, and which, if entertained, will only
serve as precedents for similar demands from other
colonies. •
" A change, therefore, in the mode of dealing with
the native race in New Zealand is urgently required,
and I trust that in bringing, as I have done, my
views of the character of this change before the
Governor of New Zealand, and in submitting them
to your Grace,. I shall not be deemed to have med-
dled presumptuously in a matter with which I have
no concern.—l have, &c., "W. DENISON.
" His Grace the Duke of Newcastle, &c."

" Government-house, Sydney, May 16,1860.
"My dear Gore Browne—The mail having closed,
I am more at leisure to look into and discuss the
contents of the printed documents which you have
sent me, containing the expression of the views and
opinions of your responsible advisers on the present
state of Alaori affairs.

"I do not think that you have derived much in-
formation from this document. The views and
opinions of your responsible advisers are, to all ap-
pearance, confined to these :—first, that they ought
to have something to say in the discussion of ques-
tions having reference to the natives (of whom, I
may observe, by the way, they are in no way the
representatives); and, secondly, that, as they are
unable to defend themselves, England should step
in to help them.
" With reference to the first of these opinions, I
may observe that the collision between the races
would have been precipitated had the settlement of
questions affecting the Maories been left to the
white men who have a direct interest in obtaining
the principal article which the native has to dispose
of—namely, his land. With reference to the second
opinion, every one will, of course, admit that the
mother country is bound to defend the colonies,
and to help them out of difficulties ; but there yet
remains these questions—against whom are they to
be defended, and what is the nature and extent of
the assistance to be afforded ?

" Mr. Richmond's papers, however, open up a
much wider question than was, I think, contem-
plated by him and his colleagues—nothing less
than that of the whole policy of the Government as
regards the Maories; and to this I will now ad-
dress myself, taking as correct the statements made
of the facts relative to the establishment of the Pre-
sidency of Potatau, but exercising my own discretion
as to the admission or rejection of the inferences,
whether as to the motives which have influenced
the natives in this movement, or as to the results
which are likely to flow from it.

. .
" The fact, then, which appears to be established
is the willing assent of a large proportion of the
Maori race to the establishment of some system of
government among themselves.

" Mr. Itichirond passes over very lightly the
causes which have induced a people consisting of
the clans or septa, and analogous to those which
used to occupy the Highlands of Scotland, to forget
their old feuds and unite together for a common ob-
ject. He says little or nothing as to the origin of this
wish on the part of the Maori to subvert the Queen's
authority over the Northern Island, and but little
more as to the foundation of their wish to prohibit
all further alienation of land to the Crown. Might
not, however, the movement have its origin in the
conviction of the natives that their position as nomi-
nal subjects of the Queen, while it brought them
under a variety of humiliations, preventing them
from selling their land to private individuals, and
subjecting them to taxation at the hands of the
white population occupying the seaports, did abso-
lutely nothing for their benefit, and was the means
of preventing the introduction of more wholesome
social arrangements, having a tendency—as admi-
nistered—to retain them in the position of isolated
savage tribes, instead of assisting to raise them to
the rank of a
people, and with regard to the aliena-
tion of land, might there not exist a well-founded
distrust of a Government which, while it did not
permit the sale of land to individuals, does—by
holding out inducements which few savages are
able to resist—acquire the article which the Maori
has to sell at a very low rate (6d. or ls. per acre),
which article is instantly retailed to the white man
at 10s. an acre
" The fact is that Mr. Richmond's letter is based
on the assumption that New Zealand is a colony of
white people, with whom, unluckily, there happens
to be mixed up a portion of the native race strong
enough to make itself respected. His policy, and
that of his colleagues, would lead to steps which, if
they were backed up by England, would in a short
time annihilate the Maori race, and permit the oc-
cupation by the white man of the rich land yet in
native hands, upon which for years past greedy and
longing eyes have been cast.
"My view, however, of the Maori is very different.
He is the subject of the
Queen, and as sueh is en-
titled to have his rights respected, his feelings con-
sidered; he has shown an aptitude for civilisation
which ought to be encouraged; his efforts to raise.
himself in the social scale should be assisted. If
this policy were carried out steadily and consistently
all causes of disaffection would soon be done away.
with ; there would be an end of those petty mea-
sures which, while they cause a large expenditure
of money, result in nothing but an aggravation of
the feeling of hostility between the races. The
Government would, it is true, be abused by certain
classes of the white population—the land specula-
tors might grumble—but I feel convinced that the
prosperity of the colony and the happiness of the
people would beprotnoted by such a change of system.
c. You may say that all this is Utopian—that it
supposes a state of things which cannot exist; this,
however, would be to beg the question. You may,
however, very fairly ask by what means it is pro-
posed to work out such a re-organisation of society.
If you recollect, when I was with you in 1857, we
were talking of the policy to be adopted towards
the Maories, and I then suggested that your legis-
lation should be based upon the positive fact that
the inhabitants of the colony consisted of two dis-
tinct races, whose amalgamation, however desirable
it might be, could not be expected to take place for
many years: My opinion noNvis much the same as
it was then, and the late occurrences have only
seemed to give greater distinctness and precision to
that which in 1857 was more an intuitive feeling
than a carefully formed opinion.
"You have now as a fact the establishment of some-
thing analogous to a general government among the
Maories—a recognition on their part of the necessity
of some paramount Authority: This is a step in the
right direction—do not ipore it ; do not, on the
g-.nnd that gOme evil may possiNY
b o "
make the nativesspring from it,
ijonicions of your 37 .13.
se" othe
posing it, but avail your I. f op
Tint
to in-
among them. Suggest to them the necessity of defil;.-
troduee some more of the elements of
ing and limiting the power of the person who has
been elected as the chief or king (I should
notquar-
rel
with the name), of establishing some system off
legislation, simple, of course, at first, but capable o
being modified and improved ; but do not attempt
to introduce the complicated arrangements suited to
a civilised and educated people, recognising pub-
licly and openly the Maories not merely as indivi-
dual subjects of the Queen, but as a race, a body
gpooodliclocv.tetrny
Iyho§e interest yeti, Arei bound to respect tuld pra

mote, and then give to that body the means of de-
ciding what their interests are, and of submitting
them in a proper form for your consideration. This
you may say, will be very well for the future, but
how will it affect the issue of the present quarrel
between Government and the Maories ? It appears
to me that it will have a most material operation
upon the combination of the Maories. If Potatau
and his abettors are made aware that there is a
prospect of obtaining by legitimate means a recog-
nition of their position and an acknowledgment of
their rights, they will hardly be induced to plunge
into a contest in which they must eventually be
worsted ; they will withdraw from the present con-
test, and leave you to deal with Kingi and his im-
mediate adherents ; and these, when they findthem-
selves unsupported by the other tribes, will speedily
be brought to submission.
" The first effect, of course, of the new system of
policy will be the cessation of purchases of land
from the Maories. They will decline to sell, and
were I in your place I should be in no hurry to buy.
In proportion, however, as the Maori gets more
civilised will his appetite for gain overpower his
nationality, and he will be found in a short time
quite willing to part with his land to purchasers
who will give him a better price for it than his na-
tive friends. Ido not, therefore, believe the pro-
hibition of sales to the Government would prevail
for any length of time, in case the Government can
be persuaded to give the full value of the land ; but
you will have to give up your present position of
purchasing land at a cheap rate from some of
your subjects, and of retailing it at a high rate to
others. In fact, the Government must show
itself impartial, and if circumstances compel it to
limit the power of the Maori to sell to any but
the Government, the latter must give him the full
market value of his land, less, of course, the cost of
survey, &c. •
" I do not think you would have much difficulty
under such circumstances in arrangine, for the ces-
sion of purchase of a certain amount of land round
New Plymouth, in order to get rid of the anomalous
state of things produced by the mode in which the
Government has produced land in isolated patches,
to which there is no access except through laud be-
longing to the Maories.
" I ought to apologise for giving you newt views
and opinions, as to a matter of which I have but a
partial knowledge ; but thinking that those views
and opinions are more clear, and based upon sounder
principles than those of your responsible advisers, I
give them to you for what they are worth.
" There is no question but that the common and
ordinary mode of dealing with the differences be-
tween the white man and the Maori would be to
treat the latter as a rebel—to pour in troops regard-
less of expense, and eventually to sweep away a race
which occupies land of which the white man pro-
fesses to be in want, though he has millions of acres
of which he can or does make no use. This, how-
ever, is a very costly mode of dealing with such a
matter, to say nothing of its immorality and injus-
tice.

" The Imperial Government will Lave to pay a
high price for the land which, after having purchased
it with its blood and treasure, it hands over to the
colonists to sell for their benefit.

" While, then, the ordinary course of proceeding
will be found both immoral and impolitic, that which
I have sketched out will be conducive to the best
interests of the Government and the people, and as
such I commend it to your consideration.
"Believe me, &c.,
" W.. DENISON."

THE I?XTRAO.RDIYA 1 Y CASE OF

neAUD BY AN _MILIAN.

At the Central Criminal Court yesterday Vincent
Collucci, 31, an Italian, described as an artist, was
indicted for feloniously obtaining £2,000 from a
lady named Frederica Johnstone, by false pre-
tences. The examination of the witnesses for the
prosecution appeared in The Sun of yesterday.

Mr. Keane then submitted that there was no
case to go. to the jury, and he urged several techni-
cal grounds in support of his argument. One of
these was that there was nothing to show that at
the time of the alleged bargain between the priso-
ner and Miss Johnstone the letters were in his
possession or power.

The Lord Chief Baron overruled all the objec-
tions, and with regard to the latter one he said it
was clear the letters were in the possession of the
prisoner very shortly after the 3d of August, and it
was for the jury to form a conclusion as to the
probability of their being in his possession at the
time when he engaged to deliver them to the pro-
secutrix.

Mr. Keane then proceeded to make a most able
address to the jury on behalf of the defendant. He
commenced by stating that it would certainly be a
subject of regret if any person charged with a
criminal offence was not permitted to lay his own
answer to the charge before the jury who were to
be called upon to decide upon his guilt or innocence,
and more particularly if that person was a foreigner;
and in the observations he was about to address to
them, he wished the jury distinctly to under-
stand that the defence he should attempt to set
up was the prisoner's own defence, that he
positively insisted upon it being made, and that
he alone was responsible for it. In some cases it
was the duty of an advocate to suggest what ap-
peared to him to be the best defence to be adopted
under the circumstances, but where a prisoner
insisted upon a particular course being taken, it
appeared to him that it was no part of the duty of
an advocate to interfere with that desire, and he
therefore should merely state the answer the pri-
soner himself would have made to the charge. The
jury would bear in mind that no one but the pri-
soner and Miss Johustone were aware of the actual
circumstances connected with this transaction, and
the prisoner's moath was closed ; he had no power
to make a statement on oath as Miss Johnstone had,
and all he could hope to do was through the lips of
his advocate to endeavour to satisfy the jury that
the facts were not as they had been represented on
the Tart of the prosecution, and that the whole
truth had not been told, Ho entreated the jury to
dismiss from their minds all the exaggerated state-
ments that had appeared in the public papers in
reference to this case, and he said that, without
making any remark that might be considered dis-
respectful to Miss Johnstone, they could see with
' their own eyes that she was far from being a young
girl, and that no undue sympathy ought to be
evoked for her upon that ground. The prisoner's
version of the case was the same now as it had
always been. He asserted that he did not give the
prosecutrix any parcel on the 3d of August, and
that no bargain was ever made between him and
the prosecutrix for the delivery of the letters to
her, and he declared that the money was given him
not upon the condition that he should restore the
prosecutrix's letters, but as a compensation to him
for her refusal to marry him. The learned
counsel concluded by stating that this was the
' answer the prisoner insisted upon giving to the
charge, and if the jury believed that it was the true
history of the transaction, he was= entitled to an
acquittal upon the present indictment.
The Lord Chief Baron summed up the ease to the
jury very briefly, and he observed that it appeared
to Mal that the only question for their consideration
was whether or not they believed the evidence that
had been given by Miss Johnstone, and after the
defence that had been set up by the prsoner's coun-
sel, this was the only issue they had to try. It was
true the learned counsel had stated that he did not
desire to cast any imputation upon the character of
that lady, but if they gave any credit to the sugges-
tion that had been raised on behalf of the prisoner,
it was impossible for them to come to any other
conclusion than that this lady had not only wickedly
fabricated the parcel in question, but that she he
also stolen the letter out of the prisoner's studio for
the purpose of enabling her to carry out her wicked I
design. This was the prisoner's case, and the jury
would have to say whether they believed it or not.
With regard to the facts of the cad) they appeared
to him to be in a very narrow compass. There was
no doubt that one time a marriage was contemplated
between the parties, but that it was broken off, and
Miss Johnstone wished to have the letters she had
written to the prisoner restored to her, ancl that she
agreed to give him £2,000 upon that resteeration
being made. This was Miss Johnstone's statement,
and the only question, as it seemed to him, eves
whether they believed it or not. If they thought
she was speaking the truth the prisoner was guilty
of the offence imputed to him; but if they bad any
doubt upon the point, the prisoner was entitled to
an acquittal.
The jury, after consulting two or three minutes
in the box, said they should like to retire for a
short time, and they accordingly left the court. They
returned in about a quarter of an hour and found
the prisoner guilty.
Mr. Chambers said there was a second indictment
against the prisoner of constructive larceny ; but
after the verdict that had just been pronounced he
thought it was unnecessary to proceed with it.
The Lord Chief Baron, in passing sentence, said
that the prisoner had been found guilty, by the ver-
dict of a jury, of the offence of obtaining money by
t;,:lse pretences, and. the case appeared to him to be
one pf the cleanst that had ever been presented to
a jury in a court of justice. The evidence of Miss
Johnstone, who ,appeared to him to be altogether
worthy of credit, made out the charge distinctly,
and all the surf ounding circumstances tended
def
strongly to confir m her statement. The
prisoner
was, in his opinion, a very great aggravation, in
i xespect a the imputationthat the prmono • r §oglat

to cast upon Miss Johnstone, that she had fabricated
the parcel in question, had stolen the letter that was I
contained in it in order to give a colour to the decep-
tion, and had used another seal similar to the one that
was in the possession of the prisoner, with the same
object of doing him an injury. He felt it his duty
to allude to this subject, because he was certain
that such a defence must be looked upon with in-
dignation by all honest men, and he repeated that
it was a great aggravation of the prisoner's con-
duct that he should have instructed, and, as it
appeared, compelled his counsel to make such a
defence. The offence of which he had been
convicted, although perhaps strictly speaking
it might be considered as coming under the
description of cheating, had, by a recent altera-
tion of the law, been declared to amount to the
offence of larceny, and was put upon the same foot-
ing as that offence. By pretending to deliver these
letters to the prosecutrix he had got from her
£1,900, and he was quite sure that in the eye of
every honest man his crime was just the same as if
he had gone into Miss Johnstone's own house, and
had broken open her escritoire and taken out the
money. The crime, too, was committed under most
aggravated circumstances in this respect also—it
was committed against a person who had given him
previously large sums of money, who had acted
towards him with the greatest generosity, and
towards whom he should have been bound by all
the ties of gratitude not to have committed such an
offence. He. (the learned judge) looked upon the
offence as one of almost an alarming character, and
one which called for a very severe punishment. For
a much inferior crime persons in humble life. and in
poverty suffered heavy punishment. It did not
require any knowledge of the law to be aware that
such an act as he had committed was illegal, and
could not be tolerated—every gentleman, every man
at all acquainted with the social arrangements of
society, must be perfectly well aware of the serious
nature of such an offence, and he felt it his duty
under all the circumstances to order him to be kept
in penal servitude for the space of three years.
The prisoner, who did not utter a word through-
out the proceedings, but who seemed very much
astonished at the result, was then removed from the
bar.

Upon the application of Mr. Chambers the money
and the letters that were in the possession of Ser-
geant Tanner were ordered to be delivered up to
the prosecutrix.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

GLOUCESTER RACES.-WEDNESDAY.

The Scurry Handicap Sweepstakes of 5 sous each, with 25
added, for horses of all ages ; winners extra. Half a mile.
22 subs.

Mr. Elton's Gauntlet, 3 yrs, 7st 91b (Wheatley) 1
Mr. Wood's Caliban, 3 yrs, Gat 101 b .. (E. Taylor) 2
Mr. S. Jacob's Bookaloom, 3 yrs, 6st 111 b (in. 71b ex.) •
(J. Roper) 3
The following also ran :—Tiara, Mousetrap, Yellow Girl,
Commander, Aroma, and Sweetmeat.
Betting--6 to 4 agst Mousetrap, sto 1 each agst Gauntlet
and Commander, 6 to 1 agst Tiara, 7 to 1 agst Bookaloom,
100 to 6 agst Yellow Girl.
A long delay at the post was caused by the breaking
away of Aroma, Commander, and Bookaloom, and the un-
willingness of Mousetrap, Caliban, Gauntlet, Tiara, and
Yellow Girl to go up. When the flag fell it was to a most
straggling start, Gauntlet, Tiara, and Mousetrap having a
clear lead, whilst Commander and Aroma were left several
lengths at the post. On rounding the railway turn for
home Mousetrap was lying second pulling double. On
reaching the distance, Gauntlet was still leading, when
Bottom, finding he was unable to reach Gauntlet, gave
Mousetrap a pull, and allowed Caliban, Bookaloom, and
Tiara to pass him. Gauntlet after this kept his position,
and went in an easy winner by four lengths, Caliban beat-
ing Bookaloom for second place by a head. Tiara and
Mousetrap were fourth and fifth, both pulling up, Yellow
Girl finishing last. On returning to scale, the starter lodged
a complaint against E. Taylor and Cannon for disobedience
of orders, and the Earl of Coventry, the stoward, ordered
both jockeys to be suspended from riding again during this
season.

Selling Plate of 25 sous, for all ages ; selling and other
allowances. Three quarters of a mile.

Mr. J. Land's Dunoon, 2 yrs, Est 31b (£5O) (J • Reeves) 1
Mr. J. Turner's Jackall, 3 yrs, 7st 81b (X3O) (W. Bottom) 2
Mr. Saxon's Miss Coutts, 2 yrs, sst 71b (£3O)
(J. Grimshaw) 3

The following also ran :—Bianca filly, Sloth, Queen of
Hearts, Forest Hind, Lily of the Valley, Whimsical,
Mickleham, Citation, Maid of Peru, and Couleur-de-Hose.
Betting-5 to 2 agst Dunoon, 11 to 2 each agst Miss
Coutts and Couleur-dc-Rose, 8 to 2 agst Jackal], 10 to 1
agst Mickleharu.
The three placed got off with a strong lead, Jackall hav-
ing the best of it until coming past the railway, where
Dunoon passed him, was never afterwards headed, and won
cleverly by half a length ; three lengths dividing the
second from the third ; Couleur-de-Rose and Sloth were
the two next, close up ; the others beaten oft. Sloth was
afterwards claimed, and the winner bought him in for 60
guineas.

Tho Corporation Handicap Plate of 30 sovs, added to a
sweepstakes of 5 sovs each, for all ages. One mile. 36

subs.
Mr. John Dawson's Confession, 3 yrs, 6st 7lb (Wheatley) 1
Mr. Fitzhugh's Shepherdess, 3 yrs, 7st 21b .. (Pearson) 2
Mr. Alfred's Billy Dwindles, 3 yrs, 7st 71b .... (Grubb) 3
Mr. J. Wood's Caliban, 3 yrs, 6st 41b
Mr. J. B. Starkey's Nativity, 3 yrs, Est 131 b (J. Reeves) 5
Mr. J. Clerk's Dotterel], 3 yrs, Est (G. Parsons) 6
Betting-2 to 1 apt Confession, 3to 1 each agst Billy
Dwindles and Shepherdess, 5 to 1 agst any other offered.
Nativity cut out the work at starting, followed by Billy
Dwindles and Confession, Shepherdess bringing up the
rear, until going along the far side, where she passed Con-
fession and Billy Dwindles, and took second place to the
railway side, where Confessioh a second time passed her,
Nativity and Billy Dwindles both running wide at the
turn. Confession after this continued in front, and won a
good race by two lengths; Billy Dwindles was beaten for
pecond place by half a length; Caliban was a good fourth ;
the other two beaten off.

The City of Gloucester Cup Stakes of 50 soya, added to a
Sweepstakes of 10 aow each, for 3 -yr-olds and upwards.
►inners extra. One mile and a half. 20 subs.
Lord Coventry's Flitch, 5 yrs, Bst 71b .... (L. Snowden) 1
Sir S. Rushout's Conqueror, 3 yrs, 7st 51b --(Pearson) 2
Mr. Starkey's Bay Shirley, 4 yrs, Bst 21b (Enock) 3
Mr. S. Jacob's The Don, 4 yrs, 7st
Mr. Brayley's Sycophant, 3 yrs, 7st (Hutchins) 5
Mr. Jarvis's Don John, 3 yrs, 6st 101 b (J. Reeves) 6
Mr. H. J. Smith's Fitz-Avon, 4 yrs, Bst 101 b .. (Grubb) 7

Betting-6 to 4on Flitch, 4to 1 agst Sycophant, 9to 2
agst The Don, 6 to 1 each agst Conqueror and Fitz-Avon,
8 to 1 agst Bay Shirley.
Sycophant made play at a good pace for the first mile,
where he was passed by Don John, the favourite lying off
until rounding the turn for home, where Flitch, in com-
pany with Conqueror, took up the running. At the dis-
tance Conqueror appeared to be winning easily, but, run-
ning very wildly, Pearson could not keep him off the ropes,
and Flitch running gamely won cleverly by a length. Bay
Shirley was a bad third ; The Don fourth ; the others as
placed.
Handicap Hurdle Race of 5 sovs each, with 25 added;

winners extra. Two miles, over six flights of hurdles.

22 subs.
Mr. J. Woyman's The Miller, (h. b.), aged, 9st 41b
(R. Sly, jun.) 1
Mr. Phillip's Heads or Tails, aged, lOst .(J. Kendall) 2
Mr. Gulliver's Miss Eleanor, 5 yrs,llst4lb.(Mr.Edwards) 3

The following also ran :—Yorkshire Grey, Dunboyne,
Ingestrie, and Piff Paff.
Dunboyne started undor protest, and Comary weighed
for Eheu, and his number went up ; but a protest having
been also entered against him, he (Ehcu) did net got to the
post.
Betting-5 to 4 agst The Miller, 3to 1 agst Yorkshire
Grey, 4 to 1 agst Heads or Tails, 6 to 1 agst Tiff Paff, 10 to
1 agst Miss Eleanor.
Dunboyne, Yorkshire Grey, and Piff Paff led alternately
until going along the far side, the last time round, where
The Millor shot to the front, came away at a strong pace,
and won in a canter by 40 lengths: Heads or Tails and
Miss Eleanor pulled up and passed the post second and
third ; Ingestrie and Yorkshire Grey came on side by side.
Neither Dunboyne nor Piff Paff passed the post.

LATEST BETTING ON THE COURSE.
CAMBRIDGESTIIRE STAKES.
sto 1 agst Henham Lass (offered)
100 to 8 agst Limeflower (taken freely)

KELSO MEETING.—WEDNESDAY.
The Trial Stakes of 3 sovs each, with 30 added, for all
ages ; two-yr-olds, sst 71b ; three, 7st 91b ; four, Bst 101 b ;
five, 9st 21b ; six and aged, 9st 41b. One mile.
Mr. Harrison's Lady Ripon, 3 yrs (Bullock) 1
Mr. Brodie nd Eidolon, 4 yrs (Robertson) 2
Lord Stamford's Estrelda, 2 yrs (Doyle) 3
Rose of Raby and Oberon also ran.
Betting--5 to 2on Lady Ripon, and sto 1 agst any other.
Woz' by six kragths ; two lengths between the second and
third.
The Roxburgh() Handicap of 15 sovs each, with 200 added.
Otie mile and a half.

Mr. Scott's Confidante, 3 yrs, sst 101 b (inc. 21b extra)
(Hardeastle) 1
Mr. Saxon's The Monk, 4 yrs, 7st 71b (inc. 91b extra)
(J. Snowden) 2
Mr. Alexander's Old minster, 3 yrs, 7st 10th ( bullock) 3
Volatile, Bally Edmond, and Squire Peirso also ran.
Betting-7 to 4 agst The Monk, sto 2 agst Oldminster,
and 5 to 1 each agst Confidante and Bally Edmond.
Won by two lengths, the same distance between the
secon I and third.

The Stewards' Cup of 50 sovs, added to a sweepstakes of 5
sovs each; three-yr-olds 7st 71b, four Sst Sib, five Bst
121 b, six and aged 9st, m and g allowed 31b. Once round
and a distance.

Mr. Harrison's Lady Ripon
Mr. Barber's Coronet (Browning) 2
Mr. Leyburne's Peggy Taft , . , (Austin) 3
Mr. Leyburne's Zachariah Taft (Barrow) dis.
Betting-3 to 1 on lady Ripon. Won by three lengths
Peggy Taft was a bad third.
IhQl3°WDA9lat Stakes 9f 0 iS9YS each; thne-n-clas lOot MI

four list 21b, five 11ct 101 b, six and aged 12st, thorough-,
bred horses 7lb extra,. One mile and ahi

Benvoirlich ..
Johnny Cope . (llr. Dunkin) 2
Tousle .. . (Mr. Erskine) 3
The following also ran:--Moss Rose, Hon:toward Bound,
Aubone.

Betting-5 to 2on Tousle, and 4to 1 agst Benvoirlich.
Won by a neck ; two thirds between second and third.
The Kelso Plato (handicap) of 50 sovs. One mile.
Mr. Menzie's Montro sc, 4 yrs, Bst llb (Bullock) 1
Mr. Ituddock's Fast -Runner, 3 yrs, 7st 211 .... (Heslop)
Mr. Watt's Sir Wiliam Armstrong, 2 yrs, 6st 31b
(Sinclair) 3
The following also ran :—Eidolon, King of Scotland,
Dora, Ericthonius, P. 33., Nelia.
Betting-5 to 4 aget,Montrose, 4to 1 agst Sir William
Armstrong, and 7 to 1 against Ericthonius.
Won by a length. Sir William was a bad third.